NATO had to deal with Yugoslavia because nobody in Europe trusted the UN not to screw it up worse.
I'm going to start off with saying that I simply think you're an idiot. The UN is not distrusted in Europe. Giving the complexity of many situations, it has done an admirable job in difficult circumstances. The people serving in UN-peacekeeping missions have nothing but good to say about them.
NATO had to deal with Yugoslavia because nobody in Europe trusted the UN not to screw it up worse.
Now, the serious reply to why you're wrong, and how simplistic your view is.
The US, and not NATO, was the force pushing for intervention. Reading main-stream news, we all remember how frustrated the US were with hesitant European nations. The problem with intervention, which anybody with half-a-clue at the time knew though, was that everybody was killing each-other at pretty much the same speed. This was a well-known fact, although our media did their best skew it by making the serbs out to be the bad guys. It's also a well-known fact that the massive genosides started after NATO intervention (which incidentally actually made the serbs 'the bad(est) guys'). Reading up on the reports and the analysis after the war is scary reading though; make no mistake, the Yoguslavia-intervention was a massive blunder and seriously worsened the situation.
It took US balls to choose a random side to back and bomb the country back to the stone-age.
A small point; differences times, different curriculums. Don't mistake this for incompetence. Actually having compared curriculums with my uncles, whom two of also have masters degrees in computer science, I can certainly say we're not learning less. Atleast here in Norway, we're learning different skills, and todays education is broader... but not easier!
While never having heard of data-normalization is pretty bad, state-machines are hardly important (they're good for giving the students fun puzzles on the finals though). While not having heard of Dr.Codd may be a sign of a lacking education, there's a lot of us who believe the personaility-hype surrounding pretty much anything is silly to the extreme. What the Bachus-Naur form is, I have no idea. I can with relative certainty say that it wasn't in any of the books on my curriculum during my 5 years of university. I just finished, and I read pretty much everything cover-to-cover regrardless of how little of the book we were supposed to read (and it's not on wikipedia, which means it doesn't exist).
The toys were pretty fun atleast. You got cars, aircrafts and random stuff, aswell as dolls who were macho enough for guys to be able to play with them without their parents being accused of trying to turn their kids into gays.
On that note, my parents are fairly open-minded folks, and when my little-brother was 3, he really, really wanted a doll and a stroller. Now, my parents basically looked at eachother and said 'Well, why not? We're not ones to let cultural prejudices get in front of our kids happyness'. We have never, ever laughed so much as when he got it though. He threw out the doll and promptly ran out into the street to play racing cars with it. He crashed fairly often though, and the poor stroller really wasn't built for his abuse. He had to get a new one after a month or so:)
You're confused. DRM is about you keeping customers away from their data, not you keeping customers away from your data.
Well, it may be, but you're still missing Grand Parents point.
If you believe in the free market, then DRM doesn't matter. Just as companies should be allowed to do whatever they want to stuff before you sell it, you should be able to do whatever you want with it after you bought it.
What's making DRM so potentially crippling now, is possibly patents, certainly copyrights and trade-secret laws aswell as anti-reverse-engineering laws. The common factor for all of these, is that they are artificial constructs imposed on the free market by the goverment. They're unbalancing the market and creating de-facto monopolies, which in the end, hurts us all.
I have never, ever understood why the majority of right'ish people believe in freedom, individuality and the power of the marketplace will give everything they believe in the boat as soon as the rich people want something. Discuss healthcare, benefits, disability-support and other life-threatening issues and people will throw marketplace-argumentation in your face. Discuss patents, copyrights and trade-secret laws which primarily serves to let big companies strangehold the previously well-functioning market and people will preach pragmatism, because surely the status-quo is worth sacrificing a little for?
If I buy an accounting and compliance package, and it timebombs six months into full use, I should be able to buy another one, and transfer my data.
No, you shouldn't. If the company lied to you, they commited fraud. That's already covered by other laws. If they didn't, its your own bloody fault for buying their software, and it's certainly not the goverments place to enact laws protecting you against your own stupidity.
Isn't that tantamount to extortion?
They did defraud you? Did they lie? What does your contract say? What did they advertise their product with?
If they didn't in any way make any statements about how long your software would live, it's still your fault. If you bought a mission-critical piece of software from a non-reputable vendor, without checking messageboards or previous customers at all, I think you pretty much deserve what you got anyways.
No, I'm arguing that it's immoral and wrong, but it's the reality any user will meet. If you judge products by how the world should have been, instead of what it is, you're making the potential users a big disservice.
If your OS puts out a security fix, it's probably for a reason. This could have been avoided for everyone just by keeping up-to-date.
I'm a bit unsure if this is irony or not
If it's not. I just want to mention 'Windows Genuine Advantage', the oh-so-very critical security fix. Sure, it's there for a reason, but that reason ain't your computers well-being!
