Am I right in thinking the US have refused to sign any International agreements banning or controlling the development of Biological & Chemical weapons and are probably researching, developing and manufacturing large quantities of the above themselves ?
i'm sure if they had built a giant chessboard complete with figures 100ft high our interest might be slightly more piqued and we definatley go and have a look !
"Morgenstern, meanwhile, was conflicted. He didn't want to pay any extortion fee but he was determined not to let the hackers ruin his company's reputation either. He was worried that news of even a minor break-in might spook customers. After all, E-Money was built on trust."
Obviously criminals are bad etc, etc but if Morgenstern is running as he says a business that is built on trust and hasn't bothered to safeguard the security of his customers then he really is getting what he deserves. In many ways he should count himself lucky these people have actually told him about his problems and not just spent their time ripping him off on a daily basis without his knowledge.
The fact he is then willing to spend $1 million on, by the sounds of it, rebuilding his entire infrastructure shows just how dodgy it must have been in the first place.
"Microsoft and Disney gave money to a politician in exchange for 'better" IP laws.'"
You are saying that it is OK for companies to buy any laws or legislation which will help them make a profit and that this is not a perversion of the political system.
This is in my view clearly wrong, Companies and Corporations should not be a part of the political system, they do not have the right to a vote and only those with the right to vote should have an influence on politics.
You are saying that because these Companies represent a large number of people, their employees, their customers and other reliant Companies that they should somehow have the right to influence politcal will by proxy on behalf of all these people you say they represent. However this is not the way a politcal system should work, voters have the right to represent their own beliefs and wishes and this is what they should do. They have no way of influencing the beliefs or political persuasions of Companies and therefore the Companies cannot represent the views of these people. By buying political power they are simply representing their own interests, ok these interests might also be in the interests of their customers or employees but there is no guarantee that that would be the case and it the companies interests might well be detrimental to these people, their is no way of calling the company to account if you are not a share holder. In short this is just not the way a Political system should work and is indeed a perversion of the system which is supposed to be in operation in the US ( A democracy ).
Companies are only interested in profit, their sole purpose is to provide shareholders with a return on their investment and you they cannot be blamed for trying to maximize that return. However they are not allowed to use 'any means' to increase their profits, they have to work within the framework of the law which is determined by the will of the people. When companies are able to override the will of the people and buy the rights to alter the laws to their own ends then obviously they will seek to change laws to enable them to make more money. Since making money is their only objective these new laws paid for by them will not have to have any consideration apart from the maximation of profit and that includes having no consideration for whatever the citizens of the US might wish to happen.
Essentially you are saying that it is OK for a country to be governed by Corporations, Companies and Big Business rather than it's people and since the Companies have no concience or concerns other than making money then this is most definatley a perversion of the political system and the country allowing such a system to work.
I too prefer the UK version but prefer the original female presenter to the new one.
Also has anyone else noticed that whilst the competitors in Scrapheap Challenge quite often build effective working machines and have exciting final races / challenges the competitors in Junkyard Wars almost never build anything which works properly and so the finale is always a bit of a let down ?
This does not look like Fiction to me, it appears to have been published originally in the Sunday Times and Mark Franchetti appears to have been a reporter for many years.
I really don't see much evidence that Iraqi people are that supportive of the US, at best they seem indifferent and in a lot of cases aggressive toward the US. In a way you can see why, the US and UK are invading their country, bombing their cities and telling them what they can or cannot do. Regardless of the motivation behind the actions of the US/UK this kind of behaviour is bound to offend the natural patriotism and loyalty one feels towards one's country.
". A thing as opening new windows is one of the things that works well on windows. Always fast and the windows is opened before you release the mouse button."
That's not my experience of windows, certainly the borders of windows can appear pretty fast but then you have to wait for the contents to render and that can take a while. I have run both KDE and Windows on my PC and KDE does feel a lot more responsive than Windows ever did.
