work around by just rewriting only the code causing the bottleneck in native C or even asm.
I couldn't have said it better myself. Get over it. Sometimes, Java isn't cost effective, and sometimes Java isn't even appropriate server-side or client-side (hint: java is not fault tolerant, way too much leeway with the GC and byte code ordering).
Most people's problem with Java is the fact that it was initially paraded and promised as having a) very low memory foot print, b) very low binary/byte code size (for very fast network download), and c) portability.
a) Has yet to be realized. b) Was for a bit, and now it's insane. c) Is no more portable than C source code.
Not only that, I even remember the knuckleheads who wrote the language leaving Sun to go off and make snazzy new Java applications under a company called JavaSoft. Oops.
Sun was also going to make specialized Java byte code processors picoJava, microJava, ultraJava. Vaporware. Vaporware. Vaporware.
So Java can finally do server web-based applications as fast as Perl or C, and now it's suppose to be hailed as the programming language messiah? However, years later it's found it's still not good enough for some applications, that the big dogs have to make an intermediate programing language.
There is no reason to bash the Europeans as a whole as they like to do Americans. Comments I seem to remember... "if NASA would stop hurling probes like lawn darts they'd actually get somewhere", etc... Let's try to show the Europeans a little sympathy, and try to be humble about our own successes and failures.
ESA had to know it was going to be hard to pull off a Mars landing, two countries (US, Russia) with a hell of a lot more experience have had difficulty with the same task. A blow to thier pride, yes, but the results in my opinion were not unexpected.
I'm the one who started the aforementioned subject thread. WMD && Oil is not the issue. Why don't you read what I wrote previously before you take my comments and mis-construe them. Everyone felt the need to basically agree with what I said, but had to sound off at how smart they think they are.
Saddam sponsored terrorism. I don't care if Russia, Germany, or France is upset that we picked on their little nest egg of a country. In fact their involvement only made Iraq the most likely candidate.
I agree that our troops should be over there. I am all too happy that going into Iraq screwed over Germany, France, and Russia. The old alliances disappeared with the Cold War. This is the new war, if the other countries want to get in the game and defy us, fine, I say bring it.
Number one big time issue is how do you get the changes that occured to the files during the backup so that the database is consistent.
It's trivial really. Announce to the database that you want to perform an online backup. This marks the database in a special mode that lets it know that data writes are going to be at the block level vs. row level.
Also data modifications are still written to the datafiles and also are always written to special files (simultaneously and at the sime time:-p). These files are called redo logs, and the database cycles through a set of them. When a database is running in a condition in which it can allow online backups, it writes a copy (called an archive) of the redo log file to a special directory before that redo log file is used again.
During an online backup you backup all of the "archived" redo log files for the entire time it takes you to backup the data files. Once you backup the datafiles, and the archived redo log files, you can then take the database out of backup mode, and start doing row level modifications again.
When it's time to restore, the database sees that the restore datafiles are in an incosistent state but that's "ok", because it also knows you have competently saved all of the "missing" changes. The database rolls through the archived log files applying the changes that are neccessary until the database is in a consistent state.
It's not about left and right. It's about money and power. Follow the money, and you will see who is in power. Cyash mwoney you say? Power? No, you're kidding, right? Wait, I know, you are one of those geniuses, right?
Not so far I think there are quite a few people who have been captured or killed. Bush stuck it out against the nancy boy whiners who can't tolerate a bloody a nose. Not so far? Yeah, so far his policies have.
Lots. Training on how to construct the bomb and trigger. Psychological training on how to recruit martyrs. Training on insertion so you make it over the border and on to the bus. And that's just for suicide bombings. There's more training to be had for other operations too.
As for the training, please. Car bombs? Umm, retarded mafia goons named Lenny "the torch" have been doing this. Bicycle bombs? Can't afford a car, fine, I sympathize. Slip past the border? Mexicans and everyone else in the world have been doing that in this country for years. Suicide death cults? Hrrm, I think there is precedent. I'm sure you're right, the terrorists and the aforementioned, probably would have never figured this out without the CIA.
Saddam Hussein is the former commander in chief of a sovereign nation, and as such has certain rights and expectations under the Geneva convention. So far these have not materialised.
