The President was certainly elected -- not by the people -- by the Supreme Court.
That is completely false. All the US Supreme Court did is tell the FL Supreme Court that they could not rewrite election laws after the fact as they were doing. George W Bush was legitimately elected as the President of the US.
Besides, I bet Gore is ecstatic that he wasn't elected now, in view of the recent tragedy. The President has a huge burden on his shoulders & I think he's doing an incredible job at it.
The Taliban has done a lot of good, if you can call it that, for the Afghan people. They feel safe to go outside because they aren't being robbed on the street. Their lives are better than they were 5 years ago... they are still starving of course... and they could have been receiving aid, if the Taliban wern't harboring a terrorist for the past 3 years. I'm sure the people there don't realize that it's their Taliban who is responsible - so it will probably be difficult to get them out with the people's support.
Are you kidding? The Taliban is guilty of numerous human rights abuses, especially against women. They have almost no popular support in Afghanistan. Their reign is built on fear, force, and terror.
Right, they don't have all of Word's features. But 90% of users use only 10% of Word's features. Most people just want to write a letter or something similar, Wordpad is more than adequate for their needs.
There were already ~300,000 Jews living in Palestine at the time. Israel wasn't who offered the partition, it was Britain before they pulled out. This was right after WW II & the Holocaust, so world opinion was heavily in favor of a Jewish homeland. Many Palestinians remained in Israel after the 1948 war & lived peacefully among the Jews.
Israel has only invaded territories when they were attacked first, or about to be attacked in 1967. But, they have occupied land for far too long, and they've definitely built too many settlements.
The the *recent* trouble was caused by first, the abitrary division of countries (~1920) and then the creation of Israel (1945-1950?) by kicking the palestinians out.
Israel was created in 1948. The Palestinians were NOT "kicked out." They were offered to partition the land with the Jews in 1947, but rejected it.
Jews & Palestinian Arabs coexisted mostly peacefully (except for the 1929 uprising & 1936-1939 Arab revolt, mostly against the British occupiers) from the turn of the century until the 1948 war when the surrounding Arab countries attacked Israel. Many Palestinians then fled Israel and became refugees in those Arab countries. They were not treated much better there, except Jordan, where they were offered citizenship. The other Arab countries kept them poor & in refugee camps.
Now, get a history book. Who is the most responsible for all the trouble in middle east? The allies (US, UK, France). They are the ones who divided the land arbitrarly, without caring about the people there. They are the ones who established Israel by taking the land of the Palestinians.
The US was not very involved in the middle east when Britain & France setup their mandate systems and partitioned the land there.
Also, the Palestinians have been offered a share of the land multiple times, starting in 1947, before Israel existed; again with UN Resolution 242 in 1967; and again in the last days of Clinton. They rejected it multiple times. Until a little over a year ago, the official PLO charter said they wouldn't rest until the state of Israel was completely destroyed. The Israelis have been willing to negotiate in the past.
If (not the *if*) the actions came from Bin Laden, the U.S. has to realize that it is a "country that supports or harbors terrorists" in that it is the CIA that "made" Bin Laden, so he could fight the russians in Afganistan. The U.S. DOES support terrorism, as long as it is against other nations. Now that a U.S. sponsored terrorist turns against the U.S. suddently it becomes someone else's fault.
No, we trained & equipped the Afghani Mujahedin to attack legitimate military targets, not innocent civilians. The Soviet Union military invaded Afghanistan in 1979, so we supplied the opposition with arms & training to fight the spread of Communism.
I think it's interesting that bin Laden is disclaiming responsibility. In the past terrorist groups have always been aggressive about taking 'credit' for their efforts.
No, this is Osama Bin Laden's usual modus operandi. A few weeks ago though, he said there would be attack against America of unprecendented scale (not an exact quote).
This has happened in many of the other previous attacks linked to him:
1993 - World Trade Center bombed, denied responsibility
1996 - Khobar Towers bombed, pre-warned, denied responsibility
1998 - Embassies in Kenya & Tanzania bombed, pre-warned, denied responsibility
1999 - Terrorists caught smuggling explosives into US through Canada, pre-warned, denied responsibility
2000 - USS Cole bombed, pre-warned, denied responsibility
2001 - Attack on America, pre-warned, denied responsibility
The media are now reporting that at least 2 of the hijackers started flight training in Florida in July 2000, and completed it in January of this year.
This has obviously been carefully planned for a long time, finding people that had the aptitude to complete flight training and were willing to commit suicide while murdering thousands of innocent civilians.
/. keeps forgetting RELIGION's ROLE in this mess. That's at the root of it all: two countries persecuting each other over a holyland, and we're in the middle of it.
Repeat: this would not have happened if two countries didn't think a small city was the holyland of their respective gods.
