Comment Re: Apple=Best? (Score -1, Troll) 135
Are you going to go all "no mainstream Scotsman" on us now?
No *true* mainstream Scotsman anyway.
Are you going to go all "no mainstream Scotsman" on us now?
No *true* mainstream Scotsman anyway.
Perhaps you never saw Naked Gun 2 1/2? Team America? If I really felt like it, I could dig up quite a few comedies where we assassinate the living leader of a country that is considered to be the bad guy. Strangely, you think you're unique and this occasion was unique. Not going to go on about free speech but the irony is pretty intense when you consider the lack of human rights in North Korea.
I'd love to see what would happen if someone made a movie about the assassination of Obama, while he is still in office, and how the assassination is really funny.
I can't believe that the Secret Service would just turn a blind eye to it on the grounds of 'free speech'. My suspicion is that just writing the screenplay for such a movie would attract a lot of unwanted attention from several 3-letter agencies in the USA.
I used the example of Ivan Denisovich. That was written father's name last, in cyrillic, when the book was published. Was that done differently because it was literature?
I think its probably just a difference between Russian culture and Mongolian. Like I said, eg Koreans write their family name first. Some elements of Russian culture were fairly unchanged in Mongolia others got transformed. I've always wondered why ice hockey didn't take off in Mongolia; they could play it outdoors 6 months of the year!
I though the patronymic came last. "Ivan Denisovich" would be Ivan, son of Denis. Much like when last names were introduced in England, if you didn't have a good name to pick (Smith, Brown, etc.) you'd take your dad's name (Donaldson, Anderson, etc.) In the original Russian, published in 1962, Solzhenitsyn placed the patronymic after the first name
But this is much later than Kahn, and I am not an expert on names. I just know the Russian examples from literature.
When they write their names in latin script they tend to write the fathers name last, when they write it in cyrillic the fathers name goes first. They seem to think this is more correct. Many asian naming conventions put the family name first so perhaps this is related.
It's not like Khan was his family name and people called him Mr. Khan.
Mongolians don't have 'family names'.
These days they use the 'patronymic' system which was introduced by the Russians, so you have your given name and your fathers given name. Typically the fathers given name is put first, so if your dad was Dave and you are Bob your FULL name would be Dave Bob.
Before the Russian influence Mongolians had their tribal name and their given name but this was 'phased out' by the communists. Until relatively recently no one used their tribal names and many Mongolians forgot them. Even today employers don't record peoples tribal name and its hardly ever used. It appears on birth certificates but not in passports; a modern Mongolian passport will have the fathers given name in the 'surname' field.
This can cause issues for mixed marriages and international travel with children as the name on the childs passport would make little sense to immigration officials in other countries and they might assume that the foreign father travelling with his child isn't the real father and that theres something fishy going on. (ie your name is Dave Smith, your sons name is Bobby. Normally his passport would have his name as "Bobby Smith", but if he was born in Mongolia his passport would have his name as "Bobby Dave". You have to get special dispensation from the director of the passport office to have the name on the passport in conventional, international format.
Under the new regime the state identity papers list the tribal name so everyone has to provide them. Since many people just don't know it they use 'Borjigin' which is Chinggis Khans tribe. Thus the official numbers of this tribe is going up and up even though most of them are not actually biologically from that tribe.
The Slave Islands are the worst kept secret in South Korea.
http://www.news.com.au/world/a...
The entirety of geopolitics is now and always has been a gigantic exercise in kettles calling pots black.
Causing "minor inconvenience" to *thousands* of people and multiple businesses isn't minor at all. I believe it is you who lacks perspective as to harm to society.
Inconveniencing gaming is minor no matter how many thousands of people or businesses are affected. I know that people and businesses spend millions on it but still, Its Just A Game.
Sheesh, how many productive hours must be generated for every hour of DDoS on gaming sites???
I think Seth Rogen and James Franco should make dictator-mocking their shtick- they're way more likely to succeed with that strategy than anything they'll dream up by themselves. The jokes practically write themselves; in fact KJU is the only interesting character in this movie. So here are some ideas for sequels:
I was thinking, if someone started making a movie about the assassination of Barak Obama (while he is in office) and for the research on the movie they visited the USA, I bet that would turn out really well for them.
Just sayin, when the shoe is on the other foot...
Let me guess, the kernel becomes dependent on systemd?
Its gotta happen sooner or later...
It's not like the police have anything else to investigate, like, perhaps anything from institutionalized paedophilia to common burglaries, is it?
This is all about taking people's attention away from the documented failings of the police.
It occurs to me that modern policing in the west is more focused on the 'criminals' who advertise and document their own presence and activities. This makes it enormously easier for the police to make it look as if they are actually doing something (as opposed to just making work up and inventing entire crimes just for the purpose of theatre).
Any crime thats remotely hard to detect is virtually ignored in favour of the 'big ticket' items like 'hate speech'.
Also you seem to be deliberately mixing up actions by private bodies (the FA) with judicial court actions. Private bodies can do whatever they damn well please, within reason - there is a zero tolerance approach to racism in English football, hence the action against Suarez and Balotelli.
Its funny how western society likes to set itself up as a prime example of a tolerant, caring society and yet they keep trotting out the 'zero tolerance' line for practically everything that someone might find offensive.
Its ridiculous. Either its a tolerant society or it isn't. You can't have 'zero tolerance' for whatever its the latest fad to dislike and still be a tolerant society, it doesn't make sense.
You may as well say 'Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance' as to say 'The West is a caring, tolerant society', they equally confusing uses of the words...
Spoilers: In the end of the movie Kim Jung-un turns out to be a pretty fun guy (aside from the debauchery and keeping the population in slavery and all) and the would - be assassins don't do the dirty deed because of it. In other words the movie actually put's down America's CIA killing machine and puts Kim Jung in a far better light than he deserves.
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So then it was the CIA that hacked Sony and demanded this film be buried.
I'm not sure that's good for North Korea.
Sure it is. NK's goal is not to "get" Sony. It is to maintain the reputation of their leader as a psychopathic kook. This will strengthen their hand in future negotiations over important issues. If you act reasonable, your adversaries will insist on an outcome that is "fair". But if act like an irrational psychopath, your adversaries will settle for any outcome that is even halfway sane. The Kim dynasty has been using this strategy since 1950, and it has worked well for them.
Worked for Nixon.
But you can mitigate the hell out of it, I suggest air gapping.
Yes. Lets air-gap the email system. That would work well.
I've long advocated, but never implemented, having a VM just for email. This wouldn't protect from social engineering via email but its better than having the email client on the desktop itself.
what a lot of people don't realise is that after he came back from placating hitler he increased military spending significantly. If not for him, when war broke out Britain would have been squashed.
This is whats called 'international diplomacy' and was actually pretty masterful; he delayed the start of the war and ensured that Britain was prepared for it.
Old programmers never die, they just hit account block limit.
