I think you hit the nail on the head with the mention of cash. How long before Quaddafi runs out of cash to pay his mercenaries. Or has he already and simply told them to loot the country in payment.
"our continual meddling in Muslim affairs is the prime reason behind Islamic terrorism" Bullshit, the prime reason for Islamic terrorism is Islam. The terrorists are using it as cover in a push for power...and it falls over meekly and allows this to happen. Why? Because the mullahs and imams skulking in their mosques are still dreaming of the day when an Islamic Caliphate held sway and they were the power behind the throne. And they do not care how many Muslims must die for them to realize their dream.
What the hell are you whining about? Reagan taking out a few tents? And he did that because the Libyans thought it would be fun to blow up U.S. servicemen in Berlin. Reagan decided they should have a revolutionary moment.
Yep, except that the only countries with the balls to do it are the U.S. and Israel. Israel won't for the obvious reasons. Obama claims to want the Euro-Weenies to get together and join with him in a unified stance...blah, blah, blah. The Europeans do have a feared weapon though, The Talking Bomb.
European Leader: Let's issue a joint statement condemning violence and the shutting down of Libya's media.
Other European Leaders: Hear! Hear!....errrrmm...but first, we must debate the content of this fearsome weapon, just to get the wording correct.
*crickets....for three weeks*
European Leaders: We now have our fearsome Talking Bomb prepared, ask the Libyans if they dare us to use it or to accede to our demands. Yo, Libyans....hey, where'd y'all go? Where's Quaddafi? Doesn't anyone want to hear our Talking Bomb?
So, yeah, it is a good idea, but don't hold your breath the West would actually do anything to help the Libyan people.
Obama is an American, give it a rest. And even if he was born in Africa, he's shown he's an American. Oh, and I'm a conservative republican...or at least I was until nutjobs like you went off the deep end raising red herrings to cover your policy nakedness.
It is a bad idea because of the architecture and OS specific part. It is not clear it is security problem though. It presumably runs in ring 3, so all OS traps, naughty memory traipses, etc. can be caught. What specific security problem do you expect it to cause?
I can only think of one, if there is a problem in the underlying OS....well, since we're probably talking MS here, multiple security problems in the underlying OS that can be accessed through OS traps that go to kernel mode or any that MS left out in user land.
"The people who truely dislike Apple news and products aren't doing themselves any favors by bitchbitchbitching."
I think you are ignoring the therapeutic value people who truly dislike Apple news and products get by bitchbitchbitching. If it weren't for the constant stream of Apple news, they'd have a big hole in their life to fill; they'd have to find something else to hate to get the same high.
Those tricks for JITS have been around since the 80's. If the US Patent Office didn't patent any piece of toilet paper that walks in the door and punt their job to the legal system, there would be no software patents.
Awesome? Errr...an asteroid impacting the Earth would be awesome. Think of people standing around slackjawed. Jesus rising from the dead would be awesome.
GNU/Linux Android would be a neat system.
Now get fuck off my lawn and stop using "awesome" to label anything you cannot think of doing yourself.
You cannot patent a language. Oracle believes you can. So they are using their patents to encumber Java, a language. All Google did was use the language and provide their own interpreter. Google owes Oracle nothing.
The Arab revolutions did not catch 'intelligence' by surprise. The agencies warned the regimes in the mid-east were fragile for years. The hard part is predicting exactly what-when will set off a revolution. Maybe you have the secret, I'm sure they'd listen to you.
Hell, even Clinton warned the Arabs at a conference in the mid-East in October that they risked being swept aside if they didn't loosen controls. Bush warned them in 2002-3 that the U.S. would support democracy everywhere. Democrats and Republicans laughed. Reagan set up a democracy agency in the federal government which was bipartisan and whose writ was to support democracy movements everywhere. Then Obama came along and cut their funding.
Why is Slashdot using double spacing for some posts and not others...and how can I turn it off or is this another new feature?
