well everyone knows that blowing up a busload of kids is evil. But some people want to know why did someone do that? Because he's evil? Well then, what made him evil? You think he was born evil? or did the koran make him evil?
You may be afraid of knowing anything beyond "Palestinian suicide bomber kills X Israelis on a bus", but some of us have the courage to ask the harder questions. Some of us don't have a big "evil" label we stamp on things we don't want to think about. Maybe its easier for you to live in a world with just good guys and bad guys, but some of live in the real world.
Yes this conflict has been going on for 60 years. And at the beginning of those 60 year Isrealis used terrorism to defeat the palestinians. Then they to changed the rules, decided terrorism was wrong.
Israel occupies southern Lebanon for over a decade. Surprise, surprise a resistance is formed. They can't put down this resistance so they leave. They demand the Lebanese army puts down the resistance for them. Lebanon decides it might be better not to put their country through a civil war and hope to engage the Hezbollah in the political process instead.
Israel takes members of the Hezbollah prisoner. The Hezbollah takes Israelis soldiers prisoner. Now Israel wants to change the rules again.
Only its not going to work this time. They've killed more civilians than the Hezbollah has. They've just handed the Hezbollah the moral high ground. This action has hurt the people working for peace in Lebanon and has only strengthened the Hezbollah. for every member of Hezbollah they kill, they've killed at least ten civilians. And for every civilian they kill Hezbollah gains another recruit.
For Israel to win it needs to destroy the Hezbollah. The Hezbollah only needs to survive to win. And that just isn't going to happen.
And No, I fully believe that if the Hezbolla had F-16's with LGB's, they would attack civilian areas. How accurate is a "suicide bomber"? More so than a lazer guided bomb. A LGB can hit a building, maybe get lucky and knock down a door or window. A "suicide bomber" can hit a closet, bathroom, kitchen, wherever a man (or child) can stand, they can hit. Do these suicide bombers go after military targets? No.
The British probably said the same thing about the Israelis. Or do you think bombing a hotel full of civilians is a military target?
I won't defend the Hezbollah, they are cowards that hide behind women and children. But the Israelis are just as much terrorists as they are. Just the Isrealis have better weapons.
If you want an idea of whats going on, read/view as much as you can -- from as many sources as you can. From Fox to CNN, from the far left Pacifica to convervative talk radio. From The Standard to the NY Times. From LGF to DailyKos. My limited experience has suggested to me that the 'real story' is usually somewhere in the middle.
The problem with that theory is that whoever skews the most can shift the middle. So then it all becomes a competition of who can skew things the most. Which pretty much explains why news media is so screwed up.
Isn't that a good thing? someone who doesn't give a shit about fighting games probably isn't going to notice the little subtleties of a new title. You want someone who knows all the various fighting games inside and out so he has a basis for comparison. If I'm out to buy a fighting game I want a reviewer to say "this game is good, but tekken is better". Then I know which fighting game is better. If the reviewer says "this game sucks, Civilization 4 is much better", how does that help me if I'm trying to decide which fighting game to buy?
Thats a really great idea. It wouldn't be easy to make such a profiler, but MS has a huge amount of resources to throw at it, and it would solve most of their security problems. Just have the profiler scan for viruses and spyware before running and we'd be seeing a lot less zombies out there.
But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
He also mentions the landing at plymouth bayand the industrial revolution earlier.
I haven't done much with FTP but SFTP seems to crash nautilus a lot. But its really nice for making quick edits (using gedit) to files on remote systems.
Ah yes, government contracts, all the efficiency of a government bureaucracy combined with the profiteering of private industry. With any luck the space program will soon be as efficient as the rebuilding of Iraq.
I recognised the guy on star trek when he played a romulan (took me a while to figure out who it was, though). Completely different makeup and character, but you can still see the actor underneath. It's like getting someone else to voice a cartoon character. You know the difference.
Not as worried about anonymity so much as the service charges. Why would I pay one or two dollars every purchase I make to the bank? Also cash is quicker. I just take out what I need for the month, keep it at home, and take from that what I need for the day.
