You're a cog in a machine especially if you think the way I do. If you put your creativity and energy in a job and you're any good, you will be noticed. The company may not be a person but your managers and coworkers are. It's no fun working with a person who just does what's necessary. You won't get far either.
OTOH, it's a good idea to keep your options open and not to become complacent and trust you company to support you until you retire. Chances are that they won't. You are responsible for yourself, but being to cynical and looking out only for your self will most likely be counterproductive.
I was impressed too when I read about it several years ago. Really, this is very old news. The P2P VPN tool Hamachi uses the same system.
AFAIK Skype uses a fallback system when the technique described doesn't work (where UDP traffic is blocked). In those cases it uses a well connected peer (yes, that could be your Skype client) to relay the voice data to the other party. Your PC becomes a Supernode without your knowledge and consent. Well, not really, coz this is in the Skype EULA:
4.1 Permission to utilise your computer. In order to receive the benefits provided by the Skype Software, you hereby grant permission for the Skype Software to utilise the processor and bandwidth of your computer for the limited purpose of facilitating the communication between Skype Software users.
Bad decisions by democratic free countries are a wholly different game compared to (islamo)fascist dictators going on a conquering spree. The US mostly tries to push things in the right direction. They are right to support anti-Castro and anti-Chavez groups. Communism is a horrible thing, I've actually been in Cuba. Freeing terrorists is obviously a bad thing, if what you say is correct.
We know what happened last time a true dictatorship with no regard for human rights tried to take over the world. That's what happens when west gets to weak and afraid to act and it let's dictator grow too strong. Thankfully, Iran is very weak militarily, or we would be in much greater trouble.
The US and UK invaded Iraq and Afghanistan because they were justly concerned over the potential danger to their countries. Afghanistan allowed Al Qaeda to organize 911, so that's a no-brainer. There were reasons to fear Iraq. There was a bloody dictator (moral reason enough in itself for an invasion) sitting on a huge amount of oil (=money) with the proven will to use WMD's (gas attacks against the Kurds) and an undeniable hate against the US. Any country not afraid of such a a man would be very brave indeed.
In Kosovo and Somalia, the US had no other interests (AFIAK) than humanitarian.
Obviously Iraq turned out not to be an immediate threat at all (even much to the surprise of many liberals and peace activists who *supported* the invasion) and the aftermath is a horrible mess. That's bad, there's no denying that, and Bush should be democratically punished for that.
But these invasions are a very far cry from the invasion of Poland by the nazi's, and that's exactly the kind of thing you can expect when Iran would get really powerful.
As you can see my post is not confused, it just looks a bit further than who is complying with UN resiolutions and who is not. And, by the way, I'm not an American and I don't live there either.
While $10 bucks buys a Starbucks coffee here, in the third world it buys an AK-47 with thousands of bullets. That's no lie - AK-47s literally cost less than Starbucks coffee in the third world. If you think you can't afford much, a group of gun-wielding Militia-men in Darfur has so much power that, with about $1000 US, they can form a roving band of raping, murdering, looting, ethnic cleansing militia.
I don't believe you. There's nowhere in the world where you can buy an AK-47 with thousands of bullets for $10. Not unless someone is subsidizing it for you. Prove it. Provide us with a believable link.
For the first part I have to accept your expertise. I thought I read in the OP that the programs made money.
As for the capitalism in education part. Nine out of ten of the world's top universities are American, so there must be something you guys are doing right (I'm Dutch and I presume you're American). The 1st Dutch university is in the 40th place of this list:
It's quite possible that Dutch universities are better on *average*, but I happen to believe that excellence is worth striving for. In that area the US seems to be doing a lot better than 'socialist' Holland.
I think we could do with a little less socialism in our country and perhaps the US could do with a little less capitalism, but whatever you do, don't sacrifice excellence for politically correct ideas of social justice.
It seems to me that there is no disadvantage in putting money in a sports program if it makes money. The money sports makes can be used to subsidize education, right?
The best thing that could happen to the future of the world is the advent of a more universal, worldly, consciousness and an ascendency of non-theism. After all, there'd definitely be less or no wars (no God to justify them, no virgins in Heaven), less suffering (no wars plus no religious barriers to medical research), better integration (no separation of the righteous and 'wicked'), and hopefully more compassion (less Godly judgement), and definitely more time spent on learning about science and the natural universe and less about the supernatural, religious texts.
I agree with most of what you say. (I would, being an atheist) But the above argument always leaves me a little uncomfortable. Weren't the Nazi's and the Russian communists atheist regimes? I don't think they were particularly well known for their peacefulness...
