Actually I thank you guys in the USA (well your grandparents) since if you had not fought that war I would not have been born. My mother had the "pleasure" of actually having Japanese overlords, and while my dad didn't it was only because the US occupied the country before the Japanese could do more than lob a few shells at it.
For that matter my inlaws were in a country run by the Nazis and would likely not have met either...and the US really didn't have to enter that war at all. Nor did they need to spend the money rebuilding the place.
So every time I see some boneheaded american thing (and it's a big place so there's no shortage of stupidity, shitheads and whatever) I remember that they are capable of greatness.
(apologies for the serious response to the flippant remark)
... and being gay does not mean someone has some aesthetic taste.
(sorry, just wanted both the inverse and converse represented). The trolling A/C is a loser. I really like the submitter's question, not because I particularly care about cable trays but because it shows that she or he is the opposite of the BOFH: asking how to fit the various users' needs rather than forcing people to just put up with what IT wants to give 'em.
As soon as animals can be reasonably expected to understand a contract and uphold their side of it, I'll care about whether they have the legal grounds to enter into them.
So you're saying the test of humanity is whether you can enter a contract or not?
In that case I suppose post partum abortions would be reasonable up until the age of humanness has arrived. Which I hope is before teanagerhood, or else the race will be wiped out in a single generation!
That's an interesting list, and it's my understanding that nothing he's released so far has included the names of double agents or others who could be killed, and little to none of the oner stuff on your list either.
Which just further supports the argument that he's a good guy, as if anyone on/. didn't already believe that.
Indeed, and Microsoft only spend $2 on that disk and box of Windows you bought.
And come to think of it the price they charge for Widows is outrageous, since I not only have to pay for it but also each bug that was written, then found in testing, and then fixed. And why should they consider the money spent on writing test cases as part of their costs? Outrageous!
At least with Linux I can get a full refund. Take that, Microsoft!
Indeed, one must file six copies the B17XX44/3, signed by a Nazgûl. Each must be bound in a black folders, one marked "original" and all others marked "duplicate" although one must be in an orange binder and labeled "microbiology". A different Nazgûl must file each copy in halfling blood. Once approval is obtained, regular TPS reports must be filed until the trip is completed. Even then you must remain with your orc tour group, and most importantly keep track of your luggage! Losing, say, a mithril shirt could cause major problems!
Exiting is a separate problem although Eagles may be used by prearrangement.
PS: That sentence about the black and orange binders is an actual FDA regulation I had to follow to file an IND.
Yeah, they wanted Japan out of China, and deservedly so. The US was doing the right thing.
I don't quibble over "blockade" vs "embargo" -- they blocked Japan from the panama canal, for example. But regardless, it was economic pressure, and the Japanese imperial war council chose to respond by fighting. This kind of pressure (called "sanctions" these days, I suppose from the UN sanctioning the restrictions) doesn't work much better now than it did then, unfortunately, though I can't think of much of a better alternative.
The imperial government of Japan bears full responsibility for the pacific war, no question about it.
Having said that, I do take exception to part about it being a "cowardly attack." It's was a brave, gutsy move, and it could have succeeded (although even if it had succeeded it probably would only have delayed the inevitable). The US blockade on Japanese shipping and imports had caused intolerable problems so something had to change. Disastrously, what changed was an expansion, rather than reduction, of the war.
Please do not interpret this as any defense of the Japanese. Both of my parents faced Japanese invasion -- and not all of my relatives survived the occupation. I would not have been born had the Americans not been willing to enter the war and completely finish the job. But even with all of that I cannot consider the attack on Perl Harbor to be in any way "cowardly" -- unless you can take the position that violence is always the coward's way out (a position I do respect, though perhaps cannot share).
All that basic science will be considered in the national interest of Japan/Europe/Singapore/India/Brazil et al and will help their industries instead.
Americans will still have access to all those cool devices, medical treatments and the like. Just not first.
(Actually what will really happen is that every grant proposal will include a boilerplate paragraph justifying it as being "in the national interest" and everything will go back to normal).
I am fascinated that 75% of respondents think they could drive a car better than a computer. Personally I suffer from the Inverse Dunning-Kruger effect: I sincerely hope that a majority of people drive better than I!
I can't wait for the self-driving car. Though I suspect the Google self-driving cars will be free, but if I want to drive to a restaurant it will just "happen" to drive by McDonald's and will offer me a coupon.
haha, the jokes on them, I have a beta tape I never returned, and now they are going out of business! haha, suckers.
Ahh, so it's your fault that they are failing. If you'd paid your fine for not returning it for all those years they'd have all the money they'd need to stay in business!
The other funny thing about that video is that when trying to view it my browser told me I needed "silverlight" -- demonstrating that in fact silverlight was used for something other than Netflix Instant.
