Oh ho ho ho...so it's OPERA who is being the evil monopolist here, pulling government strings to get its way. I can see how this could really suck for Microsoft. You have to feel for them, according to you they're really getting screwed. It'a all so unfair!
On the other hand, the PC browser market for Opera is essentially an afterthought - their paying customers are in embedded systems.
yes there is a left wing media, and it sucks, there also is a right wing media
And to pretend that these have any sort of equal power is just ridiculous. Let's see: on the right there is Fox and AM radio. Are you kidding me?? Freaking AM radio? *That* leftover from the 50s is the great fortress of rightism?
Actually, the USSR did peddle its influence - worldwide. Were you alive during the Cold War? They spared no expense to influence countries with ideology or outright bribes.
...ever since the beginning of the revolution it had been orthodox Communist strategy not to seek an open and general military confrontation with capitalist power, but rather precisely to avoid such confrontation and to conduct the attack on the capitalist world in a much more cautious manner, representing what Lenin termed a "state of partial war," and involving the elastic and opportunistic use of a wide variety of tactics including outstandingly such things as deception, concealed penetration and subversion, psychological warfare, and above all the adroit exploitation of every conceivable form of division in capitalist society, whether on the international scale or within the domestic framework of capitalist states.
Large numbers of people, both in Western Europe and in the United States, were incapable of understanding the Russian technique of penetration and "partial war" or of thinking in terms of this technique. They were capable of thinking about international developments only in the old-fashioned terms of full-fledged war or full-fledged peace. It was inconceivable to them that there could be real and serious threats to the independence of their countries that did not come to them in the form of foreign armies marching across frontiers; and it was natural that in undertaking to combat what they conceived to be a foreign threat they should have turned to the old-fashioned and familiar expedient of military alliance. They had understood that there was a threat; but they had not understood the nature of that threat, and were hardly capable of doing so.
Nor was it possible for anyone to argue that this outlook was wholly wrong. In the first place, the use of violence had never been ruled out of the Soviet bag of tricks; violence occupied, in fact, a prominent place in that collection. One could not even say that international violence - that is, war - Whad been fully ruled out. The Soviet outlook still allowed for the use of violence on the international scale in certain circumstances. Its lack of plans for instigating major warfare at that particular time rested primarily on the peculiarities of a given situation which rendered such an idea unpromising and inexpedient. Were the Western world to fall into a state of military weakness that constituted a direct invitation to cheap and easy aggression, it was quite possible that Soviet thinking might change. Or again, were the political war to progress favorably enough from the Soviet standpoint, it was always possible that a decision might be taken to use the Red Army in the wake of successful political operations, for purposes of giving the decisive push or conducting the mopping-up operations at minor cost. Any drastic alteration in the terms and course of the cold war, either to Soviet advantage or disadvantage, might in fact have operated to alter the Soviet attitude on war.
Moscow had considered the successful instigation of civil war in a third country as a perfectly fair and acceptable political expedient, which anyone was entitled to get away with if he had the skill and enterprise to do so.
-- George F. Kennan, U.S. ambassador to Moscow, 1952
"And it gave fresh ammunition to a cottage industry that loves to bash The Times as a bastion of the 'liberal media.'"
-- New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt on the MoveOn.org ad, Sept. 23, 2007
"Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is."
-- headline and first paragraph of column by New York Times public editor Daniel Okrent, July 25, 2004
OK - how else would you make a close analogy to a massive nuclear explosion in space? Maybe use something that is, I don't know - similar? Oh, no, we can't have that, now everything is a sad commentary on society. Sir, I think it says more about your outlook that you always look for ways to find fault with others and then cluck your tongue reproachfully.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with bypassing the gfw, it's entirely domestic. Chinese people actually consider it patriotic to track down miscreants this way. The phenomenon is known as the 'human flesh search engine' and they are scarily good at posting a person's full info. Then, the serious creeps start working on you - calling your boss, your mother, the principal of your old high school. Of course, charlatans can be exposed this way, too. One essay from a Chinese girl extolling the pleasures of foreign men and denigrating Chinese men was found out to the the work of a dickless virgin male university student who was pissed off that he couldn't get any.
I heard so much about the service, I finally signed up for it to see what all the hullabaloo was about. I found a desert in which people were wholly absorbed in themselves (sad) or trying to bask in the reflected glory from other twitter users (sadder, if possible). There were some worthwhile pieces there, but the signal-to-noise ratio was quite poor - nothing even close to the "quality" of slashdot's content. What's really disturbing is seeing respected journalists tossing off references to twitter like it's some service the entire world is familiar with.
Something I find totally irritating is that a +5 Informative comment can't just stand on its own mountain of awesome, but some geek has to jump in and bask in its reflected glory, pointing out all the things that made the comment awesome (which were already obvious to the casual observer, Sherlock).
