Why did Bush give Osama bin Laden a head-start by giving the go-ahead for 24 members of the Bin Laden family to leave the USA just after Sep 11 2001, without proper questioning (like e.g. "You were at Osama's son's wedding this year, right? Um, where is he right now by the way?")
That depends on your philosophy. Enlightenment philosophy might include Utilitarianism, i.e. that ethics is based on the greater good for the greater number of people; that is based on ends rather than motives.
Previous (e.g. Greek) philosophies might be that your place in the hierarchy is important, and that what a King says gets written down, but what a peasant does is not important. Hollywood is very keen on this philosophy - that whoever is arbitrarily defined as the good guys will win and that the bad guys get killed without trial.
"No product may be built, partially or entirely, in Israel."
Yeah, you should get all your products made in Cuba, since the US is not a racist country, and if they didn't like Fidel Castro's policies they would never do a racist thing like impose an embargo on another country...
When will people learn, a country is not a race!
And if you were a real businessman you would know about the US denials list, which is a long list of individuals (and some countries) with whom the US doesn't allow technology companies (like IBM) to deal. Or has that system been changed recently?
Since USians probably think Saddam started Bush Gulf War 2 by sucking those bombs into his country from the US airforce, no doubt you think Egypt started the 1967 war by sucking Israeli bombs onto their airfields.
As reported in the Independant newspaper, they will replace their (3-5% error rate) mechanical voting machines with computers running unreliable touch-screens (that whereever you press, the republican candidate lights up), MS Access and Win98 with hundreds of security holes, made by secretive companies that promise to get the vote for the republicans.
They've already did this for the mid-term elections in some states, and the administration has allocated large amounts of money to roll this out across the country.
After all, why use a fair and heavily distributed system (pencil and paper and human counters under supervision from all parties) when you can get three small companies with partisan CEOs to make machines that tell you who you voted for with no paper trail.
Was the first games magazine (released in October 1981), and it is still going strong, although it doesn't have type-in listings any more (pah! kids of today are so lazy! They "download" stuff instead of typing it in).
Unlike the US magazines (Compute!, Ahoy! etc.) it didn't have any checksums in the magazine, so you had to be very careful when typing in stuff.
Yeah, the four back in time live events were great. Meeting musicians like Rob Hubbard, Martin Galway, Richard Joseph, Ben Dalgliesh and more, programmers like Jeff Minter, Tony Crowther, Simon Nicols, and of course Gary Liddon from Zzap!64 and Thalamus days.
In the exhibition there was some nice kit - an old CBM 4016 IIRC, souped up C64 web servers with megabytes of RAM, Amigas and even some Ataris and Spectrums (boo! hiss!).
I just got my first automatic cold phone call the other day! Not only was it just a recording (saying please ring this premium number) it was an international call! I'm annoyed at myself for just putting the handset down instead of writing down the number, but complaining to the authorities would cut into my valuable slashdot time!
Could it be because an entire political party (the Democratic party) aligns themselves behind nearly every cause...
Considering that Bustamante, from your supposedly left-leaning "democratic" party, expressed that he would be in favour of executing 13 year olds (in a debate with Pete Wilson who wanted to execute 14 year olds), I don't really think you have a left wing (or even a centre) in your country. It's just right wing and extreme right wing.
Many Europeans consider your obsession with violence and killing to be not very nice.
"Dime Bar" is manufactured by Kraft foods, a company which has its origins in the USA in 1765. Advertised heavily on UK television with american accents.
The metric system was invented before I was born; I don't absorb shillings and hapennies through temporal osmosis.
I just don't understand why USians can't put numbers, e.g. 1, 5, 10, 25 on their coins (as digits, not in the unofficial but widely used local language) to explain their denominations.
You don't even put "10" on your 10 cent piece, you name it after some chewy caramel bar instead. And is it a cent or a penny you use? Make up your mind!
And saw the "no kangaroos in austria" t-shirts etc.
And went into a big music shop and I swear there was more music there from aussies (kylie, inxs, men at work, midnight oil) than austrians (falco, dj otzi). WTF?
It is in the US where for some reason they don't include sales tax in the ticket price. Is it optional, like tipping?
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When we have Fortran77, Algol68 etc.
The annoying thing was MS breaking the pattern, e.g. windows version 286, 95se etc. They released effectively windows 96, 97 and 99 but didn't call them that!
i.e. british rail (or whatever they are called these days) had a wap site that told you which trains to catch to get from A to B.
After a couple of months, it started taking 20 seconds to download a few words of text, and then crashed the phone hard (so I had to remove the battery). I gave up after that.
I assume that t-mobile has a 33 Mhz 386 somewhere acting as their WAP gateway for the entire UK, and that Nokia can't program their way out of a non-buffer overflowed paper bag.