Aww, diddums? Poor Saddam has no rights? Under military law, I think cowardice is often punishable by death. I agree lets give him back to "his people", so they can give him his Geneva convention rights.
You mean like the right said they were going into Iraq, and they did!! Wow, you are right, the right-wing all truth tellers after all!
Yeah, just like that. Going into Afghanistan and removing the Taliban from power. Going into Iraq and protecting our interests. Finding Saddam. Improving the economy. All the important things. Finding WMDs? Who cares, it was suppose to be a ticket and a wink wink nudge nudge with the security council. Some of the other members fucked us to protect their own interests. Oh well, we won't forget or make that mistake again.
Don't think it's fair? Too damn bad, that's what happens when countries disagree. If France, Germany and Russia had real reasons to stop us, they would have supported Saddam and put their military where their mouth is. If those countries went to war, the UN would be right out the window and irrelevant anyway. The US is the big dog on this planet, and have interests everywhere. The US didn't get to be number one, by not protecting those interests. If that leaves a bad taste in your mouth, pick up a rifle and stand up for what you believe in. The people in power (and pretty much anyone else) is going to demand nothing less.
That's an odd way to take what I said. Answer me this, how would I know what books you have read, without reading them myself and ascertaining the ideas you borrowed to fill your comments? Does FOX news also update it's viewers with a list of what books its pundits read every night? Maybe they do book reports at the end of the half hour or hour or whatever it is.
Don't believe everything you read. Just because someone took the time to write it down in a book doesn't make it so. Propoganda takes many forms.
It's not our place to institute democracy in third world countries despite the better judgement of the world/UN.
Maybe. Maybe not. We've been successful before, we've also failed before. Honestly, I believe if anyone can pull it off it's us.
Look, if Afghanistan was more accessible, it would be an entirely different story for that whole countries history. You can arm chair General all you want, but the facts remain, a man hunt take time, intelligence, and resources to execute them. Bush's policies as Commander and Chief of the military made sure the military was there to find the people we are looking for.
I call bullshit on your CIA training thing. How much training does it take to strap a bomb to yourself and blow up a bus? Terror is fairly low tech and it doesn't take CIA training to figure it out.
Well, there's the facts. Well researched, comprehensive, but not well publicised. And then there are opinions like the one above, mass marketed through a compliant media, but bullshit none-the-less.
Well double dumb ass on me. I guess your right. Wait, what did you just prove? I stated fact, and you stated what? Compliant media rhetoric? Come again?
Oh really, how old are you? The US Army found Saddam Hussein, and quite frankly So Fucking What? It seems to be the American way to get so excited about frivolous things while the important issues get swept under the carpet in the hysteria.
Ha! Saddam is captured. One of many heavy weights has been lifted from the Iraqi people today, and all you can do is rain on the parade. I'm sorry if all the pundits have to rewrite their speeches especially the part "and Bush can't even find Saddam". Frankly, I have hope that Osama will be next. Unlike the left, atleast some of what the right says comes true. I'm young and I should be a democrat, but the entire party is too fragmented, too disorganized, and needs to get it's damn shit together before I invest a vote that way. Like it or not....that's where I come out.
According to your comments: I'm an ill-informed troll. That means you lose right? You called me a troll first? Wait, I also want to live under facist government. So I am facist too? Does that mean you lose double?
Look, I'm making the point that this isn't about WMD and oil. You've clearly stated what I am saying. Why is it so hard for you to believe that this is more about terrorism. Yes, there are ancillary benefits to going into Iraq, but they are NOT the sole reason we are there.
Seriously, if you spent half as much time reading between the lines about what really is going on, instead of finding obscure reasons to hate "Shrub" I think you would find that the war in Iraq is not a bad thing. You seem determined and able to find facts that piece together your conspiracy theories. Try looking at them with less of a slant. Free your mind, and your ass will follow.
BTW, I don't watch any network news (FOX or otherwise), I think they are all out to lunch. However, I can tell exactly which books you have read from your posts, and if you were to reflect on your comments critically you would see you are not speaking from a position of objective reason.
