Blatant lie or complete ignorance of reality. Example that proves you wrong in real world scenario: Finland and its immense success in education (constant top 5 during last decade in international tests, far above US).
US has been assassinating people for a long time, and will be assassinating people for as long as it exists as a superpower. Same can be said for any reasonably-sized and powerful country that has conflicts both within and out of its borders. Assassination is one of the oldest tools of both diplomacy and military action in the world.
So, as soon as you declare an area a "war zone", assassination is OK.
Coming up when presidency goes to some tea-party nutter: declare a region with many americans who don't know how to vote patriotically a "war zone" and get cracking on making sure that only those who pick the right choice remain to vote.
This goes two ways. If this is a group that won't have the rights, it will fail, but companies won't risk their own assets when it goes bankrupt.
If companies will properly license assets to this shell company then it has a much better chance of success in courts, but liability upon potential failure may be much harsher.
Dresden wasn't bombed back to stone age, it was razed. The main difference between razing a city and bombing it to "stone age" is that in former you destroy everything, while in latter you focus on modern infrastructure while leaving actual apartment blocks and other living quarters intact. For example, Tripoli was bombed to stone age.
Unfortunately with the euro debt crisis, it's almost impossible to find the original articles from euronews (or any site really) about Sarkozy talking of Libya victory and how their leeders are now in debt to NATO, because the word "debt" generates a massive amount of noise about eurozone crisis in search results even with a lot of boolean exclusions from search. You'll have to take my word for it.
Excuse me, but what the f...? Israel isn't exactly cleanest white dove on human rights itself, and opening an embassy in Jerusalem, which is essentially a home city for three extremely fanatical religions is somehow a show of respect for human rights in their own home country rather then a religious statement to their own fanatics?
Reality check: when your enemy is tribal militias and most of your country is rural, you either fight them back on their own terms, or you lose the war and get raped anyway. Historical examples: essentially all African countries who contained multiple large tribes with history of ethnic or cultural friction. You can whitewash it all you want, reality is that those who win civil wars are the ones who can kill, pillage and rape their opposition better then said opposition.
I think I'm going to go with the classic "my head is full fuck!" internet meme for this one. Because should be a limit to how much atrocities a human mind can pretentiously whitewash before his head is indeed "full of fuck". At least I hope there is.
They already took the PR hit, and they already hit their supporters in corporate world. The damage is done. Half-assed damage control (which is what these ESRs are) is not going to bring firefox back to corporate world, nor remove the huge stain from reputation of both FF itself and IT professionals who were pushing for firefox acceptance in their workplace.
That's because press and mass media in question is owned by people who are "in" with higher ups.
If you want to see what happens when you're not "in", look at Al-Jazeera's long fight to get a foothold in US, in spite of its phenomenal popularity as an alternative news source. There is a myriad of way to prevent or even shut down a media outlet when it's necessary, ranging from permits to "proper" corporation buyouts.
I think the main reason for emotional response like yours (and mine, which largely mirrors yours) is because many of us in IT actively advocated firefox as a replacement for IE in corporate world, and actually got it pushed through. Which is one of the biggest reasons why firefox took off, people like using the same browser at home and at work.
And then, they essentially gave everyone in corporate IT a very public finger, especially when you have to explain to your bosses why firefox cannot be supported anymore and you have to switch to something else if that was your primary browser in the company. Not only do you end up feeling used, but your reputation (and potentially career) get stained.
While some older leaders in China still love DPRK, most of the current leadership views it as a necessary evil at best, visible in current diplmacy and noted by journalists and analysts across the globe. The biggest problem for China is the massive influx of North-Korean refugees in event of regime collapse destabilizing its southeastern border. Though another thought to entertain is that DPRK is likely a good puppet to force its regional competitors Japan and South-Korea to waste a significant amount of funds on, not to mention US.
The real reason everyone is tiptoeing is because DPRK showed that it can and will start a shooting war if it's slighted ideologically on things is really cares about, like deaths of its leaders. And Seoul is nicely in range of DRPK artillery, which demonstrated it's capability by shelling a South-Korean island a while ago, likely partially as a reminder that they are effectively holding Seoul hostage in event of any conflagration. Having a nuke in their arsenal means it gets loaded into an artillery piece or short range missile and shot into Seoul. This equals millions of dead and Western economy taking a massive hit as South-Korean manufacturers basically halt production. And even if they don't have nukes, they do have chemical weapons, which while nowhere near the lethality would still make for a pretty horrendous dent in Seoul's population and South-Korean infrastructure.
As a result, everyone who doesn't want war on the Korean peninsula tiptoes around DRPK, which is everyone with any significant military power in the region. Don't poke the sleeping bear, and don't aggravate him when he wakes up.
