Is that why he takes so many expensive vacations on the US taxpayer's dollars? (Michelle too)
Seriously, it takes the UK less than $60 million per year to support the entire Royal family, while it takes the USA over $1.4 billion per year to support a family of four in the White House.
That's because the Queen is a figurehead with no power. Even so, when her family (well William/Harry) go off around the world on UK business, they tend to fly scheduled airlines.
When it comes to the head of the UK government (the guy with the nuclear launch codes), things are different. He flys easyjet on holiday.
What you say would be true, but the fact is that newspapers don't really do any reporting now.
Really. Robert Fisk and Marie Colvin immediately spring to mind from the newspaper industry (I subscribe to the Independent, and happened to read the Sunday times the week before Marie was killed. I tend to rely on the BBC for domestic (UK) news, but read a little wider for global news as that's where I work. I pay attention to the individuals names as it's a dangerous lifestyle.
There's a massive difference between seasoned veteran reporters and local bloggers. I follow a couple of non-journalist colleagues on twitter, one in Gaza, one in Israel. They do come out with news, but you have to read it carefully to filter out the fact from the opinion. You find that they post the facts that suit them. I do the same.
Global journalism today seems to be getting more and more dangerous. Only last month a media building in Gaza was deliberately targeted. The media building in Homs where Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik were killed in February was most likely targeted because of the journalist's presence - after that there was a problem getting news of what was happening in Syria, as international organisations including the newspapers reduced their presence in the country, and closing the world's eyes to what's been happening.
Real journalism matters. Whether it's Robert Fisk, Jeremy Bowen or Rania Abouzeid, the story's the same - these people go in to hellholes and risk their lives to get the news out. Your advertising from your blog won't even pay for the flak jacket.
comon - all of the U.K. is still on imperial and no plan to switch to metric
Err, no, you're thinking of the U.S, which not only uses arcane units like Fahrenheit in every day life, but actually use imperial figures in science and industry!
do it right, and use NAGIOS...It is a pain in the ass in the beggining, however if you have minimum scripting ability and SNMP knowledge , you can virtually monitor everything.
I do, I have about 10k services on about 900 hosts in 20 countries monitored
Doesn't give me a real time network graph though. I have command line snmp scripts showing bits/second which I can run against key troublespots, but a real time map of inter-site connections and exit points is a useful tool, especially as I want to add another 100 sites strung together by VPNs and occasional leased lines in a mesh
Just like if Mexicans aren't able to flee their countries drug wars it's the US's problem? Yeah... when you look at it that way...
Does the U.S. blockade Mexico? Is it impossible to leave Mexico by boat or plane? Is it impossible to farm on 30% of mexican land as the U.S. enforces a no-go area (in addition to the no-fly and no-fish areas)?
The Dude is a great product, with 2 major shortcomings 1) Runs on windows 2) Has a terrible name when it comes to talking to senior managers about design decisions
Does anyone know a comparable product that runs on something a little more "servery" (i.e. linux)?
You know, if the Middle East suddenly magically disappeared, I wouldn't give a damn. Hell, I'd probably celebrate. No more phantasmagoric indoctrination for future generations? Yay for that!
But I'd keep Israel. They do useful stuff, such as new Intel microarchitectures, and ICQ, and PHP...OK, scratch the last two. But at least they export tangibly beneficial stuff and not armies of loonies.
Much of the middle east exports Oil. That's a tangible, beneficial, product.
Saudi Arabia is one place which does this. They also export loonies that fly planes into buildings. That's why we invaded them.
The only people I can think of who can stop this without causing even more bloodshed are Hamas leadership (proof: The west bank's leaders decided to mind their own business, and are experiencing both more freedom and more economic prosperity, despite the fact that, unlike the Gaza strip, Israel still occupies that region).
I certainly prefer the west bank to gaza (the availability of alcohol for one thing), however it's easy to see why people are unhappy with the Israeli occupation. Look at page 7 from thisOxfam Report, showing just how little of the West Bank is actually allowed to Palestinians.
