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shyguy

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  1. Xenophobia creeps into this discussion. I live by the simple thing my father taught me, there is good and bad in ALL races on this planet. Don't hate all of them because of what one of them does. Please don't stoop to this base level of name calling, get back on with the (rather good) debating of the topic. There are some highly intelligent and articulate people here, lets hear them instead of berating those with different views.

  2. don't you see where this is leading? more weapons can never bring peace. the only way to stop terrorism is for the US government to cease acting like the world is theirs to run.

    So lets sit back and wait for someone who listens to nobody to make the ultimate weapon. There is always someone powermad enough to make huge deadly weapons, it's in our nature (sadly).

    History gives us good examples of the wait and see approach favoured by the anti arms brigade, and they never end well. All of human history has involved one nation growing, conquering as far as they could while those inferior nations fell into slavery, at least the American don't want that.

    Do you think (and I am interested in your view here) that if the Americans stop, all the other countries will too? And those despots running countries around the world, do you think they willlay down their arms and give up any ideas of forcing their ideals on the world?

    Some of these countries leaders don't believe even women have the right to wear high heels :wink:

  3. MHO if the US doesn't have these "deterrent" weapons, someone *much* worse will. And they won't be the sort of people to listen to a democratic debate about it. I always watch the "peace protestors" (fighting to get their views across usually literally) and wonder how long their protest would remain legal under the regimes they protect in the name of peace?? Would Sadman Insane have listened to them before he attacked Kuwait, or killed his own people??? I would wager not, he would have them shot by the soldiers on their way to do the *real* cleansing (read killing). No flames, lets just have some opinions hmmm??? Lets agree to differ, as that's what we all claim to want from society on this board the opportunity to be ourselves and air our views (of fashion in the case of people here) without prejudice being thrown at us. Lets see if we can't practice what we preach among ourselves in a debate.

  4. shyguy wrote:

    Running a 180 mhz compaq pentium pro machine as a server for my network to connect to the 1mbit broadband.

    What are you running on that? I have a PII-some hundred as a firewall, running SmoothWall.

    Running win 98 se with zonealarm, and using Internet connection sharing. Also use a small program I found somewhere to open extra ports for game servers etc thru ICS which is very basic and useless without the mods :wink:

    Lion, you are a lucky man (epletive deleted :D) I have the cupboard where the cold water tank used to be for all my pc's and bits.....

  5. Running a 180 mhz compaq pentium pro machine as a server for my network to connect to the 1mbit broadband. I run an amd 1ghz with 640 MB ram, geforce 2 mx graphics, 100mbit network and 17" monitor. Wife has a 1ghz with 256 MB ram and built in sound and graphics. Also run an overclocked celeron 300 (at 450 mhz) with 192 MB ram for a games server (Unreal Tournament) on the network, and have just put a mini itx board (all in one pc on a 7.5" x 7.5" board) into a nintendo games console as a project, running at 800 Mhz with 256 meg ram and built in sound graphics and LAN with tv out for playing direct on tv. As well as various pcs from 486 ps2 upwards in the loft :wink: All run Windoze ME or 98 as Linux is just too damn picky to install most of the time. Also have a commodore 64, Amiga 500 (x2) and a zx81, zx spectrum and acorn electron as well as many retro consoles. :D

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