Chances are he only thought he warned the boss, while he was just talking, the boss listened, didn't understand a word he said, out of politeness made a response and then forgot the entire incident.His lips were moving, words came out, they held no meaning for the CEO.
I don't think you have all the facts here. The people who now call themselves the government in Kosovo are the very same terrorists blowing up trains in Serbia few years ago. So Kosovo is a perfect parallel for the South Ossetia. Russians were against Kosovo being separated from Serbia, but when US, NATO and EU said that it is ok, they took it as a precedent and went for the same in South Ossetia. Bush just cannot have it both ways as he pleases.
Now I would prefer if Kosovo remained in Serbia, the Albanians, who were moved there by Mussolini as part of the WWII Nazi relocation efforts to neutralize problematic countries (eg Serbia) could go back to Albania and South Ossetia could remain part of Georgia for all I care.
Honesty, not wanting to steal something I did not pay for and US Laws. Unauthorized access to NBC systems. I hope you read the terms of their service? There are recent precedents....
... is that I have to actually subscribe to some local TV provider like AT&T, even if I don't own a TV, just so I could watch the NBC Olympics. There is no option for saying I don't have a TV service and to pay the sum they would receive from the local cable company directly to NBC.
That is seriously outrageous.
If your post read: "The maker of all cars bundling radios, GPS, Air bags and brakes within vehicles." you might have had something. But it has been some time since Ford enjoyed his monopoly position.
Americans are by definition the "Good Guys". It is the basis of their propaganda machine for more than a century now. Then by labeling anyone as "Bad Guys", "Terrorists", "Axis of Evil", they get the whole population to assume they are morally obligated to kill the "Bad Guys" so the "Good Guys" could prevail. This propaganda is so universal and so rooted in every citizen of United States and forced into them since they are too young to even understand it. It is the most effective way to mind control the population I've seen so far. And I used to live on the "wrong" side of Iron Curtain before it fell down and I moved to live in US, so I've seen some serious propaganda bullshit, but nothing that comes even close to this. Especially in the level of acceptance by the general population.
We used to have to be kept by iron fences and guys holding machine guns from traveling outside the country. They are held in by the fear of the bad guys who are apparently all over, outside their borders. Americans do not travel by choice and fear, 95% of them not even having a passport. And if they travel it is only in a special resort made for americans, on land owned by american corporations and fenced from the rest of the country they are supposedly visiting where they only meet other fellow americans, who are not to be feared, since they are the "Good Guys".
How the f... does the fact that you Yanks were doing this s... since WW2, changes anything on this being the most outrageous thing I've seen? What kind of bulls... response is that? Promoting democracy my a.. ! Seriously!?!
It does not matter where you get your oil from. As long as someone.. anyone.. gets the oil from Middle East, their oil is part of the global supply and by that virtue threatens the US supply of oil. If the other nations won't be able to get the oil from Middle East, they will directly compete with US on price and availability of the oil from Canada and South America. Importing most oil from Canada and South America is a simple matter of logistics and the refineries availability and configuration. But it has no moral or geopolitical value whatsoever.
Actually, from the group of people I played LARPs with, I don't know anyone who would fit your profile. Some were more into it than others, but nobody even close to what you describe. I really cannot relate to what you say in any way. This is just some kind of bad stereotype that you try to fit onto others and nothing from your reply made me think you actually even realize your own prejudice. So sad.
I don't understand how you could have been moderated anything other than +5 Funny. Somehow I feel like the only way to deal with people like you is to laugh at you. Yes, it is true that some people cannot distinguish between fantasy and reality. The dorky ones are the target of your joke, the dangerous are either locked up or in politics. But how can you categorize this way? What kind of prejudiced person are you? Are you lumping other groups into their minority stereotypes this way? The +5 interesting moderation is just the sad state the slashdot is in right now.
