Your research time was apparently wasted, and honestly your assessments aren't likely based on anything other than your personal skewing of events.
We were *actively* engaged in warfighting when those bombs were dropped. Moreover, we were on the verge of having an invasion, and the Japanese knew it. If you honestly think for one second that the Japanese wouldn't have fought down to the last man, you don't know jack shit about Japanese culture during the Imperial period. Moreover, you ignore the obvious tactic of the Japanese in feigning peace as a stalling tactic.
At no point was an invasion of Britain a possibility. As an island nation, Britain have had no invasions in 1000 years.
Brrrt, the Norman invasion lasted until 1087, so you're at least 85 years off. Moreover, the Blitz heavily damaged the UK's infrastructure, and if not for the US entry into the war - and this is in Churchill's own words - the Gerry's surely would've marched into the far corners of England.
Whose troops were the first into Afghanistan, clearing the way for our American 'friends'?
Uhm...nobody. The last time the Brits went into Afghanistan alone, one man made it out alive. The first allied troops on the ground were US Special Forces - aka Seals, Ranger, and Delta.
Ought to make that 82 months - The G-dub is seeing numbers even the great Ronaldus Magnus could'nt pull, and with the prospect of an all Republican congress (provided the democrats keep screwing up and the media keeps noticing it) the next 7 years ought to be pure Bushness.
I may be ignorant as you say, but at least I don't claim to be able to tell what the history of these past 50 years would have been without nuclear weapons
No, but you pretend to know what the future brings if the US simply upgrades its nuclear stockpile. You'll sit there and preach all sorts of doom and gloom over what has in fact been going on for years without any ill effects. On the other hand, the advantage of hindsight is that we can know for a fact, from the very mouths of Soviet politbureau members and missile commanders that if not for the threat of the NATO nuclear umbrella of ICBM's and long range bombers, they would've unleased conventional warfare acrossed Europe. The Bush administration has increased the military budgets in huge proportions,
Our military spending is less of a percentage of GNP than most other countries on the Earth, and these "huge proportions" you shreik over represent 1% growth - Growth that is only now occuring the in the face of a global threat of terror from rogue threats - growth that is only necessary because of the last decade of gutting the military has endured at the same time as an increase operational tempo has strained it to the limits fighting low intensity conflicts in such god-forsaken places as Bosnia, Kosovo, Somalia, and others.
has withdrawn from the ABM treaty
There is the fallacy - that a treaty even exists any longer. The ABM was an agreement between us and the Soviet Union. News flash bucko, the Soviet Union no longer exists. The ABM treaty was a farce, and if anything was more dangerous in that it forced both countries to NOT develop defensive systems against ICBM's. The only reason the USSR pushed for an ABM is because we were light years beyond them in developing such systems, and they were already straining under the economics of maintaining their Imperialist military-industrial complex.
and is now threatening the Non-Proliferation Treaty
Anybody who thinks that upgrading the nuclear weapons we already have is somehow threatening non-proliferation quite frankly needs to switch to decaf, and grab a dictionary to find out what "proliferation" means. Meanwhile, we have china and russia selling nuclear missile technology to India, Pakistan, Iran, Syria, and Libya. At best, your efforts are misplaced and at worst they are aimed at empowering third world thugs who can already build the equivalent of a 1960's nuclear arsenal while hiding in 20th century protective bunkers.
According to some historians, it seems that the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki could have been easily avoided as Japan was ready to surrender. It was not an unconditional surrender though. A detail that cost the lives of over 200'000 civilians.
When you don't revise history to support your leftist views, one thing becomes blatently obvious: The japenese made overtures of surrender and peace as a prelude to offensives. They never had any intention of surrendering. Dropping the bombs on those two cities was a painstaking decision done the maximize damage to industrial warfighting capacity while minimizing damage to centers japanese cultural heritage. The best figures of the time show that far more than 200,000 people would have died if a land invasion became necessary - that many people would've committed suicide.
In the perspective of history, one lesson that has to be learned is that you don't make peace without victory. After raping and murdering millions throughout asia, japan deserved nothing more than unconditional surrender.
