Now you are doing it again: Looking at a small, remote group and asserting that their actions are general for more than 1 billion people. With no evidence what so ever.
... but it is not a law in Pakistan (or Afghanistan). By your own admission it is only happening in remote areas in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Your assertion amounts to stating that the Amish does not like technology, the Amish are Christians, so is is nonsense saying that Christian countries are technologically advanced.
Shall we talk about Honor Killings [typepad.com]?
So, when you see that your position is weak, you change try to change the topic?
Another amusing anecdote: When I started working at my current workplace, my work computer were a freshly installed W7 with IE8 using Bing. At my workplace we develop exclusively for a Windows platform, so I did a lot of searches for functions in the WinAPI. However, Bing consistently did not find the MSDN documentation - or even anything remotely similar - on the first page. When I changed the search engine to Google, the documentation was consistently the first or the second link.
Yeah, it turned a dangerous gangster into a comical clown. Why would anyone be scared of a guy that litterally let people walk all over him? In my opinion, the new edition could be saved if they removed that scene and restored the Han-Greedo scene. It should not take to much for them to do that... I suppose it is just to far away from Lucas' "artistic vision"... sic...
And yet most of us accept that not all are given equal protection by the law. Punishments for crimes committed against children, retarded people or the elderly are often more severe that punishments for the same crimes committed against the rest of us. Why? Because they are more vulnerable, less able to fend for themselves. Similarly, some crimes are considered worse if the criminal is in a position of authority w.r.t. the victim. To some extend the same applies to minorities: They are more vulnerable, particularly to scapegoating.
And, thus, the argument links back to the first argument in my previous post: That attacking a member of a minority because that person is a member of that minority is also an attack on the basic freedoms of that minority.
Ever hear of someone being charged with a hate crime for hitting a white person? I know I haven't but you can't tell me that crime has never happened. What about for hitting a Christian? Or someone who is heterosexual?
Let me hazard a guess: You live in a country dominated by white Christian heterosexuals?
The harsher punishments are to some extent there to discourage attacks on others because of their skin color, religion, sexuality and/or political opinions. In a free and open society it is reasonable to punish these attacks harsher, as attacks on people due to these features is also in effect an attack on their freedom of expression and speech.
The second argument for the harsher punishments for hate crimes is to protect minorities from oppression from the dominant majority. Yes, this means that white Chrisitan heterosexuals will not get the full protection in a white Christian country, as they already belong to the majority. However in a country where they are the minority, such as India, similar laws could be instituted to protect Christians from haressment.
Sometimes it is even worse than that. The plant may be built, but crucial infrastructure is left out, or it is built at a terrible location. The plant may not even work. All to often these "aid" schemes are little more than direct aid to engineering firms (based in an Industrialized country) and bribes to local leaders.
Helping developing countries industrialize is not an easy task. First of all, it requires that the aid giver is genuinly interested in helping them industrialize (instead of, say, enriching local corperations). Second, it requires that the local government in the developing country wants the country to industrialize, and that other key groups support this drive. Improved literacy could help the people put pressure on their government to get their act together.
Aside from what other posters have noted, I think you forget one crusial point: You have access to a well maintained electrical system, an African village does not. The alternative to using decentralized renewable energy sources is to wait for the central government to build power plants and wires all over the country. Which requires a lot of organization and stability, not to mention that such structures are prime targets during the unrests that plague Africa.
To some extent this is similar to how phone networks are spreading in Africa. Building centralized phone networks and putting copper in the ground requires a large investment, making it somewhat infeasable. However, building a few mobile phone towers is a much smaller investment and, thus, much more feasable for a business. Over time, if the business yields a profit, more towers can be constructed, giving better coverage. Or one can make trade aggreements between the different service providers to ensure maximum coverage.
Indeed. I am a fairly fast typist, but I seldom type at full speed when coding, as I find myself using most of my time figuring out how to implement something rather than actual coding. I tend to agree with Cook's assessment: After attaining medium proficiency in typing, the gain in productivity of faster typing is minimal.
