Well, that assumes that the ideas of the next generation are always good ones.
Historically, Germany was much more tolerant toward Jews than most other European nations, at least until the early 20th Century.
I'm willing to bet that there are a lot of folks who suffered under Hitler and Stalin who would debate with you (if they weren't murdered) whether new ideas are always better.
Russians suffered under the Czars. But how many millions more people were murdered by the USSR while it implimented its revolutionary ideas?
100 years ago, it was the czarists who where thought to be archaic. 70 years ago, the Germans who thought that Jews, slavs, gympsies and others could be considered equals and have rights were considered archaic and race traitors.
>>Under communism everything (including the fruits of my labours) belongs to "the people", in other words "the state". I make something, the state pays me a wage and it determies how and by whom the product is used.
Not exactly. According to Marx, there would be no 'states' or governments. Communism would arrive when people had had enough of being exploited. They would spontaneously and without any leaders, overthrow their capitalist oppressors.
Of course, that is not how it worked under the Soviet Union. But Lenin justified it by saying having a state, like the USSR, was a temporary measure until they could establish a perfect communist world.
What you previously described is actually closer to Fascism. That's another word commonly misused by the general public to describe rascists and such.
Fascism was/is actually an economic theory whose chief proponent was Mussolini. Though it's come to be associated primarily with Hitler's National Socialists, it is actually primarily an economic theory.
You folks really need to read the article that is mentioned, before commenting on it.
The article specifically says you WILL be able to connect the phone to your computer.
This is a passage from the article.
>> The companies said they plan to release a phone that will connect locally to computers running Microsoft's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Windows as well as Apple's Macintosh computers using a cable or a Bluetooth wireless connection.
Well, since the story of "Atlantis" is a greek one, I think it's possible that the city in question could be Atlantis.
That doesn't rule out that there could have been other cities in other civilizations that became "lost."
Just because other cultures and civilizations have similar tales, doesn't mean that Greek civilization didn't know of a distinct city called Atlantis that was lost to history.
You are advocating overturning an election, because you may not like the results? Come on. Please.
I'm no Bush fan. But the way the system works is you go home and wait for next time, if your guy loses. (and I'm working off your posting which asks what happens if Bush wins).
This was a guy living in North Carolina. (The only reason they did find him is some cop found him dumpster diving in back of some supermarket. It was pure luck)
The U.S. is currently looking for Bin Laden in Afghanistan, a country the size of Texas, which has a large population of people sympathetic to Bin Laden's cause.
It took the U.S. seven years to find Eric Rudolph. I believe it may take just as long to find Bin Laden. It doesn't matter which guy wins this election. Finding, capturing and or killing him is going to take a lot of time and a lot of luck.
That said, I wish there were two other options in this race.
Why not convert the shuttle's into something usable for extra-orbital work?
When NASA is finished using them as trucks, launch them into space and convert them into a space fleet. I'm assuming you'd have to convert the engines and use the bays for some other use.
But you could use the shuttles as a space fleet. They'd never return to earth. But maybe they could be used to transport materials to lunar orbit and then another craft within the bay could be used to land the equipment and people on the moon.
With all due respect, I think it is you who is having comprehension problems. My reference to propulsion systems has nothing to do with liftoff.
In order to deploy it, you have to get it into space (using a conventional rocket).
The problem there sir is that if there is a Columbia type accident, you may have just created the world's largest dirty bomb.
Now some here have suggested that the technology exists to make the radioactive material safe enough to survive the explosion in one piece.
The question I think most folks are asking themselves is whether they want to take that chance. It's entirely possible that the radioactive material would not be spread across a wide area in the event of a rocket explosion.
I am referring to how the crew of the B-29 which dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan waited until they were airborne to do final assembly and arming of the weapon.
In a nutshell, the Americans were afraid that if they armed the bomb before takeoff and the plane crashed, they would have nuked themselves.
So they made the decision to arm the weapon after takeoff.
I think that is probably the number one obstacle to ever putting this type of propulsion system to work.
In the event of an explosion during liftoff, it would become the largest dirty bomb ever conceived.
I suppose it may be possible to try to launch the engine components separately and assemble them in orbit. (Similar to what the crew of the B-29 which dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima did (because of similar concerns).
But you'd still have the possibility of radioactive material raining down in the event of a problem during liftoff.
Not much, me thinks.
Microsoft can offer such a standard, but it's up to Web Developers to deploy it. Why would such a standard be better than RSS?
The point of having a web presence is to reach as many readers/users as possible. Limiting my company's site only to users of Microsoft products doesn't stand up to that test.
The site I work for uses RSS and I can't see any circumstance where we would provide content only to some (ie, Windows) readers.
