He stopped going after Bin Laden because Bin Laden was no longer a threat once most of his operatives were destroyed. Capturing him is like cutting off the head of a corpse - it's a nice symbolic gesture, but you've got other things to worry about. Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad are still reasonably strong and pose a threat; going after bin laden is a waste of time when there are others who pose a real danger. The only benefit to bush would have been political.
He stopped going after Bin Laden because they have no idea where he is and the body count was rising. Who says most of his operatives were destroyed? What about the vast sums of money and vast numbers of AQ fighters arriving in Iraq - am I imagining them?
He went to war when he did because he feared that we put ourselves in danger by waiting too long. He would have liked to have a broader coalition, but felt it was urgent and wanted to take care of it immediately.
He went to war because...
Winning a war has historically made leaders popular.
It is in the US strategic interests to have influence in the Middle East and you are going to have soldiers there for a long time by the looks of things.
He could - and has - awarded lots of contracts to companies run or owned by his friends.
The WMD question answers itself; he talked up the threat posed by the weapons becuase he beleived it. When faced with inconclusive evidence, he figured it was better to err on the side of caution then to assume we were safe from any attack.
Only an utter fool would believe the evidence that we are now seeing, and only a moron would remove all the qualifications without a damn good reason. Even if he believed it you offer no explanation for the presentation of it to the people as absolute truth. Our man's press man did the same: remove all the 'ifs' 'buts' and 'perhaps' words. But then our man's press man is an ex tabloid editor, so maybe we should have expected him to lie by default...
He hasn't gone after the Iraqi's oil because he's not an evil man out for pure political gain.
Err... seems to have stopped the euro-pricing that was about to happen, doesn't it? Pretty good for America that crude is only ever bought and sold in dollars. Especially good for his oil-pumping friends and family.
In short, all your logic can be argued against. You may be right, I may be right, but it's certainly not that outlandish a proposal to say that he and the other neo-cons chose to kill a lot of people for monetary gain.
Speaking as a Brit, I am only sorry that our dickhead follows your dickhead so closely. Neither of our countries has gained from this debacle.
One more time: What was the problem with containment via weapons inspections? What, for the world, the US, UK and Iraq, has been improved by this war that would not have been achieved by inspections? And now weigh that against how things have got worse, with another failing state which now definitely is a haven for terrorists.
Tariffs are paid between phone networks, then call revenues are paid on in the receiving country to the person/entity who owns the line. That person is 'somewhere else', obviously. Chuck a few paper companies in awkward places in the chain and you're stuffed.
The telcos can't ask their opposite numbers for details, and can't refuse to pay for certain numbers either. So blocking them at root is (a) their only option and (b) a jolly good idea because all the poor buggers like my brother (who got caught for 125gbp just the other day - bloody MS insecure ^&*&^%$) would find their net connection refused and realise that they're being done.
I'm in business, as a freelance coder. I own my company 100%. Should I try to maximise shareholder value? Should I shrug off my foolish morals and become a complete bastard - if the money is right?
Put another way: what is it about 'maximising shareholder value' that excuses the need to behave like a decent human being?
Terminals did not have their own CPU to do things.
Actually, a lot of mainframes support terminals with a certain amount of power, usually called 'smart terminals' (as opposed to 'dumb terminals'). For example, I used to work on ones that had rendering engines, and received m/f info as 'shapes' rather than bitmaps.
So this does remind me a lot of mainframes, just with really smart terminals;-)
There are still a few ignorant/lazy morons holding out... I noticed last week that the British Sunday Times website still has chunks that don't work without IE - like the competition entry forms. I mailed them (as one does) to say that they were losing custom, and got a message back saying that the web team said it "wasn't possible". I informed them that, speaking as a web developer, if one of my team said that I'd fire them. No answer!
Eventually though, the lazy/ignorant will all die, so that's OK.
Supernodes are a pragmatic solution to the problem of firewalls, nothing more. It basically means that a proxy node outside your firewalled system does some routing on your behalf (because you can't). Not exactly dangerous;-)
Studies* in the eighties found that when tribes were regularly presented with tasks which required accurate use of larger integers than existed in the language, they invented them pretty quickly. So language is shaped by need - whodathunkit?!
