What if anonymous hid by taking on a user name? So, in fact, everyone posting are terrorists! Let us all join (vitual) hands, and sing as we walk to the local police station and turn ourselves in for Un-American Activities!
Actually, most monarchies (including the one I live in) have similar laws. The main difference is to which degree these laws are being used to silence political dissidence. In Thailand they are being used heavily to silence criticisms of the current state of affairs. One example is the case of Giles Ji Ungpakorn, who had to flee Thailand because of his book A Coup for Rich. One of the passages that got him charged were:
The major forces behind the 19th September [2006] coup were anti-democratic groups in the military and civilian elite, disgruntled
business leaders and neoliberal intellectuals and politicians. The coup was also supported by the monarchy.
"War is a continuation of politics, by other means"
- Clausewitz
The main problem with using nukes is not moral - all major (and most minor) powers have shown an utter lack of morals. The problem is political, including, but not limited to, the following:
1) Your war loose any sort of legitimacy in your population - you prove beyond *any* doubt that you're an evil bastard.
2) You prove to whoever you fight that you're an evil bastard.
3) Other powers may start using nukes, maybe against you.
4) Most wars are waged over resources. Nuclear fallout will make those resources harder go extract.
Your strategy isn't to take over the country... just fuck with them and weaken them. Once you get their nation to fall, you aren't planning on moving in to their homes, you just wanted them gone from the planet.
That is, provided the page in question actually is libelous. If I had a web page on, say, UK Prime minister Gordon Brown, and wrote something true about him that he did not like, a libel claim could make my provider take it down. That *is* bad for free speech.
There is nothing wrong in teaching kids how to use wikipedia... provided they are also taught to be critical of what they read.
For most regular school work (note:school, not university), the quality of wikipedia articles are reasonable. Compared to most school books, wikipedia entries often cite other articles for further reading. Many of these are even online, so the kids have access to those articles as well.
It should, however, be linked with teaching kids how to use the internet for information search in general, including how to use the online library resources and databases. Part of the above is, as I started by stating, teaching kids to be critical of what they read, particularly on the internet, and to use their own minds. Wikipedia will not teach them that.
Ok, I'm so lame that I went to google and typed in "Tricia Helfer porn." To my utter surprise and amazement a bunch of hits came up. I clicked a few and found tons of real, topless Tricia Helfer pics.
This may come as a surprise, but a few topless shots != porn;-)
In the final episode the fleet settle on Earth, without their technology. The early humans had just evolved, and they possibly interbred with with the native humans. This sounds an awful lot like in "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe", where a fleet of hair dressers and phone cleaners fall to Earth at a similar stage of human evolution and make a life there. That fleet, however, decided to use leaves as currency, and the native population seemed to die out. But who knows?
Well, it's probably not an easter egg, but it is a little funny.
You do realize that not everyone lives in the US? Where I live, season 4 has not aired yet. And my local network sure doesn't speak much about being "this close to the finale". Which is why I am thankful for the interwebs:-)
Yes, but they also need to survive and expand in the here and now. And in the here and now, oil and coal is much more profitable than renewable energy sources. So, energy corporations investing in renewable energy might get higher profits in 10-20 years time, but if they go bust in 5 years, it's all been for nothing (from their point of view).
On the other hand, it might just be a sudden rash of honesty. Unless something changed recently, the size of Shells investment in renewable energy has been underwelming. Their "we're a green company" adds had a higher budget!
Those are very valid questions. There are two major problems:
Those who get power are usually driven by a lust for more power.
Getting power usually mean that you need to get large funding for your campaign
These problems lead to a situation where the politicians who wish to get (re)elected are either very rich to begin with or need to suck up to big business in order to get their campaign contributions. This is a particular problem in the US where (as far as I know) there is very little public funding for election campaigns.
I have been pondering these problems for some time now. Sometimes I wonder if the ancient Greeks didn't get it right, when they elected representatives through lotteries (or were it the Greeks?). But that raises a host of other problems... sic
I think that it's more a question of whipping up fear in the population and then reap the popularity by appearing to "do something" to keep the population safe (and docile?).
In any case, the fact that the ID cards can't be read, pretty clearly suggests that the "increased safety" argument were a load of horse manure.
If you're on PC, a new patch came out on January 13th. You can find it here. It fixes a lot more than alt-tabbing, but I don't think it fixes all the bugs found by the community.
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Tell me then, which WWII games lets you play a German soldier assaulting the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw?
Don't use the "safely remove hardware" eject. Right click the drive icon and choose eject there.
Why is that?
What if anonymous hid by taking on a user name? So, in fact, everyone posting are terrorists! Let us all join (vitual) hands, and sing as we walk to the local police station and turn ourselves in for Un-American Activities!
Dam-damm dam-dam ... from sea to shining sea ...
... only to discover that it is aided by a green davenport!
If the king is against it, can't he just issue a pardon for everyone that is convicted?
