Most troubling is the fact that people in Japan today would dare to question to any action that civilized nations took to stop their evil dictatorship.
One of the cornerstones of a free society is that you can question the actions of others. And this idea that "they started it and they're the bad guys so we have the right to do anything we want" is just childish. If you justify the bombing by claiming that it was the quickest/safest/whatever way to stop the war, that's fine, but just by declaring them evil is silly.
I just figured that it might be a good intellectual exercise for these folks to have to produce some concrete evidence in support of their opinion of world affairs.
Yes, but not just those people. I'd prefer both sides to have concrete evidence...
I "broke down" and read the first book, but gave up after that. Not that it was particularly bad, just it felt very much like a book for children, which wasn't much of surprise. There are so many better writers and books and I just didn't think the books were worth the time. I'd prefer fantasy written by Tolkien, Donaldson and Hobb. Much better written *and* with good stories.
"Supernatural effects can be measured and and studied scientifically just like anything else."
Any examples? What is a supernatural effect by the way? If you can measure it, isn't it quite natural? Or is it non-repeatable measurements which are supernatural?
Interesting post, and you do raise many good points. Just some things:
* 'how does "hating" someone have any logical correlation with whether their positions or courses of action are appropriate or inappropriate?' - well, isn't just the actions of someone the reason you'd "hate" them?
* You ignore the position that radical islamism is a problem but going in with bombs is *not* the way to fight it.
* Regarding Bush's actions it is interesting to see the lack of any criticism from that he changed the reasons for the invasion a number of times. Eventhough you acknowledge that nothing of what he said is true.
Sorry for the potential flamebait, but I couldn't help noticing how often the US is defended by comparing it to third world countries and/or dictatorships. You could argue that people from a relatively free country such as the US would be better informed than for example the iraqis, right?
Well, i just downloaded it and the about box says "version 1.0 Preview Release"... but now I can't RTFA due to/.. Curiously enough, the string at the bottom says "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10"
Minor nitpick: from what I've heard the concept of zero was "invented" in India. (Which fits quite nicely with buddhism's concept of nothingness.)
If the Inca's came up with it Europe wouldn't have learned about it until the 16th century, and arabic numerals (which of course inlucde zero) had been used for quite some time then AFAIK.
G.W. is just another fundamentalist, and just like Reagan, does not deserve recognition for what he's done.
That statement alone explains how it is you can have such a distorted view of history and of the United States. Your beliefs are nothing at all except reactionary. You define yourself as the political negative of those that are religious.
Keep your flames down some, please. I didn't see any mention of religion. "Fundamentalist" is today used as often about any set of ideas. "Dogmatic" migth be a better way to describe GWB and his staff.
In the EU? It might be in *some* countries in the EU, but not all. Please accept that Europe or even the subset EU is not as homogenous as...other parts of the world.
This [MDI] is absolutely and utterly obsolete nowadays.
Not at all. You may not like it but some of us do. I'd consider tabs as a form of MDI, by the way, as the documents otherwise are realized in separate windows in for example browsers. (Opera's tabbing is really nice, IMO.) And I agree with the grandparent that using gimp is a hassle with a separate window for every picture being edited. But yes, I really don't like the separate toolbar windows either. Perhaps if you could dock them togehter... I haven't checked if it's possible, though, feel free to enlighten me.
But in short, yes I like MDI, it keeps the clutter down on my desktop, and is generally a handy way of grouping things togehter.
Have you ever written a (major) application like that? Starting with the manual? What kind of customers where you writing for?
Personally I prefer an iterative development model which can react to changes, say from a customer. Of course, you can sketch the manual, but then that's nothing more than a fancy design document, is it?
Damn. When I worked on a gun registry for my country's police we only had a budget of the equiv. of US$8M to overrun. We never got anywhere close to that figure;)
Give six monkeys one computer for a month, and they will produce a mess....
"They pressed a lot of S's," researcher Mike Phillips said Friday. "Obviously, English isn't their first language."
There wasn't an inifinite number, only 6, so "S" is quite a good start when writing Shakespeare. (sorry;)
Did you buy the propaganda about terrorists hating the US due to it being such a free country, too? You don't think it has anything to do with US policies? Invading countries and stageing coups across the world since the second world war? No matter if you think it was right or wrong, don't you think you'd find yourself lots of enemies that way?
Why not instead of deleting post add a self moderation option "Retracted" which sets your post to -1 (or less, or simply add -2 to it) whithout affecting your precious karma?
> I don't want this to be a flame, even if it sounds like bitching, but if you look at the points mentionned, it's weird that a "pro" version has all of
> these little annoying things, people that will buy pro are used to NT/2K environment (usually) so why would he downgrade to the
> "clippy-age" when he upgrades?
