The problem is your logic. The US and UK governments claimed they had evidence that Iraq possessed WMD at the time of the invasion. Your claim that Iraq possessed WMD at some time prior to that time period is irrelevant to the issue, unless you are claiming that those weapons were still functional which you admit they are not.
Also, using the shooting of someones partner as your analogy is tasteless.
I'd have thought that one of the relevant points is whether if Iraq had some poison gas weapons somewhere, it was legitimate cause to launch a full scale invasion, occupation and installation of a more amenable government. After all, certain other countries that are considerably less likely to be invaded have much greater stockpiles of "WMD" than Iraq has ever had.
But regardless, the UN weapons inspector (both at the time and a former one) are on record as saying that they were not finding (and had not found) evidence of "WMD". If the aim had been to deal with "WMD violations" then the logical course of action would be to allow the weapons inspectors to continue. However, as it looked more and more certain that they would find no evidence, they had to be pulled out as the US was already beginning its invasion. The carriers were in place, the troops on the move. How much evidence is needed that the US-led invasion was not motivated by WMD in any capacity? It was always a pretext and the attack took place before it could be exposed.
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I haven't RTFA (natch), but from the summary I would agree with you that this argument is wrong. The manager of some programmers does not need to be able to write "Hello World." I've had a very good manager that couldn't do that, but she was very good at keeping track of what impacted on what and keeping an eye on our progress. I do agree that the valuation of managers vs. those that actually do the work is often the wrong way round and cuts should follow accordingly. I often think the better way to consider a manager is as an assistant to those who do the actual work, taking care of the peripheral details of a project allowing the important people to do the actual work. But the reasoning in this article, along the lines of whether the manager can do the programmers job, is *not* the place to start.
I'm thinking monoculture is bad so I'm all for a variety of different rendering engines. Though I have no informed opinion on the relevant merits of either. When I use Firefox 3 (quite often), it has performed well. Though that said, I also use Konqueror quite a lot which has the original engine that WebKIT was forked from (KHTML) and I like it.
But basically this whole "story" is a meaningless attempt to generate hype for Google's browser and troll for post-high arguments.
water expands when frozen, and 90% of an iceberg is below water... any flooding that occurs isn't going to be of the magnitude most people seem to be expecting... the amount of water in the sea will still be the same, just less of it will be frozen...
Picture a swimming pool with a plank across it. Supported on this plank is 2.9million cubic kilometers of ice. When the ice melts it will run off the plank into the pool and the tiny creatures that live along the water line will have to move. In this analogy, the pool is the World's oceans, the plank is Greenland which is not floating but an island. And the 2.9 million cubic kilometers of ice is 2.9 cubic kilometers of ice. It's not floating at all, it's supported on an island which is nothing more than a high point of land in the middle of an ocean. The melting ice is running down from it now and will continue to do so. The tiny creatures... they's us, I'm afraid,
£500 per year is not a good salary, even before you deduct the money you paid for the privilege of playing it. If you want to play WoW for 1.5 years then by all means do so, but the notion that it's profitable to people in the West is a very shakey one.
Couldn't the same be said for a man who chose to express his creativity in a resource gathering manner (work) and seek to hire a master of the jewelry trade to make a ring?
It could. Lucky the couple of special people who find each other, rather than a lives with people who don't value their uniqueness.
Ohhhh. That doesn't translate across the Atlantic. When I saw 'wedding band,' that meant musical band to me. When I worked out he meant a wedding ring, it seemed natural that if he had all this concern about what sort of ring to buy, then it was hers. He can obviously do what he likes with his own.
It's a shame. If he had found a girl who would value this sort of symbolism and effort on his part over a conventional diamonds and gold thing, then he would have found a very wonderful girl (though I'm sure she is anyway).
All I'll add to that, is if he's found a girl who will value his imagination, willingness to put all that effort, throught and dilligence in, more than she values waving some diamonds with no intrinsic value at her friends and having them wave their own back (sometimes with a concealed snide reference to it not being worth as much their diamonds), then he should under no circumstances ever let this girl go. She's more valuable than any precious metal or gemstone.