I had always thought it was hilarious that Microsoft spent all that money both developing and deploying Silverlight just to help the company of one of their board members. I guess one purpose of this video is to stave off shareholder lawsuits ("see! It wasn't only used by Netflix! Our archivist used it too!")
I think you meant to say, "`Cloud' is a technical term which has also been hijacked by marketing people who have no idea what it meant in a technical sense, so don't waste your time trying to use it any more."
Other examples include "broadband" (and even more perversely, "narrowband" when they mean "baseband"), "organic", "natural", "3G telephony", inter alia.
Not to comment on the rest of of your note (I don't use GMail so have no idea what its support is like, on either end) but on your other complaint I have a hard time agreeing:
Not that having Mail cause problems is anything new; my personal favourite is the way Mail does embedded attachments, causing most other mail clients to struggle to handle his messages - usually, they end up with half an email, the attachment, and a second (and sometimes 3rd and 4th) set of attachments with the rest of the email message piecemeal. And then he complains that people can't read his bloody mail.
I have seen this but the garble I've experienced has only been with users with Outlook. (There may be other clients with problems reading them -- I don't know.) I've looked at those Apple Mail.app-generated messages and they appear to me to be completely RFC compliant. Very strictly so.
Now Apple Mail may or may not suck, but in this case they appear to me to be blameless.
Despite my jokey post responding to this scandalous event: it will work just fine (for the feds, I mean).
They overreached and took something they shouldn't have. What will happen? Despite plenty of case law from drugs cases, I expect that this seizure would be found unlawful by any court. So they could prosecute, and lose, or simply drop any charges. In fact the whole warrant could be found unreasonable (a handguns warrant????) and the entire thing could be dropped. The files can be returned to the reporter.
From the feds' point: thats victory. There will be no penalty attached to a bogus warrant, and there's no arrest to try to prove false arrest. But they will have two gains:
they will have the names of the whistleblowers, whom they can go after with a vengeance, or simply fire, and
they will have a nice chilling example to stop future whistleblowers who now know their identity cannot be protected.
Protect Whistleblowers: Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance. Barack Obama will strengthen whistleblower laws to protect federal workers who expose waste, fraud, and abuse of authority in government. Obama will ensure that federal agencies expedite the process for reviewing whistleblower claims and whistleblowers have full access to courts and due process.
The politician said it, I believe it, that settles it.
How about this? No one wants to use an RT, even to test it. Sure it gets tested by QA people, but no one wants to use it all day every day, trying to get useful work done. So an update is sent out the door with little to no real world testing.
RT is clearly a brand of dog food no dog wants to eat.
You sound like a blind Microsoft hater. If nobody used RT it wouldn't matter if 8.1 were buggy or not.
More likely two of the RT users had problems with 8.1 and MS decided to pull it before the third user got around to upgrading too.
If you had quoted more of my comment you would have included my point that yes, secret arrests occur, but they are fortunately extremely uncommon. A lot of the outrage (such as it is, which sadly isn't enough) over FISA is its secret nature, and what has resulted from it.
There are many many problems with the system at large, don't get me wrong. Plea bargains seem like fundamentally abusive, and are illegal in most countries. "Civil forfeiture" is a top to bottom abuse. One could easily go on, and go ahead: feel free to work on these issues.
My point is simply that the origin of public arrest is a good one, it does seem to mostly work properly, and that it's the abuses that should be addressed, not the public nature. If we had magical cops who only arrested guilty people it wouldn't be needed. Since they don't exist, this is the best check we have,
(By the way: answering an AC's response to my comment: yes there is a qualitative difference between wgetting the records in bulk than having to go into the basement and copy them down one by one. I don't think that is a bad thing though -- life was much worse when abuses could be hidden because finding out was hard, or because access to information was essentially restricted to a secret elite).
It's the American obsession with mugshots. Again, something the rest of the world will never understand. Here in.cz, you'd be probably thrown into jail for spreading such photos in the first place.
Actually, it's an important civil rights issue. Arrests are public as a way of preventing secret arrests, which were used in pre-revolutionary time and, sadly continue in many places. Its origins lie in the sixth sixth amendment to the United States' constitution, which tries to guarantee a swift and public trial as a check on the police, the public prosecutors and the judicial system.
Sure, it's not perfect. The system can and is being abused by jerks (but then again there are jerks in every country). The "perp walks" that cops do are also an exploitative use of a tool designed to rein them in. And I suspect the prohibition on secret arrests has been violated from time to time:-(. Not to mention a arrest is something most people would not like spread around (I wouldn't!).
But don't condemn the obsession with public mugshots without understanding their purpose.
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welcome our new Japanese over...oh, wait...
Actually I thank you guys in the USA (well your grandparents) since if you had not fought that war I would not have been born. My mother had the "pleasure" of actually having Japanese overlords, and while my dad didn't it was only because the US occupied the country before the Japanese could do more than lob a few shells at it.
