So "at least" 349 people were agents out of how many that were spied on? How many innocent people were put through the wringer and came out clean on the other side just so those 349 could be found? How many innocent lives were destroyed by the "red scare"?
"So McCarthy was right" Sure, he was "right" that there was an infinitesimal number of enemy agents hiding in our population. But was it Right to expend that amount of money, goodwill, time, and livelihoods to find those people? Was there not a better way than to go about this witchhunt style, forcing both the innocent and the "guilty" (Since when is being "unamerican" a crime, anyway?) to reveal other communists to save themselves (whether the victim or his chosen victims were even communist)? Were those 350 people a danger to America? Were there others that after all of that trouble were never discovered, and were they a danger to America?
I suspect that was the point. "They" (remember we're talking about conspiracies here) gathered up a bunch of paperwork and when they found nothing, they gathered more until they had a hint of her involvement, and then used it to murder her.
My guess would be someone behind the scenes reading your search and typing it in to google to have the list ready for the next time someone searches for it.
Or can people there in USA be held responsible for having bought stolen property, when they cannot possibly have known it was stolen
Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but if you're serious, the answer is "yes, they are." In fact, the TV in question is seized to be returned to the rightful owner (or to be held by the police as "evidence" in their break room). You do not get your money back (though I suppose you could file a civil fraud suit to get the money back, but you'll probably not see any of it after the seller declares bankruptcy). If you don't cooporate, you're arrested for possession of stolen goods.
3. Intelligence is often nothing more than a best guess.
The bush administration and the CIA under it has completely forgotten that intelligence is more than gathering information. Intelligence is about being smarter than the enemy and making sure they know it only when its appropriate. Intelligence would have been leaflet bombing in Iraq as was done in Afghanistan (which successfully softened the early ranks of soldiers who didn't really want to be there). It would have also been a campaign of confusion and fear to counteract the terrorists. (if every bin laden film has to be carefully examined to see if its fake, they must be awfully easy to forge. even if the real terrorists wouldn't fall for it, the general populace might be incited to rise up if they were told by "bin laden" that al quaeda was going to start nuking Iraqi cities.
4. Avoid torturing? Good advice, and probably followed by the vast, overwhelming majority. But defining torture... and whether it's ever permissible is a great debate
You DO realize that these people are probably the sources of the up-and-down "terror level". Since 9/11 how many "threats" have we had that never panned out? Given that we're torturing this information out of people, I no longer believe the bush administration has prevented anything, only that the bush administration is passiing on the confessions of the tortured because they're better than any lies they could make up unassisted.
The problem with your view is that it lacks in the reality department. Sure, barring the amendment protecting me from unreasonable search or seizure, there is nothing spelled out in the Constitution that says cops who don't agree with whatever group I'm meeting up with can't slip a baggie with a "residue" of cocaine or pot in it into my pants and haul me in. If you don't think this can happen, some time when you have a couple of months to blow, nominate yourself for grand jury service (thats how it works here, anyway, someone nominates you and you end up listening to cases for months. It even overrides normal jury duty if by freak chance you get selected for both) and see what all people get hauled in on that never make it to real court. You'll watch a parade of kids who may or may not be upstanding citizens, but the cop who busted them gets to come in and talk about how he found this or that empty baggie on them, blah blah.
Its pretty damn enlightening to see how much crap the police pull that can't even qualify as a criminal case.
Not that it really matters, because of the time commitment, most of the grand jurists are retired, and you know the old biddies are there voting to send crap cases to trial because it gets that young violent punk off the streets for a while longer before his court date.
WW II was a success because we were able to fight a well defined army to a point where their government chose not to fight anymore.
Terrorists have no defined army, no government (if you broke up all the cells, individuals acting alone can do just as well with plain old anarchy), and are highly prone to splintering: even if we had killed osama, at least one other person would have appeared to take his place.
Thats it, I'm going and patenting a car with an 802.11b antenna glued to the top. Sure, I didn't invent the car or the antenna, and anyone who wardrives probably thought of it first, but hey, its the sum of the parts and the fact that I patented it first that matters.
I don't believe you when you say that you get viruses over the 20 minutes that it takes
Aside from the terminology, consider that at the peak of infection, many nimda attacks were being logged EVERY SECOND by logging machines setup for capturing and monitoring attacks. Slammer was scanning 55 million hosts PER SECOND. These things just pick random addresses and spit data out. If you haven't been getting any of these hits then either you're behind a firewall, or you're less random than the rest of the internet.
20 minutes is a long time to go without protection in computer time, especially on today's wild west of an internet.
