I didn't see any serious allegations, just some picayune nonsense and hurt feelings. She's upset by "aggressive communication" on pull requests. The founder sends his wife around to have a chick-to-chick talk to see if there's anything to be done about keeping her happy. She blows up at that and complains to the net.
The NG is actually two entities in one. Members are simultaneously part of the Reserve components of the US armed forces and a member of the state militia. As such they answer both to the president as members of the armed forces and to the governor as part of the militia. The feds can at any time say "they're federal forces" and take them away from the governor. This is what allows the NG to be shipped overseas. The federal government does not have an enumerated power to use the militia outside the US--only to repel invasion and suppress insurrection. So when the feds want to use them to invade Canada, they say they're part of the US armed forces and place them under US federal command.
There are other militias. For example, many states such as Texas have a State Guard. This is a militia, but they are _not_ enrolled in the US Reserves. States can define other militias.
US troops on the scene were taking fire. If a bunch of men in the area the fire is coming from are milling around with weapons they're gonna get lit up.
The vehicle was unmarked. The combatants being shot at were violating the laws of war by engaging in combat operations while out of uniform. You're on crack if you think they weren't acting like combatants. AKs and RPGs are clearly visibile in the video, and you're lying if you deny it.
There's no obligation to refrain from killing the wounded so long as they are not hors de combat. Attempting to escape is evidence that they are not. They must indicate intention to surrender.
That's what the Laws of War say, too. So I guess in this case the Nazis were in good company.
The International Committee of the Red Cross says (rule 47) says someone is hors de combat and protected if:
"(a) anyone who is in the power of an adverse party; (b) anyone who is defenceless because of unconsciousness, shipwreck, wounds or sickness; or (c) anyone who clearly expresses an intention to surrender; provided he or she abstains from any hostile act and does not attempt to escape.... According to Additional Protocol I, immunity from attack is conditional on refraining from any hostile act or attempt to escape.[39] This is also set forth in several military manuals. The commission of these acts signifies that the person in question is in fact no longer hors de combat and does not qualify for protection under this rule."
The insurgents in the video--who were themselves in the midst of committing a war crime by engaging in combat while out of uniform--did not meet this requirement. It's perfectly acceptable to continue to engage them.
Generally speaking, the leaders of the most powerful organization in the world don't have to arrange interviews in remote locations in order to avoid being arrested and thrown into prison.
In fact, under the US system of dual sovereignty California is sovereign in certain aspects, while the federal government is sovereign over other aspects. The states are not just branch offices of the federal government.
There's no guarantee that the feds will do anything at all if a state defaults or goes bankrupt. Maybe they will; it would be a colossal mess to have a few hundred billion in California bonds default. But maybe they won't. And even if they do, depending on the political climate, it would likely result in some group getting the shaft, be it bond holders, state employees, or pension holders.
You seem to be missing how much more in social benefits Europeans get compared to Americans.
...And government finances that are at the point of collapse in Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, France, the UK, and Italy, and a German electorate about to cut them all off.
It all only works until you run out of other people's money, and Europe has run out of Germans.
There are a lot of rumors floating around about Apple doing something with AMD. There's some small probability (probably less than 50%) that they'll ship some new AMD-ish server thing after the new year, at about the time they phase out the xServes.
"After WikiLeaks published a trove of U.S. intelligence documents—some of which listed the names and villages of Afghans who had been secretly cooperating with the American military—it didn’t take long for the Taliban to react. A spokesman for the group quickly threatened to “punish” any Afghan listed as having “collaborated” with the U.S. and the Kabul authorities against the growing Taliban insurgency. In recent days, the Taliban has demonstrated how seriously those threats should be considered. Late last week, just four days after the documents were published, death threats began arriving at the homes of key tribal elders in southern Afghanistan. And over the weekend one tribal elder, Khalifa Abdullah, who the Taliban believed had been in close contact with the Americans, was taken from his home in Monar village, in Kandahar province’s embattled Arghandab district, and executed by insurgent gunmen."
That asshat Assange has gotten people killed, and helped medieval religious fanatics continue their stranglehold on millions of people. And idiots on Slashdot cheer, because it's the roxor to safely posture about how evil the US is from the safety of a keyboard in an air conditioned office.
