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Not only could it tell who was the right Billy:
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In the land of the indolent
Most Europeans (except the British) have first hand experience of war and real lack of freedom.
That's not true. Most europeans have no concept of war. Most of those that have experienced the privations of war are dead (except in those countries that can't resist a good civil war).
Countries like the US and Britain think it is a good idea to invade a defenceless country and even worse, try to make out that those that do not want to kill defenceless people are cowards
Oh please, get off your high horse. France didn't get involved because it was still owed a lot of money from arms sales in the 1980's and illegal sales in the 1990's.(the war referred to in the following quote is the Iran/Iraq war)
In 1987 the Paris-based Le Monde estimated that, between 1981 and 1985, the value of French arms transfers to Iraq was US$5.1 billion, which represented 40 percent of total French arms exports. Paris, however, was forced to reschedule payment on most of its loans to Iraq because of Iraq's hard-pressed wartime economy and did so willingly because of its longer range strategic interests...French military sales to Iraq were important for at least two reasons. First, they represented high-performance items. Iraq received attack helicopters, missiles, military vehicles, and artillery pieces from France. Iraq also bought more than 400 Exocet AM39 air-to-surface missiles and at least 200 AS30 laserguided missiles between 1983 and 1986. Second, unlike most other suppliers, France adopted an independent and unambiguous arms sales policy towards Iraq. France did not tie French arms commitments to Baghdad's politico-military actions...(source)
More recently, France helped move missile material from China: "The French connection - brokering the deal among the Chinese producer, the Syrian land transporter and the Iraqi buyer - is no great secret to the world's arms merchants. French intelligence has long been aware of it. The need for a French export license as well as UN sanctions approval may have been averted by disguising it as a direct offshore sale from China to Syria." (source)
France didn't get involved because it was owed money and knew once the deals were exposed wouldn't receive a franc.
That is why countries like France and Germany do not want to go to war for oil.
Really? So by implication the US and GB went to war for oil. Can you support this? I'm not aware of any "oil dividend" either nation has received...no spoils of war. You shouldn't spout rhetoric unless you can support it.
The real reason france and germany didn't go to war is because going to war would interfere with vacation time.
Germany has the shortest work week of any industrialized nation in the world. Depending upon the source, the average German work week ranges between 35 and 38.5 hours. In addition, Germany has a number of national holidays, which decrease the calendar work year that already includes between four and six weeks vacation. (source)
Of course, the french have that 35 hour work week with a similar amount of vacation time. See, that's why all the useful things like the Internet and computer you are using and the airplane you take on vacation were invented in the US. -
Re:Seriously...
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Recycle.... Reuse.....I wrote this for posting on a different forum. It was reject it. I know you'll eat it up though
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"It is vital to understand the importance of doing nothing. Slacking is a necessity; it is Yin to activity's Yang"
So said the comedian Simon Pegg in endorsement of last month's England's National Slacker Day (August 23rd). This current week (September 1-5) is Work-Life Balance week for Britons, centered around pretty much the same idea. It is no wonder that these ideas are popular in the UK, since British get the fewest vacations of any European nation.
While some view leisurely time off as a right, does slacking really mean happiness? Some lament that the slacker lifestyle isn't what it used to be. Simon Pegg himself broke the first and only rule in the Slacker Day handbook, by working: "there, perhaps, is the problem with slacking in a world which does not owe any of us a living"
More to the point, Professor Michael Rose at University of Bath (he seems to do a lot of research in the field of work) found that working long hours does not lower one's quality of life - and indeed improves it. Not only are workaholics making more money and getting promotions - they are happier as well.
Contrary to what most of us believe, the workaholics are not especially stressed, nor are they particularly unhappy -- at least no more than the rest of us.
Why is that? Because they like working.
A significant point is being made here. The work-life propagandists constantly see the office as the enemy and emphasize that more time has to be allowed for family and other interests.
But work is a life as well. We live in a hedonistic age, but our grandfathers, many of whom grew up among stern Victorian moralists, would have understood that work is what gives shape and purpose to our lives.
