You are confusing asymmetric warfare with religious/tribal feuds. The fact that U.S. troops get continually killed and maimed by IEDs in Iraq is exactly the same sort of asymmetric warfare practiced by the "Americans" during the American Revolution. To "stand in a straight line" against the British would have been suicide, just the same as it would be for the "insurgents" to fight a set piece battle with U.S. troops. So the idea that people will try to manipulate the battle field to their own advantage is hardly "revolutionary".
What you are complaining about is religious and tribal feuding. While this is often savage and barbaric, it is entirely something different. Were those suicide bombers targeting the occupation forces when they blew up their own country people? No, those sort of attacks were meant to further provoke and incite religious and tribal feuds, which are meant to ultimately help their own religious/tribal agenda. They would be the equivalent (while highly exaggerated) of right-wing fanatics taking advantage of a Chinese invasion to murder every member of MoveOn.org to push their religious agenda.
Next time you speak on a matter please do a bit of home work, or exercise a bit of critical thinking,
So we should police Fred Phelps, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Ralph Reed, etc...? Don't be an idiot. Extremists, regardless of their cause, are always the ones whose voices will be heard above all others, because they are EXTREMISTS. They are the ones who will continue to shout out their beliefs, no matter what argument is made against them, because their "faith" cannot be broken. Look at American politics for the past 30 years. For candidates (either Republican OR Democrat) to be successful they must pander to the extremes of their parties, because it is the fanatics who are the most motivated to act in the name of their cause (in this case come out and vote in primaries). Moderates, by definition, are moderate, and are not looking to rock the boat (be it in religion, politics, or life in general).
Sorry for this drunken ramble, but when I see posts like this it makes me realize how quickly people assign blame to people who are "different" to then them without realizing the same symptoms exist within their own culture (because in the end, we are all ruled by humanity, whether we like it or not).
I'm not sure which time zone you are in, but here in EST (the time zone where the conference is taking place) his presentation is starting in 1 hour and 45 minutes. Your details I would imagine will come sometime after that (when he is done).
Happy friday the 13th!!!
-geoff313
The books are published in print by Prentice Hall PTR, but are also
released after a few months freely under the Open Publiction License
(more about the license in the link below).
For those of you who don't want to tune into the OC but want your Star
Wars fix this week, I just noticed this over at starwars.com:
Tune in to "60 Minutes" Sunday, March 13 on CBS for a special in-depth
interview with George Lucas. The show previously profiled Lucas in 1999
during the release of Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom
Menace to document the beginning of the prequels. Now that Star
Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
heads into the final stages of post-production, "60 Minutes"
correspondent Lesley Stahl returns to Skywalker Ranch to chat with
Lucas about his family, his technological innovations and his plans
after Episode III.........
As the offical Libertarian party cadidate for president, where do you
stand on the issue of intellectual property? Should it be considered
the same as traditional property, or should IP be not subjected to the
same protections that physical property is? And do you feel that your
personal views on the subject reflect the views of the majority of the
party itself, or is this an issue that has the potential to polarize
your party much the same way that abortion does for the Democrats and
Republicans?
The differece here is that the
Kaiser
had every intention of executing
those plans. The only reason he didn't attack the US was that he was
busy competing with the British in an arms race which eventually lead
to WWI
Really?
He had every intention of executing those plans but in almost 20 years
couldn't pull it off? While you are right about the arms race, the fact
that such an arms race existed prevented any sort of practical
implementation of the plan. That is like saying the UN charter forbids
us from invading the world, but if it wasn't there we would do it. So
how exactly is this different?
BTW, nice to see you convientely skip over the WWI argument in one
sentence, and then jump into WWII, which had nothing do with the
conversation. WWII was an entirely different situation, one that may
have well ended up entirely different if it weren't for the Japanese
bombing of pearl harbor.
Basically, all the link points to was a "proposed" plan by Germany in
the 1890's to invade the eastern US to exert "influence" on the
expanding world. This sort of colonization was far from uncommon then
(although it is and was wrong). See my post above to explain why the
link really isn't relevant, as it was a proposed plan almost 2 decades
earlier, and is very similar to what the US government does now.
Well, having stated you are a member of the military, you are aware
that the United States military prepares military strategies against
other countries military's to maintain a state of awareness? While I am
not defending the German government's planning here, the fact that the
US gov't plans essentially the same thing against all other countries
on a regular basis seems to descredit your point. The fact that this
plan was drawn up about 17 years before WWI indicates it that it was
considered and discarded. So should we consider the fact that the US
creates the same sort of scenarios yearly for other counties that we
are planning on invading them?
