Just a thought, but since when did Egypt start receiving 'generous' amounts of aid from the US. Could it perhaps be after it became the first Arab state to recognize Israel's right to exist. BINGO!!!!!!:). So that aid could sorta be shifted as Aid to placate Israel's enemies aka aid to Israel. Cool huh;)
I interviewed for a DOD position a year or 2 ago (post 9/11). I was asked most insane questions, including why my parents lived where they did (not in the US), have I ever dated anyone that wasnt a US citizen and why? Do I have any friends that aren't US citizens. My interview was all of 15 minutes while the security interview was over 2 hours.
Germs were supplied by the US.
Resolution condemning their US was vetoed by the US (1986)
Of course, its not pretty but either we're playing people off for our own good (screw the world) or we're the good guys, can't really be both.
And why should I care about France or Germany when my tax dollars are being used to supply nukes to Isreal and to oppress other countries?
Imagine another country treating us like we treat the rest of the world? (Coup's aplenty, assasinations, you name it, we do it:))
Check out the following about what the US did over the past 20 years viz a viz Iraq , should be a tad bit insightful http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=815&blz=1
About all the chest thumping, yes America is great and powerful, imagine the opportunity we have, we as a nation have the power to eliminate global hunger, bump the third world up to near first world levels. We currently spend close to 400 billion on Weapons (DOD) and a similarly obscene amount (200-300 billion) on subsidies. I was at the UN (tour:D) a couple of months ago, dont remember the exact figures, but the amount requited to cleanup major problems was so small in comparison, made me want to cry over our short sightedness (a couple of billion for providing most of the world with clean drinking water, a couple more per elimination of a couple of curable but deadly diseases etc etc). We've got enough nukes to blow up the entire world many times over. Who in their right mind would attack us? (talking about countries, not fanatics, you can't really stop those regardless of what you spend). Instead of spending that much money on lame big guns, there is so much good we can do.
Btw another thing about Iraq which I find very amusing, US goes into Iraq because of Oil (as you said International Politics;)), but the only reason it has ever had problems with Oil was its one sided support of Israel. Make that problem go away (divide it up a la the clinton era or current roadmap and position 'international' troops to keep the 2 sides apart for awhile) and all the secondary issues disappear.
Did you hear of him gassing thousands of Kurds?
Did you hear where the gas came from? Did you hear who refused to condemn it? Did you hear who despite that continued selling arms to the 'moderate' saddam to keep the evil Iranians at bay. (And I won't even go into the US overthrowing a democracy to bring in the Shah of Iran)
They try? And democracy isn't always a panacea. Pakistan was a democracy from I think 1988 to 1999. The government was massively corrupt. Search on Google , a twice elect PM (Benazir) was convicted of embezzling state funds in Switzerland (so you can't exactly accuse the new government to be persecuting the old;)). The issue in Pakistan is that the literacy rate is around 30% and a lot of people are farm workers that are dependent on land owners good will. Hence landowners always win and a lot of people vote for completely lame people (people that are known felons etc). I don't know, from what I've read, it ssems democracy works when there are a couple of successive sincere/ real governments that set up worthwhile / strong institutions (judiciary branch etc). Heh a couple of years ago in Pakistan there was a case in court again the then PM (Nawaz Sharif) and he had the supreme court attacked;).
Anyways not to be doom and gloom, a lot of great people over there, just well as a lot of people here have realized sucky leaders can ruin any country and being stuck with sucky leaders for a few decades well.....;)
I've spent like 2/3 of my life in Pakistan
First off the speed limits in Pakistan are much lower unless you're on a highway and highway driving in Pakistan is minimal. I've been on a highway 3-4 times in 10-15 years there;). The in city speeds are between 40-60 km/h (25-35 mph?). So the chances of serious accidents happening if you lose power arent that high, not to mention traffic issues.
Anyways about the police, they are very very corrupt. So, not involving them usually is a good idea.
Anyways two thumbs up to whoever implemented the idea
Short term sure, but imagine a couple of years down the road if Apple gains significant mind share as the place people get music from. I'm pretty sure if that scenario actually played out they could squeeze the music labels pretty well since they'd control distribution:)
Hmm, I don't think I understand your point exactly:). Why does it have to be GPL or Closed Source? Can't someone (M$) author a license by which you can recompile and mess with the OS you bought on a SINGLE installation on a single computer but can't share, just liked current closed source systems just um, not closed:).