This is probably not about Palestine, but about the US presence in the middle east. If the Palestinians were behind this attack, the world opinion that has been recently warming to their position would be all but gone.
The sooner we wean people off of religion, the less intolerance we'll have to deal with. Needn't list all of the intolerance and racism religion has caused. And don't blame a few zealots, it's everyone.
Wanting to wean people off religion is showing your intolerance. What we need is for people to be tolerant of different religions or lack thereof. Intolerance and racism have been caused by many other things besides religion. Remember, the original title of Darwin's book was On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. It's been used by many to justify racism.
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But now that HP is buying Compaq, any life that could've possibly been breathed back into Alpha is completely dissipated. HP is firmly in bed with Intel on the Itanium line (fronting cash, codevelopment, independent liscensing, etc.) Whereas Compaq hadn't had much incentive to improve Alpha, HP has exactly zero interest, since that would mean directly competing with and undermining the success of Itanium.
The polite course of action would be to release Alpha completely into the public domain, but that's a farcically utopian request. I'm just always saddened when competition is reduced and choices are constrained. Let's just hope Apple and the PPC line don't go bust in the near future, leaving us with absolutely no alternative to Intel's offerings (which are beginning to look more and more like crap as the years pass) and AMD's parallel offerings in the same architecture.
Alpha is no longer solely owned or designed by Compaq. They formed a joint venture with Samsung in 1996. Intel also has a stake in Alpha now. Unfortunately, none of the above has done a particlularly stellar job of marketing Alpha, so it'll probably stay relegated to high performance scientific computing.
In a similar venture, PPC is jointly developed by Apple, Motorola, & IBM. The PPCs in Apples are nothing more than glorified embedded CPUs, where Motorola's are almost all for embedded use. IBM has developed their own variations of the PPC, most recently the Power 4 CPU, which has on-chip multi-processing.
Not just on reservations. Even Navajos in the military must be allowed to use peyote for certain religious holidays. The chaplains are the ones that acquire the peyote for them. Although they're not allowed to use weapons or machinery or drive for a certain period afterwards.
I agree with you. That's why I specifically mentioned among "educated people." During the tech boom, people without degrees had no problem getting hired if they had the skills required for the job. I bet they were also the first ones laid off.
Actually though, I think college is overemphasized today. I went into the Air Force immediately after high school & my guidance counselor basically told me I was throwing my life away, with good test scores like mine.
Now I'm going to school for civil engineering, since that's one job that definitely requires it. Otherwise, I don't think I would go through the hassle of full-time education again. I've learned much more on my own than any school could teach me, just for fun.
Another problem is schools now pass many kids that in years past would flunk & have to retake a grade. It's gotten so bad that in St Paul, MN, so many kids would've failed 3rd grade that instead of passing OR flunking them, they've created grade 3.5!
I've heard a lot of talk on this recently. One radio show host mentioned that the biggest concern when he was in school was whether you passed or failed. Nowadays, many kids know they'll just be passed anyways so any incentive at working hard at learning is removed.
You hit on an important point. Nowadays, educated people are increasingly specialists in their field, but don't have a broad based liberal education. Many schools used to have a core curriculum, so undergraduates in their first 2 years of college were on (more or less) an equal footing. The number of schools that do this has dwindled down to barely any. One fine example of a college that still has a core curriculum is the University of Chicago.
In addition to your examples of Richard Feynman & Wolfgang Goethe, I'd add Albert Schweitzer (music, religion, philosophy, & medicine) and Leonardo DaVinci (scientist, inventor, & artist).
Much of the research is already done at universities. Here at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, they helped to develop and owns some of the patents for the AIDS drug Ziagen, which was then licensed to GlaxoSmithKline. This is one of the drugs involved in the patent suit in South Africa earlier ths year. Many people here encouraged the university to make a statement about supporting lower prices for the drug. They did make one, albeit a very weak one. The problem is that the university like seeing the royalties come in just as much as the pharamceutical companies. It doesn't help that we're having a budget crisis caused by incompetent administrators & a runaway building program expansion.
But, to avoid paperwork and delivery delays, I chose to have them made at the Harmon Field sheet-metal shop on Guam. At that time, there wasn't much combat damage to B-29s. So the repair crews readily gave up some of their beach time for a few bottles of Old Granddad.
Yep, things we're certainly different back then!
Actually, things are still somewhat like this in the military. I was in the Air Force for 6 years, and saw this kind of thing go on routinely. Nothing illegal, just the shop giving your work priority over others' because they owe you a favor, or you bought them a case of beer or something.
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AIX was developed from the group up, by IBM, to kick ass on IBM hardware. GNU/Linux was developed by a diverse group of developers -- each with different goals; some wanted a server OS, some wanted a desktop OS -- for cheapo x86 hardware.
