Sure, the IRA were once terrorists. But now that they've made themselves a "partner in the peace process" they are no longer a terrorist group, but they essentially will get their way. This seems to be what has happened with the PLO/Fatah and Hamas (sort of, the Israelis and Americans must deal with them even though they don't want to) and what could happen with Hizbollah in the future.
Yes, the Crusades happened, but they're actually irrelvant now. The terrorists just keep bringing it up in order to give historical credence to their actions (i.e. they're trying to redo the jihad that pushed the Crusaders out of the Middle East). After the 1680's or so the Ottoman Empire stopped trying to conquer Austria, and the "war between the West and Islam" ended. After that the conflicts between Turkey and the West were just imperialist squabblings, not a holy war.
The current conflict has everything to do with oil and Israel and very little to do with the Crusades. Why did the Americans put large armies in Saudi Arabia (which pissed off this former mujahedin commander named Osama Bin Laden) just before and during the Gulf War? To protect its oil. Why did the Arabs start hating the West in the 1940's? Because of Israel.
If you're going to hold up Al-Qaeda as representative of all Muslims, I'll hold up the IRA or the KKK as representative of all Christians. They blew stuff up and/or lynched people they didn't like.
Probably all of Ireland and most of white America sympathized with the IRA and the KKK, respectively, does that make them all terrorist sympathizers?
Yes, this smacks of what M$ does with its automatic update service and can be a privacy issue. But if they don't do this, the update will have a much smaller adoption rate and since they disclosed what security bugs they fixed, the hackers can easily exploit them on unpatched versions, of which there will be a greater percentage because people are lazy and don't update.
Um.... One wishes that OSS would kill off weaker software, but that doesn't seem to be the case, since M$ is alive and well. Or does it mean that M$ software isn't that bad after all? Oh god, perish the thought!
The RIAA will never blame the public opinion backlash for declining sales; they'll blame iTunes for selling cheap music and pirates for distributing it for free. This will cause them to mess with iTunes, and more aggressively go after pirates. I think the only things that will make them stop are more court rulings like the recent one that completely shot down the RIAA's prosecution of some random person, and Apple resisting the RIAA's pressure to jack up their prices.
You realize its audience is still the VAST MAJORITY (85-90%) of the market? Criticizing it like that really is meaningless because when the "user inertia" and "ignorance of alternatives" claim 90% of the market you can't just write it off.
There is no such thing as the Democratic People's Republic of China. It's the People's Republic of China. There's no need to misname China, it doesn't make you look insightful, it makes you look stupid. And why the parent post is modded informative is beyond me, when such a glaring error is made.
The law states that no FEDERAL FUNDING may be used on stem cell research except on the stipulated stem cell lines, some of which have been revealed to be not very useful. This project isn't using federal funding, it's using private funding, which Harvard professors can probably easily get. Therefore this research is legal. Right now, the current tide of public opinion is turning towards MORE stem cell research, not less. In fact, Nancy Reagan made a plea to Congress to expand federally funded stem cell research. I don't think the Bush government will shut it down, especially with the midterm elections coming up where Republicans need to harp on more "solid" issues such as gay marriage instead of getting bogged down in an issue where the public opinion is not clear and seems to be swinging in the opposite way of what they want.
This is not new. During the Cold War, the American government went to war against dictators who aligned themselves with the USSR, and supported dictators who aligned themselves against the USSR. This is only the logical extension of that, giving credence to the theory that the core of American foreign policy hasn't really changed, just the objectives are directed at different groups.
You're right... but this is mathematics, not engineering. The idea is of central importance in a proof, and the person that comes up with it deserves a lot of credit, unlike in other realms of invention. Perelman deserves the credit he gets, and the Chinese and American mathematicians who filled out the proof also deserve credit.
I prefer the Mathworld web page to Wikipedia. The information is more reliable, and if you're unclear on the definitions, the terms are all hyperlinked so you can see what stuff means.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PoincareConjecture.ht ml
Hm... the Supreme Court is old and two have already retired, and have been replaced with solidly conservative Bush allies. I wouldn't be so sure that the courts will in fact shoot down this bill.
So it got out that the US does what every occupying power does when it takes over a country? It truly does not surprise me that the US has a propaganda machine working in Iraq, and it shouldn't surprise anyone.
Although some of the buffer overflow (and other) security bugs found in Firefox allow for execution of arbitrary code, which can do horrible things just like IE's security bugs.
The main problem with string theory right now is that it needs extra dimensions to make it work, but those extra dimensions can't be observed, which means that the theory can't be tested. Until the physicists somehow figure out how the extra dimensions reduce to our familiar 4-space, string theory will remain in its current state; as a somewhat fringe theory that has the potential to explain everything, but doesn't. The fact that there are N dimensions (N>4, this number is changing as more research is done) in string theory isn't our fault; it's string theory's fault, b/c we can only observe 4 dimensions, so that's all we can work with in the real world.
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No one makes the argument because BMW is taking advantage of another company, Google, at Google's expense. BMW gains more hits on their web site b/c their PageRank is higher, and Google suffers because word of abuse like this reduces the quality of their searches and the repuration of their search engine. Therefore, to protect their own interests, Google shut down the offender. Both companies were working to maximize the profits of their shareholders, but one was trying to take an action counter to the other's interests, and so the other (Google) responded.
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Gameburnworld.com works quite well as well. Sometimes I can't find stuff at one, so I look at both.
