Have you forgotten Bin Laden's 1996 fatwah or his 1998 fatwah? Not a damned thing about Iraq in those calls to arms.
There's this skill called "reading." Ever heard of it?
From your first link: "It should not be hidden from you that the people of Islam had suffered from aggression, iniquity and injustice imposed on them by the Zionist-Crusaders alliance and their collaborators; to the extent that the Muslims blood became the cheapest and their wealth as loot in the hands of the enemies. Their blood was spilled in Palestine and Iraq. The horrifying pictures of the massacre of Qana, in Lebanon are still fresh in our memory. Massacres in Tajakestan, Burma, Cashmere, Assam, Philippine, Fatani, Ogadin, Somalia, Erithria, Chechnia and in Bosnia-Herzegovina took place, massacres that send shivers in the body and shake the conscience."
From your second: "First, for over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian Peninsula, plundering its riches, dictating to its rulers, humiliating its people, terrorizing its neighbors, and turning its bases in the Peninsula into a spearhead through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples.
If some people have formerly debated the fact of the occupation, all the people of the Peninsula have now acknowledged it.
The best proof of this is the Americans' continuing aggression against the Iraqi people using the Peninsula as a staging post, even though all its rulers are against their territories being used to that end, still they are helpless. Second, despite the great devastation inflicted on the Iraqi people by the crusader-Zionist alliance, and despite the huge number of those killed, in excess of 1 million... despite all this, the Americans are once against trying to repeat the horrific massacres, as though they are not content with the protracted blockade imposed after the ferocious war or the fragmentation and devastation.
So now they come to annihilate what is left of this people and to humiliate their Muslim neighbors."
Yup, they just attack us because our women don't wear burqas.
Look how good being pacifist has worked in the past: [...] France in general
When?
The French had more soldiers killed in World War II than the U.S. did. Their generals and military doctrine may have been awful, but it wasn't pacifistic.
Churchill urges Mussolini not to become involved in the war.
10/06/1940
Italy declares war on Britain and France, effective from the 11th June 1940.
11/06/1940
Italian aircraft bomb Malta.
20/06/1940
German troops capture Lyons and the vital port of Brest in Brittany. French envoys drive behind German lines to receive armistice terms. Italian forces begin an offensive along the Riviera coast into France.
The BBC quotes a website claiming responsibility: "Nation of Islam and Arab nation: Rejoice for it is time to take revenge against the British Zionist Crusader government in retaliation for the massacres Britain is committing in Iraq and Afghanistan. The heroic mujahideen have carried out a blessed raid in London. Britain is now burning with fear, terror and panic in its northern, southern, eastern, and western quarters. [...] We continue to warn the governments of Denmark and Italy and all the Crusader governments that they will be punished in the same way if they do not withdraw their troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. He who warns is excused."
I mean think about the Mac compared to a PC of the day. WHY would you buy a PC in 1984?
PCs had color, Macs didn't until '87. PCs had hard drives, Macs didn't. From Wikipedia:
"The limitations of the first Mac soon became clear. It had very little memory, even compared to other personal computers in 1984, and could not be expanded easily; it lacked a hard drive or any means to attach one easily. Although by 1985 the Mac's base memory had increased to 512 kb, and it was possible, albeit inconvenient, to expand the memory of a 128 kb Mac, Apple realized that the Mac needed to be improved."
I was certainly using PCs with hard drives in the summer of '85, and remember doing the floppy shuffle on a Mac the summer afterwards.
One was a Logitech controller (for PC), the other a Pelican G3.
Wireless just gives you a lot more to go wrong. The batteries can drain, the connection fail, etc. I think I'd prefer to see wireless systems that are separate from the controllers (and replaceable), so you can have a controller that is corded or cordless.
The Xbox 360 is using 2.4GHhz wireless controllers last I heard. Not a bad concept, but what happens when the battery dies mid-game?
Or even not mid-game? The only controllers I've ever had completely die on me were wireless. No obvious reason for it, just picked 'em up one day and they no longer worked.
Oh, so you're against patents in every industry. Where I look at [..] aeroplanes
Again, aeroplane progress would have been hindered by the Wright patents, except that Congress threatened to remove them. Why? Without that condemnation, planes would have been prohibitively expensive, and World War I was ravaging Europe. The Wrights wanted $100,000 for the first one they tried to sell to the U.S. gov't, and sued Curtiss when he came up with the idea of ailerons rather than warping the entire wing to turn.