Most of us work because we have to make a living. But we also work because it gives us a role, status, a sense of achievement, and just occasionally the respect of our peers. And those are things we crave just as much as material goods.
So fess up. Are you a slacker or a workaholic? How do you achieve a healthy balance between success in the office and a happy life outside of it?
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OT but pretty damn shocking
french gang rape [story from international herald tribune]
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Re:Impressive. Now, when does it ship?
This Philips paper is good but there is already a Full color version capable of running video at 70fps produced by Magink. There was an article in the International Herald Tribune and New York Times in August!
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music oligopoly/ US Senate helps
A "handful of monopolies" would be an "oligopoly".
One of my favorite words for some strange reason, 8^)
Incidentally, you will be happy to learn that the senate just struck down the new FCC rules that allowed further conglomeration of media industries: http://www.iht.com/articles/110190.html -
Re:What's this?Turn off the fuckin sci-fi channel
It's real. Read it here (note that this is an ultra conservative mag).
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Re:So...what so bad about it?
article from the International Herald Tribune :
Essentially, the report said, capitalism has been bad news for many countries that have emerged from what was the Soviet Union. Nearly all those countries had highly developed public health systems, it said, and a transportation infrastructure and literacy rates that often surpassed some in Western Europe. Life expectancy rates had been rising under communism, it noted.
Today, those trends have largely been reversed, and the report cites an entire brigade of apocalyptic horsemen besieging the survivors of communism.
your qoute:... but I'll wager the people in these and many other countries feel they have benefited from being saved from communism.
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Re:So...what so bad about it?
article from the International Herald Tribune :
Essentially, the report said, capitalism has been bad news for many countries that have emerged from what was the Soviet Union. Nearly all those countries had highly developed public health systems, it said, and a transportation infrastructure and literacy rates that often surpassed some in Western Europe. Life expectancy rates had been rising under communism, it noted.
Today, those trends have largely been reversed, and the report cites an entire brigade of apocalyptic horsemen besieging the survivors of communism.
your qoute:... but I'll wager the people in these and many other countries feel they have benefited from being saved from communism.
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Yes! Separate them FAR apart!
Separate cargo and crew are exactly what we need for space missions in the next few decades.
The cargo can fly on a Delta-2 rocket. The crew can take a Ford Expedition from Cape Canaveral to the NASA pavillion at Walt Disney World.
There, they can conduct all their orbital duties in complete safety, while being more accessible to the admiring public than ever before!
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Re:Admit it...
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Congestion charge in Central London
I wouldn't be so sure that it doesn't work technically. There is a congestion charge for an area in Central London, people who enter an 8-square-mile area during working hours have to pay (see e.g. IHT article on that subject). The number plates are read automatically, only when someone doesn't pay, the pictures are viewed by a human being before a fine is imposed. The system relies on automatic reading of number plates, as do other systems for tracking car drivers illegally using bus lanes or speeding.
Of course, all these systems only control a very limited area, building a system that controls "everything that moves" in a large area would be very expensive at the moment, but, judging from existing experience, it seems to be feasible technically, and it can well be that it becomes much cheaper in the future.
Another question is, of course, how millions of information items of the kind 'X drove from A to B at 12:34' could be interpreted. If it is to get payment from X, it's clear what the aim is (which of course doesn't mean that the data could be used for something else, as well), but that's not the aim of DARPA. I think we shouldn't rely too much on such systems not being feasable technically, but think about possible abuse in time, before they are in place. -
Re:Well he has my vote...Well, first things first. At first you have to establish that it really was an unjustified and illegal war before you can accuse him of murder. But since that seems to have been the case, it would be very ironic indeed if some leading member(s) of his administration would have to answer to the International Criminal Court which they so opposed...
I'm not trying to troll here, but it would be very ironic considering the US has rejected identifying the permanent tribunal.
The tribunal can charge Americans all they like, but the US will not identify any charges, findings, convictions, or sentencing of the tribunal that they do not wish to identify.
