Well, it is not that clear and cut shenanigans. Hussein *had* chemical and biological WMDs.
Well, we know that because we sold them to him. But the inspectors went looking for them and said 'he doesn't have any any more'. And Bush invaded anyway.
Why pretend not to have a nuclear program when nobody believes you?
If anyone believed Iran had nuclear weapons or was close to building some, why would they be threatening to attack them?
Western threats against Iran are pretty clear proof that Western leaders don't really believe they have nukes or are likely to do so in the near future.
Whatever reason the US has for adding sanctions doesn't really matter, but if you live in the EU, so close to those crazies you'll see no problem with EU's sanctions.
I read last night that Greece is apparently getting most of its oil from Iran because no-one else will let them buy on credit when they're clearly bankrupt. So the Greeks may be pissed.
Look at what happened to Iraq when they bluffed and postured about (still) having a nuclear program, refused access to inspectors, that sort of thing.
You mean the Iraq where the weapon inspectors said 'no, Iraq doesn't have WMDs' but Colin Powell said 'Iraq does so have WMDs, I have pictures of these kebab vans, sorry, chemical weapons vans' and... uh... they didn't?
BTW, didn't the claims of Iraqui WMDs come from an Iranian agent because Iran wanted Bush to invade and get rid of Saddam Hussein and put their friends in power?
Another move to artificially increase the already artificially high price of oil. I live in the UK and can barely afford to leave the house to go to work as it is.
Just wait until the next President bombs Iran and Iran starts firing missiles at oil tankers. $500 a barrel, anyone?
It's almost like the US and EU are in a joint suicide pact.
I've never lost data on ext3 without a hardware failure. Yeah, ext4 sucked before they stopped saying 'the users are wrong' and made the filesystem non-braindead, but I haven't lost any data since.
As for fsck, I remember ext4 would regularly fsck at boot before they fixed it, so I have a hard time believing that it's only just gained that capability?
If this is the case, whats the fucking point really? BTRFS was heralded are the replacement for ZFS, but you are seriously telling me that after all this time, you can still lose a large amount of data and end up with a corrupt filesystem after such a trivial thing as a powerloss? Really?
BTRFS has only been around for a short time and I don't believe any OS uses it as the default filesystem yet. And you're surprised that it still has problems?
And I don't remember anyone claiming that BTRFS would replace ZFS, merely that it would eventually have many of the same capabilities that ZFS has.
I compressed some of my Steam games recently to free up disk space on my laptop. If I remember correctly, most of them shrunk by 5-10% while some got around 30%.
So not great, but it freed up a few gigabytes that allowed me to install a few more smaller games.
A real theater doesn't cost less to vacuum just because the movie sucked, and the cost of having an empty theater is the same operating cost as a full one, give or take a few minutes of hoovering.
From what I've read, movie theaters make most of their money from overpriced popcorn and drinks, not movie tickets.
Bingo. Politiicans know practically nothing about anything other than getting re-elected, which is why most Western nations are just about bankrupt right now.
Sounds like you've never been in.NET framework hell on XP. It happens more than you'd think. Usually involves removing them all, and re-installing them all in a particular order.
Except in my experience, removing them all doesn't actually allow you to reinstall them. I have one XP system in.NET Hell, and I've even downloaded the 'remove every trace of this.NET crap' tool from Microsoft and tried that. After running that tool it will install the frameworks, but fails half-way through installing the service packs, so looks like reinstalling the OS is the only way to get it to work.
Just another reason why I'm glad I hardly use Windows anymore.
They are only willing to support their product for 13 years! How dare they demand that users move to new technology once a decade to maintain support!
I bought my netbook with XP in 2009. Where's my decade of support?
OK, I long ago wiped XP and replaced it with Linux, but the point stands: XP is not an 'ancient OS', it was still being sold new only a year or two back.
In fact the Argentine Exocets sank exactly one British warship, HMS Sheffield. They also damaged three other ships (and admittedly scared the hell out of everyone).
