First of all, Bush was out of office 3 years by the time we actually pulled out of Iraq. Blaming shit on him at that point means Obama is ineffectual and can't negotiate things. Is that what you are saying?
Second, you can't leave forces in a country without a SOFA once you have acknowledged its sovereignty. Iraq refused to grant one that was palatable to the US. It's not about war crimes, it's about "your soldier raped an Iraqi girl" or "soldier ran over Iraqi kid" - will it be tried in military courts or the Iraqi civilian ones? That said, if pushed hard enough (by the ineffectual O administration) the Iraqis would have granted one. In retrospect, they would have been very ill-advised not to, and it was made clear later that they were prepared to deal for the right concessions. The O administration saw political benefits in not pushing for a SOFA - just pre-2012 election, remember? As it stands, it was less than 2 years between US withdrawal and ISIS taking over most of the north of Iraq. Anyone could have seen that coming, the Shiite government is about as dumb as rocks and couldn't concede even a little to the Sunnis. That's why 25% of the country ruled over the Shia majority for most of recorded history post-Prophet.
Yes, Republicans don't care about sovereignty. That's why Democrats were responsible for denying the Vietnamese self-determination for most of the 1960s and for that matter, invading North Korea even though the UNC authorization gave them no such authority. Of course, we all remember Bush 41 taking Baghdad because he didn't care about Iraqi sovereignty. And Bush 43 didn't have a UN authorization to do what he did in Iraq and Afghanistan. You're definitely right here.
That's a particularly weak argument. You have no evidence to back this up, just an assertion. Yet the visible signs of emotion in babies and pets are well documented. You seem to be saying that if the being demonstrating emotion can't talk to act as a witness of his own emotion, then it's unprovable that they are sustaining emotion. They could be faking it to avoid being considered prey. At some future point, they figure out how to perform the same actions in the same situations for a reason, and therefore give up faking the behavior.
William of Ockham would say that you were full of baloney.
Babies have emotion from the moment they are born. It's not learned, at least outside the womb. Newborns are curious, get angry, and get happy. Spent enough time with a vernix-covered infant (my own two) to know that.
I suppose the belief is that if you create code that is capable of learning, sufficient iterations of it will gain consciousness as a result of that capability, and therefore the capability to observe one religion or another.
Unfortunately, I think there's a 2. ??? line in there somewhere. Something like:
His daughters are 30 and 27 now. Both married. I don't talk to them much, I find their husbands to be annoying. They were the beneficiaries of a significant insurance settlement as a result of their father's death and had some wealthy relatives who paid all their bills. They're both a bit full of themselves as a result.
I was thinking of the same thing before I deployed to Iraq in 2007-08. I have two daughters - now 20 and 17, but much younger then, obviously. I had all kinds of ideas about what I could tell them or how I could communicate with them beyond the grave, as I took the possibility of not coming back very seriously at the time. Ultimately, I decided to do nothing. My reasons revolved around others' experiences - my brother died, for instance, at a similar time frame in his daughters' life. They demonstrated next to zero interest in what he was like, even though I had quite a bit of information about him, some audio tapes and the like. I offered to let them listen to it/see what I had/talk to them about it, and they had little interest. I didn't (and don't) imagine my kids would be any different. In the end, who cares who I was. I was their father when I was alive. Now that i'm not, i'm just some cold stone or an urn or something, a few pictures and not much else. Expecting my words to have much significance to them was not realistic.
You are singularly ill-informed. AH didn't go bankrupt. AH's publisher decided to leave the business, but not because of the quality of the games or inability to make money on them. Bad business decisions - there are some good articles on what those were, particularly an ill-advised lawsuit against Microprose - did them in. Opportunity cost also worked against them, as their parent company, a publishing house, thought publishing magazines more profitable than wargames. The fact that the primary magazine they worked on was divested a few years later probably suggests that they were wrong. Either way, Monarch Publishing couldn't have mishandled things in a worse way, and the ownership in the 18 years since has been sitting on the IP and doing very little with it.
Yeah, they've done such a great job there. Out of the entire AH pre-cataclysm line, only two games are produced by WotC - Acquire and Diplomacy. AWAW and Prados' Third Reich are the only other survivors I am aware of, and are not produced by Hasbro/WotC itself.
The rest of the vaunted AH line is completely defunct and you can pay hundreds of dollars to lay hands on a (not-so-gently) used copy of a particular favorite. It's a pretty crappy situation all around. There was some fun stuff in that library. You'd think WotC could make some money off selling even PDFed copies of the games - as certain people on Ebay do, though not legally.