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Furthermore, the police is given significant power over the citizens. Is it so strange that citizens want assurances that this power is exercised in accordance with the law? And that this includes watching over the shoulder of police officers on duty, exercising these powers? After all, power is known to corrupt if it is not held in check.
No, no, you don't get it: Corporations are free to fuck you in the ass, but you are also free to disconnect from the internet and go live in a cave somewhere... if someone will rent you a cave, and that someone will accept cash payment and snailmail correspondence. And you can get your employer or bank to accept cash payments as well.
1) Never, ever, EVER allow time travel. Every single timeline can be undone. Nothing is believable.
This is the only one of the three that only applies to SF (the others apply to pretty much all shows), and it is a very important one. While I have nothing against the odd Star Trek time-travel episodes ("Trials and Tribulations" from DS9 comes to mind), making time travel the core story for the Enterprise series were probably the worst decision made for that series. It just turned everything to crap.
On a nerd site? Seriously? In theory, if one really wanted a flamewar over that, an Angelina Jolie fansite would be a more likely candidate. I would not want to try it out in practice, though.
It is naive to assume that this does not go on. Everyone who cares enough knows that this goes on.
If everyone knows that war is equal to significant murder of civilians, then why is it that politicians and military do their utmost to make voters believe that the war is clinical? If everyone knows, it is wasted effort. They do so because they want to paint themselves as the heroes who are helping the poor Afghans/Iraqis/Vietnamese against some evil oppressor. Rampant killing of children, journalists and other civilians marks them as villains. So they try to hide it.
As for your suggestion, sorry, but wars are necessary and should be fought with no restraints so that the enemy will not fight them again.
Who gets to decide if a war is necessary? I certainly do not see the point in continuing a war that has been lost for the last 5-6 years. And no restraint? By that argument, NATO should withdraw and nuke Afghanistan to dust. I certainly do not hope that the US population will accept such an atrocity!
The Soviet's stop fighting in Afghanistan? No! they lost the war. That is why there aren't any Soviets anymore.
No, but only four years after the fall of the USSR, Russia launched a very bloody war against Chechnya. And even after a war against the Russians, the Afghans seem more than willing to fight for their soil.
I'm not sure it is that difficult. If a DDoS attack make them unable to do business, the damage would be the lost profit for the hours or days of downtime. Provided PayPal, MasterCard and Visa are listed, the turnover and profit for the last few years should be publicly obtainable.
If I were a shopkeeper who left months' worth of takings sitting in the till, I would have nobody to blame but myself if someone came along and stole them.
Are you saying that one should not blame the theif?
There's no evidence that the inclusion of British soldiers in patrols (they were never part of any units or similar) was done solely to circumvent international law.
Then why did they do the arresting? If they are in a Danish unit, it is the Danish unit that should do the arresting.
Basically, it makes all the sense in the world to turn over prisoners to the local authorities following an arrest. It would be wrong to create a parallel legal system with own courts and prisons. If the local authorities employ torture or similar it is their problem and the international community needs to take it up with them. It's plain stupid to simply not hand over prisoners to them and think it's all fine. They need to stop using torture and that's all there is to it.
And what do we do until they stop using torture? Your strategy results in torture becoming an acceptable part of the occupation that just happens. We close our eyes and ears and continue to turn over human beings to monsters.
Fortunately, it is against Danish law to turn over someone - anyone - to torture. And to my knowledge it is also against a number of international conventions and treaties. This is why the British government and army are being sued by a few of the survivors of torture.
No, it requires Mozilla to hack Windows and OSX to ensure that programs running with administrator rights cannot change resourses used by Firefox. Which will get pretty messy.
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Now you are doing it again: Looking at a small, remote group and asserting that their actions are general for more than 1 billion people. With no evidence what so ever.
... but it is not a law in Pakistan (or Afghanistan). By your own admission it is only happening in remote areas in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Your assertion amounts to stating that the Amish does not like technology, the Amish are Christians, so is is nonsense saying that Christian countries are technologically advanced.