Agreed though, the questioner should have just gone and gotten a firewall (or used one of his linux machines). I've never seen anything on windows update suggest that I turn off my firewall.
I had tried several algorithms on the simulator before settling on this one, and it behaved exactly the same in reality, which is always a pleasant surprise.
In other news, Doom 3 will have a new vehicle available for players to use...
1. The manga industry is being outsourced. I don't know much about this, but it might be a good idea to keep an eye on this issue.
Meaning that often the same fans you claim are better are sometimes the ones actually doing the translations for the commercial version.
2. Manga on the internet is often fan-translated. This is usually a good thing, as often the fans have more respect for a direct translation, rather than throwing out any cultural jokes that wouldn't apply overseas.
Pick up a copy of Excel Saga and read it "backwards" You'll notice that there is about 10 pages of small print notes on culture, sound effects, etc. Viz isn't the only one, nearly all of the companies are using extra pages at the end to explain things these days.
3. Try to get manga for a good price. Manga is sold at ridiculously inflated prices in the U.S., so if you can, try to get a better deal.
To me, its more like japanese manga is sold at a tremendously low price, when you consider facts like the lack of available forest for logging (making wood and paper much more expensive). Manga has come up in price recently for whatever reason though. Still, US companies have more costs to cover on graphic novels: it has to be licensed ($$$$$ for a popular series), translated, printed (often on much better quality paper than the japanese counterparts), and distributed according to US distributor rules (which is why you don't see slipcovers on graphic novels: distributers and stores refuse to carry them because they don't know how to deal with them without tearing them up).
Best way I've found is to get a waldenbooks membership: cheaper than Barnes and Noble, and for every $100 you get a $5 GC.
As for Barnes and Noble, We had a new one open a few blocks from my house, and they have plenty of graphic novels... too bad they're split between "teen" on one side of the store and the scifi section on the other side, with often no thought as to which titles should go where.
then when you need performance you can drill down and figure out how to do it.
Or you hire someone who understands why certain behaviors yield performance, instead of sitting there and trying different things until you work something out that seems a little faster.
Interestingly, corporate income tax revenues have fallen far more than personal income tax revenues (~8%, as opposed to ~2.5%). Looks like the evil corporations are taking it in the shorts even worse than everyone else.
The whole thing is pretty bogus, since its based on tax revenues, which bush made a big deal of cutting. But the comparison does note who really benefits from the bush cuts.
I guess we'll have new class divisions: those rich enough to retrain every few years for whatever skillset hasn't been shipped out yet, those genius enough to retrain quickly without becoming smothered in debt, and the average people who will be lining up to cut your grass on a daily rotation.
Fine screw the whole stick thing and lets go with the carrot.
What can Americans provide as an incentive to corporations to convince them to not sell things overseas? And please, don't say "innovation" or "skill", its not like many of the people getting jobs there weren't trained at American universities. Not everyone in the US is Thomas Edison (or one of the many people he "outsourced" much of his inventiveness to).
All he was talking about was getting a job doing something that pays.
Which is? Come on, pull out your magic ball and let me know what I should go back to school and study!
The real eye-opener here isn't that Americans are whiny or that corporations are scrabbling for the allmighty buck, its that companies have now successfully outsourced everything but upper management and janitorial duty. Support, research, manufacturing, development, project management (which goes wherever the people to be managed are), customer service... if you're looking for a job and its description uses any of those words, there is no longer any future for you. Live in fear, for next year your job might be in China.
So tell me, what should I study when I go back into school?
I guess if nothing else I can go into huge debt for law school, then go to work for the RIAA. Scraping the bottom of the morally repugnant barrel here, but at least I'll be able to start a family without worrying whether I'll even have a bed to tuck little Timmy into when he's four.
You know what; It takes less training than brain surgery as well.
It also takes an apprenticeship, thanks to a protectionist union. I wonder how many plumbers there are in your area willing to train their own competition?
Perhaps the US should eliminate its minimum wage laws then, and "level the playing field" for American workers.
Exactly. But it won't.
Yeah, how selfish of those plumbers and electricians to protect their jobs, and prevent cheap unskilled labor (aka ex-programmers trying to make a living) from flooding the market and causing them to lose their jobs.
My sarcasm detector is off the scale, but are you sarcastically saying that the tech sector should protect itself, or sarcastically saying that everyone practicing every trade should allow their career to be destroyed?
That taxation is in place due to the last round of protectionist bleatings from the American manufacturers who couldn't compete with those cheap overseas goods.
So get rid of them. But that's not going to happen either.
