Why they don't assasinate Saddam or Slobodan is because it is illegal by internationnal laws to assasinate a nation leader, evend during war. And if they were killed, it would be obvious who did it...
Why would someone want to kill the president ? Just send in a horny intern and take some pictures, then let the moroons in the media and the opposition take care of the rest;-).
It's pretty easy to "kill" politically somebody in the US - country of the biggots : put in a woman, some charges of "sexual harrasment" (true or false, doesn't matter) and this is it !
The thing is - European are usually more suspicious of new-technology, so they don't jump on it at first sight. When they go for it the technology has gotten more mature and they get more up-to-date equipment. That's what happen with the cell-phones : the US started first, but now they have this loosy analog cell phones while all Europe is digital (GSM), because they started later.
Now it is. Anyway most people don't know a damn thing about the previous encryption laws and everybody was using whatever encryption package was available on the Web (ie. PGP). As far as I know nobody has ever been arrested because of that.
I quite agree - whatever the US wants the UK agree. They always try to stop whatever the EU tries to do. Especially when the EU want to fight back US trade tax raise, there 14 votes pro and 1 con : the UK of course !
And of course they drive on the WRONG side of the road;-)
Well - not online. Just open the Sun or the Daily mirror, then read all the junk about the spice girls private life or the naked pictures of royal familly members caught sunbathing in their garden. Read the violent comments against Europe all well as the rumors they propagate about how the EU (there was one saying that the EU wanted to change the size of the English pint of beer - which was 100% bullshit of course).
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Err - not anymore - at least product using keys of up to 128 bits is completely free. 40 key with legal before but required a licence first.
supported and put in place by the nice guys of the CIA. Did organise mass killing and torture for years. Now the US try to stop Pinochet trial in Europe in fear that the nice US foreign policy would be put to light.
Yep, the English entered the EU because they had no choice, and now try to destroy it from inside. The majority of the local population is against Europe, thanks to the lies propagated by their trashy newspaper.
I find it funny that an English company is so affraid of diffamatory articles when the Sun and the Daily mirror publish such garbage everyday without any problem - and even worse, with many readers (yuck ! two bad thing in England : food and newspaper).
As rude as this might be - some parts of DirectX are pretty good. I played with DirectDraw (2D acceleration) and there's everything there to make some good 2D video games using hardware acceleration. I'm speaking about multiplan scrolling and zillions of sprite. There's nothing to do that on Linux, at least nothing that talk straight to the hardware like it. OpenGL is fine for 3D but for making a good shoot-them-up (yes I know, it's outdated but I love them), DirectDraw is the only good thing out there (thought I think the framebuffer console is a step in this direction).
Same thing for sound - making sound is one thing, but using the hardware to mix 64 sound streams is another thing, and this require some good API that can handle modern hardware. Where are the 3D sound API on Linux ?
Hum - I've been trying PERL for writing CGI, but switched to PHP3 real quick. Frankly, I haven't used PERL that much to talk about it, but it seems to me that PHP3 is way better, at least as for as Web development goes. Could anyone explain why PERL is so popular ? I don't really get it.
This is going to push ever further the necessity of free haven for software : countries where laws about reverse ingeneering/software patents/copyrights don't exist. They already do that with cryptographic code which is made out of the US to get around export laws. Also BladeEnc (MP3 encoder) is made in Sweden because software patents don't apply there. Internationnal laws state that all actions are subject to the local laws where it is done, so you can't sue in the US somebody for a crime (RE ?) commited in a country where it is legal.
It will probably be illegal in France at least, where the local privacy agency (CNIL) is very strict and won't allow a software vendor to mess with another company software without strict permissions.
Besides, the consummer defense lobby is overrall strong in Europe (they even plan to push the minimum legal warranty on all products to 2 years) and the software lobby is weak. This law seems to be made by and for the software lobby, so it is obviously very US centric.
Yep but at night the solar cells are useless, which means you need to store energy on batteries. As batteries are today, it's not good at all : you have to throw them away after a number of charge/discharge cycles. In the end more pollution than a good nuclear plant.
