Sure, Iran with nuclear weapons would do so much for the Middle East, forcing the Arab countries to follow. That's what the world needs, a nuclear armed Middle East so the Shia and the Sunnis can finally settle that dispute that started in the 600's over someone's grand-nephew's dog getting whacked. Gee, if ever there were a good reason for a war, that one surely is. Remember, Islam is a peaceful religion no matter how many people have to die to make the rest of us idiots see it.
Ron Paul has no sense of morals, or he wouldn't be advocating the U.S. let the new wars just waiting to happen start. And only a lunatic would advocate going back to the goal standard on the basis of he's sure the U.S. is hiding Beeeeelllions and Beeeelllions of it at Fort Knox but discretely not telling anyone.
Yeah, let the Arabs kill the rest of the Jews, then Americans could feel the love. And let the N. Koreans savage S. Korea and make it just like them. What were we thinking, let a People's Paradise ensue, long live the Dear New Runt. And the Chinese are entitled to all the S. China sea, regardless that other countries are much closer to it. And the Taliban should have been left to continue cutting off the heads of the non-Pashtun, goddamn infidels all of them. Dear Saddam was a pussy cat, just ask the Shi'ites in Iraq how revered he was...or the Shi'ites in Iran. Let Quaddafi rise from the grave to again inflict the little Green Book on his fellow Libyans, it was such a font of truth and enlightenment. Damn, how come the U.S. fought against the Nazies, if the Europeans wanted a police state, the U.S. should have helped them to it. Japan was a peace-loving nation before the Americans took them out, the Rape of Manchuria was merely Japan showing their fellow Asians how to revere human life. And the Soviets, wow, those peace loving Communists only had the world's interest in mind.
Hmmm...come to think of it, maybe the U.S. should let the rest of the world stew in their own juices, they'd deserve it...if only the U.S. could find a way not to give a fucking rat's ass.
Maybe Linux users always wanted security to work on the software level. However I work in research on security in military systems, the newer systems are hardware-software codesigns, there is no arbitrary distinction between the two. New malware does take advantage of both hardware and software. And for tight security, hardware support is definitely required.
A more sensible position is that you want systems to be open so that you can determine the level of security you need. We in my neck of the woods have no problem with that and think it is the way it ought to be.
I think MS might be going after geek appeal here. There was an article (on TheRegister) on how some big shot at MS wanted to perform surgery on certain departments. In addition, he wanted to make MS cool again amongst youngsters so they'll want to work there. It might work, there is a certain segment of people who somehow think of use of the command line as a measure of their manhood. Apparently for them, it sprinkles pixie dust with magical properties on their commands. In reality, they are only using another interface the OS people have provided. GUIs can certainly hide important details, but they needn't. A good GUI allows you full access to all the widgets the command line does. It's appeal is that it is able to remember things for you so you can do more important things with your life.
You are right, Iran is in a difficult position. Run by a bunch of religious zealots who believe stoning for adultery or homosexuality surely would make anyone feel like the rest of the world is out to get them. Conjuring Jew hatred to help in the Holy War begun in the 600 to help the Shi'ites overcome the Sunnis is a hard row to hoe but someone has to do it. Running sham elections to prevent the people from living in a free country is really hard, there's ballot boxes to be stuffed (local toadiies don't come cheap, ya' know), candidates to be imprisoned so they cannot run, secret police to silent the opposition, etc. All this takes a lot of oil money and keeping the faithful in line to properly hate the West, Christians, Ba'hais, women, Jews, homosexuals...one wonders at how they hold up over all these hardships. And just think, within a few years and they have their nuclear weapons, then they'll really be able force their neighbors to see things the way they do.
Okay, let's all take a moment in silent remembrance of the difficult position the Iranians find themselves...sniff...now I'm all teary eyed.
To argue the Nazies didn't target Jews for extra special treatment is just silly. Go back and read history before your revisionist propaganda clouds your mind even more.
Wow, so the CIA is funding producing games to help fight political corruption in countries whose regimes the U.S. is reputed to be supporting for oil, etc. (take your pick of nefarious plots).