1. Good to know that "this isn't news" after claiming that this is in fact news in grandparent. Unless of course, you're using the creative concept of "a few buildings" to refer to essentially all infrastructure buildings like power plants, fuel storages, communications buildings and other things that elevate modern society from "stone age". 2. Look for Sarkozy quotes right at the end of Libyan conflict at euronews.net. They should still have it in their archive, though their original video is probably gone from it.
Because putting an embassy in a "holy city" of both major religions in the country makes sense for PR reasons? How is this relevant to discussion at hand?
The ESR is specifically targeted at groups looking to deploy it within a managed environment. It is not intended for use by individuals, nor as a method to mitigate compatibility issues with addons or other software. Mozilla will strongly discourage public (re)distribution of Mozilla-branded versions of the ESR.
They essentially admit that the problem is major enough for people to want to get this "corporate world only" release, and they actually want to prevent people from getting it as much as possible. Disgusting.
1. The second thing that was bombed in Gaddafi loyalist territory in Libya was infrastructure. First being anti-air installations and radar domes. Just because we didn't bomb Benghasi where most of the pictures came from, doesn't mean that we didn't utterly destroy infrastructure in Gaddafi strongholds. 2. Libya is free to sell its oil to whomever it wants. Of course, leaders that were installed in Libya are owned by West. I wonder who these truly free (TM colonial powers) leaders will sell the oil to?
Hint: Sarkozy said it best right after the war ended, google for exact line if you speak french. I really started to respect him after that, for once a Western leader that said things exactly as they are. To paraphrase, "they owe us a debt of gratitude, and we're expecting it to be paid".
You should stop drinking from the tap of wonderful Western propaganda and read on what's actually happening - because you're regurgitating hilarious amounts of bullshit that has been fed to you. West isn't half happy (and for a reason) about what happened in Sudan. Sudanese had their nice post-independence slaughterfest, these are dime-a-dosen in African countries who's borders were drawn by colonialists and disregarded all cultural and ethnic borders. Chinese came with their non-interventionist doctrine. They do it everywhere right now, "we don't care about your politics, as long as you let us be your preferred trading partner you can rape, slaughter and pillage each other all you want".
You see, China, they don't care what colors will be flown on the flag pole. As long as they keep their stakes in oil industry (which they now own lock, stock and bolt) and remain preferential trading partners, they couldn't care less who slaughters who, and what do butchers and victims choose to call themselves. That's the major ideological difference between China and West, and why China is expanding its influence in Africa so fast while Western influence in there is going down. And for the record, West doesn't really care about these slaughters either, until it's their dictator and favored tribe that start getting killed. Chinese on the other hand just deal with everyone, as they do not have the long colonial history and baggage associated with it and don't care about ideology of locals.
If you seriously believe that splitting Sudan is for "creating your own country with a better future", I have land on the moon to sell you. Reality is, it's going to be another post-colonialist independence dictatorial shit hole split along tribal lines like dozens of other countries that went down that path ended up. There is no culture of democracy in Africa - but there is a long culture of colonialism, slavery and tribal warfare. And once you understand this and stop looking at African countries like you look at Western ones, a lot of things in there make actual sense without needing to listen to talking heads trying to shove bullshit down your throat about "what you should think is happening there".
Last I checked, everyone is walking on their tip-toes around North Korea. Dear Leader dies, and everyone is really, really careful "not to antagonize". South Korea actually sent a delegation to express their condolences.
That's why Iran wants the bomb. When you get it, no one pisses all over you over ideology anymore, and your words start to carry weight at international negotiating tables.
Hilariously, this is exactly what happened in Sudan. West imposed sanctions expecting unfriendly government to fold in expedient manner as such governments did many times before. Suddenly China showed up in Sudan money in hand and now Sudan is selling all of its oil to China rather then to West as it did before, and pretty much entire oil industry is in the hands of Chinese.
Apparently this lesson has not been learned yet. Strange, considering that when Libyan oil started to go into Chinese direction, both EU and US got scared shitless and bombed the country into stone age. I guess this is just incompetence, left hand not learning the same lessons that right hand has learned.
Banks make a whole lot more then half-hearted attempt at security. Their network security nowadays is a work of art. The problem is that the amount of people who want to hack them is also astronomically higher then anyone else.
Except that you copyright the work using something other then public domain for it when you perform the operation you're mentioning. Which makes your entire argument against PD completely irrelevant, as by same definition I could argue that very act of thinking of an idea is pro-copyright, because I could eventually copyright the contents of the idea. The merit of that argument is identical to yours.
By the same notion, we could state that adults with imaginary friends who are combative because they want others to care about their imaginary friends or care why they think that there are no imaginary friends are actually deeply narcissistic.
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Power plants aren't smartphones. Most have lifetime of 50-100 years depending on modernization.
Which is likely one of the smaller reasons why maemo/meego on phones was killed in the crib.
