Actually, the Guantanamo prisoners are held as illegal combatants, and according to the laws of war rules and laws are not applicable on illegal combatants; and besides, the war is not (formally) over in Afganistan yet.
1. There is no such thing as an "illegal combatant", Rumsfeld made that one up as he went along.
2. We don't even know if these detainees were involved in any kind of battle or just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. That a large bunch of them are apparently being readied for release suggests that they were not involved in any actual fighting - ie they were civilians. Do you suggest that all civilians in a combat zone wear a piece of cloth around their arms? If so, would khaki or black be approved colors?
3. Formally, there has not been a war in Afghanistan since the Soviets left. Congress has not declared war on Afghanistan. The US is engaged in a unilateral international police action. Formally, by the standards that Rumsfeld has declared, all the US soldiers in Afghanistan can be considered "illegal combatants".
That said, I agree with most of the motives for going in to Afghanistan, I just have a few problems with the way it's been done. Rumsfeld really needs to either charge the detainees with war crimes or get off the potty - this is no way to run a supposedly democratic republic.
Not really. I do have a friend who stopped participating in a closed FidoNet forum because he was afraid some of his texts would get out and he'd get slapped with a libel suit. I think he's paranoid, but the tendencies are really there:
So what's the practical difference between being detained for being in the wrong place at the wrong time and saying the wrong thing in the wrong place? Not much, methinks...
The problem is they don't understand that anymore. If sales are down, they won't for a second think it's due to a problem with the thing being sold, instead they blame it on getting bad reputation online, piracy, the phase of the moon, too little legislation or whatever.
This is increasingly becoming a problem but I have no idea how to fix it short of starting to put CEOs up against walls...
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Not only did we cause their server to go off-line, we caused them to start spelling wrong, too! Now just wait until they re-launch the same service tomorrow, pretending they haven't noticed it's a dupe...
polling enough people with enough knowledge of the subject to have an opinion
I'd like to paraphrase that into "Nobody knows what's going on around here, but everybody has an opinion".
Just look at the audience votes in Who wants to be a millionaire. I saw some screenshots from the German version where this lady was asked what George W. Bush's first name was (THE FULL NAME WAS *IN* *THE* *QUESTION*!) and first she used the 50-50 lifeline to eliminate all options except George and Edward. Then she asked the audience and not only did the majority of the idiots vote Edward, 3% of them actually voted for an already eliminated option (Gertrude or something, I don't remember). She gave Edward as her final answer.
Even today you see several instruction-set architectures implementing single-instruction stream multiple-data stream (SIMD) integer and floating-point operations for multimedia applications, but we need to take this a few steps further--using a general-purpose processor with several special-purpose hardware units that are optimized and integrated for specific tasks, as shown in figure 11. [...] These special-purpose hardware units will provide orders of magnitude of equivalent general-purpose performance.
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Just don't install Mandrake if you've got a LG drive.
(I bet you thought that link would be to something else. ;-)
Anyone else think of the Simpsons episode where Homer designs his dream car?
Good point. Actually, I'd recommend a backup before trying *any* new file system code that has write abilities.
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For DOS, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, OS/2, BeOS, MacOS...
Would it be OK to close the eyes and cover the ears? How about going out of the room for a pitstop or to fetch a glass of water?
Damn, I needed to work today. Oh well, there's always tomorrow... :-) Thanks for the links.
1. There is no such thing as an "illegal combatant", Rumsfeld made that one up as he went along.
2. We don't even know if these detainees were involved in any kind of battle or just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. That a large bunch of them are apparently being readied for release suggests that they were not involved in any actual fighting - ie they were civilians. Do you suggest that all civilians in a combat zone wear a piece of cloth around their arms? If so, would khaki or black be approved colors?
3. Formally, there has not been a war in Afghanistan since the Soviets left. Congress has not declared war on Afghanistan. The US is engaged in a unilateral international police action. Formally, by the standards that Rumsfeld has declared, all the US soldiers in Afghanistan can be considered "illegal combatants".
That said, I agree with most of the motives for going in to Afghanistan, I just have a few problems with the way it's been done. Rumsfeld really needs to either charge the detainees with war crimes or get off the potty - this is no way to run a supposedly democratic republic.
Just a few pointers to more info.
So what's the practical difference between being detained for being in the wrong place at the wrong time and saying the wrong thing in the wrong place? Not much, methinks...
The Paradroid port Windows and Linux
The making of... Andrew Braybrook's diary
So Qincheng is the Chinese word for Guantanamo, then? Good to know.
Who's the main target demographic for the XBox?
This is increasingly becoming a problem but I have no idea how to fix it short of starting to put CEOs up against walls...
No, Uncle Enzo didn't like the color.
You were on to Steve Ballmer up until this paragraph here.
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Not only did we cause their server to go off-line, we caused them to start spelling wrong, too! Now just wait until they re-launch the same service tomorrow, pretending they haven't noticed it's a dupe...
I'd like to paraphrase that into "Nobody knows what's going on around here, but everybody has an opinion".
Just look at the audience votes in Who wants to be a millionaire. I saw some screenshots from the German version where this lady was asked what George W. Bush's first name was (THE FULL NAME WAS *IN* *THE* *QUESTION*!) and first she used the 50-50 lifeline to eliminate all options except George and Edward. Then she asked the audience and not only did the majority of the idiots vote Edward, 3% of them actually voted for an already eliminated option (Gertrude or something, I don't remember). She gave Edward as her final answer.
(Hook, line, sinker and a subscription to Angler's Weekly)
Piffle, I ditched my old 40x ages ago *flaunts my ASUS 52x*.
Ah, they've discovered the Amiga.
Or 1,250 really, really fast CD-Rs.
So if they are still alive when all humans are gone, we'll know it was a really, really good weapon. What? Oh...
My guess would be he's been looking at a zoomed satellite view of Arkansas so just the first three letters were visible.
No problem, they can customize their kernels now.
Well, 13% of the screen time will be dedicated to advertising...