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It is probably just me but I find it really annoying to have loads of tabs open especially in Chrome. The more I have open the harder it is to see what is in each one and it just feels like I'm losing efficiency.

Ah, there's yar problem. To manage tens of tabs in a sane way, you pretty much have to use side tabs. Unfortunately they are currently not available for Chrome but may later appear as an extension.

One thing in particular that would help me is being able to have more than 8 site buttons on my home page. I would like to dump things that I want to save for later on that page.

The Opera Speed Dial feature might work for that purpose.

The issue with the silent upgrades isn't completely ensconced with memory usage. Try this one on for size: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=40787. For those that don't want to RTFA, Google decided, in the middle of the night, to make local-file-AJAX a part of XSS restrictions even if the origin is local-file -- which hurts web developers and mobile Webview/UIWebview-wrapped apps (e.g. PhoneGap). Granted, there's a flag for Chrome to launch it so that you can bypass the local file restriction, but that's not as easy to do on a Mac. And, even if doing this on a Mac was trivial, the problem a number of developers ran into was that Google changed the development environment without warning, forcing a number of developers to write in Safari for a time.

You don't need to ask permission, you only need to know how to google. Lots of people install cameras and leave them wide open for anyone to view.
Search for anything with inurl:/view.shtml

This has been known for a long time.

There is even a bunch of blogs and videos detailing exactly how to do this:
http://www.mydigitallife.info/hack-to-search-and-view-free-live-webcam-with-google-search/
http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-view-live-cams-through-google-155767/

What I was saying is that the mantra that everyone keeps referring to when talking about Google ("Do No Evil"), is meaningless.

Technically, it's "Don't Be Evil."

They are just another corporation looking towards the next quarterly earnings report and beholden to their investors. Period.

Actually, Google is quite different in a couple of ways. One huge one is that the company is really not very beholden to its investors. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, between them, have more votes than all of the rest of the shareholders combined. During the IPO they gave their stock 10 votes per share, and the common stock only one vote per share. Given that both of them have more money than anyone could spend, I think that really reduces the focus on stock price.

Another is that in the Founders' Letter during the IPO, which as I understand it is a legally-binding document that sets out how the company is to be run and what goals it will pursue, Page and Brin specified that Google is not and will not be a quarterly-focused company.

How different does that make the company, really? I don't know. But I can say that from the inside it looks very different from the other corporations I've worked for.

I would bet that "Do No Evil" is meaningless inside the company.

In my experience as a Google employee, that's not true. In terms of terminology, the phrase "Don't be evil" doesn't get used much... instead it's usually phrased as "Be Googley" or "That's the Googley way to do it", or similar. "Googley" is an adjective that has a lot of meanings, but respect for others, including others' privacy, is a big part of it. When decisions are being made, having someone say that an idea is not Googley is a near-fatal blow. Unless the proponents of the idea can explain why it is Googley (non-evil), or can fix it so that it's Googley, it's going to fail -- and "But it will make us a lot of money" is not a valid counterargument.

The one exception, I think, is ideas that have the potential to be evil. Those are okay, as long as care is taken to ensure that Google will not, in fact, use them in evil ways. Thus, it's not considered evil to compile a big patent warchest, because Google intends to use the patents only in defensive ways. The fact that a future Google, with a different policy, could act differently is not considered an argument that compiling a big patent warchest is non-Googley. Similarly, collecting lots of information about people who haven't opted out isn't evil because Google doesn't intend to use the information in evil ways. On the other hand, collecting information about people who have said they don't want to be tracked is non-Googley.

So, I'd say while "Don't Be Evil" may not be interpreted as stringently as some might like, it's far from meaningless.

Keep in mind, though, that I speak from my perspective as a one-year employee, who's mainly only seen how my little corner of the company works. The culture appears to be pretty consistent company-wide, however, and there's a strong focus on "indoctrinating" all new employees. The very first training session I had, on my very first day of employment, was all about Google culture and what it means to be Googley. I really think it's taken seriously.

Have you tried getting entertainment in the sticks?

actually, after watching 28 days later, I doubt that the zombies enjoyed having to start in the grim estates of north east London.* That just made the whole apocalypse scenario even more depressing.

