Sorry, no rant here:-|
Those I listed were all Soviet allies prior to 1967 (when US and Israel strategic alignment started in the shape it is today) and have been (with the exception of Lebanon) military dictatorships for the past 40 years.
Before then, Israel got most of its arms from France and the UK, so I dispute your claim that Israel is the source of all those countries political, economic and social problems. I'd look at the Sykes-Picot treaty, the division of the Ottoman empire and the invention of all the countries in the region by France and the UK as perhaps more likely.
Dubai: 1.5 million people comprised of over 80% expats. That's not a good strategic gamble, besides you already have the 7th fleet stationed in Bahrain.
Stick with the Saudi's, they make a good market for your multi-billion dollar defense deals and keep your dollar high. Unfortunately they don't tend to show off the fireworks for your enemies' buddies to covet and last time they publicly demonstrated the capabilities of American industrial technology, you got a few thousand dead civilians in New York and a recession.
Better luck with poverty-stricken Egypt, Baathist Syria, little poor Jordan, crumbly Lebanon and war-torn Iraq.
They are, you just need to know how to take the donations:-) No point begging for it, that won't get through a Purchasing department.
France is a hotbed of open source activity. Loads of top companies are well LAMPed and this provides a good market for developers and university grads. On top of this, there are plenty of university courses with open source projects associated, like the very excellent VLC multimedia player (and server).
I'll second that. For PHP it wasn't so much 9/11, but the recession that came after it which drove a lot of LAMP deployments (which is what I watch). IT budgets were slashed, big projects were killed and small, cheap, business-critical implementations started mushrooming as part of the "No Purchasing Department" necessity. Then people realized that what they'd hacked together with FOSS was good enough for the Perpetual-Beta world of the web and, at least from the PHP perspective, the rest is the hockey-stick growth history we've seen since 2002.
Oh the pure joy of a 10 year old hearing Kelly Le Brock say the word "wanker" and realising that adults do swear and they should STFU and stop telling kids to use foul language.
Oh yes, Queen's English is not dead yet and Great British cusses can hold their own against the cultural imports like "MoFo", "bee-atch" and "Ho's". Small victories indeed.
This is a damn good point. Since we had kids 3 years ago I've been once. I used to go at least once a month and when I was at college probably 2-3 times a month.
I wonder if there was a population bump which skewed cinema attendance for a few years and now we all had kids so fell out the pool of potential customers.
There are plenty of writings about this - Wired did a piece years ago about BBWA Chiat Day in the US, there's the famous management course Oticon case study and recently I just read a nice book by Ricardo Semler. Normally the open plan offices translate into qualitative benefits in the company (people are happier, more collaborative, less secretive etc...).
It's odd to read the comments here along the lines of "Send me back to the server room, I can't stand the lights....", but I guess there's no pleasing some people.
You write such well-drafted shit. Rothschilds as controllers of all the world's wealth and string-pulling bankers is very old anti-semitic material. Yes, like all bankers, the Rothschilds funded Rulers whims, which during the 1800's frequently meant wars (yes, wars were primarily economic in basis).
To say they "own" Israel is rubbish, there were numerous (mainly agricultural) investments by the Rothschilds in pre-state Palestine, many of which went bankrupt and were in frequent conflict with the socialist workers who worked there. The family foundations are still involved in nefarious activities such as upkeep of a large park outside of Zichron Yaakov, a donation for the Knesset building and more. Wow, creepy shit.
To say that this largely broken up and now largely not-technically-Jewish family is the global puppeteer makes great theatre, but says more about you than anything else. Touching how you managed to self-censor words like Illuminati, Freemasons and Lizards to keep your karma up.
Israeli law is based on: 1) British Law - from the pre-1948 mandate period 2) Turkish Law - from before 1917, mainly to do with land registration and ownership 3) Jewish Law - from post-1948 mainly to do with public holidays and family stuff (marriage, divorce etc...)
Then there's stuff which goes on in the West Bank which is nominally administered by the Army when they can be bothered to do anything.
I'm not a lawyer, but some of my friends are.... anyway, here's a summary based on what was written in TheMarker.com (business press part of the largest newspaper) had to say:
This anonymous blogger has been writing 3 members of a small local town council (Shaarei Tikva, population 4,500) accusing them of bribery and municipal tax fraud (specifically: lying about their status to get tax breaks - probably saying they are retired, or have smaller properties than they have or haven't declared their swimming pools or something relatively minor). The plaintiffs say this is slander. The Plaintiffs and Google came to an agreement that Google would notify the blogger (they say he read the notification) that he could give up his identity and appear in court, or let them know that he was going send a lawyers letter contesting the claims and he would be represented in court as "John Doe"(or actually the Aramaic word "Ploni" equivalent) and Google would provide his IP address to the court. He did neither.
The judge said this was a suitable arrangement which on the one hand protects the freedom of speech of the Accused and the Plaintiffs right to defend their reputations. The judge emphasized that 2 weeks ago a judge had ruled in a case against one of the national newspaper sites (www.ynet.co.il) that details of a Poster (blogger or reponse to a news item) can be given over only if the content of the posting can lead to legal proceedings for Slander. Secondly, there was a ruling in April which stated that the Posters address can be revealed if Slander proceedings are waiting on it and it can be provided as "Further Deposition" (or some legal term which means some additional evidence that can influence the case).
