Point of clarification: the Fourth Geneva convention, as written, applies to standing armies, organized militias, and civilians. The current administration has interpreted that to mean "unlawful combatants" have no protection under the Geneva convention. However, they are ignoring the Commentary to the Fourth Geneva convention that states that unlawful combatants shall be tried under domestic law of the detaining state. It also states specifically that there is no intermediate state, no one in enemy hands can be outside the law.
But the problem with MAD is that someone has to shoot first. And anyone who shoots first will be an international pariah for the rest of time. I see two reasons for launching a first-strike attack. Rational: it's in the best interest of my country to launch a preemptive strike. This is the old "defeat the Red Army" idea. Irrational: it's NOT in the best interest of my country to launch a preemptive strike. This is the terrorist nuclear weapon idea. The rational approach realizes that a preemptive strike is a futile move, and to the irrational approach, retaliation is not a deterrent.
MAD is flawed on both ends. No one would launch an attack, and no one would respond. You can't launch enough missiles fast enough to prevent a retaliation. Any country that retaliated against a population for the actions of the government would be as ostracized as the country that launched the offensive. You can't use MAD in either the offensive or defensive position. Keeping any nuclear missiles is a stupid, expensive idea that was outdated the second we used one.
Why do you think the CIA, NSA, et. al. have fingerprint scanners? They have multiple levels of guys with guns standing next to mundane turnstyle badge scanners and PIN pads.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=dictator dictator -noun 1. a person exercising absolute power, esp. a ruler who has absolute, unrestricted control in a government without hereditary succession. 2. (in ancient Rome) a person invested with supreme authority during a crisis, the regular magistracy being subordinated to him until the crisis was met. 3. a person who authoritatively prescribes conduct, usage, etc.: a dictator of fashion. 4. a person who dictates, as to a secretary.
1 and 2 sound like Mr. Decider-er to me. What was the signing statement he issued about declaring martial law and suspending Congress?
Odds are he didn't report it. I work with a guy who has a Swiss bank account. There's no prohibition on anything (OK, ongoing communication with suspicious foreign nationals would probably get you yanked) while having a security clearance, but they require full disclosure up front as well as updates to situation changes. Believe me, it's (figuratively) beaten into your head at yearly "refresher" courses.
I would argue that, strictly speaking, you're doing iterative top-down engineering. Bottom-up engineering would consist of creating the APIs, then fleshing out the functionality defined by the API. Integration of the small parts into a large application doesn't necessarily imply bottom-up.
Bottom-up: I will need a method to retrieve the data from the database. Top-down: I need to retrieve data X from the database.
Another head hangs lowly, Child is slowly taken. And the violence caused such silence, Who are we mistaken?
But you see, it's not me, it's not my family. In your head, in your head they are fighting, With their tanks and their bombs, And their bombs and their guns. In your head, in your head, they are crying...
In your head, in your head, Zombie, zombie, zombie, Hey, hey, hey. What's in your head, In your head, Zombie, zombie, zombie? Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, dou, dou, dou, dou, dou...
Another mother's breakin', Heart is taking over. When the vi'lence causes silence, We must be mistaken.
It's the same old theme since nineteen-sixteen. In your head, in your head they're still fighting, With their tanks and their bombs, And their bombs and their guns. In your head, in your head, they are dying...
In your head, in your head, Zombie, zombie, zombie, Hey, hey, hey. What's in your head, In your head, Zombie, zombie, zombie? Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, oh, oh, Oh, oh, oh, oh, hey, oh, ya, ya-a...
You're still missing the point. During study of a martial art (warfare on a personal level), you quickly learn that the objective is not to go looking for fights, but to be able to save your life should you (as a last resort) be in a situation where the only option is to fight (aka, the other guy is looking for a fight and won't take No for an answer).
Pacifism isn't about not fighting, it's just not going looking for a fight.
Non-AC (but not the GP AC). SOSCOE is not classified. Read all about it I can attest that SOSCOE is a really stupid idea. We're writing POJO (on JDK 1.4, no less) apps in stead of Webapps hosted in a container. Sigh. But look at the size of the contract that Boeing got to build a "virtual Operating System."
I think one point that's getting missed here is that most of the Workstations are migrating to XP (Vista by now?) away from Solaris, but most of the back-end processing is still big Solaris/Linux boxes AFAIK.
I find it telling that put "rights" in quotes and are incapable of noticing that those actively fighting American forces would legally either be categorized as Prisoners of War and be held according to the Geneva Convention, or as Illegal Combatants and be held according to municipal and international law. Under no circumstances can an argument be made for legally detaining someone indefinitely, without any judicial oversight.
But there bundle includes a lot of stuff the average gamer (me) doesn't want. I know I can get the Walmart bundle, but if I've got to spend almost $700 on it, it's not worth it.
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By definition, a "near miss."
Leave it to the government to write a requirement like "We don't know how many there are, but count 90% of them."
Brilliant. Pre-naming your child Banana Fana would cause the Name Game to be an impossible recursive mess.
You didn't look very hard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_stagnation_in_the_United_States
Point of clarification: the Fourth Geneva convention, as written, applies to standing armies, organized militias, and civilians. The current administration has interpreted that to mean "unlawful combatants" have no protection under the Geneva convention. However, they are ignoring the Commentary to the Fourth Geneva convention that states that unlawful combatants shall be tried under domestic law of the detaining state. It also states specifically that there is no intermediate state, no one in enemy hands can be outside the law.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Geneva_Convention
But the problem with MAD is that someone has to shoot first. And anyone who shoots first will be an international pariah for the rest of time. I see two reasons for launching a first-strike attack.
