Are you serious? How many times does this point need to be made? It wasn't randomly dumped. Wikileaks collaborated with major media outlets to assist in removing sensitive information. Just because people spout the same bull over and over and...... doesn't make it true.
If the military doesn't want to end up bleeding and dieing for nothing or for private gain then democracy needs to work. This requires an informed electorate, and not enough information has been provided by those with a duty to provide it. The information gap was bridged for a time by a foreign civilian and a homosexual. Few others have had the balls to put themselves in as much danger for this cause (with exceptions of course), but the story has become about them and not the information which is a pity - you're buying into that and it isn't helping. Besides, accusing wikileaks of putting people in danger isn'tnew, and thus far it has proved to be false.
Are brain cells somehow becoming an endangered species even here on Slashdot?
Swedish legal protocol has been compromised so badly in this case it's hard to imagine a trial happening even if the guy IS guilty, but don't believe me, here's the considered opinion of a retired Swedish prosecutor. Read it... it's informative. This situation could EASILY be solved by interviewing Assange in the UK according to Sven-Erik, and according to evidence on the public record. Why the insistance on extradition in this case? The guy might be an asshat sometimes, but that doesn't deserve a ticket to gitmo... and this whole thing feels very bad. I think the average citizen in the west has been lied to enough that some healthy skepticism is long overdue, and frankly I'd be happier to see it err on the side of paranoia than apathy.
The US legally supported slavery... until it didn't. It doesn't matter where you've been so much as where you're going. Where's Equador going? Perhaps it's not such a bad place if they actually start believing they're standing up for openness over secrecy. Where's the US going by comparison?
...there's a gap in what's available. For personal finance you have GnuCash, and for the big end there are packages like Adempiere, OpenERP etc... that do much more than accounting, but ERP packages are arcane toolkits for building your own system rather than an off-the-shelf solution.
I'd love an open source "franchise in a box", and I'm actually involved with a project (Fusion Directory) that could be a fantastic base for something like that. FD handles deployment of workstations and servers, deployment of software and management of many generic network services via LDAP. An open source POS + accounting framework would be great to tie into this, but none of us are ERP nerds so some collaboration on this kind of thing would be great - anyone??? We're at #fusiondirectory on FreeNode (IRC).
As for your specific problem... there are no off the shelf answers that I'm aware of at the moment unfortunately, and anything else (eg. cobbling something together wtih an ERP solution) looks like a LOT of work. It's not something I'd suggest attempting unless you're interested, no, passionate!...and have ERP expertise or are willing to burn much time on learning the arcana. If you're getting into this soon then it's probably too late in any case.
Well, I hope you're a vegetarian. Unlike a foetus animals have consciousness, and intelligence often compared to young children (eg. pigs have intelligence comparable to a three year old).
Stop engaging the lolcats part of your brain and start thinking - you're mistaking the disgust and percieved horror in your own head with objective reality. In my country abortions after 20 weeks are illegal because soon after this time the sensory scaffolding of the foetus becomes capable of *signaling pain. This leaves aside rudimentary consciousness which actually comes into being much later.
If a car accident permanently reduced someone to a mentally foetal state the plug would be pulled. A pre 20wk foetus is a potential human, sure, but so are most cells in your body now that science has became capable of creating pluripotent stem cell lines from adult cells, not to mention your gametes. Human DNA obviously doesn't qualify a "life" to be "saved"... the ability to sustain a human consciousness does. Many countries have decided that the 20wk limit is where they draw that line for political reasons - pain is mechanically registered after 20wks, athough the consciousness won't exist for quite some time after this.
* - I've read that there may be vestigial pre-20wk structures that could potentially register pain. Apparently these develop and are reabsorbed as the foetus replays the evolution of simpler lifeforms similar to foetal gill slits and tails.
...and if the powers that be decided to label maoris as the new terrorists and public enemy number one and treated them accordingly, eventually you'd have lots of maori terrorists... what's your point? It's exactly the same issue with african americans - people will live up to all of your stereotypes if you treat them that way. Just look at your average dictator... when they start thinking that EVERYONE is out to get them and treat the population accordingly, and all of a sudden everyone IS out to get them.
Treat everyone with respect, especially your enemies. If you caracature your enemies you won't understand them, and you'll make grave mistakes. Coincidentally the US is famous for doing just this in most wars since the 1950's.