Even then, I'd be more worried about the dispersion of radioisotopes and the lead that would be kicked up.
I'm just highly amused by the lack of education and paranoi surrounding nuclear issues. But then, I was amused when my neice made me stay with her the entire night because of the boogeyman in her closet.
Times like this, anonymous coward is quite a good label - almost as good as "ignorant shill".
George is doing a fine job of adhering to all treaties made by this county for which the other party still exists (in case you haven't noticed, the Soviet Union no longer exists).
Increasing our nuclear stockpile? If you cared to actually read something, you'd realize that the development of new nuclear weapons requires that we deactivate other nuclear weapons, and since we already replenish stockpiles of aging weapons periodically, there is no increase. We are still bound to SALT and SALT II.
If it were only 6 feet of concrete, it wouldn't be a bunker it'd be a typical building. Hardened bunkers designed to guard against most conventional and some nuclear attacks can have as much as 40 feet of steel reinforced concrete.
As for fragility, the engineers who design these things make robust survivability as important as overall yield. Your average warhead can be dropped from space onto the parking lot in front of my house and not detonate. The trick is getting enough of the concrete out of the way that it detonates in the bunker and contains most of the blast.
You're about an idiot. I have no idea why I'm compelled to respond to you, but its probably because you epitomize the stupidity of the left leaning little dweebs who frequent Internet bulletin boards like this spewing ignorance in between their field trips to the bathroom to see if they've got nuthair 1 growing in yet.
US defense budget has been raised by an insane amount of money
The "insane amount of money" you refer to is the typical catching up that has to be done with a Democratic administration guts the military. Military growth during the Clinton administration was at just about 1% while other government programs were grown at rates of up to 8 to 9%. The thing is, federal spending for midnight basketball doesn't do jack shit to defend this country from Tin-Pot dictators in the middle east who are trying to develop nukes he can lob in our direction, or even the lesser but obviously real threat of a small group of jihaddies crashing planes into buildings.
privacy and freedom of speech invading laws have been rubberstamped
Reeeaaally...and perhaps you can show me how our free speech has been "invaded". Last time I checked, I was free to walk around my apartment naked, and stand on the street corner and badmouth any politician I want.
OH WAIT, I forgot about campaign finance reform. I'm not allowed to say anything bad about a politician for 60 days before an election. And that had nothing to do with 9/11.
and now there's talk about developing and actually using new nuclear weapons
Here's a brainfart for you: We are ALWAYS developing new nuclear weapons. Since 78 we have upgraded our stockpiles constistantly with newer designs which are safer to store and transport. As for using them, well this is where you have to actually get a clue about the real world: The genie is out of the bottle and in as much as you have uppity little neo-nazi dictators ringing asia and the middle east who have no qualms about using them, then you need to be willing and have the guts to use them. Bear in mind we are the only country to have ever used nukes in combat, and since then we have been the only country with them to not threaten to use them.
Finally, try getting some facts. The number of Agfhans who have dies is still less than the number of Americans who died, and unlike the terrorists the overwhelming majority of the people who die by the hands of the American military were pointing guns back. "tens of thousands" of Afghans represent a sizeable portion of their population: We'd have to wipe out half of Kabul to get that kind of number.
Uhm, hello...Clinton was impeached, he simply wasn't removed from office. Remind me to thank those Senators who lacked the testicular fortitude to do their constitutionally mandated duty.
Making "plans" for using nuclear weapons has been an everyday part of having nuclear weapons for every country since the 40's. Making plans to do something is a long way away from actually doing it. But having the weapon and the ability to use it is what has kept this planet safe and stable for 50 years.
And none of any of this has anything to do with Bush; it has been standard practice in every previous administration.
If you are honestly worried about nuclear war, you need to worry about India and Pakistan going at it. You need to worry about how Russia and China are selling nuclear technology. You need to worry about how Saddam Hussein - a man lacking in compunction who has already used chemical weapons against his own people and against his neighbors - is currently working to acquire a nuclear weapon that can be mounted on their modified SCUD launchers.
