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| 2004/2/7-8 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iran, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:12149 Activity:high |
2/6 A guy I work with who is not a US citizen wants to give money to an
American political campaign. He's convinced that he can just use his
credit card to donate a hundred bucks and no one will notice. Is he
right? I actually like working with this guy, and would hate to
see him get deported over some dumb stunt like this.
\_ Judging by the responses below, he should consider the prevalence
of hostile idiots in the US, decide that he doesn't give a rat's
ass about our defective political machinations, and use the
cash for something that will benefit mankind a bit more in the
long run, like a down payment on a hot tub. Some of you people
don't seem to know (or care) about the extent to which other
parts of the world look on US politics with a mixture of amusement
and sheer unbelieving horror. -John
\_ Hey John, guess what? No one in the US cares *or should care*
what other people in the world think of our politics. They
should mind their own fucking business and worry about their own
very often very fucked up systems. The *least* important concern
for anyone here is what anyone anywhere else thinks of our
system, our politicians, or anything else. Envy and jealousy
are so ugly.
\_ Of course we should care about how others think about
our political system cause we are always trying to
regime change other countries, by force or otherwise,
to be like ours, and it would make our job a little easier
if they like our system.
\_ That'll never happen since they get a highly distorted view
of our country from their government run media. You really
think a foreign government is going to go out of it's way
to show it's people anything good about our system? Esp.
in places like the middle east?
\_ what a DUMB ASS. $100 will not make a difference. Better donate
that money to Redcross, and/or the Green Linux Association or
Bay Area Bike Ride Fanatic Club
\_ If he is an Israeli AND was not born in Iran/q, then he can do
whatever he likes. If not, he might get in trouble. If he is from
some other countries, he would be damned by just having the thought.
\_ oooh, nice little racist troll. good one.
\_ here's a helpful little tidbit you should try to keep in
\_ You still haven't explained why it is racist.
\_ no cookie, troll.
\_ it's obviously not a troll, moron.
(the request for explanation that is)
\_ quite obviously it is and I'm not biting. no
cookie, troll. that's the best you'll get
out of this one. calling me a moron and
abusing the word "obviously" doesn't make it
different from the troll that it is. troll.
mind next time you want to voice your opinion or call things
\_ why not jsut have him give the money to you and you give the money
racist: You are an idiot. You have a reading comprehension
problem, and are too stupid to be runing around using loaded
words like that. I am not the person who posted the replied
to comment, and the comment isn't correct, but it was not
\_ can't this be construed as money laundering?
racist. You probably can't do anything about your stupidity
but you can refrain from subjecting others to it; please try
-phuqm
\_ Here's a little tidbit that's about as helpful or useful
as anything you've ever posted to the motd: FUCK OFF AND
DIE.
\_ You still haven't explained why it is racist.
\_ it's obviously not a troll, moron.
\_ He's right, it's a troll. Trollity troll!
\_ why not just have him give the money to you and you give the money
to the candidate?
\_ can't this be construed as money laundering?
\_ Even better, have him give you the money and tell him you donated
it and pocket it for yourself.
\_ Bingo!
\_ Maybe he should influence politics in his own country.
\_ He comes from a neutral country with the world's dullest
politics.
\_ That's his own fucking problem and no excuse to mess with
\_ The amazing thing is that this thread was actually
not intended as a troll, although it seems to have
turned into the troll of the day. Oh well. -OP
\_ No I don't think it was a troll since I know foreigners
with the exact same intent and attitude. You have the
right to do anything you'd like to international law
breakers as soon as there's an international law, troll.
\_ Maybe he should influence politics in his own country.
to improve it through internal efforts.
the politics in this country.
\_ Nah, now that US is world's police man, openly defies
international laws and claims the right to regime change
other countries, he has every reason to try to influence
politics in the US since it's easier to improve his
country by cajoling US to regime change it than to try
to improve it through internal efforts.
\_ Everyone in the world has a reason to attempt to influence
politics in the only super power. They don't have the right.
\_ All national governments do (or should do) what is in
the best interests of the nation as a whole. Your
government has chosen to interfere in foreign
nations. Other governments have chosen to interfere
in our government. You are a citizen, not a national
government and by interfering in a foreign government
you are creating your own foreign policy which is
detrimental to the rest of the nation as a whole. If
you'd like to create your own foreign policy go make
your own nation somewhere else first.
\_ can I help a foreigner to influence politics in his
country?
And I'm not going to even bother with the trollish bit about
international laws nonsense.
\_ You haven't noticed this whole thread was a
troll and you jumped right into it? And
for the guy.
directly to a candidate, give money to an interest group that
supports his positions.
yes, I have an inalienable right to dethrone the
international law breaking lying through its teeth bush
regime.
\_ The amazing thing is that this thread was actually
not intended as a troll, although it seems to have
turned into the troll of the day. Oh well. -OP
\_ No I don't think it was a troll since I know foreigners
with the exact same intent and attitude. You have the
right to do anything you'd like to international law
breakers as soon as there's an international law, troll.
\_ Nothing wrong with that. It's not like he donated millions
for the guy.
\_ This is almost the right answer. The real answer is that he
*can* do it because it is such a small number no one will
notice but he *shouldn't* do it and you sure as hell shouldn't
be helping a foreigner influence politics in your own country.
\_ can I help a foreigner to influence politics in his
country?
