Wrong. How about Reconstruction? IIRC, the last state to exit Reconstruction didn't do so until 1878, 13 years after the "end" of the Civil War. US citizens living under Reconstruction didn't have nearly the same rights as everyone else.
This war is nothing like the War on Drugs. I don't remember the drug lords who crashes airplanes into the WTC. Perhaps you can refresh my memory.
The War on Drugs is stupid, as it attempts to prevent Americans from harming themselves by attacking people supplying poison. The War on Terrorism is attacking the people who are trying to kill Americans who are not actively trying to harm themselves. If you can't understand the difference, you are a pretty stupid motherfucker.
We know who the enemy is in this war, too. The problem is that they use human shields and Americans have become squeemish about attacking people who allow themselves to be human shields.
Once upon a time, we realized that the guy who didn't turn against the Nazi leadership was as guilty as the Nazi leadership. Now we send food to the peons and hope they'll be our friends. What we should be doing is attacking peons until they are tired of starving and being bombed and overthrow their leaders. Ask the Italians about how that worked in WW II.
We also have some sort of brain damage, allowing citizens of countries known to be terrorist hotbeds to come here, even after we've been repeatedly attacked for 10 years. I bet the number of Germans, Japanese, and Italians granted visas during WW II was close to zero. The number of Saudi and Egyptian nationals in this country during the War on Terrorism should mirror that number.
War, as Sherman noted during the aforementioned Civil War, is Hell. Trying to make it nicer just makes it last longer. We should be as mean and as ruthless as possible in order to make this war as short as possible.
You're right. In fact, I'm so afraid that the government might start imprisoning anyone it feels like, that I think we should free everyone in prison right now. We don't want to establish any sort of precedent for incarceration as a legitimate form of punishment.
Slippery slope arguments are, by their nature, stupid. They prove nothing other than a trend based on a single data point. The slope of the line derived from that data point is based on the delusions of the person doing the deriving.
CodeWarrior doesn't generate code, unless you use its icky UI tools.
It is simply the best damn text editor out there for Mac and PC, combined with a good compiler and project system. Its search (regexp compatible) and diff tools rock. I've been using CW almost exclusively for Java development since 1997.
The biggest shame is that Metrowerks (now a subsidiary of Motorola) is focusing on J2ME and ending any sort of focus on J2SE and J2EE behind. The tools are now priced like microcontroler tools (i.e., not for individual professional programmers), and nice things like ejbc integration will never happen.
CodeWarrior with ant integration would be my ideal Java IDE.
-jon
The point, moron, is that Apple cannot be trusted to accurately relate the size of the storage media they sell.
Your examples are tiny rounding errors, caused by either the difference in how hard drive capactiy is measured (1000s instead of 1024) or by multiple sources for drives with similar capacity.
Getting the size wrong by a factor of TWO is unlikely. And only a pathetic troll like yourself would use it as a basis for launching an attack on Apple.
Archos has a 20 GB model, it is larger, but I would assume it would be faster
The Archos drive is vastly slower than the iPod, as the Archos' connection interface (USB) is about 30 times slower than the iPod's FireWire connection. The differences in the two drives performance is negligible compared to the USB/FireWire difference.
I said the US pushes it's weight around all over the world, and cited numerous wars the US has started. And you took it to mean that Vietnam had anything to do with Al Quiada. Who exactly is stupid here?
I had said that the US had done nothing for ten years in response to attacks from bin Laden's groups. You then cited Vietnam in response. Either you have no sense of history, or you cannot read. Which is it?
It's either the Afghans or the Israelis.
Pay attention, ill-informed boy. The rumor in the Middle East is that the Mossad (Israeli secret service; someone as dumb as you might not know that) attacked the WTC. Of course, the same idiots who say this also say that it is the US' pro-Israel policy which led to the attack. I wish they'd get the story straight.
And it's not Afghans who did the attacks. It's the Arabs who are HOSTED by the Afghans in exchange for at least $100Million who did the attack.
Let me know if I'm using words that are too big for you to understand; I'll try to drop to single syllables.
And you believe unquestionably that the US is right to bomb the hell out of third-world nation because of this?