Anyway, most of us who enjoy LARP, can very well distinguish between a fantasy and a reality and indeed we do get a lot from role playing and it is not a mental illness as you suggest in most cases. The fact that some people can well distinguish between reality and fantasy and they still prefer the fantasy tells as much about the real world as it tells about them.
In the Republican CNN YouTube debate Rommney had a very interesting exchange with McCain, which made me despise Rommney as a person and fear as a candidate. He basically said he would allow torture if some committee agreed that it is a good idea to do it. Just watch it. It is chilling. Seriously, go watch it. See for yourself. Not only he has no moral code that would prevent him from letting it go on, he is totally ready to hand off even the responsibility for it to some committee.
Romney is in his own words that type of person who will put a person through torture just because some committee would say it is OK to do it. He is the very best example of clearly amoral person among the presidential candidates. He lacks any sense of what is right or wrong besides what he is told is an expert opinion on right or wrong. I don't want such person to be in the position of power in ANY nation in the world. He has the clear characteristics of a dictator. So who cares if he is good business man.
Revolutions only happen when the people are cold and starving.
This is a popular myth that is only remotely touching reality. Revolutions only happen when enough people are afraid. They could be scared to starve or freeze to death, but they can be afraid to disappear without a trace or that their child will not be safe or have no future or of number of other reasons. If there is enough people afraid of something more than of going to jail, a revolution movements start to appear. When there is enough people afraid of something more than of being shot, then violent revolutions spring up. If the fear in general population reached the first level, but is nowhere close to the second, a revolution can be successfully suppressed by force.
As I see it there are only few basic motivators of human behavior: Fear, Self preservation instinct, Mother instinct, Mating instinct. When it comes to revolutions, the later three are most often not a driving factor.
This is typical. I put down a hard evidence of a clear mistake they made, now you start arguing something unrelated noting some small progress in a relatively quiet part of the region and then debate the exact term we should call the mess in Iraq. Then you tack an ad hominem attack for good measure. How can you expect a debate?
But it does not mater how you call it. Over 3000 of soldiers are dead, over 25000 are seriously wounded, hundreds of thousands of civilians are dead. This scenario was given as a reason not to invade and occupy this very same cuntry 10 years earlier and then 10 years later the very same people who gave this reasoning failed to plan for this situation ahead, which made it so much worse. This clearly is a mistake. An error in judgement if you please. One that cost many lives of US soldiers and countless lives of Iraqi people.
You see, I don't argue they should not have invaded. I don't argue they don't make progress. I don't argue that they will not succeed in Iraq or turn it into democracy. I don't care about any of those points. I am not an expert in international diplomacy, in military strategy or politics. I cannot give a judgement on those topics. But I don't need to be an expert to see they made a mistake.
Someone says that choice A is a mistake, because B could happen. Then later he makes choice A without planing for B to happen. Then B happens and it is much worse than it needed to be and they say that B could not be expected. I say that certain someone has made a mistake and lies to me about it. Would you disagree?
And BTW I could hardly be programmed by media, I generally avoid US media altogether. I don't even own a TV set. I have never seen so much propaganda directed towards citizens of any country as I see in US and I was born on the wrong side of Iron Curtain. I don't feel like I should voluntarily subject myself to it.
I can't tell you how many people I've talked to that thing Don Rumsfeld is the devil himself...or at least he was until he left. But what they couldn't tell me....none of them, in fact, was what he did _wrong_.
Let me stop you right there in your rant. Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney in 1994 were saying that in the first gulf war, we could not go all the way to Baghdad, because it would cause a civil war, which would cause the US army to eventually lose Iraq just as the British did at the start of 20th century. Now just 10 years later they forget their sound arguments and go in with no plan for this civil war they knew such invasion will cause. This is what I call a 'criminal neglect', when it results in one person's death. It needs to be called 'treason' when it results in deaths of over 3000 soldiers, over 25000 serious injuries and hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths.