Any explosion (nuclear or otherwise) attempts to distribute energy in all directions equally. Any restrictions such as, you know, THE GROUND will direct the explosion. That directing ability is only as good as the ability of the directing device to withstand the initial shock and contain the energy.
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Linux - Created by Linus Torvalds who wanted a Unix style operating system without the heavy expense and licensing costs for Unix.
Accepted Accounting Practices teach that Negative Expenses + Static Income = Profit.
Good point, but *every* game is almost always derivative of another game. The resemblence between rounders and the modern game of baseball is scant at best.
Hell, the native Americans played a mean game of Basketball, the American sport "invented" by a Canadian.
Apparently, you have alot of time on your hands, since you're so handy in correcting everyone else. Unfortunately you're lacking in intelligence when it comes to correcting me on any other point than spelling (which is lame as shit to begin with).
Anthropology. Of or being a major human racial classification traditionally distinguished by physical characteristics such as yellowish-brown skin pigmentation, straight black hair, dark eyes with pronounced epicanthic folds, and prominent cheekbones and including peoples indigenous to central and eastern Asia. Not in scientific use. See Usage Note at race1.
Characteristic of or resembling a Mongol.
also mongoloidOffensive. Of or relating to Down syndrome.
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Anthropology. A member of the Mongoloid racial classification. Not in scientific use.
also mongoloidOffensive. A person affected with Down syndrome.
Once upon a time, baseball (among other competitive endeavours) was only played in America. Ergo, if all the baseball teams in the world are in America (and Canada), then it's perfectly fair to call a competition between any of these teams "world series". Since then, some things have changed. If you've got a problem with that, then instead of crying about it, why don't you solicit MLB to allow japanese teams to come get their ass kicked by the Yank..er..Diamond Backs.
How do you know the Chinese didn't start raping, pillaging, and plundering? You think they launched a fleet of warships each loaded with a crew of 500 men armed with what....metal detectors and hula shirts - to find new treasures? The historical record (and this is nothing new folks, this anthropologist is just grabbing headlines) shows that the sailing fleets maintained by early dynasties were merchant marine fighting vessels. Commerce back then was done mostly at the tip of a sword. Ancient Tibetan history is filled with stories of Chinese Imperialism (ironically inspired by even earlier Tibetan imperialism - a rather alien concept nowadays).
Dynasties aren't built on neighborlyness and good intentions, they're built on bloodbaths and plunder. Try being a realist instead of a leftist for a change.
There's apparently alot that's new to you if you think the Chinese in any way contributed to early mesoamerican races. For starters, "China" and the "Chinese" did not exist when mongoloid (proper usage) nomads crossed the bearing striats. Moreover, "Mexico" and the "Mexicans" are a race borne of breeding between Spanish, Dutch, French, and native races. The thousands of years between effectively make the native american a different race from the mongoloid (again, proper usage) races which descended into china and south east asia. Following your logic, the Australian aboriginals ought to be a lot lighter in skin, right?
In any event, no single person discovered America. Columbus never even set foot here, he merely gets credit for the european discovery of the new world (if we ignore Leif Ericsson). South Pacific Islanders demonstrated vast reach for thousands of years, and anthropological evidence supports that global sea trade existed long before any current civilization.
You know, outside of our own narrow world, not all the lexical phraseaology we are accustomed to carrys the same meaning. In short, he doesn't mean Open Source in the GNU sense you fracking idgits. OSINT in this case refers to non-standard methods of intelligence gathering. Traditional electronic intelligence and human intelligence methods would remain a foundation, but not the exclusive domain of intelligence gathering. Are any of you reading the article before posting your inane rants?
You can all unwad your panties and stop tripping already.
It's total bullshit. In Texas, the only time you can carry a gun is with a Concealed Carry Permit - and then it's concealed. There's no provision for open carry like in North Carolina or Arizona (to name a few).
Regardless, if the little crook was gonna gack him, it would'nt matter what state he was in. Criminals don't give a rats ass about laws.
