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Nic Rowan wrote: You guys should have... "You guys"? Nic Rowan wrote: ...finished Saddam in the Gulf War instead of packing up and going home. Why didn't you push all the way and take out Saddam then? Everyone I knows agrees with that sentiment, and I'm sure many/all of the military feels the same way.As to why, you'll have to ask someone with more insight. Being a programmer, I see things in a binary format - the bit is on, or it's off - someone should have turned the sadam husein bit off ten years ago. ------- signature starts "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 Please review the Legal Disclaimer in my bio. ------- signature ends

I wasn't being literal, dude. I was just poking a hole in Jason's "everything American is better" balloon. :rose: Those willing to trade liberty for security deserve neither - Benjamin Franklin

Nic Rowan wrote: Right, and also never EVER tell anyone that your prison bitch name is "Butt Slammer" Sorry Paul I couldn't resist checking your name out mine is "Shower stalker" if that makes you feel any better No, not really. Butt Slammer and Shower Stalker together in the same wing probably is not a good idea. :rolleyes: But seriously, I would far rather be butt slammer or shower stalker than turd burglar. At least the former two are pretty normal in this day and age (ok, so maybe yours is a bit more dirty than average) but turd burglar is just... well... not on even if that were my thing. Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa Macbeth muttered: I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er DavidW wrote: You are totally mad. Nice.

Probably because the only way that inspection are occurring now is with 250,000 troop surrounding SH. If we weren't there , there would be no inpection. For that matter do you really believe all of the weapons SH has have been found and destroyed? I subscribe to the idea that we have probably found only the tip of the iceburg..... Uptight Ex-Military Republican married to a Commie Lib - How weird is that?

Nitron wrote: There's just something about Indian women... :) ;P :-D Regards, Rohit Sinha ...celebrating Indian spirit and Cricket. 8MB video, really cool!

I depends who was wearing them -- if it's someone famous they'd be worth a fortune on eBay. :-D You should be worried if he tells you he's suppling the stock though. :~ David Wulff "I feel inclined to blow my mind, Get hung up feeding ducks with a bun. They all come out to groove about; Be nicer than fun in the sun." - Itchycoo Park (Small Faces)

Rama Krishna wrote: What happened to the pitch? It was supposed to be an easy to bat on pitch. Well, our bowlers were just too good for them. And as for our batsmen, after losing those three early wickets, Kaif and Dravid just didn't want to lose any more wickets, and just played sensibly and slowly instead of going after the bowlers in a big way. We were certain to win. 146 is not a score you can defend against India these days. Rama Krishna wrote: I wonder what John Wright must be thinking. That he's the only New Zealander who won today. :) Regards, Rohit Sinha ...celebrating Indian spirit and Cricket. 8MB video, really cool!

Actually I enjoyed it

John Carson wrote: We kept the receipts. I think there might be some truth to that. Regardz Colin J Davies Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin I'm guessing the concept of a 2 hour movie showing two guys eating a meal and talking struck them as 'foreign' Rob Manderson wrote:

Doug Goulden wrote: the U has a responsibility to help rebuild not coerce the resulting governments If they do with these new governments as they do with their oldest allies, I have a doubt about it. Sadly, I don't think invasion of Iraq will be an end, more a step. There will be thousands of problems to solve, the kind of problems which lay for centuries, as the future of an independant Kurdistan. Moreover, I don't see the hawks stop their rethoric, rather target a new country. Angels banished from heaven have no choice but to become demons Cowboy Bebop

OK, there's the menu too. I just figured the popup menu would be faster. I was wrong! Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator. Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus Every line of code is a liability - Taka Muraoka Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files"

Your pointing out the problem of too many simply jumping on a band wagon and using it for what ever and not using the capability for what it is good for. Marc Clifton wrote: Give me a relational database any day and I'll be much happier. And what if that data base is 200 GIG and now you have to pass it around for people to us it. Or the alternative what if you tried to put that 200 Gig into a single XML file. Both Stupid right. Each tool is good for its function. So use them right and all can be happy. For my own needs I have several database options for various tasks. What is the primary cause of error is the transferring of that data. So XMLiz the query output, add the info so it is properly used. Lastly add transformation to the single authoritive data source you now have so it can be used to display to the user or sent directly into the next application. The cost of doing this verse programming every app to make data base queries is very attractive and when you have to integrate a new supplier or partner into your business process you do not need a team of 100's to reprogram everything. I love XML and XSLT for what they do. Not for how they can be misused. HUMM maybe that should be my sig? ""