Plea bargaining is illegal in the UK (and rightly so - it's a matter of intimidation). That the US lawyers attempted to offer Mr. McKinnon a deal before extradition was grounds to throw the extradition out. However, despite McKinnon's lawyers raising this, it was over-turned by the UK authorities. McKinnon has embarrassed the US defence establishment and I doubt they will forgive him for that. For the UK to refuse to hand him over, regardless of the appropriateness of not doing so, would embarrass the New Labour government and McKinnon is a victim of this, imo.
Wow! There is some beautiful work on ilovetypography.com and the typophile site looks interesting too (though completely unusable in the Konqueror browser). Thank you very much for those. Interesting and useful.
A little off topic, but this is as good a place as any... Samantha - you clearly know quite a bit about fonts and liking to present both my documents and websites in the best possible way, can you recommend any good sources of reading, guides to font use or font libraries (for want of knowing the correct terminology) ? It's always been a slightly impenetrable area to me (not helped by working on a Linux system).
No matter if not, but how often do I encounter an expert on fonts?:)
Yes - that's a good point, I don't know how well the figures pan out when you start accounting for apartment blocks, etc. and I wont pretend I do - I'm not arguing for sake of trying to "win." It may be that apartment blocks have lower energy consumption due to lower heating costs or greater efficiency from shared hot water heating... but I really have no idea.:)
Well I don't know where you're living but here in the UK, a big South facing sloping roof top would be absolutely the best, I think. On the equator, you could get some use out of both sides and in the Southern hemisphere, it's the North facing side. But in either case, my parent's complaint about "being 15% short of meeting all your energy needs" is still absurd. If domestic electricity consumption dropped to 15% of what it is now, this would be a massive difference to both a nation's energy usage, cost of the remaining energy and the cost of energy distribution infrastructure. It would be fantastic. The point the parent is trying to make is that it wouldn't be a big benefit to have all the roofs fitted with solar panels. In fact it would be a huge benefit.
"According to the US Census Bureau, the average size of a US home as of 2006 is 2,469 square feet" (close enough to 225m^2), and the average household size in the US is 2.6 people.
So assuming that they are all single level homes (so the dwelling's roof area is about that of the floor area - a pretty bad assumptions). No - you will be short by about 15%.
That is a bad assumption. Unles you have a flat roof, the area will be more than that of the floor space. In fact, if the angle of the roof sides to the building were 60 degrees, then the area of the roof will be about 1.7x the ground space. That makes up your lost 15%, though why you think getting to 85% of your electricity needs isn't worthwhile, I have no idea.
I don't think it will be the medium that will be the problem, it will be the message. Imagine the shock of those viewing it to learn that our generation thought that there weren't WMD in Iraq or that Han Solo shot first. I'd limit the contents of this a few MP3's and photos of the Whitehouse, otherwise your time capsule will last all of 5 minutes after being unearthed before its whisked away to the Ministry of Subversive Materials.
Actually, better forget the MP3s, or you'll be tracked down by the RIAA and sued for 25years of lost song rental income.
But there's scietific conseus that ninjas are cooler than pirates.
Incorrect. It's the other way around. It's been shown with Science that pirates are so cool that they actually offset global warming. There are graphs that prove this. Ninjas, conversely, are hot. At least... girl ninjas are. 8)
Yes, we can all do this ourselves either with the appropriate browser software and settings or at a network level. But don't you see? If Microsoft are billing this as a feature for the next IE, then it means this sort of stuff is reaching mainstream consciousness. And it's about bloody time. Good for M$, for once!
Amen to that.If Microsoft want to help me keep the ever encroaching tentacles of Google at bay for a little longer, then more power to them. Yes, it's Microsoft, but Microsoft is a huge entity. I'm sure it has capacity within its big fat employee base for acts that are both beneficial and detrimental to the community. I'm happy to cheer them on when they do something I approve of (so far, that's just Windows XP, Excel (pre-2007) and this, but I'm sure there must be other things).