Blatant lie or complete ignorance of reality. Example that proves you wrong in real world scenario: Finland and its immense success in education (constant top 5 during last decade in international tests, far above US).
For insurance fraud? That's going to do DA prosecuting, not insurance companies.
US has been assassinating people for a long time, and will be assassinating people for as long as it exists as a superpower. Same can be said for any reasonably-sized and powerful country that has conflicts both within and out of its borders. Assassination is one of the oldest tools of both diplomacy and military action in the world.
So, as soon as you declare an area a "war zone", assassination is OK.
Coming up when presidency goes to some tea-party nutter: declare a region with many americans who don't know how to vote patriotically a "war zone" and get cracking on making sure that only those who pick the right choice remain to vote.
Wait, isn't that what they do in Africa nowadays?
This goes two ways. If this is a group that won't have the rights, it will fail, but companies won't risk their own assets when it goes bankrupt.
If companies will properly license assets to this shell company then it has a much better chance of success in courts, but liability upon potential failure may be much harsher.
Dresden wasn't bombed back to stone age, it was razed. The main difference between razing a city and bombing it to "stone age" is that in former you destroy everything, while in latter you focus on modern infrastructure while leaving actual apartment blocks and other living quarters intact. For example, Tripoli was bombed to stone age.
Unfortunately with the euro debt crisis, it's almost impossible to find the original articles from euronews (or any site really) about Sarkozy talking of Libya victory and how their leeders are now in debt to NATO, because the word "debt" generates a massive amount of noise about eurozone crisis in search results even with a lot of boolean exclusions from search. You'll have to take my word for it.
Excuse me, but what the f...? Israel isn't exactly cleanest white dove on human rights itself, and opening an embassy in Jerusalem, which is essentially a home city for three extremely fanatical religions is somehow a show of respect for human rights in their own home country rather then a religious statement to their own fanatics?
Reality check: when your enemy is tribal militias and most of your country is rural, you either fight them back on their own terms, or you lose the war and get raped anyway. Historical examples: essentially all African countries who contained multiple large tribes with history of ethnic or cultural friction. You can whitewash it all you want, reality is that those who win civil wars are the ones who can kill, pillage and rape their opposition better then said opposition.
I think I'm going to go with the classic "my head is full fuck!" internet meme for this one. Because should be a limit to how much atrocities a human mind can pretentiously whitewash before his head is indeed "full of fuck". At least I hope there is.
"Too little, far too late".
They already took the PR hit, and they already hit their supporters in corporate world. The damage is done. Half-assed damage control (which is what these ESRs are) is not going to bring firefox back to corporate world, nor remove the huge stain from reputation of both FF itself and IT professionals who were pushing for firefox acceptance in their workplace.
That's because press and mass media in question is owned by people who are "in" with higher ups.
If you want to see what happens when you're not "in", look at Al-Jazeera's long fight to get a foothold in US, in spite of its phenomenal popularity as an alternative news source. There is a myriad of way to prevent or even shut down a media outlet when it's necessary, ranging from permits to "proper" corporation buyouts.
I think the main reason for emotional response like yours (and mine, which largely mirrors yours) is because many of us in IT actively advocated firefox as a replacement for IE in corporate world, and actually got it pushed through. Which is one of the biggest reasons why firefox took off, people like using the same browser at home and at work.
And then, they essentially gave everyone in corporate IT a very public finger, especially when you have to explain to your bosses why firefox cannot be supported anymore and you have to switch to something else if that was your primary browser in the company. Not only do you end up feeling used, but your reputation (and potentially career) get stained.
While some older leaders in China still love DPRK, most of the current leadership views it as a necessary evil at best, visible in current diplmacy and noted by journalists and analysts across the globe. The biggest problem for China is the massive influx of North-Korean refugees in event of regime collapse destabilizing its southeastern border. Though another thought to entertain is that DPRK is likely a good puppet to force its regional competitors Japan and South-Korea to waste a significant amount of funds on, not to mention US.
The real reason everyone is tiptoeing is because DPRK showed that it can and will start a shooting war if it's slighted ideologically on things is really cares about, like deaths of its leaders. And Seoul is nicely in range of DRPK artillery, which demonstrated it's capability by shelling a South-Korean island a while ago, likely partially as a reminder that they are effectively holding Seoul hostage in event of any conflagration. Having a nuke in their arsenal means it gets loaded into an artillery piece or short range missile and shot into Seoul. This equals millions of dead and Western economy taking a massive hit as South-Korean manufacturers basically halt production. And even if they don't have nukes, they do have chemical weapons, which while nowhere near the lethality would still make for a pretty horrendous dent in Seoul's population and South-Korean infrastructure.
As a result, everyone who doesn't want war on the Korean peninsula tiptoes around DRPK, which is everyone with any significant military power in the region. Don't poke the sleeping bear, and don't aggravate him when he wakes up.
