And why is every single news item about Uber posted here? It's not news, it doesn't matter, and it sure as hell ain't nerdy. Someone at Dice or Slashdot has an negative interest in Uber and it hijacking Slashdot for that agenda.
There was a project a while back that was called Freenet (I think) that was supposed to be an P2P anonymous internet. Seemed slow as dog crap and more than a little shady. How will this project avoid the same fate?
According to the report, CIA officials did not disclose the methods of interrogation to White House officials, either by omission or blatantly lying about it. This is in reference to techniques that went beyond the initial executive order authorizing "enhanced interrogation techniques." Note that this report is not collected from sources friendly to the previous administration; if they could have thrown Bush under the bus, they would have.
That's a very simplistic reduction of what actually happened. IBM bears no responsibility for either the Holocaust or how Nazi's misused Hollerith machines sold long before the war.
Read the "Liberation Trilogy" by Rich Atkinson. Brilliant work. The Americans had some good commanders and terrible ones. The Brits were hit or miss, but their men loved them in a way the yanks never could. The French generals hated everyone and each other, constantly vying for prestige and insulting the men whose help they needed. Even in defeat, they could not swallow their pride. But then, there were a number of British and American generals of whom the same could be said. Only the diplomatic genius of Eisenhower and the strong rapport of Churchill and Roosevelt held the operation together.
Unlike the US, who didn't trade with them at all, right?
The oil traded to the Nazi's was specifically for their war machine, in exchange for the mutual carving of Poland. See the Molotov-Ribbentropp Pact. How much war material did the US sell to Nazi Germany?
Fuck the US. It's their own fault 9/11 happened. Next time don't fund terrorists.
If you refer to the mythical CIA-Bin Laden connection, you need to listen to less Alex Jones.
And in some cases, like in North Africa, fought (weakly) against the allies.
Funny story: the French port of Oran was tasked to the Americans because Britain and France were at odds before the German occupation. The allied commanders believed that they would not shoot at Americans, but would instead join them. They were wrong; the French at Oran fought to the bitter end. The French soldiers in North Africa, unfortunately, had more mettle than their continental counterparts, and paid with their lives.
Is this perhaps regional? I was an army brat so I wouldn't know; and for me there was not even a hint of Francophobia growing up on army bases, except when I lived in Berlin (pre-Wall-fall); the British and Americans fraternized a good bit more than the French, so we assumed a good bit of snoot at the time (but it was probably just language barriers).
Fat, stupid, the only culture they know is bacterial, always getting caught up in stupid wars.
Well, we put a fat, stupid flag on the moon with an overgrown firework and a slide rule, and even did a redneck repair on a fender with duct tape while we were there. Neener neener neener.
Why did Americans turn against the French after the war? It's simple: they wanted to promote their own heroes, and the idea that they had won the war all by themselves. It's really embarrassing to have to teach your children that your country wouldn't exist except that it happened to be a bone of contention in someone else's scheme.
Since infancy, my schooling on the American War of Independence has stressed the important of American heroes such as de Lafayette and von Steuben, and their nationalities were by no means omitted. The American government may have turned against the French after the XYZ affair, but the French as a people remained an important cultural ally all the way up until the 60's. Being left holding the bag in French Indochina hurt a lot. Open mockery of France didn't really start until the first Gulf War, when it seemed like we were fighting a lot of French military equipment that Saddam wasn't supposed to have.
The Soviet Union fought the Germans for more than four fucking years, suffering somewhere between 20 and 40 million casualties.
The Soviets were very proud of the fact that, having executed all of their competent commanders, they relied on brute-force meat-grinding in place of actual strategy. Make no mistake, it wasn't the Germans that killed all those Soviets; it was their generals and kommissars, sending them into needless suicide. And at the end of the day, they ended up killing as many Jews and enslaving half of Europe in place of the Nazi's.
Fuck the Soviets. It's their own fault. Next time don't trade oil for land to Nazis.
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an example of the abuse of technology to try to skirt laws does belong on /.
Using mobile phones to conduct business was tech "news" 20 years ago. Today, not so much.
And why is every single news item about Uber posted here? It's not news, it doesn't matter, and it sure as hell ain't nerdy. Someone at Dice or Slashdot has an negative interest in Uber and it hijacking Slashdot for that agenda.
There was a project a while back that was called Freenet (I think) that was supposed to be an P2P anonymous internet. Seemed slow as dog crap and more than a little shady. How will this project avoid the same fate?
It's pretty clear that the editors have no choice in whether Bennett gets posted or not. I feel for them.
