And please note that I know these threats existed before the Iraq invasion; America has invaded other countries before Iraq on similar grounds, though. Those other invasions were just (mostly) forgotten by our short-term collective memories.
Americans have no one to blame for the current mess in the middle east but their own government.
Iran had a democratically elected government in the 1950's but Britain and the U.S. didn't like it so they overthrew it. Now Iron is run by religious crackpots hostile (for good reason)to the U.S. That, and alternately supplying arms to Iran, Iraq , and sometimes both simultaneously, has resulted in the situation you see today.
And the most shocking thing is most Americans have no idea what their government does to screw up other countries.
Yes, first to invent but there is a limitaiton on that. You basically have a year between inventing something and filing for the patent. So if you file a patent, if someone else comes along within that year and files, and can show they invented before you then yours is invalid. If there are no filings within that time and there are no other issues then your patent claim stands.
There's no point in discussnig this futher; anything the police want to do is in your eyes their right, as long as they claim they're stopping terrorism huh? Don't worry, I'm sure we'll all have the police state you so desire very shortly.
Wow you really are a crackpot. You're night. There's no point in further discussion, but your rationale is dead wrong.
Of course, all journalists would have been to the sides. They wouldn't be talking to protesters..
Yes that makes a great interview... trying to ask a protester questions as the police are spraying him with pepper spray
...or trying to capture images from the protesters point of view.
Also a great photo... picture of the lens covered in pepper spray
Just like they never ride in a Humvee during times of war. Certainly they never got shot at by an Israeli tank when the journalist is blowing their cover..
So has any journalist who has ridden in a military vehicle on the front line clamed that their rights as a journalist have been infringed when they were shot at? Or were they even surprised they were shot at? I doubt it. Just as these other journalists shouldn't be surprised when they get hit with pepper spray when they stand in front of an advancing police line.
Well, you could actually, you know, read the links which the OP of this thread plopped down. The very first one, where he linked the text "spraying photographers with pepper spray" and suprisingly enough, talks about Canadian police pepper spraying photographers COVERING a protest.
Have you actually read the links?
The first one (from cjfe.org) is the one where the photographers got hit with pepper spray. From the journalists own account: "The first row of police advanced with shields. Then a second row of police had the pepper spray, which they sprayed from between the shields so you couldn't see where it was coming from" If the police were spraying between the shields then the photographers must have been in the protest front line to have got hit. That's not covering the protest, that's participating.
The second reference (blogspot.com) for arresting photographers without reason is actually an article about police in Toledo Ohio, not Canada.
In the third reference (Canada.com), one woman got thrown to the ground during almost 400 arrests of drunken hockey fans. And the police launched an immediate investigation.
So no. I don't see how these links have anything to do with the topic discussed. I'd say you're pretty dense if you can't see that.
I'm rather ignorant in such matters - how did you trace that number to 01 Comunnications? If these types of scams take off, it would probably come in handy to know how to do that. Was it just a 'call the phone company and ask' sort of thing?
I just used a free reverse phone lookup. Just type that phrase into Google and it'll come up with several services. I always check several sources to make sure they come up with the same info.
Once I got the main provider and their location, an email to their abuse department got a quick email back to say who owned the block.
I got that one too this morning. It traces to 01 Communications in Davis California. when I contacted them they told me the 6000 block is owned by CommPartners California. - the number is a VolP number. Sent an email to them and the Davis police.
The only way to get rid of these scams is for everyone to report them to the phone company or service provider they are associated to.
Same with the English 'ee', which is wholly different from (short) 'e' or 'eh'. Why not use a more logical 'i' as in 'miss'?
Because they are not pronounced the same. The "i" in miss is not the same as the "ee" in wheel.
The problem with English is not the pronunciation or the spelling, but the exceptions to the rules. Remove the exceptions and everything gets easier to learn.
For example in 5 minutes almost everyone can read aloud Italian perfectly, although they probably wouldn't understand it. The reason is Italian has strict pronounciation rules and almost no exceptions.
I am reading your comments, and you are completely avoiding the questions I raise.
Were not talking macro evolution as in new species, but micro evolutions and mutations that result in different hair, eye and skin color, as well as other slight changes such as muscular and skeletal variations. Macro evolution needs a few million years, not a few thousand as is the case we are talking about here.
My point is if we all came from one middle eastern man, Noah, there is no longer any variation in the gene pool. To get these variations, genetic mutation must have occurred-the basis of evolution. However the opponents of evolution, the creationists, say that God created the world as static without change. So again, I say that multiple races from one family line is impossible without evolution.
And there is nothing in the tower of Babel story that would suggest that God created multiple races from one. It's a bit of a stretch to assume that having your language changed affects your skin colour.
While such words do indeed exist in english, they are the exception rather than the rule. Learn a language like French or Danish, and you'll really see what "not sounding like it's spelled" means.