1. Good to know that "this isn't news" after claiming that this is in fact news in grandparent. Unless of course, you're using the creative concept of "a few buildings" to refer to essentially all infrastructure buildings like power plants, fuel storages, communications buildings and other things that elevate modern society from "stone age".
2. Look for Sarkozy quotes right at the end of Libyan conflict at euronews.net. They should still have it in their archive, though their original video is probably gone from it.
Because putting an embassy in a "holy city" of both major religions in the country makes sense for PR reasons? How is this relevant to discussion at hand?
The ESR is specifically targeted at groups looking to deploy it within a managed environment. It is not intended for use by individuals, nor as a method to mitigate compatibility issues with addons or other software. Mozilla will strongly discourage public (re)distribution of Mozilla-branded versions of the ESR.
They essentially admit that the problem is major enough for people to want to get this "corporate world only" release, and they actually want to prevent people from getting it as much as possible. Disgusting.
1. The second thing that was bombed in Gaddafi loyalist territory in Libya was infrastructure. First being anti-air installations and radar domes. Just because we didn't bomb Benghasi where most of the pictures came from, doesn't mean that we didn't utterly destroy infrastructure in Gaddafi strongholds.
2. Libya is free to sell its oil to whomever it wants. Of course, leaders that were installed in Libya are owned by West. I wonder who these truly free (TM colonial powers) leaders will sell the oil to?
Hint: Sarkozy said it best right after the war ended, google for exact line if you speak french. I really started to respect him after that, for once a Western leader that said things exactly as they are. To paraphrase, "they owe us a debt of gratitude, and we're expecting it to be paid".
You should stop drinking from the tap of wonderful Western propaganda and read on what's actually happening - because you're regurgitating hilarious amounts of bullshit that has been fed to you. West isn't half happy (and for a reason) about what happened in Sudan. Sudanese had their nice post-independence slaughterfest, these are dime-a-dosen in African countries who's borders were drawn by colonialists and disregarded all cultural and ethnic borders.
Chinese came with their non-interventionist doctrine. They do it everywhere right now, "we don't care about your politics, as long as you let us be your preferred trading partner you can rape, slaughter and pillage each other all you want".
You see, China, they don't care what colors will be flown on the flag pole. As long as they keep their stakes in oil industry (which they now own lock, stock and bolt) and remain preferential trading partners, they couldn't care less who slaughters who, and what do butchers and victims choose to call themselves. That's the major ideological difference between China and West, and why China is expanding its influence in Africa so fast while Western influence in there is going down.
And for the record, West doesn't really care about these slaughters either, until it's their dictator and favored tribe that start getting killed. Chinese on the other hand just deal with everyone, as they do not have the long colonial history and baggage associated with it and don't care about ideology of locals.
If you seriously believe that splitting Sudan is for "creating your own country with a better future", I have land on the moon to sell you. Reality is, it's going to be another post-colonialist independence dictatorial shit hole split along tribal lines like dozens of other countries that went down that path ended up. There is no culture of democracy in Africa - but there is a long culture of colonialism, slavery and tribal warfare. And once you understand this and stop looking at African countries like you look at Western ones, a lot of things in there make actual sense without needing to listen to talking heads trying to shove bullshit down your throat about "what you should think is happening there".
Last I checked, everyone is walking on their tip-toes around North Korea. Dear Leader dies, and everyone is really, really careful "not to antagonize". South Korea actually sent a delegation to express their condolences.
That's why Iran wants the bomb. When you get it, no one pisses all over you over ideology anymore, and your words start to carry weight at international negotiating tables.
Hilariously, this is exactly what happened in Sudan. West imposed sanctions expecting unfriendly government to fold in expedient manner as such governments did many times before. Suddenly China showed up in Sudan money in hand and now Sudan is selling all of its oil to China rather then to West as it did before, and pretty much entire oil industry is in the hands of Chinese.
Apparently this lesson has not been learned yet. Strange, considering that when Libyan oil started to go into Chinese direction, both EU and US got scared shitless and bombed the country into stone age. I guess this is just incompetence, left hand not learning the same lessons that right hand has learned.
Banks make a whole lot more then half-hearted attempt at security. Their network security nowadays is a work of art. The problem is that the amount of people who want to hack them is also astronomically higher then anyone else.
Except that you copyright the work using something other then public domain for it when you perform the operation you're mentioning. Which makes your entire argument against PD completely irrelevant, as by same definition I could argue that very act of thinking of an idea is pro-copyright, because I could eventually copyright the contents of the idea. The merit of that argument is identical to yours.
By the same notion, we could state that adults with imaginary friends who are combative because they want others to care about their imaginary friends or care why they think that there are no imaginary friends are actually deeply narcissistic.