After reading about the War of Attrition, then the War of 67, read the Yom Kippur War. While nobody is clearly in the right, I must say that a sneak attack on the holiest day of your enemy is a lame attack plan.
last time i checked, there was the oil for food and medicine blockade.
makes sense to me. we don't want him buying machine tools and other assorted items that could be used to build an arsenal, but we do want the iraqi people to live and get food and medicine.
can you show me stats on how much oil per day iraq is allowed to export and where it says this oil is not sold on the open market? last time I read about it, iraq both was successful in over-stepping how much they were exporting, while also limiting their production because they knew the price of oil in the states would rise.
can you show me information stating i'm wrong?
how much money does the iraqi country need to support it's population? how much are the proceeds of their oil sales?
how much money do they still have that they stole from the Kuwaiti government and people?
so the images of Palestinians celebrating are most likely fake? okay...
so if they're fake, why is Hanan Ashrawi, the Palestinian Authority Cabinet member, discussing them in a press conference?
"Hanan Ashrawi, Palestinian Authority Cabinet member, said the apparent celebrations in Ramallah in the West Bank were a minority reaction and focusing on them would be misleading, as far as Arab reaction to the attacks is concerned."
This in reference to this:
"As Palestinians celebrated in one West Bank town and in Lebanese refugee camps on Tuesday, their leader Yasser Arafat offered his sympathy to Americans and said the Palestinian authority was "completely shocked" by the string of attacks."
Please tell me that for your next act you're going to try to excuse the act of Jyhad as a natural response to the supposed oppression of the american government.
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actually, I have to disagree. Their coverage wasn't that much better, although you were atleast able to sometimes get a page. the BBC had by far the best coverage... my office was even streaming live coverage from them through Real Media Player from 9:00 until 10:30.
Highly doubtful, and if so, it won't be for 15+ yrs atleast.
It'll take over a year just to remove the rubble that's currently across the 10+ square blocks. Removing the parts of the building that are still there atleast another year. But then removing the foundation will take years. The entire foundation of the complex is almost definitely weakened beyond belief. For safety, they'll probably tear down all of the remaining buildings that share the foundation, but this will be complicated by the amount of underground networks (both cable, electric, gas, and transportation) that run under the buildings.
Only when they're done that will they ever be able to build again.
Approx. 10 years ago there was a fire in an office tower in the middle of Philly. The middle 3 floors were affected, but they twisted the floors above it by only a few degrees. That was enough to have the building perm. evacuated and necessitated ripping it down. They're still trying to take that building apart.
um, dunno if it has a version on *nix, but it syncs my Motorola Startac with my Sony Clie and my Outlook/Exchange. Also can sync a variety of other devices as well... runs through serial, IR, or USB.
or just go to your neighborhood library and pick up the well-worn copy that probably exists there.
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we've done this many times... and actually, the work we ended up doing had to be specified between IE 5 and IE 5.5 because those two browsers supported it differently...
There are certain things that make writing for IE in a browser make sense... like iFrames. Until you figure out that you'd really like to do one, you can't think of how they'd be useful. but they are. But for most things, it's fairly easy to keep to standards for cross browser/platform. And that's the easy way to encourage a transition... hence why M$ is trying to take over the internet now that they have the desktop.
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WAY too many financial institutions use M$ languages and OS's for their internal users... like customer support and other operations centers. VB applications abound...
I've found that the best way to get companies to move away from M$ programming languages is to suggest the portability and standardization and other benefits that occur when you start making your apps available through a web interface. Then, as the developer on that project, keep everything as cross-platform, cross-browser as possible. Once the frontend/interface doesn't require a M$ language to support it, there becomes less of a reason to stay on the architecture.
In addition, this approach is becoming much more successful since EVERYONE is trying to cut costs... and what's a better way to cut costs then eliminate the need for costly M$ licenses?
and because of this, the country of Brazil should go ahead and start copying a drug that a company spent millions of dollars researching, testing, and creating without compensating this company.
yes, there are always exceptions.
the spouse should get a divource, sue her errant husband for all of her medical bills related to the HIV/AIDS virus.
