You don't seem to catch my drift. Judge them, do whatever you want. It's your right to judge others. On my part, I reserve the right to withhold my judgement as you said, simply because I have never been there, I don't know the facts and I'm certainly not going to take the word of the mainstream media as a basis to form my opinion.
So judge all you want, but can we please not invade them to establish our "ideal" petrol guzzling, arms bearing, donut-munching consumerist democracy? Can we please just not do that? Because it just pisses them off, and it creates more jihadists and more hate towards the west.
Please don't tell me you believe the US invades foreign nations to help them. We invade to protect our interests in oil, to stimulate the arms industry and to establish control in a developing region. Talk about evil huh?
Though I appreciate your courteous response please allow me to disagree.
Who are WE, in the western world, to judge the Taliban? So what if the Taliban are an abusive government? At least they are abusive to their own people. The US government is abusive to other nations!! So how can the most abusive of them all pass judgement on others is truly beyond me. The epitome of hypocrisy.
The middle-east, Africa or South Asia neither wants nor needs the help of the west. They should be left alone and they'll figure out their problems. Just like we did. Now if only we left them alone and didn't bomb them...
To answer your question. I have no idea. I really don't know whether they a) harbor terrorists b) are evil. The reason I don't know is because I haven't seen or heard any facts that support either statement. So until I see proof I will assume they are the nicest people in the world and have never harbored terrorism.
If you can produce some evidence I'd be happy to change my views.
The Taliban (former government of Afghanistan) are the name Fox News & other US Government outlets have marked as "evil" because they "harbor Terrorists". Complete and utter nonsense. We now see, how complete nonsense, if repeated enough times propagates everywhere, becomes reality and starts affecting various other aspects of life.
The people who "want to be mediocre" see the non-mediocre as a threat to their ability to be mediocre, and thus vote to *restrict* what other people can do. Thus the open society drifts towards a closed one.
Could you please further analyze that? I'm not sure I follow your logic. Why do the "mediocre" see others as a threat?
The push towards an educated society is because democracy fails unless its voters stay well informed. The loss of language skills should therefore be one of the scariest early warning signs, shouldn't it? We have not yet transitioned from having the vast stores of old knowledge (and the vast flow of new information) being stored as audio and video and being accessible/indexable/searchable by voice; it's too early to lose skill in text without also losing access to information.
Hmmmm, I've been doing tech stuff since the 1970s, no problem.
I'll admit I may be unusual (as are most of the people I work with). I'll still say many youth are utterly screwed in their skills set -- cue the "Idiocracy" meme. We're too busy lowering standards so everyone can feel good about themselves instead of improving themselves.
I don't want you to see this as an attack since I'm only presenting this argument for the sake of discussion. Has it ever occurred to you that some people might not feel the urge to improve themselves? I think technology has made it possible nowadays for even a person of mediocre intellect (though I hate to put any sort of labels on people) to be productive and just live a peaceful life vegging out in front of tv. Let those who want to be mediocre be so and let those who want to improve themselves do so. i.e. Live and let live.
Every person wants to live their lives in a certain way. Not everybody should want to become a Ph.D. I like to see a variety of people on this planet. I want there to be people who want to be professors, dancers, cops, robbers and yes.. I even want there to be people who want to destroy the world. I want variety, stimulus. Otherwise our brain will become a pulp.
Elders always complain about youth not knowing history or spelling or this and that. That's how it's always been and that's how it's always gonna be. People just need to realize that even if youth are forgetting to write characters they are gaining other skills i.e. The ability to quickly navigate between the entries of a pop-up menu, or the ability to input text fast via a mobile-phone keypad. You lose something you gain something. Society is changing/evolving and the fact that youth are changing too is not a bad thing.
I think this comes from the fact that wave was being developed from a different team. Other than the team developing Gmail. So they couldn't just put their shit in Gmail for ppl to use it. I guess that is the way things work in such a huge company. It just didn't work out this time.
I'm a die hard Apple-Hater. The mere sight of Apple's logo gives me the creeps but I still think it's unfair to compare the sales of an entire Platform with the sales of one phone. Coz if you're gonna do that then you should include ipod touch and ipad and it still wouldn't be fair.
Allow me to declare my intent to boycott ALL academic conferences held in my field in the United States. I'm sorry but this kind of thing is beyond preposterous.
True. I also use SumatraPDF. Adobe Reader was uninstalled recently when it started "preparing content". I wish sumatra PDF had odd-even page printing.^^
I have been gripping my HTC dream in every possible way for the past 5 minutes. No matter how I grip it, I can't get the bars to go down. 5 bars all the time.
I can't believe you're giving business advice to Activision! I'll never forgive them for what they did to the CoD franchise, let alone give 'em friendly advice!
Another reason why people should never queue up to buy a product before it has been thoroughly tested by consumer groups. Perpetuates this culture of mindless consuming based on ads and promises. To the people who bought it early: Serves you right.
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You don't seem to catch my drift. Judge them, do whatever you want. It's your right to judge others. On my part, I reserve the right to withhold my judgement as you said, simply because I have never been there, I don't know the facts and I'm certainly not going to take the word of the mainstream media as a basis to form my opinion.
