Depends on who you are and what you care about. Want to freely insult people? Germany's the wrong place. Want to have an abortion without being harassed? Germany is a good place. Want to harass, intimidate and lie to make people not have an abortion? Wrong place. Want to start a business and hire and fire people depending on your needs? Wrong place. Want to have children without being afraid of losing your job etc.? Slightly better place than the US but not comparable with e.g. Sweden. Want to have judges that care about justice and sanity, and a constitutional court with teeth that takes your freedoms seriously? Mostly a good place. Want courts that follow the letter of the law to the dot, no matter what was meant? Mostly wrong place. Want to have the freedom to own and use a gun? Really wrong place.
So, speaking of Sweden, how does it compare with Germany and the US on those issues?
He should tell them he is Catholic (lots of brown-skinned, weird-named people are Catholic) and that he is going to see his family for day (in this case, Assumption). Leaning Spanish would probably help too. Just drop a few "senors" in the conversation and they'll probably waive him on through.
Not necessary in theory, although the sort of folks interrogating him would probably be more likely to believe he's Catholic if he spoke Spanish than if he spoke Konkani.
"Although many of the Founding Fathers acknowledged that slavery violated the core American Revolutionary ideal of liberty, their simultaneous commitment to private property rights, principles of limited government, and intersectional harmony prevented them from making a bold move against slavery.
I sincerely hope they were not so delusional as to think peoples' slaves were "private property". A slave is stolen property - the slave's life has been stolen from him or her. And a government so limited as to be unable to prevent somebody from completely depriving somebody else of their freedom by owning them is a government that's too limited.
"Insersectional harmony", OK, if that's purely pragmatism, maybe they couldn't, in practice, just get rid of slavery. (Treating "intersectional harmony" as more important than "giving people seized at weaponpoint and sold as property the rights stolen from them" is a major moral failure, just as giving "property rights" or "limited government" priority over that is.)
So it's not true that "Had Mitt won the presidency,... a lot of these guys bitching about Obama would be standing right in line behind Mitt,"? One counter-example does not a disproof make; even lot of counter-examples would only be sufficient if it meant that the people complaining about the surveillance who were and would be OK with it under a Republican president a minority. They may well be (I certainly hope they are!), but I've not seen anything yet to indicate that they are.
And, yes, people who complained about what Bush did and would have complained about it under Mitt but who defend it under Obama are, indeed, just as hypocritical.
Yes, yes, and no. LEXIS, now apparently just called Lexis, and NEXIS, now apparently just called Nexis, are non-government online data search services, access to which, according to the Cryptome article, "all members of the Intelligence Community have", "all domestic law enforcement has", and "IRS, DOJ, Treasury, Local PD, Sheriffs Office all have".
And LexisNexis, the corporation that offers those services, also offers other services, including, for example, "Identity Management Solutions" that "perform multiple core system data checks against our extensive public records and proprietary databases to ensure the contact's name and address match is valid." So whatever he's referring to when he speaks of "LEXIS-NEXIS", it's either 1) a private-sector program to which US government officials, among others, have access or 2) a government program that involves access to some service or services from LexisNexis and is, cleverly, codenamed "LEXIS-NEXIS".
Greenwald was actually pretty libertarian/non political, but as a constitutional law litigator, he got sick of what he felt were a series of abuses by the prior and then current administration post 9/11.
As for Greenwald's current political views, see his Frequently Told Lies" blog post, where he explicitly answers claims that he's a "right-wing libertarian" with some pretty good indications that he's not one (I suspect few "right-wing libertarians" would strongly advocate a "public option" for health insurance, for example).
The truth is that most whistleblowers are generally conservative.
"Conservative", or libertarian? "Conservative" is used in multiple different ways, few if any of which are equivalent to libertarian.
In other news, another whistleblower has anonymously leaked information on PROTON, CLEARWATER and LEXIS-NEXIS, US government programs
Yes, yes, and no. LEXIS, now apparently just called Lexis, and NEXIS, now apparently just called Nexis, are non-government online data search services, access to which, according to the Cryptome article, "all members of the Intelligence Community have", "all domestic law enforcement has", and "IRS, DOJ, Treasury, Local PD, Sheriffs Office all have".
Sure there is still iSeries and AIX running on Power, but remember just a few years ago iSeries didn't run on Power.
Where "a few" means "18"; AS/400, as it was called then, switched to (an extended form of) PowerPC in 1995; "Power ISA" is the current name of the instruction set architecture formerly known as PowerPC.
IMO there are two primary reasons for this 1) high-end CAD software is incredibly expensive and has licensing schemes that work better in the Windows ecosystem and 2) the 3-D graphics drivers for Linux, particularly OpenGL, suck big time.
And 3) the traditional UNIX workstation vendors stopped making UNIX workstations, so "engineering workstation" now means "high-end PC", and, of the UNIXes from the traditional UNIX workstation vendors, the only one that runs on PCs is Solaris.