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The problem is your logic. The US and UK governments claimed they had evidence that Iraq possessed WMD at the time of the invasion. Your claim that Iraq possessed WMD at some time prior to that time period is irrelevant to the issue, unless you are claiming that those weapons were still functional which you admit they are not.
Also, using the shooting of someones partner as your analogy is tasteless.
I'd have thought that one of the relevant points is whether if Iraq had some poison gas weapons somewhere, it was legitimate cause to launch a full scale invasion, occupation and installation of a more amenable government. After all, certain other countries that are considerably less likely to be invaded have much greater stockpiles of "WMD" than Iraq has ever had.
But regardless, the UN weapons inspector (both at the time and a former one) are on record as saying that they were not finding (and had not found) evidence of "WMD". If the aim had been to deal with "WMD violations" then the logical course of action would be to allow the weapons inspectors to continue. However, as it looked more and more certain that they would find no evidence, they had to be pulled out as the US was already beginning its invasion. The carriers were in place, the troops on the move. How much evidence is needed that the US-led invasion was not motivated by WMD in any capacity? It was always a pretext and the attack took place before it could be exposed.
I haven't RTFA (natch), but from the summary I would agree with you that this argument is wrong. The manager of some programmers does not need to be able to write "Hello World." I've had a very good manager that couldn't do that, but she was very good at keeping track of what impacted on what and keeping an eye on our progress. I do agree that the valuation of managers vs. those that actually do the work is often the wrong way round and cuts should follow accordingly. I often think the better way to consider a manager is as an assistant to those who do the actual work, taking care of the peripheral details of a project allowing the important people to do the actual work. But the reasoning in this article, along the lines of whether the manager can do the programmers job, is *not* the place to start.
I'm thinking monoculture is bad so I'm all for a variety of different rendering engines. Though I have no informed opinion on the relevant merits of either. When I use Firefox 3 (quite often), it has performed well. Though that said, I also use Konqueror quite a lot which has the original engine that WebKIT was forked from (KHTML) and I like it.
But basically this whole "story" is a meaningless attempt to generate hype for Google's browser and troll for post-high arguments.
Picture a swimming pool with a plank across it. Supported on this plank is 2.9million cubic kilometers of ice. When the ice melts it will run off the plank into the pool and the tiny creatures that live along the water line will have to move. In this analogy, the pool is the World's oceans, the plank is Greenland which is not floating but an island. And the 2.9 million cubic kilometers of ice is 2.9 cubic kilometers of ice. It's not floating at all, it's supported on an island which is nothing more than a high point of land in the middle of an ocean. The melting ice is running down from it now and will continue to do so. The tiny creatures... they's us, I'm afraid,
Yeah, a couple of technical inaccuracies spoiling an otherwise nice post. I agree with the GP's conclusions, if not his arguments though.
£500 per year is not a good salary, even before you deduct the money you paid for the privilege of playing it. If you want to play WoW for 1.5 years then by all means do so, but the notion that it's profitable to people in the West is a very shakey one.
It could. Lucky the couple of special people who find each other, rather than a lives with people who don't value their uniqueness.
Ohhhh. That doesn't translate across the Atlantic. When I saw 'wedding band,' that meant musical band to me. When I worked out he meant a wedding ring, it seemed natural that if he had all this concern about what sort of ring to buy, then it was hers. He can obviously do what he likes with his own.
It's a shame. If he had found a girl who would value this sort of symbolism and effort on his part over a conventional diamonds and gold thing, then he would have found a very wonderful girl (though I'm sure she is anyway).
All I'll add to that, is if he's found a girl who will value his imagination, willingness to put all that effort, throught and dilligence in, more than she values waving some diamonds with no intrinsic value at her friends and having them wave their own back (sometimes with a concealed snide reference to it not being worth as much their diamonds), then he should under no circumstances ever let this girl go. She's more valuable than any precious metal or gemstone.