Oh, so you're against patents in every industry. Where I look at automobiles
The early automobile industry spent many years in litigation because of the Selden patent, a patent made by a patent attorney with no desire to actually make automobiles, nor much of a claim to having invented one. Read and be enlightened.
In the end, Selden's patent was invalidated, but after much litigation and extortion of licensing fees.
Vaguely along these lines, I've had a desire for a while for screen scraping type work. There are small bits of info I want to grab from multiple web pages and combine them into a single page. Further complicating the issue, there may be POSTDATA and cookie files I need to provide, possibly with different versions of a single cookie file.
by default all images are copyrighted by the photographer, anything else would be crazy. by default means "if there is no contract covering copyrights". any other default is (to me) meaningless.
Programming is generally "work for hire'; do it on someone else's dime and they own the copyrights. Photography seems at least somewhat similar.
Architects may reuse design elements in multiple drawings, and thus have more of a reason to keep their drawings. Moreover, the drawings are a tool to an end result, not the end result itself.
Fox's contract specifically says that Joss can never bring the tv series back in any form.
"Coming this fall on Sci-Fi, a new series from Joss Whedon: Lightning Bug."
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Alternatively, how about having the menu show up if you ask for it, rather than by default? Or have your suggested menu that disappears -- thus showing it exists -- but only when it appears on start-up.
From the article: "Microsoft has been especially critical of a legal framework that has caused it to spend $100 million a year defending itself against 35 to 40 lawsuits at any one time. Microsoft has gone on the legislative offensive after a jury awarded Eolas Technologies $565 million in damages--a decision that has been partially reversed--in a patent dispute over Internet Explorer."
I can see Microsoft hating bogus patents, but believing its R&D department is capable of quality patents. Bad patents typically just make money for lawyers.
Given that this Supreme Court just ruled that someone growing their own marijuana for treating their own medical condition can be "regulated" under the interstate commerce clause, I have little faith that the justices will be receptive to logical Constitutional arguments.
Those aren't children, the Sherpas are just really undernourished. Heck, Tensing Norgay was barely three feet tall, and Sir Edmund practically carried him the whole way in his backpack.
Is this the best that Slashdot has to offer in the way of humor?
Hello and welcome to "Whose Slashdot is it anyway", the website where the mod points don't matter. That's right, the mod points don't matter, they're like the condoms in my bedside table.
Are SVG and Flash similar enough that a player capable of handling both would be possible? Seems like it might be easier and more practical to have a single engine that handles both specs.
High cost is due to relatively small market. As for repairs, I found this on the web:
Green' doesn't have to mean more expensive
20 January 2005 Australia's leading general insurer, NRMA Insurance, today released the latest results from its internationally accredited low speed crash test program, showing repair costs for hybrid cars are comparable with standard small to medium sized vehicles.
An 'out-performer' in the hybrid vehicles category was the Toyota Prius II. The repair cost of this vehicle after a low speed collision, as a percentage of its purchase price, is commendable at 11.6 per cent. The top performing car, Mazda6, achieved 8.3 per cent.
How about when half the country comes home from work and plugs their cars in to charge up?
Power companies could charge different rates for power drawn at different times, thus giving an incentive to have the charger run at different times.
But you're just being a nay-sayer. You could say "with our current technology, electric cars aren't practical for most people." You can't say all, since the GM EV-1s already were practical for some people. (One would work as a second car for me.) You could say that all these people charging their cars at once would be a big strain on the grid, but no, you're just saying it'll never work. Yet there are plenty of on-demand power sources, otherwise AC in the summer wouldn't work. And it's not like people all get home at the same time and thus must charge at the same time, unlike in the UK where 10 million kettles were all being heated at once at halftime of the World Cup games. It's a potential problem, but it's idiotic to say it's something that ensures electric cars will never work.
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Have you forgotten Bin Laden's 1996 fatwah or his 1998 fatwah? Not a damned thing about Iraq in those calls to arms.
There's this skill called "reading." Ever heard of it?