Wasn't Solaris 1 when they implemented/etc/init.d/ and/etc/rc?.d/ structures?
No. As the person who 4.3BSD-ified the SunOS init in SunOS 4.0, I know that the 4.x init was 4.3BSD-based. (The only tricky bit was preserving binary compatibility for pre-4.x binaries that used ttyslot() and therefore had, in the binary, code that expected/etc/ttys to look like the V7/etc/ttys; the SunOS 4.x init would look for/etc/ttytab, which had the same syntax as 4.3BSD's/etc/ttys, and parsed it as such, writing out a legacy-format/etc/ttys.)
This is really bass ackwards. Android has the same GNU userland as most other Linux distros or did you not know you can run ls, rm, ps et al. on your phone?
Command-line GNU userland, maybe. libc userland, libc GNU userland, not so much.
Uh, I beg to differ with you. While Apple did kill its Xserve line of rack-mounted computers, it indeed still markets server computers.
Then, given that, in the sentence before the sentence you're presumably disagreeing with, he said "...this article is confining itself to analysis of the "enterprise server market."", presumably he should have said "Apple does not market enterprise server hardware.", which is certainly true.
And it's one of the two UN*X platforms that most of the CAD software listed in the Wikipedia "Comparison of CAD software" page runs on if it runs on any UN*X at all; the other is, not entirely surprisingly, Linux. Most of them, according to that page, at least, only run on Windows, however.
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Apparently you missed the target of the snark in this thread.
Depends on who you are and what you care about. Want to freely insult people? Germany's the wrong place. Want to have an abortion without being harassed? Germany is a good place. Want to harass, intimidate and lie to make people not have an abortion? Wrong place. Want to start a business and hire and fire people depending on your needs? Wrong place. Want to have children without being afraid of losing your job etc.? Slightly better place than the US but not comparable with e.g. Sweden. Want to have judges that care about justice and sanity, and a constitutional court with teeth that takes your freedoms seriously? Mostly a good place. Want courts that follow the letter of the law to the dot, no matter what was meant? Mostly wrong place. Want to have the freedom to own and use a gun? Really wrong place.
So, speaking of Sweden, how does it compare with Germany and the US on those issues?
Because everyone knows terrorists being interrogated never lie.
Yeah. He's really half human, half alien lizard.
Now that we're a facist state, at least the trains run on time.
Neither necessary nor sufficient.
Anonymous story from generic muslim
Wrong.
The headline is "Don't fly during Ramadan" yet there's no mention of it in the summary. Perhaps in the article.
Yeah, God forbid you actually RTFA.
He should tell them he is Catholic (lots of brown-skinned, weird-named people are Catholic) and that he is going to see his family for day (in this case, Assumption). Leaning Spanish would probably help too. Just drop a few "senors" in the conversation and they'll probably waive him on through.
Not necessary in theory, although the sort of folks interrogating him would probably be more likely to believe he's Catholic if he spoke Spanish than if he spoke Konkani.
Gosh, then convince your co-religionists to act like civilized people and stop blowing themselves up. Simple as that.
I.e., convince his co-religionists not to do things such as this?
(Of course you weren't just assuming what his religion was, right, given that he stated what it was in TFA, right?)
(Oh, and speaking of uncivilized people blowing things up for religious reasons....)
Dear Not-quite-so Educated Citizen:
From the Encyclopedia Britianica:
"Although many of the Founding Fathers acknowledged that slavery violated the core American Revolutionary ideal of liberty, their simultaneous commitment to private property rights, principles of limited government, and intersectional harmony prevented them from making a bold move against slavery.
I sincerely hope they were not so delusional as to think peoples' slaves were "private property". A slave is stolen property - the slave's life has been stolen from him or her. And a government so limited as to be unable to prevent somebody from completely depriving somebody else of their freedom by owning them is a government that's too limited.
"Insersectional harmony", OK, if that's purely pragmatism, maybe they couldn't, in practice, just get rid of slavery. (Treating "intersectional harmony" as more important than "giving people seized at weaponpoint and sold as property the rights stolen from them" is a major moral failure, just as giving "property rights" or "limited government" priority over that is.)
If you had actually read the article, you would have noticed that he's not Islamic, and not an Arab.
So he's not an Arab, nor is he Islamic. That's easily a warning sign if you're supporting something you have no background in.
Which he wasn't.
You are mistaken.
So it's not true that "Had Mitt won the presidency, ... a lot of these guys bitching about Obama would be standing right in line behind Mitt,"? One counter-example does not a disproof make; even lot of counter-examples would only be sufficient if it meant that the people complaining about the surveillance who were and would be OK with it under a Republican president a minority. They may well be (I certainly hope they are!), but I've not seen anything yet to indicate that they are.
And, yes, people who complained about what Bush did and would have complained about it under Mitt but who defend it under Obama are, indeed, just as hypocritical.
HBA1C? At least that's what we call it in the UK..