J. * No, I can't provide internet sources, but they're detailed in the bibliography of "The Blank Slate" if you really want to know about them.
...the adverts could be stored on servers that the advertisers could pay for... then we'd want a search mechanism to find the relevent ones... we could call it "The Internet"...
The op: Scanning laser keratectomy. They use a little tiny cut-throat razor to open a flap, then use a scanning laser to 'polish'/burn off the excess lensing material of the cornea (lens itself is for fine tune only). Being a physics grad and a paranoid geek, I learnt all about it first;-)
Upside: I did just one eye, and got 0 sphere,.25 cyl (in Euro terms - basically slight astigmatism left behind, but legally good enough to drive). I still wear my specs (with new, weaker lenses) when I have to concentrate really hard (like a push for a deadline), but the rest of the time they are gone. It makes such a difference! No more risk of conjunctivitis. I love diving and swimming, and those are simpler to enjoy now. Roller-skating without getting the bridge of my nose sweaty. Not having to stop and remove specs when kissing the g/f! It's marvellous.
I recommend it to everyone young enough to take advantage of it.
Downside: I appear to have got a slight halo effect at night. Obviously having only had one eye done, if I get sun-dazzled from the good side, then everything goes out of focus. However I will not need reading glasses later, as the untreated eye will take over for reading when the muscles in the other can't do it any more.
I can't see anywhere in the leader or in the body where people say "this is good". Plenty of people laughing and saying "we expected it", but nothing - NOTHING - saying "good".
Anyway, stop using the word 'irony' correctly, You'll teach the Americans and then I can't take the mickey out of them!
Think about it... we are indeed saving SCO the effort, but by having this information repository available now, we are getting ready for everything else Redmod et alwill throw at us for ten years.
If you believe, as I do, that the GPL and open source principle is (a) legal and (b) for the common good, then sorting out these issues in one fell swoop is good for us in the long term - oops! that may well give billg an idea. Pretend I never said it;-)
In 'Armaggedon: The Musical', Rankin describes a post-apocalyptic world in which watching TV gets you more food and goodies. Oh, and Elvis is in it. And Barry the Time-Travelling Sprout. But I don't think MS have copyrighted them.
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Winning a war has historically made leaders popular.
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It is in the US strategic interests to have influence in the Middle East and you are going to have soldiers there for a long time by the looks of things.
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He could - and has - awarded lots of contracts to companies run or owned by his friends.
Only an utter fool would believe the evidence that we are now seeing, and only a moron would remove all the qualifications without a damn good reason. Even if he believed it you offer no explanation for the presentation of it to the people as absolute truth. Our man's press man did the same: remove all the 'ifs' 'buts' and 'perhaps' words. But then our man's press man is an ex tabloid editor, so maybe we should have expected him to lie by default... Err... seems to have stopped the euro-pricing that was about to happen, doesn't it? Pretty good for America that crude is only ever bought and sold in dollars. Especially good for his oil-pumping friends and family.In short, all your logic can be argued against. You may be right, I may be right, but it's certainly not that outlandish a proposal to say that he and the other neo-cons chose to kill a lot of people for monetary gain.
Speaking as a Brit, I am only sorry that our dickhead follows your dickhead so closely. Neither of our countries has gained from this debacle.
One more time: What was the problem with containment via weapons inspections? What, for the world, the US, UK and Iraq, has been improved by this war that would not have been achieved by inspections? And now weigh that against how things have got worse, with another failing state which now definitely is a haven for terrorists.
Justin.
You can only run it on a machine with a perl interpreter on board. Now tell me exactly how that is materially different to Java?
Justin.
Check out gcj, part of gcc (Translation: check out the gnu compiler for java, part of the gnu compiler collection).
I gave it a whirl about a year ago and it was fine, fine for the relatively simple stuff I experimented with.
J.
But we all can, and do, infer that level from... well, the number of security risks, our own knowledge of the open source process etc, cruft....
Ah, no, hang on, looking at your last ten posts, I realise that you're just an argumentative dick. Forget I posted this.
Justin.
Not looking likely... but tell your MS-using UK friends: BT will password protect premium numbers so they can't be used by a dialler.
J.
