Let us know when those missiles are better then. In a decade or so, they might be better than 4th generation fighters - some of them anyway. Fighters won't have stopped there though...
I don't know where you are but, here in the UK, we seem to have a lot less police violence than the USA. If any government comes in here, it will be, like now, because some people voted for it. The US supposedly has "checks and balances" and a written constitution. I understand from comments here that the Constitution isn't doing too well at present, what with "Homeland Security" and various criminal organisations like the RIAA etc. (I know they are legal but they are still a bunch of crooks).
No holds barred means that you done believe, for example, in war crimes. That is the attitude that allegedly made GWB decide that the Geneva Convention doesn't count for the USA. It does. Some people found out 65 years ago that it counted for them. I understand that your country supplied prosecutors for this.
On a smaller scale, in hand to hand fighting it is perfectly legitimate for a comrade to help you by shooting your opponent. Another example, if someone starts to shoot at me with a hand gun, I am quite reasonably entitled to shoot him with my assault rifle.
You are always being watched. I know that our leaders are great fans of "embedding" reporters. As we saw just a few days ago, a lot gets out nowadays without any reporters being there. If nobody is as stupid as that, stuff still gets out. Some people allow their principles, sense of right and wrong and their patriotism to overcome the knowledge that the rich, powerful and unprincipled will not be happy with them. Wikileaks was not the first such example and it will not be the last.
You are subject to the laws of your country whether you know them or not. You are also subject to them whether you agree or not. You and various of your contryfolk may not like it, but international law affects how countries act during peace and war. Retribution for breaking the law is not guaranteed, but unless you and your country withdraws from the world stage and prevents all your people leaving your borders, it might. Even that is not complete proof. Mossad and the CIA have kidnapped people to stand trial in the past and have set an example for other spooks to follow in the future.
It would probably be better if they had the whole thing in proper measurements. Showing technology in hogsheads and furlongs etc seems to mislead some people into thinking that "imperial" measures are a valid idea.
And what makes the war in question legal then?
The only legal phrase I can think of is de facto
Starting a war against another country is either legal or not. The usual reasons for starting such are because you have been invaded or attacked by them or or are following a UN resolution.
The USA was not invaded in 2001.
The USA was attacked. The civilised world offered sympathy and help. The attackers were seemingly Saudi or Egyptian, neither of which was attacked in retaliation. They criminals behind the act were felt to be based in Afghanistan. That is why the USA and various allied countries attacked it. They did this on the basis of a UN resolution. That war was legal.
No such resolution ever happened for Iraq in 2003. Therefore this was an illegal action. The USA may have been the ringleader but every other country that participated dishonoured their armed forces by sending them into an illegal war. The people of these countries may not all have been keen but the "coalition of the willing" were active participants in the crime.
Well AC. That is the full game. Those are the circumstances. If you can cease your incorrect assumptions about people with a better grasp of reality and legality than you, it would be nice. Sadly, it would also be surprising...
The problem is that a lot of people (most?) would find apt-get horrendous. App stores are simple way to let someone else decide for you what you want.
Even most Android users are probably quite content with one market place. You may have more than one. Most users here may well have installed things straight from an.APK file. This is not normal. We here should not take our attitudes and abilities as the norm.
I presume you are in the 4% then? Most people do control their gears - just not in the USA. Canadians please comment. I don't know if you have allowed the US motor industry to remove control of your cars from you as well,
Microsoft managed to escape being dismembered by having politicians do what they wanted,
The legal process needs revisiting. The same sort of charges can be brought. Perhaps, if found guilty, this time it could be concluded properly with the criminal being punished and prevented from committing the same crimes yet again.
Slightly longer answer - No and I have wondered about it for a while.
Full answer - The USA has amply demonstrated that it is unsuitable for its self-selected rol of global policeman. It has shown a mixture of arrogance and huge amounts of money to try and supplant the ICC, UN, International Red Cross and more. Its leadership has stated that the Geneva Convention is only relevant when they feel like it and some regimes can do no wrong and others can do no right. It has shown capriciousness in making and breaking friendships and feels that its legal system takes precedence over everyone else's.
If the device (phone, Tablet or PC) does not belong to us, it is not getting connected to our network. This is absolute - for secretaries, doctors, nurses or whoever else you care to mention.
Sometimes we get new starters showing us their BlackBerry/new iPad/laptop/whatever but we just show them the documentation and that is usually the end of the story.