Yep, it is about time we think of protecting those Martians from the destructive colonial powers on Earth. While we're at it, we should declare all life in the solar system, e.g., Jovian, Saturnian, Uranian, Neptumian, Plutonian, etc. sacred and not to be even interacted with. With a bit more legislation, we can protect all life in the Milky Way from the destructive influences of humans. No need to stop there, let's do it as a favor to all life in the Universe. Hell, let's do it for the entire Multiverse. And let's not let time get in the way, let's protect all life past and future from humans.
Everyone will be issued hari-kari knives and asked to do the dirty deed on Dec. 21, 2012. Before we do, we'll paint the Earth to look like a giant bullseye from space. That way, the asteroid Apophis can make doubly sure humans never, ever happen again. Repent! Save humanity! Die today!
Apple's price/earnings hovers around 20. So if there is any froth in the stock, it isn't showing up where you'd expect it to show up, so it would seem otherwise reasonable people are not forgetting the basic rules of investing and value. Maybe you could try some other equally dumb argument.
"I expect its CEO to spread FUD against FOSS at every chance, because that's part of his job description."
So lying is part of Ballmer's job description? I thought he just did it naturally, sort of his Buddha-Nature. Now I find he's been instructed to do it because a "job description" tells him to.
Now who could write such a job description for a CEO. Why, it must be the Board of Directors. So his Board has instructed their employee to lie. And Ballmer couldn't do it on his own, he must have help. So Ballmer must be telling others to lie.
Now, why would a company do that? What kind of people would a company hire who would engage in such practices? This is some company you've invested in. And when one of those lies come back to bite your ass, I fervently hope it takes a bite out of your wallet. You deserve it for such loyalty.
All of today's CPUs are NOT Turing machines. Turing machines have an infinite tape, that's memory to CPUs. The whole essence of the Turing Complete Problems is that they are unbounded.
Peanuts. To really cut defense you must cut defense systems. That means cutting jobs in Congress-Critters states. Don't forget, government doesn't create jobs...errr...unless it is related to defense spending in your district.
Bingo, and one just small epicycle to add: after WWII, the British were in no mood to stay in colonies that yielded no economic benefits, such as, Palestine. And they would have left much sooner such as before the war except for latent anti-Jewish sentiment in the British government and their Arab friends in Palestine.
And one of those friends was the grand-mufti of Jerusalem who, much to the distaste of the Brits, spent time in Berlin licking Hitler's boots, thought Hitler had the right idea about how to solve their "Jewish Problem". That was mainly because he was trying to screw the Sabra out of Palestine that they had lived in for centuries. He was trying to do that because Zionism had been born in the late 1800's and parts of it were intent on creating a Jewish homeland. The grand mufti was against this for nationalistic and religious reasons. His nephew was....Yassir Arafat, who also had similar ideas about how to solve the Jewish problem.
Iraq seems mulit-culti to me. Kurds, Shia, Sunni, Turkmens...and well, there used to be Jews, Christians, and Ba'hai, but not any more. Even Saudi Arabia has a significant minority of Shi'ites, whom they piss on regularly with discriminatory laws.
Hezbollah was created after the Amal militia proved ineffective against the Sunni's and Christians. Stop kidding yourself, the Israelis were simply the local boogie-man Hezbollah trots out to scare the locals into supporting it.
You are forgetting the Shi'ite vs. Sunni civil war. The Iranian Regime doesn't give a flying rat's ass about the Israelis one way or another except that the Sunni Arabs hate the Israelis. The Iranians believe if they are the ones to knock off Israel, either with a nuke or their dogs Hezbollah, then the Shi'ites will be seen as the true branch of Islam. They aren't particular how they do it, and if a bunch of Sunni's die in the process, that's less opposition for the Shi'ites.
Religion is here to save humanity, even if it has to kill them to do it.
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I think you hit the nail on the head with the mention of cash. How long before Quaddafi runs out of cash to pay his mercenaries. Or has he already and simply told them to loot the country in payment.
