You can make all the shrill hyperbole you want, but it's a fact that an accurate map is just as much a weapon as a regiment of infantry. The course of history (this timeline) has been altered many times by some guy with a good map (or screwed up because he didn't have one). There was a time in slashdot when spittle-covered invective wasn't labeled 'insightful'...sigh.
This is self-serving bullshit. I've spent enough time around communist bureaucrats (yes, those) to know a bullshit self-serving argument when I hear one. Oh, to be sure, it is technically correct enough. I have seen peasants sent packing with far less. But it does not change the fact that Wikipedia did something really wrong.
You see, it's all about the objective. The commies want to keep their friends out of trouble. So does Wikipedia and the NYT and all the other scoundrels. I'm sure from another vantage point, these are two totally different ideas, but from my "enlightened" perspective, it's the same bullshit.
Successful revolutions have three phases. First, a strategically located single or limited segment of society begins vocally to express resentment, asserting itself in the streets of a major city, usually the capital. This segment is joined by other segments in the city and by segments elsewhere as the demonstration spreads to other cities and becomes more assertive, disruptive and potentially violent. As resistance to the regime spreads, the regime deploys its military and security forces. These forces, drawn from resisting social segments and isolated from the rest of society, turn on the regime, and stop following the regime's orders. This is what happened to the Shah of Iran in 1979; it is also what happened in Russia in 1917 or in Romania in 1989.
Revolutions fail when no one joins the initial segment, meaning the initial demonstrators are the ones who find themselves socially isolated. When the demonstrations do not spread to other cities, the demonstrations either peter out or the regime brings in the security and military forces -- who remain loyal to the regime and frequently personally hostile to the demonstrators -- and use force to suppress the rising to the extent necessary. This is what happened in Tiananmen Square in China: The students who rose up were not joined by others. Military forces who were not only loyal to the regime but hostile to the students were brought in, and the students were crushed.
This is also what happened in Iran this week. The global media, obsessively focused on the initial demonstrators -- who were supporters of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's opponents -- failed to notice that while large, the demonstrations primarily consisted of the same type of people demonstrating. Amid the breathless reporting on the demonstrations, reporters failed to notice that the uprising was not spreading to other classes and to other areas. In constantly interviewing English-speaking demonstrators, they failed to note just how many of the demonstrators spoke English and had smartphones. The media thus did not recognize these as the signs of a failing revolution.
Later, when Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke Friday and called out the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, they failed to understand that the troops -- definitely not drawn from what we might call the "Twittering classes," would remain loyal to the regime for ideological and social reasons. The troops had about as much sympathy for the demonstrators as a small-town boy from Alabama might have for a Harvard postdoc. Failing to understand the social tensions in Iran, the reporters deluded themselves into thinking they were witnessing a general uprising. But this was not St. Petersburg in 1917 or Bucharest in 1989 -- it was Tiananmen Square.
1100 entries per second at 140 bytes per message is 154,000 bytes per second, or 150kbps. Twitter fell over from *that* measly input level? Well, I don't know...maybe that's a lot for some people. To me, it's not much, and I'm not surprised what happened happened.
The whole idea is that you can't get in, but certain people can. What's the use of having access to a private closed beta unless you can tell the world? There's not much point in having the privilege unless others are denied it...hence the link to a login-only page. It's not for you, but it's OK if you still lust after it.
"Pick up a new one"? Seriously, have you ever tried to pick up a car battery? I'm talking about the regular kind, not the kind with enough juice to propel an automobile for hours. I think I might have found a flaw in this plan of yours.
If I cant live in some hi tech colony of clever and witty people then at least can I live somewhere where they arent all drug addled criminals?
Never before has racism been so wittily expressed. I, too, wish there were "colonies" where people like you and your repugnant ideas could be kept away from the rest of society.
I, for one, would like to see bullets stop flying straight and true, unaffected by gravity or wind. Marksmanship is a skill, it's not just placing the crosshairs on a target and pressing the mouse like some sort of flash game for 5-year-olds. One of the worst, and I mean worst, features of Return to Castle Wolfenstein was the Panzerfaust. Point and click, and the thing flies straight as an arrow (actually, straighter). I'm sure a lot of the problem is that most computer nerds have never handled a firearm, and they have some mental model of how shooting works...mostly built out of old episodes of "T.J. Hooker" and similar cop shows.
Uh - actually I think that's rather the idea - to make Europe subservient to Africa for its energy needs. It's impossible to deny that a substantial portion of the European population thinks that such a situation would be preferable.
Besides..."European armies?" What the heck is that? Do they still have those in Europe? The ones I know about are stretched to the limit just to send a couple thousand peacekeepers overseas, to say nothing of the permanent forces that would be required to defend neo-energy-empires.
