So, to push this to the very limit of Godwinizing, you may wish to note that the aforementioned Third Reich was a democratically elected government. Just perhaps, might some earlier intervention in that case, despite their "fucking right to do their own politics," have spared many millions of lives in the Second World War? Your principles are admirable in some ways, but so were Neville Chamberlain's.
The why goes back further and wider than this. Does everyone nowadays think that these events in 1953 happened in a vacuum? Look at a map. Notice that Iran borders some country (now countries) to the north. There was this entity once called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Their leader had once conspired with Nazi Germany to annex neighboring countries, and the stated philosophy of the Communist party was to export revolution. They had just obtained nuclear weapons as well.
The elected government of Iran was turning out to be rather friendly with the Soviets. Perhaps this was considered alarming to Western countries with long-standing interests in Iran and the Persian Gulf? Being friendly with the Soviets at that time typically meant inviting some friendly Red Army divisions in to build some friendly bases, and establishing nice friendly alliances. A glance at the other end of Asia at the time might also give a hint of trouble in some of those areas, such as Korea and Vietnam.
I don't have nearly enough time to get more detailed in reply, and all this doesn't necessarily or completely absolve the US and the West in general for their parts in the coup. But simply blaming them wholely as knee-jerk reactionaries or evil would-be global tyrants is equally wrong. Try running a major government sometime and let me know how simple it is to manage and deal with world events.
I'll go with a "negative" on that confirmation, being born and raised in flyover land. There are redeeming qualities to Minnesota, but I won't list roads (or drivers) amongst them.
No way this stands up to the weather in Minny. How does it generate electricity to warm itself and keep free of snow when the sun is above the horizon for about 6 hours, and even then is hiding behind thick gray cloud from November to March? Good luck with that. Maybe somewhere the climate isn't as extreme.
The one thing I do like about the idea is that roads already represent despoiled terrain, so we're not increasing our footprint, plus they naturally lead toward population centers, minimizing extra transmission lines.
Yes this is a bit off topic, but in Japan it would be measured in metres and centimetres. Only my lovely US and a couple of banana republics still use these "crazy" measurements.
Why are you bringing race into the discussion? Or do Africans have special skills and abilities in this area? I've heard many times about athletic ability, who knew that running in space was much faster than rocket propulsion?/satire
And to think I threw out my beloved AEKII a couple years ago in a fit of housecleaning. This would have been brilliant. I liked the Apple keyboard better than the Model M. I always thought the M needed too much pressure. I had to attack the keys on it to get results.
This shouldn't be all that surprising. We've evolved to get most of our reproduction done around that time. It isn't cost-effective in those terms to maintain maximum cognitive ability long past this age. In fact, we may wind up competing with our offspring if one or the other doesn't relocate.
I love this idea. Despite the fact that it won't work. Cue the legions of "Personal Health Care Account Management Specialists" in 10, 9, 8,... Sadly, these guys will look awfully similar to the existing horde of medical system parasites. But I'd be able to manage my own better at least.
I agree with pretty much all of this. We've spent tens of billions on it, learned a lot, and to abandon all that and watch the thing burn up is surely a far sillier idea than boosting the orbit.
Radiation would presumably be the biggest problem outside Terra's magnetic field. I'm not sure how we could address this, but there must be a way. It would be an easier place to learn and practice than a mission to Mars with no chance of rescue or abort.
Perhaps the unique characteristics of CNTs will permit us to engineer a vaccine that could be given to those likely to be exposed and allow a more effective immune response. For that matter the same may be possible for asbestos, though the more irregular shape of asbestos might make that more difficult.
In any case, medicine will no doubt continue to advance and will hopefully lend a hand in cases like this.
PS> I have no particular expertise in this area, and suppose I'll be shown what a blithering idiot I am forthwith...
Are you insane? Surely the GP has attained slashgod status with such an achievement. Just being able to sit through ST IV and V consecutively without gouging one's own eyes out with a rusty bat'leth is a testament to, uhh, something or other.
The U.S. seems to have done a pretty good job in Japan following WW2. There wasn't much democratic tradition there previously.
