If windows was free, then it would be (arguably) better choice against a snobby Linux distros.

But, Windows is not free, far from it! With that in mind, how can one justify dropping so much money for windows, while just a tiny bit less user friendly system is available for free is beyond me.

Except, businesses, of course. They are trapped. They have no choice until their customer base / business process turns to Linux (If ever).

Well then, that pretty much gives them (the bearded guys in Afghanistan mountains) to kidnap anyone here.

As far as they are concerned, we have attacked them. All they need to do is to demand from our government to turn over Cheney, and if we don't, then they can proceed kidnapping us and doing whatever they think "non-afghani" deserve.

In fact, they will be more justified in doing so, because unlike our invented story of "911 hijackers", the whole world knows what we have done to them.

I see no difference between us and those we love to hate. Without declaration of war, our warring actions must be considered to be those of private individuals, and as such indistinguishable from act of a common criminal.

That's good enough for me. I am far from being "partisan" myself.

Well then, you did not state any events, by playfully implying that someone did attack us, of those people that we are kidnapping. An opinion, yours, was that (I am guessing) by hating us in the Afghanistan mountains they have attacked us.

And therefore, us interfering with a sovereign nation militarily, without declaration of war, was a justified response. Correct?

Yep, while a solution is right around a corner. Just make a good car, that worth it's price. That is all.

Oh, I forgot, they can't do that with unionized workforce, and that is something they aren't willing to give up.

Well then. You can't have a cake and eat it too.

I think we are Samson, waiting for our David.

I was trying to save us some turns. If you do not, then there is a problem in your rationale, wouldn't you say?

If by having a point you understand having a purpose, then I would assume you agree that having one is not a guarantee for having it fulfilled.

Yes, no?

If yes, then it should be obvious that the purpose of life is to have fun, sex, enjoy one's life, procreate, bend the world to one's liking, and.... never die.

Just because we don't seem to fulfill our purpose, doesn't mean it isn't a purpose of ours.

Are you a foreigner? You sure don't seem to be able to spell in English.

Were those pilots that have accomplished the crime and escaped to the desert?

What's the crime of the people we're hunting?

And, I suppose you do approve Afghan military doing strikes on our land, in case they decide to define few of our folks as attackers in the same sense?

That's because the people who find it good, never shaved with a straight edge or an electric razor. (see above). The honestly believe shaving with bowling pin is as good as it gets.

Once they try PC, even with Windows loaded, they are laughing at their own former tastes.

Most of Mac lovers can't name a task that can be done on a Mac and cannot be done on PC. Yet, they sure Mac is better. They simply believe in an old story that they have heard from someone who didn't know about computers, and got his lesson in a Mens room. He heard that Macs are better at graphics.

I am not kidding, ask anyone.

What that was all about is an age old story about PCs having black and green or black and brown display so many characters wide and so many chars high. It was very tough to do graphic tasks on it.

That is what they are talking about, and the fact that they don't realize that this is simply not the case anymore, is showing us the extent of their computer knowledge.

Why this?

Who attacks us?

Doesn't work this way, Fanta. First you were telling us how all of us need to bail out your friends in auto business. Did you exclude Californians from paying that? Nope.

This is what a typical communist does. He says ALL need to pay for what he needs, but then he says that what you need is just wrong.

I paid for your pie, even though I was against it. Now I want a piece of your pie, Fanta. How do you like your own medicine?

I don't think anyone would be allowed to kidnap people as a matter of a state policy, just look what happened to Chechnya, this is exactly what they have tried to do as a policy instrument for their (deserved) independence.

They only reason we are able to do it is that we can. Nothing different form the reasons Hitler used.

These people were not attacking us. There were roaming in their own lands with hate toward us. So what. We do not have a right to prosecute them for few that did commit a crime here. Prevention my ass. I sure would not want to be representatively held in limbo or killed or kidnapped and operated on, because some of our citizens are considered to be criminals in some other country. Such as Bush and Cheney.

It's not like we weren't told to begin with, that bailing out these firms will have no effect.

There is no news in this, unless, one listens to Obama.

Of course more money will be needed.


These companies aren't profitable, meaning that every day they exist, they eat more than they work. What does it matter if you give them money? It is not going to change their model of operation. They will simply go through it and be back to zero available funds.

If bailing out could make a company profitable, then winning a lottery could turn one from a spender to a money-maker.

Technically, what we are doing now is we are taking hostages. How would we like it if others take our citizens and just held them in their jails forever, without any charges? Or even worse, torturing them and implanting tracking equipment in live human beings?

We would be outraged. But, those things do happen, and we properly classify people who does that to our citizens, as criminals.

By doing the same, we are doing criminal acts. Question is, by who's legal definition, but there is no question that we would find our own acts repulsive, if we were on the receiving side.

Can we guarantee, that no American will ever murder an Afghani citizen, or take him hostage? No, we can't. The same should be expected for the other countries. They can not be held responsible for something that their citizens do, without expressed participation of their state.

Then, what is the honorable way of dealing with the problem?

On our land, we dictate what is legally considered a crime. If an Afghani had arrived here and committed a crime, then he should be a subject to a criminal prosecution, as established here.

If a crime has been committed on their land, against our citizens, then we don't even have an option of declaring a war, because if we did, then we could consider anything to be a crime, and demand anything, or declare wars left and right. So, the only proper action in that case is to request proper actions from their government, and if refused, then cease relations. There can be a case when we simply aren't welcome and there is nothing we can or should do to change that.

But, what we are doing now amounts to kidnapping people for reasons that we approve and holding them for as long as it suits us.

I suggest that we take the higher road, before we are made to do that by others.

Seriously:



What Mac?

PC Platform is what Macs are running on. Mac "hardware" is now a mouse, monitor and a keyboard.

It's not like anything had changed since FDR was president. None of them ever cared for American people.

(There is a rumor that JFK did. I don't know that. Because he was killed, there is no way to find out. Had he lived, he could have thrown his famous executive order away himself.)

Methinks GPS wont die. Because if we stop keeping up with GPS satellites, there will be other nations that would be willing to "take the flag" by providing their own GPS.

So, it just might be that in a near future, the GPS satellite names will remind us of something Chinese...

Btw, Aple has officially surrendered to PC, as far as hardware goes. I am guessing this is still a big secret to Mac fans. Inside of you Mac, is a pure PC.

Why? Because Mac hardware, true kind, couldn't keep up with PC speeds, and so it become pointless, and was replaced and thrown away.

So, now, besides your one button mouse, and weird cd-rom opening button, there is nothing but MacOS on a PC that you're running. That's what we call "pink shades", no kidding.

I like your view!