In the case of terrorists, they are twisted by lack of proper education, and being indoctrinated in schools that interpret Islam in such a way that killing people seems like a good idea. They end up in these schools because they get fed there, and wouldn't eat otherwise, most of the time. (this was very well reported in an article by Ian Goldstein in the globe and mail, IIRC.)
That explanation might apply to Palestinian bombmen or Afghan mujahedins, but, if the media are right, Al-Qaeda men are of a different kind. The planes suspects and the fake journalists that bombed Massoud were educated, some with degrees, others students, they didn't live poorly unless as a disguise, they traveled and lived in Occident, they talked several languages yet they spent all that in one act of suicide.
I find it accurate that dictionary.com defines "jihad" as "crusade". Even if their theoretical definitions could be acceptable, their implementations meant death to masses of people.
Yet when Bush calls a "crusade" against terrorism, not everybody think of fanatical mass murder. Muslims do, though.
So I would recommend care when using these words under the current circumstances.
I think I read some cyberpunk piece where a character suffers because *ackers insert Brazilian (?) spam into his vision.
Maybe Neil Stephenson's Victorian book whose name I forgot, when the girl escapes her mother's house with her brother and they go along a porn district?
Many of you are saying that cash is anonymous. It may be more anonymous than Bill Gates' credit card but it is definitely traceable. Beware of the power of thousands of bored people connected to the Internet. Check Where's George. And that's without analyzing fingerprints, DNA, cocaine traces,...
Jakob Nielsen went to DemoMobile and he says "Last year, most start-ups based their systems on WAP phones, but virtually all presenters now see WAP as a doomed technology. Think of the hundreds of millions of dollars that could have been saved last year if the VCs had bothered running a WAP usability study."
Are you aware that in many areas a CHILD can purchase a THREE POUND baseball bat? There is NO purpose for such a heavy bat except for hitting things VERY hard. Now, I wouldn't interfere with people using a bat for sporting purposes, but they should be carefully regulated as well.
I was told that the sales of baseball bats in Scotland are very superior to the number of baseball players. Do you know some baeball team from Scotland?
but munitions last forever (mustard gas from WW-I is still occasionally found in Europe), and you accept the need to minimize that damage to the extent possible, or you don't.
And there's the risk of the munitions ending in a Yahoo Auction and a foreign judge causing lots of trouble. If svastikas and iron crosses were biodegradable, we'd be better.
Paperclip:
It seems that you are writing a letter. Do you want me to change it into a letter supporting Microsoft in the [ODBC: SQL Error in/pr/astroturf/currentsuits.asp , line 145] case?
[Yes] [Yes]
I didn't know that the Spanish ever went to Aztlan. As far as I know, it is a legendary place supposed to be somewhere in US California, maybe LA.
And if you mean Tenochtitlan, a city built on a lake, with canals and all that, it was built when the Aztecs arrived to the lake, somewhen in the XII or XIII century. Well after Plato. __
If you are still there, I remember that some very important medioeval Japanese novels were written by women in kana, because that's all they were taught. Are they published currently in kanji? Were they difficult to read? __
The problem is that information doesn't go away - much of what's been collected about people within the last few years is likely to be around for a lifetime.
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In the case of terrorists, they are twisted by lack of proper education, and being indoctrinated in schools that interpret Islam in such a way that killing people seems like a good idea. They end up in these schools because they get fed there, and wouldn't eat otherwise, most of the time. (this was very well reported in an article by Ian Goldstein in the globe and mail, IIRC.)
That explanation might apply to Palestinian bombmen or Afghan mujahedins, but, if the media are right, Al-Qaeda men are of a different kind. The planes suspects and the fake journalists that bombed Massoud were educated, some with degrees, others students, they didn't live poorly unless as a disguise, they traveled and lived in Occident, they talked several languages yet they spent all that in one act of suicide.
I find it accurate that dictionary.com defines "jihad" as "crusade". Even if their theoretical definitions could be acceptable, their implementations meant death to masses of people.