Oh, I am so sick and fucking tired of hearing this. Should we not buy Intel products because they are a convicted monopolist in Japan? Should we never buy anything Samsung because they were convicted of price fixing (along with other major DRAM manufacturers)?
Exactly! Buying software from Microsoft or processors from Intel is quite like buying your watch from the back of a truck. If someone is convicted for a crime or even obviously in the process of breaking law, supporting them by your money is simply morally unacceptable.
The very phrase "convicted monopolist" implies that there's something illegal about having a monopoly.
No, it implies that there is something illegal about abusing your monopoly position.
Actually, the main problem with Microsoft is that they have absolutely no confidence in their own ability to compete.
You are falsely asuming that Microsoft needs to compete by technological means. Microsoft expresses utter confidence in its ability to compete by ANY means necessary. They are the prime example of not tying one of your hands behind your back before fight, just because the other party did so. They are harsh and ruthless in their ability to compete in the marketplace and they consistently win for close to two decades now. They have the confidence of a seasoned fighter that only comes from experience of using all options in their arsenal of weapons successfully time and time again. Your post simply cannot be farther from the truth.
My admiration for their ability to win does not preclude me from despising them for the methods they are using and from condemning the illegal behaviour. But an advice of my very good friend comes to mind at this point: "If you play a game, don't just read the rules, test the rules and only trust in rules proven by your tests." Most people have trouble understanding that the rules as written often do not reflect the reality and get upset at someone who did a move that violates the rules, but works well to your advantage in reality. The fact that Microsoft can freely violate the written rules of the game to their benefit only means that these rules are not adequate reflection of reality and that Microsoft understand reality better than those who would want to follow the written rules, which try to describe the reality, but clearly fail in doing so.
It sort of explains why it takes AT&T whole 10 days (WTF?) to prepare my bill after period close. Still does not explain where they get the audacity to charge me a month in advance when they can have no idea how much I am going to use my phone or why they would not prorate any of this fee back if I quit in middle of the month. If any of this happened in Europe, the wireless operator would be out of business in three months.
Because the php scripts are written by a C programmer. I spend at least 10% of my time at work trying to explain to compiled language programmers how to write in a scripted language. They are simply used to include everything and the kitchen sink and rely on compiler to sort it out.
I am not a lawyer either, but when a federal judge issues a Findings of Fact in which he states someone broke the law, I tend to believe they broke the law. Not that they somehow weaseled through just barely within the legal framework. I believe a federal judge knows better. Also, those Findings of Fact were never in dispute by either party including Microsoft. So they did break the law, they do know they did and they don't even dispute it, they only think they should not be punished for it. I would say it is high time for you to stop saying otherwise:)
For some reason you have this illusion that Microsoft does not break the law, when in fact they do anything up to and INCLUDING breaking the law to get their way. They were even convicted of breaking the law already. So why do you still keep yourself in the dark like this? They will break the law and they will lie about it they did time and time again in the past and I have no expectation of them changing their ways in the future, since they always were able to sidestep the punishment for breaking it.
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Chances are he only thought he warned the boss, while he was just talking, the boss listened, didn't understand a word he said, out of politeness made a response and then forgot the entire incident.His lips were moving, words came out, they held no meaning for the CEO.
See Israel vs Palestine, West Bank and Gaza settlements.
Now I would prefer if Kosovo remained in Serbia, the Albanians, who were moved there by Mussolini as part of the WWII Nazi relocation efforts to neutralize problematic countries (eg Serbia) could go back to Albania and South Ossetia could remain part of Georgia for all I care.
Honesty, not wanting to steal something I did not pay for and US Laws. Unauthorized access to NBC systems. I hope you read the terms of their service? There are recent precedents....
... is that I have to actually subscribe to some local TV provider like AT&T, even if I don't own a TV, just so I could watch the NBC Olympics. There is no option for saying I don't have a TV service and to pay the sum they would receive from the local cable company directly to NBC. That is seriously outrageous.
