"U.S. intelligence agencies have identified at least 22 Islamic terrorists who are believed to be operating in the so-called tri-border area of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay."
Hezbollah has open, plain-view operations in South America.
We've been hearing these blathering blidiots talk about "the network is the computer" type crap for over a decade. Guess what, blimpie? Keep your threadbare "predictions" to yourself, you look like a damn fool.
The UN is more than balanced against these 2 nations by other more democratic nations
The Security Council does not control UN agencies, the General Assembly handles such administrative decisions. And the dictatorships and failed states outnumber democracies in the General Assembly by a considerable number. The General Assembly is the 3rd World Dictator Club.
The UN already controls the international telephone network via the ITU - see http://www.itu.int/home/.
This is the organisation that would run the internet
The ITU sets standards, it does not control the international telephone network any more than the W3C controls the World Wide Web.
Handing over DNS would hand over the technical, substantive administration of the key piece of infrastructure of the Internet. And would be as accountable as any other UN agency - not at all.
The UN has failed because it was created by the victorious WWII powers to preserve the status quo. But the Cold War world no longer exists, and the UN is incapable of adjusting from preservation of the Cold War status quo, to the proactive processing of global connectedness (and the failed nation-states that threaten the rest of us with their unconnectedness), and dealing with the proliferation of non-state actors that have become a global insurgency against global connectedness and modernity.
They should at least have such a system ready so the rest of the world can carry on regardless. Relying on one country for something so important to the world is one of the suckiest ideas ever
Anyone can start new TLDs whenever they want. Iran does. If the root servers go poof, you start new ones, issue new root hint files, and voila.
I think the internet definitely shouldn't be in the hands of a single government
So it's better to be in the hands of none/all? The UN is not accountable, and is ruled by concensus in committee. Which means solutions are least-common-denominator.
But after thinking about it for a few seconds it occured to me that since the internet is global you really need a global entity to be ultimately responsible for it
Why? Just because?
The telephone network spans the globe. Turn the Baby Bells over to the UN! You can quickly see the absurdity of the proposition. Unless you can muster a better reason than vague, UN-phile platitudes, leave things well enough alone. It works fine.
If you do the math, I belive antimater costs around $100 trillion US dollars per ounce to produce
Today. Early in the history of nuclear research, plutonium cost a mega-fortune too. Don't mistake scarcity cost for absolute cost.
The researcher is proposing a method to increase the rate of production of positrons. Which down the road could theoretically drive down the cost, making anti-matter cost effective as an energy source. But that's all speculation at the moment, unfortunately.
The average mac user uses a mac as a tool and does not care about customization
Which is, of course, exactly what I said.
My post, if you read more carefully, wasn't an "anti-Mac" tirade. I understand that Mac and WIndows users get caught up in absurd "no, you're computer platform is dumber" diatribes, but you don't have to read such silliness into my post.
Windows users don't have a strong sense of belonging; there's no user community rallying around the platform. We use the computer, certainly, or is the computer using us?"
That is one of the dumbest things I have read all week. Normal folks use computers as a means to an end. Just because the author gets a hardon over extraneous features and eye candy that add nothing to productivity, and is apparently thirteen and in need of being part of a group, doesn't mean the rest of us give a flying shit.
Yeah I suppose that could be done with a giant space-tube to form a sort of syphon system, as long as Venus is higher up than Mars. Although I'd hate to be the man on Mars who has to suck on the tube to get it going...
Even if you can't get an O2 atmosphere, just increasing the atmospheric density to a sizable portion of our own would be a huge benefit
This is the idea I think we should do.
We could kill two birds with one stone and suck the CO2 out of the Venus atmosphere, and drop it into the Martian atmosphere. Voila! Thin out Venus, and thicken Mars. Two planets for the price of one.
Earth is just so fantastically better suited as a place for humans to live than anything else we can even think about getting to that I suspect this is the best strategy in the near term
The very problem is thinking about "near term" instead of "long term". Near term, the odds are slim of any species decimating event. Long term, you can't do much to protect Earth against the Sun going nova.
The sooner we start spreading out, the more time we have to preserve the species, long term. We can't count on the invention of some super-dooper-hyperdrive to save our asses.
Actually, you are quite alot to the company. Namely, an employee is a representative of the company, and the employee's appearance reflects on the company. If you don't want your clients touring what appears to be a circus freakshow, you will definately care about dress codes.
Yeah like uh, the game is gonna be, like, innovative and stuff because, like, its gonna have light AND dark areas, so like it will be different and stuff.
