Wouldn't some US based corporations opt to go with a different operating system for their internal affairs? I know that I wouldn't like keeping a Win2k server, which has weekly security patches coming out (after people without access to the code discovered holes in the system), when others can devise unexpected attacks on my systems? Uh uh, no thanks.
I've done my share of websites developing and I've learned that if I argue with the client about JavaScript, Flash or any other fancy solution which poses a problem to non-IE browsers, I can easily lose the project. Moreover, when I calmly explained that some "power" users would be very irritated with the shiny navigation tricks, some clients told me that they don't care about that "small user base," and would rather appeal to the majority of users who likes flashy menus.
If I have to make the choice between my ideas of what's right (in this limited aspect), or the project, I'd take the project.
Assign 6 more digits (letters, actually) and make life a lot easier. You can have over 4 billion eight digit numbers. Sooner or later communication prices would drop to a single nation-wide rate, and then you can abolish all calling areas and give out a single 8 digit number to anyone.
Think bigger why don't you, how about a world wide hexadecimal number consisting of 9 digits (over 68 billion combinations). Short of politics, there's no real trouble setting something like this up.
I won't mind dialing a 9 digit number to reach anyone in the world. Think "74A-58C-348-19E".
See TMD's copy of My Big Fat Greek Wedding (which had a counter running in the top corner of the screen the entire movie), or Signs which had a red line moving from top left to bottom right every so often.
I absolutely *refuse* to watch CAM versions of movies that have been put on the net.
Sounds like you've been watching more than you'd like to admit.
Do you have any idea what it is like to be a Palestinian in Palestine?
There is no country by the name. Doesn't matter how many times it's mentioned, it simply doesn't exist.
Ever seen the footage of soldiers intentionally breaking someones arms?
No. What I do often see is news coverage about soldiers who are sentenced to two years in prison for abusing a Palestinian.
On your media services, I doubt it...
You will be surprised to find out that we pick up many Arab TV stations, some of which broadcast in Hebrew, for the Israeli population. Which is no to say our news coverage is biased (most of the people here consider the local news coverage to be biased the other way around), but to illustrate that one can clearly see the other side, if one whishes so.
soldier (who is brought up to hate you)
This is one of the most used arguments, you just got it the other way around. The Israeli school system promotes countless hours to teach just the opposite of what you suggest. At the same time, the Hamas "summer-camps" teach 14 year-olds how to handle a rifle.
And if the soldier doesn't like the look of you, the documents are kept and you lose what little rights you had.
After which you submit a complaint to any local Israeli official and have the soldier tossed in jail before any investigation even begins.
All your Nazi comparisons might hold for the religious fanatics, which are a small (although very loud) minority in Israel. As appose to those insane individuals, the national school systems teach tolerance, above anything else.
We're far from total dissagreemet. It is in my personal opinion that Sharon should've been sentenced to a life in prison for his war crimes, but that's not my call.
If you do some digging on Arafat, you'll discover that the leaders of most neighbouring Arab countries would gladly see him replaced with someone more inclined to solve the dispute, which is hardly as complex as it portrayed anyway.
Concerning the amount of deaths, you can't blindly rely on most publications. Unfortunately, the value for life is lost in numbers, so those are far from accurate. There is no doubt that the number of Palestinian casualties is larger that on the Israeli side, but the difference is much smaller than you assume. That doesn't change the fact, and I cannot stress this enough--fact, that Israel doesn't attack unless provoked by a terrorist attack. Also note that when I say terrorist attack. A large-scale terrorist attack.
I consider it awful to be firing at civilian populated centers, and will not provide excuses for such actions, but do realize that often times Palestinian fighters shoot from hospitals or schools, on purpose, to avoid being shot back. Call it what you want, I think it's just as awful.
Israel could probably react in a much more subtle way, but can you imagine any nation reacting in a subtle way to almost-daily terrorist attacks? To remind you, it only took one to wipe half of Afghanistan.
I have no idea as to where you get your information from, but as an Israeli citizen let me clerify that you're much better off elsewhere, as would I rather be.
Consider what it's like to be living in a western country, which Israel by all definitions is, having to tolerate the constant possibility the bus you're riding will go up in flames, or the coffee-shop you frequently visit, or just the line at the movies.
