[another name for al-Zawahiri] ... I disagree completely with the issue of sales and profits. These are not profits. They are rather a farce of compound losses. I believe that going on in this is a dead end, as if we were fighting ghosts or windmills. Enough of pouring musk on barren land.
specially sensitive messages were encoded with a simple but reliable cryptographic system that had been used by both Allied and Axis powers during World War II--a "one-time pad" system that paired individual letters with randomly assigned numbers and letters and produced messages readable only by those who knew the pairings.
One time pads are the most difficult to crack ciphers in existance. It is theoretically impossible to crack them unless: a) the pad wasn't destroyed after decoding the message or b) the algorithm to create the pad is predictable. The author doesn't say anything about these 2 situations, so how does he know how sensitive the files were? Did they leave the decoded files on the computer anyway?
Well, they obviously had no problem using US planes to crash into US buildings designed by a Japanese architect and inhabited by members of over 90 nations and almost all world religons...
But seriously, leaders rerely ever practice what they preach. They may tell you that US technology is bad(though everything but the software was manuractured, and possibly even designed abroad by godless Chinese, and the software had significant contributions from followers of Hinduism, not exactly Islam's ally), but they will use it anyway. Look at any dictator, you think Kim jong Il suffers like his people do? Claims to be a worker's paradise, but only the party elite are allowed to have cars...
You hit the nail on the head, the problem with the current war is that we are "treating the symptoms instead of the disease" It's a lot like performing open-heart surgery on a fat person who just had a heart attack, but telling them they can still eat at McDonald's every day. The person will be fine for a while, but the underlying factors that caused the first heart attack will come right back and spawn another one. Just like getting rid of Bin Laden is important, but if you don't do anything to address the underlying issues, a new Bin Laden will appear again.
There are a lot of causes to terrorism. A big one is that the arab world does not think that their best interest is America's best interest. There is a lot of unemployment among Arab men. Since oil money causes most Middle Eastern currencies to be quite strong, thus making anything manufactured in them quite expensive to the outside world. This wouldn't be so bad per se if the leaders were to use thier oil money to buy raw materials from abroad and using them to make various things for consumption in the Arab world. It wouldn't make much business sense, but would employ lots of people and keep them happy, and more importantly, they would see America's success as their own success. Instead, the leaders of these countries keep almost all the money for themselves, and they really couldn't give a flying fuck about what happens to their people. Entrepeneurs can't start up businesses, and people see America's money as keeping them unemployed while propping up their corrupt rulers.
That isn't to say that unemploymed people are the only ones who are terrorists. Bin Laden is the son of a billionaire and Atta was well educated and could have made a nice living for himself had he decided to devote himself to that. But as the saying goes, "it takes a village to raise a child" also equates to, "it takes a villiage to raise a terrorist' These people did not grow to be terrorists in isolation. These people were a part of a larger community, went to the Mosque regularly, etc. The other people at the Mosque, who may not be extremists/terrorists did very little to stop the encouragement of such behaviour. Maybe it's because they did not see how their best interests were aligned with that of the western world.....
There is another way to fight the war on terror, but it may not be very popular. It would be to fight terror with terror. Bush often tried to draw the paralell between post WWII Germany and Japan with that of Iraq. There was a key difference though. In WWII, the allies(in Europe the US, Britian, and the Soviets for the most part, the US in Asia) repeatedly carpet-bombed Germany and Japan. In addition to beating the milirary, they destroyed most of the infrastructure, as well as killing a large # of civlilians. This broke the will of the people to fight. Japan had never been under the boot of a foriegn conquerer for as long as it existed as a nation, and yet because the US devasted the country(not just with atomic weapons, the biggest firebombing of Tokyo killed more people than did the bomb in Nagasaki, only the firebombing in Tokyo took 400 bombers and many thousands of bombs vs. 1 plane and 1 bomb). There was a token resistance after the war, but the Japanese realized that they could not win, the harder they struggled, the more wrath the US would throw upon them, so they gave up. They accepted the conditions of surrender. Do you think that the Japanese would have surrendered if the US fought the war in Japan like they do the war in Iraq?
If you want to win the war on terror using the military(note I don't condone this action, but this is what I think would be necessary for a decisive military victory) you have to target both civilians and the religion itself. You have to carpet bomb to break the will of the people to fight. You coat your bullets in pig grease(and make sure the enemy knows it) to show the enemy that if they get struck by your bullet, they will die an undc
It's a very fine line. I don't buy into the "slippery slope" analogy as always being true, but that doesn't mean it's false. The constitution was mean to be interpreted to a certain extent, and the checks and balances were supposed to make sure that the government doesn't overstep it's bounds. In this case I don't buy into that this is the first step towards an orwellian state.
