I like it so far. I was happy to see that a lot of the feature requests that I had sent in from my Mac were included in this new version of Safari.
I think that Apple is going to try and get users hooked on their UI and then point to all the cool features like WebClips that one can gain access to by switching to OS X.
I wouldn't even be suprised to see an OS X liveCD for PC users to try out sometime in the near future. Sure it'd be hacked to become an installable, but it woul probably get a lot of people who were ready to purchase a new computer to consider going with a Mac.
Interestingly enough the entire planet already is covered with solar collectors... well all of the planet that is "untouched" by man.
It would be great if we could produce solar cells that reduced the amount of CO2 and produced electricity for man to use. If we could do that then we would really not make much of an impact as we "developed" lands.
** keep in mind that the above comment disregards the other effects of "development"
Personally, I'm not one to sue, but if I did I'd find out how much the annual budget for all parties involved was and try to sue for at least 5% of that.
Of these two separate allegations, one is easily verifiable and poses no grave danger, the other would be much harder to verify and could pose an immediate danger to the US. And we still don't know whether or not the Iraqi fellow did have real ties, but was released because of political pressure.
I really don't have enough information to comment on any of the other "secret" prisons that the US may be maintaining around the world, if torture and abuse is going on in any of those then it needs to be addressed. In this thread I am speaking only of Gitmo, it seems to be run fairly transparently and I have not seen any valid evidence that torture was being carried out there.
A sensationalist as the media is these days the entire "battery charger" incident had probably gotten blown out of proportion. If anything it was just a story to separate him from everyone else at the airport without causing a huge scene. Did you happen to notice the list of countries that he had traveled to? Is it that hard to believe that he may have been under suspicion for his ties to known terrorists and his journey through terrorist countries gave his observers reason to act?
Even in the BBC story they mention his alleged ties. If he really was a terrorist do you think he'd admit it? Or do you think that he'd come with stories that discredit those he is fighting against?
I am constantly being told to pull my head out of my ass for my views, but those same people telling me that just wholeheartedly agree with what they hear on NPR.
could you provide some examples of things that have happened to "non-citizens", then happened to citizens or is this just a poorly constructed "slippery-slope"?
but somehow I can't imagine that mistakenly detained POWs from countries on our own side would have been kept completely isolated without due cause for years
Could you provide evidence that backs up the fact that someone from a country on our own side was kept completely isolated, without due cause for years?
What were those people all doing locked up in Gitmo for up to 6 YEARS and then just being released with nothing but a "Bye now! Come visit us again soon!" Maybe they were never actually guilty of being "enemy combatants", eh?
These people were mostly captured on the battlefield, engaged in combat with US forces, but are no longer considered a threat beyond direct combat. Basically they are just foot soldiers, not anyone engaged in planning.
Thank you for not falling back to argumentum ad hominem, as many others have. Show me a few of your sources and we can discuss this further.
I agree with your beliefs, and I don't support torture. As for the detainment, it's the best system that we have in place now. I think there should be some open dialog and eventually we may have a procedure for dealing with terrorism that is more public, but the threat is still so new we're dealing with it in the best way we know to keep the US safe. Personally, I think all of this mess could've been avoided if we didn't send so much aid to Israel, but that's another discussion.
I have to leave so I'll reread your post in full later, but just skimming over this phrase is an incorrect statement: "not allowing any communication or even access to a lawyer does not rhyme with the word "transparent" There are over 1,000 lawyers for the 300 or so people being detained. And for the record I don't watch Fox news.
I could also point out that these people are not being charged with any crime, simply detained as enemy combatants. And I have yet to see news of anyone who was sent to gitmo without having been tied to known terrorist organizations.
Mr Rawi, an Iraqi citizen with UK residency, was reportedly sent to England in 1985 after his father was arrested by Saddam Hussein's secret police.
Mr Banna is a Jordanian refugee who had been living in north-west London.
Both men were alleged to have been associated with al-Qaeda through their connection with the London-based radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada.
Please get proper information before posting, especially when it's as close as a previously linked story.