Whats the difference between sharing source and sharing binaries? Rampant piracy happens with binaries doesnt it?:). If the licensing terms are kept the same, the only difference with the source being open under the same M$ license would be that any subterfuge or bugs etc could be detected by a group of reasonably competent coders.
Why does the Al Qaeda exist? (CIA / Israel issue / Saudi troops:))
If America can unilaterally attack another country without any recent provocation (Iraq) if any at all. Then other governments have a reason to be afraid. Add in the fact that North Korea has Nukes and is being treated with Kid Gloves, even you'd see that Iran has no choice but to go nuclear. The solution to that particular problem is disarmament. Complete unconditional for all. America makes a big fuss over the Non Proliferation Treaty but that same treaty calls for all major powers to reduce and then eliminate their WMD. If America can't live by the treaty why should anyone else?
About people hating America. Look up what the sanctions did to the Iraqi people and what it did to Saddam? Saddam was as powerful as ever while hundreds of thousands (millions?) of Iraqi's died due to malnutrition and medicine shortages. They blame America. Reverse the situ. America is denied vital medical supplies by Frances authorty to get rid of Bush, your 2 year old and 5 year old die. Regardless of your like/dislike for Bush , I can bet you'll hate the french a million times more. I dont have the stats with me right now, but the same video I recommended lists some of them, American interference in other countries and the resulting deaths. America invariably installs Dictators or false democracies to get people that are favourable to their policy. Read up on the Shah of Iran and the revolution. If america hadnt gone involved the revolution probably wouldnt have taken place to begin with. Egypt and its government. Cuba? Castro is evil? so fucking what? Cuba has advanced orders of magnitude under him, health care , the economy , everything. Seriously read up other sources besides Fox. I'd recommend the guardian (british paper) as one of the most unbiased source of news I've read. Here's to hoping people will see that war breeds war, hate breeds hate and well paranoia is a self fulfilling prophecy.
No Offense but ARGH. How does paronia serve you or the US? America spends more on its military then the rest of the top 30 nations put together and what does it get from it? More fear? I'd recommend the Michael Moore documentary Bowling for Columbine, I know ur gonna pooh pooh it but just humour me and watch it through:).
Now to be on topic, obviously this is an amazing achievement, yes if people like you hold sway then obviously very bad things can happen, like a space arms race.
If you're arming yourself obviously everybody else will as well, to whatever capability they have, the race should be in science, medicine, health. America is the most powerful nation in the world and ironically the most hated:). Why not stop living in fear of others and make friends, help out the world. Just by cutting Agricultural subsidies and the US military budget america will have 2/3rds of a trillian dollars to make the world a better place. Its pretty much now or never. No Country / Empire remains dominant forever, why not try while we have that power to make the world a better place instead of being scared of it.
Re:LOL, Struts is right on target.
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His point was (as far as I can tell) that modular design increases complexity 'in that module'. As in 4 files for each action in struts etc, compared to a monolithic jsp or servlet. Looking at the application as a whole, not to mention the long term outlook, then definitely modular design reduces complexity immensely:)
I second that. I just landed a job through MRI Gaithersburg and it seemed that they had a long term relationship with the company that hired me, even though the company in question is a relatively small (10-15 people) one. He told me what the company's main concerns were and if I had any issues with those I should let him and them know upfront. Also my resume did not exactly fit what the company was looking for but they did have a verbatim copy of my resume and still hired me. All in all, an excellent experience (yes i know this sounds more like a plug for them, but if so, from my pov they deserve it:)).
Hmm, say you in your infinite wisdeom decide to search all the 'evil' middle eastern men while all the 'nice' white guys are let straight through having nice christian names n' all. A certain guy in Afghanistan meets up with another guy named Johnny Walker Lindh (sp?) since 'now' we all know that America screws middle eastern men at airline checkpoints, Mr Lindh volunteers to help out his buds:). The rest would pretty much be history.
