Yes he is. He uses fear to obtain a political goals. That's practically the textbook definition of a terrorist. The meatspace trolls who sent out fake anthrax after 9/11 were also terrorists. You don't have to actually go through the actions of killing to be a terrorist, simply creating a culture of fear is all it takes.
Whether you want to claim he is or not, he did not purposefully kill civilians.
Nonsense, he made war in a country with a civilian population. He ordered carpet bombing strikes. They level falujula. Bush is a Christian, right? Do you think St Peter is going to accept "sorry, I didn't mean it"? Doubtful.
He chose to make a war of aggression that was completely unnecessary and he knew it. They were hunting for reasons to invade Iraq from the moment they got in power. Just read the Project For A New American Centuries publications, they are on it's website.
You can live in the Netherlands if you want, but I like to drive my car and be able to have elbow room.
Ironic you say that, in a discussion on Global Warning. So, you are basically saying "fuck you, I'll do what I want". Way to sound like a spoiled teenager buddy.
It figures that in a story about UK and global warming, the obligatory Bush bashing starts and even gets modded up.
UK story, but as you say, global warming. Bush doesn't even believe that global warming is real. The US didn't sign the Kyoto agreement, yet it is by far the greatest polluter on the planet. I don't see how it's possible to have a discussion on global warming without bashing the US government.
Yes, Stalin said the same thing in the 1930s as he did what he did.
Bull, Stalin's goal was to consolidate power under the guise of reforms. Chavez has created a constitution and made Venezuelans aware of their rights. He's practically an all-American hero, at least he would be if he wasn't counter to your current economic interests. What he has done is very similar to the Boston Tea Party, and you guys are just coming off here as an pissed-off British Empire.
What tactile feeling is there on any of the touch sensitive clickwheels (ie, everything for the past few generations)?
It's not entirely flush with the case, is it? I'm not too familiar with the most recent models, but as far as I'm aware the wheel itself has a slight relief against the case, guiding the thumb around it. On a completely flat screen, you can "colour outside the lines" and go off the screen unless you are actually looking at it at the time.
I watched this video. It certainly did not make me favor the dictator.
How can he be considered a dictator? He got it to power democratically after huge support from the countries poor. This same support played a part in the counter-revolution to stop the undemocratic assention of a military government. What's your angle here? Have you actually seen the documentary? I honestly don't know how anyone could come to your conclusions after watching it. And yes, I have read of this coup before seeing the movie and I have seen information from both sides. The complaints are all coming from rich corrupt types, the folks that happen to be ruining many other nations. These folk are losing out as Chavez attempts to make his country fairer. Anyone that bitches against that is morally corrupt.
Personally, I find it hilarious and ironic. The USA played a part in the attempted Venezulean coup in 2002. The documentary The Revolution Will Not Be Televised covers it rather well and is well worth a viewing.
Then we have regime change in Iraq! Frankly, I find the paranoid fear that another country is attempting influence US elections quite worrysome. It's almost like the US has developed some sort of collective paranoid psychosis.
That makes sense. An actual on-screen wheel wouldn't work. There's an iPod clone for the PocketPC platform which was promptly cease & desisted by Apple's lawyers. If you do get your hands on a copy you quickly realise that the lack of tactile feeling on the wheel makes it awkward to use.
I have bought one cd. There was 1 good song and the rest was crap. That was the last time I bought a cd. I think it is like going to s shop and buying 15 apples, from which only 1 is good enough to be eaten. No customer would approve that, so why does music industry think that customers would approve the current cd-crap?
But there ARE shops that sell shit fruit. A savy consumer avoids them. Buying a bad album is entirely your fault. I can think of at least 20 classic albums with no effort where the every track is great. I can think of many more where this is not the case. Which ones get my money I wonder...?
Why is it important to you that anyone judge your relationship based on the size of a trinket? It's the height of materialism to believe that the love you feel for someone is proportional to the amount of money you're willing to part with on a diamond (or anything else, for that matter) Sad to say, anyone who thinks so is a victim of the DeBeers marketing machine.
While I agree that diamonds are worthless (and say so strongly in a reply to the grandparent), the idea of buying a token for marage goes way back beyond De Beers making diamonds a part of the tradition. Some cultures still practice these Downry's and here in the UK the current tradition is for approximately two months wages AFAIK. Contrast that to Indian cultures where it is the brides family that makes the gift. What is perverse in our culture is that the gift is a useless item. In other cultures it can be land, livestock, money and investments. Beats a form of carbon any day.