* Is it me, or are all the urban levels in half life 2 set in a Birmingham industrial estate?

It's uncanny..

I don't follow. Offshoring exploits differences in the cost of living and is presumably an example of where the government isn't doing anything, since they don't prevent it.

- cost of living in USA is only high because of government destruction of currency, the free market and individual liberties.

Monopolies happen every so often without any government intervention. When they do, the only thing stopping them doing as they please is, in fact, government intervention.

- that's a common misconception.

Check https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=Companies+ruined+or+almost+ruined+by+Forward+caste
Sanjiv Ahuja belong to https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Forward_caste

Actually, I remember reading somewhere that consecutive encryption of a file (or a data stream) provides no additional protection against brute force attacks. The brute force needed to decrypt the end result is virtually the same, whether you encrypt once or twice. Something about a "meet in the middle" attack.

Not sure if this is true in all cases because TripleDES is a common encryption technique.
I (obviously) don't understand all that I read about this stuff.

1- You have one hour, 2, a day. The time you were watching porn and didn't want to be tracked. Sigh... You clear your cache so you don't get tracked! What's your point, really?

Deleting the content *after* accessing the porn websites is useless: you're already logged by their servers! You need to delete anything that may identify you *before* you go to the porn website.

There are two kinds of tracking at play here. The one they associate with your account (what I meant when I said you shouldn't use their services) and the sudo-anonymous data that they collect when you enter a certain website. They don't know who you are, where you live and very easily you can hide from it, it's just anonymous statistics.

Wrong. Even if you're not logged in, they still build a profile on you - that's why they need Anonymous identifiers. And uniquely identifying someone is extraordinarily easy - you only need 33 bits of information.

But you can also opt out of it... if you see a page with google ads, don't go there if you don't want to be tracked by google...

Even if they don't have Google ads, they probably have Google Analytics, which is invisible to the common user.

And how do you know if the site has Google ads without visiting it and being tracked as a result?

But in todays internet, everyone tracks you and most are hundreds of times more creepy than google (at least with them you know exactly what your data is used for - they are quite upfront with it).

Well, I guess the guys who robs you $1000 is actually a nice guy, at least he didn't rob you $10000.

To sum up, don't like google, don't use websites where they're present. If you're really that bothered you can even send an e-mail to the webmaster saying why you're not on their site right now. It's your choice all the way.

As I said above, 1) there's no way of telling if they're "present" unless you're very knowledgeable and 2) to find out if the site has Google loggers, you have to be logged.

2- You mentioned IE. Google put a link to their privacy policy in the field that clearly stated what they did. IE didn't understand it but still thought it was a valid response. It's a bigger fail by MS than google.

If I find a bug in your websites bank and take money from your account, am I not a thief?

3- See the part where I mentioned incognito mode and clearing your cookies. You want to play dumb, be my guest, but it's extremely easy to avoid cookies.

YOU are playing dumb. You started this conversation saying "You only need to not use their services", now suddenly I have to know what a cookie is and how to disable them? Why?

4- The whole google complaining is an hypocrisy. They always were clear where they got their money

Being clear about where they got their money is not the problem, mr. strawman.

if it wasn't for google you'd still be paying to have e-mail with more than 100MB of space or using the calendar on the wall. You owe google a whole lot

Back the fuck off! Did I have a choice of whether I wanted to be helped? No? Then I don't owe them shit.

Secondly, I don't give a fuck over those "advantages". I have plenty of space on my HD for all the email I want to store (yes, I use a real email client which downloads the emails) and there are plenty of good calendaring applications available.

But the funny is that I actually like Google for many other reasons; I just don't like their tracking, which has the potential of being extremely dangerous and is unavoidable unless you know more about tech than 99,9% of the population, and I particularly don't like shills (unpaid, which is even more sad), regardless of whether they're defending Google, Facebook or MS.

You seem to be confusing Sony with GeoShit and Marcan the arrogant asshole. Fortunately both work for companies whose products I have no intention of ever using.

