"In the future the wars will be fought by tiny robots and it will be your job to make sure they work"
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Re:Reparenting window managers are for wimps
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Laser is a coherent beam of EM waves. And this one seems to be pulsed.... just not on the right frequency to knock out electronics IFAIK.
Sorry just being hideously pedantic.
Re:Because yes size does indeed matter.....
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As I tend to interact with my programs via the keyboard having big buttons etc does nowt for my usability. I switched back straight to the 98 view from windows XP and made everything pretty small.
I can't help but think that failure to posit alternatives is complicity in Saddam's crimes.
Then we are all complicit in Mugabes crimes, in Than Shwe's. Heck we don't even have a solution to North Korea?
My thinking is that 5-10 years time Iraq will be back as a dictatorship, not because arabs are incapable, but because the Oil that generates the majority of the wealth (and power) in the country is so easy to control.
The solution, diversify the economy, if that is possible with the western countries sucking up lots of the educated individuals.
What we could have done was instead of imposing sanctions, encouraged the middle classes to generate non-oil wealth weakening Saddams relative power base, indeed that is the strategy I would employ for Iran.
Social justice didn't really come about in western europe until the landed gentries monpoly of the money was eroded by the industrial revolution.
Personally I am interested in roughly two types of conversations, those dealing with things such as technology and philosophy, where anonymity is useful and location don't have much affect and those that focus on events and areas where location is necescary.
If I wanted to organise a group of people to protest a new airport or just find some people to have a beer with locality is useful. Traditionally the people inhabiting the net aren't that interested in the outside world. But times they are a changing and as more 'normal' people get on the net they want more help for there 'normal' activities.
The slash dot paradox:
Why does the site go down if no-one reads the page?
It's true no matter which country you live in as well, although America seems to get the more interesting scandals being a super power and all. Lets hope this isn't one of them.
Looking at the current administration including there friends such as Kissinger and Poindexter.
Reading PNAC essay on how they plan to stay the worlds dominant power which has strong connections to Cheney and Rumsfeld.
Realising that Middle East oil will become more important as places like the North Sea deplete.
Looking at Afghanistan at the moment.
Now I agree with you that freeing the iraqis is a nobel cause, I just don't trust some of your current administration to do a good job, and may cause more hatred for us (I'm from the UK) in the region. Which would be counter productive.
Probably but we won't see easily refuelable things straight away.
If there are only a few companies they might decide to become a cartel and not do the easily refuelable models.
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"In the future the wars will be fought by tiny robots and it will be your job to make sure they work" Slashdot Rule 1455.1.2 - In any story about war and technology there must be the Simpsons quote from the GI Jane rip off episode. Failure to comply will ensure a duplicate post of the story will be repeatedly posted until the quote is done.
You had teeth, lucky bastard.
We have a rather haphazard system of measurment which means we measure our weight in stones and our height in feet and inches.
However we weigh our food in kilograms and water for cooking in litres.
All science is done using the metric system.
Basically it is fucked up.
Laser is a coherent beam of EM waves. And this one seems to be pulsed.... just not on the right frequency to knock out electronics IFAIK.
Sorry just being hideously pedantic.
As I tend to interact with my programs via the keyboard having big buttons etc does nowt for my usability. I switched back straight to the 98 view from windows XP and made everything pretty small.
Then we are all complicit in Mugabes crimes, in Than Shwe's. Heck we don't even have a solution to North Korea?
My thinking is that 5-10 years time Iraq will be back as a dictatorship, not because arabs are incapable, but because the Oil that generates the majority of the wealth (and power) in the country is so easy to control.
The solution, diversify the economy, if that is possible with the western countries sucking up lots of the educated individuals.
What we could have done was instead of imposing sanctions, encouraged the middle classes to generate non-oil wealth weakening Saddams relative power base, indeed that is the strategy I would employ for Iran.
Social justice didn't really come about in western europe until the landed gentries monpoly of the money was eroded by the industrial revolution.
If I wanted to organise a group of people to protest a new airport or just find some people to have a beer with locality is useful. Traditionally the people inhabiting the net aren't that interested in the outside world. But times they are a changing and as more 'normal' people get on the net they want more help for there 'normal' activities.
The slash dot paradox:
Why does the site go down if no-one reads the page?
It's true no matter which country you live in as well, although America seems to get the more interesting scandals being a super power and all. Lets hope this isn't one of them.
Reading PNAC essay on how they plan to stay the worlds dominant power which has strong connections to Cheney and Rumsfeld.
Realising that Middle East oil will become more important as places like the North Sea deplete.
Looking at Afghanistan at the moment.
Now I agree with you that freeing the iraqis is a nobel cause, I just don't trust some of your current administration to do a good job, and may cause more hatred for us (I'm from the UK) in the region. Which would be counter productive.
"how to [bathe|eat] a cat"
Probably but we won't see easily refuelable things straight away. If there are only a few companies they might decide to become a cartel and not do the easily refuelable models.
Now, if they were inventing the car, they would create special fuel bags that could only be bought from the maker of the car or somesuch.