You can look them up. His biggest violation was preventing the weapons inspectors from going anywhere, anytime. Basically, he was required to destroy the WMDs, and provide proof of having done so. Too bad for him he decided to bluff.
I firmly believe in the right to bear arms -- all arms.
Sorry, have to differ with you there. I don't want a tac nuke in private hands, because I don't believe you're capable of only hitting those who are actually posing a threat to you personally. I also wouldn't let you have land mines, pursuant to the common law principle of prohibiting reckless endangerment.
You do realize that the Geneva Convention is a treaty that only applies to the treatment of soldiers of signatories to the treaty, don't you?
international law concerning invading sovereign nations
Technically, Iraq was still at war with the rest of the coalition that threw them out of Kuwait. Saddam had certain conditions he was bound to fulfill under the terms of a cease-filre (not a peace treaty), which he did not fulfill.
I know Apple wants to maintain it's image and all, but I always felt that if they marketed their machines as the "run anything" computer, they would grab a nice chunk of the market
The problem with that is that grabbing that "nice chunk of the market" endangers the business they get by being the much easier-to-use computer.
Many vendors have crashed and burned attempting to offer a better version of the monopoly's offerings. Starting with the TI PC, there was the Sun 386i, the DEC Rainbow, OS/2, SGI's NT boxes, Data General's NT servers, and many, many more.
Remember Apple's dual CPU machine from the late 80's, which (IIRC) had a 68030 and an 80286? Believe me, there are at people at Apple who do.;-)
The hard lesson is that in the commodity business, you can't deviate from the standard crap and try to offer something better. Compaq won, TI lost. Dell won, IBM lost. Apple's not going to play that game.
Whether we like it or not, there is a great need to run Windows applications that can't be satisfied by WINE or VirtualPC (usually because of 3d graphics performance).
There's no reason why a 3D app (or any other windows app) has to run more slowly in a VM. Virtualization and emulation are very different situations. Some windows apps run substantially faster on a virtual Windows host in VMWare on Linux than they do under Windows on the same hardware, since they benefit from Linux's superior filesystems and memory management, for example.
Would it be so hard to fathom that Apple kept Red Box in development along with Rhapsody on Intel?
There was never a "red box" development project. It was a naïve idea that appeared in one of Gil Amelio's presentations, which never got off the drawing board.
I wonder how long it'll take to build a backup solution that encrypts your data locally with a private key before sending it off to amazon.
If you're using a Mac, then it's basically already done. Create an encrypted disk image in the Disk Utility program, mount it, use it like any other volume, and send the.dmg file to Amazon anytime you want it backed up.
I'll just keep MY data on my OWN machine where the government cannot get their grubby little hands on it.
Do you have a means to destroy your drives if the government shows up with a warrant? If not, don't kid yourself: they'll get their grubby hands on your data anytime they choose to do so.
I find it disturbing that I do not trust the State enough to place my data with a third party provider for fear of my privacy potentially being violated.
Why trust the state, or Amazon? Just encrypt anything you put on their servers. Trust the math.
First, hard drives are a very poor choice for backups
I beg to differ. Hard drives are the fastest, easiest to use, and most convenient option available today. Tapes simply haven't kept up with the growth of hard drive capacity.
Tape is far superior.
Nope. If you're doing anything other than a complete dump or restore, tapes are a major pain to deal with. It's far more likely that I'll be recovering a single file than an entire volume, and I can be waiting for a LONG time if that file happens to be near the end of the tape.
The reason that people who aren't straight, white, Christian males feel the need to celebrate the accomplishements of $DEMOGRAPHIC_GROUP is because although straight, white, Christian males have accomplished a hell of a lot, they haven't accomplished as large a proportion of everything as a lot of people (like you) seem to think they have; and those who are not swCm's feel justifiably aggrieved at having their accomplishments downplayed (or, in many cases, having the credit stolen outright.)
