Sorry, perhaps I was trying too hard to make a point, I disagree entirly anything that involves killing, civilians or otherwise. I have been frustracted by the blind rage that has been coming out of the US the the past few months and how no one has been asking why these people felt they had to do what they did. Think for a moment about the millions who have died in Cuba and Iraqu due to US sanctions, and don't tell me those sanctions arn't for mostly ideological purposes (at least Cuba anyways), both regimes have ony had their power strengthened by facing the now more "deserving" US evil. You can kill innocent civilians in a variety of ways, you can fly an airplane into them, you can kill them in a retaliatory invation, you can sacntion them so they starve to death, you can blow up a phamacutical factory in Africa (how many dead of illness there?). Or you can stand idly by and just watch as millions starve, live in horrid conditions, and get killed in wars while all you get is a few aid packages while you see giant corporations trying to take over your country and pictures of happy, healthy, rich Americans on billboards everywhere while people are dying in the streets. What the terrorists did was cleary horrificly wrong, but if our approach is to go like Israel and just try to kill them and not address some of the underlying concerns you better be prepared for a lot of problems. Only a truly sick and deeply disturbed mind would think that this is an appropriate way to initiate constructive dialog. I don't disagree with you I'm just asking just how did that mind get so sick and deeply disturbed?
I was not stating that the actions of the terrorists were in any way justified, I was pointing out that THEY felt it was necessary. If you have a complaint with the actions of a government, you take appropriate diplomatic measures or you declare war. The fact is that I don't believe many of the people, or even the governments for that matter who have a problem with the US have the economic and political clout to have their concerns acknowledged. For them to effectivly leverage their concerns on the US in my mind would be the rough equivalent of a mom and pop software company effectivly suing Microsoft (and yes M$ owns the courts). Don't believe in the benevolance of the US, look at what Bush has done in the year or so since he was elected. First he got in WITHOUT popular support (there's democracy for ya), then the peace agreements in Israel collapsed, he pulled out of the AMB treaties, the Kyoto protocol, kept using land mines, and with this most recent engagement he ignored the geneva convention, I'm sure there are other things I've forgotten (he better pace himself). The fact is that if I was in a country who wasn't freinds with the US right now I'd be VERY worried, heck I'm in Canada and right now one of the provinces who's major industry is lumber is in a MASSIVE recession because of tariffs levied by the US that are in opposition of NAFTA! I strongly suspect that the now terrorists have probably tried many more peaceful alternatives. After all, despite popular belief the entire US-hating world isn't completely nuts. People are never going to go to the levels of extremism that Al-Queda (I'm sure I missplelt that) did without first trying easier alternatives. Wether it was right or not is beside the point, commiting an atrocity was the ONLY way that the world was going to care what was happening to them and might hopefully listen to some of their concerns. By the way, on an interesting side note someone told me today that the civilian casualties in Afghanastan have reached (or surpassed) the 3000-3500 of the WTC. I wonder if this includes killed Al-Queda fighters, after all since they're suposedly not soldiers when they're captured does that make them civilians when they're killed?
Okay, is anyone else VERY disturbed by the article. The secret report, which was provided to Congress on Jan. 8, says the Pentagon needs to be prepared to use nuclear weapons against China, Russia, Iraq, North Korea, Iran, Libya and Syria. It says the weapons could be used in three types of situations: against targets able to withstand nonnuclear attack; in retaliation for attack with nuclear, biological or chemical weapons; or "in the event of surprising military developments."
They are already on thin ice with 3/4 of the planet because of Bush's idiotic "axis of evil" statements and now they are threatening to start nuking people!?! Russia is going through enough trouble as it is. They're fighting internal difficulties and are still hot at the US over the olympics. A statement like this is just the excuse that hard line factions in any one of these countries (along with half the arab world) need to take power.
At a time when the US should be questioning, even for just a second, what they could have done that have convinced who knows how many terrorists that it is worth commiting SUICIDE as long as you die taking a shot at the US. When they should be thinking about why half the planet hates their guts and considers them pure evil? Maybe, just maybe they might have some legitimate beef to grind with the US. Now instead of trying to figure out what they've done wrong and trying to do better they invade and take over a nation. Remember that Afgahnistan, however repressive and unjust WAS a soveign nation who was attacked because they harboured an accussed terrorist who was never actually proven to be guilty, however obvious it seemed.
