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The first could be on the market in three years.
Ok, what happens when these things lose their bearing and crashes into (say a) daycare, or someone's house.
Under close supervision they might prove to be safe, but just to get a jump on things I would suggest reinforcing our tin foil hats with kevlar.
Basicly it is just one more step until we see what I really want, a car that drives itself.
Iran actually had a democratic government, it was overturned and replaced with a tyrany, because it wasn't friendly to foreign oil companies.
Weeelll, I think that if you look back in history, you'll find that it is much more compilcated than that.
The administration of President Harry S Truman initially had been sympathetic to Iran's nationalist aspirations. Under the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, however, the United States came to accept the view of the British government that no reasonable compromise with Mossadeq was possible and that, by working with the Tudeh, Mossadeq was making probable a communist-inspired takeover. Mossadeq's intransigence and inclination to accept Tudeh support, the Cold War atmosphere, and the fear of Soviet influence in Iran also shaped United States thinking. from our (the US) Library of Congress website.
There was a lot more to it than just that, historical trends can rarely be summed up into a sentance or two.
So...you're saying that the revolutionaries fighting American oppression of their nation in Iraq don't have the ability to debate or hold land?
NO, I am not saying that. I (meant to) say that American Democracy [TM] didn't come out of thin air. I do think that Iraq has one of the best chances of any Middle East country of creating a stable representational democratic government, something that is in short supply there. Ironicly enough Iran is closest to that mark now, but (I think) will soon be surpassed. What was is the cost, HUNDRED OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, which we will never get back, not to mention up to a THOUSAND AMERICAN LIVES (that is a quess, BTW). In fact the biggest reason for getting the oil industry up and running is to get it to pay for the repairs in Iraq, there will never be a line in the US buget "money aquired from Iraq for onging operations. It will continue to be a money pit for the US until we can pull out of there.
I'd have to say that thoughtful people with a stake in independence would be the first to fight against an enemy only interested in filling its own pockets and proving its supremacy to a world that doesn't care. Cowards who didn't care about their nation would have given up when their power structure was disassembled and their leader drugged and captured. And the power hungry wouldn't be wasting their resources on a fool's battle...they'd be fleecing a position in the New Regime.
I'd have to disagree with that statement wholesale. It takes a brave man to stand up to the thugs of the old regime. Rape rooms, murder (including whole families), and theft, were the order of business of Saddam's leadership. Those people just didn't disappear, they melted back into the population. Standing up to those people and saying "I want to be a part of the new Iraq government", or "I want to get the American's outta here by showing them that we can govern" takes a lot more bravery than getting paid a couple of thousand dollars to lay down a road side bomb, or blow up a Mosque, or lead a donkey cart to attack a hotel, or hide in a hole. I find it amazing that at you start your rant about how I don't think that they can start a government and the next paragraph you say that the only people who will are crooks.
These "insurgents" you so admire, are mostly a hang-over of 30 years of oppression, who were paid by the hundreds of millions of (Ironicly enough) American Dollars which Saddam and crew "liberated" from the banks before they hid. I've started to hear news reports that they are starting to run out of money, my quess is that most of them are doing it becuase it pays well, and fighting is all they were trained to do. Sure there are some other groups, Islamists and such who have other plans for Iraq, but (and I could be wrong) I believe that the situation will improve over the next couple of months (ok I'm an optimist).
One last thing about "drugging" Saddam, it is a lot better treatment than he gave thousands of others.
The Panama canal is an interesting choice, but it was not a war that American fought. It was more of a "support for local independance" thing and besides "The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty was ratified in Panama on December 2, 1903" (from The Canal's website, so my "hundred years" statement still stands up to that argument. Also, the Spanish American war "...lasted only four months, from mid-April to mid-August 1898."
Okinawa is a different issue, I doubt that if not for North Korea being so close that we would still be in the area. Yes, a strong military presence is "needed" for colonizaton, but a big one is a demand for taxes from the local population to finance it and provide a "little" profit.