I'm not saying that it's a great situation, but it's not as if these people are just thrown in a hole and left forever. All of these people were determined to be associated with terrorist organizations that we are at war with. The people are captured and held until enough information can be gathered to show that they will not pose a danger to the US if released. It's very similar to the way in which someone accused of murder sits in jail until they are tried and found innocent.
It's not as if the US is running around and grabbing all of it's own citizens, we are just doing exactly what is done in every war.
I don't know if conditions were much worse when Guantanamo was camp X-ray, but as it is now it's just one of those unfortunate reminders that we are at war. If I recall correctly 775 people have come to Gitmo and more than half of them have been released, the others are either still thought to be a threat to the US or awaiting release. Many of the "prisoners" are actually not being released for their own safety. For example, China has a policy of executing anyone that the US returns from Gitmo so the US is not releasing them until they can find a country to accept those people and guarantee their safety. I'd much rather sit in a cell being fed than send off to the firing squad.
And as I said before the very existence of Gitmo is less than ideal, but it's not the atrocity that the media would have you believe.
he's not a US citizen, so he doesn't get the same protections and access to a legal trial that a citizen of the US does. It sucks, but nothing about war is ever great.
What's wrong with wanting to travel the world? And what's wrong with using a worldwide set of landmarks to help propel my travels?
The detention facility is a less than ideal solution, but it's unfortunate that we even have the problem. The prisoners at Guantanamo have access to specially prepared meals, they get more calories a day than needed, every cell has an arrow painted on the floor that points to Mecca, and they're allowed prayer time.
The war on terror may never be over, but hopefully those people who are detained will be identified with a specific group and released when appropriate. I know that it is a less than ideal situation, but the media blows the whole thing way out of proportion and coordinated hunger strikes that occur only when the media comes by don't help at all. I'm glad that there is so much discussion about the facility, but I wish that the media was less biased when covering the story.
I personally think that people should get much more compensation than that for even a day in jail for something that they were wrongfully accused of. What if his grandmother was dying while he was in jail, what if his graduation ceremony were taking place, what if he had an important meeting, or a job interview, or had scheduled a vaction, or was getting married.
Time is the one resource that is impossible to make up, regardless of how much money he could have earned if he were free there are somethings that are priceless. If I were in jail during any of the above listed times for something I was truly innocent for I would want so much monetary compensation that it really hurt those who wrongfully accused me.
Guantanamo Bay does not have a prison, it is a detention facility for enemy combatants. Before jumping on the band wagon and accusing the US of treating people as "guilty until proven innocent" you should examine the subtle differences.
A prison is a facility used for housing people who were convicted of crimes and sentenced to serve time in confinement.
A detention facility is used during times of war to house those enemy forces who were captured on the battlefield until such time that the war is over or the captured individual will no longer pose a threat to the capturing country if released.
Guantanamo Bay had released more than half of those who have come through its doors and is one of the most transparently operated detention facilities in the world. The people in Guantanamo weren't just picked up off of the streets as suspects in criminal investigations, they were captured while engaging in active combat operations and are considered prisoners of war. Read up on military law before making such ignorant accusations.
where is that company located? Do you know of any similar companies in the Tampa area. I'd love to have the chance to "get my feet wet" programming something that is actually needed.
I'd mod you up for that comment if I could. The only problem with virtualization is that if the user is using a majority of their apps on a virtual machine, then maybe they should switch to that machine.
And, although it seems to be somewhat counter to the linux philosophy, without a corporation backing the OS with solid support and responsibility for problems linux will remain the domain of power users.
At least once a year I install a Linux distro on an "unsuspecting" friend's PC to gauge their reaction and see what the current state of linux is to a common user. After explaining the benefits most of my friends have aggreed to let me install some flavor of linux(ubuntu lately). Invariably, my friends have issues with some piece of hardware or some software that isn't what they are used to. I think that linux will begin to pick up a mainstream following in the future, but we're still a few years out from being a serious competitor to the casual user.
If a student were to create a work, and license that work to other students with terms in the license that state that when the work is incorporated into any original work no citation is to be given, would it still be considered plagiarism to use it in a work without attribution to the original author?
If not, can a student sue turnitin for falsely reporting plagiarism?
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I hated seeing that.
I like it so far. I was happy to see that a lot of the feature requests that I had sent in from my Mac were included in this new version of Safari.
