I'm not entirely sure about this one, but iirc, Iraq isn't a signatory on the UN resolution on the nonproliferation of Chemical and Bacteriological weapons. Which means that they're not bound by it. Which means that the UN doesn't really have anything to say about (non)compliance with that particular resolution, SC or no.
Re:Not a troll: How many civilians died last time?
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There's just one minor inconsistency: at the time, the Iranians used gasses working on the blood, and the Iraqi's has mustard gas. Turns out the Kurds where not killed with mustard gas, but with the nerve agent which acted through the blood stream.
And you know what? We don't know more than that...not a thing more. Could be that the Iraqi's used a nerve agent which they'd never used before (and which doesn't show up in any records), or it could be that the Iranians did it and used it as a great PR stunt...I dunno...and neither do you.
Actually, having something in your hand tells me a lot about it. I squeezed the casing lightly, and it gave way. It also felt too light for something that size (although being light is a good thing there is a difference between a normal heft and a cheap, plasticy feel). As for the reference to my dick: why do you think I specified that particular hight?;)
As for cheap, that's an english synonym for tacky/not-very-well-built (as in made out of/cheap/ components...gettit?).
And as for unstable...I was refering to the landfill which would be unstable due to the use of cheap, biodegrading plastic used in the thing...that makes landfill sink over time, and thus be unstable. Symbian I know is quite a nice OS...but then again, PalmOS makes it irrelevant. And one can't compare Symbian to generic phone OS'...they're different animals (read: things); the only thing you can compare it to is PocketPC and PalmOS (and maybe embedded Linux).
Is that the thing is the size of a brick with the solidity of a a cheap playskool plastic knockoff.
Seriously; I've had the thing in my hand, and the feel of it is remarkably fragile...the thing feels like it wouldn't survive a drop of even 30 cm.
And the size! This truly is a (cheap plastic) brick...my IIIc with an integrated phone (same formfactor, speakers on the reverse side of the screeen [if only they came out with that!]) would be smaller and more userfriendly from a formfactor point of view.
True, one can do lotsa cool stuff with it, but if ever palm would come out with a good palmos/gsm (no, Treo doesn't count; I need graffiti...think Tungsten T with a GSM), the p800 will be (unstable, cheap, plasticy) landfill.
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AN easy fix for your last problem: let 'em bring it over. That way you have all the tools, internet access and you can even just plug their HD into your machine. And you don't have to deal with their comments etc...just tell 'em "Kom 'm maar over een paar dagen ophalen.":)
OTOH, that approach doesn't convey to them the fact that computer troubleshooting can be somewhat difficult and time consuming at times...which means they'll give you just the one beer instead of the sixpack or kratje you deserve;)
That's all fine and dandy...until you come across problems caused by an OS programmer who thinks he's so much better than anyone on the planet.
Case in point: winXP (MS' first stable OS) and ACPI. If you set your HAL to do without ACPI, you can setup your irq's as they need to be set up. However, you can't set your comp to standby. Now standby is something I need (for a variety of reasons), but with a HAL which includes ACPI, you cant manually set up your irq's etcetera! Now windows puts like 5 different devices on the same irq, even if there are empty irq's!
So, sure, 'plug it in and work' seems nice, but only if you haven't a clue wtf you're doing. If you do know what you're doing, please let me set the system up in a way in which it works. Don't assume you know better than I do, because there are always setups you haven't thought of (sorry, just a general rant towards OS programmers:) )!
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This: "When the Windoze ME dies" in combination with your sig makes me wonder what you do with computers...no matter if you've run linux only for the last ten years, you should know that winME is the single worst OS to run...worse than 3.11, worse than dos; it's just plain evil.
I mean, even if 'friends shouldn't help friends install MS junk', friends most definately shouldn't tolerate friends (or family) using utter shit. At least have the decency to install win98se (if the thing won't run xp).
Heh...I knew it: in the future, AI in games won't be made as such, it will be grown! Releases won't be held up by the renderer, or the artwork being late, but because the dev team wanted the AI 'to grow a little more: it just wasn't right, so we decided it needed an extra month to learn'.
Not to be nasty, but can't you read? I wasn't talking about the start page, but the automatic update 'feature'....you know, the one that automatically patches WMP, no matter if I want or need the patch?
OK, answer me this: how do I stop Windows Media Player 8 and up from contacting the internet (without file->work offline, as that also sets my internet connection to offline)? Going to the options, there are only three radio buttons under autoupdate: once a day, week or month...no "not at all" or "keep the fuck out of my system with possible destabalizing, compromising shit".
Sure, I could use another program to deny WMP internet access, but why can't I tell the program itself to keep off the net?