You're probably confusing the 9300 with the 9500. The 9300 is a lot smaller than a 9500 and smaller than a treo (it's a bit thicker though). It fits in all my pockets so far (except for the small change pocket in my jeans).
Of course not. The Nokia Communicators are the best phone/pda combo's, hands down. Treo's are outdated. You can't put one loose in your pocket for fear of scratching the screen. The keyboards suck. When the battery runs flat you lose your data.
A Communicator is a phone when closed and a pda when open and the memory is permanent.
That's why I like the Nokia Communicator line of phones. When closed they are pretty basic phones that work like the simplest Nokia's of old. When open you get all the power (and complexity) of Symbian S80, a big screen and a pretty usable keyboard. I started out with a 9110 and after a short detour to a phone/pda combo I'm very glad to be back.
I heard that Nokia plans on running S60 on future communicators. I'm looking forward to getting one after my current 9300.
How many journalists, writers, filmmakers and parliamentarians do you have to kill or threaten to turn a free country into a non-free country?
Why do I ask, you should say? Well, in my own country (Holland) there has so far been only one trerrrorism casualty, the filmmaker Theo van Gogh. Killed because he dared to criticize Islam. Many so call progressives (you would call them liberals) downplay this event. What's 1 person in 16 million? they say. Just like Bruce.
In the mean time there are death threats against parliamentarians, kabinet ministers, columnists and any public person who dares to criticize Islam.
Stil, only a tiny percentage of the population, you might say. And after all you just have to keep you mouth shut and the problem disappears, right?
So, there we are, this wonderful little liberal (in our sense) country where we could discuss anything we wanted has lost it's freedom of speech with just one murder. Well, who needs freedom of speech anyway? Who cares, Bruce?
Mine's only 6 months now and he sleeps 13 to 14 hours a day in his own bed. We'll have to see how this develops, but all parties seem pretty satisfied with the current arrangement, which is what matters.;)
And then there's my brother who has a 13 year old son who *still* can't sleep on his own and sleeps in the bed with his parents. IMHO teaching your child to be able to get to sleep on his own is very important.
Then there's this other little problem. Three month old babies are supposed to sleep 16 or 17 hours a day. How did you solve that? Did you take turns sleeping with them or did you convince yourself that sleeping only 8 hours a day was fine for your baby? (note: it isn't)
X. (BTW I got a fat lip once when my GF had a bad dream)
Well, yes of course the poster is a lazy ass, but it's very useful to have this kind of discussion once in a while to get a nice overview of the currently possible solutions. I know the answer to many 'Ask Slashdot' postings, but I still read those because I'm interested in OTHER PEOPLE's ANSWERS.
So, just keep asking those stupid questions, please...
It's so difficult no-one has ever been able to do it right. The Japanese and the Europeans were helped by the US after WO2. That worked, mostly because the people already had a productive culture and just needed a hand to get started up again. Do you know any other examples of countries building up their economies with help? I don't. So 'not easy' is as they say an understatement.
I think I'll just choose to ignore your 'nuke' troll.
My point is that the original poster is incredibly naive. It's like standing up in a riot and shouting "Can't we all just get along?". Sympathetic perhaps, but completely and utterly useless.
You are terribly naive. In the real world helping people is not so easy. FIrst of all the help is usually counterproductive. You can't help people to learn to fend for themselves very easily. It is very easy to teach them to become dependent on the hand that feeds them.
Many people - expecially muslims - very much resent being helped by the godless west. They do bite the hand that feeds them.
Saudi Arabia is a rich country that produced some well off people who nevertheless climbed into a plane to attack the US. This alone invalidates your statement. This is not about poverty. It's about cultural hate and jealousy. Helping people will only make them resent you more in this case.
Usually in this type of trials the chances of survival are astronomically against you (practically noone is ever cured). The two that survived are extremely lucky...
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You're a cog in a machine especially if you think the way I do. If you put your creativity and energy in a job and you're any good, you will be noticed. The company may not be a person but your managers and coworkers are. It's no fun working with a person who just does what's necessary. You won't get far either.
OTOH, it's a good idea to keep your options open and not to become complacent and trust you company to support you until you retire. Chances are that they won't. You are responsible for yourself, but being to cynical and looking out only for your self will most likely be counterproductive.
X.
I was impressed too when I read about it several years ago. Really, this is very old news. The P2P VPN tool Hamachi uses the same system.