Yes - "A1C" and "HBA1C" are both short for "Hemoglobin A1c".
Yes, yes, and no. LEXIS, now apparently just called Lexis, and NEXIS, now apparently just called Nexis, are non-government online data search services, access to which, according to the Cryptome article, "all members of the Intelligence Community have", "all domestic law enforcement has", and "IRS, DOJ, Treasury, Local PD, Sheriffs Office all have".
And LexisNexis, the corporation that offers those services, also offers other services, including, for example, "Identity Management Solutions" that "perform multiple core system data checks against our extensive public records and proprietary databases to ensure the contact's name and address match is valid." So whatever he's referring to when he speaks of "LEXIS-NEXIS", it's either 1) a private-sector program to which US government officials, among others, have access or 2) a government program that involves access to some service or services from LexisNexis and is, cleverly, codenamed "LEXIS-NEXIS".
Unisys is actually interesting because they're the last large vendor still selling a sign-magnitude machine
No, they're the last large vendor still selling a ones' complement machine, as, for example, their "C Compiler Programming Reference Manual Volume 1: C Language and Library" says:
Greenwald was actually pretty libertarian/non political, but as a constitutional law litigator, he got sick of what he felt were a series of abuses by the prior and then current administration post 9/11.
I'd go more for "non-political" than "libertarian", based on his preface to "How Would A Patriot Act".
As for Greenwald's current political views, see his Frequently Told Lies" blog post, where he explicitly answers claims that he's a "right-wing libertarian" with some pretty good indications that he's not one (I suspect few "right-wing libertarians" would strongly advocate a "public option" for health insurance, for example).
The truth is that most whistleblowers are generally conservative.
"Conservative", or libertarian? "Conservative" is used in multiple different ways, few if any of which are equivalent to libertarian.
In other news, another whistleblower has anonymously leaked information on PROTON, CLEARWATER and LEXIS-NEXIS, US government programs
Yes, yes, and no. LEXIS, now apparently just called Lexis, and NEXIS, now apparently just called Nexis, are non-government online data search services, access to which, according to the Cryptome article, "all members of the Intelligence Community have", "all domestic law enforcement has", and "IRS, DOJ, Treasury, Local PD, Sheriffs Office all have".
It worked, I think that Laptop is scared and will never hold a harddrive again...
There are other ways of accomplishing that goal....
Sure there is still iSeries and AIX running on Power, but remember just a few years ago iSeries didn't run on Power.
Where "a few" means "18"; AS/400, as it was called then, switched to (an extended form of) PowerPC in 1995; "Power ISA" is the current name of the instruction set architecture formerly known as PowerPC.
Doesn't the world deserve a modern OS after 50 years of legacy?
Which OSes that were available in 1963 are still available (or have a direct descendant that's available), other than the Burroughs MCP?
IMO there are two primary reasons for this 1) high-end CAD software is incredibly expensive and has licensing schemes that work better in the Windows ecosystem and 2) the 3-D graphics drivers for Linux, particularly OpenGL, suck big time.
And 3) the traditional UNIX workstation vendors stopped making UNIX workstations, so "engineering workstation" now means "high-end PC", and, of the UNIXes from the traditional UNIX workstation vendors, the only one that runs on PCs is Solaris.
Wasn't Solaris 1 when they implemented /etc/init.d/ and /etc/rc?.d/ structures?
No. As the person who 4.3BSD-ified the SunOS init in SunOS 4.0, I know that the 4.x init was 4.3BSD-based. (The only tricky bit was preserving binary compatibility for pre-4.x binaries that used ttyslot() and therefore had, in the binary, code that expected /etc/ttys to look like the V7 /etc/ttys; the SunOS 4.x init would look for /etc/ttytab, which had the same syntax as 4.3BSD's /etc/ttys, and parsed it as such, writing out a legacy-format /etc/ttys.)
This is really bass ackwards. Android has the same GNU userland as most other Linux distros or did you not know you can run ls, rm, ps et al. on your phone?
Command-line GNU userland, maybe. libc userland, libc GNU userland, not so much.
Solaris 1 implemented System V like init
No, it didn't. Solaris 1 was built atop SunOS 4.1.1 through 4.1.3u, which had a 4.3BSD-based kernel and a 4.3BSD-based init.
Uh, I beg to differ with you. While Apple did kill its Xserve line of rack-mounted computers, it indeed still markets server computers.
Then, given that, in the sentence before the sentence you're presumably disagreeing with, he said "...this article is confining itself to analysis of the "enterprise server market."", presumably he should have said "Apple does not market enterprise server hardware.", which is certainly true.
As others have pointed out, OS X is UNIX.
And it's one of the two UN*X platforms that most of the CAD software listed in the Wikipedia "Comparison of CAD software" page runs on if it runs on any UN*X at all; the other is, not entirely surprisingly, Linux. Most of them, according to that page, at least, only run on Windows, however.