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  1. You win by K.O.. on Bobby Fischer Found · · Score: 1

    The straw man you punched is throwing the towell. It is a shame you id it after putting so much love building it.

  2. Don't be idiotic. on Bobby Fischer Found · · Score: 1

    Any treaty signed between country becomes international law.

    You don't necessarily need a supranational govement to recognize a body of mutually recognized legal principles.

    Israel in practice can do pretty much whatever they want, but this is only allowed by the uncompromissing and unquestioning support of the US that almost never puts objections to the motives and morality of Israel's policies; but pretty much any legal hawk versed in international law will tell you that Israel is breaking more international laws that would be practical to cite here.

  3. The only obvious thing is your ignorance. on Bobby Fischer Found · · Score: 1

    To be extradited there needs to be a treaty between two countries and a set of rigurous conditions is stablished (for example some countries would not extradite people to a place where the person in question may face the death penalty for the alleged crime).

    A deportation does not require any treaties since it is a country just deciding one person is not fit to travel for whatever reason and the normal procedure is to send that person to his country of origin.

  4. ME: rolls eyes on disbelief... on Bobby Fischer Found · · Score: 1

    I have worked in 7 different countries and visited many more, I have worked with muslims, xians, atheists, jews, budhists, hinduists and even a few animists.

    I can confidently say that what you need is to meet more people and to fine tune your selectivness when stereotyping people, since one could easily change jews for any other group of people in your little tirade and you would find somebody agreeing with you.

  5. Yes Batman.... on Bobby Fischer Found · · Score: 1

    ... but are you doing exactly the same job? Or are you bossing around Robin and Batgirl?

    It does not make any sense to sense "yeah I earn loads more" if your position changed from toilett cleaner to CEO on the intervenieng time....

  6. Is Spassky USian? on Bobby Fischer Found · · Score: 1

    I firmly believe he is not, but I may be mistaken, but most likely he was not at the time of the game.

    Please note that many countries do not impose stringent sanctions on their nationals for undertakings of the goverment (like economic sanctions).

  7. Intellectual sport? US football? on Bobby Fischer Found · · Score: 1

    You must be joking.

    If you don't have the smae height and weight as your opponents you may be grat technically and tachtically, but any mediocre team with bigger players will roll over you.

    Very intellectual.

  8. In the other side.... on Bobby Fischer Found · · Score: 1

    .... I was witness of how the Cuban goverment can be.

    I was taken a Java programming course in Mexico with a Cuban born instructor, she had the misfortune that her father, still living in Cuba, died while she was on exile.

    One day she started crying for no apparent reason (that was the size of her pain), then she apologized and explained to us that the Cuban goverment had not allowed her to go to Cuba for her father's funeral.

    The US blockade is an unspeakable, unnecessary crime, morally, politically and economically (we know how much the US goverment cares about human rights and communisms when dealing with China) but that does not mean that cold hearteness is limited to one side.

  9. You don't know what you are talking about. on Malaysian Government Prefers Open Code · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Malaysia had (perhaps still has, too lazy to google) a white elephant project called the "Super Multimedia Corridor" that was suppossed to be a hub of High Tech development and innovation (with things like housing for higtech employess with broadband internet, nevermind Malaysia is a country with stringent censoship).

    One of the advisors for this project was a certain Bill Gates. That they are turning around like this has a huge impact since they must be ignoring "advice" (i.e. FUD) from Gates whose opinions just 5 years ago were regarded as gospel.

    This my friend, is BIG news in Malaysia for sure, one of the biggest exporters of computer related stuff in the world.

  10. It feels so good..... on Stargate Atlantis Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    .... not to fit the geek stereotype.

    I can say with full relief I don't give a rat ass about this history.

    Phew!

  11. In the immortal words of Pat Rafter.... on Stargate Atlantis Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    .... those parochial USians should apologize like this: "sorry mate!".

  12. Yes they do. on Odeon Orders Takedown Of Copycat Site · · Score: 1

    And it is a big sized monument to your ignorance that you are asking this in public.

    Cinemas that care (I wonder if Odeon does) offer earphones where a blind person is explained what is going on in the movie and the original dialog is left in place, so they can experience as much as possible the experience of going to the movies. This is important because then they can go with family and freidns thus being allowed to integrate better on their close environment.