The problem comes from the transfer itself due to the limits of
magnetic storage. While this isn't mentioned in the summary, if you
were to RTFA then you would see that the problem arrives when you fire
electrons at a magnetic storage material fast enough (approaching the
speed of light) they stop behaving in the expected way, and start
producing random results. This of course is unacceptable for a storage
medium, because if you increase the increase the pulses to write to the
disk to near the speed of light it will result in random bits being
flipped here and there and corrupt your data.
And that wouldn't have anything to do with her having received
approximately $180,000 in campaign contributions from Microsoft in the
past 6 years now, would it?
Re:Apple anyone???
on
Real's Reality
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
Unitrusive?
Really?
My biggest complaint with Quicktime on Windows is that it hijacks my
settings. For instance, if I type in a URL that contains a.mp3, under
Mozilla it immediately gives me the option of whether I want to play
the file or whether to save it as a file. This is how I have Mozilla
set up to work with almost all files for security reasons.. However,
once I installed Quicktime it would immediately decide to open the
file, even though I had unselected.mp3 it's choices during the
install. Perhaps I did something wrong and someone would like to fill
me in? Because it works fine without Quicktime installed, and I have
Winamp installed. This is the reason that I do not have either the Real
player or the Quicktime player installed on my system.
Depending on what you are using it for, you may be interested in trying
out White Box Linux for your
needs. It is a community produced distribution that is forked from the
source of Red Hat's Enterprise Linux 3. While there is no support for
from Red Hat, you do get essentially the same product, which should be
compatible with Oracle (although I do not know this personally).
If you believe the rhetoric from the U.S. government, this was a war to
liberate the Iraqi people, not to gain "spoils of war" as you call
them. So what exactly are you smoking? Of course the whole war was
brought about to bring spoils of war to America and its allies, and
both you and I know this. However, this wasn't the declared reason to
go to war, which proves my previous posts point: the U.S. government
will do what it wants when it wants, and doesn't really care to even
give the illusion of fairness when it comes in the way of its own
benefit. No one is asking for a free ride for this Australian, but why
is the U.S. asking France, Russia, and Germany to reduce Iraq's debt
while at the same time excluding corporations from those countries when
it comes to bidding on major contracts? Pull your head out of the sand,
you might be amazed at how the world really works.
If nationality is irrelevant here, then why did the United States
government just ban corporations from Germany, France, and Russia from
bidding on major reconstruction contracts in Iraq? These are private
corporations, not sent by their governments, yet are being punished for
just for being from countries that opposed the war. These two
incidents, among many others, provide a very telling example of how the
U.S. government often choses to ignore its own open market philosophy
to gain influence. Don't believe me, then check out the articles here,
here,
and here.
Whether you view this decision as right or wrong is your own opinion,
however your statement that nationality shouldn't play a part in
government's official opinion on something seems very misguided.
How do you get the svg plug-in to work with Mozilla under Windows XP? I
installed the plug in, and it works under IE (which I just tested) but
I use Mozilla v 1.5, and it doesnt' appear to work. Do you have any
suggestions? The requirements are listed as this:
Windows 95, 98, SE, 2000, ME, XP, or NT 4.0
Service Pack 4 and up
Netscape Navigator or Communicator versions 4.0
through 4.75, or Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher. Netscape 6 is not
supported.
13 MB of hard disk space
32 MB of RAM recommended
are they planning on implementing Mozilla support if it already doesn't
exist?
While it is an excellent idea to financially support the Samba project,
not only because of what they are doing but for how well they do it,
but for those who are looking for who can't afford this book
essentially the same document can be found here.
Keep in mind this was the pre-release version of the published book.
And I would just like to say thanks to the Samba team for all the
excellent work they have done!!!
I hate SCO just as much as the next guy, but the Amendments you cited are for criminal cases, and apply only to the government. This case is a civil matter, and therefore use a different set of laws. IANAL, so I believe SCO still has to prove its own case, but it isn't compelled to by those Amendments you listed above.
-geoff313
Slashdot Mirror
Don't be so naive,
You are confusing asymmetric warfare with religious/tribal feuds. The fact that U.S. troops get continually killed and maimed by IEDs in Iraq is exactly the same sort of asymmetric warfare practiced by the "Americans" during the American Revolution. To "stand in a straight line" against the British would have been suicide, just the same as it would be for the "insurgents" to fight a set piece battle with U.S. troops. So the idea that people will try to manipulate the battle field to their own advantage is hardly "revolutionary".
