And you can do that with openid. I got bored and made myself a GPG based openid provider. It isn't complete by any means since it lacks key revocation and such, but it is working and public.
The necessity for improvement of weaponry and defenses may be a perpetual struggle, and as much as it would be nice to just sit everyone down and draw a line at how far we go, you can't do that. If you do that, the first party to break the "rules" to get an advantage is going to have an advantage. You can't artifically limit your options when fighting a war, and with that thought in mind, you need to explore every advantage you can.
So why is there a Geneva convention? Why doesn't everyone just nuke each other, if you have to maximize efficiency in order to achieve the win? Well, war also isn't just about killing the opponent. Politics play a huge role in war, as well as public standing, troop morale, etc. As "effective" as the torture of detainees may be, it has dealt a blow to the support-base of the US war in Iraq.
Better troop training is a fantastic way to get an advantage in war. It doesn't make the masses at home denounce your tactics, and it improves combat efficiency. It "brings more of our boys home". So maybe less of their boys come home... that is an unfortunate product of war. This isn't a pickup game of basketball or some video game - "you guys are using cheap tactics, and that's not fair" isn't a valid defense against your enemy in war.
If you're suggesting that developing ways to make your troops more efficient is bad, then consider that you probably wouldn't want to be a citizen of the country that insisted on lining up with muskets and meeting the enemy at a scheduled time on the field of battle. But, we all know that such a country would not remain soverign for long, as even the most simplistic and ragtag guerilla militas could rip them a new one. You can't propose that everyone "stop getting better at war", because somone's not going to stop, and then you'll just look silly, fighting with your obsolete techniques.
Indeed they did, and this was covered in the prequel trilogy Legends of Dune. It also covers the creation of several other foundations of the Dune universe.
That's because there's not supposed to be a concept of "criminal record" in posting. Moderation is dependent on the content of that post and only that post. Karma is the criminal record. Just because twitter made a post doesn't mean that post is automatically devoid of value.
Do you have a source for that? The distorted sound problem is why I stopped using vista about 3 hours after I installed it. I was considering googling it but when I took into account that my old sblive worked out of the box on both winxp and linux, I decided it wasn't worth the effort.
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And you can do that with openid. I got bored and made myself a GPG based openid provider. It isn't complete by any means since it lacks key revocation and such, but it is working and public.
http://id.l3ib.org/
Obscurity on that level would buy you maybe what, 30 seconds of safety from a hacker that has already infiltrated your network?
xclip -o | wc -w
What?
Okay, so switch it with some other "immoral" war-practice. The folks at home and abroad aren't going to think highly of it. The point still remains.
The necessity for improvement of weaponry and defenses may be a perpetual struggle, and as much as it would be nice to just sit everyone down and draw a line at how far we go, you can't do that. If you do that, the first party to break the "rules" to get an advantage is going to have an advantage. You can't artifically limit your options when fighting a war, and with that thought in mind, you need to explore every advantage you can.
So why is there a Geneva convention? Why doesn't everyone just nuke each other, if you have to maximize efficiency in order to achieve the win? Well, war also isn't just about killing the opponent. Politics play a huge role in war, as well as public standing, troop morale, etc. As "effective" as the torture of detainees may be, it has dealt a blow to the support-base of the US war in Iraq.
Better troop training is a fantastic way to get an advantage in war. It doesn't make the masses at home denounce your tactics, and it improves combat efficiency. It "brings more of our boys home". So maybe less of their boys come home... that is an unfortunate product of war. This isn't a pickup game of basketball or some video game - "you guys are using cheap tactics, and that's not fair" isn't a valid defense against your enemy in war.
If you're suggesting that developing ways to make your troops more efficient is bad, then consider that you probably wouldn't want to be a citizen of the country that insisted on lining up with muskets and meeting the enemy at a scheduled time on the field of battle. But, we all know that such a country would not remain soverign for long, as even the most simplistic and ragtag guerilla militas could rip them a new one. You can't propose that everyone "stop getting better at war", because somone's not going to stop, and then you'll just look silly, fighting with your obsolete techniques.
So, the gears of war keep turning...
True, I registered the domain more than two years ago. What is the downside of losing CIRA membership?
I don't remember having to do steps 2 & 3 that you listed. I have a .ca domain but I definitely have not submitted any personal identification to CIRA.
Do you have a link to them?
They didn't host them; they indexed other sites that did.
Indeed they did, and this was covered in the prequel trilogy Legends of Dune. It also covers the creation of several other foundations of the Dune universe.
Sort of like why you can't have a 2.1908123145 dimensional object. Or maybe you can, but we haven't modeled it yet.
That's because there's not supposed to be a concept of "criminal record" in posting. Moderation is dependent on the content of that post and only that post. Karma is the criminal record. Just because twitter made a post doesn't mean that post is automatically devoid of value.
Shellscript.
Do you have a source for that? The distorted sound problem is why I stopped using vista about 3 hours after I installed it. I was considering googling it but when I took into account that my old sblive worked out of the box on both winxp and linux, I decided it wasn't worth the effort.
Yay extortion! I'm sure their laywers will love that.
Why didn't you name them then?
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Lets all go back to software rendered 3d engines too!
You missed just ESC on its own - which selects cancel at the current dialog.
Won't happen due to incompatibility with the GPL.
Murmorperger
Music CDs cost upwards of $20 in Canada for some reason.
This has been covered on slashdot several times. It is just a severe case of CYA that lawyers do. Just ignore it.
Theft of what?
No, actually the results are the same on both platforms.