Well it is bullshit actually. The article states that the US ARMY fired them for being gay which is not a big suprise as everyone knows the army has had a "don't tell" policy about gays for ages.
The grandparent has yet to provide evidence that the US GOV or CIA have fired translators for being gay.
But you don't understand man! Chimpy McBushHitler wrote that fatwa to scare the proles and something about orwell and free beer and stuff.....AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
They said the same thing about Java, right? Which is faster than web apps (even if you think it's slow compared to C)
Um. I really don't think so. Most applets were ugly as hell and they were slow because the VM had to initialize everytime you browsed to the page -- it also made transitions between pages god awefully slow. Also, unlike DHTML, Java applets are also limited to a square box on the page. I've never seen a java applet that looks like it belongs on an HTML pag.
The user experience with AJAX is completely different. Everything is written in HTML which means, because of the ease of programming in HTML, AJAX applications can make use of pretty pictures and designs made by graphics artists instead of relying on the fugly applets caused by artistically impaired Java programmers and ugly AWT widgets.
And please tell me you're not trying to say it's acceptable for a country to strip a certain religious minority of their citizenship because the government hates another country whose leaders happen to be of the same religion?
You don't see Israel stripping its Muslim & Arabic population of their citizenship for all the crap that goes on.
Even discounting the Jews who were stripped of their citizenship, Israel is still more multicultural than other middle eastern states.
Mind you, the fact that all the Jews in Arabic countries have been forced to leave due to anti-Semitism induced by Israel's actions doesn't help there.
The action you speak of is "existing".
Up until last year, what was the only country in the middle east where Arabic woman could vote?
ICQ sure plus a bunch of other stuff. 8088 and MRI? Now that's a new one
Maybe you should look it up and get a clue.
Even then Israeli standard of living is still second rate by western standards and its government system is full of questionable practices against non-Jews that amount to apartheid, discrimination or racism (take your pick)..
That being said I would rather live in Israel than in say Iran (albeit that's not saying much). Jewish people in north american are generally wonderful. Jews in Israel are just as extremist as the Palestinians and desearve ZERO support/sympathy until they start observing international law and respecting human rights.
Don't be such a doofus. Israel is the 11th most secular nation in the world. It is the *ONLY* multicultural nation in the middle east. 15% of the population is arab muslim. There is huge diversity. There are Arabs in the israeli defense forces (including a General) and there are Arabs in the Israeli government. Israel is about as racsit and "apartied" as the US. Oh wait, you probably think the US is racist too. Your use of the term "apartied" was cute.
Learn some facts before you start spouting crap like that.
Give them their own state and then the next time they fire a rocket into Israel (I'd give it a week), they can inderstand the true meaning of the words "responsibility" and "consequences" that comes along with statehood.
They've become career refugees. Why on earth should palestinians get $100 *EACH* a year from the west? Africans are far more deserving.
Israel, in the 50 years since the holocaust and mass jewish eviction from the middle east, is an amazing example of what you can accomplish when you leave the past behind and rebuild your lives. A lot of technology and advances have come out of Israel (from the MRI to the 8088 to ICQ) despite it constantly being attacked by its neighbours since its founding.
Speaking to "the haves and the have-mores." George W. smirks: "Some people call you the elite, I call you my base"
Soo taken out of context. He said that at a *charity* event where it is tradition for both presidential candidates to stand up and tell self-deprecating jokes. Al Gore was sitting next to him at the event.
I disagree. This is a nerd/geek site. Most jokes here require a level of understanding about computer science and anyone knowing a thing or two about computers has heard of, if not the reward, Alan Turing and can deduce the value of the reward and thus the sarcastic tone of the poster.
Sure, if you already know about Turing Award, you can recognize the comment as sarcastic, but then the comment would not be very informative (since you know all that already). If you have never heard of the Turing Award before, then you would get the wrong idea from that comment. Informing only people already in the know hardly qualifies as Informative.
If you know about the reward (which most people will), you are being informed. It is not the existance of the "turing award" he's informing you about. He's actually informing you about the lack of any mention of the Turing award in the article. Would it be more appropriate to mod him insightful? Maybe. But he's still informative -- especially for people who don't read articles.
(Okay, the parent post may be intentionally sarcastic, but the Informative moderation is still misleading, to say the least.)
WELL DUH. Anyone with half a brain knows he was being sarcastic and I see nothing wrong with the informative moderation. Why do you think one can't use sarcasm to inform?
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P.s. I am NOT a crackpot.
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They have a significantly higher TCO than an equivalent laser printer, offset by the fact that they have a much lower capital investment cost.
Don't print photos much eh?
Well it is bullshit actually. The article states that the US ARMY fired them for being gay which is not a big suprise as everyone knows the army has had a "don't tell" policy about gays for ages.
The grandparent has yet to provide evidence that the US GOV or CIA have fired translators for being gay.
The grandparent said that the people doing the firing were the US Govt (which I'm assuming means civilian leadership) and CIA.
The article you link to say the *US ARMY* fired them for being gay.
"slight" difference there don't you think?
They were fired because they were gay military, not strictly because they were translaters and gay.
Personally, I don't agree with it and I'm a bit dissapointed they didn't find jobs as government translators outside of the military.
