Yes. Political parties should not have any say in running the election. That is where we get the crazy stuff like not enough voting machines and long lines in poor democrat voting areas in Ohio. It has to be an independent commission with a dedication to accurate counting. It has to not only be fair, but seen to be fair.
Tibet is their manifest destiny and China has held sway, directly or indirectly for a long time.
If you are going to ask China to give up Tibet, then should the U.S. give up California, New Mexico, Texas etc to the Mexicans? Should the U.S. get off the backs of cuba and stop insisting it has the right to control the governments of its neighbours, including many carribean islands? No different to China.
The point remains that China is hardly the imperialist power that most other large nations are and the threat to the U.S. is minimal. With the massive advantage the U.S. has over China, and everyone else, why are people pushing the panic button ("omg, they will invade DAKOTA!!!!!") and spending more money on defence that the U.S. cannot afford. Spend the money on growing the economy and reduce the chance that the world will slide into depression due to a failing U.S. economy, which is in no one's interest.
The Mongols conquered China. The chinese are not mongols. There is more Mongol heritage in Russia than China.
The chinese are the great settlers of the world but hardly the great conquerers.
I never did understand the need for the Americans to invent a threat everywhere. By all means be cautious, but the U.S. has more firepower than the next ten nations combined. Perhaps overkill? Lets hope a nutter (Santorum cough cough) doesn't ever get into power as the U.S. is the only country with the means to try to take over the world (or at least turn it into a wasteland). Somehow the Chinese have more to worry about the the U.S. than the other way around.
The Germans, Swedes, Poles, Jews etc all did this...... and became Americans. Chinese who move to the U.S, and they have been doing this since before the gold rushes, will be exactly the same.
China has enough land, just needs more technology to increase yields. They will continue to import food, they don't need to "own Dakota". That is just weird right wing talk. Besides if you want good farming land with plenty of water i don't think Dakota is high on your target list. Grow a lot of rice there?
As chinese farmers move to the cities you will see the same agrarian revolution other developed countries saw hundreds of years before. Consolidation of small plots into big. Increased mechanisation and increased fertilisation, yields etc. Nothing new to see here.
Those are traditional chinese areas, disputed or otherwise. China has never had an interest in conquering all of Asia. It is not in their mindset. The U.S. has been far more interested in poking its nose (and interests) in countries right around the world which China has hardly done. China has to be the least imperialist country out there. Russia had a long history of expanding east, south, west and north, having fought wars on all borders with all neighbours. The culture is very different.
Still, the U.S. needs an enemy, Romney was already talking up Russia, China has long been in the mix. Lets not get reality in the way of these objectives. The pity is that so much of the economy and population is diverted to these objectives at great cost. So don't be surprised when piper has to be paid.
I remember reading a story that said that often passwords could be found cached on the hard drive and the trick was to scanned what text they could read and tested everything as a password.
Also, when searching through the universe of passwords, if fairly random such as @fg5m9s2q then it is tough but if they inevitably use DeathtoAmerica123 then the set of passwords you need to test is much smaller. There was also a technique that involved not actually cracking the password, but instead finding what the password mapped to after encryption and using that to bypass systems.
Inevitably the trick is to find a loophole.
Reading comprehension? or perhaps it required writing clarity. If you want to insert sarcastic remarks, how about i insert a remark on good manners.
When complaining about what Palm did, why link in MSFT? Or is it just a goal to take a free kick at MSFT whenever some other company does something he thinks is stupid.
and basically Apple was the one getting screwed by the music companies as they got the bulk of the revenue from iTunes. They had a better percentage deal than they give to music retailers. If the deal was fair it would be more like this one. Working at a software company, when we sell through retailers we give up 50% of the revenue and we have to pay for manufacture, marketing, development etc. A deal like this Apple one is perfectly reasonable. Does everyone think Apple should do it for free?
The internet is the new economy. Look at the value created by Google, Yahoo, Facebook, McAfee etc.
The internet "superhighway" needs the investment that the Freeways had post WWII. The ROI will mean it pays for itself over and over. It is similar to government investment in any infrastructure such as ports, airports etc.
And even better, the government just has to build the conditions for competition. In the end the people will pay for it. So whether you pay for it through tax dollars or directly to the companies, you will pay either way. And the return on that payment will create jobs, opportunities, services and benefits we can't even imagine today.
The same return we saw with satellites. Did anyone think GPS, mobile devices, live TV etc when the government was investing in getting to the Moon? Even if you go back as far as the settlement of the U.S., this was largely driven by governments, not companies.
I think Singapore has the highest paid President but its not $5m
Given that Bill Clinton made some massive amount last year ($100m?) i think once you are president you are set for life with benefits and pensions that will see you living high on the hog. Besides many of them have been millionaires before they are president.
The attraction of politics is power, not money. Usually money follows. Power corrupts and that is the problem.
I travel to china all the time and i have no problems. i have people working for me in china who SMS me. But i am on vodafone.
Still, no one has mentioned it to me as an issue.
How do you know you don't have a virus unless you scan your computer? Even then, if you have a rootkit successfully installed it might be possible for the rootkit to avoid the AV software.
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Yes. Political parties should not have any say in running the election. That is where we get the crazy stuff like not enough voting machines and long lines in poor democrat voting areas in Ohio. It has to be an independent commission with a dedication to accurate counting. It has to not only be fair, but seen to be fair.
Tibet is their manifest destiny and China has held sway, directly or indirectly for a long time.
