What are the U5 nations? The article didn't say, and Google wasn't much help. I'm not used to seeing NZ in the short-list for anything, especially not with USA, France and Germany.
"Virgin Media to decided what traffic it wants going through its routers and switches and crossing its wires."
Its an allegedly "free market." If you don't like the terms they require in order to utilize their property, take your business elsewhere. This is no more nefarious a move against your "rights" than a publican decided he wants his facility to be non-smoking, regardless of local ordinances.
Its a private private entity, not a government utility. There is a distinction to be drawn.
Also, I don't see whats to get your panties in a bunch over music files anyway. Then again, I mostly like classical and older jazz/band music -- not exactly the stuff one can just "find" via gnutella.
Mussolini's party won elections and he was appointed PM by Victor Emanuele III. Guevara road the coat-tails of Castro, who seized power through guerrilla tactics and a terrorist campaign. there is more of case for Mussolini as a legitimate figure of power.
As to the rest of your statement, I agree. Its just most unfortunate.
Second, facts are not democratic. You can't VOTE on what will be true. Trust me, it's been tried. That may be true for maths and science articles, however anything remotely political is going to be biased as hell in one way or another, and those that agree with the bias will say its a "fact" and those that don't will say its lies.
For instance, in the article about Benito Mussolini, they go out of their way to talk about how he was violent and evil right up front.
In the article on Che Guevara, there is only a passing mention about how some people find his methods controversial, and its buried half way down.
Was Mussolini heavy-handed? Yes. But Guevara killed hundreds of people with his own gun, sentenced kids to prison for sassing their parents, etc. He exported violent revolution from Cuba to Africa and the rest of Latin America which lead to the deaths of tens of thousands, if not more.
Che Guevara was NOT a nice guy who gave candy to kids. However, clearly Wikipedians love him.
This is an example of "facts" being "voted on," and an example of why reliance on wikipedia for anything other than science or maths is a bad idea.
hell, be wary even of that, no matter what sort of good news that it espouses for African elephants.
McKusick is gay, I guess UFS is the filesystem of a fag then, huh?
Picaso was a Communist and Dali was a fascist, I guess they're art is the art of totalitarians, then, huh?
Pick technology and art on the technological and artistic merit of the work. If you try and restrict yourself based on philosophy or how you feel about the artist/author, then you're going to have a much lonelier, less fulfilled life.
So, Intel does the R&D on a product that everyone needs and wants, then gets rich because of their invention.
Thne along come some other people, who make clones of Intel's chips. No one wants to buy the chips from the competitors, because they have no significant cost savings, no significant performance increase, and lack the feeling of being a "genuine" article.
So, all these companies that are trying to ride the coat-tails of Intel, and failing, get together and complain to the government that its not fair?
Maybe they should have tried coming up with their own ideas and hoping that people would want to buy them instead of just trying to hop on a bandwagon and complaining that they got there too late and there is too little space.
no one is saying you have to buy an x86 cpu. SPARC and PPC work and do a good job. If Intel has solidified a market dominance that's pushed out OTHER architectures, that's more to do with Microsoft than it is to do with Intel.
Well, Irish Americans like to pretend that it's all bread and roses in Ireland, same as Jews love Israel. No one wants to be told that "their people" are doing something wrong, because it can come off as an attack on them, ie "China's government is bad" turns into "the Chinese are bad," which conflicts with "I'm Chinese," and leads to a response of "you just wouldn't understand," or "RACIST!!"
Not saying that's necessarily the case in any particular context, but any immigrant community is going to carry over idealized fondness of the homeland, forgetting that if it were really/that/ great, they wouldn't have had to leave.
There is an old saying that goes, 'everyone has a nationality, but the Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.' You can probably add Chinese to that, too, as it seems to fit your data.
note: I am of Irish descent and have dated Jewish girls. The above comment should not be taken as an attack on the Jews or the Irish, but anyone who has been to a Flogging Molly concert or a Bar mitzvahs will know what I'm talking about.
I have my party card in my wallet and a number of Congressmen's cellphone numbers handy. I'm not going anywhere, citizen.
