The whole town of 350k (size of Wichita KS, 49th largest city in US), urban warfare, one week.
Well, yeah, except that it's estimated that only 50k of those people actually remained in the city. A similar ratio of the insurgents probably stuck around. If you'll notice, all the reports say that they found much less resistance than was expected. Sure sounds like the insurgents cut and ran again, while handing us the most fatalities we've had in a year.
Although I should say that this is still a good example of our forces kicking ass. One thing I've noticed: whenever our soldiers have been sent to do something in Iraq, they do it. Our troops and commanders on the ground have been performing damn near flawlessly. All the screwups and "OMGWTF" moments are at the strategic level -- i.e. those things spelled out by the civilian command.
Now if we could just get the US bureauocracy like this guy to stop warning the enemy leaders when we are coming, maybe we can actually catch them before they flee?
'Make sure it is lawful. Make sure it meets all of our obligations under the Constitution, U.S. federal statutes and applicable treaties.'
Make sure it is lawful. So produce a legal briefing suggesting that it is legal to torture. Argue that the treaties and laws don't apply in certain situations. That's not twisting, that's what your reading. Rationalizing. Torture.
Well, if someone wants to avoid war with the US, the first they should do is not develop nuclear weapons. I know, seems like a no brainer, but most of the people working on nukes these days (Iran, North Korea) don't actually have any brains to speak of.
More brains than you think. The best way to avoid war with the U.S. (or just about anyone else) is to have nukes. Being in the process of developing nukes (or bluffing like Saddam) may be risky, but if you pull it off, like Pakistan, there's a payoff called MAD.
By your logic, inspecting cargo vessels for nuclear weapons, being completely useless against even lower tech delivery like, say, hijacking a plane, is more or less a waste of money. It's called "defense in depth", look it up sometime.
That's not the logic. The logic is that stealing a small nuke into the U.S. is a much more likely vector than ICBM because only a few high-tech countries can make ICBMs and we already have a response for that which is called MAD. So whether it's a poorer country, terrorist group or a nuclear nation trying to disguise itself, laser defence or any other type of ABM weapon is essentially useless.
The reason Microsoft is not vilified while Enron is would be that Microsoft is still profitable and making their stockholders money. If Enron had been able to continue playing money games, keeping themselves alive and their stock price rising for another ten years, most of us still wouldn't have heard of them. If Microsoft should someday implode as a direct result of their shady practices, then you will see them vilified. Until then, they're simply being "punished for success".
Yeah, honestly I don't see Segway as being much better than a wheelchair with a decent motor. It doesn't have that much smaller a footprint, and wheelchairs are naturally stable. But really, I just find the maddox picture hilarious, even if not entirely practical.
Yeah, pretty much every x86 processor started sucking on 16 bit code around that time. The reason? From the perspective of designing a high-performance out-of-order processor, IA32 was much, much nicer (though still full of annoying warts). The choice to make 16-bit performance suck was deliberate, as far as I can tell, in part to allow 32-bit code to be as fast as possible, and in part to discourage continued 16-bit code use. This happens quite a bit, actually... Engineers will make some certain unfortunate behavior of the instruction set architecture -work-, but they'll make it suck and tell programmers not to do it. Unaligned memory accesses are an example that applies to every instruction set, not just x86. The Alpha 20064 would take an exception on any unaligned access, though the manual was kind enough to provide a code sequence you could use in your OS to handle the access and continue your program.
Being in-order definitely hurts, but I don't think it's just not being able to find the ILP to fill up 3 fpu pipelines. Even out-of-order machines tend to fail to find enough work to do to fill up all their execution resources.
The problem is loads, specifically the ones that miss in the cache. The real benefit of an OoO machine, it turns out, is being able to find and begin working on the -next- cache miss while you're still waiting on the results of the first.
I've heard of various ways to try to get around this in Itanium, but I'm not aware of any that have solved the problem sufficiently to make it look good compared to just being OoO.
The wheel spun and smoked like a funny car doing a burn-out, and the guy went down so hard that his head bounced about six inches off of the floor.
Man, if only there were some way to get around this obvious safety deficiency! It would probably take tons more expensive electronics and a couple more gyroscopes or something...
Speaking of paying attention and having a clue, you are aware that there is already a court-ordered gag order in place, and thus the government's argument has already been vetted before a judge and found sufficent, yes? The EFF is trying to get the gag order removed and if successfull that's fine but doesn't change the fact that indymedia wasn't able to learn why their own disks were taken because of the very arguments you're saying don't matter.
P.S. If the other post's profanity-to-verbage ratio offends you, consider it the effects of posting pre-coffee. Idiot.
