"Thou"/"thee"/"thy" are the informal second-person pronouns (like the Spanish "tu"), and "you"/"your" is the polite one (like "usted"). It's archaic now, but it used to be used like this. This distinction is common in a lot of languages.
The Y-as-TH phenomenon is because early English printing presses lacked the thorn (which looks like a 'b' struck over a 'p'), having been imported from countries that don't have the character, so they had to use a substitute.
Wait, I'm confused. I thought we were supposed to keep waiting for the sanctions to work, instead of rushing to war?
I haven't said anything about "waiting for the sanctions to work"--this may be some sort of stereotypical statement you expect "liberals" or "anti-Americans" to say, but I haven't said anything of the sort. In my opinion, the sanctions regime was a cowardly act of state terrorism, and most certainly a crime against humanity. The whole lead-up to the Iraq war--the disingenuous weapons inspections, the half-hearted attempt at diplomacy, and any argumentation over "letting the sanctions" work--was just a distraction.
So what you're saying is that we should have both lifted the sanctions and not have gone to war in Iraq? In other words, let Saddam do whatever he wanted?
Or maybe there shouldn't have been sanctions in the first place, or maybe the US shouldn't have supported (1970s through 1980s), and then dumped (1991), Saddam Hussein in the first place.
Perhaps the US should have, once they went war with him the first time in 1991, finished him off--instead of driving him out of Kuwait, allowing him to crush a rebellion by Shi`a Iraqis (and Americans wonder why Moqtada al-Sadr and the Shi`a hate them!), and then letting him sit around for the next twelve years while they slowly starved his country.
Perhaps they shouldn't have helped empower the dictator in the first place. Perhaps using Saddam as a check on Iran back during the 1980s, sending him all sorts of biological and chemical weapons, was a really bad idea, and really irresponsible, to begin with.
If you want to talk about "responsible" statesmanship, perhaps you should try looking at the whole Iraq situation from 1975 onwards (or maybe 1918 onwards if you want to understand the situation in the greater Arab world).
Yep. Not only that, but Kerry doesn't exactly plan to end the war anytime soon--he basically wants to send more troops to Iraq now. He needs to prove he's a "strong" leader (out-Bush Bush and his cowboy act, basically) so he wants to "win" the war. Only real difference between Bush and Kerry is Kerry is a better salesman, a better liar.
The Counterpunch writers have a book, Not a Dime's Worth of Difference, that details exactly how similar Kerry and Bush are. The book is a collection of essays, many of which have been published on the website, also.
My guess is that history will prove that the war was worth it, not only for Iraqis but for the world as a whole.
If history shows this, it only proves the old adage that "history is written by the victors."
I'm interested in seeing the new movie "Voices of Iraq" that just came out. From the reviews I've read, including one on NPR last night, it sounds like it provides evidence that the average ordinary Iraqi is grateful for what the U.S. has done (even though they want us to leave as soon as possible).
The average Iraqi is probably quite happy that the US finally did away with Saddam, the despot they helped install back in the 1970s, whom they encouraged to go to war against Iran back in the 80s, at the expense of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives. They're probably also happy that the US/UK-led UN sanctions are over now, sanctions which killed approximately another million Iraqis. I don't think I would describe this as "gratitude" however.
Freedom of expression on the Internet is still possible if you understand where to go to have your controversial content well-received, or at least tolerated. Indymedia, a leftist website that's made itself a fair share of enemies among the US establishment, was absolutely stupid to have their content hosted in England, a rather staunch US ally.
For example, HAMAS and similar Islamic militant/resistance organizations have sites hosted in the Netherlands and Germany. Most anywhere else and they'd be shut down and probably packed off to a Mossad dungeon.
Iraqi Resistance publishes Albasrah.net in the Netherlands, too. They've yet to be shut down or "disappeared" to Guantanamo.
NAMBLA found hosting in Germany, after they were repeatedly harassed and shut down in the US.
If you're Iranian or Chinese, you'd have to be pretty dumb to try and set up an anti-government site in your own country, but anywhere in the west you'd be received as a hero and a freedom fighter.
A Chechen website called Kavkaz Center was hosted in Lithuania, publishing news, essays, and communiques from their resistance fighters. (Until the Beslan attacks when Russia was probably finally able to exert enough pressure on the former SSR to get the site shut down.)
Of course, Germany is far from a "free country" -- try hosting a neo-Nazi site and you'll find yourself fined and possibly in jail. Same with in France. See how far you get with "hate speech" in Canada nowadays, too. But, you can set one up in the US and no one will touch it.
I often use a space in place of a T also, and sometimes put a space before the timezone, also for readability.
2001-02-03 04:05:06 +0700
ISO probably avoided a space so that the entire date/time string is one unbroken token. I believe the EU's standard, based on ISO8601, is to use a space instead of a T.
