(update: I seriously fsck’d up the upcoming stpats website, and will have to redo it.)
troops enter the DMZ, expect casualities Bahraini king offers saddam exile.
amazing site of a solo journalist in northern iraq, blogging by satelite phone. and his afghani diary.
Ireland Online reports that sadaam could poisen the water.
Earlier today i clicked on the locations menu item under the big blue apple and watched all my locations vanish. i tried to make a new location, it wouldn’t save. weird. i tried fixing disk permissions, cache blasting, all my normal tricks, even using google didn’t work. finally found a voodoo fix on macosxhints, which on the surface seemed unreasonable. but it mentioned a file that might be the culprit. so i checked out the permissions on the file–they were right and proper, and then i checked the file against a version of it i backed up onto a bootcd. whattyaknow, the current version had shrunk, mysteriously loosing 99% of it’s size. i did a little sys adminage as root, removed the damaged file, replaced it with the older one and VIOLA! my Locations have returned, and i’ve got one happy machine once more.
so back it up people. go up to versiontracker and get bootcd or carboncopycloner. make regular backups. os x ain’t windows, you can actually make bootable cd’s or disk partitions. save it or loose it. because you’ll never know when you’ll need a copy of /var/db/SystemConfiguration/preferences.xml.
(a voodoo fix is a refernce to when mac power users of days gone by would find fixes for problems by doing things completely unrelated to the computer’s problem, such as fixing a printer problem by changing the color of your bedroom wallpaper.)
(while checking something else i realized my hard drive was at 85% capacity, the magic number for corruption. as the articles all say “but i have so much room left! i spent the morning shoveling stuff off the drive. 2 cds per gig of data. 10 gigs to back up. 25 minutes per cd (it’s only a 4x burner.) 8.5 hours of work, total.)
what’s in a name department: The Coalition of The Willing. I gag when ever i hear that.
The 30 named countries in the U.S.-led coalition are:
Afghanistan, Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Japan (post-conflict only), South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan. “There are 15 more involvees who don’t want to be named,” said Mr. Powell.
DAMN! I’m going to sleep better tonight knowing that Eritrea, Estonia, and Albania are on “our” side. Hope they put all the Latvians and Lithuanians in the front lines. When it’s called the COTW, and you don’t want your name attached to it, what does that say? MMMM, WARCRIMES!
speaking of second world war criminals, i had a horrible day dream about germany and france uniting to become the Frogerman Hegemony, and starting a new cold war with Amerika.
NYTimes on Blair barely surving his own party.
the Guardian on Chirac and Schroeder.
from cnn:
? U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell says some 45 countries are now part of the coalition poised to back an imminent war on Iraq, although 15 of them do not wish to be named. Among the countries named are Britain, Australia, Italy, South Korea and the Czech Republic, which has special skills in dealing with chemical and biological attacks.
? Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix has said he believes it is a “theoretical possibility” Iraq could use chemical or biological weapons in the event of a U.S.-led war, but he believes such a scenario is “unlikely.” Meanwhile U.S. military officials tell CNN that Iraqi Republican Guard military units south of Baghdad may now have chemical munitions filled with a form of VX nerve agent as well as mustard gas. (Chemical threat)
? Pentagon sources say the probable new war against Iraq will likely be dubbed “Operation Iraqi Freedom.” The sources say the Pentagon settled on the name over the second place choice, “Operation Desert Freedom.”
? Diplomats at the U.N. Security Council in New York are still hoping to avert war and say they are planning a meeting of the council’s foreign ministers Wednesday to discuss the future of weapons inspections. “This idea that diplomacy will come to an end will be challenged by the ministers tomorrow,” one diplomat told CNN. Seven foreign ministers, including France’s Dominique de Villepin, Germany’s Joschka Fischer and Russia’s Igor Ivanov are expected to attend the meeting. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw are not expected to attend.
U.S. troops are massing close to the Kuwait-Iraq border.
? Spanish Prime Minister Jose Marie Aznar has said his country will not take part in combat despite playing a key role in the pro-war alliance and sponsoring a second U.N. resolution. Speaking in parliament Tuesday he said Spain would instead send a hospital ship, army engineers who could defuse land mines, and troops trained in decontaminating nuclear, chemical or biological attacks. (Spain won’t join attack)
? France, one of the staunchest opponents of military action against Iraq, has said its troops would join the U.S.-led coalition if Iraqi forces used chemical or biological weapons. Such an act on the part of the Iraqi military would “change the situation completely,” French Ambassador to Washington Jean-David Levitte told CNN. (French offer)
? White House sources have told CNN that Bush has asked Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to allow the U.S. to retaliate for any Iraqi strikes on Israel, as was the policy in the 1991 Gulf War. Sharon has not given a blanket promise, but U.S. officials say they are confident Israel will stay on the sidelines unless it faces a major Iraqi attack.
? The United Nations says it has completed the evacuation of its weapons inspectors and expatriate staff from Baghdad. All have now arrived safely aboard U.N. flights in Cyprus.
? As final preparation begins for a U.S.-led attack the Iraqi National Assembly will meet in an “extraordinary session” Wednesday morning, government officials say. No details have been given of the session’s agenda.
? The Vatican, meanwhile, has issued a brief but strongly worded statement on Bush’s ultimatum, saying: “He who decides that all peaceful means that international law offers us are exhausted assumes a great responsibility in front of God, his conscience, and history.”