So judge all you want, but can we please not invade them to establish our "ideal" petrol guzzling, arms bearing, donut-munching consumerist democracy? Can we please just not do that? Because it just pisses them off, and it creates more jihadists and more hate towards the west.
Please don't tell me you believe the US invades foreign nations to help them. We invade to protect our interests in oil, to stimulate the arms industry and to establish control in a developing region. Talk about evil huh?
Please read my reply to Americano here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1775258&cid=33461142
Though I appreciate your courteous response please allow me to disagree. Who are WE, in the western world, to judge the Taliban? So what if the Taliban are an abusive government? At least they are abusive to their own people. The US government is abusive to other nations!! So how can the most abusive of them all pass judgement on others is truly beyond me. The epitome of hypocrisy. The middle-east, Africa or South Asia neither wants nor needs the help of the west. They should be left alone and they'll figure out their problems. Just like we did. Now if only we left them alone and didn't bomb them...
To answer your question. I have no idea. I really don't know whether they a) harbor terrorists b) are evil. The reason I don't know is because I haven't seen or heard any facts that support either statement. So until I see proof I will assume they are the nicest people in the world and have never harbored terrorism. If you can produce some evidence I'd be happy to change my views.
The Taliban (former government of Afghanistan) are the name Fox News & other US Government outlets have marked as "evil" because they "harbor Terrorists". Complete and utter nonsense. We now see, how complete nonsense, if repeated enough times propagates everywhere, becomes reality and starts affecting various other aspects of life.
Sorry, I meant enlighten us on why runes fell out of existence.
The people who "want to be mediocre" see the non-mediocre as a threat to their ability to be mediocre, and thus vote to *restrict* what other people can do. Thus the open society drifts towards a closed one.
Could you please further analyze that? I'm not sure I follow your logic. Why do the "mediocre" see others as a threat?
The push towards an educated society is because democracy fails unless its voters stay well informed. The loss of language skills should therefore be one of the scariest early warning signs, shouldn't it? We have not yet transitioned from having the vast stores of old knowledge (and the vast flow of new information) being stored as audio and video and being accessible/indexable/searchable by voice; it's too early to lose skill in text without also losing access to information.
That's an interesting point I'll give you that.
Could you then please enlighten us?
Hmmmm, I've been doing tech stuff since the 1970s, no problem. I'll admit I may be unusual (as are most of the people I work with). I'll still say many youth are utterly screwed in their skills set -- cue the "Idiocracy" meme. We're too busy lowering standards so everyone can feel good about themselves instead of improving themselves.
I don't want you to see this as an attack since I'm only presenting this argument for the sake of discussion. Has it ever occurred to you that some people might not feel the urge to improve themselves? I think technology has made it possible nowadays for even a person of mediocre intellect (though I hate to put any sort of labels on people) to be productive and just live a peaceful life vegging out in front of tv. Let those who want to be mediocre be so and let those who want to improve themselves do so. i.e. Live and let live. Every person wants to live their lives in a certain way. Not everybody should want to become a Ph.D. I like to see a variety of people on this planet. I want there to be people who want to be professors, dancers, cops, robbers and yes.. I even want there to be people who want to destroy the world. I want variety, stimulus. Otherwise our brain will become a pulp.
Elders always complain about youth not knowing history or spelling or this and that. That's how it's always been and that's how it's always gonna be. People just need to realize that even if youth are forgetting to write characters they are gaining other skills i.e. The ability to quickly navigate between the entries of a pop-up menu, or the ability to input text fast via a mobile-phone keypad. You lose something you gain something. Society is changing/evolving and the fact that youth are changing too is not a bad thing.
I think this comes from the fact that wave was being developed from a different team. Other than the team developing Gmail. So they couldn't just put their shit in Gmail for ppl to use it. I guess that is the way things work in such a huge company. It just didn't work out this time.
probably.
point taken.
I'm a die hard Apple-Hater. The mere sight of Apple's logo gives me the creeps but I still think it's unfair to compare the sales of an entire Platform with the sales of one phone. Coz if you're gonna do that then you should include ipod touch and ipad and it still wouldn't be fair.
I am aware of his background. Today we tolerate 3 hours, tomorrow we will tolerate 3 weeks.
Please rinse your mouth before talking about Greece.
Allow me to declare my intent to boycott ALL academic conferences held in my field in the United States. I'm sorry but this kind of thing is beyond preposterous.
ic. I'm trying Nitro PDF now so we'll see how that goes.
True. I also use SumatraPDF. Adobe Reader was uninstalled recently when it started "preparing content". I wish sumatra PDF had odd-even page printing.^^
You're holding the cellular scaffolding wrong!
Same with all the iPhone 4's I've tried it on
So if you have good reception then the iPhone doesn't drop bars either?
I have been gripping my HTC dream in every possible way for the past 5 minutes. No matter how I grip it, I can't get the bars to go down. 5 bars all the time.
Whereas the United States doesn't? Check WikiLeaks^^
I can't believe you're giving business advice to Activision! I'll never forgive them for what they did to the CoD franchise, let alone give 'em friendly advice!
Another reason why people should never queue up to buy a product before it has been thoroughly tested by consumer groups. Perpetuates this culture of mindless consuming based on ads and promises. To the people who bought it early: Serves you right.