It was obvious enough that a group was set up to deal with Bin Laden in 1999, it was obvious enough that Tom Clancy used it in a book, it was obvious enough that "The Lone Gunman" pilot used it as a plot.
Baby Bush came to power and worrying about such things became a low priority. His very strong Saudi connections blinded him to the danger.
How about we ask the Russians for the emails the NSA got:) If Snowden working for a subcontractor in Hawaii could get it then the Russians, Chinese and anyone who wants the stuff enough to cover a Vegas gambling debt already had it.
No. He wants to be faced with nothing but the current situation of empty saber rattling while he does a Tsar Peter on bits of territory he'd like to have. He'd be much happier to have to listen to distant ranting of an isolationist like Trump than be an enemy. He'd be much happier to move slowly and still get what he wants than move quickly enough for Hillary to even remotely consider putting troops in his path.
Expect history to repeat similar to Marines getting moved out of China to avoid having to fight the Japanese that they were posted there to stop.
quite obviously a throw-away, sarcastic statement from Trump
Only if you argue that everything from Trump is a throw-away sarcastic statement, which would actually make a lot of sense. Keep on looking at the big loud Trump instead of the close to nothingness behind the curtain of a casino boss pretending to have a big heart.
The hair splitting doesn't matter. Just treat everything that comes out of Trump's mouth as not mattering, whether it is a demand to see Obama's penis (yes he really went there during the birther shit) or asking the Russians to hack the Democrats. Of course the guy wasn't serious. He's treating America as a plaything.
It's what most of them are for - even Australia's submarines are mainly for sitting quietly on the sea floor and listening. Nuclear subs are a bit noisier (coolant pumps are apparently running all the time) but it's all relative since at a distance background noise is going to mask them.
Actually no - I support a medical opinion over lawyers who don't have a clue and find it very interesting that people who call themselves small government conservatives not only attempt to do something as radical as redefine what a human being is but want to go full nanny state on reproductive health. We've already had former drug addicts jailed for murder when they miscarried, how long before this nanny state bullshit locks up women who smoked beyond six weeks and miscarried?
You've been a victim of propaganda that a complex issue is simple. Propaganda crafted by people who did it merely to create a "brand" to distinguish them from another party - those are the pricks who are sick.
Murder is very well defined in law. Difficult medical decisions over who to save when no magical quick fix exists are not covered by that. You will be turning every doctor who has not been able to successfully deliver a baby alive into a convicted murderer as collatoral damage of going after the ones performing abortions. Dumb is not good. You've been so blinded by years of expensive taxpayer funded propaganda from supposedly "small government" types that you didn't even pick up that none of my examples were actually about abortions. How about instead of taking the dumb approach use some of that mental ability that you have and understand that something complex has been dumbed down into a nanny-state slogan?
It's like you read 13 words and then stopped. I specifically pointed to an existing interface knockoff as not being the solution.
Consistency is lacking, which is one thing windows users expect. I said I don't care if it is windows or Mac style, as long as it is consistent.
We had that. It was called CDE - common desktop environment. Only the people behind it's development, Sun Microsystems, liked it. There have been plenty of attempt to impose behaviour from above, see the strong reaction to the current version of gnome for how that works out. I presumed you'd observed such things for yourself and had decided to go for an MS clone to impose from above since that's what MS user are familiar with.
That's what Microsoft does well
While Mac and MS used to have interface guidelines there's always been plenty of things that don't close with ALT-f-x. Things like photoshop even had their own window manger with sub windows inside another window FFS. So many applications had/have their own quirks and do not behave like MS Office even in the MS environment. AutoCAD looked like somebody had thrown a box of scrabble tiles on the screen, plus having a menu bar, command line and mouse menus even after having a full MS Windows version. Once you put a wide range of software on an MS desktop any time since MS Windows came out there has been an inconsistent environment so I do not think they have done it well at all. Drill deep into "control panel" and you'll hit a wide range of different interfaces so not even MS got it right internally (IMHO they just didn't care about getting it right in that situation). Having a linux desktop with applications that don't quite fit in with the theme of the window manager is similar to what users are dealing with already on MS and Mac - hence my comment about knoppix and new users not having any more trouble with it than they are used to.
you have a relative who understands computers and who can help you out if needed
I've got to see my parents a lot more since they upgraded to MS Win10 from the MS Win7 that they could understand. Microsoft, bringing people together.