They employ fewer cashiers so the line ups for them are longer. The stupid consumer sees that there is no one at the self-checkout so goes there instead. See how that works? The grocery store manipulates the consumers into using the self checkout and the consumers are so stupid that they thank the grocery store for allowing them to do all the work themselves.
You didn't fall for it did you? People who use the self-checkout are almost as stupid as those that use the loyalty cards (Oh thank you so much for spying on my purchases mr. grocer). Its funny how many people here fall for these scams, but at the same time laugh at those who get infected with spyware and fooled 419 scams.
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. The producer has to pay their employees so they raise the price they charge the grocery store and the grocery store passes that cost on to you.
the benefits to society are there, but some individuals will be negatively affected. Most people have no problem with this until they are personally one of the ones negatively affected.
Why are you so sure that it does benefit society? Maybe everyone working 12 hours a day, 7 days a week in a tiny cubicle might do wonders for corporate porfit margins, employee income and GDP, but is such a lifestyle really better? Not everyone is satisfied with being a cog in the machine, working all day on a computer, making all your purchases using machines, and then going home and being entertained by various electronic gizmos. Isn't human interaction worthwhile?
Frank Herbert once wrote that the problem with machines is that the devices themselves condition their users to employ each other the same as they employ machines. How often do brain dead managers use arbitrary numbers on a spreadsheet to measure employee value? How does that make employees feel?
Be careful that you don't factor out our humanity in the quest for greater efficiency. Efficiency is not a substitute for happiness.
Really. Every single submission having to do with any space program has a bunch of people saying that private industry is going to revolutionize space travel and it'll be cheaper to go to the moon than disneyland, blah blah. Then there's the posts saying "well I don't like microsoft but I don't think we want the government interfering in the precious market, do we?" All of which immediately get modded +5 Insightful, despite the poster clearly lacking in any knowledge of reality, much less economics.
Add to that all the windows vista astroturfing, and slashdot is very much pro-capitalism and pro-microsoft. Although I'm sure MS has to pay quite a bit for tha slant.
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well everyone knows that blowing up a busload of kids is evil. But some people want to know why did someone do that? Because he's evil? Well then, what made him evil? You think he was born evil? or did the koran make him evil?
You may be afraid of knowing anything beyond "Palestinian suicide bomber kills X Israelis on a bus", but some of us have the courage to ask the harder questions. Some of us don't have a big "evil" label we stamp on things we don't want to think about. Maybe its easier for you to live in a world with just good guys and bad guys, but some of live in the real world.
Israel occupies southern Lebanon for over a decade. Surprise, surprise a resistance is formed. They can't put down this resistance so they leave. They demand the Lebanese army puts down the resistance for them. Lebanon decides it might be better not to put their country through a civil war and hope to engage the Hezbollah in the political process instead.
Israel takes members of the Hezbollah prisoner. The Hezbollah takes Israelis soldiers prisoner. Now Israel wants to change the rules again.
Only its not going to work this time. They've killed more civilians than the Hezbollah has. They've just handed the Hezbollah the moral high ground. This action has hurt the people working for peace in Lebanon and has only strengthened the Hezbollah. for every member of Hezbollah they kill, they've killed at least ten civilians. And for every civilian they kill Hezbollah gains another recruit.
For Israel to win it needs to destroy the Hezbollah. The Hezbollah only needs to survive to win. And that just isn't going to happen.
The British probably said the same thing about the Israelis. Or do you think bombing a hotel full of civilians is a military target?
I won't defend the Hezbollah, they are cowards that hide behind women and children. But the Israelis are just as much terrorists as they are. Just the Isrealis have better weapons.
The problem with that theory is that whoever skews the most can shift the middle. So then it all becomes a competition of who can skew things the most. Which pretty much explains why news media is so screwed up.
