I dont think there is a any kind of interaction between the secularity of a state and its ability to fight armed threats against it.
Spain, a conservative governed country (and when we talk about spanish conservatives, my friend, barring the italians or swedish whom are worse, we are talking about the jewish mothers of ALL christian conservatives), could not keep its ass in Irak and could not defend themselves of the attacks in their subway. THis is a country that recently still enforced catholic education in public schools and to this day it still tolerates it.
Same happened in the more "liberal" britain.
Same happened the the united states, which, believe me, to the world, has always been a very weird place religion wise because their conservatives are honcho fucked up crazy and their liberals, althought they look moderate from the outside, in a closer look, are batshit nuts as well.
Slim was rich before he bought telmex. Around 100 times poorer than he is now, but Im sure you or I could be 100 times poorer than him and still live happy and full lives for us and our descendants (we would own round 500 million bucks!). Slim bought telmex though from President Carlos Salinas (from his government, it was a state owned telephone company which sucked even more than it does now and BOY, does it SUCK NOW), for if I remember correctly round 2000 million dollars, on credit. Which is in its face ridiculous if its the local telephone monopoly of a country of a 100 million people.... and you can see it in the numbers. Telmex sold that ammount every year or two I think, even in its early stages. Right now, Slims empire is MUCH larger than that since they own the cellphone market in many, many latam countries.
Here in Mexico EVERYONE know that its MOST probable that Salinas, the expresident, had his cut from that deal. But we also know that Slim generally has a simple profit minded stance on just about anything. At least he is not crying because gay marriage was aproved for mexico city like other conservative rich men here, at least he gives to the politicall parties and politicians only with profit in mind and not because of an ideological agenda. Belive me, entrepreneurs in Mexico are every bit as crooked when it comes to giving or taking from the government AND they tend to have a moralist agenda. Slim doesnt do that and, for that, at least I am gratefull at least until we finish fixing this fucking country for good.
Dont worry. The Fermi works very well and will continue to work
However, I cant see why would you deem "secure" a work envirnoment that subjects you to gigantic and powerful electromagnetic fields plus you are confined quite in the same location as some really interesting radioactive material.
For a physic, barring actual spacewalking, its about as hardcore as it gets.
Yes, I agree with this depiction of the state of things over there.
However, this does not necesarily means it "doesnt work". Democracy is noisy.
You can look at the US and how the repug strategy is going and they do exactly as you have described in the states and municipalities: pin the bad things on the obama-communist-islamist regime that is runnning the federal government.
It follows that where modern democracy is being practiced, there is a large mass of gullible idiots that parties fight to "represent" in some way or another and that means shouting a lot.
If there are shouts, people dispute power all the time and things are being done, then yes, its working.
If its all quiet, nobody disputes power and things are being done, you live in an autocracy.
If its all noisy and nothing is being done, you live in anarchy or close to it.
'Furthermore, it reinforces that customers are embracing Microsoft's long-stated strategy of software plus services, which combines rich client software with cloud services.'"
Ok, that doesnt look well. Let me correct it:
'Furthermore, it reinforces that customers are embracing Microsoft's long-dead strategy of software plus services, which combines rich client software with cloud services.'"
I know parents that smoke mj with their, say, 12 year old kids around: who am I to tell them what to teach their kids?
I have beers close to my nephews and would take it as an offense if say, a christian or jehova's witness came and told me that was wrong for them. Im a catholic, i cherish a good drink, its part of my culture.
So there, perfectly good reasons to agree with you.
Thats not what I read. I read: I-O "Data released one of the industry's first Windows 7 API-based sensors"
Not "uses to communicate", but BASED on the winapi. Which would make it a windows device, which would be plain stupid for a sensor since you can get an api and OS for free to do that AND STILL communicate perfectly with windows or anything else for that matter with the added value of, say, having a 20 year old OS on your little thingie instead of the latest and "greatest" thing that came frm redmond and is not older than three years.
Prohibiting things that are not proven dangerous is plain stupid. Why would you want kids in venezuela to go out, if its one of the countries with the most terrible urban security problems in all of latin america?
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I dont think there is a any kind of interaction between the secularity of a state and its ability to fight armed threats against it.
Spain, a conservative governed country (and when we talk about spanish conservatives, my friend, barring the italians or swedish whom are worse, we are talking about the jewish mothers of ALL christian conservatives), could not keep its ass in Irak and could not defend themselves of the attacks in their subway. THis is a country that recently still enforced catholic education in public schools and to this day it still tolerates it.
Same happened in the more "liberal" britain.
Same happened the the united states, which, believe me, to the world, has always been a very weird place religion wise because their conservatives are honcho fucked up crazy and their liberals, althought they look moderate from the outside, in a closer look, are batshit nuts as well.
"Fortunately college has a way of forcefully opening your mind, but I really feel for these kids up until that point."
not if you go to fartwell's "liberty" university!
