" By contrast, in civil law jurisdictions (the legal tradition that prevails in, or is combined with common law in, Europe and most non-Islamic, non-common law countries), judicial precedent is given less weight (which means that a judge deciding a given case has more freedom to interpret the text of a statute independently, and less predictably), and scholarly literature is given more. For example, the Napoleonic code expressly forbade French judges from pronouncing general principles of law.[10]
As a rough rule of thumb, common law systems trace their history to England, while civil law systems trace their history to Roman law and the Napoleonic Code."
I sat through a cloud lecture by some Microsoft guy, and he said it's aimed at startups, that don't know what server load to expect, and want a scalable solution. Practically Microsoft hosts the app with database and everything, the app must be written against a specific cloud api (in some.net language), and they bill by CPU time, network throughput and database size.
"It doesn't contradict the observation that Iraq and Afghanistan are better off now than before."
I'm not so sure of that.
"The degree to which the American people are deceived by the cozy relationship between the press and government in the United States was clearly evidenced in my interview with with Mohammad Nizami, formerly the head of the Taliban's radio and TV network and now a member of the Karzai regime. He expressed his support for an Islamic government of Afghanistan ruled by strict Sharia law. He opposed equal rights for women and wanted to see foreign troops withdrawn. Only his timetable had changed. As a Taliban leader he had called for an immediate withdrawal. As a Karzai supporter he thought they should wait until the Afghan Army could stand on its own.
That tolerance for the continued presence of U.S. Troops was sufficient to make him an ally in the view of the United States and Karzai. The dirty secret you will never see exposed in the mainline media is that the Taliban's ideology and political views on the future of Afghanistan are quite similar to many of Karzai's top supporters, including members of his cabinet. They, too, want a fundamentalist-ruled Afghanistan and have nothing but contempt for democratic elections. The war pits two sets of fundamentalists against one another, the difference being one side has U.S. support and the other doesn't. "
I don't know what genocidal actions you mean. Maybe Iran-Iraq war, when Iraq used chemical weapons - supplied by the US - against Iranian troops?
The justification of Saddam's death sentence was his retaliation of a failed assasination attempt. 150 were executed, but I don't think it could be called a genocide. (It wasn't ethnic cleansing. )
Of course religion was only a tool to fight the commies. Nothing to sewe here. It still doesn't justify those US actions which by the way went against international law.
The Israel Defense Forces' chief rabbi told students in a pre-army yeshiva program last week that soldiers who "show mercy" toward the enemy in wartime will be "damned."
"You know that Islam doesn't recognize the separation of church and state, don't you? In the early years, the entire domain of Islam was ruled by a caliphate, which is essentially the pope and king rolled into one. "
It's not unheard of Christianity either. Ever heard of the Papal State?
"The second major time period runs roughly from the 4th Century until the Kingdom of Italy seized Church lands in 1870. The Middle Ages saw the papacy reach its height of power, consolidating and unifying the churches of Western Europe, and expanding its territories, known as the Papal States. However, it also witnessed the Great Schism, which permanently divided the Church, East and West, Byzantine and Catholic, and then again, the Protestant Reformation, which directly challenged the authority of the papacy. At the end of this time period, the Papal states were taken away from the Vatican." from WIkipedia
"And to a lesser degree, we dirty ourselves by dealing with Israel as well, who seems to be rapidly picking up on the intolerance and religious fundamentalism"
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If you had to do J2EE developement prior to EJB3, you would appreciate annotations. Basically a lot of the stuff from XML files went to annotations.
And with OS/2 you didn't had to reboot to switch between memory modes.
Pro tip: yes, they can. See USSR.
This isn't an east vs west thing.
" By contrast, in civil law jurisdictions (the legal tradition that prevails in, or is combined with common law in, Europe and most non-Islamic, non-common law countries), judicial precedent is given less weight (which means that a judge deciding a given case has more freedom to interpret the text of a statute independently, and less predictably), and scholarly literature is given more. For example, the Napoleonic code expressly forbade French judges from pronouncing general principles of law.[10]
As a rough rule of thumb, common law systems trace their history to England, while civil law systems trace their history to Roman law and the Napoleonic Code."
My best sympathies go to you.