If you think outsourcing doesn't affect your bottom line then you should take another look at how cheap computers and software really are.
I can't live in a computer, and can't eat software. Sugar, used in quite a lot of food (or you can pay more for "diet"!), is literally dirt cheap outside of the country, but its import is taxed so hard that candy companies here are squealing because the US farmers can't produce enough to meet demand. The half-assed protectionism policies in the US seem setup to protect everyone but the people.
In reality, all sides involved are acting irrationally. Companies are destroying their future by literally giving away their IP to other countries and otherwise plowing themselves into the ground for the quarterly earnings report and the manager's bonus. People are blindly striking out at whatever is handy, hoping that they can hold on for another few decades until they retire. The government in choosing a side will be supporting their irrationality, yet its current position of pretending there is no problem is also irrational. Nobody wants a rational answer, either. Companies and people are both afraid of having to face their irrationality, and the government refuses to give up the power and control it perceives it has over the situation.
I don't have answers for everything you've put up, I'll even put myself in the irrational part of the human populace, but what I hope is that people use the extremist arguments of both sides to realize that there must be a middle ground found somewhere, and soon.
Consider this though: I do IT because that's what I'm good at. And I am good at what I do, which is why I have a fairly secure job. When you tell people to change careers, think about what you're asking. Any employer out there will tell you that skill at a job is more than just a trip through college, it requires some talent. And talent isn't something you can just magically come up with, even when the alternative is starving on the street.
Out of curiosity, what kind of jobs do you think I can get out of reading at the library? While I consider my job secure, my company could succumb to the irrationality disease or even go under at any time. Personally, I'm tempted to take night classes towards teaching certification, though with the current irrationality of people towards educating other people's kids, even that can't guarantee me a job, above or below the poverty line. I'm not even sure I could teach kids successfully, though I've done enough training here at work to understand the concepts.
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So "at least" 349 people were agents out of how many that were spied on? How many innocent people were put through the wringer and came out clean on the other side just so those 349 could be found? How many innocent lives were destroyed by the "red scare"?
"So McCarthy was right" Sure, he was "right" that there was an infinitesimal number of enemy agents hiding in our population. But was it Right to expend that amount of money, goodwill, time, and livelihoods to find those people? Was there not a better way than to go about this witchhunt style, forcing both the innocent and the "guilty" (Since when is being "unamerican" a crime, anyway?) to reveal other communists to save themselves (whether the victim or his chosen victims were even communist)? Were those 350 people a danger to America? Were there others that after all of that trouble were never discovered, and were they a danger to America?
I suspect that was the point. "They" (remember we're talking about conspiracies here) gathered up a bunch of paperwork and when they found nothing, they gathered more until they had a hint of her involvement, and then used it to murder her.
My guess would be someone behind the scenes reading your search and typing it in to google to have the list ready for the next time someone searches for it.
Or can people there in USA be held responsible for having bought stolen property, when they cannot possibly have known it was stolen
Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but if you're serious, the answer is "yes, they are." In fact, the TV in question is seized to be returned to the rightful owner (or to be held by the police as "evidence" in their break room). You do not get your money back (though I suppose you could file a civil fraud suit to get the money back, but you'll probably not see any of it after the seller declares bankruptcy). If you don't cooporate, you're arrested for possession of stolen goods.
3. Intelligence is often nothing more than a best guess.
The bush administration and the CIA under it has completely forgotten that intelligence is more than gathering information. Intelligence is about being smarter than the enemy and making sure they know it only when its appropriate. Intelligence would have been leaflet bombing in Iraq as was done in Afghanistan (which successfully softened the early ranks of soldiers who didn't really want to be there). It would have also been a campaign of confusion and fear to counteract the terrorists. (if every bin laden film has to be carefully examined to see if its fake, they must be awfully easy to forge. even if the real terrorists wouldn't fall for it, the general populace might be incited to rise up if they were told by "bin laden" that al quaeda was going to start nuking Iraqi cities.
4. Avoid torturing? Good advice, and probably followed by the vast, overwhelming majority. But defining torture... and whether it's ever permissible is a great debate
You DO realize that these people are probably the sources of the up-and-down "terror level". Since 9/11 how many "threats" have we had that never panned out? Given that we're torturing this information out of people, I no longer believe the bush administration has prevented anything, only that the bush administration is passiing on the confessions of the tortured because they're better than any lies they could make up unassisted.
Nah, after the database counted my cats on the list 59,342 times each, I think the terrorists have room for about 4 or 5 more percent.