"our continual meddling in Muslim affairs is the prime reason behind Islamic terrorism" Bullshit, the prime reason for Islamic terrorism is Islam. The terrorists are using it as cover in a push for power...and it falls over meekly and allows this to happen. Why? Because the mullahs and imams skulking in their mosques are still dreaming of the day when an Islamic Caliphate held sway and they were the power behind the throne. And they do not care how many Muslims must die for them to realize their dream.
What the hell are you whining about? Reagan taking out a few tents? And he did that because the Libyans thought it would be fun to blow up U.S. servicemen in Berlin. Reagan decided they should have a revolutionary moment.
Yep, except that the only countries with the balls to do it are the U.S. and Israel. Israel won't for the obvious reasons. Obama claims to want the Euro-Weenies to get together and join with him in a unified stance...blah, blah, blah. The Europeans do have a feared weapon though, The Talking Bomb.
European Leader: Let's issue a joint statement condemning violence and the shutting down of Libya's media.
Other European Leaders: Hear! Hear!....errrrmm...but first, we must debate the content of this fearsome weapon, just to get the wording correct.
*crickets....for three weeks*
European Leaders: We now have our fearsome Talking Bomb prepared, ask the Libyans if they dare us to use it or to accede to our demands. Yo, Libyans....hey, where'd y'all go? Where's Quaddafi? Doesn't anyone want to hear our Talking Bomb?
So, yeah, it is a good idea, but don't hold your breath the West would actually do anything to help the Libyan people.
Obama is an American, give it a rest. And even if he was born in Africa, he's shown he's an American. Oh, and I'm a conservative republican...or at least I was until nutjobs like you went off the deep end raising red herrings to cover your policy nakedness.
It is a bad idea because of the architecture and OS specific part. It is not clear it is security problem though. It presumably runs in ring 3, so all OS traps, naughty memory traipses, etc. can be caught. What specific security problem do you expect it to cause?
I can only think of one, if there is a problem in the underlying OS....well, since we're probably talking MS here, multiple security problems in the underlying OS that can be accessed through OS traps that go to kernel mode or any that MS left out in user land.
"The people who truely dislike Apple news and products aren't doing themselves any favors by bitchbitchbitching."
I think you are ignoring the therapeutic value people who truly dislike Apple news and products get by bitchbitchbitching. If it weren't for the constant stream of Apple news, they'd have a big hole in their life to fill; they'd have to find something else to hate to get the same high.
Those tricks for JITS have been around since the 80's. If the US Patent Office didn't patent any piece of toilet paper that walks in the door and punt their job to the legal system, there would be no software patents.
Awesome? Errr...an asteroid impacting the Earth would be awesome. Think of people standing around slackjawed. Jesus rising from the dead would be awesome.
GNU/Linux Android would be a neat system.
Now get fuck off my lawn and stop using "awesome" to label anything you cannot think of doing yourself.
You cannot patent a language. Oracle believes you can. So they are using their patents to encumber Java, a language. All Google did was use the language and provide their own interpreter. Google owes Oracle nothing.
The Arab revolutions did not catch 'intelligence' by surprise. The agencies warned the regimes in the mid-east were fragile for years. The hard part is predicting exactly what-when will set off a revolution. Maybe you have the secret, I'm sure they'd listen to you.
Hell, even Clinton warned the Arabs at a conference in the mid-East in October that they risked being swept aside if they didn't loosen controls. Bush warned them in 2002-3 that the U.S. would support democracy everywhere. Democrats and Republicans laughed. Reagan set up a democracy agency in the federal government which was bipartisan and whose writ was to support democracy movements everywhere. Then Obama came along and cut their funding.
Why is Slashdot using double spacing for some posts and not others...and how can I turn it off or is this another new feature?
Manning broke the rules he swore to live by when he joined up. Screw him.
Yep, it is about time we think of protecting those Martians from the destructive colonial powers on Earth. While we're at it, we should declare all life in the solar system, e.g., Jovian, Saturnian, Uranian, Neptumian, Plutonian, etc. sacred and not to be even interacted with. With a bit more legislation, we can protect all life in the Milky Way from the destructive influences of humans. No need to stop there, let's do it as a favor to all life in the Universe. Hell, let's do it for the entire Multiverse. And let's not let time get in the way, let's protect all life past and future from humans.
