What is the excuse for shooting the evacuation van then ? No weapons, no intent on taking one, it clearly looked like an improvised ambulance. Ambulances are supposed to not be shot at, even enemy ones.
Yes, a mistake has been done. Journalist equipment has been mistaken for RPGs and AK-47. Civilian died. This is a mistake that cost life, and therefore the people who made this mistake must be punished. I don't see what the problem is in stating this. Mistakes like that will probably continue to happen but if the persons responsible of this one are not punished, US force will not be credible when they say they try to prevent civilian deaths.
Honest mistakes ? No. It could indeed have been a weapon, but it was a guess made 4 pixels. The gunner was not looking for a proof, he was looking for an excuse to use his shiny guns. The dialogue makes it pretty clear. People who open fire on clues as slim as that are clearly doing a lethal mistake. When you are in such doubts, in an inhabited area, you do second checks. This is not the first mistake like that, there has already been a lot of misidentified items. there has been a UK convoy shot down because it "looked like they were carrying missiles" (IIRC it was a medical convoy).
At the very least, the army should recognize this has been a mistake and offer compensation to the victims. Covering it up is a really fucked up way to act.
that won't remove the necessity of applying lethal force to the enemies of civilization
I see foreigners shooting down journalists of an invaded country. I see people shooting down others from the safe shelter of an armored copter, wishing to be authorized to finish down a wounded guy, giggling at dismembered bodies. "enemy of civilization" ? Who are you talking about ?
This whole CA thing is based on a hierarchical chain of trust, you can't keep it invisible for long. All certs are not equally trustable. We shouldn't get used to assimilate the "secure" icon to a completely trusted user, but just as a second grade security that our (incompetent) banks rely on. When they are not simply using http...
We are the people who say our government better not censor any part of out internet.
Sovereignty is a moot point if you believe in the universality of human rights. We are telling them what they should do and the legitimacy to do so comes from the fact that we say the same to our own governments.
Someone does an awesome job at having a failover procedure for such an incredible non-profit project. And for resuming access within one hour. For heaven's sake, they don't even make money keeping the biggest encyclopedia of all History online, give them a break !
Come on wikipedia, fix this, but rest assured that we all love you !
Even by averaging the data, I can't see how they expect to see anything as small as a scale 4.0...
Laptops are mobile things, they usually stand on the lap, which is not an ideal stable platform...
But comparing them to Google's cloud seems unreasonable. Their numbers may be higher but they can't outmatch google when it comes to quickly make a search on petabytes of data or to compute millions of user recommendations on amazon.
You can not write words by thought alone. This device allows to (painstakingly at a very slow speed) type letters. This is a great stuff but this is not the device you are looking for. This is mostly for disabled people.
The model of individual open source projects has been coined as "Benevolent dictatorship" (apparently a pun on Linus Torvalds' middle name : Benedict). This is especially because of this that open source licenses were made.
Democracy has no meaning in software development : the majority may want something, if it is technically incorrect it will just not work. Democracy in software development is meaningless. This is the realm of the meritocracy : want something ? code it. Can't code ? your opinion has few merit.
Google says to the world : if you make business in mainland China, you won't have privacy, your services will be pirated by govt semi-officials, and as a foreigner you won't be allowed to compete with a local competitor. This will make some foreign investors think twice before opening something in China. Especially a business that relies on the secrecy of some data.
I believe this can harm China's economy. Oh, not by a lot, sure. But is is a dent.
All the official documents in my office are in electronic form. We print them only to read and annotate in meetings, but then the first thing we do is to correct the electronic form. Depending on your definition, one could call that "paperless". If we were to relocate, 99% of the moved documents would be in electronic form.
Sometimes a weird procedure asks for a hand-signed form. This is the only case where we have "papered" documents. I suspect this is because of human habits and non-technical management that doesn't know the advantages of crypto-signing.
It could have been worse, like having a single human the 'designated ambassador'. It would have been a politician, it would have been a bad one (such an office surely wouldn't be given to a top-notch negociator) and it would have been representative of only one country.
Really, judging our civilization by TV broadcast isn't ideal but it is far from being the worse case scenario.
I heard it on last.fm, or an open equivalent. Some friend put an extract on their facebook, on a fora, it was used in a video clip... etc... Of 90% of the artists I have discovered lately, it was through these means. Radio, TV ? They don't spread a lot, they are very repetitive.
