are there any international accords in place to make sure our enemies do not retrieve/ reverse engineer it?
Osama bin Laden: Hey, Ayman, whassup? check this out -- there's a nuke off the infidel American coast that we can blow up!
Ayman al-Zawahiri: Sorry, Osama, we can't do it; there's an international accord against it. We'll have to stick to strictly legal forms of terrorism, like hijacking airplanes and blowing up buildings.
The millions of followers is all that separates these groups. None of them are "wacko." Many individuals in such groups are actually quite intelligent and logical. But they all have hardcore religious-inspired ideologies that make them believe that killing the people they kill is the best thing for the world, for themselves, and for God. We've had two or three groups caught in the United States since after 9-11 with significant WMD -- chems and biological weapons, homemade and stolen from US military sources, with plans to do something with them. None of these groups have been Islamic.
No group of religious fanatics has a monopoly on ruthless violence. Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, even Buddhist fanatics have slaughtered innocents, even children, in recent history. Islamists may have done the most recent and most spectacular faith-based mass murders, but they are hardly the sole practitioners of slaughter.
Someone once broke into my apartment through a window and stole 2 beers, a jar of mayonnaise, and a can of tuna. Nothing else -- computer and stereo equipment, cash in desk drawer, television, cameras, and other valuables were untouched (it didn't even look like they looked around much). If they hadn't screwed up the window I probably never would have noticed they'd broken in and just figured I ate the tunafish and then forgot about it after a couple of beers....
Since when did anybody think piracy was about having a "right to someone else's property"? Nobody cares if pirates have a "right" to pirate windows; the fact is, many people need it, and they will copy it because nobody thinks it's worth $299. They don't care if they have a "right" to copy it. Personally, I'll pay my $129 for something I think is actually worth that -- OS X.
Real men use tables for layout, and that's that. A real programmer would never prefer CSS's long spelled out english words like border-color in favor of HTML's ULs and TDs.
Yeah! And real men read web pages using only cat, parsing the HTML in their heads!
Sorry, didn't mean to call you a liar! I guess it's "obviously false" to me because I've been reading about it for 3 years now, and I get frustrated seeing it trotted out again and again in various forms in the media.
As for your main point, that 9/11 was not the first attack on Americans on American soil, I wholeheartedly agree. Beyond that, I think the evidence is clear that radical Islamists associated with al Qaeda had been slaughtering Americans and others all over the world since early in the 1990s.
If you want to teach creationism side by side with evolution in a theology or philosophy class, fine, but a science class is not the place for competing superstitions. "Creationism" is not a scientific theory. Evolution is. And to say it's a "theory" is not to say it is just as valid as any other theory -- it is a theory in the same way that gravity is a theory. It is, in fact, the foundation of modern biology.
This is actually pretty common; administrations usually circulate a series of talking points that are often quoted verbatim. The words likely were written by neither Bush nor Abraham, but an aide. You can find many examples in the Clinton administration too (as well as Reagan, Bush 1, etc.)
Laurie Mylroie's Iraqi conspiracy theory has been thoroughly discredited by every knowledgeable observer of the evidence. Having an Iraqi passport does not mean one is an Iraqi intelligence agent. At best, it means one is an Iraqi. There are over 25 million people in Iraq.
But even that is unlikely. He was probably from either Baluchistan or Kuwait. His partner, Mohammed Ajaj, was caught entering the US with a Swedish passport. Nobody believes he is Swedish. And certainly nobody believes he was taking orders from the Swedish Intelligence and Security Directorate.
Yousef worked for al Qaeda, not for Saddam Hussein (whom Osama bin Laden thought was an infidel). When will people stop repeating this obviously false information?
There was a tremendous opposition to joining in on the WWII in the USA before Pearl harbour, which was ironically partially provoked by PDF himself beforehand.
Look, I don't like closed file formats either, but PDF is the least offensive one I know. Blaming it for Pearl Harbor is a little extreme, don't you think? If you're going to blame a file format for Pearl Harbor, what about DOC?
remember that the UN hardly has the power to police itself within its own facilities.
Yeah, but once they use their black helicopters to see how much money we all have and take the money, then they'll be able to pay for better police, and then we're in really big trouble.