But now the US has bettered that, instead of just blowing the crap out of a third world nation (hey where have we heard that before) the US has just said that they're willing to nuke ~1.5 (a little on the low side) out of the 6 billion people on the planet!! At least two of the countries (China and Russia) are two of the most powerful countries on the planet and are supposedly on somewhat nice terms with the US. Now we all know Bush is a gun tolling, nuke happy, big buisness loving, illiterate moron but has his arrogance over the US as the worlds nice police man watching all the evil little bullies truly gotten this great?
You try fitting in 400 (I forget the exact count and it depends on the version anyways) pages, 9+ fully developed charcters, numerous subplots and a heap of other stuff in a 3 hr movie. For the most part I believe that translating a book into a is almost impossible. My general rule of thumb is "good book=bad movie" and "good movie=bad book", there is simply too many differences between the genres. When it comes to FoTR and Peter Jackson I personally think he did an admirable job, and made quite a good movie(I havn't talked to someone who didn't like it yet). I heard the origional movie was 6 hr long, you can see the evidence all over the place, I don't remember Gandalf ever teling Sam to stay with Frodo in the movie (I could be wrong there) although Sam states it numerous times, and did you notice the three stone trolls in the background when they're camping at night when the only mention of them was made in the party at the begainning. Where would you of fitted all the extra depth that you claim is so lacking? I personally hope that when it comes out on DVD it will include the FULL 6hr movie also. Can you imagine all 3 of them together in uncut form, 18 straight hr of LOTR!!! (then again it might be better to watch them over a few days;)
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I was the only person on our team that wasn't completing a Masters or a PHD in Physics, geeky enough for ya? That was a typo on my part, we were playing on the strong similarity in pronounciation between Indigo and Inigo, (I don't remember which we used but the d is almost silent).
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Your should of heard my flag football team's cadence: "INDIGO INDIGO... Hello, My name is Indigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to DIE!!"
With the current population 5,995,544,836 that makes the percent of the people online only about 8.3%. In reality it's probably even lower when you think about how many millions of those are using AOL connections;)
Maybe the people will also demonstrate more often because there is no longer the threat of deadly force (and they get more media attention from the cool slime:)
Than the chances are that because they had to resort to something that really ticked off the police that either they are getting really out of hand, in which case suppressive measures are required. However if they are truly right as you suggested they might be in your post the fact that the police are willing to supresse a legitimate protest at all (US not excluded) insinuates they may also be willing to use something not so friendly (i.e. rubber or rubber-coated bullets or even water cannons that can certainly hurt)
"MSFT Violated the Law" I nearly fell out of my seat when I saw the headline! Who would of ever guessed that a company as respectable as Microsoft could EVER do something that even remotly resembles violating the law!! Boy I'm so stunned I think I'm just going to turn off my computer and go watch some pro-wrestling, now at least that's something I KNOW is for real!
v. wended, wending, wends v. tr. To proceed on or along; go: wend one's way home. v. intr. To go one's way; proceed. [Middle English wenden, from Old English wendan.](Dictionary.com)
Should of read a little farther. Besides timothy didn't use it right, Sinistar2k did. If it was up to the editors it would probably be "Macrosoft Triel Wids Onwarde"
If the settlement continues to carry on (like M$ keeps on trying to make it do) and they continue this assertion this might seriously hurt windows dominance. Corporations don't like uncertainty and if they think no more windows is a legitimate threat they just might decide to put a few of their eggs in another basket and get some other boxes.
Don't be so quick to quickly discount cold fusion. When they first published they didn't release all of the details of their experiment, coupled with the fact that they were a couple of chemists taking one of the physics holy grails they were met with much animosity. Big energy companies also felt understandably threatened by the possibility of cold fusion and were very influential is "debunking" it. I've heard of various reputable scientists who have claimed to have achieved some extraneous heat production. I've also heard of one instance where scientists supposed to research it for the US government at one university (I don't know where) supposedly adjusted the baseline of their experiment to account for some extraneous heat production. Does this mean I believe in cold fusion? No, yet I do believe it is something that deserves some unbiased research, to allow political interests to dictate wether a phenomenon is idiocy and when contrasted to the potential benefits (or risks) is unthinkable.
Mirroring sites in stories would be a great idea. Just have a link beneath the story of all the pages that might get/.ed. It's probably nicer than killing the site and I'm sure/. wouldn't have a problem with the traffic since all of the traffic is origionating from the/. server anyways.