I'm looking for a bit of company, you can move in straight way if you like. You will have to make me frequent cups of tea but otherwise I will only charge a reasonable rent.
Can I have some references from you first though ?
I totally agree with that statement, I have seen a lot of people spending a lot of money over the years buying CD's of records they already owned on Tape or Vinyl.
This is one of the reasons why I have burnt all my current CD's to mp3's and ogg's - I figure any future music systems will be able to support these formats so provided I make some backups in case of Hard Drive failure I should be able to hang on to my music even when CD's are no longer supported in most music systems. Also it is simply more convient to store music in mp3 than on CD.
1. America takes over running of Iraq immediatley after the war ends.
2. America decides who is going run the important parts of the country, government, oil production etc
3. American companies help repair destroyed oil wells
4. Profit
What if the world is attacked by large man eating tomatoes, does that mean we should exterminate all tomatoes right now ?
There is no evidence whatsoever that Iraq is behind any terrorist attacks or has any intention of being.
Saddam Hussain is a dictator, i.e. he is running the country for his own benefit and wellbeing and that of his supporters and family. Sponsoring international terrorism or launching attacks on anyone is one sure way he can ensure his gravy train is derailed.
Further to that, even if he did have "weapons of mass destruction" he'd have to be utterly crazy to contemplate using them ( and there is no evidence that he is crazy ) knowing what the immediate consequences would be.
I don't know what this war is about, which is worrying in it's self, but this moralalistic nonsense that "Saddam is bad and action should be taken" is either utterly hypocritical ( there are a lot of other governments equally as bad and Western governments are adept at turning a blind eye to the worst extremes of behaviour so long as there interests are satisfied ) or a lie.
There's nothing wrong in posting moral or unpopular opinions but when you can't back them up with any facts you should expect people to point that out to you.
And once we have this war and it's over what then ? I think I read in the paper a week ago that:
"America is not looking to tie up it's troops in any on-going UN style peace keeping operation." and the later in the same article "British troops will be required in the on-going policing of Iraq after the war"
Great, so we get lumbered with cleaning up all the mess afterwards. Fantastic.
I think that's a great idea. Here in the UK politicians have been obsessed with "League Tables" for everything - hospitals, police forces, schools etc etc.
The only Public Service which does not seem to be rated and monitored like this are the politicians. I would really like to see league tables for policians, how many of their initiatives have worked, how many wasted money for a while and were shelved, how many times they have lied in interviews etc.
I imagine they would find some 'very good' reasons not to implement this kind of system because the results would not be terribly positive.
I am going to write to my MP now and ask her to suggest it.
"Shoot for the moon. [perfection] Even if you don't make it, you'll be among the stars. [pretty close]"
Not sure what schools that poster was in but I certainly hope they don't Astronomy as well;-)
Yeah, that doesn't work if you deleted the f#ckin annoying SMS client from your machine though does it. Stupid thing takes about 20mins to run every f#ckin morning. Not anymore it doesn't:-)
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This would apply equally had you made all these changes whilst running Linux and then swapped back to Windows. Windows wouldn't have been able to cope with those changes either.
I don't know anyone who has ever bought windows ( except where it has come with PC ).
When it comes time to upgrade you always know someone who has the latest version. I'm sure this is a pretty general thing, fair enough I work in IT and as everyone knows IT departments are the best place in the world to find installation disks but I'm sure that 99% of people using Windows have not gone out and explicitly bought it.
I should say that I have been using Linux for the last 2 years and therefore have no need, or desire, to copy it myself.
To be fair, as someone has said earlier on, both Linux and Windows are complicated general purpose systems and to expect to be able to make any changes you want to it with no knowledge or understanding of what you are doing is not really possible.
Changing a video card could be compared to changing the radio in your car, sure it's easy enough if you know what you're doing but most people would just get someone else to fit it for them.