Not that this really refutes your point. Perhaps it's merely very rare for forcibly imposed democracy to succeed, rather than unprecedented/impossible.
* MS Memories Home Basic (TM) - You're told that you have memories, but this version can't restore them.
* MS Memories Home Premium (TM) - You're allowed to restore "up to" 10 memories, with a list of restrictions covering a page in 3 point text, notably that only individual, not shared nor professional memories are permissible.
* MS Memories Business (TM) - Restores any job related memories. As if anyone wants to remember them.
* MS Memories Ultimate (TM) - Any and all memories can be restored, or they would if the driver for your brain was functional. There's even "Extras" that will provide supplemental memories for those with exceedingly boring lives, such as readers of/. At least there will be once the next upgrade is released.
There are still a couple of holes, one large, one small. First, I'd sure like to see a decent port of Visio to the Mac. Yes I'm aware of alternatives, but in my field (networking) there are so many third party stencils and extensions that Visio's ecosystem is worth considerably more than the purchase price.
Second, there is still no Access port. Highly arguable that this could be considered a benefit of the Mac version... But something is needed there. Maybe MS is just unwilling/unable to go up against FileMaker.
This, as opposed to socialism's increasing the power and wealth of the wealthy and powerful at the expense of the common man.
To steer back to topic, I guess this falls under the category of marketing and promotion, as such I don't really have a problem with it per se. As far as I know, nothing is stopping the Blu Ray camp from buying their own exclusives with the studios, so as long as the field is level in that respect I really don't have a philosophical issue with it. Except that I'm bummed from the knowledge that I won't be receiving any of those promotional dollars myself.
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So, to push this to the very limit of Godwinizing, you may wish to note that the aforementioned Third Reich was a democratically elected government. Just perhaps, might some earlier intervention in that case, despite their "fucking right to do their own politics," have spared many millions of lives in the Second World War? Your principles are admirable in some ways, but so were Neville Chamberlain's.
The why goes back further and wider than this. Does everyone nowadays think that these events in 1953 happened in a vacuum? Look at a map. Notice that Iran borders some country (now countries) to the north. There was this entity once called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Their leader had once conspired with Nazi Germany to annex neighboring countries, and the stated philosophy of the Communist party was to export revolution. They had just obtained nuclear weapons as well.
The elected government of Iran was turning out to be rather friendly with the Soviets. Perhaps this was considered alarming to Western countries with long-standing interests in Iran and the Persian Gulf? Being friendly with the Soviets at that time typically meant inviting some friendly Red Army divisions in to build some friendly bases, and establishing nice friendly alliances. A glance at the other end of Asia at the time might also give a hint of trouble in some of those areas, such as Korea and Vietnam.
I don't have nearly enough time to get more detailed in reply, and all this doesn't necessarily or completely absolve the US and the West in general for their parts in the coup. But simply blaming them wholely as knee-jerk reactionaries or evil would-be global tyrants is equally wrong. Try running a major government sometime and let me know how simple it is to manage and deal with world events.
Minnesota roads. Great. Umm. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge
I'll go with a "negative" on that confirmation, being born and raised in flyover land. There are redeeming qualities to Minnesota, but I won't list roads (or drivers) amongst them.
No way this stands up to the weather in Minny. How does it generate electricity to warm itself and keep free of snow when the sun is above the horizon for about 6 hours, and even then is hiding behind thick gray cloud from November to March? Good luck with that. Maybe somewhere the climate isn't as extreme.
The one thing I do like about the idea is that roads already represent despoiled terrain, so we're not increasing our footprint, plus they naturally lead toward population centers, minimizing extra transmission lines.
Venus is already pretty well developed. She is the Goddess of Love after all, fer Pete's sake.
Yes this is a bit off topic, but in Japan it would be measured in metres and centimetres. Only my lovely US and a couple of banana republics still use these "crazy" measurements.
In Soviet Russia, Great Red Spot shrinks you!