Corporations and affiliated individuals have coughed up a big chunk of that money. By industry, the top honor on the giving roll goes to lawyers and law firms, with $89 million contributed, according to Federal Election Commission data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics, which describes itself as nonpartisan and nonprofit. As the Republicans have said in campaign after campaign, the bulk of that -- 69% to 30% -- has gone to Democrats. But the Republicans don't need to worry; there's plenty of money coming into their till from other industries. Second place goes to the retirement industry with $86 million (54% goes to Republicans). Third place? The real estate industry with $53 million (57% goes to Republicans.)
In the 1940s if you escaped from a German prison (or POW camp, or concentration camp) the Nazis would hang you with piano wire.
Utter nonsense. The reason that the events that inspired the movie "The Great Escape" were so well known was partly due to the fact that some of the recovered escapies were shot. It was not normal behaviour.
Concentration camps were more severe, but it's not as though they needed an excuse to torture/kill people, they were doing it already.
However in my +8 years of experience as a QA engineer after you're past Beta, automated tests will rarely find bugs.
Depends on the level of code churn and completeness of the unit tests. I've got regression suites that regularly catch major faults on the latest code branch. I'm sure you've heard the "well, it worked on my machine" mantra over and over in your time in the industry.
My point is that this doesn't prove that they would have stopped the presses for something not forcing you to reinstall but still critical.
Well, that's the way every software company I've worked for does it. Bugs are all assigned severity in terms of the damage done. For example:
severe - system unusable
major - bad fault, workaround/fix available
minor - fault, not in a major subsystem
cosmetic - get over it
In at least 50% of the companies I've worked for, only a sev 1 bug would cause a release to slip like this. Of course, this would all be kept confidential from the clients...;-)
your newly-purchased-via-wireless-at-Starbucks file would already be sitting on your HD at home without the need to sync. I don't know what the need for that might be, but that has never stopped Apple before.
I've sorta got a similar system and it's quite cool. Just rsync, nothing complex but whenever I add a new album to my library, it'll get synced to my work PC automatically. I also have an encrypted backup made at a friends house (a reciprocal arrangement).
Essentially this approach assists the management of a large collection. Beyond 60 gig, managing the library can be awkward.
secondly, diamonds are definitely an item for which you get what you pay for.
Nonsense, unless you value buying over-priced tokenistic items from highly violent cartels that ruthlessly control the price. People that make fake diamonds need to have armed guards for their sites and bodyguards for their home. This is the "value" of diamonds. DeBeers allegedly has a 400 year supply sitting in warehouses.
Diamonds are completely and utterly worthless unless you want to drill through hard objects. You might "get what you pay for" with a diamond drill bit but I prefer the GTA interpretation: "Nothing says I love you more than a lump of rock mined by child wage slaves in Angola".
Even if that 650,000 figure is correct, we, the United States of America, did not kill all those people. Most were killed by other Iraqis, by Syrians, by Lebanese, by Jordanians.
Sorry, but no. The numbers reflect the additional deaths occuring over the baseline death rate before the war. If the war had not happened, they would be alive. This figure is the point of this kind of study. Everything seen in Iraq was predicted by anyone who had even a rudamentary knowledge in the history of warfare or middle eastern culture. You were warned that this would happen and the response of your leaders was "we'll be treated as liberators". Why do you think many of us were so angry and "anti-American" in the lead up to the war?
The deaths are 100% on your hands. The techniques used are the same ones that our leaders have no problem referencing for other civil wars, such as Darfur. Many of them simply reflect the complete and utter lack of a healthcare system. That's a lot of childbirths gone wrong. It's a lot of RTA's. It's a lot of murders and ethnic cleansing caused by the lack of a coherent police force or military. It's a lot of completely preventable deaths that would not have occured should the invasion not happened.
You have only two excuses here for this mess. Historical ignorance and/or stupidity. Pick one of them, don't try to blame others.
Western police are not immune to this. "Our cops don't do that!"... BS. I don't know why we (westerners) think that we're inherently better human beings than say, Soviet Russian police.