I'm assuming you meant from the ground up, right? If so, then that's not true. AIX is a real, licensed Unix, which means it shares source code with all other SVR4 Unices. In the interview with Ransom Love in this/. article, he claims SCO UnixWare has 70% common code with AIX5L. That's hardly from the ground up. Besides, Unix has been developed to run on a variety of platforms, from the ancient PDP-11 to desktop workstations to big iron servers.
Stallman ask that copyright for programs be abolished, period.
No, he definitely is not! The GPL depends on copyright. Here's a direct quote about from GNU:
Proprietary software developers use copyright to take away the users' freedom; we use copyright to guarantee their freedom. That's why we reverse the name, changing "copyright" into "copyleft."
Programmers can still do whatever they will, the state just won't help them enforce their copyright.
The state doesn't help anybody enforce their copyrights. Copyright infringement is a civil action, not criminal.
The article contains more untruths. One is, that the existence of proprietary software does not restrict user's freedom, beacause he does not have to use it. The fact is, that people are ordered to use software by their employer and thus bound by the licenses if they like it or not.
In that case, the user is the company. Also, if your employer forces you to use software you don't like, quit.
NONE of these Mandrake tools integrate with my desktop.
Integrate with your desktop? What is this buzzword bingo now? If you're using Mandrake Linux, you should be able to use HardDrake & DiskDrake just fine. DrakX can't be used with any desktop, it's only used for initial installation & upgrade.
It's no wonder you got modded down on the Mandrake Forum, with an attitude like that.
Something I left out of my previous post is the fact that porting to KDE would be completely useless. These tools can already be used by someone using KDE.
HardDrake, their hardware detection tool, is already a KDE program. The gnome version isn't even released yet, but available in cvs.
DrakX, their graphical installer, doesn't use any desktop. It's only used in the installation or upgrade of your system. Which is really only useful to someone putting together their own distro.
DiskDrake, their graphical partition tool, uses only the Perl/Gtk library for its interface, not gnome or any other desktop. Most distros (even the ones using KDE as their desktop) include Perl/Gtk by default.
Admittedly the suggestion might be more likely to be acted on if it were sent to Mandrake Forum instead of Slashdot, but I doubt that you've actually checked to see whether the above poster has sent the suggestion to Mandrake or not.
I didn't have to check. If the poster had checked MandrakeSoft's website, they wouldn't have whined on/. in the first place.
Why hasn't Mandrake yet provided KDE versions of the Drake tools? Am I the only one who strongly feels the need for this? As a paying customer I feel it frustrating that I am not being heard. Mandrake, are you listening? Please port those tools to KDE and give your users a choice!
You do have a choice! Just download the source and port it yourself. They're GPLed software, so you can make any changes you want & distribute them.
If you don't have the skills to do it yourself, pay someone that does. Whining doesn't accomplish anything.
It's really more like NeXT took over Apple though. The CEO, top hardware person, & top software person are all former NeXT people. OS X is a direct descendant of NeXTStep.
Actually the album was untitled. It's commonly referred to as IV just because its their 4th album.
The band wanted to release it without even their name on it, but the label didn't like the whole idea, as they thought it was commercial suicide. Putting "Led Zeppelin" on it was a compromise. Now it's one of the best selling alnums of all time.
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Besides, I bet Gore is ecstatic that he wasn't elected now, in view of the recent tragedy. The President has a huge burden on his shoulders & I think he's doing an incredible job at it.
There were already ~300,000 Jews living in Palestine at the time. Israel wasn't who offered the partition, it was Britain before they pulled out. This was right after WW II & the Holocaust, so world opinion was heavily in favor of a Jewish homeland. Many Palestinians remained in Israel after the 1948 war & lived peacefully among the Jews.
Israel has only invaded territories when they were attacked first, or about to be attacked in 1967. But, they have occupied land for far too long, and they've definitely built too many settlements.
Jews & Palestinian Arabs coexisted mostly peacefully (except for the 1929 uprising & 1936-1939 Arab revolt, mostly against the British occupiers) from the turn of the century until the 1948 war when the surrounding Arab countries attacked Israel. Many Palestinians then fled Israel and became refugees in those Arab countries. They were not treated much better there, except Jordan, where they were offered citizenship. The other Arab countries kept them poor & in refugee camps.
Also, the Palestinians have been offered a share of the land multiple times, starting in 1947, before Israel existed; again with UN Resolution 242 in 1967; and again in the last days of Clinton. They rejected it multiple times. Until a little over a year ago, the official PLO charter said they wouldn't rest until the state of Israel was completely destroyed. The Israelis have been willing to negotiate in the past.