If you want to see how factions within the US (ie. the neocons) manufacture enemies intentionally watch "The Power of Nightmares" by the BBC : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4_vkIsKOU4 . It's a very solid work, with many neocon powerbrokers and politicians expousing their philosophies, ex pentagon intelligence people talking about their frustrations, islamists and ex islamists etc... It also goes into how ALL (not just most) of these "terrorist" busts up til the point the documentary aired were paranoid delusions of jumpy police and spooks... but of course this isn't newsworthy so noone hears about it.
To play devils advocate : if you tap my bedhead setting off the gun hidden under my pillow, and it drew attention to the fact that guns were being hidden under everyones pillows, perhaps my death would serve a public good.
Anonymising the records might have been nicer, but not gained much attention.
"Musician" used to be a vocation like any other... I come from a musical family who remembers that time. Hell, there are societies who had/have whole castes devoted to musicianship (eg. the griots of west africa). The recording industry made most musicians obsolete, except for a few caged birds... and only a few of those ever make it big enough to escape, end up owning the rights to their own music etc... The musicians I know myself are part timers, academics and music teachers. The only professional musicians I know of that exist in this large regional city are military band members.
I don't necessarily have a problem with that, but nor can I shed a tear for the music industry. It's just another obsolete industry that will change or die in this new information age... another example is the news industry. Americas problem as a whole is it's the forces trying to go back rather than charting a course forward. The dead weight is just too rich to die in a timely fashion, but once they do new entrepreneurs will fill the gap. Those outside the U.S will get a head start though.
Some related info : SOGo is an open source groupware server that can natively support Outlook (but in this case you'll need Samba4 instead of a more standard LDAP server). The preferred client is actually Thunderbird+Lightning, though their web client is also solid and has a consistent Thunderbird look and feel.
You, sir, sound like a "mapper". Mapper is a term used in some quite interesting writings that try to understand why there are some programmers that are much more productive than others, and indeed why some people can't seem to pick up programming at all.
> Why not trade once every thousand years, if speed of market doesn't matter?
It's a question of using a sensible resolution. If you want to get a hacker-boner in a casino pitting bots against eachother, fine. Don't try to justify skim scamming traders making real investments, or pretend sub-second trades have anything to do with the real economy.
So the users that reject the "rock" get to find the "hard place"? This isn't the way to differentiate yourself.
Some time ago I made the mistake of recommending Ubuntu to some friends wanting to ditch Vista on their laptop, but this was right before the window-controls debacle. I give them credit for persisting until Unity, but last time I saw them they'd gone back to Vista (and will probably buy a Win7 laptop before 8 comes out). I guess Vista actually looks good after experences like these - "Ubuntu? Wrong way, go back!"
How about the Lords Resistance Army? They routinely capture children from schools and villages - boys as soldiers and girls as "wives", because Jesus tells them to via the good book - "Follow me and I'll make you fishers of men".
That's rot. I grew up on a tomato farm. You, sir, need to learn a little about the oldskool varieties. Yes, if you grow the same high yield but coddled and pathetic commercial varieties you'll spend a ton on pest and weed control. The older varieties however grow like weeds and taste much better anyway - one variety grows wild along the river here, and friends own a cattle property, part of which is called "tomato pocket" because of the density of wild plants that grow there. My brother is growing some in his garden that birds must have planted for him. Of course the fruit is smaller, they don't bare as much and they don't have the same shelf life, but they produce for longer and they're simply bursting with flavour. Tomatoes aren't strange in this ability either - we've had pumpkins, watermelons, cucumber, passionfruit etc... spring up more or less wild, but bearing tasty and mostly pest-free produce.
The consequences of abandonment of nuclear power? What, like having enough uranium left for travel to the stars? Nuclear is the only real and practical (eg. NASA's 1960's project Orion) way we have for getting ANYTHING to another solar system, and I'd be happy to live long enough to see THAT become a reality. Or... we could burn this very finite resource so we can run more beer fridges and large screen TVs. We've only got enough for 200 years AT CURRENT CONSUMPTION LEVELS - add exponential growth and we've only got decades, and then what? Something ELSE for our kids to be pissed about?
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What part of "Defense Secretary Gates Reveals Wikileaks Document Leak Didn't Actually Reveal Intelligence Sources" did you not understand?
Are you serious? How many times does this point need to be made? It wasn't randomly dumped. Wikileaks collaborated with major media outlets to assist in removing sensitive information. Just because people spout the same bull over and over and ... ... doesn't make it true.