Also changing video cards in Windows can turn into just such a long drawn out process, at least in 98 when I last tried but the difference is you can at least see what Linux is trying to do whereas with Windows you're left pretty much guessing.
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Am I right in thinking the US have refused to sign any International agreements banning or controlling the development of Biological & Chemical weapons and are probably researching, developing and manufacturing large quantities of the above themselves ?
i'm sure if they had built a giant chessboard complete with figures 100ft high our interest might be slightly more piqued and we definatley go and have a look !
In my experience the security within a lot of organisations is next to non existant for anyone with a serious desire to act maliciously.
"Microsoft and Disney gave money to a politician in exchange for 'better" IP laws.'"
You are saying that it is OK for companies to buy any laws or legislation which will help them make a profit and that this is not a perversion of the political system.
This is in my view clearly wrong, Companies and Corporations should not be a part of the political system, they do not have the right to a vote and only those with the right to vote should have an influence on politics.
You are saying that because these Companies represent a large number of people, their employees, their customers and other reliant Companies that they should somehow have the right to influence politcal will by proxy on behalf of all these people you say they represent. However this is not the way a politcal system should work, voters have the right to represent their own beliefs and wishes and this is what they should do. They have no way of influencing the beliefs or political persuasions of Companies and therefore the Companies cannot represent the views of these people. By buying political power they are simply representing their own interests, ok these interests might also be in the interests of their customers or employees but there is no guarantee that that would be the case and it the companies interests might well be detrimental to these people, their is no way of calling the company to account if you are not a share holder. In short this is just not the way a Political system should work and is indeed a perversion of the system which is supposed to be in operation in the US ( A democracy ).
Companies are only interested in profit, their sole purpose is to provide shareholders with a return on their investment and you they cannot be blamed for trying to maximize that return. However they are not allowed to use 'any means' to increase their profits, they have to work within the framework of the law which is determined by the will of the people. When companies are able to override the will of the people and buy the rights to alter the laws to their own ends then obviously they will seek to change laws to enable them to make more money. Since making money is their only objective these new laws paid for by them will not have to have any consideration apart from the maximation of profit and that includes having no consideration for whatever the citizens of the US might wish to happen.
Essentially you are saying that it is OK for a country to be governed by Corporations, Companies and Big Business rather than it's people and since the Companies have no concience or concerns other than making money then this is most definatley a perversion of the political system and the country allowing such a system to work.
I too prefer the UK version but prefer the original female presenter to the new one. Also has anyone else noticed that whilst the competitors in Scrapheap Challenge quite often build effective working machines and have exciting final races / challenges the competitors in Junkyard Wars almost never build anything which works properly and so the finale is always a bit of a let down ?
Well the last one died in captivity a few years ago during the filming for Independance day
defense or presecution I think the workd desperate to escape there was persecution which seems very apt.
In actual fact you would probably be Knighted by the Queen, given more ships and men and told to go forth and loot some more.
I believe Britain owes a great debt to many of it's more famous pirates; Francis Drake etc.
This does not look like Fiction to me, it appears to have been published originally in the Sunday Times and Mark Franchetti appears to have been a reporter for many years.
I really don't see much evidence that Iraqi people are that supportive of the US, at best they seem indifferent and in a lot of cases aggressive toward the US. In a way you can see why, the US and UK are invading their country, bombing their cities and telling them what they can or cannot do. Regardless of the motivation behind the actions of the US/UK this kind of behaviour is bound to offend the natural patriotism and loyalty one feels towards one's country.
That's not my experience of windows, certainly the borders of windows can appear pretty fast but then you have to wait for the contents to render and that can take a while. I have run both KDE and Windows on my PC and KDE does feel a lot more responsive than Windows ever did.
I'm looking for a bit of company, you can move in straight way if you like. You will have to make me frequent cups of tea but otherwise I will only charge a reasonable rent. Can I have some references from you first though ?