I tried ddg for about 3 months. It sucked bad enough that I switched back. There were a number of omissions that I missed, but subjectively I found Google just gives better results.
You're failing to account for the lost coverage. My PPO policy pre-Obamacare was about the same price as my current policy - $1200/month, but the deductible was nonexistent. Now the D is $1400 individual/2800 family. Then, the prescription plan increased cost across the board, so my meds, which used to run about $1k/yr, now cost more like $4k/yr. Then there are the reductions in coverage. I'm glad my wife got her surgery last year, because this year the policy won't cover bariatric surgery.
So yeah, we got pretty well fucked. Note the plan is what it is because my employer chose not to absorb any more cost than they previously had, so basically they got the best deal they could get for the same money. So yeah, everything went up. A lot.
You should be able to easily figure this out. Each glass should be equivalent to 1 ounce of ethanol. Figure out how long it was from the first consumption to car crash, assume 1 oz of ethanol is processed by your liver an hour, and you should have a pretty good working estimate, based on your weight.
Platitudes are nice - realities of PMs that have budget lines are another thing. It's just a compliance thing. You say "OSS was not available to meet this arbitrary criteria" and you are good to go.
Relying on the GSA to save Linux in the USG is not showing much cognizance of how government procurement really works. If the centrally mandated objectives meant crap, Windows would never have made it in as a desktop.
I was in a meeting last week with some representatives of a large defense contractor and Microsoft. The two of them don't get along well. The defense contractor people (not the MS people) brought up the whole systemd thing as an equalizer between Windows and Linux, and not in a positive way.
The bottom line is that I have a hard time believing it, but Microsoft is actually making inroads in the server market again. Linux adoption where I work is pretty much stalled, and the things it is used for are mostly virtualization hosts, rather than stuff that actually performs a function. While the systemd thing is just a tiny blip compared to the other reasons this is happening, this shit does not help.
I'm also not going to waste my own capital evangelizing the OS if significant engineering effort is going into something that is, at least in the short term, reducing the reliability of the operating system. That's a stupid idea and pissing off your evangelists is, too. Everyone forgets where the market share came from...and figures that it is fungible with whatever stupid follow-on idea they have, once they have said share.
I have spent a lot of time in Korea since 2007, but I didn't know much of that - I knew the Olympics had resulted in a lot of change, but not the tariff process stuff. Thanks for the enlightening post.
The Seoul cab market is very competitive. There are certain zones (the UN base (mostly American) at Yongsan is one) where only one cab company has a monopoly, but otherwise there are many more cabs in Seoul than are in say, New York City, absolutely swarming the streets. The cab service is pretty awful most of the time, about on a par with NYC service, though the drivers are more polite in speech. Very rarely do they speak English even though it is very common in Seoul. It's honestly an encouragement to learn some basic Hangul. They chew nasty coffee grounds and have some pretty odious air fresheners in the cars. They can't find obvious things, things any driver in their home city should know.
A dude in a car would be better in most cases. Therefore, this article makes a lot of sense to me.
Agree. History is my outside interest, and I find ways to intersect the two interests. They just don't seem all that eager to work both into their activities beyond the bare minimum, because they just aren't intrigued by doing so. It's puzzling to me, and I don't have a clean explanation for it except to say that none of the women in my life like tools and fixing household things, either. I think the two are related somehow.
Agreed. One must think back to the BASIC, PL/I or Fortran-dominated 70s to understand why Djikstra might have been worried. The problem was solved in practice.
My wife has a 140+ IQ, is a math whiz and can code. She just hates the whole mindset and would prefer to work in other areas. Coding actually makes her angry, even though her results are pretty good.
I ask her about this (and my daughters) - all fully immersed in geekery as a result of me, and they don't want to do it. No one discouraged them - my daughters always had rocket ship IT and were encouraged in using it to the fullest. They just don't like the idea and would rather do biology or psych or chemistry.
This whole push is a gender politics thing with pretty much zero merit. No one can demonstrate how flushing money down this hole will result in more girls liking coding.
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This is such a load of horseshit.
First of all, Bush was out of office 3 years by the time we actually pulled out of Iraq. Blaming shit on him at that point means Obama is ineffectual and can't negotiate things. Is that what you are saying?
