I would actually like both kinds, one for reading and one for searching. Research sometimes requires finding a small tidbit of information hidden in mass of it.
Another Euro-Fine is just the cost of doing business for MS. They don't care, one more competitor whacked means much more than an one time fine. "Naughty, naughty Microsoft! Now pay this fine and promise not to do it again." Satan lifts an amused eyebrow, winks and say, "I promises".
Opening Silverlight and C# to other platforms means apps can exit the MS bunny world and the only apps in the bunny world must play by MS's rules. They won't be giving that up anytime soon.
There's some small security risk, if Ahmed the Terrorist is monitoring communications over Chief Turban the Magnificent, he might be able to tell his Turban-headedness to not go to the local 7-11 for cigs and another wife until the craft left the area.
At the time, there was a lot of anti-another-goddamn-EuroWar sentiment in the U.S. The Japanese were seen by many as not threatening anyone with death except the poor Chinese and other Asians. The reports of Nazi atrocities were not given the moral relevance they clearly should have. One could argue that WWII woke up the Americans to not neglecting evil in the world and resulted in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq (regardless of whether evil was actually there in the case of Vietnam). Mind you the antiwar crowd was and still is not weak, however the leaders in Washington appear to break on the side of kill'em now so we don't have to kill'em later...well, some of them. There is also a segment of "gee, if the U.S. gets another 9/11 while I'm in office, I'll be out of office shortly." The anti-war crowd seems convinced the world would be a bunny world if the U.S. just left it alone.
So the quick answer, if it is an answer, they are all wrong and right, but not in equal measures.
By the way, as long as we are assigning blame, Europe, sans Germany, is also responsible for WWII. Starting with not stepping on Hitler early on, to the non-Germans aiding the Nazies, to Switzerland which was just so neutral it had no balls when it would have counted.
What's "awesome" about Google supporting work like this? It doesn't inspire any awe that a company with money out the wazoo is spending some of it in blue sky research to keep themselves from being Binged.
James Earl Carter, Jr., while canoeing, claimed to also have been attacked by a rabbit. Coincidence? I think not. Our scientists have done extensive work on Carter's brain and have discovered that it isn't up to creating self-consciousness except for a slightly disturbing tendency to wander the globe somewhat like Jacob Marley (Bob's uncle), rattling his chains, in search of another Nobel Peace Prize. And Obama was recently awarded one. Coincidence?? Hah! Seeing is believing, that rabbit hunts Carter to this day.
The best thing Obama could do to whack the Iranian regime is to *leak* Khamenei is secretly working with Washington. Add in a few complimentary intimations that Khamenei has a secret great respect for Israel and Jews in general. It would drive Ahmadinejad nuts. As soon as the shit hit the fan, the State Department should deny any knowledge and loudly claim the CIA has not been in contact with the Basji no matter what SOME in Iran might think; the secret investigation of CIA activities in Iran by DoD has no bearing on this problem. They could also mention there is also no truth to the rumor that Israel sold the Basji their blackjack batons and that no Basji have secretly converted to Christianity...to the CIA's knowledge. Also, that to the U.S.'s knowledge, the plots by the Revolutionary Guard to take out the ruling theocracy because they are not Muslim enough should be discounted as not being far enough along to justify serious comment. The black market the Revolutionary Guard runs isn't generating enough money yet for these sorts of plots to succeed since not enough of the Army has been bought off yet.
Uh, you may have noticed that the country is Israel and, well, y'know, most of the Israelis are Jews and Muslims, very few whacko Christians except among the tourists.
The Iranians are responsible for their current regime, trying to blame that on the U.S. is great rhetoric but wrong. Islam has always groped for power. The tyrants who now run Iran have finally gotten their chance to show Islam's true colors. Read about what they did to the Ba'Hai after the revolution.
Current Iran does start wars, the last Israeli-Lebanon war started because their dogs in Lebanon decided to listen to their Iranian masters.
