Errr, hang on a second. I think you'll find that the US uses Imperial (as in British) units. Not the other way around. Well most of the time - there are of course the bastardised Imperial units the US uses like larger fl. oz, fewer fl. oz to the pint (and thus smaller gallons), and smaller tonnes.
I think you meant bastardized and tons. When will these Brits learn to spell?
The guy who financed the ID side of the recent trial in Pennsylvania was a Catholic (the Domino's Pizza guy), as was one of their main witnesses (Michael Behe). This was a clear attempt to slap them down. Basically, the Church is telling these people to stop claiming that their religion opposes evolution.
except that the current administration is NOT (fiscally) CONSERVATIVE!
Correction: the current administration is NOT LIBERTARIAN. As we've seen, small government "conservatism" is a crock. Most real-world conservatives are from the religious right. If you elect conservatives you will get bigger governement. If you want small government vote libertarian.
We have the same direct democracy here in California. We have a voters guide that often tops 200 pages, plus local voting guides ranging from 50 to 200 pages. And it is kind of fun getting to vote on all the nit-picky details of how the state is run. We've given ourselves plenty of tax cuts:)
Unfortunately, when people in the rest of the country need an argument against direct democracy they simply say "California" and everyone on the other side shuts up. Pity, they're missing out on the fun of figuring out what all the school funding formulas and bond measures and criminal statute amendments and auto insurance regulation schemes mean.
Whoa there, tiger. Not sure what they've been teaching in the churches/temples/whatnots over there, but I'm pretty sure nothing in the Bible/Quran/Ramayana says you'll go to hell just for visiting the United States.
In related news, I will never understand these people that insist on using IM over their phone!..., just call the person! Ass.
There is a reason, doofus. When you're in a cube farm, everyone in the vicinity can hear you jabbing on the phone. Not so with IM (well, except maybe for some really bored 1337 haxx0r5, I guess).
I prefer that my cube neighbors use IM rather than the phone, thank you very much.
Sure. Electronics are completely unreliable, regardless of how fanatically they are tested. Old-school hydraulics, on the other hand. Well, they NEVER break, EVER.
Advantage 1: A dual-core motherboard is cheaper than a dual-CPU motherboard, since it only needs one CPU socket. This price advantage is even bigger for a 2x dual-core mobo vs. 4-CPU mobo.
Advantage 2: Communication between the processors no longer requires you to send a signal off-chip, which is much faster. The dual-core Opteron takes advantage of this, though the way the dual-core P4 is designed still requires sending communication off-chip.
Advantage 3: Although the current gen dual-cores don't do this, you could, in theory, share the L2 cache between the processors. This further speeds communication, and it also provides a larger cache per thread.
Remember, it took a loooooooong time for sleep to work in Windows. It was a feature in early releases of Windows 95, yet it wasn't stable until Windows XP more than 6 years later, and even there it crashes from time to time.
There is a reason for manufacturers to release source even if binary drivers are allowed. If the manufacturer provides only a binary driver, they must do all the testing in-house, for all the major distros, and must do all maintenance/bug-fixing in house as well. If the manufacturer releases the source or the specs, they can enlist the community to do much of the work.
Hardware makers stand to benefit from releasing the source code for their device drivers even when they are allowed to keep it proprietary. We don't need to force companies to provide source, just get the point across that it benefits THEM to release source.
SDI was a hoax. They all but said this outright when the project was cancelled in 1993. The $7Bil we spent (Bush is spending $60Bil, which is how we know his project isn't a hoax) was just enough to convince the Soviets the thing actually exists but, as anyone with any technical knowledge could tell you, not nearly enough to actually make the thing work.
They hired a lot of competent scientists to work on SDI. Yes, these people probably understood that the system wouldn't work, but their presence on the project made it believable to the Soviets.
No, no, no. The original SDI was brilliant, worth every penny we spent on it. Let me explain.