Second, you can't leave forces in a country without a SOFA once you have acknowledged its sovereignty. Iraq refused to grant one that was palatable to the US. It's not about war crimes, it's about "your soldier raped an Iraqi girl" or "soldier ran over Iraqi kid" - will it be tried in military courts or the Iraqi civilian ones? That said, if pushed hard enough (by the ineffectual O administration) the Iraqis would have granted one. In retrospect, they would have been very ill-advised not to, and it was made clear later that they were prepared to deal for the right concessions. The O administration saw political benefits in not pushing for a SOFA - just pre-2012 election, remember? As it stands, it was less than 2 years between US withdrawal and ISIS taking over most of the north of Iraq. Anyone could have seen that coming, the Shiite government is about as dumb as rocks and couldn't concede even a little to the Sunnis. That's why 25% of the country ruled over the Shia majority for most of recorded history post-Prophet.
Yes, Republicans don't care about sovereignty. That's why Democrats were responsible for denying the Vietnamese self-determination for most of the 1960s and for that matter, invading North Korea even though the UNC authorization gave them no such authority. Of course, we all remember Bush 41 taking Baghdad because he didn't care about Iraqi sovereignty. And Bush 43 didn't have a UN authorization to do what he did in Iraq and Afghanistan. You're definitely right here.
The guy does have a point.
That's a particularly weak argument. You have no evidence to back this up, just an assertion. Yet the visible signs of emotion in babies and pets are well documented. You seem to be saying that if the being demonstrating emotion can't talk to act as a witness of his own emotion, then it's unprovable that they are sustaining emotion. They could be faking it to avoid being considered prey. At some future point, they figure out how to perform the same actions in the same situations for a reason, and therefore give up faking the behavior.
William of Ockham would say that you were full of baloney.
They don't look particularly tasty even if they are covered in BBQ sauce.
Babies have emotion from the moment they are born. It's not learned, at least outside the womb. Newborns are curious, get angry, and get happy. Spent enough time with a vernix-covered infant (my own two) to know that.
I suppose the belief is that if you create code that is capable of learning, sufficient iterations of it will gain consciousness as a result of that capability, and therefore the capability to observe one religion or another.
Unfortunately, I think there's a 2. ??? line in there somewhere. Something like:
1. Code machine capable of independent learning
2. ???
3. Consciousness
The catch is in the ???
His daughters are 30 and 27 now. Both married. I don't talk to them much, I find their husbands to be annoying. They were the beneficiaries of a significant insurance settlement as a result of their father's death and had some wealthy relatives who paid all their bills. They're both a bit full of themselves as a result.
I was thinking of the same thing before I deployed to Iraq in 2007-08. I have two daughters - now 20 and 17, but much younger then, obviously. I had all kinds of ideas about what I could tell them or how I could communicate with them beyond the grave, as I took the possibility of not coming back very seriously at the time. Ultimately, I decided to do nothing. My reasons revolved around others' experiences - my brother died, for instance, at a similar time frame in his daughters' life. They demonstrated next to zero interest in what he was like, even though I had quite a bit of information about him, some audio tapes and the like. I offered to let them listen to it/see what I had/talk to them about it, and they had little interest. I didn't (and don't) imagine my kids would be any different. In the end, who cares who I was. I was their father when I was alive. Now that i'm not, i'm just some cold stone or an urn or something, a few pictures and not much else. Expecting my words to have much significance to them was not realistic.
Unwashed (stupid) masses strike again!
Hey, asshole, they were feeding kids peanut bars called Bamba. Fuck you and your shitty reading comprehension.
You didn't eat them, though, did you? That's what the paper is asserting - consumption is right in the title.
I was unaware of this, but glad to find out! So that's 4 out of hundreds... ;-)
You are singularly ill-informed. AH didn't go bankrupt. AH's publisher decided to leave the business, but not because of the quality of the games or inability to make money on them. Bad business decisions - there are some good articles on what those were, particularly an ill-advised lawsuit against Microprose - did them in. Opportunity cost also worked against them, as their parent company, a publishing house, thought publishing magazines more profitable than wargames. The fact that the primary magazine they worked on was divested a few years later probably suggests that they were wrong. Either way, Monarch Publishing couldn't have mishandled things in a worse way, and the ownership in the 18 years since has been sitting on the IP and doing very little with it.
Yeah, they've done such a great job there. Out of the entire AH pre-cataclysm line, only two games are produced by WotC - Acquire and Diplomacy. AWAW and Prados' Third Reich are the only other survivors I am aware of, and are not produced by Hasbro/WotC itself.