From your first link:
"It should not be hidden from you that the people of Islam had suffered from aggression, iniquity and injustice imposed on them by the Zionist-Crusaders alliance and their collaborators; to the extent that the Muslims blood became the cheapest and their wealth as loot in the hands of the enemies. Their blood was spilled in Palestine and Iraq. The horrifying pictures of the massacre of Qana, in Lebanon are still fresh in our memory. Massacres in Tajakestan, Burma, Cashmere, Assam, Philippine, Fatani, Ogadin, Somalia, Erithria, Chechnia and in Bosnia-Herzegovina took place, massacres that send shivers in the body and shake the conscience."
From your second:
"First, for over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian Peninsula, plundering its riches, dictating to its rulers, humiliating its people, terrorizing its neighbors, and turning its bases in the Peninsula into a spearhead through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples.
If some people have formerly debated the fact of the occupation, all the people of the Peninsula have now acknowledged it.
The best proof of this is the Americans' continuing aggression against the Iraqi people using the Peninsula as a staging post, even though all its rulers are against their territories being used to that end, still they are helpless. Second, despite the great devastation inflicted on the Iraqi people by the crusader-Zionist alliance, and despite the huge number of those killed, in excess of 1 million... despite all this, the Americans are once against trying to repeat the horrific massacres, as though they are not content with the protracted blockade imposed after the ferocious war or the fragmentation and devastation.
So now they come to annihilate what is left of this people and to humiliate their Muslim neighbors."
Yup, they just attack us because our women don't wear burqas.
Look how good being pacifist has worked in the past: [...] France in general
When?
The French had more soldiers killed in World War II than the U.S. did. Their generals and military doctrine may have been awful, but it wasn't pacifistic.
http://www.fathersforlife.org/hist/wwiicas.htm
16/05/1940
Churchill urges Mussolini not to become involved in the war.
10/06/1940
Italy declares war on Britain and France, effective from the 11th June 1940.
11/06/1940
Italian aircraft bomb Malta.
20/06/1940
German troops capture Lyons and the vital port of Brest in Brittany. French envoys drive behind German lines to receive armistice terms. Italian forces begin an offensive along the Riviera coast into France.
Nonsense.
The BBC quotes a website claiming responsibility:
"Nation of Islam and Arab nation: Rejoice for it is time to take revenge against the British Zionist Crusader government in retaliation for the massacres Britain is committing in Iraq and Afghanistan. The heroic mujahideen have carried out a blessed raid in London. Britain is now burning with fear, terror and panic in its northern, southern, eastern, and western quarters. [...]
We continue to warn the governments of Denmark and Italy and all the Crusader governments that they will be punished in the same way if they do not withdraw their troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. He who warns is excused."
Not a d---ed thing about infidels.
I mean think about the Mac compared to a PC of the day. WHY would you buy a PC in 1984?
PCs had color, Macs didn't until '87. PCs had hard drives, Macs didn't. From Wikipedia:
"The limitations of the first Mac soon became clear. It had very little memory, even compared to other personal computers in 1984, and could not be expanded easily; it lacked a hard drive or any means to attach one easily. Although by 1985 the Mac's base memory had increased to 512 kb, and it was possible, albeit inconvenient, to expand the memory of a 128 kb Mac, Apple realized that the Mac needed to be improved."
I was certainly using PCs with hard drives in the summer of '85, and remember doing the floppy shuffle on a Mac the summer afterwards.
One was a Logitech controller (for PC), the other a Pelican G3.
Wireless just gives you a lot more to go wrong. The batteries can drain, the connection fail, etc. I think I'd prefer to see wireless systems that are separate from the controllers (and replaceable), so you can have a controller that is corded or cordless.
The Xbox 360 is using 2.4GHhz wireless controllers last I heard. Not a bad concept, but what happens when the battery dies mid-game?
Or even not mid-game? The only controllers I've ever had completely die on me were wireless. No obvious reason for it, just picked 'em up one day and they no longer worked.
A single ampersand will do a bitwise AND with 0 -- which is always 0 -- so you can actually do it with just two added characters.
Does this make me a master hacker?
the image of the album cover above the play/stop/etc. controls
No, the iTunes play/stop controls are in the upper right corner. The controls at the bottom are things like shuffle play and repeat.
Oh, so you're against patents in every industry. Where I look at [..] aeroplanes
Again, aeroplane progress would have been hindered by the Wright patents, except that Congress threatened to remove them. Why? Without that condemnation, planes would have been prohibitively expensive, and World War I was ravaging Europe. The Wrights wanted $100,000 for the first one they tried to sell to the U.S. gov't, and sued Curtiss when he came up with the idea of ailerons rather than warping the entire wing to turn.
