All too often they create bizzarre strings of terms just to make a silly acronym.
When Sendit was bought by Microsoft, there was much confusion about the new name. I pushed for MSMI (Microsoft Mobile Internet) but that was percieved to be too close to "a mess am I" and MMI was taken (Man-Machine Interface, like they ever cared about that before, DNS anyone?) so they went with MIBU (Mobile Internet Business Group) instead. They closed the whole thing down a little over a year after the purchase. Embrace, extend, extinguish.
Saddam would not last long under internal pressure
That plan relied heavily on the US supporting the Iraqi opposition.
Bush senior didn't have a mandate from the UN to go any further.
I think he could have gotten it. Besides, resolution 678 says "all necessary means" and junior never had that kind of authorization from 1441 or the Security Council to back up his war (most of 678 was put to sleep with the cease-fire outlined in 687).
possibly even the moment the inspectors were first kicked out, back in 1998.
They weren't kicked out. The "kicked out" part is revisionist history.
The chief U.N. weapons inspector ordered his monitors to leave Baghdad today after saying that Iraq had once again reneged on its promise to cooperate--a report that renewed the threat of U.S. and British airstrikes.
--AP, 12/16/98
Bush did what should've been done years ago
Bush did what his dad should have done. There was reason for a lot of pressure on Saddam now (that includes surgical airstrikes and Tomahawks) and there was reason for a war ten years ago. But there was no reason for a full scale war now.
There was no reason to go to war against 40 million people for the sake of catching one bastard.
Yes, there is. It's just not as common as it used to be since most of the old BSOD errors get caught in the Error Reporting utility now. But it's still entirely possible to get bluescreen STOP errors when booting XP.
he made nearly the entire world's desktop consistent
No, he didn't. There are lots of fundamental differences regarding how the user interacts with the UI between Windows 3.x/NT3.5, Windows 9x/ME/2000/NT4 and Windows XP/2003. It will change again for Longhorn. Many people have real problems finding menuitems and tasks when they upgrade. A simple thing like looking at the list of installed device drivers that was relatively intuitive in NT4 was buried like King Tut in Windows 2000 except they put "Nothing to see here, move along" on the pyramid. FileManager. The "Start" button that doesn't. Vanishing desktop icons.
brings it to one platform
Windows NT 4, Windows NT4 Server, Windows NT 4 Server Enterprise Edition, Windows NT 4 Terminal Server Edition, Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows ME, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, Windows CE, Pocket Windows, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Embedded Windows, Windows 2000 DataCenter Server... The list goes on.
One platform? Sure, Bob. I think Bill woke up one morning and realized that Linux has a bunch of different distros and decided that Microsoft had to have that concept too. Their slogan should be Freedom to make bad copies.
I used Gentoo on an old HP laptop with broken screen hinges. I also used the framebuffer stuff instead of a full windowing environment, partly because the laptop just had 64MB RAM and partly because I didn't feel like compiling X on a PII 266.:-)
The main reason for using Gentoo was that it let me decide exactly what to install. No servers in the background, no rxtra nothing. I was thinking of just deleting gcc and the source after I was done but I never got around to it, thinking I might need it later.
Let's assume there are some aliens out there who want to solve the Kennedy assassination for us next year.
What, they'll come down and admit they did it?;-)
Statistically speaking, it's more likely that they already know because they were there and saw it in real-time. Or that we could do like in The Light of Other Days (a good read, I recommend it) and peek back in time through quantum tunneling effects. Call Wesley, he'll know exactly what to do.
The recent completion of drilling at Vostok station in East Antarctica has allowed the extension of the ice record of atmospheric composition and climate to the past four glacial-interglacial cycles. The succession of changes through each climate cycle and termination was similar, and atmospheric and climate properties oscillated between stable bounds. Interglacial periods differed in temporal evolution and duration.
Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane correlate well with Antarctic air-temperature throughout the record. Present-day atmospheric burdens of these two important greenhouse gases seem to have been unprecedented during the past 420,000 years.
These ice cores show a 20th century isotopic enrichment that suggests a large scale warming is underway at low latitudes. The rate of this isotopically inferred warming is amplified at higher elevations over the
Tibetan Plateau while amplification in the Andes is latitude dependent with enrichment (warming)
increasing equatorward. In concert with this apparent warming, in situ observations reveal that
tropical glaciers are currently disappearing.
Tropical glacier and ice core evidence of climate change on annual to millennial time scales..
Easy: Femplesnip. It means to invent new words as you go along. So I just femplesnipped femplesnip and my descendants will cite this post as prior art.