And for the record I am a muslim and my name is Muhammed AND I believe america's tackling the problem the wrong way (not focusing on the reasons why people start to hate america:)), but then thats me:D
To quote the article "ON THE 9TH [of September], website www.hypothermia.us held a raffle to raise the money for Briana LaHara, the 12 year old girl sued by the RIAA. The whole community raised the money in five hours"
I used to like Cnet but that was before they were acquired by Ziff Davis. Somehow after that they always seemed non committal about the pro's / con's of the stuff they reviewed, no BITE, nothing actually sucked etc. Then again, maybe its me:)
If the money spent on defense, which employs many people, were simply given away to 'the poor', you only get more poor families.
I agree COMPLETELY.....
Except for the 'slight' fact that they could also be employed for say the same wages in something that is actually productive. Say research into disease prevention, farming, grain management, heck doing laundry. And frankly all the money that goes to the military isn't used simply to pay off a couple of million workers. It's used in producing weapons, doing research to produce BETTER weapons. All of which is basically you and me, well at least me, unwillingly paying my government to find ways to murder my fellow humans more efficiently.
WHOOOPPIEEE
To quote Eisenhower again
"If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order"
Mighty Ironic:)
I was in New York recently and took the guided UN tour. I don't remember the exact figures but they had a chart detailing how much it would cost to provide the world with clean drinking water, prevent major, currently curable crippling diseases (like polio) etc. And the total cost for the project was less than what the world annually spent on arms (military..)
I've spent a lot of time in Pakistan and they have a huge debt problem , paying interest alone which saps the budget. Total debt of $50 billion with a GDP roughly 4-5 times that.
Wonder if somehow could call a moratorium on war and spend that money just for a year on two on fixing the world.
Incidentally america spends roughly the same amount of money the rest of the world combined spend on arms.
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." -Martin Luther King Jr.
As far as I remember from my unsuccessful attempts, TDK bluetooth cards support the Headset Profile albeit I believe unofficially, and some guys on the Howard Forums got another brand (something like Belkin , MSI perhaps?) working as well.
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Wirele ss_Programming/Bluetooth/Q_20532782.html
Google for more references or better yet howardforums;)
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Just a thought, but since when did Egypt start receiving 'generous' amounts of aid from the US. Could it perhaps be after it became the first Arab state to recognize Israel's right to exist. BINGO!!!!!! :). So that aid could sorta be shifted as Aid to placate Israel's enemies aka aid to Israel. Cool huh ;)
Any info on when they're releasing the OS's (2003/XP). I was reading an article somewhere about the XP-64bit beta release that said the OS would be released to OEM's only and not available as a retail upgrade (sorry can't find the link @ the moment) any info on that? Also here's a blurb about a version of Visual Studio which supports AMD64 also being released someday
Wealth -> Quality of life -> Quality of Education -> Lots of good stuff :)
I interviewed for a DOD position a year or 2 ago (post 9/11). I was asked most insane questions, including why my parents lived where they did (not in the US), have I ever dated anyone that wasnt a US citizen and why? Do I have any friends that aren't US citizens. My interview was all of 15 minutes while the security interview was over 2 hours.
Germs were supplied by the US. Resolution condemning their US was vetoed by the US (1986) Of course, its not pretty but either we're playing people off for our own good (screw the world) or we're the good guys, can't really be both. And why should I care about France or Germany when my tax dollars are being used to supply nukes to Isreal and to oppress other countries? Imagine another country treating us like we treat the rest of the world? (Coup's aplenty, assasinations, you name it, we do it :))
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:D) a couple of months ago, dont remember the exact figures, but the amount requited to cleanup major problems was so small in comparison, made me want to cry over our short sightedness (a couple of billion for providing most of the world with clean drinking water, a couple more per elimination of a couple of curable but deadly diseases etc etc). We've got enough nukes to blow up the entire world many times over. Who in their right mind would attack us? (talking about countries, not fanatics, you can't really stop those regardless of what you spend). Instead of spending that much money on lame big guns, there is so much good we can do.
;)), but the only reason it has ever had problems with Oil was its one sided support of Israel. Make that problem go away (divide it up a la the clinton era or current roadmap and position 'international' troops to keep the 2 sides apart for awhile) and all the secondary issues disappear.
