A quick analogy: let us imagine you are the IT boss of a big company and that while you were happily joking with a bunch of newly arrived secretaries, yours arrives and tells you "we face a major disaster now", what are you expected to do? Do your bosses pay you to keep on smiling with the ladies? Nooooo...
I do not know if that would have made a difference, but he ought to have made something. "Sorry kids, I have got to go now" comes easily first. He may have asked precisely what were the news and if somebody needed him. And indeed, pilots apparently waited for orders for some time.
I didn't realise 'The Simpsons' was really neocon propaganda - thanks for pointing that out.
In fact most Frenchmen know nothing of the Simpsons. A lack of culture maybee, but a fact. But this beautiful sentence was rather ill-received here because it came along among many other bird names.
Fortunately, there are even fewer people aware of what "talk-radios" or other Neil Cavuto or other war-breeders have said about us (and others, but the frogs were especially ill treated). They would have gone madly anti-american.
Indeed, the last year has shown why the First amendment to the US constitution may not always be a great thing: US airwaves were filled with hate.
European countries only hate Turkey because of their religious beliefs.
Hate? What hate? What for? If the EU was hating the Turks, there would be no more Istambul, just a radioactive desert. Stop using tough words like that if you cannot imagine what they imply.
Like how the European Union not allowing Turkey into the EU because it is not of Christian faith.
Uh? Has it occured to you that EU citizens may wish to share common cultural roots together, that many would appreciate if they could feel like being a EU citizen and no mere members of a mere free trade zone? I personnaly am very much ill at ease with Turkey joining the EU for this reason. I fear there may be too many discrepancies between us, too many reasons not to build anything together.
And if Turkey is in Europe, then why not Russia, Algeria, Mongolia?? Remember Attila? We share something with China, for sure!
And there are Turks who feel this would be foolish too. I met some.
And now, should we Europeans associate with Turkey: of course, peace and prospecrity for all!
About your signature, the correct French sentence would be : "les français sont des singes capitulards bouffeurs de fromages".
But it is rather weird indeed, because we are proud to eat real cheese, and certainly not proud to have been defeated by Germany in 1939.
This was certainly meant to be several insults in a single sentence anyway, an instead it provides a good idea of the rethorical level of US neocons: under the belt.
So... your machine is not properly patched, is it?
As far as I remember, most recent MS critical patches were urging for a reboot, and they are less than 180 days old...
As for my own feedback on the matter, I would confirm that 2000 is much more stable than XP. A data that does not appears in the artcile is the proportion of users with admin rights on their machine, or even those who work with a root-allowed session: this has an impact on the overall stability...
One can set up a mixed system, not fully ferociously hyper-capitalist, not going-nowhere "communist" (definition to be found, somewhere; this is off-topic): it is called "concessions" here, or renting.
- No real property right is given: one just buy the right to use the "land", for an amount of time. - This right to use may be transmitted by heritage or not. - The price may be anything: a fixed price at the beginning, a share of what is earned, renting... - some conditions may be mandatory: ecological respect, genuine use and exploitation of what is "rented". I mean: one cannot just pretend to own something, one has to effectively use it or lose any right to it.
Who would collect the money? A democratic elected, non-for-profit and accountable body.
Call it communism if you will, I do not care as long as it provides incentives to use "space-land" intelligently, respecfully (and for a profit) while avoiding that one hundred greedy folk claim property rights over the galaxy (an beyond).
As a side-discussion, may I point out that in French law, someone who cultivates a field for long enough without being asked to leave it can claim property of the field after a -long- amount of time, even if this field does not belong to him at the beginning. Property is nothing God-given, it is seized. Those would be moon-owners have just seized a beautifull piece of paper for just under $50.
You are confusing the fact that the US is a country founded on the Constitution guaranteeing freedom and justice for all with select people.
The Constitution of the US intends to guarantee freedom, justice, free speech and other great ideas, but laws are powerless by themselves. Their application depends on the will, the skill, the honesty of those who are responsible to defend those good laws, citizens, judges and politicians, policemen, journalists.
Democracy is fragile, however wonderful the texts are.
Er... I am sorry. Do you still seriously suggest that any serious weaponnery was recently found in Iraq??? THAT would be a scoop.
> the UN was able to exploit Iraq by getting oil cheaper than it could on the open market
Er... (again) does this UN acted as an oil broker for a profit? That would be a scoop too! I am eager for your -serious- sources.
