There was a recent undercover test conducted by the feds where the majority of restricted items they tried to sneak through the checkpoints actually made it through. Counting actual terrorist incidents may not be effective, but those undercover test results are scathing. My own inner-cynic thinks that the TSA is a politicians gift to the labor unions and all the high tech scanners is likewise a gift to the companies that manufacture and maintain them. The government is operating its own economy with our money.
Do you realize what an undertaking replacing all of a city's pipes is? The small city I live in has similar problems with an outdated infrastructure and they've been replacing it for decades and will be replacing it for decades to come. It's not really a matter of replace them all and you're done. With a system that large, it's a never ending continuous replacement program. By the time you've done everything, the stuff you started with is at its end of life again.
I remember using Minefield at least as far back at 2010, a bit earlier I think. So it was there for Windows, it just wasn't a fully legit release that you could get from the normal download page. It worked fine for nearly everything including plugins, although as mentioned Flash was a problem if you cared about Flash. I jumped over to Palemoon when the CEO thing happened at Mozilla, it had 64 bit as a regular download. Why it took Firefox so long.. hey, they have a lot of useless features to add and useful features to remove. It takes time!
Just because they claim it does that doesn't mean that it actually does. Human language is a difficult thing to handle with computer algorithms. Especially when you get into localized dialects that can significantly alter the pronunciations. That's going to be a big problem considering the problem they're trying to solve, areas that civilization hasn't touched yet.
"In the United States, the most-populous cities, such as New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago used telephone numbers consisting of three letters and four digits (3L-4N)" (from wikipedia)
I'm in the Boston area, so this is what came to mind. But yea, yours is another one of the many variations. 3L-4N was a standard before the whole thing was dropped.
Kowloon City, if it still existed. There are disused skyscrapers occupied by squatters in various parts of the world, but yea.. generally there'd be a floor number at least.
That will happen. I have the same problem with my street address because there are three streets in the same general area that are one character off from each other in spelling and almost identical in pronunciation. Good luck generating these three word combos taking all that into account, and in multiple languages and character sets.
The phone system in the US started out in a similar way. The exchange was a word based on the three numbers and then the phone number itself was four digits. But it ended up being easier to just use numbers for the whole thing.
The only discussion point in what you posted is your attempt to read something into Rubio's speech that wasn't there. That is about you, and I'm not the one whose comments are preceded by "anonymous coward". So congrats on your second attempt at spin. I'm sure MSNBC has a staff position for you.
It takes two seconds to create an account. That's why I say I'm pretty sure that you're trying to make something out of nothing. Words mean nothing. You won't even create an account on a free site where people would be able to tie your inane comments together. Your inaction there speaks volumes to me. Are you posting from a country that would behead you for quibbling on a tech discussion site, or are you carpet bombing trying to stir up a debate where there is none?
You're trying to nitpick over something that's not there in his speech or my comments. Fine, drop the "identify with Nazis".. people of a party identify themselves as such, do they not?
Yes, I left off "Islam". There's only one group of radicals in this discussion. Yes, radical Islam. I dropped Islam because I thought it was pretty clear who we were discussing. My bad assuming you could follow a few lines of text without forgetting the context.
The clash of civilizations is between the supposed "Islamic State" versus the rest of the civilized world. That civilized world includes the billion and a half muslims who don't agree with the Islamic State's interpretation of their religion. To suggest that Rubio is saying anything else is absurd.
This is why politics suck so badly. I don't believe for one second that you really believe that Rubio was calling out an entire religion. You're looking for ways to pervert what he said in order to fit your agenda. I'm going to guess that's why you're posting as an anonymous coward as well. You don't want anyone to be able to connect these comments to you.
I see what you're trying to do, but it doesn't work. He clearly called out "radical Islam", not Islam as a whole. There may be non-violent people that identify with the IS, that would be the second quote. There is absolutely nothing wrong with saying we're at war with the radicals, he's right. Shame on you for trying to distort his speech.
Do you know what "radical" is? That's the extremists who believe it's their duty to kill the infidels. Of course we're at war with them. What the heck do you think we're doing in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, etc?
