I've seen a lot of revisionist history going on around here. Lots of people claiming that everyone knew Iraq had no new WMD and that the only people who would believe such an obvious lie would be the stupid American public. As this is not how I remember it I did a little research.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2167933.stm - this timeline is interesting. It seems that Iraq liked to play games with throwing weapons inspectors out of the country and letting them back in.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,974998,00.html - this Guardian story is interesting as well. Here's a good quote from the story: Mr Blix, a former foreign minister, prefers to remain sanguine. "By and large my relations with the US were good," he said, reiterating his belief that the Iraqi regime would likely never have complied with any of the UN resolutions around disarmament had it not been for the presence of 200,000 US troops in the region.
So Mr. Blix believes the only reason inspections are going on is because we are making them go on.
And yet he feels it necessary for inspections to continue because more information is necessary: http://www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/Bx27.htm.
So please stop pretending that everyone but the moronic American public knew that Bush was lieing.
When someone has an axe to grind, they grab everything that they can to help them grind it and dismiss the rest. Bush's axe was Iraq and he tried to trump up proof that Iraq had weapons. There was no proof at the time. HOWEVER, that does not mean that there wasn't doubt that Saddam still had weapons. The two are not mutually exclusive.
Oh, and about grinding axes. Too many people on/. have axes to grind. They'll latch onto a story like this and ignore anything that threatens their view.
If you realized it was April 1st after Google's Gmail To Offer 1GB E-mail Storage? then you're a telepathic genius.
If you realized it was April 1st after IF Quake Takes Fragging To Whole New Level then you are just a regular genius.
If you realised it was April 1st after Visualizing Stories On Current Events With Newsmap then you are smart, but mostly hate the media.
If you thought it was April 1st after 500 EURO reward for finding car by finding laptop then I can refer you to a friend of mine, Akmar #!#! (prounounced She-bang-she-bang-bang for those not versed in l33t sp34k or recent polls) who has some pills you might be interested in.
If you didn't think it was April 1st and you got all the way to Omniscience Protocol then I'm surprised all those hours listening to your own subliminal music and drinking coffee hasn't killed you yet.
If you... ah screw it. I can't even keep up with the editors. And there's still time left yet!
That's exactly what I mean. The odds are that anybodies submission (in this case my own post) will have grammatical errors. And in the case of front page stuff, don't paying customers get to look over the content first and raise flags if there are problems?
Another good news for the Mandrake community is an announce from Mandrakesoft that due to the stock resumed trading on Euronext on last Monday, with a nice increase of +10.00% in three days.
I presume this means something along the lines of: more good news for the Mandrake community is that this new release has caused Mandrakesoft's stock to resume trading and is up 10% in three days.
Could the editors at least make sure the posts are readible?
So Yahoo! has decided that a search engine where pages get ranked by advertising dollars as opposed to a search engine ranked by what the user wants (relevance to the search term) is a good idea? Nothing like finding what the customer wants and giving it to him/her.
Look, we all know that politicians are worse than scum. And I'm not talking about just Democrats or just Republicans or just Whatever Party You Like. All politicians are scum. If you would like some evidence, you can have this bit from the article:
And unlike those TV ads, the videos that appear on the Internet face none of the content regulations of the 2002 campaign finance law, including the statement by the candidate of "I approved this ad" that has given some campaigns pause before launching negative political ads. Web videos have the potential to be nastier than the typical TV ad.
Its abundantly clear that the law doesn't apply to politicians. So what can we do? Change the law? Hardly. Vote for someone else? Another sleazeball. Rally the masses? Good luck.
About the only thing we can do about this is to ask ourselves one question: if I were in there position, would I do the same? Then you decide where to go from there.
Please tell your friends and acquaintances that there is life beyond M$.
I guess I didn't mention this part. When someone asks me for help, I'll gladly point them to whatever I think is best (MEPIS, firefox, thunderbird were the examples I gave). In fact, I have already gotten a few people to switch to using MEPIS and several to switch to using fire/bird/fox. However, if I walk behind someone using a computer and see them using Internet Explorer, I'm not going to go into rant mode, or even stop for that matter.
The war is still far from over, but the tide of this crucial battle has most definitely turned.
I'm relatively new here, but maybe someone could explain why so many people use these metaphors. I like GNU/Linux and OSS as much as the next guy here, but why do I keep hearing about the desktop wars, browser wars, etc?
I use firefox because I like it. It is more secure than Internet Explorer, no popups, and is extendible to what seems like no end.
I use thunderbird because I like it. Nearly all my spam gets filtered and I don't have to worry about any outlook insecurities.