--
Glass

Hope you don't mind me quoting you ... :)

https://plus.google.com/106639317314065291577/posts/irsF5UAvfsE

Google does! https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Aevil

I think you are right overall. Anyone pretty much has to assume any organization is compromised by informants. A related post by me:
http://groups.google.com/group/openmanufacturing/msg/ae28e8971f8f9669?hl=en
"My advice to people here is to build movements in such a way that the CIA can be proud of them :-) as well as so Smari and Bryan and others here can be proud of them too. :-) And, given the CIA is hiring machinists, build a movement where, in a good way, you assume everyone in it is working for the CIA, :-) but where you still get important stuff done in moving the world towards a post-scarcity open future. Just like people should assume Google is a division of the NSA and/or CIA. :-) An impossible task? Well, consider it more like a creative challenge. :-) "

Also, one has to accept that there are legitimate needs sometimes for "security" thinking. The big challenge is the irony of the current system, and theft or vandalism does little to really address the root causes of dysfunctions in our security apparatus. To address the root causes, we need a new vision of security. Here are a couple of essays by me towards trying to create a new vision of mutual/intrinsic security.

"On dealing with social hurricanes (like the US CIA) "
http://www.pdfernhout.net/on-dealing-with-social-hurricanes.html
"This approximately 60 page document is a ramble about ways to ensure the CIA (as well as other big organizations) remains (or becomes) accountable to human needs and the needs of healthy, prosperous, joyful, secure, educated communities. The primarily suggestion is to encourage a paradigm shift away from scarcity thinking & competition thinking towards abundance thinking & cooperation thinking within the CIA and other organizations. I suggest that shift could be encouraged in part by providing publicly accessible free "intelligence" tools and other publicly accessible free information that all people (including in the CIA and elsewhere) can, if they want, use to better connect the dots about global issues and see those issues from multiple perspectives, to provide a better context for providing broad policy advice. It links that effort to bigger efforts to transform our global society into a place that works well for (almost) everyone that millions of people are engaged in. A central Haudenosaunee story-related theme is the transformation of Tadodaho through the efforts of the Peacemaker from someone who was evil and hurtful to someone who was good and helpful. Another theme is exploring the meaning, if true, of a allegation by Wayne Madsen about President Obama's deeper connection to the CIA than was otherwise known. "

"Recognizing irony is key to transcending militarism"
http://www.pdfernhout.net/recognizing-irony-is-a-key-to-transcending-militarism.html
"Likewise, even United States three-letter agencies like the NSA and the CIA, as well as their foreign counterparts, are becoming ironic institutions in many ways. Despite probably having more computing power per square foot than any other place in the world, they seem not to have thought much about the implications of all that computer power and organized information to transform the world into a place of abundance for all. Cheap computing makes possible just about cheap everything else, as does the ability to make better designs through shared computing. ... There is a fundamental mismatch between 21st century reality and 20th century security thinking. Those "security" agencies are using those tools of abundance, cooperation, and sharing mainly from a mindset of scarcity, competition, and secrecy. Given the power of 21st century technology as an amplifier (in

The underlying reality is the talk about the UN controlling the internet is just about using the UN as a venue for establishing treaties governing the internet thus allowing every country to still communicate via the internet whilst controlling their own internal version of it.

China agrees. Can't have "uncontrolled" internet communication going around, can we?

Rich gits who already own chunks of it are going to bitch like mad because they know that 'ownership' will be broken up and they will have to buy it again in every nation. Countries will simply establish there own DNS and get people to ISP's to point their customers at them. Google is bound to complain after all IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/ could become worthless, rather than being a data mining source.

Here's the privacy policy:
http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy.html
Google Public DNS stores two sets of logs: temporary and permanent. The temporary logs store the full IP address of the machine you're using. We have to do this so that we can spot potentially bad things like DDoS attacks and so we can fix problems, such as particular domains not showing up for specific users.
We delete these temporary logs within 24 to 48 hours.
In the permanent logs, we don't keep personally identifiable information or IP information. We do keep some location information (at the city/metro level) so that we can conduct debugging, analyze abuse phenomena. After keeping this data for two weeks, we randomly sample a small subset for permanent storage.
We don't correlate or combine your information from the temporary or permanent logs with any other data that Google might have about your use of other services, such as data from Web Search and data from advertising on the Google content network.

Note that the last sentence directly contradicts what you just claimed.

