In english commonlaw there is a clear distiction between criminial and civil trespass.
IIRC, in Scot's law, there is no trespass whatsoever. I can walk across your field, and provided I'm not doing any damage, there is nothing you can do about it. Great for the hiking community!
Of course, we do have "breaking and entering" offences for what you describe. Makes a whole lot of sense to me; how can someone be in the wrong just because they are on a piece of earth that some piece of paper somewhere claims ownership of? No harm, no crime.
The United States is the largest single sovereign economic zone on the planet, and with the highest growth rate.
Markets do not care for sovereign states, the EU is seen as one market, that's the point of it. Growth rate? With all due respect, all my US investments have gone down the tube! Fingers crossed things improve, but I wouldn't bet on it. Without the military spending, your country would have been in recession years ago.
The assumption is not warranted. No one goes up to the Chinese government to be asked "will it sell in the USA?". If they ever do ask that question, it will be "will it export?". The destination country is clearly of no concern, as they already trade with traditional enemies.
All empires have seen themselves at the centre of things. You don't need to feel bad about it, but please realise how ridiculous it makes you sound to the rest of us!;-)
the "insurgents" (otherwise known as "terrorists," speaking of labels) ARE destroying infrastructure.
How can you call anyone defending their own land against a foreign oppressor be called a terrorist? And the "infrastructure" isn't water or electricity, it's a gas pipeline. The whole reason for you being there, I might add. I'm not defending their actions, just looking at it from their point of view. In any invasion where there has been a resistance, destroying infrastructure used by the military is pretty much their job. They don't kill troops, they are supposed to be clandestine, basically there to gum up the works. Armies depend on fuel, and that attack seriously hindered the US armies ability to move, with zero causualites I might add. Nothing new or magical in this approach, it's happened the exact same way numerous times before. Sometimes they are called "la resistance" or "freedom fighters". In fact, I'd put money on the fact that some of those who have flocked to Iraq to fight were formally called freedom fighters by you. The first launch of Columbia was dedicated to the "freedom fighters of afganistan", some of whom are undoubtably fighting in Iraq now, against you.
you DO realize that these people shout "Allah akbar" as the planes slam into the buildings, right?
"these people". Way-to-go in creating a unified enemy do defend us from. You do realise they are a bunch of diffent folk from all walks of life AND different religions? Some off whom hate each other MORE than they hate you? I'm not talking about those who have came to Iraq, I'm talking about the Iraqis. Many of them are quite happy with western culture, they just don't like being bombed, invaded, bombed again, and then having all the male folk with "suspicious eyes" taken off in night raids. You made war in their country. You've been caught out doing some pretty nasty stuff to them. What fucking kind of response did you expect? Are you so self-rightous that you cannot see that?
There are a lot of different bunches of people in the global picture because the USA has managed to piss off a whole lot of countries. Go read some history. You started it. Bringing democracy to them, while admirable in western eyes, would be like trying to lower the age of consent here to eight years old. It's morally wrong to them. HOWEVER, they did not start going round trying to topple countries that had unfavourable governments quite as much as you guys did. And here you are, doing it again, making more enemies. You will never be able to kill them all. Perhaps analysing the root of the problem, why they hate you, might be wise, yes? If it wasn't for the need of middle eastern oil, there'd be no terrorism as we wouldn't be seeking to have capitalism-friendly governments installed everywhere.
WRT insurgent attacks; in Iraq, they fight the way they do because they have no choice. If they could, I'm sure they'd buy F-15s and tanks and face you on the battlefield. What, did you expect them all to line up and take a killing when you first invaded? Hell no, they hid and began to strike back like a wounded animal. Then the nut jobs, the real fundamentalists come in and start blowing themselves up. If you want a proper, "old-skool" war, why not pick on someone your own size?
By the way, the links you posted? WTF? Seriously? What was your point? The first is about a fire at a power plant that DOES NOT SAY the insurgents fired the mortars. You'd think the US army would make a point of saying that, if it was the case right? Are you trying to prove yourself wrong? The first official story: "The U.S. military press office initially quoted Iraqi engineers as saying the fire was triggered by a defective transformer. ". The US government is beginning to sound like Pravda!!
their ENTIRE WORLD VIEW is hinged on their idea of what's morally right according to their God, damnation and slaughter to whoever opposes them?
Funny, I was about to say the exact same about you guys. They view democracy as
It's small, simple, and prevents PDF ambushes from raping your system's resources.
As someone who also detests this, my hat is off to you good sir for the way in which you described it. "ambushes"...
Personally, I always turn off the browser integration. At least it opens in an "open/save" dialog that way and if you choose to open, it will be running in a separate process in the proper reader application. Which is nice because it tends to crash often when running in a browser.
Is there a graphical application to help generate ant build scripts?
Not quite a help wizard, but Eclipse is really good with ant files, especially the most recent version. Will auto-complete tags and variable names, plus some other useful tools. I can't imagine doing them in a text editor!
Hahaha, that's some truly hilarious lack of a clue, there. Thanks for taking the leftist perspective that the Islamists are peace-loving members of a glorious world community who want nothing better than to be left alone.