Oh, so you're against patents in every industry. Where I look at automobiles
The early automobile industry spent many years in litigation because of the Selden patent, a patent made by a patent attorney with no desire to actually make automobiles, nor much of a claim to having invented one. Read and be enlightened.
In the end, Selden's patent was invalidated, but after much litigation and extortion of licensing fees.
No, patents did *not* help.
Vaguely along these lines, I've had a desire for a while for screen scraping type work. There are small bits of info I want to grab from multiple web pages and combine them into a single page. Further complicating the issue, there may be POSTDATA and cookie files I need to provide, possibly with different versions of a single cookie file.
Is this possible without full-on progamming?
Actually...
First German Bombing raid on London: 31st May 1915
by default all images are copyrighted by the photographer, anything else would be crazy. by default means "if there is no contract covering copyrights". any other default is (to me) meaningless.
Programming is generally "work for hire'; do it on someone else's dime and they own the copyrights. Photography seems at least somewhat similar.
Architects may reuse design elements in multiple drawings, and thus have more of a reason to keep their drawings. Moreover, the drawings are a tool to an end result, not the end result itself.
Fox's contract specifically says that Joss can never bring the tv series back in any form.
"Coming this fall on Sci-Fi, a new series from Joss Whedon: Lightning Bug."
Alternatively, how about having the menu show up if you ask for it, rather than by default? Or have your suggested menu that disappears -- thus showing it exists -- but only when it appears on start-up.
From the article:
"Microsoft has been especially critical of a legal framework that has caused it to spend $100 million a year defending itself against 35 to 40 lawsuits at any one time. Microsoft has gone on the legislative offensive after a jury awarded Eolas Technologies $565 million in damages--a decision that has been partially reversed--in a patent dispute over Internet Explorer."
I can see Microsoft hating bogus patents, but believing its R&D department is capable of quality patents. Bad patents typically just make money for lawyers.
Given that this Supreme Court just ruled that someone growing their own marijuana for treating their own medical condition can be "regulated" under the interstate commerce clause, I have little faith that the justices will be receptive to logical Constitutional arguments.
I love the moderation to the parent of this; two ratings of overrated to something that has never been rated in the first place.
Those aren't children, the Sherpas are just really undernourished. Heck, Tensing Norgay was barely three feet tall, and Sir Edmund practically carried him the whole way in his backpack.
Is this the best that Slashdot has to offer in the way of humor?
Hello and welcome to "Whose Slashdot is it anyway", the website where the mod points don't matter. That's right, the mod points don't matter, they're like the condoms in my bedside table.
The article quoted was from 2000, back when Napster was free, and allowing users to trade mp3s.
Are SVG and Flash similar enough that a player capable of handling both would be possible? Seems like it might be easier and more practical to have a single engine that handles both specs.
High cost is due to relatively small market. As for repairs, I found this on the web:
Green' doesn't have to mean more expensive
20 January 2005
Australia's leading general insurer, NRMA Insurance, today released the latest results from its internationally accredited low speed crash test program, showing repair costs for hybrid cars are comparable with standard small to medium sized vehicles.
An 'out-performer' in the hybrid vehicles category was the Toyota Prius II. The repair cost of this vehicle after a low speed collision, as a percentage of its purchase price, is commendable at 11.6 per cent. The top performing car, Mazda6, achieved 8.3 per cent.
And this/a. too.
How about when half the country comes home from work and plugs their cars in to charge up?
Power companies could charge different rates for power drawn at different times, thus giving an incentive to have the charger run at different times.
But you're just being a nay-sayer. You could say "with our current technology, electric cars aren't practical for most people." You can't say all, since the GM EV-1s already were practical for some people. (One would work as a second car for me.) You could say that all these people charging their cars at once would be a big strain on the grid, but no, you're just saying it'll never work. Yet there are plenty of on-demand power sources, otherwise AC in the summer wouldn't work. And it's not like people all get home at the same time and thus must charge at the same time, unlike in the UK where 10 million kettles were all being heated at once at halftime of the World Cup games. It's a potential problem, but it's idiotic to say it's something that ensures electric cars will never work.