Great examples would be .mil and .gov .edu pointing to local addresses in each country, rather than idiots trying to pretend they are the global government and the global military (rather than .gov.us and .mil.us and .edu.us). That little bit of egoistic stupidity will likely end up forcing every .com and .net to rebuy and rent those addresses around the globe.

Yeah, those egoistic ARPAnet-creating bastards! How dare they did not foresee their US-only military research network turning into the first worldwide fabric for information addressing and publishing.

The underlying reality is the talk about the UN controlling the internet is just about using the UN as a venue for establishing treaties governing the internet thus allowing every country to still communicate via the internet whilst controlling their own internal version of it.

China agrees. Can't have "uncontrolled" internet communication going around, can we?

Rich gits who already own chunks of it are going to bitch like mad because they know that 'ownership' will be broken up and they will have to buy it again in every nation. Countries will simply establish there own DNS and get people to ISP's to point their customers at them. Google is bound to complain after all IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/ could become worthless, rather than being a data mining source.

Here's the privacy policy:
http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy.html
Google Public DNS stores two sets of logs: temporary and permanent. The temporary logs store the full IP address of the machine you're using. We have to do this so that we can spot potentially bad things like DDoS attacks and so we can fix problems, such as particular domains not showing up for specific users.
We delete these temporary logs within 24 to 48 hours.
In the permanent logs, we don't keep personally identifiable information or IP information. We do keep some location information (at the city/metro level) so that we can conduct debugging, analyze abuse phenomena. After keeping this data for two weeks, we randomly sample a small subset for permanent storage.
We don't correlate or combine your information from the temporary or permanent logs with any other data that Google might have about your use of other services, such as data from Web Search and data from advertising on the Google content network.

Note that the last sentence directly contradicts what you just claimed.

Great examples would be .mil and .gov .edu pointing to local addresses in each country, rather than idiots trying to pretend they are the global government and the global military (rather than .gov.us and .mil.us and .edu.us). That little bit of egoistic stupidity will likely end up forcing every .com and .net to rebuy and rent those addresses around the globe.

Yeah, those egoistic ARPAnet-creating bastards! How dare they did not foresee their US-only military research network turning into the first worldwide fabric for information addressing and publishing.

I wrote a somewhat lengthy Google+ post as I gave Win8 CP a quick run and, well, it was not pleasant. To summarize my feelings: it might work on a mobile device, but on desktop it's ugly, unwieldy, doesn't work well for mouse+keyboard and will be a pain in the arse to look at on a regular-sized screen. Two of the things that will most likely drive people nuts on desktops is how everything, absolutely everything, is spaced out so god damn wide that 50% of the available space is wasted, and that everything has a sidescrolling bar at the bottom; you cannot just drag the screen around to scroll, you must either move your hand around to Page Up/Down every time or slug your mouse to the bottom, drag the bar, and then back to whatever you were doing. It's feels very inefficient.

The whole post with screenshots is at https://plus.google.com/111441130100170983404/posts/RrRxzm7dYoD should someone feel interested. I doubt I am saying anything that hasn't already been said, though.

the period from about ten years before to ten years after a new century.

The underlying reality is the talk about the UN controlling the internet is just about using the UN as a venue for establishing treaties governing the internet thus allowing every country to still communicate via the internet whilst controlling their own internal version of it.

Rich gits who already own chunks of it are going to bitch like mad because they know that 'ownership' will be broken up and they will have to buy it again in every nation. Countries will simply establish there own DNS and get people to ISP's to point their customers at them. Google is bound to complain after all IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/ could become worthless, rather than being a data mining source.

Great examples would be .mil and .gov .edu pointing to local addresses in each country, rather than idiots trying to pretend they are the global government and the global military (rather than .gov.us and .mil.us and .edu.us). That little bit of egoistic stupidity will likely end up forcing every .com and .net to rebuy and rent those addresses around the globe.

but guys, you pissed away a good oppourtunity to post some SJ pics
Like this!
https://www.google.com/search?q=scarlett%20johansen&hl=en&biw=1272&bih=843&sei=L-NOT5vSFoWuiQeU7onDCw&tbm=isch

Also the potential of mentioning floatation devices too, oh for shame :(

Sir Richard has dressed like a chick. before.

I can only assume that in that instance he was considering being penetrated?

