We stole their freedom so members of our parasitic upper class could profit. Iranians have every reason to hate the US, and every justification for any level of retaliation.
Given retaliation in the field of war has historically meant the killing of civilians and war-rape, you should be careful with your hyperbole.
1954 was before the current leaders of the United States were born, I would say no retaliation is justifiable in any shape or form. I live in a country where it is fasionable to call for the death of all Japanese in retaliation for what happened Nanjing in the 1930s (truly a horrific event, even compared to what was happening in Europe at the time), but it's not healthy, it's not productive and it's not right. Byegones are bygones, if you're American, you may retaliate against yourself if you feel it is justified, but do not wish upon your largely innocent countrymen what the Revolutionary Guard would have done apon them.
They were able to accomplish this without your revolting melanin-deficiency.
Looking at the Fayum mummy portraits and other ancient Egyptian artwork, especially depicting women (men are depicted as tanned from field work), I'd say you're wrong.
Copts (native Egyptians who still speak something approximating the ancient tongue) have somewhat lighter skin than the present Egyptian Arab majority, similar skin colour to Turks and Greeks. I'm not saying it was because they had light brown skin rather than mid brown skin that they were able to pyramids, but they were not dark.
Previous iPhones had such terrible cameras that anything would be an improvement. IPhone 5 takes better pictures most of the time at the expense of an occasional purple lens flare (I have not seen it on mine). If this is the best solution the engineers can come up with for the iPhone to take better pictures than before, then this is as good as it gets for now.
The difference is, the Australian court system will generally not hear cases between two American companies while a similar action is ongoing in their home country. They will also generally uphold the American ruling, unless it conflicts with Australian statutory law or legal principles.
Australia is a common law jurisdiction, although rulings from other common law jurisdictions is not binding precedent, it is certainly given a huge amount of respect. Germany uses a civil law system and does not consider itself connected in any way.
Multiculturalism and freedom, where we made darkies and commies take exams in Gaelic spelling to get a visa and sent the natives to special boarding school to learn about cattle droving and Jesus.
Australia is a nation built on immigration and welcomes those who aspire to the Australian way of life, in the same way as the Puritans, Unitarians, Amish and other religious folks left Europe for the American Colonies all those centuries ago, rather than fighting tooth and nail for religious freedom in the countries of their birth. Conversely, guys like Rupert Murdoch and Mel Gibson are also welcome to fuck off at their own pleasure.
American born Australians are welcome to participate and integrate fully into Australian public life, we even had an American born Premier of New South Wales recently.
Oh, they definitely believe that people have rights.
They just believe that these rights should be determined and redefined by the federal and state legislatures pretty much whenever they feel like it.
I think it scares the crap out of pretty much everyone but the sitting government, but it is marginally less scary than the second amendment and the constitution does guarantee the right to pick a new bunch of oppressors every 3 years.
Jobs knew what was should be possible even though it had never been done. He also knew how to fix an idea and that real artists ship. How to work through issues and improve things, how to identify problems and identify potential solutions. He learned this from being an engineer at Atari and other experiences hacking as a young man. Jobs was not ignorant of reality, what could be done or how to do things, otherwise he would have failed completely, since he didn't know how to kiss the arse of foolish investors and make money off a profitable failure.
Code is just syntax. Syntax that you use to feed your ideas into your compiler. Then you will start it and it probably won't run.
Code teaches you something important. An idea that doesn't work is bullshit. You can't blame anyone else, you just need to fix it and make it do the right thing.
Anyone who hasn't experienced this is not ready to be a member of a team and certainly not a leader.
Because he wants to shift the blame away from himself.
In truth, it wasn't just Miguel's fault. When I used to maintain a sub-project on Gnome, he always seemed to be working on and promoting something else, first his email program, then Mono. Evolution was good, but quite unneeded (Thunderbird was better). Mono is a capable platform and works great for Unity3D amongst other things, but was never useful for Gnome and mainly just pissed people off the Anti-Microsoft nutters who made up a good chunk of the support base. De Icaza had the chance as project founder to lead the project from the core, like Torvalds does and set his own policies that are suitable for Gnome. He chose to work on other things instead.
Best to have a couple of elite guys to motivate each other, a bit of camaraderie and some healthy competition. A single fulcrum may get stressed, lonely or complacent. I like having someone that I must work hard to prove I am better than.
Just because a population is in the tens of millions does not make for an appreciable proportion of the total when dealing with China and India.
