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Jenne

 :lol:  Definition of is, anyone?

P3nT4gR4m

Quote from: kaousuu on January 24, 2007, 03:29:28 PM
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on January 24, 2007, 03:22:43 PM
I miss our old Prime Minister

"No, a proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof, and when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven." - Jean Chretien

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aX6XMIldkRU

That reminds me of Rummy's Known knowns quote:

"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know."

I've always liked that quote - it's like a Buddha-ism. The kind of thing you'd expect to hear from some hippy scientist is a hollywood blockbuster, just before he slides open the door to hanger 19. It's also the dumbest possible thing to say out loud at a press conference.

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
Not actually a meat product.
Ass-Kicking & Foot-Stomping Ancient Master of SHIT FUCK FUCK FUCK
Awful and Bent Behemothic Results of Last Night's Painful Squat.
High Altitude Haggis-Filled Sex Bucket From Beyond Time and Space.
Internet Monkey Person of Filthy and Immoral Pygmy-Porn Wart Contagion
Octomom Auxillary Heat Exchanger Repairman
walking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy

"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it's not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn't matter." -- Max Tegmark

Cain

Except for "we know Osama bin Laden is either alive and well, alive and unwell, or unalive and unwell."

hunter s.durden

Or unalive and well.
What, with the 77 virgins and all.
This space for rent.

AFK

which of course some interpreters will tell you is actually 77 raisins, not virgins.
Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

Cain


Suu

BEIJING, China (Reuters) -- Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao has vowed to "purify" the Internet, state media reported on Wednesday, describing a top-level meeting that discussed ways to master the country's sprawling, unruly online population.

Hu made the comments as the ruling party's Politburo -- its 24-member leading council -- was studying China's Internet, which claimed 137 million registered users at the end of 2006.

Hu, a straitlaced communist with little sympathy for cultural relaxation, did not directly mention censorship.

But he made it clear that the Communist Party was looking to ensure it keeps control of China's Internet users, often more interested in salacious pictures, bloodthirsty games and political scandal than Marxist lessons.

The party had to "strengthen administration and development of our country's Internet culture", Hu told the meeting on Tuesday, according to the official Xinhua news agency.

"Maintain the initiative in opinion on the Internet and raise the level of guidance online," he said. "We must promote civilized running and use of the Internet and purify the Internet environment."

In 2006, China's Internet users grew by 26 million, or 23.4 percent, year on year, to reach 10.5 percent of the total population, the China Internet Network Information Center said on Tuesday.

The vast majority of those users have no access to overseas Chinese Web sites offering uncensored opinion and news critical of the ruling party.

But even in heavily monitored China, news of official misdeeds and dissident opinion has been able to travel through online bulletin boards and blogs.

Hu told officials to intensify control even as they seek to release the Internet's economic potential. "Ensure that one hand grasps development while one hand grasps administration," he said.
Sovereign Episkopos-Princess Kaousuu; Esq., Battle Nun, Bene Gesserit.
Our Lady of Perpetual Confusion; 1st Church of Discordia

"Add a dab of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it."

LMNO

This should be fun to watch.

Cain

Yeah, thanks to those traitors to freedom, Google Yahoo and Microsoft, who wont stop dealing with them.

AFK

What surprises me is that only 137 million Chinese are internet users.  I would have guessed a much higher number. 
Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

hunter s.durden

Raisins?

I thought discordianism was the goofy religion.
This space for rent.

Cain

No, outside of the largest cities you're in a lawless, semi-industralized hell hole at best.  I had friends who backpacked around China last year, outside of the areas around Hong Kong and the west coast cities and they said in places it reminded them of rural south America.

AFK

Ahh, well that makes sense then.  I wonder if there is a Chinese HIMEOBS on their internets. 
Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

P3nT4gR4m

Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on January 24, 2007, 08:48:33 PM
Ahh, well that makes sense then.  I wonder if there is a Chinese HIMEOBS on their internets. 

His Democratically Elected Presidents Elite Orbital Bomber Squadron?

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
Not actually a meat product.
Ass-Kicking & Foot-Stomping Ancient Master of SHIT FUCK FUCK FUCK
Awful and Bent Behemothic Results of Last Night's Painful Squat.
High Altitude Haggis-Filled Sex Bucket From Beyond Time and Space.
Internet Monkey Person of Filthy and Immoral Pygmy-Porn Wart Contagion
Octomom Auxillary Heat Exchanger Repairman
walking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy

"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it's not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn't matter." -- Max Tegmark

Cain

http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2007/january/01_17_3.html

The United States has signaled to Gulf Arab allies that an attack on Iran could take place in 2007.

Diplomatic sources said the Bush administration has raised the prospect of a U.S. strike on Iran over the next few months. The sources said the discussions with Gulf Cooperation Council states have also been conducted by U.S. Central Command as well as the U.S. intelligence community.

"There has not been a U.S. commitment, but the discussions have been interpreted as an expression of intent," the source said. "Right now, the U.S. message is that the GCC must get ready for any contingency."

On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice meets foreign ministers from the GCC states as well as Egypt and Jordan. The sources said Ms. Rice intends to brief the foreign ministers on U.S. strategy toward Iraq and Iran in a meeting scheduled to take place in Kuwait.