The problem seems to be that in this particular case, the mass-killer *didn't* lie. But Bush didn't get his information directly from Saddam, did he ? He can't just make a phonecall or something. Instead, he had to rely on the CIA, who also doesn't ask Saddam directly, but instead (as it seems to be now) is pushed by Cheney's office to produce damning evidence.
'The masses' in Arabic countries cannot 'fall in line', because they all live (in practice) in dictatorships or nepotistic olichargies, who keep a tight leash on their populations. Which is also OBL's biggest beef. His prime concern isn't with the US, it's with the kings, dictators and ruling families in Arabic countries, and he sees the US pour a shitload of money into these elites (for oil contracts, or to keep them friendly with Israel). To OBL, the US is siding with his real enemy, making them invincible. And the prize isn't Washington, it's Mecca.
"Unless you actually believe Saddam would shoot every last of his best weapons at unarmed civilians."
Or that he dismantled them. As he has said to other people, even in private. Why are you erecting a strawman ? The timing is all that's important here. Yes, Saddam used awful weapons on his own people. But that wasn't the question. The question was: did he still have them later on, and the answer to that, it seems now, is: no. Therefore, did Bush lie ? We don't know, but it looks like it an awful lot.
The problem is, that if you're not prepared to have your beliefs shaken, you're not really fit for science. Maybe it should be prefixed with a 'shake-your-belief' class, in which you do all sorts of little experiments like trying to see colour in the semi-dark, do simple maths in base-9, explain the mating behaviour of seahorses, and compare the height and circumference of a drinking glass (just things off the top of my head that could confuse a fourteen year old).
What struck me about this, is the fact that such things always seem to be designed by committee. I'm currently in the process of designing network hardware, and every time I look at IPv4 I can't help thinking: there's 8 too many bytes in the IPv4 header. One should have source and destination addresses, a length, a ttl and sub-protocol number. Everything else is just design-by-committee candy. That leads to two conclusions (for me at least): if you want to make a good spec, you should keep things simple, and 2) if you want to stop this kind of invasive nonsense, you should also keep things simple. It's nice when 'good' and 'non-invasive' seem to go hand in hand so well. I hope that the (much more influential than me) people who design the stuff that we all have to live with for years to come, take this to heart.
The problem isn't that we do not know what happened 70 million years ago, but that we don't even know what's happening today ! Both statements ('the ice age started because of oceanic currents changing', and 'current warming is caused by CO2') are equally speculative.
"Chrome and IE 8 are all about delivering a robust platform for reliably running multiple Web apps in a tabbed format in answer to the Web's evolving needs."
No. There are valid points to be made against java; even things that seem to go against what it's supposed to be great at. I shall not repeat them here, but there are.
I automated regular payments for fixed amounts using my bank's web app, I authorised a few entities to automatically take what's owed, who wouldn't do business otherwise, and for others I just pay the bill manually. I'm in Europe, so I can reverse automatic payments for a month, which is good. However, I'm longing for the day when businesses can just issue a You-owe-me with my bank, and I can just check the boxes when I log into their web app.
I dunno man. I dunno. Two out of three ain't bad, and photos do not report on the smell of their pussy. I say the answer is still up for grabs and that more evidence is needed. I suggest we gather a group of people, ring on those celebrities' doors and ask 'em if we can have a sample. You in ?
I think it's time for walled-in 12 volt DC circuitry around the house. Something that sits as a tiny, standard connector on top of all my light sockets. Would that be very difficult; I mean, can you safely, (almost) losslessly, transport 12 volt DC over regular copper wire over a distance of, say, fifty meters ?
But when you read an article about it, it seems perfectly reasonably stuff; 'sandbox' your session against cookie- and form-storage, block annoying trackers - all part of the standard browser ! There's no pretense of 'total security and/or anonymity' here, people, so stop whining.
That's why you would hide it in an intuitive place. In the middle of the biggest crater on the moon, for example, inside a big, obviously artificial thing. A black monolith, say.
I write websites exclusively in perl. Because there is no substitute for cpan, and because I love perl. I never have any problem decoding things I, or other people wrote five years ago, only a kind of resignation that I can keep on learning in this language and that I should have dotted a few 'i's and crossed a few 't's then. Now, my anecdote is obviously better than yours, so we'll call this the truth. Over to you.
