It may interest you to know that most of the cease fires that've been negotiated between the Palestine and Israel in the last 15 years have been broken by Israel, not Palestine
I wonder how many potential Palestinian scientists have gone undetected, untrained and unfunded?
From TFA: "In a news release on the agreement, CERN said Israel had supported Palestinian students studying and working there, as well as sending mixed Israeli-Palestinian contingents to its summer study programme."
Most of the Jews in Israel come from Poland/Germany
That is not true. There are more Sephardim ("Oriental") Jews in Israel than Western.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel where it says: "Approximately 68% of Israeli Jews are Israeli-born, 22% are immigrants from Europe and the Americas, and 10% are immigrants from Asia and Africa (including the Arab World). Jews who left or fled Arab and Muslim lands and their descendants, known as Mizrahi or Sephardi Jews, constitute approximately 50% of Jewish Israelis."
Your question is irrelevant because Israel is not South Africa. It's not even like South Africa. The odious comparison is simply a propaganda point used to demonize Israel.
I wonder how many potential Palestinian scientists have gone undetected, untrained and unfunded?
Probably dozens. Lebanon keeps Palestinians in poverty in refugee camps instead of integrating them into society. There were no universities at all in the West Bank prior to 1967. Hamas spends money on weapons that could be spent on education.
Yes, indeed. Palestinian society, much like the rest of the Arab world, allows a criminal waste of human potential by diverting energy towards a conflict instead of towards building up civil society. That's why most Arab states have a low (and usually declining) human development index and shockingly inefficient economies compared to Israel.
Devoting your energy to conflict and bitterness will destroy you before it destroys your enemy.
Israel is not a "military state" in the sense that the military controls politics. It's a pretty dynamic democracy with a highly-diverse set of viewpoints. It also has a very educated labour force and a high number of high-tech companies and startups.
Israel has long been known for innovation. Just google "Israeli Innovation".
Those who propose BDS on the spurious basis of "Israeli Apartheid [sic]" are blind to reality, either out of ignorance or malice. While Israel is not perfect and its Arab citizens do suffer discrimination, it's nowhere near the level of South African Apartheid, and those same Arab citizens have more civil rights in Israel than in any Arab country.
Because maybe he wanted to stay with a living project rather than one that's fossilized and extremely unlikely to have further development, bug fixes, security fixes, etc.?
At some points, Americans and the American government are going to have to face reality: You can't keep living beyond your means indefinitely.
One or more of these three things will happen, whether Americans like it or not:
The government will cut spending.
The government will raise taxes.
The US dollar will devalue.
Unfortunately, given that in the US political system it's impossible to make hard decisions, the balance between 1, 2 and 3 is likely to be sudden and sub-optimal.
Anyone who scrapes the list for alternate domains is supremely dumb. It's far easier to get a list of the small number of MX records. When we wanted to ban mailinator, we just banned any domain with an MX record that matched an IP address in the mailinator MX pool. Even if he uses a few different MX records for different domains, you'd only need a small list of domains to cover all the MX machines.
Imagine if the situation had been reversed: Suppose an Israeli university had sponsored Stallman and then threatened to pull funding if he went on to speak at a Palestinian university. Do you think Stallman would have made the same choice? Do you think posters would say they "understand" the position of the Israeli university?
Unfortunately, Stallman (who is normally very consistent in his behaviour and his beliefs) has messed up this time. He's compromised freedom for the sake of politics.
It's a great idea to go after payment processors. I bet it could stop a lot of spam.
But there's a lot more spam besides the ones that try to sell you something quasi-legitimately. Going after payment processors won't do anything to stop phishing attacks, lottery scams, Nigerian scammers, porn ads, wacko conspiracy theorists or questionable "newsletter" subscriptions. Also, the big spam rings will take advantage of dumb spammers who don't realize they'll get cut off for spamming. Unfortunately, there is no shortage of dumb spammers.
Glancing at my traps, I would guess that about one in five of the spams would be affected by cracking down on payment processors.