Hosting Open Source is also a core competency to Oregon State. They made a rather clever decision to focus on the open source niche a few years back, and it's helped them bring in industry support and helped the student learning process, as shown by the article.
No, a scientist who was passing information about targets in Europe to an al Qaeda group.
Sheesh. Slashdot is increasingly infantile. Just because you don't want to think about there actually being Islamic religious fundamentalists who want to kill you, that doesn't mean they don't exist.
Or it could be that, you know, al Qaeda really exists, and that they are really trying to conduct terror attacks, and that the two arrested really were participating in planning for those attacks. The French had comprehensively bugged their communications and knew what they were up to. From the Daily Mail:
"Adlene Hicheur is a former research fellow at the Rutherford Appleton and still visits the UK for conferences and other meetings. He and Halim are accused of compiling information about possible targets and sending it to contacts in North Africa involved with Al Qaeda Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).... European intelligence sources said that Adlene Hicheur, who studied at Stanford University in California before moving to Oxfordshire, had expressed a ‘very strong wish to carry out attacks anywhere where Western security interests can be damaged’."
I don't think anyone even realized the iPhone was not multitasking until the SDK was released, whereupon everyone the geeks decided it was an absolute must-have feature. So I think it's both a perfectly useful device without multitasking, and not that difficult to add multitasking to the API as the hardware becomes more sophisticated.
Fry's is fine as long as you go in there with the right expectations. The service will be surly and useless, or worse. If you already know what you want and don't want to be pestered by sales guys, you're OK.
Ummm....make up a name and a phone number. There's no penalty for lying to sales droids. You can go ahead and use my name and address if you like: John Smith, 123 Elm, Springfield, Ohio, (505) 555-1234.
Effective training _reduces_ PTSD casualties. A feeling of competence and mastery in stressful, life-threatening situations reduces the negative effects of stress.
During WWII the US army was built up from nearly scratch with civilians. Most of the soldiers showed signs of combat stress after about 90 days of combat. We do much better these days, for a variety of reasons, including better, more realistic training, more attention to primary group loyalties, better deployed conditions, etc.
Actually, it would be more accurate to say that the game industry ripped off the DoD. The first gamers mined a lot of the early work on distributed simulation from SIMNET, one of the early military networked simulations, and the Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) work. You can look up some of the early papers from DoD sources in the SIGGRAPH proceedings and elsewhere.
Games and DoD M&S have a somewhat standoffish relationship. The fact is the commercial side is much, much better at some things (massively mulitplayer, persistent, rendering and artwork, game engines) and really bad at some things (realism, tie-ins to actual terrain databases, real-world modeling of cities, etc). The problem is that if the games teach bad habits, it's "negative training". Jumping up and down in one place may work in a game, but it gets you killed in Iraq. This is widely regarded as a Bad Thing. Commercial games, despite their bling, have very little positive training value and a lot of negative training value.
The challenge for DoD is to pick up some of the commercial technologies and put them into simulations that have some training value. There are various efforts out there to do that, and the DoD has on occasion purchased licenses to game engines for simulations. The gamers look on this as a potential revenue source, but the match isn't always that good. The DoD typically has very long product life cycles, measured in years or decades, while anything older than six months is ancient to the gamers.
America's Army was not intended to be a "training" game. It was a strategic communications game. Few 17 year olds have much experience with the military; many don't have uncles or fathers who served, so the military is a giant unknown. The purpose of the game was to communicate core values of the Army and to give a somewhat realistic view of what's involved in the army. You don't just pick up a weapon and go shoot someone. You have to qualify on it. Likewise the textures were taken from many of the actual training areas a recruit would see. That said, they found at least one portion was useful as training: the marksmanship portion, which realistically showed you sight picture and breathing.
Unless you think the military should be abolished for moral reasons I don't see what's wrong with promoting it as a choice for young Americans. Is Jack Thompson saying that the Army shouldn't exist?
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I didn't see any serious allegations, just some picayune nonsense and hurt feelings. She's upset by "aggressive communication" on pull requests. The founder sends his wife around to have a chick-to-chick talk to see if there's anything to be done about keeping her happy. She blows up at that and complains to the net.