By far the most significant use of an Exocet was when they hit the Atlantic Conveyor, which was being used as a temporary aircraft carrier (since Harriers and helicopters can happily operate from a container ship). If I remember correctly, the British lost most of their troop-carrying helicopters in that attack.
The main reasons why they didn't achieve more than that was because they didn't have many missiles and the British fleet stayed on the edge of the area that the Argentinian aircraft could reach, which meant their Harriers couldn't operate over the Falklands for long before having to return to refuel. So while the Exocets didn't sink many warships, they certainly had a significant impact on the war.
Agreed. I have some kind of Java crap on my 'makes phone calls and sends texts' phone and every once in a while I press one of the buttons by accident while it's in my pocket and next time I open it it says 'Starting Java' and the battery is down 90%.
So I presumably have this thing and really, really wish I didn't.
The command line is not coming back, especially with more applications moving to mobile devices where typing is just a hassle.
But whenever we complain about some UI removing menus, desktop launchers and any other easy way of starting an application the fanboys tell us that's OK because we can just type the name of the application on a command line instead.
Censorship? How is it censorship? They're not preventing anyone from doing business, only setting the rules for doing business. That's well within their right.
If you like it so much, could I suggest you go and live there?
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Well, it is not that clear and cut shenanigans. Hussein *had* chemical and biological WMDs.
Well, we know that because we sold them to him. But the inspectors went looking for them and said 'he doesn't have any any more'. And Bush invaded anyway.
Why pretend not to have a nuclear program when nobody believes you?
If anyone believed Iran had nuclear weapons or was close to building some, why would they be threatening to attack them?
Western threats against Iran are pretty clear proof that Western leaders don't really believe they have nukes or are likely to do so in the near future.
Obama's kowtowing to Republicans
I think you mis-spelt 'neo-cons', who are mostly ex-Trots.
Whatever reason the US has for adding sanctions doesn't really matter, but if you live in the EU, so close to those crazies you'll see no problem with EU's sanctions.
I read last night that Greece is apparently getting most of its oil from Iran because no-one else will let them buy on credit when they're clearly bankrupt. So the Greeks may be pissed.
Look at what happened to Iraq when they bluffed and postured about (still) having a nuclear program, refused access to inspectors, that sort of thing.
You mean the Iraq where the weapon inspectors said 'no, Iraq doesn't have WMDs' but Colin Powell said 'Iraq does so have WMDs, I have pictures of these kebab vans, sorry, chemical weapons vans' and... uh... they didn't?
BTW, didn't the claims of Iraqui WMDs come from an Iranian agent because Iran wanted Bush to invade and get rid of Saddam Hussein and put their friends in power?
Errr, which part of "global recession" you don't get it? There is not that much demand for oil, and those who demand require solid cuts of prices.
Uh, yeah. That'll be why oil is over $100 a barrel.
Another move to artificially increase the already artificially high price of oil. I live in the UK and can barely afford to leave the house to go to work as it is.
Just wait until the next President bombs Iran and Iran starts firing missiles at oil tankers. $500 a barrel, anyone?
It's almost like the US and EU are in a joint suicide pact.
I've never lost data on ext3 without a hardware failure. Yeah, ext4 sucked before they stopped saying 'the users are wrong' and made the filesystem non-braindead, but I haven't lost any data since.
As for fsck, I remember ext4 would regularly fsck at boot before they fixed it, so I have a hard time believing that it's only just gained that capability?
If this is the case, whats the fucking point really? BTRFS was heralded are the replacement for ZFS, but you are seriously telling me that after all this time, you can still lose a large amount of data and end up with a corrupt filesystem after such a trivial thing as a powerloss? Really?
BTRFS has only been around for a short time and I don't believe any OS uses it as the default filesystem yet. And you're surprised that it still has problems?
And I don't remember anyone claiming that BTRFS would replace ZFS, merely that it would eventually have many of the same capabilities that ZFS has.
I compressed some of my Steam games recently to free up disk space on my laptop. If I remember correctly, most of them shrunk by 5-10% while some got around 30%.