And for what concerns the WMD inspections, they were rather successfull: discovering nothing when there is nothing to be discovered is a perfectly sane and scientific result. The issue is, for WMDs as for science, that it is quite difficult to know for sure _when_ you have searched enough to declare "nothing to be found"...
The "fucking bastard" does not post anonymously at least.
Just search Yahoo to convince yourself they are owned by the Moon sect :
http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/54/54437.html
You are plain right.
But I cannot think of any internationnal body UN sized that could "have teeth" by itself - for the moment.
Because if someone was suggesting such a thing, neither the Chinese nor the US nor, probably, the French would accept a supranational body overseing them. Or would they? Would we? Hum...
Those ideas according to which "the UN is finished because it has no teeth" are interresting only at first glance because they miss the point: the UN is not a government issued from agreed-by-all-and-democratic elections, but rather a "place" where all countries in the world have a say and can discuss and sometime, reach a consensus, however weak.
Would a strong UN be accepted by the US if the US were not dominating it? No.
Would a strong US-led UN be accepted by non-US contries? No way I fear.
The UN is imperfect but it exists, which is a victory in itself because, at least, is this a place to talk. Better some talks than nothing or just schrapnel.
I wonder if GWB have any better idea for the foreseable future. Do you?
> The new Russian water mines that were preventing the British from bringing food to port in Iraq?
> The whole Russian GPS jammers?
Are Russian mines recent French weapons? Noooo...
Are GPS jammers hard to produce? I would be astonished.
Has the UN "racked in the money"? Have you read that anywhere were they can think beyond Karl Rove's speaches? The suspected enrichment we are talking about (and which may well have effectively taken place for all I know) has nothing to do with the UN.
The UN resolution -unvetoed by the US as you know- allowed Iraq to choose whom they were buying supplies from, and they seized the occasion to choose some entreprises who would pay kick-backs. And the UN saw nothing because nothing was to be seen by them. The process (and the resolution) was flawed, not the UN as such.
So.... this _is_ propaganda repeated over and over. But we do not hate US citizens, mind you.
The UN tried to do what the Us would let it do... which means nothing but a very limited "oil for food programm". And according to the US press, 90% of the money was effectively used to buy useful things : is a 10% bridbe such a huge figure in a third world economy? And in a modern economy?
I wonder what the kick-backs really are in the US, in France, elsewhere, for what concernes Oil or Weapons contracts... I suspect 10% is not a high figure in those murky deals.
Nice propaganda.
Please mod him down, because Saddam bought no weapon : they would have been used and found, and apart the Moon sect reporters closedly related to some hawks in the Pentagon (Washington Times), nobody found a recent French weapon.
Saddam was not given money under UN sanction, but he had the right to choose what the UN would buy and deliver to him, and bribes were setted up (logically).
But this brilliant slashdotter is right on one crucial point: if he is a USA citizen, he _IS_ accountable when the US people lets a bastard be elected as president, as the German people was responsible for letting the bloodthirsty and madman Hitler take power.
Fed up of Bush mafia? The whole world is fed up, but only US citizens have the mean to oust him peacefully.
"This pisses me off. Why do most slashdotters assume that just b/c you have an MBA you must be some evil hell bent individual? I'm working on getting my MBA and that doesn't mean that I'm going to try to walk all over the other businesses and perform illegal activities."
You mix up two things : evil things and illegal things. One can implement evil tactics provided they are not illegal.
Are tax-free paradise micro-countries illegal? Noooo... Is it illegal to avoid paying any tax ? Nooooot necessarily... provided you've got a "good" lawyer and a guy with an MBA. Funny how US citizens frequently imagine that every evil is identified and made illegal by US laws ! Er... is it really funny in fact?
I used to discuss frequently with students from Law schools and our equivalent of MBAs here in France and the mentalities are the same: "it is not forbidden, it leads to profit, do it; whatever that may be". They have even casted out the word "moral" and they talk of "ethics", so that nobody knows what is behind. Much more practical.
Key phrase: "hey! it's not evil, it is lawfull business !". Sure. And MBA students are trained to spot & use holes in the law, as far as I know. Business as usual.
What we should watch out for is that companies don't start a race towards the bottom, where everyone is fighting for scraps and the jobs go to the lowest bidder.
I have the strange feeling that the race has begun some 25 years ago...
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I do not know if that would have made a difference, but he ought to have made something. "Sorry kids, I have got to go now" comes easily first. He may have asked precisely what were the news and if somebody needed him. And indeed, pilots apparently waited for orders for some time.