To pay for it securely ? You have paypal, you will soon have flattr (it is a shame that this doesn't come from majors, it is their job !) When I go see someone live, it is almost a direct donation. In fact I have seen some artists doing the cashier.
How did I download the music ? There are several platforms that provide centralized hosting for free (youtube, dailymotion, myspace) that many artists use today, but you know, if the legalausaurus allowed it, a platform like napster, or eDonkey could work VERY well with a cost of zero. They did, before they were forbidden.
Pretend it is more secure, it allows more things, it is more ecological, it is trendy, it makes your privacy safer, it allows you private filesharing that the law tolerates...
The only case I see where this would be a good strategy is just before a physical military operation. If you shut down one website, they'll manage to resume communication somehow, but it will take a few days. If you shut down the website jointly with other actions, it has the benefit of disorganizing the enemy.
If you don't have an operation planned, it sounds more clever to keep it online and keep the hand on the plug.
Marketing ? Logistics ? Consumer support ? Don't need those in the internet era. The only reason middlemen still exist for is production. People I know that still buy CDs do so "to give to the artist" but they listen to all their music on downloaded MP3s. Just make the CD case an empty plastic box with a guarantee that 80% of the price goes to the artist and I am sure you continue to sell those very well. Face it : a CD doesn't fit in nowadays portable players.
Sell them $99 or $0.01, I am not willing to pay for middlemen more than the final artist will get. I think I'll wait for flattr.
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Because life expectancy is a correlation, not a causation.
But the correlation is not only between America and France. The trend is between countries with healthcare against countries without.
Yes Americans have lower expectancy, but the cause is not lack of government care. The cause is hard living (dangerous jobs like farming/logging with premature deaths, and/or simply being fat slobs).
Don't forget gun violence.
I stand corrected anyway. I looked at stats about premature death and that is right, US ranks fairly bad. I tend to think that the fact that farming (we do that a lot here too, comparatively more) is more harmful in the richer US than in other countries says a lot about health policies.
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In France, we call the country you quote as "anglo-saxon". We use them as scarecrows of the kind of practice we don't want to see...
Why don't you just use life expectancy as a metrics for evaluating countries practice in healthcare ?
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Yes, a mistake has been done. Journalist equipment has been mistaken for RPGs and AK-47. Civilian died. This is a mistake that cost life, and therefore the people who made this mistake must be punished. I don't see what the problem is in stating this. Mistakes like that will probably continue to happen but if the persons responsible of this one are not punished, US force will not be credible when they say they try to prevent civilian deaths.
Honest mistakes ? No. It could indeed have been a weapon, but it was a guess made 4 pixels. The gunner was not looking for a proof, he was looking for an excuse to use his shiny guns. The dialogue makes it pretty clear. People who open fire on clues as slim as that are clearly doing a lethal mistake. When you are in such doubts, in an inhabited area, you do second checks. This is not the first mistake like that, there has already been a lot of misidentified items. there has been a UK convoy shot down because it "looked like they were carrying missiles" (IIRC it was a medical convoy).
At the very least, the army should recognize this has been a mistake and offer compensation to the victims. Covering it up is a really fucked up way to act.
that won't remove the necessity of applying lethal force to the enemies of civilization
I see foreigners shooting down journalists of an invaded country. I see people shooting down others from the safe shelter of an armored copter, wishing to be authorized to finish down a wounded guy, giggling at dismembered bodies. "enemy of civilization" ? Who are you talking about ?
[troll]Or to even exist...[/troll]
This whole CA thing is based on a hierarchical chain of trust, you can't keep it invisible for long. All certs are not equally trustable. We shouldn't get used to assimilate the "secure" icon to a completely trusted user, but just as a second grade security that our (incompetent) banks rely on. When they are not simply using http...
We are the people who say our government better not censor any part of out internet.
Sovereignty is a moot point if you believe in the universality of human rights. We are telling them what they should do and the legitimacy to do so comes from the fact that we say the same to our own governments.
Someone does an awesome job at having a failover procedure for such an incredible non-profit project. And for resuming access within one hour. For heaven's sake, they don't even make money keeping the biggest encyclopedia of all History online, give them a break !
Come on wikipedia, fix this, but rest assured that we all love you !
Was I the first to think about AEGIS Combat Systems ?
They should open Tor gateways in Hong Kong. We could do with a few more Gb/s of bandwidth.
Even by averaging the data, I can't see how they expect to see anything as small as a scale 4.0... Laptops are mobile things, they usually stand on the lap, which is not an ideal stable platform...