Hell, I'm still looking for a better Eve. Look at their problems, two chesticles that have a tendency to get cancer, a plumbing system that is in constant need of vigilance. And if that's an easy way to give birth, try pulling your upper lip over your head (Carol Burnett's response to an audience member asking her what giving birth is like).
Matthew chapter 16: "Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom."
So you've been contradicted by Jesus as reported via Mathew.
Scheduling meetings for more meetings doesn't have anything to do with age, it has to do with Business School Product rising like scum on a pond. They have no technical skills so they compensate by developing their people skills which, weirdly enough, involves lots of meeting with other people. Also, it helps to prevent the sort of backroom conspiracies they are involved in from being launched against themselves. First, if the lower level blighters are in meetings chaired by Business School Product, it is difficult to conspire against Business School Product at the same time. And second, the meeting help your basic bureaucratic microbe test the wind for techno-babble in order to figure out what they believe in the current week.
Or it just could be, as The Register suggested, a way to keep an eye on Iran and Afghanistan and WTFistan, given it's orbit. If you wanted to observe the Chinese Golden Spittoon or whatever their box is called, you could do it much cheaper without using the fancy new space vehicle.
Umm...just a guess, how about, get this, two power adapters. One, you could, duh, leave at home. It be the one with the magic codes, and another you could, like, bring with you...gnarly, eh?
Ok Tex, ya got us there. From now on we'll put people with BB guns on our ships to sink any inflatable rafts that try to get close. I realize this is an expensive arms race but I think the U.S. Navy will be able to provide.
Many of those Iranian dead were conscripts who were lead to the slaughter by the mullah's and imams knowing full well they didn't have the weaponry to compete with Saddam. And it wasn't just Saddam taking a ship, he intend to steal a fair bit a oil producing land in SW. Iran that has been contested through the ages. That section has a fair number of Arab descent and are not Persian. This also happened when Iran was full of revolutionary fever for their new slave-masters. Now that the new yoke has been on them for a number of years, it is doubtful the government would get the same sort of support.
That isn't clear, the Shi'ite-Sunni split is a lot more "present" than satisfying the Arab need to send their Palestinian Arab brothers off other Arab land and back to Palestine. Even the current animosity of Iran toward's Israel is only because they think if they are the ones to solve Islam's "Jewish problem", the Sunnis will realize that Shi'ism is the way to go.
Israel going back to the 1967 borders would solve nothing. Even Abbas said the latest runup to the UN votes that they were only a place holder to de-legitimize Israel for the Palestinians' final victory. Even if all the Israelis left in the dead of night, the Palestinians would feel cheated because they hadn't killed them all to solve their "Jewish problem".
And the Mayans are responsible for the 2012 "we're all gonna die" industry. Got to give them credit for that, some slight references here and there, bit of mumbo-jumbo hieroglyphics and whallah, a new industry is born.
Have you any idea how complex the U.S. government is? The whole idea that it or its "leaders" share anything like goals of power and wealth is silly. It might be comforting to hold a 60's flower child view of government but it isn't realistic. Each federal agency has their own agenda pretty much laid out by statute. The judiciary is something totally different. The SS administration has the hardest job, they have to deal with Americans who stupid conspiratorial views like yours.
Well, the do have a lot of sharp computer scientists who sold their souls for Microsoft Research. So I guess it could be the corporate structure getting in the way. On the other hand, maybe the suckiness of the company turned their brains into mush.
Noscript won't let me see the roadmap, but it is is anything like a slide David Patraeus (sp?) used in a brief once, I can imagine. That slide had arrows pointing nowhere in particular, many arrows of different shapes and sizes presumably indicating different things. The general admitted it was confusing and then.......he let the cat out of the bag: (I paraphrase) If the people from Microsoft who we used to put these slides together could see fit to help us a bit....
The slide immediately became crystal clear and we could ignore it without any loss of information.