Shall we talk about Honor Killings [typepad.com]?
So, when you see that your position is weak, you change try to change the topic?
And you really, really hope that your fellow prisoners have not heard of the walk of a hundred d4's ...
Another amusing anecdote: When I started working at my current workplace, my work computer were a freshly installed W7 with IE8 using Bing. At my workplace we develop exclusively for a Windows platform, so I did a lot of searches for functions in the WinAPI. However, Bing consistently did not find the MSDN documentation - or even anything remotely similar - on the first page. When I changed the search engine to Google, the documentation was consistently the first or the second link.
We saw someone else doing this, and we think it's a good idea, so we want to be the only people that are allowed to do it from now on.
Quick! Patent that idea before someone else beat you to it!
Yeah, it turned a dangerous gangster into a comical clown. Why would anyone be scared of a guy that litterally let people walk all over him? In my opinion, the new edition could be saved if they removed that scene and restored the Han-Greedo scene. It should not take to much for them to do that ... I suppose it is just to far away from Lucas' "artistic vision" ... sic ...
I guess Timothy weren't lucky ...
And yet most of us accept that not all are given equal protection by the law. Punishments for crimes committed against children, retarded people or the elderly are often more severe that punishments for the same crimes committed against the rest of us. Why? Because they are more vulnerable, less able to fend for themselves. Similarly, some crimes are considered worse if the criminal is in a position of authority w.r.t. the victim. To some extend the same applies to minorities: They are more vulnerable, particularly to scapegoating.
And, thus, the argument links back to the first argument in my previous post: That attacking a member of a minority because that person is a member of that minority is also an attack on the basic freedoms of that minority.
Ever hear of someone being charged with a hate crime for hitting a white person? I know I haven't but you can't tell me that crime has never happened. What about for hitting a Christian? Or someone who is heterosexual?
Let me hazard a guess: You live in a country dominated by white Christian heterosexuals?
The harsher punishments are to some extent there to discourage attacks on others because of their skin color, religion, sexuality and/or political opinions. In a free and open society it is reasonable to punish these attacks harsher, as attacks on people due to these features is also in effect an attack on their freedom of expression and speech.
The second argument for the harsher punishments for hate crimes is to protect minorities from oppression from the dominant majority. Yes, this means that white Chrisitan heterosexuals will not get the full protection in a white Christian country, as they already belong to the majority. However in a country where they are the minority, such as India, similar laws could be instituted to protect Christians from haressment.
So, what you are saying is: The more you tighten your censorship, Amazon, the more customers will slip through your fingers? I hope you are correct!
Sometimes it is even worse than that. The plant may be built, but crucial infrastructure is left out, or it is built at a terrible location. The plant may not even work. All to often these "aid" schemes are little more than direct aid to engineering firms (based in an Industrialized country) and bribes to local leaders. Helping developing countries industrialize is not an easy task. First of all, it requires that the aid giver is genuinly interested in helping them industrialize (instead of, say, enriching local corperations). Second, it requires that the local government in the developing country wants the country to industrialize, and that other key groups support this drive. Improved literacy could help the people put pressure on their government to get their act together.
Aside from what other posters have noted, I think you forget one crusial point: You have access to a well maintained electrical system, an African village does not. The alternative to using decentralized renewable energy sources is to wait for the central government to build power plants and wires all over the country. Which requires a lot of organization and stability, not to mention that such structures are prime targets during the unrests that plague Africa.
To some extent this is similar to how phone networks are spreading in Africa. Building centralized phone networks and putting copper in the ground requires a large investment, making it somewhat infeasable. However, building a few mobile phone towers is a much smaller investment and, thus, much more feasable for a business. Over time, if the business yields a profit, more towers can be constructed, giving better coverage. Or one can make trade aggreements between the different service providers to ensure maximum coverage.
Indeed. I am a fairly fast typist, but I seldom type at full speed when coding, as I find myself using most of my time figuring out how to implement something rather than actual coding. I tend to agree with Cook's assessment: After attaining medium proficiency in typing, the gain in productivity of faster typing is minimal.