Roaches. They're hardy, breed easily and eats almost anything. When we're gone, they'll take over. Single-cells, fish, dinos, mammals, insects. I dunno what comes after the insects, though. Bacteria, maybe. Or MS Blaster.;-)
The ultimate goal of all this kookiness is impeding US industry and prosperity
Why so narrow-minded? It impedes ALL industry and prosperity. No one targets the US specifically. Oh, I totally agree that the current set of narrow regulations are counter-productive (to put it mildly). One such example local to me is Swedish energy industry buying coal-generated electricity from Poland to make up for the lower emission standards imposed on the Swedish (much cleaner) power plants. That's why we need a level playing field and the EU-wide emission rights market is a step in the right direction (properly implemented, that is).
However, looking at eco-friendlyness in the industry as an inherently bad thing is also counter-productive. Instead, it should be seen as an opportunity to modernize the industry - using the technical advantage that the 3rd world countries do not have. Work smarter to keep ahead. Digging for coal and burning it is going to be cheaper in Poland, Belarus, Mexico, Nicarague or where ever anyway and the trick is to not compete with that. Compete with high-tech instead. They can't keep up with that. Look at the major oil companies, they are shifting from simply pumping oil to being diversified energy producers. They are going with the flow in ways that Joe Q. Public hasn't yet realized they even could. They've been taught, time and time again, that they have to be quick or be dead. The governments of the world have to realize that, too.
It's like when Star Wars broke the Soviet Union - for years the US military tried to out-perform the Red Army and Strategic Rocket Forces on their home turf and failing miserably. Not until they turned the tables on the Reds and went in a different direction where the Soviets couldn't follow did they win the Cold War. The basic economic realities of the brewing eco-war are the same.
The facts are that the amount of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere are way higher now than they were a hundred years ago. The atmosphere is also warming at a rate unheard of since we started measuring these things and at a rate not found in any ice samples from the last several hundred thousand years. Large chunks of very old ice is melting in Antarctica and there are island nations that will soon cease to exist due to rising ocean waters.
Can we afford to ignore the possibility of a causal link? I believe we can't.
I'm not saying we should go back to dwelling in caves in Eden, that's a pathetic strawman argument. I'm just saying that we should put some thought into fixing emissions in a smart way, a way that will keep our scientists at the forefront of innovation, that will keep our industries competitive and that will preserve our way of life and preferably enable more people to share it.
"life as we know it".. The Dinosaurs did quite well:)
I for one welcome our new/old dinosaur overlords!
Joking aside, the argument that the earth has been experiencing major differences in temperatures in the past and that this is normal and all is very fascinating except for one small fact: We're humans. We don't like having volcanoes in our back yards, ferns all over our lawns, hurricanes ripping our houses to shreds and brontosaurs trampling our offspring. We're kinda picky that way.
So, what's the semacode for http://goatse.cx/ so I can recognize it and keep away?:-)
(Yes, I know the actual site has gone away, I use it as a metaphor for all that's evil and disgusting in the world. Maybe I should use Microsoft's pages on Security instead...?)
Slashdot Mirror
For better evil, use SCO instead (Limited time offer: Just $699!).
Some pretty funny stuff in there. And Jennifer Runyon, of course. :-)
When Sendit was bought by Microsoft, there was much confusion about the new name. I pushed for MSMI (Microsoft Mobile Internet) but that was percieved to be too close to "a mess am I" and MMI was taken (Man-Machine Interface, like they ever cared about that before, DNS anyone?) so they went with MIBU (Mobile Internet Business Group) instead. They closed the whole thing down a little over a year after the purchase. Embrace, extend, extinguish.
Oh yes! :-D Anyone live nearby and have access to a chisel?
* 1975
+ 2004
BSOD
Start digging.
That plan relied heavily on the US supporting the Iraqi opposition.
Bush senior didn't have a mandate from the UN to go any further.
I think he could have gotten it. Besides, resolution 678 says "all necessary means" and junior never had that kind of authorization from 1441 or the Security Council to back up his war (most of 678 was put to sleep with the cease-fire outlined in 687).
They weren't kicked out. The "kicked out" part is revisionist history.
Bush did what should've been done years ago
Bush did what his dad should have done. There was reason for a lot of pressure on Saddam now (that includes surgical airstrikes and Tomahawks) and there was reason for a war ten years ago. But there was no reason for a full scale war now.
There was no reason to go to war against 40 million people for the sake of catching one bastard.
Yes, there is. It's just not as common as it used to be since most of the old BSOD errors get caught in the Error Reporting utility now. But it's still entirely possible to get bluescreen STOP errors when booting XP.
Strangely enough, none of the menuitems appear in their 'old' places when you do that. Surprise!
No, he didn't. There are lots of fundamental differences regarding how the user interacts with the UI between Windows 3.x/NT3.5, Windows 9x/ME/2000/NT4 and Windows XP/2003. It will change again for Longhorn. Many people have real problems finding menuitems and tasks when they upgrade. A simple thing like looking at the list of installed device drivers that was relatively intuitive in NT4 was buried like King Tut in Windows 2000 except they put "Nothing to see here, move along" on the pyramid. FileManager. The "Start" button that doesn't. Vanishing desktop icons.
brings it to one platform
Windows NT 4, Windows NT4 Server, Windows NT 4 Server Enterprise Edition, Windows NT 4 Terminal Server Edition, Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows ME, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, Windows CE, Pocket Windows, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Embedded Windows, Windows 2000 DataCenter Server... The list goes on.
