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Will Alberta become another Newfoundland, when the Cod ran out. Short sighted greed, is that all we want? Nope, when the oil runs out we'll start on the methane gas deposits, then the thousand year supply of coal, then the uranium and diamonds........ Coal will run out around the same time as oil. If your machines that run on oil no longer work. Pick up that shovel and start diggin my friend.

You may need to upgrade your operating system as well. Microsoft no longer supports Windows 98 which means new viruses can appear that exploit holes in Windows 98 that will never be fixed. The chances of a virus being specificly designed for attacking WIn 98/95 is rare. They are after the NT based platforms mostly. It CAN affect Win 98. I would not worry about using 98, I maintain a couple 98 machines that run well with little problems. Also look into buying a Macintosh. There are a few viruses out there for Mac, but they seem to not really do any significant damage. An unprotected PC on the Internet can contract a problem in as little as 10 minutes. (virus or spyware) Win XP is a pretty decent OS from my perspective. My install of XP has ran flawlessly for over a year and a half. Which shocks me. For I used to need to do it every 6 months.

I work in the IT. Tips from the pros. Your PC got hijacked, not the modem. Almost impossible for someone to hijack the modem. But when they hijack your PC, it's pretty much the same thing .. your connection, and really YOU ARE You need Firewall - Hardware, preferably a router (alot to choose from). (firewall software on your PC is just as easy to break as any other peice of software, it does provide protection, harware would be better.) PROTIP - if your Firewall prompts for something you do not recognize and wants to access the internet , BLOCK IT IF YOU ARE NOT SURE WHAT IT IS. Safer than sorry. Antivirus - Scan your PC at least 2x a month. Also Norton and Sympatico is KNOWN TO HAVE ISSUES. My pal was on Sympatico and he called up Norton to find out why his AV does not work. Sympatico has something in their systems that makes Norton useless and does not work. Antispyware - Ad-Aware, Pest patrol ect. Scan your PC at least once a week. Spyware is in my view more dangerous than viruses, they reside on your PC and look like they should be there, but are not good. Spyware can track your surfing habits and datamine other stuff on your PC and sell it off to other companies. Also that can generate alot of popups (advertisement) geared toward your surfing habits. INTRUSIVE TO SAY THE LEAST!! Your Browser!! Clear history, cache, cookies on a regular basis. Know who uses your computer at what times. !!!!!! Monitor your children who use the Internet. Kids like to download and isntall things at random. Most of the programs are not good for your PC. Keep your Windows Updates CURRENT - Very important Keep your AV and Antispyware software up to date as well. Have a popup blocker installed. Try another browser, like Opera, FireFox, Netscape, they are less likely to get hacked (mostly due to market share of the product. IE has about %85 Firefox %10 then the rest make up the last 5%. Anything else?? I am here to help Reading your other posts in this thread - Besty, it is not their job to filter content on the Internet, that is your job. The Internet is a big place and is very difficult to monitor everything out there. You must be carefull and aware of what goes on when you are online. Phishing and ID theft and fraud are out there on the Internet. Be aware of it. If it looks shady to you, good chance it is, err on the side of caution in every case.

What the hell is the matter with you? The 9/11 commission said that Saddam was unquestionably linked to terrorism. Good God, the entire planet--with the exception of you and Black Dog--knows that Saddam's Iraq was a haven for terrorists. FFS, Saddam openly boasted about paying the families of displaced Arab (usually called Palestinian) suicide bombers!! Who is paying you to troll the internet? Billionaire George Soros? Get it right Monty. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...-2004Jun16.html ... wait for it. Monty will discredit that article somehow. Commie supporting rag ect. Kind of like how the CBC is run. Monty will keep throwing stuff up and holes are consistantly driven through it all. One thing I will give Monty , he is as consistend and bold pig headed as Mr. Bush himself. One track minded horse with the blinders on.

Are you joking with this crap? Try taking some responsibility for yourself and your country. The US isn't able to "give" you democracy and then make life great. Nobody said living in an open, capitalist, democratic society is easy and that it will solve all of life’s problems. Unfortunately your mindset of "The US is the problem we aren’t better off" is probably why things aren't working in the first place. You should instead be saying "What can “I” do to bring prosperity and democracy to my country". So bringing Democracy to Iraq was the wrong thing to do then?

So what happens when the oil runs out I guess the Alberta's will sell their water. Remember tho you can survive for a long time without food but only about three days without water. When the oil runs out, all machines will come to a screeching halt.

I stopped reading after ... "You have nine more, plus three territories. You can keep the ones named after a dog (Labrador) and an SUV (Yukon)" Cause we all know that during the Gold Rush, everyone was using the Yukon to get the goods.

Hey moron. How the hell do you know what is going on in GITMO or any US military prison for that matter? Have you ever been there? No, you are just talking out your *ss about things you have absolutely no idea about. No right minded American is happy with what happened at Abu Ghraib BUT, to say that it is common place is an outright crock of shit! Do you what really happens in any of those camps? Can you tell me with a straight faced icon that you know what is going on there? None of us really know, but for what is out there in the media, things do NOT look promising. I will go with the information that is out there right now. Take that blindfold off your head when you wake up.

I'm glad you find the prospect of someone dying so humorous. Not sure exactly what Bin Laden has to do with this incident. Some just do not understand certain types of humour. What does Bin Laden have to do with it? Maybe nothing, maybe everything. The reason Bin Laden was mentioned is that he finds it funny that they cannot hunt and kill the master mind behind a ... forget it .. nevermind.. move along.

What??? I was expecting to see Muhammed on those matts.