Well, I was with you, sorta, until that last paragraph. Attacking a town's livelihood isn't going to win you any friends no matter which nation you're in. You'd be better off driving out into the countryside and find a dark spot, instead of trying to impose your will on your fellow citizens (who, by your tone, are simpletons and idiots who can't see the obvious supremacy of your ideas). Frankly, this is the one characteristic that all treehugger nutjobs share.
Easy, quick, can make a noose out of the nearest curtain cord, certain (if nobody discovers you for a few minutes).
I can only wish that despicable people from our own culture would show honor. But, all that was beaten out of us and now a man who uses a word like 'honor' in public would be giggled at.
So...China is set to follow the path of Japan. Because all those yellow people look alike, eh? This is like saying that Botswana will follow the path of Ukraine, they have nothing in common and Asian appearance is the only thing they have in common. Hence, the racism that everyone seems to have no problem with.
Did you drive a Japanese car in 1970? They were crap, and rightly ridiculed. They became popular for 2 reasons: the oil embargo and the beginning of the end for American carmakers (finally finished last week). When the workers are pushing defective products out the door to show their contempt for the company, the competition's cars are going to look good.
In addition, because something happened to Japan doesn't mean the same will happen to China. Making assumptions like this is the worst sort of racism ("all those people are the same").
How can software engineers call themselves engineers? If an engineer designs a car and it crashes due to easily-avoidable defects, he goes to jail. If an "engineer" designs software and it crashes due to easily-avoidable defects, it's considered unavoidable.
Well, it would just be supplementary. Presumably it could monitor how long a human should pedal for, and then stop for a while until it determined you needed more. You'd keep fit while just sitting around on teh internet, and you'd get these ripped guys with pale faces and acne who would be the next phenomenon 'discovered' by Wired for a beefcake photo shoot.
Well, I was referring to a site where you are redirected to another language's page. I use bilingual sites all the time, and if they've got two versions then they'll have the button up there somewhere to change to Chinese. The reverse is also true, just scan the Chinese for the magical word "English".
It's a cultural change, games requiring motion. In ten years, any game controlled by a gamepad will be considered unplayable, and gamers will be known for fine physiques. I've been wanting this to happen for a long time. Why can't your computer be powered partly by a bicycle wheel, while the computer monitors your exercise and requests power from time to time? Don't pedal when the computer tells you to, and your computer shuts down. Expansion kits for arms and torso exercises.
Oh, right - this discriminates against the disabled. Well, it was a good idea while it lasted.
Nothing wrong here, just environmentalists doing their thing. They also think we should stop exploring Mars, as we might disturb the environment there, too. They view space exploration as nothing more than a virus looking for new hosts to infect.
It's always 3 groups who get the invasive technology before all others: prisoners, children, and the military. They all have fewer rights than anyone else in society. In all 3 cases, we say it is for their own good; prisoners so they stay where they are, children so they don't wander off, and soldiers so that you can see them on the blue force tracker.
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If they were Africans, you might have a point, but it can hardly be called racism by lumping all Europeans together under a single name.
On the other hand, the PC browser market for Opera is essentially an afterthought - their paying customers are in embedded systems.
No worries! Patriotic Chinese engineers working for Cisco and other companies will insert their own government's backdoors into American products.
And to pretend that these have any sort of equal power is just ridiculous. Let's see: on the right there is Fox and AM radio. Are you kidding me?? Freaking AM radio? *That* leftover from the 50s is the great fortress of rightism?
Large numbers of people, both in Western Europe and in the United States, were incapable of understanding the Russian technique of penetration and "partial war" or of thinking in terms of this technique. They were capable of thinking about international developments only in the old-fashioned terms of full-fledged war or full-fledged peace. It was inconceivable to them that there could be real and serious threats to the independence of their countries that did not come to them in the form of foreign armies marching across frontiers; and it was natural that in undertaking to combat what they conceived to be a foreign threat they should have turned to the old-fashioned and familiar expedient of military alliance. They had understood that there was a threat; but they had not understood the nature of that threat, and were hardly capable of doing so.
Nor was it possible for anyone to argue that this outlook was wholly wrong. In the first place, the use of violence had never been ruled out of the Soviet bag of tricks; violence occupied, in fact, a prominent place in that collection. One could not even say that international violence - that is, war - Whad been fully ruled out. The Soviet outlook still allowed for the use of violence on the international scale in certain circumstances. Its lack of plans for instigating major warfare at that particular time rested primarily on the peculiarities of a given situation which rendered such an idea unpromising and inexpedient. Were the Western world to fall into a state of military weakness that constituted a direct invitation to cheap and easy aggression, it was quite possible that Soviet thinking might change. Or again, were the political war to progress favorably enough from the Soviet standpoint, it was always possible that a decision might be taken to use the Red Army in the wake of successful political operations, for purposes of giving the decisive push or conducting the mopping-up operations at minor cost. Any drastic alteration in the terms and course of the cold war, either to Soviet advantage or disadvantage, might in fact have operated to alter the Soviet attitude on war.