Beijing (where I live), Shanghai and Shenzhen are rich and up to developed standards. What you would find in the heartland of Henan, Sichuan, Hunan, Hubei would be considered to be very poor. What you would find in the mountains of Tibet and Guizhou however would simply shock most westerners. I have not been to India, but it's HDI is far below China's.
Martin Luther is not mentioned in the bible. Nor is Augustine of Hippo, Jan Hus, John Calvin, Karl Barth for that matter. Maimonides was not mentioned in the Tanakh or Talemud.
What is your point exactly? Are you trying to point out that Atheists don't understand the concept of "sola scriptura" or what?
He actually mentions gaming. And 3d gaming at that.
As a game/3d engine programmer, I would say that while you do not need to be a guru at mid-advanced level calculus (ODEs and beyond), you should have no trouble understanding matrix transforms, vector algebra, partially differentiable equations, Boolean algebra, quaternions, modular arithmetic, etc. Furthermore, I think one must have a natural curiosity towards these things, otherwise there will be no inclination to explore solutions and push the boundaries.
The very fact that he asks reluctantly "do I have to learn this?" suggests that he probably is not cut out to be much of a 3d programmer. Yes, we use maths, a lot of it. Why just 3 weeks ago, I had to implement a cubic spline function in quaternion space. This week has just been mostly matrix transforms and dot products, but everything you know in maths can find an application now and then.
But yes, most programming is just logic and rational thinking. 3d gaming is a niche. I still suspect most brilliant programmers would be drawn to maths at least to a degree, whether it is directly useful or not.
Well originally, the SAS was formed as an elite, crack, secret, crack secret assault force, to work behind enemy lines during the war.
Of course our role has changed somewhat since then. Nowadays our duties are to act primarily as a masturbatory aid for Lewis Collins and various back-bench MPs.
A worrying number of today's parliamentarians are quite unable to achieve sexual gratification without fantasising about the SAS. So basically, we have to go round the place being secret and crack and elite, so that these people will be able to keep their marriages intact.
I find it amazing that he is expecting his team to leap right in and sexually harass the new woman. This normally should be something that one will be shocked and disgusted by, not something one should anticipate.
Either way, he knows his team better than us and if he thinks he has one or more of these people then he possibly does. There is no sure fire way of training someone not to do something, if you do have this woman come and someone harasses her then you've pretty much got to fire whoever does it as soon as it happens. You've got to look at the most likely offenders and look at how their dismissal would impact your bottom line. If the utility value of keeping these potential offenders is greater than that of having a diverse workforce, then don't hire women, otherwise, just set the policy and prepare to pay the cost of enforcing it. As a small team, you have the luxury of making these choices, in larger organisation you do not have it, organisationally or legally as a company grows more frequently be woman or minorities or gays or whoever sets off certain employees that are the obvious candidates for certain jobs. It's like keeping a beagle, if you can control there being rabbits or cats in the area you can keep one, if not, you cannot, and in a small team, you have the option of using a few slightly deranged folks that others cannot.
It's cold, but if you anticipate anything then you must first analyse utility/look at the bottom line, otherwise your foresight is useless. Believe me, your competitors are bigger bastards than you, think it through both ways.
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses - Henry Ford
One can make an effort to understand the business practices and requirements of the client well enough to give them what they need, rather that what they ask for. It's a riskier proposition because you can't just throw it back saying "well, this is what you said", but if you really want to make a something more efficient, especially if it is internal and will impact you in the future, you've got to tackle the whys with the what, whens, wheres and hows and deliver the solution that is needed, rather than what someone with questionable understanding of the problem has asked for.
Remember back in the days that Windows didn't have basic operating system features like memory protection and used to crash thrice daily?
Remember back in the days where using the latest version of IE would assure you that nothing but the most quirky IE only pages would render correctly?
Remember back in the days where Apple had a usable GUI for half a decade and MS users were stuck on a really shitty command line?
I do, it wasn't that long ago, pretty much it was the entire company's history before the "lost decade". But Windows doesn't crash so much any more since the later service packs of Windows 2000 and is fairly usable these days. It seems that Microsoft should have become IBM a long time ago.
Computer science only gets called a hard science because it's encountered so close to Software Engineering. Literary deconstructionism is a harder science than Software Engineering the way it's currently studied.
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Given retaliation in the field of war has historically meant the killing of civilians and war-rape, you should be careful with your hyperbole.
