I don't see your point, in one instance the victims cooperated and no one was hurt. In the other, the police were there to handle it, and again no one was hurt.
Or were you trying to back me up?
Sort of backing you when saying "you can be aware of the dangers in the world, and try to mitigate them." Just pointing out that the advisable behavior varies with the place and circumstances.
"They had to stop at the red light and then all of a sudden five people were around the car, one with a machine gun, and they opened the door and took two rucksacks and disappeared. So nobody was injured."
McLaren's Button was the victim of an attempted armed robbery about an hour earlier but his police driver smashed his way through traffic to escape when the gunmen were seen approaching.
That's why I never leave the house without wearing a bullet-proof vest, a lead helmet and a condom... too many crazies out there.
Pardon me, I appreciate the basic caution in you advice above, but it's still silly... You see: lead helmets are still not as effective as tin foil hats...
HTML 5, and google's native code over the web etc. *might* change things a bit, giving people instant access to stuff.
But all the great technologies we're touting, colour e-book readers, mp3 players, phones that can run programs aren't exactly great performance wise
What stuff? You mean FaecBook, garden-walled app/content repository or gmail/Ymail/hotmail and such? No, thanks, I do value more being able to download some source code from sf.net and compile it, ssh to my personal server to create just another SMTP/IMAP account (when I need an one-off/disposable email), and whatnot.
Maybe because I'm might not be "of the people" that I don't see a value in churning shit with high performance?.
I mean, the professor sees some advantages in the proposal s/he made you. Why don't you ask:
a. what does s/he things these advantages are. Possibly, you can slip in a "what's in for me" type of question, even if in a more subtle form.
b. given that your dilemma is also related to your ability to pay, you can ask a second question on how s/he this this can be approached/solved.
I mean, you are closer to the professor than you are to/., s/he knows your circumstances better and can resonate better with them than/. crowd (even more so as you are posting the question as an AC, so the very chances that someone here would know you are an immense zero).
Let me tell you something, that degree is just important or you'll end up like me. I have years of experience, tons of certifications but since I don't have a degree no one will hire me and I can't get promoted if I do find a job.
Let me tell you something: whenever I'm called in to job interviews as an assessor, my tendency is to consider dubious certifications by the tons. After all, if you send so much time in getting your knowledge certified, when do you have enough time to actually do something meaningful (not to mention that, most of the time, learning only to stay a certification exam is not actual learning: I got a MS certification about 17 years ago only after spending 3 days skimming a over-1000-pages book and applying common-sense in filtering out the improbable answers during the exam. 1 day after getting the score to pass with 91% I cleared my mind and forget everything).
Wow... thank you for the analysis... How silly for me to trust that bunch of judges to come with a solution that will make the world a better place. I'll do my best to direct your analysis to their attention, maybe they'll see how wrong they were.
(I apologize for all the above: my only excuse - must be my Friday(-thanks-God-)impaired sense of humor)
The arab world is not going to view Qadafi being killed as the same as the US bombing hospitals.
Unless if, colateraly and by pure mistake (which happens in every war), the hospitals actually get bombed and innocent civilians get killed with a video-camera on their shoulder...
Here's the transposition: bombing Qadafi is an act of war against tyrannical egomaniacal murderous Afro-Liberace dictators.
How'd be this different from the reasons US went to war in Iraq? Two times already? How well these interventions turned out? Is the world a better place? Does even only "the oil-consuming first world" live better?
Give up this nonsense already. Everybody knows:
1. hackers are the guys that crack someone's computer and not the smart/clever persons that fix something like magic.
2. pirates are the guys that download and share movies and not the Somalian gangsters.
Huh! I'm using a SheevaPlug powered with solar panels for my pirating activities. Disconnecting the electricity will only shut down my refrigerator... errr... wait... let me put some ice into that Esky, I hate warm beer.