Correct, but the United States does not declare war either, and has not since 1945. There are very specific reasons for this, theory of limited warfare, declaration of war would require the use of all neccessary force (eg. nuclear weapons) and other political reasons too long to go into here.
If only it were so simple. If there was a specific nation that was responsible, I guarantee there would be a declaration of a war. Instead we had to throw down the gauntlet to would-be terrorist and the nations that harbor them. We wouldn't have to use nuclear weapons either, you are forgetting many of the nuclear treaties already signed.
Who is 'they'. The Anthrax investigation stalled and then stopped when the trail led to a government building.
So? Are you saying it's not possible to have spies/sympathizers/etc in our own Government? Chances are who ever it was, is on some unnamed dock somewhere in a shipping container while Virginia farm boys practice their interrogation techniques on them.
Who is 'them', and which is 'their' land. Do you mean Sunnis, Kurds, Shia, secular moderates or fanatical clerics? . Do you mean go forward with the current artificial boundary known as 'Iraq' or 'Iraq' and 'Kurdistan'. Or 'Iraq', 'Kurdistan' and 'Persia'. Or 'Ottoman Empire'?
Yeah, I do mean them, and by them I mean them as a group of people with the power to vote. If they want to chop it up into seperate states, fine. The current artificial boundary is fine, I guess. No different that the artificial/imaginary line that exists between Canada and the US, or Germany and France. If you're suggesting we make a real one in the sand, feel free.
However, to be fair, the Macarthur Administration was in Japan until 1952, about 6.5 years after the cease of hostilities, so it probably unreasonable for the MTV generation to expect Iraq to be a shining beacon of prosperity and democracy before the Shrub Administration needs to rig the next election. Of course, during the occupation of Japan the US Army wasn't an employee of Haliburton...
You're right. It's going to take a while. Trust me. It'll be better.
As for the bringing about another government party line...rig the next election? Gore was a loser. He couldn't even win his own state. He couldn't even win Florida decisively. Yet, Bush in spite of his pundits claims "has found Saddam" through his current policies. I expect for the Democrats to focus on something like this now, "well, did you look at how much it cost to find Saddam? Was it worth it? What intel have we gotten?"
Sanctions would have been lifted if he had let the UN inspectors do their job. Again, oil and WMD wasn't the issue. Violating sanctions and supporting terror was. Take the tinfoil hat off or you'll put your eye out.
Saddam has been under sanctions since 1996 (food for oil or something). Euro wasn't activated in any banks until 2000. What part of violating UN sanction don't you understand? USD or Euros. None of it should have been changing hands or passing through Iraq. The argument you heard is irrelevant, and would only support my so called "conspiracy theory" about European countries and companies violating sanctions.
I don't think he has a political agenda. He is someone who thinks he knows something that everyone else doesn't. Probably, read a few websites, maybe, and seems to think these issues are the ones behind it all and not the fact that Saddam threatens stability, supports terrorism, and in general causes mayhem.
Nice straw man. Let me refresh your memory in case you forgot...no one declared war on us at 9/11. They did try to destroy our Government through our mail system. Remember, the anthrax trick they tried to pull. Finally, we want them to control their own land. Don't confuse our occupation as run of the mill hostile occupation. We're setting them up to run the place, but better than before...
Also, don't think for a second that if Bush thought it was politically possible UN wise, we wouldn't stomp all over Suadi Arabia, Syria, and Iran.
If my points seem insane, it's because they're not filled with conspiracy theories, rhetoric, and strawman arguments.
Well, if you want to be the conservative conspiracy theorist, then I think this post deserves just the opposite.
What conspiracy theory? Saddam stated that he was upping the pay out for families of suicide terrorist. This is going to down in the history books as a war on terror. Indirectly or directly, Saddam supported terrorist and terrorism. Bush stated any state in alliance with terrorist has to go. Your Euro USD thing may have some basis, but at the end of the day, I can sleep at night knowing that Saddam was supporting terror and this war was just.
This was never the issue. This was a stalling point that France, Germany, and the Soviets used to hide their illegal (i.e. against sanctions) business relationships with Iraq. Bush got tied down in the political mess that is the U.N., and the WMD issue was picked a part ad nauseum by other governments who are highly skilled at spin doctoring. The only reason they wanted to this to be brough to the UN, was to stall the issue.