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AFAIK Skype uses a fallback system when the technique described doesn't work (where UDP traffic is blocked). In those cases it uses a well connected peer (yes, that could be your Skype client) to relay the voice data to the other party. Your PC becomes a Supernode without your knowledge and consent. Well, not really, coz this is in the Skype EULA:
4.1 Permission to utilise your computer. In order to receive the benefits provided by the Skype Software, you hereby grant permission for the Skype Software to utilise the processor and bandwidth of your computer for the limited purpose of facilitating the communication between Skype Software users.
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/7AB67323
What was it again? All your base belong to us?
X.
Bad decisions by democratic free countries are a wholly different game compared to (islamo)fascist dictators going on a conquering spree. The US mostly tries to push things in the right direction. They are right to support anti-Castro and anti-Chavez groups. Communism is a horrible thing, I've actually been in Cuba. Freeing terrorists is obviously a bad thing, if what you say is correct.
We know what happened last time a true dictatorship with no regard for human rights tried to take over the world. That's what happens when west gets to weak and afraid to act and it let's dictator grow too strong. Thankfully, Iran is very weak militarily, or we would be in much greater trouble.
The US and UK invaded Iraq and Afghanistan because they were justly concerned over the potential danger to their countries. Afghanistan allowed Al Qaeda to organize 911, so that's a no-brainer. There were reasons to fear Iraq. There was a bloody dictator (moral reason enough in itself for an invasion) sitting on a huge amount of oil (=money) with the proven will to use WMD's (gas attacks against the Kurds) and an undeniable hate against the US. Any country not afraid of such a a man would be very brave indeed.
In Kosovo and Somalia, the US had no other interests (AFIAK) than humanitarian.
Obviously Iraq turned out not to be an immediate threat at all (even much to the surprise of many liberals and peace activists who *supported* the invasion) and the aftermath is a horrible mess. That's bad, there's no denying that, and Bush should be democratically punished for that.
But these invasions are a very far cry from the invasion of Poland by the nazi's, and that's exactly the kind of thing you can expect when Iran would get really powerful.
As you can see my post is not confused, it just looks a bit further than who is complying with UN resiolutions and who is not. And, by the way, I'm not an American and I don't live there either.
X.
If you were an Iranian citizen and you'd say that about Iran you'd end up in jail.
Get your perspective straightened out.
X.
If you drive through Denmark, Holland, or N-Germany you will see wind generators by the dozen in the wheat fields you drive through.
I must be living in a different Holland, then...
X.
While $10 bucks buys a Starbucks coffee here, in the third world it buys an AK-47 with thousands of bullets. That's no lie - AK-47s literally cost less than Starbucks coffee in the third world. If you think you can't afford much, a group of gun-wielding Militia-men in Darfur has so much power that, with about $1000 US, they can form a roving band of raping, murdering, looting, ethnic cleansing militia.
I don't believe you. There's nowhere in the world where you can buy an AK-47 with thousands of bullets for $10. Not unless someone is subsidizing it for you. Prove it. Provide us with a believable link.
X.
For the first part I have to accept your expertise. I thought I read in the OP that the programs made money.
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As for the capitalism in education part. Nine out of ten of the world's top universities are American, so there must be something you guys are doing right (I'm Dutch and I presume you're American). The 1st Dutch university is in the 40th place of this list:
http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2006/ARWU2006_Top100.h
It's quite possible that Dutch universities are better on *average*, but I happen to believe that excellence is worth striving for. In that area the US seems to be doing a lot better than 'socialist' Holland.
I think we could do with a little less socialism in our country and perhaps the US could do with a little less capitalism, but whatever you do, don't sacrifice excellence for politically correct ideas of social justice.
X.
It seems to me that there is no disadvantage in putting money in a sports program if it makes money. The money sports makes can be used to subsidize education, right?
What's wrong with capitalism anyway?
Enslaving of workers?
+4 insightful?
X.
Yep, I thought of that too.
An extreme fish eye lens should work even better.
X.
The best thing that could happen to the future of the world is the advent of a more universal, worldly, consciousness and an ascendency of non-theism. After all, there'd definitely be less or no wars (no God to justify them, no virgins in Heaven), less suffering (no wars plus no religious barriers to medical research), better integration (no separation of the righteous and 'wicked'), and hopefully more compassion (less Godly judgement), and definitely more time spent on learning about science and the natural universe and less about the supernatural, religious texts.
I agree with most of what you say. (I would, being an atheist) But the above argument always leaves me a little uncomfortable. Weren't the Nazi's and the Russian communists atheist regimes? I don't think they were particularly well known for their peacefulness...
X.