I totally agree with that statement, I have seen a lot of people spending a lot of money over the years buying CD's of records they already owned on Tape or Vinyl.
This is one of the reasons why I have burnt all my current CD's to mp3's and ogg's - I figure any future music systems will be able to support these formats so provided I make some backups in case of Hard Drive failure I should be able to hang on to my music even when CD's are no longer supported in most music systems. Also it is simply more convient to store music in mp3 than on CD.
1. America takes over running of Iraq immediatley after the war ends. 2. America decides who is going run the important parts of the country, government, oil production etc 3. American companies help repair destroyed oil wells 4. Profit
What if the world is attacked by large man eating tomatoes, does that mean we should exterminate all tomatoes right now ?
There is no evidence whatsoever that Iraq is behind any terrorist attacks or has any intention of being.
Saddam Hussain is a dictator, i.e. he is running the country for his own benefit and wellbeing and that of his supporters and family. Sponsoring international terrorism or launching attacks on anyone is one sure way he can ensure his gravy train is derailed.
Further to that, even if he did have "weapons of mass destruction" he'd have to be utterly crazy to contemplate using them ( and there is no evidence that he is crazy ) knowing what the immediate consequences would be.
I don't know what this war is about, which is worrying in it's self, but this moralalistic nonsense that "Saddam is bad and action should be taken" is either utterly hypocritical ( there are a lot of other governments equally as bad and Western governments are adept at turning a blind eye to the worst extremes of behaviour so long as there interests are satisfied ) or a lie.
There's nothing wrong in posting moral or unpopular opinions but when you can't back them up with any facts you should expect people to point that out to you.
And once we have this war and it's over what then ? I think I read in the paper a week ago that: "America is not looking to tie up it's troops in any on-going UN style peace keeping operation." and the later in the same article "British troops will be required in the on-going policing of Iraq after the war" Great, so we get lumbered with cleaning up all the mess afterwards. Fantastic.
you can bomb spain and bulgaria too for all I care
I think that's a great idea. Here in the UK politicians have been obsessed with "League Tables" for everything - hospitals, police forces, schools etc etc. The only Public Service which does not seem to be rated and monitored like this are the politicians. I would really like to see league tables for policians, how many of their initiatives have worked, how many wasted money for a while and were shelved, how many times they have lied in interviews etc. I imagine they would find some 'very good' reasons not to implement this kind of system because the results would not be terribly positive. I am going to write to my MP now and ask her to suggest it.
"Shoot for the moon. [perfection] Even if you don't make it, you'll be among the stars. [pretty close]" Not sure what schools that poster was in but I certainly hope they don't Astronomy as well ;-)
Yeah, that doesn't work if you deleted the f#ckin annoying SMS client from your machine though does it. Stupid thing takes about 20mins to run every f#ckin morning. Not anymore it doesn't :-)
maybe this joke is amusing.
no, that was made from cheese.
This would apply equally had you made all these changes whilst running Linux and then swapped back to Windows. Windows wouldn't have been able to cope with those changes either.
I don't know anyone who has ever bought windows ( except where it has come with PC ). When it comes time to upgrade you always know someone who has the latest version. I'm sure this is a pretty general thing, fair enough I work in IT and as everyone knows IT departments are the best place in the world to find installation disks but I'm sure that 99% of people using Windows have not gone out and explicitly bought it. I should say that I have been using Linux for the last 2 years and therefore have no need, or desire, to copy it myself.
To be fair, as someone has said earlier on, both Linux and Windows are complicated general purpose systems and to expect to be able to make any changes you want to it with no knowledge or understanding of what you are doing is not really possible.
Changing a video card could be compared to changing the radio in your car, sure it's easy enough if you know what you're doing but most people would just get someone else to fit it for them.
Also changing video cards in Windows can turn into just such a long drawn out process, at least in 98 when I last tried but the difference is you can at least see what Linux is trying to do whereas with Windows you're left pretty much guessing.