Comment Re:Ramadan? (Score 1) 1233
The headline is "Don't fly during Ramadan" yet there's no mention of it in the summary. Perhaps in the article.
Yeah, God forbid you actually RTFA.
The headline is "Don't fly during Ramadan" yet there's no mention of it in the summary. Perhaps in the article.
Yeah, God forbid you actually RTFA.
He should tell them he is Catholic (lots of brown-skinned, weird-named people are Catholic) and that he is going to see his family for day (in this case, Assumption). Leaning Spanish would probably help too. Just drop a few "senors" in the conversation and they'll probably waive him on through.
Not necessary in theory, although the sort of folks interrogating him would probably be more likely to believe he's Catholic if he spoke Spanish than if he spoke Konkani.
Gosh, then convince your co-religionists to act like civilized people and stop blowing themselves up. Simple as that.
I.e., convince his co-religionists not to do things such as this?
(Of course you weren't just assuming what his religion was, right, given that he stated what it was in TFA, right?)
(Oh, and speaking of uncivilized people blowing things up for religious reasons....)
Dear Not-quite-so Educated Citizen:
From the Encyclopedia Britianica:
"Although many of the Founding Fathers acknowledged that slavery violated the core American Revolutionary ideal of liberty, their simultaneous commitment to private property rights, principles of limited government, and intersectional harmony prevented them from making a bold move against slavery.
I sincerely hope they were not so delusional as to think peoples' slaves were "private property". A slave is stolen property - the slave's life has been stolen from him or her. And a government so limited as to be unable to prevent somebody from completely depriving somebody else of their freedom by owning them is a government that's too limited.
"Insersectional harmony", OK, if that's purely pragmatism, maybe they couldn't, in practice, just get rid of slavery. (Treating "intersectional harmony" as more important than "giving people seized at weaponpoint and sold as property the rights stolen from them" is a major moral failure, just as giving "property rights" or "limited government" priority over that is.)
If you had actually read the article, you would have noticed that he's not Islamic, and not an Arab.
So he's not an Arab, nor is he Islamic. That's easily a warning sign if you're supporting something you have no background in.
Which he wasn't.
You are mistaken.
So it's not true that "Had Mitt won the presidency,
And, yes, people who complained about what Bush did and would have complained about it under Mitt but who defend it under Obama are, indeed, just as hypocritical.
HBA1C? At least that's what we call it in the UK..
Yes - "A1C" and "HBA1C" are both short for "Hemoglobin A1c".
Yes, yes, and no. LEXIS, now apparently just called Lexis, and NEXIS, now apparently just called Nexis, are non-government online data search services, access to which, according to the Cryptome article, "all members of the Intelligence Community have", "all domestic law enforcement has", and "IRS, DOJ, Treasury, Local PD, Sheriffs Office all have".
And LexisNexis, the corporation that offers those services, also offers other services, including, for example, "Identity Management Solutions" that "perform multiple core system data checks against our extensive public records and proprietary databases to ensure the contact's name and address match is valid." So whatever he's referring to when he speaks of "LEXIS-NEXIS", it's either 1) a private-sector program to which US government officials, among others, have access or 2) a government program that involves access to some service or services from LexisNexis and is, cleverly, codenamed "LEXIS-NEXIS".
Unisys is actually interesting because they're the last large vendor still selling a sign-magnitude machine
No, they're the last large vendor still selling a ones' complement machine, as, for example, their "C Compiler Programming Reference Manual Volume 1: C Language and Library" says:
6.1.1. Integer Type Conversions
...
UCS C represents an integer in 36-bit ones complement form (or 72-bit ones complement form, if the long long type attribute is specified).
Greenwald was actually pretty libertarian/non political, but as a constitutional law litigator, he got sick of what he felt were a series of abuses by the prior and then current administration post 9/11.
I'd go more for "non-political" than "libertarian", based on his preface to "How Would A Patriot Act".
As for Greenwald's current political views, see his Frequently Told Lies" blog post, where he explicitly answers claims that he's a "right-wing libertarian" with some pretty good indications that he's not one (I suspect few "right-wing libertarians" would strongly advocate a "public option" for health insurance, for example).
The truth is that most whistleblowers are generally conservative.
"Conservative", or libertarian? "Conservative" is used in multiple different ways, few if any of which are equivalent to libertarian.
In other news, another whistleblower has anonymously leaked information on PROTON, CLEARWATER and LEXIS-NEXIS, US government programs
Yes, yes, and no. LEXIS, now apparently just called Lexis, and NEXIS, now apparently just called Nexis, are non-government online data search services, access to which, according to the Cryptome article, "all members of the Intelligence Community have", "all domestic law enforcement has", and "IRS, DOJ, Treasury, Local PD, Sheriffs Office all have".
It worked, I think that Laptop is scared and will never hold a harddrive again...
Sure there is still iSeries and AIX running on Power, but remember just a few years ago iSeries didn't run on Power.
Where "a few" means "18"; AS/400, as it was called then, switched to (an extended form of) PowerPC in 1995; "Power ISA" is the current name of the instruction set architecture formerly known as PowerPC.
Doesn't the world deserve a modern OS after 50 years of legacy?
Which OSes that were available in 1963 are still available (or have a direct descendant that's available), other than the Burroughs MCP?
IMO there are two primary reasons for this 1) high-end CAD software is incredibly expensive and has licensing schemes that work better in the Windows ecosystem and 2) the 3-D graphics drivers for Linux, particularly OpenGL, suck big time.
And 3) the traditional UNIX workstation vendors stopped making UNIX workstations, so "engineering workstation" now means "high-end PC", and, of the UNIXes from the traditional UNIX workstation vendors, the only one that runs on PCs is Solaris.
Those who can, do; those who can't, write. Those who can't write work for the Bell Labs Record.
