Somebody should look into the Korean war, and I believe it's you. The sticks you're talking about were tanks (even if the U.S. had been there in any appreciable numbers it wasn't ready for tanks because it had believed the terrain made using tanks impossible) and other Russian equipment.Are you telling me that they weren't using actual sticks and actual stones? I'm shocked, I'm telling you, shocked! My world is shattering before my eyes! Litterally, falling into small pieces, not, you know, some kind of FIGURE OF SPEECH, but actually crumbling on the floor!
The U.S. military had gotten fat, dumb & happy after World War II, which is why Task Force Smith was wiped out. We had also all but abandoned the country militarily.Abandoned, as in the same way you abandoned Vietnam and you're soon to abandon Iraq as per the will of 80%+ of its inhabitants? How feeble of you, to actually obey the will of the people!
Some just ignore the old military rules, which is one thing. There are a few military rules that I know of, and that you're supposed to know of, as they're parts of treaties your country signed and ratified. I'm talking about the Geneva convention, and the UN charter, which follows from the Nürnberg trials.
And those rules say one thing clearly, that there is one crime that encompasses all other crimes, it's the war crime, the crime against peace; and that crime includes any form of military action against a sovereign nation that is not either duly authorized by the U.N. security council or an act of self defense.
The Korean war wasn't technically such a crime, as it was somehow authorized by the security council (at the time USSR was boycotting it and therefore did not veto it, and the Chinese seat was held by Taiwan, not the PRC). But Vietnam and Iraq qualify for war crimes, and so do Panama and many other south American ventures.
Others abandon all human decency, which is something else.What's decent about dumping tons of cluster bombs over civilians? That's what your army did in Iraq, and that's what your israeli subsidiary did just last summer over Lebanon. And it's a fucking war crime.
Either way, being successful at it doesn't make them good and it doesn't make them right. Actually, what makes it right is that they're attacking an occupying force. Self defense. A distant relative of mine was wanted as a terrorist back in 1943. He blew up a few nazis alright.
Speaking of decency, I'll tell you what, what about those Blackwater mercenaries in Iraq? They're fucking illegal combattants.
And when it gets down to using civilians as shields and so forth, I'd argue it certainly doesn't make them the kind of people you want to end up in charge of your country.Ah ah ah that old bullshit. You guys drop cluster bombs over populated areas and well, tough shit, any civilian casualty is conveniently labelled post-facto as a "human shield."
Now that's fucking convenient.
Iraq had no WMDs. Iraq never attacked the US. The US invaded Iraq withouth UNSC approval. War crime. Nürnberg trial -- look it up. You're no better than nazis. Simple. Fact.
The US army was state of the art in the 50s, yet it lost a straight war against an army equipped with, basically, sticks & stones. And it fucking lost. (sidenote: I'm not a big fan of Kim Il Jong and his daddy, but remember that SK was a bloody dictatorship until not too long ago; it became a democracy in spite of the US, not thanks to it)
NK and China just basically threw millions of expendable grunts at the US.
in a study from John Hopkins University published in the Lancet. Their estimate is actually between 450 000 and one million.
But hey, who should you believe, renowned epidemiologists from a reputable institution publishing in the world leading medical journal, or Haliburton Corp. and its subsidiary on Pennsylvania Ave.? I know, tough choice.
I want to do everything possible to get the barbaric bastards who keep killing innocent people.
This guy is responsible for the death of many more innocents than any "islamofascist" I can think of.
And if I am to trust the Lancet and John Hopkins university, and I certainly trust them more than Fox News, G.W. Bush is responsible for the death of a few hundred times more innocents than this guy.
The real problem with the OLPC is that we have literally millions of good machines we are dumping as waste, calling them "obsolete".
We are calling them obsolete because they are. OLPCs use very little electricity. An old refurbished PC would use up so much electricity that an OLPC would pay for itself in a year or two.
In case you haven't heard the news, energy prices are up and making electricity requires burning stuff, which in turns releases CO2 in the atmosphere.
Yeah, let's be thankful to authoritarian military cocksuckers for showing us how a reasonable education policy is done. We should listen to those types more carefully, I'm pretty sure they have much to teach us in other realms as well. Right now I'm thinking civil rights, women's rights and labor laws. I can see it now, why bother providing schoolchildren with laptops, when they could serve their country much better toiling 12h a day in sweat shops.
The guy has realized that his dictator friends might not have much interested in a learnèd populace. After all, that's what (real) democracies are about, and Thailand's a democracy no more.
When the police paralyzes you with a stun gun, and tells you to stand up, you better stand up but since you can't, you get shocked again. And again. And again. And again.