I read the first paragraph, where he confused ALEC Baldwin with ADAM Baldwin. Bennett is ignorant on every topic on which he opines.
According to the report, CIA officials did not disclose the methods of interrogation to White House officials, either by omission or blatantly lying about it. This is in reference to techniques that went beyond the initial executive order authorizing "enhanced interrogation techniques." Note that this report is not collected from sources friendly to the previous administration; if they could have thrown Bush under the bus, they would have.
You forgot the most important application: meat. Tasty, tasty meat.
Slashdotters, who reduce every complicated political issue to a series of half-witted binary options. Are we done yet?
Wow. Nevermind. It died in 2008. Y'all, I'm old and time slips by me pretty quick. Sorry.
Or is that project even still around?
That's a very simplistic reduction of what actually happened. IBM bears no responsibility for either the Holocaust or how Nazi's misused Hollerith machines sold long before the war.
Nerd Card Status: REVOKED.
No, that was a "prismatic accelerator." It... accelerated.... prisms?
It may also be that 90% of C++ projects are ones that should have just been C to begin with. The code will naturally try to fit the problem domain.
Read the "Liberation Trilogy" by Rich Atkinson. Brilliant work. The Americans had some good commanders and terrible ones. The Brits were hit or miss, but their men loved them in a way the yanks never could. The French generals hated everyone and each other, constantly vying for prestige and insulting the men whose help they needed. Even in defeat, they could not swallow their pride. But then, there were a number of British and American generals of whom the same could be said. Only the diplomatic genius of Eisenhower and the strong rapport of Churchill and Roosevelt held the operation together.
Turns out it was all a big misunderstanding. He just really, really hated French's Mustard.
The oil traded to the Nazi's was specifically for their war machine, in exchange for the mutual carving of Poland. See the Molotov-Ribbentropp Pact. How much war material did the US sell to Nazi Germany?
If you refer to the mythical CIA-Bin Laden connection, you need to listen to less Alex Jones.
And in some cases, like in North Africa, fought (weakly) against the allies.
Funny story: the French port of Oran was tasked to the Americans because Britain and France were at odds before the German occupation. The allied commanders believed that they would not shoot at Americans, but would instead join them. They were wrong; the French at Oran fought to the bitter end. The French soldiers in North Africa, unfortunately, had more mettle than their continental counterparts, and paid with their lives.
Citation needed. 30 seconds on Google had France at 92% of usa for gdp per hour in 2009.
Yeah, but those are metric hours.
France was the largest, richest, most populous, and most powerful country in Europe from about the 9th century to the 19th century.
Gustavus Adolphus and a whole line of dead Hapsburgs are rolling around in their grave right now.
Is this perhaps regional? I was an army brat so I wouldn't know; and for me there was not even a hint of Francophobia growing up on army bases, except when I lived in Berlin (pre-Wall-fall); the British and Americans fraternized a good bit more than the French, so we assumed a good bit of snoot at the time (but it was probably just language barriers).
Fat, stupid, the only culture they know is bacterial, always getting caught up in stupid wars.
Well, we put a fat, stupid flag on the moon with an overgrown firework and a slide rule, and even did a redneck repair on a fender with duct tape while we were there. Neener neener neener.
Why did Americans turn against the French after the war? It's simple: they wanted to promote their own heroes, and the idea that they had won the war all by themselves. It's really embarrassing to have to teach your children that your country wouldn't exist except that it happened to be a bone of contention in someone else's scheme.
Since infancy, my schooling on the American War of Independence has stressed the important of American heroes such as de Lafayette and von Steuben, and their nationalities were by no means omitted. The American government may have turned against the French after the XYZ affair, but the French as a people remained an important cultural ally all the way up until the 60's. Being left holding the bag in French Indochina hurt a lot. Open mockery of France didn't really start until the first Gulf War, when it seemed like we were fighting a lot of French military equipment that Saddam wasn't supposed to have.
As well as a complete and utter disdain for the lives of their own troops and civilians.
A whole 45 days? 350,000 casualties?
Such effort.
The Soviet Union fought the Germans for more than four fucking years, suffering somewhere between 20 and 40 million casualties.
The Soviets were very proud of the fact that, having executed all of their competent commanders, they relied on brute-force meat-grinding in place of actual strategy. Make no mistake, it wasn't the Germans that killed all those Soviets; it was their generals and kommissars, sending them into needless suicide. And at the end of the day, they ended up killing as many Jews and enslaving half of Europe in place of the Nazi's.
Fuck the Soviets. It's their own fault. Next time don't trade oil for land to Nazis.