You may use your water, if you ever get it, only once. You may not share the same jug/bottle with anyone else, and you may not reuse your jug/bottle. Use of unauthorized water storage containers is not allowed. The reuse of water is strictly prohibited and any attempt to filter water for such purposes or to provide technology that could be used for the purposes of filtration could result in lawsuits worth many times the value of iraq's water filtration industry.
Now we know the real reason why the US embargo covered water filtration technology... too much capacity for fair use.
My dad has one of those for his TiBook. They're pretty good. He was having problems with it shutting down on its own when it got really hot, and he hasn't had any problems since.
I can't find any of the stuff I want on it. Until they get a wider selection and some smaller labels signed up, I don't think it's going to be of much use to anyone other other than 13 year olds. Until then, I'll keep using SoulSeek (I can't use kazaa any more... I did a search for Jack Elliot and got pages and pages of Missy Eliot/Janis Jackson duets).
Also, I keep getting errors when I click on some of the links. It may be my firewall, though.
My $2000 PC's power-supply exploded after two years of use, seriously fucking everything up. That's why I have an iBook now. The funny thing is that I think I spent more money making the PC work the way I wanted it to (replacing broken components, upgrading, etc.) than the total cost of my iBook, which works great (although the baclight is kind of dim when it's really bloody cold).
So now I've got a mac and everything is fine and dandy, except my wireless router is non-apple, from SMC, in fact. Damn thing never fucking works (with macs or PCs). One of these days I'll replace it with an airport. I will never try to save money by buying PC equipment again. If my time and sanity are worth anything, then the apple stuff is cheaper.
I just realized something kind of amusing, yet sad.
The dialogue on US foreign policy usually goes something like this:
"The US is fucked up man." "What are you talking about, they're so much better than (insert nasty regime here)" "Oh yeah they are." "Give me some examples." And of course, people have posted some examples here.
Who the fuck cares whether the US is better or worse than the Khmer Rouge (for example, could have been many others). The Khmer Rouge was seriously fucked up. If there's even the slightest possibility that the two regimes are in any way comprable, then that's a pretty bad sign. Comparing a country to the worst regimes in history is setting the bar pretty low. "Nice, we do less raping and pillaging than the vikings (norsemen or football team, both apply)... we're the fucking best."
If you've got that much money and that much power and there's even the slightest doubt about your country's record, that's a pretty bad sign.
At the same time, I feel pretty fucking immature for all this US bashing I tend to do. It doesn't really solve anything. If we can make more US citizens understand what is going on in the world, then that's good thing, but if we just really piss them off and make them defensive and xenophobic, the world is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. It seems more like I'm kicking them when they're down than trying to help them see things differently.
compared to what? compared to every other first-world nation since WWII.
let's take iraq for an example of how the us handles things:
did anyone notice that iraq's human rights record improved when they were no longer allied with the us? development of weapons of mass destruction: their biological samples came from the us. torture, summary imprisonments, gassing curds: all occurred under us watch. the us and iraq were such fucking buddies that the us gave them permission to attack kuwait ("we will not interfere in the affairs of the middle east...") and then turned around and butt-fucked their former allies because kuwait offered to give them a whole crapload of oil to fight for them. kuwait is still paying off their debts to the us. The US basically pimped it's army. Mass starvation: that's from the sanctions... pre-sanctions, iraq had better education, public health-care, public housing, etc. than the US.
The sweatshops in the third world are a result of economic conditions that are largely perpetuated by US trade policies and are generally producing products for american companies for sale to american consumers.
Mass executions: captured taliban were loaded into trucks with no air-holes and shipped accross afghanistan. most of them didn't make it. when they cried out for air, air holes were shot into the side of the trucks, but with the captives still in them. This was done by the northern alliance soldiers under the orders/supervision of US troops.
I wouldn't want any of the countries you mentioned playing international police either, but two wrongs don't make a right, and just because there are other bad countries out there, and some of them don't like the US, doesn't make the US without blame.
Seriously fucked up: cuba (why do you think they had the revolution in the first place), iran (same deal), vietnam(as you mention), afghanistan (the cia trained and armed bin laden and the taliban and now do you know how hated karzai is? everyone keeps trying to assassinate him), iraq (armed and supported repressive government, helped it gas it's own people, starved it's citizens with sanctions, including sanctions on water filtration equipment, despite military documents showing estimates of the civilian casualties this would cause, and the fact that any sanctions that could reasonably be expected to cause civilian casualties are illegal under international law, and then killed a whole bunch of people overthrowing the government), guatemala (as you mentioned), nicaragua(iran-contra), east timor (provided support), chile, etc.
I don't have the details on this, but i've heard the US was planning on keeping france after WWII until churchill talked them out of it.
of course, the us has done good stuff too. post-WWII germany turned out alright, and some of their wars, fighting crazy regimes like the nazis and the japanese did a lot of good. never mind that in both cases, they weren't the ones who declared war, and in the case of japan, the us was the only country in history to use nukes, and they still maintain a vastly unpopular military presence there.