To put it bluntly, if some leading member(s) of GWB's administration were charged by the ICC (International Criminal Court), said member(s) of the administration would tell the ICC to bugger off. Charges by the ICC? Possible but unlikely. Anyone from the GWB administration answering to the ICC, cold day in the seventh ring.
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Excuse me sir .....
please step this way
...... you appear to have inadvertantly slipped a ford explorer into your pocket .... I'm sure there's a simple explanation you can make in our nice jail here -
Re:To me, this is sad.
A quick google for '+iraqi +"super cannon" +hoax' returns zero hits. If it was a hoax it is not well documented. William Safire's article on the other hand seems quite credible.
As for the Brits: being an ally today doesn't change history. Since I am half-British I am glad to see they stepped up and took some responsibility here.
Ah yes, Switzerland! Home of stolen goods from all over the globe. Amoral bankers who don't care who you tortured, killed, and robbed to get your money, they only care that you hide it in their vaults. Seen any Jewish gold there recently?
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Re:To me, this is sad.
Do a quick google for "iraqi super cannon". Also check out William Safire's article.
The Afghanistan problem was created by the British. If you look into it, European imperialism has created every situation the U.S. has been taking the blame for: the former Yugoslavia, Palestine/Israel, Iraq, Afghanistan, and (since you mentioned it) Vietnam.
As the only remaining super power it is now the task of the U.S. to clean up after everyone else has left and take the blame for the mess. Luckily for the world, the U.S. has the resources and the good nature to do this. Europeans love to deride Americans for not knowing world history. Maybe the Europeans are lucky we at least chose to ignore their role in it.
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IHT
Earlier versions of Safari fell down very badly with article pages on the International Herald Tribune's site, but it looks like that's under control now. Good -- I didn't use IHT much, but they're doing some pretty tricky CSS layout stuff, and if Safari can handle their code, I'm satisfied that a lot of other sites will work pretty well too.
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IHT
Earlier versions of Safari fell down very badly with article pages on the International Herald Tribune's site, but it looks like that's under control now. Good -- I didn't use IHT much, but they're doing some pretty tricky CSS layout stuff, and if Safari can handle their code, I'm satisfied that a lot of other sites will work pretty well too.
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Re:In Other News...
Hynix announces high volume trade agreement with major EU computer retail chains. Maybe. If the US doesn't want cheap good stuff, other countries will be happy to take it.
Oh really? I wouldn' tbe so sure about that:
link disproving this stupid faggot's assertion :>)
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Re:I'm thinking ...
I find Safari nearly unusable on some pages I go to because of flaws in KHTML
Dont' have Konqueror installed here, and sold my Powerbook, so out of curiosity - have they fixed browsing International Herald Tribune?
Annoyed me real bad with Safari up to
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Re:It was bound to happenWhoops. Forgot to make the link linkable for the lazy who can't cut and paste.
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Non-reg story
The International Herald Tribune has the story on their site with no registration or pop-ups: In Enron case, criminalizing hype.
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Link that doesn't suck:
http://www.iht.com/articles/97593.html
Found via google news. Fuck you, NYT.
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dot dot dot
Nice site, but what stuck out on the site was this. Just read the first paragraph. 4.9 people a year from smoking? Looks like they've already achieved their goal
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Microsoft is effectively bankrolling SCO's lawsuitIBM should get an injunction against the Microsoft-SCO Deal.
There is no real effective Unix IP for SCO to license.
Microsoft's SFU and Interix products are in no way depended upon the IP that SCO holds, quite the opposite in fact - Interix/SFU actually owes more to the GNU-project.
Microsoft is just effectively bankrolling SCO's lawsuit. The EU Commerce Commission,the USA Federal Trade Commission and DOJ Antitrust should also look into this given Microsoft's recently disclosed anticompetitive predatory practices.
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So how many Microsoft people are Astroturfing /.?From Thomas Fuller
In the face of this competition, the Microsoft documents show the significant resources the company devotes to combat Linux, and the unconventional tactics it sometimes uses.