He should be paying for her medical bills as well as his own instead of getting the country to rob the company that did all of the research (and spent millions doing it) to put out the medicine.
people don't want to accept responsibility for their actions.
assuming i know that I can get AIDS through unprotected sex with an infected person, and I then go and have unprotected sex with an infected person, am I then revoking my rights to bitch and moan that I got AIDS? I believe so.
but most people don't for some reason. I got AIDS, so my government should now get me the drugs I need for free/cheap so that I can now save myself and/or continue my risky lifestyle by disregarding a company's hard and expensive work to find and create cures/vaccines/other drugs to help AIDS victims.
Sometimes even calling them "victims" is a misnomer... simply for the reason that I feel many people aren't victims, but are culprits.
No... Rhythms, Northpoint, and Covad all went bankrupt because the bells, ie Verizon et all wouldn't give them access in a timely manner AND priced them out of the game.
Does anyone really use the "start page" of their ISP?
Okay fine, my mother probably does... and maybe my grandmother... but so what? Great, when you log on, you have to look at the first screen of MSN.com.
and some things about those Jupiter ratings about visitors to MSN.com and related properties: the most recent TheStandard had an article breaking down the top sites (by visitors) in about 20 or 30 different countries and began making the story about how it seemed that with Passport, Hotmail, MSN.com, MSNBC, etc., it seemed that Microsoft was building an online media conglomerate with more unique visitors that Yahoo, AOL, etc.
What it turned out to be was a bunch of smoke and mirrors. Every time a windows user types in a bad domain or url, they get that auto-search redirect page (counts as a hit/visitor). When they log out of hotmail, their redirected to passport.com (another visitor to passport). And they found that a large number of users have never even changed their start page from the factory installed (microsoft) one.
Smoke and mirrors.
What this press release about Qwest and MSN says is very little except "lets get more newbies to go to our page first"
sorry to nitpick, but you statement about companies attempting to keep their computer systems up to date was just a bit too much.
I know of way too many large companies that are just now upgrading from Win95 to Win2000 (they skipped NT4 and Win98).
Large companies don't like to upgrade, and when they upgrade, lots of machines at a time are left unmaintained by the systems people because they're busy configuring the new machines and fielding requests by the new users who can't find their bookmarks and such.
He broke the law of the country he was in. Is the law a good law? Well, that's up for intepretation. But in the meantime, it's a law that's in the books. And it doesn't matter what the law is where he's from and where his company is based. While he's in the US he needs to adhere to US laws.
Hell, if I went to a country that had laws that I didn't agree with, they'd have every right to jail me if I broke that law while I was in their country.
If you went to a conservative Islamic country and broke a law of decency that your country didn't have, would you expect to be let off the hook because the law of your country is different? That doesn't excuse the behavior whether or not you agree with the law.
the requests in my httpd-access.log looked like this:
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GET/default.ida?NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN%u9090%u6858% ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%uc bd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b00%u531 b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a HTTP/1.0
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this came from about 3 dozen different IP's today. a few were from corporate servers... so I notified the webmasters... but the index page of these servers were not replaced... so I have no idea what the exception was.
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I totally agree about the Joe Lieberman comment. He actually had a fairly reasonable article going until he had to throw in the childish ending of insulting an ELECTED senator and representative of his state.
Jon, didn't you read the editorial the other day by Taco about behavior in public forums? Or are you only a contributor and don't actually read this site?
And whatever you might think of what Lieberman is doing, atleast he's doing SOMETHING. So it might not be in the direction you might like... but as we saw in the Whitewater investigation, public hearings have a way of meandering...
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After reading about the War of Attrition, then the War of 67, read the Yom Kippur War. While nobody is clearly in the right, I must say that a sneak attack on the holiest day of your enemy is a lame attack plan.
last time i checked, there was the oil for food and medicine blockade.
makes sense to me. we don't want him buying machine tools and other assorted items that could be used to build an arsenal, but we do want the iraqi people to live and get food and medicine.
can you show me stats on how much oil per day iraq is allowed to export and where it says this oil is not sold on the open market? last time I read about it, iraq both was successful in over-stepping how much they were exporting, while also limiting their production because they knew the price of oil in the states would rise.
can you show me information stating i'm wrong?
how much money does the iraqi country need to support it's population? how much are the proceeds of their oil sales?
how much money do they still have that they stole from the Kuwaiti government and people?
so if they're fake, why is Hanan Ashrawi, the Palestinian Authority Cabinet member, discussing them in a press conference?