It's not the "leftist" view. WTF with the labels. Everything the US does is "X" vs "Y", can you guys not see thru that? More on this later... Anyway, it's the HISTORICAL view, for those capable of reading a history book.
in reality, they want Israel gone, destroyed -- not just to live peacefully alongside Israel. They want to make every government in the world an ISLAMIC one.
They hate the nazi sect that has set itself up near them, that much is true. (yes, I do fully believe that the Israelis are behaving very much like the nazis in this mater). HOWEVER that is not their biggest beef. I'm going to keep this short as you are no doubt set in the propaganda, but the reason they hate YOU is because you want every government to be a DEMOCRATIC CAPITALIST one. And I don't seem them invading countries to bring that about. They aren't led by a "project" that has a mission statement pretty much declairing that they want the USA to run the world, and to bring capitalism to every country.
The hatred stems from the capitalist migration of Egypt, backed by the worlds bankers and the CIA. This is not a tinfoil hat conspiracy, it is FACT. Go read the background of your enemies. To them, capitalism is as abhorent as the islamic world you detest. WE HAVE NO RIGHT to force our beliefs on them, in the same way they do not have the right to do the same to us. We have been fucking their governments for our own selfish goals for at least 50 years. It is you who has a lack of a clue. Terrorism is a RESPONSE to our parents actions. We are only compounding the problems.
It's amazing how you hypocritical bastards spend 10 times the effort criticizing America for falling outside international law and being vindictive and unilateralist, than you do criticizing Islamists for constantly doing whatever they want
BECAUSE THEY AREN'T ONES GOING ROUND CLAIMING TO BE MORALLY RIGHT!! When you take the moral high-ground, you'd better be able to back it up. And yes, most of us DO believe that the US does more harm than the terrorists. 9-11, 3,000 dead. Iraq, 25,000 CONFIRMED civilian deaths, say maybe 50,000 unconfirmed + combatant ones. Everyone knows the 9-11 guys were evil. You proclaim to be god like. Hell, your president has publicly said god is on your side on many occasions. You are making things worse by making more enemies. Either your leadership is brain-dead, or they don't actually care about the day-to-day security of the average American. They can always increase the number of guards at the whitehouse I guess...
sabotaging water and electricity that keep Iraqis alive, and so on.
Are you even following the war? It was the initial attack that destroyed the infrastructure of Iraq, NOT insurgents. We bombed their water treatment plans and powerstations, to disable the country and make the invasion easier. The insurgents are attacking anyone who sides with the americans, including the poor Iraqis who want nothing more than to restore the peace in Iraq.
They don't hate freedom as a concept in itself; they hate freedom because freedom allows the choice of religion, the choice of sleeping around, the choice of sinning, the choice of not praying five times a day.
Wow, ALMOST right, then you lose it again. They don't hate freedom!! We have a break through!!! Yes, they do hate sinning, but so do your leaders. The laws are different, but it's the same backwards beliefs driving both sides. However, they could not give a flying fuck about your freedom. When you start to influnce theirs, then they care. Go read up on Egypt. Seriously, you have NO CLUE to what this is all about.
The Islamic world is reacting to the same breakdown in society and selfish way of living the that the religious right in the US is do
while the protest is entirely peaceful, there are so many of us that the authorities simply stop caring, or even worse, plan to ignore the masses.
I saw a quote somewhere that sums it up. To the best of my recollection it was "creating the tools of a fasist state is bad civic hygene". In future, people may look back to this time and wonder "how did it happend here?".
If we can roll through a place like Fallujah and use this tool to incapacitate the bad guys in front of us, then that saves their lives and puts less risk on our Marines.
Yeah. And how will the locals react to you driving around rendering everyone around you in extreme pain? Have you thought this through? You will only create more insurgents.
I feel your pain. You are there fighting a war you should not be fighting. Withdrawing isn't really an option as the resulting civil war will be savage. However, if you want to "win" this one, you have to bring peace to Iraq. This weapon will only hinder that goal.
I think if we truly wanted to win the war on terror we would tie enemy combatants up and execute them in public. This is how it has always worked in the past.
What do you think the reaction to that would be? Have you thought this through? This is YOUR reaction to what THEY have done to you. What's the next step I wonder? "Worked in the past"? Sounds like you know NOTHING of history. Violence begats violence. You have the attitude of the WW1 commanders, "if we kill them all they will stop coming". Do you know how that war panned out?
In the towns in Iraq where the Brits are, they walk around with light armour and no helmets. Things there are much more civilized. Conversly, the US rolls around in humvies. Not the kind Arnie drives, but the kind with the mounted machine gun. US army doctarine is "extreme force". Roll up, be agressive and hope that the enemy craps it and you win on psycholgy with hopefully no one getting killed. As much as it works for a single raid, it does not "capture the hearts and mind", it does the opposite. Like this weapon will do. You are pouring gasoline on a flame here. Invading Iraq was the WORST thing you could have possibly done WRT stopping terrorism. And the people of London are feeling this today.