Oh so THAT'S what the stick up your ass is doing there. Yeah, no fucking shit you idiot this is just the government's argument. The government's argument is crap, and you're whining like a baby that people are saying so. Sorry, idiot, but there's nothing wrong or babyish about discussing a case in progress. That the government believes "uh... Terror!" is a sufficient argument is comment worthy. So if all you have to add is the non-insightful "the court hasn't ruled on this yet" then why don't you just shut the fuck up already?
Sheesh. "I hate whiners" whiners are the most annoying and useless whiners of all.
In particular, I think fomenting revolt with the promise of aid and then reneging was a disastrous mistake. We were potential liberators turned into traitors. Ten years later when we came back, I don't think they'd forgotten what American promises of "bringing democracy" were worth. Sadly too few Americans remembered; I can't believe I had to learn about this from a freaking movie.
Hindsight may be 20/20, but that's why it's a good idea to use it. Even if it was difficult (I think it'd be harder than 'very short', but so much easier than now indeed) it would have been the best result.
Instead we go in 2003 with a completely unrealistic attitude as if we were ignorant of those last ten years and the whole situation goes to hell, surpising nobody but the people in charge of the venture.
Ah, that would explain the guy on NPR who said the results could mitigated by turbines that were designed to reduce turbulence (hey the article says the same thing... can't remember if it was the same person)
Yeah, it is wise to take these with grains of salt, particularly when they are based on computer simulations that haven't necessarily been correlated with reality extensively.
Funny, all the times I've been to California I've seen tons of wind farms.
Certainly bird killing would be a concern, but research has been done on it and it turns out to not be a problem at all (relative to just about anything else we could build in a bird's path) so hopefully they'll come around.
To add to the AC's rebuttles, wind turbines kill a tiny, tiny fraction of the birds that are killed by cars and building windows. I love birds, but it's really not an issue, particularly with designs that account for some of the bird-killing problem (such as perching on the poles).
And another thing... I can't speak for any militant environmentalists you might be thinking of, but the reason I'm an environmentalist is to maintain our way of life.
I like having electricity to run my computer, a car I can drive across the country in, a hospital with fancy chemicals and plastics. However I believe it is utterly foolish to continue using the sources for these things that we are at the rate that we are and expect that we can maintain our way of life forever. Refusing to change our way of life at all is a sure way to ensure that we lose it entirely.
Actually, I think the bigger danger here is that this finding will be used to argue against wind farms and thus by default cause us to stick with the vastly more damaging forms of energy we use now. An environmentalist would be remiss if they didn't bring up these facts when designing/deploying wind farms, but I bet it will be non-environmentalists who will get the most use out of this study.
What I want to know is how an equivalent amount of trees planted -- say, equivalent to the number we've cut down -- would affect the heat transfer from south to north. My (highly scientifically accurate, I assure you) gut suggests 'large-scale' wind farms might just offset what wind-breaking terrain we've already removed.
So basically you're upset because you feel as though the response was described as being more flippant than it actually was? What the hell?
Yes only one of the three reasons was "criminal terrorism investigation" but they argued in the brief that this reason would be sufficient on its own.
The first reason they gave was that only Rackspace is a party to the seizure, even though it is Indymedia's data that is on the disks. Their cite only argues against letting non-parties move for disclosure, not that the parties involve only whot he government says they do. The second is that the unnamed foreign state requested the brief be sealed, though their partial quote leaves out the fact that the treaty allows for disclosure in public proceedings where necessary.
The court system is currently working exactly as it is supposed to? Hey idiot, the court is supposed to work such that when the government arrests you or seizes your property, you can find out why! In that context "it wasn't your server just your data, oh and TERRORISM" is in fact a flippant response. That is why people are complaining. Capiche?
Saddam used chemical weapons against the Kurds in 1983, our government knew this, and yet we still sent Donald Rumsfeld over there to shake his hand and make nice because he was fighting against Iran. You know that infamous picture of Rumsfeld shaking hands with Hussein and smiling? Understand that at that very moment Saddam was using chemical weapons on Kurds and Donald Rumsfeld knew it.
Seven years later, Operation Desert Storm was launched in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, a reason which is completely unrelated to the previous use of chemical weapons. Your argument that this invasion means we could not have supported Saddam during his attacks on the Kurds is baseless and ignorant. Have a nice day.
... and granted, I haven't read the original complaint... But the FBI's response seems to deny that Indymedia would have standing to sue, stating that the parties are solely the U.S. government, the "requesting state" and Rackspace and that nobody else has standing. I'm also not terribly familiar with Indymedia organization, but wouldn't the Urbana-Champaign IMC count as part of Indymedia?
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The whole town of 350k (size of Wichita KS, 49th largest city in US), urban warfare, one week.
Well, yeah, except that it's estimated that only 50k of those people actually remained in the city. A similar ratio of the insurgents probably stuck around. If you'll notice, all the reports say that they found much less resistance than was expected. Sure sounds like the insurgents cut and ran again, while handing us the most fatalities we've had in a year.
