Err... may I ask if you've ever *been* to an "Islamic state"? Do you have any idea what sharia law is?
Really, if you're going to talk, ensure you have a vague idea what you're talking about, lest you make an ass of yourself.
All "Islamic states" that exist currently, without exception, are about as realistically Islamic as North Korea is realistically communist. I.e., not at all. Furthermore, the hyperbole in your post leads me to believe you've never actually been to one of those states, and are using movies or Fox News as your source of elightenment on the subject.
That my girlfriend is a neat person is the only reason my apartment can be described as "inhabitable", so yes, we're lucky that females are good for keeping things neat as well.
Is there anyone else here who has close to zero understanding of the issue here? Just so we can round you all up and stick gimp masks on you to prevent you from embarrassing yourselves further.
I think this is quite reasonable of them. If they were giving the samples for free, and then told "you have to pay a price for the vaccine", a price they were not able to afford, then it is only fair for them to say that "we contributed the sample, which lead to the vaccine, therefore we deserve a) a share of the profits from the vaccine or b) rights to the vaccine for a reduced cost".
The easiest way to achieve this is to charge for the samples, effectively providing funding for the purchase of the vaccine. Seems quite reasonable to me.
If you consider the wholesale collection of personal information of members of the public to be a "tiny trivial" issue then you, Sir, are part of the problem.
Hold on. I hate MS as much as the next guy, but backwards compatibility is not always possible, or even desirable. I don't think that MS bashing is always the correct position just because the writer feels he doesn't like the look of Bill Gates' glasses.
Vista SDKs have been available to developers for ages, Apple has had ample opportunity to port iTunes to Vista, it is unfair of them to blame Microsoft. From a development perspective, the iTunes client software is trivial, especially for a company the size of Apple with that much riding on it. The resources to port it were likely deliberately withheld, as the bad press Apple can give to MS is calculated to tie in with the "Mac is better" add campaign. I.e., Apple is using the iPod as a weapon to get a mindshare advantage in the OSX vs. Windows battle.
I'm referring to the US military, and before you get all indignant about the US military being high tech and cutting edge please note the "COTS" in my sentence. Sure, military designed hardware is cutting edge, but they never use consumer grade stuff off the shelf unless it has years of testing in the real world behind it. There's a difference between stuff designed to be "consumer grade" and "military grade". Consumer grade stuff only gets integrated into military systems when they can be dead sure it's not going to go berserk at the worst possible moment. A CPU throwing in a floating point error that causes a fire trajectory to be out on a naval gun can make the difference between winning and losing a battle.
I have been a server admin for web/database for about 3 years now. I agree that bleeding edge is *not* where server admins want to be. There's a reason that Debian is widely considered the best server OS despite being rather far behind the bleeding edge. Tried and tested is better than the latest and greatest when you rely on the machine being up. It's also worth noting that the military doesn't use any COTS technology within 5 years of it being released.
Court: You were spying and that's a very bad thing. Governmnet: Yea but we stopped after we were sued. Court: Yes, but that doesn't get you off the hook. Government: Hey look! Behind you! A two headed moose! Court: *Whrils around* Where? Where? I demand to know where! Government: *Runs away*
Now IANAL, but that sounds like a reasonable summary to me.
Well done. The only "media" that I "consume" is the Internet, and the two way nature of that really differentiates it from movies, TV and radio IMHO. It is an interactive activity as opposed to a mind-numbing method to kill time. I don't have a TV in my home at all. However I occasionally cheat and watch a movie on my laptop in bed. (I anticipate lots of jokes about porn right about now. This is/. after all, a thread without toilet humour would be out of place.)
What sports have you taken up? I chose all the non-standard ones, skipping soccer and football for things like rock climbing, hiking, scuba diving and snowboarding.
I wish you well, fellow unplugger!
Well the "papers please" response to that question really embodies the answer. If I were to explain it to you further I would just be fleshing out the "papers plese" response you've already heard many times apparently.
The basic truism is that governments that have power, will abuse that power. The only safe way to protect society from governmental power abuse is to not give governments power they don't absolutely need in the first place.
It is for this reason that many believe the US government is pointing to terrorists and pedophiles as an excuse for them to legislate more power to themselves. Were there no reason, the idea is that the people, through Congress, would prevent the accumulation of power in the executive branch.
A federal ID scheme gives the executive branch power by providing an easy method of tracking and databasing the movements of people. Information like this is power in the most real sense to a government, as it can be used to identify political adversaries and squash them before they manage to make their ideas well known. If you think that this is conspiracy paranoia, then you don't know enough about the history of political change in the 20th century.
I think you just look for words or phrases that can be singularly construed to support your idea.
Take that "The usage of the terms "communism" and "socialism" shifted after 1917" quote for example. If you read the entirety of that section you'll see that the usage of the word changed from referring to the theory developed by Marx to referring to the objectives of that theory as applied by political parties of the time. The content of the theory did not change. It was, before 1917, and still is, the same body of political theory.