And that is the problem. The Enterprise Edition is now the only one even worth considering.
It isn't. The weird MS licensing may as well be the Necrinomicon. So many little details and if you get one wrong an unstoppable invisible stalker is after your ass.
There are still a lot of people on MS WinXP. I fixed an XP machine of someone I know on Tuesday. With enough memory and an SSD it's actually very quick. It's potentially malware prone (which wasn't the problem), but all MS systems still are almost as bad in that area and there are third party solutions to keep them protected.
Easy linux path to dominance. One linux distro for windows users. That simple.
This has been covered hundreds of times here. A work-a-like that's built on something very different and chasing a moving target is always going to disappoint. It's different. No point trying to hide it. If you hide it people are always going to find out and get confused by subtle differences instead of knowing that they should be doing things differently.
Maybe try this little exercise - get someone who has never used linux to boot a Knoppix DVD. It all looks very different but they all seem to work it out almost instantly. I get people to use that to see if they are having hardware problems instead of MS Windows configuration problems, among other things. Slavishly copying the MS interface of the month is in my opinion a very bad idea especially now where there are a mix of elements from MS Win10, MS Win7, MS WinXP and MS WinNT lurking on systems when you drill down into configuration settings. Getting something to work close enough to the original would be a thankless task that would piss people off even if it was possible to completely succeed.
People say a lot about the elderly not "getting" computers. Most who I have seen with laptops have tape over the camera they put there themselves - they are getting it alright and know how much they can trust MS etc.
It's almost as if they reinvented TWM very badly. The thing that pisses me off is that ripoffs of that MS Win10 interface have been used on websites and almost always fucked up in some way. Little windows in the middle of the screen surrounded by whitespace and with scrollbars you have to move before you can get to the buttons. With other bad web design you can just zoom, but not with stuff like that. Such things are not the fault of MS directly but they have set a bad example IMHO.
You are the one that's pretending that all non-convictions mean the woman was a lying bitch making it all up.
There are many reasons not just that one as you know but are pretending not to - that false stupidity to push a point must be taught in school debating or something, so much of that shit around. For example - often when it's without doubt that a crime has been committed it's not clear who did it. You are lumping that in with your "cry wolf" numbers.
You are getting the number for a collection of fruit and pretending they are all apples when there are mostly oranges in the mix.
My stance is obviously that I consider ESR unreliable and biased and no other source of his supposedly second-hand claim has surfaced. Thus suggesting that Linus has had to act differently is nothing but relaying ESR's expectation of what Linus would have to do in the future and not something based on what Linus has ever done. I think it should be treated like any other blog rant and not as if it was based on real events because those events did not happen before the blog post and do not seem to have happened afterwards. Clear yet?
Even with your relatively new but fairly common shifted goalpost of when life begins it's not so simple and not even murder when it comes down to a choice or a chance of only saving one. My entire point here is it should not be up to pen pushers in Washington or some lay preacher of the church of the dollar to decide this but someone on the spot with a lot of years of experience to develop more of a clue. Putting down hard and fast rules based on what a layman sees as the norm really fucks people around in general.
See also how self defence or defence of others is a reason not to have mandatory sentences for someone who kills someone else. You carry a gun for defence don't you? Do you want a system so fucked up that if you shoot someone who has killed a dozen people in a mall and you are next that you are going to get the gas chamber for putting them down?
You do not murder children, not even to save the life of the mother
It's not murder and that's seriously fucked up medieval shit right there. The life of a potential son being worth more than that of a mother and all that shit we've left behind.
So in other words you are equating case dismissal due to potentially a wide range of reasons to a "false claim" and have become angry when your petty little trick has been seen through? Yes or no? What are you using to establish that a claim is actually false?
I would abolish abortion beyond the first trimester. If you get pregnant and you find out within the first month, that's fine, but if you're 6 months into it, you're having a baby
I would leave that up to the experts and the women involved instead of extra red tape imposed by lawyers and congresscritters who really have no clue and care even less. Making it illegal to save the mother in a difficult birth where the odds of the child surviving are very low anyway is the sort of nightmare that would come out of such nanny-statism.
For a lot of things there is no silver bullet that fits every situation.
Do I have to reference the "but it was only one goat" joke for you to get the point? Some people think what MS has been proved to be doing is as bad as doing a goat. They only had to be caught once for it to matter.
