Troll or not, the OP was basically correct in marking IndyMedia as a far leftist organization, in whose eye the US can do no right, and other destructive forces can do no wrong.
One article: http://rochester.indymedia.org/media/00/00/00/61/ On September 3, the U.S. Navy unleashed another terrorist assault on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques.
They are talking about practice bombing on a range. The use of the word terrorist is deliberately inflammatory, and completely incorrect. As to whether the Navy should have a pracice bomb range on that island is another thing entirely, but using it with the blessing of the local gummint is NOT a "terrorist act".
[snip]
Daily and nightly demonstrations have been held at the Navy's base, Camp Garcia, and have continued unabated despite brutal attacks from Navy security forces and at least a dozen arrests. Activists continue their courageous acts of civil disobedience by infiltrating the range and putting themselves directly in harms way, acting as "human shields" against the bombing.
Infiltrating a military base is a sure way to get arrested.
"Brutal attacks"? Proof please. If you fight back with a cop, or military security police, you can expect to get thumped in the head.
"Courageous acts of civil disobidience"
well...fine. Again, the protestors can do no wrong, and the evil military can do no right. Curiously, no mention is made anywhere that I can see of the innumerable acts of good will that various military forces around the world have done to help people. Hurricane rescue, fresh water sources, schools. Ah well. Obviously, those things do not count.
[snip]
Puerto Rico for the Puerto Ricans!
U.S. Military Out of Puerto Rico!
From cpcml.ca (Canadian Communist Party- Marxist Leninist)
No further explanation needed...
I did not pick out this particular article as being the most inflammatory on the website. This was merely pretty much the first I came across. IndyMedia apparently allows any and all individuals to write, and publish, an article to their websites. However, I did not see anything promoting a pro-US, or pro-Israel, or pro-corporation stance. Being pro-US may or may not be a GoodThing(tm), but if you are going to allow anyone to publish anything, then do that. Not only anyone that agrees with us.
When donating time, money, expertise to an organization, be sure you know for what and to whom it is actually going for.
And who regulates the sites from North Korea who get a BeanieBabies.kids domain, goes through the whole review process, and then later change its contents to porn? Who cuts off BeanieBabies.kids?
And who makes the decision about swimsuit models and child models? Selling bathing suits and lingerie, or pornography? Selling diapers, or kiddie porn?
That's the main problem. There is, and can be, no one controlling entity with real enforcement rights.
And yes, I do have kids. AOL, for all its many faults, IS not too bad at regulating and allowing parents to lock down kids accounts.
but it seems to me any airplane with one or more vertical stabilizers could perform a flat turn.
Yes, more or less. Rudder left, and the nose of the aircraft turns to the left. Eventually, you will describe a full circle. Slow and not very useful. But also, you start to lose airflow over the wings. Which has to be compensated for. A real turn is done by a combination of bank and elevator.
Think of as the difference between a rear wheel drive car, and a 4WD, 4Wsteering car. On snow. In a rear wheel car, yes, you can hang the back out at an angle, and still be going more or less forward. In a 4WS car, you can haul ass around the turn. The front AND the back steer throgh the turn. Or, with uncoupled frt and rear, you can have all 4 wheels pointed in one direction, with the body in another.
Single axis (sideways) vectored thrust 'turns' the jet. Add 2 axis vectoring (left/right and up/down), and you can climb or descend, while keeping the nose flat (good for maintaining aim/missile lock). Or jink sideways, while still keeping the nose pointed at the target.
The jet body can be uncoupled from the actual direction the jet is moving.
a F-16 can perform a flat turn. This is where the aircraft does not bank at all before turning left or right.
No, it cannot. The vectored thrust F-22 CAN do somewhat of a flat turn. The engine nozzles turn left or right, causing the nose to move the other direction. A whole lot of other things are going on as well, but that's the basics.
They make roller coasters seem like nothing after you fly in one.
So, from your incisive comment, we can assume you've never flown in one? I have, once. Yes, it is the world's ultimate rollercoaster. And, G-suit or no, I started to blackout at one point.
If your friends were on different long distance services (Sprint, AT&T, MCI, GTE), would you think it reasonable to have 4 different phones just so you could talk to them?
hmm...Mary is on the blue 900 Mhz cordless, Joe is on the wall phone in the kitchen, Jim can only be reached from the 2.4Ghz, and Jill from the cellphone.