Rational: it's in the best interest of my country to launch a preemptive strike. This is the old "defeat the Red Army" idea.
Irrational: it's NOT in the best interest of my country to launch a preemptive strike. This is the terrorist nuclear weapon idea.
The rational approach realizes that a preemptive strike is a futile move, and to the irrational approach, retaliation is not a deterrent.
MAD is flawed on both ends. No one would launch an attack, and no one would respond. You can't launch enough missiles fast enough to prevent a retaliation. Any country that retaliated against a population for the actions of the government would be as ostracized as the country that launched the offensive. You can't use MAD in either the offensive or defensive position. Keeping any nuclear missiles is a stupid, expensive idea that was outdated the second we used one.
So the new order is: cat box, soap box, ballot box, jury box, ammo box?
Why do you think the CIA, NSA, et. al. have fingerprint scanners? They have multiple levels of guys with guns standing next to mundane turnstyle badge scanners and PIN pads.
Slashdot moderation rules: you don't get karma for Funny, so mods throw an Informative or something else to get a karma bonus.
http://science.slashdot.org/faq/com-mod.shtml#cm700
Any word on whether Grant will be competing with Deadblow?
Life is just a Prisoner's dilemma.
That's not flying, it's falling, with style!
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=dictator
dictator -noun
1. a person exercising absolute power, esp. a ruler who has absolute, unrestricted control in a government without hereditary succession.
2. (in ancient Rome) a person invested with supreme authority during a crisis, the regular magistracy being subordinated to him until the crisis was met.
3. a person who authoritatively prescribes conduct, usage, etc.: a dictator of fashion.
4. a person who dictates, as to a secretary.
1 and 2 sound like Mr. Decider-er to me. What was the signing statement he issued about declaring martial law and suspending Congress?
Odds are he didn't report it. I work with a guy who has a Swiss bank account. There's no prohibition on anything (OK, ongoing communication with suspicious foreign nationals would probably get you yanked) while having a security clearance, but they require full disclosure up front as well as updates to situation changes. Believe me, it's (figuratively) beaten into your head at yearly "refresher" courses.
I would argue that, strictly speaking, you're doing iterative top-down engineering. Bottom-up engineering would consist of creating the APIs, then fleshing out the functionality defined by the API. Integration of the small parts into a large application doesn't necessarily imply bottom-up.
Bottom-up: I will need a method to retrieve the data from the database.
Top-down: I need to retrieve data X from the database.
Since I blogged about this a bit ago, I'll post my own link:
http://stewartj76.blogspot.com/2008/01/theres-no-such-thing-as-bottom-up.html
Another head hangs lowly,
Child is slowly taken.
And the violence caused such silence,
Who are we mistaken?
But you see, it's not me, it's not my family.
In your head, in your head they are fighting,
With their tanks and their bombs,
And their bombs and their guns.
In your head, in your head, they are crying...
In your head, in your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie,
Hey, hey, hey. What's in your head,
In your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, dou, dou, dou, dou, dou...
Another mother's breakin',
Heart is taking over.
When the vi'lence causes silence,
We must be mistaken.
It's the same old theme since nineteen-sixteen.
In your head, in your head they're still fighting,
With their tanks and their bombs,
And their bombs and their guns.
In your head, in your head, they are dying...
In your head, in your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie,
Hey, hey, hey. What's in your head,
In your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, oh, oh,
Oh, oh, oh, oh, hey, oh, ya, ya-a...
Much like a Medicare "cut" usually means "increasing at a rate lower than the previous year."
You're still missing the point. During study of a martial art (warfare on a personal level), you quickly learn that the objective is not to go looking for fights, but to be able to save your life should you (as a last resort) be in a situation where the only option is to fight (aka, the other guy is looking for a fight and won't take No for an answer).
Pacifism isn't about not fighting, it's just not going looking for a fight.
Toyota doesn't have heavy trucksor SUVs?
Please run for some political office, preferably under the Sane, Logical Person Party. You have my vote.
Non-AC (but not the GP AC). SOSCOE is not classified. Read all about it I can attest that SOSCOE is a really stupid idea. We're writing POJO (on JDK 1.4, no less) apps in stead of Webapps hosted in a container. Sigh. But look at the size of the contract that Boeing got to build a "virtual Operating System."
I think one point that's getting missed here is that most of the Workstations are migrating to XP (Vista by now?) away from Solaris, but most of the back-end processing is still big Solaris/Linux boxes AFAIK.
Of course there will be resistance. There's always resistance when dealing with electricity. This must be some corollary of Ohm's Law
I like the idea of naming your child "\nEOF"
Teacher: "SlashEnEOhEff?"
Student: "Here, teacher! I go by Slash."
I find it telling that put "rights" in quotes and are incapable of noticing that those actively fighting American forces would legally either be categorized as Prisoners of War and be held according to the Geneva Convention, or as Illegal Combatants and be held according to municipal and international law. Under no circumstances can an argument be made for legally detaining someone indefinitely, without any judicial oversight.
But there bundle includes a lot of stuff the average gamer (me) doesn't want. I know I can get the Walmart bundle, but if I've got to spend almost $700 on it, it's not worth it.
I think the fine people at http://www.olga.net/ would be happy (or not so happy) to disagree with you.