Yeah, I'm not so sure about that. Of course, if you ever do resist your government in the name of freedom (real freedom, not the current administration's definition of it) you will be branded terrorists. With respect to your comment about "hicks": I used to think that American militia groups were out of their minds. Now I'm beginning to wonder.
You guys, you have the right to bear arms. For some reason you mostly seem to think it's the right to bear arms against your fellow citizens. It's not. It's the right to bear arms against tyranny of government. Am I ringing any bells?
sadly, gone are the days when monash takes 2 years to suspend your undergraduate account...
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It is no accident that Silicon Valley is in America, and not France, or Germany, or England, or Japan. In those countries, people color inside the lines.
What a load of rubbish. Japan is colouring inside the lines but America is the world's innovator. It may have been true in the distant past but now that makes me laugh. What arrogant and patently absurd garbage.
Hmmm. You must be talking about the Japanese government, not the people. In my experience Japanese people, including the citizens of Hiroshima do not "cry" about the nuclear bomb attacks, rather they use those attacks as a reason to campaign for nuclear disamarment.
Older Japanese people I know understand exactly what their soldiers did in China and are shamed by it.
I also take issue with your statement that the Japanese resolve would not have been broken for years. At the time of the bomb attacks Japan was on the brink of defeat. I agree that more americans would have died, but I don't know if more Japanese would have died.
I watched a discussion on News Hour with Jim Lehrer and the points made about this were:
1. The budget for starting this program was between 300 - 400 Million US (i forget the exact figure), but the estimated budget required to make it effective was something like 20 Billion. The question was raised as th where this money was going to come from.
2. There were concerns, as the parent points out, that although the US-VISIT system would be collecting a lot of information on visitors to the US that is currently getting lost, left unprocessed or wildly innacurate, the intelligence databases that the data is being compared to are not up to scratch. Apparently far greater cooperation from the intelligence agencies is required to make this thing work.
3. The system would be good for identifying people who had overstayed their visas or had been deported in the past, but would also penalise people who had overstayed with good reason, for example people who could not leave the country due to illness or some other valid reason. So if you could not take your flight because of an ear infection, you would be in danger of not being allowed back into the country on your next visit.
I seem to remember The Kids were getting huge sentences for relatively minor drug possession offences (IIRC one guy got years for a few joints). In the end the Parents got jack of it, and the harsh sentences stopped.
Does someone know more about this? I can't exactly remember how it went.
But I agree, you are right - we are probably a lot better off here than in many places. And usually it is acceptable, but many times it's quite frustrating and screw ups seem to happen quite often (maybe it really only _seems_ that way).
It's kind of funny though that you're saying "Yeah, it's not perfect but it's acceptable" which is the "She'll be right mate" mentality I mentioned in my first post:) or was that intentional subtle humour?
As an Australian, I take offence at that. we invented the phrase "She'll be right mate" and "Tie it up with wire"! What the hell are you talking about?
Here in Melbourne, the trains always run late, the transport ticketing system does not work, the tollway tunnels recently built leak water from the river - not to mention levels of customer service that would make even an American cringe.
I think you meant to say "Australia sometimes does things the right way, but most of the time it's half-arsed and bloody awful"
Voting makes you a lawmaker, and nobody but yourself can take that away from you.
How many people your age do you know that excercise their constitutional right not to vote? Perhaps you could spend the time between now and the next election educating these people about the importance of voting and get them excited about what *could* happen if they used their voice.
erm, yeah, I totally agree. Where is all this RIP crap coming from? He was a egomaniacal psychopath who branded anyone who stood in his way as a communist.
Can somebody explain this to me? How can this patent exist when in 1998 there were applets / plugins running inside Netscape Navigator doing all the things the patented method does:
They were embedded in the "hypermedia" document
They could communicate with the browser
They could communicate with the server (at least by using sockets and datagrams)
By doing this they were "providing the user of the client computer with interactive features and allowing the user to have access to greater computing power than may be available at the user's client computer."
Sorry, but I think MS should be in the clear here.
Pilot A: Wow. I really hope we don't have a crash Pilot B: Me too! Pilot A: But they say it's safer than crossing the road. Pilot B: But we have to do that too! Pilot A: best not to think about it really.
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me neither! that was classic.
Yeah, I'm not so sure about that. Of course, if you ever do resist your government in the name of freedom (real freedom, not the current administration's definition of it) you will be branded terrorists. With respect to your comment about "hicks": I used to think that American militia groups were out of their minds. Now I'm beginning to wonder.
