I went looking for something to back up your statement, but I couldn't find it. Perhaps you could point me to something about this?
And isn't the normal response to any installation with extensions installed to advise removing the extensions first and seeing if the problem lies with the extension code, thereby moving the onus of fixing the problem to the extension developer?
Firefox and Konqueror should have a button for "Open the clipboard in a new tab".
Agreed. While not a perfect solution, Clipboard Observer may be a possible way of dealing with this. It can get really intrusive, though, because it can end up opening tabs when you're copying a link to paste somewhere else, like in e-mail or IM. Worth a try, though.
On an unrelated note, the same author also has Tabbrowser Extensions, basically some really, really, REALLY useful alterations to how Mozilla and Firefox handle tabs. With it, you can do things that should (IMHO) be in the codebase, like re-ordering tabs, moving tabs in groups, moving tabs between windows, opening duplicate tabs (complete with the tab's page history), and (my favorite) undoing the closing of a tab. I've been saved on a number of occasions by this last feature. Very handy. The author should be getting more recognition.
The section where civilians attempting to rejoin an organized military, militia, or recognized volunteer group are to be treated as if they actually were members of the group. Clear cross-over.
Hence why I said "15-20 years" and not "5 years." They're allowed to grow to maturity, and then harvested. They may target some older-growth forests, but not nearly as many as people think.
Members of regular armed forces are supposed to carry some sort of identification to that effect: a card, dog tags, implanted RFID chip... something. How many of them had that, and how many were part of rag-tag groups run by warlords who had allied with the Taleban for convenience, and who have since turned on them when the odds went the other way. One Afghan commander said during the main fighting, "You can't buy an Afghan, but you can rent him for a while." He was speaking of how fluidly they can transition their loyalties to best serve themselves and their clans. Look at how politics work there now and tell me he was wrong.
And this is said where? Even the convention I quoted recognizes that there are crossovers that don't fit neatly into either category, so it's very possible that there are others.
For enough of them to create legal problems, "adequate protection" translates to "don't touch it if it might result in a single creature being displaced." There are plenty of well-funded fringe groups out there who can still create trouble.
The other problem with your plan is the question of how to keep fish from eating the algae, let alone harvesting it effectively.
Living in California, I've become suspicious of the environmental movement. You can have a perfectly valid idea, buy the land, build it, and still get sued into the ground by the various enviro groups out there. Perfect example: the wind farm that was sued because it killed too many birds.
Maybe because paper companies are happy with the level of planting they have, which actually outpaces how much they use. For the most part, the paper companies travel through the same swaths of land every 15-20 years, but end up planting more trees than they use, both to help anticipate future demand and to boost their public image.
Oh, believe me, they'd scrap it all in an instant if they could find better profits elsewhere. I've worked for an oil company, and they scrape profits together anywhere they can. They're happy with oil prices now, but they know they won't last. Oil is a very high-risk industry: a company can easily spend a billion on setting up an oil field and have it completely tank. Look at Shell right now -- they're part of a major investigation because they misreported their oil reserves by more than 4 billion barrels.
It's a cutthroat industry, and every chance to edge out the competition is examined.
The US does have authority, but it is under military regulation, not US or Cuban law, and SCOTUS has already held that constitutional protections do not always extend to the military.
The Third Geneva Convention pertains only to those formally fighting in the name of a government, who are recognizable as such, and who follow the laws and customs of war. Al Qaeda is none of these, but they are clearly not civilians, either.
First, we need to persuade the Sheeple that (A) we are going to run out of fossil fuel
Nope. Just start producing it cheaply and they'll have a reason to switch all on their own.
At the moment, to the average Merkin, it will sound amazingly ridiculous to "waste" a 100x100 mile area "just so some pinko environmentalist wackos can stop using oil". (I'm sorry, but that's how the right-leaning folks in this nation will interpret it.)
