Possession of the nukes all but guarantees immunity from invasion. This means they can now safely reduce their conventional forces by 30-40% and start working on things less critical to their survival.
There are several purposes for this pegging, with the main one -- prevention of capital flight, and plundering of the country by foreign "investors". Chinese government had enough sense not to repeat the mistake of the former Soviet block countries who have turned their entire populations into beggars and prostitutes.
Since when is the word of the U.S. President automatically law? Whether he may have violated an executive order, which is what it was at the time, is still debatable, and it is yet to be proven in court. As far as I'm concerned, Bobby Fisher is a national hero and ought to be President himself. Of course, the DOJ will all likelihood subject him to treatment worthy of Giordano Bruno.
Many bacteriological weapons have been tested on POWs during WWII both in Europe and the Far East. The results have pretty much shown their relative ineffectiveness, at least compared to conventional weapons. So I wouldn't sweat too much over small pox or even anthrax. Even when spread over large metropolitan areas, more people are likely to die as the result of mass hysteria than from contracted illness itself.
Anti-missle weapons are indeed defensive on the tactical level. However, they also tip the balance of power on the strategic level, they do nothing to reduce the likelihood of war. If anything, they do the opposite. That's our logic.
Outsorcing is not limited to programmers. Accounting, actuarial -- pretty much all "white collar" jobs are in the process of becoming outsorced. Soon a typical U.S. company will have its headquarters in Bermuda, its workforce in India, and only its shadow in the U.S. itself.
I don't see a reason why the right to bear arms should not extend to all weapon systems. The right to bear arms is intended to lend the people the ability to defend their liberty from the tyranny of the government. So in order to preserve the balance of power, every weapon system available to the government should likewise be available to the governed.
The competence level inside our intel agencies leaves much to be desired. If you've ever worked for the government you'd know exactly what I mean. Close to 99% of all intel comes from the media, foreign and domestic. The other 1% comes from electronic surveillance, of which there is now a HUGE backlog, thanks to the agencies' reluctance to hire native language speakers. This leaves a whopping 0% to the human intel. If there is ever a face-to-face interview, it's with the defectors, who are all to eager to give our government FUD it wants to hear.
The "anti-extremism" bills have been before the Russian legislators for quite some time now. The acceptance of these bills into law would appease the current WTO members, and as they hope, possibly bring Russia closer to its membership. There's been a number of discussians in independent Russian media about recent incidents in Moscow, which may have been deliberately staged by the government agents, in order to give the impression of the extremists on the rampage. Staging such incidents would aid in passing such "anti-extremism" laws, and hence give the government all the tools to sweep through the independent press under the pretext of anti-extremism.
No seriously, however absurd formal inspections are, they are a training tool for just that attention to detail. They suck, but they have their place.
Surely, they have their place, but as a purely administrative tool. An observer can easily spot when things are out of place in an otherwise uniform layout. Unfortunately, attention to detail is not a general discipline. When one trains for a barrack inspection, one trains precisely for the particulars of barracks ispections, and this skill does not automatically carry over onto the battlefield. For example, studies have shown that in paintball team competitions, the civilian players consistently performed better then their professional military couterparts. This, in fact, had prompted the Marine Corps to completely overhaul its rifle training in the late 90s.
In general, as the company grows, efficiency is lost, and there is a threshold at which efficiency is near zero (have a look at AT&T, IBM or GE). The HP-Compaq merger is more of a political decision rather than the result of sound analysis.
Strictly speaking, there is no such think as "illegal immigrant", otherwise the entire US population, save the reservations, would fall into that category.
A finn of Swedish descent named Torvalds is already a terrorist -- at least according to Swordfish
Hmm... I wonder who commissioned the production of that film.
Sci-fi is by and large a misnomer. There's far more surrealism in shows commonly considered "sci-fi" than anything else. Rod Serling is probably the greatest creator of sci-fi on television, but you can hardly call it "science fiction". Now, if there's any show that imitates Twilight Zone the best -- it's The Outer Limits.
Lessig in the NYT op-ed piece states "The DMCA outlaws technologies designed to circumvent other technologies that protect copyrighted material". The actual law requires that these other technologies _effectively_ protect copyrighted material. Just what this "effectively" means is yet to be decided in courts. It could mean just about anything. It could even be taken to mean "unhackable", which then make the whole law pointless.
Were it not for sheer brute force, America would have never been conquered. Violence is what had shaped our civilization from the beginning. Holding violence to be immoral is sheer sentimentality.
Strictly speaking, hyperlinks never actually "link" you anywhere. Once the document containing the hyperlink is received, the server at the source address has no way of knowing what you do with it. The any document the link targets must be specifically requested by your browser (in effect, yourself) via GET command. Any talk of "electronically transporting" users is pure nonsense.
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Possession of the nukes all but guarantees immunity from invasion. This means they can now safely reduce their conventional forces by 30-40% and start working on things less critical to their survival.