Furthermore, the police is given significant power over the citizens. Is it so strange that citizens want assurances that this power is exercised in accordance with the law? And that this includes watching over the shoulder of police officers on duty, exercising these powers? After all, power is known to corrupt if it is not held in check.
No, no, you don't get it: Corporations are free to fuck you in the ass, but you are also free to disconnect from the internet and go live in a cave somewhere ... if someone will rent you a cave, and that someone will accept cash payment and snailmail correspondence. And you can get your employer or bank to accept cash payments as well.
Unfortunately for him, the cleanup also involves a high risk of slipping in the crap left by that other guy ...
I sort of figured that Serenity was the main plot for Firefly season 2 condensed into a movie.
1) Never, ever, EVER allow time travel. Every single timeline can be undone. Nothing is believable.
This is the only one of the three that only applies to SF (the others apply to pretty much all shows), and it is a very important one. While I have nothing against the odd Star Trek time-travel episodes ("Trials and Tribulations" from DS9 comes to mind), making time travel the core story for the Enterprise series were probably the worst decision made for that series. It just turned everything to crap.
On a nerd site? Seriously? In theory, if one really wanted a flamewar over that, an Angelina Jolie fansite would be a more likely candidate. I would not want to try it out in practice, though.
It is naive to assume that this does not go on. Everyone who cares enough knows that this goes on.
If everyone knows that war is equal to significant murder of civilians, then why is it that politicians and military do their utmost to make voters believe that the war is clinical? If everyone knows, it is wasted effort. They do so because they want to paint themselves as the heroes who are helping the poor Afghans/Iraqis/Vietnamese against some evil oppressor. Rampant killing of children, journalists and other civilians marks them as villains. So they try to hide it.
As for your suggestion, sorry, but wars are necessary and should be fought with no restraints so that the enemy will not fight them again.
Who gets to decide if a war is necessary? I certainly do not see the point in continuing a war that has been lost for the last 5-6 years. And no restraint? By that argument, NATO should withdraw and nuke Afghanistan to dust. I certainly do not hope that the US population will accept such an atrocity!
The Soviet's stop fighting in Afghanistan? No! they lost the war. That is why there aren't any Soviets anymore.
No, but only four years after the fall of the USSR, Russia launched a very bloody war against Chechnya. And even after a war against the Russians, the Afghans seem more than willing to fight for their soil.
I'm not sure it is that difficult. If a DDoS attack make them unable to do business, the damage would be the lost profit for the hours or days of downtime. Provided PayPal, MasterCard and Visa are listed, the turnover and profit for the last few years should be publicly obtainable.
Currently there are no charges. He is wanted for questioning ...
If I were a shopkeeper who left months' worth of takings sitting in the till, I would have nobody to blame but myself if someone came along and stole them.
Are you saying that one should not blame the theif?
There's no evidence that the inclusion of British soldiers in patrols (they were never part of any units or similar) was done solely to circumvent international law.
Then why did they do the arresting? If they are in a Danish unit, it is the Danish unit that should do the arresting.
Basically, it makes all the sense in the world to turn over prisoners to the local authorities following an arrest. It would be wrong to create a parallel legal system with own courts and prisons. If the local authorities employ torture or similar it is their problem and the international community needs to take it up with them. It's plain stupid to simply not hand over prisoners to them and think it's all fine. They need to stop using torture and that's all there is to it.
And what do we do until they stop using torture? Your strategy results in torture becoming an acceptable part of the occupation that just happens. We close our eyes and ears and continue to turn over human beings to monsters.
Fortunately, it is against Danish law to turn over someone - anyone - to torture. And to my knowledge it is also against a number of international conventions and treaties. This is why the British government and army are being sued by a few of the survivors of torture.
No, it requires Mozilla to hack Windows and OSX to ensure that programs running with administrator rights cannot change resourses used by Firefox. Which will get pretty messy.