Wasting a 100x100 mile area is what the enviros will also complain about because of the disruption to the local ecology. There is no group harder to please than they are.
The general public in the US is so amazingly ignorant, they probably never even bother thinking that we could run out of oil, much less that we will, and that is is only a matter of time before we do (if no action is taken, which is looking rather likely as always).
That's because the sky has been falling for half a century and it's still nowhere closer to landing. Go back to the 40s and 50s, and you'll see just as many articles about there being only 50 years of oil left as there are now.
Art. 4. A. Prisoners of war, in the sense of the present Convention, are persons belonging to one of the following categories, who have fallen into the power of the enemy:
(1) Members of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict, as well as members of militias or volunteer corps forming part of such armed forces.
(2) Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, belonging to a Party to the conflict and operating in or outside their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that such militias or volunteer corps, including such organized resistance movements, fulfil the following conditions:[ (a) that of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates; (b) that of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance; (c) that of carrying arms openly; (d) that of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.
(3) Members of regular armed forces who profess allegiance to a government or an authority not recognized by the Detaining Power.
(4) Persons who accompany the armed forces without actually being members thereof, such as civilian members of military aircraft crews, war correspondents, supply contractors, members of labour units or of services responsible for the welfare of the armed forces, provided that they have received authorization, from the armed forces which they accompany, who shall provide them for that purpose with an identity card similar to the annexed model.
(5) Members of crews, including masters, pilots and apprentices, of the merchant marine and the crews of civil aircraft of the Parties to the conflict, who do not benefit by more favourable treatment under any other provisions of international law.
(6) Inhabitants of a non-occupied territory, who on the approach of the enemy spontaneously take up arms to resist the invading forces, without having had time to form themselves into regular armed units, provided they carry arms openly and respect the laws and customs of war.
B. The following shall likewise be treated as prisoners of war under the present Convention: (1) Persons belonging, or having belonged, to the armed forces of the occupied country, if the occupying Power considers it necessary by reason of such allegiance to intern them, even though it has originally liberated them while hostilities were going on outside the territory it occupies, in particular where such persons have made an unsuccessful attempt to rejoin the armed forces to which they belong and which are engaged in combat, or where they fail to comply with a summons made to them with a view to internment.
(2) The persons belonging to one of the categories enumerated in the present Article, who have been received by neutral or non-belligerent Powers on their territory and whom these Powers are required to intern under international law, without prejudice to any more favourable treatment which these Powers may choose to give and with the exception of Articles 8, 10, 15, 30, fifth paragraph, 58-67, 92, 126 and, where diplomatic relations exist between the Parties to the conflict and the neutral or non-belligerent Power concerned, those Articles concerning the Protecting Power. Where such diplomatic relations exist, the Parties to a conflict on whom these persons depend shall be allowed to perform towards them the functions of a Protecting Power as provided in the present Convention, without prejudice to the functions which these Parties normally exercise in conformity with diplomatic and consular usage and treaties.
C. This Article shall in no way affect the status of medical personnel and chaplains as provided for in Article 33 of the present Convention.
In essence, no, al Qaeda forces are not required to be treated as prisoners of war, because they are not members of armed forces, militias, or volunte
Yeah, it is, but it's sometimes not far off. I have offers of free room and board should I ever visit the areas of Sacramento, CA; Tacoma, WA; Denver, CO; Winona, MN; New York City; Memphis, TN; Gulfport, MS; and Ocala, FL, based on remote tech support over the years. A couple of them have promised even more.:: sigh:: What a burden it is to be loyal to one's mate....
People do care, but they feel helpless about it. What can one person do?
Answer: A lot, if they know it can be done.
However, sometimes change does come from within. Google's mantra of "Do no harm" may well resonate with people once they start opening up a bit. When one can trust a company out of the gate, it becomes a powerful incentive to be a customer of that company than some other company that can't (or won't) show you what it does with your information. I'm hoping that Google will become a runaway success story so that other companies can follow suit.