A "pro" version is not necessarily aimed at computer professionals, but at people using computers at work. I'm not so sure they're that much better at configuring their OS than home users.
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One of the cornerstones of a free society is that you can question the actions of others. And this idea that "they started it and they're the bad guys so we have the right to do anything we want" is just childish. If you justify the bombing by claiming that it was the quickest/safest/whatever way to stop the war, that's fine, but just by declaring them evil is silly.
Don't get your hopes up too far, better/more realistic special effects in the film industry hasn't exactly produced better films.
Paul Graham has a lot of opinions but I'm not so sure that means there is a "strong case" for it. Do you have any more scientific studies?
Yes, but not just those people. I'd prefer both sides to have concrete evidence...
But have the list been updated? http://www.proffs.nu listed there looks fairly Firefox-freindly - OTOH it didn't like Opera :/
IMO, of course.
Not Corn starch[MLSFW]?
Any examples? What is a supernatural effect by the way? If you can measure it, isn't it quite natural? Or is it non-repeatable measurements which are supernatural?
* 'how does "hating" someone have any logical correlation with whether their positions or courses of action are appropriate or inappropriate?' - well, isn't just the actions of someone the reason you'd "hate" them?
* You ignore the position that radical islamism is a problem but going in with bombs is *not* the way to fight it.
* Regarding Bush's actions it is interesting to see the lack of any criticism from that he changed the reasons for the invasion a number of times. Eventhough you acknowledge that nothing of what he said is true.
Sorry for the potential flamebait, but I couldn't help noticing how often the US is defended by comparing it to third world countries and/or dictatorships. You could argue that people from a relatively free country such as the US would be better informed than for example the iraqis, right?
Well, i just downloaded it and the about box says "version 1.0 Preview Release" ... but now I can't RTFA due to /.. Curiously enough, the string at the bottom says "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10"
FYI :)
If the Inca's came up with it Europe wouldn't have learned about it until the 16th century, and arabic numerals (which of course inlucde zero) had been used for quite some time then AFAIK.
That statement alone explains how it is you can have such a distorted view of history and of the United States. Your beliefs are nothing at all except reactionary. You define yourself as the political negative of those that are religious.
Keep your flames down some, please. I didn't see any mention of religion. "Fundamentalist" is today used as often about any set of ideas. "Dogmatic" migth be a better way to describe GWB and his staff.
In the EU? It might be in *some* countries in the EU, but not all. Please accept that Europe or even the subset EU is not as homogenous as ...other parts of the world.
Not at all. You may not like it but some of us do. I'd consider tabs as a form of MDI, by the way, as the documents otherwise are realized in separate windows in for example browsers. (Opera's tabbing is really nice, IMO.) And I agree with the grandparent that using gimp is a hassle with a separate window for every picture being edited. But yes, I really don't like the separate toolbar windows either. Perhaps if you could dock them togehter... I haven't checked if it's possible, though, feel free to enlighten me.
But in short, yes I like MDI, it keeps the clutter down on my desktop, and is generally a handy way of grouping things togehter.
Personally I prefer an iterative development model which can react to changes, say from a customer. Of course, you can sketch the manual, but then that's nothing more than a fancy design document, is it?
Damn. When I worked on a gun registry for my country's police we only had a budget of the equiv. of US$8M to overrun. We never got anywhere close to that figure ;)
Give six monkeys one computer for a month, and they will produce a mess....
"They pressed a lot of S's," researcher Mike Phillips said Friday. "Obviously, English isn't their first language."
There wasn't an inifinite number, only 6, so "S" is quite a good start when writing Shakespeare. (sorry ;)
Did you buy the propaganda about terrorists hating the US due to it being such a free country, too? You don't think it has anything to do with US policies? Invading countries and stageing coups across the world since the second world war? No matter if you think it was right or wrong, don't you think you'd find yourself lots of enemies that way?
http://www.ccianet.org/ec_complaint/members.pdf
Just don't get caught or the percentage will worsen considerably.
Why not instead of deleting post add a self moderation option "Retracted" which sets your post to -1 (or less, or simply add -2 to it) whithout affecting your precious karma?
> I don't want this to be a flame, even if it sounds like bitching, but if you look at the points mentionned, it's weird that a "pro" version has all of
> these little annoying things, people that will buy pro are used to NT/2K environment (usually) so why would he downgrade to the
> "clippy-age" when he upgrades?
A "pro" version is not necessarily aimed at computer professionals, but at people using computers at work. I'm not so sure they're that much better at configuring their OS than home users.