But they have to pay all the ISPs costs - good (cause it will suppress the volume they send and limit spamming)
Or add the takedown fees to the "piracy is destroying our industry" rhetoric they constantly spout
Since, based on their arithmetic they are losing billions because of the wide-spread piracy, the situation is a Win-Win: their bottom line will improve with every pirate being disconnected and every ripped movie no longer shared; while the ISP-es get a big boost (proportional with the piracy rate) from the fees they are going to pay. Right?
And the honest/non-pirating Internet consumers will see their internet access fees going down (because the ISP has an additional income source), the effective bandwidth increasing (no longer being hogged by the pesky pirates) and the prices for the DVD/BlueRay movies lowering (as they - not actually being some greedy bloody b/tards but only innocent victims of piracy - will be getting now enough profit from the same title). Right?... C'mon, isn't it so?!
Which is to say: "French contribution to the America Revolution was an act of war against England".
Now, can you transpose this please for the present case of Lybia? If it doesn't make sense, not my fault that the proposed argument of "The French support to the American Revolution" doesn't apply to this case.
And the result of it was a global war between several European powers - the equivalent of a World War in what can be considered "world" at that time (England, France, Spain, Dutch republic + colonies... with Austria/ and Russia the only empires missing).
This is also to put into perspective that what US consider a "local" revolution, many other parties involved had experienced as war.
The United States was successful during the War of Independence with French logistical and financial support. That didn't kill the legitimacy of the new government. Your argument is false.
Letting aside the Treaty of Alliance, I don't object to humanitarian support. But the acts of destruction/killing be carried by Libyans.
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Mortal Kombat without the (often hilariously) excessive violence is more or less like going to a strip club to look at shoes.
so some of us have a shoe fetish..
Then you should be able to play a "sanitized" version of M.K. Is that what you imply, isn't it?
you'd only be given user rights to your brain, a boss is admin and has access to all aspects.
I'm lucky cause my boss is sexy..
Circumstances offer a new perspective to "penetration testing", isn't it?
I don't see your point, in one instance the victims cooperated and no one was hurt. In the other, the police were there to handle it, and again no one was hurt.
Or were you trying to back me up?
Sort of backing you when saying "you can be aware of the dangers in the world, and try to mitigate them." Just pointing out that the advisable behavior varies with the place and circumstances.
The "victim" was at fault in that he could have chosen to hand over the keys and call the police
In some places, it is not enough. Sao Paolo - Nov 2010
"They had to stop at the red light and then all of a sudden five people were around the car, one with a machine gun, and they opened the door and took two rucksacks and disappeared. So nobody was injured."
McLaren's Button was the victim of an attempted armed robbery about an hour earlier but his police driver smashed his way through traffic to escape when the gunmen were seen approaching.
That's why I never leave the house without wearing a bullet-proof vest, a lead helmet and a condom... too many crazies out there.
Pardon me, I appreciate the basic caution in you advice above, but it's still silly... You see: lead helmets are still not as effective as tin foil hats...
I wonder how long before ID theft get's applied to make money this way...
I wonder how long until "fake ID creation" will be wide-spread.
HTML 5, and google's native code over the web etc. *might* change things a bit, giving people instant access to stuff.
But all the great technologies we're touting, colour e-book readers, mp3 players, phones that can run programs aren't exactly great performance wise
What stuff? You mean FaecBook, garden-walled app/content repository or gmail/Ymail/hotmail and such?
No, thanks, I do value more being able to download some source code from sf.net and compile it, ssh to my personal server to create just another SMTP/IMAP account (when I need an one-off/disposable email), and whatnot.
Maybe because I'm might not be "of the people" that I don't see a value in churning shit with high performance?.
I fear the RIAA will go crazy if each movie only sells 1 ticket
Good... they drove us crazy already, so it will be only fair.
What do we expect? Now our bosses will be able to read our minds.
And you would be able to read theirs.
Maybe I'm a little bit in the minority here, but can you blame them?