Cripes, can one get any more inarticulate without being a deaf-mute?
If the executive branch violates that restriction, then the Supreme Court does have jurisdiction as it is a Constitutional matter
It has appellate jurisdiction, which is restricted by Congress. And due process protection does not apply universally to the planet. Otherwise, prisoners of war would be afforded counsel, miranda rights, other procedural due process rights, and access to the federal courts - and they aren't. And non-citizen detainees captured outside CONTUS that don't fit the Geneva categories affording prisoner of war status have even less privileges. Historically, such persons could be summarily executed under the laws of war as partisans, spies, or sabateurs.
Congress isn't allowed to pass laws allowing the executive branch to violate the Constitution, inside or outside the country
It isn't a matter of Congress legislating to allow the violation of the Constitution - it's a matter of the court's jurisdiction to try a case, and the legitimate Constitutional powers of the Executive and Legislative branches which the court can not impinge on. The President as Commander in Chief, and with a Congressional authorization of war, has maximal Constitutional power and discretion to wage war - as SCOTUS has noted, that power includes the power to detain. And unless the detainees are citizens or resident aliens WITHIN the US, falling within the habeus corpus statute, then they're fair game.
Paul Bremer was a career Foreign Service officer, serving the State Dept. for 23 years prior to being appointed Big Man in Baghdad. He was a creature of the State Dept, furthering the Orientalist viewpoint prevalent in State. He was appointed after State won the turf war against Defense in Washington over who would run post-war Iraq.
Slashdot Mirror
"U.S. intelligence agencies have identified at least 22 Islamic terrorists who are believed to be operating in the so-called tri-border area of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay."
Hezbollah has open, plain-view operations in South America.
This is an example of shutting down expression on the internet. As far as the IT part goes, its easy to turn off a site
The Brits don't have the First Amendment.
And incitement to violence and true threats are not protected speech under the First Amendment to the US Constitution, in any case.
When Burt Rutan and Paul Allen have the guts to ride that fucker then I'll get in it. If it's such a fun thing why haven't they been up in it yet?
Branson and members of his family are going to be the first passengers of the venture.
Next inanity!
We've been hearing these blathering blidiots talk about "the network is the computer" type crap for over a decade. Guess what, blimpie? Keep your threadbare "predictions" to yourself, you look like a damn fool.
The UN is more than balanced against these 2 nations by other more democratic nations
The Security Council does not control UN agencies, the General Assembly handles such administrative decisions. And the dictatorships and failed states outnumber democracies in the General Assembly by a considerable number. The General Assembly is the 3rd World Dictator Club.
The UN already controls the international telephone network via the ITU - see http://www.itu.int/home/.
This is the organisation that would run the internet
The ITU sets standards, it does not control the international telephone network any more than the W3C controls the World Wide Web.
Handing over DNS would hand over the technical, substantive administration of the key piece of infrastructure of the Internet. And would be as accountable as any other UN agency - not at all.
So how long til WWIII?
We're fighting it now.
The UN has failed because it was created by the victorious WWII powers to preserve the status quo. But the Cold War world no longer exists, and the UN is incapable of adjusting from preservation of the Cold War status quo, to the proactive processing of global connectedness (and the failed nation-states that threaten the rest of us with their unconnectedness), and dealing with the proliferation of non-state actors that have become a global insurgency against global connectedness and modernity.
They should at least have such a system ready so the rest of the world can carry on regardless. Relying on one country for something so important to the world is one of the suckiest ideas ever
Anyone can start new TLDs whenever they want. Iran does. If the root servers go poof, you start new ones, issue new root hint files, and voila.
The comedy 'the Internet is ours' replies are killing me!
And the comedy of the second-stringers demanding ownership of something they did not and could not invent on their own is the height of comi-tragedy.
The UN is ruled by the envious and the impotent.
I think the internet definitely shouldn't be in the hands of a single government
So it's better to be in the hands of none/all? The UN is not accountable, and is ruled by concensus in committee. Which means solutions are least-common-denominator.
Great idea.
But after thinking about it for a few seconds it occured to me that since the internet is global you really need a global entity to be ultimately responsible for it
Why? Just because?
The telephone network spans the globe. Turn the Baby Bells over to the UN! You can quickly see the absurdity of the proposition. Unless you can muster a better reason than vague, UN-phile platitudes, leave things well enough alone. It works fine.