Besides, there's one cool thing : surgenerator. Those plants make energy out of nuclear waste. Except those stupid French ecologist stopped SuperPhoenix last year:-(
The moon is boring - no atmosphere, very low gravity. Mars is closer to earth and might be made habitable someday WITHOUT living underground.
Yet I think we need to find some industrial application for space exploration, if we want to colonize. No governement is going to pay for the fun of colonizing. What is driving research and investment into space lunching vehicules is the sattelite market, so we need something to motivate investors...
Sure, the earth might accept more people, but : a) they can't all live like the American do (wasting huge quantity of resources). If the 6 billion humans on this planet lived like them, the earth would be already dead b) some people like space. Not everybody want's to live in 5 square meters in an overpopulated city c) food is good, but we need mineral resources too. Earth reserves of metals are not endless, and we need more of we want to do keep our (western) life standard for the next decades.
Do you know that in some country people repair dead light bulbs ? Now go to McDonalds and look at all the junk plastic that is wasted... look at those big Chevy trucks that drink gas like a loaded 747... space exploration is going to be a necessity to this (sick)civilization (since most MTV couch-potatoes will probably refuse to move their asses to make their lifestyle more earth-friendly).
Not anymore - they all use Viagra now;-) . If this is not the pill of "power and competition", I don't know what it is (insert your favorite viagra joke here).
Hum - it was a sarcastic article, it is NOT REAL. I knew guns advocates didn't had any humor...
I think this Onion article makes a good point at showing how stupid the NRA and other guns lovers can get when it comes to defend their right to play with their toys...
They said the earth was flat - they were wrong They said the earth was the center of the universe - they were wrong again They said you couldn't go faster that sound - they were still wrong They say you can't go faster than light...
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This reminds me of 1984, where they change the language to better control people thoughts...
Why they don't assasinate Saddam or Slobodan is because it is illegal by internationnal laws to assasinate a nation leader, evend during war. And if they were killed, it would be obvious who did it...
Next thing they'll send the CIA assasinnate Airbus executives. With this kind of "moral" everything becomes possible.
Why would someone want to kill the president ? Just send in a horny intern and take some pictures, then let the moroons in the media and the opposition take care of the rest ;-).
It's pretty easy to "kill" politically somebody in the US - country of the biggots : put in a woman, some charges of "sexual harrasment" (true or false, doesn't matter) and this is it !
The thing is - European are usually more suspicious of new-technology, so they don't jump on it at first sight. When they go for it the technology has gotten more mature and they get more up-to-date equipment. That's what happen with the cell-phones : the US started first, but now they have this loosy analog cell phones while all Europe is digital (GSM), because they started later.
And France has been 100% digital even before that - they even claimed to be the first country with all-digital phone network.
Now it is. Anyway most people don't know a damn thing about the previous encryption laws and everybody was using whatever encryption package was available on the Web (ie. PGP). As far as I know nobody has ever been arrested because of that.
I quite agree - whatever the US wants the UK agree. They always try to stop whatever the EU tries to do. Especially when the EU want to fight back US trade tax raise, there 14 votes pro and 1 con : the UK of course !
;-)
And of course they drive on the WRONG side of the road
Well - not online. Just open the Sun or the Daily mirror, then read all the junk about the spice girls private life or the naked pictures of royal familly members caught sunbathing in their garden. Read the violent comments against Europe all well as the rumors they propagate about how the EU (there was one saying that the EU wanted to change the size of the English pint of beer - which was 100% bullshit of course).
Err - not anymore - at least product using keys of up to 128 bits is completely free. 40 key with legal before but required a licence first.
Augusto Pinochet
supported and put in place by the nice guys of the CIA. Did organise mass killing and torture for years. Now the US try to stop Pinochet trial in Europe in fear that the nice US foreign policy would be put to light.
Yep, the English entered the EU because they had no choice, and now try to destroy it from inside. The majority of the local population is against Europe, thanks to the lies propagated by their trashy newspaper.
There's more to DirectX than Direct3D ! DirectDraw is neat and fast for example.
