It has never been established that the dead were all innocents. SOMEONE in that area had fired upon our ground troops,
You don't see it as a problem that nothing has actually been investigated, and that lots of civilians were slaughtered because SOMEONE somewhere (somewhere else, probably) may have shot at someone?
How would you like it if lots of people in your street were gunned down from a helicopter because somebody in your town may have shot somebody? Do you honestly not see how disproportionate the response is, how any semblance of justice is completely absent, or how disgustingly inhuman that kind of behaviour is?
Kill everybody, just in case somebody might be guilty? What kind of world do you think you're creating with that kind of attitude?
Seriously, these people need to be tried for war crimes. That, or plain murder.
Now, considering that the fighting in Iraq is an anti-insurgency campaign, and the U.S. military is supposed to be winning "hearts and minds," dead civilians, dead reporters, wounded/dead children foster hatred of the U.S. and undermine the mission.
Exactly. If you really want to win hearts and minds, taking the risk that you might be shooting unarmed civilians is absolutely the worst thing you can do. If you want to win hearts and minds, you need to trust people, and in return show that you can be trusted. Paranoia does not win you any hearts and minds. It just breeds more hostility, more violence, and more enemies.
It's not the US soldiers who are standing at the wrong end of a gun, it's the Iraqi civilians. And they never asked to be anywhere in the vicinity of any guns. It's the soldiers' responsibility to be able to handle their weapons responsibly, and to distinguish between a warzone and a bunch of harmless, unarmed civilians.
Some (not all) US soldiers seem to be horribly bad at making that distinction.
By your argument, Iraqi civilians are a lot more justified in shooting US soldiers than vice versa. They're the ones who are constantly at the wrong ends of lethal weapons.
I like Oracle, its products and technologies and I am glad that its opensource products are gaining sales. I wish good luck to Oracle.
I like Oracle too, as long as someone else is the DBA. Installing Oracle, setting up a database, and getting it to a usable state is almost impossible without six months of training.
On every project where we've used Oracle, we ran into problems with it. Quite often, somewhere early in development, we used MySQL or something like that. At some point we move to production-like environment with Oracle, and it should be a simple matter of plugging in a different DB, but every single time, we suddenly find ourselves in a big mess where types don't quite fit or column names are too long or illegal or whatever.
Oracle might be really nice if it was just more powerful, rather than more restrictive.
You still have to dance around the TrustZone lockdown, and the kernel isn't preserved between power cycles, thus still preventing your ability to alter the filesystem (read: load Cyanogen ROMs.)
Does Cyanogen require a different filesystem?
As far as I know (note: I haven't actually modded anything about my Milestone yet), you should be able to replace everything except the kernel, and you can even install kernel modules. So how big of a limitation is that really?
You are just confused about who their customers are.
Nexus One: Customer = You = Hackable device
Desire: Customer = Network Provider = Locked down
That doesn't explain why the Milestone is locked down, though. The Verizon version (the Droid) is not locked down, but the one bought directly by consumers (the Milestone) is locked down. It's really bizarre.
I had the Razr and the Moto Q. It seems like Motorola has the crappiest and most confusing user interfaces ever. If they were loading pure Android, that'd be great. However, Moto customizes the OS with something called "MotoBlur."
Fortunately they didn't put it on their current flagships: the Droid and Milestone.
What I am afraid of, is that they're going to lock the bootloader like they did with the Milestone, making it really hard to put your own custom Android version on it. They did that with the Milestone, and it's a really sucky idea. (Otherwise the Milestone would have been the greatest piece of hardware ever.)
But it's TWO Ghz! It's rated at TWICE the bogomips, it has to be faster! This is so fast, I can start talking before I even dial the number! Believe me, when it comes to talking on a phone, this faster CPU will make it much, much better!!!!!1
Don't forget that it also means half the calling costs. Will save a lot of money when traveling abroad.
And the advantage of this is that customers who call with a problem actually get a useful answer. They're paying for that support, rather than for the license.
That must be the reason every mainland country in Europe associates "Brittish soccer fans" with the worst kind of hooligans?
I have no experience with British football fans, but British tourists have a really bad reputation around here.
Sure, and the French go around with stripey T-shirts and wearing necklaces made of onion, while the Germans live on a diet of beer and 15 different kinds of sausage.
Or maybe decades-old stereotypes that apply to a tiny fraction of the population aren't very helpful.
I don't know where you get your French stereotypes (I've never seen any with striped shirt and onion necklace), but your stereotype of Germans is spot on.