I'm actually taking first year CS and I can tell you the stability had improved. The computers still crash occationally but I've only heard of the network going down once for a few hours. However there are a lot of drawbacks. For instance the only part of your profile that is carried on to your next session is the content of your H drive. Every time you start up IE it goes to the M$ run once site and any preferences you set for anything on the computer is erased(they've also crashed a few times while reading my floppy). They also don't let you change your password. My experience with OpenBSD is much more limited but they do allow you to access it from home with "SSH secure shell client" and you can change your password. Only the first year labs use windows. However it might not be fair to compare the stability of two networks because apparently alot of the development for OpenBSD is done in the area and one of the head programmers works at the UofA.
Recently in Canada one of the hot topics of discussion is about the "brain drain" to the US, where IT grads were moving to California for employment due to low taxes and a stronger US dollar (although supposedly we're doing quite well with educated immigrants). Still it would be interesting to see how many of these workers (or even companies) are Canadian or have strong Canadian connections already.
While the pay per view option is problably fairer it's not very fun, as you can tell not a lot of people here would want to have to feel like they're counting clicks (regardless of how much a single page costs). In addition even fewer people like the idea of paypal (not to mention the story a few day ago on paypal (once more I'm not the first one to have mentioned this and you also say you were aware of the problem but you still went ahead with it). People also just don't like to pay when they can view for free, the $5/1000 sounds like a nominal enough sum but people are unsure of how many clicks they actually do. I think it would be an idea to tell a person how many "pages" they've viewed somewhere in the preferences, not only do I think it would be something interesting to look at but if people realize how little they click they may figure that the payment is worth it.
By the way, anyone wanna bet the comments reach at least a thousand;)
I day I heard that every one of our markets in the entire state was ditching @Home was the day I told everyone I knew to sell all of their @Home stock.
Depending on when you found out as opposed to when it was made public couldn't this be considered insider trading? We'll make it our little secret;)
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Sorry, perhaps I was trying too hard to make a point, I disagree entirly anything that involves killing, civilians or otherwise. I have been frustracted by the blind rage that has been coming out of the US the the past few months and how no one has been asking why these people felt they had to do what they did. Think for a moment about the millions who have died in Cuba and Iraqu due to US sanctions, and don't tell me those sanctions arn't for mostly ideological purposes (at least Cuba anyways), both regimes have ony had their power strengthened by facing the now more "deserving" US evil. You can kill innocent civilians in a variety of ways, you can fly an airplane into them, you can kill them in a retaliatory invation, you can sacntion them so they starve to death, you can blow up a phamacutical factory in Africa (how many dead of illness there?). Or you can stand idly by and just watch as millions starve, live in horrid conditions, and get killed in wars while all you get is a few aid packages while you see giant corporations trying to take over your country and pictures of happy, healthy, rich Americans on billboards everywhere while people are dying in the streets. What the terrorists did was cleary horrificly wrong, but if our approach is to go like Israel and just try to kill them and not address some of the underlying concerns you better be prepared for a lot of problems.
Only a truly sick and deeply disturbed mind would think that this is an appropriate way to initiate constructive dialog.
I don't disagree with you I'm just asking just how did that mind get so sick and deeply disturbed?
I was not stating that the actions of the terrorists were in any way justified, I was pointing out that THEY felt it was necessary.
If you have a complaint with the actions of a government, you take appropriate diplomatic measures or you declare war.
The fact is that I don't believe many of the people, or even the governments for that matter who have a problem with the US have the economic and political clout to have their concerns acknowledged. For them to effectivly leverage their concerns on the US in my mind would be the rough equivalent of a mom and pop software company effectivly suing Microsoft (and yes M$ owns the courts). Don't believe in the benevolance of the US, look at what Bush has done in the year or so since he was elected. First he got in WITHOUT popular support (there's democracy for ya), then the peace agreements in Israel collapsed, he pulled out of the AMB treaties, the Kyoto protocol, kept using land mines, and with this most recent engagement he ignored the geneva convention, I'm sure there are other things I've forgotten (he better pace himself). The fact is that if I was in a country who wasn't freinds with the US right now I'd be VERY worried, heck I'm in Canada and right now one of the provinces who's major industry is lumber is in a MASSIVE recession because of tariffs levied by the US that are in opposition of NAFTA! I strongly suspect that the now terrorists have probably tried many more peaceful alternatives. After all, despite popular belief the entire US-hating world isn't completely nuts. People are never going to go to the levels of extremism that Al-Queda (I'm sure I missplelt that) did without first trying easier alternatives. Wether it was right or not is beside the point, commiting an atrocity was the ONLY way that the world was going to care what was happening to them and might hopefully listen to some of their concerns.