Yet when Bush calls a "crusade" against terrorism, not everybody think of fanatical mass murder. Muslims do, though.
So I would recommend care when using these words under the current circumstances.
I didn't read the book but I watched the TV show :)
Actually, I read the book but didn't remeber this part.
am I really missing anything by ignoring these teen divas and listening to Bethoven's 7th Symphony during my drive home?
As everybody who has viddied "A Clockwork Orange" knows, Ludwig Van brings you to serious acts of ultraviolence.
Why send a human into space when you can send a computer?
Because he is a senator?
I think I read some cyberpunk piece where a character suffers because *ackers insert Brazilian (?) spam into his vision.
Maybe Neil Stephenson's Victorian book whose name I forgot, when the girl escapes her mother's house with her brother and they go along a porn district?
Is this a reference to something?
Many of you are saying that cash is anonymous. It may be more anonymous than Bill Gates' credit card but it is definitely traceable. Beware of the power of thousands of bored people connected to the Internet. Check Where's George. And that's without analyzing fingerprints, DNA, cocaine traces,...
Jakob Nielsen went to DemoMobile and he says "Last year, most start-ups based their systems on WAP phones, but virtually all presenters now see WAP as a doomed technology. Think of the hundreds of millions of dollars that could have been saved last year if the VCs had bothered running a WAP usability study."
Previously we used to have to find someone with a radio while we were leaving the stadium,
Are your stadiums shielded against radio waves? Here people have been going to the stadium with a miniradio in their pockets for years.
Are you aware that in many areas a CHILD can purchase a THREE POUND baseball bat? There is NO purpose for such a heavy bat except for hitting things VERY hard. Now, I wouldn't interfere with people using a bat for sporting purposes, but they should be carefully regulated as well.
I was told that the sales of baseball bats in Scotland are very superior to the number of baseball players. Do you know some baeball team from Scotland?
They aren't actually suggesting that all of Britain's children be dropped in one spot to see how big a hole they'll make, are they?
Of course not, but some Mr. Swift has a plan for Irish children...
Could this technology be mounted on dirigibles?
Would they be better for the task?
but munitions last forever (mustard gas from WW-I is still occasionally found in Europe), and you accept the need to minimize that damage to the extent possible, or you don't.
And there's the risk of the munitions ending in a Yahoo Auction and a foreign judge causing lots of trouble. If svastikas and iron crosses were biodegradable, we'd be better.
anyone else thinking of alien nation here?
No, I amn't. I remember the film but I don't see the relation to this. Care to remind me?
it's just built using the same protocols and tools that the internet runs.
Do they have Slashsites?
Paperclip: /pr/astroturf/currentsuits.asp , line 145] case?
It seems that you are writing a letter. Do you want me to change it into a letter supporting Microsoft in the [ODBC: SQL Error in
[Yes] [Yes]
Like most CS labs, many people brought in CDs and listened to them on their headphones using the CD-ROM drive on the machines.
But then you must find another place to leave your beverages.
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If you're wondering where I work that I'd have to be converting between Lotus and MS apps all the time, think about it for a minute.
Echelon?
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Are you talking about AskPSP? It was kind of a expert system that asked you questions and eliminated answers until it got a small number.
It was included with OS/2 4 so that you could find the answers to the problems that Warp 3 and were solved in Warp 4. Great.
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I didn't know that the Spanish ever went to Aztlan. As far as I know, it is a legendary place supposed to be somewhere in US California, maybe LA.
And if you mean Tenochtitlan, a city built on a lake, with canals and all that, it was built when the Aztecs arrived to the lake, somewhen in the XII or XIII century. Well after Plato.
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How did you managed to get the generator running all these year in this island? By the way, the Soviet Union disappeared.
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If you are still there, I remember that some very important medioeval Japanese novels were written by women in kana, because that's all they were taught. Are they published currently in kanji? Were they difficult to read?
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640 KB should be enough for anybody.
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The problem is that information doesn't go away - much of what's been collected about people within the last few years is likely to be around for a lifetime.
Thanks Bill we have Windows and SQL Server.
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