I thought beer and sausages was mostly a Bavarian thing, but on a recent weekend to Trier, there was a square where people were preparing for some festival celebrating cultural diversity, having lots of foodstuffs from lots of different countries. But really, mostly beer and sausages.
Depends on what version you're talking about. IE6 is notoriously slow. First time I noticed it was in 2006, when I wanted it to loop through a list of 400 items. Takes ages in IE6. (Reducing the number of references that need to be followed helps a lot, though.)
Most video games have stories that straight-to-DVD movies would be ashamed of*.
Exactly. Most games are just not suitable for movie adaptation, is basically what TFA is saying. My problem with that is: most games aren't being adapted to movies anyway. Some games really do have good writing and interesting characters.
I think a Planescape: Torment movie could be really good (although a bit hard to sell to a large audience). Fallout has some excellent stuff, and is a lot easier to sell.
KOTOR should be adaptable to a pretty decent Star Wars movie. Maybe not Empire Strikes Back-level, but definitely on par with the prequels. (Although without the history of Darth Vader, what point would there be in watching the prequels? Hm... I think that's really the problem of game to movie adaptations in a nutshell.)
Turkey is a bizarre case which I've never understood, and perhaps someone could explain it to me. You have a country which has traditionally been fiercely secular (even most average voters, not just the military) thanks to Ataturk's reforms... yet 99% of them claim to be Muslims. Now, how can those 'Muslims' possible support a non-Islamic, secular state?
How can so many Christians support a secular state? Possibly they're not complete idiots. It's apparently also possible for muslims to not be idiots.
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I was surprised to see that listed as a theory without anyone providing actual statistics on how often the first guy on the ballot won.
Surely it's not that hard to figure out where candidates are listed in alphabetical order and how often the first name wins in those cases.
It has never been established that the dead were all innocents. SOMEONE in that area had fired upon our ground troops,
You don't see it as a problem that nothing has actually been investigated, and that lots of civilians were slaughtered because SOMEONE somewhere (somewhere else, probably) may have shot at someone?
How would you like it if lots of people in your street were gunned down from a helicopter because somebody in your town may have shot somebody? Do you honestly not see how disproportionate the response is, how any semblance of justice is completely absent, or how disgustingly inhuman that kind of behaviour is?
Kill everybody, just in case somebody might be guilty? What kind of world do you think you're creating with that kind of attitude?
Seriously, these people need to be tried for war crimes. That, or plain murder.
Don't worry. In a few days, someone will post it again.
Now, considering that the fighting in Iraq is an anti-insurgency campaign, and the U.S. military is supposed to be winning "hearts and minds," dead civilians, dead reporters, wounded/dead children foster hatred of the U.S. and undermine the mission.
Exactly. If you really want to win hearts and minds, taking the risk that you might be shooting unarmed civilians is absolutely the worst thing you can do. If you want to win hearts and minds, you need to trust people, and in return show that you can be trusted. Paranoia does not win you any hearts and minds. It just breeds more hostility, more violence, and more enemies.
It's not the US soldiers who are standing at the wrong end of a gun, it's the Iraqi civilians. And they never asked to be anywhere in the vicinity of any guns. It's the soldiers' responsibility to be able to handle their weapons responsibly, and to distinguish between a warzone and a bunch of harmless, unarmed civilians.
Some (not all) US soldiers seem to be horribly bad at making that distinction.
By your argument, Iraqi civilians are a lot more justified in shooting US soldiers than vice versa. They're the ones who are constantly at the wrong ends of lethal weapons.
I like Oracle too, as long as someone else is the DBA. Installing Oracle, setting up a database, and getting it to a usable state is almost impossible without six months of training.
On every project where we've used Oracle, we ran into problems with it. Quite often, somewhere early in development, we used MySQL or something like that. At some point we move to production-like environment with Oracle, and it should be a simple matter of plugging in a different DB, but every single time, we suddenly find ourselves in a big mess where types don't quite fit or column names are too long or illegal or whatever.
Oracle might be really nice if it was just more powerful, rather than more restrictive.
Apparently. Look, I don't know what kind of weird, non-Euclidean pockets he has.
You act like the summary is TFA, and the title is the summary. RTFA before you go bitching.
And everybody knows you can't do that without multiple cores.
You still have to dance around the TrustZone lockdown, and the kernel isn't preserved between power cycles, thus still preventing your ability to alter the filesystem (read: load Cyanogen ROMs.)