You're applying English letter pronunciations to foreign words and then incorrectly deducing that they dont sound like they are spelled. The letter "t" in French is not pronounced "tea" but "teh". Once you realize "et" is pronounced "eh" then you can correctly pronounce all words ending in "et".
Do you know of any institutions offering degrees in managing software development?
Well first you get a degree in software development - one that also teaches architecture. Then you get several years of experience. Then you get a degree/courses in management if you want to actually manage the team rather then the technical aspects..
Yes I understand all that, but you still haven't addressed my primary question. My point is how did multiple races (black, white, brown, etc) spring from a single race without the effects of evolution?
Well that makes sense. No undergrad curriculum should be teaching management because no undergrad should be getting a job in management or project leading.
The undergrad curriculum is where you learn your coding skills. Your become a project leader when you demonstrate an aptitude for team management (soft skills), and can accurately estimate time and effort of development projects for not only yourself, but others as well. Thats not something you can learn without having experienced it first hand, hence the management courses being post-grad.
Scrum represents an effort to get practitioners to devote two days to the topic, which is a huge percentage increase over skimming the abstract of an article while waiting for a rebuild to complete.
If they want to be project leaders, maybe they should get a relevant degree. Otherwise they should stick to the processes given to then by their project leader or manager.
Buzz is a natural-selection winner. Ideas linked with romantic terms are more fun to talk about than ideas linked with prosaic terms in every occuupation.
Of course, that's understandable. But why does software have to have their own terminology when the concepts are identical to existing engineering practices (with well known buzzwords). Then the developers complain that non-software managers don't understand them. Duh.
It's the contractor - the development manager - who has primary responsibility and commensurate authority to distinguish the routine from the unrepeatable processes and control them appropriately, but what institutions offer degrees in software management?
In normal engineering the manager provides the customer interface and manages cost and schedule. He decides what has to be done at a high level, not how to do it. How is dictated by the project engineer (or project leader, technical leader or whatever name you'd like to use). This person also derives the requirements and creates the architecture. In the case of software, these skills are learned as part of a degree in software engineering.
No of course not. But I think you missed my point.
Given that the sex of an ancient ruler was assumed to be male when in doubt, would it not be just as likely that ancient Egypt and others like societies were matriarchal rather than patriarchal? Or more likely, these artificial labels had no meaning at the time and the sex of the ruler was irrelevant?
Software practitioners have resisted the sort of discipline - licensing, state certification, personal liability - which give teeth to best practices. Perhaps, unlike medicine or law or bridge building, software practitioners will come to find a way to follow best practice rather than fashion without licensing, state certification, and personal liability. Until that halcyon day, expect there to be lots of buzzwords.
But why does there have to be buzzwords? why can't they admit that the best way to do things is how everyone else has been doing them for years?
And until software developers accept personal liability, there's going to continue to be a lot of bad, and sometimes dangerous, software out there. At some point this has to change.
I fail to understand why software developers insist on creating ridiculous names (Agile, Scrum) for existing engineering best practices? There is no real difference between that stuff and the methods other engineering disciplines use every day, and have been using for decades, to accomplish their work.
The only explanation I can think of is that the 'authors' of these processes simply ripped them off of the existing accepted engineering practices, published them as their own in the hope that they would be adopted (and they probably would as the standard sit down and code approach is doomed to fail) and then make money of of the books.
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Or simply keep the door closed for the few minutes that the MRI is scanning. Every MRI I've seen employs that simple rule.
Americans have no one to blame for the current mess in the middle east but their own government.
Iran had a democratically elected government in the 1950's but Britain and the U.S. didn't like it so they overthrew it. Now Iron is run by religious crackpots hostile (for good reason)to the U.S. That, and alternately supplying arms to Iran, Iraq , and sometimes both simultaneously, has resulted in the situation you see today.
And the most shocking thing is most Americans have no idea what their government does to screw up other countries.
Only if your country happens to be rich in oil.
And if your country happens to piss off the U.S., they'll come faster with trumped up WMD charges.
Yes, first to invent but there is a limitaiton on that. You basically have a year between inventing something and filing for the patent. So if you file a patent, if someone else comes along within that year and files, and can show they invented before you then yours is invalid. If there are no filings within that time and there are no other issues then your patent claim stands.
Wow you really are a crackpot. You're night. There's no point in further discussion, but your rationale is dead wrong.
I'd say they sell more than the occasional bit of hardware to sell over $24 Billion worth in 2005. And that's down from 2004's $31 Billion.
But you are correct saying services is where the money is. IBM made over $47 Billion in revenue from their services division last year.
To put those numbers in perspective, Microsoft's revenue for the entire company was $39 Billion.
Yes that makes a great interview... trying to ask a protester questions as the police are spraying him with pepper spray
Also a great photo... picture of the lens covered in pepper spray
So has any journalist who has ridden in a military vehicle on the front line clamed that their rights as a journalist have been infringed when they were shot at? Or were they even surprised they were shot at? I doubt it. Just as these other journalists shouldn't be surprised when they get hit with pepper spray when they stand in front of an advancing police line.
