> I suppose the small detail that IRAQ was in > almost continual breach of multiple UN > resolutions for a decade dosn't have any bearing > on the matter at all ?
Well, given that Israel has been in violation of UN resolutions for at least three times that and the US has never lifted a finger against them.
I'm not saying that there is anything good about Iraq... and I'm not going to point the finger at you because I've seen the same black and white "us or them" media coverage that you have... but why overthrow one murdering regime while leaving another untouched?
> If the nations of the world really think the US > did the wrong thing by going into Iraq then they > can bring up the US leadership on war crimes > charges with enough votes in the UN.
No, they can't... because the US has a permanent Veto in the US, and they are not a party to the international treaty that allows people to be brought to trial in the hague. The US government is above that international law.
> sorry for the rant.
Rant on! You didn't reduce to personal insults. I'm not saying that Saddam was good for Iraq, but not-one of the reasons given for the war has been justified. Yes, he was a shit.. but look at the despots in the world.. and look at those that the US actually cares about. There is no correllation between the moral highground and action.
1. The people behind the twin towers were Saudis... who come from a nation with a prefered trading status with the US. Iraq had nothing to do with the attack other than sharing a religion... at which point you may as well hold the US responible for The Crusades.
2. Al-Queda are being harbored in Pakistan, not in Iraq. Saddam was a completely different sort of despot.
> Speaking as an artist: Full time jobs cut into > your ability to create good art. It's not an > ideal situation
Speaking as network admin, Full time jobs cut into your ability to do anything.
I took 6 months off in the dot-com-crash. Ended up learning another language, a musical instrument and wrote the best part of a novel that, not suprisingly, two years later I'm yet to finish.
> The Matrix (the first movie) is forever ruined for me.
I thought so too after sitting through 2 and 3, but then a friend lent me the first and only Matrix on DVD, and I remembered how good it really was.
After watching the bonus stuff, I have a new respect for Keanu. Not as an actor, but as a person. He really got off on the doing the movie... it was something almost spiritual for him.
On the other hand, Trinity is a whiney bitch who couldnt get over that she didnt deserve the biggest trailer on the block.
> The real killer app will be when Home & Garden's > magazine zooms in on your home and analyzes your > landscaping and house. Different people might > get different covers and articles on > rejuvenating dead lawns, trimming overgrown > trees, or xeriscaping.
That would be seriously cool. My garden is such shit shape that I'd get a double issue each time.
My lawn is covered with brown patches, my compost heap smells like a dead cat (no prizes for guessing why) and my roma tomatos look like the Queen-Mum nude sunbathing (hint for young players... tomatos and jalapeno need vastly different amounts of water and should not be planted in the same bed)
> You can't get rid of the voice actors without > killing a part of your show.
Kermit lives, and Jim Henson has been dead for years.
There is enough material that the Simpsons' characters are wells known, and it wouldn't be that hard to find impersonators to replace the voices.
But, spot on, the publicity would do unreconcilable damage to the series and the Simpsons mark.
If nothing else, they could keep flogging the dubbed versions overseas where the voice actors don't mean squat. On that point... how much of the money that Fox is making off the Simpsons is from the English speaking market? I'm guessing still the lions share, but I don't know for sure.
> MSFT could buy majority control of SUNW for $6. 805B + $1
No they couldn't, because as soon as they started accumulating stock they'd push the price up. Probably significantly.
They'd be better off getting a "controlling stake".. which somebody else can explain because I have no idea how it actually works... but for a lot of companies this is around a 15% holding.
> The moral thing to do is for management is to > uphold their DUTY to the shareholders.
Thats not moral, thats a legal requirement.
Its the same requirement that requires Exxon to minimalize the public relations disaster caused by a rupturing oil tanker, rather than the moral one which says "clean it up".
Its the same requirement that requires Enron's auditors to change their company name and logo, rather than admitting they overlooked one of the biggest corporate collapses in history.
Its the same one that causes Ford to through the blame for their un-balaced top-heavy vehicles onto a tyre manufacturer.
There is nothing moral about protecting shareholder interests.. and that it needs to be done every three months is one of the reasons that corporations are so screwed.
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> I suppose the small detail that IRAQ was in
> almost continual breach of multiple UN
> resolutions for a decade dosn't have any bearing
> on the matter at all ?
Well, given that Israel has been in violation of UN resolutions for at least three times that and the US has never lifted a finger against them.
I'm not saying that there is anything good about Iraq... and I'm not going to point the finger at you because I've seen the same black and white "us or them" media coverage that you have... but why overthrow one murdering regime while leaving another untouched?
> If the nations of the world really think the US
> did the wrong thing by going into Iraq then they
> can bring up the US leadership on war crimes
> charges with enough votes in the UN.
No, they can't... because the US has a permanent Veto in the US, and they are not a party to the international treaty that allows people to be brought to trial in the hague. The US government is above that international law.
> sorry for the rant.
Rant on! You didn't reduce to personal insults. I'm not saying that Saddam was good for Iraq, but not-one of the reasons given for the war has been justified. Yes, he was a shit.. but look at the despots in the world.. and look at those that the US actually cares about. There is no correllation between the moral highground and action.
1. The people behind the twin towers were Saudis... who come from a nation with a prefered trading status with the US. Iraq had nothing to do with the attack other than sharing a religion... at which point you may as well hold the US responible for The Crusades.
2. Al-Queda are being harbored in Pakistan, not in Iraq. Saddam was a completely different sort of despot.
Apple Developer Profile Changing?