I think not. Just remember the whole fuzz about journalists being bugged so that anyone calling them with secret information can be traced. How can the press then do its job?
Is it now?
If total security is achieved say goodbye to all those leaks and exposes. You will have a system that makes the KGB look like childsplay.
If your system is counting on access failures for transparency and fail-checking there is something wrong with the system you've designed.
Just as CEO's should be personally responsible for what their companies do, government employees should be responsible for their own actions. Participate in illegal spying, fine'em. Ordering illegal spying, jail'em. Went to other countries, captured citizens and then refuse them any legal status, jail'em. Every single, bloody one responsible.
It might be painfull the first years, but the law is there to be followed. Even corporations. Even government. Personal responsibility is the way to go.
How the hell can we judge our goverment if they can keep what they are doing hidden from us?
The government isn't something magical being. They're the people you voted for. Start voting for certifiably sane people.
He is a stupid criminal and deserves everything he is going to get.
There are levels of criminality. Why are people so fast to brand someone a criminal, and then practically demand the death-penalty for any little simple thing. Trying to balance out low risk of getting caught with extreme punishments is a really dangerous method of creating a lawfull society.
Final showdown is also frustrating in that it's about twice as hard as the rest of the game, even if you know the trick with the controls -- dodging while you're standing still goes up, but dodge + up arrow key also dodges up, if you don't know that, then dodging while not pressing any key = dodge in direction you are drifting in.
That's quite a trick. Holding up and pressing dodge will dodge up, who'd have imagined? You, sir, are a god among gamers.
Would you mind terribly if I asked you a question? I've been playing this game called 'Super Mario', but I can't figure how to jump to the right. I know how to walk right, and how to jump, but finding which combination of these two buttons will produce a right jump really has me stumped.
I didn't see it (I'm sure it will be re-run), but I remember from a commercial that they said it would actually be MORE PAINFUL for Lois to be caught by Superman than to simply fall to her death. I don't know why, you'd have to watch to find out I guess.
Obviously, if he was flying upwards, and not matching her speed downwards as he should have, the impact will be greater.
I mean, image that your retarded friend is out running. You're sitting by your house relaxing. He sees you and starts running towards you. Now, your retarded friend is quite retarded, and has trouble stopping, and at current heading, he's going to run into a bush! Having watched superman physics, you know that falling into somebody arms saves people instantly, so you, the freakingly huge football player you are, start sprinting towards him, holding your arms out so he magically won't be hurt.. and then you ram him, with full force, and watch surprised as he's reduced to a confused mass of blood and bones..
Heh.. have you ever tried gussing how a word is pronounced merely from reading it?.. you should, it's very fun!
Now, although it makes for a great party-game for the humour-impared, we have more important stuff to study than inane english pronounciation rules at school.
I mean, we could have stuck to Roman numerals, and simply solved the problems concerning multiplication etc with more school, but that'd be pretty stupid, wouldn't it?
Daily daylight in December is about 1.5 hours where I live. June has about 1.5 hours of not sun daily, although it's bright as hell anyways, as the sun is just below the horizon.
Gomei not only closed the door to the normal customers but also prepared goody bags for these Tuangou shoppers. Now, that's Power to the People!"
Yes, the ability to buy luxury-goods at discounts..
.. such an important part of freedom. I mean, what *would* we do without it?
On, second though, I live in Norway where everything is ridioilously expensive. so the I think the answer is something like 'Spend all winter getting drunk wondering why there's only 2-3 hours between sunset and dawn, and subsequently spend all summer being happy and getting drunk while being mildly amusing at the strange shiny thing in the middle of the sky which never seem to disappear..'
As anybody can tell you, culture crash isn't about the big things. It's about lots of really, really small ones. Like day-to-day patterns, ambient noise (or lack of) and stuff that just adds up to a very surreal feeling.
More importantly, from his perspective, he's stuck in the body of his future self. Image suddenly waking up with a body 15 years older. You're going to be acting like a young guy, checking out young girls and generally breaking a lot of social norms for how somebody your age is supposed to act. Now, most of these norms aren't norms as much as experiences on how people certain ages act, but it means he's probably going to be a little off compared to everyone else. I wonder if it beats lying in a coma?
Good luck trying to find a small or independent musician on there.
My first reaction to this was; Are you crazy? I switched to allofmp3.com only for its selection.
On second thought, I think this is mainly the difference between being Euro and US-centric. None of the big online Music stories have the cd's I want (even Amazon fails reasonably often), but allofmp3.com does. So it's probably only minor American bands that are under-represented, because I can assure you, when I'm searching for esotoric Norwegian bands we're talking very independent and very, very small.
