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2005-05-29 Afghanistan/South Asia

Use IT to counter western propaganda, says Durrani

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Posted by Fred 2005-05-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Perhaps they can adapt this WoT Sim template, heh...

option explicit

dim intMcnt,intMuzzy
dim intFcnt,intFunds
dim blnInsane,sngBombBux,intFoolCnt,intF

Randomize

blnInsane = True ' F**kin Duh

intMcnt = 6
intFcnt = 4

intMuzzy = 1
intFunds = 1

intFoolCnt = Muzzy_Pop(intMuzzy) ' initialize fodder foolpool
sngBombBux = BigRed_Bank(intFunds) ' initialize alDouri

Do

intF = Int((10 * Rnd) + 1) ' Generate Random Attack Factor 1-10

do_jihad intF,sngBombBux,intFoolCnt ' Attack and adjust figures

if sngBombBux =< 0 then ' Out of cash? (allow deficit)
intFunds = intFunds + 1 ' next funding source
if intFunds > intFcnt then ' no more sources? ur f**ked
blnInsane = False ' end the insanity
else
sngBombBux = sngBombBux + BigRed_Bank(intFunds)
end if
end if

if IntFoolCnt = 0 then ' Out of fodder?
intMuzzy = intMuzzy + 1 ' next fool source
if intMuzzy > intMcnt then ' no more sources? ur f**cked
blnInsane = False ' end the insanity
else
intFoolCnt = Muzzy_Pop(intMuzzy)
end if
end if

loop while blnInsane ' Until no longer insane

end

function Muzzy_Pop(idiotocracy)
select case idiotocracy
case 1 ' Pool of frustrated Saudi Fools
Muzzy_Pop = 2000000
case 2 ' Pool of Indo Fools
Muzzy_Pop = 1000000
case 3 ' Pool of Paki Fools
Muzzy_Pop = 2000000
case 4 ' Pool of Malay Fools
Muzzy_Pop = 100000
case 5 ' Pool of Iranian Fools
Muzzy_Pop = 10000
case 6 ' Pool of Euro-grown Fools
Muzzy_Pop = 500000
end select
end function

function BigRed_Bank(asshatsource)
select case asshatsource
case 1 ' Saddam's Syrian Cash
BigRed_Bank = 1000000000
case 2 ' Muzzy Charities
BigRed_Bank = 100000000
case 3 ' Saudi Royals
BigRed_Bank = 1000000000
case 4 ' Mad Mullahs
BigRed_Bank = 19.95
end select
end function

sub do_jihad(fac,bucks,fools)
'*********************************
'* Proprietary, Lol!
'* Rummy's Rules
'*********************************
end sub

Posted by .com 2005-05-29 02:51|| 2005-05-29 02:51|| Front Page Top

#2 I think they should get George Soros to fund their project. Obviously, if no one is listening to their ideas, it must be because they're not talking LOUD ENOUGH. Has nothing to do with the actual content of the ideas. Turn up the volume, baby. Clap onâ¢!

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-05-29 03:00|| 2005-05-29 03:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Enhancements on the bombbux funtion in perl ( what else?)

if ($bombbux < 0 ) {
&runhometomommy; }
elsif ($intfunds <0 ){
&blamebush;}
elsif ($intfund<0){
&blameamerica;}
elsif ($intfunds<0){
&getarealjob;}

sub runhometomommy {
$saying="Allahu Akbar!";
$thinking="How will I splain those years on a resume?";
$doing="Press conference at the UN";
if ($acceptable eq "Yes"){
end();}
}

sub blamebush {
$saying="Allahu Akbar! Bush is a murdering infidel!";
$thinking="How will I splain those years on a resume?";
$doing="Press conference at the Nation magazine";
if ($acceptable eq "Yes"){
end();}
}

sub blameamerica {
$saying="Allahu Akbar! Bush is a murdering infidel! America will be destroyed by Allah!!";
$thinking="How will I splain those years on a resume?";
$doing="Press conference at the DNC";
if ($acceptable eq "Yes"){
end();}
}

sub getarealjob {
$saying="Yes, sir and no sir";
$thinking="How will I splain those years on a resume?";
$doing="Press conference at the Moveon.org";
}

Posted by badanov">badanov 2005-05-29 05:03|| http://www.rkka.org]">[http://www.rkka.org] 2005-05-29 05:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Much as I hate to break into the programming jokes, there are a lot of good Arab blogs out there. I particularly like The Rantings of a SandMonkey. An Arab Libertarian no less!

Posted by phil_b 2005-05-29 06:36|| 2005-05-29 06:36|| Front Page Top

#5 âWe should use the technology to show the real face of Islam,â

They already did that on 9/11.

Posted by JerseyMike 2005-05-29 06:57|| 2005-05-29 06:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Good code. However, I have issues, .com, with case statements that don't handle the default case.

I think the code pieces come up a bit short, though: I think the situation mirrors the classical Readers and writers/consumers-producers problem, where consumers==>terrorists, and producers==>terrorist financiers. These run in parallel, in separate threads, with an Osama thread acting as a task monitor to spawn new consumer threads when the running ones are, ahem, terminated. The iranian code is unique, incorporating elements of all three.

This code design is pretty resilient when tested against the design basis threat: Traditional law enforcement methods used on 9/10/01 which can only terminate consumer threads. The Osama/Iran monitor thread just respawns a new consumer/terrorist thread, and the game continues.

