A Russian, a Yankee, and a $HUMOROUS_NATIONALITY are talking about subs.
"In my country we can send a submarine underwater and it doesn't come back up for 4 months," boasts the Russian.
"That's nothing. We can send a sub underwater and it doesn't come back up for 7 months," scoffs the American.
"Seven months? Pathetic!" opines the $HUMOROUS_NATIONALITY. "Where I come from we can send one of our submarines underwater and the thing will never be seen again!"
Here in the real world, however... the reality is that had we not done something, Saddam likely would have gassed more of his own people than are dead today, twice over. Maybe so. However:
The coalition didn't consistently claim that as its reason for the second Gulf War. (Maybe Bush did: I don't know. But Blair most certainly didn't until after it became evident that WMD wouldn't be found).
He wouldn't have killed them so quickly. There was plenty of time to prepare a proper plan which extended beyond the first few weeks. The failure to do so was at best criminal negligence.
I write Java rather than C, but needing Alt-Gr on my Spanish keyboard to get [ and { does annoy me. Also when I first starting using it I puzzled for ages as to how to get backtick (`) for use in shell scripts.
As for Microsoft service packs, should a patch really count? Depends on the patch. Some service packs contain significant new software. How else would they pass 100MB in size? Of course, it's fair to say that those tend to be the early service packs and not so heavily downloaded on their launch day as later ones.
a single NT-based OS I always wished the driver configuration had been based on NT as well as the kernel. I find NT/2k configuration of network cards to be far more intuitive than 9x/XP/Vista.
What's the current record? I'd expect MS service packs to set a pretty high bar. Also, how are they counting? If Debian get Firefox 3 through into testing on the day (which I doubt), would an install via aptitude count, or are they only counting direct downloads from Mozilla?
If people started beating people up, just to photograph (and sell it) then they'd be undercut by happy-slappers who put their videos on YouTube for free.
You can't, however, make a case that religious fundamentalism isn't harmful to science. The hostile relationship between fundamentalism and science is glaringly obvious, and there just isn't much to talk about here. I think you're making two false assumptions here. The first is that the fundamentalists whom you see in your media are representative of all US fundamentalists. I don't know how true that is. The second is that they are representative of all fundamentalists. That certainly isn't true. To take an "extreme" example, which may cause cognitive dissonance in some readers, I know a Christian fundamentalist who's doing post-doctoral research in evolution in a respected UK university.
Three years ago I spent a few months in Ecuador and brought home some 21-inch machetes as gifts for my brothers. I arrived back in the UK on the 7th July 2005, the same day that some bombs went off in the London Underground.
A week or two later I went down to visit my parents by train, passing through London. One of my brothers was also going to visit them, so we arranged to meet on the train. I took a train in to London, arriving in the early afternoon, took the Tube to Victoria, and boarded the train to my parents' town.
Chatting to my brother, I discovered that he'd had his bag searched by police when he got on the Tube that morning, and they'd found a 2-inch penknife he'd forgotten he was carrying and told him off. I hadn't passed through any checkpoint with the machetes, though, because they wrapped up at noon.
According to TFS the attacker opened thousands of accounts with services like PayPal / Google Checkout. It doesn't say anything about how many actual bank accounts he used.
It is, but no reason not to block it in the host file. (You could easily have checked how it's called by viewing source, as/. uses it. Curiously the script is in the wrong place in this page: at the end of the head rather than the end of the body).
That is a great line, but I feel it pales in comparison to
[T]he commander, Schlitt, decided to use the toilet without the help of a trained specialist
Why shouldn't you implicate the "so-called 'good guys'"? The definition of terrorism is disputed, but for my money terrorism is the attempt to achieve a political end by causing people to fear that you will perpetuate violence against them, modulo such attempts which should properly be classified as war or the threat of war.
What is "an e sound"? English doesn't have 5 vocal sounds: it has around 20 vocals and diphthongs (with considerable variation even among native speakers), and there isn't a straightforward correspondence between pronunciation and spelling. I pronounce the "ai" in "said" the same way as the "e" in "bed".
I dare any bona fide business to apply for a business license from a government agency giving the kind of information I've seen on most whois databases... especially the dot com types. Business license information is public information and often even published in network accessible databases as well... many even on the web interestingly enough.
But what about businesses which don't need licences? I own a.co.uk domain from when I set up as a sole trader (self-employed); I did not want to put e-mail or snail mail addresses in the whois records, but it came down to the risk of losing the domain outweighing my desire for privacy.
But a domain name was never meant to be private.