I totally agree - I expect far more of Slashdot than publicising this crap.
You'd rather remain in the dark? I'd trust the discussion of a hi-tec weapon more here than most other places. I'm glad someone posted this, if they had not many of us would never have heard of it.
What kind of country uses the word "passifist" as an insult? Point proven methinks. Anyway, I'm not a nutjob, I just come from a country that at one point realised that further violence only makes things easier for the terrorists. We "defeated" the IRA this way. Cracking down only made things worse.
And it IS insane. Their orphaned children will only want to kill you even more. Is history a banned subject in the USA? Probably, unless the history refers to how wonderful and unflawless your society is.
We didn't create the bogeyman in the middle east. Have you fucking failed to notice that *they* have conquered most of northern half of Africa and completed their genocidal campaign?
Go read the history of Egypt you delusional twat. This problem is ENTIRELY of the USA's making. If you hadn't tried to conqueor their culture with your own (which they believe is as reprehensible as to how you view kiddie porn), they would not be hating you right now. This was entirely backed by the CIA and western bankers. ALL of the roots of the current terrorism come from there. It PREDATES Iran becoming a fundamentalist state, which could be argued that Egypt was a catylist as they saw the corruption (fiscal, not moral) and wanted NO part of it.
You fucked their country 30/40 years ago. Then you moved onto the others. They ain't going to forget! Have you never wondered why they hate the USA and not "the west" in general?
Have you noticed that this brand of genocidal dictatorship has spread across southeast asia through the same approach?
He he, I love how the US types like to view ALL enemies as being one global, co-ordinated anti-USA front. You guys are unreal!! NOTHING in South-East Asia has ANYTHING to do with the Middle East. The only connection is that your leaders mislead you into thinking there is, causing you to unite as a country against a common enemy. Keeps the public busy and well-behaved.
Of course, it's easier to bury your head in the sand then realize what's happening in western Europe. You're doomed.
We are doomed only because we joined your cultural war.
oh right, less than lethal force is soooo insane, so motherfucking insane!!!!!
Using force against anyone is insane, provided you actually care about the long term results. Especially if you use it against folk that already don't like you. Why do you think people fly planes into your buildings? Because they hate the fact that you "have freedom"? lol, it is you who are insane and completely kept in the dark by your agressive, profiteering government. Ah well, it's only your children that will have to pay for it...
Hint: they hate you because of prior force you used against them. Do the math.
Seriously, from a practical standpoint, what will happen the first time we fire this thing into. say, one of al-Sadr's regular 10k+ angry-mob protests? Everyone with glasses risks going blind; everyone with metal on them gets burns. Everyone with a pacemaker risks getting their heart stopped. It'd be almost a guaranteed new Sadrist revolt, plus easily increasing other Shia and widespread Sunni insurgency recruiting, while not killing any insurgents.
Thank god for santity! What the fuck is wrong with you Americans? Do you actually believe that anything you have done in Iraq has made the USA (or the world) safer? Do you think experimenting with NEW forms of weapons is going to win you any favour? Are their not enough Gulf victims/veterans with cancer thanks to prior tests already?
Use ANYTHING like this on me or my family, I'll fly the plane into the tower myself.
The USA does not give a fuck about the war on terror. The terror is entirely of their own making. Back when the USSR was still around, Rumsfeld did the EXACT same thing; created an enemy that was fabricated. We could have had ended the cold war in the 70/80's if it wasn't for that prick telling Regan etc that the USSR claims on their WMD are lies, and that they were ignoring the treaties and had the intention of attacking. So, he's been ENTRIELY wrong on WMD TWICE. When the USSR fell appart, they then switched to the Middle East as their bogeyman. And now they are working on crowd-control systems. Are you going to sleep through this one as well? At the very least, install a dynamo to generate power from all the spinning that the founding fathers are doing.
What "it's natural" really means is that rather than being a single, selected chemical synthetically prepared in a lab with carefully measured dosage
Actually, you are preaching to the choir there. Antrax is organic and natural, not exactly nice either! However, because MJ has been around for so long, there aren't really any surprises, unlike many newer drugs. The positive effects of MJ are still clearly identifiable. The purity is no big deal, if it's regulated then it's consistent, but even illegiatimately the risks are so non-existant, irregular dose isn't a problem. Just take more or less. It's not like some synthetic or natural drugs were purity must be rigidly controlled and dosage monitored.
I honsetly belive that the current rules in place by the Firefox developers are well minded and do a good job at keep malware base XPIs from getting into a system.
They are better than nothing, but they are not good enough for the internet. Sun have the right idea in the java sandbox, it's not user friendly but that can be improved upon by Sun or anyone implementing anything similar. Actually, Firefox's system is not all that different to Microsofts (flawed) approach. "Give some sites elevanted status" is all fine and dandy until there are (possibly unrelated) exploits that allow random third-party sites to add themselves to the list, or fake out the authentication. It's going to happen eventially, meaning all sorts of malware with write access to your HD will get on. There are thousands of installations of old Firefox builds with known problems already, give that a year or two. More exploits will come, that much is guaranteed.
