Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-25 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:32:47 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 09:04:46PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 17:56:49 -0500, Curt wrote in message >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> > Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied: >> >> > > and then G

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 08:55:13PM +0100, mc3393 wrote: > Curt Howland ha scritto: > > > On Tuesday 20 March 2007 13:17, mc3393 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > > heard to say: > > > > >In retourn, now the people does not agree anymore, but the war must > > >go on ... > > > > > > Why? > > i would like t

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-20 Thread mc3393
Curt Howland ha scritto: > On Tuesday 20 March 2007 13:17, mc3393 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: > > >In retourn, now the people does not agree anymore, but the war must > >go on ... > > > Why? i would like to know i voted for Prodi and Dalema (the left coalition who won over Berlus

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-20 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 09:54 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please take this somewhere else! The amount and frequency has been severely diminished. Just don't read it. It is a clearly marked thread that means nothing. Don't read it. Don't get me started on the whole "What is a

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-20 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 20 March 2007 13:17, mc3393 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > In retourn, now the people does not agree anymore, but the war must > go on ... Why? Stop shooting. Turn around. Walk away. I do not know of any reason that _stopping_ d

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-20 Thread mc3393
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: > Please take this somewhere else! > > > why this and not these? ^^^ WIX stands for Windows Installer Xml?. Luigi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 09:54:47AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Please take this somewhere else! > > > Roberto C. Sánchez ha scritto: > > > >>What you call "W's Iraq war" had the full support (pretty close to > >>unanimous) of both houses of the US congress. > >> > >> > >>

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-20 Thread wix
Please take this somewhere else! > Roberto C. Sánchez ha scritto: > >>What you call "W's Iraq war" had the full support (pretty close to >>unanimous) of both houses of the US congress. >> >> >> > So did they deserved to be bombed as in Santiago did the comrades of the > fascist c

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-20 Thread mc3393
Roberto C. Sánchez ha scritto: >What you call "W's Iraq war" had the full support (pretty close to >unanimous) of both houses of the US congress. > > > So did they deserved to be bombed as in Santiago did the comrades of the fascist colonel sanchez ?:-)). In retourn, now the people does not agre

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-20 Thread Paul Johnson
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 09:04:46PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 17:56:49 -0500, Curt wrote in message >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> > Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied: >> >> > > an

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 09:04:46PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 17:56:49 -0500, Curt wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied: > > > > and then Germany declared war on us. > > > > Yep. The only treaty that Hitler didn't break. One is l

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-19 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 17:56:49 -0500, Curt wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied: > > and then Germany declared war on us. > > Yep. The only treaty that Hitler didn't break. One is left scratching > one's head wondering "why?" ..another "why?", is why it sti

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings [Was:a dumb query? pls humor me]

2007-03-18 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:55:29 -0800, Freddy wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Steve Lamb wrote: > > Freddy Freeloader wrote: > > > >> treatment of them was born out of racism, not the fact that we are > >an > imperialistic society, because racism comes from human nature, > >not > politics

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-05 22:07:48, schrieb Curt Howland: > There may very well have been some nasty, reprehensible things done, > which deserve both wide publicity and boycott. A company, no matter > how large their market share, cannot force you to buy their product. > And unless they _sell_ product, they

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-11 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 11 March 2007 20:54, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > *You* brought up tyrants, as above. Granted. Now, shall we compare tyrants? Or shall we compare systems? Curt- - -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun contr

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-11 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 08:44:01 -0500 Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 08 March 2007 23:12, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard > to say: > > Do you really mean that societies > > are better off when governed by tyrants than

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-09 Thread Paul Johnson
Curt Howland wrote: > On Thursday 08 March 2007 23:12, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard > to say: >> Do you really mean that societies >> are better off when governed by tyrants than when governed by >> democratically elected governments? > > Actually, what I said was "monarchy and oligarchy

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-09 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 March 2007 23:12, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Do you really mean that societies > are better off when governed by tyrants than when governed by > democratically elected governments? Actually, what I said was "monarc