It's really far more general than that. Collectivists (including racists), lacking in individual accomplishments of their own, like to cite accomplishments of people from their race/religion/country as if this somehow ennobles them personally. Whether it's David Duke bragging about the Wright brothers, or Jesse Jackson bragging about the great University of ancient Timbuktu, it's the same bullshit of trying to attribute prestige to a group, rather than the individual.
That the Crusades were rather effective at destroying a civilisation?
Guess again. Every heard of the Ottoman Empire?
The degeneration of Islamic civilization had far more to do with the rise of fundamentalism stifling freedom of thought, than any damage the crusaders ever managed to do. The Arabs spent several centuries under Turkish rule, and only a few decades under the English.
Jesus's teachings went beyond the messiah prophesied by Isiah, and he did start a new religion
I find it just as likely that Christianity as we know it was created by Saul of Tarsus, who morphed Jesus's teachings into something useful to the Romans.
a group of people lets all of their scientific achievements throughout history become overshadowed by religious fundamentalism.
One could fairly say that the greatest sufferers of Islamic fanatacism are the Muslims themselves. Even since 9/11, they've done in far more of their own people than westerners. Fanatics are always far more vicious to the heretic than the infidel.
the bank has more lawyers than he does (and $2000 isn't much when you're talking legal fees).
Which makes it quite likely that the bank will make the business decision to refund his money, since it will be cheaper than even the prep work for the bank to show up in court.
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Mind telling us what those terms where?
You can look them up. His biggest violation was preventing the weapons inspectors from going anywhere, anytime. Basically, he was required to destroy the WMDs, and provide proof of having done so. Too bad for him he decided to bluff.
-jcr
I firmly believe in the right to bear arms -- all arms.
Sorry, have to differ with you there. I don't want a tac nuke in private hands, because I don't believe you're capable of only hitting those who are actually posing a threat to you personally. I also wouldn't let you have land mines, pursuant to the common law principle of prohibiting reckless endangerment.
-jcr
articles of the Geneva Convention
You do realize that the Geneva Convention is a treaty that only applies to the treatment of soldiers of signatories to the treaty, don't you?
international law concerning invading sovereign nations
Technically, Iraq was still at war with the rest of the coalition that threw them out of Kuwait. Saddam had certain conditions he was bound to fulfill under the terms of a cease-filre (not a peace treaty), which he did not fulfill.
-jcr
These are actually robots
Nope, they're just remote-controlled weapons. They're not programmable.
-jcr
I know Apple wants to maintain it's image and all, but I always felt that if they marketed their machines as the "run anything" computer, they would grab a nice chunk of the market
;-)
The problem with that is that grabbing that "nice chunk of the market" endangers the business they get by being the much easier-to-use computer.
Many vendors have crashed and burned attempting to offer a better version of the monopoly's offerings. Starting with the TI PC, there was the Sun 386i, the DEC Rainbow, OS/2, SGI's NT boxes, Data General's NT servers, and many, many more.
Remember Apple's dual CPU machine from the late 80's, which (IIRC) had a 68030 and an 80286? Believe me, there are at people at Apple who do.
The hard lesson is that in the commodity business, you can't deviate from the standard crap and try to offer something better. Compaq won, TI lost. Dell won, IBM lost. Apple's not going to play that game.
-jcr
Whether we like it or not, there is a great need to run Windows applications that can't be satisfied by WINE or VirtualPC (usually because of 3d graphics performance).
There's no reason why a 3D app (or any other windows app) has to run more slowly in a VM. Virtualization and emulation are very different situations. Some windows apps run substantially faster on a virtual Windows host in VMWare on Linux than they do under Windows on the same hardware, since they benefit from Linux's superior filesystems and memory management, for example.
-jcr
Would it be so hard to fathom that Apple kept Red Box in development along with Rhapsody on Intel?
There was never a "red box" development project. It was a naïve idea that appeared in one of Gil Amelio's presentations, which never got off the drawing board.
-jcr
I wonder how long it'll take to build a backup solution that encrypts your data locally with a private key before sending it off to amazon.
.dmg file to Amazon anytime you want it backed up.
