Civilians don't get to do "warning" shots. The deal with the use of deadly force is that it either is or is not justified. There isn't a situation where it is justified to "just try and scare them" with a gun.
Because it's worse to end a confrontation by scaring off the other party than it is by killing them?
For the second time in this thread I have to say all you Americans are nuts. And you are all obsessed with guns and killing.
I'll bet you a whole load of totally innocent people who look a little bit like Zimmerman, or happen to be called George Zimmerman, are going to get hurt.
And exactly what is `waging war in a lawful manner' supposed to mean? Is carpet-bombing `waging war in a lawful manner'? How about using agent orange? Exterminating an entire village? Bombing a restaurant because Saddam Hussein just might be there? Droning wedding parties and other ordinary meetings, repeatedly, because you're too stupid/lazy/careless/ignorant to get your information right?
Your examples are a bit lame. You are talking about the only country to have ever used an atomic weapon against civilians. They looked at 45,000 instantly dead, saw it was good, and repeated the exercise 3 days later killing another 30,000. The total deaths including those that died of radiation effects was something like a quarter of a million. Mostly civilians.
I wonder how many al-Qaeda's have killed. Less than the US I expect.
In order to be accorded the full privileges and protections of the Geneva Convention you must wage war in a lawful manner. That is part of the treaty enforcement mechanism. Al Qaida and its associates do not do so and are therefore not entitled to the full privileges and protections. The US does act in accordance with the treaty, you just seem unfamiliar with its terms, or perhaps have listened to advocates that wish the treaty was other than it is.
And you have no doubt that these people who are held without trial and without rights were all engaged in this unlawful war? Every single one of them? Because if you don't try people for their crimes how do you know they are guilty?
4) Bin Laden? Really? It was a military operation in a hostile zone in a foreign country and everyone has been trying to kill the guy since 9/11. Bush would have killed him too.
Forget the Democrat v Republican stuff. The only difference is the stories they tell, not their actions.
Surely it would have been more legitimate to bring Bin Laden to a court than to execute him. The US doesn't want to look like a group of international thugs does it? Also Pakistan is friendly, not hostile.
You really obviously have no idea. I've done both, and I've seen people swing the lead at both levels. A real IT manager isn't an easy job, but being the one whose plans (the real IT tech) make or break the infrastructure really isn't trivial.
I wholeheartedly agree that being a real IT manager isn't easy. However I disagree with the assumption that real IT managers account for more than a tiny number of acting IT managers. Some know practically nothing about IT. Others have knowledge that's so outdated it's more of a hinderance to understanding than a help. Others are great with IT but got promoted to management and are rubbish at it. There are very few that know IT to a reasonable level and can manage.
Maybe that's the case in a truly great company but in most real world companies the managers just don't know enough to make the right decisions. Most management decisions are based on their own prejustices, combined with who they know, who has the best salesmen, and who gives them the best gifts.
I worked in a huge multinational that exclusively used HP-UX servers. Why? Because a director of this company lived next door to a director of HP. They also chose recruitment agencies based on the free holidays they would provide to management. Corruption like this seems to be the rule not the exception and the upper management are always in the best position to gain from this corruption.
There is nothing Democratic about a currency which is primarily owned by a small handful of people. The centralized nature of bitcoin wealth puts the dollar to shame.
No it doesn't. BitCoin doesn't have a central bank with absolute control over the currency, anyone can be a miner.
Every country needs free trade. Just because they have other problems doesn't mean they don't need to trade for food, motor parts, air conditioners, and everything else.
I've seen the same kind of problems in other huge companies. You end up with 3 or 4 departments doing the same work as yours but it's impossible to find or contact them to start some cooperation with each other. If you ask anyone high up enough to have any kind of overview of what department does what it turns out they don't know anything more than the high level overview you can get from the intranet.
Ballmer is doing good by trying to fix Microsoft in this way but it won't work because he is a chair throwing monkey and MS is now too stale to beat Apple at anything.
The problems with windows are so deeply set in that there is literally nothing he could have done to really fix the non-stop security problems. Windows already had all the market so there really wasn't anywhere to grow. Gates left when MS really had nowhere to go but down.
Bullmer may look like a retarded monkey but he didn't do too bad collecting money for bug-ridden and insecure software that by all rights should have been condemned to the scrapheap of history before Gates even left.
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Civilians don't get to do "warning" shots. The deal with the use of deadly force is that it either is or is not justified. There isn't a situation where it is justified to "just try and scare them" with a gun.
Because it's worse to end a confrontation by scaring off the other party than it is by killing them?
For the second time in this thread I have to say all you Americans are nuts. And you are all obsessed with guns and killing.
I'll bet you a whole load of totally innocent people who look a little bit like Zimmerman, or happen to be called George Zimmerman, are going to get hurt.
So if you are walking along the street and I run up behind you and follow you to where ever you are going you would be happy with that?