The real issue in my mind is, shortly after 911, Saddam Hussien up'd the pay out for the families of suicide bombers. That association alone makes Iraq a state that harbors/supports terrorist. The old Iraq had to go, Saddam was in charge of the old Iraq.
I said I agree that the system is just a tool. What the hell is the point of a system that no one can do anything on. You're argument is a boiler plate straw man setup and attack. Chances are you're assuming things or trolling...
Wrong!
You're also assuming everyone works for a company too. You are right though... from the "sysadm's point of view" providing a secure, performing, robust system "means not having the developers, other employees or outside people fuck up" any box under your administration.
Thank you for backing up my point, although you have a strange way of going about it...
No, the responsibility is towards the system. The users and application benefit from a secure, performing, working system.
I agree the system is a tool that is part of a complete architecture, but if you don't have a salty mean old shop mechanic yelling at you not to use the wrench as a hammer, the tools are going to get busted and you end up buying 10 wrenches (none of them working well anymore) and 0 hammers, instead of having 1 or 2 of each.
My personal take is if you are in a shop that does development, you need to hire coders who admin their own boxes at home, and admins who code on the side.
Well, double dumbass on us....
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XML is just text! If the XML parser is slow, write a faster one! Figure out where the bottlenecks are! Don't give me this XML is slow crap. This is slashdot - you're supposed to be a geek. If you don't like XML, fine, but come up with a geeky reason not to like it, not some problem whose solution is just to roll up your sleeves and do some hacking!
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XML may not be slow, but when it's used as a network protocol like SOAP and that craziness called XML-RPC it sure is. An XML parser is unjustifiable overhead to a lot of people no matter how you slice it. Making it suck less, by optimizing it more isn't the answer. Geeks also analyze technology based on merit, XML should solve more problems than it creates, agreed?
The rest of the world should not be beholden to ICANN. Either they need to become truly international, or someone--the UN or another international body--needs to take the reins.
Who says you are required to use our nameservers? Go start your own "fair" "international" root name servers, and let us know how thats going. No offense the Internet is a US invention, and is based fundamentally on US ideas. At it's core freedom of speech, freedom of press, and many others are available freely on the Internet(sure there is a nominal fee if you count your ISP, or registering a domain name).
Don't like it, don't connect. However, I pity the citizens of any country who are thinking, "Gee, I wonder when we'll get the Internet here?" Unfortunately, their probably also the same countries wondering, "Gee, I wonder when we'll get basic innoculations here?"
The Internet is probably one of the best things this planet has going for it. I for one would be reluctant to leave it in the hands of a mob of countries who's motivation is to see how can we get this "freedom of thought/speech/ideas" thing more under control and more politically correct and more watered down so everyone is blissful in ignorance.
You keep your nasty UN. As for the Internet, give it to me raw and wiggling!
Five $1,500 Amex gift cards to be used 'for business expenses' (that part means you get to write it off on your taxes if you get some supporting paperwork, and they don't have to pay $600 of it to the IRS) empower them mightily (money = power). A case of the good coffee, ten cases of soda that they like for the fridge, a nice twin 18" LCD monitor setup or Bose noise cancelling headset, a DVD burner for their individual workstation, more RAM for the server or their machine, one of those nifty HyperThreading new P4 machines [....it goes on for quite a while]
Personally, I would rather the surplus money be in my pocket and going towards my family. Toys and gadgets around the office is nice, but not as nice as counting the money in my account. As for me, all surplus money I have lying around I channel to various investment avenues, so that I can retire sooner or wealthier (and ultimately not have to work). $800 (from $1500) can easily be given out as $300 for the wife, and $500 towards the future. When you invest it, that's the bonus that keeps giving;).
Trendy toys and gadgets that I bought for a job I worked at 5 years ago is going to seem silly to me. "Yeah, I remember back in 2003 the boss let us buy anything we wanted, dude, that super fast DVD writer and 18" LCD sure was sweet." It just doesn't get my rocks off.
"If you want to build an NSA-approved product, they want this in there."