Just in case some of you may have missed it. http://dickhunt.ytmnd.com/ LOLS *breath* LOLS. Now personaly I really do not care/like that website but this one was too damn funny. I was at work with a client on the phone when I read this , tried to stiffle a laugh, but end up gigglin, he asks what was so funny. Too bad I could not tell him. Spread the love around folks.

Any hard evidence on those bases?? And where abouts they are?? That would be interesting to know just the location of those bases. Democracy comes from within. If the current ideology does not work then it is time for a revolution. Any country that wants change will do it from within. It cannot come from outside, it will fail. If the Iraqis wanted the freedom they would have done it themselves.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAH Cancelling Oktoberfest??? Give your head a shake.

If they accounted for the plane hitting the building they have taken into account the fireball than can come from a plane exploding, do not think for one moments they architecs of the WTC did not take that into account. They did. Besides most of the fireball happened outside both towers when the planes hit. Burning off most of the fuel. The money would not benefit the terrorists, but would benifit their families (if it ever got to them or someone made sure that their family is taken care of after your sacrafice. I am just not sure. WTC 1 or 2, suffered a huge ass bomb in the basement taking out several underground garage floors, and the fire in 1975 covered 11th and a couple other floors and burned for hours. Each time the building stood strong. My research continues.

Wow. Loftus better hope he is correct. He was wrong when he gave a San Francisco address for a "terrorist". I haven't seen Loftus on Fox News since. I guess I will have to log on to intelligencesummit.org Feb 17 to see his "smoking cannon". Iran took those weapons? AWESOME !!! Now we have another legitimate reason to take war up with Iran. Which in the end does not amount to squat, for the US said they are not even looking for them anymore. This is a non starter. And if that guy REALLY knew where the stuff was, the US would have been ALL over that. But instead they chose to propup way more important evidence, like the letter from that Nigerian official (who retired 10 years before he 'signed' the document) And he might not be on Fox anymore, knowing they get too much respect from the public, and respect means you cannot discuss crack pot theories anymore.

Do you realise what percentage of the US economy is defense spending? Obviously not. The problem doesn't sit with the war spending. It sits with the fact that rest of the world is doing dick-all in rebuilding the country and that Bush is pursuing a socially liberal agenda at home. I really wish you wouldn't value people's freedom with how much it costs the yanks. At least they are doing something, what have we done for oppressed groups in the last 25 years? Iraq is not safe yet for 'nation building' Why should other countries go help? They were not the ones who fucked the place up in the first place. And most of you are right, this is a dead horse, keep beating it. The invasion of Iraq was wrong. NEXT UP, in 5 years we talk about how invading Iran was wrong.

If Google wants to do business in China they will have to abide by that countries laws/ways. No two ways about it. Regardless of their track record with suppressing information. It is not Google's job to tell China how they want to run things. If Google wants to play in China, they have to play by their rules. And is Mike Savage the same guy who does Savage Love??

It's just a cartoon!!, JUST A CARTOON! Saying we do not understand them is an understatement. Seems like they suffer manic-depressiveness like me. One insult flies, and embassies in several countries in the middle east have been torched. NICE ONE! That will win you respect and overall, those few radicals are fucking things up for the rest of them. If Islam cannot control their followers, then they have failed. Some of the cartoons I just don't get. Being a subsciber of NO religion at all. Syria, Lebanon have torched Nordic related embassies. Iraqi's transportaion minister(??HAHA) said they are going to cut all ties with those countries. From CNN But again, it is JUST a cartoon.

Prescott Bush earned one whole share in the Union Banking Corporation, ergo he "bankrolled" the Nazis. What the left "conveniently" ignores is that liberal icon Avery Halliman owned 3991 shares in the Union Banking Corporation. I'm totally shocked that the left would try to revise history. It's not like they exactly have a history of doing that. But it really has nothing to do with Prescott Bush being Managing Director during those years.

I am glad I do not subscribe to any religion. I really did not find much ado about those cartoons. If they really wanted to be offenced they should visit somethingawful.com The photoshop fridays those people do are just amazing. I recall one of those sessions where the topic was about Passion of the Christ. I do not recall a big stink about it. You can be that People just need to relax, lighten up. If you cannot laugh at yourself, then just simply go away.

There were come Canadian troops in Iraq, but they were on an exchange program between the Canadian and the US military. They were under US orders at that point, and the Canadian government also gave them the option to come home, knowing that Canada was not having a part of it.

We need to keep removing the dictators we formely supported. I don't think there's any evidence to show the new Iraq will eb a huge improvement in either living standards or human rights. Unless you expect great things from a semi-radical Islamic regime tied to Iran? As for Saddam's Iraq being a huge destabalizing force in the region: it wasn't. But Iraq today most definietely is. Wait till they liberate Iran. That will go over like hot butter on popcorn.

This is way to good to leave alone http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4675724.stm has an even better report. Seems like they wanted to pull off a 'Northwood' type deal. Dirty dirty dealings. But it was still the right decision right?

Also, this coupled with the recent Mohammed cartoon will not turn out well.

Well, I think you win the award for the days most insightful post! "Iraq is a dump" 23 million people.....living in a "dump" that needs "cleaning up". Call me crazy, but I think they were happy with thier dumpy homes before the USA levelled so many of them. I'm curious, why was/is it a dump that required cleaning up? And how do you define "cleaned up"? They needed to clean up all the oil so Haliburton could ship it back to the US. Come to think of it, how much money is put back into the US's corporation's coffers due to the war? GW just got another 108.B for war efforts. How much do companies like Haliburton rake in for their operations? It seems obvious that Iraq is not making enough money off the current rate of oil flow (much less than when Hussein was in charge) And you can count on alot of that oil profit going back into rebuilding Iraq. Too bad it is not enough.