By the way, on an interesting side note someone told me today that the civilian casualties in Afghanastan have reached (or surpassed) the 3000-3500 of the WTC. I wonder if this includes killed Al-Queda fighters, after all since they're suposedly not soldiers when they're captured does that make them civilians when they're killed?
Okay, is anyone else VERY disturbed by the article.
The secret report, which was provided to Congress on Jan. 8, says the Pentagon needs to be prepared to use nuclear weapons against China, Russia, Iraq, North Korea, Iran, Libya and Syria. It says the weapons could be used in three types of situations: against targets able to withstand nonnuclear attack; in retaliation for attack with nuclear, biological or chemical weapons; or "in the event of surprising military developments."
They are already on thin ice with 3/4 of the planet because of Bush's idiotic "axis of evil" statements and now they are threatening to start nuking people!?! Russia is going through enough trouble as it is. They're fighting internal difficulties and are still hot at the US over the olympics. A statement like this is just the excuse that hard line factions in any one of these countries (along with half the arab world) need to take power.
At a time when the US should be questioning, even for just a second, what they could have done that have convinced who knows how many terrorists that it is worth commiting SUICIDE as long as you die taking a shot at the US. When they should be thinking about why half the planet hates their guts and considers them pure evil? Maybe, just maybe they might have some legitimate beef to grind with the US. Now instead of trying to figure out what they've done wrong and trying to do better they invade and take over a nation. Remember that Afgahnistan, however repressive and unjust WAS a soveign nation who was attacked because they harboured an accussed terrorist who was never actually proven to be guilty, however obvious it seemed.
But now the US has bettered that, instead of just blowing the crap out of a third world nation (hey where have we heard that before) the US has just said that they're willing to nuke ~1.5 (a little on the low side) out of the 6 billion people on the planet!! At least two of the countries (China and Russia) are two of the most powerful countries on the planet and are supposedly on somewhat nice terms with the US. Now we all know Bush is a gun tolling, nuke happy, big buisness loving, illiterate moron but has his arrogance over the US as the worlds nice police man watching all the evil little bullies truly gotten this great?
As much respect as I have for the /. effect I think that CNET might jusst be able to take it;)
You try fitting in 400 (I forget the exact count and it depends on the version anyways) pages, 9+ fully developed charcters, numerous subplots and a heap of other stuff in a 3 hr movie. For the most part I believe that translating a book into a is almost impossible. My general rule of thumb is "good book=bad movie" and "good movie=bad book", there is simply too many differences between the genres. When it comes to FoTR and Peter Jackson I personally think he did an admirable job, and made quite a good movie(I havn't talked to someone who didn't like it yet). I heard the origional movie was 6 hr long, you can see the evidence all over the place, I don't remember Gandalf ever teling Sam to stay with Frodo in the movie (I could be wrong there) although Sam states it numerous times, and did you notice the three stone trolls in the background when they're camping at night when the only mention of them was made in the party at the begainning. Where would you of fitted all the extra depth that you claim is so lacking? I personally hope that when it comes out on DVD it will include the FULL 6hr movie also. Can you imagine all 3 of them together in uncut form, 18 straight hr of LOTR!!! (then again it might be better to watch them over a few days;)
I was the only person on our team that wasn't completing a Masters or a PHD in Physics, geeky enough for ya? That was a typo on my part, we were playing on the strong similarity in pronounciation between Indigo and Inigo, (I don't remember which we used but the d is almost silent).
Your should of heard my flag football team's cadence:
"INDIGO INDIGO...
Hello, My name is Indigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to DIE!!"
With the current population 5,995,544,836 that makes the percent of the people online only about 8.3%. In reality it's probably even lower when you think about how many millions of those are using AOL connections;)
Maybe the people will also demonstrate more often because there is no longer the threat of deadly force (and they get more media attention from the cool slime:)
Than the chances are that because they had to resort to something that really ticked off the police that either they are getting really out of hand, in which case suppressive measures are required. However if they are truly right as you suggested they might be in your post the fact that the police are willing to supresse a legitimate protest at all (US not excluded) insinuates they may also be willing to use something not so friendly (i.e. rubber or rubber-coated bullets or even water cannons that can certainly hurt)
"MSFT Violated the Law"
I nearly fell out of my seat when I saw the headline! Who would of ever guessed that a company as respectable as Microsoft could EVER do something that even remotly resembles violating the law!! Boy I'm so stunned I think I'm just going to turn off my computer and go watch some pro-wrestling, now at least that's something I KNOW is for real!