So first they enter into a consortium, and don't show they have certain patents, and now they don't show evidence? I sense a pattern there, but I can't seem to find one for the judges decision.
You are correct. And there's another (albeit smaller) problem: the fact that DNA testing is done on a small part of the DNA. So while it is said that DNA is unique (something like the chances of you having the same DNA as the criminal is 1/6 billion, therefore if there's a match, you are that criminal), the chances change because you are only testing a small part of the DNA...therefore, the chances of getting a match (and being matched to being the criminal, although you're not) are higher.
That is one of teh reasons that DNA testing is considered as circumstantial evidence, not as an absolute placement of you at the crimescene.
Yeah, but HE's always beeen rather prone to translation errors. For example, dating from the middleage, you can still see a lot of pictures of Moses coming down the mountain, tablets in hand,/with horns on his head/.
Reason was something like this: the text in hebrew said something like "and Moses came down the mountain with rage" ('cos of trhe idolatry he saw), but that got translated as "and Moses came down the mountain with horns".
Which basically menas, even if the bible were the words of a diety (whose existence I find highly suspect...why doesn't He show Himself more often? He used to come 'round every so often...is He sleeping? Or dead?), then His words have been mangled up to the point of being giberish, and thus any statement in the bible is untrustworthy.
A prime example of that: read Judges 19. Then you find out that the old guy is now a saint of piety/compassion or something like that...I mean, that's just sick!
Lighter, less power consuming, viewable at better angles than lcd's and comparable to crt's, and !viewable in direct sunlight! (something even crt's can't always claim!). No, I don't see any obvious military uses either.
But you are right; they'd want to see it proven first.
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Mmmmm-mmm. Tasty :) But I think you should have made the first link one to google images instead of plain google :)
Hehe...LCD still doesn't hold up to CRT :)
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Oh, and jcenters...eat my sig.
You forget some other plus points (don't blame you: there are so many :) ): less weight and thinner. This means slimmer and lighter laptops and PDA's :)
I'm not entirely sure about this one, but iirc, Iraq isn't a signatory on the UN resolution on the nonproliferation of Chemical and Bacteriological weapons. Which means that they're not bound by it. Which means that the UN doesn't really have anything to say about (non)compliance with that particular resolution, SC or no.
There's just one minor inconsistency: at the time, the Iranians used gasses working on the blood, and the Iraqi's has mustard gas. Turns out the Kurds where not killed with mustard gas, but with the nerve agent which acted through the blood stream.
And you know what? We don't know more than that...not a thing more. Could be that the Iraqi's used a nerve agent which they'd never used before (and which doesn't show up in any records), or it could be that the Iranians did it and used it as a great PR stunt...I dunno...and neither do you.
Flashes of 'the fifth element' come to mind :)
Actually, having something in your hand tells me a lot about it. I squeezed the casing lightly, and it gave way. It also felt too light for something that size (although being light is a good thing there is a difference between a normal heft and a cheap, plasticy feel). As for the reference to my dick: why do you think I specified that particular hight? ;)
/cheap/ components...gettit?).
As for cheap, that's an english synonym for tacky/not-very-well-built (as in made out of
And as for unstable...I was refering to the landfill which would be unstable due to the use of cheap, biodegrading plastic used in the thing...that makes landfill sink over time, and thus be unstable. Symbian I know is quite a nice OS...but then again, PalmOS makes it irrelevant. And one can't compare Symbian to generic phone OS'...they're different animals (read: things); the only thing you can compare it to is PocketPC and PalmOS (and maybe embedded Linux).
Now, are you wellfed?
Is that the thing is the size of a brick with the solidity of a a cheap playskool plastic knockoff.
Seriously; I've had the thing in my hand, and the feel of it is remarkably fragile...the thing feels like it wouldn't survive a drop of even 30 cm.
And the size! This truly is a (cheap plastic) brick...my IIIc with an integrated phone (same formfactor, speakers on the reverse side of the screeen [if only they came out with that!]) would be smaller and more userfriendly from a formfactor point of view.
True, one can do lotsa cool stuff with it, but if ever palm would come out with a good palmos/gsm (no, Treo doesn't count; I need graffiti...think Tungsten T with a GSM), the p800 will be (unstable, cheap, plasticy) landfill.
AN easy fix for your last problem: let 'em bring it over. That way you have all the tools, internet access and you can even just plug their HD into your machine. And you don't have to deal with their comments etc...just tell 'em "Kom 'm maar over een paar dagen ophalen." :)
;)
OTOH, that approach doesn't convey to them the fact that computer troubleshooting can be somewhat difficult and time consuming at times...which means they'll give you just the one beer instead of the sixpack or kratje you deserve
That's all fine and dandy...until you come across problems caused by an OS programmer who thinks he's so much better than anyone on the planet.
