Actually, ISIS was formed out of the dregs of the Baathist ideology that was central to the ruling party in Iraq before Saddam Hussein fell.
ISIS is not just a bunch of sulky dudes in the desert.
And we can't just roll in some shipping containers full of two-by-fours and frame up tract housing and 'rebuld' Iraq.
How the hell did you weave SUVs into your argument? The terrorist attack on Paris is the fault of SUV owners?
That's just weird. I know you want to carry on with your long drawn out explanation of how it's all our fault they don't have stable Nation States on the persian gulf. Like, uh, they did back in, uh.. 1500??
Actually, Pol Pot, Stalin, and Mao did what they did because they were athiests. God was dead, and it was their job to take charge and fix everything. That's what happens when you decide 'history is dead, and it's up to us to straighten everything out.'
But don't let my comments interfere with your hatred.
The US Frontier gold rushes really didn't have much to do with gold in the first place.
Take the California Gold Rush as an example.
The US had just won the Mexican-American war in 1848 and we had this big strip of land (California) that we'd siezed from Mexico. There weren't enough white American settlers on the land for us to maintain our claim on the land effectively.
Solution? Holler "Gold" and get every fool and idiot not otherwise occupied to rush across the continent to the new territory.
There was some gold, of course, but everybody eventually figured out, not that much gold.
Except, of course that there has been surveys done of French Moslems (by the Pew Research Institute if memory serves well), that tend to prove they are the least radicalized and best integrated of all European Moslem communities.
Which just motivates zealots from outside France to stir things up, to try to shore up support within France. To radicalize the local population.
It shouldn't be allowed for any organization to use a SSN as a secret code. I.e. nobody should have to keep their SSN secret. If I chose to put it on my mailbox, no credit agency should be able to penalize me. It should be of no value to an identity thief.
The way to accomplish this would be for the govt. to publish Name/Hometown/SSN for everybody.
It was never meant to be a secret, or a tool for bankers to sort us.
The US Frontier gold rushes really didn't have much to do with gold in the first place.
Take the California Gold Rush as an example.
The US had just won the Mexican-American war in 1848 and we had this big strip of land (California) that we'd siezed from Mexico. There weren't enough white American settlers on the land for us to maintain our claim on the land effectively.
Solution? Holler "Gold" and get every fool and idiot not otherwise occupied to rush across the continent to the new territory.
There was some gold, of course, but everybody eventually figured out, not that much gold.
Botnets that aren't free and cost money to get time on are botnets that thus need to have a traceable revenue stream. Clearly more can be done to exterminate the people running the botnets, or at least make it hard to pay for the medical care they need after nearly exterminating them.
It's organized crime, and there are government agencies tasked with dealing with organized crime.
It's interesting to tour the towns of the "top leader board" players of games like Township and Hay Day. What empty lives they must lead, when that's the best they can accomplish with daddy's credit card. You get the feeling they're lonely rich kids trapped in a highrise in Singapore, or Saudi Princesses.
I remember when one of the marketing points of Opera was that it was so lightweight and portable that the entire installer fit on a single 1.44M floppy disk.
I bought five acres with a 19th century 2 bedroom house on it, only two miles out of a town with one of the state's best small liberal arts colleges in it, for $120k. Out in the yard I can faintly hear the marching band at their football games, and in good weather, the bell in the courthouse. We could have horses in our pasture if I wanted the hassle of keeping horses.
I said $120K up there. And I know there are a lot of properties much cheaper.
No fueling system is unlimited, but for people who need extremely long range with a gasoline vehicle, it's affordable to add an auxillary tank. I could put one in the bed of my truck that would give me a thousand mile range.
Nobody can add the batteries to an electric vehicle for that range and have a vehicle that won't twist the wheels off it's axles when they put it in gear.
I'm not sure why you say "Gas cars seem like they really are doomed to going the way of the horse and buggy."
Do you have evidence to present? I see almost no electric cars and hundreds of gas cars every day. Oil exploration and extraction continues to go on. The only thing that would shut it down is government edict.
