So is irregardless: The most frequently repeated remark about it is that "there is no such word." There is such a word, however. It is still used primarily in speech, although it can be found from time to time in edited prose.
Wikipedia only allows notable information and explicitly rejects original research. The author of the article is the same as the author of the theory, and no one in his field has apparently commented on, referenced, cited, or even criticized his work. That means he's not a notable subject for a wikipedia article. Furthermore, since he's the only person in the world who expounds this theory, it counts as original research--wikipedia editors are not allowed to add their own original research to articles. Pretty clear case for deletion.
The article quotes an environmentalist: "This study is the smoking gun. Skeptics, polluting industries and President Bush can't run away from this one."
I had the luck to go to college near a high tech center: Northern Virginia. I won't lie, I had some connections, but I landed a job working at a DARPA spin-off. Didn't do anything interesting in particular--certainly nothing that significantly added to my skills--but I did get to sit in the same work area as about a dozen PhDs. I got to see their workspaces, watch them interact with their code and their computers, and got to chat with them in the cafeteria. Got $15/hr to boot.
My advice is to look hard in your area for companies making complex, IT-intensive products. Scan the newspaper for anything in your area attracting VC money. Then, put together a resume (get help from someone), and sell yourself like crazy. Be a persistent little fucker willing to work for nothing. You'll land something cool that will look awesome on your resume later, and you'll get to hang out with really smart people along the way.
I agree that Israel's non-declaratory nuclear status is a problem. Everyone knows, and the uncertainty created by the non-declaration heightens the security dilemma of Israel's neighbors.
That being said, I don't think the recent declaration of Middle Eastern powers to engage in cooperation on nuclear research is aimed at Israel. Middle Eastern powers have tolerated an unofficially nuclear Israel for decades and there has been no significant shift in the balance of power between Israel and its neighbors which would account for this sudden declaration. Israel's Arab neighbors even went to war against Israel in 1973, knowing full-well that Israel was armed with nuclear weapons--didn't seem to make a difference.
The development which I believe is the proximate cause of the Arab states' move to engage in nuclear development is quite clearly the degeneration of negotiations surrounding Iran's nuclear program. The Arab-Iranian conflict is several hundred years old, spans numerous historical empires, and shows little sign of abating. In historical terms, it has been far bloodier, and far more significant, than the Arab-Israeli conflict, easily. The two key states among the six total are Egypt and Saudi Arabia--they're the only two with the proper resources and level of development to sustain such operations. The other four are probably just 'value added' for this cooperative coalition.
That the United States and Europe have winked at Israel's nuclear forces, tolerated Pakistan's, and moved to accept India's must only strengthen Iran's resolve to acquire nuclear weapons. Why should Iran's principal ideological enemy (Israel) and underdeveloped, basket-case neighbor (Pakistan) have nukes, while Iran, with a 2500-year history of successive empires, culture, civilization, etc, be denied such weapons? Hard for the U.S. and Europe to make a convincing case against their acquisition when arrayed against the historical and geostrategic panorama Iran faces.
(this post would have been SOO much better if this story was indeed a dupe)
It might as well be (see here). The linked old story from two-and-a-half months ago ponders the exact same thing: why Google's ancillary products aren't #1 in their fields as well. This is like a crypto-dupe or something.
Quit whinging about the look on Mac OS X. Firefox has a great theming system, and someone has already done the work to make it look good on Mac OS X: http://takebacktheweb.org/
GrApple (Eos Pro) theme is seriously hot. Windows and Linux users ought to be jealous.
I agree with parent about "Official" extensions instead of new features (bloat).
My question relates to this:
Is there any rationale behind what becomes a new feature and what remains left to extensions? Is there a guiding concept to the general architecture of Firefox (i.e. should the browser be simple with extensions, or should the browser be user-friendly with features)? I think a lot of the geek community that so fervently got behind Firefox is feeling disenchanted that their lean mean browser is becoming overly concerned with "user-friendly" features such that it's no longer lean and mean. Memory leaks and performance seem to get short shrift next to spellchecking, scrolling tabs, visual "refresh," etc. Where is Firefox going?