Check out the following about what the US did over the past 20 years viz a viz Iraq , should be a tad bit insightful http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout
About all the chest thumping, yes America is great and powerful, imagine the opportunity we have, we as a nation have the power to eliminate global hunger, bump the third world up to near first world levels. We currently spend close to 400 billion on Weapons (DOD) and a similarly obscene amount (200-300 billion) on subsidies. I was at the UN (tour
Btw another thing about Iraq which I find very amusing, US goes into Iraq because of Oil (as you said International Politics
Did you hear of him gassing thousands of Kurds? Did you hear where the gas came from? Did you hear who refused to condemn it? Did you hear who despite that continued selling arms to the 'moderate' saddam to keep the evil Iranians at bay. (And I won't even go into the US overthrowing a democracy to bring in the Shah of Iran)
mod the parent and the post above it (by Sivaram_Velauthapill) up :).
They try? And democracy isn't always a panacea. Pakistan was a democracy from I think 1988 to 1999. The government was massively corrupt. Search on Google , a twice elect PM (Benazir) was convicted of embezzling state funds in Switzerland (so you can't exactly accuse the new government to be persecuting the old ;)). The issue in Pakistan is that the literacy rate is around 30% and a lot of people are farm workers that are dependent on land owners good will. Hence landowners always win and a lot of people vote for completely lame people (people that are known felons etc). I don't know, from what I've read, it ssems democracy works when there are a couple of successive sincere/ real governments that set up worthwhile / strong institutions (judiciary branch etc). Heh a couple of years ago in Pakistan there was a case in court again the then PM (Nawaz Sharif) and he had the supreme court attacked ;). ;)
Anyways not to be doom and gloom, a lot of great people over there, just well as a lot of people here have realized sucky leaders can ruin any country and being stuck with sucky leaders for a few decades well.....
I've spent like 2/3 of my life in Pakistan First off the speed limits in Pakistan are much lower unless you're on a highway and highway driving in Pakistan is minimal. I've been on a highway 3-4 times in 10-15 years there ;). The in city speeds are between 40-60 km /h (25-35 mph?). So the chances of serious accidents happening if you lose power arent that high, not to mention traffic issues.
Anyways about the police, they are very very corrupt. So, not involving them usually is a good idea.
Anyways two thumbs up to whoever implemented the idea
Short term sure, but imagine a couple of years down the road if Apple gains significant mind share as the place people get music from. I'm pretty sure if that scenario actually played out they could squeeze the music labels pretty well since they'd control distribution :)
Hmm, I don't think I understand your point exactly :). Why does it have to be GPL or Closed Source? Can't someone (M$) author a license by which you can recompile and mess with the OS you bought on a SINGLE installation on a single computer but can't share, just liked current closed source systems just um, not closed :).
Whats the difference between sharing source and sharing binaries? Rampant piracy happens with binaries doesnt it? :). If the licensing terms are kept the same, the only difference with the source being open under the same M$ license would be that any subterfuge or bugs etc could be detected by a group of reasonably competent coders.
Why does the Al Qaeda exist? (CIA / Israel issue / Saudi troops :))
If America can unilaterally attack another country without any recent provocation (Iraq) if any at all. Then other governments have a reason to be afraid. Add in the fact that North Korea has Nukes and is being treated with Kid Gloves, even you'd see that Iran has no choice but to go nuclear. The solution to that particular problem is disarmament. Complete unconditional for all. America makes a big fuss over the Non Proliferation Treaty but that same treaty calls for all major powers to reduce and then eliminate their WMD. If America can't live by the treaty why should anyone else?
About people hating America. Look up what the sanctions did to the Iraqi people and what it did to Saddam? Saddam was as powerful as ever while hundreds of thousands (millions?) of Iraqi's died due to malnutrition and medicine shortages. They blame America. Reverse the situ. America is denied vital medical supplies by Frances authorty to get rid of Bush, your 2 year old and 5 year old die. Regardless of your like/dislike for Bush , I can bet you'll hate the french a million times more. I dont have the stats with me right now, but the same video I recommended lists some of them, American interference in other countries and the resulting deaths. America invariably installs Dictators or false democracies to get people that are favourable to their policy. Read up on the Shah of Iran and the revolution. If america hadnt gone involved the revolution probably wouldnt have taken place to begin with. Egypt and its government. Cuba? Castro is evil? so fucking what? Cuba has advanced orders of magnitude under him, health care , the economy , everything. Seriously read up other sources besides Fox. I'd recommend the guardian (british paper) as one of the most unbiased source of news I've read. Here's to hoping people will see that war breeds war, hate breeds hate and well paranoia is a self fulfilling prophecy.