Most plugins don't need write access. Give them a chrooted jail if they really need files but most will do well enough with some form of registry/properties system for data storage. Giving full access is just stupid and that lesson should have been learned years ago. Likewise, they don't all need clipboard access, browser configuration access, network access and so on, which I presume the scripting language covers if it's going to be at all useful.
The grandparents suggestion about forcing plugins to be separate downloadable and installable components is bang on the money. If the browser cannot install plugins directly, the malware cannot use this mechanism to install itself directly. Firefox comes with a basic download manager and if a user isn't smart enough to find something they download, then frankly they should not be installing plugins. Security through dunce-checking. I like that!
Apparently the scientific process required to ensure that a drug is safe and effective according to the standards of the FDA is not important anymore, and we should instead rely on the claims of people who "feel better" after taking the drug.
You miss one thing. It's been used medically for thousands of years. With zero fatalities ever. Even if someone merely "feels better", they are doing so in a more natural way, with less side effects than many other drugs. The fact is, it works.
I read somewhere that something like 1/3 of a major medical marijuana co-op had died in the last year.
No one said cure, it's a highly effective non-addictive* pain killer. And the MJ didn't kill any of them. There isn't a single record of a death due to MJ on the medical books ANYWHERE in the whole world. Overdosing is for all extents and purposes impossible. This is entirely different to a lot of the other other heavy medication that they were on (which probably DID extend their life however). MJ just improves the quality of life; it can replace many debilitating alternatives.
* yes, MJ is addictive via habit forming, however if you are taking it medically, I don't think that's really relevant. Doc says stop, you stop.
make a point of avoiding products which have shitty commercials.
That is NOT how commercials work, as pointed out by the grandparent post. Brand recognition is sublimimal. Familiarity will win out when you are at the supermarket shelf and there is NO WAY that you will knowningly remember all the ads that planted those product names in your subconsious. Whether the ad is good or not has no real bearing, unless it is fresh in your mind or particularly annoying.
Isn't the point of learning to type not to look at the keys anymore?
How many keyboards can force you to do that, by blanking the keys for you? They could also do exercises, e.g. you have to hit the one that flashes, then return to the home row, improving your acuracy. Only obvious problem I can see is that the wrist blocks your view of most of the keyboard when you are in the home row!
Hopefully that means that there will be out of the box support for the Mac OS.
They seem to be quite a responsive company. Hell, looks like they are using/. for market research! So, methinks you can sleep easy over mac support! They might even make double-sure, just because of your post!
imagine a whack-a-mole type game, where all your keys are blank, and one will light up with some mole image or whatever, and you have to hit that key before it changes. the possibilities are endless.
Good point. For kids this could be really useful, educational etc. Could teach typing, memory (the match the symbols game), and a whole other load of stuff.
However. Do you want your kids playing wack-a-mole with your expensive OED keyboard? Mine will be ALL mine!!
legit means of content distro will eventually grow faster than pirate means
Agreed on most of your points, but maybe not the above. There are more songs available on p2p than are available on CD at the moment. I can't remember the numbers, but only a fraction of the global musical catalog is available. p2p had them beat in a matter of a few years. There are far more of us than them, and we have greater resources. I find it incredible that the p2p community has so much 'giving' from it's members. You can get content there that you will never be able to get legitmately, things that just are no longer available. Also, there is a large community of 'illegal bootleggers', trading live recordings and unauthorized remixes/covers. I can download TV shows that the makers would likely love to serve to me directly (with embedded commercials), however their regional distribution contracts get in the way. Perhaps if the media industry lost it's zeal for carving up markets into zones, then they might have a chance.
If your interpretation is subjective, how much have you traveled?
It's entirely subjective, based on human nature. I have traveled somewhat, including China many years ago. Most of my travels have been in Europe (home), and North America. I would not say all cultures are equally corrupt, but it is present in almost all. Genetically, we may look different, but we have the same drives and goals that can lead to corruption. It would not surprise me if there were some societies that did not have corruption, but I'd bet that they would be small communities where corruption would be too obvious.
Corruption does not require evil people. Evil is a word banded about far to often these days, it helps detract from the idea that your enemy/opponent has a valid argument/beef with you. Saves actually arguing the point!
Corruption is merely a group of people who look out for each other, usually to the detriment of others. This basically how business works in many places, with people in private members clubs, 'secret societies' etc putting contracts each others way. From what I understand here in Scotland, just about any council work will be awarded to someone with some link to the person running the project, and of course it comes in at a higher quotation than the same work in the private sector. Not close enough to prove anything, but not fair either.
It's evolutionary. Those who looked after their own got rewarded with long life, prosperity and most importantly, many offspring. Corruption works!
Corruption in the US is organized and better tucked away and doesn't cripple small businesses the same way it does in some third world nations.
I'd say their situation is in fact worse. In the US, corruption IS business & politics at the highest level. They are at war right now at the request of these corportations. The US requires a constant enemy to prosper, it's industry and economy are heavilly tied to the arms industry. The people at the top ALL have connections like this. If it's such a free country, why don't the reporters pick up on this? Because they work for the same people.
