Imagine if Windows 3.1 had not been released yet - now that would be funny.
No, it would have been a great thing.
If Win3.1 hadn't been released, OS/2 (a truly great OS) would be the dominant desktop OS (a great thing), and Linux might have stayed a hobbiest system.
We used to to be the most loved country in the world
For the benefit of a non-historian: when was this?
Never. It's only a feeble stick used by the Left to try and bash Bush.
And always. The USA is still The Land Of Opportunity, and lots of people still try to (legally or illegally) immigrate and come on work permits.
But to literally answer your question, iIt depends on where you live, and how old you are.
If you're old enough to remember the USA saving your country, you still love the USA.
If you're young enough to have grown up in post-war peace, then you've hated us since you started school.
All of western Europe, South Korea & The Phillipines are exaples of this. (I'll always remember the students demonstrating in the ROK thru the 1970s and 1980s about democracy and reunification with the North. Naive fools.)
The Cubans who loved us for giving them their freedom are all dead.
Most people in the Carribeans & Central+South America had very valid reasons to hate us though, for setting up the "Bananna Republics".
Agree or disagree with Iraq, the Germans and the French had an economic stake in keeping Saddam in power.
Do you think the Germans and the French aren't allowed to look after their own economic interests just because they aren't Americans? Are you pretending that Bush went into Iraq for altruistic reasons and not to gain control of its oil and play military genius with real lives?
Just as the USA has been hypocritical about the regimes that it supports, the French, Germans & Russians (and to a small degree ChiComs) are being hypocritical about Iraq.
Saddam could have paraded IRBMs and nukes down Main St. Baghdad, and France/Germany/Russia would have opposed any attempts to remove them, because they had an economic stake in keeping Saddam in power.
A bit less hypocricy by all parties involved would be very useful.
A nitpick, I know, but this is not strictly true. You've had a civil war, after all, which does not make it stable. There's quite a few other countries with as good, or better, record in this respect.
Even during the Civil War, the USA (not the CSA; don't know enought about it) was stable, functioning republic: there were elections, and the peaceful transfer of power from defeated incumbents to victorious opponents.
So, do you have any examples of modern replublican democracies that are as old as the US? England comes closest, I think. The "constitutional monarchy with parliament" hasn't been overthrown since Cromwell, has it?
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Is having your head sawed off by an Iraqi "terrorist" a worse way to go than being crushed in a building brought down by an American airstrike?
Changing the subject, eh?
A noncombatant having his head sawed off by a non-uniformed militant for the purpose of altering US foreign policy is a text-book example of terrorism.
Being crushed in a building brought down by an American airstrike, though, is not terrorism, it is collateral damage.
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blowing them to bits for absolutely no reason
Don't be silly. Only deranged psycopaths kill for absolutely no reason.
Terrorists definitely kill for what they consider to be valid reasons.
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Note the qualifier "unlawful". So all I have to do is pass a law saying what I do is ok.
If you can, then yes.
However, note that war is legal. That's why the FBI stipulates "the unlawful use of force against persons or property", as opposed to, for example, "the use of military force against opposing military forces".
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(in the sense of the Geneva Convention) is. It has at least to show the flag of the government you are fighting for in a size no less than about 1"x2". It has to show your name and rank
Tthe 1st Geneva Convention was signed in A.D. 1864. The Clone Wars were fought well before then.
Evil Empires usually only follow treaties when it gives them an advantage.
It's a movie, dammit!
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Please follow the link, notice the correction/retraction, and correct your.sig (preferably with a correction/retraction of your own).
The correction/retraction is very ambiguous about what exactly is being corrected/retracted.
Did Rep. King get minor details wrong, or is he taking something out of context, or making up out of whole cloth?
If you left a bunch of engineers to themselves, there's a high probability ... it would be DEC?
I've been working on VMS machines for 12 years, first VAX and then Alpha, and they are a joy to work on. Time is passing it by, though, because short-sighted managers from the 80s and 90s tried to kill VMS by letting it wither on the vine. It's still alive, though.
Okay, now you've got a non-educated waif out there. What happens to him? Well, being as he's uneducated in a society that increasingly requires education for legitimate employment, he turns to illegitimate employment instead.
The problem with your statement is that there are already lots of non-educated waifs out there, even though said waifs have been in school for 10+ years, and ~$100,000 have been spent on his education.
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Holy crap, I hate doing process..., but here I am raving about how good it is! I've been brainwashed.
No, not brainwashed. You've become an adult. I.e., we do things because they are important, even though we have them.
Of course, this flies directly in the face the "everything must be fun" society that is rapidly being created around us.
IBM PC AT from 1994...original IBM PC from 1991
Presumably, you mean 1984 & 1981.
You think MS wouldn't have used NT to bash about OS/2?
The NT codebase wasn't "consumer friendly" until Win2k. OS/2 was, IMO.
So, no, I don't.
I don't see the rise of Linux as a bad thing either.
Didn't say it was. I'm using Debian Unstable now to type this.
Imagine if Windows 3.1 had not been released yet - now that would be funny.
No, it would have been a great thing.
If Win3.1 hadn't been released, OS/2 (a truly great OS) would be the dominant desktop OS (a great thing), and Linux might have stayed a hobbiest system.
Of course, IBM may have bungled things...
the attitude that we now seem to have (terrorist behind every bush; 1.5-2 years to be back in space; etc.etc.etc)
The USA (all of the West, really) has had this attitude for much more than 3 years.
...it's getting them down in one piece that's difficult.
God, that is the most original joke I've ever heard in my entire life!!!!!!
Dumping this glass on the sea floor still means we'd wind up with irradiated fish and coral.
Or we drop them into tectonic subduction zones. The glass would (eventually) get pulled into the earth.