But the second link is www.clubpenguin.com:

Welcome to Club Penguin, a virtual world for kids guided by an unwavering commitment to safety and creativity.

hummmm... seems there is more about Linux than meets the eye...

It gets better than that. Facebook has your aunt; G+ has Linus Torvalds!

Inspired by: <troll> Try Ubuntu </troll>

<troll> Try Minix 3.2.0 </troll> (humor).

Inspired by: <troll> Try Ubuntu </troll>

<troll> Try Minix 3.2.0 </troll> (humor).

The US government is seriously killing all financial innovations by labeling everything alternative to the USD as "money laundering".

Nope. Community currencies are as alive and well as they've ever been.
 

Remember how Liberty dollar and other gold currencies ended up?

The backers of the Liberty Dollar broke the law by revaluing their currency to something other than the US dollar. That the authorities took a dim view of breaking the law should neither be a surprise or be seen as evidence of some dark conspiracy. That, along with the list of community currencies in the link above should serve as evidence that you're either ill-informed, or operating on bias and assumptions rather than facts. (Or in the worst case, both.) The fact is, it's trivially easy and completely legal to start an alternative currency in the US and the laws surrounding them are astonishingly simple to comply with.
 
Google's problems, I suspect, stem from the need/desire to operate an alternative currency internationally - which is indeed fraught with problems.
 

If I were to create a startup based on alternative currencies ideas similar to Google's P2P money or Ripple, then Stockholm would be a much better place than Silicon Valley, all due to the absurd US anti-money laundering regulation.

That sounds suspiciously like a "no true Scotsman" argument - especially as I doubt that Sweden doesn't have laws and regulations to prevent money laundering. In fact, a quick Google search reveals that indeed they do.

Google, Amazon, and Salesforce have been FISMA certified for government use: http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/09/amazon-cloud-earns-fisma-government-security-accreditation.ars http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/government/trust.html http://www.businesscloud9.com/content/salesforcecom-goes-washington/5527

i remember seeing a TV Documentary on bacteriophage years ago. it was very interesting indeed.
using the search string "bacteriophages + Russia" will give you endless results and show that since Stalin's time this has been used there
one thing that was a surprise to learn from the documentary is that they seem to all be pretty much in sewage and then extracted and cultured from there.
they then test each strain of bacteriophage against an array of nasties and see which one that particular "phage" is effective against
it brings a whole new meaning to "being in the shit"

Maybe https://checkout.google.com/ ?

Arbitration (not arbitrage) occurs in various contexts all the time. The same people who freak out about Muslims doing this among themselves, of course, have no qualms about this common practice in business, for example. Or maybe they are just mad because they assume the Muslims stole the idea from 1 Corinthians Chapter 6 in the New Testament (yes, secular courts are clearly unbiblical).

WHAT?! How could you exclude Jeri Ellsworth? https://plus.google.com/u/0/115971553634517134434/posts

Really? Because that's not what their policy indicates.

Correct, but the number of keystrokes increases.
People are angry

What, are you lazy or just a troll? It takes 10 seconds to find a link to the policy.

Natural Gas (Methane) is likely the worst[0][1] possible choice for replacing gasoline. I don't understand how they arrived at this conclusion, other than by lobbyist funding from Big Oil/Big Energy to remain relevant with existing infrastructures.

[0] - http://www.epa.gov/methane/
[1] - http://www.google.com/search?q=methane+worse+for+climate+change&btnG=Search

I've been using it as a blog, so I usually post a really long post every two or three days.

I started when I began exploring Wicca and going through a book called A Year and A Day. I always thought Wicca was childish, immature and a fad for teenage emo rich kids who liked to wear cloaks and robes. There are people out there like that, obviously, which is where the public perception came from, but I was astonished at the difference in my personal exploration of the Craft. It has led to a lot of inner growth, helped me meditate on a daily basis, learn how to create personal sacred space when I need it, to really have an introduction to many old gods, to inner searching and self-improvement, to seeing a vastly different viewpoint from a nature religion on a daily level.

