If you think Bush I made war on Iraq because of Kuwaiti oil, please explain how it harms U.S. interests to buy oil from Iraq instead of Kuwait? No, the hard reality is that Gulf War 1 was instituted in order to set Iraq back from being a regional military-industrial power, because it was Israel's number 1 threat, the Saudi's being entirely co-opted. Iraq had to be tricked into invading Kuwait. It wasn't hard to do. We just cued Kuwait to start slant-drilling Iraqi oil, and then signalled to Hussein than he was good to invade. A few PR stunts like the "babies torn from incubators" perjury before congress were trivial to arrange, and handed the reigns to pappy Bush.
Hell, no one believed that Hussein gassed the Kurds until it was time to build up to Gulf War 2. Both the DIA and the CIA analyst reports indicate that the Kurds were gassed by the Iranians using blood agents. Iraq had nerve agents, by contrast. Halabja was in a war zone during the bloodiest war since WW 2, and suffered for it, being attacked not by their own state, but by the enemy with which they were at war.
> Nobody wants to hire a team of ontological engineers to map information they already have in human accessible form into some highly structured, machine parseable format, and pay them to keep that information up-to-date.
Plenty do, in fact. But much more useful is to automate the process. Most useful forms of data storage have a lot of structure which can be automatically converted to RDF constraints.
It's hardly true that nothing is gained. RDF statements express contraints on the class of models with which they are consistent. You seem to want everything in a normal form. The closest you get to that is standardized ontologies.
You're responding to the implied criticism of OpenBSD instead of to the more direct and even more absurd criticism of open source in general. Allow me to cut to the chase: OpenZaurus is an amazing success story. Every Zaurus owner I know runs OpenZaurus instead of the Sharp software. The original poster is just a control freak who can't stand that people have the freedom to produce crap as well as gems. That's why Linux comes in commercial distributions: Crap filtering. Buy a nice OpenZaurus distribution if you want it crapfiltered.
Feminist hat: Since "wife" is apparently a code word for "domestic drudge", my advice is to change your insurance beneficiary and check for almond odors.
Unlikely. It takes a whole lot of coca to make a little cocaine. The article described the authors trip past the dope dogs with Bolivian Nigra samples in his luggage.
There is abundant coca leaf all over the Pacific hump of South America. Any dog trained to cue on it in Colombia or Peru would soon be twitching in apoplectic seizure. Any dog trained to cue on it in the U.S. would soon forget the smell, since it just doesn't occur here.
Indeed, what is occuring is enslavement. By accumulating enough public debt, the leadership can enforce universal total taxation, at which point you are a chattel slave. In the mean time, you are being enslaved incrementally. It's all good. Canadians are even worse than USAns, in that they their vast open spaces and shallow history make them think they can grow their way out of misery. Sorry, ain't gonna happen. You're being pushed into two tiny cities, for sheering and subsequent slaughter.
You can't win any war without criteria for success or failure. The purpose of perpetual war is to line the pockets of those whose economic interests it serves. Monsanto, FARC and the U.S. intelligence establishment do really well on the Colombian operation, and they'll continue to do well on it as long as people vote for the congressman with the largest advertising budget.
You can't impose unlawful conditions. Freedom is nothing without laws. The fundamental principle here is that no one can freely contract to contravene the law. Does that help?
The 5% systematic error correlates almost perfectly with the use of paperless voting machines. The error disappears in places such as Nevada where all the electronic voting machines provide paper trails.
Actually, I think Kerry got more votes than Bush. Bush just got more votes *counted*.
If you look at the discrepancies between exit polls and vote tallies, they correspond directly to the use of voting machines that lack a paper trail. In Nevada, for example, where the voting machines produce an auditable paper trail, exit polls are within 0.1% of the tallies. In every state where voting machines do not produce paper audit trails there is a 5% systematic bias in favor of Bush.
It's beginning to look like the 1998 election was the last gasp of democracy in the U.S., and no one noticed.
Nonsense. Just because someone has an opinion doesn't mean their links suddenly point to fiction. Drudge is just a blogger. He collects a lot of interesting links to major press organ websites. Those sites span a wide political spectrum, editorially, but favor the Republican faction of U.S. politics overall. He also broke the Lewinsky story which lead to an impeachment trial. That's excellent journalism. Dan Rather couldn't manage it.
Maxwell's equations in the quaternion form are simultaneously deep, simple, symmetric, and intuitive, but for mind-expansion you can't beat the quantum wave equation.
22MB is incredibly pathetic. And the lack of 802.11b makes this device a non-starter. Looks like I'm stuck with a tungsten and a cellphone for another year or two.
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If you think Bush I made war on Iraq because of Kuwaiti oil, please explain how it harms U.S. interests to buy oil from Iraq instead of Kuwait? No, the hard reality is that Gulf War 1 was instituted in order to set Iraq back from being a regional military-industrial power, because it was Israel's number 1 threat, the Saudi's being entirely co-opted. Iraq had to be tricked into invading Kuwait. It wasn't hard to do. We just cued Kuwait to start slant-drilling Iraqi oil, and then signalled to Hussein than he was good to invade. A few PR stunts like the "babies torn from incubators" perjury before congress were trivial to arrange, and handed the reigns to pappy Bush.