We used to to be the most loved country in the world
For the benefit of a non-historian: when was this?
Never. It's only a feeble stick used by the Left to try and bash Bush.
And always. The USA is still The Land Of Opportunity, and lots of people still try to (legally or illegally) immigrate and come on work permits.
But to literally answer your question, iIt depends on where you live, and how old you are.
If you're old enough to remember the USA saving your country, you still love the USA.
If you're young enough to have grown up in post-war peace, then you've hated us since you started school.
All of western Europe, South Korea & The Phillipines are exaples of this. (I'll always remember the students demonstrating in the ROK thru the 1970s and 1980s about democracy and reunification with the North. Naive fools.)
The Cubans who loved us for giving them their freedom are all dead.
Most people in the Carribeans & Central+South America had very valid reasons to hate us though, for setting up the "Bananna Republics".
Agree or disagree with Iraq, the Germans and the French had an economic stake in keeping Saddam in power.
Do you think the Germans and the French aren't allowed to look after their own economic interests just because they aren't Americans? Are you pretending that Bush went into Iraq for altruistic reasons and not to gain control of its oil and play military genius with real lives?
Just as the USA has been hypocritical about the regimes that it supports, the French, Germans & Russians (and to a small degree ChiComs) are being hypocritical about Iraq.
Saddam could have paraded IRBMs and nukes down Main St. Baghdad, and France/Germany/Russia would have opposed any attempts to remove them, because they had an economic stake in keeping Saddam in power.
A bit less hypocricy by all parties involved would be very useful.
In fact, it was Britain and France that declared war on Germany, not the other way round.
Two words: treaty obligations.
Even though they (the Brits & French) broke treaty with the Czechs, they did honor the mutual-defence treaty with the Poles.
Of course, Germany was going to invade France anyway, so the fact that France declared war first is just a technicality.
And, amazingly, Hitler honored the Axis Pact treaty with Japan by declaring war on the USA after it (the USA) declared war on Japan.
A nitpick, I know, but this is not strictly true. You've had a civil war, after all, which does not make it stable. There's quite a few other countries with as good, or better, record in this respect.
Even during the Civil War, the USA (not the CSA; don't know enought about it) was stable, functioning republic: there were elections, and the peaceful transfer of power from defeated incumbents to victorious opponents.
So, do you have any examples of modern replublican democracies that are as old as the US? England comes closest, I think. The "constitutional monarchy with parliament" hasn't been overthrown since Cromwell, has it?
Is having your head sawed off by an Iraqi "terrorist" a worse way to go than being crushed in a building brought down by an American airstrike?
Changing the subject, eh?
A noncombatant having his head sawed off by a non-uniformed militant for the purpose of altering US foreign policy is a text-book example of terrorism.
Being crushed in a building brought down by an American airstrike, though, is not terrorism, it is collateral damage.
blowing them to bits for absolutely no reason
Don't be silly. Only deranged psycopaths kill for absolutely no reason.
Terrorists definitely kill for what they consider to be valid reasons.
Note the qualifier "unlawful". So all I have to do is pass a law saying what I do is ok.
If you can, then yes.
However, note that war is legal. That's why the FBI stipulates "the unlawful use of force against persons or property", as opposed to, for example, "the use of military force against opposing military forces".
Please follow the link, notice the correction/retraction, and correct your .sig (preferably with a correction/retraction of your own).
The correction/retraction is very ambiguous about what exactly is being corrected/retracted.
Did Rep. King get minor details wrong, or is he taking something out of context, or making up out of whole cloth?
I'm sure you could just immerse the whole mobo in a pool of LN2 and you'd be fine.
The mobo would crack at that temperature.
Immersing it in a circulating bath of glycol would work though (unless glycol is electrically conductive).
from what I understand, NASA decided to cancel the successor of the X-43.
Because the Peoples' Representatives said "prioritize"?
This reminds me of the X-20? The successor of the X-15, that was planned to go into orbit.
Bacause the Peoples' Representatives said "Apollo and Great Society and Viet Nam" over "Apollo and X-20"?
When you are 22000 miles up in the air
Relatively few satellites are up in geosynchronous orbit (35,785 km / 22,236 miles).
The vast majority are in low-earth orbit: ~200-~500 miles up.
Lucky me, I have cool boss. ;-)
Your boss isn't that cool if he's making you come back in on Saturday.
You and the bozo who modded it "+1, Insightful" must never have had a real job.
His boss is cool.
If you left a bunch of engineers to themselves, there's a high probability ... it would be DEC?
I've been working on VMS machines for 12 years, first VAX and then Alpha, and they are a joy to work on. Time is passing it by, though, because short-sighted managers from the 80s and 90s tried to kill VMS by letting it wither on the vine. It's still alive, though.
The thing that amazes me is that the most successful 64 bit chip so far is AMD64. It's just an extension of the kludgy x86 ISA.
In 64-bit mode, x86_64 is more than just an extra 32 bits on the 8 special purpose registers that have been around for 26 years.
It turns into 16 GP registers, which, as an old 8086 assembly programmer, makes me drool.
If you look at the losers that get elected
Gee, I thought that winners get elected. Did you go to public school?
they are all rich white men.
http://www.nocitycouncil.com/content/ Yes, you must have gone to public school...
wasn't Nazi Germany also pretty harmless for a while?
You're kidding, right?
Lemme guess: you went to one of those failed public schools, didn't you...
Okay, now you've got a non-educated waif out there. What happens to him? Well, being as he's uneducated in a society that increasingly requires education for legitimate employment, he turns to illegitimate employment instead.
The problem with your statement is that there are already lots of non-educated waifs out there, even though said waifs have been in school for 10+ years, and ~$100,000 have been spent on his education.