What O'Rourke and Brix describe is not just "disguising" their association with Microsoft, but is in reality an outright unethical fraud.Chris O'Rourke, a Microsoft employee, has described attending Linux World, a trade fair in California, where he "purported to be an independent computer consultant working with several K12 school districts," according to his e-mail, which was sent on Aug. 20 last year. K-12 schools include students from ages to 5 to 18.
"Ha!" O'Rourke wrote in the e-mail to his colleagues, referring to his assumed identity. "In general, people bought this without question
... hook, line and sinker."O'Rourke said his goal was to glean intelligence about the competition. His guise, he said, "got folks to open up and talk." O'Rourke did not respond to a fax and voice-mail message seeking comment.
Another employee, Todd Brix, said he attended a Linux conference in June 2001 in San Jose, California, pretending to be an "ambivalent OEM." Original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs, are companies such as Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Computer Corp. that buy Windows software licenses.
Reached at his office Tuesday, Brix said that when attending such a show, "you don't broadcast that you're a Microsoft person."
"You don't disguise that fact," he said. "You just don't lead with your chin."
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Motivation
There are more indepth articles about this here and here. The latter article discussed the motivation for the move in a little more depth:
"This is only going to help AMD and Fujitsu become as stronger competitor and move up in market position," said Krewell. "They are in better shape to challenge Intel because they appear as one stronger brand, rather than as two lesser brands." -
Re:Hoax #101 ?Hoax #101 : USA is democratic country; a land of freedom where the government respects it's citizen's privacy.
What makes you think "democracy" has anything to do with "freedom" or "respect"? Democracy simply means that the government is elected by the people and is, at least in theory, responsible to the people.
Democratic nations can have styles ranging from socialist (Canada) to libertarian (Netherlands) to puritanical (U.S.A.) and choose to respect (Pierre Trudeau) or trod upon (George Bush Jr.) the privacy of the citizenry. There is an *expectation* that a democracy will respect privacy in order to get itself re-elected, but that presumes A) that the government is interested in getting re-elected, and B) it needs to respect privacy in exchange for the winning votes.
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Re:Well considering...The UN charte explicity includes the right to independent action as long as a state is being attacked by another.
You have some real warped sense of 'self defense.' Or maybe you can provide some evidence of when and where the US was attacked.
The UN has authority in this situation, not the bush administration.
The bush administration has lied about aluminum tubes supposedly acquired for enriching uranium, "the war will take weeks, not months", Iraq was actively trying to acquire uranium, the "coallition of convenience" is made up of nations who support the bush administration's invasion, 35 countries are providing "critical support" in the coallition of convenience, the "coallition of convenience" is larger than the 1991 gulf war, 8000 soldiers of the 51st division surrendered, Umm Qasr was taken on Sunday, er... no, Monday... no, make that Tuesday.9 times Umm Qasr was "taken."
I could go on and on and on, but I know I'm probably just wasting my time.Since this thread started, you've consistently said, "show me proof" while making outlandish claims about bombs strapped to buildings and misfiring SAM launcers. Since this thread began, you haven't provided a whit of evidence to support your position. Since this thread began, I've consistently provided links. So unless you want to start posting evidence to support your claims, don't bother asking for it anymore.
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You, sir, are ill-informed.
Because the Provos in Ireland are so upset about American hegemonistic tendencies that it's encouraged them to rise up and commit acts of terror, right? Ditto the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elan, the Basque nationalists, the PKK in Turkey, the New People's Army in the Phillipines, the Zapatistas in Chiapas State, and probably several others I've never heard of.
You "think Americans can only think of solutions in terms of warfare" because that's what grabs headlines. Brinksmanship is far more interesting on the world stage than a civil trade negotiation. Please note that when the Chinese were essentially holding U.S. Navy personnel hostage, that America did not go to war. Please note also that we are acting currently to enforce UN Security Council resolutions (most of them unanimous, if memory serves) that have been on the books for an even dozen years. Simply because some other countries object to the things they agreed to in the past doesn't mean our will must waver now.
When you make obviously inflammatory blanket statements that have no basis in fact whatsofuckingever, expect to get them thrown back in your face. Oh, and as for your statement about Americans trying to control the world, I leave you with a quote from Colin Powell:
Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.