You guys, you have the right to bear arms. For some reason you mostly seem to think it's the right to bear arms against your fellow citizens. It's not. It's the right to bear arms against tyranny of government. Am I ringing any bells?
Come on, billions? How much money would it take to rotate it 180 degrees?
sadly, gone are the days when monash takes 2 years to suspend your undergraduate account...
It is no accident that Silicon Valley is in America, and not France, or Germany, or England, or Japan. In those countries, people color inside the lines.
What a load of rubbish. Japan is colouring inside the lines but America is the world's innovator. It may have been true in the distant past but now that makes me laugh. What arrogant and patently absurd garbage.
that is the funniest post i have ever read on /.
Hmmm. You must be talking about the Japanese government, not the people. In my experience Japanese people, including the citizens of Hiroshima do not "cry" about the nuclear bomb attacks, rather they use those attacks as a reason to campaign for nuclear disamarment.
Older Japanese people I know understand exactly what their soldiers did in China and are shamed by it.
I also take issue with your statement that the Japanese resolve would not have been broken for years. At the time of the bomb attacks Japan was on the brink of defeat. I agree that more americans would have died, but I don't know if more Japanese would have died.
Yes, IIRC gif86 and gif89a were the 2 gif formats and the numbers represented the year the formats were created
I watched a discussion on News Hour with Jim Lehrer and the points made about this were:
1. The budget for starting this program was between 300 - 400 Million US (i forget the exact figure), but the estimated budget required to make it effective was something like 20 Billion. The question was raised as th where this money was going to come from.
2. There were concerns, as the parent points out, that although the US-VISIT system would be collecting a lot of information on visitors to the US that is currently getting lost, left unprocessed or wildly innacurate, the intelligence databases that the data is being compared to are not up to scratch. Apparently far greater cooperation from the intelligence agencies is required to make this thing work.
3. The system would be good for identifying people who had overstayed their visas or had been deported in the past, but would also penalise people who had overstayed with good reason, for example people who could not leave the country due to illness or some other valid reason. So if you could not take your flight because of an ear infection, you would be in danger of not being allowed back into the country on your next visit.
I seem to remember The Kids were getting huge sentences for relatively minor drug possession offences (IIRC one guy got years for a few joints). In the end the Parents got jack of it, and the harsh sentences stopped.
Does someone know more about this? I can't exactly remember how it went.
Osaka.
:) or was that intentional subtle humour?
But I agree, you are right - we are probably a lot better off here than in many places. And usually it is acceptable, but many times it's quite frustrating and screw ups seem to happen quite often (maybe it really only _seems_ that way).
It's kind of funny though that you're saying "Yeah, it's not perfect but it's acceptable" which is the "She'll be right mate" mentality I mentioned in my first post
cheers.
You know, it's funny, when I wrote that sentence I _was_ thinking of Telstra.
As an Australian, I take offence at that. we invented the phrase "She'll be right mate" and "Tie it up with wire"! What the hell are you talking about?
Here in Melbourne, the trains always run late, the transport ticketing system does not work, the tollway tunnels recently built leak water from the river - not to mention levels of customer service that would make even an American cringe.
I think you meant to say "Australia sometimes does things the right way, but most of the time it's half-arsed and bloody awful"
Voting makes you a lawmaker, and nobody but yourself can take that away from you.
How many people your age do you know that excercise their constitutional right not to vote? Perhaps you could spend the time between now and the next election educating these people about the importance of voting and get them excited about what *could* happen if they used their voice.
erm, yeah, I totally agree. Where is all this RIP crap coming from? He was a egomaniacal psychopath who branded anyone who stood in his way as a communist.
Er. You'd be correct. Sorry about that.
- They were embedded in the "hypermedia" document
- They could communicate with the browser
- They could communicate with the server (at least by using sockets and datagrams)
- By doing this they were "providing the user of the client computer with interactive features and allowing the user to have access to greater computing power than may be available at the user's client computer."
Sorry, but I think MS should be in the clear here.Checked the link. can someone explain what "moderately critical" is?
Yeah, America has a long tradition of promoting property rights, you know like those of the Panamanian people and their canal. Oh wait...
Pilot A: Wow. I really hope we don't have a crash
Pilot B: Me too!
Pilot A: But they say it's safer than crossing the road.
Pilot B: But we have to do that too!
Pilot A: best not to think about it really.