So not great, but it freed up a few gigabytes that allowed me to install a few more smaller games.
Don't be silly. IE isn't something you install. It's actually one with the operating system.
I installed Windows 3.1 last year and it didn't come with a web browser; finding a copy of IE that would install on it was not easy.
Some web sites even worked with it...
A real theater doesn't cost less to vacuum just because the movie sucked, and the cost of having an empty theater is the same operating cost as a full one, give or take a few minutes of hoovering.
From what I've read, movie theaters make most of their money from overpriced popcorn and drinks, not movie tickets.
On the contrary, it should be more expensive to see a bad movie since the production cost (+ profit) has to be payed for by fewer viewers.
So Poop-In-A-Bun should cost more than a McBurger, and a Tata Nano should cost more than a Ferrari?
Bingo. Politiicans know practically nothing about anything other than getting re-elected, which is why most Western nations are just about bankrupt right now.
In the past, using a 4 year old video card meant low graphics on new games, but it seems that the system requirements for games leveled off.
That's because most of those games are console ports, and consoles have at best the equivalent of about a five year old PC graphics card.
Sounds like you've never been in .NET framework hell on XP. It happens more than you'd think. Usually involves removing them all, and re-installing them all in a particular order.
Except in my experience, removing them all doesn't actually allow you to reinstall them. I have one XP system in .NET Hell, and I've even downloaded the 'remove every trace of this .NET crap' tool from Microsoft and tried that. After running that tool it will install the frameworks, but fails half-way through installing the service packs, so looks like reinstalling the OS is the only way to get it to work.
Just another reason why I'm glad I hardly use Windows anymore.
Fallout 3 works faultlessly for me under Win 7. I haven't tried any of the older ones.
It seems to crash less on Linux.
They are only willing to support their product for 13 years! How dare they demand that users move to new technology once a decade to maintain support!
I bought my netbook with XP in 2009. Where's my decade of support?
OK, I long ago wiped XP and replaced it with Linux, but the point stands: XP is not an 'ancient OS', it was still being sold new only a year or two back.
I keep thinking of USSR in its last days.
I've been reading a book about the last years of the USSR and boy does it sound a lot like the news today.
In fact the Argentine Exocets sank exactly one British warship, HMS Sheffield. They also damaged three other ships (and admittedly scared the hell out of everyone).
By far the most significant use of an Exocet was when they hit the Atlantic Conveyor, which was being used as a temporary aircraft carrier (since Harriers and helicopters can happily operate from a container ship). If I remember correctly, the British lost most of their troop-carrying helicopters in that attack.
The main reasons why they didn't achieve more than that was because they didn't have many missiles and the British fleet stayed on the edge of the area that the Argentinian aircraft could reach, which meant their Harriers couldn't operate over the Falklands for long before having to return to refuel. So while the Exocets didn't sink many warships, they certainly had a significant impact on the war.
Agreed. I have some kind of Java crap on my 'makes phone calls and sends texts' phone and every once in a while I press one of the buttons by accident while it's in my pocket and next time I open it it says 'Starting Java' and the battery is down 90%.
So I presumably have this thing and really, really wish I didn't.
The command line is not coming back, especially with more applications moving to mobile devices where typing is just a hassle.
But whenever we complain about some UI removing menus, desktop launchers and any other easy way of starting an application the fanboys tell us that's OK because we can just type the name of the application on a command line instead.
Next thing you know there is a huge uproar and demands for the government to make sure nothing like it happens again.
Where? I don't remember anyone demanding that outside the government and media.
By contrast, crimes were committed at Occupy sites. Guess what? Crimes are committed wherever people are.
How many crimes were committed at Tea Party rallies?
I'd hate to be a lefty because I can't imagine trying to live with such a low opinion of the human race.
Censorship? How is it censorship? They're not preventing anyone from doing business, only setting the rules for doing business. That's well within their right.
If you like it so much, could I suggest you go and live there?