For that matter my inlaws were in a country run by the Nazis and would likely not have met either...and the US really didn't have to enter that war at all. Nor did they need to spend the money rebuilding the place.
So every time I see some boneheaded american thing (and it's a big place so there's no shortage of stupidity, shitheads and whatever) I remember that they are capable of greatness.
(apologies for the serious response to the flippant remark)
... and being gay does not mean someone has some aesthetic taste.
(sorry, just wanted both the inverse and converse represented). The trolling A/C is a loser. I really like the submitter's question, not because I particularly care about cable trays but because it shows that she or he is the opposite of the BOFH: asking how to fit the various users' needs rather than forcing people to just put up with what IT wants to give 'em.
As soon as animals can be reasonably expected to understand a contract and uphold their side of it, I'll care about whether they have the legal grounds to enter into them.
So you're saying the test of humanity is whether you can enter a contract or not?
In that case I suppose post partum abortions would be reasonable up until the age of humanness has arrived. Which I hope is before teanagerhood, or else the race will be wiped out in a single generation!
That's an interesting list, and it's my understanding that nothing he's released so far has included the names of double agents or others who could be killed, and little to none of the oner stuff on your list either.
Which just further supports the argument that he's a good guy, as if anyone on /. didn't already believe that.
Indeed, and Microsoft only spend $2 on that disk and box of Windows you bought.
And come to think of it the price they charge for Widows is outrageous, since I not only have to pay for it but also each bug that was written, then found in testing, and then fixed. And why should they consider the money spent on writing test cases as part of their costs? Outrageous!
At least with Linux I can get a full refund. Take that, Microsoft!
One does not 'simply' walk into Mordor...
Indeed, one must file six copies the B17XX44/3, signed by a Nazgûl. Each must be bound in a black folders, one marked "original" and all others marked "duplicate" although one must be in an orange binder and labeled "microbiology". A different Nazgûl must file each copy in halfling blood. Once approval is obtained, regular TPS reports must be filed until the trip is completed. Even then you must remain with your orc tour group, and most importantly keep track of your luggage! Losing, say, a mithril shirt could cause major problems!
Exiting is a separate problem although Eagles may be used by prearrangement.
PS: That sentence about the black and orange binders is an actual FDA regulation I had to follow to file an IND.
Au contraire, I hear they can be destroyed by simply casting them into mount doom.
I dunno, but I'm guessing none of these politicians have ever heard of 1984.
On the contrary it is the party manifesto.
Yeah, they wanted Japan out of China, and deservedly so. The US was doing the right thing.
I don't quibble over "blockade" vs "embargo" -- they blocked Japan from the panama canal, for example. But regardless, it was economic pressure, and the Japanese imperial war council chose to respond by fighting. This kind of pressure (called "sanctions" these days, I suppose from the UN sanctioning the restrictions) doesn't work much better now than it did then, unfortunately, though I can't think of much of a better alternative.
Why can't everyone just get along?
The imperial government of Japan bears full responsibility for the pacific war, no question about it.
Having said that, I do take exception to part about it being a "cowardly attack." It's was a brave, gutsy move, and it could have succeeded (although even if it had succeeded it probably would only have delayed the inevitable). The US blockade on Japanese shipping and imports had caused intolerable problems so something had to change. Disastrously, what changed was an expansion, rather than reduction, of the war.
Please do not interpret this as any defense of the Japanese. Both of my parents faced Japanese invasion -- and not all of my relatives survived the occupation. I would not have been born had the Americans not been willing to enter the war and completely finish the job. But even with all of that I cannot consider the attack on Perl Harbor to be in any way "cowardly" -- unless you can take the position that violence is always the coward's way out (a position I do respect, though perhaps cannot share).
All that basic science will be considered in the national interest of Japan/Europe/Singapore/India/Brazil et al and will help their industries instead.
Americans will still have access to all those cool devices, medical treatments and the like. Just not first.
(Actually what will really happen is that every grant proposal will include a boilerplate paragraph justifying it as being "in the national interest" and everything will go back to normal).
I am fascinated that 75% of respondents think they could drive a car better than a computer. Personally I suffer from the Inverse Dunning-Kruger effect: I sincerely hope that a majority of people drive better than I!
I can't wait for the self-driving car. Though I suspect the Google self-driving cars will be free, but if I want to drive to a restaurant it will just "happen" to drive by McDonald's and will offer me a coupon.
haha, the jokes on them, I have a beta tape I never returned, and now they are going out of business! haha, suckers.
Ahh, so it's your fault that they are failing. If you'd paid your fine for not returning it for all those years they'd have all the money they'd need to stay in business!