I find it funny that an English company is so affraid of diffamatory articles when the Sun and the Daily mirror publish such garbage everyday without any problem - and even worse, with many readers (yuck ! two bad thing in England : food and newspaper).
As rude as this might be - some parts of DirectX are pretty good. I played with DirectDraw (2D acceleration) and there's everything there to make some good 2D video games using hardware acceleration. I'm speaking about multiplan scrolling and zillions of sprite. There's nothing to do that on Linux, at least nothing that talk straight to the hardware like it. OpenGL is fine for 3D but for making a good shoot-them-up (yes I know, it's outdated but I love them), DirectDraw is the only good thing out there (thought I think the framebuffer console is a step in this direction).
Same thing for sound - making sound is one thing, but using the hardware to mix 64 sound streams is another thing, and this require some good API that can handle modern hardware. Where are the 3D sound API on Linux ?
Err - NT DOES have DirectX 3.0, and Winblows 2000 (aka NT 5) have full DirectX 6 support (rumors says DirectX 7).
So far Linux lacks a good gaming API. OpenGL is good for 3D, but what about 2D, sound, midi, etc... ?
Hum - I've been trying PERL for writing CGI, but switched to PHP3 real quick. Frankly, I haven't used PERL that much to talk about it, but it seems to me that PHP3 is way better, at least as for as Web development goes. Could anyone explain why PERL is so popular ? I don't really get it.
This is going to push ever further the necessity of free haven for software : countries where laws about reverse ingeneering/software patents/copyrights don't exist. They already do that with cryptographic code which is made out of the US to get around export laws. Also BladeEnc (MP3 encoder) is made in Sweden because software patents don't apply there. Internationnal laws state that all actions are subject to the local laws where it is done, so you can't sue in the US somebody for a crime (RE ?) commited in a country where it is legal.
It will probably be illegal in France at least, where the local privacy agency (CNIL) is very strict and won't allow a software vendor to mess with another company software without strict permissions.
Besides, the consummer defense lobby is overrall strong in Europe (they even plan to push the minimum legal warranty on all products to 2 years) and the software lobby is weak. This law seems to be made by and for the software lobby, so it is obviously very US centric.
Yep but at night the solar cells are useless, which means you need to store energy on batteries. As batteries are today, it's not good at all : you have to throw them away after a number of charge/discharge cycles. In the end more pollution than a good nuclear plant.
:-(
Besides, there's one cool thing : surgenerator. Those plants make energy out of nuclear waste. Except those stupid French ecologist stopped SuperPhoenix last year
The moon is boring - no atmosphere, very low gravity. Mars is closer to earth and might be made habitable someday WITHOUT living underground.
Yet I think we need to find some industrial application for space exploration, if we want to colonize. No governement is going to pay for the fun of colonizing. What is driving research and investment into space lunching vehicules is the sattelite market, so we need something to motivate investors...
Sure, the earth might accept more people, but :
a) they can't all live like the American do (wasting huge quantity of resources). If the 6 billion humans on this planet lived like them, the earth would be already dead
b) some people like space. Not everybody want's to live in 5 square meters in an overpopulated city
c) food is good, but we need mineral resources too. Earth reserves of metals are not endless, and we need more of we want to do keep our (western) life standard for the next decades.
Do you know that in some country people repair dead light bulbs ? Now go to McDonalds and look at all the junk plastic that is wasted... look at those big Chevy trucks that drink gas like a loaded 747... space exploration is going to be a necessity to this (sick)civilization (since most MTV couch-potatoes will probably refuse to move their asses to make their lifestyle more earth-friendly).
Not anymore - they all use Viagra now ;-) . If this is not the pill of "power and competition", I don't know what it is (insert your favorite viagra joke here).
Hum - it was a sarcastic article, it is NOT REAL. I knew guns advocates didn't had any humor...
I think this Onion article makes a good point at showing how stupid the NRA and other guns lovers can get when it comes to defend their right to play with their toys...
As somebody said "Small penis, big gun"
They said the earth was flat - they were wrong
They said the earth was the center of the universe - they were wrong again
They said you couldn't go faster that sound - they were still wrong
They say you can't go faster than light...