One platform? Sure, Bob. I think Bill woke up one morning and realized that Linux has a bunch of different distros and decided that Microsoft had to have that concept too. Their slogan should be Freedom to make bad copies.
The main reason for using Gentoo was that it let me decide exactly what to install. No servers in the background, no rxtra nothing. I was thinking of just deleting gcc and the source after I was done but I never got around to it, thinking I might need it later.
Shaving cream, be nice and clean... I haven't heard that one in ages...
What, they'll come down and admit they did it? ;-)
Statistically speaking, it's more likely that they already know because they were there and saw it in real-time. Or that we could do like in The Light of Other Days (a good read, I recommend it) and peek back in time through quantum tunneling effects. Call Wesley, he'll know exactly what to do.
Ah, you're the reason they switched back, then? :-)
I sincerely hope not. :-D
I believe what you're looking for can be found here. ;-)
Care to explain the naming of the World Series? ;-)
They don't.
I don't think so. Considering the time it took to get 4.1.4 as the proverbial gift from the Gods, I wouldn't hold my breath. ;-)
Damn, I actually miss SunOS, SunView and the 3/80s we had at school...
The Warming
starring CO2, the Earth and the Humans
since we started measuring (~100 years)
last thousand years (p.4)
On geological timescales
420,000 years BP
Emphasis mine.Particularly interesting is perhaps this bit:
Nature has published a lot of interesting reports on the subject over the years and they have an excellent search engine. Give it a shot.
Bonus info on the recession of the world's glaciers. Just because you asked nicely. :-)
And I leave you with this:
Nah, I'm kinda happy the way we are. :-)
Easy: Femplesnip. It means to invent new words as you go along. So I just femplesnipped femplesnip and my descendants will cite this post as prior art.
Roaches. They're hardy, breed easily and eats almost anything. When we're gone, they'll take over. Single-cells, fish, dinos, mammals, insects. I dunno what comes after the insects, though. Bacteria, maybe. Or MS Blaster. ;-)
Why so narrow-minded? It impedes ALL industry and prosperity. No one targets the US specifically. Oh, I totally agree that the current set of narrow regulations are counter-productive (to put it mildly). One such example local to me is Swedish energy industry buying coal-generated electricity from Poland to make up for the lower emission standards imposed on the Swedish (much cleaner) power plants. That's why we need a level playing field and the EU-wide emission rights market is a step in the right direction (properly implemented, that is).
However, looking at eco-friendlyness in the industry as an inherently bad thing is also counter-productive. Instead, it should be seen as an opportunity to modernize the industry - using the technical advantage that the 3rd world countries do not have. Work smarter to keep ahead. Digging for coal and burning it is going to be cheaper in Poland, Belarus, Mexico, Nicarague or where ever anyway and the trick is to not compete with that. Compete with high-tech instead. They can't keep up with that. Look at the major oil companies, they are shifting from simply pumping oil to being diversified energy producers. They are going with the flow in ways that Joe Q. Public hasn't yet realized they even could. They've been taught, time and time again, that they have to be quick or be dead. The governments of the world have to realize that, too.
It's like when Star Wars broke the Soviet Union - for years the US military tried to out-perform the Red Army and Strategic Rocket Forces on their home turf and failing miserably. Not until they turned the tables on the Reds and went in a different direction where the Soviets couldn't follow did they win the Cold War. The basic economic realities of the brewing eco-war are the same.
The facts are that the amount of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere are way higher now than they were a hundred years ago. The atmosphere is also warming at a rate unheard of since we started measuring these things and at a rate not found in any ice samples from the last several hundred thousand years. Large chunks of very old ice is melting in Antarctica and there are island nations that will soon cease to exist due to rising ocean waters.
Can we afford to ignore the possibility of a causal link? I believe we can't.
I'm not saying we should go back to dwelling in caves in Eden, that's a pathetic strawman argument. I'm just saying that we should put some thought into fixing emissions in a smart way, a way that will keep our scientists at the forefront of innovation, that will keep our industries competitive and that will preserve our way of life and preferably enable more people to share it.
I for one welcome our new/old dinosaur overlords!
Joking aside, the argument that the earth has been experiencing major differences in temperatures in the past and that this is normal and all is very fascinating except for one small fact: We're humans. We don't like having volcanoes in our back yards, ferns all over our lawns, hurricanes ripping our houses to shreds and brontosaurs trampling our offspring. We're kinda picky that way.
(Yes, I know the actual site has gone away, I use it as a metaphor for all that's evil and disgusting in the world. Maybe I should use Microsoft's pages on Security instead...?)