I dunno, but it's also worth remembering that the French got this round of abuse for refusing to support the attack on Iraq because they didn't think there were WMDs there. I don't understand why that's remembered less well than the accusations of cowardice.
Rubbish. Firstly, it's an existing drug, so the burden of clinical trials is reduced. Secondly, governments, charities, and drug companies that make their living producing generics could fund this easily.
its leader publically plans to destroy Isreal publically several times...
This is such a piece of blatent propaganda, and everyone seems to have fallen for it. The Iranian president has never said this, or anything like it. He says he doesn't recognise the legitimacy of the regime that occupies Jerusalem. Most Arabs say the same thing. He didn't say he wanted to wipe the country off the map, as is discussed here, amongst other places.
Additionally, the US could also be accused of fighting a proxy war in the region, and with more justification.
I don't want anyone to have nuclear weapons, but if you were Iran, you'd want them. Two countries pissed the US off a few years ago, Iraq and North Korea. One was attacked, one wasn't. Guess which one had nukes? The US administration keeps publicly intimating that Iran is next on the list. If you were Iran, it would be pretty clear that the only way to avoid being invaded would be to have nukes.
You can get pure unadulterated mp3s at bleep.com. You have to like music on the warp label and similar, but if you don't, you really should:) Bleep's whole point is not to treat the customer as a criminal.
I actually think they've hunge their star on intel having the best mobile procesors, and the best mobile prosessor roadmap. AMD is creaming Intel (relatively speaking) in the server markets, not on laptops (or small form factor shiny apples).
These NASA clowns are so out of date. Everyone knows we're being carried through infinity on the back of a tortoise. And it's turtles all the way down...
Free coke? Hell yeah, sign me up, my dealer is way too expensive! A hole full of pot sounds interesting too, but I reckon the plants in the office would probably yield a better crop. When can I start? I swear I'm gonna be way too high to be any kind of security threat...
Plusnet have been the worst British ISP at traffic shaping, which is why I, and a lot of other users, left their service in droves. To be replaced by their target customer of someone who uses only web and mail... What was most infuriating was the amount of backtracking they did about traffic shaping, and the "unlimited" service they were previously marketing. Ftp, usenet and p2p apps were targetted, but the traffic shaping technologies used (ellacoyas) seemed to have a knock on effect to other usage patterns. Besides the fact that people object to being told what to use their connection for, unless that message is communicated very well. Which, in the case of plusnet, it wasn't...
A "liberal arts" degree isn't about just listening to lectures. Education isn't something you can just pour into your empty head till it is filled with the knowledge you just downloaded. Lectures were, in fact, the least important part my education when I did my History degree (many many moons agon now). You get more from seminars and discussion with tutors and other students, writing theses, and studying original material (papers, primary sources etc etc). Advances in distance learning mean that bricks and mortar education may someday be a thing of the past, but that time is not now.
In short, you can't just download education and think you're all set. I had Feynman lectures on my ipod on my commute today, I don't think that's gonna make me a physicist either...
How much is coming from the evil corporations, how much from scaremongering environmentalists
Well that makes little sense. The motivation of corporations to scientists willing to lie about climate change in the case of, say, oil, is pretty obvious. Now those environmentatlists that you are so scathing of - what is their motivation to fund "bad" science exactly?
The academic world is tough on people who undermine articles of "progressive" faith
Err, no, the scientific world is tough on little things like scientific method and evidence.
Hmmm, no either I didn't explain myself very well, or you decided not to let what I wrote get in the way of an anonymous flame. Galloway was for his entire career a Glasgow MP, not from the east end. So why didn't he stand in the constituency he has represented for 20 years for his Respect Party? Instead he chose to stand somewhere he has no links with because the demography suited his demagoguery better. What all the poorer people of tower hamlets need most, whether they are white, black, muslim or Jedi are things like cheap decent affordable housing. Instead Galloway capitalised on the fact that Ms King supported the war, which is only generally relevant, and no more so in Tower Hamlets than in Glasgow, and on more provocative and seedy grounds that she was a black Jew. His tactics on playing to the differences of the muslim population was intentionally divisive, and led to more support on the one hand for the BNP, and on the other hand a campaign by more extreme sections of the muslim population that led an intimidating campaign to convince people not to vote at all because it was by its nature un-islamic to do so.
But hey, since you know even less about the area as Mr Galloway, you can carry on with your ridiculous troll if you want...
