No, it's the $12.9B we gave the Pentagon/CIA for a piece of junk that doesn't work due to contractor incompetence that's stirring up shit, and rightly so.
$12.9B for yet another military satellite for a Pentagon/CIA that doesn't detect or protect us from attacks that murder Americans and destroy our security, even though the GAO already knows the money was spent on incompetents.
$TRILLIONS in cuts to your Social Security pension that you paid into from your paychecks your whole working life. To protect the $TRILLIONS wasted on the Pentagon/CIA.
I'd love to be able to use a native PS module to ssh from a Windows host to a Linux host, and put the IO of the PS client into a PS pipeline. Object result sets in and out of my Linux session would be great.
Though I'd prefer a Linux PowerShell that adds object pipelines to bash, and to the Linux commands I run like ssh. I don't like (or generally use) Windows or its shell, but I love PowerShell.
As another response points out, "Attack" is an adjective in the headline, modifying "Victims", Anonymous moron Coward. You know nothing about grammar.
Secondly, you're such a moron that you don't see that abuse of religion is the problem. Supported by bigot morons like you. There's far more people in religion who are either no problem, or beneficial by virtue of their religious actions. And practically every religion has crusaders/jihadists and terrorists. America has far more Christian terrorists here than we've got Muslims, but people like you help keep the mass media afraid to come out and say it.
"Everyone knows" that "Muslims and Islam are the problem" just like you know that "Attack" is a noun in that headline. Your certainty is a religious faith you get by praying at Fox News. You're stupid and evil. Shut up - you're polluting the world.
I tried to get Sprint to itemize a "sales tax" item on my company's bill (many mobile phones + 4G/WiFi hotspots) that added to about 17% (NY sales tax is about 8.5%). It took 2 months and several dozen emails through my dedicated account rep, two different divisions of Sprint, to finally get me the raw data in pieces that I put together and explained to them. It was legit, but they do charge a tax on a tax, which they're probably withholding from the government in a neverending lawsuit against "taxing taxes" while they collect interest.
The telco cartel runs the US. Except where some other cartel has staked its flag deeper.
I wonder if the "semantically lucky sentence" is due to common Indo-European roots. Which would mean that there's a lot of semantically lucky sentences. Or maybe just lucky this infrequent time.
No, as I pointed out this is an ambiguity built into the language. Yes, editors could have chosen a wording that's not ambiguous. But the context makes it clear, right in the summary - and in common sense.
I'm not going to reply in this subthread (replies to the current comment), because I'm interested in linguistics here - not in bashing Slashdot's editors. They've got plenty of faults, but that's offtopic to what I'm talking about.
The headline says "Online Collaboration Helps Mumbai Attack Victims". I initially read "attack" as a verb, not as an adjective. So it meant that the collaboration helps the city to attack victims. But in context it means that the collaboration helps the victims, who are victims of an attack.
In English, those words are ambiguous, and mean quite opposite things. Does that happen in other languages, too? Would the translation of that sentence into Hindi also have that double meaning, depending on which word was stressed when reading it?
Whoops, I RTFA and I was bitching like a fool in that comment. This is exactly the kind of legitimate protective device Japan needs, given its actual threats.
The radio-controlled sphere, roughly the size of a basketball, was built for search and rescue operations: to fly in and out of buildings weakened by earthquakes or other natural disasters, using its onboard camera to transmit live images of whatever it sees.
With the various problems Japan and its government has, the time and money it's spending developing this thing is a waste that it cannot afford. Japan has the US to cover its military risks, so it can spend its time and money on other things Japanese people actually need.
Sure, Japan's security is largely a source of wasteful US military spending, and the US is in even more trouble in these ways than Japan is. But that doesn't justify Japan digging its hole in a race with the US.
I have a 64bit Pentium running 64bit Win 7 pro, but the FF install is the 32bit version. The Flash player crashes fairly often, on Flash content which didn't crash it before on an all 32bit machine. Is it the 32/64 bit difference? Will a 64 bit Firefox solve this problem?
If this judge were honest, they'd see that until they invalidated the patents, Google was forced to negotiate to license them first. Google is just trying to do some "progress in science and the useful arts" despite those patents. But patent holders like Sun have no obligation to allow their government-issued monopoly to be used for progress. In fact they practically always obstruct progress by others until their price is paid.
Just because you offer to give some gangster your wallet when they have their gun on you, but you get away when they blink, doesn't mean the gangster had any claim on your wallet in the first place.
Unless the judge is in the syndicate with the gangster.
I'd love to get PuTTY ssh/scp functions integrated directly into PowerShell. Instead of a separate PuTTY GUI, just use PowerShell as the shell to connect to remote hosts with PuTTY, and file transfer with scp.
So I repeat: "Why would I care that a cable I have that works safely has been recalled due to some conflict between some corporations to whom I owe nothing, now that I bought mine for myself?"