If the Government wants 1,500,000 angry people in gasoline vehicles converging on Washington to shut the place down, they can issue that sort of edict.
My father retired from IBM after 30 years. He was a programmer on the IBM 650 in the late 50's. He spent his whole career working with computers. He still has an older Pentium 1 Thinkpad on his desk that runs Windows 95. He uses the Lotus spreadsheet for his finances. Mom has a newer laptop that is current to keep up with friends and family. Dad has no interest in any of it.
I live in south central Indiana. I moved here from Minneapolis. Everything is cheaper here. There aren't as many tech jobs but you get by. Without the Internet it would be impossible for me to bear living here. The Internet has flattened the world. You don't have to live in any particular place to be connected. If anything the best deal right now is to move out of the city to some place, with a good net connection, that you like.
It's really disappointing that they started displaying UIDs visibly on the top of posts. It wasn't like that until somebody set up a 'fake Bruce Perens' account with some sort of spelling hack I don't remember. For awhile there there was the necessity to determine who 'the real Bruce Perens' was because apparently he's so important. So they started displaying UID visibly, and it started to become a 'thing.' That might have been before you were around.
The Arabs from that region were nomadic tribes-people, similar in a way to the American Indians.
What happened to the American Indians was also deplorable, but the term to describe it is 'progress.' People can go all new-agey about the Indians and it's popular for people to do in late adolescence and early adulthood.
But it's no different than bemoaning progress in other spheres of human activity. Lots of people deride the 'buggy whip maker' losing their lifestyle here on slashdot. This isn't a lot different.
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Actually, ISIS was formed out of the dregs of the Baathist ideology that was central to the ruling party in Iraq before Saddam Hussein fell.
ISIS is not just a bunch of sulky dudes in the desert.
And we can't just roll in some shipping containers full of two-by-fours and frame up tract housing and 'rebuld' Iraq.
How the hell did you weave SUVs into your argument? The terrorist attack on Paris is the fault of SUV owners?
That's just weird. I know you want to carry on with your long drawn out explanation of how it's all our fault they don't have stable Nation States on the persian gulf. Like, uh, they did back in, uh.. 1500??
Actually, Pol Pot, Stalin, and Mao did what they did because they were athiests. God was dead, and it was their job to take charge and fix everything. That's what happens when you decide 'history is dead, and it's up to us to straighten everything out.'
But don't let my comments interfere with your hatred.
The US Frontier gold rushes really didn't have much to do with gold in the first place.
Take the California Gold Rush as an example.
The US had just won the Mexican-American war in 1848 and we had this big strip of land (California) that we'd siezed from Mexico. There weren't enough white American settlers on the land for us to maintain our claim on the land effectively.
Solution? Holler "Gold" and get every fool and idiot not otherwise occupied to rush across the continent to the new territory.
There was some gold, of course, but everybody eventually figured out, not that much gold.
Pol Pot, Stalin, and Mao were all atheists. Suck on it.
If you bought a device for a single music store at $599.00, you're fucking stupid. And maybe the cost doesn't matter.
I agree. Anybody who would buy an appliance that you can only load music into with something like iTunes is fucking stupid.
Which just motivates zealots from outside France to stir things up, to try to shore up support within France. To radicalize the local population.
And I am closing out my Apple account. They've obsoleted every one of my (3) iOS devices, now, anyway.
The power of businesses to use the SSN that way would vaporize if everybody just disclosed them to each other.
It shouldn't be allowed for any organization to use a SSN as a secret code. I.e. nobody should have to keep their SSN secret. If I chose to put it on my mailbox, no credit agency should be able to penalize me. It should be of no value to an identity thief.
The way to accomplish this would be for the govt. to publish Name/Hometown/SSN for everybody.
It was never meant to be a secret, or a tool for bankers to sort us.
The US Frontier gold rushes really didn't have much to do with gold in the first place.
Take the California Gold Rush as an example.
The US had just won the Mexican-American war in 1848 and we had this big strip of land (California) that we'd siezed from Mexico. There weren't enough white American settlers on the land for us to maintain our claim on the land effectively.