So, I'm wondering - when this computer breaks (and it will - multiply chance of failure by the number of machines built), who's supporting it? You? I'm not sure I want to depend on some guy who may or may not have the time (sorry busy this week, wife just had a death in the family, sorry my kid is sick, my car broke so can't visit your office til next week, I got hit by a car yesterday and can't help you, or any of a thousand other [legitimate] excuses.)
Our "purpose"? Our PURPOSE? Please take your Christian bullshit elsewhere, God-boy. We were not "placed" on this Earth for some "purpose". We are merely here because DNA reproduces itself. Please shed the stupid-ass theology next time you have some idea to represent the entire human race with your idiotic rantings.
Hint: the "tennis channel" is not a "TV network". Moreover, the world was not lessened by the nonavailability of obscure sports events in hi-res. I mean, how many million were you planning on selling?
Wow, a blogger scouring twitter for the latest updates. Yeah. That will surely be the straw that breaks the camel's back. The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran will topple as soon as word of this gets out. Because it's hearsay from sources on the ground.
This is a very important world and tech development. See, my point exactly. It's important for self-important douchebags - it's actually not very important for the people on the ground in Iran. Heat is not the same as light. Fashionable causes are nothing new...heck, you don't see anyone helping out the Peruvians revolting against their government with proxies and well-formatted quotations including attributions.
"The" story of the year? To whom? Tech has played a critical role in this event? Well, why hasn't the government been overthrown yet? It's certainly not due to lack of IT support. Did they have computers in the 1979 overthrow?
Please re-evaluate your web-centric thinking. You know that something like 95% of fark.com users never even click on the comments, much less ever post one? It's a big circle jerk. The focus seems to be on self-congratulation and providing trivial services rather than any actual, you know, goals.
Well, now that we've identified the problem as being those horrible irresponsible people, we can make some progress. It's good to know that people are going to be denied healthcare based on what a government committee deigns as "responsible" behavior.
Oh, yeah - let's see your precious Montessori school when the classroom is loaded with disruptive inner-city kids. What? You mean the whole idea is to cherry-pick wealthy students? And I can't decide if you're a left-wing nutbag (military recruiter hatred) or a right-wing nutjob (blind faith in the market to solve every problem known to Man).
The really stupid part is that they're speed-testing an alpha. Who cares? It's going to be different by release, anyway.
Benchmarks and reviews are ways for otherwise boring people to attempt to take part in ideas larger than themselves. Never mind if you're just jabbering or are an idiot with an obviously-flawed method - everybody's text looks the same on wordpress.
And yet, Carter could have stopped the whole thing from happening, but chose not to. Gaddis Smith might have put it best: "President Carter inherited an impossible situation -- and he and his advisers made the worst of it."
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You can make all the shrill hyperbole you want, but it's a fact that an accurate map is just as much a weapon as a regiment of infantry. The course of history (this timeline) has been altered many times by some guy with a good map (or screwed up because he didn't have one). There was a time in slashdot when spittle-covered invective wasn't labeled 'insightful'...sigh.
It's about journalists, so they naturally assume that you know what they're talking about. They live in a tiny, insular world...
You see, it's all about the objective. The commies want to keep their friends out of trouble. So does Wikipedia and the NYT and all the other scoundrels. I'm sure from another vantage point, these are two totally different ideas, but from my "enlightened" perspective, it's the same bullshit.
Revolutions fail when no one joins the initial segment, meaning the initial demonstrators are the ones who find themselves socially isolated. When the demonstrations do not spread to other cities, the demonstrations either peter out or the regime brings in the security and military forces -- who remain loyal to the regime and frequently personally hostile to the demonstrators -- and use force to suppress the rising to the extent necessary. This is what happened in Tiananmen Square in China: The students who rose up were not joined by others. Military forces who were not only loyal to the regime but hostile to the students were brought in, and the students were crushed.
This is also what happened in Iran this week. The global media, obsessively focused on the initial demonstrators -- who were supporters of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's opponents -- failed to notice that while large, the demonstrations primarily consisted of the same type of people demonstrating. Amid the breathless reporting on the demonstrations, reporters failed to notice that the uprising was not spreading to other classes and to other areas. In constantly interviewing English-speaking demonstrators, they failed to note just how many of the demonstrators spoke English and had smartphones. The media thus did not recognize these as the signs of a failing revolution.
