There is no way to defend the nuclear weapons program.
Welcome to our timline, stranger from an alternate reality. Here we have an interesting development, peace through MAD, that has prevented major war for over 50 years.
The discovery for for the new millenium is that it works for everyone, not just members of the UN security council.
Anyone who thinks nukes are a waste of money should ask Israel if it wants to give them up.
Windows has undergone more radical changes since Windows 95 than any other operating system during the same period, with the sole exception of Mac OSX.
Huh? Not realy that huge a difference betweeen Windows 95 and Windows ME.
Or do you mean from NT4 to NT6? Pretty big changes between NT4 and NT5, but NT6 seems to be mostly eye candy (and it gives me a a gut ache...).
Motorola's 6800 chip was the pseudo precursor to the 68000 chip in the first Mac (although the 6800 and 68000 are different designs, they are from the same line, just as Intel's 8086, 80186, 80286, etc., are as well).
Nah, the 6800 is to the 68000 as the 8080 is to the 8086.
The 8086, 80186, 80286, 80386, 80486, Pentium, Pentium Pro, PII, PIII, P4 are much more closely related to each other than the 6800 and 68000 were.
Whoever wrote that parent post [...] has either never lived in France or has a very distorted perception of reality.
Numbers beat perception any day.
And, why, yes, I do live in France. And have done for over 20 years now.
The lesson is: never ask someone who's only lived in one country what that country is like.
There may be 1 strike every 3 days on the SNCF (the vast majority of those are local, not national), but my point was that private industry, i.e. the wealth producing part of the economy, is almost strike free.
Today postal workers are on strike. Tomorrow the SNCF, thursday my kids school canteen. Big deal.
Personaly I find the level of unionisation in French industry depressingly low. If it had been higher then aberations like the 35 day week would probably never have happened (the majority of hourly paid workers are, of course, against the 35 hour week. It's the monthly paid management, engineering and civil service who like it).
Finally, Germany, France and Italy (of the countries that spring to mind) all recognise that their economies lose far too many days to unnecessary strikes,
The French economy, being effectively a union free zone, loses almost no days to strikes, necessary or not.
(There are a few days lost a year in the civil service, which is somewhat unionised.)
Some figures:
Days lost to strikes, 2000:
Switzerland 0.38 Japan 0.55 Germany 1.41 France 8.04 UK 11.07 Netherlands 15.31 USA 19.04
[...] one would think that something of that nature would go out to the person in charge of security related issues [...]
One would, wouldn't one.
But part of the problem seems to be that no shuch person exists.
Read the "poor social estrategy" [sic] thread in reply to the LWN article. It degenerates into "PaXTeam" asking who they should have mailed and various people saying "well, it used to be Alan Cox", or "duh, maybe Andrea Arcangeli", or "just use google you dummy"...
[...]in the short term, they [tariffs] can prevent another country from dumping on our markets
Ah, dumping. It's so evil for people to sell things at less than cost, thus making themselves poorer and us richer.
Better prevent that.
Fundamental changes in our employment, such as [...] gutting the steel industry, really need to take place over many years, perhaps decades.
So you featherbed the US steel industry over decades (and, yes, it was decades), leading to higher steel prices, and so higher manufactured goods prices, and so lower exports, and the US steel industry doesn't need to invest in new plant like others and you win.... what? What exactly were you expecting to get? Oh, I forgot, GWB wanted to get re-elected.
When are Americans going to learn that capitalism works?
Imagine having no trade laws other than tarriffs to help level the playing field among countries. It allows politially desirable amounts of protectionism without creating ultra complex trade treaties.
No, it reduces the wealth in the country imposing the tariffs (goods cost more, local producers become less competitive,...) and it reduces the wealth in the country on whose goods the tariffs are imposed.
Lose! Lose!
The problem with tariffs is that they are politicaly viable, among people whose economic ideas are the analog of creationism (i.e. almost everyone), but that they are always bad for the economy.