Indeed, a deeply unpleasant specimen by the name of George Galloway (he of "Sir I Salute Your Indefatigability" fame) managed to beat a sitting Labour MP in a normally safe seat
Indeed, that particular idiot is my new MP, in one of the most opportunistic and cynical moves I've ever seen. He turned up in Tower Hamlets, stoking up as much racial tension as possible to further what seem to be pretty self-serving aims. He has absolutely no connection to the East End, other than picking the London seat with the highest proportion of impoverished muslims as he could. Oona King, whilst being pro-war, was actually a pretty decent constituency MP. A fact people are starting to realise with a suntanned bufoon more interested in book deals and tv appearences than actually doing what we're paying him for.
Dunno. Definitely the guy who ended up thousands of dollars in debt trying to get a distro made though. I donated through the store in the hope that it went directly to drobbins...
My guess is that the doctor who snatched you from your mother's womb was, likewise, not "free" (as in speech).
Well, you were making a good point up till here. In my country, doctors are free (as in beer) to the person requiring treatment through taxation. More importantly, medical knowledge *is* free (as in speech). Can you imagine a situation where it wasn't?? Where a doctor would hold on to his/her knowledge to give themselves a competitive advantage? Not only would patients suffer, through the concentration of this knowledge, but the doctor would suffer as his/her ideas would not advance through the contribution of their peers.
Funnily enough, there is a huge shortage of plumbers in the UK, they can't get enough work, and are paid well. In the IT / financial services slump, it was actually a career path choice for a lot of white collar workers. But I digress...
There is a huge need for this kind of worker in IT, and a lot of the time, integrators / operational staff understand the whole plant a lot better than more narrowly focused developers. And they get shit done, which is a relief compared to the armies of spreadsheet wielding technical illiterates that I have to deal with most of the time.
I don't know if you're a troll or just ignorant and arrogant, but either way you're just wrong...
In other news -
Tobacco companies deny link to cancer, or that nicotine is addictive.
Fast food and soft drink manufacturers deny link to obesity.
For the love of everything holy, get a grip and open your eyes. There's no doubt that we are contributing to global warming, none, despite what vested interested try to spin you. Yet people still seem to enjoy sticking their head in the sand, and try to stick to the old "oh, but there's always been fluctuations in climate, and there isn't even any consensus amongst scientists" crap.
There are fluctuations, but we're a huge catalyst. And outside of the sort of rubbish that speaks the same tongue as the old "scientific reports" commissioned by Phillip Morris, there is consensus. Every piece of due diligence and scientific method to enumerate the doubt in *any* study is seized upon as if to discredit it. But that's ok, we'll just wait a couple of million years to collect the data that'll make you happy.
Actually, when I visited pre 9/11 they were ruder than post. They actually seemed slightly apologetic when they were taking my finger prints and retina scans.
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I dunno, but it's also worth remembering that the French got this round of abuse for refusing to support the attack on Iraq because they didn't think there were WMDs there. I don't understand why that's remembered less well than the accusations of cowardice.
Why would cancer charities invest money in an anti cancer drug? Because that is what their charter says they are there to do.
Rubbish. Firstly, it's an existing drug, so the burden of clinical trials is reduced. Secondly, governments, charities, and drug companies that make their living producing generics could fund this easily.
This is such a piece of blatent propaganda, and everyone seems to have fallen for it. The Iranian president has never said this, or anything like it. He says he doesn't recognise the legitimacy of the regime that occupies Jerusalem. Most Arabs say the same thing. He didn't say he wanted to wipe the country off the map, as is discussed here, amongst other places.
Additionally, the US could also be accused of fighting a proxy war in the region, and with more justification.
I don't want anyone to have nuclear weapons, but if you were Iran, you'd want them. Two countries pissed the US off a few years ago, Iraq and North Korea. One was attacked, one wasn't. Guess which one had nukes? The US administration keeps publicly intimating that Iran is next on the list. If you were Iran, it would be pretty clear that the only way to avoid being invaded would be to have nukes.
You can get pure unadulterated mp3s at bleep.com. You have to like music on the warp label and similar, but if you don't, you really should :) Bleep's whole point is not to treat the customer as a criminal.
I actually think they've hunge their star on intel having the best mobile procesors, and the best mobile prosessor roadmap. AMD is creaming Intel (relatively speaking) in the server markets, not on laptops (or small form factor shiny apples).
These NASA clowns are so out of date. Everyone knows we're being carried through infinity on the back of a tortoise. And it's turtles all the way down...