I'd be a lot more sympathetic to Israel if they stopped expanding. Their politicians believe the entire land west of the Jordan river is theirs, and won't stop until they've driven the Palestinians out. The only question is, where will they go from there.
(I'd be a lot more sympathetic to Hamas if they got rid of the Salafists and Islamic Jihad, or at least stopped them from getting rockets)
You are clueless. Hamas is the governing party in the Gaza Strip not the West Bank. What Hamas does in the Gaza Strip has no effect on the status of Jerusalem.
And as far as UN support, it has been fairly unanimous for condemning Israel. Israel is an apartheid state with separate roads for Palestinians, forced evictions and demolitions of Palestinians houses by settlers, non-statehood for residents, restrictions on international travel, and crimes against Palestinians that aren't prosecuted (like the Price Tag attacks).
The more you learn about the Palestinian limbo, the more you realize that they are remarkably peaceful despite the conditions they are in. When you are locked in a massive open air prison and have no potential to escape whatsoever for a crime you never committed, you might think lobbing a couple of rockets over the walls would be a good idea too.
You forgot to mention the fact that there's a good chance someone in your close family has been killed by an unseen Israeli bomb.
The fact so few people in Gaza have any time for the rockets is the miracle.
"Yes. You've been their and spoken to people - on both sides."
Yes, I have. You are being sarcastic, of course. You assume that I've never seen any of the mid-east. You assume that I get all my information from one or another biased big-media news source. But, I HAVE been over there. Beruit City was the most exciting and/or dangerous place that I have ever seen, with multiple armies and armed groups maneuvering in the countryside, as well as in the city. I was there before the Marines arrived to safeguard the remainder of the civilians.
Don't assume anything, my friend.
Well I haven't been to Gaza or Israel for about 8 months, so perhaps this is out of date, however I know your original statement
Unfortunately, there aren't any "good guys" over there.
is a load of crap. There's plenty of people trying to live nice normal lives in Israel, and live in fear of Hamas rockets landing on them every day. It's a terrible situation to be in.
On the other side of the fence (literally), there's plenty of people trying to live nice normal lives in Gaza, and live in fear of Israeli warplanes bombing them. Several of them spy for Israel, that's how the IDF manage to get so many targets. If they're caught, they're killed.
Given the mismatch in the power of each side, and the quality of housing, and the fact one side is governed by a terrorist organisation, means it's a lot more dangerous to live in Gaza than live in Ashkelon.
Some people in Israel near the border are bugging out, fleeing their homes to go to the north until things quieten down again. I don't blame them. A friend in Jerusalem was worried enough when the rocket landed nearby.
They're lucky to have that option, both having the money to escape, but also the freedom to move more than 30 miles from where they're born. On the whole though, they can't think it's that bad living near Gaza as there's little stopping them moving north (or south).
People in Gaza don't have that choice. I have a magic western passport and GPO card, it enables me to pass through Erez into Israel more-or-less at will. People in the West Bank can move a little, and even go abroad, but people born in Gaza - on the whole - don't have the ability to leave. 99.999% of them are born, live, and die in an area 1/10th the size of Rhode Island, but 150% the population. They have to grow their food, power their houses, teach their kids, and bury their dead in that slab of land.
You're talking about previous versions of Windows Phone. Windows Phone 8 is a different OS, and the phones are actually decent now (hardware wise, on par with top android phones).
Windows Phone 8 has only been on sale a few days, so there is no possible way you could be confident in that.
This post and a lot of comments make it seem like the oil produced would stay in our country and only used by us. Yea right, it would be sold to the highest bidder on the market, which will probably be China in a couple of years. Meanwhile our country is turned into a wasteland from this and fracking.
A simple solution would be oil tariffs. Refuse a license to export oil, or put it prohibitively high.
Yes, China censors the Internet, but that is because a large portion of the populace is uneducated and easily manipulated. Democracy is very limited in China, but that again relates to the low level of education for peasants in China who if allowed to vote would choose an incompetent government.
You can see what happens when you don't have the censorship in the U.S, where a large portion of the populace is uneducated and easily manipulated, who who when allowed to vote do choose an incompetent government.