Thousands of innocent people are dead because of this. Over oil mostly, but the regeneration and continued fear is also creating vast profits for companies like Harliburton and The Carlyle Group (sp?). Small businesses don't mean squat when you have that level of corruption in the world. Not when real people are being crippled!
In America, there was more freedom, but also the problem that because people were less likely to realize what was going on, they were more likely to trust the media.
No kidding! The ultimate problem there is that the propaganda starts at a very early age, daily pledges, marches etc., bog standard propaganda. They are educated that the USA is the worlds ultimate country, with the perfect system, run by the perfect people. Some sort of master race, if you will;-) They have no critical thought, and just take everything at face value. Some of the studies are mind blowing, the levels of disinformation are incredible. Most Americans believe that 'the terrorists' are a highly organized and coherent group who 'hate freedom'. Of course, anyone with even the most basic knowledge of Middle Eastern history would know that they have plenty of completly valid reasons to hate the USA, in fact I would take their side on many issues in the region. These folk don't know how to play the western power game though; some think that terrorist acts help their cause. If they just played the media and explained to the US population the things that their nation has done, then they would be far more successful in their cause.
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IIRC, in Scot's law, there is no trespass whatsoever. I can walk across your field, and provided I'm not doing any damage, there is nothing you can do about it. Great for the hiking community!
Of course, we do have "breaking and entering" offences for what you describe. Makes a whole lot of sense to me; how can someone be in the wrong just because they are on a piece of earth that some piece of paper somewhere claims ownership of? No harm, no crime.
Markets do not care for sovereign states, the EU is seen as one market, that's the point of it. Growth rate? With all due respect, all my US investments have gone down the tube! Fingers crossed things improve, but I wouldn't bet on it. Without the military spending, your country would have been in recession years ago.
The assumption is not warranted. No one goes up to the Chinese government to be asked "will it sell in the USA?". If they ever do ask that question, it will be "will it export?". The destination country is clearly of no concern, as they already trade with traditional enemies.
All empires have seen themselves at the centre of things. You don't need to feel bad about it, but please realise how ridiculous it makes you sound to the rest of us! ;-)
How can you call anyone defending their own land against a foreign oppressor be called a terrorist? And the "infrastructure" isn't water or electricity, it's a gas pipeline. The whole reason for you being there, I might add. I'm not defending their actions, just looking at it from their point of view. In any invasion where there has been a resistance, destroying infrastructure used by the military is pretty much their job. They don't kill troops, they are supposed to be clandestine, basically there to gum up the works. Armies depend on fuel, and that attack seriously hindered the US armies ability to move, with zero causualites I might add. Nothing new or magical in this approach, it's happened the exact same way numerous times before. Sometimes they are called "la resistance" or "freedom fighters". In fact, I'd put money on the fact that some of those who have flocked to Iraq to fight were formally called freedom fighters by you. The first launch of Columbia was dedicated to the "freedom fighters of afganistan", some of whom are undoubtably fighting in Iraq now, against you.
you DO realize that these people shout "Allah akbar" as the planes slam into the buildings, right?
"these people". Way-to-go in creating a unified enemy do defend us from. You do realise they are a bunch of diffent folk from all walks of life AND different religions? Some off whom hate each other MORE than they hate you? I'm not talking about those who have came to Iraq, I'm talking about the Iraqis. Many of them are quite happy with western culture, they just don't like being bombed, invaded, bombed again, and then having all the male folk with "suspicious eyes" taken off in night raids. You made war in their country. You've been caught out doing some pretty nasty stuff to them. What fucking kind of response did you expect? Are you so self-rightous that you cannot see that?
There are a lot of different bunches of people in the global picture because the USA has managed to piss off a whole lot of countries. Go read some history. You started it. Bringing democracy to them, while admirable in western eyes, would be like trying to lower the age of consent here to eight years old. It's morally wrong to them. HOWEVER, they did not start going round trying to topple countries that had unfavourable governments quite as much as you guys did. And here you are, doing it again, making more enemies. You will never be able to kill them all. Perhaps analysing the root of the problem, why they hate you, might be wise, yes? If it wasn't for the need of middle eastern oil, there'd be no terrorism as we wouldn't be seeking to have capitalism-friendly governments installed everywhere.
WRT insurgent attacks; in Iraq, they fight the way they do because they have no choice. If they could, I'm sure they'd buy F-15s and tanks and face you on the battlefield. What, did you expect them all to line up and take a killing when you first invaded? Hell no, they hid and began to strike back like a wounded animal. Then the nut jobs, the real fundamentalists come in and start blowing themselves up. If you want a proper, "old-skool" war, why not pick on someone your own size?
By the way, the links you posted? WTF? Seriously? What was your point? The first is about a fire at a power plant that DOES NOT SAY the insurgents fired the mortars. You'd think the US army would make a point of saying that, if it was the case right? Are you trying to prove yourself wrong? The first official story: "The U.S. military press office initially quoted Iraqi engineers as saying the fire was triggered by a defective transformer. ". The US government is beginning to sound like Pravda!!
their ENTIRE WORLD VIEW is hinged on their idea of what's morally right according to their God, damnation and slaughter to whoever opposes them?
