If the US was to use its position to aid peace and democracy then most of the countries that you think 'hate' America would soon start to respect the US. It would not involve 'caving' in to anyone, just advocating equality regardless of creed or colour etc.
As for Iraq, the resolution had already been achieved. Iraq had been effectively disarmed and posed no threat to its neighbours or its people. If the US had been true to its word and had helped when the Iraqi people tried to rebel, the US would have been a welcome ally. The US and Britain had no legitimate right to invade a sovereign country yet they did and it could have been seen as a good thing if it had been properly though out and had been for the right reasons. The main trouble is that there were so many lies and most people can see that it was an invasion for the oil. They are to be made to pay with oil for the Americans to repair the damage that the Americans and the British caused unecessarily. The war has made a terrible country worse.
It would have been far better to sort out Afghanistan first. That country is a mess and still lawless. Most objective people see that Iraq is headed in the same direction and that the west only cares about the oil.
If the west had put its effort into solving Afghanistan by the time we got to Iraq the UN would have solved the issue. Now we have 2 states of complete chaos when at least Iraq had law and order under Saddam.
Well, you _can_ win by just dropping bombs, but the price is pretty horrific.
That depends on your definition of 'win'. The Vietnamese would not see the US as winners, nor would Laos, Cambodia, Korea, Afghanistan and the jury is still out in Iraq but I doubt the US can win that one either. Killing lots of people is, more often, likely to lose the war. The only way to win is to earn the popular support of the people and that is something that the US has yet to learn how to do. Ghandi did it without an army and he beat the British when they were the strongest force on the planet.
SuSE offer support to those in the UK (and elsewhere) that want it. It is just more FUD that you do not get support with Linux, it is just an option to save your cash and not buy it if you do not want it.
Japanese sports cars a small and have little engines because Japanese men are small and have little engines. European sports cars... well, have you seen the size of those Germans? They need bigger cars with large engines and lots of torque to shift that amount of lard down the autobahn.
The word 'Craft' is an English word with a known meaning. It is absurd to think that it cannot appear anywhere else in the gaming world and for that reason this is a US only debate. In the rest of the world there would not be any debate as there would be nothing to discuss.
This is not about protecting a trademark, it is about bullying poor competitors using stupid laws. It is yet another example of why the US no longer has a free market.
How is all this new to GWII ? 'Free trade' has always been just spin just like 'Democracy'. It is a drum that politicians beat to get support but never give a second thought to outside their speeches. Politicians are really no different the world over. China may play a different tune but really they are no worse.
Does anyone know why Japan is always so far ahead of the rest of the world in technology??
How is such an innocuous comment knocked down as flamebait? Which moron is so insecure that they feel threatened by a simple question like this? I admire Japan for their techology and do not see how a question about 'why the situation has arisen' is flamebait. Racist responses would be flamebait but a serious discusion about how the situation arose would be relative to the topic.
Japan has taken a lead (I think they are about to lose it) in the technology markets. They used to provide cheap labour (not any more) and they work hard (something we are no longer able to do in the west. They have earned our respect.
And I suppose you are one of those numbties that says "guns don't kill people".
I always thought that TV was benign until I studied child phsycology. Someone like yourself, with an arguement populated with sound bytes, is probably a product of a TV childhood. It is a problem that is getting worse yet for the politicians it makes the populace more pliable.
Parents now sit their children in front of a TV rather than look after them. The children grow up without true interaction. They grow into disfunctional adults. They have not learnt to debate or rationalise and reply to any discusion with an appropriate sound byte rather than a rational and considered arguement. They have not learnt to be rational or to consider an arguement. They cannot formulate theories or change those theories based on new information.
Sound bytes like "guns don't kill people" are typical retorts but show a lack of deep or true understanding of the problems that guns pose, regardless of whether you are in favour or opposed to guns.
I find it ironic that at work I have to use XP Office and am fed up with the way it crashes and has so much crap that I find it hard to do simple things,and now I come home to OO and am happy to use a better product. 5 years ago Office 97 was a better product to Star Office but that is no longer the case. I used to feel like a Linux looney but now several collegues have taken the plunge and gone for alternatives (some choose OS X, some Linux) but all leave MS because it is getting worse rather than because the alternatives are getting better (even though they are). One of my friends has literally gone back to Office 97.
I often ask at work, "if we must use MS can I go back to Office97?". I do find that as MS add more crap (functionality) the product becomes less usable. If I actually needed some of it I may feel that it was worth it but I do not.
