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From: Eeyore on 9 Aug 2006 06:57 Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote: > Eeyore wrote: > > > > Phat Bytestard wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 11:21:30 +0100, Eeyore > >> <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> Gave us: > >> > >>> As did the USA with their Norden bombsight that didn't actually > >>> deliver the goods in practice. > >> That would be Norton. > > > > No it wouldn't. Can't get anything right as usual...... > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norden_bombsight > > > > > >> We fire bombed Dresden for the UK. We didn't need no stinkin' > >> bombsights. It was at night, and we dropped a huge salvo. > > > > There was no " for the UK " about it. > > > > Graham > > It was actually 'for' the USSR according to documents from the time. > > Dirk Yes of course. To assist their advance. Graham
From: Phat Bytestard on 9 Aug 2006 08:14 On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 01:06:23 +0000 (UTC), kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) Gave us: >In article <44D83594.DD2058A2(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com>, >Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>Ken Smith wrote: >> >>> In article <44D754EF.BBE58B05(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com>, >>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: >>> [... me ...] >>> >> The US DOD stands for Department Of Defence so *everything* they do is >>> >> defence and paid for by the "defence budget". >>> > >>> >That's a curious way of thinking of it too. >>> >>> That is more or less the normal way of speaking of military spending in >>> the US. >> >>Whatever happened to the War Department ? It had a more honest name at least. > >In the US everything "The Department Of The Interior" is in charge of is >outdoors. Do I have to say more? > > For us to know that you are an utter idiot? No, you need no post any further.
From: Ken Smith on 9 Aug 2006 10:04 In article <5dkjd2lo7a84vc50o495t76mef0l9knssr(a)4ax.com>, Phat Bytestard <phatbytestard(a)getinmahharddrive.org> wrote: [....] >>In the US everything "The Department Of The Interior" is in charge of is >>outdoors. Do I have to say more? >> >> > For us to know that you are an utter idiot? No, you need no post any >further. Trying to win by insult while missing the fact that what I posted was a joke[1] doesn't look very good. [1] Not even one I came up with. Its been around for years. -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: Ken Smith on 9 Aug 2006 10:07 In article <44d990b0$0$10563$e4fe514c(a)dreader27.news.xs4all.nl>, Frank Bemelman <f.bemelmanq(a)xs4all.invalid.nl> wrote: >"Ken Smith" <kensmith(a)green.rahul.net> schreef in bericht >news:ebbcqc$m82$2(a)blue.rahul.net... >> In article <44d89841$0$10153$e4fe514c(a)dreader31.news.xs4all.nl>, >> Frank Bemelman <f.bemelmanq(a)xs4all.invalid.nl> wrote: >> [..law..] >>>Only because they started to realize they had less >>>civilized folks amongst them. >> >> That is far from the only reason. >> >> We make laws when we are calm to protect ourselves from our own darker >> nature when we are angry. >> >> We make laws to allow contracts to be enforced by the courts when there >> are disputes. >> >> We design our laws to protect the weak minority from the whims of the >> majority. > >I have a broader definition of civilized, which covers >all that - and more ;) If you do that do you end up calling anyone at all "civilized". A word is of very little use if it never applies. Q: What do you think of western civilization? A: I'd be in favor of it. -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: Keith on 9 Aug 2006 11:13
In article <pan.2006.08.09.23.34.00.627161(a)example.net>, null(a)example.net says... > On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 21:04:57 +0000, Jim Yanik wrote: > > > You obviously don't comprehend the definition of "murder",nor of > > Hezbollah using their own as human shields,locating launchers among > > their people's homes and cities.You have been successfully manipulated > > by them. > > Feh. "Human shields". Another excuse to rationalize murder. Murder <> killing. You really should take Jim's advice and look up the definition of "murder". > "We shelled them and bombed them, but the deaths were our target's fault." Certainly. Hiding under mommy skirts gets mommy killed during war. > That's the "you have disturbed me, therefore I must kill you" imprint. "disturbed"? *YOU* are disturbed. -- Keith |