All that means, is like DES back in the day, if you want to have something NSA approved you pick this. I can guarantee you that the government when it's working on it's black budget work in general and historically has no regard for paying licenses for patents, and routinely mines the patent office for anything they may need. NSA has government customers that want protection, and instead of giving them the super secret good stuff, they find something off the shelf and give them this. This Certicom Corp. ECC is the new algorithm to study, because if it's NSA endorsed it's "probably" years ahead of the public domain state of the art, and is "probably" resistant to some pretty sophisticated crypto analysis techniques.
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Blockquoteth theeI couldn't have said it better myself. Get over it. Sometimes, Java isn't cost effective, and sometimes Java isn't even appropriate server-side or client-side (hint: java is not fault tolerant, way too much leeway with the GC and byte code ordering).
Most people's problem with Java is the fact that it was initially paraded and promised as having a) very low memory foot print, b) very low binary/byte code size (for very fast network download), and c) portability.
a) Has yet to be realized.
b) Was for a bit, and now it's insane.
c) Is no more portable than C source code.
Not only that, I even remember the knuckleheads who wrote the language leaving Sun to go off and make snazzy new Java applications under a company called JavaSoft. Oops.
Sun was also going to make specialized Java byte code processors picoJava, microJava, ultraJava. Vaporware. Vaporware. Vaporware.
So Java can finally do server web-based applications as fast as Perl or C, and now it's suppose to be hailed as the programming language messiah? However, years later it's found it's still not good enough for some applications, that the big dogs have to make an intermediate programing language.
Please understand, Java != (good for everything).
There is no reason to bash the Europeans as a whole as they like to do Americans. Comments I seem to remember... "if NASA would stop hurling probes like lawn darts they'd actually get somewhere", etc... Let's try to show the Europeans a little sympathy, and try to be humble about our own successes and failures.
ESA had to know it was going to be hard to pull off a Mars landing, two countries (US, Russia) with a hell of a lot more experience have had difficulty with the same task. A blow to thier pride, yes, but the results in my opinion were not unexpected.
I'm the one who started the aforementioned subject thread. WMD && Oil is not the issue. Why don't you read what I wrote previously before you take my comments and mis-construe them. Everyone felt the need to basically agree with what I said, but had to sound off at how smart they think they are.
Saddam sponsored terrorism. I don't care if Russia, Germany, or France is upset that we picked on their little nest egg of a country. In fact their involvement only made Iraq the most likely candidate.
I agree that our troops should be over there. I am all too happy that going into Iraq screwed over Germany, France, and Russia. The old alliances disappeared with the Cold War. This is the new war, if the other countries want to get in the game and defy us, fine, I say bring it.
Number one big time issue is how do you get the changes that occured to the files during the backup so that the database is consistent.
:-p). These files are called redo logs, and the database cycles through a set of them. When a database is running in a condition in which it can allow online backups, it writes a copy (called an archive) of the redo log file to a special directory before that redo log file is used again.
It's trivial really. Announce to the database that you want to perform an online backup. This marks the database in a special mode that lets it know that data writes are going to be at the block level vs. row level.
Also data modifications are still written to the datafiles and also are always written to special files (simultaneously and at the sime time
During an online backup you backup all of the "archived" redo log files for the entire time it takes you to backup the data files. Once you backup the datafiles, and the archived redo log files, you can then take the database out of backup mode, and start doing row level modifications again.
When it's time to restore, the database sees that the restore datafiles are in an incosistent state but that's "ok", because it also knows you have competently saved all of the "missing" changes. The database rolls through the archived log files applying the changes that are neccessary until the database is in a consistent state.
It's not about left and right. It's about money and power. Follow the money, and you will see who is in power.
Cyash mwoney you say? Power? No, you're kidding, right? Wait, I know, you are one of those geniuses, right?
Not so far
I think there are quite a few people who have been captured or killed. Bush stuck it out against the nancy boy whiners who can't tolerate a bloody a nose. Not so far? Yeah, so far his policies have.
Lots. Training on how to construct the bomb and trigger. Psychological training on how to recruit martyrs. Training on insertion so you make it over the border and on to the bus. And that's just for suicide bombings. There's more training to be had for other operations too.