They could create a lot more theft if they just broke into the store and stole it.
v. wended, wending, wends
v. tr.
To proceed on or along; go: wend one's way home.
v. intr.
To go one's way; proceed.
[Middle English wenden, from Old English wendan.](Dictionary.com)
Should of read a little farther.
Besides timothy didn't use it right, Sinistar2k did. If it was up to the editors it would probably be "Macrosoft Triel Wids Onwarde"
If the settlement continues to carry on (like M$ keeps on trying to make it do) and they continue this assertion this might seriously hurt windows dominance. Corporations don't like uncertainty and if they think no more windows is a legitimate threat they just might decide to put a few of their eggs in another basket and get some other boxes.
Don't be so quick to quickly discount cold fusion. When they first published they didn't release all of the details of their experiment, coupled with the fact that they were a couple of chemists taking one of the physics holy grails they were met with much animosity. Big energy companies also felt understandably threatened by the possibility of cold fusion and were very influential is "debunking" it. I've heard of various reputable scientists who have claimed to have achieved some extraneous heat production. I've also heard of one instance where scientists supposed to research it for the US government at one university (I don't know where) supposedly adjusted the baseline of their experiment to account for some extraneous heat production. Does this mean I believe in cold fusion? No, yet I do believe it is something that deserves some unbiased research, to allow political interests to dictate wether a phenomenon is idiocy and when contrasted to the potential benefits (or risks) is unthinkable.
Mirroring sites in stories would be a great idea. Just have a link beneath the story of all the pages that might get /.ed. It's probably nicer than killing the site and I'm sure /. wouldn't have a problem with the traffic since all of the traffic is origionating from the /. server anyways.
I glad if it can absorb envy beams, but I want something that can absorb the ./ effect!!
(actually while I was writting this comment the site started to slooowwwwy load in another window;)
Sorry, third time isn't a charm :-(
Next thing you know they're gonna blow all those planets up and build a big highway right through the middle!
A piece of advice, Richard Hoagland may or may not be right. But using Art Bell to give him scientific credibility is NOT a good move!
I'm actually taking first year CS and I can tell you the stability had improved. The computers still crash occationally but I've only heard of the network going down once for a few hours. However there are a lot of drawbacks. For instance the only part of your profile that is carried on to your next session is the content of your H drive. Every time you start up IE it goes to the M$ run once site and any preferences you set for anything on the computer is erased(they've also crashed a few times while reading my floppy). They also don't let you change your password. My experience with OpenBSD is much more limited but they do allow you to access it from home with "SSH secure shell client" and you can change your password. Only the first year labs use windows. However it might not be fair to compare the stability of two networks because apparently alot of the development for OpenBSD is done in the area and one of the head programmers works at the UofA.
Recently in Canada one of the hot topics of discussion is about the "brain drain" to the US, where IT grads were moving to California for employment due to low taxes and a stronger US dollar (although supposedly we're doing quite well with educated immigrants). Still it would be interesting to see how many of these workers (or even companies) are Canadian or have strong Canadian connections already.
While the pay per view option is problably fairer it's not very fun, as you can tell not a lot of people here would want to have to feel like they're counting clicks (regardless of how much a single page costs). In addition even fewer people like the idea of paypal (not to mention the story a few day ago on paypal (once more I'm not the first one to have mentioned this and you also say you were aware of the problem but you still went ahead with it). People also just don't like to pay when they can view for free, the $5/1000 sounds like a nominal enough sum but people are unsure of how many clicks they actually do. I think it would be an idea to tell a person how many "pages" they've viewed somewhere in the preferences, not only do I think it would be something interesting to look at but if people realize how little they click they may figure that the payment is worth it.
By the way, anyone wanna bet the comments reach at least a thousand;)
but I found the paper sufficiently obfuscated!!
I day I heard that every one of our markets in the entire state was ditching @Home was the day I told everyone I knew to sell all of their @Home stock.
Depending on when you found out as opposed to when it was made public couldn't this be considered insider trading?
We'll make it our little secret;)