The problem with your view is that it lacks in the reality department. Sure, barring the amendment protecting me from unreasonable search or seizure, there is nothing spelled out in the Constitution that says cops who don't agree with whatever group I'm meeting up with can't slip a baggie with a "residue" of cocaine or pot in it into my pants and haul me in. If you don't think this can happen, some time when you have a couple of months to blow, nominate yourself for grand jury service (thats how it works here, anyway, someone nominates you and you end up listening to cases for months. It even overrides normal jury duty if by freak chance you get selected for both) and see what all people get hauled in on that never make it to real court. You'll watch a parade of kids who may or may not be upstanding citizens, but the cop who busted them gets to come in and talk about how he found this or that empty baggie on them, blah blah.
Its pretty damn enlightening to see how much crap the police pull that can't even qualify as a criminal case.
Not that it really matters, because of the time commitment, most of the grand jurists are retired, and you know the old biddies are there voting to send crap cases to trial because it gets that young violent punk off the streets for a while longer before his court date.
WW II was a success because we were able to fight a well defined army to a point where their government chose not to fight anymore.
Terrorists have no defined army, no government (if you broke up all the cells, individuals acting alone can do just as well with plain old anarchy), and are highly prone to splintering: even if we had killed osama, at least one other person would have appeared to take his place.
Thats it, I'm going and patenting a car with an 802.11b antenna glued to the top. Sure, I didn't invent the car or the antenna, and anyone who wardrives probably thought of it first, but hey, its the sum of the parts and the fact that I patented it first that matters.
I must be some sort of inventive genius!
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I don't believe you when you say that you get viruses over the 20 minutes that it takes
Aside from the terminology, consider that at the peak of infection, many nimda attacks were being logged EVERY SECOND by logging machines setup for capturing and monitoring attacks. Slammer was scanning 55 million hosts PER SECOND. These things just pick random addresses and spit data out. If you haven't been getting any of these hits then either you're behind a firewall, or you're less random than the rest of the internet.
20 minutes is a long time to go without protection in computer time, especially on today's wild west of an internet.
Agreed though, the questioner should have just gone and gotten a firewall (or used one of his linux machines). I've never seen anything on windows update suggest that I turn off my firewall.
I had tried several algorithms on the simulator before settling on this one, and it behaved exactly the same in reality, which is always a pleasant surprise.
In other news, Doom 3 will have a new vehicle available for players to use...
Cutting and pasting emulates an xterm. Or you can change the setting to make it emulate the cut and paste in fast edit mode in a DOS box.
:P)
Either way, it makes it easy to use without a keyboard. (after all, how the hell are you supposed to stop your program when ctrl-c is cutting?
I like my movies a little (or sometimes a lot) weird. Now I'm going to have to go look for this one. (thanks for the recommendation ;)
1. The manga industry is being outsourced. I don't know much about this, but it might be a good idea to keep an eye on this issue.
Meaning that often the same fans you claim are better are sometimes the ones actually doing the translations for the commercial version.
2. Manga on the internet is often fan-translated. This is usually a good thing, as often the fans have more respect for a direct translation, rather than throwing out any cultural jokes that wouldn't apply overseas.
Pick up a copy of Excel Saga and read it "backwards" You'll notice that there is about 10 pages of small print notes on culture, sound effects, etc. Viz isn't the only one, nearly all of the companies are using extra pages at the end to explain things these days.
3. Try to get manga for a good price. Manga is sold at ridiculously inflated prices in the U.S., so if you can, try to get a better deal.
To me, its more like japanese manga is sold at a tremendously low price, when you consider facts like the lack of available forest for logging (making wood and paper much more expensive). Manga has come up in price recently for whatever reason though. Still, US companies have more costs to cover on graphic novels: it has to be licensed ($$$$$ for a popular series), translated, printed (often on much better quality paper than the japanese counterparts), and distributed according to US distributor rules (which is why you don't see slipcovers on graphic novels: distributers and stores refuse to carry them because they don't know how to deal with them without tearing them up).
Best way I've found is to get a waldenbooks membership: cheaper than Barnes and Noble, and for every $100 you get a $5 GC.
As for Barnes and Noble, We had a new one open a few blocks from my house, and they have plenty of graphic novels... too bad they're split between "teen" on one side of the store and the scifi section on the other side, with often no thought as to which titles should go where.
then when you need performance you can drill down and figure out how to do it.
Or you hire someone who understands why certain behaviors yield performance, instead of sitting there and trying different things until you work something out that seems a little faster.
Interestingly, corporate income tax revenues have fallen far more than personal income tax revenues (~8%, as opposed to ~2.5%). Looks like the evil corporations are taking it in the shorts even worse than everyone else.