Tough times anyway...
In fact most Frenchmen know nothing of the Simpsons. A lack of culture maybee, but a fact. But this beautiful sentence was rather ill-received here because it came along among many other bird names.
Fortunately, there are even fewer people aware of what "talk-radios" or other Neil Cavuto or other war-breeders have said about us (and others, but the frogs were especially ill treated). They would have gone madly anti-american. Indeed, the last year has shown why the First amendment to the US constitution may not always be a great thing: US airwaves were filled with hate.
I won't vote for you.
Hate? What hate? What for? If the EU was hating the Turks, there would be no more Istambul, just a radioactive desert. Stop using tough words like that if you cannot imagine what they imply.
Like how the European Union not allowing Turkey into the EU because it is not of Christian faith.
Uh? Has it occured to you that EU citizens may wish to share common cultural roots together, that many would appreciate if they could feel like being a EU citizen and no mere members of a mere free trade zone? I personnaly am very much ill at ease with Turkey joining the EU for this reason. I fear there may be too many discrepancies between us, too many reasons not to build anything together.
And if Turkey is in Europe, then why not Russia, Algeria, Mongolia?? Remember Attila? We share something with China, for sure!
And there are Turks who feel this would be foolish too. I met some.
And now, should we Europeans associate with Turkey: of course, peace and prospecrity for all!
About your signature, the correct French sentence would be : "les français sont des singes capitulards bouffeurs de fromages".
But it is rather weird indeed, because we are proud to eat real cheese, and certainly not proud to have been defeated by Germany in 1939.
This was certainly meant to be several insults in a single sentence anyway, an instead it provides a good idea of the rethorical level of US neocons: under the belt.
> It seems the US is quickly being the only country that is inclusive of its immigrants, while Europe is maintains its historical racist policies.
Racist? It's not racist, it is another rule, not related to a race whatsoever.
Meanwhile I do prefer our French law, which allows anybody born in France to become French, as you suggest.
So... your machine is not properly patched, is it?
As far as I remember, most recent MS critical patches were urging for a reboot, and they are less than 180 days old...
As for my own feedback on the matter, I would confirm that 2000 is much more stable than XP.
A data that does not appears in the artcile is the proportion of users with admin rights on their machine, or even those who work with a root-allowed session: this has an impact on the overall stability...
One can set up a mixed system, not fully ferociously hyper-capitalist, not going-nowhere "communist" (definition to be found, somewhere; this is off-topic): it is called "concessions" here, or renting.
- No real property right is given: one just buy the right to use the "land", for an amount of time.
- This right to use may be transmitted by heritage or not.
- The price may be anything: a fixed price at the beginning, a share of what is earned, renting...
- some conditions may be mandatory: ecological respect, genuine use and exploitation of what is "rented". I mean: one cannot just pretend to own something, one has to effectively use it or lose any right to it.
Who would collect the money? A democratic elected, non-for-profit and accountable body.
Call it communism if you will, I do not care as long as it provides incentives to use "space-land" intelligently, respecfully (and for a profit) while avoiding that one hundred greedy folk claim property rights over the galaxy (an beyond).
As a side-discussion, may I point out that in French law, someone who cultivates a field for long enough without being asked to leave it can claim property of the field after a -long- amount of time, even if this field does not belong to him at the beginning.
Property is nothing God-given, it is seized. Those would be moon-owners have just seized a beautifull piece of paper for just under $50.
"Fries licence" someone ?
La licence recuite ?
You are confusing the fact that the US is a country founded on the Constitution guaranteeing freedom and justice for all with select people.
The Constitution of the US intends to guarantee freedom, justice, free speech and other great ideas, but laws are powerless by themselves. Their application depends on the will, the skill, the honesty of those who are responsible to defend those good laws, citizens, judges and politicians, policemen, journalists.
Democracy is fragile, however wonderful the texts are.
It just reminds me of an ill-fated car in an excellent movie : Brazil by Terry Gillian.
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Snapshot of an happy driver:
http://trond.com/brazil/images/brazil19.
A site about the movie:
http://orangecow.org/pythonet/brazil/braz
Er... I am sorry. Do you still seriously suggest that any serious weaponnery was recently found in Iraq??? THAT would be a scoop.
> the UN was able to exploit Iraq by getting oil cheaper than it could on the open market
Er... (again) does this UN acted as an oil broker for a profit? That would be a scoop too! I am eager for your -serious- sources.