If the military doesn't want to end up bleeding and dieing for nothing or for private gain then democracy needs to work. This requires an informed electorate, and not enough information has been provided by those with a duty to provide it. The information gap was bridged for a time by a foreign civilian and a homosexual. Few others have had the balls to put themselves in as much danger for this cause (with exceptions of course), but the story has become about them and not the information which is a pity - you're buying into that and it isn't helping. Besides, accusing wikileaks of putting people in danger isn't new, and thus far it has proved to be false.
...unless you're talking about a one-off special, rather than an extradition treaty, but in the presence of the latter there's no need for the former.
Someone posted a link to a PDF copy of that very thing during a discussion on another recent Assange story, but don't let facts get in your way.
Are brain cells somehow becoming an endangered species even here on Slashdot?
Swedish legal protocol has been compromised so badly in this case it's hard to imagine a trial happening even if the guy IS guilty, but don't believe me, here's the considered opinion of a retired Swedish prosecutor. Read it... it's informative. This situation could EASILY be solved by interviewing Assange in the UK according to Sven-Erik, and according to evidence on the public record. Why the insistance on extradition in this case? The guy might be an asshat sometimes, but that doesn't deserve a ticket to gitmo... and this whole thing feels very bad. I think the average citizen in the west has been lied to enough that some healthy skepticism is long overdue, and frankly I'd be happier to see it err on the side of paranoia than apathy.
YOU'RE wrong. Look it up : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_criminal
Just because someone doesn't commit a war crime heinous enough to hang doesn't make them stop fitting the definition.
The US legally supported slavery ... until it didn't. It doesn't matter where you've been so much as where you're going. Where's Equador going? Perhaps it's not such a bad place if they actually start believing they're standing up for openness over secrecy. Where's the US going by comparison?
The same reason that many people from the US go to India, Singapore etc... : it's the best healthcare they can afford.
...there's a gap in what's available. For personal finance you have GnuCash, and for the big end there are packages like Adempiere, OpenERP etc... that do much more than accounting, but ERP packages are arcane toolkits for building your own system rather than an off-the-shelf solution.
I'd love an open source "franchise in a box", and I'm actually involved with a project (Fusion Directory) that could be a fantastic base for something like that. FD handles deployment of workstations and servers, deployment of software and management of many generic network services via LDAP. An open source POS + accounting framework would be great to tie into this, but none of us are ERP nerds so some collaboration on this kind of thing would be great - anyone??? We're at #fusiondirectory on FreeNode (IRC).
As for your specific problem... there are no off the shelf answers that I'm aware of at the moment unfortunately, and anything else (eg. cobbling something together wtih an ERP solution) looks like a LOT of work. It's not something I'd suggest attempting unless you're interested, no, passionate! ...and have ERP expertise or are willing to burn much time on learning the arcana. If you're getting into this soon then it's probably too late in any case.
Well, I hope you're a vegetarian. Unlike a foetus animals have consciousness, and intelligence often compared to young children (eg. pigs have intelligence comparable to a three year old).
Stop engaging the lolcats part of your brain and start thinking - you're mistaking the disgust and percieved horror in your own head with objective reality. In my country abortions after 20 weeks are illegal because soon after this time the sensory scaffolding of the foetus becomes capable of *signaling pain. This leaves aside rudimentary consciousness which actually comes into being much later.
If a car accident permanently reduced someone to a mentally foetal state the plug would be pulled. A pre 20wk foetus is a potential human, sure, but so are most cells in your body now that science has became capable of creating pluripotent stem cell lines from adult cells, not to mention your gametes. Human DNA obviously doesn't qualify a "life" to be "saved"... the ability to sustain a human consciousness does. Many countries have decided that the 20wk limit is where they draw that line for political reasons - pain is mechanically registered after 20wks, athough the consciousness won't exist for quite some time after this.
* - I've read that there may be vestigial pre-20wk structures that could potentially register pain. Apparently these develop and are reabsorbed as the foetus replays the evolution of simpler lifeforms similar to foetal gill slits and tails.
...and if the powers that be decided to label maoris as the new terrorists and public enemy number one and treated them accordingly, eventually you'd have lots of maori terrorists... what's your point? It's exactly the same issue with african americans - people will live up to all of your stereotypes if you treat them that way. Just look at your average dictator... when they start thinking that EVERYONE is out to get them and treat the population accordingly, and all of a sudden everyone IS out to get them.
Treat everyone with respect, especially your enemies. If you caracature your enemies you won't understand them, and you'll make grave mistakes. Coincidentally the US is famous for doing just this in most wars since the 1950's.