If your post read: "The maker of all cars bundling radios, GPS, Air bags and brakes within vehicles." you might have had something. But it has been some time since Ford enjoyed his monopoly position.
We used to have to be kept by iron fences and guys holding machine guns from traveling outside the country. They are held in by the fear of the bad guys who are apparently all over, outside their borders. Americans do not travel by choice and fear, 95% of them not even having a passport. And if they travel it is only in a special resort made for americans, on land owned by american corporations and fenced from the rest of the country they are supposedly visiting where they only meet other fellow americans, who are not to be feared, since they are the "Good Guys".
How the f... does the fact that you Yanks were doing this s... since WW2, changes anything on this being the most outrageous thing I've seen? What kind of bulls... response is that? Promoting democracy my a.. ! Seriously!?!
Nice advice. Let's see how much Microsoft followed it. Or does it only work that way if an actually living breathing person does it?
It does not matter where you get your oil from. As long as someone.. anyone.. gets the oil from Middle East, their oil is part of the global supply and by that virtue threatens the US supply of oil. If the other nations won't be able to get the oil from Middle East, they will directly compete with US on price and availability of the oil from Canada and South America. Importing most oil from Canada and South America is a simple matter of logistics and the refineries availability and configuration. But it has no moral or geopolitical value whatsoever.
Actually, from the group of people I played LARPs with, I don't know anyone who would fit your profile. Some were more into it than others, but nobody even close to what you describe. I really cannot relate to what you say in any way. This is just some kind of bad stereotype that you try to fit onto others and nothing from your reply made me think you actually even realize your own prejudice. So sad.
Anyway, most of us who enjoy LARP, can very well distinguish between a fantasy and a reality and indeed we do get a lot from role playing and it is not a mental illness as you suggest in most cases. The fact that some people can well distinguish between reality and fantasy and they still prefer the fantasy tells as much about the real world as it tells about them.
Contributing to it could be that Czech Republic has the highest beer consumption per capita of all countries in the world.
Speakeasy.
In the Republican CNN YouTube debate Rommney had a very interesting exchange with McCain, which made me despise Rommney as a person and fear as a candidate. He basically said he would allow torture if some committee agreed that it is a good idea to do it. Just watch it. It is chilling. Seriously, go watch it. See for yourself. Not only he has no moral code that would prevent him from letting it go on, he is totally ready to hand off even the responsibility for it to some committee.
Romney is in his own words that type of person who will put a person through torture just because some committee would say it is OK to do it. He is the very best example of clearly amoral person among the presidential candidates. He lacks any sense of what is right or wrong besides what he is told is an expert opinion on right or wrong. I don't want such person to be in the position of power in ANY nation in the world. He has the clear characteristics of a dictator. So who cares if he is good business man.
This is a popular myth that is only remotely touching reality. Revolutions only happen when enough people are afraid. They could be scared to starve or freeze to death, but they can be afraid to disappear without a trace or that their child will not be safe or have no future or of number of other reasons. If there is enough people afraid of something more than of going to jail, a revolution movements start to appear. When there is enough people afraid of something more than of being shot, then violent revolutions spring up. If the fear in general population reached the first level, but is nowhere close to the second, a revolution can be successfully suppressed by force.
As I see it there are only few basic motivators of human behavior: Fear, Self preservation instinct, Mother instinct, Mating instinct. When it comes to revolutions, the later three are most often not a driving factor.
But it does not mater how you call it. Over 3000 of soldiers are dead, over 25000 are seriously wounded, hundreds of thousands of civilians are dead. This scenario was given as a reason not to invade and occupy this very same cuntry 10 years earlier and then 10 years later the very same people who gave this reasoning failed to plan for this situation ahead, which made it so much worse. This clearly is a mistake. An error in judgement if you please. One that cost many lives of US soldiers and countless lives of Iraqi people.