I think that Apple is going to try and get users hooked on their UI and then point to all the cool features like WebClips that one can gain access to by switching to OS X.
I wouldn't even be suprised to see an OS X liveCD for PC users to try out sometime in the near future. Sure it'd be hacked to become an installable, but it woul probably get a lot of people who were ready to purchase a new computer to consider going with a Mac.
Interestingly enough the entire planet already is covered with solar collectors... well all of the planet that is "untouched" by man.
It would be great if we could produce solar cells that reduced the amount of CO2 and produced electricity for man to use. If we could do that then we would really not make much of an impact as we "developed" lands.
** keep in mind that the above comment disregards the other effects of "development"
If you can provide a reliable source I'd be glad to read it.
Personally, I'm not one to sue, but if I did I'd find out how much the annual budget for all parties involved was and try to sue for at least 5% of that.
Of these two separate allegations, one is easily verifiable and poses no grave danger, the other would be much harder to verify and could pose an immediate danger to the US. And we still don't know whether or not the Iraqi fellow did have real ties, but was released because of political pressure.
I really don't have enough information to comment on any of the other "secret" prisons that the US may be maintaining around the world, if torture and abuse is going on in any of those then it needs to be addressed. In this thread I am speaking only of Gitmo, it seems to be run fairly transparently and I have not seen any valid evidence that torture was being carried out there.
A sensationalist as the media is these days the entire "battery charger" incident had probably gotten blown out of proportion. If anything it was just a story to separate him from everyone else at the airport without causing a huge scene. Did you happen to notice the list of countries that he had traveled to? Is it that hard to believe that he may have been under suspicion for his ties to known terrorists and his journey through terrorist countries gave his observers reason to act?
Even in the BBC story they mention his alleged ties. If he really was a terrorist do you think he'd admit it? Or do you think that he'd come with stories that discredit those he is fighting against?
I am constantly being told to pull my head out of my ass for my views, but those same people telling me that just wholeheartedly agree with what they hear on NPR.
could you provide some examples of things that have happened to "non-citizens", then happened to citizens or is this just a poorly constructed "slippery-slope"?
but somehow I can't imagine that mistakenly detained POWs from countries on our own side would have been kept completely isolated without due cause for years
Could you provide evidence that backs up the fact that someone from a country on our own side was kept completely isolated, without due cause for years?
What were those people all doing locked up in Gitmo for up to 6 YEARS and then just being released with nothing but a "Bye now! Come visit us again soon!" Maybe they were never actually guilty of being "enemy combatants", eh?
These people were mostly captured on the battlefield, engaged in combat with US forces, but are no longer considered a threat beyond direct combat. Basically they are just foot soldiers, not anyone engaged in planning.
Thank you for not falling back to argumentum ad hominem, as many others have. Show me a few of your sources and we can discuss this further.
I agree with your beliefs, and I don't support torture. As for the detainment, it's the best system that we have in place now. I think there should be some open dialog and eventually we may have a procedure for dealing with terrorism that is more public, but the threat is still so new we're dealing with it in the best way we know to keep the US safe.
Personally, I think all of this mess could've been avoided if we didn't send so much aid to Israel, but that's another discussion.
Both men were alleged to have been associated with al-Qaeda through their connection with the London-based radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada.
Maybe you didn't read the linked article?
I have to leave so I'll reread your post in full later, but just skimming over this phrase is an incorrect statement: "not allowing any communication or even access to a lawyer does not rhyme with the word "transparent"
There are over 1,000 lawyers for the 300 or so people being detained. And for the record I don't watch Fox news.
I could also point out that these people are not being charged with any crime, simply detained as enemy combatants. And I have yet to see news of anyone who was sent to gitmo without having been tied to known terrorist organizations.
Mr Rawi, an Iraqi citizen with UK residency, was reportedly sent to England in 1985 after his father was arrested by Saddam Hussein's secret police.
Mr Banna is a Jordanian refugee who had been living in north-west London.
Both men were alleged to have been associated with al-Qaeda through their connection with the London-based radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada.
Please get proper information before posting, especially when it's as close as a previously linked story.