P2Pish phones.
Upload from my home PC to my phone. Upload (from the phone? how much memory space you have there?) to your friends space on the central server. And he does what with it? D/L to his phone? Why? To listen to music? ewwww...watch a video clip? again...ewwww.
So he waits until he gets home, d/l's it to the house PC, and then listens to the MP3. OK, so tell me why did we need to go through the cellphone to do this?
Why not just use the current way of stealing music. My PC through gnutella or whatever, to his PC. Of what value is the cellphone and their network in all this?
Who's to say that they don't apply this same pressure to software makers? Just a wild guess on my part, really.
No, the problem is threefold (at least)
1) Internal apps. Need to be rewritten for the new OS. And believe me, a LOT of the company is run from 'Mary in accountings' custom spreadsheet.
2) User and help desk training. Can't drop a week out of production to roll out the new software, and then train the users on its use. And no, it is NOT seamless for the users.
3) Client compatibility. You MUST be able to trade documents with *all* of your clients. If Joe Blow from General Motors sends you a complex xls, you'd better be able to read it.
Plenty of products by microsoft have failed miserably. Bob, for instance. WinMe for another. At best, they get resurrected in another form. Bob becomes Clippy.
Where is the killer app that requires broadband? Evidently, many current broadband users are jumping ship, and going back to dialup.
For those that want, but cannot afford, hispeed access exists in the local library, schools, Starbucks, etc.
Also, near 100% of homes in america already have an internet delivery pipe, the POTS jack in the wall.
Why does everyone need broadband? I want it, and I pay for it. Joe next door simply scans a webpage or two, and checks his email. What is the compelling broadband need for him? So compelling that *I* have to help subsidise it...
Getting the latest stale internet joke 20% faster is not a basic necessity of life, like water or heat.
Possibly. But specifically, which of these applies?
(A) Interference with law enforcement proceedings can be reasonably expected.
(B) A person would be deprived of a fair trial or an impartial adjudication.
(C) An unwarranted invasion of personal privacy could reasonably be expected.
(D) Revealing a confidential source or information provided by a confidential source could reasonably be expected
(E) Techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions would be disclosed or guidelines for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions would be disclosed, provided such disclosure could reasonably be expected to risk circumvention of the law.
(F) Endangering the safety or life of any individual could reasonably be expected.
The only one I can see is (C), personal privacy. But employers, landlords already do background checks. I don't see anything specific in there to prevent this particular bit of data getting out.
I work for a large, multinational marketing research company. In the US, our main income is from testing TV ads.
To all the naysayers: Yes, TV ads DO work. Over time, there is a direct correlation between TV time and sales revenue. A couple of years ago, I saw a graph of Sega ad $$ vs. Sega Genesis sales. it was a direct line. Reduce ad time (and $$) and sales went down.
If BurgerKing or McDonalds were to stop advertising, they would be severly down on sales within the year, bankrupt within two. How is this, you say? *Everybody* knows about BK. Well...you are far more likely to go to the one you just heard about. On TV (or radio or wherever).
Take away ads, and the only other option is complete pay-per-view. Maybe as part of a package deal, but still the same. hmmm...isn't that where cable is now?
Companies will *still* need to get their product name out there in front of people somehow. The standard 30 second ad, product placement, pop-ups, whatever. But ads will stil be around because they work.
Having had one email addy for a very long time, I only use it now as a spam catcher.
But in the last few months, that email address has evidently been put in the reply-to of a BUNCH of spam. In addition to regular incoming spam, this one email address collects 50-100 bounce messages a day from all over the world. Some server in Italy "Sorry, we could not deliver to the following addresses". And then it lists 100 or so addresses that don't exist on their server. Korea, Japan, Earthlink, AOL, Sprint, etc, etc...
And they are not targeting YOU. ajones@earthlink.com, bjones@earthlink.com, cjones@earthlink.com...and on and on.
The spammers don't care. Replying back NEVER works, because either the repy-to is not the spammer anyway, or it just validates that a living person read the spam. They are ot sending it from their personal account, but rather someone elses. And not gathering any replies, either. Just hoping someone will click on whatever foolishness is in the html, and shell out a few $$.
But now there's a hitch. You've received a document (say, a contract under negotiation), and you want to make your own revisions before sending it back. But application Y is only a reader. To make the changes, you need access to application Z, which costs $4000. Ouch.
