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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: Maybe now some of the peaceniks in Europe can understand how the U.S. felt after the attack in 2001
My interpretation of that is you think Europeans didn't know what a terrorist attack felt like in 2001 - we did, we were suffering it long before then.
I'm also reading between the lines, and interpreting that you were suggesting that the 'peaceniks' were saying that Americans deserved it because of their foreign policy. If you think this attack had nothing to do with American foreign policy, you're very much mistaken, it's just America is so far away from Asia it's much easier to hit their allies in Europe.
If I've misinterpreted anything you've said please point out what you really mean, I'm not anti-American, far from it, I just think it's absurd that Americans think Terrorism started this century.
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Will you please allow a little bit of reality to intrude?
ISIS is hitting France not because te US is too far away and France is the ally of US.
ISIS is hitting France because France as been bombing ISIS positions in the Middle East.
This is known as tit for tat.
Mind you, I am not supporting ISIS in any way or condoning their murderous ways but I would like a more nuanced argument from you.
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Vivic wrote: ISIS is hitting France because France as been bombing ISIS positions in the Middle East.
I disagree, that may be part of it, but they hit France because they could and because France, or more specifically Paris, has a high Muslim population, is a very popular city, the French national team was playing Germany.
Their goal was to try to create a(n increased) rift between Muslim and non-Muslim, and probably more important to strike at the support for taking Syrian refugees. Hence the need to target an element that would get reported in Germany, the way the attackers shouted about Syria and a very clear and easily to find trail through the refugee routes had been laid.
It was not simple tit for tat, nothing to be gained from that.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Rage wrote: I think the peace era we have been experiencing since the end of WW2 has come to an end.
My deepest sympathies to everyone in France, and my response to what we should do to ISL would is better left to the soapbox.
Marc
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Rage wrote: the peace era we have been experiencing since the end of WW2 has come to an end.
When exactly did it start? Korea, Viet Nam, Aden, Kenya, Israel/Palestine, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Peru, Falklands, Iraq/Iran, Kuwait, Iraq ... just some of the war zones that have existed since 1945, i.e my entire lifetime.
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None of those places are in France.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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All those places you mention were isolated, what you are seeing now is the start of decades/centuries of a war unlike anything we've ever seen before.
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Yet the sad thing is that many people still think that we should keep on taking more and more Muslims into Europe as 'refugees', they really don't see the bigger picture and the future they are setting up our kids and future generations for.
The fact is you can't fight an enemy within, and the line that most Muslims are moderate is a lie. They don't condemn these attacks, a lot of them silently agree with them. Mass-immigration does not work, I've seen it 1st hand. I know a lot of people here will view this post with disdain, but they live in small villages where the impact of mass-immigration has been sheltered from them.
The most worrying thing is that the mass-immigration in the past 2 decades seems to be orchestrated by our European governments. It's almost as if they are trying to destroy the indigenous communities that have been built up for centuries whilst simultaneously using the threat of Terrorism that this upheaval creates to further strengthen their control.
France and England has such a high Muslim population that we will be subject to these attacks from within for decades if not centuries, the sad thing is that the left-wing politically correct amongst us will let it keep happening.
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Wow. You linked to some muslims condemning the attacks. Well done, that must mean most Muslims condemn the attacks, if you are gullible of course. Talking of gullible, did you know the word 'Gullible' was removed from the Oxford English Dictionary last year?
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Pathetic response which only illustrates that you count nothing as evidence against your pet prejudice and further undermines your own credibility. How many would it take then? Clearly the leaders of the majority of Muslims in the UK is not enough for you. Perhaps we should intern the lot until they've sworn an affadavit of condemnation. I'm sure the poor bastard that's just got back after 9 years in Guantanamo without trial would be delighted to be the first to volunteer himself to be taken into custody. Clearly you think the law should be rewritten to presume guilt until proof of innocence where Muslims are concerned. Shouldn't be a problem.
When the IRA was active did you complain that all Catholics were terrorists? When The Red Brigade was blowing up people on a regular basis did you call for a ban on Italians (given that they were already all Mafioso anyway)? What about the Angry Brigade? Does that mean all Brits think bombing's great? Perhaps we should all be deported to lessen the threat?
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The majority of those condemnations only came after the Government pointed out Muslims leaders were not doing enough to condone it. If you think there are those that carry out the attacks and those that are dead against it, and that's it, nothing in bwtween, then you are sorely mistaken. It's not that Black & White.
Member 9082365 wrote: Clearly you think the law should be rewritten to presume guilt until proof of innocence where Muslims are concerned.
Typical Liberal response. Make out the person said something they didn't and then argue about it.
Member 9082365 wrote: When the IRA was active did you complain that all Catholics were terrorists? When The Red Brigade was blowing up people on a regular basis did you call for a ban on Italians (given that they were already all Mafioso anyway)? What about the Angry Brigade? Does that mean all Brits think bombing's great? Perhaps we should all be deported to lessen the threat?
So I said most (admittadley I should have said many) but you make out I said all. See my point above about changing what was said.
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I once read that once you get more than 10% muslim population your country is screwed, I am yet to see anything that disproves that!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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A lot of us are screwed then. 
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If you can name me a country that isn't screwed whatever its Muslim population then I might give some credence to this utterly ludicrous nonsense. In many of the most seriously screwed countries such as Zimbabwe or Haiti there's hardly a Muslim in sight. Your correlation fails!
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What I said was if your country HAS 10%+ muslim then you are screwed.
What I did NOT say was that if your country is screwed you have 10%+ mulsims.
I return the challenge - name me a country with > 10% muslim population that you do not think has problems with radicalisation.
And this belongs in the SoapBox from here on!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Couldn't agree more! 
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Where is the problem? At least all people are safe on ground... except the other story which happens at the moment in Paris, but this is not a W3.1 problem ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) .
I don't like to know how many AS400 system are still in operation for much more critical tasks. Ok AS400 is an OS while 3.1 is a ?
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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0x01AA wrote: Where is the problem?
Well, apparently only two people in Paris will be able to troubleshoot issues soon and they had a problem last week...
I'm also pretty sure Microsoft doesn't support 3.1 anymore 
So I guess there isn't a problem until there is a problem.
I'm just amazed that 3.1 is still in use.
Well, not really amazed, as COBOL and such are also still very much in use.
But still... Reading about it makes me giggle 
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Wait another 30 years, you will see, same will be repeated with .whatever.net x.y instead of W3.1 
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Resistance to Change
Or
If a system is working fine, don't disturb it.
BTW, The Insider[^] saw a related report earlier today.
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I'm amazed the hardware lasted that long, to be honest...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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We still have some control system running DOS software with WfW 3.11 on 486 based PCs (so they are from the mid 90's) and some running Windows sofware with NT4.
If one of the system dies I replace it with a spare system (usually also a 486 or an early Pentium) or just replace the hard disk if that is defective. Each time when that happens (actually about every two years) I have to remember how to install WfW. Therefore I wrote a short HOWTO some years ago and copied the installation disks to a CD-ROM.
The spare systems has been used as normal desktop systems many years ago and has been rescued by me. It is always astonishing how long these old system are working because they are often running for multiple weeks without being switched off. Main failure reasons are the hard disks.
I always thought it would be difficult to find a job when becoming older. But it seems that people like me are rare specialist for such old systems nowadays.
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Jochen Arndt wrote: Main failure reasons are the hard disks.
Not surprised at all - they are mechanical components, and once bearings start to wear...
Power supplies also age badly in my experience.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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