Although I should say that this is still a good example of our forces kicking ass. One thing I've noticed: whenever our soldiers have been sent to do something in Iraq, they do it. Our troops and commanders on the ground have been performing damn near flawlessly. All the screwups and "OMGWTF" moments are at the strategic level -- i.e. those things spelled out by the civilian command.
Now if we could just get the US bureauocracy like this guy to stop warning the enemy leaders when we are coming, maybe we can actually catch them before they flee?
I'm with you on this one.
Yeah, I'm waiting for when they start renaming the sports terms after products.
[Van Earl Wright voice]: And then, he hit a four-run homer. Also known as a... PEPSIIIIIIIIII!
'Make sure it is lawful. Make sure it meets all of our obligations under the Constitution, U.S. federal statutes and applicable treaties.'
Make sure it is lawful. So produce a legal briefing suggesting that it is legal to torture. Argue that the treaties and laws don't apply in certain situations. That's not twisting, that's what your reading. Rationalizing. Torture.
Well, if someone wants to avoid war with the US, the first they should do is not develop nuclear weapons. I know, seems like a no brainer, but most of the people working on nukes these days (Iran, North Korea) don't actually have any brains to speak of.
More brains than you think. The best way to avoid war with the U.S. (or just about anyone else) is to have nukes. Being in the process of developing nukes (or bluffing like Saddam) may be risky, but if you pull it off, like Pakistan, there's a payoff called MAD.
By your logic, inspecting cargo vessels for nuclear weapons, being completely useless against even lower tech delivery like, say, hijacking a plane, is more or less a waste of money. It's called "defense in depth", look it up sometime.
That's not the logic. The logic is that stealing a small nuke into the U.S. is a much more likely vector than ICBM because only a few high-tech countries can make ICBMs and we already have a response for that which is called MAD. So whether it's a poorer country, terrorist group or a nuclear nation trying to disguise itself, laser defence or any other type of ABM weapon is essentially useless.
The reason Microsoft is not vilified while Enron is would be that Microsoft is still profitable and making their stockholders money. If Enron had been able to continue playing money games, keeping themselves alive and their stock price rising for another ten years, most of us still wouldn't have heard of them. If Microsoft should someday implode as a direct result of their shady practices, then you will see them vilified. Until then, they're simply being "punished for success".
We're doing it by rimming Ronnie Colville basically,
Disgusting metaphor for industrial graft? Or subtle clue as to the AC's unnamed employer? Maybe both? You be the judge.
Yeah, honestly I don't see Segway as being much better than a wheelchair with a decent motor. It doesn't have that much smaller a footprint, and wheelchairs are naturally stable. But really, I just find the maddox picture hilarious, even if not entirely practical.
So to solve the problem could we have a system that drives the passenger face-first into the ground when its tire slips? That'd be sweet.
Yeah, pretty much every x86 processor started sucking on 16 bit code around that time. The reason? From the perspective of designing a high-performance out-of-order processor, IA32 was much, much nicer (though still full of annoying warts). The choice to make 16-bit performance suck was deliberate, as far as I can tell, in part to allow 32-bit code to be as fast as possible, and in part to discourage continued 16-bit code use. This happens quite a bit, actually... Engineers will make some certain unfortunate behavior of the instruction set architecture -work-, but they'll make it suck and tell programmers not to do it. Unaligned memory accesses are an example that applies to every instruction set, not just x86. The Alpha 20064 would take an exception on any unaligned access, though the manual was kind enough to provide a code sequence you could use in your OS to handle the access and continue your program.
Being in-order definitely hurts, but I don't think it's just not being able to find the ILP to fill up 3 fpu pipelines. Even out-of-order machines tend to fail to find enough work to do to fill up all their execution resources.
The problem is loads, specifically the ones that miss in the cache. The real benefit of an OoO machine, it turns out, is being able to find and begin working on the -next- cache miss while you're still waiting on the results of the first.
I've heard of various ways to try to get around this in Itanium, but I'm not aware of any that have solved the problem sufficiently to make it look good compared to just being OoO.
Never tried it, but unless dpkg/rpm knows to ignore the line you added, they would choke.
The wheel spun and smoked like a funny car doing a burn-out, and the guy went down so hard that his head bounced about six inches off of the floor.
Man, if only there were some way to get around this obvious safety deficiency! It would probably take tons more expensive electronics and a couple more gyroscopes or something...
More to the point, people who are not logged in won't see his sig to be warned about posting anonymously.
Speaking of paying attention and having a clue, you are aware that there is already a court-ordered gag order in place, and thus the government's argument has already been vetted before a judge and found sufficent, yes? The EFF is trying to get the gag order removed and if successfull that's fine but doesn't change the fact that indymedia wasn't able to learn why their own disks were taken because of the very arguments you're saying don't matter.
