Ridiculous by who's standards? Seven years ago, I was thought 'ridiculous' for actually blowing several thousands of dollars to get (gasp) 64 megabytes of RAM for (bigger gasp) a desktop machine! Nowadays, 256 meg sticks are going for, what, 60 bucks?
As far as I'm concerned, assassination of leaders should be the first action; kill the fat bastards sending out troops, not the pimplefaced 18 year old grunts who signed up because they like the uniform.
To this day, it is commonplace for agents running in Germany to be given cover stories of being Jewish, and Jewish names. Then, if stopped by a policeman for so much as not signaling a turn, they need only make an off hand comment about jews being persecuted in Germany, and they'll be sent on their way with a babbling apology.
By the same token, disagree with a woman, risk being labed sexist.
I have no comment either way about most of what you say, but I'll point out that you're right in one respect.
During World War 2, the Japanese killed far more Chinese than the Nazis ever did Jews. Yet nobody ever seems to mention that.
Considering the rather amusing American legal system, which I believe still classifies cryptographic technology as a 'munition' I wonder if one couldn't make a rather amusing constitutional argument about the right to bear arms?
Damn near every NT crash these days is driver related. You can make a pretty bullet proof OS when you control the hardware; see MacOS for another example.
Yeah, maybe our penal code should be closer to the America system, which would have sentanced this kid to five years of anal rape ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H prison.
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why weren't the resucuers pulled out after a certain length of time, especially after the first tower collapsed?
They probably did give the order to pull out. Doesn't mean the rescue personnel heeded it.
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The big question mark is Pakistan. They have nuclear weapons (but not missles, I'm told). They are one of the few countries that have recognized the Taliban diplomatically. Pakistan will be a critical player in this conflict.
Pakistan is already urging the Taliban to play ball. I think they realize that while they might be able to carve the heart out of a city or two, their country would be turned into a parking lot in retaliation. The US has NEVER pussyfooted around with weapons of mass destruction.
No, not as such, because the DVD ring that stores the CSS key is zeroed out on blank DVDs.
That having been said, you could, in theory, run a DVD through DeCSS then burn the unencrypted video to the disc, but there are DVD players out there that won't play unencrypted video.
Ok, I can accept that. In that case, yes, the Taliban really does need a lesson in biting the hand that fed you, and might otherwise have fed you again.
12 men? You'd need four willing to die. The others would be told that you were going to land, hold the passengers hostage, and negotiate. Only the pilots actually NEEDED to know that the were going kamikazi.
But then again, take a look at how many kamikazi pilots Japan fielded during the second World War...
And now the Taliban forgets whom helped pull thier fat out of the Soviet fire.
And here I thought that all the US did for Afghanistan was give them weapons on the sly, so they could get performance data, and demand choice bits of technology, documentation and intelligence from downed Soviet troop carriers and soldiers.
Gods forbid they send in the troops or something.
Bullshit. These are people who are willing to send others to die for The Cause.
I'm reminded of Logan's line from the X-Men movie to Magneto, which I'm sure I don't have exactly right: "If you really believed in that, you'd strap yourself into that."
Killing the guilty might not deter others from doing whatever they want, but it sure will prevent the people you just killed from doing it again.
Now, I'm not entirely up on this myself, but what I'd assume here is the difference between state-sponsored terrorism, and some joe donating a few bucks to a political cause.
In ShadowRun, a corporation called Seretech was transporting something or other, a biohazard of some sort, through a city. There were food riots happening at the time, and a mob thought the refrigerated truck was transporting food, and attacked it. The security guards on the truck knew that if the truck were breached, the biohazard released would do Really Bad Things. So they responded with deadly force, and in a rolling firefight, managed to make it to a Seretech compound. Some killed, many injured. The courts ruled that the guards had done The Right Thing, setting the precident for corporate security forces.
Now, how corporate extraterritorality came about, I can't remember off hand, but I think it had something to do with Shiawase Corporation not wanting to pay for energy in California, and lobbying to be able to build their own nuke plant.
I figure we see corporations become separate legal entities within twenty years. Corporate citizens paid in corporate scrip, spending at corporate stores, and so on.
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Ridiculous by who's standards? Seven years ago, I was thought 'ridiculous' for actually blowing several thousands of dollars to get (gasp) 64 megabytes of RAM for (bigger gasp) a desktop machine! Nowadays, 256 meg sticks are going for, what, 60 bucks?
As far as I'm concerned, assassination of leaders should be the first action; kill the fat bastards sending out troops, not the pimplefaced 18 year old grunts who signed up because they like the uniform.
To this day, it is commonplace for agents running in Germany to be given cover stories of being Jewish, and Jewish names. Then, if stopped by a policeman for so much as not signaling a turn, they need only make an off hand comment about jews being persecuted in Germany, and they'll be sent on their way with a babbling apology. By the same token, disagree with a woman, risk being labed sexist.
I have no comment either way about most of what you say, but I'll point out that you're right in one respect. During World War 2, the Japanese killed far more Chinese than the Nazis ever did Jews. Yet nobody ever seems to mention that.
Really? When Intel did the same thing with the P4, everybody laughed and sniggered at them.
Considering the rather amusing American legal system, which I believe still classifies cryptographic technology as a 'munition' I wonder if one couldn't make a rather amusing constitutional argument about the right to bear arms?
Somehow I think that if the plane's being hijacked, the possibility of interfering with communications/avionics is the least of your worries.
Damn near every NT crash these days is driver related. You can make a pretty bullet proof OS when you control the hardware; see MacOS for another example.
Which is appropriate. He had none of the legal rights of an adult, so why should he have to take on the legal responsibilites?
Yeah, maybe our penal code should be closer to the America system, which would have sentanced this kid to five years of anal rape ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H prison.
No, not as such, because the DVD ring that stores the CSS key is zeroed out on blank DVDs. That having been said, you could, in theory, run a DVD through DeCSS then burn the unencrypted video to the disc, but there are DVD players out there that won't play unencrypted video.
Ok, I can accept that. In that case, yes, the Taliban really does need a lesson in biting the hand that fed you, and might otherwise have fed you again.
12 men? You'd need four willing to die. The others would be told that you were going to land, hold the passengers hostage, and negotiate. Only the pilots actually NEEDED to know that the were going kamikazi. But then again, take a look at how many kamikazi pilots Japan fielded during the second World War...
Bullshit. These are people who are willing to send others to die for The Cause. I'm reminded of Logan's line from the X-Men movie to Magneto, which I'm sure I don't have exactly right: "If you really believed in that, you'd strap yourself into that." Killing the guilty might not deter others from doing whatever they want, but it sure will prevent the people you just killed from doing it again.
In ShadowRun, a corporation called Seretech was transporting something or other, a biohazard of some sort, through a city. There were food riots happening at the time, and a mob thought the refrigerated truck was transporting food, and attacked it. The security guards on the truck knew that if the truck were breached, the biohazard released would do Really Bad Things. So they responded with deadly force, and in a rolling firefight, managed to make it to a Seretech compound. Some killed, many injured. The courts ruled that the guards had done The Right Thing, setting the precident for corporate security forces. Now, how corporate extraterritorality came about, I can't remember off hand, but I think it had something to do with Shiawase Corporation not wanting to pay for energy in California, and lobbying to be able to build their own nuke plant. I figure we see corporations become separate legal entities within twenty years. Corporate citizens paid in corporate scrip, spending at corporate stores, and so on.
That would be sung to the tune of 'Blame Canada' from South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut.
Looks kinda like Omega, by Origin, which I've been thinking of trying to do a modern version of.