The rest of the vaunted AH line is completely defunct and you can pay hundreds of dollars to lay hands on a (not-so-gently) used copy of a particular favorite. It's a pretty crappy situation all around. There was some fun stuff in that library. You'd think WotC could make some money off selling even PDFed copies of the games - as certain people on Ebay do, though not legally.
I tried ddg for about 3 months. It sucked bad enough that I switched back. There were a number of omissions that I missed, but subjectively I found Google just gives better results.
Bad form, replying to myself, but the same PPO policy cost $800/month to COBRA in 2008. As a data point.
You're failing to account for the lost coverage. My PPO policy pre-Obamacare was about the same price as my current policy - $1200/month, but the deductible was nonexistent. Now the D is $1400 individual/2800 family. Then, the prescription plan increased cost across the board, so my meds, which used to run about $1k/yr, now cost more like $4k/yr. Then there are the reductions in coverage. I'm glad my wife got her surgery last year, because this year the policy won't cover bariatric surgery.
So yeah, we got pretty well fucked. Note the plan is what it is because my employer chose not to absorb any more cost than they previously had, so basically they got the best deal they could get for the same money. So yeah, everything went up. A lot.
You should be able to easily figure this out. Each glass should be equivalent to 1 ounce of ethanol. Figure out how long it was from the first consumption to car crash, assume 1 oz of ethanol is processed by your liver an hour, and you should have a pretty good working estimate, based on your weight.
Platitudes are nice - realities of PMs that have budget lines are another thing. It's just a compliance thing. You say "OSS was not available to meet this arbitrary criteria" and you are good to go.
Relying on the GSA to save Linux in the USG is not showing much cognizance of how government procurement really works. If the centrally mandated objectives meant crap, Windows would never have made it in as a desktop.
Romanization of Asian languages always sucks. Best in the original Hangul. Koreans can also read Chinese characters.
I was in a meeting last week with some representatives of a large defense contractor and Microsoft. The two of them don't get along well. The defense contractor people (not the MS people) brought up the whole systemd thing as an equalizer between Windows and Linux, and not in a positive way.
The bottom line is that I have a hard time believing it, but Microsoft is actually making inroads in the server market again. Linux adoption where I work is pretty much stalled, and the things it is used for are mostly virtualization hosts, rather than stuff that actually performs a function. While the systemd thing is just a tiny blip compared to the other reasons this is happening, this shit does not help.
I'm also not going to waste my own capital evangelizing the OS if significant engineering effort is going into something that is, at least in the short term, reducing the reliability of the operating system. That's a stupid idea and pissing off your evangelists is, too. Everyone forgets where the market share came from...and figures that it is fungible with whatever stupid follow-on idea they have, once they have said share.
Red Hat is about to learn this the hard way.
I have spent a lot of time in Korea since 2007, but I didn't know much of that - I knew the Olympics had resulted in a lot of change, but not the tariff process stuff. Thanks for the enlightening post.
I have.
The Seoul cab market is very competitive. There are certain zones (the UN base (mostly American) at Yongsan is one) where only one cab company has a monopoly, but otherwise there are many more cabs in Seoul than are in say, New York City, absolutely swarming the streets. The cab service is pretty awful most of the time, about on a par with NYC service, though the drivers are more polite in speech. Very rarely do they speak English even though it is very common in Seoul. It's honestly an encouragement to learn some basic Hangul. They chew nasty coffee grounds and have some pretty odious air fresheners in the cars. They can't find obvious things, things any driver in their home city should know.
A dude in a car would be better in most cases. Therefore, this article makes a lot of sense to me.
Agree. History is my outside interest, and I find ways to intersect the two interests. They just don't seem all that eager to work both into their activities beyond the bare minimum, because they just aren't intrigued by doing so. It's puzzling to me, and I don't have a clean explanation for it except to say that none of the women in my life like tools and fixing household things, either. I think the two are related somehow.
Agreed. One must think back to the BASIC, PL/I or Fortran-dominated 70s to understand why Djikstra might have been worried. The problem was solved in practice.
My wife has a 140+ IQ, is a math whiz and can code. She just hates the whole mindset and would prefer to work in other areas. Coding actually makes her angry, even though her results are pretty good.
I ask her about this (and my daughters) - all fully immersed in geekery as a result of me, and they don't want to do it. No one discouraged them - my daughters always had rocket ship IT and were encouraged in using it to the fullest. They just don't like the idea and would rather do biology or psych or chemistry.
This whole push is a gender politics thing with pretty much zero merit. No one can demonstrate how flushing money down this hole will result in more girls liking coding.