Overture is formerly known as GoTo (goto.com). They service MSN, AOL, AltaVista, Lycos, Netscape, and Infospace. On checking my server logs (because at where I work, my boss expects me to waste his money on this service) I also see hits from Ask.com, DirectHit.com, Verizon, Excite, Hotbot, Metacrawler, NBCI, Earthlink, I-Won, Alltheweb, and Mamma, so if you want to block half the Internet knock yourself out. Otherwise, get a grip.
The comparison was with Linux running on 64-bit processors in general (including Intel) as opposed to a WinTel Machine (Windows on Intel x86-64). I don't think my wording is that awkward, is it?
What looks less professional: Leaving a submitted quote intact in keeping with journalistic integrity and accepted writing styles, or your making an off topic post calling 6'2", 250 lbs of US Army whoopass a "14 year old girl".
Try to loosen up and have a bit of a sense of humor will ya.
And don't worry, I'm still giddy about my first user submission to be accepted by slashdot so I won't hunt you down and put pink ribbons in your hair.
And to think I "groused" in the recent katz thread about not having my posts accepted .
As I understand it, Itanium and XP-64 will be able to run Win32 aps, but it will actually be more slowly than the same 64 bit apps, or the same 32 bit apps on a 32 bit processor (I'm sure I've got that bass ackwards, but who cares).
Honestly, IMHO it seems that hybrid or "bridge" products meant to serve as vaseline for new technologies (allowing you to ease into it : ) usually wind up delaying the newer technologies and adding cost to the eventual transition. Apple did'nt write OS-X up to handle MacOS 9.1 apps, and in less than a year they've caught up with core products to an enthusiastic response from Mac users everywhere.
...getting front page press play for his mindnumbing grasp of the obvious, whilst all the highly interesting and insightful crap I submit gets shot down in due deliberate fashion? I mean, I could accept that the moderators did'nt think my stuff amounted to hill of dried lima beans, or shot it down because I was the fifth of 2,000/.'ers to submit it, but it pains me deeply to know that a stunning idjit like Katz gets on the front page for simply vocalizing what any 10 year old knows to be true, or worse, what we all know to be crap.
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Your research time was apparently wasted, and honestly your assessments aren't likely based on anything other than your personal skewing of events.
We were *actively* engaged in warfighting when those bombs were dropped. Moreover, we were on the verge of having an invasion, and the Japanese knew it. If you honestly think for one second that the Japanese wouldn't have fought down to the last man, you don't know jack shit about Japanese culture during the Imperial period. Moreover, you ignore the obvious tactic of the Japanese in feigning peace as a stalling tactic.
At no point was an invasion of Britain a possibility. As an island nation, Britain have had no invasions in 1000 years.
Brrrt, the Norman invasion lasted until 1087, so you're at least 85 years off. Moreover, the Blitz heavily damaged the UK's infrastructure, and if not for the US entry into the war - and this is in Churchill's own words - the Gerry's surely would've marched into the far corners of England.
Whose troops were the first into Afghanistan, clearing the way for our American 'friends'?
Uhm...nobody. The last time the Brits went into Afghanistan alone, one man made it out alive. The first allied troops on the ground were US Special Forces - aka Seals, Ranger, and Delta.
Ought to make that 82 months - The G-dub is seeing numbers even the great Ronaldus Magnus could'nt pull, and with the prospect of an all Republican congress (provided the democrats keep screwing up and the media keeps noticing it) the next 7 years ought to be pure Bushness.
I may be ignorant as you say, but at least I don't claim to be able to tell what the history of these past 50 years would have been without nuclear weapons
No, but you pretend to know what the future brings if the US simply upgrades its nuclear stockpile. You'll sit there and preach all sorts of doom and gloom over what has in fact been going on for years without any ill effects. On the other hand, the advantage of hindsight is that we can know for a fact, from the very mouths of Soviet politbureau members and missile commanders that if not for the threat of the NATO nuclear umbrella of ICBM's and long range bombers, they would've unleased conventional warfare acrossed Europe.