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Sure, Iran with nuclear weapons would do so much for the Middle East, forcing the Arab countries to follow. That's what the world needs, a nuclear armed Middle East so the Shia and the Sunnis can finally settle that dispute that started in the 600's over someone's grand-nephew's dog getting whacked. Gee, if ever there were a good reason for a war, that one surely is. Remember, Islam is a peaceful religion no matter how many people have to die to make the rest of us idiots see it.
Ron Paul has no sense of morals, or he wouldn't be advocating the U.S. let the new wars just waiting to happen start. And only a lunatic would advocate going back to the goal standard on the basis of he's sure the U.S. is hiding Beeeeelllions and Beeeelllions of it at Fort Knox but discretely not telling anyone.
Yeah, let the Arabs kill the rest of the Jews, then Americans could feel the love. And let the N. Koreans savage S. Korea and make it just like them. What were we thinking, let a People's Paradise ensue, long live the Dear New Runt. And the Chinese are entitled to all the S. China sea, regardless that other countries are much closer to it. And the Taliban should have been left to continue cutting off the heads of the non-Pashtun, goddamn infidels all of them. Dear Saddam was a pussy cat, just ask the Shi'ites in Iraq how revered he was...or the Shi'ites in Iran. Let Quaddafi rise from the grave to again inflict the little Green Book on his fellow Libyans, it was such a font of truth and enlightenment. Damn, how come the U.S. fought against the Nazies, if the Europeans wanted a police state, the U.S. should have helped them to it. Japan was a peace-loving nation before the Americans took them out, the Rape of Manchuria was merely Japan showing their fellow Asians how to revere human life. And the Soviets, wow, those peace loving Communists only had the world's interest in mind.
Hmmm...come to think of it, maybe the U.S. should let the rest of the world stew in their own juices, they'd deserve it...if only the U.S. could find a way not to give a fucking rat's ass.
Maybe Linux users always wanted security to work on the software level. However I work in research on security in military systems, the newer systems are hardware-software codesigns, there is no arbitrary distinction between the two. New malware does take advantage of both hardware and software. And for tight security, hardware support is definitely required.
A more sensible position is that you want systems to be open so that you can determine the level of security you need. We in my neck of the woods have no problem with that and think it is the way it ought to be.
I think MS might be going after geek appeal here. There was an article (on TheRegister) on how some big shot at MS wanted to perform surgery on certain departments. In addition, he wanted to make MS cool again amongst youngsters so they'll want to work there. It might work, there is a certain segment of people who somehow think of use of the command line as a measure of their manhood. Apparently for them, it sprinkles pixie dust with magical properties on their commands. In reality, they are only using another interface the OS people have provided. GUIs can certainly hide important details, but they needn't. A good GUI allows you full access to all the widgets the command line does. It's appeal is that it is able to remember things for you so you can do more important things with your life.
Yes, and stop watching TV, its bad for you.
Hi, I don't know a damn thing about the FBI, DoD and the other agencies either, can I subscribe to your newsletter?
Ah, you probably have not had a member of your family murdered and had to rely on the FBI to catch the perp.
You are right, Iran is in a difficult position. Run by a bunch of religious zealots who believe stoning for adultery or homosexuality surely would make anyone feel like the rest of the world is out to get them. Conjuring Jew hatred to help in the Holy War begun in the 600 to help the Shi'ites overcome the Sunnis is a hard row to hoe but someone has to do it. Running sham elections to prevent the people from living in a free country is really hard, there's ballot boxes to be stuffed (local toadiies don't come cheap, ya' know), candidates to be imprisoned so they cannot run, secret police to silent the opposition, etc. All this takes a lot of oil money and keeping the faithful in line to properly hate the West, Christians, Ba'hais, women, Jews, homosexuals...one wonders at how they hold up over all these hardships. And just think, within a few years and they have their nuclear weapons, then they'll really be able force their neighbors to see things the way they do.
Okay, let's all take a moment in silent remembrance of the difficult position the Iranians find themselves...sniff...now I'm all teary eyed.
To argue the Nazies didn't target Jews for extra special treatment is just silly. Go back and read history before your revisionist propaganda clouds your mind even more.