All the prosperity you describe was owned by Kadaffy and distributed to the minority of people he used to protect his dictatorship. Most Libyans, like most oil producing countries' people, got nothing from it. Except being easily outgunned, and sitting out any economic development that could give them access to it or some other improvement. The large amount of gold was traded for its oil, but kept by Kadaffy.
The current insurgency is indeed most likely boosted by the CIA. In 2006 Kadaffy faced a new US law that would have given US courts legal means to seize Kadaffy's assets stored in the US when US courts found Kadaffy liable for terrorist damages. Kadaffy wasn't singled out - it applied to all terrorist damages, already supported by the laws under which US courts were finding liability. But Kadaffy had recently completed his deal with Bush letting him back into the US oil economy, after he'd been barred because of that terrorism over many years. So Kadaffy called in the US oil corps, demanding they lobby Congress to get Libya exempted. The oil corps doubled their lobbying budget that year (it was already quite large), and got Kadaffy his exemption. But the oil corps knew Kadaffy was too much a risk of doing that whenever he wanted, so they left Libya since then (leaving behind only proxy partnerships, much harder for Kadaffy to squeeze).
So yes, the CIA and the oil corps are behind this revolution - even if perhaps largely only in a passive role, not interfering when they have the power and the "jurisdiction". Yes, the US activity is in the US' interests. Yes, a new government will probably be better for the US' interests - which are largely the oil corps' interests.
But so what? The US is doing this in a way that will let Libyans claim their new government as their own production. Yes, Muslim theocrats will be represented in that government - which is accurate representation of Libyans. There is no flaw in US democracy demonstrated by any of that, except that the American people have for a century and more made oil corps' interests define their own interests.
But the Libyan people as a whole will overall benefit, at least compared to Kadaffy. And Kadaffy will suffer, leave, and perhaps even die - all of which he richly deserves. For his treatment of Americans, Libyans, and people from many other countries.
Your argument is only for the dictator. What's your connection to him and his regime? Or maybe just to the theory that dictators are better for you and your country than a messy democracy that will sometimes have interests and values opposing yours.
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No, it's the $12.9B we gave the Pentagon/CIA for a piece of junk that doesn't work due to contractor incompetence that's stirring up shit, and rightly so.
Don Rumsfeld, is that you?
$12.9B for yet another military satellite for a Pentagon/CIA that doesn't detect or protect us from attacks that murder Americans and destroy our security, even though the GAO already knows the money was spent on incompetents.
$TRILLIONS in cuts to your Social Security pension that you paid into from your paychecks your whole working life. To protect the $TRILLIONS wasted on the Pentagon/CIA.
I'd love to be able to use a native PS module to ssh from a Windows host to a Linux host, and put the IO of the PS client into a PS pipeline. Object result sets in and out of my Linux session would be great.
Though I'd prefer a Linux PowerShell that adds object pipelines to bash, and to the Linux commands I run like ssh. I don't like (or generally use) Windows or its shell, but I love PowerShell.
I've seen that one. I'm a James Coburn fan. Thanks for joining me :).
Just like you can't "buy your car", because it's not your car until after you buy it. Sure. Not.
Thanks for your insights. How do you know so much about Hindi/English relationships?
No, with inflation 2+2=4 becomes 2.5+2.5=5 .
I wish people would get over this myth that just because a lot of people say something and think they know what it means that it makes sense.
It doesn't. It's a sign that the speaker is stupid. Insisting that it's OK is a sign that the speaker is meta-stupid.
Ah, but they're the not-as-expensivest of the expensivest.
As another response points out, "Attack" is an adjective in the headline, modifying "Victims", Anonymous moron Coward. You know nothing about grammar.
Secondly, you're such a moron that you don't see that abuse of religion is the problem. Supported by bigot morons like you. There's far more people in religion who are either no problem, or beneficial by virtue of their religious actions. And practically every religion has crusaders/jihadists and terrorists. America has far more Christian terrorists here than we've got Muslims, but people like you help keep the mass media afraid to come out and say it.
"Everyone knows" that "Muslims and Islam are the problem" just like you know that "Attack" is a noun in that headline. Your certainty is a religious faith you get by praying at Fox News. You're stupid and evil. Shut up - you're polluting the world.
It's the latest Firefox, v5.0.1, updated automatically. The Flash player crashes; it doesn't crash the browser.
I tried to get Sprint to itemize a "sales tax" item on my company's bill (many mobile phones + 4G/WiFi hotspots) that added to about 17% (NY sales tax is about 8.5%). It took 2 months and several dozen emails through my dedicated account rep, two different divisions of Sprint, to finally get me the raw data in pieces that I put together and explained to them. It was legit, but they do charge a tax on a tax, which they're probably withholding from the government in a neverending lawsuit against "taxing taxes" while they collect interest.
The telco cartel runs the US. Except where some other cartel has staked its flag deeper.
Thanks, that's exactly what I was wondering.
I wonder if the "semantically lucky sentence" is due to common Indo-European roots. Which would mean that there's a lot of semantically lucky sentences. Or maybe just lucky this infrequent time.