What you are complaining about is religious and tribal feuding. While this is often savage and barbaric, it is entirely something different. Were those suicide bombers targeting the occupation forces when they blew up their own country people? No, those sort of attacks were meant to further provoke and incite religious and tribal feuds, which are meant to ultimately help their own religious/tribal agenda. They would be the equivalent (while highly exaggerated) of right-wing fanatics taking advantage of a Chinese invasion to murder every member of MoveOn.org to push their religious agenda.
Next time you speak on a matter please do a bit of home work, or exercise a bit of critical thinking,
-geoff
So we should police Fred Phelps, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Ralph Reed, etc...? Don't be an idiot. Extremists, regardless of their cause, are always the ones whose voices will be heard above all others, because they are EXTREMISTS. They are the ones who will continue to shout out their beliefs, no matter what argument is made against them, because their "faith" cannot be broken. Look at American politics for the past 30 years. For candidates (either Republican OR Democrat) to be successful they must pander to the extremes of their parties, because it is the fanatics who are the most motivated to act in the name of their cause (in this case come out and vote in primaries). Moderates, by definition, are moderate, and are not looking to rock the boat (be it in religion, politics, or life in general).
Sorry for this drunken ramble, but when I see posts like this it makes me realize how quickly people assign blame to people who are "different" to then them without realizing the same symptoms exist within their own culture (because in the end, we are all ruled by humanity, whether we like it or not).
-geoff
Please disregard the above post, I read EST when the paper is in EDT. I am eagerly awaiting this paper though.
*shouldn't post to slashdot this early in the morning*
I'm not sure which time zone you are in, but here in EST (the time zone where the conference is taking place) his presentation is starting in 1 hour and 45 minutes. Your details I would imagine will come sometime after that (when he is done). Happy friday the 13th!!! -geoff313
Another nice spot to bookmark (which is updated as new books in the series are released) is Bruce Peren's Open Source Series:
http://www.informit.com/promotions/promotion.asp?
The books are published in print by Prentice Hall PTR, but are also released after a few months freely under the Open Publiction License (more about the license in the link below).
http://www.informit.com/content/downloads/perens/
-geoff313
For those of you who don't want to tune into the OC but want your Star Wars fix this week, I just noticed this over at starwars.com:
c ity/news20050310.html
Tune in to "60 Minutes" Sunday, March 13 on CBS for a special in-depth interview with George Lucas. The show previously profiled Lucas in 1999 during the release of Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace to document the beginning of the prequels. Now that Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith heads into the final stages of post-production, "60 Minutes" correspondent Lesley Stahl returns to Skywalker Ranch to chat with Lucas about his family, his technological innovations and his plans after Episode III.........
You can find the rest of the article here:
http://www.starwars.com/episode-iii/release/publi
-geoff313
As the offical Libertarian party cadidate for president, where do you stand on the issue of intellectual property? Should it be considered the same as traditional property, or should IP be not subjected to the same protections that physical property is? And do you feel that your personal views on the subject reflect the views of the majority of the party itself, or is this an issue that has the potential to polarize your party much the same way that abortion does for the Democrats and Republicans?
The differece here is that the Kaiser had every intention of executing those plans. The only reason he didn't attack the US was that he was busy competing with the British in an arms race which eventually lead to WWI
Really?
He had every intention of executing those plans but in almost 20 years couldn't pull it off? While you are right about the arms race, the fact that such an arms race existed prevented any sort of practical implementation of the plan. That is like saying the UN charter forbids us from invading the world, but if it wasn't there we would do it. So how exactly is this different?
BTW, nice to see you convientely skip over the WWI argument in one sentence, and then jump into WWII, which had nothing do with the conversation. WWII was an entirely different situation, one that may have well ended up entirely different if it weren't for the Japanese bombing of pearl harbor.
-geoff313
Link wasn't reg only for me.....
Basically, all the link points to was a "proposed" plan by Germany in the 1890's to invade the eastern US to exert "influence" on the expanding world. This sort of colonization was far from uncommon then (although it is and was wrong). See my post above to explain why the link really isn't relevant, as it was a proposed plan almost 2 decades earlier, and is very similar to what the US government does now.
