Not only that, Spitzer is going to spend a shitload of local taxpayers' money litigating it, and the feds will spend another pile of money defending the federal government from the suit, and no action will actually be taken on any of the issues at hand for a decade or more.
Spitzer is a fucking attention-whoring son of a bitch.
Are you so blinded by your hatred of Greenpeace, that you would automatically assume that they'd ignore one of the biggest environmental disasters of the 20th century, simply because Saddam Hussein wasn't a prime target for extortion?
I went to their web site, and searched for "kuwait oil fire", and got nada. Seems like greenpeace doesn't think they did anything significant about that disaster. Proabably because they didn't.
Do you have any idea how snotty editing someone else's words to completely reverse their meaning and then claiming that it's a "correction" is? FUCK YOU.
they do their job (bringing environmental issues to attention) so well.
The hell they do. They discredit environmentalism in general, the same way that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have discredited the civil rights movment: by crying wolf and practicing extortion.
Come to think of it, nobody claimed that Saddam was connected to Al Queda in particular, but he was indeed a sponsor of terrorism. Abu Nidal lived in Bhagdad as his guest, and Saddam paid the families of palestinian suicide bombers.
But hey, don't take my word for it: check out what Al Gore had to say about Saddam's connections to terrorism back in 1992.
Oh, I think pretty much every Kurd on earth believes that Saddam had WMDs.
The fact is, he had them, and he admitted to it at the end of operation dessert storm. He signed a cease-fire agreement that obligated him to destroy not only his WMDs, but also his WMD development programs, and document having done so (you know, like Libya did after Kadaffy got spooked by seeing Saddam in prison.)
What he did instead was try to bluff, so he made a habit of jerking the UN weapons inspectors around, and he was allowed to do so for about a decade. 9/11 had the effect of temporarily reducing the USA's willingness to put up with that bullshit. Too bad for him.
But let's ignore facts and get on with the ranting!
I can see that you've taken the lead in that.
Can you point to Greenpeace taking any of the communist governments to task for their appalling environmental record? How about any peep of protest when Saddam Hussein ordered the burning of the Kuwaiti oil fields?
Just like PETA and Scientology, Greenpeace exists to 1) make money, and 2) to make more money.
They only target big corporations, because corporations will usually pay them to fuck off. Governments won't do that, and occasionally a government will even go so far as to sink a boat. I notice that we haven't heard much about Greenpeace mixing it up with the French in the last couple of decades.
that they are a pro-environmental publicity company.
Not hardly. Greenpeace is a blackmail racket, and their main line of business is getting companies to pay them to fuck off and shut up.
They have a secondary line of business, which is to suck up the contributions that would otherwise go to genuine environmental advocacy organizations, like the Nature Conservancy or the Audubon Society.
First of all, it's impossible for Apple to time their releases to coincide with Microsoft's release, since MS was stuck in a cycle of delays that ran about six years. Secondly, Tiger is already more than a match for Vista, and finally, just by sheer luck, Leopard arrives on the scene as people are realizing just how utterly mediocre Vista really is.
Chances are that anyone who's paid up for a license from Amazon is SOL, since the contract would almost certainly include a provision that they can't sue even if the patent ends up getting spiked. Anyone who hasn't executed a contract with Amazon, but has incurred expenses in defending themselves might be able to recover some damages.
Anyone who has a couple of HD security cameras and feels like keeping several months' worth of recordings. Or, anyone who feels like ripping DVDs and doesn't want to recompress them and give up one generation of data loss.
When there's that much space available, people will use it. Probably for things that we consider absurd today.
I was very lucky to learn trigonometry in the context of AC power. My boss at the best summer job I ever had needed me to order some transformers, so he sat me down and explained power to me one day. When I got to trig in school the following year, I saw the graphs, and could easily map them to voltage, current, capacitance and inductance. -jcr
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I think TA's point is that the hypervisor itself may not be any more secure than the OSes it virtualizes.
I would say he's mistaken on that, simply because the hypervisor offers a far smaller surface area for attack.
-jcr
Wasn't she the hot chick in that star wars movie?
-jcr
Not only that, Spitzer is going to spend a shitload of local taxpayers' money litigating it, and the feds will spend another pile of money defending the federal government from the suit, and no action will actually be taken on any of the issues at hand for a decade or more.
Spitzer is a fucking attention-whoring son of a bitch.
-jcr
Are you so blinded by your hatred of Greenpeace, that you would automatically assume that they'd ignore one of the biggest environmental disasters of the 20th century, simply because Saddam Hussein wasn't a prime target for extortion?
I went to their web site, and searched for "kuwait oil fire", and got nada. Seems like greenpeace doesn't think they did anything significant about that disaster. Proabably because they didn't.