I'm nearing the end of my third decade, and it's been "ten years away" for at least as long as we've had "only fifty years of oil left." Only recently has the timeframe been widely acknowledged as being multiple decades off.
How do you keep supporting an administration dumb enough to be had by the Iranian's.
And why is it you think the Iranians are so dumb?
While Iran may well have had some influence in it, I get irked by these kind of suggestions that Americans are so much smarter than everyone else. A lot of people continue to think that all of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons came from the US. In fact, there were facilities constructed with the help of several other countries, but Iraq had a successful, home-grown chemical weapons program at least as far back as about 1973, and by the time the US began providing assistance in the mid-1980s, they'd already learned how to produce a wide variety of agents.
The US does not know all. There's a lot of worry about what goes on in North Korea because the place is so paranoid that it's impossible to get a clean intelligence source in there for long. The same thing happened in Iraq, when Hussein had three separate, competing intelligence organizations that kept an eye on not only the populace, but also on each other. Iran has similar competing agencies (though not quite so paranoid)
The suggestion that Iraq scientists were too stupid to come up with developments on their own and that Iranians are too stupid to be able to pull one past the US is, frankly, insulting and possibly racist to Arabs and Persians.
Girls are reaching puberty at younger ages, but I've seen many a scientific article that have linked this more closely with nutrition being improved over the years. However, I've not noticed many 10 year-old girls with C-cups, and I live in SoCal and my girlfriend works at a popular local mall. We've been in skinfest season for about two months now, and short girls with large breasts would be very noticeable.
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Well, it's about the only one I use, so that may be why I haven't had many problems. It's still functionality that should be in the base code, though.
I went looking for something to back up your statement, but I couldn't find it. Perhaps you could point me to something about this?
And isn't the normal response to any installation with extensions installed to advise removing the extensions first and seeing if the problem lies with the extension code, thereby moving the onus of fixing the problem to the extension developer?
Firefox and Konqueror should have a button for "Open the clipboard in a new tab".
Agreed. While not a perfect solution, Clipboard Observer may be a possible way of dealing with this. It can get really intrusive, though, because it can end up opening tabs when you're copying a link to paste somewhere else, like in e-mail or IM. Worth a try, though.
On an unrelated note, the same author also has Tabbrowser Extensions, basically some really, really, REALLY useful alterations to how Mozilla and Firefox handle tabs. With it, you can do things that should (IMHO) be in the codebase, like re-ordering tabs, moving tabs in groups, moving tabs between windows, opening duplicate tabs (complete with the tab's page history), and (my favorite) undoing the closing of a tab. I've been saved on a number of occasions by this last feature. Very handy. The author should be getting more recognition.
I don't use those, except for 'peeps,' but that's because my girlfriend loves the little things, so I use them to put her in a good mood.
If I bought my girlfriend one of these, she wouldn't be too impressed since the portability is low.
OTOH, she said that if I bought her a D70, she'd be my slave for a week.
Winner: D70.
The section where civilians attempting to rejoin an organized military, militia, or recognized volunteer group are to be treated as if they actually were members of the group. Clear cross-over.
Maybe we are, and time would be flowing the other way if space didn't expand so quickly.
Hence why I said "15-20 years" and not "5 years." They're allowed to grow to maturity, and then harvested. They may target some older-growth forests, but not nearly as many as people think.
Members of regular armed forces are supposed to carry some sort of identification to that effect: a card, dog tags, implanted RFID chip... something. How many of them had that, and how many were part of rag-tag groups run by warlords who had allied with the Taleban for convenience, and who have since turned on them when the odds went the other way. One Afghan commander said during the main fighting, "You can't buy an Afghan, but you can rent him for a while." He was speaking of how fluidly they can transition their loyalties to best serve themselves and their clans. Look at how politics work there now and tell me he was wrong.