You see, I don't argue they should not have invaded. I don't argue they don't make progress. I don't argue that they will not succeed in Iraq or turn it into democracy. I don't care about any of those points. I am not an expert in international diplomacy, in military strategy or politics. I cannot give a judgement on those topics. But I don't need to be an expert to see they made a mistake.
Someone says that choice A is a mistake, because B could happen. Then later he makes choice A without planing for B to happen. Then B happens and it is much worse than it needed to be and they say that B could not be expected. I say that certain someone has made a mistake and lies to me about it. Would you disagree?
And BTW I could hardly be programmed by media, I generally avoid US media altogether. I don't even own a TV set. I have never seen so much propaganda directed towards citizens of any country as I see in US and I was born on the wrong side of Iron Curtain. I don't feel like I should voluntarily subject myself to it.
Let me stop you right there in your rant. Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney in 1994 were saying that in the first gulf war, we could not go all the way to Baghdad, because it would cause a civil war, which would cause the US army to eventually lose Iraq just as the British did at the start of 20th century. Now just 10 years later they forget their sound arguments and go in with no plan for this civil war they knew such invasion will cause. This is what I call a 'criminal neglect', when it results in one person's death. It needs to be called 'treason' when it results in deaths of over 3000 soldiers, over 25000 serious injuries and hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths.
Exactly! Buying software from Microsoft or processors from Intel is quite like buying your watch from the back of a truck. If someone is convicted for a crime or even obviously in the process of breaking law, supporting them by your money is simply morally unacceptable.
The very phrase "convicted monopolist" implies that there's something illegal about having a monopoly.
No, it implies that there is something illegal about abusing your monopoly position.
You are falsely asuming that Microsoft needs to compete by technological means. Microsoft expresses utter confidence in its ability to compete by ANY means necessary. They are the prime example of not tying one of your hands behind your back before fight, just because the other party did so. They are harsh and ruthless in their ability to compete in the marketplace and they consistently win for close to two decades now. They have the confidence of a seasoned fighter that only comes from experience of using all options in their arsenal of weapons successfully time and time again. Your post simply cannot be farther from the truth.
My admiration for their ability to win does not preclude me from despising them for the methods they are using and from condemning the illegal behaviour. But an advice of my very good friend comes to mind at this point: "If you play a game, don't just read the rules, test the rules and only trust in rules proven by your tests." Most people have trouble understanding that the rules as written often do not reflect the reality and get upset at someone who did a move that violates the rules, but works well to your advantage in reality. The fact that Microsoft can freely violate the written rules of the game to their benefit only means that these rules are not adequate reflection of reality and that Microsoft understand reality better than those who would want to follow the written rules, which try to describe the reality, but clearly fail in doing so.
It sort of explains why it takes AT&T whole 10 days (WTF?) to prepare my bill after period close. Still does not explain where they get the audacity to charge me a month in advance when they can have no idea how much I am going to use my phone or why they would not prorate any of this fee back if I quit in middle of the month. If any of this happened in Europe, the wireless operator would be out of business in three months.
Because the php scripts are written by a C programmer. I spend at least 10% of my time at work trying to explain to compiled language programmers how to write in a scripted language. They are simply used to include everything and the kitchen sink and rely on compiler to sort it out.
I am not a lawyer either, but when a federal judge issues a Findings of Fact in which he states someone broke the law, I tend to believe they broke the law. Not that they somehow weaseled through just barely within the legal framework. I believe a federal judge knows better. Also, those Findings of Fact were never in dispute by either party including Microsoft. So they did break the law, they do know they did and they don't even dispute it, they only think they should not be punished for it. I would say it is high time for you to stop saying otherwise :)
For some reason you have this illusion that Microsoft does not break the law, when in fact they do anything up to and INCLUDING breaking the law to get their way. They were even convicted of breaking the law already. So why do you still keep yourself in the dark like this? They will break the law and they will lie about it they did time and time again in the past and I have no expectation of them changing their ways in the future, since they always were able to sidestep the punishment for breaking it.