You know, that was written in 1996, and yet JMS was almost a visionary for the things that were to come. And had a such deep understand of politics that is incredible. I quote from that page and emphasis are mine.
As for the USA-western perspective...during WW II we saw Japanese civilians interned in camps along the West Coast...afterward we saw people prosecuted for being Reds, saw careers and lives destroyed by even the hint of "commie" influence. If you look at newsreels and documentary footage from the time, you see a populace, fresh out of a war, who survived by focusing on the Enemy, given a new enemy. Might they have gone along with some kind fo martial law if they thought that if they *didn't* cooperate, the nation might be vulnerable to Russian nukes or invasion? I think the climate was perfect for it.
Could it happen right here, right now? No, because the surrounding climate isn't right. Could it happen if the conditions *were* right? Of course it could. We're not genetically or evolutionarily different from the Germans or the Russians or the Cubans or the Iraquis. If we think we'd never fall for that, we place ourselves in *exactly* the position of guaranteeing that we *will* fall for it. Because we won't recognize it when it happens. We can justify and rationalize it as something else.
Here's the number one rule: a population will always stay passive for as long as they perceive that they stand to lose more by opposing the government than by staying quiet. It's when they have little or nothing left to lose that they rise up; the politicos first, then, more reluctantly, the general population.
Damn clicked on post instead of edit by accident. Just some example of this, check the Entry on on wikipedia Abu Rahan Biruni, specially the part about astronomy. And I post an excerpt below
In his Exhaustive Treatise on Shadows, he explained the calculation of Salah prayer times according to the shadow cast by the gnomon of a sundial.[29]
People seem to forget a lot that a lot of the most brilliant science developments for a long time was due mainly to religion. Go no far than all that astronomy, mathematics, physiology, trigonometry have to thanks the Arab Sufis and scientists of old. And all their motivation were base on spreading and understanding Islam.
If you go further back you see for example the Maya Calendar, was that an Atheistic scientist who devised and created? No, it was probably a bunch of priest working with the paradigms of their religion.
Today religion (mainly fundamentalist Catholicism and Islam) is one of the forces that drives us back in therms of knowledge. But that was not always true
I know I'm oversimplifying; you can't really code for "anything that passes ACID2". Still, the death of IE6 will definitely be something to celebrate.
Yeah it will. But not as much as the death of IE as a whole;). Indeed my codes are designed for ACID2, not ACID3. That never stopped me for having to code around around IE bug^M^M^Mfeatures.
About IE8 and ACID2. Define how much it pass ACID2. As much as IE7? If so, not good enough unfortunately:( And you said about IE7 compatibility mode, can I force it? If not, I cannot rely on that.
In standards compliance it still sucks versus all the compition, but as long as it helps kill off IE 6, I'm happy.
As someone doing web design for a living for the past 10 years I can tell you that I'm really not happy. At all. I put standards compliance much higher than any gimmick like XSS. If firefox still had all the Extensions (which is hard to live without) but was not standards compliant, I would hate it, a lot.
Another IE that is not standards compliant, means or a new set of rules I cannot use on my code, or another set of hacks (already ahve one for 5, 5.5, 6 and 7
Lua would be Wicca - A pantheistic language that can easily be adapted for different cultures and locations. Its code is very liberal, and allows for the use of techniques that might be described as magical by those used to more traditional languages. It has a strong connection to the moon.
Many people accused of sexual assaults don't even get anything at all. The police go over talk to them, decide that there isn't enough evidence, and they blow it off.
Fame and infamy don't last as long as you presume.
That will whole depend on how much you are portrayed in the media and for how long. I know too people (friends of my father) that were falsely accused of been rapist. One stayed in jail 1 week before been released. And he killed himself 2 months later because of all the shit throw to him.
You seriously understimate what a FALSE acusation can make to the life of an INNOCENT man. The moment a girl comes to Local TV and says: "He was the one that raped me.", even if some time later he comes to TV and says: "It was not him sorry". The damage is done, and if the time between those 2 is big enough, it can be permanent. I will not even touch with what happens to people accused of been a rapist in prison, there are a bunch of tatoos to mark those in the prisons here for a reason.
So be careful of saying that the name of person ACCUSED, not convicted, must known. Because he may be innocent and you would devastate another life. And if you really believe that you should take the life of an innocent person, just because someone destroyed yours raping you, I'm really glad I don't live close to you.
And honestly? DAMN RIGHT they should have that happen. Speaking as a victim. After all, nothing happened to my rapist. A little anxiety in his life wouldn't be too much to ask for, just so that he would accept what he did to me.
Look, what happened to you suck, badly. My ex was raped, and I know how those memories and scars last forever. I hope your rapist have an unnecessary slow and painfull death as all of them deserver, but that is no justification to falsely accuse someone.