Bringing up the the fact the U.S. used nukes is entirely out of context. The result of not using them would have been many more thousands of American and Japanese deaths. The U.S. has never used them since nor has threatened to use them. On the other hand, the current Iranian regime has threatened that if they get them, they will nuke Israel.
Whitewashing the Iranian regime is nice academic play, but that is all it is.
Sharia law is precisely what allows for the absence of rights and the brutality that is Islam. Non-believers have are not equal to believers, women are not equal to men. Wherever Islam comes up against the outside world, there is almost always trouble: Sudan, Lebanon, Nigeria, Pakistan, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Somalia, Yeman, Iran.
Try setting up a church in Saudi Arabia and see how long you last, especially if you are Saudi Arabian. All Muslims who convert to something else have an immediate death sentence where any Muslim can kill them and claim victory for Allah. A woman raped must have 4 male witnesses that have observed the penetration before she can receive justice. Stealing requires a hand, adulters are stoned. These are result of Sharia law.
I don't know whether bandwidth hogging is a problem but it is possible that 1 heavy user isn't impacting everyone but the top 5% might be sucking up lots of bandwidth. So either Benoit is raising a red herring or the Slashdot precis' is defective.
I do think that if a teleco is going to advertise unlimited bandwidth, they are required to provide unlimited bandwidth. It's a stupid ad to make anyhow. They should say they will support up to x where x really is what they will support.
`` "everyone else is doing it", and since society condones it, you can't argue that it's wrong. ''
Errrr...care to give me your home address and a schedule of when you'll be on vacation. There's several items of yours I'm sure I would appreciate more than you.
Nice sentiments. However, have you ever listened to the CSpan call-in show in the morning? Have you ever wondered just how come what seems to be a significant segment of the callers have more than a screw loose? Those are the people you want to arm. They are about as well-adjusted as a squirrel after his third cup of coffee.
Yeah, yer right, what would go wrong with seven trillion electron volts. They should just turn it on already and hide behind the next mountain range. If it doesn't blow its bits, experiments out the whazoo!!
That's easy to answer, if you do not have to submit to the will of the people via a honest, fair election, you can decide on the laws and transfer of wealth to your person which will make you happy for the rest of your life...as long as you can stomach looking in the mirror. Being revered as the wise leaders of a happy, prosperous, free people is only a recipe for a brief 15 minute claim to fame for being such a leader before you get voted out (presumably you haven't fixed the system to continually manage to get yourself elected as Congress-Critters here do).
There's no explanation. Google is busy doing what it wants to, i.e., making a living out of the web or as the author dismisses, evolving their own marketplace. MS is busy trying to kneecap Google because it fears it will be left in the dust. MS has nowhere to go but encroach on Google's territory. Google doesn't appear to give a crap about MS's territory, which only pisses off Ballmer.
The economic argument is somewhat of a strawman. Right now, various Navies are spending millions defending against some AK-47's and RPGs. If host countries to those Navies decided instead to tax the shipping companies for the full expense, those ships would be armed and dangerous tomorrow. The other arguments are simply logistic problems.
Well, we could dispatch Hillary Clinton to talk to them....too cruel? I don't know what's gotten into me this morning, I need to get back in touch with the little girl inside me...
There's also the question of stability arguing for semi-autos against AK-47s and RPGs. AK-47's and RPG are terror weapons, they are not very accurate especially when fired from small boats bobbing about in the waves. A semi-auto from a nice stable large ship with, say, a mile range should be adequate for warning shots or lethal shots. Several of them on board with some 50-cal machine gun backup for those pirates who never know when to say when would make the pirating profession less enticing.
Shuttling the weapons between ships outside a port will keep them out of the port. Or weapons lockers would work as well. It would certainly be cheaper than sending the world's navies to defend the Geneva Convention which, when put to Ahmed the Pirate, he responded, "We don't need no stinkin' Geneva Convention."
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I would actually like both kinds, one for reading and one for searching. Research sometimes requires finding a small tidbit of information hidden in mass of it.
Wow, did you swallow a MS marketdroid?