I'd like to start with the disclaimer that I in no way support the record industry's position.
But to take your advice would, from a legal standpoint, be fairly naive.
Yeah. Go ahead, get on with your life.
But what happens when you go to buy a house and at closing, your lawyer finds there is an outstanding court order/lien against you?
I'll tell you what happens. You won't be allowed to buy the property until you make good on the debt. You will essentially be relegating yourself to the status of permanent renter.
I have no idea what the best defense or legal strategy would be for a case like this. But telling anyone that they should ignore the court order is just bad advice.
-dj
>>>RIAA hands the copy to the UPI
The UPI? Sheesh. You must be fairly old. Hardly anyone uses UPI anymore. As a company/wire service, it's barely alive. It's bounced around for years now and last I heard some Saudi Shiek owned it.
I don't think ANY U.S.-based newspapers use it anymore and I'm fairly certain that is the case with local and U.S. national news organizations. Maybe you meant the AP or Reuters?
-dj
Uh. Have you used OS X?
Is it too much effort to go to your system preferences, click on sharing and put a check box next to "Windows File Sharing."
You think that is too much effort?
>>>ppletalk does not like to, uh, talk with Windows/Linux boxes. Yes, you can install Samba, but it takes effort; whereas, Windows will talk to a Windows network flawlessly.
Uh. Wrong. Yes, Reagan aided the Mujahadeen. But they were made up of a collection of hundreds of Afghan groups opposed to the Soviets.
The Northern Alliance folks in the most recent Afghan war were also members of the Mujahadeen. THEY are not Taliban. (They were the Afghans who sided with the U.S.)
The Taliban didn't actually exist until the 1990s, long after Reagan had left office.
yes. That sound great. And while we are at it, shouldn't we change Hollywood so that we aren't exporting our culture and values to the rest of the world?
Like, wow. We should never show women without veils. Allowing women to have opinions! How out rageous.
As for the teeming underclass becoming terrorists... well, we all know how many of the 9/11 terrorists would fit that profile (0).
The terror problem has as much to do with their dislike of Western culture as it does foreign policy or an uneven distribution of wealth.
I for one would rather they hate us than for us to revert to the type of society that they would have us live in.
-dj
But I don't quite see how this film equates to zionism. (Excepting the use of the word). Heck, you can make a better case that this is Christian Propaganda.
Neo is the 2nd coming... (of Jesus?), Trinity? Hardly a Jewish concept. (Ever hear of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost?)
The use of the word Zion is used throughout Biblical literature. Christian AND Jewish.
With all due respect, I think you and the Egyptian censors need to step back from the ledge and relax.
It's a movie. Nothing more. This just reminds me of all those college English lit classes. The higher literary critics are always looking for subtle meaning behind every story.
But it seems to me that while doing so, they really miss the entertainment value of the story itself.
In the 1970s there was a television series in America called "Battlestar Galatica."
The plot was about this caravan of space voyageers who came from a planet called Cobol that had been destroyed by evil robots. They were looking for their long-lost sister-planet, Earth. (They were also always refering to "the lords of Cobol)
Well, the Mormons believe that God was once a human being who lived on a planet called Cobol.
I am not a Mormon.
So, to follow your logic, I should not have watched the television series because it happened to use terms central to LDS belief?
Even if you want to follow the logic of the folks who banned this film, it still doesn't make sense. The Trinity isn't a Jewish concept, (see Trinity from the movie) it's a Christian one. And Zion, while part of the Hebrew Bible, is also important in Christian belief as well.
I believe it's imporant to be tolerant of ALL religions. Not just the ones we approve of. If that model applies to the West, it should also apply in the Middle East as well.
-dj
>> If you don't know that Zion is not just a place in a ass-kick movie with 3D effects, then I suggest you put google to use and learn just *WHY* the name "Zion" has so much stigma associated with it, and why many firmly believe that the Zionist movement is a destructive one for the human race as a whole.
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Well, that assumes that the ideas of the next generation are always good ones.
Historically, Germany was much more tolerant toward Jews than most other European nations, at least until the early 20th Century.
I'm willing to bet that there are a lot of folks who suffered under Hitler and Stalin who would debate with you (if they weren't murdered) whether new ideas are always better.
Russians suffered under the Czars. But how many millions more people were murdered by the USSR while it implimented its revolutionary ideas?
100 years ago, it was the czarists who where thought to be archaic. 70 years ago, the Germans who thought that Jews, slavs, gympsies and others could be considered equals and have rights were considered archaic and race traitors.
>>Under communism everything (including the fruits of my labours) belongs to "the people", in other words "the state". I make something, the state pays me a wage and it determies how and by whom the product is used.