SDI was a hoax. It was never meant to be a real system, and Reagan knew it. In theory, the spacebourne laser system could have worked, but it would have cost far more than the $7Bil Reagan had them spend on it. (FYI Bush, one of the few who never realized SDI was a hoax, is spending $60+Bil to actually build a barely functional imitation.) But that $7Bil was just enough to convince the Soviets that the whole thing was for real. It drove them nuts, and they fell apart trying to counter it. Absolutely brilliant.
Salafi is to Wahabi as Puritan is to Calvinist. Salafism is the Puritan movement in Islam, whereas Wahab was an 18th century leader of the Salafi movement.
You do not even that little statistic to figure it out, just turn on the tv or read a paper. The civil in war in Lebanon that muslims got the upperhand in, muslims jihadis in Kashmir, muslim Chechens with Middle Eastern cousins waging jihad on Russia, Israel vs Arabs, muslims causing unrest in Thailand, Arabs in Sudan vs black muslims and black non-muslims, Azerbaijan vs the Armenians of Nagarno-Karabagh, where muslims border non-muslims there is conflict more often then there is peace. Islam is a warlike and retrograde force on the planet, a true pox on all that should be considered decent
Unfortunately, all your examples except Sudan describe instances of the intrusion of non-Muslim rule onto predominantly Muslim lands, which undermines your point. It is unreasonable to expect that Muslims will not fight back when their lands are invaded.
For instance, Lebanon was a country with a 2/3 Muslim population with a constitution that mandated a Christian majority in the government. Was this fair?
Slashdot Mirror
I see your URL ends with .nz. So I take it by "your side of the pond" you basically mean "the rest of the world"?
Errr, hang on a second. I think you'll find that the US uses Imperial (as in British) units. Not the other way around. Well most of the time - there are of course the bastardised Imperial units the US uses like larger fl. oz, fewer fl. oz to the pint (and thus smaller gallons), and smaller tonnes.
I think you meant bastardized and tons. When will these Brits learn to spell?
The guy who financed the ID side of the recent trial in Pennsylvania was a Catholic (the Domino's Pizza guy), as was one of their main witnesses (Michael Behe). This was a clear attempt to slap them down. Basically, the Church is telling these people to stop claiming that their religion opposes evolution.
The "dupe" posts are just a slashdotter reflex. It is a knee-jerk type reaction to seeing "Posted by CmdrTaco" at the top.
except that the current administration is NOT (fiscally) CONSERVATIVE! Correction: the current administration is NOT LIBERTARIAN. As we've seen, small government "conservatism" is a crock. Most real-world conservatives are from the religious right. If you elect conservatives you will get bigger governement. If you want small government vote libertarian.
We have the same direct democracy here in California. We have a voters guide that often tops 200 pages, plus local voting guides ranging from 50 to 200 pages. And it is kind of fun getting to vote on all the nit-picky details of how the state is run. We've given ourselves plenty of tax cuts :)
Unfortunately, when people in the rest of the country need an argument against direct democracy they simply say "California" and everyone on the other side shuts up. Pity, they're missing out on the fun of figuring out what all the school funding formulas and bond measures and criminal statute amendments and auto insurance regulation schemes mean.
... but I'll be damned if I'm going to the US
Whoa there, tiger. Not sure what they've been teaching in the churches/temples/whatnots over there, but I'm pretty sure nothing in the Bible/Quran/Ramayana says you'll go to hell just for visiting the United States.
In related news, I will never understand these people that insist on using IM over their phone! ..., just call the person! Ass.
There is a reason, doofus. When you're in a cube farm, everyone in the vicinity can hear you jabbing on the phone. Not so with IM (well, except maybe for some really bored 1337 haxx0r5, I guess).
I prefer that my cube neighbors use IM rather than the phone, thank you very much.
get rid of MTV
I think the "M" was placed there accidentally. What you meant to say was "get rid of TV". There, that makes more sense.
Mod parent down! Way down! Fast!