I don't give a fuck if it was a first world nation or a third world nation. Afghanistan is harboring the people who planned the murder of 5,400 of my countrymen, who attacked my country's embassies, attacked my country's Navy, and who have taken credit for attacking my country's soldiers when on a UN-supervised humanitarian mission in Somalia. All of these actions are acts of war.
The thugs who run Afghanistan have been presented evidence of these crimes in the past, including the attacks on US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. They did nothing. And the people who aren't revolting against the Taliban? Fuck them. Not doing anything is complicity in the crimes of their leaders. There are certainly Afghanis who are rebelling; why aren't there more?We should be dropping neutron bombs, not food.
If you want a good historical analogy, study up on the Barbary pirates who controlled Libya in the early 1800's. Very similar situation to what is happening now with Afghanistan.
Your thought experiment proves one thing : that you believe that violence solves everything.
Of COURSE violence solves everything. Only a ninny thinks otherwise. Where are the Pics who used to live in England? Why exactly is your royal family descended from French invaders? Why are V2 rockets not landing on your countrymen's heads anymore? Violence. How did the British Empire get to be so rich? Violence. And here's something for you to think about: what is it that backs up the non-violent decisions made by civil courts in Western nations? The fact that violence would be done to the person who ignored the decision.
Now that you are living in amazing luxury (compared to 99% of the human race, past and present), you can sniff your nose at the violence which has enabled your easy life. That's hypocracy and cowardace. You think it's OK for people to have killed on your behalf, but don't let anyone else do it for themselves.
I heard on the news that they got Anthrax from a 'white poweder'. I jumped to a conclusion. My bad. Sorry.
Shock of all shocks; someone as ignorant as you is ill-informed.
The US has been doing everything it can to get it's own way, from Vietnam
So, you think the US invaded Vietnam to get bin Laden? You're stupider than I thought.
There is, as yet, no evidence on who destroyed the WTC
Horseshit. There's tons of evidence that's been made public. I cited in an earlier post. To a non-moron, it's a pretty damn good case. Furthermore, the non-public information was good enough to get both the French and the Russians aboard. The French are even promising GROUND TROOPS. The Russians are giving the US maps, and have dropped all objections to the US using bases in the former Soviet Asian republics. Think about that for a minute, pinhead.
Yes, by sitting here doing nothing, I am encouraging someone to kill thousands of people. Great logic.
Is there anything you aren't too stupid to twist into nonsense? Doing nothing when you are attacked encourages attacks. Let's try a thought experiment. Say I walk up to you and punch you in the head. You do nothing. Maybe you ask some powerless third party to condemn me. Does this stop me from punching you again? Or does it tell me that you are an easy target?
Arguing with morons like you is getting annoying. Just admit you're a coward and we can stop this.
Outcome three: Next attack will include cards stolen from legit. people and checked only briefly by a minimum salary security guard.
Do you dumb-ass people read these stories before posting? One of the requirements of these cards is a built-in thumb-print. The card is swiped, your thumb is scanned, and if they match, you are who you say you are.
The terrorists would have to steal thumbs and graft them on in place of their own thumbs for your plan to work. Probability: pretty damn low.
Now, the bigger question is whether or not this would have helped. It's not likely, unless the national ID card is used to track a wide range of behaviors. Move around frequently, buy items with dual-purposes, have your IDs repeatedly swiped at similar times and places as known terrorists...and then you have to mine all this data to pick out the needles from the haystacks. It's a technical and privacy nightmare.
It'd be cheaper and more effective if the US government just threw out every Muslim who wasn't a US citizen, ended student visa for Muslims, and didn't allow Muslims to enter the country until bin Laden and all his wacky followers are dust. But it won't happen.
If you think this discriminatory, too bad. The US has immigration standards based on which country you come from. It discriminates based on educational background (H1-B visas, anyone?). It disciminates based on political leanings (Nazis and Communists were barred, at one point). I don't see why adding a religious standard for exclusion would be a bad thing DURING A TIME OF WAR. I know that not all Muslims are terrorists, but all the foreign terrorists attacking the US are Muslim. Not letting them in would be a smart first step.