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And even then, perl deals with regexes more elegantly than others, because they are an integral part of the language's syntax. In java, the GP's example would have to be enclosed inside a string, and be escaped.
This is not ignorant FUD; I'm currently building software for a concentration device for IPv6 - I've read the spec, and I don't very much like what I've read. IPv6 packet headers are HUGE (in comparison to some forms of traffic), and with variable address length, they do not necessarily need to be. The risk of ARP spoofing is minimal (at least not as big a risk as BGP or DNS poisoning) and you know that too; ARP never makes it across a router. Oh, and that jumbogram thing you call 'thinking about the future' ? It's an ugly add-on in the extension header. And you think variable address lengths make things ugly ? Try variable amounts of headers the way IPv6 does; that'll surely parse quickly on a hop device !
Both IPv4 and IPv6 suck. IPv4 sucks because it should have been just: dest-address, source-address, ttl (byte), flags (byte), size (short). 12 bytes instead of 20. IPv6 sucks because it wants to be too much and at the same time, simply isn't modern enough. How's about variable length addresses (my home network needs only 1 byte) ? How's about flags that say something about the scope of the packet (I don't want these packets to make it accross a router; I wouldn't have to spec certain address 'areas' as 'special') ? Why drop ARP (really, it was just fine) ? What's with the f^@%ing jumbogram (4 gigabytes of payload ? What concentrator is going to cache 4 gigabytes of payload ?) ?
I had a checkout girl wagging a courgette at me, asking me 'what's this ?'. I was at the point of making a very, very dirty joke but then I checked myself. Such behaviour would probably get you arrested in the States, but luckily around here, it's still legal.
Only the medium wasn't there when Duchamp and Warhol thought of it. No, the programmer's problem, as well as his final resolution, lies in piracy. In the end, it all comes down to word of mouth ('I had an *original* 'I am rich' application); the global village.
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The problem seems to be that in this particular case, the mass-killer *didn't* lie. But Bush didn't get his information directly from Saddam, did he ? He can't just make a phonecall or something. Instead, he had to rely on the CIA, who also doesn't ask Saddam directly, but instead (as it seems to be now) is pushed by Cheney's office to produce damning evidence.
'The masses' in Arabic countries cannot 'fall in line', because they all live (in practice) in dictatorships or nepotistic olichargies, who keep a tight leash on their populations. Which is also OBL's biggest beef. His prime concern isn't with the US, it's with the kings, dictators and ruling families in Arabic countries, and he sees the US pour a shitload of money into these elites (for oil contracts, or to keep them friendly with Israel). To OBL, the US is siding with his real enemy, making them invincible. And the prize isn't Washington, it's Mecca.
"Unless you actually believe Saddam would shoot every last of his best weapons at unarmed civilians."
Or that he dismantled them. As he has said to other people, even in private. Why are you erecting a strawman ? The timing is all that's important here. Yes, Saddam used awful weapons on his own people. But that wasn't the question. The question was: did he still have them later on, and the answer to that, it seems now, is: no. Therefore, did Bush lie ? We don't know, but it looks like it an awful lot.
The problem is, that if you're not prepared to have your beliefs shaken, you're not really fit for science. Maybe it should be prefixed with a 'shake-your-belief' class, in which you do all sorts of little experiments like trying to see colour in the semi-dark, do simple maths in base-9, explain the mating behaviour of seahorses, and compare the height and circumference of a drinking glass (just things off the top of my head that could confuse a fourteen year old).
What struck me about this, is the fact that such things always seem to be designed by committee. I'm currently in the process of designing network hardware, and every time I look at IPv4 I can't help thinking: there's 8 too many bytes in the IPv4 header. One should have source and destination addresses, a length, a ttl and sub-protocol number. Everything else is just design-by-committee candy. That leads to two conclusions (for me at least): if you want to make a good spec, you should keep things simple, and 2) if you want to stop this kind of invasive nonsense, you should also keep things simple. It's nice when 'good' and 'non-invasive' seem to go hand in hand so well. I hope that the (much more influential than me) people who design the stuff that we all have to live with for years to come, take this to heart.
It runs linux and does skype - with camera - out of the box. Even the cheap variety.
John McCain knows the theory of evolution is hogwash; he planted those fossils there himself !