Solution? Holler "Gold" and get every fool and idiot not otherwise occupied to rush across the continent to the new territory.
There was some gold, of course, but everybody eventually figured out, not that much gold.
Botnets that aren't free and cost money to get time on are botnets that thus need to have a traceable revenue stream. Clearly more can be done to exterminate the people running the botnets, or at least make it hard to pay for the medical care they need after nearly exterminating them.
It's organized crime, and there are government agencies tasked with dealing with organized crime.
The image is already onsite, on removable media.
If not. Oh well. What kind of crapware OS were you running, again?
Ah, the Whales!
It's interesting to tour the towns of the "top leader board" players of games like Township and Hay Day. What empty lives they must lead, when that's the best they can accomplish with daddy's credit card. You get the feeling they're lonely rich kids trapped in a highrise in Singapore, or Saudi Princesses.
Township is even out for Windows Phone now, btw.
I remember when one of the marketing points of Opera was that it was so lightweight and portable that the entire installer fit on a single 1.44M floppy disk.
I bought five acres with a 19th century 2 bedroom house on it, only two miles out of a town with one of the state's best small liberal arts colleges in it, for $120k. Out in the yard I can faintly hear the marching band at their football games, and in good weather, the bell in the courthouse. We could have horses in our pasture if I wanted the hassle of keeping horses.
I said $120K up there. And I know there are a lot of properties much cheaper.
No fueling system is unlimited, but for people who need extremely long range with a gasoline vehicle, it's affordable to add an auxillary tank. I could put one in the bed of my truck that would give me a thousand mile range.
Nobody can add the batteries to an electric vehicle for that range and have a vehicle that won't twist the wheels off it's axles when they put it in gear.
'Big Oil' is in the pocket of the people, who demand low fuel costs.
The weird notion that that fat capitalist on the Monopoly 'Chance' cards is out there, working for Filthy Oil is a little ridiculous.
I'm not sure why you say "Gas cars seem like they really are doomed to going the way of the horse and buggy."
Do you have evidence to present? I see almost no electric cars and hundreds of gas cars every day. Oil exploration and extraction continues to go on. The only thing that would shut it down is government edict.
If the Government wants 1,500,000 angry people in gasoline vehicles converging on Washington to shut the place down, they can issue that sort of edict.
My father retired from IBM after 30 years. He was a programmer on the IBM 650 in the late 50's. He spent his whole career working with computers. He still has an older Pentium 1 Thinkpad on his desk that runs Windows 95. He uses the Lotus spreadsheet for his finances. Mom has a newer laptop that is current to keep up with friends and family. Dad has no interest in any of it.
I live in south central Indiana. I moved here from Minneapolis. Everything is cheaper here. There aren't as many tech jobs but you get by. Without the Internet it would be impossible for me to bear living here. The Internet has flattened the world. You don't have to live in any particular place to be connected. If anything the best deal right now is to move out of the city to some place, with a good net connection, that you like.
I started reading Slashdot in 1999.
It's really disappointing that they started displaying UIDs visibly on the top of posts. It wasn't like that until somebody set up a 'fake Bruce Perens' account with some sort of spelling hack I don't remember. For awhile there there was the necessity to determine who 'the real Bruce Perens' was because apparently he's so important. So they started displaying UID visibly, and it started to become a 'thing.' That might have been before you were around.
Yes, there was a Playstation 2 Harvest Moon, once.
There is a Harvest Moon subculture. It's mostly female players.
"My" GOP? Don't make assumptions. I am waiting for the dust to clear after the train wreck before I decide who to vote for.
We elected jugears twice, too.
History's worst president.
Actively bad, not just incompetent like his predecessor.
The Arabs from that region were nomadic tribes-people, similar in a way to the American Indians.
What happened to the American Indians was also deplorable, but the term to describe it is 'progress.' People can go all new-agey about the Indians and it's popular for people to do in late adolescence and early adulthood.
But it's no different than bemoaning progress in other spheres of human activity. Lots of people deride the 'buggy whip maker' losing their lifestyle here on slashdot. This isn't a lot different.