The most likely explanation is that the people who got Anthrax bought some dodgy cocaine.
That asshole called a buch of sick (and one dead) people cokeheads, with zero information other than his own obvious hate for the US. That's libel. You took the asshole's side. What does that make you?
Doing harm to anyone is wrong.
Bullshit. There are plenty of people who deserve lots of harm done to them. Putting rapists, murders, and thieves in prison is certainly doing "harm" to them. Many people think it's more "harm" to take away someone's freedom and let them rot than it is to execute them. In your ideal fantasy world, do criminals roam free, lest harm is done to them? Or do people skip around, loving each other and doing no wrong?
You claim the moral high ground because you spout pacifist nonsense. I say that all it takes for evil to succeed is for the good to do nothing. The US has been doing NOTHING for nearly 10 years in response to attacks by bin Laden. Attacks on the World Trade Center in 1993, Khobar Towers, the USS Cole, and the embassies in Africa were low-level police investigations. Doing nothing was just encouragment to the killers. Now there are nearly 6,000 people dead in the US and most Americans are awake to the danger. People like you are still in denial, hoping it'll go away. Maybe when you lose someone close to you, you'll drop the faux pacifism.
Somehow, morally offending those who side with someone that called a bunch of people intentionally infected with a disease (including one person who was murdered) cokeheads makes me feel good about myself. Writing that somewhere slightly more public than Slashdot would easily be construed as Libel.
And I think it troubles you that the US could be RIGHT. You (and your political kin) don't like the fact that maybe, just maybe, the US are the good guys, since you've spent so much time and emotional energy convincing yourself that all of Western Civilization (especially the US) is the root of all evil in the world. The fact that these same people enjoy the luxuries and freedoms provided by the society they claim to hate is an irony that is left unexamined by these freethinkers.
The same people who can concoct the most cocamamie conspiracy theories without a shred of evidence won't believe that Bin Laden and his group are responsible for the terrorist attacks on NYC and DC without a signed confession from Bin Laden and 200 of his closest associates. The evidence released so far is easily grounds for indictment. We've got means, motive, and opportunity. The phone records are facsinating. We've got the guy placing a call to his step-mother the day before, letting her know something big was going down. We've got calls by him and his associates RIGHT AFTER the attacks saying "We hit two of the targets."
And that's not all. We have his son, interviewed by favorable press in Pakistan, saying that Bin Laden and 300 of his followers went into hiding on the 10th of September, sending most of his family to Pakistan. There are records of bank transactions from known associates of Bin Laden to the people who did the attacks. What more evidence would you want? Video of Bin Laden describing the plan while petting a white cat?
The real answer is that you and your fellows are cowards. You know who is responsible, but you won't admit it because you're afraid. Rather than face the enemy, you hope that if you hide and pretend he isn't the enemy, he'll go away. He won't. You'll blame the CIA or Israel because, in your heart of hearts, you know they didn't do it, and that they would NEVER commit such an atrocity. They're fake, safe targets.
No matter how much you and your fellow chickens try to appease Bin Laden, he's going to try to kill you and destroy your society. Luckily, the vast majority of people in the US know what the right thing is to do and cowards like you aren't going to divert us.
So, genius boy, who attacked the US? Let me guess: you think it was the Israelis, right? Or do you think the entire attack didn't happen and that it was all misinformation?
I hope the next attack kills someone you love. I'll just say that they were cokeheads who got bad stuff. Or that they aren't actually dead, just faking it.
Don't worry; Disk Copy in OS X 10.1 has the ability to create AES-encrypted disk images (128-bit). The key can be stored in your keychain.
Not the strongest encryption in the world, but it'll keep prying eyes away. You might have some issues exchanging disk images with non-OS X users, though.
The entire definition of a patent might be "first post."
When Bell patented the telephone, Elisha Gray tried to patent his telephone a few hours later the same day (see http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1625.htm for details).
Both might have been ingenious, but I can see the spiritual anscestors of/.ers saying, "talking at a distance? Bah! I've been yelling on mountaintops for years!"
Since the waterbed patent was invalidated by the appearance of a waterbed in "Stranger in a Strange Land," I Dream of Jeanie might be a completely valid prior art...