But you don't understand man! Chimpy McBushHitler wrote that fatwa to scare the proles and something about orwell and free beer and stuff .....AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
/HowardDean
There is none because it's a load of bull.
I think it's pretty sad really that the politicians believe that we're even on the bad guy's hit-list.
You're not really that naive are you? Does Bali ring a bell?
They said the same thing about Java, right? Which is faster than web apps (even if you think it's slow compared to C)
Um. I really don't think so. Most applets were ugly as hell and they were slow because the VM had to initialize everytime you browsed to the page -- it also made transitions between pages god awefully slow. Also, unlike DHTML, Java applets are also limited to a square box on the page. I've never seen a java applet that looks like it belongs on an HTML pag.
The user experience with AJAX is completely different. Everything is written in HTML which means, because of the ease of programming in HTML, AJAX applications can make use of pretty pictures and designs made by graphics artists instead of relying on the fugly applets caused by artistically impaired Java programmers and ugly AWT widgets.
Such as the right to free speech for holocaust deniers.
Sheesh. Free speech doesn't guarantee free audiences or any audience at all.
Are you retarded?
Monad can be used to write scripts that do stuff!
User mode drivers for printers, usb devices (etc)
And please tell me you're not trying to say it's acceptable for a country to strip a certain religious minority of their citizenship because the government hates another country whose leaders happen to be of the same religion?
You don't see Israel stripping its Muslim & Arabic population of their citizenship for all the crap that goes on.
Even discounting the Jews who were stripped of their citizenship, Israel is still more multicultural than other middle eastern states.
Mind you, the fact that all the Jews in Arabic countries have been forced to leave due to anti-Semitism induced by Israel's actions doesn't help there.
The action you speak of is "existing".
Up until last year, what was the only country in the middle east where Arabic woman could vote?
Israel's actions indeed.
ICQ sure plus a bunch of other stuff. 8088 and MRI? Now that's a new one
Maybe you should look it up and get a clue.
Even then Israeli standard of living is still second rate by western standards and its government system is full of questionable practices against non-Jews that amount to apartheid, discrimination or racism (take your pick)
That being said I would rather live in Israel than in say Iran (albeit that's not saying much). Jewish people in north american are generally wonderful. Jews in Israel are just as extremist as the Palestinians and desearve ZERO support/sympathy until they start observing international law and respecting human rights.
Don't be such a doofus. Israel is the 11th most secular nation in the world. It is the *ONLY* multicultural nation in the middle east. 15% of the population is arab muslim. There is huge diversity. There are Arabs in the israeli defense forces (including a General) and there are Arabs in the Israeli government. Israel is about as racsit and "apartied" as the US. Oh wait, you probably think the US is racist too. Your use of the term "apartied" was cute.
Learn some facts before you start spouting crap like that.
Give them their own state and then the next time they fire a rocket into Israel (I'd give it a week), they can inderstand the true meaning of the words "responsibility" and "consequences" that comes along with statehood.
They've become career refugees. Why on earth should palestinians get $100 *EACH* a year from the west? Africans are far more deserving.
Israel, in the 50 years since the holocaust and mass jewish eviction from the middle east, is an amazing example of what you can accomplish when you leave the past behind and rebuild your lives. A lot of technology and advances have come out of Israel (from the MRI to the 8088 to ICQ) despite it constantly being attacked by its neighbours since its founding.
Or perhaps it's cause Gnome works on BSD?
Our next responsibility is to try very very hard not to contaminate Mars with Earth-life,
Most retarded comment ever.
Speaking to "the haves and the have-mores." George W. smirks: "Some people call you the elite, I call you my base"
Soo taken out of context. He said that at a *charity* event where it is tradition for both presidential candidates to stand up and tell self-deprecating jokes. Al Gore was sitting next to him at the event.
How do you account for the space between words then if it's digital? Surely it's ternary - silence, dot, dah...
ternary? ternary? I missed the part where he called it binary communications instead of digital communications.
I disagree. This is a nerd/geek site. Most jokes here require a level of understanding about computer science and anyone knowing a thing or two about computers has heard of, if not the reward, Alan Turing and can deduce the value of the reward and thus the sarcastic tone of the poster.
Sure, if you already know about Turing Award, you can recognize the comment as sarcastic, but then the comment would not be very informative (since you know all that already). If you have never heard of the Turing Award before, then you would get the wrong idea from that comment. Informing only people already in the know hardly qualifies as Informative.
If you know about the reward (which most people will), you are being informed. It is not the existance of the "turing award" he's informing you about. He's actually informing you about the lack of any mention of the Turing award in the article. Would it be more appropriate to mod him insightful? Maybe. But he's still informative -- especially for people who don't read articles.
but vagal nerve stimulation IS used to treat parkinson's
Not to be confused with vaginal nerve stimulation which IS also used to treat parkinson's. Some say it's even easier with parkinson's.
(Okay, the parent post may be intentionally sarcastic, but the Informative moderation is still misleading, to say the least.)
WELL DUH. Anyone with half a brain knows he was being sarcastic and I see nothing wrong with the informative moderation. Why do you think one can't use sarcasm to inform?
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