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April 2003  *  Web version

 

USA vs IRAQ

Questions and answers 

Is this for freedom?

[] According to the 'principles' USA overtly supports, the liberation-argument is not valid, for liberation, being autonomy, should come out of an act of autonomy, it should start from inside, as an internal revolution against the tyrannical regime of Bagdat. Interfering, without even having been invited, contrary to the will of almost all the world, the USA asks to impose liberation, which is unthinkable and impossible, just as much as a necessary freedom is unthinkable and impossible.

[] Can I transmit a will for autonomy, and how? If I can not, or if I don't know how, whatever else were I to do, I don't transmit the Western way and the democratic principles, but only an external covering and likeness of them (in the best case), an imitation of autonomy and democracy, so that, as much as I succeed in doing this, I don't support citizens, I create monkeys. But by creating monkeys I don't expand: I undermine the Western way.

[] The war is useless and deeply damaging to the USA even from the financial point of view, no matter what profits should ensure temporarily.

[] Doing moves of imposition, however succesful to some degree, but without having the power to maintain rule to the absolute degree, USA just inspires suspicion, mistrust and fear, preparing thus the forces that will resist and defeat the American dominance. Therefore, in the long run the war undermines the strategic interests of the USA.

[] It is obvious that the name of God has become something like magic, in order for the society and its warriors to be strengthened, to believe in and support the war. And yet it is not a real power that is being strengthened here, there can not be a real power inside lies, falsifications and self-deception, but only a blind stubbornness, the demand of the American society to destroy itself completely. Words are nothing and priceless. If you honor them, they are nothing, if you despise them the cost you are going to suffer will be immeasurable. This is not a war, this is just an act of what seems to prove the USA suicidal play.

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European Prospect Links : Philosophy and the Crisis of European Man, by E. Husserl (at Brad McCormick's home page)

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Pericles Giannopoulos: The Greek line & the Greek color

Ellopos anthology, translated from the Greek original by Steve Zacharakis

[] This natural, most clear writing of the line can be nothing else than the fundamental basis, the undeterred Need, towards which all Arts, wanting or not, are going to conform. Leaned in this natural base, the mind will create the kind of Line writing, mainly in Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, and in all the Arts whatever, in entirely all the subjects of life. And this line, naturally and necessarily, will be the most clear. [] Mountains, quite light, elastic, they shrink, expand, get up, down, bigger, smaller, they move, walk, go forth and back. The mountains of Aigina sometimes come to Faliron. Ymittos in the morning goes far away; it usually seems to be two steps away; about sunset it arrives in Zappeion; our hand rises instinctively to touch its back. All the Nature around us, the earthy material, of colors, stones, hills, mountains, is so thin lined and thin colored, just if a Master Painter got off a natural perfect environment the substantial line and color beauty and synthesized a music-lined and pleasure-colored air graph. It is an Ideal image, like being ready to vanish; an illusion like the painting and sculpture illusions, produced by the enthusiastic mind of Poets that throws them before their eyes, and they see them, they paint them, they talk and sing to them. They exist and they don't. They are and they are not. They are not and we see them... [] All soils, from the lowest dump sands of the beaches to the highest dry rocks of Ymittos, Pentelikon and Parnis are light like Clouds.

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Windows Freeware

Dialog Box Assistant is a small program that helps you to deal with the standard Open and Save As dialog boxes. Dialog Box Assistant places 2 buttons in the upper-right corner of the dialog box. When you press the left button you see a drop-down list that contains most recently used files. Right button is for the recent folders. Dialog Box Assistant keeps a list of recently used folders and files for each application you work with.Rated INDISPENSABLE by Ellopos

Office solutions

ATnotes creates notes on the Windows desktop. It supports alarms, custom sounds, running of files, recurring events, notes editing, importing and exporting. Explorer-like interface. We miss a temporary "disable" option, and an optional confirmation before running files. Take care: ATnotes doesn't support unicode. E.g. to view Greek in WinXP you have to enable non-unicode support from language settings, but if you do this your custom macros in MS Word will stop working!

Troubleshooter

If you wish a batch window would close immediately after execution in Windows XP

In Windows XP the window that the batch file opens, remains open for as long as all applications and documents opened by that batch file remain open. To solve this problem and have the window of the batch file to close immediately, use the start command in front of the file names. E.g., If we write a batch file to open tlg and a word document

C:\tlg32.exe | E:\practice.doc | cls
exit

This batch file will wait for tlg.exe and practice.doc to close before it closes its window.

In Windows XP we should write

start C:\tlg32.exe | start E:\practice.doc | cls
exit

and the batch file will close right after tlg.exe and practice.doc start.

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At some ideas you stand perplexed, especially at the sight of human sins, uncertain whether to combat it by force or by human love. Always decide, "I will combat it with human love." If you make up your mind about that once and for all, you can conquer the whole world. Loving humility is a terrible force; it is the strongest of all things and there is nothing like it. - Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

 

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