Well, I clicked on the link in the article, and was able to setup a page and customize it.
I then visited Google Canada's home page, and added/ig to it and tried to do the same, and ran into a redirection loop (seems google.ca tried to redirect to google.com, which tries to redirect to google.ca, ad infinitum...
Now neither/ig pages work at all. I had to clear all the cookies to get back to one page that works.
Hey Google guys! I know that some of you are reading this. Please fix it.
I am the submitter of the article and here is the correct text. It was fine when I submitted it.
kbahey writes "
Most Slashdotters know Dan Gillmor from his San Jose Mercury days, with lots of article on technology over the years, from the dot-com era down to now. As has been rumored before, Dan has left the SJ Mercury to found a "grass roots journalism" project. Well, it is here, and called the Bayosphere. The site is powered by Drupal, an open source Content Management System. Jay Campbell, Dan's Technologist, writes about why they chose Drupal. "
The highly intellectual people become either smart enough to not reproduce (contraceptives), reproduce less by choice or don't reproduce often because of social factors. Stupid people reproduce like rabbits, some of them start before they leave highschool.
But see, if you look at the larger picture, it all works out in a bizzare sort of way.
It is all about numbers, and brain vs. muscle.
The smarter people (e.g. politicians, rich corporations, warmongers) still need a lot of mindless "rabbits" (plebians, factory workers, cannon fodder) to do their bidding.
If everyone was so smart and understood the rhetoric for what it is, there would be no wars, no exploitation, no profits, no imperialism.
So, the ecosystem is there, and doing what it does best: you have everything from fungi to docile herbivores, to nimble rodents to carnivores.
It was not you who did it. You did not participate in it, nor were you supporting it in anyway.
It was another generation, another time. The motives were not solely religious, although religion played a big role, at least to motivate the masses to act.
The Crusades were a defense of territory historically owned by the Roman Empire peacefully for over a thousand years against its invasion and subjugation by Islamic hordes conquering and plundering their way out of Arabia.
If you think that an empire defending its territory against invasion is "brought about by christianity"... you need to learn a little more history there, friend.
Oh my, oh my! For someone to write such historically inaccurate stuff is one thing, and for it to get +5 Insightful is totally another. I was going to waste a mod point on this at first, but thought that this better gets a proper response.
You really need to read more history, and not just watch a movie.
First the Roman Empire as you refer to it had ceased to exist before Islam existed. The successive Barbarian invasions, and many other factors caused the Roman Empire to disintegrate. Nor was the Roman occupation of the lands in The Levant ever peaceful. Go and read about the successive revolts by the Jews against Rome from the time of Jesus, to the siege of Masada, to the destruction of the temple by Titus in 70 C.E. Rome as colonial and as imperialistic as any empire, old or new. So much for the "peacefully" part of your claim.
Second, the Roman Empire did not "own" the areas there. They encroached on territory that was owned by others successively (Jebusite, Canaanites, Philistines, Hebrews, Seleucids).
Read Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire sometime. It is available for free on the net in several places.
You could not be talking about Byzantium, because the Crusades originated in the Western half of what used to be the Roman Empire, and not in Byzantium. Even if you are, they were as much hated in the area as the original Romans. The Egyptians hated them so much that they helped the Arab armies against the Byzantines. Jerusalem hand over was done by the Patriarch/Bishop to Omar, the Muslim Caliph, without much of a skirmish.
Did you ever ask why it took the European Christians four centuries before they remembered to take Jerusalem back?
Did you read about Pope Urban II Council of Clairmont in 1095, and how his fiery sermons played among the nobles and lay people alike? Did you know that he asked the Christians of the time to turn the swords against Muslims, instead of their infighting? Did you know he mentioned "land flowing with milk and honey"? Did you know that a common sentiment at the time was that the recapture of Jerusalem (1099) was necessary for Christ's second coming? (Sounds familiar today with Left Behind series, and other Christian Zionist movements?). Initially, his sermon was about helping fellow Christians (Constantinople) against the Turks. Over the years, his message was morphed by chronicles, after hindsight, to recapturing Jerusalem as a religious duty.