Funny, I was about to say the exact same about you guys. They view democracy as
As someone who also detests this, my hat is off to you good sir for the way in which you described it. "ambushes"...
Personally, I always turn off the browser integration. At least it opens in an "open/save" dialog that way and if you choose to open, it will be running in a separate process in the proper reader application. Which is nice because it tends to crash often when running in a browser.
Not quite a help wizard, but Eclipse is really good with ant files, especially the most recent version. Will auto-complete tags and variable names, plus some other useful tools. I can't imagine doing them in a text editor!
It's not the "leftist" view. WTF with the labels. Everything the US does is "X" vs "Y", can you guys not see thru that? More on this later... Anyway, it's the HISTORICAL view, for those capable of reading a history book.
in reality, they want Israel gone, destroyed -- not just to live peacefully alongside Israel. They want to make every government in the world an ISLAMIC one.
They hate the nazi sect that has set itself up near them, that much is true. (yes, I do fully believe that the Israelis are behaving very much like the nazis in this mater). HOWEVER that is not their biggest beef. I'm going to keep this short as you are no doubt set in the propaganda, but the reason they hate YOU is because you want every government to be a DEMOCRATIC CAPITALIST one. And I don't seem them invading countries to bring that about. They aren't led by a "project" that has a mission statement pretty much declairing that they want the USA to run the world, and to bring capitalism to every country.
The hatred stems from the capitalist migration of Egypt, backed by the worlds bankers and the CIA. This is not a tinfoil hat conspiracy, it is FACT. Go read the background of your enemies. To them, capitalism is as abhorent as the islamic world you detest. WE HAVE NO RIGHT to force our beliefs on them, in the same way they do not have the right to do the same to us. We have been fucking their governments for our own selfish goals for at least 50 years. It is you who has a lack of a clue. Terrorism is a RESPONSE to our parents actions. We are only compounding the problems.
It's amazing how you hypocritical bastards spend 10 times the effort criticizing America for falling outside international law and being vindictive and unilateralist, than you do criticizing Islamists for constantly doing whatever they want
BECAUSE THEY AREN'T ONES GOING ROUND CLAIMING TO BE MORALLY RIGHT!! When you take the moral high-ground, you'd better be able to back it up. And yes, most of us DO believe that the US does more harm than the terrorists. 9-11, 3,000 dead. Iraq, 25,000 CONFIRMED civilian deaths, say maybe 50,000 unconfirmed + combatant ones. Everyone knows the 9-11 guys were evil. You proclaim to be god like. Hell, your president has publicly said god is on your side on many occasions. You are making things worse by making more enemies. Either your leadership is brain-dead, or they don't actually care about the day-to-day security of the average American. They can always increase the number of guards at the whitehouse I guess...
sabotaging water and electricity that keep Iraqis alive, and so on.
Are you even following the war? It was the initial attack that destroyed the infrastructure of Iraq, NOT insurgents. We bombed their water treatment plans and powerstations, to disable the country and make the invasion easier. The insurgents are attacking anyone who sides with the americans, including the poor Iraqis who want nothing more than to restore the peace in Iraq.
They don't hate freedom as a concept in itself; they hate freedom because freedom allows the choice of religion, the choice of sleeping around, the choice of sinning, the choice of not praying five times a day.
Wow, ALMOST right, then you lose it again. They don't hate freedom!! We have a break through!!! Yes, they do hate sinning, but so do your leaders. The laws are different, but it's the same backwards beliefs driving both sides. However, they could not give a flying fuck about your freedom. When you start to influnce theirs, then they care. Go read up on Egypt. Seriously, you have NO CLUE to what this is all about.
The Islamic world is reacting to the same breakdown in society and selfish way of living the that the religious right in the US is do
I saw a quote somewhere that sums it up. To the best of my recollection it was "creating the tools of a fasist state is bad civic hygene". In future, people may look back to this time and wonder "how did it happend here?".
Yeah. And how will the locals react to you driving around rendering everyone around you in extreme pain? Have you thought this through? You will only create more insurgents.
I feel your pain. You are there fighting a war you should not be fighting. Withdrawing isn't really an option as the resulting civil war will be savage. However, if you want to "win" this one, you have to bring peace to Iraq. This weapon will only hinder that goal.
What do you think the reaction to that would be? Have you thought this through? This is YOUR reaction to what THEY have done to you. What's the next step I wonder? "Worked in the past"? Sounds like you know NOTHING of history. Violence begats violence. You have the attitude of the WW1 commanders, "if we kill them all they will stop coming". Do you know how that war panned out?
In the towns in Iraq where the Brits are, they walk around with light armour and no helmets. Things there are much more civilized. Conversly, the US rolls around in humvies. Not the kind Arnie drives, but the kind with the mounted machine gun. US army doctarine is "extreme force". Roll up, be agressive and hope that the enemy craps it and you win on psycholgy with hopefully no one getting killed. As much as it works for a single raid, it does not "capture the hearts and mind", it does the opposite. Like this weapon will do. You are pouring gasoline on a flame here. Invading Iraq was the WORST thing you could have possibly done WRT stopping terrorism. And the people of London are feeling this today.