Isn't that a good thing? someone who doesn't give a shit about fighting games probably isn't going to notice the little subtleties of a new title. You want someone who knows all the various fighting games inside and out so he has a basis for comparison. If I'm out to buy a fighting game I want a reviewer to say "this game is good, but tekken is better". Then I know which fighting game is better. If the reviewer says "this game sucks, Civilization 4 is much better", how does that help me if I'm trying to decide which fighting game to buy?
Thats a really great idea. It wouldn't be easy to make such a profiler, but MS has a huge amount of resources to throw at it, and it would solve most of their security problems. Just have the profiler scan for viruses and spyware before running and we'd be seeing a lot less zombies out there.
You're either on crack or you miscounted and don't realise that Star Trek 7 == Generations.
I just looked it up:
He also mentions the landing at plymouth bayand the industrial revolution earlier.
I seem to recall Bush always acting ridiculous.
Places->Connect to Server
I haven't done much with FTP but SFTP seems to crash nautilus a lot. But its really nice for making quick edits (using gedit) to files on remote systems.
compiz is still alpha level isn't it? I got it working and played with it and then disabled it. Maybe it'll be ready in a year or so.
Actually it was blocked because an admin wanted to get on the show. Which I'm sure you're fully aware of because I know you read TFA.
I don't care about your facts. It feels like he backfired to me. It seems to me that you care more about facts than the truth. You must be a liberal.
Ah yes, government contracts, all the efficiency of a government bureaucracy combined with the profiteering of private industry. With any luck the space program will soon be as efficient as the rebuilding of Iraq.
Well, so much for browsing slashdot today.
fail or fail not, there is no try.
I recognised the guy on star trek when he played a romulan (took me a while to figure out who it was, though). Completely different makeup and character, but you can still see the actor underneath. It's like getting someone else to voice a cartoon character. You know the difference.
Bill Clinton?
It stands for "runmedia -realfast" and it improves hard drive speeds. Run it on your root directory to improve the performance on all your files!
Not as worried about anonymity so much as the service charges. Why would I pay one or two dollars every purchase I make to the bank? Also cash is quicker. I just take out what I need for the month, keep it at home, and take from that what I need for the day.
They employ fewer cashiers so the line ups for them are longer. The stupid consumer sees that there is no one at the self-checkout so goes there instead. See how that works? The grocery store manipulates the consumers into using the self checkout and the consumers are so stupid that they thank the grocery store for allowing them to do all the work themselves.
You didn't fall for it did you? People who use the self-checkout are almost as stupid as those that use the loyalty cards (Oh thank you so much for spying on my purchases mr. grocer). Its funny how many people here fall for these scams, but at the same time laugh at those who get infected with spyware and fooled 419 scams.
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. The producer has to pay their employees so they raise the price they charge the grocery store and the grocery store passes that cost on to you.
the benefits to society are there, but some individuals will be negatively affected. Most people have no problem with this until they are personally one of the ones negatively affected.
Why are you so sure that it does benefit society? Maybe everyone working 12 hours a day, 7 days a week in a tiny cubicle might do wonders for corporate porfit margins, employee income and GDP, but is such a lifestyle really better? Not everyone is satisfied with being a cog in the machine, working all day on a computer, making all your purchases using machines, and then going home and being entertained by various electronic gizmos. Isn't human interaction worthwhile?
Frank Herbert once wrote that the problem with machines is that the devices themselves condition their users to employ each other the same as they employ machines. How often do brain dead managers use arbitrary numbers on a spreadsheet to measure employee value? How does that make employees feel?
Be careful that you don't factor out our humanity in the quest for greater efficiency. Efficiency is not a substitute for happiness.
yeah but is it enforcable?
Really. Every single submission having to do with any space program has a bunch of people saying that private industry is going to revolutionize space travel and it'll be cheaper to go to the moon than disneyland, blah blah. Then there's the posts saying "well I don't like microsoft but I don't think we want the government interfering in the precious market, do we?" All of which immediately get modded +5 Insightful, despite the poster clearly lacking in any knowledge of reality, much less economics.
Add to that all the windows vista astroturfing, and slashdot is very much pro-capitalism and pro-microsoft. Although I'm sure MS has to pay quite a bit for tha slant.