Free coke? Hell yeah, sign me up, my dealer is way too expensive! A hole full of pot sounds interesting too, but I reckon the plants in the office would probably yield a better crop. When can I start? I swear I'm gonna be way too high to be any kind of security threat...
the book also includes introductory and summary material rather than staying focused on VB 6 users
Users, not developers?
Plusnet have been the worst British ISP at traffic shaping, which is why I, and a lot of other users, left their service in droves. To be replaced by their target customer of someone who uses only web and mail... What was most infuriating was the amount of backtracking they did about traffic shaping, and the "unlimited" service they were previously marketing. Ftp, usenet and p2p apps were targetted, but the traffic shaping technologies used (ellacoyas) seemed to have a knock on effect to other usage patterns. Besides the fact that people object to being told what to use their connection for, unless that message is communicated very well. Which, in the case of plusnet, it wasn't...
In short, you can't just download education and think you're all set. I had Feynman lectures on my ipod on my commute today, I don't think that's gonna make me a physicist either...
Yes, not a day passes that I don't mourn the loss of our empire, by jove. A few chaps we'd be jolly pleased to blast into orbit though, what what?
Well that makes little sense. The motivation of corporations to scientists willing to lie about climate change in the case of, say, oil, is pretty obvious. Now those environmentatlists that you are so scathing of - what is their motivation to fund "bad" science exactly?
The academic world is tough on people who undermine articles of "progressive" faith
Err, no, the scientific world is tough on little things like scientific method and evidence.
Sorry.
But hey, since you know even less about the area as Mr Galloway, you can carry on with your ridiculous troll if you want...
Indeed, that particular idiot is my new MP, in one of the most opportunistic and cynical moves I've ever seen. He turned up in Tower Hamlets, stoking up as much racial tension as possible to further what seem to be pretty self-serving aims. He has absolutely no connection to the East End, other than picking the London seat with the highest proportion of impoverished muslims as he could. Oona King, whilst being pro-war, was actually a pretty decent constituency MP. A fact people are starting to realise with a suntanned bufoon more interested in book deals and tv appearences than actually doing what we're paying him for.
Dunno. Definitely the guy who ended up thousands of dollars in debt trying to get a distro made though. I donated through the store in the hope that it went directly to drobbins...
"Today, class, we're going to learn about kde..."
"Err, Mr Robbins sir, is this going to take much longer? I gotta go pee"
Try registering a vanity domain when your name is bikerslutsfromhell, with all the pr0n companies going to .xxx finally I can get my own .com domain!
Funny... I was just thinking that maybe we'd be getting 64 bit win codecs for mplayer ;)
Well, you were making a good point up till here. In my country, doctors are free (as in beer) to the person requiring treatment through taxation. More importantly, medical knowledge *is* free (as in speech). Can you imagine a situation where it wasn't?? Where a doctor would hold on to his/her knowledge to give themselves a competitive advantage? Not only would patients suffer, through the concentration of this knowledge, but the doctor would suffer as his/her ideas would not advance through the contribution of their peers.
Scientific knowledge needs to be free.
There is a huge need for this kind of worker in IT, and a lot of the time, integrators / operational staff understand the whole plant a lot better than more narrowly focused developers. And they get shit done, which is a relief compared to the armies of spreadsheet wielding technical illiterates that I have to deal with most of the time.
I don't know if you're a troll or just ignorant and arrogant, but either way you're just wrong...
In other news -
Tobacco companies deny link to cancer, or that nicotine is addictive.
Fast food and soft drink manufacturers deny link to obesity.
For the love of everything holy, get a grip and open your eyes. There's no doubt that we are contributing to global warming, none, despite what vested interested try to spin you. Yet people still seem to enjoy sticking their head in the sand, and try to stick to the old "oh, but there's always been fluctuations in climate, and there isn't even any consensus amongst scientists" crap.
There are fluctuations, but we're a huge catalyst. And outside of the sort of rubbish that speaks the same tongue as the old "scientific reports" commissioned by Phillip Morris, there is consensus. Every piece of due diligence and scientific method to enumerate the doubt in *any* study is seized upon as if to discredit it. But that's ok, we'll just wait a couple of million years to collect the data that'll make you happy.
Actually, when I visited pre 9/11 they were ruder than post. They actually seemed slightly apologetic when they were taking my finger prints and retina scans.
Yeah, but at least you'll be able to mail for help when you can't see your house from your snowed-in car.