Let's face it, it's like that in every place where the money come from a central sponsor. I'd venture to say that it's not limited to state institutions.
There was never any popular support for the long-term military presence of foreign countries in Iraq, esp. the USA. People were dancing in the streets because Saddam was gone, not because the USA was in. Effectively, it was "Thanks for ousting Saddam, and close the door as you leave. Now."
In order to defeat an insurgent force, US forces must be able to separate insurgents from the population. At the same time, US forces must conduct themselves in a manner that enables them to maintain popular domestic support. Excessive or indiscriminant use of force is likely to alienate the local populace, thereby increasing support for insurgent forces. (From Section 2-66 -- Rules of Engagement.)
"To maintain popular domestic support." It's hard to maintain something you've never had.
Not really. My wife passed MENSA tests in Poland when in her teens. Her opinions on MENSA concurr with most of the negative comments here.
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The implicit assumption is that the vast majority of humanity is incapable of civil discourse and intelligent discussion (at least on the level that they would like), but I see no reason why this should be the case.
And I see plenty. Including slashdot posts.
The Mensa tests that I took were mostly word tests, which were hard because not everybody has the same vocabulary. That really bothered me.
Hmmm. Not math quizes? Strange. In my area of the world, "IQ tests" concentrate on puzzles, logical quizzes and the like. Mostly measure analytical thinking. I didn't know it was different in the USA. Maybe they had to introduce vocabulary tests because Americans are so weak in mathematics...
Especially such behaviour. Some people working as cashiers may be afraid they'll offend you by checking your identity. We need to encourage such behaviour.
The Geneva Convention might be a good start, don't you think?
Then leave Iraq now. I personally see no way how can you fight insurgents in a supporting society without torture. That is not to say I support torture -- I rather see no point in sending an army into a place nobody wants it to be and pretending to be doing something good at the same time.
You sound like a Nazi apologist, although I give you the benefit of doubt and the old saying "do not attribute to malice what can be as well explained by stupidity".
There is NO comparison between the Nazi tortures and what happened in Guantanamo and Abu-Ghraib.
If I were to advise what other degree to take, I'd say Physics or Mathematics. It will have enormous advantages to it:
Physics teaches you how the world really works, including computers (Solid State Physics).
Physics and Mathematics teach you analytical thinking, putting your reasoning in the most precise form: equations, and -- strange as it may sound -- cure you forever from the "Oh my God! An equation! Panick!!!" syndrome which is prevalent in today's society.
Both sciences teach you how to create models of phenomena, an enormous advantage for anyone who wants to do more in his life than just do repetitive tasks void of creativity.
There's a hype over Quantum Information Processing. People will not go easily over it, because it offers enormous prospects. It's nice to be able to understand what is superposition, spin, Pauli principle and unitary transformation. It may even mean getting an interesting job (there'se a shortage of algorithms for QIP and people are needed to fill the gap).
Because not many of even intelligent and able people make good researchers. Research in a competitive environment is pretty stressing, to add. Also, there is a limited number of PhD positions available.
I've noticed that people without an education generally seem to view education in one of two ways: Either they wish they had more education, or they denounce education as a waste of money/time.
We're not talking about black boxes, are we? We're talking about algorithms which can be analysed and all backdoors may be brought to light by independent researchers.
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Let's face it, it's like that in every place where the money come from a central sponsor. I'd venture to say that it's not limited to state institutions.
There was never any popular support for the long-term military presence of foreign countries in Iraq, esp. the USA. People were dancing in the streets because Saddam was gone, not because the USA was in. Effectively, it was "Thanks for ousting Saddam, and close the door as you leave. Now."
NVIDIA explained many times why it does not open-source its drivers. There are NDA issues involved.
In order to defeat an insurgent force, US forces must be able to separate insurgents from the population. At the same time, US forces must conduct themselves in a manner that enables them to maintain popular domestic support. Excessive or indiscriminant use of force is likely to alienate the local populace, thereby increasing support for insurgent forces. (From Section 2-66 -- Rules of Engagement.)
"To maintain popular domestic support." It's hard to maintain something you've never had.
Not really. My wife passed MENSA tests in Poland when in her teens. Her opinions on MENSA concurr with most of the negative comments here.
The implicit assumption is that the vast majority of humanity is incapable of civil discourse and intelligent discussion (at least on the level that they would like), but I see no reason why this should be the case. And I see plenty. Including slashdot posts.
The Mensa tests that I took were mostly word tests, which were hard because not everybody has the same vocabulary. That really bothered me.
Hmmm. Not math quizes? Strange. In my area of the world, "IQ tests" concentrate on puzzles, logical quizzes and the like. Mostly measure analytical thinking. I didn't know it was different in the USA. Maybe they had to introduce vocabulary tests because Americans are so weak in mathematics...
So Mensa is an "old boy network"? The worse for it. People will never forgive you belonging to circle they can't.
Especially such behaviour. Some people working as cashiers may be afraid they'll offend you by checking your identity. We need to encourage such behaviour.
AFAIK f2c is a separate project. gfortran is working like g77, it's a frontend to gcc.
Yes. Get out of Iraq.
The Geneva Convention might be a good start, don't you think?
Then leave Iraq now. I personally see no way how can you fight insurgents in a supporting society without torture. That is not to say I support torture -- I rather see no point in sending an army into a place nobody wants it to be and pretending to be doing something good at the same time.
You sound like a Nazi apologist, although I give you the benefit of doubt and the old saying "do not attribute to malice what can be as well explained by stupidity".
There is NO comparison between the Nazi tortures and what happened in Guantanamo and Abu-Ghraib.
I think that you wont' get burned if you use such applications that are used by many people, and are developed by many people.
You knew all this up front, when you deployed this critical OSS application, didn't you?
That's what education is for: to force us to learn things we would be too lazy to learn on our own.
Well, NSA knew that DES was not very resistant to differential cryptoanalysis, but kept in secret for over 15 years. This tells something.
Because not many of even intelligent and able people make good researchers. Research in a competitive environment is pretty stressing, to add. Also, there is a limited number of PhD positions available.
I've noticed that people without an education generally seem to view education in one of two ways: Either they wish they had more education, or they denounce education as a waste of money/time.
Simple: sour grapes.
Having learned Quantum Mechanics, Special Relativity and Statistical Mechanics, you still can't learn some damn formalism?
He doesn't have a degree, you know...
How do we know George Bush is not an alien and Jacques Chirac is not a disguised vermin?
Wait... we know that!
We're not talking about black boxes, are we? We're talking about algorithms which can be analysed and all backdoors may be brought to light by independent researchers.
Mozilla *works*. I can't say the same about Firefox, at least not on the AMD 64 platform.