I use MEPIS at home on my desktop. When you install MEPIS, everything just works. Click on a file and it opens in whatever you think it should open in. I love the ease of keeping everything up to date: apt-get is incredible. I love the stability: I haven't rebooted my computer more than a few times (3 max) since I finished the install.
Most here use Linux/OSS because we like it. Isn't that enough? Why do we keep seeing articles about how some Linux/OSS product is going to take over the world in x years? Why does it matter if everyone on the planet using Linux/OSS? If you don't like it when people preach to you about religion, why is it fine to preach about OSS? More than once I have seen people referred to as "Linux Evangelists"...
Obligatory: I am not a misogynist nor do I otherwise hold any prejudices against women, this post is merely to ask a question by drawing an analogy to what would be considered unacceptable practices.
Having said that, why don't all corporations 'outsource' all work that is currently done by women to men. You could pay the men the same salary, but it would still be cheaper because you would not have to put up with the potential of losing your worker due to pregnancy, etc. Obviously, this idea won't fly. But what is different about this idea than outsourcing to India/Japan/what-have-you?
What do you like to do? Do you enjoy CS? Do you enjoy EE? If you don't like either, maybe you shouldn't do either.
Sure, if you like CS and continue at it, you may find some things difficult. But at least you'll be happy some of the time. Doing something you dislike just for the salary is a good way to be unhappy all of the time.
If we can get this close to peolpe that we know are extreme terrorists, why don't we just nab them at that time? I can't believe that we'd know the home address of an extremist and not take them into custody.
Are you telling me that the Great and Enlightened Minds Of Eurpope never engaged in:
1. Stealing land from others.
2. Using slave labour on that land.
3. Cutting down trees.
4. Employing child labour to cheaply replace slaves
If I'm not mistaken, Europe has its own history of wars and industrial revolutions and people's rights abuses. Can we at least paint a more complete painting of history? Sadly, you have had many replies to your topic but I don't see even one mentioning this fact. Is it truly because US = BAD!!! and Europe = Good?
I am amazed (actually, not really, I could have predicted it from this crowd) at the reaction to this news.
When a spammer gets arrested, the +5 funny "Thanks Santa for an early Christmas Present" posts abound. But when a man who has killed hundreds of thousands of people, terrorized his nation and surrounding nations, and has financed Palestinian suicide bombers, not one "Thanks for an early gift". Nope. The only +5 insightful's are "I'm glad he was captured but". And some of these even leave out the "I'm glad he was captured" part.
Ehrm, scanning stuff has nothing to do with what percentage you wind up with.
100% means he got all 15 energy tanks, all 250 missiles, all the power bombs, all the suit upgrades and all the beam upgrades. These items amount to 99%, but when you get the last upgrade, it gives you two percentage points.
Scanning 100% of items though, will unlock an image gallery.
Things can only get worse. As our society becomes ever more dependent on information technology, the gulf between those who understand computers and those who don't will get wider and wider. In 50 years, perhaps much less, the ability to read and write code will be as essential for professionals of every stripe as the ability to read and write a human language is today.
I wonder if he would have said the same thing about cars 75 years ago? As we get further into this new technology, everyone will be driving a car. You won't be able to get anywhere unless you can fix any and all problems that arise.
I can't speak for Symantec, but I can speak for AdBlock - an extension for Mozilla Firebird. The content still gets downloaded, but you don't see it. In fact, you can chose to leave the empty space, or have it hide the empty space. It works with regular expressions, so you have complete and total control over what you see and what you block. _Complete_ (Oh yeah, and nothing gets blocked unless you ask it to block something.)
Greenspan has very little control over the interest rates that Joe Average pays. AG controls the overnight rate that the Fed charges banks, but that barely trickles down to the consumer.
BARELY TRICKLES DOWN? Perhaps you weren't paying attention. Perhaps you missed the 0.0% financing on cars, or the 4-5% mortgage rates (which happen to be the lowest in 60some-odd years) or the fact that you're lucky if your savings account is earning.5% interest. Where have you been?
Thow in massive deficit spending and a pending credit crunch when interest rates inevitably rise, and I'm not yet convinced that we are seeing a real recovery.
Greenspan won't raise the interest rates until the economy actually is doing better, not just showing signs of doing better. So while there may be other factors that will effect the possibly-pending recovery, I wouldn't count on raising interest rates being the one to kill it off.
Personally, I think the whole textbook thing is a scam. The textbook makers and campus bookstores have teamed up to see exactly how much money they can screw students out of.
So I have to buy a half inch thick book for $120. Fine, I can put up with that. But next semester, I sell it back and get $20 if I'm lucky (and the bookstore will sell it for $90!). And then there's the whole bs about changing edititions every semester or every other semester. Half the time, I can't even sell my book back for that crappy price because there is a new edition. And when you are buying books for a class and come upon a book with a new edition, you obviously can't buy any used copies so you have to shell out another hundred and change.