Then the wrong tool was chosen for that task. PDF for instance. You should not choose to send a PDF, if you know the recipient may have a need to edit it. It should be sent in some other format, that both the sender and the recipient both have an editing tool for.
Choose the right tool for the task. PDF is good for what it is designed for. Editing is not one of them.
And they also need to be taught, and held to it, that the boundraies set are for a reason.
"You may not go beyond streets X, Y, and Z"
The responsibility to follow this rule needs to come from the child, not a microchip.
When those boundraies are broken (and a good parent should be able to find this out), there should be consequences. "You broke curfew. No donuts for you".
At what point do you take the watch off? Age 18? "OK, son...you're a man now. You may go where you please" Said child never having learned to follow rules because they are good rules, as opposed to "this thing on my arm will tattle on me".
These abductions are high-profile only because they are on TV. No more or less lately than there have been for ages.
Kids need freedom. Within limits, but freedom to explore.
As far as employees, if one chooses to go AWOL, so be it. He'll come back to an empty desk. If I can't trust him to be where he is supposed to be, I can't trust him with the companies money or clients.
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Troll or not, the OP was basically correct in marking IndyMedia as a far leftist organization, in whose eye the US can do no right, and other destructive forces can do no wrong.
One article: http://rochester.indymedia.org/media/00/00/00/61/
On September 3, the U.S. Navy unleashed another terrorist assault on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques.
They are talking about practice bombing on a range. The use of the word terrorist is deliberately inflammatory, and completely incorrect. As to whether the Navy should have a pracice bomb range on that island is another thing entirely, but using it with the blessing of the local gummint is NOT a "terrorist act".
[snip]
Daily and nightly demonstrations have been held at the Navy's base, Camp Garcia, and have continued unabated despite brutal attacks from Navy security forces and at least a dozen arrests. Activists continue their courageous acts of civil disobedience by infiltrating the range and putting themselves directly in harms way, acting as "human shields" against the bombing.
Infiltrating a military base is a sure way to get arrested.
"Brutal attacks"? Proof please. If you fight back with a cop, or military security police, you can expect to get thumped in the head.
"Courageous acts of civil disobidience"
well...fine. Again, the protestors can do no wrong, and the evil military can do no right. Curiously, no mention is made anywhere that I can see of the innumerable acts of good will that various military forces around the world have done to help people. Hurricane rescue, fresh water sources, schools. Ah well. Obviously, those things do not count.
[snip]
Puerto Rico for the Puerto Ricans!
U.S. Military Out of Puerto Rico!
From cpcml.ca (Canadian Communist Party- Marxist Leninist)
No further explanation needed...
I did not pick out this particular article as being the most inflammatory on the website. This was merely pretty much the first I came across. IndyMedia apparently allows any and all individuals to write, and publish, an article to their websites. However, I did not see anything promoting a pro-US, or pro-Israel, or pro-corporation stance. Being pro-US may or may not be a GoodThing(tm), but if you are going to allow anyone to publish anything, then do that. Not only anyone that agrees with us.
When donating time, money, expertise to an organization, be sure you know for what and to whom it is actually going for.
And who regulates the sites from North Korea who get a BeanieBabies.kids domain, goes through the whole review process, and then later change its contents to porn? Who cuts off BeanieBabies.kids?
And who makes the decision about swimsuit models and child models? Selling bathing suits and lingerie, or pornography? Selling diapers, or kiddie porn?
That's the main problem. There is, and can be, no one controlling entity with real enforcement rights.
And yes, I do have kids. AOL, for all its many faults, IS not too bad at regulating and allowing parents to lock down kids accounts.
Do banners == Revenue? Yes. All you need is one. It is money coming in to the enterprise.
Enough reveune to turn a profit? That's another question.
but it seems to me any airplane with one or more vertical stabilizers could perform a flat turn.
Yes, more or less. Rudder left, and the nose of the aircraft turns to the left. Eventually, you will describe a full circle. Slow and not very useful. But also, you start to lose airflow over the wings. Which has to be compensated for. A real turn is done by a combination of bank and elevator.
Think of as the difference between a rear wheel drive car, and a 4WD, 4Wsteering car. On snow. In a rear wheel car, yes, you can hang the back out at an angle, and still be going more or less forward. In a 4WS car, you can haul ass around the turn. The front AND the back steer throgh the turn. Or, with uncoupled frt and rear, you can have all 4 wheels pointed in one direction, with the body in another.
