Yeah - or the schools that have been opened or the hospitals that have been rebuilt, or the places where electric power was never present before or...
Yeah, why is that? Perhaps because it isn't happening? I have seen reports of Iraqi oil revenues given to US companies like Halliburton for such projects. The money disappears with no benefits to the Iraqis.
Punch you, or start a riot of epic proportions? Big difference.
Why don't you disguise yo'self as a brown muslim guy and try it? Let us know how it turns out. (Some brown Sikh guys from India were murdered in the US because they wore turbans.)
Now I'm gonna say something that will really piss people off: why are we forcing them to change their culture against their beliefs by giving women equality?
Uh, actually women had near equality under the secular pre-Saddam constitution (based on the Napoleonic system) and they continued to have education and jobs during his rule (notoriously the lady bio-scientists).
The new constitution imposed by the US includes Islamic law and greatly reduces women's rights.
Similar story in Afghanistan - women had equality in the commie regime but that was overthrown by US backed freedom-fighters such as Osama bin Laden. Now it is the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan with Islamic law.
Combine the idiocy with the fact that your religion is being taught (by many) in a way that encourages violence, and you have a mess.
The solution? Civilize, educate, and punish idiots of all cultures. Wipe out all threads of violent religion from the face of humanity.
There are some Judo-Christians who are dedicated to wiping Palestine off the map and do not apologize for terrorist bombings, mass murder or gunning down little girls. Don't take my word for it, ask them.
here's some advice then for muslims: make some sort of effort to distance yourself from your radical cousins.
According to your thinking, the Pope should have distanced himself from Timothy McVeigh.
make sure that if non-muslims know anything about you, they know that you stand for non-violence.
Do you know anything about the history of Christian countries meddling in the Muslin world? Christians certainly don't have a reputation for non-violence.
Suppose I own a network of toll roads and I notice that some vehicles carry low value stuff like gravel while others carry high value stuff like microchips.
Obviously these microchip guys are freeloaders - I need to charge them a lot more.
Regarding the most powerful group of your lietenants, the Arbitration Committee, last year you had an election. This year you wanted to appoint them with little input until an uproar allowed more input from the community. During this (s)election, you put in the people with the highest vote rates, except for JayJG, who had people ahead of him since so many people voted against him due to his lack of the neutrality you espouse in interviews.
This explains the pervasive anti-Arab, anti-Islamic bias in Wikipedia.
they bought the right to copy it so they are not hypocrites. Google didn't bought that right.
Google could easily afford to buy "wire service" feeds. Then Google wouldn't need to link to all those "newspaper" sites - they could could link to the full article on a Google site with ads.
Journalists don't just regurgitate whatever they're told*.
* Certain former New York Times reporters (*cough* Judith Miller *cough*) excepted.
In the US it seems to be the rule rather than the exception.
Even tho NYT sort of apologized for being a govt. mouthpiece, they are doing the same wrt Iran, and the continuing corruption and incompetence in Iraq.
The contrast with non-US sites is striking. Maybe that's why they don't like Google News - it makes such comparisons easy.
Given HIPAA and SOX and alot of newer legislation, I would tell you to run, no - sprint, to your legal department. Sit out and talk to the legal beagles. Have them help you draft a risk acceptance letter and outlines everything you've put in this missive. Then go to the brass and make them sign it in triplicate. Give the brass one copy, give one copy to your personal lawyer and lock one in a safety deposit box somewhere. Depending on the circumstances, anything else might leave you open for a jail term. You sure don't want that. No one wants to go to jail because of a bunch of PHB's.
Besides, when you whip out the document and tell them sign on the dotted line that says "We know it's stupid but its what we really want to do." it's absolutely amazing how fast the "you know we don't have money for that" becomes "how much budget did you need for that?" My experience has been that they ususally *do* have the money, but they don't want to spend it because it's an expense and expenses eat into their fat annual and quaterly bonuses.
This would apply to many other situations - toxic waste, other safety issues.
So what if the beagles ignore you? Send them a double registered letter cc'd to your lawyer?
Anyone who has their employer's belongings stolen from a car should be fired.
Any manager who required employees to take data home should be fired. I would be surprised if the company's insurance policy covers this. My home insurance specifically covers my stuff in storage or in transit, away from home, but would a corporate policy cover informal arrangements to store stuff in employees' cars or homes?
I can see hard disks being stolen..... but not tapes in the one case. Thieves like to take items with obvious value.
Maybe the thieves thought the tape cans contained pizzas.
TFA says "backup data disks and tapes". I assumed the disks were CD (not hard or floppy). I guess the tapes would be cassettes, not reel-to-reel cans as I joked above.
The wind god and the rain god and the thunder god and the fertility god obviously exist, by definition. (They are what causes these phenomena, which science can only partially explain).
I'm not sure about the upper case G gods. They were invented more recently. I'm not even sure how many there are - are the Xtian, Jewish and Islamic godz different?
I just had the idea that every story should be automatically duped after 24 hours. So all the stupid "first post" crap would (hopefully) not be there, and we might get some serious discussions.