It's been very little like I had imagined. And no, I don't believe in the goddess and god as actual literal beings... but as personifications of nature. Nature is so interconnected that it it is a whole system, just not self-aware or intelligent. I don't worship the goddess or see her as malevolent or benevolent or conscious; I respect Mother Nature. So in many ways I am still an agnostic, and using the religion as a platform for psychological cohesion and growth. I've been doing it for seven months now, and I'm a solitary practitioner. Anyway, I'm on Google+ posting about my adventures.

https://plus.google.com/107740000198110230235/posts

I'm going try to read the paper later at my local university, as I'm not a student I can't access this journal and the author doesn't have his publications on his website. But from the link I saw this:

At a busy intersection in the San Francisco Bay area, the team stationed "pedestrians" at crosswalks, with instructions to approach the crossing at a point when oncoming drivers would have a chance to stop. Observers coded the status of the cars' drivers based on the vehicles' age, make, and appearance. Drivers of shiny, expensive cars were three times more likely than those of old clunkers to plow through a crosswalk, failing to yield to pedestrians as required by California state law. High-status motorists were also four times more likely than those with cheaper, older cars to cut off other drivers at a four-way stop.

My opinion of Berkeley has greatly diminished if this is what passes for scientific method.

A few years ago I saw some of his political cartoons. It was kind of odd seeing cartoons in the style of Suess but targeted to adults.

As a licensed iOS developer [...] I don't have to seek Apple's (or anyone's) approval

I do not think that means what you think it means.

How did you become "a licensed iOS developer" without "Apple's approval"?
And, AFAIK, Apple can still blacklist your dev key and purge your app(s) from the phone.

Also, can you put your apps up on a webpage for other people to download? (hint: no, anyone wishing to use them would need a jailbroken phone)

"The "eye of a needle" has been interpreted as a gate in Jerusalem, which opened after the main gate was closed at night. A camel could only pass through this smaller gate if it was stooped and had its baggage removed. This story has been put forth since at least the 15th century, and possibly as far back as the 9th century. However, there is no evidence for the existence of such a gate." (from Wikipedia, where else?)

The idea that the saying actually meant a camel and a gate was also disputed on UK show QI:

General Ignorance
It is hard for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle for the simple reason that it is too big. Jesus was being literal when he said it. It was a common phrase at the time, although another expression similar to it at the time was "passing an elephant through the eye of a needle." Similar expressions appear in the Torah and the Koran. Rich people tried to invent get-out clauses when they read this. One example was the idea of a gate. Another was that it was a mistranslation from the Greek for "Rope". (Forfeit: It was a gateway into Jerusalem)

Source: http://www.comedy.co.uk/guide/tv/qi/episodes/5/8/
Transcript of episode: http://sites.google.com/site/qitranscripts/transcripts/5x08 (search the page for "eye of a needle", which will have what was said)

Long Term Evolution

Next time, though, Just F'n Google It.

Android has some sort of a built-in low power push-like mechanism that was implemented starting with Android 2.2 (Froyo), called C2DM. It's not quite real push, but the battery life is stupid good.

I'd assume Skype uses C2DM, as do most IM apps...

http://code.google.com/android/c2dm/

The US is undoubtedly a constitutional republic; I never said anything different. It is also a democracy. The meanings of the words "republic" and "democracy" in modern language are largely orthogonal, though republic usually does imply at least some democracy.

My reference would be any English dictionary you may have around you, preferably the one that's not 250 year old. E.g. Google:

"A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives; A state governed in such a way."

My school taught me things as they are in modern terms, not things that were 250 years ago in terms that were used back then and have changed their definitions since. I'm sorry if that sounds offensive to you, but, as far as the rest of the world is concerned, whenever you Americans make that "we're not a democracy" claim, you are, at best, ridiculing yourselves, and at worst, you're claiming to be something that is shameful to be.

Ok, it actually meant "IT'S AWWRIGHT".

IIf I'm going to China I probably want to see Tianamen square, just as I would want to see Trafalgar square in the UK. One happened to have a massacre in it, but unless that massacre is happening *right now* I care more about directions, parking etc.

Well, duh, if you want to know about parking in Tiananmen, ASK FOR THAT. How the hell is Google, or anyone, supposed to know what you want?

http://www.google.com/webhp#&q=Tiananmen+parking

Is that hard?

Failing that, the most widely discussed information is at top, which is about the massacre.

