Wars of conquest are prosecuted by aggressors. Every war Israel has been involved in has either been started by Arabs (War of Independence, Yom Kippur, War of Attrition), in response to being denied access to the Suez Canal, blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba and attacks from the Gaza Strip(Sinai War, Six day War) . The only reason Israel exists today is due to these defensive wars. The only land they occupy has been used as bases by aggressors.
Who started the 6-day war? Israel. Who started the Suez war? Britain-France-Israel.
Unfortunately for them, due to their lame military which could not beat Israel even when they outnumbered, outgunned out surrounded her, they did not gain any territory, but instead lost it.
It is well-established that the Israeli armed forces in the '48 war actually outnumbered and outgunned the Arabs.
It should perhaps be pointed out that all countries having agreed to a peace treaty have gotten their land back.
Ah, so Israel would be ready to return the land captured in '67 if the Palestinans agreed to a peace treaty?
Beyond that, the rest of KDE seems like truckloads of cruft to me. I find the bundled apps largely deficient in functionality and stability, they're like "store brand" knockoffs of specialized 3rd party apps. Rather than wasting so much effort on these bastard subprojects, why not deliver a solid API and widget library that allows 3rd parties to properly integrate with the look and feel ? Let the GUI people focus on building the GUI, and let the app people focus on apps.
I think I agree with much of what you are saying. The only counter-argument I can think of is that KDE's inclusion of 'subprojects' might not really be a distraction to the main thrust of the project. I say this because the contributors to the little programs might not be the same as those who work on the KDE core. I think that the core team has provided a fairly good API and widget library (or Qt has) and this allows all these 'little programs' to exist.
That being said, I agree that many of them are just not quite there yet. It's a pity because the goal of having fully-integrated programs (but independent!) is a good one. This is what I miss the most about using KDE.
I don't think that this criticism is a KDE 4 criticism though. If KDE 4 suffers from this problem, then so did KDE 3.
There is some argument over whether General Sir James Abbott founded Abbottabad. Herbert Edwardes, another soldier and administrator in the Punjab, has his claims. But it was Abbott who managed to put his name to the place, and he really should have left it at that. The encomium he composed when he left the hilltown he loved must be one of the worst poems ever written.
Miles make for easy measurement of rate-of-motion and gallons make for easy measurement of fuel usage when traveling. Going the average street-value 30mph? Two minutes per mile to destination. Going the average highway 60mph? One minute per mile to your destination off-ramp.
Thanks! I tried to do an example where I was going 60km/h but I couldn't figure out how many minutes to my destination. Then I did it in mph and it was so much easier! Thanks dude. Imperial is better.
By contrast, meters/centimeters make for a pain in the ass to divide by anything but multiples of 5 or 10, not to mention that common everyday occurrences that are approximately "one foot" long are then 30.5 centimeters, a measurement that divides cleanly by precisely Jack and Shit.
Yeah, I've got tons of stuff which all measures exactly 1 foot but nothing that measures 30cm long. Thanks for pointing out how much better Imperial is because stuff is usually 1 foot long and not 0.5cm shorter. You rock... just like Imperial units!
While I can not speak on the behalf of anybody else, as a member of the civilized world allow me to just say thank you Siemens, Mossad, the Pentagon, and anybody else who may have been involved in keeping the world safe by keeping nuclear arms out of the hands of genocidal dictators and oppressive theocracies.
Maybe he is wrong, but your argument will convince no one.
The question is why isn't HTTPS used for all web traffic. His answer is that it is computationally intensive to use for all traffic. Your rebuttal is to show that Gmail, Facebook and Twitter, all high-traffic websites use HTTPS, and therefore it can't be more intensive to process.
However, those websites might have another incentive to ofter HTTPS, whereas, say, the BBC (or other high-volume news websites) see no benefit to their users for private communication with their visitors. Were there no more computation, then perhaps they would choose it, but precisely because there is no benefit and there is a drawback, they do no.
It is amusing to see the comments here which excuse the problem at the Japanese nuclear plant because the earthquake was really big. You see to many people who don't have an automatic fear of anything nuclear, there remains the problem of the people running it. The technology might be safe but when those in charge aren't doing their jobs then there is basis for distrust.
1. The earthquake was big: It's Japan. You can't not expect a big earthquake. Everything has to be ready for it.
2. The tsunami unexpectedly washed out the generators: see point 1.
3. It was an old plant, the new ones are safer: if this one wasn't safe then why was it running?
The point to me is not that nuclear power is unsafe, but rather that unacceptable risks were taken in this case. Does the same problem exist are other sites in other countries? I have no idea (and I bet the armchair Slashdot crowd doesn't know either), but there is a serious lack of trust right now over how that risk is being evaluated.
None of this excuses the sensationalism in the media or the fools in the US who are buying anti-radiation tonic in preparation, or even the foreigners who are fleeing the entire country of Japan over the threat of 'meltdown'.
I frankly know little about nuclear power so I am not for or against it. Of course the knee-jerk reactions both in the media -- and on Slashdot -- is not much of a surprise.