Our "Service Desk" (Help Desk) know this and tell people. It is interesting that those at the top of the tree and those nearer the bottom both seem to be able to take a telling. We do get people from the middle demanding to speak to someone higher up. These people feel that they are so special that the world has to make special allowances for them. The answer does not change.
There is your problem. Even in a non-fragmented society, you would have problems. These guns are spread between, right wing religious to middle of the road atheists, libertarians, tea party, weekend hunters, crazy people who hate everyone, survivalists, people who just think that carrying a gun is their "duty", people who think that owning a gun is cool, people scared of burglars and many many more. Put them all together at your own risk and stand well back (ideally behind thick steel plate).
My money is on the military. They are all singing the same song and tend to work together.
You may be aware of the 96% outside your country, but you are on Slashdot and may be as typical of your society as I may be of mine.
I remember a press report 11 years ago where GWB was unable to name the president of Pakistan. The article commented that some US experts had opined that this would actually increase the number of people voting for him. Didn't one of your prospective candidates this time show that he thought Africa is a country? Again, I doubt you think this. Some of your compatriots do. ( I am sure there will be some here too but they may be a lower %.)
Having opinions about certain cultures does not necessarily mean racism. Do not mix up culture and ethnicity. They are separate.
IT tends not to be acquainted with the real business of your organization
That is a commonly regurgitated myth and it is straight wrong...
IT engineers are able to have a more complete picture of what is going on throughout a large company than just about anyone else. The only other group that gets around more is the cleaners.
IT deals with Finance because this is where the highest paid people get the most expensive equipment and accept the least guidance about anything. It deals with production because this is where the profit is generated by the people who actually make the whole company work with the least possible amount of equipment. It deals with HR because they feel that they have to be able to contact everyone instantly and they think they are in charge. They deal with secretaries, receptionists and telephonists who actually provide the public face of the organisation.
Which group of people is more likely to know if staff are unable to complete their work? Senior management won't know because middle management will be covering up. Middle management are siloed and barely know what is happening next door. Finance is busy keeping costs down and are not concerned with that sort of thing. HR... What does HR do anyway?The actual workers like their management rarely know what is happening outside their area.
IT goes everywhere and sees what is going on. They can hear that the maintenance has a problem that will cost a lot to fix in the morning and that there is a cash flow problem in the afternoon. We are good at confidentiality - that is what we do, but we know exactly what is happening/
Very small companies can not really justify a separate IT department. All they can do is to have a support contract somewhere.
As a company grows, they may find, depending on how much they use IT (yes, some companies do not need much) that they can specifically use an employee to cut down on external support. They will still need external support for network and server support.
It is only once a company gets into 3 figures of desktops, they they would be stupid to outsource and have no self support. Many do this though. I have heard senior managers/execs say things like "Computers would be great if we didn't have to have IT." I suspect that this sort of comment comes from someone who was not allowed to put his iShinyNewShinyThing onto the corporate network or who did something really stupid and got in trouble for it. We all know the sorts of thing.
Keep the second the same and ignore the sun. If you are going to ignore 96% of the planet, you might as well go the whole hog and have a day that is 27 Hours, 42 minutes and 40 seconds long. It would suit me anyway. (My natural diurnal cycle is closer to that than 24.)
So they are saying that the USA should not only use different units of weight, length, temperature etc from most of the rest of the planet but you should use a different calendar from us all as well.
At least when the revolutionary French tried it, they invented different names for the days and months.
This amazingly stupid idea is unlikely to catch on globally. If the USA decides to use something else different from what normal humans use, please make up 7 new day names and 12 new month ones and keep a conversion table handy for dealing with the 96% of the human race outside your borders.
The use of a standard time happens a little already. I understand that international air travel uses GMT0 (also called UCT) and everyone ought to know their offset. I can't see it catching on in your country though. Some of your compatriots are not aware that there is anywhere else to be offset from...
This a mis-association a lot of FOSS advocates/enthusiasts have to deal with.
Freedom can no more morph to equal 'piracy' than it can morph to equal purple or anaconda.
I can use my freedom to 'pirate' IP, wear purple underpants or keep a snake but the fact I choose not to has nothing to do with my freedom or lack of it.
My wanting freedom has nothing to do with wanting to do certain things that large corporations have had our legal systems changed to prevent. Just because people are very against those legalised criminals does not mean that they want to steal their Imaginary Property.
They receive their email when they come to work on Monday morning and start their desktop PC. They carry on receiving it during their working hours while they are on the premises .