The other funny thing about that video is that when trying to view it my browser told me I needed "silverlight" -- demonstrating that in fact silverlight was used for something other than Netflix Instant.
I had always thought it was hilarious that Microsoft spent all that money both developing and deploying Silverlight just to help the company of one of their board members. I guess one purpose of this video is to stave off shareholder lawsuits ("see! It wasn't only used by Netflix! Our archivist used it too!")
I think you meant to say, "`Cloud' is a technical term which has also been hijacked by marketing people who have no idea what it meant in a technical sense, so don't waste your time trying to use it any more."
Other examples include "broadband" (and even more perversely, "narrowband" when they mean "baseband"), "organic", "natural", "3G telephony", inter alia.
Not to comment on the rest of of your note (I don't use GMail so have no idea what its support is like, on either end) but on your other complaint I have a hard time agreeing:
Not that having Mail cause problems is anything new; my personal favourite is the way Mail does embedded attachments, causing most other mail clients to struggle to handle his messages - usually, they end up with half an email, the attachment, and a second (and sometimes 3rd and 4th) set of attachments with the rest of the email message piecemeal. And then he complains that people can't read his bloody mail.
I have seen this but the garble I've experienced has only been with users with Outlook. (There may be other clients with problems reading them -- I don't know.) I've looked at those Apple Mail.app-generated messages and they appear to me to be completely RFC compliant. Very strictly so.
Now Apple Mail may or may not suck, but in this case they appear to me to be blameless.
Despite my jokey post responding to this scandalous event: it will work just fine (for the feds, I mean).
They overreached and took something they shouldn't have. What will happen? Despite plenty of case law from drugs cases, I expect that this seizure would be found unlawful by any court. So they could prosecute, and lose, or simply drop any charges. In fact the whole warrant could be found unreasonable (a handguns warrant????) and the entire thing could be dropped. The files can be returned to the reporter.
From the feds' point: thats victory. There will be no penalty attached to a bogus warrant, and there's no arrest to try to prove false arrest. But they will have two gains:
Mission accomplished!
I cannot believe that the Feds would do anything to hurt a whistleblower. After all, this text still appears (despite scurrilous reports to the contrary) on the Obama/Biden campaign website:
The politician said it, I believe it, that settles it.
Whoosh!
Cheers,
g
How about this? No one wants to use an RT, even to test it. Sure it gets tested by QA people, but no one wants to use it all day every day, trying to get useful work done. So an update is sent out the door with little to no real world testing.
RT is clearly a brand of dog food no dog wants to eat.
You sound like a blind Microsoft hater. If nobody used RT it wouldn't matter if 8.1 were buggy or not.
More likely two of the RT users had problems with 8.1 and MS decided to pull it before the third user got around to upgrading too.
Riiight...let he who is without sin cast the first stone...
Thank you, no. I am without sin and would prefer to remain that way by leaving the stones uncast.
But thanks for the offer!
If you had quoted more of my comment you would have included my point that yes, secret arrests occur, but they are fortunately extremely uncommon. A lot of the outrage (such as it is, which sadly isn't enough) over FISA is its secret nature, and what has resulted from it.
There are many many problems with the system at large, don't get me wrong. Plea bargains seem like fundamentally abusive, and are illegal in most countries. "Civil forfeiture" is a top to bottom abuse. One could easily go on, and go ahead: feel free to work on these issues.
My point is simply that the origin of public arrest is a good one, it does seem to mostly work properly, and that it's the abuses that should be addressed, not the public nature. If we had magical cops who only arrested guilty people it wouldn't be needed. Since they don't exist, this is the best check we have,
(By the way: answering an AC's response to my comment: yes there is a qualitative difference between wgetting the records in bulk than having to go into the basement and copy them down one by one. I don't think that is a bad thing though -- life was much worse when abuses could be hidden because finding out was hard, or because access to information was essentially restricted to a secret elite).
It's the American obsession with mugshots. Again, something the rest of the world will never understand. Here in .cz, you'd be probably thrown into jail for spreading such photos in the first place.
Actually, it's an important civil rights issue. Arrests are public as a way of preventing secret arrests, which were used in pre-revolutionary time and, sadly continue in many places. Its origins lie in the sixth sixth amendment to the United States' constitution, which tries to guarantee a swift and public trial as a check on the police, the public prosecutors and the judicial system.
Sure, it's not perfect. The system can and is being abused by jerks (but then again there are jerks in every country). The "perp walks" that cops do are also an exploitative use of a tool designed to rein them in. And I suspect the prohibition on secret arrests has been violated from time to time :-(. Not to mention a arrest is something most people would not like spread around (I wouldn't!).
But don't condemn the obsession with public mugshots without understanding their purpose.
Damn, no modpoints. Else I would have modded this "Insightful."
Too bad you had to post anonymously (I won't say C) because this is a really good suggestion!