Actually what is more dangerous is that under the current administration, the courts, the congress, and the president get along all to well for my liking. There is supposed to be friction, the framers never intended for supreme court justices to go duck hunting with the vice president. The 3 branches are always supposed to be suspicious of eachother, but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. Now there is were the real danger is, not protecting some dude who was obviously peddling porn to kids.
It would be a tough sell to investors, and Sega probably doesn't have the cash on hand to risk it on another console deal. Manufacturing those things isn't exactly cheap, and if it would flop, investors are going to flee from Sega like crazy.
I can't say they will never make another console, but there would have to be a stron financial incentive for them to do so, and with Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft already prepping their next gen consoles for release, there is no way that Sega could get in on time, and judging from the dreamcast, if you don't get in early, you already have the deck stacked against you.
The quarter you are referring to was 1st quarter 2003, their revenue and profit both soared if you look at it year over year.
And honestly, 3 billion yen on 27 billion revenue, while not great, isn't exactly bad.
You haven't been outside of the cities much, have you?
In the "suburb" of Tokyo I lived in(it was in Saitama), I saw a very large numbers of mini-vans/SUVs/other types of large vehicles( the people were quite skillful at parking them, I must admit)
However, inside of the city, I saw far less of those types of cars.
Now granted you are more likely to find huge cars on the streets of NYC than you are in Shinjuku(a major hub of Tokyo for those not in the know), it's a lie to say that there aren't a significant numbers of large vehicles in Japan.
There are also a number of other large reasons the fatality rate is lower in Japan. Since public transportation in most parts is very well developed and it seems that most people use their cars for recreational trips/shopping etc instead of for the daily grind. Drunk driving is also punished far more severly in Japan than it is in the US. A lot of the roads outside the city are only slightly larger than a 1 way road in the US. People have to be much more careful because they constantly have to be on the lookout for pedestrians and cars going the other way.
While I feel that SUVs do tend to make the road less safe, I think that you still need to abide by the rule: Coorelation is necessary but not sufficient for causation.
version before the more ubiquitous AGP.
Now if only they would write some firmware for the mac, I could finally have a half decent video card for my g5 that didn't cost me an arm and a leg.
As a democrat, I feel dirty for defending a republican, but..
Republican != neocon. Traditional republicans are ones who try to eliminate as much waste/pork as possible(McCain is a good example of this type). From what I have seen, Arnold is as well.
The government of California simply wants the best tools to do it's job at the lowest cost. Open source works for that some of the time, others maybe a proprietary solution is the best bet. It all depends on the circumstances, there are very few "silver bullets" in life. It seems that the study indicates that open source alternitaves may be able to deliver the best functionality/cost(it's certainly not free when you consider all the transition costs etc, but long term they believe it will pay off). The government should be looking at what is in the best interest to the taxpayer.
The neo-cons are another story however. They are into cutting taxes for people who are a whole lot richer than you and I, and then using your taxes to reward their buddies while you and I, and the americans to follow us will foot the bill. (*cough* Accenture *cough*)
I am hoping for a rift in the Republican party, and who knows, maybe another W. victory might finally cause that rift, but I don't think it's worth the chance.
I'm not really sure it's the whole "Open source" movement they are embracing. It's more along the lines of finding the best tool for the job. Sometimes it's open source, sometimes it's closed. But I want my government to spend the least amoung of my tax dollars while still getting the job done. I honestly don't care what kind of software they are using as long as it's functional and secure.
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Guess what, you would be laughed at if you went into carpentry and claimed that your hammer was the best hammer for every single job. Same goes with programming languages, these, "but language x is clearly superior to language y, and here are some bs reasons I pulled out of my butt" statements are just plain dumb.
There is no silver bullet in programming languages, every project has different situations/stipulations etc. I know I will get flamed for this, but sometimes if a VB app will work and you can get it out the door fast, use that. Same goes with apps witten in Java/perl/c/assembly whatever. Every situation is unique.
Writing software is all about finding the best tool for the job. It seems people like the author tend to forget that.
Well, you can still fuck around with the user without actually having to manually do anything. If you can execute arbitrary code, then you can create a bot to do random things with the mouse or look for a running copy of Word and randomly type, "Help! I'm trapped in the word processor!" into the document the user is typing.