However, +0000 is better than UTC because timezone abbreviations (other than the specific instance of UTC) aren't really well-known outside their country of origin, whereas a number is a number. Also, multiple abbreviations will often map to the same numeric offset, which doesn't help clarity; the +0700 above is called WIT in Indonesia, but ALMST in Kazakhstan (according to the output of `date` and my zoneinfo files, at least).
Actually, the question is, does Mars have enough gravity, and a strong enough magnetic field, to hang on to water? Without a strong enough magnetic field to deflect the solar winds, the atmosphere gets wittled away (imagine the particles of the solar winds as a sandblaster of sorts), which would cause lower atmospheric pressure, which would cause more water to vaporize into the atmosphere, which causes the whole cycle to repeat.
And the answer is--Mars doesn't much of a magnetic field at all, which is what's caused all its liquid surface water to vanish.
Considering that this thing is mandates as numeric, how much software out there is storing this portion of the VIN as an integer?
[Software used by insurance agencies or law enforcement probably treat the whole VIN as one long unique ID, but I'm thinking of software used by individual manufacturers: since the first segments of the VIN would always be the same, within this context, this information probably isn't duplicated in each individual record.]
A cookie is just an HTTP header. An HTTP header is just a line of text. To wit:
Cookie: name=value
You can write do this in 10 lines of Perl code, using something like LWP::UserAgent, or even drop down to doing it with plain old sockets. Here's a complete request, replete with cookies:
Any competently-programmed bot would probably add fake user-agent and referer headers to make it look like plain-vanilla MSIE, and make it look like it was coming from a parent page on your site.
Why *don't* they have it?
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Aren't all ISO3166 alpha-2 country codes automatically ccTLDs?
The browser should take the scheme from the context of the current URL. This is valid according to the definition of a URL in the RFC.
You know that a URL like/foo/bar is evaluated relative to the current server, right? Well, something like//www.foo.com/bar is evaluated relative to the current scheme, i.e., http.
We see this flip-flop with SCO. Caldera used to be a quite reponsible company, now they are 'evil'. IBM used to be 'evil', now they are 'good'.
Was Caldera ever good? I seem to remember them being the company that tried to sell per-seat Linux licenses. I always had a bad feeling about them, that they never "got" the Linux ethos in the first place and were always out to try to exploit it as greedily as possible.
Today per-seat licenses, tomorrow the world, so to speak. Greedy SOBs.
Yes, realpolitik at its finest. Trouble is it has a way of coming back and biting you in the ass in the long run. The CIA is so familiar with this they have another word for it -- "blowback." Let's just hope that, in ten years' time, we don't find out allying ourselves with the 800lb gorilla was a mistake like we found out about Osama on 2001-09-11.
The Master Password dialog box is nearly identical to:
prompt( 'Please enter the master password for the Software Security Device.' );
Even the same icon is used, FFS. At least the Master Password icon should be something like a padlock, or a key, like other browsers use for their password dialogs.
The only difference is that the JavaScript version will say "[JavaScript Application]" in the title bar instead.
I've only come across a couple of porn sites that try to install something using the XPI facility, but you get prompted to install it. It was amidst a rats' nest of other dialogs popping up (not "popup" windows, just dialogs asking me to install extensions to handle all kinds of exotic filetypes and JavaScript alert() boxes), so I almost missed it.
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Um, the original income tax came before that amendment. It was eventually ruled unconstitutional, which is why the amendment exists.
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No.
"Thou"/"thee"/"thy" are the informal second-person pronouns (like the Spanish "tu"), and "you"/"your" is the polite one (like "usted"). It's archaic now, but it used to be used like this. This distinction is common in a lot of languages.
The Y-as-TH phenomenon is because early English printing presses lacked the thorn (which looks like a 'b' struck over a 'p'), having been imported from countries that don't have the character, so they had to use a substitute.
Perhaps the US should have, once they went war with him the first time in 1991, finished him off--instead of driving him out of Kuwait, allowing him to crush a rebellion by Shi`a Iraqis (and Americans wonder why Moqtada al-Sadr and the Shi`a hate them!), and then letting him sit around for the next twelve years while they slowly starved his country.
Perhaps they shouldn't have helped empower the dictator in the first place. Perhaps using Saddam as a check on Iran back during the 1980s, sending him all sorts of biological and chemical weapons, was a really bad idea, and really irresponsible, to begin with.
If you want to talk about "responsible" statesmanship, perhaps you should try looking at the whole Iraq situation from 1975 onwards (or maybe 1918 onwards if you want to understand the situation in the greater Arab world).
Yep. Not only that, but Kerry doesn't exactly plan to end the war anytime soon--he basically wants to send more troops to Iraq now. He needs to prove he's a "strong" leader (out-Bush Bush and his cowboy act, basically) so he wants to "win" the war. Only real difference between Bush and Kerry is Kerry is a better salesman, a better liar.