Sure. Electronics are completely unreliable, regardless of how fanatically they are tested. Old-school hydraulics, on the other hand. Well, they NEVER break, EVER.
Advantage 1: A dual-core motherboard is cheaper than a dual-CPU motherboard, since it only needs one CPU socket. This price advantage is even bigger for a 2x dual-core mobo vs. 4-CPU mobo.
Advantage 2: Communication between the processors no longer requires you to send a signal off-chip, which is much faster. The dual-core Opteron takes advantage of this, though the way the dual-core P4 is designed still requires sending communication off-chip.
Advantage 3: Although the current gen dual-cores don't do this, you could, in theory, share the L2 cache between the processors. This further speeds communication, and it also provides a larger cache per thread.
Now if only Adobe would bring Photoshop over as well...
Well, if it's anything like the Windows version you'll need to be root to run it.
There was a PSP launch party?
software is supposed to require admin privileges to install. It is the ability of software be installed WITHOUT an admin password that is the problem.
Remember, it took a loooooooong time for sleep to work in Windows. It was a feature in early releases of Windows 95, yet it wasn't stable until Windows XP more than 6 years later, and even there it crashes from time to time.
There is a reason for manufacturers to release source even if binary drivers are allowed. If the manufacturer provides only a binary driver, they must do all the testing in-house, for all the major distros, and must do all maintenance/bug-fixing in house as well. If the manufacturer releases the source or the specs, they can enlist the community to do much of the work.
Hardware makers stand to benefit from releasing the source code for their device drivers even when they are allowed to keep it proprietary. We don't need to force companies to provide source, just get the point across that it benefits THEM to release source.
yeah but this time we're glad
We wish. US trade policies have been screwing American workers and companies for 3 decades now.
(I'm especially excited by the possibility of random compiler incompatibilities!)
SDI was a hoax. They all but said this outright when the project was cancelled in 1993. The $7Bil we spent (Bush is spending $60Bil, which is how we know his project isn't a hoax) was just enough to convince the Soviets the thing actually exists but, as anyone with any technical knowledge could tell you, not nearly enough to actually make the thing work. They hired a lot of competent scientists to work on SDI. Yes, these people probably understood that the system wouldn't work, but their presence on the project made it believable to the Soviets.
No, no, no. The original SDI was brilliant, worth every penny we spent on it. Let me explain.
SDI was a hoax. It was never meant to be a real system, and Reagan knew it. In theory, the spacebourne laser system could have worked, but it would have cost far more than the $7Bil Reagan had them spend on it. (FYI Bush, one of the few who never realized SDI was a hoax, is spending $60+Bil to actually build a barely functional imitation.) But that $7Bil was just enough to convince the Soviets that the whole thing was for real. It drove them nuts, and they fell apart trying to counter it. Absolutely brilliant.
Actually, production is in the US. Let me look underneath the T42 I am typing this on . . .
. . . It says "Assembled in the US of US and non-US components for IBM Corporation"
Salafi is to Wahabi as Puritan is to Calvinist. Salafism is the Puritan movement in Islam, whereas Wahab was an 18th century leader of the Salafi movement.
You do not even that little statistic to figure it out, just turn on the tv or read a paper. The civil in war in Lebanon that muslims got the upperhand in, muslims jihadis in Kashmir, muslim Chechens with Middle Eastern cousins waging jihad on Russia, Israel vs Arabs, muslims causing unrest in Thailand, Arabs in Sudan vs black muslims and black non-muslims, Azerbaijan vs the Armenians of Nagarno-Karabagh, where muslims border non-muslims there is conflict more often then there is peace. Islam is a warlike and retrograde force on the planet, a true pox on all that should be considered decent
Unfortunately, all your examples except Sudan describe instances of the intrusion of non-Muslim rule onto predominantly Muslim lands, which undermines your point. It is unreasonable to expect that Muslims will not fight back when their lands are invaded.
For instance, Lebanon was a country with a 2/3 Muslim population with a constitution that mandated a Christian majority in the government. Was this fair?