The invasion of Iraq was never sold as being because Iraq and Al Qaeda had strong connections, despite what the history revisionists say.
Not explicitly, but you have to be a fucking moron not to see how those allegations coming from the administration at that time fueled the hysteria for war.
There are few logical reasons for Iran, given its own easy, local access to cheap energy sources, to continue its nuclear research, with its comparatively high associated costs and difficulty, for supposedly "peaceful purposes".
Of coarse, why would a country whose economy is based on petroleum exports possibly want to satisfy their energy needs some other way and export more petroleum?
Hell, even Cheney thought it was a good idea for Iran to use nuclear power back when the Shah was running things.
I hate to reply to my own post, but I just realized how stupid I am.
The obvious solution is to have one server behind tor that the bloggers connect to, and another that grabs that data and publishes it on a regular web site for the general public to read.
Sounds like we need a totally anonymous BLOG website....connect through Tor or something
The main drawback of putting your server behind Tor is that it's not visible to most users, the client needs to be running Tor as well. It could still work through word of mouth, but you're going to have a much smaller user base.
He's not trying to repeat Somalia, he's trying to repeat Afghanistan. He wants to bleed us dry and overextend us, and it's working - just like it did against the Soviets.
It is depressingly cynical to look at a field of candidates that include men like Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich and then turn around and say "yep, all the candidates are the same old thing, not worth a damn, believe in nothing but power for its own sake, care only about themselves, etc."
Candidates like that are sabotaged by the party machinery. Get ready for Hillary vs. Giuliani in 2008.
Very few people outside of open-source fanboys (and application developers who want a royalty-free codec, but then they build support themselves) gives a shit about ogg, much less knows what it is.
What does that have to do with my point?
We were talking about open standards and interoperability with Linux, not which file extensions your Aunt Tillie would recognize - but don't let that stop you from reflexively defending Apple from any perceived slight.
I feel that my OS X coexists with Linux quite happily. [snip] The world would be a better place if there was 6+ apple like companies that all supported the open formats.
If only Apple would start supporting open formats like ogg and odf, and stop wasting their time trying to sabotage their devices to break Linux compatibility, I would agree with you.
How do we even know Google isn't already in bed with the government? Under the PATRIOT act, they wouldn't be able to disclose it under certain circumstances.
Walt is right, Dell's Ubuntu offering is not ready for the masses. However, I see this largely as Dell's fuckup.
Dell is shipping vanilla Ubuntu on these things. No media codecs, no accelerated drivers for nvidia cards, not even a properly configured X server. Can you imagine them doing the same with Windows? It would be a disaster.
Not sentient, just a complex system - one that is extremely efficient in some circumstances, but quite inefficient in others.
There are people who are working on solutions, and if they are worthwhile, they will be developed further.
Not all solutions are profitable. Building a real public transportation system, for example, would require a prohibitively large investment in infrastructure.
This is exactly how you are going to "save the planet" by solving the energy problem, folks. Not by not using coal/oil plant electricity. But by captalism: profiting from selling clean energy solutions.
Right, because the small niche of people who will actually buy this is so going to put a significant dent in the amount of fossil fuel we burn.
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The invasion of Iraq was never sold as being because Iraq and Al Qaeda had strong connections, despite what the history revisionists say.
Not explicitly, but you have to be a fucking moron not to see how those allegations coming from the administration at that time fueled the hysteria for war.
There are few logical reasons for Iran, given its own easy, local access to cheap energy sources, to continue its nuclear research, with its comparatively high associated costs and difficulty, for supposedly "peaceful purposes".
Of coarse, why would a country whose economy is based on petroleum exports possibly want to satisfy their energy needs some other way and export more petroleum?
Hell, even Cheney thought it was a good idea for Iran to use nuclear power back when the Shah was running things.
I would assume that anyone with enough skill to edit a wikipedia page would also know what IPs are and that they're traceable.
I think that's an extremely poor assumption to make.
