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True. Talking about all the global ass we are going to kick and all the glorious just wars we will start so that they may lay down their lives for their country does such a more effective job.

I didn't think you were that old. Sorry I underestimated both your geezerness and your authenticity.

Those aren't cause and effect, and I didn't imply they were. That opinion is just based on other posts, including ones exalting the actions of the Third Reich. He has his opinion. I have mine. They differ. So be it. I was just commenting on the difficulty in establishing a rational discussion with people with such drastic perspectives.

Wow. I thought you were talking about an e-mail message. I'm not sure how they plan to pull that one off. It doesn't take a credit card to register in the first place, so why should you be required to have one later on. If they stick to that, then I think you're right about the Yahoo thing.

Bill, Your explanation and discussion may be an exercise in futility, when it is with someone who shows pretty blatant neo-Nazi sympathies. He has the right to talk all he wants, but we don't have to like it.

Jim, Chances are negligable that the message was actually from anyone remotely related to AIM. Probably just another scam that can be disregarded.

There seem to be three different groups here. 1) Those who are against war, no matter what. 2) Those who see war as a possibility when other options fail. 3) Those who just want to see the world on fire for some bizarre reason. I understand the first group, am a part of the second, and fear the insanity of the third.

Richard, I'm more concerned about the casual assassination of world leaders. I generally don't think that is a business we should be in. I'm not blind to the fact that it happens, but I'd prefer we not participate. You're right that you can't really defend against suicide bombers, but on the other hand, I don't believe that we should have a "Screw the whole world, we are #1" attitude either. Plenty of countries have found a middle ground. It would be the better and nobler thing to be a powerful nation and not abuse the power.

Of course we have! I'm not in denial. I just think we ought to be careful about doing it. The more we declare open season on the leaders of other countries, the more they'll do it to us. It also has the occasional side effect of creating martyrs and lots of willing suicide bombers.

Sebazz, If we can get some intern to blow him regularly, do you think he would be too distracted to start this silly war?

So by those rules, it would be fair if Saddam just assinated our president. Whether we like him or not, he is currently the leader of a sovriegn nation. We should really think twice about doing that, unless we consider it fair game to have it done to ourselves. Of course, it may help, but that isn't really the point. The issue is whether we want to be better than him or just like him. Are we standing on higher moral principles or not?

Depending on what I dig up, I'd try and run it on the following OS's: NT 4 SP6a Win2k SP3 XP SP1 All would be run in console mode. Just doing some more research before I start.

What do you Folding@Home geeks think about the current stability of the Folding client? I ran it a couple years ago and it wasn't that great. Is it rock-solid now and worthy of a second look? If it is glitchy, I don't want to run it, but if it is good enough, I may join the DZ.com team and get back in.

No I didn't. I say yes. But I understand where you're coming from. I think some of the people in here are immune to headaches, because their heads are far too dense to be affected. (Not a personal attack on anyone. Just a general one. )

I don't think it is remotely accurate to say we've had 12 years of failed diplomacy. The bizarre escalation of US attention on Iraq does not reflect the culmination of over a decade of diplomatic work. It is closer to a snap decision of the current administration based on a tenuous link to terrorist activities. Where was the fever pitch of diplomatic effort before 9/11? Where were the high-publicity campaigns to goad the UN into moving faster? Where were the cries from the American people about the evil of Saddam Hussein? Nowhere! I'm not blaming Bush specifically (for once ), because he wasn't in office the whole time. The United States as a whole expressed very little interest in the post-Gulf War era, until now. If Iraq was the horrible threat it is being portrayed as now, why didn't we do anything? It is easy to point a finger at unenforced resolutions, or the fact that Hussein hasn't instantly submitted to our every whim, and say that we need to invade, but it is hardly the due process that going to war should follow. Diplomacy takes time. Rather than pointing backwards at the last 12 years and saying, "Look! It didn't work!" when we weren't actively trying, perhaps we can take the current heightened awareness and convert it into some productive diplomacy that yields the results we want without going to war. Why should we throw away American (and British, etc.) lives in a possibly avoidable war? I'm not saying that diplomacy is guaranteed to work, because it isn't, but it has not even been given an honest practical try.

But you have to give all the French Canadian poodles to Remster.

Bill, That is a very amusing literary comment, coming from you. I read them and loved them. I pre-ordered book 5 on March 16, 2001. What can I say? I'm a geek!

I'm a frite freak. I like them dipped in mustard, or if I can get my hands on it, satay sauce! Now, that is delicious.

Isn't that legal where you live? oi? non?

Co-ed naked twister works great, but I don't want to be there when Hussein or Bin Laden are playing. Yuck!

Skreamer, That is terrible! I can't imagine something like that happening. You have my deepest sympathy on the loss of your girlfriend.

Newbie! Welcome to the club, man!

Sure have. It is "The color (note spelling) of money" not "Color the money". You should also note that "Money laundering" only works if the water is hot enough to melt the wax.

And if you want to be bad after drawing with the crayons, you can take a lighter and melt them, so they drip and.....