Laugh while you can, monkey boy.
But comparing them to Google's cloud seems unreasonable. Their numbers may be higher but they can't outmatch google when it comes to quickly make a search on petabytes of data or to compute millions of user recommendations on amazon.
You can not write words by thought alone. This device allows to (painstakingly at a very slow speed) type letters. This is a great stuff but this is not the device you are looking for. This is mostly for disabled people.
The model of individual open source projects has been coined as "Benevolent dictatorship" (apparently a pun on Linus Torvalds' middle name : Benedict). This is especially because of this that open source licenses were made.
Democracy has no meaning in software development : the majority may want something, if it is technically incorrect it will just not work. Democracy in software development is meaningless. This is the realm of the meritocracy : want something ? code it. Can't code ? your opinion has few merit.
Google says to the world : if you make business in mainland China, you won't have privacy, your services will be pirated by govt semi-officials, and as a foreigner you won't be allowed to compete with a local competitor. This will make some foreign investors think twice before opening something in China. Especially a business that relies on the secrecy of some data.
I believe this can harm China's economy. Oh, not by a lot, sure. But is is a dent.
Now is a good justification for piracy !
All the official documents in my office are in electronic form. We print them only to read and annotate in meetings, but then the first thing we do is to correct the electronic form. Depending on your definition, one could call that "paperless". If we were to relocate, 99% of the moved documents would be in electronic form.
Sometimes a weird procedure asks for a hand-signed form. This is the only case where we have "papered" documents. I suspect this is because of human habits and non-technical management that doesn't know the advantages of crypto-signing.
It could have been worse, like having a single human the 'designated ambassador'. It would have been a politician, it would have been a bad one (such an office surely wouldn't be given to a top-notch negociator) and it would have been representative of only one country.
Really, judging our civilization by TV broadcast isn't ideal but it is far from being the worse case scenario.
I heard it on last.fm, or an open equivalent. Some friend put an extract on their facebook, on a fora, it was used in a video clip... etc... Of 90% of the artists I have discovered lately, it was through these means. Radio, TV ? They don't spread a lot, they are very repetitive.
To pay for it securely ? You have paypal, you will soon have flattr (it is a shame that this doesn't come from majors, it is their job !) When I go see someone live, it is almost a direct donation. In fact I have seen some artists doing the cashier.
How did I download the music ? There are several platforms that provide centralized hosting for free (youtube, dailymotion, myspace) that many artists use today, but you know, if the legalausaurus allowed it, a platform like napster, or eDonkey could work VERY well with a cost of zero. They did, before they were forbidden.
Then sell it with lies.
semi-lies work too.
Pretend it is more secure, it allows more things, it is more ecological, it is trendy, it makes your privacy safer, it allows you private filesharing that the law tolerates...
"Pirating" should be named "sharing".
Yeah. Evil, I know
But you can play games as well on a laptop
The only case I see where this would be a good strategy is just before a physical military operation. If you shut down one website, they'll manage to resume communication somehow, but it will take a few days. If you shut down the website jointly with other actions, it has the benefit of disorganizing the enemy.
If you don't have an operation planned, it sounds more clever to keep it online and keep the hand on the plug.
Marketing ? Logistics ? Consumer support ? Don't need those in the internet era. The only reason middlemen still exist for is production. People I know that still buy CDs do so "to give to the artist" but they listen to all their music on downloaded MP3s. Just make the CD case an empty plastic box with a guarantee that 80% of the price goes to the artist and I am sure you continue to sell those very well. Face it : a CD doesn't fit in nowadays portable players.
Sell them $99 or $0.01, I am not willing to pay for middlemen more than the final artist will get. I think I'll wait for flattr.
Because life expectancy is a correlation, not a causation.
But the correlation is not only between America and France. The trend is between countries with healthcare against countries without.
Yes Americans have lower expectancy, but the cause is not lack of government care. The cause is hard living (dangerous jobs like farming/logging with premature deaths, and/or simply being fat slobs).
Don't forget gun violence.
I stand corrected anyway. I looked at stats about premature death and that is right, US ranks fairly bad. I tend to think that the fact that farming (we do that a lot here too, comparatively more) is more harmful in the richer US than in other countries says a lot about health policies.
In France, we call the country you quote as "anglo-saxon". We use them as scarecrows of the kind of practice we don't want to see...
Why don't you just use life expectancy as a metrics for evaluating countries practice in healthcare ?