No, that isn't a joke either. I really do.
But the government also isn't rounding up Americans off American streets and sending them to secret prisons (if they are, they're doing a good job keeping it secret).
They're rounding up foreigners that they get in foreign countries, who are (allegedly) in the act of doing stuff.
FDR made up the whole "enemy combatant" thing, lest we forget. And most of the interned Japanese were citziens or legal residents. I have yet to see DHS going around picking up taxi drivers and 711 clerks on suspicion of aiding and abetting the enemy.
I don't like Bush either, but can we please at least keep the accusations to things that he's actually done?
Its not even so much that they're hard to control as it is that they lack any sort of journalistic integrity or professional ethics. They are often poorly written and filled more the opinion and innuendo than actual information.
Due to certain disgraceful actions on the part of main-stream journalists in the past, and due to perceived bias or partisanship by at least half of the population towards a source, a lot of people are looking towards "unfiltered" "sources" of "information," because they mistakenly think that they're going to get the "straight dope" or whatever the kids are calling it these days.
Citing blogs and bbs posts as "news" is like quoting a Playboy article in an academic paper. Sure, when you already have 4-5 peer-reviewed journal sources, the Playboy article can be a nice touch to add some spice and get you that extra couple of points, but if that's all you have, then you deserve to fail the project.
If they extinguished it, who would notice? Seriously -- I'm not trying to troll. WTF is Ruby and what is so great about it? It just seems like Java for people who hate Java from what little research I've done on it, but it also seems to be very popular (of course, hating Java is popular, too).
You're also not used to having to look over your shoulder, wondering who is listening and what their real intentions are.
It's like how America is still looked upon favorably in parts of Eastern Europe, like Georgia. When you've experienced REAL dictatorship, REAL secret police, and REAL oppression, then you look at things differently than does the college kid who had his feelings hurt, so he blames it on whatever boogyman is popular to blame.
When you've spent your entire life wondering where little billy went after he said "i think mao sucked," you're going to be warry of saying those things and probably go out of your way to make sure that anyone else who heard it knows YOU didn't endorse that statement so that nothing happens to YOU.
We may be run by a bunch of retards and jackasses, but no matter how bad we have it, we still have it a lot better than the majority of people in the world.
FTA:
Even the good old U.S. of A. has restricted access in some cases. In May 2007, just a few weeks after placing restrictions on soldiers' blogs, the Department of Defense blocked access for soldiers to 13 "social networking and recreational" Web sites such as MySpace and YouTube, claiming that they took up too much bandwidth and presented operational risks. Ultimately, the ban severely limited the ability of soldiers overseas to communicate with loved ones at home, especially since the sites couldn't be accessed throughout much of Iraq and Afghanistan. I'm not sure once can draw a moral equivelancy between the Army blocking what soldiers do over Army internet connections from war-zones and the Chinese blocking internet access for regular citizens.
Until the USA starts filtering my access to the BBC, I don't really know why they even brought that up -- its just like workplace filtering at any other job.
I hate Metallica because they bitched on Dave Mustaine, and he was their best musician. Megadeth rocks and they just can't stand it. If it weren't for them selling out then they wouldn't be more popular than Megadeth because they suck. a lot.
It wasn't "growing," they didn't do it for the music. It was a commercial plot to make money and get girls with fewer tattoos.
I could, but that ATT and Sprint are still out there means that Verizon isn't a monopoly. Even if they are... When ATT was *THE* phone company, we didn't have any of those annoying pin-drop adds or John Stamos and his stupid 10-10-220, telemarketers calling to ask if we wanted to switch long distance services, etc.
Those are nice, inspiring stories to tell to children. However, it was VonSteuben teaching close-order drill and proper tactics of the day, as well as LaFayette and the French involvement that won the war.
The American Revolution was just one battlefield in an on-going global conflict of the time.
I am talking of a purely guerrilla conflict, like Iraq.
I hear Bush gets his advice straight from Jesus... I would imagine that he would be informed, seeing as how he intelligently designed the universe -- but look where that's gotten us!/ducks.