You're probably confusing the 9300 with the 9500.
The 9300 is a lot smaller than a 9500 and smaller than a treo (it's a bit thicker though).
It fits in all my pockets so far (except for the small change pocket in my jeans).
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Of course not. The Nokia Communicators are the best phone/pda combo's, hands down. Treo's are outdated. You can't put one loose in your pocket for fear of scratching the screen. The keyboards suck. When the battery runs flat you lose your data.
A Communicator is a phone when closed and a pda when open and the memory is permanent.
http://nokia.com/phones/9300i
X.
That's why I like the Nokia Communicator line of phones. When closed they are pretty basic phones that work like the simplest Nokia's of old. When open you get all the power (and complexity) of Symbian S80, a big screen and a pretty usable keyboard. I started out with a 9110 and after a short detour to a phone/pda combo I'm very glad to be back.
I heard that Nokia plans on running S60 on future communicators. I'm looking forward to getting one after my current 9300.
X.
Oh man, why destroy a perfectly good conspiracy theory?
We have had so little of them lately...
X.
Hah, I must have written at least a few dozen lib-www scripts, but I didn't know about HEAD.
I always used lynx -source -head http://slashdot.org/ wish is a lot more typing...
Thanks,
X.
How many journalists, writers, filmmakers and parliamentarians do you have to kill or threaten to turn a free country into a non-free country?
Why do I ask, you should say? Well, in my own country (Holland) there has so far been only one trerrrorism casualty, the filmmaker Theo van Gogh. Killed because he dared to criticize Islam. Many so call progressives (you would call them liberals) downplay this event. What's 1 person in 16 million? they say. Just like Bruce.
In the mean time there are death threats against parliamentarians, kabinet ministers, columnists and any public person who dares to criticize Islam.
Stil, only a tiny percentage of the population, you might say. And after all you just have to keep you mouth shut and the problem disappears, right?
So, there we are, this wonderful little liberal (in our sense) country where we could discuss anything we wanted has lost it's freedom of speech with just one murder. Well, who needs freedom of speech anyway? Who cares, Bruce?
I do.
X.
Mine's only 6 months now and he sleeps 13 to 14 hours a day in his own bed. We'll have to see how this develops, but all parties seem pretty satisfied with the current arrangement, which is what matters. ;)
X.
And then there's my brother who has a 13 year old son who *still* can't sleep on his own and sleeps in the bed with his parents. IMHO teaching your child to be able to get to sleep on his own is very important.
Then there's this other little problem. Three month old babies are supposed to sleep 16 or 17 hours a day. How did you solve that? Did you take turns sleeping with them or did you convince yourself that sleeping only 8 hours a day was fine for your baby? (note: it isn't)
X. (BTW I got a fat lip once when my GF had a bad dream)
Well, yes of course the poster is a lazy ass, but it's very useful to have this kind of discussion once in a while to get a nice overview of the currently possible solutions. I know the answer to many 'Ask Slashdot' postings, but I still read those because I'm interested in OTHER PEOPLE's ANSWERS.
So, just keep asking those stupid questions, please...
X.
It's so difficult no-one has ever been able to do it right. The Japanese and the Europeans were helped by the US after WO2. That worked, mostly because the people already had a productive culture and just needed a hand to get started up again. Do you know any other examples of countries building up their economies with help? I don't. So 'not easy' is as they say an understatement.
I think I'll just choose to ignore your 'nuke' troll.
My point is that the original poster is incredibly naive. It's like standing up in a riot and shouting "Can't we all just get along?". Sympathetic perhaps, but completely and utterly useless.
X.
You are terribly naive. In the real world helping people is not so easy. FIrst of all the help is usually counterproductive. You can't help people to learn to fend for themselves very easily. It is very easy to teach them to become dependent on the hand that feeds them.
Many people - expecially muslims - very much resent being helped by the godless west. They do bite the hand that feeds them.
Saudi Arabia is a rich country that produced some well off people who nevertheless climbed into a plane to attack the US. This alone invalidates your statement. This is not about poverty. It's about cultural hate and jealousy. Helping people will only make them resent you more in this case.
X.
I was thinking the exact same thing. There could be a real business in here somewhere. Renting out human spamfilters to catch that last 0.05%...
X.
"Eaten by a Crocodile"
vs.
"Stung by A Stingray"
Much more poetic, don't you think?
Cancer is dangerous.
Virtually all cancer treatments are dangerous.
X.
Usually in this type of trials the chances of survival are astronomically against you (practically noone is ever cured). The two that survived are extremely lucky...
X.