As for the training, please. Car bombs? Umm, retarded mafia goons named Lenny "the torch" have been doing this. Bicycle bombs? Can't afford a car, fine, I sympathize. Slip past the border? Mexicans and everyone else in the world have been doing that in this country for years. Suicide death cults? Hrrm, I think there is precedent. I'm sure you're right, the terrorists and the aforementioned, probably would have never figured this out without the CIA.
Saddam Hussein is the former commander in chief of a sovereign nation, and as such has certain rights and expectations under the Geneva convention. So far these have not materialised.
Aww, diddums? Poor Saddam has no rights? Under military law, I think cowardice is often punishable by death. I agree lets give him back to "his people", so they can give him his Geneva convention rights.
You mean like the right said they were going into Iraq, and they did!! Wow, you are right, the right-wing all truth tellers after all!
Yeah, just like that. Going into Afghanistan and removing the Taliban from power. Going into Iraq and protecting our interests. Finding Saddam. Improving the economy. All the important things. Finding WMDs? Who cares, it was suppose to be a ticket and a wink wink nudge nudge with the security council. Some of the other members fucked us to protect their own interests. Oh well, we won't forget or make that mistake again.
Don't think it's fair? Too damn bad, that's what happens when countries disagree. If France, Germany and Russia had real reasons to stop us, they would have supported Saddam and put their military where their mouth is. If those countries went to war, the UN would be right out the window and irrelevant anyway. The US is the big dog on this planet, and have interests everywhere. The US didn't get to be number one, by not protecting those interests. If that leaves a bad taste in your mouth, pick up a rifle and stand up for what you believe in. The people in power (and pretty much anyone else) is going to demand nothing less.
That's an odd way to take what I said. Answer me this, how would I know what books you have read, without reading them myself and ascertaining the ideas you borrowed to fill your comments? Does FOX news also update it's viewers with a list of what books its pundits read every night? Maybe they do book reports at the end of the half hour or hour or whatever it is.
Don't believe everything you read. Just because someone took the time to write it down in a book doesn't make it so. Propoganda takes many forms.Maybe. Maybe not. We've been successful before, we've also failed before. Honestly, I believe if anyone can pull it off it's us.
I call bullshit on your CIA training thing. How much training does it take to strap a bomb to yourself and blow up a bus? Terror is fairly low tech and it doesn't take CIA training to figure it out.Well double dumb ass on me. I guess your right. Wait, what did you just prove? I stated fact, and you stated what? Compliant media rhetoric? Come again?Ha! Saddam is captured. One of many heavy weights has been lifted from the Iraqi people today, and all you can do is rain on the parade. I'm sorry if all the pundits have to rewrite their speeches especially the part "and Bush can't even find Saddam". Frankly, I have hope that Osama will be next. Unlike the left, atleast some of what the right says comes true. I'm young and I should be a democrat, but the entire party is too fragmented, too disorganized, and needs to get it's damn shit together before I invest a vote that way. Like it or not....that's where I come out.
According to your comments:
I'm an ill-informed troll. That means you lose right? You called me a troll first? Wait, I also want to live under facist government. So I am facist too? Does that mean you lose double?
Look, I'm making the point that this isn't about WMD and oil. You've clearly stated what I am saying. Why is it so hard for you to believe that this is more about terrorism. Yes, there are ancillary benefits to going into Iraq, but they are NOT the sole reason we are there.
Seriously, if you spent half as much time reading between the lines about what really is going on, instead of finding obscure reasons to hate "Shrub" I think you would find that the war in Iraq is not a bad thing. You seem determined and able to find facts that piece together your conspiracy theories. Try looking at them with less of a slant. Free your mind, and your ass will follow.
BTW, I don't watch any network news (FOX or otherwise), I think they are all out to lunch. However, I can tell exactly which books you have read from your posts, and if you were to reflect on your comments critically you would see you are not speaking from a position of objective reason.
As for the bringing about another government party line...rig the next election? Gore was a loser. He couldn't even win his own state. He couldn't even win Florida decisively. Yet, Bush in spite of his pundits claims "has found Saddam" through his current policies. I expect for the Democrats to focus on something like this now, "well, did you look at how much it cost to find Saddam? Was it worth it? What intel have we gotten?"