IMHO, this is the principle driver behind these problems. The belief that "it can't happen here!" is what invariably leads to it happening due to the level of denial. It also contains copious helpings of "we are better than everyone else", another precursor to many social issues. It's like the 650,000 civilian deaths in Iraq; many people simply do not believe that their own country is capable of doing such things so therefore the study must be wrong. If you ask me, all of this belongs on the same page as holocaust denial and religion. It's a complete failure to accept facts that go against your predisposed beliefs. Often the truth hurts.
Personally, I prefer the fans not to run at all (very quiet). Will this damage the hardware?
It depends on how you define "damage". If you mean "reduce it's lifetime", then yes, it will damage it. Heat is a killer in electronics, that's why datacentres are kept so cool.
I wonder how it works, I'd love to see the source code for it...
Are you kidding? It's a fan control, not exactly new or complicated. This sort of thing has been around for almost a decade. All it does is changes a couple of registers, possibly over an I2C serial bus.
I think it was Office XP that brought this in, but it may be available as a patch for older ones. However, OfficeUpdate won't work on your dodgy copy of it, so you'll just have to get the new one.
George Galloway is a sleazy wanker that I cannot stand one bit. I've seen him speak (he used to be based in glasgow) and did not like his style one bit. I will give him credit for the congress thing however, that was priceless.
Wait, so the "good guys" side in the Palestine conflict is the one setting off bombs in shopping malls and buses in Israel, right?
What you need to ask yourself is this: why is killing someone using a 22 million dollar GPS guilded missle any different that using 22 dollar IED strapped to someone chest? I really want to understand your rationale here. You mention people setting off one bomb in Israel, meanwhile they are dropping thousands of mines over CIVILIAN areas in Lebanon, depopulating the area which was the intention of the whole incursion (buffer zone). Normally we use the term "ethnic cleansing" for that sort of thing, if it were an enemy of ours.
All sides have arseholes and it is insane to judge the whole country based on a handfuls desperate actions. I can tell you right now, if you were to kill anyone in my family, I'd want revenge too. Bloody, drawn out, painful revenge that the UK government would not approve of. But that's no excuse for killing innocent people ever. And this is where your argument breaks down...the Isrealis consistently attack civilians. Their presence in the West Bank is designed to destroy life and stop the former country developing an ecomomy. Border patrols operated by an occupying force that is brought up to fear and despise you is no life.
Part of the issue here is that both sides are brought up in a cradle of fear of the other. Children in Isreal are issued gas masks at a very young age in the same way that they made your parents duck & cover. Is it reasonable precaution or just propaganda? The more I learn about these programs, the more I lean towards the latter explaination. Until we stop indoctinating the next generation in fear and hatred, then this will go on indefinately.
This one's a little tough to turn into a black-n-white kind of issue.
Exactly. Both sides are at fault, the Isrealis just have far greater resources and we are supporting them. If my government was helping suicide bombers, I'd be pissed about that too. But the fact of the matter is that we blindly aid the Isrealis as they morph into the exact same extremism that wanted to exterminate them in WW2. It's assine and must stop now.
Now compare the plight of the average Palestinian versus the average Sudanese refugee at the hands of the janjaweed militias.
The BIG difference is that in Sudan, our own countries aren't on the "bad guys" side. That's why many of us a livid about the Palestine issue. See the cluster bombs that depopulated the south of Lebanon? The ones which were mostly dropped the day before the ceasefire in a callous "hurry while we still can" way? The ones where over 30% now lie unexploded and are killing/maiming today and will be for decades? Well guess what? Your country made them and mine provided the logistics to get them to the warzone. Both of us financed them. The blood is on OUR hands and I have to ask, what the fuck are you doing about it?
On the other hand, Sudan is a civil war. Technically it's their own affair, but I regularly use Sudan to make "liberate Iraq!" nutjobs STFU. We have some bizare rationale for choosing our fights. It's not hard to figure out that it's down the three R's of evil: religion, revenue & racism. Sudan has none of these and won't even get a mention on the news.
Invading Kuwait was an obviously idiotic move for Saddam a decade and a half ago, but he still did it.
