Bailing wasn't the problem. Supporting the Shah was. If we had killed him ourselves, we could have made good friends with the Islamic parties and exerted a liberalizing influence. While appeasement isn't a good policy in general, when it comes to popular revolts you don't have much of a choice.
Politics has always been emotional. Remember the "Daisy" ad? Or how about the Red Scare? Or how about slavery debates? This isn't a recent phenomenon. It's just that nukes are involved now.
Don't fool yourself. This isn't a war between secularity and Islam. If that was the case we could win in one minute by pointing out that secular science created air conditioning, and the bad effects of it breaking down in the desert, or put an embargo on antibiotics. This is a war between two Jacobian states: The Christian theocracies and the Islamic ones. The Balkenende IV cabinet announced plans to ban the burka on grounds of security despite this being nonsense. Who put this in the election campaign? The Christian party. Face it, "If things go on--" is going to be reality, or we have a global dark age.
So where is call/cc, garbage collection, static typing, formal semantics, point free style and the other trappings of functionality? When can I implement my own thread library using only core language constructions? Perl might permit functional programing, but it has a ways to go.
That's what the cryptography is for. You don't need to trust the issuer but in a case of fraud it is possible to tell who you are and at no other time. The math is quite solid, but people's understanding of it is a bit shaky.
Someone should introduce a bill revoking their corporate charters. Right now they are just delaying the inevitable. Call it the "Mercy to Recording Companies Act of 2007".
My dad is vey allergic to potatos. Old school breeding can't put a potato gene into a steak, but GM steak could have a potato gene. And companies would want to maintain a compeditive advantage by keeping it secret what they put in. And my dad likes steak....
If the MPAA makes similar assumptions when suing people I don't think they can reasonably object to him using these assumptions.
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The issue is that by the time the second ship launches, the first ship is far away. The second ship needs to catch up to the first one, so it needs to go a bit faster. The third one needs to go faster stil. If we get FTL it will work, but until then we can't do it.
Because a lot of people attempt to hack into goverment networks who aren't connected to forigen goverments. Everyone wants our secrets. Picking one country or another at random is just stupid.
How does the CIO not understand what the IT deparment is doing and still become CIO? Can someone clue me in on the way a manager can know nothing of what they manage and still be a manager?
What prevents me from making an uncopyable device that's really one copying can be done with? Like if I gutted the no-copy MP3 and searched the disk for the files. Isn't this just distribution on the USB, or does the USB have the key? If the USB has the key, what stops me from cloning it? No DRM system can ever succeed, because you need to hide the information from the person viewing it!
The FCC is not illegal. The airwaves are a public resource, and the goverment can make any rules they want about the type of content that can be distributed over them.
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Just put some nitrogen triiodide into the ashtrays. It looks like ashes, but behaves quite differently when touched.
Considering the US Navy supports Tor I don't think that is likely.
TOR is not for file sharing!
Bailing wasn't the problem. Supporting the Shah was. If we had killed him ourselves, we could have made good friends with the Islamic parties and exerted a liberalizing influence. While appeasement isn't a good policy in general, when it comes to popular revolts you don't have much of a choice.
Politics has always been emotional. Remember the "Daisy" ad? Or how about the Red Scare? Or how about slavery debates? This isn't a recent phenomenon. It's just that nukes are involved now.
Don't fool yourself. This isn't a war between secularity and Islam. If that was the case we could win in one minute by pointing out that secular science created air conditioning, and the bad effects of it breaking down in the desert, or put an embargo on antibiotics. This is a war between two Jacobian states: The Christian theocracies and the Islamic ones. The Balkenende IV cabinet announced plans to ban the burka on grounds of security despite this being nonsense. Who put this in the election campaign? The Christian party. Face it, "If things go on--" is going to be reality, or we have a global dark age.
Unless you were there. Doomcon 2010: On the surface of mars.
Other spacecraft have talked back to earth continuously. What exactly makes this work new?
You could do the same with a distributed operating system. And you would have the advantage of one less layer of overhead.
So where is call/cc, garbage collection, static typing, formal semantics, point free style and the other trappings of functionality? When can I implement my own thread library using only core language constructions? Perl might permit functional programing, but it has a ways to go.
I haven't found an opensource CAD program yet. Care to explain how Autodesk is dying?
Perhaps it would help if election booths were not allocated for political gain.
That's what the cryptography is for. You don't need to trust the issuer but in a case of fraud it is possible to tell who you are and at no other time. The math is quite solid, but people's understanding of it is a bit shaky.
They could be running operating systems that are rated to handle classified information. Yes, they do exist.
Someone should introduce a bill revoking their corporate charters. Right now they are just delaying the inevitable. Call it the "Mercy to Recording Companies Act of 2007".
My dad is vey allergic to potatos. Old school breeding can't put a potato gene into a steak, but GM steak could have a potato gene. And companies would want to maintain a compeditive advantage by keeping it secret what they put in. And my dad likes steak....
If the MPAA makes similar assumptions when suing people I don't think they can reasonably object to him using these assumptions.
The issue is that by the time the second ship launches, the first ship is far away. The second ship needs to catch up to the first one, so it needs to go a bit faster. The third one needs to go faster stil. If we get FTL it will work, but until then we can't do it.
America is the poorest nation in the world if we exclude all the nations poorer then it.
Because a lot of people attempt to hack into goverment networks who aren't connected to forigen goverments. Everyone wants our secrets. Picking one country or another at random is just stupid.
How does the CIO not understand what the IT deparment is doing and still become CIO? Can someone clue me in on the way a manager can know nothing of what they manage and still be a manager?
Why would someone who puts the milk in first into tea watch different porn from the rest of us?
What prevents me from making an uncopyable device that's really one copying can be done with? Like if I gutted the no-copy MP3 and searched the disk for the files. Isn't this just distribution on the USB, or does the USB have the key? If the USB has the key, what stops me from cloning it? No DRM system can ever succeed, because you need to hide the information from the person viewing it!
The FCC is not illegal. The airwaves are a public resource, and the goverment can make any rules they want about the type of content that can be distributed over them.
Issue is that small inventors will be priced out of the auction.