Letter to the Editor
Even though cultures and religions have been at war for thousands of years the problem of war can be solved. In order to have a war there has to be an agreement to go to war. This agreement comes from a Vocabulary of War.
In the Middle East Muslims and Jews kill each other, but in San Francisco Muslims and Jews march together to protest for peace. The reason San Francisco is different than the Middle East is that San Francisco uses the Vocabulary of Peace and the Middle East uses the Vocabulary of War. We respect each other here. In San Francisco "we" are all "us", fellow members of the human community. Over there "they" are "terrorists" or "Infidels" and "they" deserve to die.
The Vocabulary of Peace humanizes people. The Vocabulary of War dehumanizes them. The difference is in the vocabulary and I think that if we change the vocabulary we can change the world. It's harder to kill people when you see them as individuals. And they have a harder time hating you when you are being respectful and considerate.
I can't believe that this guy is still in the news. The guy is a weirdo, but he didn't do it. I think he wanted a free ride back to the USA because he's probably in trouble in Bancock and this gets him out. Or - he's just delusional.
Even if he did it - it's not the most important thing in the news. It's bigger that 2 wars and everything else in the world? It's infotainment - not news.
I'm usually an Asus fan and I've bought several of their mother boards so when they came out with the M2NPV-VM for the new AM2 socket AMD processors I thought it would be a great board. Boy was I wrong. I think it's a bios problem but this is at least the third bios and the current version 0303 is very broken. It won't run the current 2.6.18rc4 Linux kernel and it is very picky about memory.
I bought the OCZ Gold Edition high performance ram and it's clear that this memory is incompatible. It's supposed to run at DDR2 800 speeds but even at DDR2 400 it still has memory errors. I'm hoping a future bios will fix this. Asus - you disappoint me. Fix your product!