When the police tell you to show your ID, you show you ID.
When racist bigotted pigs make a beeline for the only middle-eastern looking guy in a crowded room, don't call it racism. You don't have civil rights. You have the right to shut the fuck up. Welcome to Amerikkka.
a young Arab male with a backpack being belligerent in a crowded place
The guy was of Iranian origin, therefore not an Arab. But who am I kidding, you right wing american fucktard could'nt care less about what is what, it would require some thinking and that's what terrorist-loving leftist European effetes do.
If you use a broad definition then maybe it is torture but tasers do have valid uses in police work and are far more humane than the alternatives
Tasers might have valid uses, but the case at hand isn't one of them; and, yes, using a taser on an unarmed, handcuffed person on the ground IS torture. They shock him to get him to do what they want. Causing physical pain to someone intentionally IS torture. It's not a "broad definition" it IS the definition.
The alternative to tasers in this case is not guns or batons; it's to not do anything harmful as it was obviously not necessary.
Correct me if I'm wrong... but doesn't IBM pay dozens of developers to work on the Eclipse platform? Free, Open Source and all. And what about Apache Derby?
Doesn't Google release many tools under FOSS licenses?
As for Sun... yeah they really suck hard, they only contributed minor thingies such as OpenOffice, Apache Tomcat, Java, and OpenSolaris.
Oh for fuck's sake, the US government was universally condemned for ITS intervention in Nicaragua. IIRC the world court ordered them to pay reparation to Nicaragua, and not Cuba!!!
Can you explain to me how a democratically elected president (as confirmed by president Carter himself) is a dictator? Oh, that's right, Carter is a tool of the evil socialist plot.
As for the antisemitism bullshit part... did you know that Amy Goodman (Democracy Now's anchor) is jewish? Oh right, she's a self-hating jew just like Chomsky... riiight.
It's equivalent (or nearest) today is the 'free market economy'.
I'm not sure if that's what you mean with the quotes around "free market economy", but the point here, what makes the current trend dangerously similar to fascism, is that the market is not actually that free.
Proponents of the free market theory, well at least those who actually mean "free" when they say "free market", recognize that it requires three very basic conditions:
1. Consumers must be rational, and able to make rational economic decisions.
2. They must be free to exercise choice.
3. They must have access to information to base their choice.
It's easy to see that when megacorporations hold quasi-monopolies or oligopolistic cartels as they currently do, there is often little actual choice (condition 2). When said megacorps own the mass media, condition 3 goes out the window. Finally, I would wager that the constant barrage of advertising, the constant appeal to primal emotions such as lust, greed, pride and fear, obliterate condition 1.
So there you are: even admitting that a "free market" economy would be the best thing, it just doesn't apply anyway.
Here's a point worth considering in the case of the Netherlands & drugs: we're talking about basically the only stable country in the world where drugs are, in effect, legalized. It would be quite a coincidence that it would happen to be an outlier in this respect. If it were an island in the middle of the pacific ocean, thousands of kilometers away from other civilizations, with a specific culture / diet / environment... but here we're talking about medium size country, which resembles very much its many neighbours in all respects.
Cancer wasn't a problem 10,000 years ago, probably because nobody lived beyond 30!
Chimps routinely reach 40 years of age, and not so rarely 50, in the wild.
I seriously doubt our not so distant ancestors were worse off, esp. considering that having grand parents to take care of the juveniles while parents are foraging/hunting is quite evolutionary advantageous.
What happens is that, unless you have a perfect resistor as a load (nothing but an incandescent light bulb basically), voltage and current are not in sync. Power, measured in Watt, is the product of voltage by current, AT A GIVEN TIME.
But if you read what's display on a AC voltmeter, it will show you the max voltage in the sinusoid. Same goes for current, you will read the max.
In reality, being Alternating Current, both are a sinusoid function. Intensity could be zero while voltage is at its max. In effect, that translates to zero power being transmitted at that particular time.
VM marginally increases support costs due to incompatibilities
VM decreases support costs -- no matter what kind of hardware you have, the guest OS will see a BusLogic or LSI Logic SCSI adapter; it will also see only one type of display device, one type of keyboard, mouse, CD ROM, network device and so on.