i don't read political books. i wouldn't be able to stand having the author trying to convince me that his/her viewpoint was The Truth. i can barely stand it when i see the hand of the author in fiction. i guess i spent too much time dissecting books in Literature classes to be able to ignore blatant attempts at manipulation. :) so, the last 5 books i've read are: American Gods - Neil Gaiman (still working on it actually) Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole The Scar - China Meiville (awesome!) Words and Rules - Stephen Pinker Morphological Image Processing - Soille (still working on it) before that: American Pastoral - Phillip Roth Perdido Street Station - China Meiville (awesome, read this before The Scar) The Language Instinct - Stephen Pinker everything Jonathan Lethem has written i'm sure when i get home i'll see two or three more that i forgot to list. -c Image tools: ThumbNailer, Bobber, TIFFAssembler

Schlaubi wrote: Thoes this mean one's able to travel to Iraq for free? They pay transportation for you? Sounds like very cheap holidays ... Remember to pack your umbrella they're forcasting rain .... :laugh: Uptight Ex-Military Republican married to a Commie Lib - How weird is that?

i heard a good one today: George Bush might really succeed in his regime change goal. And he might actually get two for the price of one: Saddam's and Tony Blair's. -c Image tools: ThumbNailer, Bobber, TIFFAssembler

KaЯl wrote: AFAIK, democratisation of Afghanistan is for the moment a failure. Except Kabul, the country is still dominated by warlords, and the civil war is not that far I think at this point it seems to early to tell how Afghanistan is going to turn out. I did hear a news report that the Afghan government was going to start a program to disarm the warlord and to try to assert control over other regions of the country. Its going to take a long time to undo the damage that 25 years of war has done to that country, it isn't going to happen over night. IMO the US has to stay engaged and try to assist the people there to find their own way. But I think it is way to early to call the process a failure. For that matter I don't know that a Democracy is going to be where they end up at initially. But didn't the Afghani's have a King and a fairly liberal form of rule before the 1980's? Its going to be interesting. Along the same note, look at the German re-unification. I don't claim to be an expert, but from what I've heard the German people have had some difficulties rebuilding the prior East Germany, and look at the resources they have in comparison to the Afghani's. By comparison the Iraqi people have much more in the way of resources, including their oil wealth to rebuild their country. And from the info I have heard I would suspect that the military is going to go out of their way to prevent damaging the country' infrastructure any more than necessary. I'm mor econcerned about what the die hards will do, it look like Iraq is readying itself for a scorched earth policy. KaЯl wrote: With an objective point of view, it's a little what is doing your current administration, using the shock of 9/11 to sell its wary agenda for the Middle East I don't know if I agree with that, I can see though why you might feel that way though. The US has always reacted strongly to attack whether it was against Japan in WW2, the Cubans and the loss of the battleship the Maine, or 9/11. I don't know that the Bush administration would have led the US along this path if we hadn't been attacked. But I would also admit it has made a hell of a rallying cry. Its kind of the chicken or the egg thing..... Uptight Ex-Military Republican married to a Commie Lib - How weird is that?

Go Nucks! Too bad for the Habs this year: Theodore got off to that really rocky start and hasn't been consistent. Being a native of Victoria going to school near Toronto, I am in the unfortunate position of having to listen to the "I Be-Leaf" mania every year. :mad: Now, I want all the Canadian teams to do well (esp Van), but I really hate (maybe not "hate", since it's a strong word... maybe more like "really really don't like" or "can't stand") the Leaf fans... Not necassarily the Leafs themselves... just the fans. The "Hype" begins right about this time, and doens't end until they lose in the playoffs. And once they lose, all I hear is "next year" and people act as if the playoffs have ended. Just annoys me. X| So.. to steal a phrase that I read earlier on this site: "I cheer for two teams: the Canucks and whoever's playing the Leafs". :-D Van vs Ott in the finals would be amazing!!! I prefer to wear gloves when using it, but that's merely a matter of personal hygiene [Roger Wright on VB] Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. [Rich Cook]

They're coming back to put me in grade school with the principal. ;):laugh: Good joke Uptight Ex-Military Republican married to a Commie Lib - How weird is that?

David Wulff wrote: Don't let them fool you - they'd have your daughter in a flash if she wasn't tied up. That neither resignates nor embetters.