Wow, so the CIA is funding producing games to help fight political corruption in countries whose regimes the U.S. is reputed to be supporting for oil, etc. (take your pick of nefarious plots).
Hell, I'm still looking for a better Eve. Look at their problems, two chesticles that have a tendency to get cancer, a plumbing system that is in constant need of vigilance. And if that's an easy way to give birth, try pulling your upper lip over your head (Carol Burnett's response to an audience member asking her what giving birth is like).
Matthew chapter 16: "Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom."
So you've been contradicted by Jesus as reported via Mathew.
Scheduling meetings for more meetings doesn't have anything to do with age, it has to do with Business School Product rising like scum on a pond. They have no technical skills so they compensate by developing their people skills which, weirdly enough, involves lots of meeting with other people. Also, it helps to prevent the sort of backroom conspiracies they are involved in from being launched against themselves. First, if the lower level blighters are in meetings chaired by Business School Product, it is difficult to conspire against Business School Product at the same time. And second, the meeting help your basic bureaucratic microbe test the wind for techno-babble in order to figure out what they believe in the current week.
Wow, do you live in a movie?
Or it just could be, as The Register suggested, a way to keep an eye on Iran and Afghanistan and WTFistan, given it's orbit. If you wanted to observe the Chinese Golden Spittoon or whatever their box is called, you could do it much cheaper without using the fancy new space vehicle.
Umm...just a guess, how about, get this, two power adapters. One, you could, duh, leave at home. It be the one with the magic codes, and another you could, like, bring with you...gnarly, eh?
Ok Tex, ya got us there. From now on we'll put people with BB guns on our ships to sink any inflatable rafts that try to get close. I realize this is an expensive arms race but I think the U.S. Navy will be able to provide.
Many of those Iranian dead were conscripts who were lead to the slaughter by the mullah's and imams knowing full well they didn't have the weaponry to compete with Saddam. And it wasn't just Saddam taking a ship, he intend to steal a fair bit a oil producing land in SW. Iran that has been contested through the ages. That section has a fair number of Arab descent and are not Persian. This also happened when Iran was full of revolutionary fever for their new slave-masters. Now that the new yoke has been on them for a number of years, it is doubtful the government would get the same sort of support.
That isn't clear, the Shi'ite-Sunni split is a lot more "present" than satisfying the Arab need to send their Palestinian Arab brothers off other Arab land and back to Palestine. Even the current animosity of Iran toward's Israel is only because they think if they are the ones to solve Islam's "Jewish problem", the Sunnis will realize that Shi'ism is the way to go.
Israel going back to the 1967 borders would solve nothing. Even Abbas said the latest runup to the UN votes that they were only a place holder to de-legitimize Israel for the Palestinians' final victory. Even if all the Israelis left in the dead of night, the Palestinians would feel cheated because they hadn't killed them all to solve their "Jewish problem".
And the Mayans are responsible for the 2012 "we're all gonna die" industry. Got to give them credit for that, some slight references here and there, bit of mumbo-jumbo hieroglyphics and whallah, a new industry is born.
Have you any idea how complex the U.S. government is? The whole idea that it or its "leaders" share anything like goals of power and wealth is silly. It might be comforting to hold a 60's flower child view of government but it isn't realistic. Each federal agency has their own agenda pretty much laid out by statute. The judiciary is something totally different. The SS administration has the hardest job, they have to deal with Americans who stupid conspiratorial views like yours.
Well, the do have a lot of sharp computer scientists who sold their souls for Microsoft Research. So I guess it could be the corporate structure getting in the way. On the other hand, maybe the suckiness of the company turned their brains into mush.
Noscript won't let me see the roadmap, but it is is anything like a slide David Patraeus (sp?) used in a brief once, I can imagine. That slide had arrows pointing nowhere in particular, many arrows of different shapes and sizes presumably indicating different things. The general admitted it was confusing and then... ....he let the cat out of the bag: (I paraphrase) If the people from Microsoft who we used to put these slides together could see fit to help us a bit....
The slide immediately became crystal clear and we could ignore it without any loss of information.