The NG is _a_ militia.
The NG is actually two entities in one. Members are simultaneously part of the Reserve components of the US armed forces and a member of the state militia. As such they answer both to the president as members of the armed forces and to the governor as part of the militia. The feds can at any time say "they're federal forces" and take them away from the governor. This is what allows the NG to be shipped overseas. The federal government does not have an enumerated power to use the militia outside the US--only to repel invasion and suppress insurrection. So when the feds want to use them to invade Canada, they say they're part of the US armed forces and place them under US federal command.
There are other militias. For example, many states such as Texas have a State Guard. This is a militia, but they are _not_ enrolled in the US Reserves. States can define other militias.
US troops on the scene were taking fire. If a bunch of men in the area the fire is coming from are milling around with weapons they're gonna get lit up.
The vehicle was unmarked. The combatants being shot at were violating the laws of war by engaging in combat operations while out of uniform. You're on crack if you think they weren't acting like combatants. AKs and RPGs are clearly visibile in the video, and you're lying if you deny it.
There's no obligation to refrain from killing the wounded so long as they are not hors de combat. Attempting to escape is evidence that they are not. They must indicate intention to surrender.
That's what the Laws of War say, too. So I guess in this case the Nazis were in good company.
The International Committee of the Red Cross says (rule 47) says someone is hors de combat and protected if:
"(a) anyone who is in the power of an adverse party; ...
(b) anyone who is defenceless because of unconsciousness, shipwreck, wounds or sickness; or
(c) anyone who clearly expresses an intention to surrender;
provided he or she abstains from any hostile act and does not attempt to escape.
According to Additional Protocol I, immunity from attack is conditional on refraining from any hostile act or attempt to escape.[39] This is also set forth in several military manuals. The commission of these acts signifies that the person in question is in fact no longer hors de combat and does not qualify for protection under this rule."
The insurgents in the video--who were themselves in the midst of committing a war crime by engaging in combat while out of uniform--did not meet this requirement. It's perfectly acceptable to continue to engage them.
Generally speaking, the leaders of the most powerful organization in the world don't have to arrange interviews in remote locations in order to avoid being arrested and thrown into prison.
Bad for ADD drivers.
In fact, under the US system of dual sovereignty California is sovereign in certain aspects, while the federal government is sovereign over other aspects. The states are not just branch offices of the federal government.
There's no guarantee that the feds will do anything at all if a state defaults or goes bankrupt. Maybe they will; it would be a colossal mess to have a few hundred billion in California bonds default. But maybe they won't. And even if they do, depending on the political climate, it would likely result in some group getting the shaft, be it bond holders, state employees, or pension holders.
You seem to be missing how much more in social benefits Europeans get compared to Americans.
It all only works until you run out of other people's money, and Europe has run out of Germans.
There are a lot of rumors floating around about Apple doing something with AMD. There's some small probability (probably less than 50%) that they'll ship some new AMD-ish server thing after the new year, at about the time they phase out the xServes.
"After WikiLeaks published a trove of U.S. intelligence documents—some of which listed the names and villages of Afghans who had been secretly cooperating with the American military—it didn’t take long for the Taliban to react. A spokesman for the group quickly threatened to “punish” any Afghan listed as having “collaborated” with the U.S. and the Kabul authorities against the growing Taliban insurgency. In recent days, the Taliban has demonstrated how seriously those threats should be considered. Late last week, just four days after the documents were published, death threats began arriving at the homes of key tribal elders in southern Afghanistan. And over the weekend one tribal elder, Khalifa Abdullah, who the Taliban believed had been in close contact with the Americans, was taken from his home in Monar village, in Kandahar province’s embattled Arghandab district, and executed by insurgent gunmen."
That asshat Assange has gotten people killed, and helped medieval religious fanatics continue their stranglehold on millions of people. And idiots on Slashdot cheer, because it's the roxor to safely posture about how evil the US is from the safety of a keyboard in an air conditioned office.
Hosting Open Source is also a core competency to Oregon State. They made a rather clever decision to focus on the open source niche a few years back, and it's helped them bring in industry support and helped the student learning process, as shown by the article.
