ARE YOU GUILTY

YOU MIGHT BE AN IE USER, IF…

>1. If your email address is listed on your business cards as “www.joesmith@yahoo.com”, you might be an IE user.

>2. If you actually think you will get $50 for “punching the monkey.”

>3. When someone tells you to restart your computer and you turn the monitor off and back on, you just might be an IE user.

>4. If someone tells you to go to “www.whatever.com” so you go to Google and search for it, you are probably an IE user.

>5. If someone tells you you need a firewall and so you go to the store and buy Norton firewall in a box for $70, you might just possibly be an IE user.

>6. When you get a popup ad showing a Windows-like warning and you think it is a Windows warning box, you might be an IE user.

>7. If you web browser has 8 search bars and you don’t even know how they got there, you might be an IE user.

>8. If you get pop-up ads and you aren’t even using the Internet, you just might possibly be an IE user.

>9. If you have mysterious charges on your card because you received an email from “E-Bay” saying your account would be suspended if you didn’t update your credit card information by clicking “this link”, you must be an IE user.

>10. If, while reading this list, you are receiving the message “NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM will shut down in 60 seconds”, you might be an IE user.
Lifted from guru John Dvorak’s blog.

Of course, all you intelligent people are using Firefox right?

CLOSE IS BETTER THAN NOTHING

Iraqi officials have now publicly acknowledged what has been rumored for a while. Next January’s “democratic” elections may not involve everyone. Vice President Barham Saleh told The Associated Press “Hypothetically, if you have a location in which the security situation is not conducive to holding elections … then you end up with the question, Shall we delay or hold the entire process hostage to that particular district? “.
Now that statement is open to interpretation but puppetmaster U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld left little doubt when he said “if insurgents prevent Iraqis from voting in some areas, a partial vote would be better than none at all.”
Why do I get the sneaking suspicion that, come election time, areas that do not support the American occupation will be labelled as in the grip of insurgency?

Update: Security of State Colin Powell spoke about the problem today.