Another Euro-Fine is just the cost of doing business for MS. They don't care, one more competitor whacked means much more than an one time fine.
"Naughty, naughty Microsoft! Now pay this fine and promise not to do it again." Satan lifts an amused eyebrow, winks and say, "I promises".
Opening Silverlight and C# to other platforms means apps can exit the MS bunny world and the only apps in the bunny world must play by MS's rules. They won't be giving that up anytime soon.
There's some small security risk, if Ahmed the Terrorist is monitoring communications over Chief Turban the Magnificent, he might be able to tell his Turban-headedness to not go to the local 7-11 for cigs and another wife until the craft left the area.
Panama, Grenada, Iraq I, Serbia/Kosovo.
Care to take a poll among the Shi'ites about getting rid of Saddam?
At the time, there was a lot of anti-another-goddamn-EuroWar sentiment in the U.S. The Japanese were seen by many as not threatening anyone with death except the poor Chinese and other Asians. The reports of Nazi atrocities were not given the moral relevance they clearly should have. One could argue that WWII woke up the Americans to not neglecting evil in the world and resulted in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq (regardless of whether evil was actually there in the case of Vietnam). Mind you the antiwar crowd was and still is not weak, however the leaders in Washington appear to break on the side of kill'em now so we don't have to kill'em later...well, some of them. There is also a segment of "gee, if the U.S. gets another 9/11 while I'm in office, I'll be out of office shortly." The anti-war crowd seems convinced the world would be a bunny world if the U.S. just left it alone.
So the quick answer, if it is an answer, they are all wrong and right, but not in equal measures.
By the way, as long as we are assigning blame, Europe, sans Germany, is also responsible for WWII. Starting with not stepping on Hitler early on, to the non-Germans aiding the Nazies, to Switzerland which was just so neutral it had no balls when it would have counted.
What's "awesome" about Google supporting work like this? It doesn't inspire any awe that a company with money out the wazoo is spending some of it in blue sky research to keep themselves from being Binged.
The Easter Bunny, for example.
James Earl Carter, Jr., while canoeing, claimed to also have been attacked by a rabbit. Coincidence? I think not. Our scientists have done extensive work on Carter's brain and have discovered that it isn't up to creating self-consciousness except for a slightly disturbing tendency to wander the globe somewhat like Jacob Marley (Bob's uncle), rattling his chains, in search of another Nobel Peace Prize. And Obama was recently awarded one. Coincidence?? Hah! Seeing is believing, that rabbit hunts Carter to this day.
The best thing Obama could do to whack the Iranian regime is to *leak* Khamenei is secretly working with Washington. Add in a few complimentary intimations that Khamenei has a secret great respect for Israel and Jews in general. It would drive Ahmadinejad nuts. As soon as the shit hit the fan, the State Department should deny any knowledge and loudly claim the CIA has not been in contact with the Basji no matter what SOME in Iran might think; the secret investigation of CIA activities in Iran by DoD has no bearing on this problem. They could also mention there is also no truth to the rumor that Israel sold the Basji their blackjack batons and that no Basji have secretly converted to Christianity...to the CIA's knowledge. Also, that to the U.S.'s knowledge, the plots by the Revolutionary Guard to take out the ruling theocracy because they are not Muslim enough should be discounted as not being far enough along to justify serious comment. The black market the Revolutionary Guard runs isn't generating enough money yet for these sorts of plots to succeed since not enough of the Army has been bought off yet.
and male terrorists veiled like Musliim women...a favorite tactic.
Uh, you may have noticed that the country is Israel and, well, y'know, most of the Israelis are Jews and Muslims, very few whacko Christians except among the tourists.
The Iranians are responsible for their current regime, trying to blame that on the U.S. is great rhetoric but wrong. Islam has always groped for power. The tyrants who now run Iran have finally gotten their chance to show Islam's true colors. Read about what they did to the Ba'Hai after the revolution.
Current Iran does start wars, the last Israeli-Lebanon war started because their dogs in Lebanon decided to listen to their Iranian masters.