The problem isn't that we do not know what happened 70 million years ago, but that we don't even know what's happening today ! Both statements ('the ice age started because of oceanic currents changing', and 'current warming is caused by CO2') are equally speculative.
"Chrome and IE 8 are all about delivering a robust platform for reliably running multiple Web apps in a tabbed format in answer to the Web's evolving needs."
WTF does that even mean ?!
No. There are valid points to be made against java; even things that seem to go against what it's supposed to be great at. I shall not repeat them here, but there are.
I automated regular payments for fixed amounts using my bank's web app, I authorised a few entities to automatically take what's owed, who wouldn't do business otherwise, and for others I just pay the bill manually. I'm in Europe, so I can reverse automatic payments for a month, which is good. However, I'm longing for the day when businesses can just issue a You-owe-me with my bank, and I can just check the boxes when I log into their web app.
So.. you're a politician, then ?
Wouldn't you expect different decay rates on the poles and the equator ?
My take is that is the CIA that put the emails there. This is their way of publicizing them.
I dunno man. I dunno. Two out of three ain't bad, and photos do not report on the smell of their pussy. I say the answer is still up for grabs and that more evidence is needed. I suggest we gather a group of people, ring on those celebrities' doors and ask 'em if we can have a sample. You in ?
I think it's time for walled-in 12 volt DC circuitry around the house. Something that sits as a tiny, standard connector on top of all my light sockets. Would that be very difficult; I mean, can you safely, (almost) losslessly, transport 12 volt DC over regular copper wire over a distance of, say, fifty meters ?
But when you read an article about it, it seems perfectly reasonably stuff; 'sandbox' your session against cookie- and form-storage, block annoying trackers - all part of the standard browser ! There's no pretense of 'total security and/or anonymity' here, people, so stop whining.
That's why you would hide it in an intuitive place. In the middle of the biggest crater on the moon, for example, inside a big, obviously artificial thing. A black monolith, say.
Or am I wrong, and is this posting not a lame excuse to get the Obama/Biden ticket on the frontpage of slashdot ? News for nerds.
I write websites exclusively in perl. Because there is no substitute for cpan, and because I love perl. I never have any problem decoding things I, or other people wrote five years ago, only a kind of resignation that I can keep on learning in this language and that I should have dotted a few 'i's and crossed a few 't's then. Now, my anecdote is obviously better than yours, so we'll call this the truth. Over to you.
And even then, perl deals with regexes more elegantly than others, because they are an integral part of the language's syntax. In java, the GP's example would have to be enclosed inside a string, and be escaped.
This is not ignorant FUD; I'm currently building software for a concentration device for IPv6 - I've read the spec, and I don't very much like what I've read. IPv6 packet headers are HUGE (in comparison to some forms of traffic), and with variable address length, they do not necessarily need to be. The risk of ARP spoofing is minimal (at least not as big a risk as BGP or DNS poisoning) and you know that too; ARP never makes it across a router. Oh, and that jumbogram thing you call 'thinking about the future' ? It's an ugly add-on in the extension header. And you think variable address lengths make things ugly ? Try variable amounts of headers the way IPv6 does; that'll surely parse quickly on a hop device !
Both IPv4 and IPv6 suck. IPv4 sucks because it should have been just: dest-address, source-address, ttl (byte), flags (byte), size (short). 12 bytes instead of 20. IPv6 sucks because it wants to be too much and at the same time, simply isn't modern enough. How's about variable length addresses (my home network needs only 1 byte) ? How's about flags that say something about the scope of the packet (I don't want these packets to make it accross a router; I wouldn't have to spec certain address 'areas' as 'special') ? Why drop ARP (really, it was just fine) ? What's with the f^@%ing jumbogram (4 gigabytes of payload ? What concentrator is going to cache 4 gigabytes of payload ?) ?
I had a checkout girl wagging a courgette at me, asking me 'what's this ?'. I was at the point of making a very, very dirty joke but then I checked myself. Such behaviour would probably get you arrested in the States, but luckily around here, it's still legal.
Only the medium wasn't there when Duchamp and Warhol thought of it. No, the programmer's problem, as well as his final resolution, lies in piracy. In the end, it all comes down to word of mouth ('I had an *original* 'I am rich' application); the global village.