I'm not saying that it's a great situation, but it's not as if these people are just thrown in a hole and left forever. All of these people were determined to be associated with terrorist organizations that we are at war with. The people are captured and held until enough information can be gathered to show that they will not pose a danger to the US if released. It's very similar to the way in which someone accused of murder sits in jail until they are tried and found innocent.
It's not as if the US is running around and grabbing all of it's own citizens, we are just doing exactly what is done in every war.
I don't know if conditions were much worse when Guantanamo was camp X-ray, but as it is now it's just one of those unfortunate reminders that we are at war. If I recall correctly 775 people have come to Gitmo and more than half of them have been released, the others are either still thought to be a threat to the US or awaiting release. Many of the "prisoners" are actually not being released for their own safety. For example, China has a policy of executing anyone that the US returns from Gitmo so the US is not releasing them until they can find a country to accept those people and guarantee their safety. I'd much rather sit in a cell being fed than send off to the firing squad.
And as I said before the very existence of Gitmo is less than ideal, but it's not the atrocity that the media would have you believe.
he's not a US citizen, so he doesn't get the same protections and access to a legal trial that a citizen of the US does. It sucks, but nothing about war is ever great.
What's wrong with wanting to travel the world? And what's wrong with using a worldwide set of landmarks to help propel my travels?
The detention facility is a less than ideal solution, but it's unfortunate that we even have the problem. The prisoners at Guantanamo have access to specially prepared meals, they get more calories a day than needed, every cell has an arrow painted on the floor that points to Mecca, and they're allowed prayer time.
The war on terror may never be over, but hopefully those people who are detained will be identified with a specific group and released when appropriate. I know that it is a less than ideal situation, but the media blows the whole thing way out of proportion and coordinated hunger strikes that occur only when the media comes by don't help at all. I'm glad that there is so much discussion about the facility, but I wish that the media was less biased when covering the story.
I personally think that people should get much more compensation than that for even a day in jail for something that they were wrongfully accused of. What if his grandmother was dying while he was in jail, what if his graduation ceremony were taking place, what if he had an important meeting, or a job interview, or had scheduled a vaction, or was getting married.
Time is the one resource that is impossible to make up, regardless of how much money he could have earned if he were free there are somethings that are priceless. If I were in jail during any of the above listed times for something I was truly innocent for I would want so much monetary compensation that it really hurt those who wrongfully accused me.
Guantanamo Bay does not have a prison, it is a detention facility for enemy combatants. Before jumping on the band wagon and accusing the US of treating people as "guilty until proven innocent" you should examine the subtle differences.
A prison is a facility used for housing people who were convicted of crimes and sentenced to serve time in confinement.
A detention facility is used during times of war to house those enemy forces who were captured on the battlefield until such time that the war is over or the captured individual will no longer pose a threat to the capturing country if released.
Guantanamo Bay had released more than half of those who have come through its doors and is one of the most transparently operated detention facilities in the world. The people in Guantanamo weren't just picked up off of the streets as suspects in criminal investigations, they were captured while engaging in active combat operations and are considered prisoners of war. Read up on military law before making such ignorant accusations.
where is that company located? Do you know of any similar companies in the Tampa area. I'd love to have the chance to "get my feet wet" programming something that is actually needed.
give me your address and I'll mail you some grits.
I'd mod you up for that comment if I could. The only problem with virtualization is that if the user is using a majority of their apps on a virtual machine, then maybe they should switch to that machine. And, although it seems to be somewhat counter to the linux philosophy, without a corporation backing the OS with solid support and responsibility for problems linux will remain the domain of power users.
At least once a year I install a Linux distro on an "unsuspecting" friend's PC to gauge their reaction and see what the current state of linux is to a common user.
After explaining the benefits most of my friends have aggreed to let me install some flavor of linux(ubuntu lately). Invariably, my friends have issues with some piece of hardware or some software that isn't what they are used to.
I think that linux will begin to pick up a mainstream following in the future, but we're still a few years out from being a serious competitor to the casual user.
If a student were to create a work, and license that work to other students with terms in the license that state that when the work is incorporated into any original work no citation is to be given, would it still be considered plagiarism to use it in a work without attribution to the original author?
If not, can a student sue turnitin for falsely reporting plagiarism?