(1) Ignore them (Difficult to do when they're the most powerful country in the world).
(2) Sanctions (Also difficult when they're the world's largest economy).
(3) War (We don't need any more wars, they start enough on their own).
Yeah, you all know who I'm talking about. The U.S. playing international police is kind of like letting a convicted criminal play domestic cop. Oh wait, they're already doing that... his name is John Poindexter.
How can a country with an abominable human-rights record and the world's largest stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, not to mention a nasty habit of invading places and seriously fucking them up, call any country "unfriendly" or "just plain mean"?
when people working on an open source project get lazy, the software stagnates for a while until someone who isn't so lazy takes over.
when people growing food in the USSR got lazy (or got purged as the case may be), people starved to death, and the person who wasn't so lazy couldn't take over, because he was probably dead or in a gulag or something.
do you think the local college will offer eng102: open-source spelling?
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With the exception of the Guess Who, every artist mentioned is quite awful, completely lacking in innovation and relatively un-Canadian, in that they're just playing the same drivel as the US popstars. Avril Lavigne and Nickelback being two of the worst affronts to music in general ever to be spawned from the depths of music-industry hell (for those who don't know, Avril was an unknown country singer before her handlers decided she needed a new image).
There is good Canadian music. Vancouver's late-80s, early-90s electronic/industrial scene, for example, had a worldwide impact, but you never heard any of the stuff on the radio.
Radio tends to be shit, whether it's US shit or Canadian shit doesn't seem to matter. The groundbreaking stuff (like Venetian Snares) won't make it onto the radio any time soon, whether there are Can-con laws or not.
I still think Canada's content laws need to be reworked (and that Sheila Copps should be pecked to death by pigeons), but I don't think life would be any better if I had to listen to Creed all day long on the radio instead of Nickelback.
I read a while ago, i think in macworld, that firewire2 has the potential to go well beyond 800Mbps (I think the spec allowed speeds up to something like 2Gbps, but apple just decided there wasn't the need), and can also potentially support distances of up to 100m. Can someone who knows what they're talking about confirm/deny/correct this?
The Toronto Star is a really crummy newspaper. It's not really fit for educated people, and since most/.ers are relatively well educated, I really don't know why we're bothering to look at it.
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You may use your water, if you ever get it, only once. You may not share the same jug/bottle with anyone else, and you may not reuse your jug/bottle. Use of unauthorized water storage containers is not allowed. The reuse of water is strictly prohibited and any attempt to filter water for such purposes or to provide technology that could be used for the purposes of filtration could result in lawsuits worth many times the value of iraq's water filtration industry.
Now we know the real reason why the US embargo covered water filtration technology... too much capacity for fair use.
My dad has one of those for his TiBook. They're pretty good. He was having problems with it shutting down on its own when it got really hot, and he hasn't had any problems since.
If the heat is enough to warp the casing, I'd hate to think what it might be doing to some of the other components.
I can't find any of the stuff I want on it. Until they get a wider selection and some smaller labels signed up, I don't think it's going to be of much use to anyone other other than 13 year olds. Until then, I'll keep using SoulSeek (I can't use kazaa any more... I did a search for Jack Elliot and got pages and pages of Missy Eliot/Janis Jackson duets). Also, I keep getting errors when I click on some of the links. It may be my firewall, though.
My $2000 PC's power-supply exploded after two years of use, seriously fucking everything up. That's why I have an iBook now. The funny thing is that I think I spent more money making the PC work the way I wanted it to (replacing broken components, upgrading, etc.) than the total cost of my iBook, which works great (although the baclight is kind of dim when it's really bloody cold). So now I've got a mac and everything is fine and dandy, except my wireless router is non-apple, from SMC, in fact. Damn thing never fucking works (with macs or PCs). One of these days I'll replace it with an airport. I will never try to save money by buying PC equipment again. If my time and sanity are worth anything, then the apple stuff is cheaper.
I just realized something kind of amusing, yet sad.
The dialogue on US foreign policy usually goes something like this:
"The US is fucked up man."
"What are you talking about, they're so much better than (insert nasty regime here)"
"Oh yeah they are."
"Give me some examples."
And of course, people have posted some examples here.
Who the fuck cares whether the US is better or worse than the Khmer Rouge (for example, could have been many others). The Khmer Rouge was seriously fucked up. If there's even the slightest possibility that the two regimes are in any way comprable, then that's a pretty bad sign. Comparing a country to the worst regimes in history is setting the bar pretty low. "Nice, we do less raping and pillaging than the vikings (norsemen or football team, both apply)... we're the fucking best."
If you've got that much money and that much power and there's even the slightest doubt about your country's record, that's a pretty bad sign.