Don't you tell me to read. I wouldn't reference articles I hadn't read in full. I suggest you read my reference, the short timeframe of your response suggests to me you haven't.
If you're going to find a political scientist, try phrasing the question in a fashion more appropriate to this discussion. I.e., "Is the common belief that the USSR was a truly communist state an accurate belief?" Or even more appropriate would be "Are China and North Korea truly communist states?" seeing as you referred to them specifically earlier as being what most people thought exemplified communist states. If you refer to "Soviet style government" then yes he will say that is communism, as the soviets were modelled after Marxist theory. However in the USSR the soviets didn't hold much real power, as the central government held it all in practice, which is a very un-communist arrangement. I have always said throughout this discussion that a mistaken belief does not become correct by the mere fact that enough people are mistaken about it, so whatever your surveys of the public reveal is irrelevant. I think I said something about most people thinking the world was flat 500 years ago at one point earlier, and I refer back to that.
And if you resent the label commoner, perhaps you'll be more comfortable with "plebian moron".
I think he deserves a reasonable response, if you have one.
I, and I think he does too, think that your friends died for nothing but the hidden political and business agendas of those in power. They were pawns. I don't say this out of smugness, but out of unfathomable sympathy and sadness. I truly am grieved by the death of every man, woman and child that results from the greed of the few.
Most often, war is a battle between a few people in positions of power who are able to co-opt ordinary people into fighting for things they know little of and care even less about.
Take the average American G.I. for instance. Does he (or she) know anything about political theory, middle eastern history or what exactly he is fighting against? I doubt it. Most of them just think that they are fighting Saddam because of WMDs, or perhaps some nebulous notion of "giving freedom to Iraqis". They aren't aware that the biggest winners are corporations like the massive engineering firms, energy companies or construction conglomerates, and that the US military has just been co-opted to serve the business interests of the very few at the apex of the militant capitalist system.
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Err... may I ask if you've ever *been* to an "Islamic state"? Do you have any idea what sharia law is?
Really, if you're going to talk, ensure you have a vague idea what you're talking about, lest you make an ass of yourself.
All "Islamic states" that exist currently, without exception, are about as realistically Islamic as North Korea is realistically communist. I.e., not at all. Furthermore, the hyperbole in your post leads me to believe you've never actually been to one of those states, and are using movies or Fox News as your source of elightenment on the subject.
You are aware that the roof on your convertible can close, right?
That my girlfriend is a neat person is the only reason my apartment can be described as "inhabitable", so yes, we're lucky that females are good for keeping things neat as well.
Is there anyone else here who has close to zero understanding of the issue here? Just so we can round you all up and stick gimp masks on you to prevent you from embarrassing yourselves further.
I sadly agree.
I think this is quite reasonable of them. If they were giving the samples for free, and then told "you have to pay a price for the vaccine", a price they were not able to afford, then it is only fair for them to say that "we contributed the sample, which lead to the vaccine, therefore we deserve a) a share of the profits from the vaccine or b) rights to the vaccine for a reduced cost".
The easiest way to achieve this is to charge for the samples, effectively providing funding for the purchase of the vaccine. Seems quite reasonable to me.
G'day mate! I just got me Vallium from me quack. He put it on me scrippo and I didn't 'ave to pay for it nither!
Mods, that's not flamebait, that's damn funny!
OMG!!! BOTTLE-NOSED RAIN EATING ZOMBIES!!! As if the water shortages weren't already bad enough!
You're mistaken, "hillbilly's" and "hillbillies" are the same number of keystrokes, so it wasn't laziness.
If you consider the wholesale collection of personal information of members of the public to be a "tiny trivial" issue then you, Sir, are part of the problem.
Hold on. I hate MS as much as the next guy, but backwards compatibility is not always possible, or even desirable. I don't think that MS bashing is always the correct position just because the writer feels he doesn't like the look of Bill Gates' glasses.
Vista SDKs have been available to developers for ages, Apple has had ample opportunity to port iTunes to Vista, it is unfair of them to blame Microsoft. From a development perspective, the iTunes client software is trivial, especially for a company the size of Apple with that much riding on it. The resources to port it were likely deliberately withheld, as the bad press Apple can give to MS is calculated to tie in with the "Mac is better" add campaign. I.e., Apple is using the iPod as a weapon to get a mindshare advantage in the OSX vs. Windows battle.
This is nothing but a sneaky trick by Apple.
And I like it!
Inches? Man, if he looked straight up he'd need binoculars to see it.
Indeed. I wait for your parents or family members to die to hear you say that again.