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-08 Thread s. keeling
Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 09:26:08 -0500 > Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > Democracy _sucks_. It makes all problems worse and solves nothing. At > > least in a monarchy or oligarchy, the ruler has some small incentive > > to pass on a prospero

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-08 Thread s. keeling
Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:26:08AM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > > > > Democracy _sucks_. It makes all problems worse and solves nothing. > > Good thing the US isn't a Democracy. It _thinks_ it's a republic. It _is_ a mobocracy. -- Any technology

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-08 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Curt Howland wrote: > > Democracy _sucks_. It makes all problems worse and solves > > nothing. "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Good thing the US isn't a Democracy. Representatives are democratically elected. I was referring to "democrac

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-08 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 09:26:08 -0500 Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Democracy _sucks_. It makes all problems worse and solves nothing. At > least in a monarchy or oligarchy, the ruler has some small incentive > to pass on a prosperous nation to their successor. These "elected" >

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:26:08AM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > > Democracy _sucks_. It makes all problems worse and solves nothing. Good thing the US isn't a Democracy. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Descrip

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-08 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 16:17:34 -0500 Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > I agree that the US did not specifically "expand the border" into > every example of military conquest I gave. So you and I do not > actually disagree. > > It remains, however, that I do wonder how those folks f

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-08 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Curt Howland wrote: > > Actually, the clear implication is that I consider the military > > occupation of 170 different countries by the US to be > > reprehensible, which causes me to wonder what the peoples so > > occupied think of it. Paul Johnso

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-08 Thread Paul Johnson
Curt Howland wrote: > Actually, the clear implication is that I consider the military > occupation of 170 different countries by the US to be reprehensible, > which causes me to wonder what the peoples so occupied think of it. Does it matter? We're the ones paying for it, if we think it's repreh

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-07 Thread Paul Johnson
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 09:18:14PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> >> > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:34:44AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> >> >> >> I'm willing to argue that Vietnam was worse for us than 1812 was for >> >> Canada. They at leas

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-07 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I stated: > > I wonder if the Germans would suggest West Berlin, as well as the > > continued military occupation of Japan. Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> stated: > So: > > 1) Freddy said that the US has never gone to war to expand its > borders. > > 2)

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-07 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 17:56:49 -0500 Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > I said: > > > I wonder if the Germans would suggest West Berlin, as well as the > > > continued military occupation of Japan. > > Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 09:18:14PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:34:44AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> > >> I'm willing to argue that Vietnam was worse for us than 1812 was for > >> Canada. They at least made it all the way to the capito

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-07 Thread Joe
Paul Johnson wrote: Joe wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: Laissez-faire economics is an impossible pipe dream and Germany proved it. Taken to it's natural end, you get Germany's pre-WWII out-of-control rapid inflation where soon it takes millions of dollars just to make a basic grocery run. So...

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-07 Thread Paul Johnson
Joe wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> >> Laissez-faire economics is an impossible pipe dream and Germany proved >> it. Taken to it's natural end, you get Germany's pre-WWII out-of-control >> rapid inflation where soon it takes millions of dollars just to make a >> basic grocery run. >> >> >> > S

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-07 Thread Paul Johnson
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:34:44AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> >> I'm willing to argue that Vietnam was worse for us than 1812 was for >> Canada. They at least made it all the way to the capitol and successfully >> captured >> it before resistance and (primarily) the

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-06 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Paul Johnson wrote: Curt Howland wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: So the Standard Oil Trust was a good thing, and we should welcome it's return? During the time Standard Oil was in operation, the price of kerosine dropped some 90%. They're still in operation, though IIRC the

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:34:44AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I'm willing to argue that Vietnam was worse for us than 1812 was for Canada. > They at least made it all the way to the capitol and successfully captured > it before resistance and (primarily) the weather squashed the invasion. I

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:27:09AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Laissez-faire economics is an impossible pipe dream and Germany proved it. > Taken to it's natural end, you get Germany's pre-WWII out-of-control rapid > inflation where soon it takes millions of dollars just to make a basic > groc