If you want to see how factions within the US (ie. the neocons) manufacture enemies intentionally watch "The Power of Nightmares" by the BBC : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4_vkIsKOU4 . It's a very solid work, with many neocon powerbrokers and politicians expousing their philosophies, ex pentagon intelligence people talking about their frustrations, islamists and ex islamists etc... It also goes into how ALL (not just most) of these "terrorist" busts up til the point the documentary aired were paranoid delusions of jumpy police and spooks... but of course this isn't newsworthy so noone hears about it.
To play devils advocate : if you tap my bedhead setting off the gun hidden under my pillow, and it drew attention to the fact that guns were being hidden under everyones pillows, perhaps my death would serve a public good.
Anonymising the records might have been nicer, but not gained much attention.
"Musician" used to be a vocation like any other... I come from a musical family who remembers that time. Hell, there are societies who had/have whole castes devoted to musicianship (eg. the griots of west africa). The recording industry made most musicians obsolete, except for a few caged birds... and only a few of those ever make it big enough to escape, end up owning the rights to their own music etc... The musicians I know myself are part timers, academics and music teachers. The only professional musicians I know of that exist in this large regional city are military band members.
I don't necessarily have a problem with that, but nor can I shed a tear for the music industry. It's just another obsolete industry that will change or die in this new information age... another example is the news industry. Americas problem as a whole is it's the forces trying to go back rather than charting a course forward. The dead weight is just too rich to die in a timely fashion, but once they do new entrepreneurs will fill the gap. Those outside the U.S will get a head start though.
Population has tripled, almost quadrupled, since 1930. How does correcting for population growth make these numbers look?
Some related info : SOGo is an open source groupware server that can natively support Outlook (but in this case you'll need Samba4 instead of a more standard LDAP server). The preferred client is actually Thunderbird+Lightning, though their web client is also solid and has a consistent Thunderbird look and feel.
You, sir, sound like a "mapper". Mapper is a term used in some quite interesting writings that try to understand why there are some programmers that are much more productive than others, and indeed why some people can't seem to pick up programming at all.
> And what makes you think that isn't true?
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> Why not trade once every thousand years, if speed of market doesn't matter?
It's a question of using a sensible resolution. If you want to get a hacker-boner in a casino pitting bots against eachother, fine. Don't try to justify skim scamming traders making real investments, or pretend sub-second trades have anything to do with the real economy.
Why are you worried about the state of education? People are dying right now on the roads!
So the users that reject the "rock" get to find the "hard place"? This isn't the way to differentiate yourself.
Some time ago I made the mistake of recommending Ubuntu to some friends wanting to ditch Vista on their laptop, but this was right before the window-controls debacle. I give them credit for persisting until Unity, but last time I saw them they'd gone back to Vista (and will probably buy a Win7 laptop before 8 comes out). I guess Vista actually looks good after experences like these - "Ubuntu? Wrong way, go back!"
How about the Lords Resistance Army? They routinely capture children from schools and villages - boys as soldiers and girls as "wives", because Jesus tells them to via the good book - "Follow me and I'll make you fishers of men".
Yes... but besides that, what did the CSIRO ever do for us?!?!
That's rot. I grew up on a tomato farm. You, sir, need to learn a little about the oldskool varieties. Yes, if you grow the same high yield but coddled and pathetic commercial varieties you'll spend a ton on pest and weed control. The older varieties however grow like weeds and taste much better anyway - one variety grows wild along the river here, and friends own a cattle property, part of which is called "tomato pocket" because of the density of wild plants that grow there. My brother is growing some in his garden that birds must have planted for him. Of course the fruit is smaller, they don't bare as much and they don't have the same shelf life, but they produce for longer and they're simply bursting with flavour. Tomatoes aren't strange in this ability either - we've had pumpkins, watermelons, cucumber, passionfruit etc... spring up more or less wild, but bearing tasty and mostly pest-free produce.
*sigh* RTFA
The consequences of abandonment of nuclear power? What, like having enough uranium left for travel to the stars? Nuclear is the only real and practical (eg. NASA's 1960's project Orion) way we have for getting ANYTHING to another solar system, and I'd be happy to live long enough to see THAT become a reality. Or... we could burn this very finite resource so we can run more beer fridges and large screen TVs. We've only got enough for 200 years AT CURRENT CONSUMPTION LEVELS - add exponential growth and we've only got decades, and then what? Something ELSE for our kids to be pissed about?