Bringing up the the fact the U.S. used nukes is entirely out of context. The result of not using them would have been many more thousands of American and Japanese deaths. The U.S. has never used them since nor has threatened to use them. On the other hand, the current Iranian regime has threatened that if they get them, they will nuke Israel.
Whitewashing the Iranian regime is nice academic play, but that is all it is.
Sharia law is precisely what allows for the absence of rights and the brutality that is Islam. Non-believers have are not equal to believers, women are not equal to men. Wherever Islam comes up against the outside world, there is almost always trouble: Sudan, Lebanon, Nigeria, Pakistan, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Somalia, Yeman, Iran.
Try setting up a church in Saudi Arabia and see how long you last, especially if you are Saudi Arabian. All Muslims who convert to something else have an immediate death sentence where any Muslim can kill them and claim victory for Allah. A woman raped must have 4 male witnesses that have observed the penetration before she can receive justice. Stealing requires a hand, adulters are stoned. These are result of Sharia law.
Abandon all hope ye who enter here.
I don't know whether bandwidth hogging is a problem but it is possible that 1 heavy user isn't impacting everyone but the top 5% might be sucking up lots of bandwidth. So either Benoit is raising a red herring or the Slashdot precis' is defective.
I do think that if a teleco is going to advertise unlimited bandwidth, they are required to provide unlimited bandwidth. It's a stupid ad to make anyhow. They should say they will support up to x where x really is what they will support.
`` "everyone else is doing it", and since society condones it, you can't argue that it's wrong. ''
Errrr...care to give me your home address and a schedule of when you'll be on vacation. There's several items of yours I'm sure I would appreciate more than you.
Nice sentiments. However, have you ever listened to the CSpan call-in show in the morning? Have you ever wondered just how come what seems to be a significant segment of the callers have more than a screw loose? Those are the people you want to arm. They are about as well-adjusted as a squirrel after his third cup of coffee.
Yeah, yer right, what would go wrong with seven trillion electron volts. They should just turn it on already and hide behind the next mountain range. If it doesn't blow its bits, experiments out the whazoo!!
That's easy to answer, if you do not have to submit to the will of the people via a honest, fair election, you can decide on the laws and transfer of wealth to your person which will make you happy for the rest of your life...as long as you can stomach looking in the mirror. Being revered as the wise leaders of a happy, prosperous, free people is only a recipe for a brief 15 minute claim to fame for being such a leader before you get voted out (presumably you haven't fixed the system to continually manage to get yourself elected as Congress-Critters here do).
There's no explanation. Google is busy doing what it wants to, i.e., making a living out of the web or as the author dismisses, evolving their own marketplace. MS is busy trying to kneecap Google because it fears it will be left in the dust. MS has nowhere to go but encroach on Google's territory. Google doesn't appear to give a crap about MS's territory, which only pisses off Ballmer.
The economic argument is somewhat of a strawman. Right now, various Navies are spending millions defending against some AK-47's and RPGs. If host countries to those Navies decided instead to tax the shipping companies for the full expense, those ships would be armed and dangerous tomorrow. The other arguments are simply logistic problems.
Well, we could dispatch Hillary Clinton to talk to them....too cruel? I don't know what's gotten into me this morning, I need to get back in touch with the little girl inside me...
There's also the question of stability arguing for semi-autos against AK-47s and RPGs. AK-47's and RPG are terror weapons, they are not very accurate especially when fired from small boats bobbing about in the waves. A semi-auto from a nice stable large ship with, say, a mile range should be adequate for warning shots or lethal shots. Several of them on board with some 50-cal machine gun backup for those pirates who never know when to say when would make the pirating profession less enticing.
Shuttling the weapons between ships outside a port will keep them out of the port. Or weapons lockers would work as well. It would certainly be cheaper than sending the world's navies to defend the Geneva Convention which, when put to Ahmed the Pirate, he responded, "We don't need no stinkin' Geneva Convention."