Do you mean domain ownership? Sure, but domains were only meant to be owned by military and academic organisations, and those organisations were meant to be the only ones with access to the network. When the scope of a project changes drastically you have to consider whether its structure is still appropriate.
The former because if the parties are too similar (as they are now, to an outsider's view), there is no real choice. It's stronger than that. In an effort to attract the "swing voters" the two parties drift towards each other, so over time they will become similar.
That's a technical usage which you don't tend to find outside academic study of religions. It's a synonym of cultus. An example would be the cult of Second Temple Judaism, which would relate to the system of temple worship and synagogues. It wouldn't include the emerging rabbinic tradition, because while that is an important aspect of Second Temple Judaism it's not part of the system of worship. So cult in this usage is not equivalent to religion but a strict subset thereof.
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A Russian, a Yankee, and a $HUMOROUS_NATIONALITY are talking about subs.
"In my country we can send a submarine underwater and it doesn't come back up for 4 months," boasts the Russian.
"That's nothing. We can send a sub underwater and it doesn't come back up for 7 months," scoffs the American.
"Seven months? Pathetic!" opines the $HUMOROUS_NATIONALITY. "Where I come from we can send one of our submarines underwater and the thing will never be seen again!"
(Insert $HUMOROUS_NATIONALITY to taste).
I write Java rather than C, but needing Alt-Gr on my Spanish keyboard to get [ and { does annoy me. Also when I first starting using it I puzzled for ages as to how to get backtick (`) for use in shell scripts.
Akkad fits the rhyme better than Susa. Okay, so it wasn't the capital of the Persian Empire, but Cyrus controlled it.
What's the current record? I'd expect MS service packs to set a pretty high bar. Also, how are they counting? If Debian get Firefox 3 through into testing on the day (which I doubt), would an install via aptitude count, or are they only counting direct downloads from Mozilla?
Three years ago I spent a few months in Ecuador and brought home some 21-inch machetes as gifts for my brothers. I arrived back in the UK on the 7th July 2005, the same day that some bombs went off in the London Underground.
A week or two later I went down to visit my parents by train, passing through London. One of my brothers was also going to visit them, so we arranged to meet on the train. I took a train in to London, arriving in the early afternoon, took the Tube to Victoria, and boarded the train to my parents' town.
Chatting to my brother, I discovered that he'd had his bag searched by police when he got on the Tube that morning, and they'd found a 2-inch penknife he'd forgotten he was carrying and told him off. I hadn't passed through any checkpoint with the machetes, though, because they wrapped up at noon.
According to TFS the attacker opened thousands of accounts with services like PayPal / Google Checkout. It doesn't say anything about how many actual bank accounts he used.
It is, but no reason not to block it in the host file. (You could easily have checked how it's called by viewing source, as /. uses it. Curiously the script is in the wrong place in this page: at the end of the head rather than the end of the body).
If you're seriously worried about that then run sshd on port 443 on a box which doesn't need to serve https.
Trademarks are IP. IP falls into four categories: patents, trademarks, copyright, and trade secrets.
Why shouldn't you implicate the "so-called 'good guys'"? The definition of terrorism is disputed, but for my money terrorism is the attempt to achieve a political end by causing people to fear that you will perpetuate violence against them, modulo such attempts which should properly be classified as war or the threat of war.
What is "an e sound"? English doesn't have 5 vocal sounds: it has around 20 vocals and diphthongs (with considerable variation even among native speakers), and there isn't a straightforward correspondence between pronunciation and spelling. I pronounce the "ai" in "said" the same way as the "e" in "bed".
Nonsense. There's plenty of work for philosophy students in retail.
But what about businesses which don't need licences? I own a .co.uk domain from when I set up as a sole trader (self-employed); I did not want to put e-mail or snail mail addresses in the whois records, but it came down to the risk of losing the domain outweighing my desire for privacy.
But a domain name was never meant to be private.Do you mean domain ownership? Sure, but domains were only meant to be owned by military and academic organisations, and those organisations were meant to be the only ones with access to the network. When the scope of a project changes drastically you have to consider whether its structure is still appropriate.
Nonsense.
Yes! I don't want people finding out about my Marfan's syndrome.
Hang on. How do I delete this post?
That's a technical usage which you don't tend to find outside academic study of religions. It's a synonym of cultus. An example would be the cult of Second Temple Judaism, which would relate to the system of temple worship and synagogues. It wouldn't include the emerging rabbinic tradition, because while that is an important aspect of Second Temple Judaism it's not part of the system of worship. So cult in this usage is not equivalent to religion but a strict subset thereof.
I've switched to reading the syndicated version on Yahoo.