You are comparing everyday censorship of a country's entire 1.3 billion person populace of essential elements of their own national history and politics with the U.S. preventing short-wave radio reception by German immigrants during a World War (a six-year-long total war) in which Germans were our principal enemies.
If ever there were two situations that were not alike, I'd say you picked the two.
they were planning eventually to replace existing stockpiles of about 6,000 weapons with a smaller inventory of about 2,200 that were more reliable.
This process has been going on for several decades throughout the arms control/limitation process. During SALT negotiations both sides placed caps on ICBM launchers, but then upgraded intermediate range missiles. During START both sides placed caps on numbers of missiles but then developed MIRVs so each missile could have multiple warheads. After ABM was abrogated by the U.S., Russia developed high-speed maneuverable missiles to avoid ABMs. Now that SORT is going to come into effect, and both sides can only have ~2000 warheads instead of ~10,000, they are developed new, super-awesome missiles/warheads to make the fewer nukes more effective. Same old same old.
Are these six-way talks really just another way of saying China + North Korea versus Japan, USA, South Korea, and Russia?
More like: North Korea vs. China & South Korea & Russia vs. United States & Japan.
China, South Korea, and Russia are not supportive of North Korean nukes, but usually play the role of softening whatever proposals the U.S. and Japan have -- saying, let's wait on sanctions, let's wait on firm statements, let's wait on everything else, let's walk softly now, let's not rush to anything, let's get them back to the negotiation table.
China, South Korea, and Russia place prevention of a North Korean collapse ahead of prevention of a nuclear North Korea. Hence the results we have today.
Please note that the Congressman (not White House) calling for this kid's arrest is a Democrat. If you're going to write a political flamebait, at least get your facts straight.
This is called "framing." He didn't want to answer the question, so instead he "interpreted" the "core question" into something that he did want to answer. The Microsoft PR department taught him well.
Opera had Multiple Document Interface (MDI), not specifically "tabbed browsing." Opera added tabs later. It's somewhat of a nitpicking point, but the fact that Opera added "true" tabs later makes the differentiation between tabs and MDI, in my eyes, a legitimate one.
I have yet to see a phone in North America with a "+" button on it. With all due respect, WTF are you talking about?
It's a euro/etc thing. I had to learn when I studied abroad in London. "+" is basically just a stand-in for whatever the international calling access code is. In the U.S. we dial 011 before the country code and phone number in order to place an international call. In Europe, you dial a 00 before the country code and phone number, or if you have a mobile phone you can just type + instead of 00. Same result.
Restarting an application should not be the solution to any problem, let alone one this serious.
I wholeheartedly agree. No one thought Windows 98 was acceptable merely because numerous problems could be fixed by rebooting. We shouldn't tolerate the same low standards from Mozilla either. Firefox 3.0 ought to focus on two major changes: #1) Implementing Gecko 1.9 in order to increase web standards support, and #2) Comprehensively rethinking memory usage from the ground up. All other features ought to be peripheral to these two key objectives.
If she's a hot girl you should be willing to buy her one. If not, some other guy will.
This is exactly the wrong approach to dealing with hot girls. If you act like they're entitled to everything, they will never respect you and you will get nowhere. Treat them like you'd treat your kid sister--no respect, make a little fun of them, joke around--you'll have far better results.
We didn't create Saddam, Saddam was a self-made dictator, and we didn't place him in power. We aided Saddam in his war against Iran, just like we aided Iran in their war against Iraq. But at the end of the day, Saddam (a Ba'ath party socialist) was a Soviet client. What made the first Gulf War unique was that it was the first time that the United States invaded and toppled a Soviet client, especially with tacit Russian approval now that the Cold War was over. It was the Soviet collapse that allowed us to intervene in their sphere of influence more directly.