-jcr
Corrected
Do you have any idea how snotty editing someone else's words to completely reverse their meaning and then claiming that it's a "correction" is? FUCK YOU.
-jcr
they do their job (bringing environmental issues to attention) so well.
The hell they do. They discredit environmentalism in general, the same way that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have discredited the civil rights movment: by crying wolf and practicing extortion.
-jcr
Come to think of it, nobody claimed that Saddam was connected to Al Queda in particular, but he was indeed a sponsor of terrorism. Abu Nidal lived in Bhagdad as his guest, and Saddam paid the families of palestinian suicide bombers.
But hey, don't take my word for it: check out what Al Gore had to say about Saddam's connections to terrorism back in 1992.
-jcr
how many people still believe in WMD
Oh, I think pretty much every Kurd on earth believes that Saddam had WMDs.
The fact is, he had them, and he admitted to it at the end of operation dessert storm. He signed a cease-fire agreement that obligated him to destroy not only his WMDs, but also his WMD development programs, and document having done so (you know, like Libya did after Kadaffy got spooked by seeing Saddam in prison.)
What he did instead was try to bluff, so he made a habit of jerking the UN weapons inspectors around, and he was allowed to do so for about a decade. 9/11 had the effect of temporarily reducing the USA's willingness to put up with that bullshit. Too bad for him.
-jcr
But let's ignore facts and get on with the ranting!
I can see that you've taken the lead in that.
Can you point to Greenpeace taking any of the communist governments to task for their appalling environmental record? How about any peep of protest when Saddam Hussein ordered the burning of the Kuwaiti oil fields?
Just like PETA and Scientology, Greenpeace exists to 1) make money, and 2) to make more money.
They only target big corporations, because corporations will usually pay them to fuck off. Governments won't do that, and occasionally a government will even go so far as to sink a boat. I notice that we haven't heard much about Greenpeace mixing it up with the French in the last couple of decades.
-jcr
Greenpeace has an end goal of getting attention.
No, the attention is the means to the end. The end they seek is getting money they didn't earn.
-jcr
that they are a pro-environmental publicity company.
Not hardly. Greenpeace is a blackmail racket, and their main line of business is getting companies to pay them to fuck off and shut up.
They have a secondary line of business, which is to suck up the contributions that would otherwise go to genuine environmental advocacy organizations, like the Nature Conservancy or the Audubon Society.
-jcr
Sure, I can setup an rsync job in cron and all that crap, but Time Machine made it ridiculously easy
The key benefit of time machine isn't making the backups, its the ease of finding and retrieving files from the archive. That's the real breakthrough.
-jcr
How long would a rover that was actually designed to last for three years keep on working?
-jcr
First of all, it's impossible for Apple to time their releases to coincide with Microsoft's release, since MS was stuck in a cycle of delays that ran about six years. Secondly, Tiger is already more than a match for Vista, and finally, just by sheer luck, Leopard arrives on the scene as people are realizing just how utterly mediocre Vista really is.
-jcr
He was, at best, a regular hacker who met the right person at the right time.
You have no idea what you're talking about. The Apple II disk controller alone demonstrates that Woz is a genius.
-jcr
It sounds like a high-level player finally decided to take on Exchange.
Yep.
Exchange was a major obstacle to Mac adoption in a lot of offices. Apple decided it was time to deal with that.
-jcr
But was Amazon One-Click really "obvious" before they adopted it?
Yes. That's why everyone was so upset about it.
-jcr
Chances are that anyone who's paid up for a license from Amazon is SOL, since the contract would almost certainly include a provision that they can't sue even if the patent ends up getting spiked. Anyone who hasn't executed a contract with Amazon, but has incurred expenses in defending themselves might be able to recover some damages.
-jcr
About freaking time.
-jcr
You take accusations from notoriously corrupt officials as gospel?
Would you be interested in a bridge I have for sale?
-jcr
So much for Brazil's IT sector for the next decade or so.
Any businessman would have to be nuts to open an office there after this.
-jcr
It's a joke, son. If you flog it too much, it's not funny anymore.
-jcr
Who the hell is going to use all that space?
Anyone who has a couple of HD security cameras and feels like keeping several months' worth of recordings. Or, anyone who feels like ripping DVDs and doesn't want to recompress them and give up one generation of data loss.
When there's that much space available, people will use it. Probably for things that we consider absurd today.
-jcr
I find it difficult to learn by rote
No kidding!
I was very lucky to learn trigonometry in the context of AC power. My boss at the best summer job I ever had needed me to order some transformers, so he sat me down and explained power to me one day. When I got to trig in school the following year, I saw the graphs, and could easily map them to voltage, current, capacitance and inductance.
-jcr
The way I always heard that explained was Pi = 3, for sufficiently large values of 3.
-jcr