:) )!
Case in point: winXP (MS' first stable OS) and ACPI. If you set your HAL to do without ACPI, you can setup your irq's as they need to be set up. However, you can't set your comp to standby.
Now standby is something I need (for a variety of reasons), but with a HAL which includes ACPI, you cant manually set up your irq's etcetera! Now windows puts like 5 different devices on the same irq, even if there are empty irq's!
So, sure, 'plug it in and work' seems nice, but only if you haven't a clue wtf you're doing. If you do know what you're doing, please let me set the system up in a way in which it works. Don't assume you know better than I do, because there are always setups you haven't thought of (sorry, just a general rant towards OS programmers
This: "When the Windoze ME dies" in combination with your sig makes me wonder what you do with computers...no matter if you've run linux only for the last ten years, you should know that winME is the single worst OS to run...worse than 3.11, worse than dos; it's just plain evil.
I mean, even if 'friends shouldn't help friends install MS junk', friends most definately shouldn't tolerate friends (or family) using utter shit. At least have the decency to install win98se (if the thing won't run xp).
That's called price-elasticity, for the economically challenged.
Wow....rule 2 and 4 (and rule 1, if you change it to a Patent Organisation [not to much of a change :)]) means Einstein was a fraud!
No-one does that. Not even someone who seems to be a total unselfish philantropist: he just does it 'cos it makes him feel good.
What you want is something counter to everything found in nature: every living being does something for a reward, whatever form that reward may take.
Hell, even religions do that: 'be good or you wont get into heaven'.
Heh...I knew it: in the future, AI in games won't be made as such, it will be grown! Releases won't be held up by the renderer, or the artwork being late, but because the dev team wanted the AI 'to grow a little more: it just wasn't right, so we decided it needed an extra month to learn'.
Not to be nasty, but can't you read? I wasn't talking about the start page, but the automatic update 'feature'....you know, the one that automatically patches WMP, no matter if I want or need the patch?
The biggest difference is that with xp, you had to call a number.
OK, answer me this: how do I stop Windows Media Player 8 and up from contacting the internet (without file->work offline, as that also sets my internet connection to offline)? Going to the options, there are only three radio buttons under autoupdate: once a day, week or month...no "not at all" or "keep the fuck out of my system with possible destabalizing, compromising shit".
Sure, I could use another program to deny WMP internet access, but why can't I tell the program itself to keep off the net?
So first they enter into a consortium, and don't show they have certain patents, and now they don't show evidence? I sense a pattern there, but I can't seem to find one for the judges decision.
Patch? Wtf? You could just disable that serial number in your BIOS...no patch needed.
You are correct. And there's another (albeit smaller) problem: the fact that DNA testing is done on a small part of the DNA. So while it is said that DNA is unique (something like the chances of you having the same DNA as the criminal is 1/6 billion, therefore if there's a match, you are that criminal), the chances change because you are only testing a small part of the DNA...therefore, the chances of getting a match (and being matched to being the criminal, although you're not) are higher.
That is one of teh reasons that DNA testing is considered as circumstantial evidence, not as an absolute placement of you at the crimescene.
Yeah, but HE's always beeen rather prone to translation errors. For example, dating from the middleage, you can still see a lot of pictures of Moses coming down the mountain, tablets in hand, /with horns on his head/.
Reason was something like this: the text in hebrew said something like "and Moses came down the mountain with rage" ('cos of trhe idolatry he saw), but that got translated as "and Moses came down the mountain with horns".
Which basically menas, even if the bible were the words of a diety (whose existence I find highly suspect...why doesn't He show Himself more often? He used to come 'round every so often...is He sleeping? Or dead?), then His words have been mangled up to the point of being giberish, and thus any statement in the bible is untrustworthy.
A prime example of that: read Judges 19. Then you find out that the old guy is now a saint of piety/compassion or something like that...I mean, that's just sick!
*pant*, *pant*...yes, that is heavy breathing. And yes, my underwear are damp now...
...I WANT ONE!!! MOMMY!!! PLEASE!
:)
Wow, jesus [insert expletive of choise]...
Now put that on my desktop...shit, my wall! and on my pda/phone, and I can die happy having seen sci-fi come to life
Lighter, less power consuming, viewable at better angles than lcd's and comparable to crt's, and !viewable in direct sunlight! (something even crt's can't always claim!). No, I don't see any obvious military uses either.
But you are right; they'd want to see it proven first.