Education has changed a lot recently and is now more like training to pass exams. I agree with your point but it is simplified. If you want to pass an exam you cram and remember enough points long enough to pass the exam. The next month you have forgotten the lot. That is called surface learning. Modern education is modularised and best suited to surface learning. I do not think that this is real education. Distance learning (what we are talking about) is extremely modularised and nearly always the most surface you can get.
Decades ago students would spend their time in small groups discussing the subject and taking time to really understand and learn what they were doing. They would have exams at the end of the year instead of at the end of the module and this would test their actual knowledge of the subject rather than their short term retention. Small groups should be of about 4. Smaller groups do not offer enough interaction and larger groups tend to split into leaders and those hiding in the shadows. If I really get going I will rant about "Student focused learning" which is where all this gets really stupid. The lecturer does not take any real responsibility for teaching/lecturing but just points the student in the direction of which section of the library to find the relevant books. I used to teach at college and they went modular/student focused, I spent 5 years teaching at a university and they went modular/student focused... now I am a Training Officer in the commercial sector and they do not care about education as long as they get their ISO9002 by saying they are committed to training... I think I will become a window cleaner next (if I can get some training:)
There seems to be an assumption that false plates are stolen... This happens in films but in real life you just make a new set of stick on plates that cover the real ones. The number is taken from another car of the same make and model and the real owner can scream and shout but still has to pay the fine.
Sticky back plastic and black numbers is all you need and they are both easy to get and very cheap. If you wish to keep driving the stolen car (or just avoid paying the fines in your own car) you can get a new set of plates made quite easily. Most accesory shops that make plates do not ask for that much proof of ID that you cannot get from a dustbin (utility bill etc.)
There have been cases of people that got off because they were not in the country but they are the lucky ones. Most people cannot prove they were not driving their car 4 weeks ago.
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I do stand corrected but also stand by my point :)
If the US was to use its position to aid peace and democracy then most of the countries that you think 'hate' America would soon start to respect the US. It would not involve 'caving' in to anyone, just advocating equality regardless of creed or colour etc.
As for Iraq, the resolution had already been achieved. Iraq had been effectively disarmed and posed no threat to its neighbours or its people. If the US had been true to its word and had helped when the Iraqi people tried to rebel, the US would have been a welcome ally. The US and Britain had no legitimate right to invade a sovereign country yet they did and it could have been seen as a good thing if it had been properly though out and had been for the right reasons. The main trouble is that there were so many lies and most people can see that it was an invasion for the oil. They are to be made to pay with oil for the Americans to repair the damage that the Americans and the British caused unecessarily. The war has made a terrible country worse.
It would have been far better to sort out Afghanistan first. That country is a mess and still lawless. Most objective people see that Iraq is headed in the same direction and that the west only cares about the oil.
If the west had put its effort into solving Afghanistan by the time we got to Iraq the UN would have solved the issue. Now we have 2 states of complete chaos when at least Iraq had law and order under Saddam.
Well, you _can_ win by just dropping bombs, but the price is pretty horrific.
That depends on your definition of 'win'. The Vietnamese would not see the US as winners, nor would Laos, Cambodia, Korea, Afghanistan and the jury is still out in Iraq but I doubt the US can win that one either. Killing lots of people is, more often, likely to lose the war. The only way to win is to earn the popular support of the people and that is something that the US has yet to learn how to do. Ghandi did it without an army and he beat the British when they were the strongest force on the planet.
I thought it was humour...
SuSE offer support to those in the UK (and elsewhere) that want it. It is just more FUD that you do not get support with Linux, it is just an option to save your cash and not buy it if you do not want it.
Do you want to:
...
[ ]Contact Microsoft Support?
Microsoft Support already contacted me, they sent me a virus
Total and complete bullshit!
Japanese sports cars a small and have little engines because Japanese men are small and have little engines. European sports cars... well, have you seen the size of those Germans? They need bigger cars with large engines and lots of torque to shift that amount of lard down the autobahn.
It is not computers that break the DMCA, it is people that break the DMCA !!!
So kill people !!!
The word 'Craft' is an English word with a known meaning. It is absurd to think that it cannot appear anywhere else in the gaming world and for that reason this is a US only debate. In the rest of the world there would not be any debate as there would be nothing to discuss.
This is not about protecting a trademark, it is about bullying poor competitors using stupid laws. It is yet another example of why the US no longer has a free market.
This is a day that I had given up on. I have almost completed NWN with it being the only reason for my Windows partition.
How is all this new to GWII ? 'Free trade' has always been just spin just like 'Democracy'. It is a drum that politicians beat to get support but never give a second thought to outside their speeches. Politicians are really no different the world over. China may play a different tune but really they are no worse.