The Bush administration has increased the military budgets in huge proportions,
Our military spending is less of a percentage of GNP than most other countries on the Earth, and these "huge proportions" you shreik over represent 1% growth - Growth that is only now occuring the in the face of a global threat of terror from rogue threats - growth that is only necessary because of the last decade of gutting the military has endured at the same time as an increase operational tempo has strained it to the limits fighting low intensity conflicts in such god-forsaken places as Bosnia, Kosovo, Somalia, and others.
has withdrawn from the ABM treaty
There is the fallacy - that a treaty even exists any longer. The ABM was an agreement between us and the Soviet Union. News flash bucko, the Soviet Union no longer exists. The ABM treaty was a farce, and if anything was more dangerous in that it forced both countries to NOT develop defensive systems against ICBM's. The only reason the USSR pushed for an ABM is because we were light years beyond them in developing such systems, and they were already straining under the economics of maintaining their Imperialist military-industrial complex.
and is now threatening the Non-Proliferation Treaty
Anybody who thinks that upgrading the nuclear weapons we already have is somehow threatening non-proliferation quite frankly needs to switch to decaf, and grab a dictionary to find out what "proliferation" means. Meanwhile, we have china and russia selling nuclear missile technology to India, Pakistan, Iran, Syria, and Libya. At best, your efforts are misplaced and at worst they are aimed at empowering third world thugs who can already build the equivalent of a 1960's nuclear arsenal while hiding in 20th century protective bunkers.
According to some historians, it seems that the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki could have been easily avoided as Japan was ready to surrender. It was not an unconditional surrender though. A detail that cost the lives of over 200'000 civilians.
When you don't revise history to support your leftist views, one thing becomes blatently obvious: The japenese made overtures of surrender and peace as a prelude to offensives. They never had any intention of surrendering. Dropping the bombs on those two cities was a painstaking decision done the maximize damage to industrial warfighting capacity while minimizing damage to centers japanese cultural heritage. The best figures of the time show that far more than 200,000 people would have died if a land invasion became necessary - that many people would've committed suicide.
In the perspective of history, one lesson that has to be learned is that you don't make peace without victory. After raping and murdering millions throughout asia, japan deserved nothing more than unconditional surrender.
Even then, I'd be more worried about the dispersion of radioisotopes and the lead that would be kicked up.
I'm just highly amused by the lack of education and paranoi surrounding nuclear issues. But then, I was amused when my neice made me stay with her the entire night because of the boogeyman in her closet.
Times like this, anonymous coward is quite a good label - almost as good as "ignorant shill".
George is doing a fine job of adhering to all treaties made by this county for which the other party still exists (in case you haven't noticed, the Soviet Union no longer exists).
Increasing our nuclear stockpile? If you cared to actually read something, you'd realize that the development of new nuclear weapons requires that we deactivate other nuclear weapons, and since we already replenish stockpiles of aging weapons periodically, there is no increase. We are still bound to SALT and SALT II.
If it were only 6 feet of concrete, it wouldn't be a bunker it'd be a typical building. Hardened bunkers designed to guard against most conventional and some nuclear attacks can have as much as 40 feet of steel reinforced concrete.
As for fragility, the engineers who design these things make robust survivability as important as overall yield. Your average warhead can be dropped from space onto the parking lot in front of my house and not detonate. The trick is getting enough of the concrete out of the way that it detonates in the bunker and contains most of the blast.
You're about an idiot. I have no idea why I'm compelled to respond to you, but its probably because you epitomize the stupidity of the left leaning little dweebs who frequent Internet bulletin boards like this spewing ignorance in between their field trips to the bathroom to see if they've got nuthair 1 growing in yet.
US defense budget has been raised by an insane amount of money
The "insane amount of money" you refer to is the typical catching up that has to be done with a Democratic administration guts the military. Military growth during the Clinton administration was at just about 1% while other government programs were grown at rates of up to 8 to 9%. The thing is, federal spending for midnight basketball doesn't do jack shit to defend this country from Tin-Pot dictators in the middle east who are trying to develop nukes he can lob in our direction, or even the lesser but obviously real threat of a small group of jihaddies crashing planes into buildings.
privacy and freedom of speech invading laws have been rubberstamped
Reeeaaally...and perhaps you can show me how our free speech has been "invaded". Last time I checked, I was free to walk around my apartment naked, and stand on the street corner and badmouth any politician I want.