There is no doubt that the Crusades were fuelled by Christian sentiment to a large extent, and that they were spearheaded by the church authorities at the time.
There is also no doubt that the Crusaders . Read how Christian chronicles glorified the massacre of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and relished the bloodshed, even after people took sanctuaries in synagogues and mosques. Read about it on Halsall's collection of Medieval sources at Fordham.
I don't know if your view is colored by the Kingdom of Heaven movie by Ridley Scott or what. I haven't seen the movie yet, and I have an upcoming article on the Crusades in the works. Perhaps I will see the movie sooner now.
In the 90s, he had this column in Scientific American that was really informative and entertaining. It also sought connection between people and events that brought us what we have in terms of inventions, technology,...etc.
The practice was a reaction to civil wars, and seen as a way to prevent them. It went one for some time, and was replaced by royal confinement. It is said that this confinement weakened the Sultanate.
A new founder of a dynasty will eliminate rivals from previous dynasties, so no throne claimant will emerge.
One way of doing this, was to have a banquet, then no one leaves alive.
One such occurance was Mehmet Ali Pasha of Egypt. He was sent by the Ottoman Sultan to Egypt (1805?), after the French Expedition there (1799?). He invited all the Mameluke commanders to a banquet, and then when they were in a passage, soldiers in muskets showered them with bullets. Only one Mameluke survived, after he jumped off the Citadel, his horse taking the shock.
Also, when the Abbasid dynasty replaced the Umayyad dynasty in the early 700, Al Saffah (The Butcher), invited the dignitaries from the Umayyad clan to a banquet, and had them massacred. All who attended were killed. One scion of the Banu Umayya survived, after swimming across a river somewhere in the Levant. He fled to Iberia and established the Umayyad dynasty there.
One other custom was for Ottoman sultans to have their brothers killed as the first act of succession to the throne. This fratricide was to ensure no rivalry will ensue as claimants to the throne would threaten civil war. This system was established after bitter civil wars caused ruin. One such war was between Bayazid II and Cem (late 1400s), both sons of Mehmet the Conqueror.
Anyway, I digressed a lot. I am sure there are lots of other examples, but off the top of my head, the above are the ones that I remember offhand.
I was going to take your post seriously and respond to your post, until you called the ruler a 'Sultan' of a 'province'.
Anyone who is casually familiar with the area, or have just briefly visited there, like I did several times, would know that there is no title of 'Sultan' in the UAE. The title is Emir or Amir, meaning prince, or just 'ruler'. You are probably confusing them with the adjacent Muscat and Oman.
There was also this fellow, British I think, who did a documentary about early human migration using genetics, he was on TV (PBS?) a few years back. Nice work. He showed that there were two waves out of Africa. One hugged the coastline reaching India then all the way to Australia, and another going to central Asia, then staying there for a while, and then a branch going west to Europe, and another going east to Siberia, Beringia, and eventually to the Americans. Can't remember his name. Rats!
Networks can be incredibly forgiving of actors if they really want them.
Whereas if a crew member showed up once just a bit inebriated, they'd probably have been sacked. Cogs in the wheel, I suppose.
Not much different than corporate America: if a CEO screws up, they get the golden parachute, whereas if a janitor or engineer did so, they would be sacked, and at best get severance of a few weeks.
Remind me again how much did Carly take home when she was fired from HP?
Only those who have bought into the Open Source 'paradigm' benefit from it. Many PHBs are still scared of Open Source because of FUD, liability, TCO and other BS from Microsoft and others. Many still develop and deploy on Windows only, or on proprietary UNIX.
This is fine in itself, but to those who have seen the alternative, they do have an advantage.
Needing less money makes courting the Venture Capital that much easier. Instead of asking for several millions, you ask for just one or two. Which is easier?
I am not saying you do not have a point, you do. With the playing field levelled for everyone, it is not much of an advantage in certain cases.
If you think of Google, their infrastructure runs on top of Linux on cheap commodity hardware. How much would it cost them to do what they do if they were forced to run on proprietary hardware and software? For example Sun on HP in 80s or early 90s? Not to mention how much Windows server licenses they would have needed if they went that route.
