9/11 - Page 5

MrFun · September 10, 2003, 10:51

When I get home from work, Solver, I will take up your suggestion.

Lefty Scaevola · September 10, 2003, 11:46

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Originally posted by Chris 62
I'm amazed people are so immature as to attempt to troll Americans as the date of such a tragedy approches.

Silly you, this behavior of the deficient is easily predictable.
My reaction was mostly to go into strategic and tactical modes. As soon as the 2nd plane hit I thought " weel, its war". My second thought "Boy, all the whatevers that are involved with this have screwed the hell out of themselves, the USA will be fighting them as a top priority for a generation".
Make no mistake, Europe or others, the war on terroism will, more than any other factor, define USA policy and interest for a long forseeable future; adapt to that reality.

our_man · September 10, 2003, 14:10

A positive anniversary on 9/11

Taken from last week's Sunday Times:

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On Thursday, Northern Ireland will mark its own 9/11 anniversary. It will mark the first year, since records began in 1981, in which the police have not fired a plastic bullet. The last baton rounds were fired during rioting in north Belfast on September 11th, 2002. You have to go back 14 years - August 1989 - since the last person was killed by a plastic bullet: Seamus Duffy, 15, was shot in the chest by the RUC in disputed circumstances. Since then 36,000 baton rounds have been fired without serious mishap and they are likely to be retained for the forseeable future.

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Good news. It gives you an idea about how quiet it's been in Northern Ireland this past year. Hopefully, we can say the same thing again next year.

MrFun · September 10, 2003, 14:17

interesting, our_man

-Jrabbit · September 10, 2003, 14:17

The events of Sept. 11, 2001 made me angry, and made me feel vulnerable. It's a day I'll never forget.
But in 2003 and ultimately, it's just a date on the calendar.

This may sound crass, but life goes on.
I won't lie -- I'll be on a golf course.

DinoDoc · September 10, 2003, 15:25

Does anyone know who these people are: Nirit Ben-Ari, an Israeli peace activist; Omar Badar, a Palestinian peace activist? There is going to be a panel discussion here on the topic "Two Years Later: What Has Changed" featuring these two and I was curious if it would be worth my time going.

MrFun · September 10, 2003, 21:44

I'm going to switch over to a 9/11 related avatar . . .

MrFun · September 10, 2003, 21:46

damn it -- no matter how small I make the graphic I want, it still says it's too large for an avatar

mrmitchell · September 10, 2003, 21:54

I did too, MrFun. Seems a lot of them are from the perspective of the water though, I never did like photos of NYC from the water

Is it the right format?

Make sure it's 80x80 and no larger than 10kb

MrFun · September 10, 2003, 22:08

That's what driving me fvcking crazy -- according to the properties of my graphic I want, it's 8,000 bytes -- I saw the size requirements on the Editting Panel and yet, this is not working??

It's in JPEG format too.

Joseph · September 10, 2003, 22:50

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Originally posted by geeslaka
I don't think he was saying that americans are racist, only that americans are only concerned by what happens to america. Example, the european heat wave.

Las Vegas Nev. has a heat wave everyday (112 to 116). Texas has a heat wave every year, AZ to. If you live there, you have to learn how to survive.

mrmitchell · September 10, 2003, 22:54

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Las Vegas Nev. has a heat wave everyday (112 to 116). Texas has a heat wave every year, AZ to. If you live there, you have to learn how to survive.

But the French didn't, and ~11,000 people died at least partially attributable to the heat. Thus,

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Odin · September 10, 2003, 23:18

I remember 9/11 as if it was yesterday. About half-way in my Biology class the pricipal raced in and told us to turn on the TV. I was horrified when the first tower collapsed just 5 minustes after turning on the TV. In my class horror was turning to anger, the conservatives were screaming "NUKE MECCA!"

2 years on, It seems that us liberals are full of anger for the lies of Bush and how he used 9/11 to violate the constitution and as an excuse for his pet war in Iraq he wanted from day 1 of his presidency.

MrFun · September 10, 2003, 23:53

No help from anyone with my avatar problem?

MrFun · September 11, 2003, 00:09

wow . . .

Apolyton webmasters have created a beautiful tribute website for the firefighters of New York

JohnT · September 11, 2003, 00:12

I thought it was a nyc.gov link, MrFun.

Chilean President™ · September 11, 2003, 00:12

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Originally posted by MrFun
No help from anyone with my avatar problem?

If you want, post here the image and I'll try to fix it.

MrFun · September 11, 2003, 00:14

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Originally posted by JohnT
I thought it was a nyc.gov link, MrFun.

eh? Ok, then I was mistakened with the source.

Chilean President, here is the picture I want for my avatar -- one of the classical memorial pictures.

Chilean President™ · September 11, 2003, 00:24

ok, give me a few minutes

Chilean President™ · September 11, 2003, 00:27

here it is.
80x80, 8.5 kb.

Timexwatch · September 11, 2003, 00:39

I'm just happy that there aren't any Humvees with gun-toting soldiers on every other streetcorner. Near martial-law is no picnic.

MrFun · September 11, 2003, 00:40

Quote:

Originally posted by Chilean President
here it is.
80x80, 8.5 kb.

thanks for your help

Chilean President™ · September 11, 2003, 00:51

Quote:

Originally posted by MrFun
thanks for your help

you're welcome.

Greetings to all the Americans of this forum in this day. The world will not forget the courage of your heroes.

Nubclear · September 11, 2003, 01:46

In rememberance of September 11th.....

Chilean President™ · September 11, 2003, 01:57

thank you for the flag Comrade Tassadar

notyoueither · September 11, 2003, 02:02

For one day...

alva · September 11, 2003, 02:06

I posted the link before and it's still in my favourites.

(long download...about 7Megs)

http://home.comcast.net/~trekstertroy/sept11/attack.htm

Nubclear · September 11, 2003, 02:39

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Originally posted by Chilean President
thank you for the flag Comrade Tassadar

My pleasure

Plus, it's a REALLY nice flag

NYE:

More Anti-Tassadar drivel. Is anyone really surprised?

notyoueither · September 11, 2003, 02:40

Tass, are you on crack?

Dis · September 11, 2003, 03:08

Quote:

Originally posted by Joseph
Las Vegas Nev. has a heat wave everyday (112 to 116). Texas has a heat wave every year, AZ to. If you live there, you have to learn how to survive.

we have air conditioning.

before we had air conditioning we did not have old people living here.

trust me, the french people did not deserve this. They are not stupid. They are smarter than americans in most instances.