... the other day, what appeared to be a grandma was purchasing a game (sadly, I didn't see what the game was). The clerk asked who the game was for, and when the lady said it was for her grandson, the clerk then asked his age and said that the game she was buying was a violent game and they don't sell games like that to children. The grandma's response was: well, he had it before but it broke, so this is a replacement copy. I missed the rest of the conversation because it didn't seem too important at the time, but I think this incident brings up some serious questions.
If the numbers are down, maybe kids are getting their unsuspecting (grand)parents to purchase the games for them?
In the aforementioned case, who is responsible if this kid gets his/her hands on this game? The kid, the parent, the grandparent, or the clerk?
What more can the clerk do? If the kid wants to get the game, he'll get the game. So how can this be the responsibility of the store?
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I've seen a lot of revisionist history going on around here. Lots of people claiming that everyone knew Iraq had no new WMD and that the only people who would believe such an obvious lie would be the stupid American public. As this is not how I remember it I did a little research.
m - this timeline is interesting. It seems that Iraq liked to play games with throwing weapons inspectors out of the country and letting them back in.
8 ,00.html - this Guardian story is interesting as well. Here's a good quote from the story: Mr Blix, a former foreign minister, prefers to remain sanguine. "By and large my relations with the US were good," he said, reiterating his belief that the Iraqi regime would likely never have complied with any of the UN resolutions around disarmament had it not been for the presence of 200,000 US troops in the region.
/. have axes to grind. They'll latch onto a story like this and ignore anything that threatens their view.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2167933.st
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,97499
So Mr. Blix believes the only reason inspections are going on is because we are making them go on.
And yet he feels it necessary for inspections to continue because more information is necessary: http://www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/Bx27.htm.
So please stop pretending that everyone but the moronic American public knew that Bush was lieing.
When someone has an axe to grind, they grab everything that they can to help them grind it and dismiss the rest. Bush's axe was Iraq and he tried to trump up proof that Iraq had weapons. There was no proof at the time. HOWEVER, that does not mean that there wasn't doubt that Saddam still had weapons. The two are not mutually exclusive.
Oh, and about grinding axes. Too many people on
Ahhh yes, but you managed to bypass one of the biggest office pains: the PHB.
If you realized it was April 1st after IF Quake Takes Fragging To Whole New Level then you are just a regular genius.
If you realised it was April 1st after Visualizing Stories On Current Events With Newsmap then you are smart, but mostly hate the media.
If you thought it was April 1st after 500 EURO reward for finding car by finding laptop then I can refer you to a friend of mine, Akmar #!#! (prounounced She-bang-she-bang-bang for those not versed in l33t sp34k or recent polls) who has some pills you might be interested in.
If you didn't think it was April 1st and you got all the way to Omniscience Protocol then I'm surprised all those hours listening to your own subliminal music and drinking coffee hasn't killed you yet.
If you ... ah screw it. I can't even keep up with the editors. And there's still time left yet!
I wasn't meaning to pick on you! We all make mistakes. I've done it twice in _this_ thread already! The editors though... why do we call them editors?
That's exactly what I mean. The odds are that anybodies submission (in this case my own post) will have grammatical errors. And in the case of front page stuff, don't paying customers get to look over the content first and raise flags if there are problems?
I presume this means something along the lines of: more good news for the Mandrake community is that this new release has caused Mandrakesoft's stock to resume trading and is up 10% in three days.
Could the editors at least make sure the posts are readible?
So Yahoo! has decided that a search engine where pages get ranked by advertising dollars as opposed to a search engine ranked by what the user wants (relevance to the search term) is a good idea? Nothing like finding what the customer wants and giving it to him/her.
And unlike those TV ads, the videos that appear on the Internet face none of the content regulations of the 2002 campaign finance law, including the statement by the candidate of "I approved this ad" that has given some campaigns pause before launching negative political ads. Web videos have the potential to be nastier than the typical TV ad.
Its abundantly clear that the law doesn't apply to politicians. So what can we do? Change the law? Hardly. Vote for someone else? Another sleazeball. Rally the masses? Good luck.
About the only thing we can do about this is to ask ourselves one question: if I were in there position, would I do the same? Then you decide where to go from there.
I guess I didn't mention this part. When someone asks me for help, I'll gladly point them to whatever I think is best (MEPIS, firefox, thunderbird were the examples I gave). In fact, I have already gotten a few people to switch to using MEPIS and several to switch to using fire/bird/fox. However, if I walk behind someone using a computer and see them using Internet Explorer, I'm not going to go into rant mode, or even stop for that matter.