Sure, the IRA were once terrorists. But now that they've made themselves a "partner in the peace process" they are no longer a terrorist group, but they essentially will get their way. This seems to be what has happened with the PLO/Fatah and Hamas (sort of, the Israelis and Americans must deal with them even though they don't want to) and what could happen with Hizbollah in the future.
Yes, the Crusades happened, but they're actually irrelvant now. The terrorists just keep bringing it up in order to give historical credence to their actions (i.e. they're trying to redo the jihad that pushed the Crusaders out of the Middle East). After the 1680's or so the Ottoman Empire stopped trying to conquer Austria, and the "war between the West and Islam" ended. After that the conflicts between Turkey and the West were just imperialist squabblings, not a holy war.
The current conflict has everything to do with oil and Israel and very little to do with the Crusades. Why did the Americans put large armies in Saudi Arabia (which pissed off this former mujahedin commander named Osama Bin Laden) just before and during the Gulf War? To protect its oil. Why did the Arabs start hating the West in the 1940's? Because of Israel.
If you're going to hold up Al-Qaeda as representative of all Muslims, I'll hold up the IRA or the KKK as representative of all Christians. They blew stuff up and/or lynched people they didn't like. Probably all of Ireland and most of white America sympathized with the IRA and the KKK, respectively, does that make them all terrorist sympathizers?
Only problem with that is that the Big Dig collapse killed somebody... I don't see bugs in Duke Nukem killing people.
Yes, this smacks of what M$ does with its automatic update service and can be a privacy issue. But if they don't do this, the update will have a much smaller adoption rate and since they disclosed what security bugs they fixed, the hackers can easily exploit them on unpatched versions, of which there will be a greater percentage because people are lazy and don't update.
Um.... One wishes that OSS would kill off weaker software, but that doesn't seem to be the case, since M$ is alive and well. Or does it mean that M$ software isn't that bad after all? Oh god, perish the thought!
The RIAA will never blame the public opinion backlash for declining sales; they'll blame iTunes for selling cheap music and pirates for distributing it for free. This will cause them to mess with iTunes, and more aggressively go after pirates. I think the only things that will make them stop are more court rulings like the recent one that completely shot down the RIAA's prosecution of some random person, and Apple resisting the RIAA's pressure to jack up their prices.
You realize its audience is still the VAST MAJORITY (85-90%) of the market? Criticizing it like that really is meaningless because when the "user inertia" and "ignorance of alternatives" claim 90% of the market you can't just write it off.
There is no such thing as the Democratic People's Republic of China. It's the People's Republic of China. There's no need to misname China, it doesn't make you look insightful, it makes you look stupid. And why the parent post is modded informative is beyond me, when such a glaring error is made.
Except the nuclear missile :P.
The law states that no FEDERAL FUNDING may be used on stem cell research except on the stipulated stem cell lines, some of which have been revealed to be not very useful. This project isn't using federal funding, it's using private funding, which Harvard professors can probably easily get. Therefore this research is legal. Right now, the current tide of public opinion is turning towards MORE stem cell research, not less. In fact, Nancy Reagan made a plea to Congress to expand federally funded stem cell research. I don't think the Bush government will shut it down, especially with the midterm elections coming up where Republicans need to harp on more "solid" issues such as gay marriage instead of getting bogged down in an issue where the public opinion is not clear and seems to be swinging in the opposite way of what they want.
This is not new. During the Cold War, the American government went to war against dictators who aligned themselves with the USSR, and supported dictators who aligned themselves against the USSR. This is only the logical extension of that, giving credence to the theory that the core of American foreign policy hasn't really changed, just the objectives are directed at different groups.
You're right... but this is mathematics, not engineering. The idea is of central importance in a proof, and the person that comes up with it deserves a lot of credit, unlike in other realms of invention. Perelman deserves the credit he gets, and the Chinese and American mathematicians who filled out the proof also deserve credit.
I prefer the Mathworld web page to Wikipedia. The information is more reliable, and if you're unclear on the definitions, the terms are all hyperlinked so you can see what stuff means. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PoincareConjecture.ht ml
You mean one down, six more to go. There are 7 problems total.
Hm... the Supreme Court is old and two have already retired, and have been replaced with solidly conservative Bush allies. I wouldn't be so sure that the courts will in fact shoot down this bill.
So it got out that the US does what every occupying power does when it takes over a country? It truly does not surprise me that the US has a propaganda machine working in Iraq, and it shouldn't surprise anyone.
Although some of the buffer overflow (and other) security bugs found in Firefox allow for execution of arbitrary code, which can do horrible things just like IE's security bugs.
The main problem with string theory right now is that it needs extra dimensions to make it work, but those extra dimensions can't be observed, which means that the theory can't be tested. Until the physicists somehow figure out how the extra dimensions reduce to our familiar 4-space, string theory will remain in its current state; as a somewhat fringe theory that has the potential to explain everything, but doesn't. The fact that there are N dimensions (N>4, this number is changing as more research is done) in string theory isn't our fault; it's string theory's fault, b/c we can only observe 4 dimensions, so that's all we can work with in the real world.
No one makes the argument because BMW is taking advantage of another company, Google, at Google's expense. BMW gains more hits on their web site b/c their PageRank is higher, and Google suffers because word of abuse like this reduces the quality of their searches and the repuration of their search engine. Therefore, to protect their own interests, Google shut down the offender. Both companies were working to maximize the profits of their shareholders, but one was trying to take an action counter to the other's interests, and so the other (Google) responded.