The Counterpunch writers have a book, Not a Dime's Worth of Difference, that details exactly how similar Kerry and Bush are. The book is a collection of essays, many of which have been published on the website, also.
Tahya al-Moqawama al-Iraqiya.
Tahya al-Moqawama al-Iraqiya.
More on this oft-bastardized quote from another Wikimedia project.
Freedom of expression on the Internet is still possible if you understand where to go to have your controversial content well-received, or at least tolerated. Indymedia, a leftist website that's made itself a fair share of enemies among the US establishment, was absolutely stupid to have their content hosted in England, a rather staunch US ally.
For example, HAMAS and similar Islamic militant/resistance organizations have sites hosted in the Netherlands and Germany. Most anywhere else and they'd be shut down and probably packed off to a Mossad dungeon.
Iraqi Resistance publishes Albasrah.net in the Netherlands, too. They've yet to be shut down or "disappeared" to Guantanamo.
NAMBLA found hosting in Germany, after they were repeatedly harassed and shut down in the US.
If you're Iranian or Chinese, you'd have to be pretty dumb to try and set up an anti-government site in your own country, but anywhere in the west you'd be received as a hero and a freedom fighter.
A Chechen website called Kavkaz Center was hosted in Lithuania, publishing news, essays, and communiques from their resistance fighters. (Until the Beslan attacks when Russia was probably finally able to exert enough pressure on the former SSR to get the site shut down.)
Of course, Germany is far from a "free country" -- try hosting a neo-Nazi site and you'll find yourself fined and possibly in jail. Same with in France. See how far you get with "hate speech" in Canada nowadays, too. But, you can set one up in the US and no one will touch it.
I often use a space in place of a T also, and sometimes put a space before the timezone, also for readability.
2001-02-03 04:05:06 +0700
ISO probably avoided a space so that the entire date/time string is one unbroken token. I believe the EU's standard, based on ISO8601, is to use a space instead of a T.
However, +0000 is better than UTC because timezone abbreviations (other than the specific instance of UTC) aren't really well-known outside their country of origin, whereas a number is a number. Also, multiple abbreviations will often map to the same numeric offset, which doesn't help clarity; the +0700 above is called WIT in Indonesia, but ALMST in Kazakhstan (according to the output of `date` and my zoneinfo files, at least).
If you're going to use the ISO8601 date format, don't write UTC in parentheses like RFC822 dates, write Z or +0000.
Actually, the question is, does Mars have enough gravity, and a strong enough magnetic field, to hang on to water? Without a strong enough magnetic field to deflect the solar winds, the atmosphere gets wittled away (imagine the particles of the solar winds as a sandblaster of sorts), which would cause lower atmospheric pressure, which would cause more water to vaporize into the atmosphere, which causes the whole cycle to repeat.
And the answer is--Mars doesn't much of a magnetic field at all, which is what's caused all its liquid surface water to vanish.
Considering that this thing is mandates as numeric, how much software out there is storing this portion of the VIN as an integer?
[Software used by insurance agencies or law enforcement probably treat the whole VIN as one long unique ID, but I'm thinking of software used by individual manufacturers: since the first segments of the VIN would always be the same, within this context, this information probably isn't duplicated in each individual record.]
- Aren't necessarily unique, as some NICs are programmable;
- Aren't government-mandated;
- Aren't illegal to change;
- Aren't illegal to hide or otherwise obfuscate.
Your comparison really fell on its face. Care to try again?What!?
Liberty in our Lifetime.
Obvious!
Here.
Or you can blame the 40% who do. How do you think these politicians got into office in the first place?
Aren't all ISO3166 alpha-2 country codes automatically ccTLDs?
You do realize that communism (at least pre-Soviet) advocates the abolition of the State, correct?
The browser should take the scheme from the context of the current URL. This is valid according to the definition of a URL in the RFC.
/foo/bar is evaluated relative to the current server, right? Well, something like //www.foo.com/bar is evaluated relative to the current scheme, i.e., http.
You know that a URL like
Today per-seat licenses, tomorrow the world, so to speak. Greedy SOBs.
Yes, realpolitik at its finest. Trouble is it has a way of coming back and biting you in the ass in the long run. The CIA is so familiar with this they have another word for it -- "blowback." Let's just hope that, in ten years' time, we don't find out allying ourselves with the 800lb gorilla was a mistake like we found out about Osama on 2001-09-11.
The only difference is that the JavaScript version will say "[JavaScript Application]" in the title bar instead.
I've only come across a couple of porn sites that try to install something using the XPI facility, but you get prompted to install it. It was amidst a rats' nest of other dialogs popping up (not "popup" windows, just dialogs asking me to install extensions to handle all kinds of exotic filetypes and JavaScript alert() boxes), so I almost missed it.