No Offense but ARGH. How does paronia serve you or the US? America spends more on its military then the rest of the top 30 nations put together and what does it get from it? More fear? I'd recommend the Michael Moore documentary Bowling for Columbine, I know ur gonna pooh pooh it but just humour me and watch it through :).
Now to be on topic, obviously this is an amazing achievement, yes if people like you hold sway then obviously very bad things can happen, like a space arms race.
If you're arming yourself obviously everybody else will as well, to whatever capability they have, the race should be in science, medicine, health. America is the most powerful nation in the world and ironically the most hated :). Why not stop living in fear of others and make friends, help out the world. Just by cutting Agricultural subsidies and the US military budget america will have 2/3rds of a trillian dollars to make the world a better place. Its pretty much now or never. No Country / Empire remains dominant forever, why not try while we have that power to make the world a better place instead of being scared of it.
His point was (as far as I can tell) that modular design increases complexity 'in that module'. As in 4 files for each action in struts etc, compared to a monolithic jsp or servlet. Looking at the application as a whole, not to mention the long term outlook, then definitely modular design reduces complexity immensely :)
I second that. I just landed a job through MRI Gaithersburg and it seemed that they had a long term relationship with the company that hired me, even though the company in question is a relatively small (10-15 people) one. He told me what the company's main concerns were and if I had any issues with those I should let him and them know upfront. Also my resume did not exactly fit what the company was looking for but they did have a verbatim copy of my resume and still hired me. All in all, an excellent experience (yes i know this sounds more like a plug for them, but if so, from my pov they deserve it :)).
Hmm, say you in your infinite wisdeom decide to search all the 'evil' middle eastern men while all the 'nice' white guys are let straight through having nice christian names n' all. A certain guy in Afghanistan meets up with another guy named Johnny Walker Lindh (sp?) since 'now' we all know that America screws middle eastern men at airline checkpoints, Mr Lindh volunteers to help out his buds :). The rest would pretty much be history.
:)), but then thats me :D
And for the record I am a muslim and my name is Muhammed AND I believe america's tackling the problem the wrong way (not focusing on the reasons why people start to hate america
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11528
To quote the article
"ON THE 9TH [of September], website www.hypothermia.us held a raffle to raise the money for Briana LaHara, the 12 year old girl sued by the RIAA. The whole community raised the money in five hours"
I used to like Cnet but that was before they were acquired by Ziff Davis. Somehow after that they always seemed non committal about the pro's / con's of the stuff they reviewed, no BITE, nothing actually sucked etc. Then again, maybe its me :)
If the money spent on defense, which employs many people, were simply given away to 'the poor', you only get more poor families.
I agree COMPLETELY.....
Except for the 'slight' fact that they could also be employed for say the same wages in something that is actually productive. Say research into disease prevention, farming, grain management, heck doing laundry. And frankly all the money that goes to the military isn't used simply to pay off a couple of million workers. It's used in producing weapons, doing research to produce BETTER weapons. All of which is basically you and me, well at least me, unwillingly paying my government to find ways to murder my fellow humans more efficiently.
WHOOOPPIEEE
To quote Eisenhower again "If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order" :)
Mighty Ironic
I was in New York recently and took the guided UN tour. I don't remember the exact figures but they had a chart detailing how much it would cost to provide the world with clean drinking water, prevent major, currently curable crippling diseases (like polio) etc. And the total cost for the project was less than what the world annually spent on arms (military..)
I've spent a lot of time in Pakistan and they have a huge debt problem , paying interest alone which saps the budget. Total debt of $50 billion with a GDP roughly 4-5 times that. Wonder if somehow could call a moratorium on war and spend that money just for a year on two on fixing the world. Incidentally america spends roughly the same amount of money the rest of the world combined spend on arms.
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." -Martin Luther King Jr.
As far as I remember from my unsuccessful attempts, TDK bluetooth cards support the Headset Profile albeit I believe unofficially, and some guys on the Howard Forums got another brand (something like Belkin , MSI perhaps?) working as well. http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Wirele ss_Programming/Bluetooth/Q_20532782.html
Google for more references or better yet howardforums ;)