There is a historical reason for that though. A portion of the population believes that the province should be its own country, separate from Canada. They don't consider themselves Canadian and they don't want to deal with Canadians. Canada gives Québec more liberties than the other provinces as a way of sidestepping the issue. My thought on that is that Canada is a weak negotiator.
I've spent a lot of time in Québec as an American and I never felt like anyone treated me as an outsider, even when I chose to speak English. I'd be willing to bet that if I had a Canadian accent, it might have been different.
Québec wants to maintain its own identity and not become just another place on the globe that's just like every place else. I don't see anything particularly wrong with that. It's different than the melting pot style policies that the province is surrounded by, but it doesn't "defy all reason". You could argue whether or not that's a noble goal, but the reasoning seems pretty clear to me.
I agree both are being assholes, but if you go back and read about that other controversy, the spin was far different. There is a social revolution going on, and it's made possible by the Internet and related technologies. You may not care for A vs B, it may fuel a lot of childish actions, but it's going on and it's relevant. It's shaping the course of politics and social norms which will inevitably impact all of us.
Did OkCupid act like an asshole when they blocked Firefox to demonstrate their disdain for Mozilla's CEO? Or was that acceptable because it had a liberal slant whereas this story has a conservative one?
Europe is facing that already. Look at what happened in Paris with Charlie Hebdo, then the wave of violence and terror related arrests throughout many countries in the region following those attacks. There's debate as to whether or not Germany is even obeying its laws, because a lot of these "refugees" don't really seem to meet the definition of the term. They're migrating for economic reasons, not necessarily because they fear for their lives. Germany is rejecting a significant number of them, but that just adds to the chaos.
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There was a recent undercover test conducted by the feds where the majority of restricted items they tried to sneak through the checkpoints actually made it through. Counting actual terrorist incidents may not be effective, but those undercover test results are scathing. My own inner-cynic thinks that the TSA is a politicians gift to the labor unions and all the high tech scanners is likewise a gift to the companies that manufacture and maintain them. The government is operating its own economy with our money.
I'm assuming it's a porn reference.
What are they going to do when the terrorists realize that the long queues waiting to get through the security checkpoints are a ripe target?
Do you realize what an undertaking replacing all of a city's pipes is? The small city I live in has similar problems with an outdated infrastructure and they've been replacing it for decades and will be replacing it for decades to come. It's not really a matter of replace them all and you're done. With a system that large, it's a never ending continuous replacement program. By the time you've done everything, the stuff you started with is at its end of life again.
I remember using Minefield at least as far back at 2010, a bit earlier I think. So it was there for Windows, it just wasn't a fully legit release that you could get from the normal download page. It worked fine for nearly everything including plugins, although as mentioned Flash was a problem if you cared about Flash. I jumped over to Palemoon when the CEO thing happened at Mozilla, it had 64 bit as a regular download. Why it took Firefox so long.. hey, they have a lot of useless features to add and useful features to remove. It takes time!
What about all the time and money wasted trying to force into law? This is what partisan politics gets you, this mess was foreseeable.
Just because they claim it does that doesn't mean that it actually does. Human language is a difficult thing to handle with computer algorithms. Especially when you get into localized dialects that can significantly alter the pronunciations. That's going to be a big problem considering the problem they're trying to solve, areas that civilization hasn't touched yet.
There were different dialing plans..
"In the United States, the most-populous cities, such as New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago used telephone numbers consisting of three letters and four digits (3L-4N)" (from wikipedia)
I'm in the Boston area, so this is what came to mind. But yea, yours is another one of the many variations. 3L-4N was a standard before the whole thing was dropped.
Kowloon City, if it still existed. There are disused skyscrapers occupied by squatters in various parts of the world, but yea.. generally there'd be a floor number at least.
That will happen. I have the same problem with my street address because there are three streets in the same general area that are one character off from each other in spelling and almost identical in pronunciation. Good luck generating these three word combos taking all that into account, and in multiple languages and character sets.