"Hanan Ashrawi, Palestinian Authority Cabinet member, said the apparent celebrations in Ramallah in the West Bank were a minority reaction and focusing on them would be misleading, as far as Arab reaction to the attacks is concerned."
This in reference to this:
"As Palestinians celebrated in one West Bank town and in Lebanese refugee camps on Tuesday, their leader Yasser Arafat offered his sympathy to Americans and said the Palestinian authority was "completely shocked" by the string of attacks."
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Please tell me that for your next act you're going to try to excuse the act of Jyhad as a natural response to the supposed oppression of the american government.
i just have one thing to say: EgyptAir
actually, I have to disagree. Their coverage wasn't that much better, although you were atleast able to sometimes get a page. the BBC had by far the best coverage... my office was even streaming live coverage from them through Real Media Player from 9:00 until 10:30.
I agree with the Akamai comment tho.
I live in NYC now, but I used to work next to that building and my dad worked 2 floors below where the fire was.
When did they finally clear away the remaining parts of the building? Was I right, that it was about 10 yrs?
Highly doubtful, and if so, it won't be for 15+ yrs atleast.
It'll take over a year just to remove the rubble that's currently across the 10+ square blocks. Removing the parts of the building that are still there atleast another year. But then removing the foundation will take years. The entire foundation of the complex is almost definitely weakened beyond belief. For safety, they'll probably tear down all of the remaining buildings that share the foundation, but this will be complicated by the amount of underground networks (both cable, electric, gas, and transportation) that run under the buildings.
Only when they're done that will they ever be able to build again.
Approx. 10 years ago there was a fire in an office tower in the middle of Philly. The middle 3 floors were affected, but they twisted the floors above it by only a few degrees. That was enough to have the building perm. evacuated and necessitated ripping it down. They're still trying to take that building apart.
um, dunno if it has a version on *nix, but it syncs my Motorola Startac with my Sony Clie and my Outlook/Exchange. Also can sync a variety of other devices as well... runs through serial, IR, or USB.
or just go to your neighborhood library and pick up the well-worn copy that probably exists there.
we've done this many times... and actually, the work we ended up doing had to be specified between IE 5 and IE 5.5 because those two browsers supported it differently...
There are certain things that make writing for IE in a browser make sense... like iFrames. Until you figure out that you'd really like to do one, you can't think of how they'd be useful. but they are. But for most things, it's fairly easy to keep to standards for cross browser/platform. And that's the easy way to encourage a transition... hence why M$ is trying to take over the internet now that they have the desktop.
WAY too many financial institutions use M$ languages and OS's for their internal users... like customer support and other operations centers. VB applications abound...
I've found that the best way to get companies to move away from M$ programming languages is to suggest the portability and standardization and other benefits that occur when you start making your apps available through a web interface. Then, as the developer on that project, keep everything as cross-platform, cross-browser as possible. Once the frontend/interface doesn't require a M$ language to support it, there becomes less of a reason to stay on the architecture.
In addition, this approach is becoming much more successful since EVERYONE is trying to cut costs... and what's a better way to cut costs then eliminate the need for costly M$ licenses?
you also have all of the goodies being ported over on http://macosx.forked.net
just curious, but why would you rather run Linux on the Mac rather than OSX or a *BSD?
it seems like such a waste. especially with their really really kewl GUI now...
but that goes further because it's not just using school property, but using school resources (electricity and such)...
but also taking time out of the day in support of these activities
nice way to give three terms but not explain your justification for that name calling.
so uh, anyone mind writing a makefile for this?
i love brian's comment in the "install" file tho. yea...you just need to re-configure perl, and if it's done wrong it will core on you...
and because of this, the country of Brazil should go ahead and start copying a drug that a company spent millions of dollars researching, testing, and creating without compensating this company.
yes, there are always exceptions.
the spouse should get a divource, sue her errant husband for all of her medical bills related to the HIV/AIDS virus.