Everyone will be issued hari-kari knives and asked to do the dirty deed on Dec. 21, 2012. Before we do, we'll paint the Earth to look like a giant bullseye from space. That way, the asteroid Apophis can make doubly sure humans never, ever happen again. Repent! Save humanity! Die today!
Apple's price/earnings hovers around 20. So if there is any froth in the stock, it isn't showing up where you'd expect it to show up, so it would seem otherwise reasonable people are not forgetting the basic rules of investing and value. Maybe you could try some other equally dumb argument.
"I expect its CEO to spread FUD against FOSS at every chance, because that's part of his job description."
So lying is part of Ballmer's job description? I thought he just did it naturally, sort of his Buddha-Nature. Now I find he's been instructed to do it because a "job description" tells him to.
Now who could write such a job description for a CEO. Why, it must be the Board of Directors. So his Board has instructed their employee to lie. And Ballmer couldn't do it on his own, he must have help. So Ballmer must be telling others to lie.
Now, why would a company do that? What kind of people would a company hire who would engage in such practices? This is some company you've invested in. And when one of those lies come back to bite your ass, I fervently hope it takes a bite out of your wallet. You deserve it for such loyalty.
All of today's CPUs are NOT Turing machines. Turing machines have an infinite tape, that's memory to CPUs. The whole essence of the Turing Complete Problems is that they are unbounded.
Peanuts. To really cut defense you must cut defense systems. That means cutting jobs in Congress-Critters states. Don't forget, government doesn't create jobs...errr...unless it is related to defense spending in your district.
Bingo, and one just small epicycle to add: after WWII, the British were in no mood to stay in colonies that yielded no economic benefits, such as, Palestine. And they would have left much sooner such as before the war except for latent anti-Jewish sentiment in the British government and their Arab friends in Palestine.
And one of those friends was the grand-mufti of Jerusalem who, much to the distaste of the Brits, spent time in Berlin licking Hitler's boots, thought Hitler had the right idea about how to solve their "Jewish Problem". That was mainly because he was trying to screw the Sabra out of Palestine that they had lived in for centuries. He was trying to do that because Zionism had been born in the late 1800's and parts of it were intent on creating a Jewish homeland. The grand mufti was against this for nationalistic and religious reasons. His nephew was....Yassir Arafat, who also had similar ideas about how to solve the Jewish problem.
Iraq seems mulit-culti to me. Kurds, Shia, Sunni, Turkmens...and well, there used to be Jews, Christians, and Ba'hai, but not any more. Even Saudi Arabia has a significant minority of Shi'ites, whom they piss on regularly with discriminatory laws.
Hezbollah was created after the Amal militia proved ineffective against the Sunni's and Christians. Stop kidding yourself, the Israelis were simply the local boogie-man Hezbollah trots out to scare the locals into supporting it.
You are forgetting the Shi'ite vs. Sunni civil war. The Iranian Regime doesn't give a flying rat's ass about the Israelis one way or another except that the Sunni Arabs hate the Israelis. The Iranians believe if they are the ones to knock off Israel, either with a nuke or their dogs Hezbollah, then the Shi'ites will be seen as the true branch of Islam. They aren't particular how they do it, and if a bunch of Sunni's die in the process, that's less opposition for the Shi'ites.
Religion is here to save humanity, even if it has to kill them to do it.
Maybe there's only one of them. No, listen, in some secret psycho right wingnut lab, they've learned how to reskin humans. It all fits.
Ah, another Heywood Banks aficionado. It's nice to attribute properly.
http://qt.nokia.com/products/platform/qt-for-mac/
I was considering qt, now I'm unsure. With MS around to fuck it up, we'll probably have qt.net in the future.
Bad form, but I misdated Galois, he bit the bullet in 1832.