Another instance is Yahoo. They use a hodge podge of languages and databases for various parts of their online empire. There seems to be a trend towards open source solutions laterly, for example PHP and MySQL.
Yes, open source does save a lot. Not only now, but ever since the GNU C compiler system came out.
Seems like a compelling argument. It has lots of advantages, and little drawbacks.
However, I could not find this info in the article:
Let us say I have a growing season of May to September (South end of Ontario).
What is the amount of land needed to run a car for a year, or heat a house for the winter?
When this is answered, one can know the amount of grass-mass needed, and whether it would be a commercially viable mass market thing, or a private grow-your-own thing.
I was always intrigued and fascinated by human reaction to seamingly meaningless behavior.
Try this some time. On a two lane road, drive right next to a car so that your front passenger window and the other driver's window align exactly. Keep going the exact same speed the other car is going. What is the result? The other guy will always freak out, and either slow down, or speed up to avoid this psychological discomfort.
Why? I don't know. But probably exactly because of what you said.
This is really problematic, given that Canada only has about one tenth of the US population. Does this mean that if we had as many people as the USA, 49% would be hacked?
Or is it just because we have more broadband per capita than in the US?
Slashdot Mirror
Well, I clicked on the link in the article, and was able to setup a page and customize it.
I then visited Google Canada's home page, and added /ig to it and tried to do the same, and ran into a redirection loop (seems google.ca tried to redirect to google.com, which tries to redirect to google.ca, ad infinitum...
Now neither /ig pages work at all. I had to clear all the cookies to get back to one page that works.
Hey Google guys! I know that some of you are reading this. Please fix it.
I am the submitter of the article and here is the correct text. It was fine when I submitted it.
kbahey writes " Most Slashdotters know Dan Gillmor from his San Jose Mercury days, with lots of article on technology over the years, from the dot-com era down to now. As has been rumored before, Dan has left the SJ Mercury to found a "grass roots journalism" project. Well, it is here, and called the Bayosphere. The site is powered by Drupal, an open source Content Management System. Jay Campbell, Dan's Technologist, writes about why they chose Drupal. "
The highly intellectual people become either smart enough to not reproduce (contraceptives), reproduce less by choice or don't reproduce often because of social factors. Stupid people reproduce like rabbits, some of them start before they leave highschool.
But see, if you look at the larger picture, it all works out in a bizzare sort of way.
It is all about numbers, and brain vs. muscle.
The smarter people (e.g. politicians, rich corporations, warmongers) still need a lot of mindless "rabbits" (plebians, factory workers, cannon fodder) to do their bidding.
If everyone was so smart and understood the rhetoric for what it is, there would be no wars, no exploitation, no profits, no imperialism.
So, the ecosystem is there, and doing what it does best: you have everything from fungi to docile herbivores, to nimble rodents to carnivores.
Editors: articles are increasingly lacking context. Please editorialize a bit more.
The company's web site and Product overview for Gluecode SE would help next time.
You shouldn't be ashamed of it.
It was not you who did it. You did not participate in it, nor were you supporting it in anyway.
It was another generation, another time. The motives were not solely religious, although religion played a big role, at least to motivate the masses to act.
The Crusades were a defense of territory historically owned by the Roman Empire peacefully for over a thousand years against its invasion and subjugation by Islamic hordes conquering and plundering their way out of Arabia.
If you think that an empire defending its territory against invasion is "brought about by christianity" ... you need to learn a little more history there, friend.
Oh my, oh my! For someone to write such historically inaccurate stuff is one thing, and for it to get +5 Insightful is totally another. I was going to waste a mod point on this at first, but thought that this better gets a proper response.
You really need to read more history, and not just watch a movie.
First the Roman Empire as you refer to it had ceased to exist before Islam existed. The successive Barbarian invasions, and many other factors caused the Roman Empire to disintegrate. Nor was the Roman occupation of the lands in The Levant ever peaceful. Go and read about the successive revolts by the Jews against Rome from the time of Jesus, to the siege of Masada, to the destruction of the temple by Titus in 70 C.E. Rome as colonial and as imperialistic as any empire, old or new. So much for the "peacefully" part of your claim.