If you are going to ask China to give up Tibet, then should the U.S. give up California, New Mexico, Texas etc to the Mexicans? Should the U.S. get off the backs of cuba and stop insisting it has the right to control the governments of its neighbours, including many carribean islands? No different to China.
The point remains that China is hardly the imperialist power that most other large nations are and the threat to the U.S. is minimal. With the massive advantage the U.S. has over China, and everyone else, why are people pushing the panic button ("omg, they will invade DAKOTA!!!!!") and spending more money on defence that the U.S. cannot afford. Spend the money on growing the economy and reduce the chance that the world will slide into depression due to a failing U.S. economy, which is in no one's interest.
The Mongols conquered China. The chinese are not mongols. There is more Mongol heritage in Russia than China.
The chinese are the great settlers of the world but hardly the great conquerers.
I never did understand the need for the Americans to invent a threat everywhere. By all means be cautious, but the U.S. has more firepower than the next ten nations combined. Perhaps overkill? Lets hope a nutter (Santorum cough cough) doesn't ever get into power as the U.S. is the only country with the means to try to take over the world (or at least turn it into a wasteland). Somehow the Chinese have more to worry about the the U.S. than the other way around.
The Germans, Swedes, Poles, Jews etc all did this ...... and became Americans. Chinese who move to the U.S, and they have been doing this since before the gold rushes, will be exactly the same.
China has enough land, just needs more technology to increase yields. They will continue to import food, they don't need to "own Dakota". That is just weird right wing talk. Besides if you want good farming land with plenty of water i don't think Dakota is high on your target list. Grow a lot of rice there?
As chinese farmers move to the cities you will see the same agrarian revolution other developed countries saw hundreds of years before. Consolidation of small plots into big. Increased mechanisation and increased fertilisation, yields etc. Nothing new to see here.
Those are traditional chinese areas, disputed or otherwise. China has never had an interest in conquering all of Asia. It is not in their mindset. The U.S. has been far more interested in poking its nose (and interests) in countries right around the world which China has hardly done. China has to be the least imperialist country out there. Russia had a long history of expanding east, south, west and north, having fought wars on all borders with all neighbours. The culture is very different.
Still, the U.S. needs an enemy, Romney was already talking up Russia, China has long been in the mix. Lets not get reality in the way of these objectives. The pity is that so much of the economy and population is diverted to these objectives at great cost. So don't be surprised when piper has to be paid.
I think France was Germany's largest trading partner before WWII
i am assuming he is saying "reach inland 600 miles from the coast"
That link should be blocked by slashdot and people who post it are lame.
I remember reading a story that said that often passwords could be found cached on the hard drive and the trick was to scanned what text they could read and tested everything as a password. Also, when searching through the universe of passwords, if fairly random such as @fg5m9s2q then it is tough but if they inevitably use DeathtoAmerica123 then the set of passwords you need to test is much smaller. There was also a technique that involved not actually cracking the password, but instead finding what the password mapped to after encryption and using that to bypass systems. Inevitably the trick is to find a loophole.
Ithinkisaurit?
It's the Marie-san Celeste
I guess but we will be dead before it is a problem :D
And then there is the Solar System, Galaxy etc So i am sure we can find more.
Reading comprehension? or perhaps it required writing clarity. If you want to insert sarcastic remarks, how about i insert a remark on good manners. When complaining about what Palm did, why link in MSFT? Or is it just a goal to take a free kick at MSFT whenever some other company does something he thinks is stupid.
and basically Apple was the one getting screwed by the music companies as they got the bulk of the revenue from iTunes. They had a better percentage deal than they give to music retailers. If the deal was fair it would be more like this one. Working at a software company, when we sell through retailers we give up 50% of the revenue and we have to pay for manufacture, marketing, development etc. A deal like this Apple one is perfectly reasonable. Does everyone think Apple should do it for free?
Palmpilot wasn't from MSFT. It was from Palm.
The internet is the new economy. Look at the value created by Google, Yahoo, Facebook, McAfee etc.
The internet "superhighway" needs the investment that the Freeways had post WWII. The ROI will mean it pays for itself over and over. It is similar to government investment in any infrastructure such as ports, airports etc.
And even better, the government just has to build the conditions for competition. In the end the people will pay for it. So whether you pay for it through tax dollars or directly to the companies, you will pay either way. And the return on that payment will create jobs, opportunities, services and benefits we can't even imagine today.
The same return we saw with satellites. Did anyone think GPS, mobile devices, live TV etc when the government was investing in getting to the Moon? Even if you go back as far as the settlement of the U.S., this was largely driven by governments, not companies.
Does it have a studio audience? i thought it was a laugh track.
I think Big Bang Theory does a good job of science jokes.
I think Singapore has the highest paid President but its not $5m Given that Bill Clinton made some massive amount last year ($100m?) i think once you are president you are set for life with benefits and pensions that will see you living high on the hog. Besides many of them have been millionaires before they are president. The attraction of politics is power, not money. Usually money follows. Power corrupts and that is the problem.
I think France was Germany's biggest trading partner before WWII. Warfare and economic sense dont always intersect.
Now THAT's thinking ahead. Note the use of Trantor in the paper clearly showing his inspiration.
I travel to china all the time and i have no problems. i have people working for me in china who SMS me. But i am on vodafone. Still, no one has mentioned it to me as an issue.
I'm not sick. Just recharging my battery.
99% of IPv4 traffic is bittorrent. Switch it to IPV6 and the traffic figures will spike!
How do you know you don't have a virus unless you scan your computer? Even then, if you have a rootkit successfully installed it might be possible for the rootkit to avoid the AV software.