Absolutely. Peace isn't merely politicians negotiating treaties, public-spirited volunteers planting trees, religious leaders preaching tolerance, or organisations raising money to save endangered species. Peace is an instrument towards achieving open-minded and open-hearted coöperation amongst people from a wide variety of cultures, ethnicities and countries working towards creating solutions for the common welfare. If anyone deserves the Peace prize, Linus Torvalds probably does. Or perhaps the open-source movement, as a whole. Software may not be as visible as loud activists and marching protesters, but it has achieved the kind of collaboration amongst interested private individuals and companies that the environmental movement or any of various well-meaning political groups can only envy.
fired at our soldiers who were there enforcing an UN mandate
Which means a UN force should have dealt with them.
and do I need to bring up the mass graves filled with men and women still clutching their toddler children?
Sad, I know, but it's really not our place to police the world. Or if it is, why not take China to task? Oh I know. They actually do have WMDs.
Reminds me of that bit from Yes, Minister:
Hacker: We should protect the weak from the powerful!
Appleby: Oh really? Why don't we fight the Soviets in Afghanistan then?
Hacker: They are... too powerful!
The problem isn't that religion's claims have few living witnesses, it is that they are absurd.
If someone told me Abraham Lincoln could walk on water, Julius Caesar could raise the dead or repeating E=mc^2 five times a day guarantees eternal happiness, you damn well bet I'd question it.
'Higgs-Boson' sounds like a particle discovered by two people named Higgs and Boson, which is not the case.
The Higgs particle was predicted by Higgs, amongst others, in '64. Its statistical behaviour classifies it as a boson (i.e., a particle that follows Bose-Einstein statistics), which are named after Bose.
By being Indian, may be? Even film posters are printed in the Latin script in India to be accessible to speakers of all languages who may be unfamiliar with each other's scripts. Non-Latin URLs haven't been a barrier to anandabazar.com (Bengali), bartamanpatrika.com (Bengali), eenadu.net (Telugu), and navbharattimes.com (Hindi) from being successful and popular among their target audiences. I imagine the same is true of baidu.com (Chinese) and al-khaleej.com (Arabic) in their home markets.
A lot of the debate here seems to be about English-speaking countries vs. the rest of the world, but English isn't the only language that uses the Latin. Also, the unavailability of non-Latin scripts hasn't hampered the flourishing of home-grown websites in India and China named in their many local languages - what makes the ICANN think this is even necessary?
I'm in a biochemical engineering class where we need to write text notes as well as a large number of equations with an abundance of symbols, all from quickly vanishing slides.
I type the text on my laptop and leave references for the equations. My friend writes only the equations -- by hand. I borrow her notes, fill in the equations in my own time, and send her a copy. Now both of us have neatly typed notes with nothing missing, all achieved using nothing more sophisticated than MS Equation Editor, a pencil, and cooperation.
It works, and the learning curve is flat.
If I hop in a cab and ask the guy to take me to the main railway station, I expect him to take either the shortest or the fastest route, or ask which of them. I do not expect him to just run in circles for more money, although he's on a commission too.
September 5 is Teachers' Day in India.
It is the birthday of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, India's first Vice-President, second President, and a professor.
India and Russia go way back, and this fighter is just continuing the tradition. Good allies, Russians.
The United States has always been far more interested in cultivating Pakistan as a counterweight to India than admitting that India as a secular democracy is far more an obvious ally. They even supported Pakistan in committing genocide in what is now Bangladesh (it was the Soviet Union that gave India a hand that time too - good allies, Russians). And now they want to use India as a counterweight to China, all the while praying China keeps buying more of their debt to fuel their consumption.
I think I speak for many Indians when I say we have a deep admiration for many things American - your constitution, your science, your industry, your higher education, the contributions and good intentions of many of your private citizens. Only experience has taught us not to trust your government as allies. So do your dirty work yourselves, flailing at your daemons where you will, perhaps with Airstrip One as a loyal sidekick, but keep us out of it. We have enough problems of our own.
About the flag-burning - India sank the ship with pirates on-board, and while it might have been desirable in hindsight to have returned to check for survivors, it was an error committed by one commander on one ship. Not the same as invading a country on a false premise.
I would not burn an American flag no matter how strong my revulsion of an American administration, because I realise the flag represents a history and a people far nobler than a few politicians. But when someone somewhere in the world does so, you'd be better off trying to answer what possible outrage could have led them to overlook all that is good in America, than to find other nations to point fingers at.
In defence of teenagers, a lot of iPhone must-havers are adults (age-wise, at least).
Teenagers have to put up with a lot of peer pressure at an emotionally vulnerable time in their lives, when cliques and being seen as cool matter. What excuse do adults have?
As a consumer, I choose not to let my political opinions or moral distaste dictate my purchases. If I did, there wouldn't be anyone left for me to buy from. Every company has something sinister in its history.
I don't care my handset manufacturer is spying on citizens back in its home country. I don't care my neighbourhood gas station is owned by a company that has global warming deniers in its pay. I don't care that a museum I visit is maintained by a government fighting a war I oppose. I don't care the company that manufactured my reasonably-priced, smoothly-functioning printer is accused of dumping heavy metals. It is unlikely that any major company can show ethically flawless conduct.
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Did this happen in 1990, by any chance?
I see where you're going with this, but Glenn Beck will only deny it. News at 9.
Would that be because almost all of this decade was after 2000? Who comes up with these brilliant insights, I wonder.
