That's the one, the one where various parts of the US government and military scrambled for as many cooked-up reasons as they could grasp in order to justify a military campaign against a country that was no threat, with a rag-tag band of allies who were drawn into it largely under the protest of their people and pretty much present just to make it look like the US wasn't taking unilateral aggressive action.
The Iraqi people are probably better off now. Probably, after tens or hundreds of thousands of deaths. The number of allied deaths is irrelevant if we were doing this out of the goodness of our hearts, the fact you quote that statistic is very telling of your attitude.
If Bush had done that the Democrats would have organized marches with millions of participants protesting.
If Bush had done that the Democrats would have organized marches with millions of participants protesting."
Invading Iraq on a WMD/Terrorist pretext is wholly different proposition to providing air support to an in-progress popular rebellion.
I'm not American, I don't care for Obama particularly, but the Libya actions seem to be attracting praise from people *worldwide*, whereas the Iraq debacle has ruined the reputation of the US the world over. This particular area is not something that you can or should reduce to partisan politics.
"I mean, sure, practically every working (i.e. publishing in peer reviewed journals, giving papers at reputable conferences, and the like) historian in this area, Christian or otherwise, believes that he did"
Do they?
I mean, I don't really have a clear view on this, but I had the impression that secular historians tended to keep away from that question.
The dead sea scrolls also contain parts of the Book of Enoch, IIRC, which validates the copy handed down through the Ethiopian Christian tradition, in which it is still canon.
I find it funny that the reasons used to discount this book (written at the wrong time, pseudepigraphical, themes related to the coincident political situation etc etc) are not applied to the other books, but that's religion for you.
It's interesting stuff, full of giants and angels and hell.
Err, microfilm tech was likel around at that point, and these things were so famous that folks would have been queuing up to pay for the effort to scan and disseminate them. Other methods would have been around.
Or in your head did nobody copy documents before about 1990?
To me IT is the discipline encompassing server, workstation and network setup, maintenance and architecture. Software development, software engineering and programming (not necessarily CS) don't fall within the same area. IMHO.
Both can be highly valuable, but they're different.
I don't disagree that any decent programmer needs to know at least a bit about infrastructure.
If so then get a job as a software developer when you graduate. If you want to go into IT then go into IT.
If you're trying to build a technical career then you want to start doing so, and on as close a path to what you really want to end up doing, as quickly as possible. If you want to end up designing network layouts and server farms, start with IT. If you want to be in databases (and if you don't find it boring as hell there's great money there) then start yourself off as a Junior DBA.
IT experience won't count against you, but it won't count as much for you either.
I agree that if you don't notice someone is gone then they weren't a friend to begin with.
The rest is drivel though. Social networking itself has made it easier to have continued involvement in each others' lives when geographically disparate.
Yes, you could call, write or email. But people don't do that to tell you they just stubbed their toe, or found a great new band, or are redecorating the kitchen, and it's precisely these trivia that keep people involved and keep friendships going.
And if you think a true friend is someone you see every 2-3 days then I would suggest that you're in for a shock when you graduate college.
Depends. When the ToS is governing the use of the operating system on a machine bought and owned by the people you accuse of violating it (PS3 for instance) things get a whole lot muddier and less clear cut.
An online service may fit your analogy, a whole load of situations covered by ToS do not.
There were a couple of guys in Sweden (IIRC) who figured out how a couple of the bots were trading, and then figured out how they could make money from that.
Guess what happened to them? If you guessed "retired on their fortune" then you guessed wrong. The right answer was that they were arrested and tried (can't recall the charge) for stepping on the big boys' toes.
Python wasn't around at the beginning of time. Perl I'm not so sure about. Also, the users of both languages would probably get annoyed at them being called scripting languages. That's just one thing you can do with them.
Add on top of that that scripting in bash or csh is very powerful, and that you can get a lot of things done in a one liner if you know what you're doing...
General population, sure, but Open Source operating systems are doing great in areas where the general public aren't making the decisions, just using the services. See -
Android NAS firmware Routers Enterprise linux servers
Indeed! When I moved country a couple of years ago the only book I brought across with me was the complete works Cordwainer Smith. With the exception of "Norstrilia" which I made the mistake of lending to a friend who is notorious for losing things...
Of course the alternative to manshonyaggers is is that we end up with War No 81-Q which would be a much more civilised way of doing things:)
They called me and got an earful of abuse, because it was saturday morning, when I like to be asleep.