In the judges opinion, there are considerations on both sides: on the one hand, since we're talking about competition over a public position, the public's right to know (the slander) in addition to the deterring surfers from expressing themselves on the internet lean towards protecting the anonymity of the surfer. On the other, you can argue that reputation is even more important to those running for public office. The judge ruled that as we we're talking about the defendents being public figures running for re-election, there is a need to define a new balance between freedom of expression and protection of reputation.
I'm not sure people would have been going ape-shit about this if it was only a national paper's website being in the process (as had happened a few weeks ago). The fact that it's Google Israel means that we're all assuming that Larry and Sergey have been sharing all our information with any legal authority that requests it, which I'm not sure is the case. I'm not convinced it's evil either. Should offline national slander laws apply to online speech?
Mossad is only involved in operations outside of Israel. There are other intelligence agencies that operate within Israel (General Security Service), but this is a criminal case being handled by courts and lawyers. Let's not get too excited with conspiracy theories, we have enough of them already in the Middle East.
Well, with the vast majority of new apps being developed are browser-based, and the majority of them indeed using Linux, it's not quite as bleak as you think.
Mike, your posting raises a very important issue. The RIAA claims to be protecting artists by recouping money from file sharers. I would be very interested to see schedules of payment by the labels to the "damaged" artists.
It doesn't take a genius to understand "wrap more rope, me not fall". As for "invading their arse", millions died from European diseases which is not really testament to your superior intellect. Yeah I know you wrote flamebait on purpose.
But Akamai is only good for content. You can't cache transactions. With that level of searching and writing going on, the databases are going to lock up. Akamai would not solve this.
Yeah, but most Canadians are of European origin, so I guess the music publisher can go after their descendents until 70 years after their death. (I'm guessing that Mr.Xiao-Guan Guo from the International Music Score Library Project might have a good line of defence....)
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Sorry, no rant here :-|
Those I listed were all Soviet allies prior to 1967 (when US and Israel strategic alignment started in the shape it is today) and have been (with the exception of Lebanon) military dictatorships for the past 40 years.
Before then, Israel got most of its arms from France and the UK, so I dispute your claim that Israel is the source of all those countries political, economic and social problems. I'd look at the Sykes-Picot treaty, the division of the Ottoman empire and the invention of all the countries in the region by France and the UK as perhaps more likely.
Dubai: 1.5 million people comprised of over 80% expats. That's not a good strategic gamble, besides you already have the 7th fleet stationed in Bahrain.
Yeah, you're right.
Stick with the Saudi's, they make a good market for your multi-billion dollar defense deals and keep your dollar high. Unfortunately they don't tend to show off the fireworks for your enemies' buddies to covet and last time they publicly demonstrated the capabilities of American industrial technology, you got a few thousand dead civilians in New York and a recession.
Better luck with poverty-stricken Egypt, Baathist Syria, little poor Jordan, crumbly Lebanon and war-torn Iraq.
France is a hotbed of open source activity. Loads of top companies are well LAMPed and this provides a good market for developers and university grads. On top of this, there are plenty of university courses with open source projects associated, like the very excellent VLC multimedia player (and server).
There are system integrator companies like Linagora who provide full service for Open Source to institutions like the Ministry of Finance http://www.linagora.com/societe/presse/articles_de_presse/ministere_de_l_economie_contrat_record_dans_les_logiciels_libres_-_le_monde_informatique_ar884.html
Yo, we'll look after your women if you need!
We loves those Danish girls, oh yeah.
I'll second that. For PHP it wasn't so much 9/11, but the recession that came after it which drove a lot of LAMP deployments (which is what I watch). IT budgets were slashed, big projects were killed and small, cheap, business-critical implementations started mushrooming as part of the "No Purchasing Department" necessity. Then people realized that what they'd hacked together with FOSS was good enough for the Perpetual-Beta world of the web and, at least from the PHP perspective, the rest is the hockey-stick growth history we've seen since 2002.
Disgusting behaviour like this by Intel is why I'll never use Wintel and only buy Apple
You're both right. He wrote that 4 years ago.
Yes, countries in active sabre-rattling mode often boast about their strategic weather forecasting capabilities.
Oh the pure joy of a 10 year old hearing Kelly Le Brock say the word "wanker" and realising that adults do swear and they should STFU and stop telling kids to use foul language.
Oh yes, Queen's English is not dead yet and Great British cusses can hold their own against the cultural imports like "MoFo", "bee-atch" and "Ho's". Small victories indeed.
This is a damn good point. Since we had kids 3 years ago I've been once. I used to go at least once a month and when I was at college probably 2-3 times a month. I wonder if there was a population bump which skewed cinema attendance for a few years and now we all had kids so fell out the pool of potential customers.
There are plenty of writings about this - Wired did a piece years ago about BBWA Chiat Day in the US, there's the famous management course Oticon case study and recently I just read a nice book by Ricardo Semler. Normally the open plan offices translate into qualitative benefits in the company (people are happier, more collaborative, less secretive etc...).