Um, did you mean you CAN NOT use the Windows PLAF on a non-windows box? Because you can't, without doing some hacking of system properties (which might cause other things to fail).
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Wrong. How about Reconstruction? IIRC, the last state to exit Reconstruction didn't do so until 1878, 13 years after the "end" of the Civil War. US citizens living under Reconstruction didn't have nearly the same rights as everyone else.
This war is nothing like the War on Drugs. I don't remember the drug lords who crashes airplanes into the WTC. Perhaps you can refresh my memory.
The War on Drugs is stupid, as it attempts to prevent Americans from harming themselves by attacking people supplying poison. The War on Terrorism is attacking the people who are trying to kill Americans who are not actively trying to harm themselves. If you can't understand the difference, you are a pretty stupid motherfucker.
We know who the enemy is in this war, too. The problem is that they use human shields and Americans have become squeemish about attacking people who allow themselves to be human shields.
Once upon a time, we realized that the guy who didn't turn against the Nazi leadership was as guilty as the Nazi leadership. Now we send food to the peons and hope they'll be our friends. What we should be doing is attacking peons until they are tired of starving and being bombed and overthrow their leaders. Ask the Italians about how that worked in WW II.
We also have some sort of brain damage, allowing citizens of countries known to be terrorist hotbeds to come here, even after we've been repeatedly attacked for 10 years. I bet the number of Germans, Japanese, and Italians granted visas during WW II was close to zero. The number of Saudi and Egyptian nationals in this country during the War on Terrorism should mirror that number.
War, as Sherman noted during the aforementioned Civil War, is Hell. Trying to make it nicer just makes it last longer. We should be as mean and as ruthless as possible in order to make this war as short as possible.
-jon
Times of war demand different standards. Get over it.
-jon
Slippery slope arguments are, by their nature, stupid. They prove nothing other than a trend based on a single data point. The slope of the line derived from that data point is based on the delusions of the person doing the deriving.
-jon
It is simply the best damn text editor out there for Mac and PC, combined with a good compiler and project system. Its search (regexp compatible) and diff tools rock. I've been using CW almost exclusively for Java development since 1997.
The biggest shame is that Metrowerks (now a subsidiary of Motorola) is focusing on J2ME and ending any sort of focus on J2SE and J2EE behind. The tools are now priced like microcontroler tools (i.e., not for individual professional programmers), and nice things like ejbc integration will never happen.
CodeWarrior with ant integration would be my ideal Java IDE. -jon
-jon
They'd blame the Jews; and for one, they'd be right ;-)
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2104BC would be 200 years AFTER the hypothetical meteor strike. BC gets lower as time goes on (years BEFORE Jesus was born).
-jon
He also talks about 6 or 7 thousand nation-states, then talks about the EU (a proto-nation-state) growing.
A job at MIT is like a licence to product bullshit for gullible journalists.
-jon
Your examples are tiny rounding errors, caused by either the difference in how hard drive capactiy is measured (1000s instead of 1024) or by multiple sources for drives with similar capacity.
Getting the size wrong by a factor of TWO is unlikely. And only a pathetic troll like yourself would use it as a basis for launching an attack on Apple.
-jon
The Archos drive is vastly slower than the iPod, as the Archos' connection interface (USB) is about 30 times slower than the iPod's FireWire connection. The differences in the two drives performance is negligible compared to the USB/FireWire difference.
-jon
Both of your complaints about hard drive size are Apple claiming a LARGER size than what was delivered.
In the case of the iPod, the Slashback story claims the iPod has a 10Gig drive. Apple says it has a 5Gig drive.
Are you cursing Apple for supposedly shipping a drive twice as large as they claim?
(And for the record, I'm pretty sure that the iPod has a 5Gig drive, as the only hard drive which meets the iPod's specs is 5Gigs)
-jon
Pick a date by which you think Apple will go out of business. I'm willing to put $100 that you're wrong.
Apple's got $4Billion in the bank, almost all of it earned during The Jobs Years; what do you have?
-jon
I had said that the US had done nothing for ten years in response to attacks from bin Laden's groups. You then cited Vietnam in response. Either you have no sense of history, or you cannot read. Which is it?