We can mess with North Korea without China's blessing--it's well within our reach. We would just have to deal with an unpredictable Chinese reaction to the toppling of one of their client states. Generally that's not something we want to test, which is why we've engaged China in the process of containing North Korea--predictability,
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So is irregardless: The most frequently repeated remark about it is that "there is no such word." There is such a word, however. It is still used primarily in speech, although it can be found from time to time in edited prose.
http://m-w.com/dictionary/fucking
Wikipedia only allows notable information and explicitly rejects original research. The author of the article is the same as the author of the theory, and no one in his field has apparently commented on, referenced, cited, or even criticized his work. That means he's not a notable subject for a wikipedia article. Furthermore, since he's the only person in the world who expounds this theory, it counts as original research--wikipedia editors are not allowed to add their own original research to articles. Pretty clear case for deletion.
They must be new here...
Wikipedia, of course, is self-healing. Within two minutes, the virus was replaced with a large picture of a scrotum.
I had the luck to go to college near a high tech center: Northern Virginia. I won't lie, I had some connections, but I landed a job working at a DARPA spin-off. Didn't do anything interesting in particular--certainly nothing that significantly added to my skills--but I did get to sit in the same work area as about a dozen PhDs. I got to see their workspaces, watch them interact with their code and their computers, and got to chat with them in the cafeteria. Got $15/hr to boot.
My advice is to look hard in your area for companies making complex, IT-intensive products. Scan the newspaper for anything in your area attracting VC money. Then, put together a resume (get help from someone), and sell yourself like crazy. Be a persistent little fucker willing to work for nothing. You'll land something cool that will look awesome on your resume later, and you'll get to hang out with really smart people along the way.
I agree that Israel's non-declaratory nuclear status is a problem. Everyone knows, and the uncertainty created by the non-declaration heightens the security dilemma of Israel's neighbors.
That being said, I don't think the recent declaration of Middle Eastern powers to engage in cooperation on nuclear research is aimed at Israel. Middle Eastern powers have tolerated an unofficially nuclear Israel for decades and there has been no significant shift in the balance of power between Israel and its neighbors which would account for this sudden declaration. Israel's Arab neighbors even went to war against Israel in 1973, knowing full-well that Israel was armed with nuclear weapons--didn't seem to make a difference.
The development which I believe is the proximate cause of the Arab states' move to engage in nuclear development is quite clearly the degeneration of negotiations surrounding Iran's nuclear program. The Arab-Iranian conflict is several hundred years old, spans numerous historical empires, and shows little sign of abating. In historical terms, it has been far bloodier, and far more significant, than the Arab-Israeli conflict, easily. The two key states among the six total are Egypt and Saudi Arabia--they're the only two with the proper resources and level of development to sustain such operations. The other four are probably just 'value added' for this cooperative coalition.
That the United States and Europe have winked at Israel's nuclear forces, tolerated Pakistan's, and moved to accept India's must only strengthen Iran's resolve to acquire nuclear weapons. Why should Iran's principal ideological enemy (Israel) and underdeveloped, basket-case neighbor (Pakistan) have nukes, while Iran, with a 2500-year history of successive empires, culture, civilization, etc, be denied such weapons? Hard for the U.S. and Europe to make a convincing case against their acquisition when arrayed against the historical and geostrategic panorama Iran faces.
It might as well be (see here). The linked old story from two-and-a-half months ago ponders the exact same thing: why Google's ancillary products aren't #1 in their fields as well. This is like a crypto-dupe or something.
Quit whinging about the look on Mac OS X. Firefox has a great theming system, and someone has already done the work to make it look good on Mac OS X: http://takebacktheweb.org/
GrApple (Eos Pro) theme is seriously hot. Windows and Linux users ought to be jealous.
I agree with parent about "Official" extensions instead of new features (bloat).
My question relates to this:
Is there any rationale behind what becomes a new feature and what remains left to extensions? Is there a guiding concept to the general architecture of Firefox (i.e. should the browser be simple with extensions, or should the browser be user-friendly with features)? I think a lot of the geek community that so fervently got behind Firefox is feeling disenchanted that their lean mean browser is becoming overly concerned with "user-friendly" features such that it's no longer lean and mean. Memory leaks and performance seem to get short shrift next to spellchecking, scrolling tabs, visual "refresh," etc. Where is Firefox going?