Ffej,
Be careful on repeating reports of Hussein’s evil. I mean, the guy’s an evil prick, and I don’t give a damn what happens to him. But a lot of what is being reported about him is total bullshit, planted by intel people as black propaganda to convince the public that our invasion is justified.
Geez, I’m hearing from right-wingers that he was behind 9-11, both WTC bombings, the Oklahoma City bombings. The way things are going, I’m expecting to hear he was behind Pearl Harbor.
He’s an evil prick — that’s a given. But, come on, “poisoning the well” is one of the oldest canards in the book.
Our President is about to launch a major unprovoked attack on another country. Now, THAT’s evil. . .
Jerry
oh read the damn article for shit’s sake. it tells you who the author of the canard is and tells you their spin.
da,mn it do i have to hold everybodies hand and push your noses in the obvious? maybe i should post some links to the national review article on the plo-ira ties, with the hardcover version of the PNAC
report offered for sale in the sidebar? or the orangenet article on how the scots-irish are jews being picked on by the ira-plo? ya know, they have the ark of the convenent hidden in ulster…
happy shushan purim.
Ok. But if I missed your irony, I suspect others might have as well. . . .
P.S.: According to most authorities, Shushan Purim is only for thse living within an eruv. Is this your subtle way of saying you’re back in Skokie?
BTW: Please be more careful with that “render unto Caesar crap.” Well, most Christians fuck it up, so I guess I shouldn’t get touchy with a Jew on it.
The question was a set-up. The provocateur who asked whether taxes should be paid wanted to confound Jesus. If he said taxes should be paid, he’d look like a stooge for the Romans. If he said they shouldn’t be paid, he’d look like a rebel. So, he gave a beautifully ambiguous response: “Render unto Caesar what it Caesar’s, and render unto God what is God’s.”
That’s hardly a prescription for paying taxes, or submitting to temporal authority.
erevs exhist regardless of certification. especially if they’re the modern virtual sort provided by utility poles and wire. the origin of shushan purim has little to do with the walls, but the length of the battle…
[Middle English rendren, from Old French rendre, to give back, from Vulgar Latin *rendere, alteration of Latin reddere(influenced by prndere, to grasp) : red-, re-, re- + dare, to give; see d- in Indo-European Roots.]
render
\Ren”der\, n. 1. A surrender. [Obs.] –Shak.
2. A return; a payment of rent.
In those early times the king’s household was supported by specific renders of corn and other victuals from the tenants of the demains. –Blackstone.
3. An account given; a statement. [Obs.] –Shak.
Source: Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
gosh. i see where the confusion comes from. he obviously meant “To convert graphical information from a file into visual form, as on a video display or printer.”
print this, caeser!
I have no problem rendering unto Ceasar, After all if you play Ceasar’s game what do you expect. The problem is that everything has become Ceasar’s. Helped greatly by all our wonderful technology. We used to be able to head for the hills, but now the hills are Ceasars, which he gobbbles up and spits out.
The guy who wrote Blade Runner, Phillip K. Dick, believed that we never have really left the Roman empire. Little Georgie’s band of chickenhawks give credence to that theory. Little Georgie the flip side of Caligula. An orgy of fundementlism and making people do their will, just because they can. The justification is the same, Caligula “I am god”, Georgie “God acts through me” (quotation marks are mine). How the hell in a supposed democracy have we arrived at such a state.
And, by sourcing one word in a poetic, but not very literal, translation of Jesus’ words, you apparently missed his irony . . .
Oh Ffejjy please don’t tell me you are resorting to the dictionary to settle an arguement. Every ignorant redneck out here tries to settle arguements by quoting either Webster’s Dictionary, the Bible, or the constitution. They always screw up the meaning, the context, and anything else they can screw up, which you, because of your sense of nuance, would never do.
However when I really want to piss them off I say because of my doctorate society confers upon me the right to create words, which is bullshit and true. However the point is, how the fudge do you think you can get away with quoting something static, to descibe a fluid dynamic. That is the heart of rational and emotional laziness.
Sorry Ffej, but you hit a nerve.
law, like rhetoric is a continuum of connotation. arguing that the basis for the continuum can’t be used within itself is the acme of laziness. or to put it another way, caligula means “batshit lazy urban refuge attempting to live out a 19th century idyll in the 21st century,” and george means “drugs are for people too weak to handle science fiction,” because i say it does. what you say and what your dictionary says on the matter doesn’t matter. invoking the name of our lard PKD avails you naught, since a) you aren’t schooled in the proper and rightous reading of his work, b) his wards aren’t for non SFetic, c) Moorcock, the prophet who first raised PKD to divinity hath debunked himself (see link in URL field.)
Ya want nuance? baby, we got nuance. Also Portzeboie…
damn. lost my copy of the septuagent in the eviction. knew i should have quoted in the greek original.
killed my fscking cellphone battery with todays posts…
Septuagint? Shit! The Vulgate’s much better.
Among other things, it has the Christian stuff under discussion.
I thought Caligula was that sick movie with all those naked people doing freaky things. . . .
It is not the basis of the continium, its a concept frozen in time, that contains as much chaff and prejudice of the time, as it does the kernal of meaning.
Oakey needs to get a life
anybody got a used M16 or some frags ?
ffej, I’ve got a bunch of PC’s, spare parts, cables, etc… If you can pick them up they are yours… Extra disk drives, floppy’s, controllers, etc. etc. Please call me ASAP if you want this stuff – otherwise come Tuesday AM its all going in the dumpster.
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