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Re:New news
Further backtracking traces "more than 90 percent of Hong Kong's infections to a single visitor from neighboring Guangdong Province" [in China], see article at Int'l Herald Tribune . The article notes that details on what's happening in China (total # of cases etc) are not readily available and it will be hard to learn more about the history of the outbreak's development without such information.
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Re:Thoughts From An American
Proof? And White House press releases don't count.
Oh please. I suppose you also have your doubts about the Apollo moon landing. There is plenty of evidence that Iraq has been aiding and abetting terrorists. Heck, in my opinion paying the living relatives of suicide bombers is enough in itself. Saying that Iraq isn't a rogue nation and a sponsor for terrorism is just ridiculous. They've been killing the Kurds for years. Of course, Kurds are somewhat like Jews. They don't really count as people.
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New news
The media is now reporting that most of the cases from Hong Kong all seem to have been exposed at a particular hotel floor... Here's a link to the story.
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benefits to pagination
indeed there is, albeit with dhtml - in this case i refer to the International Herald Tribune's pagination scheme which implements a very cute way of getting past the unavailability of the any <MULTICOL> tag in today's browsers.
it also offers the option to reformat the page in a varity of ways, but the default layout (for applicable browsers) is that of a columned, page by page setup.
newspapers work in columns because they are easier to scan and digest. most people dislike scrolling, as it means the reading material moves - as opposed to one's eyes moving. QED. :) -
"Expensive" Research? Yes, but...As a physician (and former researcher), I'm always surprised that, despite hundreds of media reports outlining the pharmaceutical company expenditures in some detail, the public doesn't seem to realize that the large pharmaceutical conglomerates spend several times as much on promotion and marketing as on R+D, clinical testing, etc.
Of course, it's not the public's fault if the facts are muddied. All too often, the media's brain-dead interpretation of "fairness" and "balance" consists of providing roughly equal time (or arguments of apparently roughly equal weight) even when that same outlet may already have thoroughly discredited a given argument. They are selling the appearance of fairness, after all. Actual fairness is as irrelevant as the *decrease* in aerodynamic performance caused by the rocket/jet fins and detailing of many cars in the 50/60's. Appearances are everything.
But to return to the pharmaceuticals companies: R+D is "a major expense" only after a tangled borderline perjurious accounting that was previously reserved for Ponzi schemes and the recording industry. Many of these ultra-expensive wonder drugs are sold for half as much in Canada, and a quarter the price or less in some parts of Europe, Asia or Africa. This wouldn't be the case if they were desperately trying to recoup genuine costs at their inflated US prices (because they'd be losing money on every non-US sale). They're just charging what the market will bear.
Further, as regards "innovation". Every week, I am bombarded by literally hundreds of ads (in medical journals, direct mailings an drug reps who barge in with no appointment, but are my sole source for "free samples" for my poor patients) for new wonderdrugs thhat are nothing more than 'me-too' knock-off. They move a hydroxyl group or a carbon atom on an existing drug, and run hundreds of tests (talk about expensive!) looking for some minute benefit over a current wonder drug (which they may also own). Almost invariably, the me-too is *less* effective or safe OVERALL than the existing drug (the lack of overall improvement is so consistent thatI sometimes think they're marketing the also-rans of the initial development effort - it would certainly be cheaper) Often the original 'wonder drug (progenitor of a new class) is itself only occassionally better than far cheaper and safer generic alternatives
Let me cite an example: in most cases, diuretics (drugs that cause you to urinate excess water) are both more effective and safer, at pennies a day, than Calcium Channel blockers and ACE (angiotensin convertine enzyme) inhibitors that cost several dollars a day -- for life! The study that proved this was one of the best and most unarguable in years, yet drug reps and execs will openly tell you that they aren't worried. "No one is pushing (marketing) cheap, safe diuretics which doctors have used for other purposes for centuries". Why do you think they market directly to patients? A few years ago, TVs and billboards were flooded with ads that didn't even specify what the drug was for, but urged "Ask your doctor". Perfectly healthy people came in, asking, afraid they were missing out on the Latest Greatest Thing.