1954 was before the current leaders of the United States were born, I would say no retaliation is justifiable in any shape or form. I live in a country where it is fasionable to call for the death of all Japanese in retaliation for what happened Nanjing in the 1930s (truly a horrific event, even compared to what was happening in Europe at the time), but it's not healthy, it's not productive and it's not right. Byegones are bygones, if you're American, you may retaliate against yourself if you feel it is justified, but do not wish upon your largely innocent countrymen what the Revolutionary Guard would have done apon them.
They were able to accomplish this without your revolting melanin-deficiency.
Looking at the Fayum mummy portraits and other ancient Egyptian artwork, especially depicting women (men are depicted as tanned from field work), I'd say you're wrong.
Copts (native Egyptians who still speak something approximating the ancient tongue) have somewhat lighter skin than the present Egyptian Arab majority, similar skin colour to Turks and Greeks. I'm not saying it was because they had light brown skin rather than mid brown skin that they were able to pyramids, but they were not dark.
Previous iPhones had such terrible cameras that anything would be an improvement. IPhone 5 takes better pictures most of the time at the expense of an occasional purple lens flare (I have not seen it on mine). If this is the best solution the engineers can come up with for the iPhone to take better pictures than before, then this is as good as it gets for now.
The difference is, the Australian court system will generally not hear cases between two American companies while a similar action is ongoing in their home country. They will also generally uphold the American ruling, unless it conflicts with Australian statutory law or legal principles.
Australia is a common law jurisdiction, although rulings from other common law jurisdictions is not binding precedent, it is certainly given a huge amount of respect. Germany uses a civil law system and does not consider itself connected in any way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_Rea>Mens Rea is required for all crimes.
Multiculturalism and freedom, where we made darkies and commies take exams in Gaelic spelling to get a visa and sent the natives to special boarding school to learn about cattle droving and Jesus.
Of course in those days, Asian, Indian and Arab migrants need not apply. We had laws about that, read your history bro.
Australia is a nation built on immigration and welcomes those who aspire to the Australian way of life, in the same way as the Puritans, Unitarians, Amish and other religious folks left Europe for the American Colonies all those centuries ago, rather than fighting tooth and nail for religious freedom in the countries of their birth. Conversely, guys like Rupert Murdoch and Mel Gibson are also welcome to fuck off at their own pleasure.
American born Australians are welcome to participate and integrate fully into Australian public life, we even had an American born Premier of New South Wales recently.
Oh, they definitely believe that people have rights.
They just believe that these rights should be determined and redefined by the federal and state legislatures pretty much whenever they feel like it.
I think it scares the crap out of pretty much everyone but the sitting government, but it is marginally less scary than the second amendment and the constitution does guarantee the right to pick a new bunch of oppressors every 3 years.
Jobs knew what was should be possible even though it had never been done. He also knew how to fix an idea and that real artists ship. How to work through issues and improve things, how to identify problems and identify potential solutions. He learned this from being an engineer at Atari and other experiences hacking as a young man. Jobs was not ignorant of reality, what could be done or how to do things, otherwise he would have failed completely, since he didn't know how to kiss the arse of foolish investors and make money off a profitable failure.
Code is just syntax. Syntax that you use to feed your ideas into your compiler. Then you will start it and it probably won't run.
Code teaches you something important. An idea that doesn't work is bullshit. You can't blame anyone else, you just need to fix it and make it do the right thing.
Anyone who hasn't experienced this is not ready to be a member of a team and certainly not a leader.
Because he wants to shift the blame away from himself.
In truth, it wasn't just Miguel's fault. When I used to maintain a sub-project on Gnome, he always seemed to be working on and promoting something else, first his email program, then Mono. Evolution was good, but quite unneeded (Thunderbird was better). Mono is a capable platform and works great for Unity3D amongst other things, but was never useful for Gnome and mainly just pissed people off the Anti-Microsoft nutters who made up a good chunk of the support base. De Icaza had the chance as project founder to lead the project from the core, like Torvalds does and set his own policies that are suitable for Gnome. He chose to work on other things instead.
Best to have a couple of elite guys to motivate each other, a bit of camaraderie and some healthy competition. A single fulcrum may get stressed, lonely or complacent. I like having someone that I must work hard to prove I am better than.
Tomatoes are fruit.
So are green peppers, cucumber (pickled and fresh), hot peppers and olives. If you just want non-fruits, you're stuck with the lettuce and onions.
Just because a population is in the tens of millions does not make for an appreciable proportion of the total when dealing with China and India.