Single axis (sideways) vectored thrust 'turns' the jet. Add 2 axis vectoring (left/right and up/down), and you can climb or descend, while keeping the nose flat (good for maintaining aim/missile lock). Or jink sideways, while still keeping the nose pointed at the target.
The jet body can be uncoupled from the actual direction the jet is moving.
Please do some more research
Yes, please do...
a F-16 can perform a flat turn. This is where the aircraft does not bank at all before turning left or right.
No, it cannot. The vectored thrust F-22 CAN do somewhat of a flat turn. The engine nozzles turn left or right, causing the nose to move the other direction. A whole lot of other things are going on as well, but that's the basics.
They make roller coasters seem like nothing after you fly in one.
So, from your incisive comment, we can assume you've never flown in one? I have, once. Yes, it is the world's ultimate rollercoaster. And, G-suit or no, I started to blackout at one point.
Taking your phone system analogy a bit farther...
If your friends were on different long distance services (Sprint, AT&T, MCI, GTE), would you think it reasonable to have 4 different phones just so you could talk to them?
hmm...Mary is on the blue 900 Mhz cordless, Joe is on the wall phone in the kitchen, Jim can only be reached from the 2.4Ghz, and Jill from the cellphone.
oh yeah...that would work REAL well.
P2Pish phones.
Upload from my home PC to my phone. Upload (from the phone? how much memory space you have there?) to your friends space on the central server. And he does what with it? D/L to his phone? Why? To listen to music? ewwww...watch a video clip? again...ewwww.
So he waits until he gets home, d/l's it to the house PC, and then listens to the MP3. OK, so tell me why did we need to go through the cellphone to do this?
Why not just use the current way of stealing music. My PC through gnutella or whatever, to his PC. Of what value is the cellphone and their network in all this?
All electronic devices are powered by smoke. Once you let the smoke out of the box, they cease to work.
Otherwise, how would settop box, S/N 7826435, network address # 132ABQ, get delivered to Joe Bloggs, who lives at 123 Main St?
Oh, I know. They give them out anonymously on the street. And then, somehow, the box automagically knows if I've just bought a car.
'And we never associate the set-top box address with a physical home address.'"
Don't lie to me, fool.
Who's to say that they don't apply this same pressure to software makers? Just a wild guess on my part, really.
No, the problem is threefold (at least)
1) Internal apps. Need to be rewritten for the new OS. And believe me, a LOT of the company is run from 'Mary in accountings' custom spreadsheet.
2) User and help desk training. Can't drop a week out of production to roll out the new software, and then train the users on its use. And no, it is NOT seamless for the users.
3) Client compatibility. You MUST be able to trade documents with *all* of your clients. If Joe Blow from General Motors sends you a complex xls, you'd better be able to read it.
Regular jobs, not "making license plates, cleaning up roadsides" sort of make-work, but real paying jobs. Why not?
There are prisoners. Prisoners should be (need to be) kept busy. For a variety of reasons.
Why am I still seeing potholes every year?
Oh yeah...Clippy deservedly needed to die. Annoying little troll.
For instance, it sure would be nice to have immediate page loads on a first aid site.
A first aid book on your shelf is far faster than cranking up the PC. And can be carried out to the garage where the victim is lying bleeding.
Plenty of products by microsoft have failed miserably. Bob, for instance. WinMe for another. At best, they get resurrected in another form. Bob becomes Clippy.
Where is the killer app that requires broadband? Evidently, many current broadband users are jumping ship, and going back to dialup.
For those that want, but cannot afford, hispeed access exists in the local library, schools, Starbucks, etc.
Also, near 100% of homes in america already have an internet delivery pipe, the POTS jack in the wall.
Why does everyone need broadband? I want it, and I pay for it. Joe next door simply scans a webpage or two, and checks his email. What is the compelling broadband need for him? So compelling that *I* have to help subsidise it...
Getting the latest stale internet joke 20% faster is not a basic necessity of life, like water or heat.
Why can't they just fix the planes?
No, design the new equipment to be benign to older equipment.
It's much easier to fix things in the design phase, than to retrofit ALL current aircraft to accomodate a crappy, leaky product.
How about if they designed a wireless home LAN, but using other home devices would screw it up?
Oh wait, they already did...
