Your whole argument is based on erroneous assumptions. When the US finds terrorists hiding in an Afghani village, it DOESN'T just bomb the village, like your town in Iowa situation. As an example, a US drone much like the ones described here, but less advanced, found a coterie of Al-Qaeda leadership in a meeting during the air campaign in the fall. Rather than blow up the building in which they were meeting, its commanders had it circle from a distance, wait until they got into a truck and left the town they were meeting in, and then bomb it. They didn't get some of the people in the meeting they wanted to, because they refrained from firing while there was the possibility of killing civilians. Do mistakes get made sometimes? Yes. Sometimes the FBI accidentally shoots the hostages. It happens. But the modern US armed forces are by far the most efficient at eliminating enemies and avoiding civilian casualties that the world has ever seen.
This is the double standard that upsets people. Americans ARE too trigger happy when it comes to non-Americans. They don't care much if it's friends or enemies, as long as they're non-American.
Now I don't know if you're ignorant, an idiot, or just slanderous.
If the Americans were less trigger happy from the air, and sent in more ground troops instead, would there be less innocent deaths?
No, dumbass. There wouldn't. Were there fewer civilian casualties in Vietnam, when the US did send in more ground troops? Stop living a fucking sheltered fantasy and take a look at the real world. Not everyone plays by the rules. Bin Laden is not going to come out onto a plain in Afghanistan and challenge Colin Powell to a knife fight.
By millions, are you trying to imply that the US military is _that_ competent? Because, if they were, they could have avoided killing 3000+ innocent civilians.
You think it takes a lot of competence to push the launch button on a ICBM? If the US really just wanted to kill civilians, it could do it pretty quickly and easily.
No, he doesn't, because he's motivated by ideology instead of reason.
Not only that, but none of the dipshit kneejerkers reading this article has realized that this technology will actually reduce civilian casualties in the event of a war. Most of the misses by bombs and missiles from the US Air Force are due to the crews flying high enough to avoid antiaircraft fire. With unmanned drones, that's no longer a concern, identification is easier, and the uninted casualties are lower.
But of course Americans are blazing hypocrits when it comes to the Free Market, since most Americans believe we (as I am an American) invented it. Sorry folks, Adam Smith (probably the most famous economist wrt Free Markets) was a Scot.
You must have stupid friends. Nobody I know believes that, and nobody who actually knows what a "free market" is believes the US invented it.
So, to sum up, you either hang out with idiots or are lying.
You miss a huge point here: if the music economy were truly capitalist, there would never have been independent internet radio because the RIAA could simply refuse to license their content. What is at issue here is compulsory licensing: the government requires that the RIAA license their content to anyone who wants to broadcast it, and they set the fee.
To reiterate: This is not the government propping up the RIAA with subsidies. If the RIAA had their way, there would be no fee at all, because they would only license content to their subsidiaries. The government steps in on behalf of independent broadcasters to force the RIAA to license to everyone, and they are arguing over how much the cost of that should be.
You're right. And Twentieth Century Fox (affiliated with the MPAA) is distributing the film for free. It's a charity thing, because George Lucas is so poor, and his artistry is so unique.
If you're stuck at work, check out theforce.net'slive webcam of fans waiting in line for the midnight showing in LA.
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That's the problem with/. If you seriously think that the systematic murder of six million plus the engulfing of the entire world into a disastrous war is morally equivalent to charging $5 too much for a CD and/or arresting two probably innocent encryption-breakers, you need to reevaluate your priorities.
Education was suyppose dto be the big Republican thing, right? But the first thing Bush did was free up Microsoft do go after --- other corporations and school districts! Is this really the kind of country they wanted when they coughed up all that cash to put Bush in office?
So, if the Justice Dept. hadn't settled, they could've gotten a restraining order on Microsoft's sales division? Jesus, people. Not everything in this country revolves around Microsoft.
You're right, but contrary to joke, the lesson Microsoft should learn from Sendmail is that enough people got so fed up with having to apply patches and try to administrate that buggy piece of crap that they went out and wrote alternatives to use instead.
I think this might be what you're looking for. It's at version 0.9 right now, but with a little help, it could become a great piece of software (for a small niche mmarket, granted). It's GPLed and all that good stuff. Enjoy!
It's hard to believe the Slashdot editors want people to pay for a site whose owners can't bother to spend 30 seconds on to close italics tags. It would certainly not be difficult to add code to check for closed tags in Slashcode.
Yes, but is this an essential course for everyone to learn? Will most people need to be able to program compilers in their professional lives, or use Word?
10 years ago, this would have been about WordPerfect. I haven't used WordPerfect a day in my post-high school life. Computer classes need to be about general computing skills and (buzzword alert) paradigms. Even if Word still is popular when kids end up in the workforce, it will likely be radically different than when they were in 10th grade.
That's a totally pointless comment. If this merger existed in a bubble, and was the entire US economy, and 15,000 just lost their jobs without any chance of future employment, then you're right. The reason analysts say the downturn is over is because they believe jobs are being created at a faster rate than they're being lost -- disagree with this if you want, but "some people lost their jobs" is not sufficient evidence to prove "the economy is doing poorly."
Walmart...has sucessfully used predatory pricing to drive out of business all of the small mom-n-pop businesses and most of their larger competitors.
You say "predatory pricing," I say "efficiency and selection." Let's be clear: the reason Walmart is successful is because lots of people like to shop there. I personally don't, unless I'm looking for something like an inexpensive appliance, but lots of people really do.