No, a scientist who was passing information about targets in Europe to an al Qaeda group.
Sheesh. Slashdot is increasingly infantile. Just because you don't want to think about there actually being Islamic religious fundamentalists who want to kill you, that doesn't mean they don't exist.
Or it could be that, you know, al Qaeda really exists, and that they are really trying to conduct terror attacks, and that the two arrested really were participating in planning for those attacks. The French had comprehensively bugged their communications and knew what they were up to. From the Daily Mail:
"Adlene Hicheur is a former research fellow at the Rutherford Appleton and still visits the UK for conferences and other meetings. He and Halim are accused of compiling information about possible targets and sending it to contacts in North Africa involved with Al Qaeda Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). ...
European intelligence sources said that Adlene Hicheur, who studied at Stanford University in California before moving to Oxfordshire, had expressed a ‘very strong wish to carry out attacks anywhere where Western security interests can be damaged’."
Look at the CERN data on disk error rates. They found the system error rate to be about 3X10^7.
Just open up a bugzilla ticket.
Do they have free WiFi in the room? Hope they have at least DSL.
In what way is having "real police" paw through your trash better than having citizen busybodies check up on you to make sure you're recycling?
The outrage is the nanny state, not the pay grade of the ninnies enforcing the nanny state.
I don't think anyone even realized the iPhone was not multitasking until the SDK was released, whereupon everyone the geeks decided it was an absolute must-have feature. So I think it's both a perfectly useful device without multitasking, and not that difficult to add multitasking to the API as the hardware becomes more sophisticated.
Who says they're happy? Most of them seem to be building boats so they can get the hell out.
Fry's is fine as long as you go in there with the right expectations. The service will be surly and useless, or worse. If you already know what you want and don't want to be pestered by sales guys, you're OK.
Ummm....make up a name and a phone number. There's no penalty for lying to sales droids. You can go ahead and use my name and address if you like: John Smith, 123 Elm, Springfield, Ohio, (505) 555-1234.
Effective training _reduces_ PTSD casualties. A feeling of competence and mastery in stressful, life-threatening situations reduces the negative effects of stress.
During WWII the US army was built up from nearly scratch with civilians. Most of the soldiers showed signs of combat stress after about 90 days of combat. We do much better these days, for a variety of reasons, including better, more realistic training, more attention to primary group loyalties, better deployed conditions, etc.
Actually, it would be more accurate to say that the game industry ripped off the DoD. The first gamers mined a lot of the early work on distributed simulation from SIMNET, one of the early military networked simulations, and the Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) work. You can look up some of the early papers from DoD sources in the SIGGRAPH proceedings and elsewhere.
Games and DoD M&S have a somewhat standoffish relationship. The fact is the commercial side is much, much better at some things (massively mulitplayer, persistent, rendering and artwork, game engines) and really bad at some things (realism, tie-ins to actual terrain databases, real-world modeling of cities, etc). The problem is that if the games teach bad habits, it's "negative training". Jumping up and down in one place may work in a game, but it gets you killed in Iraq. This is widely regarded as a Bad Thing. Commercial games, despite their bling, have very little positive training value and a lot of negative training value.
The challenge for DoD is to pick up some of the commercial technologies and put them into simulations that have some training value. There are various efforts out there to do that, and the DoD has on occasion purchased licenses to game engines for simulations. The gamers look on this as a potential revenue source, but the match isn't always that good. The DoD typically has very long product life cycles, measured in years or decades, while anything older than six months is ancient to the gamers.
America's Army was not intended to be a "training" game. It was a strategic communications game. Few 17 year olds have much experience with the military; many don't have uncles or fathers who served, so the military is a giant unknown. The purpose of the game was to communicate core values of the Army and to give a somewhat realistic view of what's involved in the army. You don't just pick up a weapon and go shoot someone. You have to qualify on it. Likewise the textures were taken from many of the actual training areas a recruit would see. That said, they found at least one portion was useful as training: the marksmanship portion, which realistically showed you sight picture and breathing.
Unless you think the military should be abolished for moral reasons I don't see what's wrong with promoting it as a choice for young Americans. Is Jack Thompson saying that the Army shouldn't exist?
You know it's true.