Not exactly. According to Marx, there would be no 'states' or governments. Communism would arrive when people had had enough of being exploited. They would spontaneously and without any leaders, overthrow their capitalist oppressors.
Of course, that is not how it worked under the Soviet Union. But Lenin justified it by saying having a state, like the USSR, was a temporary measure until they could establish a perfect communist world.
What you previously described is actually closer to Fascism. That's another word commonly misused by the general public to describe rascists and such.
Fascism was/is actually an economic theory whose chief proponent was Mussolini. Though it's come to be associated primarily with Hitler's National Socialists, it is actually primarily an economic theory.
-dj
For about $20 you can buy a laser level. No more need for chalk lines or or fashioned levels.
-dj
You folks really need to read the article that is mentioned, before commenting on it.
The article specifically says you WILL be able to connect the phone to your computer.
This is a passage from the article.
>>
The companies said they plan to release a phone that will connect locally to computers running Microsoft's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Windows as well as Apple's Macintosh computers using a cable or a Bluetooth wireless connection.
Well, since the story of "Atlantis" is a greek one, I think it's possible that the city in question could be Atlantis.
That doesn't rule out that there could have been other cities in other civilizations that became "lost."
Just because other cultures and civilizations have similar tales, doesn't mean that Greek civilization didn't know of a distinct city called Atlantis that was lost to history.
What application are you referring to? I've been using PCs since Dos and Macs since about 1985 and I have no idea what you are talking about.
Have you ever used Konfabulator? My guess is no. So how would you know that there are dozens of similar windows applications.
I'm not a platform fanatic. I use Macs for some things, Windows for others. But this claim just seems like hyperbole to me.
I've used Konfabulator for some time now. It's a useful little application which has some neat features. I've seen NOTHING like it for Windows.
Before poo pooing this, I'd suggest you give it a try. You may like it. I, for one, will run in on my Windows boxes, when it is available.
Actually, in my mind, the only wasted vote is a vote cast for a candidate who will not do what they promised to do.
You've got to be kidding, right?
You are advocating overturning an election, because you may not like the results? Come on. Please.
I'm no Bush fan. But the way the system works is you go home and wait for next time, if your guy loses. (and I'm working off your posting which asks what happens if Bush wins).
The U.S. government took seven years to catch Eric Rudolph, the Atlanta Olympic Park bomber and anti-abortion bomber.
The link below adds more details. The headline is a bit deceptive in that it referrs to his being wanted five years for the abortion clinic bombings.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/05/31/rudolph.arrest/
This was a guy living in North Carolina. (The only reason they did find him is some cop found him dumpster diving in back of some supermarket. It was pure luck)
The U.S. is currently looking for Bin Laden in Afghanistan, a country the size of Texas, which has a large population of people sympathetic to Bin Laden's cause.
It took the U.S. seven years to find Eric Rudolph. I believe it may take just as long to find Bin Laden. It doesn't matter which guy wins this election. Finding, capturing and or killing him is going to take a lot of time and a lot of luck.
That said, I wish there were two other options in this race.
Why not convert the shuttle's into something usable for extra-orbital work?
When NASA is finished using them as trucks, launch them into space and convert them into a space fleet. I'm assuming you'd have to convert the engines and use the bays for some other use.
But you could use the shuttles as a space fleet. They'd never return to earth. But maybe they could be used to transport materials to lunar orbit and then another craft within the bay could be used to land the equipment and people on the moon.
It seems a waste to mothball these ships.
In order to deploy it, you have to get it into space (using a conventional rocket).
The problem there sir is that if there is a Columbia type accident, you may have just created the world's largest dirty bomb.
Now some here have suggested that the technology exists to make the radioactive material safe enough to survive the explosion in one piece.
The question I think most folks are asking themselves is whether they want to take that chance. It's entirely possible that the radioactive material would not be spread across a wide area in the event of a rocket explosion.
I'm just not sure I'm on board with that belief.
In a nutshell, the Americans were afraid that if they armed the bomb before takeoff and the plane crashed, they would have nuked themselves.
So they made the decision to arm the weapon after takeoff.
Read more here:
http://www.acepilots.com/usaaf_tibbets.html
I think that is probably the number one obstacle to ever putting this type of propulsion system to work. In the event of an explosion during liftoff, it would become the largest dirty bomb ever conceived. I suppose it may be possible to try to launch the engine components separately and assemble them in orbit. (Similar to what the crew of the B-29 which dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima did (because of similar concerns). But you'd still have the possibility of radioactive material raining down in the event of a problem during liftoff.