If you want to convince a court that your knowledge of English is limited, I suggest you refrain from using phrases like "intentionally obfuscating the agreement."
I'm not quite sure what this means, but essentially, if your app uses ASP that does more then the simple "Connect to ADO, grab data, and loop over it", then ChiliSoft is not a good solution for serious apps.
I think you can be more general here. Try "If your app does more than the simple 'Connect to ADO, grab data, and loop over it,' then ASP is not a good solution."
Still, all of this is somewhat tangential to the core of my argument, which is that there is, in fact, a common origin. Parts of Hebrew (and later Christian, Muslim, and Morman) mythology are derived from Mesopotamian myths, and that it should come as no suprise that common themes appear.
That, I certainly agree with. I was just correcting a few factual errors in your previous post -- the essence of your argument, though, is totally correct.
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Now I don't know if you're ignorant, an idiot, or just slanderous.
No, dumbass. There wouldn't. Were there fewer civilian casualties in Vietnam, when the US did send in more ground troops? Stop living a fucking sheltered fantasy and take a look at the real world. Not everyone plays by the rules. Bin Laden is not going to come out onto a plain in Afghanistan and challenge Colin Powell to a knife fight.
You think it takes a lot of competence to push the launch button on a ICBM? If the US really just wanted to kill civilians, it could do it pretty quickly and easily.
No, he doesn't, because he's motivated by ideology instead of reason.
Not only that, but none of the dipshit kneejerkers reading this article has realized that this technology will actually reduce civilian casualties in the event of a war. Most of the misses by bombs and missiles from the US Air Force are due to the crews flying high enough to avoid antiaircraft fire. With unmanned drones, that's no longer a concern, identification is easier, and the uninted casualties are lower.
But this is Slashdot, what do you expect?
How did this get modded up? The only casualties suffered in the Gulf War and Afghanistan were from friendly fire? Mods, this should be -1, Wrong.
You must have stupid friends. Nobody I know believes that, and nobody who actually knows what a "free market" is believes the US invented it.
So, to sum up, you either hang out with idiots or are lying.
You miss a huge point here: if the music economy were truly capitalist, there would never have been independent internet radio because the RIAA could simply refuse to license their content. What is at issue here is compulsory licensing: the government requires that the RIAA license their content to anyone who wants to broadcast it, and they set the fee.
To reiterate: This is not the government propping up the RIAA with subsidies. If the RIAA had their way, there would be no fee at all, because they would only license content to their subsidiaries. The government steps in on behalf of independent broadcasters to force the RIAA to license to everyone, and they are arguing over how much the cost of that should be.
You're delightfully iconoclastic! This will certainly be controversial! You are obviously intelligent!
You're right. And Twentieth Century Fox (affiliated with the MPAA) is distributing the film for free. It's a charity thing, because George Lucas is so poor, and his artistry is so unique.
If you're stuck at work, check out theforce.net's live webcam of fans waiting in line for the midnight showing in LA.
That's the problem with /. If you seriously think that the systematic murder of six million plus the engulfing of the entire world into a disastrous war is morally equivalent to charging $5 too much for a CD and/or arresting two probably innocent encryption-breakers, you need to reevaluate your priorities.
So, if the Justice Dept. hadn't settled, they could've gotten a restraining order on Microsoft's sales division? Jesus, people. Not everything in this country revolves around Microsoft.
You're right, but contrary to joke, the lesson Microsoft should learn from Sendmail is that enough people got so fed up with having to apply patches and try to administrate that buggy piece of crap that they went out and wrote alternatives to use instead.
I think this might be what you're looking for. It's at version 0.9 right now, but with a little help, it could become a great piece of software (for a small niche mmarket, granted). It's GPLed and all that good stuff. Enjoy!
It's hard to believe the Slashdot editors want people to pay for a site whose owners can't bother to spend 30 seconds on to close italics tags. It would certainly not be difficult to add code to check for closed tags in Slashcode.
10 years ago, this would have been about WordPerfect. I haven't used WordPerfect a day in my post-high school life. Computer classes need to be about general computing skills and (buzzword alert) paradigms. Even if Word still is popular when kids end up in the workforce, it will likely be radically different than when they were in 10th grade.
For an omnipotent being, the AC certainly doesn't spell very well.
That's a totally pointless comment. If this merger existed in a bubble, and was the entire US economy, and 15,000 just lost their jobs without any chance of future employment, then you're right. The reason analysts say the downturn is over is because they believe jobs are being created at a faster rate than they're being lost -- disagree with this if you want, but "some people lost their jobs" is not sufficient evidence to prove "the economy is doing poorly."
You say "predatory pricing," I say "efficiency and selection." Let's be clear: the reason Walmart is successful is because lots of people like to shop there. I personally don't, unless I'm looking for something like an inexpensive appliance, but lots of people really do.
Because it doesn't work if you spell all the commands wrong.
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If you want to convince a court that your knowledge of English is limited, I suggest you refrain from using phrases like "intentionally obfuscating the agreement."
Well, by your logic, real CDs would "cost" $240, so I guess $40 would seem like a bargain.
I think you can be more general here. Try "If your app does more than the simple 'Connect to ADO, grab data, and loop over it,' then ASP is not a good solution."
That, I certainly agree with. I was just correcting a few factual errors in your previous post -- the essence of your argument, though, is totally correct.