However, script kiddies probably won't know how to code something up like that without someone holding their hands.
Not really a fan as much as I think their music is hilarious. My voice is VERY deep so I can actually sing the songs, which amuses my friends to no end.....
Well, a potential abuse of this system could be wardriving with cannibal corpse. If crackers can figure out how to encrypt the songs, they can war drive around till they find an AE and play, "Entrails Ripped From a Virgin's Cunt" instead of the Seasame Street sings the family wanted to play. There are valid reasons to having this encrypted.
Also, the RIAA probably put some pressure on Apple to encrypt the songs. While I don't like piracy, the thought of someone driving around so they can download music that other people they don't know are listening to is very bizzare.
Heh, Soma would be the opposite of this drug. Dopamine is the "pleasure" chemical. In this experiment, they block dopamine, however, to cause euphoria like Soma, you would actually want to increase the dopamine. However, we are closer to the brave new world, though I really wouldn't mind some "orgy-porgy"
that in China, while there are more males in science/engineering fields than there are females, the ratio is much closer to 50:50 than it is in the US. Actualy, if my univeristy is any indicator, most of the women who are in the field are foriegn born.
Who the hell do those Japanese think they are? Do they think they run their own country?! Do they think that the Japanese Parliament gets to enact laws that protect their citizenry from monopolies?!
Shows you don't know Japan very well, they are under the influence of monopolies(just look at the farm market) and the politicians are almost as corrupted by special interests as they are in the US. The difference is they are willing to take action against a foriegn company(much like the way the US took protectionist actions in the car market in the 80's in the face of huge foriegn competetion).
There shouldn't be, they should go with the lowest long term cost solution that allows them to get the job done. If it is Linux, than so be it. The cost per seat may be less, but that isn't really your main cost source in most cases, your bigger cost center long term is probably administration. In this case, Linux is probably cheaper because once you get over the initial road bumps, you don't have to worry about patching, email viruses etc.
Heh, very few historians actually count Japan as a major cultural/economic/military power until the 20th centuy, so their influence on the ancient world was minimal....
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Best watched if drunk and in a theatre, I still chuckle now whenever I hear, "gobble gobble gobble"
Oh, please take me to the baywatch!
[another name for al-Zawahiri]
... I disagree completely with the issue of sales and profits. These are not profits. They are rather a farce of compound losses. I believe that going on in this is a dead end, as if we were fighting ghosts or windmills. Enough of pouring musk on barren land.
specially sensitive messages were encoded with a simple but reliable cryptographic system that had been used by both Allied and Axis powers during World War II--a "one-time pad" system that paired individual letters with randomly assigned numbers and letters and produced messages readable only by those who knew the pairings.
One time pads are the most difficult to crack ciphers in existance. It is theoretically impossible to crack them unless: a) the pad wasn't destroyed after decoding the message or b) the algorithm to create the pad is predictable. The author doesn't say anything about these 2 situations, so how does he know how sensitive the files were? Did they leave the decoded files on the computer anyway?
Well, they obviously had no problem using US planes to crash into US buildings designed by a Japanese architect and inhabited by members of over 90 nations and almost all world religons...
But seriously, leaders rerely ever practice what they preach. They may tell you that US technology is bad(though everything but the software was manuractured, and possibly even designed abroad by godless Chinese, and the software had significant contributions from followers of Hinduism, not exactly Islam's ally), but they will use it anyway. Look at any dictator, you think Kim jong Il suffers like his people do? Claims to be a worker's paradise, but only the party elite are allowed to have cars...
You hit the nail on the head, the problem with the current war is that we are "treating the symptoms instead of the disease" It's a lot like performing open-heart surgery on a fat person who just had a heart attack, but telling them they can still eat at McDonald's every day. The person will be fine for a while, but the underlying factors that caused the first heart attack will come right back and spawn another one. Just like getting rid of Bin Laden is important, but if you don't do anything to address the underlying issues, a new Bin Laden will appear again.
There are a lot of causes to terrorism. A big one is that the arab world does not think that their best interest is America's best interest. There is a lot of unemployment among Arab men. Since oil money causes most Middle Eastern currencies to be quite strong, thus making anything manufactured in them quite expensive to the outside world. This wouldn't be so bad per se if the leaders were to use thier oil money to buy raw materials from abroad and using them to make various things for consumption in the Arab world. It wouldn't make much business sense, but would employ lots of people and keep them happy, and more importantly, they would see America's success as their own success. Instead, the leaders of these countries keep almost all the money for themselves, and they really couldn't give a flying fuck about what happens to their people. Entrepeneurs can't start up businesses, and people see America's money as keeping them unemployed while propping up their corrupt rulers.