Second, the Roman Empire did not "own" the areas there. They encroached on territory that was owned by others successively (Jebusite, Canaanites, Philistines, Hebrews, Seleucids).
Read Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire sometime. It is available for free on the net in several places.
You could not be talking about Byzantium, because the Crusades originated in the Western half of what used to be the Roman Empire, and not in Byzantium. Even if you are, they were as much hated in the area as the original Romans. The Egyptians hated them so much that they helped the Arab armies against the Byzantines. Jerusalem hand over was done by the Patriarch/Bishop to Omar, the Muslim Caliph, without much of a skirmish.
Did you ever ask why it took the European Christians four centuries before they remembered to take Jerusalem back?
Did you read about Pope Urban II Council of Clairmont in 1095, and how his fiery sermons played among the nobles and lay people alike? Did you know that he asked the Christians of the time to turn the swords against Muslims, instead of their infighting? Did you know he mentioned "land flowing with milk and honey"? Did you know that a common sentiment at the time was that the recapture of Jerusalem (1099) was necessary for Christ's second coming? (Sounds familiar today with Left Behind series, and other Christian Zionist movements?). Initially, his sermon was about helping fellow Christians (Constantinople) against the Turks. Over the years, his message was morphed by chronicles, after hindsight, to recapturing Jerusalem as a religious duty.
There is no doubt that the Crusades were fuelled by Christian sentiment to a large extent, and that they were spearheaded by the church authorities at the time.
There is also no doubt that the Crusaders . Read how Christian chronicles glorified the massacre of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and relished the bloodshed, even after people took sanctuaries in synagogues and mosques. Read about it on Halsall's collection of Medieval sources at Fordham.
I don't know if your view is colored by the Kingdom of Heaven movie by Ridley Scott or what. I haven't seen the movie yet, and I have an upcoming article on the Crusades in the works. Perhaps I will see the movie sooner now.
The main thing they gain from this is people's browsing habits.
Imagine how much insight they could gain by having a large datawarehouse application that sifts through the billions of daily hits they get.
They can get patterns of how people access certain sites, by region, by time of day, by day of week, by site, breaking news effect, ...etc.
This is a gold mine for Google ...
In the 90s, he had this column in Scientific American that was really informative and entertaining. It also sought connection between people and events that brought us what we have in terms of inventions, technology, ...etc.
Here are previews of some examples:
Here also has an informative web site Knowledge Web.
Here are the sources that I found.
From Wikipedia, as always take it with a grain of salt.
From Ottoman history quoting the University of Chicago.
The practice was a reaction to civil wars, and seen as a way to prevent them. It went one for some time, and was replaced by royal confinement. It is said that this confinement weakened the Sultanate.
Maybe your sources are better than the ones I read. If I am mistaken, then I love to be corrected.
Can you share references to that?
I am coming late into this discussion, but one thing I noticed is that I saw TigerDirect's banner ad on Slashdot several times.
Never saw it before here.
They say any publicity is good publicity.
A repeatable theme in history.
A new founder of a dynasty will eliminate rivals from previous dynasties, so no throne claimant will emerge.
One way of doing this, was to have a banquet, then no one leaves alive.
One such occurance was Mehmet Ali Pasha of Egypt. He was sent by the Ottoman Sultan to Egypt (1805?), after the French Expedition there (1799?). He invited all the Mameluke commanders to a banquet, and then when they were in a passage, soldiers in muskets showered them with bullets. Only one Mameluke survived, after he jumped off the Citadel, his horse taking the shock.
Also, when the Abbasid dynasty replaced the Umayyad dynasty in the early 700, Al Saffah (The Butcher), invited the dignitaries from the Umayyad clan to a banquet, and had them massacred. All who attended were killed. One scion of the Banu Umayya survived, after swimming across a river somewhere in the Levant. He fled to Iberia and established the Umayyad dynasty there.
One other custom was for Ottoman sultans to have their brothers killed as the first act of succession to the throne. This fratricide was to ensure no rivalry will ensue as claimants to the throne would threaten civil war. This system was established after bitter civil wars caused ruin. One such war was between Bayazid II and Cem (late 1400s), both sons of Mehmet the Conqueror.
