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Posted in: What do terrorists want?
  toms
07-21-2004, 1:18 PM
#5
From Mort-hog in the islamic dilema post... When I was in Egypt, I found it very interesting that the Egyptian newspapers never used the word "terrorist". They were not particularly anti-American either, but they always made references to t...  [Read More]
Posted in: What do terrorists want?
  toms
07-21-2004, 12:21 PM
#4
isn't this question a bit like saying "what do americans want?" You will probably get as many different answers as you can find people willing to answer it. Usually, what terrorists want is what they ask for. There are some terrorist gro...  [Read More]
Posted in: Bush is an idiot
  toms
07-21-2004, 12:39 PM
#6
did you just watch F9/11 by any chance? Don't underestimate bush, his advisors are a lot more intelligent than he may appear...:D...  [Read More]
Posted in: Bigots
  toms
07-21-2004, 12:37 PM
#9
maybe you shouldn't call yourself a christian if you only pick bits from the bible you like... ..but then again, maybe you shouldn't call yourself a christian if you just follow the bible because you were raised a christian and haven't had any reli...  [Read More]
Posted in: Islamic Dilemma
  toms
07-14-2004, 11:33 AM
#5
i'm pretty tolerant, and some of the uk is the same... but there has definately been an increase in anti muslim feeling here and in the us (just look at the racially motivated assaults figures). Probably of more worry is that i DO think that the wo...  [Read More]
Posted in: Online Privacy Loses a Battle
  toms
07-21-2004, 12:28 PM
#11
1) can you do that in gmail? 3) Who reads T&Cs anyway? If they do then who understands them? Even if you do understand them they are never in your favour and they change them every five days. 4) I kind of do believe that, but it doesn't mean it w...  [Read More]
Posted in: Online Privacy Loses a Battle
  toms
07-15-2004, 11:35 AM
#9
http://gmail-is-too-creepy.com/ a rebuttal (http://www.livejournal.com/community/gmail/20096.html)...  [Read More]
Posted in: Online Privacy Loses a Battle
  toms
07-14-2004, 10:41 AM
#6
maybe i'm being silly... but if i have PGP on my machine and send an email to someone else... what do they have to do to read it?...  [Read More]
Posted in: Online Privacy Loses a Battle
  toms
07-10-2004, 12:45 PM
#2
thats all well and good.. but i can't see my parents managing to cope with encryption and keys and whatever.... and i'd expect that using PGP would probably be grounds for the patriot act to be invoked to snoop on you... after all, what reason coul...  [Read More]
Posted in: Bill Cosby's stance on Blacks and Discrimination.
  toms
07-06-2004, 10:47 AM
#9
I had thought about posting about this as well, but never got around to it. I'm not black, and i'm unamerican so i don't really have to deal with "race issues" very often, if at all... so i can't completely say whether what he says holds tr...  [Read More]
Posted in: Saddam's Abu Grahib
  toms
07-21-2004, 1:12 PM
#13
nicely explained post mort....  [Read More]
Posted in: Saddam's Abu Grahib
  toms
07-06-2004, 10:13 AM
#8
Originally posted by Wilhuf Despite the current hardships in Iraq, Hussein's removal from office will sum to an improvement. very possibly true. here's hoping.... No one EVER said saddam was a nice guy. He was a very nasty tin-pot dictator with d...  [Read More]
Posted in: Saddam's Abu Grahib
  toms
07-03-2004, 10:52 AM
#5
maybe that is why the UN made that unprecedented public demand for their torture taskforce to be allowed to inspect Guantanamo... the fact that the US is a huge influence on the rest of the world, and what the US does others will follow. I still do...  [Read More]
Posted in: Saddam's Abu Grahib
  toms
07-02-2004, 11:28 AM
#2
what does that have to do with the AEI? :confused:...  [Read More]
Posted in: The White House is blowin it...
  toms
06-25-2004, 12:39 PM
#45
I don’t remember the context of that statement specifically, but I believe he was saying that if someone doesn’t support the war on terrorism they would be for the terrorists, wouldn’t they? --- A narrow-minded viewpoint. Terrorism can - and s...  [Read More]
Posted in: The White House is blowin it...
  toms
06-19-2004, 9:46 AM
#36
Originally posted by Noxrepere Wouldn't that have been a problem in prior elections rather than just, coincidentally, the 2000 presidential election? Like I said, I'm not sure about the accuracy of that name complaint. I believe registering to vote...  [Read More]
Posted in: The White House is blowin it...
  toms
06-18-2004, 7:35 AM
#28
as for florida... that looks more and more fishy the more you look into it. It wasn't that they fixed the counting, or "fixed" the election as such, but they did as much as possible to make it hard for likely democrat voters to vote. I ca...  [Read More]
Posted in: The White House is blowin it...
  toms
06-17-2004, 8:16 AM
#25
unfortunately it is just too much FUN to bash bush. He is just such an easy target that it is always really hard to resist. Politics these days is almost entirely about personalities and appearance and very little about issues or policies... so whe...  [Read More]
Posted in: The White House is blowin it...
  toms
06-15-2004, 7:08 AM
#10
the story itself isn't that damning of bush, as far as i can tell. but it does bug me the way "liberal" is used as a dirty word by smallminded people who can't accept that anyone might disagree with them. Like a lot of things, the best be...  [Read More]
Posted in: Ethnic Cleansing: A decent reason to send in the troops?
  toms
06-19-2004, 8:53 AM
#24
i agree that most of it is our fault, and we should in general keep our noses out, but you know... little things like genocide... sort of makes me want to make an exception. But as far as i can tell the world has decided that they are africans and so...  [Read More]
Posted in: Ethnic Cleansing: A decent reason to send in the troops?
  toms
06-17-2004, 8:33 AM
#22
I don't have a problem fighting dictators and saving unfortunate human beings on a huge scale. But the unevenness of the application and the unilateral action by one country is what i have a problem with. If the UN got together and agreed a table o...  [Read More]
Posted in: Ethnic Cleansing: A decent reason to send in the troops?
  toms
06-12-2004, 9:24 AM
#11
Originally posted by MennoniteHobbit 2) Terrorism is the connection. Hussein and bin Laden are friends, and through Hussein's stash of money in Iraq, that's funding for al Qaida right there. I can't believe anyone in the world still believes this!...  [Read More]
Posted in: Ethnic Cleansing: A decent reason to send in the troops?
  toms
06-11-2004, 12:17 PM
#8
i don't think you can compare the threat of saddam (100s to few thousand) to the situation in sudan (30,000 to die even if we all get in aid now, maybe up to a million if we are too slow). And as far as i am aware Saddam was an evil guy, but they mai...  [Read More]
Posted in: Ethnic Cleansing: A decent reason to send in the troops?
  toms
06-10-2004, 8:26 AM
#1
Ethnic Cleansing, Mass Rapes, Concentration Camps.... why is it that we never have any media coverage or mass support for sending in troops to sort out situations like this, but people are quite happy to go after two-bit dictators like saddam? 30,00...  [Read More]
Posted in: Occupation has boosted al-Qaida, says thinktank
  toms
05-29-2004, 8:00 AM
#5
Personally i think it is a combination of a number of factors. THe two main reasons for US involvement in the middle east are: Oil - keeping the price low for the us industry/consumer. Although they already pay 1/2 waht most other countries pay....  [Read More]
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