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I prefer to think of it as, "Blogging good for me, bad for society" -- at least considering what I'd probably write if I had one.
See, that grouping makes plenty of sense. France and Germany on the other hand, not so much.
Until they figure on some exigent circumstances. "pedophile terrorist communists use freenet!" use of freenet is then banned.
Someone posts to wikileaks about how the govt made up the charges about freenet, and then freenet gets taken down over "state secrets" or something.
Notions of law and justice are really somewhat quaint these days.
What are the U5 nations? The article didn't say, and Google wasn't much help. I'm not used to seeing NZ in the short-list for anything, especially not with USA, France and Germany.
Anyone know what that group is?
"Virgin Media to decided what traffic it wants going through its routers and switches and crossing its wires."
Its an allegedly "free market." If you don't like the terms they require in order to utilize their property, take your business elsewhere. This is no more nefarious a move against your "rights" than a publican decided he wants his facility to be non-smoking, regardless of local ordinances.
Its a private private entity, not a government utility. There is a distinction to be drawn.
Also, I don't see whats to get your panties in a bunch over music files anyway. Then again, I mostly like classical and older jazz/band music -- not exactly the stuff one can just "find" via gnutella.
Mussolini's party won elections and he was appointed PM by Victor Emanuele III. Guevara road the coat-tails of Castro, who seized power through guerrilla tactics and a terrorist campaign. there is more of case for Mussolini as a legitimate figure of power.
As to the rest of your statement, I agree. Its just most unfortunate.
For instance, in the article about Benito Mussolini, they go out of their way to talk about how he was violent and evil right up front.
In the article on Che Guevara, there is only a passing mention about how some people find his methods controversial, and its buried half way down.
Was Mussolini heavy-handed? Yes. But Guevara killed hundreds of people with his own gun, sentenced kids to prison for sassing their parents, etc. He exported violent revolution from Cuba to Africa and the rest of Latin America which lead to the deaths of tens of thousands, if not more.
Che Guevara was NOT a nice guy who gave candy to kids. However, clearly Wikipedians love him.
This is an example of "facts" being "voted on," and an example of why reliance on wikipedia for anything other than science or maths is a bad idea.
hell, be wary even of that, no matter what sort of good news that it espouses for African elephants.
McKusick is gay, I guess UFS is the filesystem of a fag then, huh?
Picaso was a Communist and Dali was a fascist, I guess they're art is the art of totalitarians, then, huh?
Pick technology and art on the technological and artistic merit of the work. If you try and restrict yourself based on philosophy or how you feel about the artist/author, then you're going to have a much lonelier, less fulfilled life.
So, Intel does the R&D on a product that everyone needs and wants, then gets rich because of their invention.
Thne along come some other people, who make clones of Intel's chips. No one wants to buy the chips from the competitors, because they have no significant cost savings, no significant performance increase, and lack the feeling of being a "genuine" article.
So, all these companies that are trying to ride the coat-tails of Intel, and failing, get together and complain to the government that its not fair?
Maybe they should have tried coming up with their own ideas and hoping that people would want to buy them instead of just trying to hop on a bandwagon and complaining that they got there too late and there is too little space.
no one is saying you have to buy an x86 cpu. SPARC and PPC work and do a good job. If Intel has solidified a market dominance that's pushed out OTHER architectures, that's more to do with Microsoft than it is to do with Intel.
Well, Irish Americans like to pretend that it's all bread and roses in Ireland, same as Jews love Israel. No one wants to be told that "their people" are doing something wrong, because it can come off as an attack on them, ie "China's government is bad" turns into "the Chinese are bad," which conflicts with "I'm Chinese," and leads to a response of "you just wouldn't understand," or "RACIST!!"
/that/ great, they wouldn't have had to leave.
Not saying that's necessarily the case in any particular context, but any immigrant community is going to carry over idealized fondness of the homeland, forgetting that if it were really
There is an old saying that goes, 'everyone has a nationality, but the Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.' You can probably add Chinese to that, too, as it seems to fit your data.
note: I am of Irish descent and have dated Jewish girls. The above comment should not be taken as an attack on the Jews or the Irish, but anyone who has been to a Flogging Molly concert or a Bar mitzvahs will know what I'm talking about.