These were not "little issues" at the time, there were great public debates, editorials, and many many discussions. Many people objected to those conquests, and the drain on taxes that being a "good" conquer demanded. Kinda like Iraq, what did we sink in that hole, I am not sure of the running total, but it must be north of a HUNDRED AND FIFTY BILLION US DOLLARS by now, and we don't even plan on staying (well maybe a big base in the desert in western Iraq, but I think that we'll pull back to Quatar and Kuwait). That is the reason why, it costs too much money! The reasons for going into Iraq were (to say the least) a strech, but I much perfer it the low grade war that continued after the UN expelled Iraq from Kuwait.
Bing, Bing, Bing, opps, your half right. I was going to say more than 150 years (California), but I thought of the Spanish American War) as a gotcha. One of the conquests of that war, the Phillipies could arguably be called a colony. But if you consider colonization to include "importing" population with an eye on keeping the place then Guam or Puerto Rico.
Ok, I was a little knee-jerk in my last post, and really did take this post out of context (really badly). That said, Democracy in America did not begin with the revolutionary war. All of the states had legislators who were elected by a segment of the population (usually landed men). Many of these legislators were the Founding Fathers. They weren't the typical "armed rebels", but thoughtful, intellegent people who debated the future of this (the US) country.
Wouldn't the American colonists who would later rebel fit into this category?
To have colonists someone whould have to want to move there and yes you do no nothing about history. In over a hundred years of kicking butt, America has not "conlonized" a country we defeated in war. I'll accept you as knowlegable about (American) history if you can give me an example of American "colonial expansion", due to war. I can think of one, but it was more than a hundred years ago.
Damn silly really, a media company without a website team in house, which can be pulled out and told to whip a website up.
I did some checking and found out that the IP addresses are different for the www and the @ entries (I didn't make that clear). Really this isn't a website issue as it is a Network department issue or a "shared services" issue. Most likely someone just put in a "change order" for www and not the @ address. However, usually a DNS tech will just make the change anyways, but in this case there might be another app (other than mail which has a special DNS entry) which need to use the server at that addresses. Of course that would be really "sloppy" as well.
Nice catch, looks like they built the Winamp5 site on a different server, but didn't make the all the changes needed for the DNS, normally only one entry for a website has the IP address(es) and the rest use a C-NAME entry to associate the address, but it look like www and @ are separate entries. (my BIND is a little rusty).
It is possiable that they do mean to keep up the old site, but I doubt it. Most likely, it will be corrected by the end of the day, if not sooner.
BTW, your right, I don't know really anything about processing B+W photographs (or color for that matter). But I do know that many modern film camera use sensor as well, so I guess that if they start out with a simular environmental impact...
Film is composed of an acetate base coated with a light sensitive emulsion
From this website. I was wondering if the process to create the film is also "generally fairly benign"
By 1934 Adams had been elected to the [Sierra Club's] board of directors and was well established as both the artist of the Sierra Nevada and the defender of Yosemite.
From the website linked in the summary. You know the one which is selling his work. Look under biography. Painting Adams as an environmentalist is no stretch at all. Even if he didn't have those creditials, just by looking at his overwelling choice of subject matter should be enough proof.
Ansel Adams was above all a environmentalist, probally more so than a photographer.
Do you know the kind of chemicals needed to make a roll of film into a negitive?
Just the enviromental savings from the lack of processing would have given him a reason to use digital.
What about XWindows? Sounds more infringing then Lindows and is also the same industry
Well according to this page it is always called xwindow, (notice no 's' at the end), but it is often referered to in the 'plural' by people who don't know better (sorry, not a burn on you, I wouldn't have known better if I didn't just look it up) . Also xwindow is not an Operating System, it has more to do with communications between two systems, so saying that they are in the same industry is not quite accurate.
Maybe they just need to call it the Lindow Operating System, and look the other way when people add the 's'.
From what I understand it, since both companies are in the same industry there is a better chance for confusion, and thus the injunction. For example I could open a resturant called "Apple Delight", but If I started selling computers I better get a new name. Another example Micheal Dell is not the only person with the last name "Dell" but he will be the only computer manufacturer with the Dell name featured, thus no manufacturer named "Delli" or "Dell2". I am really surprised that it took microsoft that long to get the legal actions going.
why Israel hasn't been invaded, based on the plethora of resolutions since 1967?