You dropped names. No "backing up" at all. Surely you can do better than that and provide some actual content instead of just dropping names or being evasive and as with your other post.
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It was obvious enough that a group was set up to deal with Bin Laden in 1999, it was obvious enough that Tom Clancy used it in a book, it was obvious enough that "The Lone Gunman" pilot used it as a plot.
Baby Bush came to power and worrying about such things became a low priority. His very strong Saudi connections blinded him to the danger.
How about we ask the Russians for the emails the NSA got :)
If Snowden working for a subcontractor in Hawaii could get it then the Russians, Chinese and anyone who wants the stuff enough to cover a Vegas gambling debt already had it.
No.
He wants to be faced with nothing but the current situation of empty saber rattling while he does a Tsar Peter on bits of territory he'd like to have.
He'd be much happier to have to listen to distant ranting of an isolationist like Trump than be an enemy. He'd be much happier to move slowly and still get what he wants than move quickly enough for Hillary to even remotely consider putting troops in his path.
Expect history to repeat similar to Marines getting moved out of China to avoid having to fight the Japanese that they were posted there to stop.
Only if you argue that everything from Trump is a throw-away sarcastic statement, which would actually make a lot of sense.
Keep on looking at the big loud Trump instead of the close to nothingness behind the curtain of a casino boss pretending to have a big heart.
The hair splitting doesn't matter. Just treat everything that comes out of Trump's mouth as not mattering, whether it is a demand to see Obama's penis (yes he really went there during the birther shit) or asking the Russians to hack the Democrats. Of course the guy wasn't serious. He's treating America as a plaything.
It's what most of them are for - even Australia's submarines are mainly for sitting quietly on the sea floor and listening.
Nuclear subs are a bit noisier (coolant pumps are apparently running all the time) but it's all relative since at a distance background noise is going to mask them.
Actually no - I support a medical opinion over lawyers who don't have a clue and find it very interesting that people who call themselves small government conservatives not only attempt to do something as radical as redefine what a human being is but want to go full nanny state on reproductive health.
We've already had former drug addicts jailed for murder when they miscarried, how long before this nanny state bullshit locks up women who smoked beyond six weeks and miscarried?
You've been a victim of propaganda that a complex issue is simple. Propaganda crafted by people who did it merely to create a "brand" to distinguish them from another party - those are the pricks who are sick.
Murder is very well defined in law. Difficult medical decisions over who to save when no magical quick fix exists are not covered by that. You will be turning every doctor who has not been able to successfully deliver a baby alive into a convicted murderer as collatoral damage of going after the ones performing abortions.
Dumb is not good. You've been so blinded by years of expensive taxpayer funded propaganda from supposedly "small government" types that you didn't even pick up that none of my examples were actually about abortions. How about instead of taking the dumb approach use some of that mental ability that you have and understand that something complex has been dumbed down into a nanny-state slogan?
We had that. It was called CDE - common desktop environment. Only the people behind it's development, Sun Microsystems, liked it. There have been plenty of attempt to impose behaviour from above, see the strong reaction to the current version of gnome for how that works out. I presumed you'd observed such things for yourself and had decided to go for an MS clone to impose from above since that's what MS user are familiar with.
While Mac and MS used to have interface guidelines there's always been plenty of things that don't close with ALT-f-x. Things like photoshop even had their own window manger with sub windows inside another window FFS. So many applications had/have their own quirks and do not behave like MS Office even in the MS environment. AutoCAD looked like somebody had thrown a box of scrabble tiles on the screen, plus having a menu bar, command line and mouse menus even after having a full MS Windows version. Once you put a wide range of software on an MS desktop any time since MS Windows came out there has been an inconsistent environment so I do not think they have done it well at all. Drill deep into "control panel" and you'll hit a wide range of different interfaces so not even MS got it right internally (IMHO they just didn't care about getting it right in that situation).
Having a linux desktop with applications that don't quite fit in with the theme of the window manager is similar to what users are dealing with already on MS and Mac - hence my comment about knoppix and new users not having any more trouble with it than they are used to.
I've got to see my parents a lot more since they upgraded to MS Win10 from the MS Win7 that they could understand.
Microsoft, bringing people together.
And that is the problem. The Enterprise Edition is now the only one even worth considering.
It isn't.