If you do the math, I belive antimater costs around $100 trillion US dollars per ounce to produce
Today. Early in the history of nuclear research, plutonium cost a mega-fortune too. Don't mistake scarcity cost for absolute cost.
The researcher is proposing a method to increase the rate of production of positrons. Which down the road could theoretically drive down the cost, making anti-matter cost effective as an energy source. But that's all speculation at the moment, unfortunately.
The average mac user uses a mac as a tool and does not care about customization
Which is, of course, exactly what I said.
My post, if you read more carefully, wasn't an "anti-Mac" tirade. I understand that Mac and WIndows users get caught up in absurd "no, you're computer platform is dumber" diatribes, but you don't have to read such silliness into my post.
Windows users don't have a strong sense of belonging; there's no user community rallying around the platform. We use the computer, certainly, or is the computer using us?"
That is one of the dumbest things I have read all week. Normal folks use computers as a means to an end. Just because the author gets a hardon over extraneous features and eye candy that add nothing to productivity, and is apparently thirteen and in need of being part of a group, doesn't mean the rest of us give a flying shit.
British humor folks, you either get it or you don't. The comments were made during deliberations on the religious hatred bill before Parliament.
He wasn't just being a nerd declaring his Jedi affiliation out of the blue.
Yeah I suppose that could be done with a giant space-tube to form a sort of syphon system, as long as Venus is higher up than Mars. Although I'd hate to be the man on Mars who has to suck on the tube to get it going...
We've finally found a use for Monica Lewinsky!!
Even if you can't get an O2 atmosphere, just increasing the atmospheric density to a sizable portion of our own would be a huge benefit
This is the idea I think we should do.
We could kill two birds with one stone and suck the CO2 out of the Venus atmosphere, and drop it into the Martian atmosphere. Voila! Thin out Venus, and thicken Mars. Two planets for the price of one.
Earth is just so fantastically better suited as a place for humans to live than anything else we can even think about getting to that I suspect this is the best strategy in the near term
The very problem is thinking about "near term" instead of "long term". Near term, the odds are slim of any species decimating event. Long term, you can't do much to protect Earth against the Sun going nova.
The sooner we start spreading out, the more time we have to preserve the species, long term. We can't count on the invention of some super-dooper-hyperdrive to save our asses.
Where am I going with this? These days adolescence seems to last until about 35, with all the juvenile behavior that goes with it
It's all the self esteem crap. They have undeserved inflated self-perceptions. E.g. Slashdot.
you are nothing to the company execpt a body
Actually, you are quite alot to the company. Namely, an employee is a representative of the company, and the employee's appearance reflects on the company. If you don't want your clients touring what appears to be a circus freakshow, you will definately care about dress codes.
Lost your humor gene on the way out of the birth canal, friend?
Microsoft Publisher is great for making professional looking presentations... :PP~~~
Yeah like uh, the game is gonna be, like, innovative and stuff because, like, its gonna have light AND dark areas, so like it will be different and stuff.
Cripes, can one get any more inarticulate without being a deaf-mute?
If the executive branch violates that restriction, then the Supreme Court does have jurisdiction as it is a Constitutional matter
It has appellate jurisdiction, which is restricted by Congress. And due process protection does not apply universally to the planet. Otherwise, prisoners of war would be afforded counsel, miranda rights, other procedural due process rights, and access to the federal courts - and they aren't. And non-citizen detainees captured outside CONTUS that don't fit the Geneva categories affording prisoner of war status have even less privileges. Historically, such persons could be summarily executed under the laws of war as partisans, spies, or sabateurs.
Congress isn't allowed to pass laws allowing the executive branch to violate the Constitution, inside or outside the country
It isn't a matter of Congress legislating to allow the violation of the Constitution - it's a matter of the court's jurisdiction to try a case, and the legitimate Constitutional powers of the Executive and Legislative branches which the court can not impinge on. The President as Commander in Chief, and with a Congressional authorization of war, has maximal Constitutional power and discretion to wage war - as SCOTUS has noted, that power includes the power to detain. And unless the detainees are citizens or resident aliens WITHIN the US, falling within the habeus corpus statute, then they're fair game.
Paul Bremer was a career Foreign Service officer, serving the State Dept. for 23 years prior to being appointed Big Man in Baghdad. He was a creature of the State Dept, furthering the Orientalist viewpoint prevalent in State. He was appointed after State won the turf war against Defense in Washington over who would run post-war Iraq.
Biography:
http://cpa-iraq.org/bios/