It has been invaded, a couple of times, they (Syria, Egypt, Lebonon) lost, badly.
What you may really mean is "why hasn't America invaded". There is no oil there don't you get it(ha, ha). So basicly you aren't for going to war against a murdurous dictator, but against a (relatively) democratic state, the only (well really closest to) democratic state in the region. Another often voiced attitude is "don't do it anywhere if you can't do it everywhere. Trust me we do try, but reality dictates that we can't. Beside anyone who thinks that it was Gulf War I and II, is blind it was really Parts I, II, III, we had been fighting a low grade war on Iraq since Kuwait was liberated. Don't get me wrong, I don't like Bush and I intend to vote against him again next year, but I aways find it amazing that some people "cannot see the forest for the trees".
Besides, if you still think that Isreal (Palistine) needs to be liberated, I suggest that you take it up with your own government, our (the U.S.) military is already a little over extended.
The spacecraft would be the first in a series of robotic NASA probes that rely on uranium-fueled fission reactors to generate large amounts of electricity.
Built in fission reactor, I can just think about what the enviromentalists will say, there was quite an uproar about the last mission which had nuclear material. You know, something about contaninating the earth if it blows up or is a little too low on the last lap around this planet
Higher TCO than what, where is your detailed analysis? Where are your dollar figures, where are your stats, where is your direct comparison? That's right you don't have one. Which is a very large problem. I have never seen a TCO analysis done line by line (in dollars), because to fully understand all of the risks and all of the benefits of open source software would take a fair amount of historical data and gaggle of numbers.
Just for the record, TCO is not an Accounting term, it is a Marketing term. Accounting deals with numbers and facts. Sure people can wave their hands around in the air, and invoke the magical "TCO" daemon, with just a simple line or two of subjective data, but it is like a company doing a Cash Flow analysis by counting the change in the boss's desk. I am not saying that Open Source is good for all software, or even that it is right for you, but it is good enough for IBM to work on...
The whole highest-bidder at auction thing is moot, considering that companies that make software that function on the enterprise level are generally not in danger of disappearing. (Think Oracle, PeopleSoft, Microsoft, SAP, etc.)
Do you read the news? Oracle was making a play for PeopleSoft. Part of PeopleSoft's "poison pill" was offering a refund if they (or someone who purchases them doen't support and extend the product).
Perhaps you can find all of the software (and fuctionality) you need from large software houses, but most businesses cannot.
What happens when you need additional fuctionality from a system, and the company, while still interested in selling the product is no longer interested in developing it any further, or not down the path which you need? An escrow clause won't help you then. Or what if the escrow is challeged in court (to lazy to find the link, but I have seen it).
You might consider Maintenance to be cheap, but my experience is that it is a mixed bag. Usually it's just a tech-support guy reading from the same forum you can find online. Hell, one time I had one of the developers of a product come down and train me on a system (from a big, big company) and I found a very obvious bug where it would elimate the IP address of every system when you tried to change the SNMP password for those systems. After a while I got the impression that he was more of a maintianer than the "developer" which his title suggested.
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There was a lot more to it than just that, historical trends can rarely be summed up into a sentance or two.
One last thing about "drugging" Saddam, it is a lot better treatment than he gave thousands of others.
Okinawa is a different issue, I doubt that if not for North Korea being so close that we would still be in the area. Yes, a strong military presence is "needed" for colonizaton, but a big one is a demand for taxes from the local population to finance it and provide a "little" profit.
These were not "little issues" at the time, there were great public debates, editorials, and many many discussions. Many people objected to those conquests, and the drain on taxes that being a "good" conquer demanded. Kinda like Iraq, what did we sink in that hole, I am not sure of the running total, but it must be north of a HUNDRED AND FIFTY BILLION US DOLLARS by now, and we don't even plan on staying (well maybe a big base in the desert in western Iraq, but I think that we'll pull back to Quatar and Kuwait). That is the reason why, it costs too much money! The reasons for going into Iraq were (to say the least) a strech, but I much perfer it the low grade war that continued after the UN expelled Iraq from Kuwait.