If you're using a Mac, then it's basically already done. Create an encrypted disk image in the Disk Utility program, mount it, use it like any other volume, and send the
-jcr
I'll just keep MY data on my OWN machine where the government cannot get their grubby little hands on it.
Do you have a means to destroy your drives if the government shows up with a warrant? If not, don't kid yourself: they'll get their grubby hands on your data anytime they choose to do so.
-jcr
I find it disturbing that I do not trust the State enough to place my data with a third party provider for fear of my privacy potentially being violated.
Why trust the state, or Amazon? Just encrypt anything you put on their servers. Trust the math.
The State is way, way too big for its own good;
For it's own good, or for our own good?
-jcr
First, hard drives are a very poor choice for backups
I beg to differ. Hard drives are the fastest, easiest to use, and most convenient option available today. Tapes simply haven't kept up with the growth of hard drive capacity.
Tape is far superior.
Nope. If you're doing anything other than a complete dump or restore, tapes are a major pain to deal with. It's far more likely that I'll be recovering a single file than an entire volume, and I can be waiting for a LONG time if that file happens to be near the end of the tape.
-jcr
I love how religious threads like this are populated by people who think they have universal knowledge
Well, fuck you, too.
-jcr
The reason that people who aren't straight, white, Christian males feel the need to celebrate the accomplishements of $DEMOGRAPHIC_GROUP is because although straight, white, Christian males have accomplished a hell of a lot, they haven't accomplished as large a proportion of everything as a lot of people (like you) seem to think they have; and those who are not swCm's feel justifiably aggrieved at having their accomplishments downplayed (or, in many cases, having the credit stolen outright.)
It's really far more general than that. Collectivists (including racists), lacking in individual accomplishments of their own, like to cite accomplishments of people from their race/religion/country as if this somehow ennobles them personally. Whether it's David Duke bragging about the Wright brothers, or Jesse Jackson bragging about the great University of ancient Timbuktu, it's the same bullshit of trying to attribute prestige to a group, rather than the individual.
-jcr
That the Crusades were rather effective at destroying a civilisation?
Guess again. Every heard of the Ottoman Empire?
The degeneration of Islamic civilization had far more to do with the rise of fundamentalism stifling freedom of thought, than any damage the crusaders ever managed to do. The Arabs spent several centuries under Turkish rule, and only a few decades under the English.
-jcr
Jesus's teachings went beyond the messiah prophesied by Isiah, and he did start a new religion
I find it just as likely that Christianity as we know it was created by Saul of Tarsus, who morphed Jesus's teachings into something useful to the Romans.
-jcr
a group of people lets all of their scientific achievements throughout history become overshadowed by religious fundamentalism.
One could fairly say that the greatest sufferers of Islamic fanatacism are the Muslims themselves. Even since 9/11, they've done in far more of their own people than westerners. Fanatics are always far more vicious to the heretic than the infidel.
-jcr
If they pay one person, they will be more inclinded to pay others with the exact same case. Or at least encourage others to followup more.
These settlements always include a gag order.
-jcr
the bank has more lawyers than he does (and $2000 isn't much when you're talking legal fees).
Which makes it quite likely that the bank will make the business decision to refund his money, since it will be cheaper than even the prep work for the bank to show up in court.
-jcr
I demanded to see the ATM camera photos but they said they would only release them to the police
If you file suit, you can subpeona them.
-jcr
Its a little more dificult to steal my face.
Don't count on it. Face rcognition software can be fooled by a mannikin
-jcr
I tend to use the key number of a car I bought about twenty years ago. Four digits, not particularly easy to guess, but I'll never forget them.
-jcr
Are we going to argue the definition of "blow up?"
What's to argue? They wanted to bring down the tower, and failed to do so.
-jcr
Is their standard response to any problem that the company in question should hire a new figurehead, and call him the "Chief (whatver) Officer"?
-jcr
It simply wasn't big enough.
thus failing to blow up the building.
-jcr
So why did you have to make that "broken OS" comment in your first post?
Because the OS in question is indeed, quite broken.
-jcr