The whole thing is pretty bogus, since its based on tax revenues, which bush made a big deal of cutting. But the comparison does note who really benefits from the bush cuts.
"unwilling to improve their skillsets"
I guess we'll have new class divisions: those rich enough to retrain every few years for whatever skillset hasn't been shipped out yet, those genius enough to retrain quickly without becoming smothered in debt, and the average people who will be lining up to cut your grass on a daily rotation.
Fine screw the whole stick thing and lets go with the carrot.
What can Americans provide as an incentive to corporations to convince them to not sell things overseas? And please, don't say "innovation" or "skill", its not like many of the people getting jobs there weren't trained at American universities. Not everyone in the US is Thomas Edison (or one of the many people he "outsourced" much of his inventiveness to).
An American invented the VCR.
Key word here is An: "one". How many thousands of people are losing their jobs? And you think they'll all have some profound invention to sell?
All he was talking about was getting a job doing something that pays.
Which is? Come on, pull out your magic ball and let me know what I should go back to school and study!
The real eye-opener here isn't that Americans are whiny or that corporations are scrabbling for the allmighty buck, its that companies have now successfully outsourced everything but upper management and janitorial duty. Support, research, manufacturing, development, project management (which goes wherever the people to be managed are), customer service... if you're looking for a job and its description uses any of those words, there is no longer any future for you. Live in fear, for next year your job might be in China.
So tell me, what should I study when I go back into school?
I guess if nothing else I can go into huge debt for law school, then go to work for the RIAA. Scraping the bottom of the morally repugnant barrel here, but at least I'll be able to start a family without worrying whether I'll even have a bed to tuck little Timmy into when he's four.
You know what; It takes less training than brain surgery as well.
It also takes an apprenticeship, thanks to a protectionist union. I wonder how many plumbers there are in your area willing to train their own competition?
It's called innovation.
Not everyone can do it. What happens to everyone else?
Not everyone can start companies. Not everyone can invent things. Heck, not everyone can deal with people or design algorithms. What do they do now?
Perhaps the US should eliminate its minimum wage laws then, and "level the playing field" for American workers.
Exactly. But it won't.
Yeah, how selfish of those plumbers and electricians to protect their jobs, and prevent cheap unskilled labor (aka ex-programmers trying to make a living) from flooding the market and causing them to lose their jobs.
My sarcasm detector is off the scale, but are you sarcastically saying that the tech sector should protect itself, or sarcastically saying that everyone practicing every trade should allow their career to be destroyed?
That taxation is in place due to the last round of protectionist bleatings from the American manufacturers who couldn't compete with those cheap overseas goods.
So get rid of them. But that's not going to happen either.
If you think outsourcing doesn't affect your bottom line then you should take another look at how cheap computers and software really are.
I can't live in a computer, and can't eat software. Sugar, used in quite a lot of food (or you can pay more for "diet"!), is literally dirt cheap outside of the country, but its import is taxed so hard that candy companies here are squealing because the US farmers can't produce enough to meet demand. The half-assed protectionism policies in the US seem setup to protect everyone but the people.
In reality, all sides involved are acting irrationally. Companies are destroying their future by literally giving away their IP to other countries and otherwise plowing themselves into the ground for the quarterly earnings report and the manager's bonus. People are blindly striking out at whatever is handy, hoping that they can hold on for another few decades until they retire. The government in choosing a side will be supporting their irrationality, yet its current position of pretending there is no problem is also irrational. Nobody wants a rational answer, either. Companies and people are both afraid of having to face their irrationality, and the government refuses to give up the power and control it perceives it has over the situation.
I don't have answers for everything you've put up, I'll even put myself in the irrational part of the human populace, but what I hope is that people use the extremist arguments of both sides to realize that there must be a middle ground found somewhere, and soon.
Consider this though: I do IT because that's what I'm good at. And I am good at what I do, which is why I have a fairly secure job. When you tell people to change careers, think about what you're asking. Any employer out there will tell you that skill at a job is more than just a trip through college, it requires some talent. And talent isn't something you can just magically come up with, even when the alternative is starving on the street.
Out of curiosity, what kind of jobs do you think I can get out of reading at the library? While I consider my job secure, my company could succumb to the irrationality disease or even go under at any time. Personally, I'm tempted to take night classes towards teaching certification, though with the current irrationality of people towards educating other people's kids, even that can't guarantee me a job, above or below the poverty line. I'm not even sure I could teach kids successfully, though I've done enough training here at work to understand the concepts.