ALLY like a fox. Mark these words, "we'll get them too".
Sanctions would have been lifted if he had let the UN inspectors do their job. Again, oil and WMD wasn't the issue. Violating sanctions and supporting terror was. Take the tinfoil hat off or you'll put your eye out.
Saddam has been under sanctions since 1996 (food for oil or something). Euro wasn't activated in any banks until 2000. What part of violating UN sanction don't you understand? USD or Euros. None of it should have been changing hands or passing through Iraq. The argument you heard is irrelevant, and would only support my so called "conspiracy theory" about European countries and companies violating sanctions.
I don't think he has a political agenda. He is someone who thinks he knows something that everyone else doesn't. Probably, read a few websites, maybe, and seems to think these issues are the ones behind it all and not the fact that Saddam threatens stability, supports terrorism, and in general causes mayhem.
Nice straw man. Let me refresh your memory in case you forgot...no one declared war on us at 9/11. They did try to destroy our Government through our mail system. Remember, the anthrax trick they tried to pull. Finally, we want them to control their own land. Don't confuse our occupation as run of the mill hostile occupation. We're setting them up to run the place, but better than before...
Also, don't think for a second that if Bush thought it was politically possible UN wise, we wouldn't stomp all over Suadi Arabia, Syria, and Iran.
If my points seem insane, it's because they're not filled with conspiracy theories, rhetoric, and strawman arguments.
This was never the issue. This was a stalling point that France, Germany, and the Soviets used to hide their illegal (i.e. against sanctions) business relationships with Iraq. Bush got tied down in the political mess that is the U.N., and the WMD issue was picked a part ad nauseum by other governments who are highly skilled at spin doctoring. The only reason they wanted to this to be brough to the UN, was to stall the issue.
The real issue in my mind is, shortly after 911, Saddam Hussien up'd the pay out for the families of suicide bombers. That association alone makes Iraq a state that harbors/supports terrorist. The old Iraq had to go, Saddam was in charge of the old Iraq.
Speaking of which, were are the gay sex videos of him and Saddam in tutus that the weekly tabloids keep telling me they have?
To test session based issues before they go to production.
Duh!
I said I agree that the system is just a tool. What the hell is the point of a system that no one can do anything on. You're argument is a boiler plate straw man setup and attack. Chances are you're assuming things or trolling...
Wrong!
You're also assuming everyone works for a company too. You are right though... from the "sysadm's point of view" providing a secure, performing, robust system "means not having the developers, other employees or outside people fuck up" any box under your administration.
Thank you for backing up my point, although you have a strange way of going about it...
No, the responsibility is towards the system. The users and application benefit from a secure, performing, working system.
I agree the system is a tool that is part of a complete architecture, but if you don't have a salty mean old shop mechanic yelling at you not to use the wrench as a hammer, the tools are going to get busted and you end up buying 10 wrenches (none of them working well anymore) and 0 hammers, instead of having 1 or 2 of each.
My personal take is if you are in a shop that does development, you need to hire coders who admin their own boxes at home, and admins who code on the side.
You're right, because the Confederate government won! Oh, wait...nevermind. Still the same Republic, just better for the wear.
Don't like it, don't connect. However, I pity the citizens of any country who are thinking, "Gee, I wonder when we'll get the Internet here?" Unfortunately, their probably also the same countries wondering, "Gee, I wonder when we'll get basic innoculations here?"
The Internet is probably one of the best things this planet has going for it. I for one would be reluctant to leave it in the hands of a mob of countries who's motivation is to see how can we get this "freedom of thought/speech/ideas" thing more under control and more politically correct and more watered down so everyone is blissful in ignorance.
You keep your nasty UN. As for the Internet, give it to me raw and wiggling!
Trendy toys and gadgets that I bought for a job I worked at 5 years ago is going to seem silly to me. "Yeah, I remember back in 2003 the boss let us buy anything we wanted, dude, that super fast DVD writer and 18" LCD sure was sweet." It just doesn't get my rocks off.