Suicidal people, by the very nature of being suicidal, aren't really in a position to make rational judgements regarding what may or may not happen should they top themselves.
Not always true. Been suicidal do not stops you from having revenge thoughts and try to get back to the ones that made you hard to get to that point. Otherwise we wouldn't have a lot of passionate murders followed by suicide. It is the mentality of S***. I can't live without you, my life has no meaning anymore. But if I can't be happy and the world is better off without me, I will take you down too.
It doesn't matter about the person's consent or not,
Which makes the whole thing completely screwed. If we can held 13 year olds guilty of murder, when we can prove they understood what they were doing. If someone underage can be show to have been acted on his\her free will, consented and had knowledge of the act, NOTHING should be brought against the older person. Be him 16, 20 or 40 years old.
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Problem is, in Iraq you really get a few of the third group and a fair lot of the last.
I disagree a bit with you on this, on the case that I think in Iraq, most of the people lies on the first two groups, and the majority on the second. The point is if you can define in which group the part lies, torture can sometimes be an effective way to aquire information. Mind you, that I hate it as much as the next Neutral Good guy. I don't think torture is normally moral justifiable. But I can't deny its effectiveness when you can for sure define which group someones belongs too, instead of just torturing some John Unlucky Random Loser
Because we all know that the Mozilla foundation provides lots of guarantees on the software they package?
It is still a big named company. And gives PHB the warm felling that they have some big name to sue in case it all goes wrong. Relaying on a unknown third-party application to install a free software, and really on it running on your authentication mechanism raise a LOT of red alarms in many IT Bosses, and in all CEOs (clueless or not)
From that website: (not part of Mozilla Foundation)
Which is the same as nothing for any big business.
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In short, it usually just "confirms" whatever assumption you had in the first place.
I can tell you one thing. History proves you wrong. I will see your non-quoted anecdote and raise you a fact about Brazilian history during the Military Dictatorship.
Most of the resistance was due to communist groups, and students. The later, with the lack of will to lie, and facing horrible tortures (massive rape while been naked and tied to a pole, and after some electrocution) would promptly inform on the activities of their friends. Either for the false hope of freedom, or usually waiting for a merciful death.
There is a great book about it called: Brasil nunca mais., in Portuguese). Fact is. The effective of torture depends whole on the subject at hand, which can roguhly be categorized as follow:
Innocent normal bystander - This guy is clean, but for any reason was grabed as a "possible suspect". This is the person who will tell you want you want to hear and invent anything to get rid of the torture;
Innocent bystander with strong beliefs - This guy is innocent. Really is. But his beliefs, morals, or strong hate for the torturer will make him resist as much as possible. He may never cave in, or he will tell you all sort of false info;
The normal guilty thug - He is in the know, he is guilty. But he is not too attached on the whole thing. This is the one that will squeal earlier and give you everything he knows, and more that you just want to hear. This is the person who fears most. And want to get free fast.
The strong moral guilty - You can put here the sort of people that will blow themselves up for a cause. They believe in what they do, they believe in what their friends are doing. The chance this guy will give you got intel is next to zero. He will resist, he will mislead, because he believes.
Yeah I know. I agree with others that said Telstra shouldn't have expect anything different. They didn't comply with the bid process. And was expected that they would be ditched.
I'm sure the government is thanking them for been so obnoxious and allowing it to ditch Telstra within the limits of the law, and without much effort.
That's the first I've seem about it since [b]V[/b]. Security saves lives. Properly trained, and armed law enforcements have the possibility to save lives. Curfew, not.
Could it be approximated on something like a Nintendo DS, with the top screen showing the whole scene and the touch screen showing the zoomed-in view?
It wouldn't be the same. GP is spot on when he talks about how awesome this game is. It was one of the best ones I played on the arcades (together with House of the Dead 1, Dungeon & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara, TMNT (the version for 4 people), Italian Football, Pong, Pacman, KoF 95, and a game I never remember the name where you played a car running from otehrs, trying to grab some fuel and flags on the maze, and burning fuel to release a cloud of dirty to stop them.
I went to some Arcade shops recently that had a mini-stage with Guitar Hero III playing. It was more expensive than most other games, but still great.
The guitar were very heavy, clearly custom made for it with a case that was hard plastic covering what I think was wood, or made MDF. You could play 1 song for the price of one coin. I do think they hacked some ps2 with custom software to make it work correctly, but I do not know exactly.
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You know, that was written in 1996, and yet JMS was almost a visionary for the things that were to come. And had a such deep understand of politics that is incredible. I quote from that page and emphasis are mine.