Emm, no. Kuwait used to be a part of Iraq, so it's not all that idiotic or unheard of historically for a country to seek restoration of former colonies/land. Saddam was a US ally at the time and actually asked the US gov for their thoughts and they told him to go ahead. It was only after the exiled Kuwaiti sheiks hired a US PR company that world opinion changed. The PR company had a girl lie to the US congress (live on TV) about the Iraqi soldiers killing babies and the rest is history.
the invasion of Iraq had nothing to do with Kim Jong Ill's decision to produce nuclear weapons.
I and most of the worlds analysts disagree. Please see this article that clearly demostrates that the Bush administration have directly provoked the North Koreans. They also named N. Korea in their access of evil, one third of which has already been invaded and Iran is also under serious scrutiny. You and I know that King Jong is currently shitting himself in a marble bathroom.
Either you just felt like taacking on random adjectives that had nothing to do with anything, or you interpreted my saying "little man" as racist
That wasn't what I meant. Making the enemy leadership seem stupid is a standard tactic. "They live in caves" was the arabic equivalent. I do not accept that King Jong is stupid, but I must conceed that I don't know much about his accent to power. But it is very common for Americans to look down on the intelligence of other peoples. I assumed (possibly incorrectly) that your opinion of his inteligence was based on that.
I apologise if I was rude to you earlier. The spin and the lack of information in popular news sources infuriates me and as there is not much I can do about it, I probably take it out too much on people that don't deserve it.
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Yes he is. He uses fear to obtain a political goals. That's practically the textbook definition of a terrorist. The meatspace trolls who sent out fake anthrax after 9/11 were also terrorists. You don't have to actually go through the actions of killing to be a terrorist, simply creating a culture of fear is all it takes.
Nonsense, he made war in a country with a civilian population. He ordered carpet bombing strikes. They level falujula. Bush is a Christian, right? Do you think St Peter is going to accept "sorry, I didn't mean it"? Doubtful.
He chose to make a war of aggression that was completely unnecessary and he knew it. They were hunting for reasons to invade Iraq from the moment they got in power. Just read the Project For A New American Centuries publications, they are on it's website.
Ironic you say that, in a discussion on Global Warning. So, you are basically saying "fuck you, I'll do what I want". Way to sound like a spoiled teenager buddy.
UK story, but as you say, global warming. Bush doesn't even believe that global warming is real. The US didn't sign the Kyoto agreement, yet it is by far the greatest polluter on the planet. I don't see how it's possible to have a discussion on global warming without bashing the US government.
Bull, Stalin's goal was to consolidate power under the guise of reforms. Chavez has created a constitution and made Venezuelans aware of their rights. He's practically an all-American hero, at least he would be if he wasn't counter to your current economic interests. What he has done is very similar to the Boston Tea Party, and you guys are just coming off here as an pissed-off British Empire.
It's not entirely flush with the case, is it? I'm not too familiar with the most recent models, but as far as I'm aware the wheel itself has a slight relief against the case, guiding the thumb around it. On a completely flat screen, you can "colour outside the lines" and go off the screen unless you are actually looking at it at the time.
How can he be considered a dictator? He got it to power democratically after huge support from the countries poor. This same support played a part in the counter-revolution to stop the undemocratic assention of a military government. What's your angle here? Have you actually seen the documentary? I honestly don't know how anyone could come to your conclusions after watching it. And yes, I have read of this coup before seeing the movie and I have seen information from both sides. The complaints are all coming from rich corrupt types, the folks that happen to be ruining many other nations. These folk are losing out as Chavez attempts to make his country fairer. Anyone that bitches against that is morally corrupt.
Personally, I find it hilarious and ironic. The USA played a part in the attempted Venezulean coup in 2002. The documentary The Revolution Will Not Be Televised covers it rather well and is well worth a viewing.
Then we have regime change in Iraq! Frankly, I find the paranoid fear that another country is attempting influence US elections quite worrysome. It's almost like the US has developed some sort of collective paranoid psychosis.
That makes sense. An actual on-screen wheel wouldn't work. There's an iPod clone for the PocketPC platform which was promptly cease & desisted by Apple's lawyers. If you do get your hands on a copy you quickly realise that the lack of tactile feeling on the wheel makes it awkward to use.
But there ARE shops that sell shit fruit. A savy consumer avoids them. Buying a bad album is entirely your fault. I can think of at least 20 classic albums with no effort where the every track is great. I can think of many more where this is not the case. Which ones get my money I wonder...?