I have my party card in my wallet and a number of Congressmen's cellphone numbers handy. I'm not going anywhere, citizen.
No, that isn't a joke either. I really do.
But the government also isn't rounding up Americans off American streets and sending them to secret prisons (if they are, they're doing a good job keeping it secret).
They're rounding up foreigners that they get in foreign countries, who are (allegedly) in the act of doing stuff.
FDR made up the whole "enemy combatant" thing, lest we forget. And most of the interned Japanese were citziens or legal residents. I have yet to see DHS going around picking up taxi drivers and 711 clerks on suspicion of aiding and abetting the enemy.
I don't like Bush either, but can we please at least keep the accusations to things that he's actually done?
I thought PHP was Perl for People (who) Hate Perl
Its not even so much that they're hard to control as it is that they lack any sort of journalistic integrity or professional ethics. They are often poorly written and filled more the opinion and innuendo than actual information.
Due to certain disgraceful actions on the part of main-stream journalists in the past, and due to perceived bias or partisanship by at least half of the population towards a source, a lot of people are looking towards "unfiltered" "sources" of "information," because they mistakenly think that they're going to get the "straight dope" or whatever the kids are calling it these days.
Citing blogs and bbs posts as "news" is like quoting a Playboy article in an academic paper. Sure, when you already have 4-5 peer-reviewed journal sources, the Playboy article can be a nice touch to add some spice and get you that extra couple of points, but if that's all you have, then you deserve to fail the project.
If they extinguished it, who would notice? Seriously -- I'm not trying to troll. WTF is Ruby and what is so great about it? It just seems like Java for people who hate Java from what little research I've done on it, but it also seems to be very popular (of course, hating Java is popular, too).
Can someone please tell me?
You're also not used to having to look over your shoulder, wondering who is listening and what their real intentions are.
It's like how America is still looked upon favorably in parts of Eastern Europe, like Georgia. When you've experienced REAL dictatorship, REAL secret police, and REAL oppression, then you look at things differently than does the college kid who had his feelings hurt, so he blames it on whatever boogyman is popular to blame.
When you've spent your entire life wondering where little billy went after he said "i think mao sucked," you're going to be warry of saying those things and probably go out of your way to make sure that anyone else who heard it knows YOU didn't endorse that statement so that nothing happens to YOU.
We may be run by a bunch of retards and jackasses, but no matter how bad we have it, we still have it a lot better than the majority of people in the world.
Just something to think about.
Until the USA starts filtering my access to the BBC, I don't really know why they even brought that up -- its just like workplace filtering at any other job.
Maybe that's his "Indian Name" in Chinese?
Neil Armstrong reached the moon in one small step. Seems to me that's all we really need...
I hate Metallica because they bitched on Dave Mustaine, and he was their best musician. Megadeth rocks and they just can't stand it. If it weren't for them selling out then they wouldn't be more popular than Megadeth because they suck. a lot.
It wasn't "growing," they didn't do it for the music. It was a commercial plot to make money and get girls with fewer tattoos.
I could, but that ATT and Sprint are still out there means that Verizon isn't a monopoly. Even if they are... When ATT was *THE* phone company, we didn't have any of those annoying pin-drop adds or John Stamos and his stupid 10-10-220, telemarketers calling to ask if we wanted to switch long distance services, etc.
I'm pretty happy with Verizon.
So, in Nigeria are they just called "Scams"?
Those are nice, inspiring stories to tell to children. However, it was VonSteuben teaching close-order drill and proper tactics of the day, as well as LaFayette and the French involvement that won the war.
The American Revolution was just one battlefield in an on-going global conflict of the time.
I am talking of a purely guerrilla conflict, like Iraq.
I don't discuss operational details... :-p that said, I don't claim to be a real revolutionary.
I hear Bush gets his advice straight from Jesus... I would imagine that he would be informed, seeing as how he intelligently designed the universe -- but look where that's gotten us! /ducks.