Because if you show any sign you are not I get to legally shoot you dead.
You Americans are all nuts.
We invented a brand new category of people who don't get military or civilian rights.
Indeed. They are called foreigners, and under US laws they don't have any human rights whatsoever.
And exactly what is `waging war in a lawful manner' supposed to mean? Is carpet-bombing `waging war in a lawful manner'? How about using agent orange? Exterminating an entire village? Bombing a restaurant because Saddam Hussein just might be there? Droning wedding parties and other ordinary meetings, repeatedly, because you're too stupid/lazy/careless/ignorant to get your information right?
Your examples are a bit lame. You are talking about the only country to have ever used an atomic weapon against civilians. They looked at 45,000 instantly dead, saw it was good, and repeated the exercise 3 days later killing another 30,000. The total deaths including those that died of radiation effects was something like a quarter of a million. Mostly civilians.
I wonder how many al-Qaeda's have killed. Less than the US I expect.
In order to be accorded the full privileges and protections of the Geneva Convention you must wage war in a lawful manner. That is part of the treaty enforcement mechanism. Al Qaida and its associates do not do so and are therefore not entitled to the full privileges and protections. The US does act in accordance with the treaty, you just seem unfamiliar with its terms, or perhaps have listened to advocates that wish the treaty was other than it is.
And you have no doubt that these people who are held without trial and without rights were all engaged in this unlawful war? Every single one of them? Because if you don't try people for their crimes how do you know they are guilty?
4) Bin Laden? Really? It was a military operation in a hostile zone in a foreign country and everyone has been trying to kill the guy since 9/11. Bush would have killed him too.
Forget the Democrat v Republican stuff. The only difference is the stories they tell, not their actions.
Surely it would have been more legitimate to bring Bin Laden to a court than to execute him. The US doesn't want to look like a group of international thugs does it? Also Pakistan is friendly, not hostile.
Why pay $39.99 for something to squash spiders when you can buy a large book for less?
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Pivotal, I mean err, EMC.
You really obviously have no idea.
I've done both, and I've seen people swing the lead at both levels. A real IT manager isn't an easy job, but being the one whose plans (the real IT tech) make or break the infrastructure really isn't trivial.
I wholeheartedly agree that being a real IT manager isn't easy. However I disagree with the assumption that real IT managers account for more than a tiny number of acting IT managers. Some know practically nothing about IT. Others have knowledge that's so outdated it's more of a hinderance to understanding than a help. Others are great with IT but got promoted to management and are rubbish at it. There are very few that know IT to a reasonable level and can manage.
Maybe that's the case in a truly great company but in most real world companies the managers just don't know enough to make the right decisions. Most management decisions are based on their own prejustices, combined with who they know, who has the best salesmen, and who gives them the best gifts.
I worked in a huge multinational that exclusively used HP-UX servers. Why? Because a director of this company lived next door to a director of HP. They also chose recruitment agencies based on the free holidays they would provide to management. Corruption like this seems to be the rule not the exception and the upper management are always in the best position to gain from this corruption.
Well he said HP3000 servers so about then, yes.
A NSA backdoor would let you get at the data. This is a support backdoor.
It was the first link on google when searching for the hash. Not even salted, well done HP.
Maybe they like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6joOVjEemh4
There is nothing Democratic about a currency which is primarily owned by a small handful of people. The centralized nature of bitcoin wealth puts the dollar to shame.
No it doesn't. BitCoin doesn't have a central bank with absolute control over the currency, anyone can be a miner.
Every country needs free trade. Just because they have other problems doesn't mean they don't need to trade for food, motor parts, air conditioners, and everything else.
Now it won't cost you so much to help them smuggle their vast fortune out of the country.
Or maybe they could trade with each other without getting abused by middlemen?
Most LOLworthy post so far.
DISHFIRE is just the NSA's experimental fast dishwasher project. It cost $10 Billion and doesn't actually work.
Or it might actually be something to do with satellite dishes.
I laughed until I realized that these are the people who have legal permission to force IT giants to do whatever they want.
The world is screwed.
If there are any chairs in that zeppelin Ballmer is the right man for the job.
I've seen the same kind of problems in other huge companies. You end up with 3 or 4 departments doing the same work as yours but it's impossible to find or contact them to start some cooperation with each other. If you ask anyone high up enough to have any kind of overview of what department does what it turns out they don't know anything more than the high level overview you can get from the intranet.
Ballmer is doing good by trying to fix Microsoft in this way but it won't work because he is a chair throwing monkey and MS is now too stale to beat Apple at anything.
The problems with windows are so deeply set in that there is literally nothing he could have done to really fix the non-stop security problems. Windows already had all the market so there really wasn't anywhere to grow. Gates left when MS really had nowhere to go but down.
Bullmer may look like a retarded monkey but he didn't do too bad collecting money for bug-ridden and insecure software that by all rights should have been condemned to the scrapheap of history before Gates even left.