You'd rather remain in the dark? I'd trust the discussion of a hi-tec weapon more here than most other places. I'm glad someone posted this, if they had not many of us would never have heard of it.
What kind of country uses the word "passifist" as an insult? Point proven methinks. Anyway, I'm not a nutjob, I just come from a country that at one point realised that further violence only makes things easier for the terrorists. We "defeated" the IRA this way. Cracking down only made things worse.
And it IS insane. Their orphaned children will only want to kill you even more. Is history a banned subject in the USA? Probably, unless the history refers to how wonderful and unflawless your society is.
Go read the history of Egypt you delusional twat. This problem is ENTIRELY of the USA's making. If you hadn't tried to conqueor their culture with your own (which they believe is as reprehensible as to how you view kiddie porn), they would not be hating you right now. This was entirely backed by the CIA and western bankers. ALL of the roots of the current terrorism come from there. It PREDATES Iran becoming a fundamentalist state, which could be argued that Egypt was a catylist as they saw the corruption (fiscal, not moral) and wanted NO part of it.
You fucked their country 30/40 years ago. Then you moved onto the others. They ain't going to forget! Have you never wondered why they hate the USA and not "the west" in general?
Have you noticed that this brand of genocidal dictatorship has spread across southeast asia through the same approach?
He he, I love how the US types like to view ALL enemies as being one global, co-ordinated anti-USA front. You guys are unreal!! NOTHING in South-East Asia has ANYTHING to do with the Middle East. The only connection is that your leaders mislead you into thinking there is, causing you to unite as a country against a common enemy. Keeps the public busy and well-behaved.
Of course, it's easier to bury your head in the sand then realize what's happening in western Europe. You're doomed.
We are doomed only because we joined your cultural war.
Using force against anyone is insane, provided you actually care about the long term results. Especially if you use it against folk that already don't like you. Why do you think people fly planes into your buildings? Because they hate the fact that you "have freedom"? lol, it is you who are insane and completely kept in the dark by your agressive, profiteering government. Ah well, it's only your children that will have to pay for it...
Hint: they hate you because of prior force you used against them. Do the math.
Yeah, but that doesn't lead to step 3 - Profit!
Thank god for santity! What the fuck is wrong with you Americans? Do you actually believe that anything you have done in Iraq has made the USA (or the world) safer? Do you think experimenting with NEW forms of weapons is going to win you any favour? Are their not enough Gulf victims/veterans with cancer thanks to prior tests already?
Use ANYTHING like this on me or my family, I'll fly the plane into the tower myself.
The USA does not give a fuck about the war on terror. The terror is entirely of their own making. Back when the USSR was still around, Rumsfeld did the EXACT same thing; created an enemy that was fabricated. We could have had ended the cold war in the 70/80's if it wasn't for that prick telling Regan etc that the USSR claims on their WMD are lies, and that they were ignoring the treaties and had the intention of attacking. So, he's been ENTRIELY wrong on WMD TWICE. When the USSR fell appart, they then switched to the Middle East as their bogeyman. And now they are working on crowd-control systems. Are you going to sleep through this one as well? At the very least, install a dynamo to generate power from all the spinning that the founding fathers are doing.
Actually, you are preaching to the choir there. Antrax is organic and natural, not exactly nice either! However, because MJ has been around for so long, there aren't really any surprises, unlike many newer drugs. The positive effects of MJ are still clearly identifiable. The purity is no big deal, if it's regulated then it's consistent, but even illegiatimately the risks are so non-existant, irregular dose isn't a problem. Just take more or less. It's not like some synthetic or natural drugs were purity must be rigidly controlled and dosage monitored.
They are better than nothing, but they are not good enough for the internet. Sun have the right idea in the java sandbox, it's not user friendly but that can be improved upon by Sun or anyone implementing anything similar. Actually, Firefox's system is not all that different to Microsofts (flawed) approach. "Give some sites elevanted status" is all fine and dandy until there are (possibly unrelated) exploits that allow random third-party sites to add themselves to the list, or fake out the authentication. It's going to happen eventially, meaning all sorts of malware with write access to your HD will get on. There are thousands of installations of old Firefox builds with known problems already, give that a year or two. More exploits will come, that much is guaranteed.
Most plugins don't need write access. Give them a chrooted jail if they really need files but most will do well enough with some form of registry/properties system for data storage. Giving full access is just stupid and that lesson should have been learned years ago. Likewise, they don't all need clipboard access, browser configuration access, network access and so on, which I presume the scripting language covers if it's going to be at all useful.
The grandparents suggestion about forcing plugins to be separate downloadable and installable components is bang on the money. If the browser cannot install plugins directly, the malware cannot use this mechanism to install itself directly. Firefox comes with a basic download manager and if a user isn't smart enough to find something they download, then frankly they should not be installing plugins. Security through dunce-checking. I like that!