Good luck to the submitter!
Plea bargaining is illegal in the UK (and rightly so - it's a matter of intimidation). That the US lawyers attempted to offer Mr. McKinnon a deal before extradition was grounds to throw the extradition out. However, despite McKinnon's lawyers raising this, it was over-turned by the UK authorities. McKinnon has embarrassed the US defence establishment and I doubt they will forgive him for that. For the UK to refuse to hand him over, regardless of the appropriateness of not doing so, would embarrass the New Labour government and McKinnon is a victim of this, imo.
Wow! There is some beautiful work on ilovetypography.com and the typophile site looks interesting too (though completely unusable in the Konqueror browser). Thank you very much for those. Interesting and useful.
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A little off topic, but this is as good a place as any... Samantha - you clearly know quite a bit about fonts and liking to present both my documents and websites in the best possible way, can you recommend any good sources of reading, guides to font use or font libraries (for want of knowing the correct terminology) ? It's always been a slightly impenetrable area to me (not helped by working on a Linux system).
No matter if not, but how often do I encounter an expert on fonts?
Yes - that's a good point, I don't know how well the figures pan out when you start accounting for apartment blocks, etc. and I wont pretend I do - I'm not arguing for sake of trying to "win." It may be that apartment blocks have lower energy consumption due to lower heating costs or greater efficiency from shared hot water heating... but I really have no idea.
Well I don't know where you're living but here in the UK, a big South facing sloping roof top would be absolutely the best, I think. On the equator, you could get some use out of both sides and in the Southern hemisphere, it's the North facing side. But in either case, my parent's complaint about "being 15% short of meeting all your energy needs" is still absurd. If domestic electricity consumption dropped to 15% of what it is now, this would be a massive difference to both a nation's energy usage, cost of the remaining energy and the cost of energy distribution infrastructure. It would be fantastic. The point the parent is trying to make is that it wouldn't be a big benefit to have all the roofs fitted with solar panels. In fact it would be a huge benefit.
That is a bad assumption. Unles you have a flat roof, the area will be more than that of the floor space. In fact, if the angle of the roof sides to the building were 60 degrees, then the area of the roof will be about 1.7x the ground space. That makes up your lost 15%, though why you think getting to 85% of your electricity needs isn't worthwhile, I have no idea.
I don't think it will be the medium that will be the problem, it will be the message. Imagine the shock of those viewing it to learn that our generation thought that there weren't WMD in Iraq or that Han Solo shot first. I'd limit the contents of this a few MP3's and photos of the Whitehouse, otherwise your time capsule will last all of 5 minutes after being unearthed before its whisked away to the Ministry of Subversive Materials.
Actually, better forget the MP3s, or you'll be tracked down by the RIAA and sued for 25years of lost song rental income.
Nah, the most common hominid group in the Diebold corporation is the takinthepithicus. At least that's how I feel.
Did last time.
Incorrect. It's the other way around. It's been shown with Science that pirates are so cool that they actually offset global warming. There are graphs that prove this. Ninjas, conversely, are hot. At least... girl ninjas are. 8)
I am going to make the bold prediction that you will both be right.
Yes, we can all do this ourselves either with the appropriate browser software and settings or at a network level. But don't you see? If Microsoft are billing this as a feature for the next IE, then it means this sort of stuff is reaching mainstream consciousness. And it's about bloody time. Good for M$, for once!
Amen to that.If Microsoft want to help me keep the ever encroaching tentacles of Google at bay for a little longer, then more power to them. Yes, it's Microsoft, but Microsoft is a huge entity. I'm sure it has capacity within its big fat employee base for acts that are both beneficial and detrimental to the community. I'm happy to cheer them on when they do something I approve of (so far, that's just Windows XP, Excel (pre-2007) and this, but I'm sure there must be other things).
Hallelujah!
Sorry - meant to reply to your parent.