\_ Can? You *can* do many things. I don't think you should.
\_ My country is doing it all the time. Why shouldn't
I do it too?
\_ All national governments do (or should do) what is in
the best interests of the nation as a whole. Your
government has chosen to interfere in foreign
nations. Other governments have chosen to interfere
in our government. You are a citizen, not a national
government and by interfering in a foreign government
you are creating your own foreign policy which is
detrimental to the rest of the nation as a whole. If
you'd like to create your own foreign policy go make
your own nation somewhere else first.
\_ are you really this stupid?
\_ Perhaps the better thing for him to do is, instead of giving money
directly to a candidate, give money to an interest group that
supports his positions.
\_ He should donate to a political party in his own country that
supports his positions. As a foreigner he has no 'positions'
in this country. |
| 2004/2/7-8 [Computer/Companies/Yahoo, Computer/Domains] UID:12150 Activity:nil |
2/6 My completely not tech savy (and not local) friend set up a
yahoo webhosting account. He registered his domain through them
and pays $15 /month or so for hosting. I told him i'd host for
free but I don't know how yahoo-as-registrar works. Where does
he have to go to change his DNS servers?
\_ uh... good luck! maybe some at yahoo can help or your new registrar
will know what to do. |
| 2004/2/7-8 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:12151 Activity:nil |
2/7 I just installed FireBird for the first time today after Mozilla
kept on crashing in an old, underpowered Linux machine. I've never
seen a browser this amazing before. I mean, seriously, the first
browser upgrade that really blew me away was Netscape 3.x. Firebird,
while still in beta, recaptures that experience. I immediately
started installing this thing on every machine that I use. This
thing just blows IE out of the water.
\_ tell us why it is so much better. Reliability? Feature? What else?
Give us the specifics.
\_ It's hard to explain why exactly it's better. I think it's just
that Mozilla always felt very clunky and this basically just
strips everything off of Mozilla which was clunky and just makes
the whole epxerience a lot better. It feels a lot more
responsive than Mozilla and the UI is really a lot more
organized and a lot simpler. You can do everything that you
did in Mozilla but in a smaller footprint. In terms of
stability, it's not necessarily any more stable at this point
than Mozilla, but it seems to load up quite a bit faster.
I think it's also much closer to IE in the sense of just having
a browser. There isn't all this clunky shit that comes with
Mozilla like the email, the page layout tools, the chat, the
IM, and all that other garbage. I guess it's like the smaller
tool mentality of UNIX in general, and that makes it much
better than trying to be an environment. It reminds me very
much of older versions of Netscape before the bloat.
\_ standards-compliant rendering, features, speed.
\_ the first is identical to mozilla, the second is less than
mozilla.
\_ and the speed?
\_ the point is, a slightly faster browser with fewer
features and the same rendering engine as mozilla
shouldn't be considered "amazing".
\_ well, after you reduce features, it's a lot easier to
improve speed. don't drink the lemonade.
\_ interface speed is much faster (menus, dialogs, window
opening, etc) rendering speed is the same. mozilla
w/ quickstart starts up faster (since it's already
loaded) firebird works better on low-cpu, low-mem
boxen. on high-end boxes, they feel pretty much
identical, and mozilla has more features --dbushong
\_ even low cpu isn't that big a deal (on my celeron 500
with 1 gig of ram, they're both quite fine). the
real killer is if you don't have much ram and have
to start paging stuff out.
\_ Killer for which? I've got <512mb of ram but
1Ghz processor. Which is better for me?
\_ umm, i think i made it quite clear that ram
is the killer. i'm not quite sure what to
make of your "<512mb". Does that mean
256MB, 128MB, ...? it kinda starts to make
a difference when you get down there. |
| 2004/2/7-8 [Uncategorized] UID:12152 Activity:kinda low |
2/7 Are there any good, free utilities that let you print out calendars
for windows?
\_ see tucows or http://download.com |
| 2004/2/7-8 [Uncategorized] UID:12153 Activity:high 57%like:29787 |
2/7 Minority voters in Michigan being disenfranchised. Racism suspected.
http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/michigan/index.ssf?/newsflash/get_story.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?g8485_BC_MI--Democrats-CaucusS&&news&caucus
\_ Did you mean http://csua.org/u/5w6 ??
I couldn't get the above to work. |
| 2004/2/7-8 [Recreation/Computer] UID:12154 Activity:high |
2/7 How is it possible that Phillip Nunez doesn't have an Orkut ID, yet?
\_ Does Phillip read mail? Cthulhu does, evidently, since he's got
an Orkut ID.
\_ shut up, nweaver
\_ Orkut? Who cares? The whole thing is a waste of bits. Almost as
bad as blogs. Google should spend more time fixing their broken
search engine and not wasting time on this garbage. What is this
now, their 4th or 5th failed IPO? Stick a fork in it, Martha, it's
done.
\_ Hmm, google has shitloads of revenue and is apparently turning
something like a $300 million annual profit at the moment.
Stick a fork in it? |
| 2004/2/7 [Uncategorized] UID:29785 Activity:nil |
2/6 Lions? In Africa???
<DEAD>www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/29<DEAD> |
| 2004/2/7 [Computer/Networking, Consumer/Audio] UID:29786 Activity:nil |
2/6 Any wireless headphone recommendations? |