As for the USA-western perspective...during WW II we saw Japanese civilians interned in camps along the West Coast...afterward we saw people prosecuted for being Reds, saw careers and lives destroyed by even the hint of "commie" influence. If you look at newsreels and documentary footage from the time, you see a populace, fresh out of a war, who survived by focusing on the Enemy, given a new enemy. Might they have gone along with some kind fo martial law if they thought that if they *didn't* cooperate, the nation might be vulnerable to Russian nukes or invasion? I think the climate was perfect for it.
Could it happen right here, right now? No, because the surrounding climate isn't right. Could it happen if the conditions *were* right? Of course it could. We're not genetically or evolutionarily different from the Germans or the Russians or the Cubans or the Iraquis. If we think we'd never fall for that, we place ourselves in *exactly* the position of guaranteeing that we *will* fall for it. Because we won't recognize it when it happens. We can justify and rationalize it as something else.
Here's the number one rule: a population will always stay passive for as long as they perceive that they stand to lose more by opposing the government than by staying quiet. It's when they have little or nothing left to lose that they rise up; the politicos first, then, more reluctantly, the general population.
preferably the Johnny Depp version, but even the Gene Wilder version would suffice.
Heretic!!!! Gene Wilder's is miles better than Johnny's. I want my sadistic over the top Wonka back, not some bloody scared by evil father emo kid.
Uh ? Telling two thirds of your customers to screw themselves doesn't look like a reasonable business decision...
If this decision makes you more money from the rest 1/3, yes it is a very sound decision.
ancient Greeks had much weirder stories.
But none of it stopped them doing science.
Damn clicked on post instead of edit by accident. Just some example of this, check the Entry on on wikipedia Abu Rahan Biruni, specially the part about astronomy. And I post an excerpt below
In his Exhaustive Treatise on Shadows, he explained the calculation of Salah prayer times according to the shadow cast by the gnomon of a sundial.[29]
People seem to forget a lot that a lot of the most brilliant science developments for a long time was due mainly to religion. Go no far than all that astronomy, mathematics, physiology, trigonometry have to thanks the Arab Sufis and scientists of old. And all their motivation were base on spreading and understanding Islam.
If you go further back you see for example the Maya Calendar, was that an Atheistic scientist who devised and created? No, it was probably a bunch of priest working with the paradigms of their religion.
Today religion (mainly fundamentalist Catholicism and Islam) is one of the forces that drives us back in therms of knowledge. But that was not always true
I know I'm oversimplifying; you can't really code for "anything that passes ACID2". Still, the death of IE6 will definitely be something to celebrate.
Yeah it will. But not as much as the death of IE as a whole ;). Indeed my codes are designed for ACID2, not ACID3. That never stopped me for having to code around around IE bug^M^M^Mfeatures.
About IE8 and ACID2. Define how much it pass ACID2. As much as IE7? If so, not good enough unfortunately :( And you said about IE7 compatibility mode, can I force it? If not, I cannot rely on that.
And yet those red alarms are not raised when they use IE?
The mind of a PHB IE = Microsoft = Big Corporation = They know what they are doing = We can sue = They make me feel warmy and fuzzy
In standards compliance it still sucks versus all the compition, but as long as it helps kill off IE 6, I'm happy.
As someone doing web design for a living for the past 10 years I can tell you that I'm really not happy. At all. I put standards compliance much higher than any gimmick like XSS. If firefox still had all the Extensions (which is hard to live without) but was not standards compliant, I would hate it, a lot.
Another IE that is not standards compliant, means or a new set of rules I cannot use on my code, or another set of hacks (already ahve one for 5, 5.5, 6 and 7
Lua would be Wicca - A pantheistic language that can easily be adapted for different cultures and locations. Its code is very liberal, and allows for the use of techniques that might be described as magical by those used to more traditional languages. It has a strong connection to the moon.
I program in LUA and I approve this message
Many people accused of sexual assaults don't even get anything at all. The police go over talk to them, decide that there isn't enough evidence, and they blow it off.
Fame and infamy don't last as long as you presume.
That will whole depend on how much you are portrayed in the media and for how long. I know too people (friends of my father) that were falsely accused of been rapist. One stayed in jail 1 week before been released. And he killed himself 2 months later because of all the shit throw to him.
You seriously understimate what a FALSE acusation can make to the life of an INNOCENT man. The moment a girl comes to Local TV and says: "He was the one that raped me.", even if some time later he comes to TV and says: "It was not him sorry". The damage is done, and if the time between those 2 is big enough, it can be permanent. I will not even touch with what happens to people accused of been a rapist in prison, there are a bunch of tatoos to mark those in the prisons here for a reason.