You are comparing everyday censorship of a country's entire 1.3 billion person populace of essential elements of their own national history and politics with the U.S. preventing short-wave radio reception by German immigrants during a World War (a six-year-long total war) in which Germans were our principal enemies.
If ever there were two situations that were not alike, I'd say you picked the two.
This process has been going on for several decades throughout the arms control/limitation process. During SALT negotiations both sides placed caps on ICBM launchers, but then upgraded intermediate range missiles. During START both sides placed caps on numbers of missiles but then developed MIRVs so each missile could have multiple warheads. After ABM was abrogated by the U.S., Russia developed high-speed maneuverable missiles to avoid ABMs. Now that SORT is going to come into effect, and both sides can only have ~2000 warheads instead of ~10,000, they are developed new, super-awesome missiles/warheads to make the fewer nukes more effective. Same old same old.
Which is even stranger, because he's only been in power for 12.
More like: North Korea vs. China & South Korea & Russia vs. United States & Japan.
China, South Korea, and Russia are not supportive of North Korean nukes, but usually play the role of softening whatever proposals the U.S. and Japan have -- saying, let's wait on sanctions, let's wait on firm statements, let's wait on everything else, let's walk softly now, let's not rush to anything, let's get them back to the negotiation table.
China, South Korea, and Russia place prevention of a North Korean collapse ahead of prevention of a nuclear North Korea. Hence the results we have today.
Please note that the Congressman (not White House) calling for this kid's arrest is a Democrat. If you're going to write a political flamebait, at least get your facts straight.
For those of you who didn't get it:
This is called "framing." He didn't want to answer the question, so instead he "interpreted" the "core question" into something that he did want to answer. The Microsoft PR department taught him well.
Opera had Multiple Document Interface (MDI), not specifically "tabbed browsing." Opera added tabs later. It's somewhat of a nitpicking point, but the fact that Opera added "true" tabs later makes the differentiation between tabs and MDI, in my eyes, a legitimate one.
And a follow up: how many times do you expect to push back its release over the course of development?
It's a euro/etc thing. I had to learn when I studied abroad in London. "+" is basically just a stand-in for whatever the international calling access code is. In the U.S. we dial 011 before the country code and phone number in order to place an international call. In Europe, you dial a 00 before the country code and phone number, or if you have a mobile phone you can just type + instead of 00. Same result.
I wholeheartedly agree. No one thought Windows 98 was acceptable merely because numerous problems could be fixed by rebooting. We shouldn't tolerate the same low standards from Mozilla either. Firefox 3.0 ought to focus on two major changes: #1) Implementing Gecko 1.9 in order to increase web standards support, and #2) Comprehensively rethinking memory usage from the ground up. All other features ought to be peripheral to these two key objectives.
This is exactly the wrong approach to dealing with hot girls. If you act like they're entitled to everything, they will never respect you and you will get nowhere. Treat them like you'd treat your kid sister--no respect, make a little fun of them, joke around--you'll have far better results.
It may be cold and barren space, but it's our cold and barren space.
Not if they're UN enforcement action pursued under a Chapter 7 Security Council resolution.
We didn't create Saddam, Saddam was a self-made dictator, and we didn't place him in power. We aided Saddam in his war against Iran, just like we aided Iran in their war against Iraq. But at the end of the day, Saddam (a Ba'ath party socialist) was a Soviet client. What made the first Gulf War unique was that it was the first time that the United States invaded and toppled a Soviet client, especially with tacit Russian approval now that the Cold War was over. It was the Soviet collapse that allowed us to intervene in their sphere of influence more directly.
We can mess with North Korea without China's blessing--it's well within our reach. We would just have to deal with an unpredictable Chinese reaction to the toppling of one of their client states. Generally that's not something we want to test, which is why we've engaged China in the process of containing North Korea--predictability,