Look here is the plain truth:
Slim was rich before he bought telmex. Around 100 times poorer than he is now, but Im sure you or I could be 100 times poorer than him and still live happy and full lives for us and our descendants (we would own round 500 million bucks!). Slim bought telmex though from President Carlos Salinas (from his government, it was a state owned telephone company which sucked even more than it does now and BOY, does it SUCK NOW), for if I remember correctly round 2000 million dollars, on credit. Which is in its face ridiculous if its the local telephone monopoly of a country of a 100 million people.... and you can see it in the numbers. Telmex sold that ammount every year or two I think, even in its early stages. Right now, Slims empire is MUCH larger than that since they own the cellphone market in many, many latam countries.
Here in Mexico EVERYONE know that its MOST probable that Salinas, the expresident, had his cut from that deal. But we also know that Slim generally has a simple profit minded stance on just about anything. At least he is not crying because gay marriage was aproved for mexico city like other conservative rich men here, at least he gives to the politicall parties and politicians only with profit in mind and not because of an ideological agenda. Belive me, entrepreneurs in Mexico are every bit as crooked when it comes to giving or taking from the government AND they tend to have a moralist agenda. Slim doesnt do that and, for that, at least I am gratefull at least until we finish fixing this fucking country for good.
Oh you know those nigerian investment management people? Mee too, gee, aint them great?
No you cant without paying me, the patent owner of the one-man-newsletter.
Now THATS what im talking about!
Nonsense! Drugs are NOT free in college and orgies are SELDOM obligatory.
I want my money back.
For an anonymous coward you have a disturbing abscence of sense of humor.
With this PTO, you probably can.
And here I thought I being mangnanimous with the PTO people and giving them the benefit of the doubt was the sound and decent thing to do.
Not any more.
They are stupid idiots.
Now who's gonna patent the wonderful idea that is 2 Click ?
Dont worry. The Fermi works very well and will continue to work
However, I cant see why would you deem "secure" a work envirnoment that subjects you to gigantic and powerful electromagnetic fields plus you are confined quite in the same location as some really interesting radioactive material.
For a physic, barring actual spacewalking, its about as hardcore as it gets.
The higgs bosson has learned to play our media.
It sure is smarter than some presidents.
Yes, I agree with this depiction of the state of things over there.
However, this does not necesarily means it "doesnt work". Democracy is noisy.
You can look at the US and how the repug strategy is going and they do exactly as you have described in the states and municipalities: pin the bad things on the obama-communist-islamist regime that is runnning the federal government.
It follows that where modern democracy is being practiced, there is a large mass of gullible idiots that parties fight to "represent" in some way or another and that means shouting a lot.
If there are shouts, people dispute power all the time and things are being done, then yes, its working.
If its all quiet, nobody disputes power and things are being done, you live in an autocracy.
If its all noisy and nothing is being done, you live in anarchy or close to it.
Europeans are complaining about the EU too much. I dont get it: democracy is working there and its working very well, as we can all see.
'Furthermore, it reinforces that customers are embracing Microsoft's long-stated strategy of software plus services, which combines rich client software with cloud services.'"
Ok, that doesnt look well. Let me correct it:
'Furthermore, it reinforces that customers are embracing Microsoft's long-dead strategy of software plus services, which combines rich client software with cloud services.'"
There.
Believe what you will. In fact, lets take it as truth and try to reason.
If violent games causes violent behaviour and that should be or is a good grounds to justify banning them, why stop there?
Lets prohibit violent movies, violent cartoons, violent news and violent speech.
We dont prohibit those and, im sure, you find a couple of reasons NOT to prohibit them.
So you see, my question to you is: why attempt to preempt violent behaviour in this odd way?
We punish violent behaviour, not POTENTIALLY violent behaviour.
Else we should also chemically castrate all male humans except those we can closely watch: that would prevent rape by men against women, you know?
Prevention of crime should not mean prohibiting behaviours that LEAD to crimes. It should mean EDUCATION.
I had it coming. I shall die alone and in shame.
whose children? What does "unsuitable" mean?
I know parents that smoke mj with their, say, 12 year old kids around: who am I to tell them what to teach their kids?
I have beers close to my nephews and would take it as an offense if say, a christian or jehova's witness came and told me that was wrong for them. Im a catholic, i cherish a good drink, its part of my culture.
So there, perfectly good reasons to agree with you.
Thats not what I read. I read: I-O "Data released one of the industry's first Windows 7 API-based sensors"
Not "uses to communicate", but BASED on the winapi. Which would make it a windows device, which would be plain stupid for a sensor since you can get an api and OS for free to do that AND STILL communicate perfectly with windows or anything else for that matter with the added value of, say, having a 20 year old OS on your little thingie instead of the latest and "greatest" thing that came frm redmond and is not older than three years.
I dont. I just hate any kind of prohibition that is not reasonably sound.
I repeat my question: Where are the free drugs and obligatory orgies?
Prohibiting things that are not proven dangerous is plain stupid. Why would you want kids in venezuela to go out, if its one of the countries with the most terrible urban security problems in all of latin america?
As a gamer talking to a parent I ask you: WHy in hell do you want ME to suffer for YOU to educate YOUR CHILD in whichever way YOU decide?
Do I violent gamer have a say in how you educate your children? Then why do you advocate in favor of people telling ME how to educate MINE?
"Thank god for the EU (I never thought i'd say those words)"
Why not? They invented freedom fries and all!
They are then twice as stupid: who would build a "windows 7 API - based sensor"? Thats just dumb.