It's odd to read the comments here along the lines of "Send me back to the server room, I can't stand the lights....", but I guess there's no pleasing some people.
they're now called at&t, not singular
You write such well-drafted shit. Rothschilds as controllers of all the world's wealth and string-pulling bankers is very old anti-semitic material. Yes, like all bankers, the Rothschilds funded Rulers whims, which during the 1800's frequently meant wars (yes, wars were primarily economic in basis).
To say they "own" Israel is rubbish, there were numerous (mainly agricultural) investments by the Rothschilds in pre-state Palestine, many of which went bankrupt and were in frequent conflict with the socialist workers who worked there. The family foundations are still involved in nefarious activities such as upkeep of a large park outside of Zichron Yaakov, a donation for the Knesset building and more. Wow, creepy shit.
To say that this largely broken up and now largely not-technically-Jewish family is the global puppeteer makes great theatre, but says more about you than anything else. Touching how you managed to self-censor words like Illuminati, Freemasons and Lizards to keep your karma up.
Israeli law is based on:
1) British Law - from the pre-1948 mandate period
2) Turkish Law - from before 1917, mainly to do with land registration and ownership
3) Jewish Law - from post-1948 mainly to do with public holidays and family stuff (marriage, divorce etc...)
Then there's stuff which goes on in the West Bank which is nominally administered by the Army when they can be bothered to do anything.
Shalom/Salaam,
I'm not a lawyer, but some of my friends are.... anyway, here's a summary based on what was written in TheMarker.com (business press part of the largest newspaper) had to say:
This anonymous blogger has been writing 3 members of a small local town council (Shaarei Tikva, population 4,500) accusing them of bribery and municipal tax fraud (specifically: lying about their status to get tax breaks - probably saying they are retired, or have smaller properties than they have or haven't declared their swimming pools or something relatively minor). The plaintiffs say this is slander. The Plaintiffs and Google came to an agreement that Google would notify the blogger (they say he read the notification) that he could give up his identity and appear in court, or let them know that he was going send a lawyers letter contesting the claims and he would be represented in court as "John Doe"(or actually the Aramaic word "Ploni" equivalent) and Google would provide his IP address to the court. He did neither.
The judge said this was a suitable arrangement which on the one hand protects the freedom of speech of the Accused and the Plaintiffs right to defend their reputations. The judge emphasized that 2 weeks ago a judge had ruled in a case against one of the national newspaper sites (www.ynet.co.il) that details of a Poster (blogger or reponse to a news item) can be given over only if the content of the posting can lead to legal proceedings for Slander. Secondly, there was a ruling in April which stated that the Posters address can be revealed if Slander proceedings are waiting on it and it can be provided as "Further Deposition" (or some legal term which means some additional evidence that can influence the case).
In the judges opinion, there are considerations on both sides: on the one hand, since we're talking about competition over a public position, the public's right to know (the slander) in addition to the deterring surfers from expressing themselves on the internet lean towards protecting the anonymity of the surfer. On the other, you can argue that reputation is even more important to those running for public office. The judge ruled that as we we're talking about the defendents being public figures running for re-election, there is a need to define a new balance between freedom of expression and protection of reputation.
I'm not sure people would have been going ape-shit about this if it was only a national paper's website being in the process (as had happened a few weeks ago). The fact that it's Google Israel means that we're all assuming that Larry and Sergey have been sharing all our information with any legal authority that requests it, which I'm not sure is the case. I'm not convinced it's evil either. Should offline national slander laws apply to online speech?
Mossad is only involved in operations outside of Israel. There are other intelligence agencies that operate within Israel (General Security Service), but this is a criminal case being handled by courts and lawyers. Let's not get too excited with conspiracy theories, we have enough of them already in the Middle East.
yes, but you meant "mean" :-p
Well, with the vast majority of new apps being developed are browser-based, and the majority of them indeed using Linux, it's not quite as bleak as you think.
Like you I also work for an internet QoS hardware manufacturer and I think this is definitely the right way to go...
But Sansa is made by Sandisk, a Samsung competitor.
Mike, your posting raises a very important issue. The RIAA claims to be protecting artists by recouping money from file sharers. I would be very interested to see schedules of payment by the labels to the "damaged" artists.
I think the group would also be interested to understand the science of royalty payments as discussed here http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2004/may/may4a_04.html
Looking forward to your continued participation on Slashdot until your vacation work placement is over.
It doesn't take a genius to understand "wrap more rope, me not fall". As for "invading their arse", millions died from European diseases which is not really testament to your superior intellect.
Yeah I know you wrote flamebait on purpose.
So they'll reduce the price of Coca Cola as their advertising overheads will be much lower. Yay!
But Akamai is only good for content. You can't cache transactions. With that level of searching and writing going on, the databases are going to lock up. Akamai would not solve this.
Yeah, but most Canadians are of European origin, so I guess the music publisher can go after their descendents until 70 years after their death. (I'm guessing that Mr.Xiao-Guan Guo from the International Music Score Library Project might have a good line of defence....)