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PHP alone is mostly eating its lunch
Interesting you say that... our product's Web interface is written in PHP and I rue the day I made that decision. For all of Perl's faults, PHP is about 100 times worse. No proper namespaces, completely wild-west wacky naming "conventions", no decent DBI-like library, crappy add-on modules (just try finding a decent YAML parser for PHP.)
If I had to do something new, I'd probably look at Python. I have very little experience with it, but it seems quite easy to use and fairly readable. Nevertheless, CPAN still takes the crown for a useful repo of modules.
There are still a lot of companies developing in Perl. They tend not to tout it or make much noise about it, though. It's not trendy any more.
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We still use Perl to develop our products (commercial and open-source.) Perl may be maligned, but it's still a good tool for a lot of purposes and if you pick and choose carefully, CPAN is an awesome resource. Perl has modern frameworks (eg, Catalyst) for Web development that are competitive with anything out there, and DBI is superior to most alternative languages' database libraries.
While I'm bullish on Perl 5, I'm not so optimistic about Perl 6. I think it's suffring horribly from second system syndrome and may never see the light of day as a useful production tool.
I'm glad Facebook took down the page; it was pretty vile hatred. I do support freedom of speech, but it should be on your own dime. A corporation like Facebook is not under any obligation to serve as a platform for speech and it can and should impose rules about what can be posted.
On the other hand, I don't think the lawsuit is a good move. The plaintiff doesn't have a leg to stand on. Facebook did the right thing; it's time to move on.
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It may interest you to know that most of the cease fires that've been negotiated between the Palestine and Israel in the last 15 years have been broken by Israel, not Palestine
Citation, please?
So? Jimmy Carter has done and said a lot of things. Doesn't mean they're all true or all good.
I wonder how many potential Palestinian scientists have gone undetected, untrained and unfunded?
From TFA: "In a news release on the agreement, CERN said Israel had supported Palestinian students studying and working there, as well as sending mixed Israeli-Palestinian contingents to its summer study programme."
Most of the Jews in Israel come from Poland/Germany
That is not true. There are more Sephardim ("Oriental") Jews in Israel than Western.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel where it says: "Approximately 68% of Israeli Jews are Israeli-born, 22% are immigrants from Europe and the Americas, and 10% are immigrants from Asia and Africa (including the Arab World). Jews who left or fled Arab and Muslim lands and their descendants, known as Mizrahi or Sephardi Jews, constitute approximately 50% of Jewish Israelis."
Your question is irrelevant because Israel is not South Africa. It's not even like South Africa. The odious comparison is simply a propaganda point used to demonize Israel.
I wonder how many potential Palestinian scientists have gone undetected, untrained and unfunded?
Probably dozens. Lebanon keeps Palestinians in poverty in refugee camps instead of integrating them into society. There were no universities at all in the West Bank prior to 1967. Hamas spends money on weapons that could be spent on education.
Yes, indeed. Palestinian society, much like the rest of the Arab world, allows a criminal waste of human potential by diverting energy towards a conflict instead of towards building up civil society. That's why most Arab states have a low (and usually declining) human development index and shockingly inefficient economies compared to Israel.
Devoting your energy to conflict and bitterness will destroy you before it destroys your enemy.
Wow, what a condescending reply.
Israel is not a "military state" in the sense that the military controls politics. It's a pretty dynamic democracy with a highly-diverse set of viewpoints. It also has a very educated labour force and a high number of high-tech companies and startups.
Israel has long been known for innovation. Just google "Israeli Innovation".
Those who propose BDS on the spurious basis of "Israeli Apartheid [sic]" are blind to reality, either out of ignorance or malice. While Israel is not perfect and its Arab citizens do suffer discrimination, it's nowhere near the level of South African Apartheid, and those same Arab citizens have more civil rights in Israel than in any Arab country.
This new cable runs Gentoo instead of <scoff>binary-only unoptimized distros</scoff>.
Following up on myself... as a bonus, most of the important C functions and data structures have man pages.