... and standard building maintenance will include completely powering down all the electricity in the building and then powering it back up again at random intervals.
I can think of a lot worse people than some geek who makes geeks mad... Hitler, Slobodan Milosevic, Saddam Hussein. There's many more that have done a lot worse than do things you don't like on computers.
But nobody's naming a building at CMU "Milosevic Hall."
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Osama bin Laden: Hey, Ayman, whassup? check this out -- there's a nuke off the infidel American coast that we can blow up!
Ayman al-Zawahiri: Sorry, Osama, we can't do it; there's an international accord against it. We'll have to stick to strictly legal forms of terrorism, like hijacking airplanes and blowing up buildings.
OBL: Curses! Foiled again!
It's "Somebody set up us the bomb." Get it right!
No group of religious fanatics has a monopoly on ruthless violence. Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, even Buddhist fanatics have slaughtered innocents, even children, in recent history. Islamists may have done the most recent and most spectacular faith-based mass murders, but they are hardly the sole practitioners of slaughter.
I just want a humanoid robot that will squash those damn robot cockroaches.
Someone once broke into my apartment through a window and stole 2 beers, a jar of mayonnaise, and a can of tuna. Nothing else -- computer and stereo equipment, cash in desk drawer, television, cameras, and other valuables were untouched (it didn't even look like they looked around much). If they hadn't screwed up the window I probably never would have noticed they'd broken in and just figured I ate the tunafish and then forgot about it after a couple of beers ....
... in Japan!
Strongbad and Cartman are on the ticket? Sweet! Now I don't have to settle for the lesser evil!!
What about my uptime? What about my precious uptime??!!!
Since when did anybody think piracy was about having a "right to someone else's property"? Nobody cares if pirates have a "right" to pirate windows; the fact is, many people need it, and they will copy it because nobody thinks it's worth $299. They don't care if they have a "right" to copy it. Personally, I'll pay my $129 for something I think is actually worth that -- OS X.
Exactly. netcat is for wimps!!!
It's not a conspiracy theory. Slashdot editors have unlimited mod points.
Yeah! And real men read web pages using only cat, parsing the HTML in their heads!
These will be the only robots to survive a nuclear war.
As for your main point, that 9/11 was not the first attack on Americans on American soil, I wholeheartedly agree. Beyond that, I think the evidence is clear that radical Islamists associated with al Qaeda had been slaughtering Americans and others all over the world since early in the 1990s.
No, but they made him wear a ridiculous fruit basket hat.
If you want to teach creationism side by side with evolution in a theology or philosophy class, fine, but a science class is not the place for competing superstitions. "Creationism" is not a scientific theory. Evolution is. And to say it's a "theory" is not to say it is just as valid as any other theory -- it is a theory in the same way that gravity is a theory. It is, in fact, the foundation of modern biology.
I'm sorry; I missed that. When did Iraq attack the United States?
This is actually pretty common; administrations usually circulate a series of talking points that are often quoted verbatim. The words likely were written by neither Bush nor Abraham, but an aide. You can find many examples in the Clinton administration too (as well as Reagan, Bush 1, etc.)
But even that is unlikely. He was probably from either Baluchistan or Kuwait. His partner, Mohammed Ajaj, was caught entering the US with a Swedish passport. Nobody believes he is Swedish. And certainly nobody believes he was taking orders from the Swedish Intelligence and Security Directorate.
Yousef worked for al Qaeda, not for Saddam Hussein (whom Osama bin Laden thought was an infidel). When will people stop repeating this obviously false information?
Look, I don't like closed file formats either, but PDF is the least offensive one I know. Blaming it for Pearl Harbor is a little extreme, don't you think? If you're going to blame a file format for Pearl Harbor, what about DOC?
Yeah, but once they use their black helicopters to see how much money we all have and take the money, then they'll be able to pay for better police, and then we're in really big trouble.
... and standard building maintenance will include completely powering down all the electricity in the building and then powering it back up again at random intervals.
Who did you think the "M" stood for? Mother Teresa?
You mean Bill Gates beat him to death?
But nobody's naming a building at CMU "Milosevic Hall."
Then again, it does have a nice ring to it....