What I take out of the whole thing is that nuclear power is quite safe, and yet look at the problems that are being encountered. To a lot of people, it is going to look like you just can trust the people entrusted with maintaining nuclear power plants to a certain code of safety. Questions like 'why were the generators not better protected again the same disaster which would shutdown the reactors?' are legitimate.
Additionally, it seems that they were fortunate in that half of the plant was actually not operational. How much would the cooling efforts have been hampered if they would have had to concentrate on working on all six reactors rather than just three?
Let's face it the concern over anything nuclear stems from the relatively recent (less than 70 years) arrival of the technology in the public's mind. And for most of that time it has been associated with its destructive effects in the form of nuclear bombs. Coal, dams and the like obviously look benign in comparison.
Throw in the mismanagement at Chernobyl and Three Mile Island and people are afraid. It's too easy to say that 'nowadays nuclear power is safer' when it is still human error and poor planning which can lead to accidents.
From the article: 'Upset boyfriends and girlfriends are nothing new. There are plenty of stories of girlfriends getting back at their ex-boyfriends for mistreatment and visa versa. But in the age where Google ranks supreme, you do not want to mess with a girl who knows how to manipulate Google.'"
Thank God it's doomed to failure! Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of "plugging in" to a freeway and doing a steady 65 mph (faster than you'd be going in rush-hour traffic, and without the headache), but I also want the option to drive myself, however I want to. I like the feeling of driving a car. I like shifting. I like the visceral feeling of becoming in tune with a machine, and knowing all of its funny little quirks. I like knowing exactly how far I can push a car, and then getting right up to the edge.
So become a professional driver and let the rest of us take a nap while driving between Frankfurt and Vienna.
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Wars of conquest are prosecuted by aggressors. Every war Israel has been involved in has either been started by Arabs (War of Independence, Yom Kippur, War of Attrition), in response to being denied access to the Suez Canal, blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba and attacks from the Gaza Strip(Sinai War, Six day War) . The only reason Israel exists today is due to these defensive wars. The only land they occupy has been used as bases by aggressors.
Who started the 6-day war? Israel.
Who started the Suez war? Britain-France-Israel.
Unfortunately for them, due to their lame military which could not beat Israel even when they outnumbered, outgunned out surrounded her, they did not gain any territory, but instead lost it.
It is well-established that the Israeli armed forces in the '48 war actually outnumbered and outgunned the Arabs.
It should perhaps be pointed out that all countries having agreed to a peace treaty have gotten their land back.
Ah, so Israel would be ready to return the land captured in '67 if the Palestinans agreed to a peace treaty?
And some of that needs to testers who are NOT coders or people who are not mainly doing programming.
Dude, you need a comment reviewer.
Beyond that, the rest of KDE seems like truckloads of cruft to me. I find the bundled apps largely deficient in functionality and stability, they're like "store brand" knockoffs of specialized 3rd party apps. Rather than wasting so much effort on these bastard subprojects, why not deliver a solid API and widget library that allows 3rd parties to properly integrate with the look and feel ? Let the GUI people focus on building the GUI, and let the app people focus on apps.
I think I agree with much of what you are saying. The only counter-argument I can think of is that KDE's inclusion of 'subprojects' might not really be a distraction to the main thrust of the project. I say this because the contributors to the little programs might not be the same as those who work on the KDE core. I think that the core team has provided a fairly good API and widget library (or Qt has) and this allows all these 'little programs' to exist.
That being said, I agree that many of them are just not quite there yet. It's a pity because the goal of having fully-integrated programs (but independent!) is a good one. This is what I miss the most about using KDE.
I don't think that this criticism is a KDE 4 criticism though. If KDE 4 suffers from this problem, then so did KDE 3.
People who use KDE are typically coming from Windows so the default should look similar.
Where does this notion come from? I've see in it before and I doubt it has any merit.
In fact, I would expect that the majority of people coming from Windows use Gnome since it is the default DE for Ubuntu and other popular distros.
... was using "alarm" as an intransitive verb:
'The child's stroller alarmed during explosives screening...
NEWSPEAK
Eat our letters.
Oh yes they have: Abbottabad â" pretty Himalayan town, pity about the poem
I quote:
There is some argument over whether General Sir James Abbott founded Abbottabad. Herbert Edwardes, another soldier and administrator in the Punjab, has his claims. But it was Abbott who managed to put his name to the place, and he really should have left it at that. The encomium he composed when he left the hilltown he loved must be one of the worst poems ever written.
I'm not sure about every issue, but I do know that NDP members voted freely on laws such as the long-gun registry.
Miles make for easy measurement of rate-of-motion and gallons make for easy measurement of fuel usage when traveling. Going the average street-value 30mph? Two minutes per mile to destination. Going the average highway 60mph? One minute per mile to your destination off-ramp.
Thanks! I tried to do an example where I was going 60km/h but I couldn't figure out how many minutes to my destination. Then I did it in mph and it was so much easier! Thanks dude. Imperial is better.
By contrast, meters/centimeters make for a pain in the ass to divide by anything but multiples of 5 or 10, not to mention that common everyday occurrences that are approximately "one foot" long are then 30.5 centimeters, a measurement that divides cleanly by precisely Jack and Shit.