Also, you might want to note that Israel doesn't budge without US consent, whether it is official or not; which is to say that every time Israel does something which seem to contradict US views, it's very well coordinated.
Something which is often left out of such colorful and practic schemes is the ability to buy and own a license to a particular title.
I don't want to pay a buck just to get the latest crap in high quality MP3, today. I want the ability to get it tomorrow in other formats, if such are developed. I wan't the ability to re-encode it for any personal use, be it my car steres, my portable player or anything else--if you make it cheap enough to buy a license for a particular title, in high quality, properly labeled and with the ability to get it again for any reason, I'd have no reason to fuck all day with kazaa.
I'd like to replace my current machine, but instead of getting either today's top-of-the-line or a year old system, I'd like to construct a system that allows as much upgradability as possible.
It's obvious that a monitor, for example, is an important investment and can easily outlast many upgrades. But what about a motherboard? What should I invest in, to get something really upgradable? What about a case? Stuff like that.
Any sites out there that guide you what to get today, to get the ability to upgrade it tomorrow, and without forking out the sum of a new machine?
How about creating an object that will catch up to Voyager 1 before it leaves our solar system, in 2012.
That's something I'd like to see us commit ourselves to.
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Seems to me it doesn't matter what they're doing up there, as long as they _are_ out there.
Where are the lunar-hotels we've been promissed? When will I be able to take a vacation on the moon?
I'm pretty sure that once we start building something up there, whatever is might be, we'll have to come up with new technologies, new ideas, etc.
When was the last time a man stepped on the moon? Space exploration nearly came to full stop in the past decade. All we do today is luanch more settalites -- can you say space junk -- and work on that ISS, which only hell knows when will become operational.
Sure, it's a stupid method of generating power, but if it involes going back to space, I'm all for it.
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It's always important to make the distinction between legality and morality.
Finally, I'll now have a scientific explanation why 'some poeple' shouldn't be allowed to drive.
Humor. Don't shoot.
The scripts of the three unaried episodes were auctioned on ebay and two of them were later released by the buyer. Go grab Heart of Gold' and 'Trash'.
Wouldn't some US based corporations opt to go with a different operating system for their internal affairs? I know that I wouldn't like keeping a Win2k server, which has weekly security patches coming out (after people without access to the code discovered holes in the system), when others can devise unexpected attacks on my systems? Uh uh, no thanks.
I've done my share of websites developing and I've learned that if I argue with the client about JavaScript, Flash or any other fancy solution which poses a problem to non-IE browsers, I can easily lose the project. Moreover, when I calmly explained that some "power" users would be very irritated with the shiny navigation tricks, some clients told me that they don't care about that "small user base," and would rather appeal to the majority of users who likes flashy menus.
If I have to make the choice between my ideas of what's right (in this limited aspect), or the project, I'd take the project.
By all means then, call a lawyer, sue the bastards, file a class action suit. Don't just sit there and talk about "what should be done." Do.
Assign 6 more digits (letters, actually) and make life a lot easier. You can have over 4 billion eight digit numbers. Sooner or later communication prices would drop to a single nation-wide rate, and then you can abolish all calling areas and give out a single 8 digit number to anyone. Think bigger why don't you, how about a world wide hexadecimal number consisting of 9 digits (over 68 billion combinations). Short of politics, there's no real trouble setting something like this up. I won't mind dialing a 9 digit number to reach anyone in the world. Think "74A-58C-348-19E".
MS wristwatches that receive email, stock quotes, sports scores, etc. by FM radio.
See TMD's copy of My Big Fat Greek Wedding (which had a counter running in the top corner of the screen the entire movie), or Signs which had a red line moving from top left to bottom right every so often.
I absolutely *refuse* to watch CAM versions of movies that have been put on the net.
Sounds like you've been watching more than you'd like to admit.
Do you have any idea what it is like to be a Palestinian in Palestine?
There is no country by the name. Doesn't matter how many times it's mentioned, it simply doesn't exist.
Ever seen the footage of soldiers intentionally breaking someones arms?
No. What I do often see is news coverage about soldiers who are sentenced to two years in prison for abusing a Palestinian.
On your media services, I doubt it...
