As for the mass grave - there isn't a power on Earth that could achieve the genocide you so sociopathically wish to inflict on an entire people. Although from your love of mass murder, I'd be guessing that you're German.
The Germans have never successfully managed a genocide - unlike the North Americans!
I don't wish death on anyone - I'd much rather you just stuck the treaties you joined us in, and tried to work on peace and prosperity for everyone (not just your flash-in-the-pan rebelious colony of Europeans).
Then the problem is *corrupt Africans*, not *the evil West*. For chrissakes, at least try to be somewhat coherent in your ranting.
No, the problem is why, and by whom, they're corrupted, and to what ends. That is the basis of my (coherent) argument.
Your government signs up to, and then flouts, international agreements of which its own voting public is so ignorant that nothing will change... without force.
"American law [is] the only law that applies to the United States [...] The laws of other nations, or the pathetic whining of jealous foreigners, are of no consequence [...] They could always refuse to [follow International agreements]."
When, almost inevitably, another nation does refuse to follow international agreements you try to hold them to (especially UN Charters on engagement in war, and holding of nuclear weapons) perhaps you'll be quoted on this - the epitaph on a mass grave.
Maybe because [Asian former colonies] learnt to get out of the victim mentality, get off aid and you know, actually develop their infrastructure.
You're basically contradicting yourself - some of those countries managed to compete against the unfair trading practices of the United States and Europe in markets like textiles, but the produce from farming in Africa (fruit, coffee etc.) is still (as you hint) unfairly and illegally forced out of the global market, and meanwhile oil (gold, diamonds etc.) money from those developed countries is put into the hands of the few, who are then supplied with weapons... Africans aren't inherently corrupt, they're just corruptible, like most us!
Let's cancel those billions to fight AIDS and nix the big debt forgiveness so we can tend to our problems at home!
Or you could stop keeping them in poverty by ruining global markets with your illegal subsidies and trading practices - why do you think they needed to borrow in the first place?
'Billions to combat AIDS'? The biggest way you could help there is not to insist on the ability to enforce patent rights on anti-retroviral drugs.
Giving a little aid makes you all feel so big, but what you're doing to the third world makes me sick to think you're our (Europeans') cousins...
No we're not - even before this improvement, the eInk technology is sucessfully deployed in the Sony Librie, a damned fine product (whose impact was only held back by initial DRM lock-in under bad terms, and a Japan/Japanese-only roll-out)
From the Slashdot cookie-cutter: Some blog says Microsoft might plan to support X Along with: Google have registered the domain gX.com And: AJAX is teh l337 And: Which is the best programming language?
Uh, well they linked that in the last story about this. And, if you didn't read that, then it's the first link in body of the first article.
I'm not going to chase backwards through links just to try to decide whether I'd have even credited the origin of all this and want to read those articles!
Again, this is not off-topic: these are poor basic standards - proper hyperlinking costs nothing and saves the reader's time and patience...
Agreed, but I'm also lucky enough to cycle in a city (Milton Keynes, UK) with a cycle system separate from the road traffic - perhaps I should have said so...
I just wanted to speak up for the more environmentally-conscious commuters too - I listen to audiobooks on the (hour per day) cycling part of my journey into work. What's more, these days find that I most often just continue to listen on the train (the rest of the journey), rather than get a physical book out (which I save for bed)...
I didn't start out to correct spelling or grammar, merely to give the quote as it's normally elegantly expressed (both the insertion of 'que's and the substitution of 'pareil' detract from the flow of this expression)...
It's 'French', 'damn', you're missing two commas, your comma should be an semi-colon and my quote is correct (not that yours isn't - English is your weakness).
"[Windows] was considered nothing more than a slow operating environment that had arrived [...] well behind the industry leaders, Apple and Xerox PARC"
No, it was considered a slow environment that was no more usable than the other graphical challengers to the actual industry leaders, with their (non-graphical) DOSes. Has the writer of this article summary celebrated his own 20th birthday yet?
Oh, I see (sorry)... still, using the word asynchronous is prone to this kind of ambiguity when you don't even say what it's not synchronous with (the original page requested, I suppose).
Still, JavaScript is not a necessary part (and ignores the origins in Outlook), and the article doesn't even use XML! Definitely confuses the architecture and (one) implementation...
How about 'self-updating web content and scripting'? Or better still: _S_elf-_U_pdating _C_ontent and _K_iller _S_cripting
Asynchronous JavaScript + XML - what would you call it? What am I falling for?
"Asynchronous" JavaScript seems to be the second thing you've fallen for. OK, so XMLHttpRequest isn't the best name, but Garrett's article was both vacuous and misleading...
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I don't wish death on anyone - I'd much rather you just stuck the treaties you joined us in, and tried to work on peace and prosperity for everyone (not just your flash-in-the-pan rebelious colony of Europeans).
Your government signs up to, and then flouts, international agreements of which its own voting public is so ignorant that nothing will change... without force.
'Billions to combat AIDS'? The biggest way you could help there is not to insist on the ability to enforce patent rights on anti-retroviral drugs.
Giving a little aid makes you all feel so big, but what you're doing to the third world makes me sick to think you're our (Europeans') cousins...
The bloody article is flamebait.
From the Slashdot cookie-cutter: Some blog says Microsoft might plan to support X
Along with: Google have registered the domain gX.com
And: AJAX is teh l337
And: Which is the best programming language?
Again, this is not off-topic: these are poor basic standards - proper hyperlinking costs nothing and saves the reader's time and patience...
(Yet again no standards of editing at Slashdot...)
Agreed, but I'm also lucky enough to cycle in a city (Milton Keynes, UK) with a cycle system separate from the road traffic - perhaps I should have said so...
I just wanted to speak up for the more environmentally-conscious commuters too - I listen to audiobooks on the (hour per day) cycling part of my journey into work. What's more, these days find that I most often just continue to listen on the train (the rest of the journey), rather than get a physical book out (which I save for bed)...
Does Slashdot get a kickback for promoting this stupid acronym?
I didn't start out to correct spelling or grammar, merely to give the quote as it's normally elegantly expressed (both the insertion of 'que's and the substitution of 'pareil' detract from the flow of this expression)...
That was deliberate, of course... ;)
It's 'French', 'damn', you're missing two commas, your comma should be an semi-colon and my quote is correct (not that yours isn't - English is your weakness).
"Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose"
SUCKS! (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=165166&pid=13 781696)
Oh, I see (sorry)... still, using the word asynchronous is prone to this kind of ambiguity when you don't even say what it's not synchronous with (the original page requested, I suppose).
Still, JavaScript is not a necessary part (and ignores the origins in Outlook), and the article doesn't even use XML! Definitely confuses the architecture and (one) implementation...
How about 'self-updating web content and scripting'?
Or better still: _S_elf-_U_pdating _C_ontent and _K_iller _S_cripting