Yes. They are dying.
Too obvious.
Would you groom your colleagues to diffuse tensions at work?
Depends how cute they were....
> I really don't think there is a need for "throw
> shit at each other" as a way to communicate.
No... but it seems to be our standard way of settling international disputes.
"Hey, you have a towel on your head. Eat lead."
Of course... give an infinite number of chimps an infinite amount of time and they will produce all the knowledge in the known universe.
Give a finite number of chimps a finite amount of time and they will produce slashdot comments.
Give a single chimp a broken typewriter and a banana and he will post dupes as CowboyNeal.
> Speaking as an artist: Full time jobs cut into
> your ability to create good art. It's not an
> ideal situation
Speaking as network admin, Full time jobs cut into your ability to do anything.
I took 6 months off in the dot-com-crash. Ended up learning another language, a musical instrument and wrote the best part of a novel that, not suprisingly, two years later I'm yet to finish.
Work kills creativity. Full stop.
Can't have LindFox in Australia.
Lindsey Fox is a trucking magnate. All his trucks have a sticker on the back that say "you are passing another Fox".
> The Matrix (the first movie) is forever ruined
for me.
I thought so too after sitting through 2 and 3, but then a friend lent me the first and only Matrix on DVD, and I remembered how good it really was.
After watching the bonus stuff, I have a new respect for Keanu. Not as an actor, but as a person. He really got off on the doing the movie... it was something almost spiritual for him.
On the other hand, Trinity is a whiney bitch who couldnt get over that she didnt deserve the biggest trailer on the block.
> Aint it cool news reported the title was going
> to be The Creeping Fear.
No.. you misheard.
Its "The feeping queer".
You know... that sounded a lot funnier before I typed it.
From the Article:
> The battery can also discharge power in a short
> time, making it useful in applications requiring
> a large amount of power.
Like... um... tasers?
Acutally. Maybe now we are getting closer to a working lightsaber.
> Bingo!! If our parents can't use it and be
> confortable with it then it won't gain
> acceptance with the masses
Maybe you need to update your parents.
> I would guess that it is possible for
> contractors to band together and get some sort
> of class action status if SCO starts harassing
> them?
Bugger it. Its Australia.
Get a group of contractors together and have a quiet work with SCO in the car park with a two'b'four.
> But if the contractors are too scared of being
> sued to implement open source solutions, what
> good is that?
Easy. They'll just use their public servants.
Probably the same group who installed their PDP-8 and are just sitting around reading slash-dot waiting for their pensions to kick in.
> The real killer app will be when Home & Garden's
> magazine zooms in on your home and analyzes your
> landscaping and house. Different people might
> get different covers and articles on
> rejuvenating dead lawns, trimming overgrown
> trees, or xeriscaping.
That would be seriously cool. My garden is such shit shape that I'd get a double issue each time.
My lawn is covered with brown patches, my compost heap smells like a dead cat (no prizes for guessing why) and my roma tomatos look like the Queen-Mum nude sunbathing (hint for young players... tomatos and jalapeno need vastly different amounts of water and should not be planted in the same bed)
> Put on a wet Tshirt on a chilly day and go outside.
I'd love to try this, but I'd probably poke somebody's eye out.
> Akin to digging a hole in a bucket of diarhoea...
You have your MSCE, don't you.
> Drop that "1-2 gigs" of storage back in time to
> yourself ten years ago and tell me it's not
> "real storage".
I still love the "3MB of hot RAM" that Case fences en Neuromancer.
> You can't get rid of the voice actors without
> killing a part of your show.
Kermit lives, and Jim Henson has been dead for years.
There is enough material that the Simpsons' characters are wells known, and it wouldn't be that hard to find impersonators to replace the voices.
But, spot on, the publicity would do unreconcilable damage to the series and the Simpsons mark.
If nothing else, they could keep flogging the dubbed versions overseas where the voice actors don't mean squat. On that point... how much of the money that Fox is making off the Simpsons is from the English speaking market? I'm guessing still the lions share, but I don't know for sure.
> MSFT could buy majority control of SUNW for $6.
805B + $1
No they couldn't, because as soon as they started accumulating stock they'd push the price up. Probably significantly.
They'd be better off getting a "controlling stake".. which somebody else can explain because I have no idea how it actually works... but for a lot of companies this is around a 15% holding.
> Now 2,000,000,000 is a nice round number for Sun
> me thinks.
Oh. I read 2 Billion as 2147483648
> Once the USA had it's middle-class destroyed,
> too, it will definitely resemble Brazil.
Except Spring break in Daytona will never have the class of Carnaval in Rio.
> As many people are still wanting the wife/husband, 2.3 kids
.3's from posting trolls to slashdot.
If only we could keep the
> The moral thing to do is for management is to
> uphold their DUTY to the shareholders.
Thats not moral, thats a legal requirement.
Its the same requirement that requires Exxon to minimalize the public relations disaster caused by a rupturing oil tanker, rather than the moral one which says "clean it up".
Its the same requirement that requires Enron's auditors to change their company name and logo, rather than admitting they overlooked one of the biggest corporate collapses in history.
Its the same one that causes Ford to through the blame for their un-balaced top-heavy vehicles onto a tyre manufacturer.
There is nothing moral about protecting shareholder interests.. and that it needs to be done every three months is one of the reasons that corporations are so screwed.
> Ok, this is just gettin out of hand....
Of course it is... Thats the whole point of point a dating story on slashdot.