And this is said where? Even the convention I quoted recognizes that there are crossovers that don't fit neatly into either category, so it's very possible that there are others.
For enough of them to create legal problems, "adequate protection" translates to "don't touch it if it might result in a single creature being displaced." There are plenty of well-funded fringe groups out there who can still create trouble.
The other problem with your plan is the question of how to keep fish from eating the algae, let alone harvesting it effectively.
Living in California, I've become suspicious of the environmental movement. You can have a perfectly valid idea, buy the land, build it, and still get sued into the ground by the various enviro groups out there. Perfect example: the wind farm that was sued because it killed too many birds.
Really, sometimes you just can't win with them.
Maybe because paper companies are happy with the level of planting they have, which actually outpaces how much they use. For the most part, the paper companies travel through the same swaths of land every 15-20 years, but end up planting more trees than they use, both to help anticipate future demand and to boost their public image.
Most, if not all, of the people involved in the artificial diamond trade have been warned that their lives are in danger. De Beers is VERY interested.
Oh, believe me, they'd scrap it all in an instant if they could find better profits elsewhere. I've worked for an oil company, and they scrape profits together anywhere they can. They're happy with oil prices now, but they know they won't last. Oil is a very high-risk industry: a company can easily spend a billion on setting up an oil field and have it completely tank. Look at Shell right now -- they're part of a major investigation because they misreported their oil reserves by more than 4 billion barrels.
It's a cutthroat industry, and every chance to edge out the competition is examined.
The US does have authority, but it is under military regulation, not US or Cuban law, and SCOTUS has already held that constitutional protections do not always extend to the military.
The Third Geneva Convention pertains only to those formally fighting in the name of a government, who are recognizable as such, and who follow the laws and customs of war. Al Qaeda is none of these, but they are clearly not civilians, either.
First, we need to persuade the Sheeple that (A) we are going to run out of fossil fuel
Nope. Just start producing it cheaply and they'll have a reason to switch all on their own.
At the moment, to the average Merkin, it will sound amazingly ridiculous to "waste" a 100x100 mile area "just so some pinko environmentalist wackos can stop using oil". (I'm sorry, but that's how the right-leaning folks in this nation will interpret it.)
Wasting a 100x100 mile area is what the enviros will also complain about because of the disruption to the local ecology. There is no group harder to please than they are.
The general public in the US is so amazingly ignorant, they probably never even bother thinking that we could run out of oil, much less that we will, and that is is only a matter of time before we do (if no action is taken, which is looking rather likely as always).
That's because the sky has been falling for half a century and it's still nowhere closer to landing. Go back to the 40s and 50s, and you'll see just as many articles about there being only 50 years of oil left as there are now.
From the Third Geneva Convention:
Art. 4. A. Prisoners of war, in the sense of the present Convention, are persons belonging to one of the following categories, who have fallen into the power of the enemy:
(1) Members of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict, as well as members of militias or volunteer corps forming part of such armed forces.
(2) Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, belonging to a Party to the conflict and operating in or outside their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that such militias or volunteer corps, including such organized resistance movements, fulfil the following conditions:[ (a) that of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates; (b) that of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance; (c) that of carrying arms openly; (d) that of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.
(3) Members of regular armed forces who profess allegiance to a government or an authority not recognized by the Detaining Power.
(4) Persons who accompany the armed forces without actually being members thereof, such as civilian members of military aircraft crews, war correspondents, supply contractors, members of labour units or of services responsible for the welfare of the armed forces, provided that they have received authorization, from the armed forces which they accompany, who shall provide them for that purpose with an identity card similar to the annexed model.
(5) Members of crews, including masters, pilots and apprentices, of the merchant marine and the crews of civil aircraft of the Parties to the conflict, who do not benefit by more favourable treatment under any other provisions of international law.
(6) Inhabitants of a non-occupied territory, who on the approach of the enemy spontaneously take up arms to resist the invading forces, without having had time to form themselves into regular armed units, provided they carry arms openly and respect the laws and customs of war.