So be careful of saying that the name of person ACCUSED, not convicted, must known. Because he may be innocent and you would devastate another life. And if you really believe that you should take the life of an innocent person, just because someone destroyed yours raping you, I'm really glad I don't live close to you.
And honestly? DAMN RIGHT they should have that happen. Speaking as a victim. After all, nothing happened to my rapist. A little anxiety in his life wouldn't be too much to ask for, just so that he would accept what he did to me.
Look, what happened to you suck, badly. My ex was raped, and I know how those memories and scars last forever. I hope your rapist have an unnecessary slow and painfull death as all of them deserver, but that is no justification to falsely accuse someone.
Suicidal people, by the very nature of being suicidal, aren't really in a position to make rational judgements regarding what may or may not happen should they top themselves.
Not always true. Been suicidal do not stops you from having revenge thoughts and try to get back to the ones that made you hard to get to that point. Otherwise we wouldn't have a lot of passionate murders followed by suicide. It is the mentality of S***. I can't live without you, my life has no meaning anymore. But if I can't be happy and the world is better off without me, I will take you down too.
It doesn't matter about the person's consent or not,
Which makes the whole thing completely screwed. If we can held 13 year olds guilty of murder, when we can prove they understood what they were doing. If someone underage can be show to have been acted on his\her free will, consented and had knowledge of the act, NOTHING should be brought against the older person. Be him 16, 20 or 40 years old.
Problem is, in Iraq you really get a few of the third group and a fair lot of the last.
I disagree a bit with you on this, on the case that I think in Iraq, most of the people lies on the first two groups, and the majority on the second. The point is if you can define in which group the part lies, torture can sometimes be an effective way to aquire information. Mind you, that I hate it as much as the next Neutral Good guy. I don't think torture is normally moral justifiable. But I can't deny its effectiveness when you can for sure define which group someones belongs too, instead of just torturing some John Unlucky Random Loser
It describes the ability to add metadata to web content (tags, etc), and you haven't heard of it because web 2.0 is the more popular term. ;)
Ah, that explains it. So, nothing useful right?
What exactly is semantic web, and why haven't I ever heard of it?
Because we all know that the Mozilla foundation provides lots of guarantees on the software they package?
It is still a big named company. And gives PHB the warm felling that they have some big name to sue in case it all goes wrong. Relaying on a unknown third-party application to install a free software, and really on it running on your authentication mechanism raise a LOT of red alarms in many IT Bosses, and in all CEOs (clueless or not)
From that website:
(not part of Mozilla Foundation)
Which is the same as nothing for any big business.
In short, it usually just "confirms" whatever assumption you had in the first place.
I can tell you one thing. History proves you wrong. I will see your non-quoted anecdote and raise you a fact about Brazilian history during the Military Dictatorship.
Most of the resistance was due to communist groups, and students. The later, with the lack of will to lie, and facing horrible tortures (massive rape while been naked and tied to a pole, and after some electrocution) would promptly inform on the activities of their friends. Either for the false hope of freedom, or usually waiting for a merciful death.
There is a great book about it called: Brasil nunca mais., in Portuguese). Fact is. The effective of torture depends whole on the subject at hand, which can roguhly be categorized as follow:
Yeah I know. I agree with others that said Telstra shouldn't have expect anything different. They didn't comply with the bid process. And was expected that they would be ditched.
I'm sure the government is thanking them for been so obnoxious and allowing it to ditch Telstra within the limits of the law, and without much effort.
"Hackers" was about computers?!
I thought it was about Angelina Jolie's boobs and the evil of skateboarding and how roller skaters were much more in.
Turns out that speculation about the future doesn't directly influence fact in the present, no matter how hopeful it is.
You don't follow the stock market much, do you?
That's the first I've seem about it since [b]V[/b]. Security saves lives. Properly trained, and armed law enforcements have the possibility to save lives. Curfew, not.
Could it be approximated on something like a Nintendo DS, with the top screen showing the whole scene and the touch screen showing the zoomed-in view?
It wouldn't be the same. GP is spot on when he talks about how awesome this game is. It was one of the best ones I played on the arcades (together with House of the Dead 1, Dungeon & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara, TMNT (the version for 4 people), Italian Football, Pong, Pacman, KoF 95, and a game I never remember the name where you played a car running from otehrs, trying to grab some fuel and flags on the maze, and burning fuel to release a cloud of dirty to stop them.
I went to some Arcade shops recently that had a mini-stage with Guitar Hero III playing. It was more expensive than most other games, but still great.
The guitar were very heavy, clearly custom made for it with a case that was hard plastic covering what I think was wood, or made MDF. You could play 1 song for the price of one coin. I do think they hacked some ps2 with custom software to make it work correctly, but I do not know exactly.