Understanding war

"The cause is always a lie. If people understood, or individuals or
societies understood in a sensory way what war was, they’d never do it.
War is organized industrial slaughter."
CHRIS HEDGES INTERVIEW
A Reporter Separates The Rhetoric From The Reality of War
by Steven Rosenfeld
From Tom Paine.com

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"The Web is a genuine gift economy,

...and you will gain personal currency the more you give away."
--Rebecca Blood, The Weblog Handbook, p. 87

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IF IT WERE all so simple!

"IF IT WERE all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" - Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn, exiled Russian novelist, quoted in Yes! (Winter 2002)

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An interesting clock

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Vote early, vote right

Out of official earshot, words of dissent | csmonitor.com ALL FOR ONE: An Iraqi cabby says that when he arrived to vote on Oct. 15, he was handed a ballot already marked for Saddam Hussein. Out of 11.5 million voters, the Iraqi government says 100 percent voted to give the president another seven-year term.

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Removing those Annoying Ads From the AIM Buddy List

First, exit out of AIM if it's currently running. Launch Explorer and
change to the default AIM folder. This is usually found in the
c:\program files\aim95\ folder. Identify the file "admin.ocm" and
make a copy of it in the same folder. Identify the file "advert.ocm"
and delete this file. Rename the copy of "admin.ocm" to "advert.ocm"

Tip from WUGNET

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Quote of the moment:

Life is like an analogy.

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