Isn't IP already delay tolerant? I remember in the IPoAC trial for obvious reasons there were huge delays, but it still worked.
Ip over air canada? Yes certainly delays and rerouting.
Ip over avian carrier can cope with high delays and dramatic jitter, re-ordering and packet loss. I'm not sure udp/tcp can cope though, and Ip itself can't cope very well with a situation where the route only partially exists (say your orbiter acts as a router but is on the other side of the planet to your target lander, and needs to store the packets for a few hours)
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Is that why he takes so many expensive vacations on the US taxpayer's dollars? (Michelle too)
Seriously, it takes the UK less than $60 million per year to support the entire Royal family, while it takes the USA over $1.4 billion per year to support a family of four in the White House.
That's because the Queen is a figurehead with no power. Even so, when her family (well William/Harry) go off around the world on UK business, they tend to fly scheduled airlines.
When it comes to the head of the UK government (the guy with the nuclear launch codes), things are different. He flys easyjet on holiday.
lurking for 10yrs, finally get chance to do FP? because of /. snafu?
You know, I think that's the first time Anonymous Coward has ever got first post!
What you say would be true, but the fact is that newspapers don't really do any reporting now.
Really. Robert Fisk and Marie Colvin immediately spring to mind from the newspaper industry (I subscribe to the Independent, and happened to read the Sunday times the week before Marie was killed. I tend to rely on the BBC for domestic (UK) news, but read a little wider for global news as that's where I work. I pay attention to the individuals names as it's a dangerous lifestyle.
There's a massive difference between seasoned veteran reporters and local bloggers. I follow a couple of non-journalist colleagues on twitter, one in Gaza, one in Israel. They do come out with news, but you have to read it carefully to filter out the fact from the opinion. You find that they post the facts that suit them. I do the same.
Global journalism today seems to be getting more and more dangerous. Only last month a media building in Gaza was deliberately targeted. The media building in Homs where Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik were killed in February was most likely targeted because of the journalist's presence - after that there was a problem getting news of what was happening in Syria, as international organisations including the newspapers reduced their presence in the country, and closing the world's eyes to what's been happening.
Real journalism matters. Whether it's Robert Fisk, Jeremy Bowen or Rania Abouzeid, the story's the same - these people go in to hellholes and risk their lives to get the news out. Your advertising from your blog won't even pay for the flak jacket.
comon - all of the U.K. is still on imperial and no plan to switch to metric
Err, no, you're thinking of the U.S, which not only uses arcane units like Fahrenheit in every day life, but actually use imperial figures in science and industry!
The USA manages a single currency across it's 50 states. There's no reason why Europe can't. It's the F word that's required... federalisation.
Language too. It's easier to move from new York to Maine for work than france to Italy.
do it right, and use NAGIOS...It is a pain in the ass in the beggining, however if you have minimum scripting ability and SNMP knowledge , you can virtually monitor everything.
I do, I have about 10k services on about 900 hosts in 20 countries monitored
Doesn't give me a real time network graph though. I have command line snmp scripts showing bits/second which I can run against key troublespots, but a real time map of inter-site connections and exit points is a useful tool, especially as I want to add another 100 sites strung together by VPNs and occasional leased lines in a mesh
Just like if Mexicans aren't able to flee their countries drug wars it's the US's problem? Yeah... when you look at it that way...
Does the U.S. blockade Mexico? Is it impossible to leave Mexico by boat or plane? Is it impossible to farm on 30% of mexican land as the U.S. enforces a no-go area (in addition to the no-fly and no-fish areas)?
One could almost make the same point about the IDF's official twitter account
My thoughts entirely. Ignore the both of them, and look at the feeds for some independent international journalists
The Dude is a great product, with 2 major shortcomings
1) Runs on windows
2) Has a terrible name when it comes to talking to senior managers about design decisions
Does anyone know a comparable product that runs on something a little more "servery" (i.e. linux)?
The problem with making war "clean and precise" is that you remove all the disincentives to engage in war to begin with.
