The news comes after it was revealed that even bankers working for collapsed Wall Street giant, Lehman Brothers, could receive huge payouts.
Its 10,000 U.S. staff are expected to share a £1.5billion bonus pool. The payouts were agreed as part of the rescue takeover of Lehman's American arm by Barclays last month.
That's the Lehman Brothers. The 7 billion pounds or roughly 11.5 billion USD bonus is for Goldman Sachs.
Each of the firm's 443 partners is on course to pocket an average Christmas bonus of more than £3million.
You've almost got it. The real reason though, that continuity has never been one of Doctor Who's strong points is that time travel itself is often self-contradictory.
So to pay back for the killing of innocent victims, you say we needed to go kill other innocent victims instead of those who perpetrated the attacks? Fuck that for a joke.
In the article "Discuss the US Presidential election and the war", you responded to a thread titled "The solution to the war".
You said:
A nice way of putting it but what do you do when the war is brought to us [link to 9/11 article]?
It does not mention Iraq when put out of context like this, yet it was in response to a comment stating:
So we either accept we will forever be in Iraq being pecked to death, fighting for a gov't and country that doesn't want us there and may not understand what to do with democracy once they get it, or give up, go home, and admit we can't fight religious nuts.
Call me crazy, but I assumed you weren't discussing wars on a military tactic such as terrorism, nor wars that are accepted by the world as just such as the Afghanistan war but that you were discussing the Iraq war.
They can still lose out if they set their odds wrong, if a large bet at high odds wins etc. Though they generally will profit in the long run it's still a gamble for the bookie.
And any regime around the world could feel confident about invading a neighboring country, knowing that the US would stay out of it or run away after a few casualties and some bad PR.
I think you're a little confused as to who is doing the invading of another country here. Perhaps you're thinking of the previous Gulf war, where we abandoned the attempt to liberate the Iraqis from one of the dictators we had installed in the region.
Considering Saddam had a stable government and was not a threat to America or its allies, I wouldn't even call his overthrow a win. There is no way to win this war, just ways to make it more or less drawn out.
Or you could put yourself in their position whereby Iraqi planes are bombing the munition dumps of America that are trying to blow up your capital and government. Iraqi tanks driving through your streets to pick up the Americans that are trying to kill you and the Iraqi soldiers shooting at the Americans who are trying to blow up your store and your family.
I'd say fuck off outta my country, as anyone with an ounce of pride would. You'd seriously sit back and let a foreign occupier run your country? Why not just invite the British back and change your anthem to God Save the Queen?
I believe the major bone of contention was the American wish for 50 odd permanent military bases in the country, and how they could/would be used to strike others in the region.
I find his speech deplorable. Here's some offending quotes.
Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the Battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.
We hadn't even touched the constantly warring factions that Saddam had kept in check. The Battle of Iraq was just beginning, and they knew it.
With new tactics and precision weapons, we can achieve military objectives without directing violence against civilians. No device of man can remove the tragedy from war. Yet it is a great advance when the guilty have far more to fear from war than the innocent.
The innocent deaths in this war far outstrip any legitimate casualties. We bombed their cities with little warning and no regard for innocents.
In these 19 months that changed the world, our actions have been focused, and deliberate, and proportionate to the offense.
How on earth is destroying an entire country in proportion to destroying a few buildings?
Any outlaw regime that has ties to terrorist groups, and seeks or possesses weapons of mass destruction, is a grave danger to the civilized world, and will be confronted.
What the hell is an 'outlaw regieme'? Any soverign country we don't like? America has ties to terrorists and possesses WMDs, should they be next on the list?
Our government has taken unprecedented measures to defend the homeland - and we will continue to hunt down the enemy before he can strike.
Godwin much with that homeland bullshit? Damn right you took unprecedented measures in declaring war on the planet.
Other nations in history have fought in foreign lands and remained to occupy and exploit. Americans, following a battle, want nothing more than to return home. And that is your direction tonight. After service in the Afghan and Iraqi theaters of war - after 100,000 miles, on the longest carrier deployment in recent history - you are homeward bound.
Homeward bound, until they were called back. If America doesn't want to stay and occupy a country... then WTF is going on?