On the same moral stands they use to spread FUD, I am allowed to (thus I can) blame them: it is called freedom of speech.
a. what does s/he things these advantages are. Possibly, you can slip in a "what's in for me" type of question, even if in a more subtle form.
b. given that your dilemma is also related to your ability to pay, you can ask a second question on how s/he this this can be approached/solved.
I mean, you are closer to the professor than you are to /., s/he knows your circumstances better and can resonate better with them than /. crowd (even more so as you are posting the question as an AC, so the very chances that someone here would know you are an immense zero).
Let me tell you something, that degree is just important or you'll end up like me. I have years of experience, tons of certifications but since I don't have a degree no one will hire me and I can't get promoted if I do find a job.
Let me tell you something: whenever I'm called in to job interviews as an assessor, my tendency is to consider dubious certifications by the tons. After all, if you send so much time in getting your knowledge certified, when do you have enough time to actually do something meaningful (not to mention that, most of the time, learning only to stay a certification exam is not actual learning: I got a MS certification about 17 years ago only after spending 3 days skimming a over-1000-pages book and applying common-sense in filtering out the improbable answers during the exam. 1 day after getting the score to pass with 91% I cleared my mind and forget everything).
tiny low-power organic transistors
Me thinks that no matter what, they are going to be fried.
...without transparency, how are the lasers going to shine over the optical fiber?
Actually, it is Oracle now.
(I apologize for all the above: my only excuse - must be my Friday(-thanks-God-)impaired sense of humor)
The arab world is not going to view Qadafi being killed as the same as the US bombing hospitals.
Unless if, colateraly and by pure mistake (which happens in every war), the hospitals actually get bombed and innocent civilians get killed with a video-camera on their shoulder...
Here's the transposition: bombing Qadafi is an act of war against tyrannical egomaniacal murderous Afro-Liberace dictators.
How'd be this different from the reasons US went to war in Iraq? Two times already? How well these interventions turned out? Is the world a better place? Does even only "the oil-consuming first world" live better?
Give up this nonsense already. Everybody knows:
1. hackers are the guys that crack someone's computer and not the smart/clever persons that fix something like magic.
2. pirates are the guys that download and share movies and not the Somalian gangsters.
Huh! I'm using a SheevaPlug powered with solar panels for my pirating activities. Disconnecting the electricity will only shut down my refrigerator... errr... wait... let me put some ice into that Esky, I hate warm beer.
But they have to pay all the ISPs costs - good (cause it will suppress the volume they send and limit spamming)
Or add the takedown fees to the "piracy is destroying our industry" rhetoric they constantly spout
Since, based on their arithmetic they are losing billions because of the wide-spread piracy, the situation is a Win-Win: their bottom line will improve with every pirate being disconnected and every ripped movie no longer shared; while the ISP-es get a big boost (proportional with the piracy rate) from the fees they are going to pay. Right?
And the honest/non-pirating Internet consumers will see their internet access fees going down (because the ISP has an additional income source), the effective bandwidth increasing (no longer being hogged by the pesky pirates) and the prices for the DVD/BlueRay movies lowering (as they - not actually being some greedy bloody b/tards but only innocent victims of piracy - will be getting now enough profit from the same title). Right?... C'mon, isn't it so?!
Now, can you transpose this please for the present case of Lybia?
If it doesn't make sense, not my fault that the proposed argument of "The French support to the American Revolution" doesn't apply to this case.
This is also to put into perspective that what US consider a "local" revolution, many other parties involved had experienced as war.
The United States was successful during the War of Independence with French logistical and financial support. That didn't kill the legitimacy of the new government. Your argument is false.
Letting aside the Treaty of Alliance, I don't object to humanitarian support. But the acts of destruction/killing be carried by Libyans.
Law is shit unless you have a gun to back it up.
The bigger the gun, the better the law, right?
Attack a sovereign country with cruise missiles, then lie about it. Yeah, that sounds about right.
That's not lying, only classifying the information. With some persons extradited, others in Quantico, who's going to stop them?