Bing, Bing, Bing, opps, your half right. I was going to say more than 150 years (California), but I thought of the Spanish American War) as a gotcha. One of the conquests of that war, the Phillipies could arguably be called a colony. But if you consider colonization to include "importing" population with an eye on keeping the place then Guam or Puerto Rico.
Ok, I was a little knee-jerk in my last post, and really did take this post out of context (really badly). That said, Democracy in America did not begin with the revolutionary war. All of the states had legislators who were elected by a segment of the population (usually landed men). Many of these legislators were the Founding Fathers. They weren't the typical "armed rebels", but thoughtful, intellegent people who debated the future of this (the US) country.
I did some checking and found out that the IP addresses are different for the www and the @ entries (I didn't make that clear). Really this isn't a website issue as it is a Network department issue or a "shared services" issue. Most likely someone just put in a "change order" for www and not the @ address. However, usually a DNS tech will just make the change anyways, but in this case there might be another app (other than mail which has a special DNS entry) which need to use the server at that addresses. Of course that would be really "sloppy" as well.
It is possiable that they do mean to keep up the old site, but I doubt it. Most likely, it will be corrected by the end of the day, if not sooner.
f. the French, because they would give him another loan, for his "Freedom Fighting" efforts.
Ansel Adams was above all a environmentalist, probally more so than a photographer. Do you know the kind of chemicals needed to make a roll of film into a negitive? Just the enviromental savings from the lack of processing would have given him a reason to use digital.
Maybe they just need to call it the Lindow Operating System, and look the other way when people add the 's'.
Oddly enough, that isn't a bad choice. Gateway might have an issue, but (IMO) I they would have less to complain about.
From what I understand it, since both companies are in the same industry there is a better chance for confusion, and thus the injunction. For example I could open a resturant called "Apple Delight", but If I started selling computers I better get a new name. Another example Micheal Dell is not the only person with the last name "Dell" but he will be the only computer manufacturer with the Dell name featured, thus no manufacturer named "Delli" or "Dell2". I am really surprised that it took microsoft that long to get the legal actions going.
How about the name Winix, or the OS formally named "Lindows",
Why, is one of those unencrypted networks yours perhaps? Don't you just set a perfered network?
What you may really mean is "why hasn't America invaded". There is no oil there don't you get it(ha, ha). So basicly you aren't for going to war against a murdurous dictator, but against a (relatively) democratic state, the only (well really closest to) democratic state in the region. Another often voiced attitude is "don't do it anywhere if you can't do it everywhere. Trust me we do try, but reality dictates that we can't. Beside anyone who thinks that it was Gulf War I and II, is blind it was really Parts I, II, III, we had been fighting a low grade war on Iraq since Kuwait was liberated. Don't get me wrong, I don't like Bush and I intend to vote against him again next year, but I aways find it amazing that some people "cannot see the forest for the trees".
Besides, if you still think that Isreal (Palistine) needs to be liberated, I suggest that you take it up with your own government, our (the U.S.) military is already a little over extended.
Started looking around for information on flight safety for this system. I found this link[pdf] [google HTML]
Just for the record, TCO is not an Accounting term, it is a Marketing term. Accounting deals with numbers and facts. Sure people can wave their hands around in the air, and invoke the magical "TCO" daemon, with just a simple line or two of subjective data, but it is like a company doing a Cash Flow analysis by counting the change in the boss's desk. I am not saying that Open Source is good for all software, or even that it is right for you, but it is good enough for IBM to work on...
I think that's a great idea, 1 point of karma for each page ad free! A whole new way to burn Karma!
Perhaps you can find all of the software (and fuctionality) you need from large software houses, but most businesses cannot.
What happens when you need additional fuctionality from a system, and the company, while still interested in selling the product is no longer interested in developing it any further, or not down the path which you need? An escrow clause won't help you then. Or what if the escrow is challeged in court (to lazy to find the link, but I have seen it).
You might consider Maintenance to be cheap, but my experience is that it is a mixed bag. Usually it's just a tech-support guy reading from the same forum you can find online. Hell, one time I had one of the developers of a product come down and train me on a system (from a big, big company) and I found a very obvious bug where it would elimate the IP address of every system when you tried to change the SNMP password for those systems. After a while I got the impression that he was more of a maintianer than the "developer" which his title suggested.