We "did this" to Bin Laden back in the days before he projected his campaign beyond the borders of his home country (Saudi Arabia). His original ultimatum was basically "get the hell out of my country, and take your stinking weapons, military bases and thousands of troops with you. Oh, and keep your nose out of our business in future." His ultimatum was also aimed at the brutal Saudi Dictatorship which is propped up by the west through arms sales and tacit political support offering it 'respectability'.
Surely any discovery, either for or against prior ideas is a step forward and thus positive. It's the scientific method - proving yourself wrong is just as big a success as proving yourself right. It's the proof that is important:)
That's hearsay and not true to real life. My wife's Honda Civic (2004 model) is a 1.7litre Turbo Diesel and returns around 40-50mpg urban cycle and up to 70mpg motorway cruising.
And that's not even a hybrid. A hybrid should be using the electric motor mostly in the urban cycle where the most time is spent at low speed or stationery, with the petrol/diesel engine only kicking in for extra-urban driving. So the overall consumption figures should be upwards of 80mpg in real world use. Unless there's a problem with poor octane fuel giving a low efficiency burn.
It seems to me a GPS device would give inadmissible evidence if just attached to the car and left there. The police would still have to physically follow the car to provide eyewitness testimony (or better yet, video evidence) that the car travelled to all the places the GPS unit did.
If the police don't observe the car's journeys, then they have no way of proving that the GPS wasn't removed from the original target vehicle, moved independently of it by a third party, and then reattached later.
As far as I know, that's called 'reasonable doubt', and makes the evidence sufficiently suspect to tampering so as not to be reliable in a court of law. I think it would render the evidence gathered by the device to be considered 'hearsay'.
I'm still waiting for the game about Vietnam where the Vietcong are portrayed as covert freedom fighters
They weren't actually called the Vietcong, they were called the Vietminh. Vietcong was a derogatory name used by the US to belittle their enemy. Much as 'Jerry' or 'Jap' was used by the allies in WWII. Just so you know...:)
I'd love to be optimistic, but I'd say your personal experience stems from the customers at the store where you work not being in the REAL world of everyday use, where money is at stake. They're probably mainly home users who have the time to live with the foibles and spend hours trying to resolve issues.
Unfortunately for the rest of us it means that our old 'friend' BSOD is not someone we can afford to have visiting us all the time. And yet here he is knocking at the door AGAIN!!! SP2, pffft! I've persevered with Vista installs for each and every release and/or 'fix' and it's still as bad - time to upgrade to XP Pro again I think, there's real work that needs doing that can't wait for the ever-present glitches to be fixed.
I still really hope that Win7 isn't as bad as I'm expecting it to be. It looked so promising in it's early days, but now looks more and more like a rebranding exercise/Vista re-release.
Oh, but for the record, this will be the 6th time I've upgraded this one single machine to XP, so how does that affect your figures?;)
Damn if you didn't drink the kool aid, as I believe the saying goes. Who gives you your info? The military. And how do we know this information is correct? Because the military says so. Sounds like the same circular argument used by religious fanatics.
You cite Wiki over the Soviet tactics in Afghanistan, but fail to point out the obvious similarity to the widely and repeatedly broadcast imagery from the initial 'Shock and Awe' attacks on Iraq, including bombing power stations, water (sewage/fresh water) treatment plants and pretty much any part of civilian infrastructure possible. Despite it being Illegal under the Geneva Conventions to do so.
Given enough time, no doubt the Wolverines would also have sought any and all assistance possible to fight back against their occupiers, whether they be indigenous populations or foreign support.
Neither did the Wolverines come up against a vast propaganda system and false-flag tactics, such as 'Soviet' and 'Cuban' special forces operatives working covertly (dressed as Wolverines) to place explosives in public places and foment civil unrest between armed militia factions vying for power in the vacuum left by the initial invasion.
They still sell them at my local PC World store. There are 2 Linux models and one Windows model. The price difference is also on display, and after asking staff about them, they say the Linux model is easily outselling the Windows model. It seems that most of the people who are in the market for a netbook rather than a full sized laptop are the more tech savvy users who know what they're doing. So I guess 'company policy' differs depending on your region and the number of tech savvy people living there, because around here the policy is definitely to focus on what's selling - and that (for the time being) is Linux units.
Not to mention that it can run on netbooks - I know two people who turned their Asus EeePCs into hackintoshes. One of them used to have a 12" G4 PowerBook until Apple, in it's wisdom, fancifully ended that fabulously fine form factor.
F**k the Queen Mum. I'd sing it loud and proud on the tube - and I know damn well nobody would kick my teeth in, because the majority of British people think our monarchy is irrelevant.:D
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Try restoring over ANY copy of Windows! ;)
I've experienced this on a number of occasions, and on one of those occasions it was MS who poorly WROTE the mission critical app - Explorer!
I don't know what you're talking about - I don't watch Lost! ;p
...how does it detect a weapon with a silencer? Or stop a bomb with a remote detonator/timer?
We "did this" to Bin Laden back in the days before he projected his campaign beyond the borders of his home country (Saudi Arabia). His original ultimatum was basically "get the hell out of my country, and take your stinking weapons, military bases and thousands of troops with you. Oh, and keep your nose out of our business in future." His ultimatum was also aimed at the brutal Saudi Dictatorship which is propped up by the west through arms sales and tacit political support offering it 'respectability'.
