in this text somebody claims that 200 people are responsible for 90% of all spam on the world.
Could we find them a job? Please.
Like trying to explain the moon illusion.
they must be really trying hard to convince me to have a look at their operating system.
Nah, I’d say. I only looke every ten years. So keep on doing nice
things, in three years I will how far you got …
"We went to war because we were attacked, and we are at war today because there are still people out there who want to harm our country and hurt our citizens,"
this is insane. There is NO connection between Iraq and 9/11.
Nothing. Zilch. Nada.
But Mr B. likes to make one. Since with 9/11 you pretty much can justify anything.
Just there is no connection between that country that event.
Nothing.
After September “the eleventh” (as Mr. B likes to call that terrible day) americans put allot of flags on their cars. Mr B. had a cool approval rating, after all he promised to ‘smoke them out’ those people that were behind the most shoking act of Terror in history.
That “War on Terror” stirred some strong emotions.
Those needed directions, so some people thought. And it worked:
When the War on Iraq started half of the people believed there were Iraqies in those planes. The war in Iraq became this part of the campaign on Terror. The former regime in Bagdhad was as bad as the one in North Korea or elsewhere in the world. Just that they had nothing to with the Terror act of Sept 2001 nor were there any real weapons of mass destrcutions that could be found.
With all this the american public would have no problem with.
As long as the US would have won the war. Officially they did so a very long time ago. Only problem is that the peace needs more soldiers and money than the war. And it’s not going anywhere.
There were always ‘milestones’ in the US view that would make things better: The hand over of sovereignity (done in a coup 24 hour before it was scheduled to dodge an onslaught of Terror) or the elections or the building of the government.
Americans like a success story. They like the winner. They were not winning in Vietnam, and they will not in Iraq.
Still my favorite is that Rumsfeld compared Iraq with Post War Germany a couple of weeks after his Boss declared major combat of being over.
Somehow some people must have not gotten that memo.
In case you really want to know when a famous person was born, you could also ask google:
just add ‘dob’ after their name.
It does make sense Google knows from what people are looking for. Cost them close to nothing to see how often people were looking for birthdays. So they just add it. The people will find,
eventually. There is just so many of them. They will find
everything. And then tell each other about it.
more at blognewschannel found via BlogsNow, of course.
… so I am installing some ancient linux (redhat 9) on some similar ancient hardware (don’t ask).
All goes well. Suddenly the install hangs. I follow the instructions to get rid of __db.* in /var/lib/rpm and do a rpm –rebuilddb only to get an error message:
error: db4 error(16) from dbenv->remove: Device or resource busy
Too me that sounds like something is broken. Tried it again, and it behaved the very same way. Since nothing is running on the machine I decided to reboot. Still the same error. Finally, I google for it, and find that this is ‘harmless’. “harmless” ? OK, why dosen’t the error message say so then?? This is just plain stupid. It would have taken the original coder 3 minutes to give people a little hint that this error is well, not an error. That it is ‘harmless’.