Tariffs are paid between phone networks, then call revenues are paid on in the receiving country to the person/entity who owns the line. That person is 'somewhere else', obviously. Chuck a few paper companies in awkward places in the chain and you're stuffed.
The telcos can't ask their opposite numbers for details, and can't refuse to pay for certain numbers either. So blocking them at root is (a) their only option and (b) a jolly good idea because all the poor buggers like my brother (who got caught for 125gbp just the other day - bloody MS insecure ^&*&^%$) would find their net connection refused and realise that they're being done.
Justin.
I'm in business, as a freelance coder. I own my company 100%. Should I try to maximise shareholder value? Should I shrug off my foolish morals and become a complete bastard - if the money is right?
Put another way: what is it about 'maximising shareholder value' that excuses the need to behave like a decent human being?
Justin.
Surely you mean 'imagine a beowulf cluster of Natalie Portmans...'?
J.
Actually, a lot of mainframes support terminals with a certain amount of power, usually called 'smart terminals' (as opposed to 'dumb terminals'). For example, I used to work on ones that had rendering engines, and received m/f info as 'shapes' rather than bitmaps.
So this does remind me a lot of mainframes, just with really smart terminals ;-)
J.
"only a nutter exposes an old version of Exchange directly on the internet."
;-)
True, and only idiots connect Windows boxes to the net without firewalls... so your point is?
Justin.
There are still a few ignorant/lazy morons holding out... I noticed last week that the British Sunday Times website still has chunks that don't work without IE - like the competition entry forms. I mailed them (as one does) to say that they were losing custom, and got a message back saying that the web team said it "wasn't possible". I informed them that, speaking as a web developer, if one of my team said that I'd fire them. No answer!
Eventually though, the lazy/ignorant will all die, so that's OK.
J.
The grandparent did say "moving towards"... ;-)
Bugger. I learnt to make good cheesecake after my SO moved in.
Justin.
Justin.
Show me a language with letters, and I'll show you a language with letter boundaries. They just may not be the kind *you* were thinking of.
J.
Unless the lad eats rodents, for quite a few seconds, I didn't... Does this invalidate your demonstration, or my expensive university education?
J.
Studies* in the eighties found that when tribes were regularly presented with tasks which required accurate use of larger integers than existed in the language, they invented them pretty quickly. So language is shaped by need - whodathunkit?!
J.
* No, I can't provide internet sources, but they're detailed in the bibliography of "The Blank Slate" if you really want to know about them.
...the adverts could be stored on servers that the advertisers could pay for... then we'd want a search mechanism to find the relevent ones... we could call it "The Internet"...
Justin.
Upside: I did just one eye, and got 0 sphere, .25 cyl (in Euro terms - basically slight astigmatism left behind, but legally good enough to drive). I still wear my specs (with new, weaker lenses) when I have to concentrate really hard (like a push for a deadline), but the rest of the time they are gone. It makes such a difference! No more risk of conjunctivitis. I love diving and swimming, and those are simpler to enjoy now. Roller-skating without getting the bridge of my nose sweaty. Not having to stop and remove specs when kissing the g/f! It's marvellous.
I recommend it to everyone young enough to take advantage of it.
Downside: I appear to have got a slight halo effect at night. Obviously having only had one eye done, if I get sun-dazzled from the good side, then everything goes out of focus. However I will not need reading glasses later, as the untreated eye will take over for reading when the muscles in the other can't do it any more.
I still recommend it to everyone.
Anyone got any specific questions, I'll answer.
Justin.
Anyway, stop using the word 'irony' correctly, You'll teach the Americans and then I can't take the mickey out of them!
J.
If you believe, as I do, that the GPL and open source principle is (a) legal and (b) for the common good, then sorting out these issues in one fell swoop is good for us in the long term - oops! that may well give billg an idea. Pretend I never said it ;-)
J.
Justin.
Read the comments on the article. It's been clear for a good while now that LinuxWorld is a Microsoft shill.
;-)
Personally I think it should be blocked at the firewall by savvy sysadmins, cos nuthin' good comes from it
J.
If Windows had been designed as a multi user system, instead of being obviously kludged to support it!
"Fast" user switching my arse. -- switches faster any day.
J.
ITYM "We're never gonna learn how to use 'em, why should we learn how to spell 'em?"
HTH,
Justin.