Does Cyanogen require a different filesystem?
As far as I know (note: I haven't actually modded anything about my Milestone yet), you should be able to replace everything except the kernel, and you can even install kernel modules. So how big of a limitation is that really?
What sort of tiny pockets do you have?
Big enough for a Fujitsu Tablet, apparently.
You are just confused about who their customers are.
Nexus One: Customer = You = Hackable device
Desire: Customer = Network Provider = Locked down
That doesn't explain why the Milestone is locked down, though. The Verizon version (the Droid) is not locked down, but the one bought directly by consumers (the Milestone) is locked down. It's really bizarre.
I had the Razr and the Moto Q. It seems like Motorola has the crappiest and most confusing user interfaces ever. If they were loading pure Android, that'd be great. However, Moto customizes the OS with something called "MotoBlur."
Fortunately they didn't put it on their current flagships: the Droid and Milestone.
What I am afraid of, is that they're going to lock the bootloader like they did with the Milestone, making it really hard to put your own custom Android version on it. They did that with the Milestone, and it's a really sucky idea. (Otherwise the Milestone would have been the greatest piece of hardware ever.)
But it's TWO Ghz! It's rated at TWICE the bogomips, it has to be faster! This is so fast, I can start talking before I even dial the number! Believe me, when it comes to talking on a phone, this faster CPU will make it much, much better!!!!!1
Don't forget that it also means half the calling costs. Will save a lot of money when traveling abroad.
And the advantage of this is that customers who call with a problem actually get a useful answer. They're paying for that support, rather than for the license.
Eat albacore tuna. That one is not endangered.
Probably true for most long CRPGs. I think you can easily fill a TV season with Fallout 2.
That must be the reason every mainland country in Europe associates "Brittish soccer fans" with the worst kind of hooligans?
I have no experience with British football fans, but British tourists have a really bad reputation around here.
Sure, and the French go around with stripey T-shirts and wearing necklaces made of onion, while the Germans live on a diet of beer and 15 different kinds of sausage.
Or maybe decades-old stereotypes that apply to a tiny fraction of the population aren't very helpful.
I don't know where you get your French stereotypes (I've never seen any with striped shirt and onion necklace), but your stereotype of Germans is spot on.
I thought beer and sausages was mostly a Bavarian thing, but on a recent weekend to Trier, there was a square where people were preparing for some festival celebrating cultural diversity, having lots of foodstuffs from lots of different countries. But really, mostly beer and sausages.
And he has so many coolness points, when you get to 19 and you leave school suddenly being a nerd is the coolest thing to be!
Only now he's not a nerd, he's a lawyer.
Javascript in IE is hardly 'notoriously' slow
Depends on what version you're talking about. IE6 is notoriously slow. First time I noticed it was in 2006, when I wanted it to loop through a list of 400 items. Takes ages in IE6. (Reducing the number of references that need to be followed helps a lot, though.)
Just like Opera! I think that I'll stick with Firefox and Chrome.
I like Safari, but like Chrome, I only use it as a secondary browser for now. Opera and Firefox are still my main browsers.
Exactly how many grannies do you know that don't mind writing a config file?
I think I know of one, though I've never met her personally. If granddads count, it gets a lot easier.
Lots of second generation nerds are having kids nowadays.
The view changes dramatically when you are "on top". Protecting your IP once it has value becomes important for a lot of people.
But only after they've already profited handsomely from it.
Most video games have stories that straight-to-DVD movies would be ashamed of*.
Exactly. Most games are just not suitable for movie adaptation, is basically what TFA is saying. My problem with that is: most games aren't being adapted to movies anyway. Some games really do have good writing and interesting characters.
I think a Planescape: Torment movie could be really good (although a bit hard to sell to a large audience). Fallout has some excellent stuff, and is a lot easier to sell.
KOTOR should be adaptable to a pretty decent Star Wars movie. Maybe not Empire Strikes Back-level, but definitely on par with the prequels. (Although without the history of Darth Vader, what point would there be in watching the prequels? Hm... I think that's really the problem of game to movie adaptations in a nutshell.)
Turkey is a bizarre case which I've never understood, and perhaps someone could explain it to me. You have a country which has traditionally been fiercely secular (even most average voters, not just the military) thanks to Ataturk's reforms... yet 99% of them claim to be Muslims. Now, how can those 'Muslims' possible support a non-Islamic, secular state?
How can so many Christians support a secular state? Possibly they're not complete idiots. It's apparently also possible for muslims to not be idiots.