-geoff313
Well, having stated you are a member of the military, you are aware that the United States military prepares military strategies against other countries military's to maintain a state of awareness? While I am not defending the German government's planning here, the fact that the US gov't plans essentially the same thing against all other countries on a regular basis seems to descredit your point. The fact that this plan was drawn up about 17 years before WWI indicates it that it was considered and discarded. So should we consider the fact that the US creates the same sort of scenarios yearly for other counties that we are planning on invading them?
-geoff313
Actually, no
The problem comes from the transfer itself due to the limits of magnetic storage. While this isn't mentioned in the summary, if you were to RTFA then you would see that the problem arrives when you fire electrons at a magnetic storage material fast enough (approaching the speed of light) they stop behaving in the expected way, and start producing random results. This of course is unacceptable for a storage medium, because if you increase the increase the pulses to write to the disk to near the speed of light it will result in random bits being flipped here and there and corrupt your data.
-geoff313
And that wouldn't have anything to do with her having received approximately $180,000 in campaign contributions from Microsoft in the past 6 years now, would it?
Don't believe me?
Check out her top contributors:
1998
2000
2002
2004
Unitrusive?
.mp3, under
Mozilla it immediately gives me the option of whether I want to play
the file or whether to save it as a file. This is how I have Mozilla
set up to work with almost all files for security reasons.. However,
once I installed Quicktime it would immediately decide to open the
file, even though I had unselected .mp3 it's choices during the
install. Perhaps I did something wrong and someone would like to fill
me in? Because it works fine without Quicktime installed, and I have
Winamp installed. This is the reason that I do not have either the Real
player or the Quicktime player installed on my system.
Really?
My biggest complaint with Quicktime on Windows is that it hijacks my settings. For instance, if I type in a URL that contains a
-geoff313
Depending on what you are using it for, you may be interested in trying out White Box Linux for your needs. It is a community produced distribution that is forked from the source of Red Hat's Enterprise Linux 3. While there is no support for from Red Hat, you do get essentially the same product, which should be compatible with Oracle (although I do not know this personally).
Umm, I think when you post as AC you aren't supposed to sign your name.
If you believe the rhetoric from the U.S. government, this was a war to liberate the Iraqi people, not to gain "spoils of war" as you call them. So what exactly are you smoking? Of course the whole war was brought about to bring spoils of war to America and its allies, and both you and I know this. However, this wasn't the declared reason to go to war, which proves my previous posts point: the U.S. government will do what it wants when it wants, and doesn't really care to even give the illusion of fairness when it comes in the way of its own benefit. No one is asking for a free ride for this Australian, but why is the U.S. asking France, Russia, and Germany to reduce Iraq's debt while at the same time excluding corporations from those countries when it comes to bidding on major contracts? Pull your head out of the sand, you might be amazed at how the world really works.
shouldn't was supposed to say doesn't. Man, I really have to learn to use the preview button before submitting.
If nationality is irrelevant here, then why did the United States government just ban corporations from Germany, France, and Russia from bidding on major reconstruction contracts in Iraq? These are private corporations, not sent by their governments, yet are being punished for just for being from countries that opposed the war. These two incidents, among many others, provide a very telling example of how the U.S. government often choses to ignore its own open market philosophy to gain influence. Don't believe me, then check out the articles here, here, and here. Whether you view this decision as right or wrong is your own opinion, however your statement that nationality shouldn't play a part in government's official opinion on something seems very misguided.
How do you get the svg plug-in to work with Mozilla under Windows XP? I installed the plug in, and it works under IE (which I just tested) but I use Mozilla v 1.5, and it doesnt' appear to work. Do you have any suggestions? The requirements are listed as this:
Windows 95, 98, SE, 2000, ME, XP, or NT 4.0 Service Pack 4 and up
Netscape Navigator or Communicator versions 4.0 through 4.75, or Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher. Netscape 6 is not supported.
13 MB of hard disk space
32 MB of RAM recommended
are they planning on implementing Mozilla support if it already doesn't exist?
While it is an excellent idea to financially support the Samba project, not only because of what they are doing but for how well they do it, but for those who are looking for who can't afford this book essentially the same document can be found here. Keep in mind this was the pre-release version of the published book. And I would just like to say thanks to the Samba team for all the excellent work they have done!!!
I hate SCO just as much as the next guy, but the Amendments you cited are for criminal cases, and apply only to the government. This case is a civil matter, and therefore use a different set of laws. IANAL, so I believe SCO still has to prove its own case, but it isn't compelled to by those Amendments you listed above. -geoff313