Build it so that it does NOT affect current equipment.
...Where does that other sock go?
A few years ago, my dryer died. Being geekoid, I took it apart to see if anything was salvageable. Motors, relays, etc.
A *double handful* of socks was inside the box, outside the drum. Along with ~$4 in change and bills.
So, yes, Virginia, the dryer DOES eat socks.
Possibly. But specifically, which of these applies?
(A) Interference with law enforcement proceedings can be reasonably expected.
(B) A person would be deprived of a fair trial or an impartial adjudication.
(C) An unwarranted invasion of personal privacy could reasonably be expected.
(D) Revealing a confidential source or information provided by a confidential source could reasonably be expected
(E) Techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions would be disclosed or guidelines for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions would be disclosed, provided such disclosure could reasonably be expected to risk circumvention of the law.
(F) Endangering the safety or life of any individual could reasonably be expected.
The only one I can see is (C), personal privacy. But employers, landlords already do background checks. I don't see anything specific in there to prevent this particular bit of data getting out.
Right. And under the Freedom of Information Act, various state and Federal may be compelled to release this information.
"I'm sorry Mr. Jones. Your name appears on the "Potential Future Criminals" list. We can't rent you this apartment."
I work for a large, multinational marketing research company. In the US, our main income is from testing TV ads.
To all the naysayers: Yes, TV ads DO work. Over time, there is a direct correlation between TV time and sales revenue. A couple of years ago, I saw a graph of Sega ad $$ vs. Sega Genesis sales. it was a direct line. Reduce ad time (and $$) and sales went down.
If BurgerKing or McDonalds were to stop advertising, they would be severly down on sales within the year, bankrupt within two. How is this, you say? *Everybody* knows about BK. Well...you are far more likely to go to the one you just heard about. On TV (or radio or wherever).
Take away ads, and the only other option is complete pay-per-view. Maybe as part of a package deal, but still the same. hmmm...isn't that where cable is now?
Companies will *still* need to get their product name out there in front of people somehow. The standard 30 second ad, product placement, pop-ups, whatever. But ads will stil be around because they work.
Having had one email addy for a very long time, I only use it now as a spam catcher.
But in the last few months, that email address has evidently been put in the reply-to of a BUNCH of spam. In addition to regular incoming spam, this one email address collects 50-100 bounce messages a day from all over the world. Some server in Italy "Sorry, we could not deliver to the following addresses". And then it lists 100 or so addresses that don't exist on their server. Korea, Japan, Earthlink, AOL, Sprint, etc, etc...
And they are not targeting YOU. ajones@earthlink.com, bjones@earthlink.com, cjones@earthlink.com...and on and on.
The spammers don't care. Replying back NEVER works, because either the repy-to is not the spammer anyway, or it just validates that a living person read the spam. They are ot sending it from their personal account, but rather someone elses. And not gathering any replies, either. Just hoping someone will click on whatever foolishness is in the html, and shell out a few $$.
Spammers need to die.
But now there's a hitch. You've received a document (say, a contract under negotiation), and you want to make your own revisions before sending it back. But application Y is only a reader. To make the changes, you need access to application Z, which costs $4000. Ouch.
Then the wrong tool was chosen for that task. PDF for instance. You should not choose to send a PDF, if you know the recipient may have a need to edit it. It should be sent in some other format, that both the sender and the recipient both have an editing tool for.
Choose the right tool for the task. PDF is good for what it is designed for. Editing is not one of them.
And they also need to be taught, and held to it, that the boundraies set are for a reason.
"You may not go beyond streets X, Y, and Z"
The responsibility to follow this rule needs to come from the child, not a microchip.
When those boundraies are broken (and a good parent should be able to find this out), there should be consequences. "You broke curfew. No donuts for you".
At what point do you take the watch off? Age 18? "OK, son...you're a man now. You may go where you please" Said child never having learned to follow rules because they are good rules, as opposed to "this thing on my arm will tattle on me".
These abductions are high-profile only because they are on TV. No more or less lately than there have been for ages.
Kids need freedom. Within limits, but freedom to explore.
As far as employees, if one chooses to go AWOL, so be it. He'll come back to an empty desk. If I can't trust him to be where he is supposed to be, I can't trust him with the companies money or clients.
Cooler? Actually interacting in meatspace, with actual people, on a real sidewalk.
Now THAT is cool.