At the same time, I feel pretty fucking immature for all this US bashing I tend to do. It doesn't really solve anything. If we can make more US citizens understand what is going on in the world, then that's good thing, but if we just really piss them off and make them defensive and xenophobic, the world is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. It seems more like I'm kicking them when they're down than trying to help them see things differently.
compared to what? compared to every other first-world nation since WWII.
let's take iraq for an example of how the us handles things:
did anyone notice that iraq's human rights record improved when they were no longer allied with the us?
development of weapons of mass destruction: their biological samples came from the us. torture, summary imprisonments, gassing curds: all occurred under us watch. the us and iraq were such fucking buddies that the us gave them permission to attack kuwait ("we will not interfere in the affairs of the middle east...") and then turned around and butt-fucked their former allies because kuwait offered to give them a whole crapload of oil to fight for them. kuwait is still paying off their debts to the us. The US basically pimped it's army. Mass starvation: that's from the sanctions... pre-sanctions, iraq had better education, public health-care, public housing, etc. than the US.
The sweatshops in the third world are a result of economic conditions that are largely perpetuated by US trade policies and are generally producing products for american companies for sale to american consumers.
Mass executions: captured taliban were loaded into trucks with no air-holes and shipped accross afghanistan. most of them didn't make it. when they cried out for air, air holes were shot into the side of the trucks, but with the captives still in them. This was done by the northern alliance soldiers under the orders/supervision of US troops.
I wouldn't want any of the countries you mentioned playing international police either, but two wrongs don't make a right, and just because there are other bad countries out there, and some of them don't like the US, doesn't make the US without blame.
Seriously fucked up: cuba (why do you think they had the revolution in the first place), iran (same deal), vietnam(as you mention), afghanistan (the cia trained and armed bin laden and the taliban and now do you know how hated karzai is? everyone keeps trying to assassinate him), iraq (armed and supported repressive government, helped it gas it's own people, starved it's citizens with sanctions, including sanctions on water filtration equipment, despite military documents showing estimates of the civilian casualties this would cause, and the fact that any sanctions that could reasonably be expected to cause civilian casualties are illegal under international law, and then killed a whole bunch of people overthrowing the government), guatemala (as you mentioned), nicaragua(iran-contra), east timor (provided support), chile, etc.
I don't have the details on this, but i've heard the US was planning on keeping france after WWII until churchill talked them out of it.
of course, the us has done good stuff too. post-WWII germany turned out alright, and some of their wars, fighting crazy regimes like the nazis and the japanese did a lot of good. never mind that in both cases, they weren't the ones who declared war, and in the case of japan, the us was the only country in history to use nukes, and they still maintain a vastly unpopular military presence there.
(2) Sanctions (Also difficult when they're the world's largest economy).
(3) War (We don't need any more wars, they start enough on their own).
Yeah, you all know who I'm talking about. The U.S. playing international police is kind of like letting a convicted criminal play domestic cop. Oh wait, they're already doing that... his name is John Poindexter.
How can a country with an abominable human-rights record and the world's largest stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, not to mention a nasty habit of invading places and seriously fucking them up, call any country "unfriendly" or "just plain mean"?
when people working on an open source project get lazy, the software stagnates for a while until someone who isn't so lazy takes over.
when people growing food in the USSR got lazy (or got purged as the case may be), people starved to death, and the person who wasn't so lazy couldn't take over, because he was probably dead or in a gulag or something.
do you think the local college will offer eng102: open-source spelling?
With the exception of the Guess Who, every artist mentioned is quite awful, completely lacking in innovation and relatively un-Canadian, in that they're just playing the same drivel as the US popstars. Avril Lavigne and Nickelback being two of the worst affronts to music in general ever to be spawned from the depths of music-industry hell (for those who don't know, Avril was an unknown country singer before her handlers decided she needed a new image). There is good Canadian music. Vancouver's late-80s, early-90s electronic/industrial scene, for example, had a worldwide impact, but you never heard any of the stuff on the radio. Radio tends to be shit, whether it's US shit or Canadian shit doesn't seem to matter. The groundbreaking stuff (like Venetian Snares) won't make it onto the radio any time soon, whether there are Can-con laws or not. I still think Canada's content laws need to be reworked (and that Sheila Copps should be pecked to death by pigeons), but I don't think life would be any better if I had to listen to Creed all day long on the radio instead of Nickelback.
I read a while ago, i think in macworld, that firewire2 has the potential to go well beyond 800Mbps (I think the spec allowed speeds up to something like 2Gbps, but apple just decided there wasn't the need), and can also potentially support distances of up to 100m. Can someone who knows what they're talking about confirm/deny/correct this?
The Toronto Star is a really crummy newspaper. It's not really fit for educated people, and since most /.ers are relatively well educated, I really don't know why we're bothering to look at it.