This has happened in many of the other previous attacks linked to him:
1993 - World Trade Center bombed, denied responsibility
1996 - Khobar Towers bombed, pre-warned, denied responsibility
1998 - Embassies in Kenya & Tanzania bombed, pre-warned, denied responsibility
1999 - Terrorists caught smuggling explosives into US through Canada, pre-warned, denied responsibility
2000 - USS Cole bombed, pre-warned, denied responsibility
2001 - Attack on America, pre-warned, denied responsibility
The media are now reporting that at least 2 of the hijackers started flight training in Florida in July 2000, and completed it in January of this year.
This has obviously been carefully planned for a long time, finding people that had the aptitude to complete flight training and were willing to commit suicide while murdering thousands of innocent civilians.
Wanting to wean people off religion is showing your intolerance. What we need is for people to be tolerant of different religions or lack thereof. Intolerance and racism have been caused by many other things besides religion. Remember, the original title of Darwin's book was On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. It's been used by many to justify racism.
In a similar venture, PPC is jointly developed by Apple, Motorola, & IBM. The PPCs in Apples are nothing more than glorified embedded CPUs, where Motorola's are almost all for embedded use. IBM has developed their own variations of the PPC, most recently the Power 4 CPU, which has on-chip multi-processing.
Not just on reservations. Even Navajos in the military must be allowed to use peyote for certain religious holidays. The chaplains are the ones that acquire the peyote for them. Although they're not allowed to use weapons or machinery or drive for a certain period afterwards.
Yeah, we've got the whole spectrum here on /.
I agree with you. That's why I specifically mentioned among "educated people." During the tech boom, people without degrees had no problem getting hired if they had the skills required for the job. I bet they were also the first ones laid off.
Actually though, I think college is overemphasized today. I went into the Air Force immediately after high school & my guidance counselor basically told me I was throwing my life away, with good test scores like mine.
Now I'm going to school for civil engineering, since that's one job that definitely requires it. Otherwise, I don't think I would go through the hassle of full-time education again. I've learned much more on my own than any school could teach me, just for fun.
Another problem is schools now pass many kids that in years past would flunk & have to retake a grade. It's gotten so bad that in St Paul, MN, so many kids would've failed 3rd grade that instead of passing OR flunking them, they've created grade 3.5!
I've heard a lot of talk on this recently. One radio show host mentioned that the biggest concern when he was in school was whether you passed or failed. Nowadays, many kids know they'll just be passed anyways so any incentive at working hard at learning is removed.
You hit on an important point. Nowadays, educated people are increasingly specialists in their field, but don't have a broad based liberal education. Many schools used to have a core curriculum, so undergraduates in their first 2 years of college were on (more or less) an equal footing. The number of schools that do this has dwindled down to barely any. One fine example of a college that still has a core curriculum is the University of Chicago.
In addition to your examples of Richard Feynman & Wolfgang Goethe, I'd add Albert Schweitzer (music, religion, philosophy, & medicine) and Leonardo DaVinci (scientist, inventor, & artist).
Much of the research is already done at universities. Here at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, they helped to develop and owns some of the patents for the AIDS drug Ziagen, which was then licensed to GlaxoSmithKline. This is one of the drugs involved in the patent suit in South Africa earlier ths year. Many people here encouraged the university to make a statement about supporting lower prices for the drug. They did make one, albeit a very weak one. The problem is that the university like seeing the royalties come in just as much as the pharamceutical companies. It doesn't help that we're having a budget crisis caused by incompetent administrators & a runaway building program expansion.
The state doesn't help anybody enforce their copyrights. Copyright infringement is a civil action, not criminal.
In that case, the user is the company. Also, if your employer forces you to use software you don't like, quit.
It's no wonder you got modded down on the Mandrake Forum, with an attitude like that.
HardDrake, their hardware detection tool, is already a KDE program. The gnome version isn't even released yet, but available in cvs.
DrakX, their graphical installer, doesn't use any desktop. It's only used in the installation or upgrade of your system. Which is really only useful to someone putting together their own distro.
DiskDrake, their graphical partition tool, uses only the Perl/Gtk library for its interface, not gnome or any other desktop. Most distros (even the ones using KDE as their desktop) include Perl/Gtk by default.
I didn't have to check. If the poster had checked MandrakeSoft's website, they wouldn't have whined on
If you don't have the skills to do it yourself, pay someone that does. Whining doesn't accomplish anything.
It's really more like NeXT took over Apple though. The CEO, top hardware person, & top software person are all former NeXT people. OS X is a direct descendant of NeXTStep.
Actually the album was untitled. It's commonly referred to as IV just because its their 4th album.
The band wanted to release it without even their name on it, but the label didn't like the whole idea, as they thought it was commercial suicide. Putting "Led Zeppelin" on it was a compromise. Now it's one of the best selling alnums of all time.