At the press of a button, the insurgents/terrorists/rebels/invaders/$targetedPeople all die, cleanly, humanely.
That is the ultimate evolution of the direction you advocate.
Who decides who is the target and who isn't? What happens if there is a miscalculation?
Now do you see why this is bad?
Star Trek did it in the 60s, in A Taste of Armageddon, kirk put a stop to the automated killing booths.
"Death, destruction, disease, horror. That's what war is all about, Anan. That's what makes it a thing to be avoided."
You know, if the Middle East suddenly magically disappeared, I wouldn't give a damn. Hell, I'd probably celebrate. No more phantasmagoric indoctrination for future generations? Yay for that!
But I'd keep Israel. They do useful stuff, such as new Intel microarchitectures, and ICQ, and PHP...OK, scratch the last two. But at least they export tangibly beneficial stuff and not armies of loonies.
Much of the middle east exports Oil. That's a tangible, beneficial, product.
Saudi Arabia is one place which does this. They also export loonies that fly planes into buildings. That's why we invaded them.
I don't know anyone in Gaza that "lives mentally in the 8th century". Have you ever been?
I'm pretty sure there are people believing in Jinnis, Allah and all that crap in Gaza. We are talking about the same people, right?
No doubt. Same in the United States.
What if the Israelis didn't steal their land and treat them like shit in the first place?
*What* stolen land?
I assume he means the settlements in the west bank, which are continuously growing.
Pray tell, what would be the right thing, to give in to the demands of terrorists?
Worked to defuse most other situations. Look at Northern Ireland, where terrorists are now in government.
1) In the Middle Ages, they had no (intermediate range) rockets. So that would fix the situation.
2) Those people live mentally in the 8th century anyway. Hard to tell the difference, I'm afraid.
I don't know anyone in Gaza that "lives mentally in the 8th century". Have you ever been?
Gaza is relatively cosmopolitan for a 3rd-world Muslim city. It's a nicer city than Jakarta, Delhi and Nairobi.
Israel is aiming at weapon caches and missle emplacements. How is that not defense?
Israel's government has stated: "The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages"
That's not defence, that's annihilation.
nuke the entire Jerusalem area from orbit. Several times.
Realistically, I think any solution would have to have Jerusalem and a 10 mile radius as a private theme park that's it's own country.
The only people I can think of who can stop this without causing even more bloodshed are Hamas leadership (proof: The west bank's leaders decided to mind their own business, and are experiencing both more freedom and more economic prosperity, despite the fact that, unlike the Gaza strip, Israel still occupies that region).
I certainly prefer the west bank to gaza (the availability of alcohol for one thing), however it's easy to see why people are unhappy with the Israeli occupation. Look at page 7 from thisOxfam Report, showing just how little of the West Bank is actually allowed to Palestinians.
I'd be a lot more sympathetic to Israel if they stopped expanding. Their politicians believe the entire land west of the Jordan river is theirs, and won't stop until they've driven the Palestinians out. The only question is, where will they go from there.
(I'd be a lot more sympathetic to Hamas if they got rid of the Salafists and Islamic Jihad, or at least stopped them from getting rockets)
You are clueless. Hamas is the governing party in the Gaza Strip not the West Bank. What Hamas does in the Gaza Strip has no effect on the status of Jerusalem.
And as far as UN support, it has been fairly unanimous for condemning Israel. Israel is an apartheid state with separate roads for Palestinians, forced evictions and demolitions of Palestinians houses by settlers, non-statehood for residents, restrictions on international travel, and crimes against Palestinians that aren't prosecuted (like the Price Tag attacks).
The more you learn about the Palestinian limbo, the more you realize that they are remarkably peaceful despite the conditions they are in. When you are locked in a massive open air prison and have no potential to escape whatsoever for a crime you never committed, you might think lobbing a couple of rockets over the walls would be a good idea too.
You forgot to mention the fact that there's a good chance someone in your close family has been killed by an unseen Israeli bomb.
The fact so few people in Gaza have any time for the rockets is the miracle.
"Yes. You've been their and spoken to people - on both sides."