Another example is the new anti-AIDS drug Fuzeon, widely hailed as an example of a drug whose high price ($20,570/yr = E19,000) is justified because it takes over 100 steps to prepare. Even if you accept their own figures justifying the cost, R+D was SFr 840 million ($620 million) and annual sales are projected to be $740 million per year, once hey hit full production (by which time, production costs are expected to be 10-15% of current levels)
Here are a couple of articles, for those who are still reading:
In U.S., marketing blurs into medicine
A more general analysis of the industry by the Markle Foundation (health care advocates)
Sorry for the rant.
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Re:Now you may hate them.The balance in the force must be maintained, Young Jedi....
Zero IP Protection = Bad
Music Industry's Future Foretold in China?
Pop stars learn to live with pirates
(Short version: Pop Stars in China have stopped making albums, because they can't make any money actually selling music. Pirates just rip them off. Now they only make singles, and most of those are jingles for corporate sponsors (ie Microsoft). Of course, there is a huge difference between open piracy - a result of no IP protection - and going after music traders - a result of too much IP protection. But a balance is best... having pop starts be even bigger corporate drones than they already are is not going to be pretty...).
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I'd be MUCH more sympathetic...
... if the lament wasn't coming out of the mouths of the SAME DAMNED MEDIA CONGLOMERATES.
Look down the article a bit and you find it's mostly quoting Warner and EMI. A press release perhaps? And who owns and operates the International Herald Tribune, in which it was published? The New York Times, as of January 2, 2003.
Oh, dear! Piracy is so rampant that we - I mean the artists - can't make any money on royalties. So they have to sign up with us - I mean the media conglomerates - who run their tours and take a percentage of everything else they make in their entire carreers.
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Much more readable...
is the printer-friendly version
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Re:Looking the wrong directionGermany and Japan spend less, per child, on education and they both kick our asses.
Germany might not be doing as well as you think. See this.
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Re:In Russia we do not need juries
Well, that's too bad, as it seems you have them
Btw, the side with the weakest case (which is not necessarily the same as the "guilty" party) has a better chance of throwing out the "logical" thinkers, as they are the ones most apt to follow the judge's instructions. -
Re:Once again, Jews don't see tragedy coming.
Arguing about who is right in the daily battles obscures the underlying reality.
We can debate "the underlying reality" if you like, but "the superficial reality" is that on one side you have suicide bombers targeting random families and on the other side you have police and soldiers trying to target the suicide bombers. Religion has nothing to do with it, most people are going to see one side as the bad guys and the other side as the good guys.
It's not that simpe though. In their efforts to catch the bombers or would-be bombers the Israeli Army has invaded whole towns. In their effort to catch "the bad guys" they tend to kill a lot of noncombatants (see here for one example) and cause a great deal of death and detructon for the general populace (see here ). According to NPR the Israeli Army recently won the right to destroy the homes of any bomber's relatives as a punitive response, not the kind of thing that brings people to your side. So, in terms of killings obth sides has their share of blood on their hands, both sides have killed women and children. I would argue that at least on one level you have to stop playing tit for tat if you want to move forward and, at this point, arguing about "who started it" would involve going back to well before the Roman Empire.
The fact is that the land of Israel was populated with Arabs before the Jews came. Arabs were moved off the land to make room for Jews.
If the jewish refugees showed up with guns and shipped people off in trains it's the first I've heard of it.
I'm not an expert on history, so feel free to clear up any errors here: For the most part the current population of Israel was born there. I think that's enough to pretty much end it, but I'll continue. The people who immigrated to the area for the most part did so legally, right? It's not like they showed up with guns and broke in. They mostly bought homes, or bought land and paid to have homes built, right? Possibly some of them settled on unused land? (Even in that case, if it was the US they would gain rightful ownership of the land after some number of years.) At some point the vast majority of the population of the area decided modify their government and call it Israel. Pretty much every nation on earth has recognized that government.