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-06 Thread Joe
Paul Johnson wrote: Laissez-faire economics is an impossible pipe dream and Germany proved it. Taken to it's natural end, you get Germany's pre-WWII out-of-control rapid inflation where soon it takes millions of dollars just to make a basic grocery run. So... in how many countries does the

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-06 Thread Paul Johnson
Curt Howland wrote: > On Monday 05 March 2007 21:57, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: >> > As would the Canadians, invaded in 1776 and 1812 unsuccessfully, >> >> 1812 was a success.  They just couldn't hold Washington for more >> than a day because a hurricane and the invasion

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-06 Thread Paul Johnson
Curt Howland wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> > So the Standard Oil Trust was a good thing, and we should welcome >> > it's return? > > During the time Standard Oil was in operation, the price of kerosine > dropped some 90%. They're still in operation, though IIRC they call themselves Imperial Oi

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings [Was:a dumb query? pls humor me]

2007-03-05 Thread Steve Lamb
Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Methinks you're looking at things backwards. Er, wha now? > Hitler used the existing > The same goes for Indians in North America. I said nothing about those so how you pull those outta yer nether parts is beyond me. I was thinking more of the institutionaliz

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings [Was:a dumb query? pls humor me]

2007-03-05 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/05/07 08:42, Freddy Freeloader wrote: On that point I will agree with you. The way we treat/ed the Indians is abominable. So does this mean that you *do* agree that we conquered other people's lands?

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings [Was:a dumb query? pls humor me]

2007-03-05 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Steve Lamb wrote: Freddy Freeloader wrote: treatment of them was born out of racism, not the fact that we are an imperialistic society, because racism comes from human nature, not politics. I dunno, most examples of modern day racism comes from politics. Methinks you're looki

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-05 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 05 March 2007 21:57, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > As would the Canadians, invaded in 1776 and 1812 unsuccessfully, > > 1812 was a success.  They just couldn't hold Washington for more > than a day because a hurrican

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-05 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: > > So the Standard Oil Trust was a good thing, and we should welcome > > it's return? During the time Standard Oil was in operation, the price of kerosine dropped some 90%. When the company started, all petroleum that wasn't ker

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Johnson
Curt Howland wrote: > On Monday 05 March 2007 09:36, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to > say: >> Freddy Freeloader wrote: >> > [the United States] have never gone to war to expand our borders >> > >> >> The Native Americans might disagree with you > > As would the Canadians, in

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-05 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I said: > > I wonder if the Germans would suggest West Berlin, as well as the > > continued military occupation of Japan. Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied: > How can you possibly claim that the occupation of West Berlin or > Japan is an example of

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-05 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 09:54:04 -0500 Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 05 March 2007 09:36, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to > say: > > Freddy Freeloader wrote: > > > [the United States] have never gone to war to expand

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings [Was:a dumb query? pls humor me]

2007-03-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/05/07 08:42, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > On that point I will agree with you. The way we treat/ed the Indians is > abominable. So does this mean that you *do* agree that we conquered other people's lands? > We should have accommodat

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-05 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 05 March 2007 09:36, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Freddy Freeloader wrote: > > [the United States] have never gone to war to expand our borders > > > > The Native Americans might disagree with you As would the

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings [Was:a dumb query? pls humor me]

2007-03-05 Thread Steve Lamb
Freddy Freeloader wrote: > treatment of them was born out of racism, not the fact that we are an > imperialistic society, because racism comes from human nature, not > politics. I dunno, most examples of modern day racism comes from politics. -- Steve C. Lamb | But who dec

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings [Was:a dumb query? pls humor me]

2007-03-05 Thread Freddy Freeloader
On that point I will agree with you. The way we treat/ed the Indians is abominable. We should have accommodated them, not destroyed them for there is much we might have learned from them. However, I'd say our treatment of them was born out of racism, not the fact that we are an imperialistic soc

OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings [Was:a dumb query? pls humor me]

2007-03-05 Thread Kent West
Freddy Freeloader wrote: [the United States] have never gone to war to expand our borders The Native Americans might disagree with you === From http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ debian-user mailing list Help and discussion among users of Debian Support for Debian us