Peter was responsible for expanding the company's vast range of products in the U.S., Canada and Latin America, encompassing the cable joint ventures with Discovery Communications Inc. (DCI) for Animal Planet and People & Arts, and the wholly-owned channel BBC America;
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If you know any politician who can limit his damage to an animation of a dancing frog, go vote for him.
The ones you want to look out for are the ones who get things done.
Look out for anyone who can get the trains to run on time - I bet you won't like the destination.
But was the dancing frog properly documented?
Indian infant mortality rate: 57.92 per 1000; World: 50.31 per 1000.
Indian life expectancy at birth: 63.99 years; World: 64.05 years.
Indian literacy: Male: 70.2%, female: 48.3%; World: Male: 83%, female: 71%.
Indian GDP/capita (PPP): $2,900; World: $8,200.
A pretty average place, bit low on the old GDP though. The 8% growth rate might help a bit.
(the fact that he's right(*) is not relevant, the guy's a fruitcake).
((*) both about my sister-in-law & outsourcing).
None of those stupid wooden actors who can't even remember their lines ("a small step", hah!) we want BIG MUSICAL NUMBERS ON THE MOON!
Hum, "Leon" was the only good film Portman was in, maybe you're right.
Welcome to our timline, stranger from an alternate reality. Here we have an interesting development, peace through MAD, that has prevented major war for over 50 years.
The discovery for for the new millenium is that it works for everyone, not just members of the UN security council.
Anyone who thinks nukes are a waste of money should ask Israel if it wants to give them up.
Work for peace! Nukes for Iran now!
You want an rocket scientist designing houses?
Sorry mr Jones, your wife and family died because a tile fell of your house.
Let 'em build stuff for the cannon fodder^w^w cosmo/astro/spatio/taikonauts to use!
no, me not mean NT 5.1, me nice NT 5.1.
Whatever.
(Pedantic Grammar troll).
Or do you mean from NT4 to NT6? Pretty big changes between NT4 and NT5, but NT6 seems to be mostly eye candy (and it gives me a a gut ache...).
The 8086, 80186, 80286, 80386, 80486, Pentium, Pentium Pro, PII, PIII, P4 are much more closely related to each other than the 6800 and 68000 were.
And, why, yes, I do live in France. And have done for over 20 years now.
The lesson is: never ask someone who's only lived in one country what that country is like.
There may be 1 strike every 3 days on the SNCF (the vast majority of those are local, not national), but my point was that private industry, i.e. the wealth producing part of the economy, is almost strike free.
Today postal workers are on strike. Tomorrow the SNCF, thursday my kids school canteen. Big deal.
Personaly I find the level of unionisation in French industry depressingly low. If it had been higher then aberations like the 35 day week would probably never have happened (the majority of hourly paid workers are, of course, against the 35 hour week. It's the monthly paid management, engineering and civil service who like it).
(There are a few days lost a year in the civil service, which is somewhat unionised.)
Some figures:
Working days lost per 1,000 inhabitants per year.
'till then it's just a very big bus.
But part of the problem seems to be that no shuch person exists.
Read the "poor social estrategy" [sic] thread in reply to the LWN article. It degenerates into "PaXTeam" asking who they should have mailed and various people saying "well, it used to be Alan Cox", or "duh, maybe Andrea Arcangeli", or "just use google you dummy"...
Better prevent that.
So you featherbed the US steel industry over decades (and, yes, it was decades), leading to higher steel prices, and so higher manufactured goods prices, and so lower exports, and the US steel industry doesn't need to invest in new plant like others and you win.... what? What exactly were you expecting to get? Oh, I forgot, GWB wanted to get re-elected.When are Americans going to learn that capitalism works?
Lose! Lose!
The problem with tariffs is that they are politicaly viable, among people whose economic ideas are the analog of creationism (i.e. almost everyone), but that they are always bad for the economy.
Who is missing the point here? Me or him?
Well that's sorted then. 200 years of economic theory blasted into dust by the mighty intellect of a slashdot poster.
Close down the WTO! Up with the tariff barriers! Beggar my neighbour is back in town.
In English:
A computer program.
A television programme.
Get with the program(me)?