B. The following shall likewise be treated as prisoners of war under the present Convention: (1) Persons belonging, or having belonged, to the armed forces of the occupied country, if the occupying Power considers it necessary by reason of such allegiance to intern them, even though it has originally liberated them while hostilities were going on outside the territory it occupies, in particular where such persons have made an unsuccessful attempt to rejoin the armed forces to which they belong and which are engaged in combat, or where they fail to comply with a summons made to them with a view to internment.
(2) The persons belonging to one of the categories enumerated in the present Article, who have been received by neutral or non-belligerent Powers on their territory and whom these Powers are required to intern under international law, without prejudice to any more favourable treatment which these Powers may choose to give and with the exception of Articles 8, 10, 15, 30, fifth paragraph, 58-67, 92, 126 and, where diplomatic relations exist between the Parties to the conflict and the neutral or non-belligerent Power concerned, those Articles concerning the Protecting Power. Where such diplomatic relations exist, the Parties to a conflict on whom these persons depend shall be allowed to perform towards them the functions of a Protecting Power as provided in the present Convention, without prejudice to the functions which these Parties normally exercise in conformity with diplomatic and consular usage and treaties.
C. This Article shall in no way affect the status of medical personnel and chaplains as provided for in Article 33 of the present Convention.
In essence, no, al Qaeda forces are not required to be treated as prisoners of war, because they are not members of armed forces, militias, or volunte
Yeah, it is, but it's sometimes not far off. I have offers of free room and board should I ever visit the areas of Sacramento, CA; Tacoma, WA; Denver, CO; Winona, MN; New York City; Memphis, TN; Gulfport, MS; and Ocala, FL, based on remote tech support over the years. A couple of them have promised even more. :: sigh :: What a burden it is to be loyal to one's mate....
People do care, but they feel helpless about it. What can one person do?
Answer: A lot, if they know it can be done.
However, sometimes change does come from within. Google's mantra of "Do no harm" may well resonate with people once they start opening up a bit. When one can trust a company out of the gate, it becomes a powerful incentive to be a customer of that company than some other company that can't (or won't) show you what it does with your information. I'm hoping that Google will become a runaway success story so that other companies can follow suit.
To borrow a line...
:/
Why build one when you can build two at twice the price?
Seriously, for as long as this is taking, build them both.
I'm nearing the end of my third decade, and it's been "ten years away" for at least as long as we've had "only fifty years of oil left." Only recently has the timeframe been widely acknowledged as being multiple decades off.
How do you keep supporting an administration dumb enough to be had by the Iranian's.
And why is it you think the Iranians are so dumb?
While Iran may well have had some influence in it, I get irked by these kind of suggestions that Americans are so much smarter than everyone else. A lot of people continue to think that all of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons came from the US. In fact, there were facilities constructed with the help of several other countries, but Iraq had a successful, home-grown chemical weapons program at least as far back as about 1973, and by the time the US began providing assistance in the mid-1980s, they'd already learned how to produce a wide variety of agents.
The US does not know all. There's a lot of worry about what goes on in North Korea because the place is so paranoid that it's impossible to get a clean intelligence source in there for long. The same thing happened in Iraq, when Hussein had three separate, competing intelligence organizations that kept an eye on not only the populace, but also on each other. Iran has similar competing agencies (though not quite so paranoid)
The suggestion that Iraq scientists were too stupid to come up with developments on their own and that Iranians are too stupid to be able to pull one past the US is, frankly, insulting and possibly racist to Arabs and Persians.
Girls are reaching puberty at younger ages, but I've seen many a scientific article that have linked this more closely with nutrition being improved over the years. However, I've not noticed many 10 year-old girls with C-cups, and I live in SoCal and my girlfriend works at a popular local mall. We've been in skinfest season for about two months now, and short girls with large breasts would be very noticeable.