OH WAIT, I forgot about campaign finance reform. I'm not allowed to say anything bad about a politician for 60 days before an election. And that had nothing to do with 9/11.
and now there's talk about developing and actually using new nuclear weapons
Here's a brainfart for you: We are ALWAYS developing new nuclear weapons. Since 78 we have upgraded our stockpiles constistantly with newer designs which are safer to store and transport. As for using them, well this is where you have to actually get a clue about the real world: The genie is out of the bottle and in as much as you have uppity little neo-nazi dictators ringing asia and the middle east who have no qualms about using them, then you need to be willing and have the guts to use them. Bear in mind we are the only country to have ever used nukes in combat, and since then we have been the only country with them to not threaten to use them.
Finally, try getting some facts. The number of Agfhans who have dies is still less than the number of Americans who died, and unlike the terrorists the overwhelming majority of the people who die by the hands of the American military were pointing guns back. "tens of thousands" of Afghans represent a sizeable portion of their population: We'd have to wipe out half of Kabul to get that kind of number.
Clinton was not impeached.
Uhm, hello...Clinton was impeached, he simply wasn't removed from office. Remind me to thank those Senators who lacked the testicular fortitude to do their constitutionally mandated duty.
Your fear is a result of your ignorance.
Making "plans" for using nuclear weapons has been an everyday part of having nuclear weapons for every country since the 40's. Making plans to do something is a long way away from actually doing it. But having the weapon and the ability to use it is what has kept this planet safe and stable for 50 years.
And none of any of this has anything to do with Bush; it has been standard practice in every previous administration.
If you are honestly worried about nuclear war, you need to worry about India and Pakistan going at it. You need to worry about how Russia and China are selling nuclear technology. You need to worry about how Saddam Hussein - a man lacking in compunction who has already used chemical weapons against his own people and against his neighbors - is currently working to acquire a nuclear weapon that can be mounted on their modified SCUD launchers.
Any explosion (nuclear or otherwise) attempts to distribute energy in all directions equally. Any restrictions such as, you know, THE GROUND will direct the explosion. That directing ability is only as good as the ability of the directing device to withstand the initial shock and contain the energy.
Linux - Created by Linus Torvalds who wanted a Unix style operating system without the heavy expense and licensing costs for Unix.
Accepted Accounting Practices teach that Negative Expenses + Static Income = Profit.
Good point, but *every* game is almost always derivative of another game. The resemblence between rounders and the modern game of baseball is scant at best.
Hell, the native Americans played a mean game of Basketball, the American sport "invented" by a Canadian.
From the dictionary, we get the following:
Mongoloid Pronunciation Key (mngg-loid, mn-)
adj.
straight black hair, dark eyes with pronounced epicanthic folds, and prominent cheekbones and including peoples indigenous to central and eastern Asia. Not in scientific use. See Usage Note at race1.
n.
Additionally, it is the "Bering Strait".
Now, would you like change for your $0.02?
Dear whiner,
Once upon a time, baseball (among other competitive endeavours) was only played in America. Ergo, if all the baseball teams in the world are in America (and Canada), then it's perfectly fair to call a competition between any of these teams "world series". Since then, some things have changed. If you've got a problem with that, then instead of crying about it, why don't you solicit MLB to allow japanese teams to come get their ass kicked by the Yank..er..Diamond Backs.
Now...go eat some lead paint chips or something.
How do you know the Chinese didn't start raping, pillaging, and plundering? You think they launched a fleet of warships each loaded with a crew of 500 men armed with what....metal detectors and hula shirts - to find new treasures? The historical record (and this is nothing new folks, this anthropologist is just grabbing headlines) shows that the sailing fleets maintained by early dynasties were merchant marine fighting vessels. Commerce back then was done mostly at the tip of a sword. Ancient Tibetan history is filled with stories of Chinese Imperialism (ironically inspired by even earlier Tibetan imperialism - a rather alien concept nowadays).