There are several purposes for this pegging, with the main one -- prevention of capital flight, and plundering of the country by foreign "investors". Chinese government had enough sense not to repeat the mistake of the former Soviet block countries who have turned their entire populations into beggars and prostitutes.
It's easy: no company -> no money -> no lawsuits.
Since when is the word of the U.S. President automatically law? Whether he may have violated an executive order, which is what it was at the time, is still debatable, and it is yet to be proven in court. As far as I'm concerned, Bobby Fisher is a national hero and ought to be President himself. Of course, the DOJ will all likelihood subject him to treatment worthy of Giordano Bruno.
Many bacteriological weapons have been tested on POWs during WWII both in Europe and the Far East. The results have pretty much shown their relative ineffectiveness, at least compared to conventional weapons. So I wouldn't sweat too much over small pox or even anthrax. Even when spread over large metropolitan areas, more people are likely to die as the result of mass hysteria than from contracted illness itself.
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Anti-missle weapons are indeed defensive on the tactical level. However, they also tip the balance of power on the strategic level, they do nothing to reduce the likelihood of war. If anything, they do the opposite. That's our logic.
Outsorcing is not limited to programmers. Accounting, actuarial -- pretty much all "white collar" jobs are in the process of becoming outsorced. Soon a typical U.S. company will have its headquarters in Bermuda, its workforce in India, and only its shadow in the U.S. itself.
I don't see a reason why the right to bear arms should not extend to all weapon systems. The right to bear arms is intended to lend the people the ability to defend their liberty from the tyranny of the government. So in order to preserve the balance of power, every weapon system available to the government should likewise be available to the governed.
The competence level inside our intel agencies leaves much to be desired. If you've ever worked for the government you'd know exactly what I mean. Close to 99% of all intel comes from the media, foreign and domestic. The other 1% comes from electronic surveillance, of which there is now a HUGE backlog, thanks to the agencies' reluctance to hire native language speakers. This leaves a whopping 0% to the human intel. If there is ever a face-to-face interview, it's with the defectors, who are all to eager to give our government FUD it wants to hear.
The "anti-extremism" bills have been before the Russian legislators for quite some time now. The acceptance of these bills into law would appease the current WTO members, and as they hope, possibly bring Russia closer to its membership. There's been a number of discussians in independent Russian media about recent incidents in Moscow, which may have been deliberately staged by the government agents, in order to give the impression of the extremists on the rampage. Staging such incidents would aid in passing such "anti-extremism" laws, and hence give the government all the tools to sweep through the independent press under the pretext of anti-extremism.
No seriously, however absurd formal inspections are, they are a training tool for just that attention to detail. They suck, but they have their place.
Surely, they have their place, but as a purely administrative tool. An observer can easily spot when things are out of place in an otherwise uniform layout. Unfortunately, attention to detail is not a general discipline. When one trains for a barrack inspection, one trains precisely for the particulars of barracks ispections, and this skill does not automatically carry over onto the battlefield. For example, studies have shown that in paintball team competitions, the civilian players consistently performed better then their professional military couterparts. This, in fact, had prompted the Marine Corps to completely overhaul its rifle training in the late 90s.
In general, as the company grows, efficiency is lost, and there is a threshold at which efficiency is near zero (have a look at AT&T, IBM or GE). The HP-Compaq merger is more of a political decision rather than the result of sound analysis.
Strictly speaking, there is no such think as "illegal immigrant", otherwise the entire US population, save the reservations, would fall into that category.
A finn of Swedish descent named Torvalds is already a terrorist -- at least according to Swordfish Hmm... I wonder who commissioned the production of that film.
Perhaps there's even a market in this. Instead of buying brand-new CPUs in volume -- why not hit ebay and recycle the old shit?
Sci-fi is by and large a misnomer. There's far more surrealism in shows commonly considered "sci-fi" than anything else. Rod Serling is probably the greatest creator of sci-fi on television, but you can hardly call it "science fiction". Now, if there's any show that imitates Twilight Zone the best -- it's The Outer Limits.
Lessig in the NYT op-ed piece states "The DMCA outlaws technologies designed to circumvent other technologies that protect copyrighted material". The actual law requires that these other technologies _effectively_ protect copyrighted material. Just what this "effectively" means is yet to be decided in courts. It could mean just about anything. It could even be taken to mean "unhackable", which then make the whole law pointless.
Were it not for sheer brute force, America would have never been conquered. Violence is what had shaped our civilization from the beginning. Holding violence to be immoral is sheer sentimentality.
Strictly speaking, hyperlinks never actually "link" you anywhere. Once the document containing the hyperlink is received, the server at the source address has no way of knowing what you do with it. The any document the link targets must be specifically requested by your browser (in effect, yourself) via GET command. Any talk of "electronically transporting" users is pure nonsense.