The phone system in the US started out in a similar way. The exchange was a word based on the three numbers and then the phone number itself was four digits. But it ended up being easier to just use numbers for the whole thing.
The only discussion point in what you posted is your attempt to read something into Rubio's speech that wasn't there. That is about you, and I'm not the one whose comments are preceded by "anonymous coward". So congrats on your second attempt at spin. I'm sure MSNBC has a staff position for you.
It takes two seconds to create an account. That's why I say I'm pretty sure that you're trying to make something out of nothing. Words mean nothing. You won't even create an account on a free site where people would be able to tie your inane comments together. Your inaction there speaks volumes to me. Are you posting from a country that would behead you for quibbling on a tech discussion site, or are you carpet bombing trying to stir up a debate where there is none?
You're trying to nitpick over something that's not there in his speech or my comments. Fine, drop the "identify with Nazis".. people of a party identify themselves as such, do they not?
Yes, I left off "Islam". There's only one group of radicals in this discussion. Yes, radical Islam. I dropped Islam because I thought it was pretty clear who we were discussing. My bad assuming you could follow a few lines of text without forgetting the context.
The clash of civilizations is between the supposed "Islamic State" versus the rest of the civilized world. That civilized world includes the billion and a half muslims who don't agree with the Islamic State's interpretation of their religion. To suggest that Rubio is saying anything else is absurd.
This is why politics suck so badly. I don't believe for one second that you really believe that Rubio was calling out an entire religion. You're looking for ways to pervert what he said in order to fit your agenda. I'm going to guess that's why you're posting as an anonymous coward as well. You don't want anyone to be able to connect these comments to you.
I see what you're trying to do, but it doesn't work. He clearly called out "radical Islam", not Islam as a whole. There may be non-violent people that identify with the IS, that would be the second quote. There is absolutely nothing wrong with saying we're at war with the radicals, he's right. Shame on you for trying to distort his speech.
Do you know what "radical" is? That's the extremists who believe it's their duty to kill the infidels. Of course we're at war with them. What the heck do you think we're doing in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, etc?
It's easier than fighting over who gets exceptions to the law and who doesn't.
There is a historical reason for that though. A portion of the population believes that the province should be its own country, separate from Canada. They don't consider themselves Canadian and they don't want to deal with Canadians. Canada gives Québec more liberties than the other provinces as a way of sidestepping the issue. My thought on that is that Canada is a weak negotiator.
I've spent a lot of time in Québec as an American and I never felt like anyone treated me as an outsider, even when I chose to speak English. I'd be willing to bet that if I had a Canadian accent, it might have been different.
Québec wants to maintain its own identity and not become just another place on the globe that's just like every place else. I don't see anything particularly wrong with that. It's different than the melting pot style policies that the province is surrounded by, but it doesn't "defy all reason". You could argue whether or not that's a noble goal, but the reasoning seems pretty clear to me.
In the US, the President's attempt to halt deportations was just rejected by the courts.
http://www.washingtontimes.com...
I agree both are being assholes, but if you go back and read about that other controversy, the spin was far different. There is a social revolution going on, and it's made possible by the Internet and related technologies. You may not care for A vs B, it may fuel a lot of childish actions, but it's going on and it's relevant. It's shaping the course of politics and social norms which will inevitably impact all of us.
Did OkCupid act like an asshole when they blocked Firefox to demonstrate their disdain for Mozilla's CEO? Or was that acceptable because it had a liberal slant whereas this story has a conservative one?
Isn't that usually how religion passes from one generation to another?
Europe is facing that already. Look at what happened in Paris with Charlie Hebdo, then the wave of violence and terror related arrests throughout many countries in the region following those attacks. There's debate as to whether or not Germany is even obeying its laws, because a lot of these "refugees" don't really seem to meet the definition of the term. They're migrating for economic reasons, not necessarily because they fear for their lives. Germany is rejecting a significant number of them, but that just adds to the chaos.
What's the point of having a policy and then not following it?
They could treat the policy like some countries are treating their immigration laws.