Their final act on this earth was to fight a great evil, and bring liberty to others. All of you - all in this generation of our military - have taken up the highest calling of history. You are defending your country, and protecting the innocent from harm. And wherever you go, you carry a message of hope - a message that is ancient, and ever new. In the words of the prophet Isaiah: "To the captives, 'Come out!' and to those in darkness, 'Be free!'"
Nice bible quote, was that for those in Abu Gharib? How the hell are we defending from Iraq when they had nothing to do with any attacks on America? How are we protecting the innocent from harm by wholesale bombing of cities?
If Time magazine can criticise it, I don't see why a random slashdotter can't.
Well whaddaya know, the world and the UN were happily behind Afghanistan, but never supported going into Iraq. Perhaps next time you'll listen to the UN, though I doubt it. You should at least apologise to the French who fought for your independence and warned against your abject stupidity.
Start slow. Avoid reverse engineering code as your first task. Get yourself a hex editor and try to dechipher a file format, say GIF by making a series of files with slightly different properties and examining them for the differences in the hex editor. You should be able to find the header structure and width and height parameters easily, other parameters will be harder to find. When you are confident, try to make a GIF yourself from scratch in the hex editor. Congratulations, you have reverse-engineered a file format, and have stolen nothing.
To do any code disassembly you'll need to be very confident with assembler code. Id reccomend getting good at writing in pure asm before learning disassembly, it's a more generally useful skill. There are many constructive uses, but what's wrong with just obtaining knowledge if you're an esoteric compsci addict? Oh, and disassembly can be good fun and gives great satisfaction when you finally crack the code.
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Things are much better over at ACA though.
From the article:
The news comes after it was revealed that even bankers working for collapsed Wall Street giant, Lehman Brothers, could receive huge payouts.
Its 10,000 U.S. staff are expected to share a £1.5billion bonus pool. The payouts were agreed as part of the rescue takeover of Lehman's American arm by Barclays last month.
That's the Lehman Brothers. The 7 billion pounds or roughly 11.5 billion USD bonus is for Goldman Sachs.
Each of the firm's 443 partners is on course to pocket an average Christmas bonus of more than £3million.
You've almost got it. The real reason though, that continuity has never been one of Doctor Who's strong points is that time travel itself is often self-contradictory.
I must insist on misunderstanding you. What are you saying - that this is a documentary? Are you from LINDA?
Yeah, it only took over three years and an attack on your own soil to join in and help them. What a great favour that was.
Do you realise how many Iraqi civillians have died in this war? Are you seriously suggesting that the civilians killed were not innocent victims?
So to pay back for the killing of innocent victims, you say we needed to go kill other innocent victims instead of those who perpetrated the attacks? Fuck that for a joke.
He also has no idea who wrote this.
In the article "Discuss the US Presidential election and the war", you responded to a thread titled "The solution to the war".
You said:
A nice way of putting it but what do you do when the war is brought to us [link to 9/11 article]?
It does not mention Iraq when put out of context like this, yet it was in response to a comment stating:
So we either accept we will forever be in Iraq being pecked to death, fighting for a gov't and country that doesn't want us there and may not understand what to do with democracy once they get it, or give up, go home, and admit we can't fight religious nuts.
Call me crazy, but I assumed you weren't discussing wars on a military tactic such as terrorism, nor wars that are accepted by the world as just such as the Afghanistan war but that you were discussing the Iraq war.
Iraqis already know this, and still want the US out. Make of it what you will.
Amazingly insightful analysis, Mr. Coward. Probably the most spot on analysis in this entire discussion.
They can still lose out if they set their odds wrong, if a large bet at high odds wins etc. Though they generally will profit in the long run it's still a gamble for the bookie.
America, Russia and China? Surely you mean Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia?
And any regime around the world could feel confident about invading a neighboring country, knowing that the US would stay out of it or run away after a few casualties and some bad PR.
I think you're a little confused as to who is doing the invading of another country here. Perhaps you're thinking of the previous Gulf war, where we abandoned the attempt to liberate the Iraqis from one of the dictators we had installed in the region.
Considering Saddam had a stable government and was not a threat to America or its allies, I wouldn't even call his overthrow a win. There is no way to win this war, just ways to make it more or less drawn out.