The price is not to like. The Pentagon should pay for this new system by deleting some other system. In fact the Pentagon should delete more expenses than this one is currently pretended to cost, to accommodate the inevitable cost overruns of the new system.

We are spending far more than what our security needs to cost us. If we really do have a new "highest priority", the Pentagon should cut enough of its lower priorities to pay for it.

Are you also in favor of higher unemployment rates?

Check the trends:

Focusing just on the post World War
II period, U.S. military spending as a
percent of GDP has ranged from a 15
percent high in 1952 (during the
Korean War) to a low of 3.7 percent in
2000 (the period of relative tranquility
preceding the terrorist attacks of the
following year).

... no hosting services in iceland have ANY upload limits, they do-however have "download" limits, which means data from other countries _TO_ the server is metered, and quite expensive but ANY upload (from the server to the internet) is completely free.

Just a matter of making a deal, i'd reccomend contacting x.is and 1984.is.

Additionally, a 100 mbit connection at home in iceland is only like 7k ISK (~60 USD) with a 250 gb download (see above) cap and NO upload cap. (See: http://hringdu.is/page/yfirlit/ljos/ / http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fhringdu.is%2Fpage%2Fyfirlit%2Fljos%2F)

Here's my speed (50/50 mbit connection, ~4k ISK (~30 USD) a month) http://www.speedtest.net/result/1801028229.png

p.s. data within iceland is not metered at all, up or down.
p.p.s. if you do hit the "download" limit, they don't charge you, they slow the connection down to ~4 KB/s so you can't keep downloading but domestic speeds stay the same all the time (so yes i proxy to friends when i go over my cap).
p.p.p.s. A friend of mine even runs an anime streaming site from one of those connections in iceland at http://fluffy.is/ it runs quite well and has for about a year now on the current connection.

Enjoy

According to some scholars, the Greek word camilos (rope) was accidentally miscopied as camelos (camel).

My opinion about all government is the same, whatever the issue. All the anti-trust is nonsense, there are no natural monopolies, only government created ones. The times that anti-trust was applied, it was always against an economy of scale, but never against a monopoly, because those companies didn't have government protecting them in the market, and they always had some form of competition by the time the lawsuit was in progress. Gov't uses antitrust to subsidise their friends, who pay them in order to get into that business by lowering their barriers to entry through artificial regulations, which hurt the market, never helps the actual clients of the companies that the gov't is engaged against.

Not just country roads. If you're coming up 6th street in Springfield from I-55 during the day, this is an incredibly scary spot in the daytime. Cars coming from Princeton (right before the viaduct) come out blind -- there's no way to tell if traffic is coming or not from Princeton. I never EVER go past that spot in the right lane. During the day you could slam into someone dumb enough to come out there, and at night -- well, JW's is a bar on the right just past the viaduct and you're liable to have trouble with drunks leaving.

The left lane is almost as bad, the street past the viaduct is almost as blind. The center two lanes are the only almost safe ones.

I never could understand the Catholic's refusal to let priests marry, considering that one of the Apostles (Peter maybe? I'd have to look it up) said that men should marry to avoid being tempted into sinful sex, and there's surely not much that's more sinful than raping children.

I get a lot of history across my plate sideways as it were, since my wife is a history and English teacher. It's kinda fun actually -- she's already mostly vetted the books by the time they make it to the house, so I don't have to slog through lots of BS to find the good reads. :)

On-topic here, the reason the Church (big-C Catholic Church) explicitly outlawed the clergy marrying was because of clergy folks setting themselves up as little hereditary fiefdoms, complete with lines of succession and all the fun politicking and internecine warfare that usually accompanies such an arrangement. Disallowing marriage meant breaking that line of power, and is not too dissimilar from policies at the State Department that forcibly rotate diplomats -- this prevents anyone from getting too cozy (at least in theory).

In more detail, celibacy was general Church policy possibly as far back as AD 300 and is certainly mentioned in the mid-400s. This policy was often overlooked though in the hurly burly of northern European politics, and it wasn't explicitly decreed against until the mid-1000s with the Gregorian reforms. Suffice it to say that it's complicated, but the crux of the issue was inheritance and power struggles related to it.

There's plenty more online via Google, or starting from this Wikipedia article.

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