Not much, me thinks. Microsoft can offer such a standard, but it's up to Web Developers to deploy it. Why would such a standard be better than RSS? The point of having a web presence is to reach as many readers/users as possible. Limiting my company's site only to users of Microsoft products doesn't stand up to that test. The site I work for uses RSS and I can't see any circumstance where we would provide content only to some (ie, Windows) readers.
A better example would be of a home builder saying, there's nothing wrong with your roof, it's the rain causing the leak!
I'd like to start with the disclaimer that I in no way support the record industry's position. But to take your advice would, from a legal standpoint, be fairly naive. Yeah. Go ahead, get on with your life. But what happens when you go to buy a house and at closing, your lawyer finds there is an outstanding court order/lien against you? I'll tell you what happens. You won't be allowed to buy the property until you make good on the debt. You will essentially be relegating yourself to the status of permanent renter. I have no idea what the best defense or legal strategy would be for a case like this. But telling anyone that they should ignore the court order is just bad advice. -dj
>>>RIAA hands the copy to the UPI The UPI? Sheesh. You must be fairly old. Hardly anyone uses UPI anymore. As a company/wire service, it's barely alive. It's bounced around for years now and last I heard some Saudi Shiek owned it. I don't think ANY U.S.-based newspapers use it anymore and I'm fairly certain that is the case with local and U.S. national news organizations. Maybe you meant the AP or Reuters? -dj
Uh. Have you used OS X? Is it too much effort to go to your system preferences, click on sharing and put a check box next to "Windows File Sharing." You think that is too much effort? >>>ppletalk does not like to, uh, talk with Windows/Linux boxes. Yes, you can install Samba, but it takes effort; whereas, Windows will talk to a Windows network flawlessly.
Uh. Wrong. Yes, Reagan aided the Mujahadeen. But they were made up of a collection of hundreds of Afghan groups opposed to the Soviets.
The Northern Alliance folks in the most recent Afghan war were also members of the Mujahadeen. THEY are not Taliban. (They were the Afghans who sided with the U.S.)
The Taliban didn't actually exist until the 1990s, long after Reagan had left office.
-dj
I know this is a bit off topic... but interesting all the same.
Actually, Crom was a god who was worshipped by the Celts in what is now Ireland. Here's a link to some additional background:
http://www.folklegend.com/article1072.html
-dj
yes. That sound great. And while we are at it, shouldn't we change Hollywood so that we aren't exporting our culture and values to the rest of the world? Like, wow. We should never show women without veils. Allowing women to have opinions! How out rageous. As for the teeming underclass becoming terrorists... well, we all know how many of the 9/11 terrorists would fit that profile (0). The terror problem has as much to do with their dislike of Western culture as it does foreign policy or an uneven distribution of wealth. I for one would rather they hate us than for us to revert to the type of society that they would have us live in. -dj
Arrrghhh. Shiver me timbers!
Forgive me.
But I don't quite see how this film equates to zionism. (Excepting the use of the word). Heck, you can make a better case that this is Christian Propaganda.
Neo is the 2nd coming... (of Jesus?), Trinity? Hardly a Jewish concept. (Ever hear of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost?)
The use of the word Zion is used throughout Biblical literature. Christian AND Jewish.
-dj
With all due respect, I think you and the Egyptian censors need to step back from the ledge and relax.
It's a movie. Nothing more. This just reminds me of all those college English lit classes. The higher literary critics are always looking for subtle meaning behind every story.
But it seems to me that while doing so, they really miss the entertainment value of the story itself.
In the 1970s there was a television series in America called "Battlestar Galatica."
The plot was about this caravan of space voyageers who came from a planet called Cobol that had been destroyed by evil robots. They were looking for their long-lost sister-planet, Earth. (They were also always refering to "the lords of Cobol)
Well, the Mormons believe that God was once a human being who lived on a planet called Cobol.
I am not a Mormon.
So, to follow your logic, I should not have watched the television series because it happened to use terms central to LDS belief?
Even if you want to follow the logic of the folks who banned this film, it still doesn't make sense. The Trinity isn't a Jewish concept, (see Trinity from the movie) it's a Christian one. And Zion, while part of the Hebrew Bible, is also important in Christian belief as well.
I believe it's imporant to be tolerant of ALL religions. Not just the ones we approve of. If that model applies to the West, it should also apply in the Middle East as well.
-dj
>> If you don't know that Zion is not just a place in a ass-kick movie with 3D effects, then I suggest you put google to use and learn just *WHY* the name "Zion" has so much stigma associated with it, and why many firmly believe that the Zionist movement is a destructive one for the human race as a whole.
FreeBSD is the reference platform for Mac OS X. If a program runs on FreeBSD, it will run on Mac OS X.
You may recall that Mac OS X is just a modified (to make it look like the Macintosh) release of NeXTstep Unix.
-dj