The biggest difference is in the music categories though. Metal (any kind, even goth) doesn't exist in the US apparently, but Indie and Christian does?! Why is Indie a different category? And christian? It's rock god damn it!.. I'm so far away from understanding American Society I find myself more and more just falling back on thinking you're insane:(
If you voted for this asshat, do the rest of us a favor and please don't ever vote again.
A majority of the US population seem to have taken variations of this advice already.
Besides, this is a variantion of the whole 'only the intelligent know they're stupid'-problem.. if you have everybody who realise they're wrong withdraw because of their own perceived stupidity, you'll just be left with the people who weren't capable of realising their errors. Learning is doing mistakes; people who never do mistakes are just good at shifting blame.
If a project doesn't require strong encryption, does it require encryption at all?
Of course it does. The lock to your house is most certainly breakable. Does that mean you should throw away the door?
Weak'ish encryption protects you against untargetted attacks, such as network-snooping. Anybody doing untargetted attacks are probably going to have massive amount of data to search through. Even the most simplistic encryption algorithm involving keys is going to force the attacker to include state-information in his application.. which as we all is just plain painfull on high-traffic networks.
Except that while a lot of small shops generally have a lot of sympathy, and people generally like having them around ISP's are generally loathed for crap customer service, random enforcement of terms and having pulled too much shit (unlimited access as long as you don't use more than the secreet number).
As an aside, I think Walmart is a by-product if your inane zoning-laws. Mostly everywhere else, local shops compete with the convience factor, ie being local, close and within walking distance, but with your extremely clear-clut Residential / Commercial area split they lose that advantage.
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Remember it now; and yes, I should have in the first place :(
The US, and not NATO, was the force pushing for intervention. Reading main-stream news, we all remember how frustrated the US were with hesitant European nations. The problem with intervention, which anybody with half-a-clue at the time knew though, was that everybody was killing each-other at pretty much the same speed. This was a well-known fact, although our media did their best skew it by making the serbs out to be the bad guys. It's also a well-known fact that the massive genosides started after NATO intervention (which incidentally actually made the serbs 'the bad(est) guys'). Reading up on the reports and the analysis after the war is scary reading though; make no mistake, the Yoguslavia-intervention was a massive blunder and seriously worsened the situation.
It took US balls to choose a random side to back and bomb the country back to the stone-age.
While never having heard of data-normalization is pretty bad, state-machines are hardly important (they're good for giving the students fun puzzles on the finals though). While not having heard of Dr.Codd may be a sign of a lacking education, there's a lot of us who believe the personaility-hype surrounding pretty much anything is silly to the extreme. What the Bachus-Naur form is, I have no idea. I can with relative certainty say that it wasn't in any of the books on my curriculum during my 5 years of university. I just finished, and I read pretty much everything cover-to-cover regrardless of how little of the book we were supposed to read (and it's not on wikipedia, which means it doesn't exist).
On that note, my parents are fairly open-minded folks, and when my little-brother was 3, he really, really wanted a doll and a stroller. Now, my parents basically looked at eachother and said 'Well, why not? We're not ones to let cultural prejudices get in front of our kids happyness'. We have never, ever laughed so much as when he got it though. He threw out the doll and promptly ran out into the street to play racing cars with it. He crashed fairly often though, and the poor stroller really wasn't built for his abuse. He had to get a new one after a month or so :)
If you believe in the free market, then DRM doesn't matter. Just as companies should be allowed to do whatever they want to stuff before you sell it, you should be able to do whatever you want with it after you bought it.
What's making DRM so potentially crippling now, is possibly patents, certainly copyrights and trade-secret laws aswell as anti-reverse-engineering laws. The common factor for all of these, is that they are artificial constructs imposed on the free market by the goverment. They're unbalancing the market and creating de-facto monopolies, which in the end, hurts us all.
I have never, ever understood why the majority of right'ish people believe in freedom, individuality and the power of the marketplace will give everything they believe in the boat as soon as the rich people want something. Discuss healthcare, benefits, disability-support and other life-threatening issues and people will throw marketplace-argumentation in your face. Discuss patents, copyrights and trade-secret laws which primarily serves to let big companies strangehold the previously well-functioning market and people will preach pragmatism, because surely the status-quo is worth sacrificing a little for?
No, you shouldn't. If the company lied to you, they commited fraud. That's already covered by other laws. If they didn't, its your own bloody fault for buying their software, and it's certainly not the goverments place to enact laws protecting you against your own stupidity. They did defraud you? Did they lie? What does your contract say? What did they advertise their product with?If they didn't in any way make any statements about how long your software would live, it's still your fault. If you bought a mission-critical piece of software from a non-reputable vendor, without checking messageboards or previous customers at all, I think you pretty much deserve what you got anyways.
No, I'm arguing that it's immoral and wrong, but it's the reality any user will meet. If you judge products by how the world should have been, instead of what it is, you're making the potential users a big disservice.