I'm referring to the US military, and before you get all indignant about the US military being high tech and cutting edge please note the "COTS" in my sentence. Sure, military designed hardware is cutting edge, but they never use consumer grade stuff off the shelf unless it has years of testing in the real world behind it. There's a difference between stuff designed to be "consumer grade" and "military grade". Consumer grade stuff only gets integrated into military systems when they can be dead sure it's not going to go berserk at the worst possible moment. A CPU throwing in a floating point error that causes a fire trajectory to be out on a naval gun can make the difference between winning and losing a battle.
I have been a server admin for web/database for about 3 years now. I agree that bleeding edge is *not* where server admins want to be. There's a reason that Debian is widely considered the best server OS despite being rather far behind the bleeding edge. Tried and tested is better than the latest and greatest when you rely on the machine being up. It's also worth noting that the military doesn't use any COTS technology within 5 years of it being released.
Right. So they pointed to the two headed moose and got off scott free?
Court: You were spying and that's a very bad thing.
Governmnet: Yea but we stopped after we were sued.
Court: Yes, but that doesn't get you off the hook.
Government: Hey look! Behind you! A two headed moose!
Court: *Whrils around* Where? Where? I demand to know where!
Government: *Runs away*
Now IANAL, but that sounds like a reasonable summary to me.
You must be new here.
Well done. The only "media" that I "consume" is the Internet, and the two way nature of that really differentiates it from movies, TV and radio IMHO. It is an interactive activity as opposed to a mind-numbing method to kill time. I don't have a TV in my home at all. However I occasionally cheat and watch a movie on my laptop in bed. (I anticipate lots of jokes about porn right about now. This is /. after all, a thread without toilet humour would be out of place.)
What sports have you taken up? I chose all the non-standard ones, skipping soccer and football for things like rock climbing, hiking, scuba diving and snowboarding.
I wish you well, fellow unplugger!
Well the "papers please" response to that question really embodies the answer. If I were to explain it to you further I would just be fleshing out the "papers plese" response you've already heard many times apparently.
The basic truism is that governments that have power, will abuse that power. The only safe way to protect society from governmental power abuse is to not give governments power they don't absolutely need in the first place.
It is for this reason that many believe the US government is pointing to terrorists and pedophiles as an excuse for them to legislate more power to themselves. Were there no reason, the idea is that the people, through Congress, would prevent the accumulation of power in the executive branch.
A federal ID scheme gives the executive branch power by providing an easy method of tracking and databasing the movements of people. Information like this is power in the most real sense to a government, as it can be used to identify political adversaries and squash them before they manage to make their ideas well known. If you think that this is conspiracy paranoia, then you don't know enough about the history of political change in the 20th century.
I think you just look for words or phrases that can be singularly construed to support your idea. Take that "The usage of the terms "communism" and "socialism" shifted after 1917" quote for example. If you read the entirety of that section you'll see that the usage of the word changed from referring to the theory developed by Marx to referring to the objectives of that theory as applied by political parties of the time. The content of the theory did not change. It was, before 1917, and still is, the same body of political theory. Don't you tell me to read. I wouldn't reference articles I hadn't read in full. I suggest you read my reference, the short timeframe of your response suggests to me you haven't. If you're going to find a political scientist, try phrasing the question in a fashion more appropriate to this discussion. I.e., "Is the common belief that the USSR was a truly communist state an accurate belief?" Or even more appropriate would be "Are China and North Korea truly communist states?" seeing as you referred to them specifically earlier as being what most people thought exemplified communist states. If you refer to "Soviet style government" then yes he will say that is communism, as the soviets were modelled after Marxist theory. However in the USSR the soviets didn't hold much real power, as the central government held it all in practice, which is a very un-communist arrangement. I have always said throughout this discussion that a mistaken belief does not become correct by the mere fact that enough people are mistaken about it, so whatever your surveys of the public reveal is irrelevant. I think I said something about most people thinking the world was flat 500 years ago at one point earlier, and I refer back to that. And if you resent the label commoner, perhaps you'll be more comfortable with "plebian moron".
I think he deserves a reasonable response, if you have one.
I, and I think he does too, think that your friends died for nothing but the hidden political and business agendas of those in power. They were pawns. I don't say this out of smugness, but out of unfathomable sympathy and sadness. I truly am grieved by the death of every man, woman and child that results from the greed of the few.
Most often, war is a battle between a few people in positions of power who are able to co-opt ordinary people into fighting for things they know little of and care even less about.
Take the average American G.I. for instance. Does he (or she) know anything about political theory, middle eastern history or what exactly he is fighting against? I doubt it. Most of them just think that they are fighting Saddam because of WMDs, or perhaps some nebulous notion of "giving freedom to Iraqis". They aren't aware that the biggest winners are corporations like the massive engineering firms, energy companies or construction conglomerates, and that the US military has just been co-opted to serve the business interests of the very few at the apex of the militant capitalist system.
The rest of the world isn't sure what American's speak, but it sure as hell isn't English.