And for what concerns the WMD inspections, they were rather successfull: discovering nothing when there is nothing to be discovered is a perfectly sane and scientific result. The issue is, for WMDs as for science, that it is quite difficult to know for sure _when_ you have searched enough to declare "nothing to be found"...
The "fucking bastard" does not post anonymously at least. Just search Yahoo to convince yourself they are owned by the Moon sect : http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/54/54437.html
You are plain right. But I cannot think of any internationnal body UN sized that could "have teeth" by itself - for the moment. Because if someone was suggesting such a thing, neither the Chinese nor the US nor, probably, the French would accept a supranational body overseing them. Or would they? Would we? Hum... Those ideas according to which "the UN is finished because it has no teeth" are interresting only at first glance because they miss the point: the UN is not a government issued from agreed-by-all-and-democratic elections, but rather a "place" where all countries in the world have a say and can discuss and sometime, reach a consensus, however weak. Would a strong UN be accepted by the US if the US were not dominating it? No. Would a strong US-led UN be accepted by non-US contries? No way I fear. The UN is imperfect but it exists, which is a victory in itself because, at least, is this a place to talk. Better some talks than nothing or just schrapnel. I wonder if GWB have any better idea for the foreseable future. Do you?
> The new Russian water mines that were preventing the British from bringing food to port in Iraq? > The whole Russian GPS jammers? Are Russian mines recent French weapons? Noooo... Are GPS jammers hard to produce? I would be astonished. Has the UN "racked in the money"? Have you read that anywhere were they can think beyond Karl Rove's speaches? The suspected enrichment we are talking about (and which may well have effectively taken place for all I know) has nothing to do with the UN. The UN resolution -unvetoed by the US as you know- allowed Iraq to choose whom they were buying supplies from, and they seized the occasion to choose some entreprises who would pay kick-backs. And the UN saw nothing because nothing was to be seen by them. The process (and the resolution) was flawed, not the UN as such. So.... this _is_ propaganda repeated over and over. But we do not hate US citizens, mind you.
The UN tried to do what the Us would let it do... which means nothing but a very limited "oil for food programm". And according to the US press, 90% of the money was effectively used to buy useful things : is a 10% bridbe such a huge figure in a third world economy? And in a modern economy? I wonder what the kick-backs really are in the US, in France, elsewhere, for what concernes Oil or Weapons contracts... I suspect 10% is not a high figure in those murky deals.
Nice propaganda. Please mod him down, because Saddam bought no weapon : they would have been used and found, and apart the Moon sect reporters closedly related to some hawks in the Pentagon (Washington Times), nobody found a recent French weapon. Saddam was not given money under UN sanction, but he had the right to choose what the UN would buy and deliver to him, and bribes were setted up (logically). But this brilliant slashdotter is right on one crucial point: if he is a USA citizen, he _IS_ accountable when the US people lets a bastard be elected as president, as the German people was responsible for letting the bloodthirsty and madman Hitler take power. Fed up of Bush mafia? The whole world is fed up, but only US citizens have the mean to oust him peacefully.
Humanity is walking toward an age of wonders, men. Think of how easy it was to DoS a morse connection...
"This pisses me off. Why do most slashdotters assume that just b/c you have an MBA you must be some evil hell bent individual?
I'm working on getting my MBA and that doesn't mean that I'm going to try to walk all over the other businesses and perform illegal activities."
You mix up two things : evil things and illegal things. One can implement evil tactics provided they are not illegal.
Are tax-free paradise micro-countries illegal? Noooo... Is it illegal to avoid paying any tax ? Nooooot necessarily... provided you've got a "good" lawyer and a guy with an MBA. Funny how US citizens frequently imagine that every evil is identified and made illegal by US laws ! Er... is it really funny in fact?
I used to discuss frequently with students from Law schools and our equivalent of MBAs here in France and the mentalities are the same: "it is not forbidden, it leads to profit, do it; whatever that may be". They have even casted out the word "moral" and they talk of "ethics", so that nobody knows what is behind. Much more practical.
Key phrase: "hey! it's not evil, it is lawfull business !". Sure. And MBA students are trained to spot & use holes in the law, as far as I know. Business as usual.
What we should watch out for is that companies don't start a race towards the bottom, where everyone is fighting for scraps and the jobs go to the lowest bidder.
I have the strange feeling that the race has begun some 25 years ago...
Right, it comes from the French word I assume.
No, it is not an anti-american insult.