While I agree that diamonds are worthless (and say so strongly in a reply to the grandparent), the idea of buying a token for marage goes way back beyond De Beers making diamonds a part of the tradition. Some cultures still practice these Downry's and here in the UK the current tradition is for approximately two months wages AFAIK. Contrast that to Indian cultures where it is the brides family that makes the gift. What is perverse in our culture is that the gift is a useless item. In other cultures it can be land, livestock, money and investments. Beats a form of carbon any day.
Well said. Here's the science: (source article)
Corporations and affiliated individuals have coughed up a big chunk of that money. By industry, the top honor on the giving roll goes to lawyers and law firms, with $89 million contributed, according to Federal Election Commission data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics, which describes itself as nonpartisan and nonprofit. As the Republicans have said in campaign after campaign, the bulk of that -- 69% to 30% -- has gone to Democrats. But the Republicans don't need to worry; there's plenty of money coming into their till from other industries. Second place goes to the retirement industry with $86 million (54% goes to Republicans). Third place? The real estate industry with $53 million (57% goes to Republicans.)
Utter nonsense. The reason that the events that inspired the movie "The Great Escape" were so well known was partly due to the fact that some of the recovered escapies were shot. It was not normal behaviour.
Concentration camps were more severe, but it's not as though they needed an excuse to torture/kill people, they were doing it already.
Depends on the level of code churn and completeness of the unit tests. I've got regression suites that regularly catch major faults on the latest code branch. I'm sure you've heard the "well, it worked on my machine" mantra over and over in your time in the industry.
Well, that's the way every software company I've worked for does it. Bugs are all assigned severity in terms of the damage done. For example:
In at least 50% of the companies I've worked for, only a sev 1 bug would cause a release to slip like this. Of course, this would all be kept confidential from the clients... ;-)
I've sorta got a similar system and it's quite cool. Just rsync, nothing complex but whenever I add a new album to my library, it'll get synced to my work PC automatically. I also have an encrypted backup made at a friends house (a reciprocal arrangement).
Essentially this approach assists the management of a large collection. Beyond 60 gig, managing the library can be awkward.
Nonsense, unless you value buying over-priced tokenistic items from highly violent cartels that ruthlessly control the price. People that make fake diamonds need to have armed guards for their sites and bodyguards for their home. This is the "value" of diamonds. DeBeers allegedly has a 400 year supply sitting in warehouses.
Diamonds are completely and utterly worthless unless you want to drill through hard objects. You might "get what you pay for" with a diamond drill bit but I prefer the GTA interpretation: "Nothing says I love you more than a lump of rock mined by child wage slaves in Angola".
Sorry, but no. The numbers reflect the additional deaths occuring over the baseline death rate before the war. If the war had not happened, they would be alive. This figure is the point of this kind of study. Everything seen in Iraq was predicted by anyone who had even a rudamentary knowledge in the history of warfare or middle eastern culture. You were warned that this would happen and the response of your leaders was "we'll be treated as liberators". Why do you think many of us were so angry and "anti-American" in the lead up to the war?
The deaths are 100% on your hands. The techniques used are the same ones that our leaders have no problem referencing for other civil wars, such as Darfur. Many of them simply reflect the complete and utter lack of a healthcare system. That's a lot of childbirths gone wrong. It's a lot of RTA's. It's a lot of murders and ethnic cleansing caused by the lack of a coherent police force or military. It's a lot of completely preventable deaths that would not have occured should the invasion not happened.
You have only two excuses here for this mess. Historical ignorance and/or stupidity. Pick one of them, don't try to blame others.
IMHO, this is the principle driver behind these problems. The belief that "it can't happen here!" is what invariably leads to it happening due to the level of denial. It also contains copious helpings of "we are better than everyone else", another precursor to many social issues. It's like the 650,000 civilian deaths in Iraq; many people simply do not believe that their own country is capable of doing such things so therefore the study must be wrong. If you ask me, all of this belongs on the same page as holocaust denial and religion. It's a complete failure to accept facts that go against your predisposed beliefs. Often the truth hurts.
Likewise I saw a compressed version for smartphones about 18 months ago. Yesterdays news for nerds apparently.