Absolutely. Peace isn't merely politicians negotiating treaties, public-spirited volunteers planting trees, religious leaders preaching tolerance, or organisations raising money to save endangered species. Peace is an instrument towards achieving open-minded and open-hearted coöperation amongst people from a wide variety of cultures, ethnicities and countries working towards creating solutions for the common welfare. If anyone deserves the Peace prize, Linus Torvalds probably does. Or perhaps the open-source movement, as a whole. Software may not be as visible as loud activists and marching protesters, but it has achieved the kind of collaboration amongst interested private individuals and companies that the environmental movement or any of various well-meaning political groups can only envy.
They violated 17 UN resolutions.
Ooh... bite me.
tried to assassinate a former US president
So we invade an entire country?
fired at our soldiers who were there enforcing an UN mandate
Which means a UN force should have dealt with them.
and do I need to bring up the mass graves filled with men and women still clutching their toddler children?
Sad, I know, but it's really not our place to police the world. Or if it is, why not take China to task? Oh I know. They actually do have WMDs. Reminds me of that bit from Yes, Minister:
Hacker: We should protect the weak from the powerful!
Appleby: Oh really? Why don't we fight the Soviets in Afghanistan then?
Hacker: They are... too powerful!
Gandhi. G-A-N-D-H-I. It's not hard.
The problem isn't that religion's claims have few living witnesses, it is that they are absurd.
If someone told me Abraham Lincoln could walk on water, Julius Caesar could raise the dead or repeating E=mc^2 five times a day guarantees eternal happiness, you damn well bet I'd question it.
"A lot" is two words. You wouldn't say "alittle", would you?
Don't give them any ideas....
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The machine never did give them problems. PEBKAC.
'Higgs-Boson' sounds like a particle discovered by two people named Higgs and Boson, which is not the case.
The Higgs particle was predicted by Higgs, amongst others, in '64. Its statistical behaviour classifies it as a boson (i.e., a particle that follows Bose-Einstein statistics), which are named after Bose.
By being Indian, may be? Even film posters are printed in the Latin script in India to be accessible to speakers of all languages who may be unfamiliar with each other's scripts.
Non-Latin URLs haven't been a barrier to anandabazar.com (Bengali), bartamanpatrika.com (Bengali), eenadu.net (Telugu), and navbharattimes.com (Hindi) from being successful and popular among their target audiences. I imagine the same is true of baidu.com (Chinese) and al-khaleej.com (Arabic) in their home markets.
A lot of the debate here seems to be about English-speaking countries vs. the rest of the world, but English isn't the only language that uses the Latin. Also, the unavailability of non-Latin scripts hasn't hampered the flourishing of home-grown websites in India and China named in their many local languages - what makes the ICANN think this is even necessary?
I'm in a biochemical engineering class where we need to write text notes as well as a large number of equations with an abundance of symbols, all from quickly vanishing slides. I type the text on my laptop and leave references for the equations. My friend writes only the equations -- by hand. I borrow her notes, fill in the equations in my own time, and send her a copy. Now both of us have neatly typed notes with nothing missing, all achieved using nothing more sophisticated than MS Equation Editor, a pencil, and cooperation. It works, and the learning curve is flat.
Fashion doesn't belong with the rest. At all.
If I hop in a cab and ask the guy to take me to the main railway station, I expect him to take either the shortest or the fastest route, or ask which of them. I do not expect him to just run in circles for more money, although he's on a commission too.
Next vacation for you: India.
This is Slashdot. We know who Uhura is.
Don't they have any of those old-fashioned ones that involve gunpowder?
September 5 is Teachers' Day in India. It is the birthday of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, India's first Vice-President, second President, and a professor.
And the Indian space program is a complete joke. It's much like how they develop software. Not very well.
Not very well is now defined as delivering the same goods at a tenth of the price.
OP is right. In a perfect market, people make rational decisions based on perfect market information and rational interpretation thereof.
Say 'my laptop' or
'Toshiba's' - both make good sense.
Depends on context.
Best. Summary. Ever.
India and Russia go way back, and this fighter is just continuing the tradition. Good allies, Russians.
The United States has always been far more interested in cultivating Pakistan as a counterweight to India than admitting that India as a secular democracy is far more an obvious ally. They even supported Pakistan in committing genocide in what is now Bangladesh (it was the Soviet Union that gave India a hand that time too - good allies, Russians). And now they want to use India as a counterweight to China, all the while praying China keeps buying more of their debt to fuel their consumption.
I think I speak for many Indians when I say we have a deep admiration for many things American - your constitution, your science, your industry, your higher education, the contributions and good intentions of many of your private citizens. Only experience has taught us not to trust your government as allies. So do your dirty work yourselves, flailing at your daemons where you will, perhaps with Airstrip One as a loyal sidekick, but keep us out of it. We have enough problems of our own.
About the flag-burning - India sank the ship with pirates on-board, and while it might have been desirable in hindsight to have returned to check for survivors, it was an error committed by one commander on one ship. Not the same as invading a country on a false premise.
I would not burn an American flag no matter how strong my revulsion of an American administration, because I realise the flag represents a history and a people far nobler than a few politicians. But when someone somewhere in the world does so, you'd be better off trying to answer what possible outrage could have led them to overlook all that is good in America, than to find other nations to point fingers at.
Teenagers have to put up with a lot of peer pressure at an emotionally vulnerable time in their lives, when cliques and being seen as cool matter. What excuse do adults have?
Behind every great fortune lies a crime. - Balzac
As a consumer, I choose not to let my political opinions or moral distaste dictate my purchases. If I did, there wouldn't be anyone left for me to buy from. Every company has something sinister in its history.
I don't care my handset manufacturer is spying on citizens back in its home country. I don't care my neighbourhood gas station is owned by a company that has global warming deniers in its pay. I don't care that a museum I visit is maintained by a government fighting a war I oppose. I don't care the company that manufactured my reasonably-priced, smoothly-functioning printer is accused of dumping heavy metals. It is unlikely that any major company can show ethically flawless conduct.