He should be paying for her medical bills as well as his own instead of getting the country to rob the company that did all of the research (and spent millions doing it) to put out the medicine.
How's that for a response?
people don't want to accept responsibility for their actions.
assuming i know that I can get AIDS through unprotected sex with an infected person, and I then go and have unprotected sex with an infected person, am I then revoking my rights to bitch and moan that I got AIDS? I believe so.
but most people don't for some reason. I got AIDS, so my government should now get me the drugs I need for free/cheap so that I can now save myself and/or continue my risky lifestyle by disregarding a company's hard and expensive work to find and create cures/vaccines/other drugs to help AIDS victims.
Sometimes even calling them "victims" is a misnomer... simply for the reason that I feel many people aren't victims, but are culprits.
No... Rhythms, Northpoint, and Covad all went bankrupt because the bells, ie Verizon et all wouldn't give them access in a timely manner AND priced them out of the game.
well, 2 things.
too many 15 yr olds have access to broadband conections, and
too many clueless baby boomers now have unprotected computers with broadband connections turned on all day long.
sick and tired of gettin' DoS'd from @home users' computers and such.
Does anyone really use the "start page" of their ISP?
Okay fine, my mother probably does... and maybe my grandmother... but so what? Great, when you log on, you have to look at the first screen of MSN.com.
and some things about those Jupiter ratings about visitors to MSN.com and related properties: the most recent TheStandard had an article breaking down the top sites (by visitors) in about 20 or 30 different countries and began making the story about how it seemed that with Passport, Hotmail, MSN.com, MSNBC, etc., it seemed that Microsoft was building an online media conglomerate with more unique visitors that Yahoo, AOL, etc.
What it turned out to be was a bunch of smoke and mirrors. Every time a windows user types in a bad domain or url, they get that auto-search redirect page (counts as a hit/visitor). When they log out of hotmail, their redirected to passport.com (another visitor to passport). And they found that a large number of users have never even changed their start page from the factory installed (microsoft) one.
Smoke and mirrors.
What this press release about Qwest and MSN says is very little except "lets get more newbies to go to our page first"
sorry to nitpick, but you statement about companies attempting to keep their computer systems up to date was just a bit too much.
I know of way too many large companies that are just now upgrading from Win95 to Win2000 (they skipped NT4 and Win98).
Large companies don't like to upgrade, and when they upgrade, lots of machines at a time are left unmaintained by the systems people because they're busy configuring the new machines and fielding requests by the new users who can't find their bookmarks and such.
He broke the law of the country he was in. Is the law a good law? Well, that's up for intepretation. But in the meantime, it's a law that's in the books. And it doesn't matter what the law is where he's from and where his company is based. While he's in the US he needs to adhere to US laws.
Hell, if I went to a country that had laws that I didn't agree with, they'd have every right to jail me if I broke that law while I was in their country.
If you went to a conservative Islamic country and broke a law of decency that your country didn't have, would you expect to be let off the hook because the law of your country is different? That doesn't excuse the behavior whether or not you agree with the law.
the requests in my httpd-access.log looked like this: /default.ida?NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN%u9090%u6858% ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%uc bd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b00%u531 b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a HTTP/1.0
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this came from about 3 dozen different IP's today. a few were from corporate servers... so I notified the webmasters... but the index page of these servers were not replaced... so I have no idea what the exception was.
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I totally agree about the Joe Lieberman comment. He actually had a fairly reasonable article going until he had to throw in the childish ending of insulting an ELECTED senator and representative of his state.
Jon, didn't you read the editorial the other day by Taco about behavior in public forums? Or are you only a contributor and don't actually read this site?
And whatever you might think of what Lieberman is doing, atleast he's doing SOMETHING. So it might not be in the direction you might like... but as we saw in the Whitewater investigation, public hearings have a way of meandering...