Re: International law???

2003-02-26 Thread L.D. Best
Morality has changed, and continues to change. At one point in history it was moral -- even blessed by God -- to kill infants by bashing their heads on boulders. Morality is societally based; in one culture eating dead bodies to keep yourself and children alive is sickening [Donner Party], while

Re: International law???

2003-02-26 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:54:57 +0100, Casper Gielen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > Op woensdag 26 februari 2003 06:41, schreef Samuel W. Heywood: >> > SH> What gives Noriega the right to narco-terrorize the whole world? >> > SH> Aren't you glad he got busted? >> > yes

Re: International law???

2003-02-26 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:01:53 +0100 Casper Gielen wrote: > - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > Op woensdag 26 februari 2003 06:42, schreef Samuel W. Heywood: >> Morality may be defined as virtuous conduct. Popular opinion >> frequently fails to support virtuous conduct. Haven't

Re: Morality [was Re: International law???

2003-02-26 Thread L.D. Best
Bart, All thoughts are welcomed by me. Anything which can goad the general population into at least semi-rational thought processes is a mitzvah! As to being sent on before my time ... there's something about that terminology that opens a can of worms. At my stage in life I don't fear death, bu

Re: International law???

2003-02-26 Thread J J Young
Hmmm, the tale-end of my earlier message was removed: there were intervening lines each commencing with a period. >From the Washington File at http://usinfo.state.gov Q: Ari, is the U.S. government prepared to offer compensation to Derek Bond, the 72-year-old British man who spent three weeks in

Re: International law???

2003-02-26 Thread J J Young
>From the Washington File at http://usinfo.state.gov Q: Ari, you said yesterday that if we go to war with Iraq, the Iraqi leadership, including Saddam Hussein, would be a legitimate target under international law. Does this mean that if we go to war with Iraq our leadership would be a legitimate t

Re: Morality [was Re: International law???

2003-02-26 Thread Bart Buitinga
Dear mrs. Best, I hope you don't mind me dropping into this discussion (I saved some time putting Freesco to work instead of trying to configure Monkey so maybe I can shed some light on war philosophy). At 19:30 26-2-03 -0400, you wrote: >I'm not a believer in "black & white" but yin/yang has

Re: DOS Ghostscript

2003-02-26 Thread Michal H. Tyc
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 21:42:57 +, Neo Sze Wee wrote: > When I run it on a pdf file, it complains there is no gs_ini.ps file. > BUT where is gs_ini.ps file? > Does it requires font files? > Where to get them? > Can you give me the names of the required files? Lots of... ftp://ftp.gust.org.pl:21

Re: DOS Ghostscript

2003-02-26 Thread Steve
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Neo Sze Wee wrote: > I have downloaded 5.50 and it consists of: > > dos4gw.exe > gs386.exe > > When I run it on a pdf file, it complains there is no gs_ini.ps file. > BUT where is gs_ini.ps file? In version 4.03, you needed to download 3 files: (if you didn't already hav

Re: DOS Ghostscript

2003-02-26 Thread Neo Sze Wee
> On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:40:59 +0100, Michal H. Tyc wrote: > > > Hi, > > > On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:51:50 +, Neo Sze Wee wrote: > > >> Where to get ghostscript for pure dos, not dos/win32? > > > The Ghostscript executables for DOS (compiled with Watcom C, 386+) > > can be found at ftp://ftp.gust.

Re: International law???

2003-02-26 Thread Casper Gielen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Op woensdag 26 februari 2003 06:42, schreef Samuel W. Heywood: > > Morality may be defined as virtuous conduct. Popular opinion > frequently fails to support virtuous conduct. Haven't you ever > noticed that? > But in the end, morality is changed by

Re: International law???

2003-02-26 Thread Casper Gielen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Op woensdag 26 februari 2003 06:41, schreef Samuel W. Heywood: > > The US says that it would not be a case of aggression. If the UN should > think otherwise, they would be thinking wrong. This is exactly why Americans are becoming less popular in the