I don't imagine your average bureaucrat has any concept of what an IP address is.
Now if only the Fox executives would get the same idea about Torgo's Executive Powder...
If there is any justice in this world, the terrorists will blow the heads off your family
Sounds like you just made a terrorist threat to me. Enjoy your stay at Gitmo.
I hate to reply to my own post, but I just realized how stupid I am.
The obvious solution is to have one server behind tor that the bloggers connect to, and another that grabs that data and publishes it on a regular web site for the general public to read.
Moral of the story, don't drink and post.
Sounds like we need a totally anonymous BLOG website....connect through Tor or something
The main drawback of putting your server behind Tor is that it's not visible to most users, the client needs to be running Tor as well. It could still work through word of mouth, but you're going to have a much smaller user base.
Israel can do nothing right, as far as the media is concerned
I suppose you're not familiar with the American media. There's a significant bias in favor of Israel here.
He's not trying to repeat Somalia, he's trying to repeat Afghanistan. He wants to bleed us dry and overextend us, and it's working - just like it did against the Soviets.
Candidates "like that" have beaten the party machinery several times in history.
Not recently though. The machinery has gotten a lot more efficient.
In all honesty, I think it more likely that we will see an Obama v. Huckabee or Obama v. Paul race.
I don't share your optimism, but I sincerely hope you're right.
It is depressingly cynical to look at a field of candidates that include men like Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich and then turn around and say "yep, all the candidates are the same old thing, not worth a damn, believe in nothing but power for its own sake, care only about themselves, etc."
Candidates like that are sabotaged by the party machinery. Get ready for Hillary vs. Giuliani in 2008.
Hey, I don't disagree.
What a crock of shit. Iran may be run by religious nuts, but they aren't suicidal.
have you ever tried to gzip a pigeon before?
Compressing a pigeon is not difficult (though a little messy), it's decompressing it that I can't quite figure out.
Very few people outside of open-source fanboys (and application developers who want a royalty-free codec, but then they build support themselves) gives a shit about ogg, much less knows what it is.
What does that have to do with my point?
We were talking about open standards and interoperability with Linux, not which file extensions your Aunt Tillie would recognize - but don't let that stop you from reflexively defending Apple from any perceived slight.
I feel that my OS X coexists with Linux quite happily. [snip] The world would be a better place if there was 6+ apple like companies that all supported the open formats.
If only Apple would start supporting open formats like ogg and odf, and stop wasting their time trying to sabotage their devices to break Linux compatibility, I would agree with you.
Right, but the gag orders still stand pending appeal of that case.
How do we even know Google isn't already in bed with the government? Under the PATRIOT act, they wouldn't be able to disclose it under certain circumstances.
How can we even trust this study?
After all, studies show that most studies are wrong.
what is Dell supposed to do?
Pay for the codecs. There are legal options.
Walt is right, Dell's Ubuntu offering is not ready for the masses. However, I see this largely as Dell's fuckup.
Dell is shipping vanilla Ubuntu on these things. No media codecs, no accelerated drivers for nvidia cards, not even a properly configured X server. Can you imagine them doing the same with Windows? It would be a disaster.
You make it sound like the market is sentient.
Not sentient, just a complex system - one that is extremely efficient in some circumstances, but quite inefficient in others.
There are people who are working on solutions, and if they are worthwhile, they will be developed further.
Not all solutions are profitable. Building a real public transportation system, for example, would require a prohibitively large investment in infrastructure.
I'm not saying that there is an easy answer, just that the idea that the market will work everything out on its own is pure fantasy.
This is exactly how you are going to "save the planet" by solving the energy problem, folks. Not by not using coal/oil plant electricity. But by captalism: profiting from selling clean energy solutions.
Right, because the small niche of people who will actually buy this is so going to put a significant dent in the amount of fossil fuel we burn.
So see, with Ubuntu I get the Vista experience and the Mac OS X experience, all for basically $0!
If it really did give me the "Vista experience", I would be running FreeBSD instead.