Them: "Hello sir, I am from " Me: "Never heard of them" Them: "We have been doing a survey and noticed that there are a large number of virus infections in your area" Me: "So this is a scam then?" Them: "No sir this is not a scam" Me:"Fine, whatever, carry on" Them: "Sir this is not a scam. We noticed you have a windows computer in your house that connects to the internet" Me: "So you wake me up on a Saturday morning and lie to me TWICE? F*CK OFF and die you bastard scammers" Them: "No sir this is not a scam" Me; "I hope your whole family dies in pain, go fuck yourself"/I hang up
I may have gone a bit over the top there... but these arseholes phone people who won't realise what's going on and will fall for it. Absolute bastards.
You, like many others, have no idea what a socialist is, have you?
Government is not paid for like a loaf of bread. Certain services are needed to keep society ticking over. People are taken from by their ability to pay. If you tax everyone the same amount then you wouldn't be able to take much because some would starve if you took anything at all. And so you end up with no government.
Me, I prefer to have regulations on business, a fire department, roads and all that sort of stuff. You can only have these things by higher taxes on those that earn well, both higher in raw amount and higher in percentage. As someone that would fall in the fifth percentile of earners in the US, I'm ok with this.
It probably won't be the Mark Elf and the Vom Acht's though, it'll be the MQ-35 Wrath-bringer and it'll only respond to commands prefaced with "God Bless America"
"I do think that if you think it's okay to post things on social media networks - companies looking to employ you are within their rights to look at them."
Even if only shared with friends and spirited out of there by subterfuge?
I know that we on slashdot are aware that if you put it online, even locked down or under a pseudonym, it should be regarded as published to the world, but I was under the impression that was a grudging acceptance of reality, not a position to be approved of.
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That's the one, the one where various parts of the US government and military scrambled for as many cooked-up reasons as they could grasp in order to justify a military campaign against a country that was no threat, with a rag-tag band of allies who were drawn into it largely under the protest of their people and pretty much present just to make it look like the US wasn't taking unilateral aggressive action.
The Iraqi people are probably better off now. Probably, after tens or hundreds of thousands of deaths. The number of allied deaths is irrelevant if we were doing this out of the goodness of our hearts, the fact you quote that statistic is very telling of your attitude.
Invading Iraq on a WMD/Terrorist pretext is wholly different proposition to providing air support to an in-progress popular rebellion.
I'm not American, I don't care for Obama particularly, but the Libya actions seem to be attracting praise from people *worldwide*, whereas the Iraq debacle has ruined the reputation of the US the world over. This particular area is not something that you can or should reduce to partisan politics.
"Kettling" is sick. It's a nasty, nasty practice and only ever seems to be used against peaceful protestors.
Note how this technique didn't see the light of day during the London riots.
"Don't have enough votes? Then you change your fellow voter's mind."
And how do you do that without getting a billion dollar advertising fund?
Street protests, marches and other methods of raising awareness.
1. OMG! Naked people! Scary deviants! Won't somebody please think of the children!
2. If it's illegal to be naked there, it's illegal to protest naked there.
3. You're an idiot.
I don't know where you got your brief on patent law, but that's nothing to do with it.
Licences (EULAs etc) can try to make these sorts of restrictions, and enforce them using DRM. DRM that is backed by law (retarded).
A patent is simply a monopoly on production/sale of a thing.
Sure, I agree, especially where it demonstrates interest in the subject matter.
However there's a difference between that sort of stuff and taking an IT job for a couple of years because it's more convenient. IMHO, YMMV etc.
"I mean, sure, practically every working (i.e. publishing in peer reviewed journals, giving papers at reputable conferences, and the like) historian in this area, Christian or otherwise, believes that he did"
Do they?
I mean, I don't really have a clear view on this, but I had the impression that secular historians tended to keep away from that question.
The dead sea scrolls also contain parts of the Book of Enoch, IIRC, which validates the copy handed down through the Ethiopian Christian tradition, in which it is still canon.
I find it funny that the reasons used to discount this book (written at the wrong time, pseudepigraphical, themes related to the coincident political situation etc etc) are not applied to the other books, but that's religion for you.
It's interesting stuff, full of giants and angels and hell.
Err, microfilm tech was likel around at that point, and these things were so famous that folks would have been queuing up to pay for the effort to scan and disseminate them. Other methods would have been around.
Or in your head did nobody copy documents before about 1990?
Either way, 2011 is pretty overdue on this.
To me IT is the discipline encompassing server, workstation and network setup, maintenance and architecture. Software development, software engineering and programming (not necessarily CS) don't fall within the same area. IMHO.
Both can be highly valuable, but they're different.