That must have been hard to sort out... :)
Does anyone know why Japan is always so far ahead of the rest of the world in technology??
How is such an innocuous comment knocked down as flamebait? Which moron is so insecure that they feel threatened by a simple question like this? I admire Japan for their techology and do not see how a question about 'why the situation has arisen' is flamebait. Racist responses would be flamebait but a serious discusion about how the situation arose would be relative to the topic.
Japan has taken a lead (I think they are about to lose it) in the technology markets. They used to provide cheap labour (not any more) and they work hard (something we are no longer able to do in the west. They have earned our respect.
And I suppose you are one of those numbties that says "guns don't kill people".
I always thought that TV was benign until I studied child phsycology. Someone like yourself, with an arguement populated with sound bytes, is probably a product of a TV childhood. It is a problem that is getting worse yet for the politicians it makes the populace more pliable.
Parents now sit their children in front of a TV rather than look after them. The children grow up without true interaction. They grow into disfunctional adults. They have not learnt to debate or rationalise and reply to any discusion with an appropriate sound byte rather than a rational and considered arguement. They have not learnt to be rational or to consider an arguement. They cannot formulate theories or change those theories based on new information.
Sound bytes like "guns don't kill people" are typical retorts but show a lack of deep or true understanding of the problems that guns pose, regardless of whether you are in favour or opposed to guns.
I find it ironic that at work I have to use XP Office and am fed up with the way it crashes and has so much crap that I find it hard to do simple things,and now I come home to OO and am happy to use a better product. 5 years ago Office 97 was a better product to Star Office but that is no longer the case. I used to feel like a Linux looney but now several collegues have taken the plunge and gone for alternatives (some choose OS X, some Linux) but all leave MS because it is getting worse rather than because the alternatives are getting better (even though they are). One of my friends has literally gone back to Office 97.
I often ask at work, "if we must use MS can I go back to Office97?". I do find that as MS add more crap (functionality) the product becomes less usable. If I actually needed some of it I may feel that it was worth it but I do not.
So that I can sell it at a profit?
Swim across here and get it :p
It will never catch on.
do a better job of persuading customers
Maybe they should forget the spin and actually work on producing a stable, reliable and secure product that persuaded people by example.
Oh, sorry, I forgot... it is far cheaper to just lie than to actually produce the goods.
Education has changed a lot recently and is now more like training to pass exams. I agree with your point but it is simplified. If you want to pass an exam you cram and remember enough points long enough to pass the exam. The next month you have forgotten the lot. That is called surface learning. Modern education is modularised and best suited to surface learning. I do not think that this is real education. Distance learning (what we are talking about) is extremely modularised and nearly always the most surface you can get.
:)
Decades ago students would spend their time in small groups discussing the subject and taking time to really understand and learn what they were doing. They would have exams at the end of the year instead of at the end of the module and this would test their actual knowledge of the subject rather than their short term retention. Small groups should be of about 4. Smaller groups do not offer enough interaction and larger groups tend to split into leaders and those hiding in the shadows.
If I really get going I will rant about "Student focused learning" which is where all this gets really stupid. The lecturer does not take any real responsibility for teaching/lecturing but just points the student in the direction of which section of the library to find the relevant books.
I used to teach at college and they went modular/student focused, I spent 5 years teaching at a university and they went modular/student focused... now I am a Training Officer in the commercial sector and they do not care about education as long as they get their ISO9002 by saying they are committed to training... I think I will become a window cleaner next (if I can get some training
at least trying..
very trying...
I think they should put the effort into finishing the development before they release the product instead so that the patches were less relevant.
America getting a right to privacy is about as likely as the UK getting the right to shoot school friends.
Why not just send GBII an anonymous letter saying that all Spammers are really agents of Al Qaeda and wait for the war?
Damb them anyway.
There seems to be an assumption that false plates are stolen... This happens in films but in real life you just make a new set of stick on plates that cover the real ones. The number is taken from another car of the same make and model and the real owner can scream and shout but still has to pay the fine.
Sticky back plastic and black numbers is all you need and they are both easy to get and very cheap. If you wish to keep driving the stolen car (or just avoid paying the fines in your own car) you can get a new set of plates made quite easily. Most accesory shops that make plates do not ask for that much proof of ID that you cannot get from a dustbin (utility bill etc.)
There have been cases of people that got off because they were not in the country but they are the lucky ones. Most people cannot prove they were not driving their car 4 weeks ago.