You miss one thing. It's been used medically for thousands of years. With zero fatalities ever. Even if someone merely "feels better", they are doing so in a more natural way, with less side effects than many other drugs. The fact is, it works.
I read somewhere that something like 1/3 of a major medical marijuana co-op had died in the last year.
No one said cure, it's a highly effective non-addictive* pain killer. And the MJ didn't kill any of them. There isn't a single record of a death due to MJ on the medical books ANYWHERE in the whole world. Overdosing is for all extents and purposes impossible. This is entirely different to a lot of the other other heavy medication that they were on (which probably DID extend their life however). MJ just improves the quality of life; it can replace many debilitating alternatives.
* yes, MJ is addictive via habit forming, however if you are taking it medically, I don't think that's really relevant. Doc says stop, you stop.
That is NOT how commercials work, as pointed out by the grandparent post. Brand recognition is sublimimal. Familiarity will win out when you are at the supermarket shelf and there is NO WAY that you will knowningly remember all the ads that planted those product names in your subconsious. Whether the ad is good or not has no real bearing, unless it is fresh in your mind or particularly annoying.
How many keyboards can force you to do that, by blanking the keys for you? They could also do exercises, e.g. you have to hit the one that flashes, then return to the home row, improving your acuracy. Only obvious problem I can see is that the wrist blocks your view of most of the keyboard when you are in the home row!
Why do you guys think the whole world revolves around YOU? I mean, come on, seriously? Is that the way you think?
They seem to be quite a responsive company. Hell, looks like they are using /. for market research! So, methinks you can sleep easy over mac support! They might even make double-sure, just because of your post!
Good point. For kids this could be really useful, educational etc. Could teach typing, memory (the match the symbols game), and a whole other load of stuff.
However. Do you want your kids playing wack-a-mole with your expensive OED keyboard? Mine will be ALL mine!!
Agreed on most of your points, but maybe not the above. There are more songs available on p2p than are available on CD at the moment. I can't remember the numbers, but only a fraction of the global musical catalog is available. p2p had them beat in a matter of a few years. There are far more of us than them, and we have greater resources. I find it incredible that the p2p community has so much 'giving' from it's members. You can get content there that you will never be able to get legitmately, things that just are no longer available. Also, there is a large community of 'illegal bootleggers', trading live recordings and unauthorized remixes/covers. I can download TV shows that the makers would likely love to serve to me directly (with embedded commercials), however their regional distribution contracts get in the way. Perhaps if the media industry lost it's zeal for carving up markets into zones, then they might have a chance.
It's entirely subjective, based on human nature. I have traveled somewhat, including China many years ago. Most of my travels have been in Europe (home), and North America. I would not say all cultures are equally corrupt, but it is present in almost all. Genetically, we may look different, but we have the same drives and goals that can lead to corruption. It would not surprise me if there were some societies that did not have corruption, but I'd bet that they would be small communities where corruption would be too obvious.
Corruption does not require evil people. Evil is a word banded about far to often these days, it helps detract from the idea that your enemy/opponent has a valid argument/beef with you. Saves actually arguing the point!
Corruption is merely a group of people who look out for each other, usually to the detriment of others. This basically how business works in many places, with people in private members clubs, 'secret societies' etc putting contracts each others way. From what I understand here in Scotland, just about any council work will be awarded to someone with some link to the person running the project, and of course it comes in at a higher quotation than the same work in the private sector. Not close enough to prove anything, but not fair either.
It's evolutionary. Those who looked after their own got rewarded with long life, prosperity and most importantly, many offspring. Corruption works!
Corruption in the US is organized and better tucked away and doesn't cripple small businesses the same way it does in some third world nations.
I'd say their situation is in fact worse. In the US, corruption IS business & politics at the highest level. They are at war right now at the request of these corportations. The US requires a constant enemy to prosper, it's industry and economy are heavilly tied to the arms industry. The people at the top ALL have connections like this. If it's such a free country, why don't the reporters pick up on this? Because they work for the same people.
Thousands of innocent people are dead because of this. Over oil mostly, but the regeneration and continued fear is also creating vast profits for companies like Harliburton and The Carlyle Group (sp?). Small businesses don't mean squat when you have that level of corruption in the world. Not when real people are being crippled!
In America, there was more freedom, but also the problem that because people were less likely to realize what was going on, they were more likely to trust the media.
No kidding! The ultimate problem there is that the propaganda starts at a very early age, daily pledges, marches etc., bog standard propaganda. They are educated that the USA is the worlds ultimate country, with the perfect system, run by the perfect people. Some sort of master race, if you will ;-) They have no critical thought, and just take everything at face value. Some of the studies are mind blowing, the levels of disinformation are incredible. Most Americans believe that 'the terrorists' are a highly organized and coherent group who 'hate freedom'. Of course, anyone with even the most basic knowledge of Middle Eastern history would know that they have plenty of completly valid reasons to hate the USA, in fact I would take their side on many issues in the region. These folk don't know how to play the western power game though; some think that terrorist acts help their cause. If they just played the media and explained to the US population the things that their nation has done, then they would be far more successful in their cause.