Hell, no one believed that Hussein gassed the Kurds until it was time to build up to Gulf War 2. Both the DIA and the CIA analyst reports indicate that the Kurds were gassed by the Iranians using blood agents. Iraq had nerve agents, by contrast. Halabja was in a war zone during the bloodiest war since WW 2, and suffered for it, being attacked not by their own state, but by the enemy with which they were at war.
> Nobody wants to hire a team of ontological engineers to map information they already have in human accessible form into some highly structured, machine parseable format, and pay them to keep that information up-to-date.
Plenty do, in fact. But much more useful is to automate the process. Most useful forms of data storage have a lot of structure which can be automatically converted to RDF constraints.
It's hardly true that nothing is gained. RDF statements express contraints on the class of models with which they are consistent. You seem to want everything in a normal form. The closest you get to that is standardized ontologies.
How? You can't buy the boards.
You're responding to the implied criticism of OpenBSD instead of to the more direct and even more absurd criticism of open source in general. Allow me to cut to the chase: OpenZaurus is an amazing success story. Every Zaurus owner I know runs OpenZaurus instead of the Sharp software. The original poster is just a control freak who can't stand that people have the freedom to produce crap as well as gems. That's why Linux comes in commercial distributions: Crap filtering. Buy a nice OpenZaurus distribution if you want it crapfiltered.
Feminist hat: Since "wife" is apparently a code word for "domestic drudge", my advice is to change your insurance beneficiary and check for almond odors.
I can sell you a pair of troll-proof glasses for just one benjamin that make all the trolls on slashdot disappear.
Unlikely. It takes a whole lot of coca to make a little cocaine. The article described the authors trip past the dope dogs with Bolivian Nigra samples in his luggage.
There is abundant coca leaf all over the Pacific hump of South America. Any dog trained to cue on it in Colombia or Peru would soon be twitching in apoplectic seizure. Any dog trained to cue on it in the U.S. would soon forget the smell, since it just doesn't occur here.
Indeed, what is occuring is enslavement. By accumulating enough public debt, the leadership can enforce universal total taxation, at which point you are a chattel slave. In the mean time, you are being enslaved incrementally. It's all good. Canadians are even worse than USAns, in that they their vast open spaces and shallow history make them think they can grow their way out of misery. Sorry, ain't gonna happen. You're being pushed into two tiny cities, for sheering and subsequent slaughter.
Dogs trained to smell cocaine will not cue on coca leaf. RTFA.
You can't win any war without criteria for success or failure. The purpose of perpetual war is to line the pockets of those whose economic interests it serves. Monsanto, FARC and the U.S. intelligence establishment do really well on the Colombian operation, and they'll continue to do well on it as long as people vote for the congressman with the largest advertising budget.
You can't impose unlawful conditions. Freedom is nothing without laws. The fundamental principle here is that no one can freely contract to contravene the law. Does that help?
The 5% systematic error correlates almost perfectly with the use of paperless voting machines. The error disappears in places such as Nevada where all the electronic voting machines provide paper trails.
No, I didn't lose. I didn't vote for either Bush or Kerry. The losers were representative democracy and the rule of law.
This election was not decided by the voters. It was decided by the voting machines.
Actually, I think Kerry got more votes than Bush.
Bush just got more votes *counted*.
If you look at the discrepancies between exit polls and vote tallies, they correspond directly to the
use of voting machines that lack a paper trail.
In Nevada, for example, where the voting machines
produce an auditable paper trail, exit polls are
within 0.1% of the tallies. In every state where
voting machines do not produce paper audit trails
there is a 5% systematic bias in favor of Bush.
It's beginning to look like the 1998 election was
the last gasp of democracy in the U.S., and no one
noticed.
Nonsense. Just because someone has an opinion doesn't mean their links suddenly point to fiction.
Drudge is just a blogger. He collects a lot of interesting links to major press organ websites.
Those sites span a wide political spectrum, editorially, but favor the Republican faction of U.S. politics overall. He also broke the Lewinsky
story which lead to an impeachment trial. That's excellent journalism. Dan Rather couldn't manage it.
Is it 1991 today, still?
Well you can just flock yourself then.
Maxwell's equations in the quaternion form are simultaneously deep, simple, symmetric, and intuitive, but for mind-expansion you can't beat the quantum wave equation.
22MB is incredibly pathetic. And the lack of 802.11b makes this device a non-starter. Looks like I'm stuck with a tungsten and a cellphone for another year or two.
Nah, I like barbarians. The two-chick thing is totally HOT. I've known barbarians, and you, sir, are no barbarian.
And there are major corporations that make essentially all of their money from killing people.
So if you cut someones legs off, they get smarter?
microsoft was spawn of satan loooong before they started buying off standards bodies and corrupting the court system. didn't you ever use windows 3.1?
you misspelled "bloat".