I sat through a cloud lecture by some Microsoft guy, and he said it's aimed at startups, that don't know what server load to expect, and want a scalable solution. Practically Microsoft hosts the app with database and everything, the app must be written against a specific cloud api (in some .net language), and they bill by CPU time, network throughput and database size.
He's cynical, but unfortunately he's right.
"It doesn't contradict the observation that Iraq and Afghanistan are better off now than before."
I'm not so sure of that.
"The degree to which the American people are deceived by the cozy relationship between the press and government in the United States was clearly evidenced in my interview with with Mohammad Nizami, formerly the head of the Taliban's radio and TV network and now a member of the Karzai regime. He expressed his support for an Islamic government of Afghanistan ruled by strict Sharia law. He opposed equal rights for women and wanted to see foreign troops withdrawn. Only his timetable had changed. As a Taliban leader he had called for an immediate withdrawal. As a Karzai supporter he thought they should wait until the Afghan Army could stand on its own.
That tolerance for the continued presence of U.S. Troops was sufficient to make him an ally in the view of the United States and Karzai. The dirty secret you will never see exposed in the mainline media is that the Taliban's ideology and political views on the future of Afghanistan are quite similar to many of Karzai's top supporters, including members of his cabinet. They, too, want a fundamentalist-ruled Afghanistan and have nothing but contempt for democratic elections. The war pits two sets of fundamentalists against one another, the difference being one side has U.S. support and the other doesn't. "
http://johnshaplin.blogspot.com/2010/10/american-media-by-reese-erlich.html
http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/top-british-gen-sir-david-richards-says-west-cant-defeat-al-qaida-militarily/19715982
I guess you might intrested in this:
http://johnshaplin.blogspot.com/2010/10/ex-cia-perspective-on-global-war-on.html
On the other hand you deliberately skipped over the coup against the democratically elected Iranian government. Can you justify that too?
I don't know what genocidal actions you mean. Maybe Iran-Iraq war, when Iraq used chemical weapons - supplied by the US - against Iranian troops?
The justification of Saddam's death sentence was his retaliation of a failed assasination attempt. 150 were executed, but I don't think it could be called a genocide. (It wasn't ethnic cleansing. )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dujail_Massacre
Well, Israel gets $ 3 billion a year, so it's just to seem impartial :)
Of course religion was only a tool to fight the commies. Nothing to sewe here. It still doesn't justify those US actions which by the way went against international law.
The Israel Defense Forces' chief rabbi told students in a pre-army yeshiva program last week that soldiers who "show mercy" toward the enemy in wartime will be "damned."
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/idf-chief-rabbi-troops-who-show-mercy-to-enemy-will-be-damned-1.4175
"You know that Islam doesn't recognize the separation of church and state, don't you? In the early years, the entire domain of Islam was ruled by a caliphate, which is essentially the pope and king rolled into one. "
It's not unheard of Christianity either. Ever heard of the Papal State?
"The second major time period runs roughly from the 4th Century until the Kingdom of Italy seized Church lands in 1870. The Middle Ages saw the papacy reach its height of power, consolidating and unifying the churches of Western Europe, and expanding its territories, known as the Papal States. However, it also witnessed the Great Schism, which permanently divided the Church, East and West, Byzantine and Catholic, and then again, the Protestant Reformation, which directly challenged the authority of the papacy. At the end of this time period, the Papal states were taken away from the Vatican."
from WIkipedia
That's why they're called protestants.
". Why do you think no Arab nation has ever seriously offered a home to the Palestinians?"
Because arabs would lose claim to the land of Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovak-Hungarian_population_exchange
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanianization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magyar_Autonomous_Region
Is the gay pride still banned?
"And to a lesser degree, we dirty ourselves by dealing with Israel as well, who seems to be rapidly picking up on the intolerance and religious fundamentalism"
Like it's a new phenomenon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing
Isn't it intresting that Hamas was supported by Israel as long Fatah was the stronger party?
Maybe you should look up the East India Company.
"I think a good start would be a move to SSL everything. It doesn't make sites unblockable, "
And use an anonymous proxy. Problem solved.
A bug is an insect of the order Hemiptera, known as the true bugs.
from Wikipedia
Spiders aren't web bugs because they have 8 legs instead of 6.
You win 1000 internets. I was saying these things for a long time too.