Consumer threads are very light weight and easy to spawn. Producer threads are lots harder to create, since they provide oodles of cash which they are not capable of generating on their own. They had to rely on western know-how and western thirst for oil to generate all that cash.

Now, if they had BRAINS, then they COULD start honest companies and generate all that cash on their own and get a REAL sense of self-respect, but a culture that easily generates legions of suicide bombers is a culture that comes up kinda short in the brains department.

Now, in the land of imbeciles, the Idiot is king: Osama's genius is that he wrote the program and stuck in the monitor task (himself). That separated the producers from the consumers, and given the design threat, gives the (hard to replace) producer threads assurance that they can't be traced: If you've got dough to finance the Jihad, you've got enough dough to enjoy life, and you WILL want to enjoy it. THAT part of the design has worked perfectly: we are STILL giving aid and comfort and good will to the Saudis.

The MSM and the lefist idiotarians continue to insist that all we need to do is terminate the consumer threads: Ya gotta hand it to Osama, he may hate our culture, but he READ the LEFTIES correctly.

His mistake? We've not only got more BRAINS than he does, but he got snookered believing the MSM trash that Bush doesn't HAVE brains. We figured out the design, realized law enforcement wasn't going to work IN ISOLATION, and terminated the Osama monitor thread first. THAT thread is the most un-re-spawnable, the Taliban knew it, and were willing to kiss their kingdom away and go down fighting to prevent that termination.

Monitor thread termination's nearly done. It's a bit harder with the producers, but we're making progress. Crappy progress, but progress none-the-less.

The issue with Z (a rotting corpse he soon will be, God willing), is that he's a micro-monitor thread running in Iraq: He's spawing new consumers, and is the key to connect producers to consumers. The public declaration that he represents Al-Q in Iraq is the last gasp of the Osama monitor thread signalling to the producers who to link up with and feed cash to.

The loss of his laptop is not just an intelligence bonanza: It probably had the ONLY LIST of producers, and if he's as bad off as we hope, he's in no condition to remember the entire list from memory. The consumers are too dumb to figure out from whom to get their cash to continue operating, and the clever producers will be too jumpy and antsy to trust anyone.

*looks at above post* I thrive on good metaphors.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2005-05-29 07:07|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2005-05-29 07:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Some showed their version (of Isam on 9/11). We're talking about a substantial part of the world here ... let's HOPE that the militant, fundamentalist strain can be suppressed and a moderate form emerges. Because otherwise the bloodbath will be horrific.

Posted by rkb 2005-05-29 07:07|| 2005-05-29 07:07|| Front Page Top

#8 Prediction: if Z dies without naming a successor, or if a message from Bin Laden does not name a successor in Iraq, there will be an INCREASE, not a DECREASE, in terrorist attacks. The producers/financiers need two assurances: that their money is being spent on the Jihad and not on lap dances, and that the money will NOT be traced back to them. Osama understood the second, but there is evidence that the consumers ONLY understand the first, and not the second, assurance. Thus, they will feel that they need to establish their "street creds", the same way the Palestinian terror orgs did, so that producers will invest in THEM, and not someone else. Like the paleos, they will use the same method, but the score will be kept using the blood of Americans and Iraquis, not Israelis.

A bright spot: the lull in attacks immediately after the Iraqui election was not due to confusion on the part of the terrorists (consumers), but hesitation on the part of their financial supporters (producers). I think the population of producers shifted somewhat during that time, and that Z wasn't in Iraq during that time, but out on the fund-raising circuit trying to re-establish new sources of funding: One supporter would say, "Because of the election, I'm not supporting you now, BUT I KNOW SOMEONE WHO WILL." Given that nobody knows what Z looks like (including his producers), two months to link up with new supporters based on referrals from old supporters seems logical. The lull was either caused by Z not being in the field, and his commanders not wanting to act without orders, or due to an interruption of the cash flow from supporters having second thoughts after the election. (The possiblity of old supporters getting weak knees, then seeing the usual Arab incompetence plaguing the Iraquis, may have re-emboldened them.) The plus on this take is that the War on Terror can come to a grinding halt a lot faster than we could imagine if we REALLY went after the supporters producers.

Just for the record.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2005-05-29 07:58|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2005-05-29 07:58|| Front Page Top

#9 This is a great thread, esoteric though to non-programmers, but gets to the heart of the matter. There will always be fodder. The ME has seen to that for decades. The fodder by and large are a lost generation which have been destroyed by the teaching and propagandizing of the imams.

The pisser of the whole situation is that the West (as well as other parts of south and southeast Asia) is financing its own attacks on itself through oil money funneled to the fodder by wealthy individuals (read Saudis). The answer is obvious, the will is not there yet to be a hammer and less a negotiator and pursuader. Nobody talks about the Saudi connection except Rantburgers and other bloggers and blogees.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-05-29 13:32|| 2005-05-29 13:32|| Front Page Top

#10 Gee, it's just the typical adventure game loop, with the fodder and cash tossed in. ;-)

Posted by .com 2005-05-29 17:35|| 2005-05-29 17:35|| Front Page Top

#11 South To The Next Thread:

Posted by Rantburgs Llama 2005-05-29 19:22|| 2005-05-29 19:22|| Front Page Top

#12 He said that his government would leave no stone unturned in order to produce the Taliban of information technology.

Yes! And we'll have the Nader of Musclecars, the PETA of lobster restaurants, the Diogenes of optimism, ...

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