Actually, most monarchies (including the one I live in) have similar laws. The main difference is to which degree these laws are being used to silence political dissidence. In Thailand they are being used heavily to silence criticisms of the current state of affairs. One example is the case of Giles Ji Ungpakorn, who had to flee Thailand because of his book A Coup for Rich. One of the passages that got him charged were:
The major forces behind the 19th September [2006] coup were anti-democratic groups in the military and civilian elite, disgruntled business leaders and neoliberal intellectuals and politicians. The coup was also supported by the monarchy.
"War is a continuation of politics, by other means"
- Clausewitz
The main problem with using nukes is not moral - all major (and most minor) powers have shown an utter lack of morals. The problem is political, including, but not limited to, the following:
1) Your war loose any sort of legitimacy in your population - you prove beyond *any* doubt that you're an evil bastard.
2) You prove to whoever you fight that you're an evil bastard.
3) Other powers may start using nukes, maybe against you.
4) Most wars are waged over resources. Nuclear fallout will make those resources harder go extract.
Your strategy isn't to take over the country... just fuck with them and weaken them. Once you get their nation to fall, you aren't planning on moving in to their homes, you just wanted them gone from the planet.
Iraq, anyone?
Who the hell modded this troll? At worst it might be redundant or offtopic ... and that is a serious strech!
That is, provided the page in question actually is libelous. If I had a web page on, say, UK Prime minister Gordon Brown, and wrote something true about him that he did not like, a libel claim could make my provider take it down. That *is* bad for free speech.
You are not alone ... it took me a dozen tries to read 'Paragon' and not 'Pentagon'.
There is nothing wrong in teaching kids how to use wikipedia ... provided they are also taught to be critical of what they read.
For most regular school work (note:school, not university), the quality of wikipedia articles are reasonable. Compared to most school books, wikipedia entries often cite other articles for further reading. Many of these are even online, so the kids have access to those articles as well.
It should, however, be linked with teaching kids how to use the internet for information search in general, including how to use the online library resources and databases. Part of the above is, as I started by stating, teaching kids to be critical of what they read, particularly on the internet, and to use their own minds. Wikipedia will not teach them that.
Ok, I'm so lame that I went to google and typed in "Tricia Helfer porn." To my utter surprise and amazement a bunch of hits came up. I clicked a few and found tons of real, topless Tricia Helfer pics.
This may come as a surprise, but a few topless shots != porn ;-)
In the final episode the fleet settle on Earth, without their technology. The early humans had just evolved, and they possibly interbred with with the native humans. This sounds an awful lot like in "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe", where a fleet of hair dressers and phone cleaners fall to Earth at a similar stage of human evolution and make a life there. That fleet, however, decided to use leaves as currency, and the native population seemed to die out. But who knows?
Well, it's probably not an easter egg, but it is a little funny.
You do realize that not everyone lives in the US? Where I live, season 4 has not aired yet. And my local network sure doesn't speak much about being "this close to the finale". Which is why I am thankful for the interwebs :-)
Yes, but they also need to survive and expand in the here and now. And in the here and now, oil and coal is much more profitable than renewable energy sources. So, energy corporations investing in renewable energy might get higher profits in 10-20 years time, but if they go bust in 5 years, it's all been for nothing (from their point of view).
On the other hand, it might just be a sudden rash of honesty. Unless something changed recently, the size of Shells investment in renewable energy has been underwelming. Their "we're a green company" adds had a higher budget!
No, no, no! Use Lynx!
Skills.Suggestion.doTheSend()
Priceless. 'send()' would have been a boring name for that function.
This is because it's already in use. Just like 'doSend()'. And what do you do when you just happen to need a third 'send()' function?
Stop hitting you?
Those are very valid questions. There are two major problems:
These problems lead to a situation where the politicians who wish to get (re)elected are either very rich to begin with or need to suck up to big business in order to get their campaign contributions. This is a particular problem in the US where (as far as I know) there is very little public funding for election campaigns.
I have been pondering these problems for some time now. Sometimes I wonder if the ancient Greeks didn't get it right, when they elected representatives through lotteries (or were it the Greeks?). But that raises a host of other problems ... sic
Or one could just use latex?
And how many computer buyers would figure that one out without a browser? A few nerds here and there, maybe, but my mom certainly wouldn't.
I think that it's more a question of whipping up fear in the population and then reap the popularity by appearing to "do something" to keep the population safe (and docile?). In any case, the fact that the ID cards can't be read, pretty clearly suggests that the "increased safety" argument were a load of horse manure.
You don't need FOMM for that. The DVD-check is on the Fallout 3 launcher, not the Fallout3.exe ;-) It's like Fallout 3 came with a no-DVD crack.
If you're on PC, a new patch came out on January 13th. You can find it here. It fixes a lot more than alt-tabbing, but I don't think it fixes all the bugs found by the community.