Moscow had considered the successful instigation of civil war in a third country as a perfectly fair and acceptable political expedient, which anyone was entitled to get away with if he had the skill and enterprise to do so.
-- George F. Kennan, U.S. ambassador to Moscow, 1952
-- New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt on the MoveOn.org ad, Sept. 23, 2007
"Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is."
-- headline and first paragraph of column by New York Times public editor Daniel Okrent, July 25, 2004
OK - how else would you make a close analogy to a massive nuclear explosion in space? Maybe use something that is, I don't know - similar? Oh, no, we can't have that, now everything is a sad commentary on society. Sir, I think it says more about your outlook that you always look for ways to find fault with others and then cluck your tongue reproachfully.
Q: why is starting a comment in the Subject: line annoying?
This has nothing whatsoever to do with bypassing the gfw, it's entirely domestic. Chinese people actually consider it patriotic to track down miscreants this way. The phenomenon is known as the 'human flesh search engine' and they are scarily good at posting a person's full info. Then, the serious creeps start working on you - calling your boss, your mother, the principal of your old high school. Of course, charlatans can be exposed this way, too. One essay from a Chinese girl extolling the pleasures of foreign men and denigrating Chinese men was found out to the the work of a dickless virgin male university student who was pissed off that he couldn't get any.
I heard so much about the service, I finally signed up for it to see what all the hullabaloo was about. I found a desert in which people were wholly absorbed in themselves (sad) or trying to bask in the reflected glory from other twitter users (sadder, if possible). There were some worthwhile pieces there, but the signal-to-noise ratio was quite poor - nothing even close to the "quality" of slashdot's content. What's really disturbing is seeing respected journalists tossing off references to twitter like it's some service the entire world is familiar with.
If you're citing wikipedia as a source, you're doing it wrong.
This is such a stupid question. Become the BOFH! Can there be any other answer?
Something I find totally irritating is that a +5 Informative comment can't just stand on its own mountain of awesome, but some geek has to jump in and bask in its reflected glory, pointing out all the things that made the comment awesome (which were already obvious to the casual observer, Sherlock).
Well, I was with you, sorta, until that last paragraph. Attacking a town's livelihood isn't going to win you any friends no matter which nation you're in. You'd be better off driving out into the countryside and find a dark spot, instead of trying to impose your will on your fellow citizens (who, by your tone, are simpletons and idiots who can't see the obvious supremacy of your ideas). Frankly, this is the one characteristic that all treehugger nutjobs share.
I can only wish that despicable people from our own culture would show honor. But, all that was beaten out of us and now a man who uses a word like 'honor' in public would be giggled at.
So...China is set to follow the path of Japan. Because all those yellow people look alike, eh? This is like saying that Botswana will follow the path of Ukraine, they have nothing in common and Asian appearance is the only thing they have in common. Hence, the racism that everyone seems to have no problem with.
In addition, because something happened to Japan doesn't mean the same will happen to China. Making assumptions like this is the worst sort of racism ("all those people are the same").
Let me equally obviously point out the fact that the Kama Sutra is not what you think it is. Please stop this blatant misrepresentation.
How can software engineers call themselves engineers? If an engineer designs a car and it crashes due to easily-avoidable defects, he goes to jail. If an "engineer" designs software and it crashes due to easily-avoidable defects, it's considered unavoidable.
Well, it would just be supplementary. Presumably it could monitor how long a human should pedal for, and then stop for a while until it determined you needed more. You'd keep fit while just sitting around on teh internet, and you'd get these ripped guys with pale faces and acne who would be the next phenomenon 'discovered' by Wired for a beefcake photo shoot.
Well, I was referring to a site where you are redirected to another language's page. I use bilingual sites all the time, and if they've got two versions then they'll have the button up there somewhere to change to Chinese. The reverse is also true, just scan the Chinese for the magical word "English".
Oh, right - this discriminates against the disabled. Well, it was a good idea while it lasted.
Nothing wrong here, just environmentalists doing their thing. They also think we should stop exploring Mars, as we might disturb the environment there, too. They view space exploration as nothing more than a virus looking for new hosts to infect.
Wait, you lost me there with ethics and lawyers in the same sentence.
It's always 3 groups who get the invasive technology before all others: prisoners, children, and the military. They all have fewer rights than anyone else in society. In all 3 cases, we say it is for their own good; prisoners so they stay where they are, children so they don't wander off, and soldiers so that you can see them on the blue force tracker.