It's either the Afghans or the Israelis.
Pay attention, ill-informed boy. The rumor in the Middle East is that the Mossad (Israeli secret service; someone as dumb as you might not know that) attacked the WTC. Of course, the same idiots who say this also say that it is the US' pro-Israel policy which led to the attack. I wish they'd get the story straight.
And it's not Afghans who did the attacks. It's the Arabs who are HOSTED by the Afghans in exchange for at least $100Million who did the attack.
Let me know if I'm using words that are too big for you to understand; I'll try to drop to single syllables.
And you believe unquestionably that the US is right to bomb the hell out of third-world nation because of this?
I don't give a fuck if it was a first world nation or a third world nation. Afghanistan is harboring the people who planned the murder of 5,400 of my countrymen, who attacked my country's embassies, attacked my country's Navy, and who have taken credit for attacking my country's soldiers when on a UN-supervised humanitarian mission in Somalia. All of these actions are acts of war.
The thugs who run Afghanistan have been presented evidence of these crimes in the past, including the attacks on US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. They did nothing. And the people who aren't revolting against the Taliban? Fuck them. Not doing anything is complicity in the crimes of their leaders. There are certainly Afghanis who are rebelling; why aren't there more?We should be dropping neutron bombs, not food.
If you want a good historical analogy, study up on the Barbary pirates who controlled Libya in the early 1800's. Very similar situation to what is happening now with Afghanistan.
Your thought experiment proves one thing : that you believe that violence solves everything.
Of COURSE violence solves everything. Only a ninny thinks otherwise. Where are the Pics who used to live in England? Why exactly is your royal family descended from French invaders? Why are V2 rockets not landing on your countrymen's heads anymore? Violence. How did the British Empire get to be so rich? Violence. And here's something for you to think about: what is it that backs up the non-violent decisions made by civil courts in Western nations? The fact that violence would be done to the person who ignored the decision.
Now that you are living in amazing luxury (compared to 99% of the human race, past and present), you can sniff your nose at the violence which has enabled your easy life. That's hypocracy and cowardace. You think it's OK for people to have killed on your behalf, but don't let anyone else do it for themselves.
-jon
Shock of all shocks; someone as ignorant as you is ill-informed.
The US has been doing everything it can to get it's own way, from Vietnam
So, you think the US invaded Vietnam to get bin Laden? You're stupider than I thought.
There is, as yet, no evidence on who destroyed the WTC
Horseshit. There's tons of evidence that's been made public. I cited in an earlier post. To a non-moron, it's a pretty damn good case. Furthermore, the non-public information was good enough to get both the French and the Russians aboard. The French are even promising GROUND TROOPS. The Russians are giving the US maps, and have dropped all objections to the US using bases in the former Soviet Asian republics. Think about that for a minute, pinhead.
Yes, by sitting here doing nothing, I am encouraging someone to kill thousands of people. Great logic.
Is there anything you aren't too stupid to twist into nonsense? Doing nothing when you are attacked encourages attacks. Let's try a thought experiment. Say I walk up to you and punch you in the head. You do nothing. Maybe you ask some powerless third party to condemn me. Does this stop me from punching you again? Or does it tell me that you are an easy target?
Arguing with morons like you is getting annoying. Just admit you're a coward and we can stop this.
-jon
Do you dumb-ass people read these stories before posting? One of the requirements of these cards is a built-in thumb-print. The card is swiped, your thumb is scanned, and if they match, you are who you say you are.
The terrorists would have to steal thumbs and graft them on in place of their own thumbs for your plan to work. Probability: pretty damn low.
Now, the bigger question is whether or not this would have helped. It's not likely, unless the national ID card is used to track a wide range of behaviors. Move around frequently, buy items with dual-purposes, have your IDs repeatedly swiped at similar times and places as known terrorists...and then you have to mine all this data to pick out the needles from the haystacks. It's a technical and privacy nightmare.
It'd be cheaper and more effective if the US government just threw out every Muslim who wasn't a US citizen, ended student visa for Muslims, and didn't allow Muslims to enter the country until bin Laden and all his wacky followers are dust. But it won't happen.