Yeah, I've got tons of stuff which all measures exactly 1 foot but nothing that measures 30cm long. Thanks for pointing out how much better Imperial is because stuff is usually 1 foot long and not 0.5cm shorter. You rock... just like Imperial units!
While I can not speak on the behalf of anybody else, as a member of the civilized world allow me to just say thank you Siemens, Mossad, the Pentagon, and anybody else who may have been involved in keeping the world safe by keeping nuclear arms out of the hands of genocidal dictators and oppressive theocracies.
So Ahmedinejad is "genocidal"? Explain, please.
To be fair, there weren't exactly a whole lot of science back then.
Do you really believe that?
Plus much of the scientific knowledge in 1869 were available exclusively in Latin, hence the emphasis on the "dead language".
1869 not 1689.
Maybe he is wrong, but your argument will convince no one.
The question is why isn't HTTPS used for all web traffic. His answer is that it is computationally intensive to use for all traffic. Your rebuttal is to show that Gmail, Facebook and Twitter, all high-traffic websites use HTTPS, and therefore it can't be more intensive to process.
However, those websites might have another incentive to ofter HTTPS, whereas, say, the BBC (or other high-volume news websites) see no benefit to their users for private communication with their visitors. Were there no more computation, then perhaps they would choose it, but precisely because there is no benefit and there is a drawback, they do no.
It is amusing to see the comments here which excuse the problem at the Japanese nuclear plant because the earthquake was really big. You see to many people who don't have an automatic fear of anything nuclear, there remains the problem of the people running it. The technology might be safe but when those in charge aren't doing their jobs then there is basis for distrust.
1. The earthquake was big: It's Japan. You can't not expect a big earthquake. Everything has to be ready for it.
2. The tsunami unexpectedly washed out the generators: see point 1.
3. It was an old plant, the new ones are safer: if this one wasn't safe then why was it running?
The point to me is not that nuclear power is unsafe, but rather that unacceptable risks were taken in this case. Does the same problem exist are other sites in other countries? I have no idea (and I bet the armchair Slashdot crowd doesn't know either), but there is a serious lack of trust right now over how that risk is being evaluated.
None of this excuses the sensationalism in the media or the fools in the US who are buying anti-radiation tonic in preparation, or even the foreigners who are fleeing the entire country of Japan over the threat of 'meltdown'.
PS. What if all six reactors had been working?
I frankly know little about nuclear power so I am not for or against it. Of course the knee-jerk reactions both in the media -- and on Slashdot -- is not much of a surprise.
What I take out of the whole thing is that nuclear power is quite safe, and yet look at the problems that are being encountered. To a lot of people, it is going to look like you just can trust the people entrusted with maintaining nuclear power plants to a certain code of safety. Questions like 'why were the generators not better protected again the same disaster which would shutdown the reactors?' are legitimate.
Additionally, it seems that they were fortunate in that half of the plant was actually not operational. How much would the cooling efforts have been hampered if they would have had to concentrate on working on all six reactors rather than just three?
Let's face it the concern over anything nuclear stems from the relatively recent (less than 70 years) arrival of the technology in the public's mind. And for most of that time it has been associated with its destructive effects in the form of nuclear bombs. Coal, dams and the like obviously look benign in comparison.
Throw in the mismanagement at Chernobyl and Three Mile Island and people are afraid. It's too easy to say that 'nowadays nuclear power is safer' when it is still human error and poor planning which can lead to accidents.
Don't work.
Well, I must have missed where they held elections.
Republic doesn't mean democracy. Republics do NOT need to have elections.
Libya is already known as the "Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Republic" or in short the "Libyan Arab Republic".
A few days back, a British extradition lawyer analysed the defence team's arguments in the Guardian: Julian Assange is very likely to be extradited, says Matrix barrister.
Looks like he was right.
Well, Qadhafi is more accurate, but whatever.
Gadafhi
I've seen: ... and more
Gadhafi
Gadaffi
Gaddafi
Ghadafi
Gadafhi is new to me though. Nice one!
PS I prefer Gadhafi
Well look at the last comma. It sort of absolves him of being ignorant about the location of Jordan.
It is an awkward sentence mind you.
From the article: 'Upset boyfriends and girlfriends are nothing new. There are plenty of stories of girlfriends getting back at their ex-boyfriends for mistreatment and visa versa. But in the age where Google ranks supreme, you do not want to mess with a girl who knows how to manipulate Google.'"
Visa Versa? That's priceless!
See video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St1-WTc1kow
Thank God it's doomed to failure! Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of "plugging in" to a freeway and doing a steady 65 mph (faster than you'd be going in rush-hour traffic, and without the headache), but I also want the option to drive myself, however I want to. I like the feeling of driving a car. I like shifting. I like the visceral feeling of becoming in tune with a machine, and knowing all of its funny little quirks. I like knowing exactly how far I can push a car, and then getting right up to the edge.
So become a professional driver and let the rest of us take a nap while driving between Frankfurt and Vienna.