I'm relatively new here, but maybe someone could explain why so many people use these metaphors. I like GNU/Linux and OSS as much as the next guy here, but why do I keep hearing about the desktop wars, browser wars, etc?
I use firefox because I like it. It is more secure than Internet Explorer, no popups, and is extendible to what seems like no end.
I use thunderbird because I like it. Nearly all my spam gets filtered and I don't have to worry about any outlook insecurities.
I use MEPIS at home on my desktop. When you install MEPIS, everything just works. Click on a file and it opens in whatever you think it should open in. I love the ease of keeping everything up to date: apt-get is incredible. I love the stability: I haven't rebooted my computer more than a few times (3 max) since I finished the install.
Most here use Linux/OSS because we like it. Isn't that enough? Why do we keep seeing articles about how some Linux/OSS product is going to take over the world in x years? Why does it matter if everyone on the planet using Linux/OSS? If you don't like it when people preach to you about religion, why is it fine to preach about OSS? More than once I have seen people referred to as "Linux Evangelists" ...
Having said that, why don't all corporations 'outsource' all work that is currently done by women to men. You could pay the men the same salary, but it would still be cheaper because you would not have to put up with the potential of losing your worker due to pregnancy, etc. Obviously, this idea won't fly. But what is different about this idea than outsourcing to India/Japan/what-have-you?
Sure, if you like CS and continue at it, you may find some things difficult. But at least you'll be happy some of the time. Doing something you dislike just for the salary is a good way to be unhappy all of the time.
If we can get this close to peolpe that we know are extreme terrorists, why don't we just nab them at that time? I can't believe that we'd know the home address of an extremist and not take them into custody.
Now, all we need to do is to have terrorists send us in a copy of their finger prints so we can keep em on file.
1. Stealing land from others. 2. Using slave labour on that land. 3. Cutting down trees. 4. Employing child labour to cheaply replace slaves
If I'm not mistaken, Europe has its own history of wars and industrial revolutions and people's rights abuses. Can we at least paint a more complete painting of history? Sadly, you have had many replies to your topic but I don't see even one mentioning this fact. Is it truly because US = BAD!!! and Europe = Good?
When a spammer gets arrested, the +5 funny "Thanks Santa for an early Christmas Present" posts abound. But when a man who has killed hundreds of thousands of people, terrorized his nation and surrounding nations, and has financed Palestinian suicide bombers, not one "Thanks for an early gift". Nope. The only +5 insightful's are "I'm glad he was captured but". And some of these even leave out the "I'm glad he was captured" part.
100% means he got all 15 energy tanks, all 250 missiles, all the power bombs, all the suit upgrades and all the beam upgrades. These items amount to 99%, but when you get the last upgrade, it gives you two percentage points.
Scanning 100% of items though, will unlock an image gallery.
I wonder if he would have said the same thing about cars 75 years ago? As we get further into this new technology, everyone will be driving a car. You won't be able to get anywhere unless you can fix any and all problems that arise.
I can't speak for Symantec, but I can speak for AdBlock - an extension for Mozilla Firebird. The content still gets downloaded, but you don't see it. In fact, you can chose to leave the empty space, or have it hide the empty space. It works with regular expressions, so you have complete and total control over what you see and what you block. _Complete_ (Oh yeah, and nothing gets blocked unless you ask it to block something.)
BARELY TRICKLES DOWN? Perhaps you weren't paying attention. Perhaps you missed the 0.0% financing on cars, or the 4-5% mortgage rates (which happen to be the lowest in 60some-odd years) or the fact that you're lucky if your savings account is earning .5% interest. Where have you been?
Greenspan won't raise the interest rates until the economy actually is doing better, not just showing signs of doing better. So while there may be other factors that will effect the possibly-pending recovery, I wouldn't count on raising interest rates being the one to kill it off.
So I have to buy a half inch thick book for $120. Fine, I can put up with that. But next semester, I sell it back and get $20 if I'm lucky (and the bookstore will sell it for $90!). And then there's the whole bs about changing edititions every semester or every other semester. Half the time, I can't even sell my book back for that crappy price because there is a new edition. And when you are buying books for a class and come upon a book with a new edition, you obviously can't buy any used copies so you have to shell out another hundred and change.
Pleh. Pardon my ranting.
If the numbers are down, maybe kids are getting their unsuspecting (grand)parents to purchase the games for them?
In the aforementioned case, who is responsible if this kid gets his/her hands on this game? The kid, the parent, the grandparent, or the clerk?
What more can the clerk do? If the kid wants to get the game, he'll get the game. So how can this be the responsibility of the store?
It seems to me that using new hardware would increase the price of production as opposed to decreasing it. Does anyone have any figures?
Booo! We hate software patents!
Master wouldn't betray us, would he? What are we to think?