If you think this discriminatory, too bad. The US has immigration standards based on which country you come from. It discriminates based on educational background (H1-B visas, anyone?). It disciminates based on political leanings (Nazis and Communists were barred, at one point). I don't see why adding a religious standard for exclusion would be a bad thing DURING A TIME OF WAR. I know that not all Muslims are terrorists, but all the foreign terrorists attacking the US are Muslim. Not letting them in would be a smart first step.
-jon
Here's the line from the post I replied to:
The most likely explanation is that the people who got Anthrax bought some dodgy cocaine.
That asshole called a buch of sick (and one dead) people cokeheads, with zero information other than his own obvious hate for the US. That's libel. You took the asshole's side. What does that make you?
Doing harm to anyone is wrong.
Bullshit. There are plenty of people who deserve lots of harm done to them. Putting rapists, murders, and thieves in prison is certainly doing "harm" to them. Many people think it's more "harm" to take away someone's freedom and let them rot than it is to execute them. In your ideal fantasy world, do criminals roam free, lest harm is done to them? Or do people skip around, loving each other and doing no wrong?
You claim the moral high ground because you spout pacifist nonsense. I say that all it takes for evil to succeed is for the good to do nothing. The US has been doing NOTHING for nearly 10 years in response to attacks by bin Laden. Attacks on the World Trade Center in 1993, Khobar Towers, the USS Cole, and the embassies in Africa were low-level police investigations. Doing nothing was just encouragment to the killers. Now there are nearly 6,000 people dead in the US and most Americans are awake to the danger. People like you are still in denial, hoping it'll go away. Maybe when you lose someone close to you, you'll drop the faux pacifism.
-jon
They all made similar statements when facing similar evils.
-jon
And I think it troubles you that the US could be RIGHT. You (and your political kin) don't like the fact that maybe, just maybe, the US are the good guys, since you've spent so much time and emotional energy convincing yourself that all of Western Civilization (especially the US) is the root of all evil in the world. The fact that these same people enjoy the luxuries and freedoms provided by the society they claim to hate is an irony that is left unexamined by these freethinkers.
The same people who can concoct the most cocamamie conspiracy theories without a shred of evidence won't believe that Bin Laden and his group are responsible for the terrorist attacks on NYC and DC without a signed confession from Bin Laden and 200 of his closest associates. The evidence released so far is easily grounds for indictment. We've got means, motive, and opportunity. The phone records are facsinating. We've got the guy placing a call to his step-mother the day before, letting her know something big was going down. We've got calls by him and his associates RIGHT AFTER the attacks saying "We hit two of the targets."
And that's not all. We have his son, interviewed by favorable press in Pakistan, saying that Bin Laden and 300 of his followers went into hiding on the 10th of September, sending most of his family to Pakistan. There are records of bank transactions from known associates of Bin Laden to the people who did the attacks. What more evidence would you want? Video of Bin Laden describing the plan while petting a white cat?
The real answer is that you and your fellows are cowards. You know who is responsible, but you won't admit it because you're afraid. Rather than face the enemy, you hope that if you hide and pretend he isn't the enemy, he'll go away. He won't. You'll blame the CIA or Israel because, in your heart of hearts, you know they didn't do it, and that they would NEVER commit such an atrocity. They're fake, safe targets.
No matter how much you and your fellow chickens try to appease Bin Laden, he's going to try to kill you and destroy your society. Luckily, the vast majority of people in the US know what the right thing is to do and cowards like you aren't going to divert us.
-jon
I hope the next attack kills someone you love. I'll just say that they were cokeheads who got bad stuff. Or that they aren't actually dead, just faking it.
-jon
Not the strongest encryption in the world, but it'll keep prying eyes away. You might have some issues exchanging disk images with non-OS X users, though.
-jon
When Bell patented the telephone, Elisha Gray tried to patent his telephone a few hours later the same day (see http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1625.htm for details).
Both might have been ingenious, but I can see the spiritual anscestors of /.ers saying, "talking at a distance? Bah! I've been yelling on mountaintops for years!"
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Spoken like a typical /. luser.
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