No Mr "DoYouKnowWhoIAm". We will not connect up your nice shiny new iPad to our network.
Why? We have a huge amount of personal information here and we have a boatload of regulations from our national organisation, consumer laws coming out of our ears and a small degree of common sense. All of these prevent us allowing someone - even you - to bring in their favourite device to put even the smallest quantity of it on.
But you really need to have it upon this fashion accessory? We can help you there. Please fill in this form and someone who is not one of us mean IT people will see whether the organisation agrees with you. If they do, they will spend our money on such a device. We will make it secure and you will then be able to increase your productivity as you describe.
But you want to use this one? We have another form here for this. Allow us to take control of your device. We will remove some applications such as Limewire and BitTorrent and put a few things on it to make it more secure. We will then Fix it so that it can't pass any of our records to people that the organisation does not want it to. We will also make it use that" RSA number thing" on your key ring. This will also prevent you from installing any more apps upon it but it will be nice and secure now."
This law is part of your broken legal system, not anyone else's. Why should it be foisted upon the rest of the planet?*
Several years ago, my son got his first android phone, the G1. He asked my permission to lie about his age to set up an account. I was already aware that Google tries to do this and said OK. He is now old enough to be "legal" and has come to no harm. This was in spite of various crazies advising me to put Net Nanny or some other corporate nonsense on my PC and then not allowing him to use it unless I was with him. I decided to educate him about the internet, as I already had with his older sister.
It was my responsibility and not too hard. This nonsense has been one of my few black marks for Google.
*And then they start up Google music but limit it to the 4% of humanity actually subject to the US legal system.
Come on guys, either be global with your services or global by not applying insane US laws on the rest of us.
He was talking about Ubuntu - the main offering. As a smart operation, of course Canonical has alternative offerings. Their main distro came with Gnome,
Whether that was good or bad, is a matter of opinion. Personally, I preferred KDE but chopped and changed between the two.
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Let us know when those missiles are better then. In a decade or so, they might be better than 4th generation fighters - some of them anyway. Fighters won't have stopped there though...
I don't know why they didn't go with the Typhoon
According to the article - price. The Typhoon is ridiculously expensive.
much higher than having the same happen in the US
I don't know where you are but, here in the UK, we seem to have a lot less police violence than the USA. If any government comes in here, it will be, like now, because some people voted for it. The US supposedly has "checks and balances" and a written constitution. I understand from comments here that the Constitution isn't doing too well at present, what with "Homeland Security" and various criminal organisations like the RIAA etc. (I know they are legal but they are still a bunch of crooks).
"I see your constitution and raise you a Queen."
No holds barred means that you done believe, for example, in war crimes. That is the attitude that allegedly made GWB decide that the Geneva Convention doesn't count for the USA. It does. Some people found out 65 years ago that it counted for them. I understand that your country supplied prosecutors for this.
On a smaller scale, in hand to hand fighting it is perfectly legitimate for a comrade to help you by shooting your opponent. Another example, if someone starts to shoot at me with a hand gun, I am quite reasonably entitled to shoot him with my assault rifle.
You are always being watched. I know that our leaders are great fans of "embedding" reporters. As we saw just a few days ago, a lot gets out nowadays without any reporters being there. If nobody is as stupid as that, stuff still gets out. Some people allow their principles, sense of right and wrong and their patriotism to overcome the knowledge that the rich, powerful and unprincipled will not be happy with them. Wikileaks was not the first such example and it will not be the last.
You are subject to the laws of your country whether you know them or not. You are also subject to them whether you agree or not. You and various of your contryfolk may not like it, but international law affects how countries act during peace and war. Retribution for breaking the law is not guaranteed, but unless you and your country withdraws from the world stage and prevents all your people leaving your borders, it might. Even that is not complete proof. Mossad and the CIA have kidnapped people to stand trial in the past and have set an example for other spooks to follow in the future.
It would probably be better if they had the whole thing in proper measurements. Showing technology in hogsheads and furlongs etc seems to mislead some people into thinking that "imperial" measures are a valid idea.
And what makes the war in question legal then?
The only legal phrase I can think of is de facto
Starting a war against another country is either legal or not. The usual reasons for starting such are because you have been invaded or attacked by them or or are following a UN resolution.
The USA was not invaded in 2001.
The USA was attacked. The civilised world offered sympathy and help. The attackers were seemingly Saudi or Egyptian, neither of which was attacked in retaliation. They criminals behind the act were felt to be based in Afghanistan. That is why the USA and various allied countries attacked it. They did this on the basis of a UN resolution. That war was legal.