I don't disagree that any decent programmer needs to know at least a bit about infrastructure.
If so then get a job as a software developer when you graduate. If you want to go into IT then go into IT.
If you're trying to build a technical career then you want to start doing so, and on as close a path to what you really want to end up doing, as quickly as possible. If you want to end up designing network layouts and server farms, start with IT. If you want to be in databases (and if you don't find it boring as hell there's great money there) then start yourself off as a Junior DBA.
IT experience won't count against you, but it won't count as much for you either.
Not much more complex - use adblock to block the loading of all facebook related assets except when you're actually visiting the site.
Then your browser doesn't talk to them when you don't want it to. Easy.
I agree that if you don't notice someone is gone then they weren't a friend to begin with.
The rest is drivel though. Social networking itself has made it easier to have continued involvement in each others' lives when geographically disparate.
Yes, you could call, write or email. But people don't do that to tell you they just stubbed their toe, or found a great new band, or are redecorating the kitchen, and it's precisely these trivia that keep people involved and keep friendships going.
And if you think a true friend is someone you see every 2-3 days then I would suggest that you're in for a shock when you graduate college.
Depends. When the ToS is governing the use of the operating system on a machine bought and owned by the people you accuse of violating it (PS3 for instance) things get a whole lot muddier and less clear cut.
An online service may fit your analogy, a whole load of situations covered by ToS do not.
There were a couple of guys in Sweden (IIRC) who figured out how a couple of the bots were trading, and then figured out how they could make money from that.
Guess what happened to them? If you guessed "retired on their fortune" then you guessed wrong. The right answer was that they were arrested and tried (can't recall the charge) for stepping on the big boys' toes.
Python wasn't around at the beginning of time. Perl I'm not so sure about. Also, the users of both languages would probably get annoyed at them being called scripting languages. That's just one thing you can do with them.
Add on top of that that scripting in bash or csh is very powerful, and that you can get a lot of things done in a one liner if you know what you're doing...
It's hard to see how you could be more wrong!
General population, sure, but Open Source operating systems are doing great in areas where the general public aren't making the decisions, just using the services. See -
Android
NAS firmware
Routers
Enterprise linux servers
Indeed! When I moved country a couple of years ago the only book I brought across with me was the complete works Cordwainer Smith. With the exception of "Norstrilia" which I made the mistake of lending to a friend who is notorious for losing things...
Of course the alternative to manshonyaggers is is that we end up with War No 81-Q which would be a much more civilised way of doing things :)
They called me and got an earful of abuse, because it was saturday morning, when I like to be asleep.
Them: "Hello sir, I am from " /I hang up
Me: "Never heard of them"
Them: "We have been doing a survey and noticed that there are a large number of virus infections in your area"
Me: "So this is a scam then?"
Them: "No sir this is not a scam"
Me:"Fine, whatever, carry on"
Them: "Sir this is not a scam. We noticed you have a windows computer in your house that connects to the internet"
Me: "So you wake me up on a Saturday morning and lie to me TWICE? F*CK OFF and die you bastard scammers"
Them: "No sir this is not a scam"
Me; "I hope your whole family dies in pain, go fuck yourself"
I may have gone a bit over the top there... but these arseholes phone people who won't realise what's going on and will fall for it. Absolute bastards.
You, like many others, have no idea what a socialist is, have you?
Government is not paid for like a loaf of bread. Certain services are needed to keep society ticking over. People are taken from by their ability to pay. If you tax everyone the same amount then you wouldn't be able to take much because some would starve if you took anything at all. And so you end up with no government.
Me, I prefer to have regulations on business, a fire department, roads and all that sort of stuff. You can only have these things by higher taxes on those that earn well, both higher in raw amount and higher in percentage. As someone that would fall in the fifth percentile of earners in the US, I'm ok with this.
It probably won't be the Mark Elf and the Vom Acht's though, it'll be the MQ-35 Wrath-bringer and it'll only respond to commands prefaced with "God Bless America"
"I do think that if you think it's okay to post things on social media networks - companies looking to employ you are within their rights to look at them."
Even if only shared with friends and spirited out of there by subterfuge?
I know that we on slashdot are aware that if you put it online, even locked down or under a pseudonym, it should be regarded as published to the world, but I was under the impression that was a grudging acceptance of reality, not a position to be approved of.
There's a difference between security clearance for working on state secrets, and a selection procedure to be an office monkey.
In general we let state security services do things we don't let private individuals and businesses do.
In which case that's a pretty low percentage, even though it accounts for a large chunk of tax.