The weird MS licensing may as well be the Necrinomicon.
So many little details and if you get one wrong an unstoppable invisible stalker is after your ass.
Or specific software that won't run on MS Win10 yet. Yes, the vendors are slow and not MS but it's still a reason.
There are still a lot of people on MS WinXP. I fixed an XP machine of someone I know on Tuesday.
With enough memory and an SSD it's actually very quick.
It's potentially malware prone (which wasn't the problem), but all MS systems still are almost as bad in that area and there are third party solutions to keep them protected.
This has been covered hundreds of times here. A work-a-like that's built on something very different and chasing a moving target is always going to disappoint.
It's different.
No point trying to hide it.
If you hide it people are always going to find out and get confused by subtle differences instead of knowing that they should be doing things differently.
Maybe try this little exercise - get someone who has never used linux to boot a Knoppix DVD. It all looks very different but they all seem to work it out almost instantly. I get people to use that to see if they are having hardware problems instead of MS Windows configuration problems, among other things.
Slavishly copying the MS interface of the month is in my opinion a very bad idea especially now where there are a mix of elements from MS Win10, MS Win7, MS WinXP and MS WinNT lurking on systems when you drill down into configuration settings. Getting something to work close enough to the original would be a thankless task that would piss people off even if it was possible to completely succeed.
It's like painting a camel and calling it a pony.
Notice how you had to write "on the desk" to get a small number because otherwise it wouldn't fit your insult?
People say a lot about the elderly not "getting" computers. Most who I have seen with laptops have tape over the camera they put there themselves - they are getting it alright and know how much they can trust MS etc.
It's almost as if they reinvented TWM very badly.
The thing that pisses me off is that ripoffs of that MS Win10 interface have been used on websites and almost always fucked up in some way. Little windows in the middle of the screen surrounded by whitespace and with scrollbars you have to move before you can get to the buttons. With other bad web design you can just zoom, but not with stuff like that. Such things are not the fault of MS directly but they have set a bad example IMHO.
You are the one that's pretending that all non-convictions mean the woman was a lying bitch making it all up.
There are many reasons not just that one as you know but are pretending not to - that false stupidity to push a point must be taught in school debating or something, so much of that shit around.
For example - often when it's without doubt that a crime has been committed it's not clear who did it.
You are lumping that in with your "cry wolf" numbers.
You are getting the number for a collection of fruit and pretending they are all apples when there are mostly oranges in the mix.
My stance is obviously that I consider ESR unreliable and biased and no other source of his supposedly second-hand claim has surfaced.
Thus suggesting that Linus has had to act differently is nothing but relaying ESR's expectation of what Linus would have to do in the future and not something based on what Linus has ever done. I think it should be treated like any other blog rant and not as if it was based on real events because those events did not happen before the blog post and do not seem to have happened afterwards.
Clear yet?
My entire point here is it should not be up to pen pushers in Washington or some lay preacher of the church of the dollar to decide this but someone on the spot with a lot of years of experience to develop more of a clue.
Putting down hard and fast rules based on what a layman sees as the norm really fucks people around in general.
See also how self defence or defence of others is a reason not to have mandatory sentences for someone who kills someone else. You carry a gun for defence don't you? Do you want a system so fucked up that if you shoot someone who has killed a dozen people in a mall and you are next that you are going to get the gas chamber for putting them down?
It's not murder and that's seriously fucked up medieval shit right there. The life of a potential son being worth more than that of a mother and all that shit we've left behind.
So in other words you are equating case dismissal due to potentially a wide range of reasons to a "false claim" and have become angry when your petty little trick has been seen through?
Yes or no?
What are you using to establish that a claim is actually false?
I would leave that up to the experts and the women involved instead of extra red tape imposed by lawyers and congresscritters who really have no clue and care even less. Making it illegal to save the mother in a difficult birth where the odds of the child surviving are very low anyway is the sort of nightmare that would come out of such nanny-statism.
For a lot of things there is no silver bullet that fits every situation.
Do I have to reference the "but it was only one goat" joke for you to get the point?
Some people think what MS has been proved to be doing is as bad as doing a goat. They only had to be caught once for it to matter.
That goes extremely well with your ESP link - well done.
Now that is weird.
You dropped names. No "backing up" at all. Surely you can do better than that and provide some actual content instead of just dropping names or being evasive and as with your other post.