No such resolution ever happened for Iraq in 2003. Therefore this was an illegal action. The USA may have been the ringleader but every other country that participated dishonoured their armed forces by sending them into an illegal war. The people of these countries may not all have been keen but the "coalition of the willing" were active participants in the crime.
Well AC. That is the full game. Those are the circumstances. If you can cease your incorrect assumptions about people with a better grasp of reality and legality than you, it would be nice. Sadly, it would also be surprising...
The problem is that a lot of people (most?) would find apt-get horrendous. App stores are simple way to let someone else decide for you what you want.
Even most Android users are probably quite content with one market place. You may have more than one. Most users here may well have installed things straight from an .APK file. This is not normal. We here should not take our attitudes and abilities as the norm.
most people don't even manually shift gears
I presume you are in the 4% then? Most people do control their gears - just not in the USA. Canadians please comment. I don't know if you have allowed the US motor industry to remove control of your cars from you as well,
Fair enough. Neither should it be a crime for me to unlock devices I buy. Back on the box then?
Microsoft managed to escape being dismembered by having politicians do what they wanted,
The legal process needs revisiting. The same sort of charges can be brought. Perhaps, if found guilty, this time it could be concluded properly with the criminal being punished and prevented from committing the same crimes yet again.
Quick answer - no.
Slightly longer answer - No and I have wondered about it for a while.
Full answer - The USA has amply demonstrated that it is unsuitable for its self-selected rol of global policeman. It has shown a mixture of arrogance and huge amounts of money to try and supplant the ICC, UN, International Red Cross and more. Its leadership has stated that the Geneva Convention is only relevant when they feel like it and some regimes can do no wrong and others can do no right. It has shown capriciousness in making and breaking friendships and feels that its legal system takes precedence over everyone else's.
If the device (phone, Tablet or PC) does not belong to us, it is not getting connected to our network. This is absolute - for secretaries, doctors, nurses or whoever else you care to mention.
Sometimes we get new starters showing us their BlackBerry/new iPad/laptop/whatever but we just show them the documentation and that is usually the end of the story.
Our "Service Desk" (Help Desk) know this and tell people. It is interesting that those at the top of the tree and those nearer the bottom both seem to be able to take a telling. We do get people from the middle demanding to speak to someone higher up. These people feel that they are so special that the world has to make special allowances for them. The answer does not change.
if you can get them all on the same page
There is your problem. Even in a non-fragmented society, you would have problems. These guns are spread between, right wing religious to middle of the road atheists, libertarians, tea party, weekend hunters, crazy people who hate everyone, survivalists, people who just think that carrying a gun is their "duty", people who think that owning a gun is cool, people scared of burglars and many many more. Put them all together at your own risk and stand well back (ideally behind thick steel plate).
My money is on the military. They are all singing the same song and tend to work together.
You may be aware of the 96% outside your country, but you are on Slashdot and may be as typical of your society as I may be of mine.
I remember a press report 11 years ago where GWB was unable to name the president of Pakistan. The article commented that some US experts had opined that this would actually increase the number of people voting for him. Didn't one of your prospective candidates this time show that he thought Africa is a country? Again, I doubt you think this. Some of your compatriots do. ( I am sure there will be some here too but they may be a lower %.)
Having opinions about certain cultures does not necessarily mean racism. Do not mix up culture and ethnicity. They are separate.
IT tends not to be acquainted with the real business of your organization
That is a commonly regurgitated myth and it is straight wrong...
IT engineers are able to have a more complete picture of what is going on throughout a large company than just about anyone else. The only other group that gets around more is the cleaners.
IT deals with Finance because this is where the highest paid people get the most expensive equipment and accept the least guidance about anything. It deals with production because this is where the profit is generated by the people who actually make the whole company work with the least possible amount of equipment. It deals with HR because they feel that they have to be able to contact everyone instantly and they think they are in charge. They deal with secretaries, receptionists and telephonists who actually provide the public face of the organisation.
Which group of people is more likely to know if staff are unable to complete their work? Senior management won't know because middle management will be covering up. Middle management are siloed and barely know what is happening next door. Finance is busy keeping costs down and are not concerned with that sort of thing. HR... What does HR do anyway?The actual workers like their management rarely know what is happening outside their area.