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I propose that hereafter any story submitter that misuses the phrase "begging the question" never, ever be allowed to submit a story again. Ever.
Until those Oxford dictionary dudes change the defn. to what most idiots think it means.
Yeah - or the schools that have been opened or the hospitals that have been rebuilt, or the places where electric power was never present before or...
Yeah, why is that? Perhaps because it isn't happening? I have seen reports of Iraqi oil revenues given to US companies like Halliburton for such projects. The money disappears with no benefits to the Iraqis.
Punch you, or start a riot of epic proportions? Big difference.
Why don't you disguise yo'self as a brown muslim guy and try it? Let us know how it turns out. (Some brown Sikh guys from India were murdered in the US because they wore turbans.)
Now I'm gonna say something that will really piss people off: why are we forcing them to change their culture against their beliefs by giving women equality?
Uh, actually women had near equality under the secular pre-Saddam constitution (based on the Napoleonic system) and they continued to have education and jobs during his rule (notoriously the lady bio-scientists).
The new constitution imposed by the US includes Islamic law and greatly reduces women's rights.
Similar story in Afghanistan - women had equality in the commie regime but that was overthrown by US backed freedom-fighters such as Osama bin Laden. Now it is the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan with Islamic law.
Combine the idiocy with the fact that your religion is being taught (by many) in a way that encourages violence, and you have a mess.
The solution? Civilize, educate, and punish idiots of all cultures. Wipe out all threads of violent religion from the face of humanity.
There are some Judo-Christians who are dedicated to wiping Palestine off the map and do not apologize for terrorist bombings, mass murder or gunning down little girls. Don't take my word for it, ask them.
here's some advice then for muslims: make some sort of effort to distance yourself from your radical cousins.
According to your thinking, the Pope should have distanced himself from Timothy McVeigh.
make sure that if non-muslims know anything about you, they know that you stand for non-violence.
Do you know anything about the history of Christian countries meddling in the Muslin world? Christians certainly don't have a reputation for non-violence.
Suppose I own a network of toll roads and I notice that some vehicles carry low value stuff like gravel while others carry high value stuff like microchips.
Obviously these microchip guys are freeloaders - I need to charge them a lot more.
Regarding the most powerful group of your lietenants, the Arbitration Committee, last year you had an election. This year you wanted to appoint them with little input until an uproar allowed more input from the community. During this (s)election, you put in the people with the highest vote rates, except for JayJG, who had people ahead of him since so many people voted against him due to his lack of the neutrality you espouse in interviews.
This explains the pervasive anti-Arab, anti-Islamic bias in Wikipedia.
Ahh, so that's how it works!
You could ask him. A quick Google finds:
Hany Farid (farid @ cs . dartmouth . edu)
Everybody is lib-left relative to her.
they bought the right to copy it so they are not hypocrites. Google didn't bought that right.
Google could easily afford to buy "wire service" feeds. Then Google wouldn't need to link to all those "newspaper" sites - they could could link to the full article on a Google site with ads.
Journalists don't just regurgitate whatever they're told*.
* Certain former New York Times reporters (*cough* Judith Miller *cough*) excepted.
In the US it seems to be the rule rather than the exception.
Even tho NYT sort of apologized for being a govt. mouthpiece, they are doing the same wrt Iran, and the continuing corruption and incompetence in Iraq.
The contrast with non-US sites is striking. Maybe that's why they don't like Google News - it makes such comparisons easy.
Republicans, Democrats.
This would apply to many other situations - toxic waste, other safety issues.
So what if the beagles ignore you? Send them a double registered letter cc'd to your lawyer?
Any manager who required employees to take data home should be fired. I would be surprised if the company's insurance policy covers this. My home insurance specifically covers my stuff in storage or in transit, away from home, but would a corporate policy cover informal arrangements to store stuff in employees' cars or homes?
Maybe the thieves thought the tape cans contained pizzas.
TFA says "backup data disks and tapes". I assumed the disks were CD (not hard or floppy). I guess the tapes would be cassettes, not reel-to-reel cans as I joked above.
Maybe they just walked across the seafloor.
Or however you describe their locomotion - is there a word for that?
The house of Saud would be SOL in 10 years if the US withdrew its support.
I'd give them 10 days if they also pulled out the expats who run the computer systems for the military and police.
Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany.
Former Communist, but that's all forgotten now. Does she believe in wiping Palestine off the map?
The wind god and the rain god and the thunder god and the fertility god obviously exist, by definition. (They are what causes these phenomena, which science can only partially explain).
I'm not sure about the upper case G gods. They were invented more recently. I'm not even sure how many there are - are the Xtian, Jewish and Islamic godz different?
To me they're all a big con game.
What steps has NASA taken to isolate the collected sample before analysis?
Don't worry, NASA's Planetary Protection Officer is on guard, protecting
"all of the planets, all of the time".
I just had the idea that every story should be automatically duped after 24 hours. So all the stupid "first post" crap would (hopefully) not be there, and we might get some serious discussions.
(Replying to you twice.)
Has anyone tried to make a software BS detector?
Asshats and idiots are incredibly easy to spot with some experience
I agree, but then how did George Bush get re-elected?