Anyway, I digressed a lot. I am sure there are lots of other examples, but off the top of my head, the above are the ones that I remember offhand.
No 1 is reserved for the Sultan of the province.
I was going to take your post seriously and respond to your post, until you called the ruler a 'Sultan' of a 'province'.
Anyone who is casually familiar with the area, or have just briefly visited there, like I did several times, would know that there is no title of 'Sultan' in the UAE. The title is Emir or Amir, meaning prince, or just 'ruler'. You are probably confusing them with the adjacent Muscat and Oman.
And they are called emirates not 'provinces' too.
I doubt your assertion that you lived there for two years.
Memory cards are NOT fragile.
For proof, see how digital media preserves photos of last moments of tsunami victims.
Now I know his name. Spencer Wells, Journey of Man, thanks to a poster above.
Some research on this was done before.
There was also this fellow, British I think, who did a documentary about early human migration using genetics, he was on TV (PBS?) a few years back. Nice work. He showed that there were two waves out of Africa. One hugged the coastline reaching India then all the way to Australia, and another going to central Asia, then staying there for a while, and then a branch going west to Europe, and another going east to Siberia, Beringia, and eventually to the Americans. Can't remember his name. Rats!
Some other resources:
Scientists trace human migration using DNA.
Wikipedia article on Human migration.
Stephen Oppenheimer did a genetic map.
Kurgan Genetics.
Neanderthaals and mtDNA
Networks can be incredibly forgiving of actors if they really want them.
Whereas if a crew member showed up once just a bit inebriated, they'd probably have been sacked. Cogs in the wheel, I suppose.
Not much different than corporate America: if a CEO screws up, they get the golden parachute, whereas if a janitor or engineer did so, they would be sacked, and at best get severance of a few weeks.
Remind me again how much did Carly take home when she was fired from HP?
Two points:
This is fine in itself, but to those who have seen the alternative, they do have an advantage.
I am not saying you do not have a point, you do. With the playing field levelled for everyone, it is not much of an advantage in certain cases.
If you think of Google, their infrastructure runs on top of Linux on cheap commodity hardware. How much would it cost them to do what they do if they were forced to run on proprietary hardware and software? For example Sun on HP in 80s or early 90s? Not to mention how much Windows server licenses they would have needed if they went that route.
Another instance is Yahoo. They use a hodge podge of languages and databases for various parts of their online empire. There seems to be a trend towards open source solutions laterly, for example PHP and MySQL.
Yes, open source does save a lot. Not only now, but ever since the GNU C compiler system came out.
Seems like a compelling argument. It has lots of advantages, and little drawbacks.
However, I could not find this info in the article:
Let us say I have a growing season of May to September (South end of Ontario).
What is the amount of land needed to run a car for a year, or heat a house for the winter?
When this is answered, one can know the amount of grass-mass needed, and whether it would be a commercially viable mass market thing, or a private grow-your-own thing.
I was always intrigued and fascinated by human reaction to seamingly meaningless behavior.
Try this some time. On a two lane road, drive right next to a car so that your front passenger window and the other driver's window align exactly. Keep going the exact same speed the other car is going. What is the result? The other guy will always freak out, and either slow down, or speed up to avoid this psychological discomfort.
Why? I don't know. But probably exactly because of what you said.
An in related news, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released a list of terrorist organizations, and guess what? None of the Right Wing terrorist ones are listed! I wonder why?
Dr. David Cole is quoted in the article.
I can smell political and ideological bias from here...
If you need ecommerce, or any web application for that matter, then there is no point in starting from scratch.
There are plenty of platforms or frameworks out there that you can build on.
My own favorite is Drupal which is not just a Content Management System, but rather an open framework.
For example, some creative guy wrote an Ecommerce set of modules for Drupal, so it can do just that.
US (24.6%) ... Canada (4.9%)
This is really problematic, given that Canada only has about one tenth of the US population. Does this mean that if we had as many people as the USA, 49% would be hacked?
Or is it just because we have more broadband per capita than in the US?
Seems that I confused Planet Debian for Debian Planet, and extrapolated from there. Apologies