It depends on how you define "damage". If you mean "reduce it's lifetime", then yes, it will damage it. Heat is a killer in electronics, that's why datacentres are kept so cool.
Are you kidding? It's a fan control, not exactly new or complicated. This sort of thing has been around for almost a decade. All it does is changes a couple of registers, possibly over an I2C serial bus.
I think it was Office XP that brought this in, but it may be available as a patch for older ones. However, OfficeUpdate won't work on your dodgy copy of it, so you'll just have to get the new one.
George Galloway is a sleazy wanker that I cannot stand one bit. I've seen him speak (he used to be based in glasgow) and did not like his style one bit. I will give him credit for the congress thing however, that was priceless.
What you need to ask yourself is this: why is killing someone using a 22 million dollar GPS guilded missle any different that using 22 dollar IED strapped to someone chest? I really want to understand your rationale here. You mention people setting off one bomb in Israel, meanwhile they are dropping thousands of mines over CIVILIAN areas in Lebanon, depopulating the area which was the intention of the whole incursion (buffer zone). Normally we use the term "ethnic cleansing" for that sort of thing, if it were an enemy of ours.
All sides have arseholes and it is insane to judge the whole country based on a handfuls desperate actions. I can tell you right now, if you were to kill anyone in my family, I'd want revenge too. Bloody, drawn out, painful revenge that the UK government would not approve of. But that's no excuse for killing innocent people ever. And this is where your argument breaks down...the Isrealis consistently attack civilians. Their presence in the West Bank is designed to destroy life and stop the former country developing an ecomomy. Border patrols operated by an occupying force that is brought up to fear and despise you is no life.
Part of the issue here is that both sides are brought up in a cradle of fear of the other. Children in Isreal are issued gas masks at a very young age in the same way that they made your parents duck & cover. Is it reasonable precaution or just propaganda? The more I learn about these programs, the more I lean towards the latter explaination. Until we stop indoctinating the next generation in fear and hatred, then this will go on indefinately.
Exactly. Both sides are at fault, the Isrealis just have far greater resources and we are supporting them. If my government was helping suicide bombers, I'd be pissed about that too. But the fact of the matter is that we blindly aid the Isrealis as they morph into the exact same extremism that wanted to exterminate them in WW2. It's assine and must stop now.
The BIG difference is that in Sudan, our own countries aren't on the "bad guys" side. That's why many of us a livid about the Palestine issue. See the cluster bombs that depopulated the south of Lebanon? The ones which were mostly dropped the day before the ceasefire in a callous "hurry while we still can" way? The ones where over 30% now lie unexploded and are killing/maiming today and will be for decades? Well guess what? Your country made them and mine provided the logistics to get them to the warzone. Both of us financed them. The blood is on OUR hands and I have to ask, what the fuck are you doing about it?
On the other hand, Sudan is a civil war. Technically it's their own affair, but I regularly use Sudan to make "liberate Iraq!" nutjobs STFU. We have some bizare rationale for choosing our fights. It's not hard to figure out that it's down the three R's of evil: religion, revenue & racism. Sudan has none of these and won't even get a mention on the news.
Emm, no. Kuwait used to be a part of Iraq, so it's not all that idiotic or unheard of historically for a country to seek restoration of former colonies/land. Saddam was a US ally at the time and actually asked the US gov for their thoughts and they told him to go ahead. It was only after the exiled Kuwaiti sheiks hired a US PR company that world opinion changed. The PR company had a girl lie to the US congress (live on TV) about the Iraqi soldiers killing babies and the rest is history.
I and most of the worlds analysts disagree. Please see this article that clearly demostrates that the Bush administration have directly provoked the North Koreans. They also named N. Korea in their access of evil, one third of which has already been invaded and Iran is also under serious scrutiny. You and I know that King Jong is currently shitting himself in a marble bathroom.
That wasn't what I meant. Making the enemy leadership seem stupid is a standard tactic. "They live in caves" was the arabic equivalent. I do not accept that King Jong is stupid, but I must conceed that I don't know much about his accent to power. But it is very common for Americans to look down on the intelligence of other peoples. I assumed (possibly incorrectly) that your opinion of his inteligence was based on that.
I apologise if I was rude to you earlier. The spin and the lack of information in popular news sources infuriates me and as there is not much I can do about it, I probably take it out too much on people that don't deserve it.