You will be surprised to find out that we pick up many Arab TV stations, some of which broadcast in Hebrew, for the Israeli population. Which is no to say our news coverage is biased (most of the people here consider the local news coverage to be biased the other way around), but to illustrate that one can clearly see the other side, if one whishes so.
soldier (who is brought up to hate you)
This is one of the most used arguments, you just got it the other way around. The Israeli school system promotes countless hours to teach just the opposite of what you suggest. At the same time, the Hamas "summer-camps" teach 14 year-olds how to handle a rifle.
And if the soldier doesn't like the look of you, the documents are kept and you lose what little rights you had.
After which you submit a complaint to any local Israeli official and have the soldier tossed in jail before any investigation even begins.
All your Nazi comparisons might hold for the religious fanatics, which are a small (although very loud) minority in Israel. As appose to those insane individuals, the national school systems teach tolerance, above anything else.
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We're far from total dissagreemet. It is in my personal opinion that Sharon should've been sentenced to a life in prison for his war crimes, but that's not my call.
If you do some digging on Arafat, you'll discover that the leaders of most neighbouring Arab countries would gladly see him replaced with someone more inclined to solve the dispute, which is hardly as complex as it portrayed anyway.
Concerning the amount of deaths, you can't blindly rely on most publications. Unfortunately, the value for life is lost in numbers, so those are far from accurate. There is no doubt that the number of Palestinian casualties is larger that on the Israeli side, but the difference is much smaller than you assume. That doesn't change the fact, and I cannot stress this enough--fact, that Israel doesn't attack unless provoked by a terrorist attack. Also note that when I say terrorist attack. A large-scale terrorist attack.
I consider it awful to be firing at civilian populated centers, and will not provide excuses for such actions, but do realize that often times Palestinian fighters shoot from hospitals or schools, on purpose, to avoid being shot back. Call it what you want, I think it's just as awful.
Israel could probably react in a much more subtle way, but can you imagine any nation reacting in a subtle way to almost-daily terrorist attacks? To remind you, it only took one to wipe half of Afghanistan.
I have no idea as to where you get your information from, but as an Israeli citizen let me clerify that you're much better off elsewhere, as would I rather be.
Consider what it's like to be living in a western country, which Israel by all definitions is, having to tolerate the constant possibility the bus you're riding will go up in flames, or the coffee-shop you frequently visit, or just the line at the movies.
Also, you might want to note that Israel doesn't budge without US consent, whether it is official or not; which is to say that every time Israel does something which seem to contradict US views, it's very well coordinated.
According to this little-known site.
Something which is often left out of such colorful and practic schemes is the ability to buy and own a license to a particular title.
I don't want to pay a buck just to get the latest crap in high quality MP3, today. I want the ability to get it tomorrow in other formats, if such are developed. I wan't the ability to re-encode it for any personal use, be it my car steres, my portable player or anything else--if you make it cheap enough to buy a license for a particular title, in high quality, properly labeled and with the ability to get it again for any reason, I'd have no reason to fuck all day with kazaa.
As NYTimes allows Google News to link directly to its articles (no registration)... Here you go.
No, Sun wants to be MS.
I'd like to replace my current machine, but instead of getting either today's top-of-the-line or a year old system, I'd like to construct a system that allows as much upgradability as possible.
It's obvious that a monitor, for example, is an important investment and can easily outlast many upgrades. But what about a motherboard? What should I invest in, to get something really upgradable? What about a case? Stuff like that.
Any sites out there that guide you what to get today, to get the ability to upgrade it tomorrow, and without forking out the sum of a new machine?
How about creating an object that will catch up to Voyager 1 before it leaves our solar system, in 2012. That's something I'd like to see us commit ourselves to.
Nothing like splicing pr0n on that puppy.
Everything can be traced back. Ever looked at the headers?
Legislation.
When they come up with Electronic Ink on Power Paper, sing me up.
Seems to me it doesn't matter what they're doing up there, as long as they _are_ out there.
Where are the lunar-hotels we've been promissed? When will I be able to take a vacation on the moon?
I'm pretty sure that once we start building something up there, whatever is might be, we'll have to come up with new technologies, new ideas, etc.
When was the last time a man stepped on the moon? Space exploration nearly came to full stop in the past decade. All we do today is luanch more settalites -- can you say space junk -- and work on that ISS, which only hell knows when will become operational.
Sure, it's a stupid method of generating power, but if it involes going back to space, I'm all for it.