Or you could put yourself in their position whereby Iraqi planes are bombing the munition dumps of America that are trying to blow up your capital and government. Iraqi tanks driving through your streets to pick up the Americans that are trying to kill you and the Iraqi soldiers shooting at the Americans who are trying to blow up your store and your family.
I'd say fuck off outta my country, as anyone with an ounce of pride would. You'd seriously sit back and let a foreign occupier run your country? Why not just invite the British back and change your anthem to God Save the Queen?
You're either born with it, or not. Don't try to pretend you're a grammar nazi, you'll just look foolish.
I believe the major bone of contention was the American wish for 50 odd permanent military bases in the country, and how they could/would be used to strike others in the region.
True, yet the return on investment spending it locally is far, far greater than pissing it away on a useless war.
I find his speech deplorable. Here's some offending quotes.
Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the Battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.
We hadn't even touched the constantly warring factions that Saddam had kept in check. The Battle of Iraq was just beginning, and they knew it.
With new tactics and precision weapons, we can achieve military objectives without directing violence against civilians. No device of man can remove the tragedy from war. Yet it is a great advance when the guilty have far more to fear from war than the innocent.
The innocent deaths in this war far outstrip any legitimate casualties. We bombed their cities with little warning and no regard for innocents.
In these 19 months that changed the world, our actions have been focused, and deliberate, and proportionate to the offense.
How on earth is destroying an entire country in proportion to destroying a few buildings?
Any outlaw regime that has ties to terrorist groups, and seeks or possesses weapons of mass destruction, is a grave danger to the civilized world, and will be confronted.
What the hell is an 'outlaw regieme'? Any soverign country we don't like? America has ties to terrorists and possesses WMDs, should they be next on the list?
Our government has taken unprecedented measures to defend the homeland - and we will continue to hunt down the enemy before he can strike.
Godwin much with that homeland bullshit? Damn right you took unprecedented measures in declaring war on the planet.
Other nations in history have fought in foreign lands and remained to occupy and exploit. Americans, following a battle, want nothing more than to return home. And that is your direction tonight. After service in the Afghan and Iraqi theaters of war - after 100,000 miles, on the longest carrier deployment in recent history - you are homeward bound.
Homeward bound, until they were called back. If America doesn't want to stay and occupy a country... then WTF is going on?
Their final act on this earth was to fight a great evil, and bring liberty to others. All of you - all in this generation of our military - have taken up the highest calling of history. You are defending your country, and protecting the innocent from harm. And wherever you go, you carry a message of hope - a message that is ancient, and ever new. In the words of the prophet Isaiah: "To the captives, 'Come out!' and to those in darkness, 'Be free!'"
Nice bible quote, was that for those in Abu Gharib? How the hell are we defending from Iraq when they had nothing to do with any attacks on America? How are we protecting the innocent from harm by wholesale bombing of cities?
If Time magazine can criticise it, I don't see why a random slashdotter can't.
Well whaddaya know, the world and the UN were happily behind Afghanistan, but never supported going into Iraq. Perhaps next time you'll listen to the UN, though I doubt it. You should at least apologise to the French who fought for your independence and warned against your abject stupidity.
Now all you need is a muslim american candidate to vote for.
Tomorrow the Iraq situation could be totally different from what it is today.
Yeah, their country might not be under foreign occupation which is the primary cause of the hostilities there.
I think we have a new slogan for the site!
Start slow. Avoid reverse engineering code as your first task. Get yourself a hex editor and try to dechipher a file format, say GIF by making a series of files with slightly different properties and examining them for the differences in the hex editor. You should be able to find the header structure and width and height parameters easily, other parameters will be harder to find. When you are confident, try to make a GIF yourself from scratch in the hex editor. Congratulations, you have reverse-engineered a file format, and have stolen nothing.
To do any code disassembly you'll need to be very confident with assembler code. Id reccomend getting good at writing in pure asm before learning disassembly, it's a more generally useful skill. There are many constructive uses, but what's wrong with just obtaining knowledge if you're an esoteric compsci addict? Oh, and disassembly can be good fun and gives great satisfaction when you finally crack the code.