Beijing (where I live), Shanghai and Shenzhen are rich and up to developed standards. What you would find in the heartland of Henan, Sichuan, Hunan, Hubei would be considered to be very poor. What you would find in the mountains of Tibet and Guizhou however would simply shock most westerners. I have not been to India, but it's HDI is far below China's.
Martin Luther is not mentioned in the bible. Nor is Augustine of Hippo, Jan Hus, John Calvin, Karl Barth for that matter. Maimonides was not mentioned in the Tanakh or Talemud.
What is your point exactly? Are you trying to point out that Atheists don't understand the concept of "sola scriptura" or what?
He actually mentions gaming. And 3d gaming at that.
As a game/3d engine programmer, I would say that while you do not need to be a guru at mid-advanced level calculus (ODEs and beyond), you should have no trouble understanding matrix transforms, vector algebra, partially differentiable equations, Boolean algebra, quaternions, modular arithmetic, etc. Furthermore, I think one must have a natural curiosity towards these things, otherwise there will be no inclination to explore solutions and push the boundaries.
The very fact that he asks reluctantly "do I have to learn this?" suggests that he probably is not cut out to be much of a 3d programmer. Yes, we use maths, a lot of it. Why just 3 weeks ago, I had to implement a cubic spline function in quaternion space. This week has just been mostly matrix transforms and dot products, but everything you know in maths can find an application now and then.
But yes, most programming is just logic and rational thinking. 3d gaming is a niche. I still suspect most brilliant programmers would be drawn to maths at least to a degree, whether it is directly useful or not.
--Stephen Fry
Live long enough and technology will allow you to prosper.
Of course, not having AIDS helps with that.
I find it amazing that he is expecting his team to leap right in and sexually harass the new woman. This normally should be something that one will be shocked and disgusted by, not something one should anticipate.
Either way, he knows his team better than us and if he thinks he has one or more of these people then he possibly does. There is no sure fire way of training someone not to do something, if you do have this woman come and someone harasses her then you've pretty much got to fire whoever does it as soon as it happens. You've got to look at the most likely offenders and look at how their dismissal would impact your bottom line. If the utility value of keeping these potential offenders is greater than that of having a diverse workforce, then don't hire women, otherwise, just set the policy and prepare to pay the cost of enforcing it. As a small team, you have the luxury of making these choices, in larger organisation you do not have it, organisationally or legally as a company grows more frequently be woman or minorities or gays or whoever sets off certain employees that are the obvious candidates for certain jobs. It's like keeping a beagle, if you can control there being rabbits or cats in the area you can keep one, if not, you cannot, and in a small team, you have the option of using a few slightly deranged folks that others cannot.
It's cold, but if you anticipate anything then you must first analyse utility/look at the bottom line, otherwise your foresight is useless. Believe me, your competitors are bigger bastards than you, think it through both ways.
It's one thing to make a blatant clone of Minecraft using Notch's ideas and by the looks of things his textures.
It's another thing to tut-tut-tut the guy you're plagiarising. If you're so clever, why don't you invent your own game and give that away for free.
It will create so many new jobs and so much specialist knowledge, it can't fail to improve the economy!
Ah, yes, that's it, they are trying to institutionalize the Broken Window Falacy
The broken window fallacy is only a fallacy if you are not a glazier.
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses - Henry Ford
One can make an effort to understand the business practices and requirements of the client well enough to give them what they need, rather that what they ask for. It's a riskier proposition because you can't just throw it back saying "well, this is what you said", but if you really want to make a something more efficient, especially if it is internal and will impact you in the future, you've got to tackle the whys with the what, whens, wheres and hows and deliver the solution that is needed, rather than what someone with questionable understanding of the problem has asked for.
Remember back in the days that Windows didn't have basic operating system features like memory protection and used to crash thrice daily?
Remember back in the days where using the latest version of IE would assure you that nothing but the most quirky IE only pages would render correctly?
Remember back in the days where Apple had a usable GUI for half a decade and MS users were stuck on a really shitty command line?
I do, it wasn't that long ago, pretty much it was the entire company's history before the "lost decade". But Windows doesn't crash so much any more since the later service packs of Windows 2000 and is fairly usable these days. It seems that Microsoft should have become IBM a long time ago.
Computer science only gets called a hard science because it's encountered so close to Software Engineering. Literary deconstructionism is a harder science than Software Engineering the way it's currently studied.