That isn't to say that unemploymed people are the only ones who are terrorists. Bin Laden is the son of a billionaire and Atta was well educated and could have made a nice living for himself had he decided to devote himself to that. But as the saying goes, "it takes a village to raise a child" also equates to, "it takes a villiage to raise a terrorist' These people did not grow to be terrorists in isolation. These people were a part of a larger community, went to the Mosque regularly, etc. The other people at the Mosque, who may not be extremists/terrorists did very little to stop the encouragement of such behaviour. Maybe it's because they did not see how their best interests were aligned with that of the western world.....
There is another way to fight the war on terror, but it may not be very popular. It would be to fight terror with terror. Bush often tried to draw the paralell between post WWII Germany and Japan with that of Iraq. There was a key difference though. In WWII, the allies(in Europe the US, Britian, and the Soviets for the most part, the US in Asia) repeatedly carpet-bombed Germany and Japan. In addition to beating the milirary, they destroyed most of the infrastructure, as well as killing a large # of civlilians. This broke the will of the people to fight. Japan had never been under the boot of a foriegn conquerer for as long as it existed as a nation, and yet because the US devasted the country(not just with atomic weapons, the biggest firebombing of Tokyo killed more people than did the bomb in Nagasaki, only the firebombing in Tokyo took 400 bombers and many thousands of bombs vs. 1 plane and 1 bomb). There was a token resistance after the war, but the Japanese realized that they could not win, the harder they struggled, the more wrath the US would throw upon them, so they gave up. They accepted the conditions of surrender. Do you think that the Japanese would have surrendered if the US fought the war in Japan like they do the war in Iraq?
If you want to win the war on terror using the military(note I don't condone this action, but this is what I think would be necessary for a decisive military victory) you have to target both civilians and the religion itself. You have to carpet bomb to break the will of the people to fight. You coat your bullets in pig grease(and make sure the enemy knows it) to show the enemy that if they get struck by your bullet, they will die an undc
Donkey Kong was Nintendo's IP. Since MS bought Rare, is Nintendo still allowing them to use Donkey Kong IP for gba games?
It's a very fine line. I don't buy into the "slippery slope" analogy as always being true, but that doesn't mean it's false. The constitution was mean to be interpreted to a certain extent, and the checks and balances were supposed to make sure that the government doesn't overstep it's bounds. In this case I don't buy into that this is the first step towards an orwellian state.
Actually what is more dangerous is that under the current administration, the courts, the congress, and the president get along all to well for my liking. There is supposed to be friction, the framers never intended for supreme court justices to go duck hunting with the vice president. The 3 branches are always supposed to be suspicious of eachother, but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. Now there is were the real danger is, not protecting some dude who was obviously peddling porn to kids.
It would be a tough sell to investors, and Sega probably doesn't have the cash on hand to risk it on another console deal. Manufacturing those things isn't exactly cheap, and if it would flop, investors are going to flee from Sega like crazy.
I can't say they will never make another console, but there would have to be a stron financial incentive for them to do so, and with Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft already prepping their next gen consoles for release, there is no way that Sega could get in on time, and judging from the dreamcast, if you don't get in early, you already have the deck stacked against you.
The quarter you are referring to was 1st quarter 2003, their revenue and profit both soared if you look at it year over year.
And honestly, 3 billion yen on 27 billion revenue, while not great, isn't exactly bad.
You haven't been outside of the cities much, have you?
In the "suburb" of Tokyo I lived in(it was in Saitama), I saw a very large numbers of mini-vans/SUVs/other types of large vehicles( the people were quite skillful at parking them, I must admit)
However, inside of the city, I saw far less of those types of cars.
Now granted you are more likely to find huge cars on the streets of NYC than you are in Shinjuku(a major hub of Tokyo for those not in the know), it's a lie to say that there aren't a significant numbers of large vehicles in Japan.
There are also a number of other large reasons the fatality rate is lower in Japan. Since public transportation in most parts is very well developed and it seems that most people use their cars for recreational trips/shopping etc instead of for the daily grind. Drunk driving is also punished far more severly in Japan than it is in the US. A lot of the roads outside the city are only slightly larger than a 1 way road in the US. People have to be much more careful because they constantly have to be on the lookout for pedestrians and cars going the other way.
While I feel that SUVs do tend to make the road less safe, I think that you still need to abide by the rule: Coorelation is necessary but not sufficient for causation.
version before the more ubiquitous AGP.