Later, when Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke Friday and called out the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, they failed to understand that the troops -- definitely not drawn from what we might call the "Twittering classes," would remain loyal to the regime for ideological and social reasons. The troops had about as much sympathy for the demonstrators as a small-town boy from Alabama might have for a Harvard postdoc. Failing to understand the social tensions in Iran, the reporters deluded themselves into thinking they were witnessing a general uprising. But this was not St. Petersburg in 1917 or Bucharest in 1989 -- it was Tiananmen Square.
1100 entries per second at 140 bytes per message is 154,000 bytes per second, or 150kbps. Twitter fell over from *that* measly input level? Well, I don't know...maybe that's a lot for some people. To me, it's not much, and I'm not surprised what happened happened.
Yeah, I'd say it's about as relevant as all those English-language twitters written by iPhone-wielding Iranians.
That's no RPG, it's a dungeon crawl!
The whole idea is that you can't get in, but certain people can. What's the use of having access to a private closed beta unless you can tell the world? There's not much point in having the privilege unless others are denied it...hence the link to a login-only page. It's not for you, but it's OK if you still lust after it.
"Pick up a new one"? Seriously, have you ever tried to pick up a car battery? I'm talking about the regular kind, not the kind with enough juice to propel an automobile for hours. I think I might have found a flaw in this plan of yours.
Never before has racism been so wittily expressed. I, too, wish there were "colonies" where people like you and your repugnant ideas could be kept away from the rest of society.
I, for one, would like to see bullets stop flying straight and true, unaffected by gravity or wind. Marksmanship is a skill, it's not just placing the crosshairs on a target and pressing the mouse like some sort of flash game for 5-year-olds. One of the worst, and I mean worst, features of Return to Castle Wolfenstein was the Panzerfaust. Point and click, and the thing flies straight as an arrow (actually, straighter). I'm sure a lot of the problem is that most computer nerds have never handled a firearm, and they have some mental model of how shooting works...mostly built out of old episodes of "T.J. Hooker" and similar cop shows.
Besides..."European armies?" What the heck is that? Do they still have those in Europe? The ones I know about are stretched to the limit just to send a couple thousand peacekeepers overseas, to say nothing of the permanent forces that would be required to defend neo-energy-empires.
Q: Why is starting a comment in the Subject: line incredibly annoying?
So, I'm wondering - when this computer breaks (and it will - multiply chance of failure by the number of machines built), who's supporting it? You? I'm not sure I want to depend on some guy who may or may not have the time (sorry busy this week, wife just had a death in the family, sorry my kid is sick, my car broke so can't visit your office til next week, I got hit by a car yesterday and can't help you, or any of a thousand other [legitimate] excuses.)
Our "purpose"? Our PURPOSE? Please take your Christian bullshit elsewhere, God-boy. We were not "placed" on this Earth for some "purpose". We are merely here because DNA reproduces itself. Please shed the stupid-ass theology next time you have some idea to represent the entire human race with your idiotic rantings.
Starting a comment off with bigoted slurs against rural people is hardly the way to win people over. But here it is, marked +5 insightful no less.
Hint: the "tennis channel" is not a "TV network". Moreover, the world was not lessened by the nonavailability of obscure sports events in hi-res. I mean, how many million were you planning on selling?
This is a very important world and tech development.
See, my point exactly. It's important for self-important douchebags - it's actually not very important for the people on the ground in Iran. Heat is not the same as light. Fashionable causes are nothing new...heck, you don't see anyone helping out the Peruvians revolting against their government with proxies and well-formatted quotations including attributions.
Please re-evaluate your web-centric thinking. You know that something like 95% of fark.com users never even click on the comments, much less ever post one? It's a big circle jerk. The focus seems to be on self-congratulation and providing trivial services rather than any actual, you know, goals.
Well, now that we've identified the problem as being those horrible irresponsible people, we can make some progress. It's good to know that people are going to be denied healthcare based on what a government committee deigns as "responsible" behavior.
Oh, yeah - let's see your precious Montessori school when the classroom is loaded with disruptive inner-city kids. What? You mean the whole idea is to cherry-pick wealthy students? And I can't decide if you're a left-wing nutbag (military recruiter hatred) or a right-wing nutjob (blind faith in the market to solve every problem known to Man).
Benchmarks and reviews are ways for otherwise boring people to attempt to take part in ideas larger than themselves. Never mind if you're just jabbering or are an idiot with an obviously-flawed method - everybody's text looks the same on wordpress.
And then goes for the gold by attributing all Americans who live in a certain geographic area with a characteristic! Ignorant, ignorant...come on man
And yet, Carter could have stopped the whole thing from happening, but chose not to. Gaddis Smith might have put it best: "President Carter inherited an impossible situation -- and he and his advisers made the worst of it."
Is there any other kind? It doesn't matter which team they play for, they're still the same on the inside.