No, as I pointed out this is an ambiguity built into the language. Yes, editors could have chosen a wording that's not ambiguous. But the context makes it clear, right in the summary - and in common sense.
I'm not going to reply in this subthread (replies to the current comment), because I'm interested in linguistics here - not in bashing Slashdot's editors. They've got plenty of faults, but that's offtopic to what I'm talking about.
The headline says "Online Collaboration Helps Mumbai Attack Victims". I initially read "attack" as a verb, not as an adjective. So it meant that the collaboration helps the city to attack victims. But in context it means that the collaboration helps the victims, who are victims of an attack.
In English, those words are ambiguous, and mean quite opposite things. Does that happen in other languages, too? Would the translation of that sentence into Hindi also have that double meaning, depending on which word was stressed when reading it?
Whoops, I RTFA and I was bitching like a fool in that comment. This is exactly the kind of legitimate protective device Japan needs, given its actual threats.
With the various problems Japan and its government has, the time and money it's spending developing this thing is a waste that it cannot afford. Japan has the US to cover its military risks, so it can spend its time and money on other things Japanese people actually need.
Sure, Japan's security is largely a source of wasteful US military spending, and the US is in even more trouble in these ways than Japan is. But that doesn't justify Japan digging its hole in a race with the US.
I have a 64bit Pentium running 64bit Win 7 pro, but the FF install is the 32bit version. The Flash player crashes fairly often, on Flash content which didn't crash it before on an all 32bit machine. Is it the 32/64 bit difference? Will a 64 bit Firefox solve this problem?
What's not funny is that you're wrong, and don't even bother to give a reason while you're being wrong.
But maybe you're just evidence of how that comment made everyone dumber.
Evidently all your economics takes to disappear is confrontation with someone who knows what they're talking about.
That's right - any GPL program will just run its binary on any CPU, and has the vast majority of developers skilled in coding for it.
Because a Linux kernel = GPL apps.
You just made everyone dumber with your comment.
If this judge were honest, they'd see that until they invalidated the patents, Google was forced to negotiate to license them first. Google is just trying to do some "progress in science and the useful arts" despite those patents. But patent holders like Sun have no obligation to allow their government-issued monopoly to be used for progress. In fact they practically always obstruct progress by others until their price is paid.
Just because you offer to give some gangster your wallet when they have their gun on you, but you get away when they blink, doesn't mean the gangster had any claim on your wallet in the first place.
Unless the judge is in the syndicate with the gangster.
I'd love to get PuTTY ssh/scp functions integrated directly into PowerShell. Instead of a separate PuTTY GUI, just use PowerShell as the shell to connect to remote hosts with PuTTY, and file transfer with scp.
So I repeat:
"Why would I care that a cable I have that works safely has been recalled due to some conflict between some corporations to whom I owe nothing, now that I bought mine for myself?"
All the prosperity you describe was owned by Kadaffy and distributed to the minority of people he used to protect his dictatorship. Most Libyans, like most oil producing countries' people, got nothing from it. Except being easily outgunned, and sitting out any economic development that could give them access to it or some other improvement. The large amount of gold was traded for its oil, but kept by Kadaffy.
The current insurgency is indeed most likely boosted by the CIA. In 2006 Kadaffy faced a new US law that would have given US courts legal means to seize Kadaffy's assets stored in the US when US courts found Kadaffy liable for terrorist damages. Kadaffy wasn't singled out - it applied to all terrorist damages, already supported by the laws under which US courts were finding liability. But Kadaffy had recently completed his deal with Bush letting him back into the US oil economy, after he'd been barred because of that terrorism over many years. So Kadaffy called in the US oil corps, demanding they lobby Congress to get Libya exempted. The oil corps doubled their lobbying budget that year (it was already quite large), and got Kadaffy his exemption. But the oil corps knew Kadaffy was too much a risk of doing that whenever he wanted, so they left Libya since then (leaving behind only proxy partnerships, much harder for Kadaffy to squeeze).
So yes, the CIA and the oil corps are behind this revolution - even if perhaps largely only in a passive role, not interfering when they have the power and the "jurisdiction". Yes, the US activity is in the US' interests. Yes, a new government will probably be better for the US' interests - which are largely the oil corps' interests.
But so what? The US is doing this in a way that will let Libyans claim their new government as their own production. Yes, Muslim theocrats will be represented in that government - which is accurate representation of Libyans. There is no flaw in US democracy demonstrated by any of that, except that the American people have for a century and more made oil corps' interests define their own interests.
But the Libyan people as a whole will overall benefit, at least compared to Kadaffy. And Kadaffy will suffer, leave, and perhaps even die - all of which he richly deserves. For his treatment of Americans, Libyans, and people from many other countries.
Your argument is only for the dictator. What's your connection to him and his regime? Or maybe just to the theory that dictators are better for you and your country than a messy democracy that will sometimes have interests and values opposing yours.