For C code, I recommend reading the source to Tcl/Tk. It's beautiful code, well-structured and portable.
Then why didn't he just stay with GNOME 2?
Because maybe he wanted to stay with a living project rather than one that's fossilized and extremely unlikely to have further development, bug fixes, security fixes, etc.?
At some points, Americans and the American government are going to have to face reality: You can't keep living beyond your means indefinitely.
One or more of these three things will happen, whether Americans like it or not:
Unfortunately, given that in the US political system it's impossible to make hard decisions, the balance between 1, 2 and 3 is likely to be sudden and sub-optimal.
You don't need the list of domains. The (comparatively tiny) list of MX machines will do...
Anyone who scrapes the list for alternate domains is supremely dumb. It's far easier to get a list of the small number of MX records. When we wanted to ban mailinator, we just banned any domain with an MX record that matched an IP address in the mailinator MX pool. Even if he uses a few different MX records for different domains, you'd only need a small list of domains to cover all the MX machines.
Israel is controlled by global ennemies of humanity, just like the US congress, german or french government
Oops. I hope your Tin Foil Hat was not made in Israel... otherwise, you're doomed.....
Imagine if the situation had been reversed: Suppose an Israeli university had sponsored Stallman and then threatened to pull funding if he went on to speak at a Palestinian university. Do you think Stallman would have made the same choice? Do you think posters would say they "understand" the position of the Israeli university?
Unfortunately, Stallman (who is normally very consistent in his behaviour and his beliefs) has messed up this time. He's compromised freedom for the sake of politics.
It's a great idea to go after payment processors. I bet it could stop a lot of spam.
But there's a lot more spam besides the ones that try to sell you something quasi-legitimately. Going after payment processors won't do anything to stop phishing attacks, lottery scams, Nigerian scammers, porn ads, wacko conspiracy theorists or questionable "newsletter" subscriptions. Also, the big spam rings will take advantage of dumb spammers who don't realize they'll get cut off for spamming. Unfortunately, there is no shortage of dumb spammers.
Glancing at my traps, I would guess that about one in five of the spams would be affected by cracking down on payment processors.
PHP alone is mostly eating its lunch
Interesting you say that... our product's Web interface is written in PHP and I rue the day I made that decision. For all of Perl's faults, PHP is about 100 times worse. No proper namespaces, completely wild-west wacky naming "conventions", no decent DBI-like library, crappy add-on modules (just try finding a decent YAML parser for PHP.)
If I had to do something new, I'd probably look at Python. I have very little experience with it, but it seems quite easy to use and fairly readable. Nevertheless, CPAN still takes the crown for a useful repo of modules.
There are still a lot of companies developing in Perl. They tend not to tout it or make much noise about it, though. It's not trendy any more.
We still use Perl to develop our products (commercial and open-source.) Perl may be maligned, but it's still a good tool for a lot of purposes and if you pick and choose carefully, CPAN is an awesome resource. Perl has modern frameworks (eg, Catalyst) for Web development that are competitive with anything out there, and DBI is superior to most alternative languages' database libraries.
While I'm bullish on Perl 5, I'm not so optimistic about Perl 6. I think it's suffring horribly from second system syndrome and may never see the light of day as a useful production tool.
This will stimulate international trade! US citizens will buy their drugs from Canada and we'll buy our storage media from the US.
Ouch!!! That hurt.
Mazal Tov.
I'm glad Facebook took down the page; it was pretty vile hatred. I do support freedom of speech, but it should be on your own dime. A corporation like Facebook is not under any obligation to serve as a platform for speech and it can and should impose rules about what can be posted.
On the other hand, I don't think the lawsuit is a good move. The plaintiff doesn't have a leg to stand on. Facebook did the right thing; it's time to move on.
That's a nice loophole. So scientists should take a day across Texas to teach kids that:
And of course, those who teach those theories cannot be discriminated against.
There's a good book called "Counterknowledge" by Damian Thompson that explores some of these issues. It has a good web site as well.