  13. They may not be stupid.... on 4 New "Extremely Critical" IE Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    ... but are they ethical, moral or even legal?

  14. Care to back that up please? on Netcraft: Red Hat Still Top Linux Server Distro · · Score: 1

    Or is all whishful thinking perhaps?

  15. Debian is stagnant. on Netcraft: Red Hat Still Top Linux Server Distro · · Score: 1

    But that is not a bad thing in many cases.

    If you need cuting edge features you have to thinker too much to get them.

  16. Linux uptimes are legendary. on NZX Moves To Oracle On Linux · · Score: 1

    So they have justified reasons to be optimistic.

  17. And what is your problem with that? on NZX Moves To Oracle On Linux · · Score: 1

    It is a perfectly valid reason to move away from a provider you have come to hate.

    Hate is not gratuitous, it should have a reason, not that a could think of any myself of course, since MS is the greatest, more ethical company, I can think of....

  18. You answered your own question. on NZX Moves To Oracle On Linux · · Score: 1

    First of all, Linux support (notice that Linux is not sold, support is) is normally more generous than MS licensing.

    If you are unhappy with the solution provided you can alook around for a better deal because the solution, at least at the OS level is open, so any scripts that you use to juice the DB can be transported with no changes at all.

    If you get really fed up with Red HAt you can go to SuSe, and if you are a big company, you can armtwist Oracle to support other Linux distros.

    If you get fedup with MS software any migration is unnecesary painful and difficult because MS puts enormous ammounts of effort to make it so.

  19. Macho, macho ,men on NZX Moves To Oracle On Linux · · Score: 3, Funny

    We tried Solaris on Linux,,,,,

    Man, let me stand up and take my hat in genuine appreciation.

    This ladies and gents, is a real hero.

  20. Remember gmail? on Forget the PDA, Here Comes the TDA · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that email betta service.

    Well, that is going to cost 0 US$ and nevertheless there are suckers out there paying to get beta accounts.

    If this thing is deemed great people will be falling over each other no matter how expensive it is.

  21. You can hit a nail in place with a screwdriver. on Forget the PDA, Here Comes the TDA · · Score: 1

    That does not mean the screwdriver was designed for that purpose.

    You can do things with current PDAs, but that does not mean they were designed to be used that way (i.e. your fat greasy fingers).

  22. Xandros. on Linux Distros for a Windows Software Developer? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Many people here recommend Debian, mostly because it is a doodle to administer.

    Many othere recommend Mandrake or SuSe, mainly for the eye candy.

    Well, get the best of both worlds and use Xandros. It is Debian under the hoods (you can actually point it to read the standard Debian software repositories) and it looks professional and polished.

    You cn integrate things like CrossOver or StarOffice (Sun's port of OpenOffice.org) with a couple of clicks of the mouse.

    My wireless card worked immediately after initial configuration (stick to supported hardware, Wireless support is far from stellar in Linux) and USB devices work as they should (I am using a 7 in 1 reader, again stick to supported devices, a graphic tablet and aprinter, all with no issues).

  23. Yeah sure. on NYT Magazine: Are Comics The New Mainstream Novels? · · Score: -1, Troll

    We can't read Shakespeare, Cervantes, Homer, Dostoivesky or Garcia Marquez.

    So lets read the adventures of Batman and Robin and proclaim them an equivalent.

  24. And what about the livelihood of those who buy it. on Gates: Open Source Kills Jobs · · Score: 1

    You watch news I presume, you remember I hope what Mr Bush, the current Withehouse tennant, did with steel tariffs.

    With the typical populist protectionist argument of "Saving Our Jobs[tm]" he increades tariffs for imported steel.

    What he, and whoever dumbster is advicing him on ecomonic matters, did not realize is the other industries in the use actaully buy steel, local or otherwise.

    What MR Bush achieved was to make business more expensive for steel consumers, thus threateaning the livelihood of those people working on industries that rely on steel to provide products and services.

    Once Dumb, or his advicer Dumbster, realized what they have done, they dropped the tariffs to allow cheap steel to come back into the US with fair tariffs impossed.

    It is exactly the same problem with software or services in our interconnected world.

  25. In the desktop... on Gates: Open Source Kills Jobs · · Score: 1

    ... who makes the bulk of machines, Linux was not good enough until now.

    The next couple of years will be decisive to see if Linux remains a niche OSor if it becomes a mainstream resource.