Dynasties aren't built on neighborlyness and good intentions, they're built on bloodbaths and plunder. Try being a realist instead of a leftist for a change.
There's apparently alot that's new to you if you think the Chinese in any way contributed to early mesoamerican races. For starters, "China" and the "Chinese" did not exist when mongoloid (proper usage) nomads crossed the bearing striats. Moreover, "Mexico" and the "Mexicans" are a race borne of breeding between Spanish, Dutch, French, and native races. The thousands of years between effectively make the native american a different race from the mongoloid (again, proper usage) races which descended into china and south east asia. Following your logic, the Australian aboriginals ought to be a lot lighter in skin, right?
In any event, no single person discovered America. Columbus never even set foot here, he merely gets credit for the european discovery of the new world (if we ignore Leif Ericsson). South Pacific Islanders demonstrated vast reach for thousands of years, and anthropological evidence supports that global sea trade existed long before any current civilization.
You know, outside of our own narrow world, not all the lexical phraseaology we are accustomed to carrys the same meaning. In short, he doesn't mean Open Source in the GNU sense you fracking idgits. OSINT in this case refers to non-standard methods of intelligence gathering. Traditional electronic intelligence and human intelligence methods would remain a foundation, but not the exclusive domain of intelligence gathering. Are any of you reading the article before posting your inane rants?
You can all unwad your panties and stop tripping already.
It's total bullshit. In Texas, the only time you can carry a gun is with a Concealed Carry Permit - and then it's concealed. There's no provision for open carry like in North Carolina or Arizona (to name a few).
Regardless, if the little crook was gonna gack him, it would'nt matter what state he was in. Criminals don't give a rats ass about laws.
Overture is formerly known as GoTo (goto.com). They service MSN, AOL, AltaVista, Lycos, Netscape, and Infospace. On checking my server logs (because at where I work, my boss expects me to waste his money on this service) I also see hits from Ask.com, DirectHit.com, Verizon, Excite, Hotbot, Metacrawler, NBCI, Earthlink, I-Won, Alltheweb, and Mamma, so if you want to block half the Internet knock yourself out. Otherwise, get a grip.
Nah man, that was my lame garbage. I think when it's the mod's lame garbage, it's in normal text as opposed to my italicized lame garbage.
The comparison was with Linux running on 64-bit processors in general (including Intel) as opposed to a WinTel Machine (Windows on Intel x86-64). I don't think my wording is that awkward, is it?
What looks less professional: Leaving a submitted quote intact in keeping with journalistic integrity and accepted writing styles, or your making an off topic post calling 6'2", 250 lbs of US Army whoopass a "14 year old girl".
Try to loosen up and have a bit of a sense of humor will ya.
And don't worry, I'm still giddy about my first user submission to be accepted by slashdot so I won't hunt you down and put pink ribbons in your hair.
And to think I "groused" in the recent katz thread about not having my posts accepted .
As I understand it, Itanium and XP-64 will be able to run Win32 aps, but it will actually be more slowly than the same 64 bit apps, or the same 32 bit apps on a 32 bit processor (I'm sure I've got that bass ackwards, but who cares).
Honestly, IMHO it seems that hybrid or "bridge" products meant to serve as vaseline for new technologies (allowing you to ease into it : ) usually wind up delaying the newer technologies and adding cost to the eventual transition. Apple did'nt write OS-X up to handle MacOS 9.1 apps, and in less than a year they've caught up with core products to an enthusiastic response from Mac users everywhere.
...getting front page press play for his mindnumbing grasp of the obvious, whilst all the highly interesting and insightful crap I submit gets shot down in due deliberate fashion? I mean, I could accept that the moderators did'nt think my stuff amounted to hill of dried lima beans, or shot it down because I was the fifth of 2,000 /.'ers to submit it, but it pains me deeply to know that a stunning idjit like Katz gets on the front page for simply vocalizing what any 10 year old knows to be true, or worse, what we all know to be crap.