IT goes everywhere and sees what is going on. They can hear that the maintenance has a problem that will cost a lot to fix in the morning and that there is a cash flow problem in the afternoon. We are good at confidentiality - that is what we do, but we know exactly what is happening/
Very small companies can not really justify a separate IT department. All they can do is to have a support contract somewhere.
As a company grows, they may find, depending on how much they use IT (yes, some companies do not need much) that they can specifically use an employee to cut down on external support. They will still need external support for network and server support.
It is only once a company gets into 3 figures of desktops, they they would be stupid to outsource and have no self support. Many do this though. I have heard senior managers/execs say things like "Computers would be great if we didn't have to have IT." I suspect that this sort of comment comes from someone who was not allowed to put his iShinyNewShinyThing onto the corporate network or who did something really stupid and got in trouble for it. We all know the sorts of thing.
Keep the second the same and ignore the sun. If you are going to ignore 96% of the planet, you might as well go the whole hog and have a day that is 27 Hours, 42 minutes and 40 seconds long. It would suit me anyway. (My natural diurnal cycle is closer to that than 24.)
So they are saying that the USA should not only use different units of weight, length, temperature etc from most of the rest of the planet but you should use a different calendar from us all as well.
At least when the revolutionary French tried it, they invented different names for the days and months.
This amazingly stupid idea is unlikely to catch on globally. If the USA decides to use something else different from what normal humans use, please make up 7 new day names and 12 new month ones and keep a conversion table handy for dealing with the 96% of the human race outside your borders.
The use of a standard time happens a little already. I understand that international air travel uses GMT0 (also called UCT) and everyone ought to know their offset. I can't see it catching on in your country though. Some of your compatriots are not aware that there is anywhere else to be offset from...
This a mis-association a lot of FOSS advocates/enthusiasts have to deal with.
Freedom can no more morph to equal 'piracy' than it can morph to equal purple or anaconda.
I can use my freedom to 'pirate' IP, wear purple underpants or keep a snake but the fact I choose not to has nothing to do with my freedom or lack of it.
My wanting freedom has nothing to do with wanting to do certain things that large corporations have had our legal systems changed to prevent. Just because people are very against those legalised criminals does not mean that they want to steal their Imaginary Property.
That is about the best definition I have come across. I will make use of it. Thank you.
The paragraph was very clear and comprehensible. The grammar was not perfect, but that does not seem to be a universal requirement around here.
I decline to make any observations about the ACs reading ability.
They receive their email when they come to work on Monday morning and start their desktop PC. They carry on receiving it during their working hours while they are on the premises .
No Mr "DoYouKnowWhoIAm". We will not connect up your nice shiny new iPad to our network.
Why? We have a huge amount of personal information here and we have a boatload of regulations from our national organisation, consumer laws coming out of our ears and a small degree of common sense. All of these prevent us allowing someone - even you - to bring in their favourite device to put even the smallest quantity of it on.
But you really need to have it upon this fashion accessory? We can help you there. Please fill in this form and someone who is not one of us mean IT people will see whether the organisation agrees with you. If they do, they will spend our money on such a device. We will make it secure and you will then be able to increase your productivity as you describe.
But you want to use this one? We have another form here for this. Allow us to take control of your device. We will remove some applications such as Limewire and BitTorrent and put a few things on it to make it more secure. We will then Fix it so that it can't pass any of our records to people that the organisation does not want it to. We will also make it use that" RSA number thing" on your key ring. This will also prevent you from installing any more apps upon it but it will be nice and secure now."
Hello?
Hello? Are you still there?
Hello??????
This law is part of your broken legal system, not anyone else's. Why should it be foisted upon the rest of the planet?*
Several years ago, my son got his first android phone, the G1. He asked my permission to lie about his age to set up an account. I was already aware that Google tries to do this and said OK. He is now old enough to be "legal" and has come to no harm. This was in spite of various crazies advising me to put Net Nanny or some other corporate nonsense on my PC and then not allowing him to use it unless I was with him. I decided to educate him about the internet, as I already had with his older sister.
It was my responsibility and not too hard. This nonsense has been one of my few black marks for Google.
*And then they start up Google music but limit it to the 4% of humanity actually subject to the US legal system.
Come on guys, either be global with your services or global by not applying insane US laws on the rest of us.
He was talking about Ubuntu - the main offering. As a smart operation, of course Canonical has alternative offerings. Their main distro came with Gnome,
Whether that was good or bad, is a matter of opinion. Personally, I preferred KDE but chopped and changed between the two.