Yes, I have. You are being sarcastic, of course. You assume that I've never seen any of the mid-east. You assume that I get all my information from one or another biased big-media news source. But, I HAVE been over there. Beruit City was the most exciting and/or dangerous place that I have ever seen, with multiple armies and armed groups maneuvering in the countryside, as well as in the city. I was there before the Marines arrived to safeguard the remainder of the civilians.
Don't assume anything, my friend.
Well I haven't been to Gaza or Israel for about 8 months, so perhaps this is out of date, however I know your original statement
Unfortunately, there aren't any "good guys" over there.
is a load of crap. There's plenty of people trying to live nice normal lives in Israel, and live in fear of Hamas rockets landing on them every day. It's a terrible situation to be in.
On the other side of the fence (literally), there's plenty of people trying to live nice normal lives in Gaza, and live in fear of Israeli warplanes bombing them. Several of them spy for Israel, that's how the IDF manage to get so many targets. If they're caught, they're killed.
Given the mismatch in the power of each side, and the quality of housing, and the fact one side is governed by a terrorist organisation, means it's a lot more dangerous to live in Gaza than live in Ashkelon.
Some people in Israel near the border are bugging out, fleeing their homes to go to the north until things quieten down again. I don't blame them. A friend in Jerusalem was worried enough when the rocket landed nearby.
They're lucky to have that option, both having the money to escape, but also the freedom to move more than 30 miles from where they're born. On the whole though, they can't think it's that bad living near Gaza as there's little stopping them moving north (or south).
People in Gaza don't have that choice. I have a magic western passport and GPO card, it enables me to pass through Erez into Israel more-or-less at will. People in the West Bank can move a little, and even go abroad, but people born in Gaza - on the whole - don't have the ability to leave. 99.999% of them are born, live, and die in an area 1/10th the size of Rhode Island, but 150% the population. They have to grow their food, power their houses, teach their kids, and bury their dead in that slab of land.
It was more like 10 cheap meals for this farang (who's not afraid of eating something that doesn't look like a hamburger).
McDonald's?
You're talking about previous versions of Windows Phone. Windows Phone 8 is a different OS, and the phones are actually decent now (hardware wise, on par with top android phones).
Windows Phone 8 has only been on sale a few days, so there is no possible way you could be confident in that.
They said the save thing about windows phone 7
http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2010/03/16/7-reasons-windows-7-phone-iphone-killer/
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/080811-windows-phone7.html
http://www.itpro.co.uk/627835/head-to-head-iphone-4-vs-windows-phone-7-vs-android
http://www.aido.com/blogs/my-blog--sanjays-blog/lg-windows-phone-7----the-iphone-killer
http://www.techulator.com/resources/4775-Few-Reasons-Why-Windows-Phone-iphone-killer.aspx
that you didn't get to post a Space 1999 FP line on Slashdot. Resistance is futile...
I've never been a fan of historical documentaries
This post and a lot of comments make it seem like the oil produced would stay in our country and only used by us. Yea right, it would be sold to the highest bidder on the market, which will probably be China in a couple of years. Meanwhile our country is turned into a wasteland from this and fracking.
A simple solution would be oil tariffs. Refuse a license to export oil, or put it prohibitively high.
Yes, China censors the Internet, but that is because a large portion of the populace is uneducated and easily manipulated. Democracy is very limited in China, but that again relates to the low level of education for peasants in China who if allowed to vote would choose an incompetent government.
You can see what happens when you don't have the censorship in the U.S, where a large portion of the populace is uneducated and easily manipulated, who who when allowed to vote do choose an incompetent government.
Isn't IP already delay tolerant? I remember in the IPoAC trial for obvious reasons there were huge delays, but it still worked.
Ip over air canada? Yes certainly delays and rerouting.
Ip over avian carrier can cope with high delays and dramatic jitter, re-ordering and packet loss. I'm not sure udp/tcp can cope though, and Ip itself can't cope very well with a situation where the route only partially exists (say your orbiter acts as a router but is on the other side of the planet to your target lander, and needs to store the packets for a few hours)