Now if only they would write some firmware for the mac, I could finally have a half decent video card for my g5 that didn't cost me an arm and a leg.
As a democrat, I feel dirty for defending a republican, but..
Republican != neocon. Traditional republicans are ones who try to eliminate as much waste/pork as possible(McCain is a good example of this type). From what I have seen, Arnold is as well.
The government of California simply wants the best tools to do it's job at the lowest cost. Open source works for that some of the time, others maybe a proprietary solution is the best bet. It all depends on the circumstances, there are very few "silver bullets" in life. It seems that the study indicates that open source alternitaves may be able to deliver the best functionality/cost(it's certainly not free when you consider all the transition costs etc, but long term they believe it will pay off). The government should be looking at what is in the best interest to the taxpayer.
The neo-cons are another story however. They are into cutting taxes for people who are a whole lot richer than you and I, and then using your taxes to reward their buddies while you and I, and the americans to follow us will foot the bill. (*cough* Accenture *cough*)
I am hoping for a rift in the Republican party, and who knows, maybe another W. victory might finally cause that rift, but I don't think it's worth the chance.
I'm not really sure it's the whole "Open source" movement they are embracing. It's more along the lines of finding the best tool for the job. Sometimes it's open source, sometimes it's closed. But I want my government to spend the least amoung of my tax dollars while still getting the job done. I honestly don't care what kind of software they are using as long as it's functional and secure.
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as a consultant(or maybe the people that infused him with the powers, I can't remember who)..
Guess what, you would be laughed at if you went into carpentry and claimed that your hammer was the best hammer for every single job. Same goes with programming languages, these, "but language x is clearly superior to language y, and here are some bs reasons I pulled out of my butt" statements are just plain dumb.
There is no silver bullet in programming languages, every project has different situations/stipulations etc. I know I will get flamed for this, but sometimes if a VB app will work and you can get it out the door fast, use that. Same goes with apps witten in Java/perl/c/assembly whatever. Every situation is unique.
Writing software is all about finding the best tool for the job. It seems people like the author tend to forget that.
Well, you can still fuck around with the user without actually having to manually do anything. If you can execute arbitrary code, then you can create a bot to do random things with the mouse or look for a running copy of Word and randomly type, "Help! I'm trapped in the word processor!" into the document the user is typing.
However, script kiddies probably won't know how to code something up like that without someone holding their hands.
Not really a fan as much as I think their music is hilarious. My voice is VERY deep so I can actually sing the songs, which amuses my friends to no end.....
Well, a potential abuse of this system could be wardriving with cannibal corpse. If crackers can figure out how to encrypt the songs, they can war drive around till they find an AE and play, "Entrails Ripped From a Virgin's Cunt" instead of the Seasame Street sings the family wanted to play. There are valid reasons to having this encrypted.
Also, the RIAA probably put some pressure on Apple to encrypt the songs. While I don't like piracy, the thought of someone driving around so they can download music that other people they don't know are listening to is very bizzare.
Heh, Soma would be the opposite of this drug. Dopamine is the "pleasure" chemical. In this experiment, they block dopamine, however, to cause euphoria like Soma, you would actually want to increase the dopamine. However, we are closer to the brave new world, though I really wouldn't mind some "orgy-porgy"
that in China, while there are more males in science/engineering fields than there are females, the ratio is much closer to 50:50 than it is in the US. Actualy, if my univeristy is any indicator, most of the women who are in the field are foriegn born.
Who the hell do those Japanese think they are? Do they think they run their own country?! Do they think that the Japanese Parliament gets to enact laws that protect their citizenry from monopolies?!
Shows you don't know Japan very well, they are under the influence of monopolies(just look at the farm market) and the politicians are almost as corrupted by special interests as they are in the US. The difference is they are willing to take action against a foriegn company(much like the way the US took protectionist actions in the car market in the 80's in the face of huge foriegn competetion).
Which is why the overrated mod should be banned, mods can easily use mod points to push agendas without getting caught in meta-moderation.
There shouldn't be, they should go with the lowest long term cost solution that allows them to get the job done. If it is Linux, than so be it. The cost per seat may be less, but that isn't really your main cost source in most cases, your bigger cost center long term is probably administration. In this case, Linux is probably cheaper because once you get over the initial road bumps, you don't have to worry about patching, email viruses etc.
Heh, very few historians actually count Japan as a major cultural/economic/military power until the 20th centuy, so their influence on the ancient world was minimal....