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They pretty much invented modern chocolate - Cadbury, Rowentree, etc. (and the welfare state but that's less important :-)
Mmm, Adric.
Business software gets tested by the programmers, and the end-users (and occasionally there is a QA tester at the developer).
What times the death star satellite goes over Washington (DC or Redmond)? And what IP address it is running IIS from?
Why did Bush give Osama bin Laden a head-start by giving the go-ahead for 24 members of the Bin Laden family to leave the USA just after Sep 11 2001, without proper questioning (like e.g. "You were at Osama's son's wedding this year, right? Um, where is he right now by the way?")
That depends on your philosophy. Enlightenment philosophy might include Utilitarianism, i.e. that ethics is based on the greater good for the greater number of people; that is based on ends rather than motives.
Previous (e.g. Greek) philosophies might be that your place in the hierarchy is important, and that what a King says gets written down, but what a peasant does is not important. Hollywood is very keen on this philosophy - that whoever is arbitrarily defined as the good guys will win and that the bad guys get killed without trial.
Yeah, you should get all your products made in Cuba, since the US is not a racist country, and if they didn't like Fidel Castro's policies they would never do a racist thing like impose an embargo on another country...
When will people learn, a country is not a race!
And if you were a real businessman you would know about the US denials list, which is a long list of individuals (and some countries) with whom the US doesn't allow technology companies (like IBM) to deal. Or has that system been changed recently?
Since USians probably think Saddam started Bush Gulf War 2 by sucking those bombs into his country from the US airforce, no doubt you think Egypt started the 1967 war by sucking Israeli bombs onto their airfields.
On the contrary! Remember that savory == salty.
IIRC Indonesian maps used to show Australia as "greater Irian", i.e. part of Indonesia.
Shurely Myanmar (formerly Burma) and North Korea also qualify. Possibly Cuba too.
As reported in the Independant newspaper, they will replace their (3-5% error rate) mechanical voting machines with computers running unreliable touch-screens (that whereever you press, the republican candidate lights up), MS Access and Win98 with hundreds of security holes, made by secretive companies that promise to get the vote for the republicans.
They've already did this for the mid-term elections in some states, and the administration has allocated large amounts of money to roll this out across the country.
After all, why use a fair and heavily distributed system (pencil and paper and human counters under supervision from all parties) when you can get three small companies with partisan CEOs to make machines that tell you who you voted for with no paper trail.
Unlike the US magazines (Compute!, Ahoy! etc.) it didn't have any checksums in the magazine, so you had to be very careful when typing in stuff.
In the exhibition there was some nice kit - an old CBM 4016 IIRC, souped up C64 web servers with megabytes of RAM, Amigas and even some Ataris and Spectrums (boo! hiss!).
And that's for work! Yup, they are quite cheap to mass-produce as a processor core (when your production run goes into the millions).
I just got my first automatic cold phone call the other day! Not only was it just a recording (saying please ring this premium number) it was an international call! I'm annoyed at myself for just putting the handset down instead of writing down the number, but complaining to the authorities would cut into my valuable slashdot time!
Considering that Bustamante, from your supposedly left-leaning "democratic" party, expressed that he would be in favour of executing 13 year olds (in a debate with Pete Wilson who wanted to execute 14 year olds), I don't really think you have a left wing (or even a centre) in your country. It's just right wing and extreme right wing.
Many Europeans consider your obsession with violence and killing to be not very nice.
The metric system was invented before I was born; I don't absorb shillings and hapennies through temporal osmosis.
I just don't understand why USians can't put numbers, e.g. 1, 5, 10, 25 on their coins (as digits, not in the unofficial but widely used local language) to explain their denominations.
You don't even put "10" on your 10 cent piece, you name it after some chewy caramel bar instead. And is it a cent or a penny you use? Make up your mind!
And went into a big music shop and I swear there was more music there from aussies (kylie, inxs, men at work, midnight oil) than austrians (falco, dj otzi). WTF?
I seem to remember that one computer chess program tried to electrocute its opponent when the computer was losing. Sore loser!
Some of us can count to 1023 just using our fingers.
The "Crash" key used to take out 3dStudio, before 3dsmax was released. So artists would pry the evil thing out of its socket.
It is in the US where for some reason they don't include sales tax in the ticket price. Is it optional, like tipping?
The annoying thing was MS breaking the pattern, e.g. windows version 286, 95se etc. They released effectively windows 96, 97 and 99 but didn't call them that!
i.e. british rail (or whatever they are called these days) had a wap site that told you which trains to catch to get from A to B.
After a couple of months, it started taking 20 seconds to download a few words of text, and then crashed the phone hard (so I had to remove the battery). I gave up after that.
I assume that t-mobile has a 33 Mhz 386 somewhere acting as their WAP gateway for the entire UK, and that Nokia can't program their way out of a non-buffer overflowed paper bag.