Why are you bringing race into the discussion? Or do Africans have special skills and abilities in this area? I've heard many times about athletic ability, who knew that running in space was much faster than rocket propulsion? /satire
And to think I threw out my beloved AEKII a couple years ago in a fit of housecleaning. This would have been brilliant. I liked the Apple keyboard better than the Model M. I always thought the M needed too much pressure. I had to attack the keys on it to get results.
This shouldn't be all that surprising. We've evolved to get most of our reproduction done around that time. It isn't cost-effective in those terms to maintain maximum cognitive ability long past this age. In fact, we may wind up competing with our offspring if one or the other doesn't relocate.
The manager made-up a bunch of lies about how I had sex with a maid (false)
This is Slashdot, so such statements are redundant. You must be new here.
You say that like it's a bad thing...
I love this idea. Despite the fact that it won't work. Cue the legions of "Personal Health Care Account Management Specialists" in 10, 9, 8, ... Sadly, these guys will look awfully similar to the existing horde of medical system parasites. But I'd be able to manage my own better at least.
I agree with pretty much all of this. We've spent tens of billions on it, learned a lot, and to abandon all that and watch the thing burn up is surely a far sillier idea than boosting the orbit.
Radiation would presumably be the biggest problem outside Terra's magnetic field. I'm not sure how we could address this, but there must be a way. It would be an easier place to learn and practice than a mission to Mars with no chance of rescue or abort.
Why use an analogy that /.ers can't relate to, you insensitive clod?
Perhaps the unique characteristics of CNTs will permit us to engineer a vaccine that could be given to those likely to be exposed and allow a more effective immune response. For that matter the same may be possible for asbestos, though the more irregular shape of asbestos might make that more difficult.
In any case, medicine will no doubt continue to advance and will hopefully lend a hand in cases like this.
PS> I have no particular expertise in this area, and suppose I'll be shown what a blithering idiot I am forthwith...
Would you like fries with that?
There's no need to wait. St. Patrick's Day is approaching.
I don't know about you, but I'm pretty sure I don't want MS anywhere near my equipment. BSOD --> BJOD, nope, just not gonna do it...
Are you insane? Surely the GP has attained slashgod status with such an achievement. Just being able to sit through ST IV and V consecutively without gouging one's own eyes out with a rusty bat'leth is a testament to, uhh, something or other.
We're not worthy!!!
The U.S. seems to have done a pretty good job in Japan following WW2. There wasn't much democratic tradition there previously.
Not that this really refutes your point. Perhaps it's merely very rare for forcibly imposed democracy to succeed, rather than unprecedented/impossible.
No, it's fantastic, a dream come true. For the aforementioned lawyers.
* MS Memories Home Basic (TM) - You're told that you have memories, but this version can't restore them.
/. At least there will be once the next upgrade is released.
* MS Memories Home Premium (TM) - You're allowed to restore "up to" 10 memories, with a list of restrictions covering a page in 3 point text, notably that only individual, not shared nor professional memories are permissible.
* MS Memories Business (TM) - Restores any job related memories. As if anyone wants to remember them.
* MS Memories Ultimate (TM) - Any and all memories can be restored, or they would if the driver for your brain was functional. There's even "Extras" that will provide supplemental memories for those with exceedingly boring lives, such as readers of
There are still a couple of holes, one large, one small. First, I'd sure like to see a decent port of Visio to the Mac. Yes I'm aware of alternatives, but in my field (networking) there are so many third party stencils and extensions that Visio's ecosystem is worth considerably more than the purchase price. Second, there is still no Access port. Highly arguable that this could be considered a benefit of the Mac version... But something is needed there. Maybe MS is just unwilling/unable to go up against FileMaker.
This, as opposed to socialism's increasing the power and wealth of the wealthy and powerful at the expense of the common man.
To steer back to topic, I guess this falls under the category of marketing and promotion, as such I don't really have a problem with it per se. As far as I know, nothing is stopping the Blu Ray camp from buying their own exclusives with the studios, so as long as the field is level in that respect I really don't have a philosophical issue with it. Except that I'm bummed from the knowledge that I won't be receiving any of those promotional dollars myself.
In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!