Have you actually read the links?
The first one (from cjfe.org) is the one where the photographers got hit with pepper spray. From the journalists own account: "The first row of police advanced with shields. Then a second row of police had the pepper spray, which they sprayed from between the shields so you couldn't see where it was coming from" If the police were spraying between the shields then the photographers must have been in the protest front line to have got hit. That's not covering the protest, that's participating.
The second reference (blogspot.com) for arresting photographers without reason is actually an article about police in Toledo Ohio, not Canada.
In the third reference (Canada.com), one woman got thrown to the ground during almost 400 arrests of drunken hockey fans. And the police launched an immediate investigation.
So no. I don't see how these links have anything to do with the topic discussed. I'd say you're pretty dense if you can't see that.
Can you back this up? I've never heard of that happening in Canada. Protesters yes. Photographers, no,
LOL You gun nuts crack me up. What a kook! Keep up the entertainment please, you brighten my day.
He never said the Canadian police are angels. He said that they don't care that someone takes their picture while making an arrest.
I just used a free reverse phone lookup. Just type that phrase into Google and it'll come up with several services. I always check several sources to make sure they come up with the same info.
Once I got the main provider and their location, an email to their abuse department got a quick email back to say who owned the block.
I got that one too this morning. It traces to 01 Communications in Davis California. when I contacted them they told me the 6000 block is owned by CommPartners California. - the number is a VolP number. Sent an email to them and the Davis police.
The only way to get rid of these scams is for everyone to report them to the phone company or service provider they are associated to.
Because they are not pronounced the same. The "i" in miss is not the same as the "ee" in wheel.
The problem with English is not the pronunciation or the spelling, but the exceptions to the rules. Remove the exceptions and everything gets easier to learn.
For example in 5 minutes almost everyone can read aloud Italian perfectly, although they probably wouldn't understand it. The reason is Italian has strict pronounciation rules and almost no exceptions.
I am reading your comments, and you are completely avoiding the questions I raise.
Were not talking macro evolution as in new species, but micro evolutions and mutations that result in different hair, eye and skin color, as well as other slight changes such as muscular and skeletal variations. Macro evolution needs a few million years, not a few thousand as is the case we are talking about here.
My point is if we all came from one middle eastern man, Noah, there is no longer any variation in the gene pool. To get these variations, genetic mutation must have occurred-the basis of evolution. However the opponents of evolution, the creationists, say that God created the world as static without change. So again, I say that multiple races from one family line is impossible without evolution.
And there is nothing in the tower of Babel story that would suggest that God created multiple races from one. It's a bit of a stretch to assume that having your language changed affects your skin colour.
Yes I understand all that, but you still haven't addressed my primary question. My point is how did multiple races (black, white, brown, etc) spring from a single race without the effects of evolution?
OK sure, but my point was if Noah and his offspring were the only survivors of the flood, how do we get multiple races today?
Well that makes sense. No undergrad curriculum should be teaching management because no undergrad should be getting a job in management or project leading.
The undergrad curriculum is where you learn your coding skills. Your become a project leader when you demonstrate an aptitude for team management (soft skills), and can accurately estimate time and effort of development projects for not only yourself, but others as well. Thats not something you can learn without having experienced it first hand, hence the management courses being post-grad.
If they want to be project leaders, maybe they should get a relevant degree. Otherwise they should stick to the processes given to then by their project leader or manager.Of course, that's understandable. But why does software have to have their own terminology when the concepts are identical to existing engineering practices (with well known buzzwords). Then the developers complain that non-software managers don't understand them. Duh.
In normal engineering the manager provides the customer interface and manages cost and schedule. He decides what has to be done at a high level, not how to do it. How is dictated by the project engineer (or project leader, technical leader or whatever name you'd like to use). This person also derives the requirements and creates the architecture. In the case of software, these skills are learned as part of a degree in software engineering.No of course not. But I think you missed my point.
Given that the sex of an ancient ruler was assumed to be male when in doubt, would it not be just as likely that ancient Egypt and others like societies were matriarchal rather than patriarchal? Or more likely, these artificial labels had no meaning at the time and the sex of the ruler was irrelevant?
But why does there have to be buzzwords? why can't they admit that the best way to do things is how everyone else has been doing them for years?
And until software developers accept personal liability, there's going to continue to be a lot of bad, and sometimes dangerous, software out there. At some point this has to change.
I fail to understand why software developers insist on creating ridiculous names (Agile, Scrum) for existing engineering best practices? There is no real difference between that stuff and the methods other engineering disciplines use every day, and have been using for decades, to accomplish their work.
The only explanation I can think of is that the 'authors' of these processes simply ripped them off of the existing accepted engineering practices, published them as their own in the hope that they would be adopted (and they probably would as the standard sit down and code approach is doomed to fail) and then make money of of the books.
Since we are bringing the bible into this, how does the bible explain the different races from the common ancestor without allowing for evolution?