Any other points of history you need help with?
Why has someone modded this ignorant racist bigot of a troll 'Insightful'? Shame on that modder for supporting this intolerance.
"Yo Momma!"
I read TFA and just thought "as you do..."
Surely any discovery, either for or against prior ideas is a step forward and thus positive. It's the scientific method - proving yourself wrong is just as big a success as proving yourself right. It's the proof that is important :)
That's hearsay and not true to real life. My wife's Honda Civic (2004 model) is a 1.7litre Turbo Diesel and returns around 40-50mpg urban cycle and up to 70mpg motorway cruising. And that's not even a hybrid. A hybrid should be using the electric motor mostly in the urban cycle where the most time is spent at low speed or stationery, with the petrol/diesel engine only kicking in for extra-urban driving. So the overall consumption figures should be upwards of 80mpg in real world use. Unless there's a problem with poor octane fuel giving a low efficiency burn.
...were running a ZX80. The NSA didn't expect THAT now did they?
NSA Agent: "How can we possibly run a virus in 1k of RAM?"
It seems to me a GPS device would give inadmissible evidence if just attached to the car and left there. The police would still have to physically follow the car to provide eyewitness testimony (or better yet, video evidence) that the car travelled to all the places the GPS unit did.
If the police don't observe the car's journeys, then they have no way of proving that the GPS wasn't removed from the original target vehicle, moved independently of it by a third party, and then reattached later.
As far as I know, that's called 'reasonable doubt', and makes the evidence sufficiently suspect to tampering so as not to be reliable in a court of law. I think it would render the evidence gathered by the device to be considered 'hearsay'.
A lawyer will take any case he can make a buck on.
A lawyer will take any case he or she can make a buck on.
There, corrected that for you - we do live in equal opportunity times you know ;)
Except yours. Damn, that means not ALL generalisations are... aaaagggghhhh brain fart!
I'm still waiting for the game about Vietnam where the Vietcong are portrayed as covert freedom fighters
They weren't actually called the Vietcong, they were called the Vietminh. Vietcong was a derogatory name used by the US to belittle their enemy. Much as 'Jerry' or 'Jap' was used by the allies in WWII. Just so you know... :)
I'd love to be optimistic, but I'd say your personal experience stems from the customers at the store where you work not being in the REAL world of everyday use, where money is at stake. They're probably mainly home users who have the time to live with the foibles and spend hours trying to resolve issues.
Unfortunately for the rest of us it means that our old 'friend' BSOD is not someone we can afford to have visiting us all the time. And yet here he is knocking at the door AGAIN!!! SP2, pffft! I've persevered with Vista installs for each and every release and/or 'fix' and it's still as bad - time to upgrade to XP Pro again I think, there's real work that needs doing that can't wait for the ever-present glitches to be fixed.
I still really hope that Win7 isn't as bad as I'm expecting it to be. It looked so promising in it's early days, but now looks more and more like a rebranding exercise/Vista re-release.
Oh, but for the record, this will be the 6th time I've upgraded this one single machine to XP, so how does that affect your figures? ;)
Isn't that an offshoot of Linux Against Ballmer Insurgent Activism?
I'm glad to see somebody's thinking of the children! :D
Damn if you didn't drink the kool aid, as I believe the saying goes. Who gives you your info? The military. And how do we know this information is correct? Because the military says so. Sounds like the same circular argument used by religious fanatics.
You cite Wiki over the Soviet tactics in Afghanistan, but fail to point out the obvious similarity to the widely and repeatedly broadcast imagery from the initial 'Shock and Awe' attacks on Iraq, including bombing power stations, water (sewage/fresh water) treatment plants and pretty much any part of civilian infrastructure possible. Despite it being Illegal under the Geneva Conventions to do so.
Given enough time, no doubt the Wolverines would also have sought any and all assistance possible to fight back against their occupiers, whether they be indigenous populations or foreign support.
Neither did the Wolverines come up against a vast propaganda system and false-flag tactics, such as 'Soviet' and 'Cuban' special forces operatives working covertly (dressed as Wolverines) to place explosives in public places and foment civil unrest between armed militia factions vying for power in the vacuum left by the initial invasion.
Or he could punching an Arm in the Dick - much more effective if you ask me! :o
They still sell them at my local PC World store. There are 2 Linux models and one Windows model. The price difference is also on display, and after asking staff about them, they say the Linux model is easily outselling the Windows model. It seems that most of the people who are in the market for a netbook rather than a full sized laptop are the more tech savvy users who know what they're doing. So I guess 'company policy' differs depending on your region and the number of tech savvy people living there, because around here the policy is definitely to focus on what's selling - and that (for the time being) is Linux units.
Not to mention that it can run on netbooks - I know two people who turned their Asus EeePCs into hackintoshes. One of them used to have a 12" G4 PowerBook until Apple, in it's wisdom, fancifully ended that fabulously fine form factor.
Fortunately for Microsoft, normal people with jobs can afford to pay for a better operating system.
A rapidly declining demographic then?
True - malware infections are MUCH quicker ;p
F**k the Queen Mum. I'd sing it loud and proud on the tube - and I know damn well nobody would kick my teeth in, because the majority of British people think our monarchy is irrelevant. :D
Make that 'had' and you're on the right track. Now you just have corporate brand power ;D