Now the Iraqi government’s official website, http://www.uruklink.net is off the air, too. It was redirected to http://www.itshappening.com/index_three.html for a while, and now it’s just plain dead.
Hackers have found a good way to use their time, and my theory that engineers support the liberation of Iraq is further supported.
Meanwhile, scripter Mark Pilgrim publishes a Doonesbury cartoon sneering at the commander in chief, and then cuts off comments when they get too hot for his pacifist philosophy to handle:
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It seems to me that the theory that you can resolve all conflicts by non-violent means implies a certain openness to dialog, something lacking in Mr. Pilgrim. There’s nothing like the arrogance of the morally superior.
I hadn’t read any Doonesbury for a while, and it’s pretty sad to see how far that once-funny and occasionally insightful strip has fallen; he’s still rehashing 60s themes, although the world has actually changed since the heyday of boomer adolescence.
I think, Richard, that he was merely trying to keep you from hijacking his bandwidth from his technically-oriented site for your own cause. Telling you to take it to your own blog was his right; you clearly are capable of continuing the conversation here to demonstrate your moral superiority.
And by the way, using the fact that a few script kiddies have enough time on their hands to attack Iraqi and Arabic-language websites is hardly evidence that “engineers support the liberation of Iraq.” That’s like saying that a couple of Salt Lake City teenagers sneaking into an adult bookstore proves that Mormons support pornography.