If it's not. I just want to mention 'Windows Genuine Advantage', the oh-so-very critical security fix. Sure, it's there for a reason, but that reason ain't your computers well-being!
Is it now?
If your system is counting on access failures for transparency and fail-checking there is something wrong with the system you've designed.
Just as CEO's should be personally responsible for what their companies do, government employees should be responsible for their own actions. Participate in illegal spying, fine'em. Ordering illegal spying, jail'em. Went to other countries, captured citizens and then refuse them any legal status, jail'em. Every single, bloody one responsible.
It might be painfull the first years, but the law is there to be followed. Even corporations. Even government. Personal responsibility is the way to go.
The government isn't something magical being. They're the people you voted for. Start voting for certifiably sane people. There are levels of criminality. Why are people so fast to brand someone a criminal, and then practically demand the death-penalty for any little simple thing. Trying to balance out low risk of getting caught with extreme punishments is a really dangerous method of creating a lawfull society.Would you mind terribly if I asked you a question? I've been playing this game called 'Super Mario', but I can't figure how to jump to the right. I know how to walk right, and how to jump, but finding which combination of these two buttons will produce a right jump really has me stumped.
Hoping for a quick answer;
Yours sincerely,
Hyfe
I mean, image that your retarded friend is out running. You're sitting by your house relaxing. He sees you and starts running towards you. Now, your retarded friend is quite retarded, and has trouble stopping, and at current heading, he's going to run into a bush! Having watched superman physics, you know that falling into somebody arms saves people instantly, so you, the freakingly huge football player you are, start sprinting towards him, holding your arms out so he magically won't be hurt.. and then you ram him, with full force, and watch surprised as he's reduced to a confused mass of blood and bones..
Now, although it makes for a great party-game for the humour-impared, we have more important stuff to study than inane english pronounciation rules at school.
I mean, we could have stuck to Roman numerals, and simply solved the problems concerning multiplication etc with more school, but that'd be pretty stupid, wouldn't it?
As far as I've understood, this happens in the US due to out-of-court settlements right? Well, there is no such thing in any of our court systems.
I hate writing foreign.
Daily daylight in December is about 1.5 hours where I live. June has about 1.5 hours of not sun daily, although it's bright as hell anyways, as the sun is just below the horizon.
On, second though, I live in Norway where everything is ridioilously expensive. so the I think the answer is something like 'Spend all winter getting drunk wondering why there's only 2-3 hours between sunset and dawn, and subsequently spend all summer being happy and getting drunk while being mildly amusing at the strange shiny thing in the middle of the sky which never seem to disappear..'
More importantly, from his perspective, he's stuck in the body of his future self. Image suddenly waking up with a body 15 years older. You're going to be acting like a young guy, checking out young girls and generally breaking a lot of social norms for how somebody your age is supposed to act. Now, most of these norms aren't norms as much as experiences on how people certain ages act, but it means he's probably going to be a little off compared to everyone else. I wonder if it beats lying in a coma?
My first reaction to this was; Are you crazy? I switched to allofmp3.com only for its selection.
On second thought, I think this is mainly the difference between being Euro and US-centric. None of the big online Music stories have the cd's I want (even Amazon fails reasonably often), but allofmp3.com does. So it's probably only minor American bands that are under-represented, because I can assure you, when I'm searching for esotoric Norwegian bands we're talking very independent and very, very small.
The biggest difference is in the music categories though. Metal (any kind, even goth) doesn't exist in the US apparently, but Indie and Christian does?! Why is Indie a different category? And christian? It's rock god damn it! .. I'm so far away from understanding American Society I find myself more and more just falling back on thinking you're insane :(
A majority of the US population seem to have taken variations of this advice already.
Besides, this is a variantion of the whole 'only the intelligent know they're stupid'-problem.. if you have everybody who realise they're wrong withdraw because of their own perceived stupidity, you'll just be left with the people who weren't capable of realising their errors. Learning is doing mistakes; people who never do mistakes are just good at shifting blame.
With the tent door closed, they have to chance somebody lieing inside taking a nap
Good choice of analogy.
Of course it does. The lock to your house is most certainly breakable. Does that mean you should throw away the door?
Weak'ish encryption protects you against untargetted attacks, such as network-snooping. Anybody doing untargetted attacks are probably going to have massive amount of data to search through. Even the most simplistic encryption algorithm involving keys is going to force the attacker to include state-information in his application.. which as we all is just plain painfull on high-traffic networks.
As an aside, I think Walmart is a by-product if your inane zoning-laws. Mostly everywhere else, local shops compete with the convience factor, ie being local, close and within walking distance, but with your extremely clear-clut Residential / Commercial area split they lose that advantage.
Neither which would have mattered if it weren't for stupid laws.