P.S. If the other post's profanity-to-verbage ratio offends you, consider it the effects of posting pre-coffee. Idiot.
Oh so THAT'S what the stick up your ass is doing there. Yeah, no fucking shit you idiot this is just the government's argument. The government's argument is crap, and you're whining like a baby that people are saying so. Sorry, idiot, but there's nothing wrong or babyish about discussing a case in progress. That the government believes "uh... Terror!" is a sufficient argument is comment worthy. So if all you have to add is the non-insightful "the court hasn't ruled on this yet" then why don't you just shut the fuck up already?
Sheesh. "I hate whiners" whiners are the most annoying and useless whiners of all.
I don't think that's very odd.
In particular, I think fomenting revolt with the promise of aid and then reneging was a disastrous mistake. We were potential liberators turned into traitors. Ten years later when we came back, I don't think they'd forgotten what American promises of "bringing democracy" were worth. Sadly too few Americans remembered; I can't believe I had to learn about this from a freaking movie.
Hindsight may be 20/20, but that's why it's a good idea to use it. Even if it was difficult (I think it'd be harder than 'very short', but so much easier than now indeed) it would have been the best result.
Instead we go in 2003 with a completely unrealistic attitude as if we were ignorant of those last ten years and the whole situation goes to hell, surpising nobody but the people in charge of the venture.
Ah, that would explain the guy on NPR who said the results could mitigated by turbines that were designed to reduce turbulence (hey the article says the same thing... can't remember if it was the same person)
Yeah, it is wise to take these with grains of salt, particularly when they are based on computer simulations that haven't necessarily been correlated with reality extensively.
Funny, all the times I've been to California I've seen tons of wind farms.
Certainly bird killing would be a concern, but research has been done on it and it turns out to not be a problem at all (relative to just about anything else we could build in a bird's path) so hopefully they'll come around.
To add to the AC's rebuttles, wind turbines kill a tiny, tiny fraction of the birds that are killed by cars and building windows. I love birds, but it's really not an issue, particularly with designs that account for some of the bird-killing problem (such as perching on the poles).
And another thing... I can't speak for any militant environmentalists you might be thinking of, but the reason I'm an environmentalist is to maintain our way of life.
I like having electricity to run my computer, a car I can drive across the country in, a hospital with fancy chemicals and plastics. However I believe it is utterly foolish to continue using the sources for these things that we are at the rate that we are and expect that we can maintain our way of life forever. Refusing to change our way of life at all is a sure way to ensure that we lose it entirely.
Actually, I think the bigger danger here is that this finding will be used to argue against wind farms and thus by default cause us to stick with the vastly more damaging forms of energy we use now. An environmentalist would be remiss if they didn't bring up these facts when designing/deploying wind farms, but I bet it will be non-environmentalists who will get the most use out of this study.
What I want to know is how an equivalent amount of trees planted -- say, equivalent to the number we've cut down -- would affect the heat transfer from south to north. My (highly scientifically accurate, I assure you) gut suggests 'large-scale' wind farms might just offset what wind-breaking terrain we've already removed.
So basically you're upset because you feel as though the response was described as being more flippant than it actually was? What the hell?
Yes only one of the three reasons was "criminal terrorism investigation" but they argued in the brief that this reason would be sufficient on its own.
The first reason they gave was that only Rackspace is a party to the seizure, even though it is Indymedia's data that is on the disks. Their cite only argues against letting non-parties move for disclosure, not that the parties involve only whot he government says they do. The second is that the unnamed foreign state requested the brief be sealed, though their partial quote leaves out the fact that the treaty allows for disclosure in public proceedings where necessary.
The court system is currently working exactly as it is supposed to? Hey idiot, the court is supposed to work such that when the government arrests you or seizes your property, you can find out why! In that context "it wasn't your server just your data, oh and TERRORISM" is in fact a flippant response. That is why people are complaining. Capiche?
You are missing some very crucial facts here.
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Saddam used chemical weapons against the Kurds in 1983, our government knew this, and yet we still sent Donald Rumsfeld over there to shake his hand and make nice because he was fighting against Iran. You know that infamous picture of Rumsfeld shaking hands with Hussein and smiling? Understand that at that very moment Saddam was using chemical weapons on Kurds and Donald Rumsfeld knew it
Seven years later, Operation Desert Storm was launched in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, a reason which is completely unrelated to the previous use of chemical weapons. Your argument that this invasion means we could not have supported Saddam during his attacks on the Kurds is baseless and ignorant. Have a nice day.
... and granted, I haven't read the original complaint... But the FBI's response seems to deny that Indymedia would have standing to sue, stating that the parties are solely the U.S. government, the "requesting state" and Rackspace and that nobody else has standing. I'm also not terribly familiar with Indymedia organization, but wouldn't the Urbana-Champaign IMC count as part of Indymedia?