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Somebody should look into the Korean war, and I believe it's you. The sticks you're talking about were tanks (even if the U.S. had been there in any appreciable numbers it wasn't ready for tanks because it had believed the terrain made using tanks impossible) and other Russian equipment.Are you telling me that they weren't using actual sticks and actual stones? I'm shocked, I'm telling you, shocked! My world is shattering before my eyes! Litterally, falling into small pieces, not, you know, some kind of FIGURE OF SPEECH, but actually crumbling on the floor! The U.S. military had gotten fat, dumb & happy after World War II, which is why Task Force Smith was wiped out. We had also all but abandoned the country militarily.Abandoned, as in the same way you abandoned Vietnam and you're soon to abandon Iraq as per the will of 80%+ of its inhabitants? How feeble of you, to actually obey the will of the people! Some just ignore the old military rules, which is one thing. There are a few military rules that I know of, and that you're supposed to know of, as they're parts of treaties your country signed and ratified. I'm talking about the Geneva convention, and the UN charter, which follows from the Nürnberg trials.
And those rules say one thing clearly, that there is one crime that encompasses all other crimes, it's the war crime, the crime against peace; and that crime includes any form of military action against a sovereign nation that is not either duly authorized by the U.N. security council or an act of self defense.
The Korean war wasn't technically such a crime, as it was somehow authorized by the security council (at the time USSR was boycotting it and therefore did not veto it, and the Chinese seat was held by Taiwan, not the PRC). But Vietnam and Iraq qualify for war crimes, and so do Panama and many other south American ventures. Others abandon all human decency, which is something else.What's decent about dumping tons of cluster bombs over civilians? That's what your army did in Iraq, and that's what your israeli subsidiary did just last summer over Lebanon. And it's a fucking war crime. Either way, being successful at it doesn't make them good and it doesn't make them right. Actually, what makes it right is that they're attacking an occupying force. Self defense. A distant relative of mine was wanted as a terrorist back in 1943. He blew up a few nazis alright.
Speaking of decency, I'll tell you what, what about those Blackwater mercenaries in Iraq? They're fucking illegal combattants. And when it gets down to using civilians as shields and so forth, I'd argue it certainly doesn't make them the kind of people you want to end up in charge of your country.Ah ah ah that old bullshit. You guys drop cluster bombs over populated areas and well, tough shit, any civilian casualty is conveniently labelled post-facto as a "human shield."
Now that's fucking convenient.
Iraq had no WMDs. Iraq never attacked the US. The US invaded Iraq withouth UNSC approval. War crime. Nürnberg trial -- look it up. You're no better than nazis. Simple. Fact.
The US army was state of the art in the 50s, yet it lost a straight war against an army equipped with, basically, sticks & stones. And it fucking lost. (sidenote: I'm not a big fan of Kim Il Jong and his daddy, but remember that SK was a bloody dictatorship until not too long ago; it became a democracy in spite of the US, not thanks to it)
NK and China just basically threw millions of expendable grunts at the US.
in a study from John Hopkins University published in the Lancet. Their estimate is actually between 450 000 and one million.
But hey, who should you believe, renowned epidemiologists from a reputable institution publishing in the world leading medical journal, or Haliburton Corp. and its subsidiary on Pennsylvania Ave.? I know, tough choice.
This guy is responsible for the death of many more innocents than any "islamofascist" I can think of.
And if I am to trust the Lancet and John Hopkins university, and I certainly trust them more than Fox News, G.W. Bush is responsible for the death of a few hundred times more innocents than this guy.
So can you go get them, please.
Thanks,
Yours truly,
The World.
We are calling them obsolete because they are. OLPCs use very little electricity. An old refurbished PC would use up so much electricity that an OLPC would pay for itself in a year or two.
In case you haven't heard the news, energy prices are up and making electricity requires burning stuff, which in turns releases CO2 in the atmosphere.
Yeah, let's be thankful to authoritarian military cocksuckers for showing us how a reasonable education policy is done. We should listen to those types more carefully, I'm pretty sure they have much to teach us in other realms as well. Right now I'm thinking civil rights, women's rights and labor laws. I can see it now, why bother providing schoolchildren with laptops, when they could serve their country much better toiling 12h a day in sweat shops.
The guy has realized that his dictator friends might not have much interested in a learnèd populace. After all, that's what (real) democracies are about, and Thailand's a democracy no more.
I'm aware that there's a handful of crackpots out there who claim Einstein was wrong WRT relativity.
That doesn't qualify for "Scientific Debate."
Will you kindly point me towards the debate about the theory of gravity? The debate over the theory of electromagnetism? About generalized relativity?
When the police paralyzes you with a stun gun, and tells you to stand up, you better stand up but since you can't, you get shocked again. And again. And again. And again.
When racist bigotted pigs make a beeline for the only middle-eastern looking guy in a crowded room, don't call it racism. You don't have civil rights. You have the right to shut the fuck up. Welcome to Amerikkka.