Are you suggesting that Israel shouldn't exist? Maybe several million people should be be "driven into the sea"? All Israelis? Or just the jewish ones? You did say they want you to kill them, right?
The problem is that, to an extent the Israelis are doing that. The new "settlements" are not (all) going into completely empty space. Many of them are being created on top of palestinian villages that have been raized. See this article that was reprinted from the NY Times. And, as other articles have shown it's not just about the amount of land being occupied by taking strategic positions, and gaining control of water. For most Palestineans what is occuring is just a long protracted invasion, house by house and street by street.
Osama bin Laden's main complaint is U.S. support for the House of al Saud.
I don't know much about Saudi government. Did the US overthrow the recognized government and install the current government? Or was the current government already the recognized official government?
He wants Saudis to determine their own fate. Logically, U.S. citizens must support that
Have free elections been blocked by the US? Or are you proposing a violent overthrow of the current government? If you're proposing violent revolution you have a pretty tough hurdle to overcome to persuade me, and you'd better have a pretty solid majority of the population demanding it. And even if I agreed with you that a revolution was appropriate, dealing with the current legitimate government would still fall into a grey area.
He did once and still does oppose the U.S.'s presence in Saudi Arabia and our support for the house of Saud. My understanding is that that is based upon two factors. Firstly, the House of Saud is a fairly repressive (and yet semi-secular) monarchy (see here for one example). Secondly, Saudi Arabia, like Iraw houses some major centers of Islamic culture, hisrory, and religion among them Mecca the biorthplace of the Prophet Mohommed and the location of his tomb.
For some hard-core muslim fundamentalists, the idea that non-muslims would be in or around Mecca especially with the backing of a secular monarchy is abhorrent. This feeling runs paralell to the abhorrence that some fundamentalist christians and fundamentalist jews feel at the idea of anyone but them being allowed to govern the holy land.
To get an idea of it take a look at the issues surrounding the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. It is sacred to all three religions and has been the focal point of much of the strife in that area going back to well before the First Crusade.
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Hooray
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Update: Police have detained a suspect
Police have taken into custody a woman suspect in connection with this theft.
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Re:Little market for this book....
You obvisouly don't know what you are talking about.
Well-used Javascript and DHTML is harder to recognize than the obvious stuff you come across as popups and various ad-schemes. Apparently, you pull stats ("99.9999%") out of your ass and try to pass your opinions as facts. Are you in the industry, or is your main experience that as a surfer ?
There is tremendous power to DHTML and Javascript, and it is widely used in commercial sites. It allows the user to interact with the otherwise dead html in ways that help the user and the site.
For a great example, look at International Herald Tribune. You can select articles from the frontpage and put them in a "clippings" folder - no you don't have to login - and then you can read them all later on. No more "open in a new window". For individual articles you can select how it will presented; font size, colums per page etc. This is an example of a site that is usable and intuitive thanks to Javascript, in this case.
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Re:No Mac version yet
For what it's worth, IDC is claiming that Linux is outpacing Macintosh on the desktop these days.
I would imagine that's dominated by technical/business desktops, but Linux is at least competitive with the Macintosh overall in magnitude, and perhaps greater than OS X in particular?
And keep in mind that the work to produce a Linux port is largely work to produce an OpenGL renderer, and all that work goes directly towards supporting the MacOS X version.
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Re:The answer is simple...
You've not been reading enough of the articles then. See eg this one. The Myna pager is definitely a 'consumer market' device. I'm sure I read Ivan Sutherland say somewhere that there are asynchronous islands on the latest SPARC chips, but I can't find a reference.
However you're right, takeup is minimal, see eg this talk for a description of the state of play.
Another approach that may have gone the way of the dinosaur (havent seen it make headlines on /.) is reversible computing - the notion that by not discarding information within a chip you can run chips cooler (though apparently we won't reach the level where this much thermal loss becomes significant for another few years). E.g. a nand gate loses one bit of information, resulting in an energy dissipation of at least ln(2)kT, about 3x10^-21 joules. These links are 4 years old; I have no idea if reversible computing is now mainstream? -
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