The guy was of Iranian origin, therefore not an Arab. But who am I kidding, you right wing american fucktard could'nt care less about what is what, it would require some thinking and that's what terrorist-loving leftist European effetes do.
Tasers might have valid uses, but the case at hand isn't one of them; and, yes, using a taser on an unarmed, handcuffed person on the ground IS torture. They shock him to get him to do what they want. Causing physical pain to someone intentionally IS torture. It's not a "broad definition" it IS the definition.
The alternative to tasers in this case is not guns or batons; it's to not do anything harmful as it was obviously not necessary.
The alternative was shooting? Shooting an unarmed, handcuffed person lying on the ground? Are you nuts?
Correct me if I'm wrong ... but doesn't IBM pay dozens of developers to work on the Eclipse platform? Free, Open Source and all. And what about Apache Derby?
... yeah they really suck hard, they only contributed minor thingies such as OpenOffice, Apache Tomcat, Java, and OpenSolaris.
Doesn't Google release many tools under FOSS licenses?
As for Sun
"I really don't care whether Goodman and Chomsky are Jewish or not. "
Of course you don't care, since it makes your assertion completely ridiculous. If you'd care, you would'nt make it.
Oh for fuck's sake, the US government was universally condemned for ITS intervention in Nicaragua. IIRC the world court ordered them to pay reparation to Nicaragua, and not Cuba!!!
Can you explain to me how a democratically elected president (as confirmed by president Carter himself) is a dictator? Oh, that's right, Carter is a tool of the evil socialist plot.
... did you know that Amy Goodman (Democracy Now's anchor) is jewish? Oh right, she's a self-hating jew just like Chomsky ... riiight.
As for the antisemitism bullshit part
I'm not sure if that's what you mean with the quotes around "free market economy", but the point here, what makes the current trend dangerously similar to fascism, is that the market is not actually that free.
Proponents of the free market theory, well at least those who actually mean "free" when they say "free market", recognize that it requires three very basic conditions:
1. Consumers must be rational, and able to make rational economic decisions.
2. They must be free to exercise choice.
3. They must have access to information to base their choice.
It's easy to see that when megacorporations hold quasi-monopolies or oligopolistic cartels as they currently do, there is often little actual choice (condition 2). When said megacorps own the mass media, condition 3 goes out the window. Finally, I would wager that the constant barrage of advertising, the constant appeal to primal emotions such as lust, greed, pride and fear, obliterate condition 1.
So there you are: even admitting that a "free market" economy would be the best thing, it just doesn't apply anyway.
That's an interesting point.
... but here we're talking about medium size country, which resembles very much its many neighbours in all respects.
Here's a point worth considering in the case of the Netherlands & drugs: we're talking about basically the only stable country in the world where drugs are, in effect, legalized. It would be quite a coincidence that it would happen to be an outlier in this respect. If it were an island in the middle of the pacific ocean, thousands of kilometers away from other civilizations, with a specific culture / diet / environment
Perhaps, but in that case, this doesn't apply. Quite the contrary.
Corrolary: Non-correlation disproves causality.
A & !B => !(A => B)
Hence the war on drugs is bullshit.
Chimps routinely reach 40 years of age, and not so rarely 50, in the wild.
I seriously doubt our not so distant ancestors were worse off, esp. considering that having grand parents to take care of the juveniles while parents are foraging/hunting is quite evolutionary advantageous.
The much larger address space allows for more leeway in memory management, even if you don't have over 4G.
For instance, nptl threads get a performance boost from not having to juggle around to save on stack space.
There are also advantages with prelinking.
Finally, even if you have "just" 4G in 32 bit, you won't be able to use all of it in one process, as the kernel needs some address space too.
Watts = VA * PF
VA = volt.ampere
PF = Power Factor
What happens is that, unless you have a perfect resistor as a load (nothing but an incandescent light bulb basically), voltage and current are not in sync. Power, measured in Watt, is the product of voltage by current, AT A GIVEN TIME.
But if you read what's display on a AC voltmeter, it will show you the max voltage in the sinusoid. Same goes for current, you will read the max.
In reality, being Alternating Current, both are a sinusoid function. Intensity could be zero while voltage is at its max. In effect, that translates to zero power being transmitted at that particular time.
16 bit floating point would be much more useful than 32 bit integer.
VM marginally increases support costs due to incompatibilities
VM decreases support costs -- no matter what kind of hardware you have, the guest OS will see a BusLogic or LSI Logic SCSI adapter; it will also see only one type of display device, one type of keyboard, mouse, CD ROM, network device and so on.