Compare how the US responded to similar actions in Iran; the president held press conferences and pressed the issue at the UN and got Europe to agree to sanctions. With Bahrain, no action was taken; the implication being that protesters' livesans democracy are worth less than navy parking spaces.
US-made tanks sold to Saudi stormed into Bahrain and crushed the protests. The US government decided that was not enough reason to deny further sales.
Current US foreign policy is not "do nothing." The US government backed the Bahraini dictatorship and looked the other way as their police fired on pro-democracy protestors and refused to sanction the government despite its documented use of torture and human rights abuses. Why? Because the Bahraini king allowed the US Navy to park its ships there. The US government approved the sale of weapons to the Saudi dictatorship that human rights groups warned would be used on protestors and for torture (e.g. selling huge shipments of cattle prods to the Saudi government even though they don't have many cows). It's creating a whole generation of people who dislike America, despite the fact that the US was quite popular up until recently.
Based on the prices of some programs, I don't think that "too expensive" is an issue.
When killing people is concerned, I think that no price is too high for our military.
Citation needed. Sex outside of marriage is referred to as "Zina" in Saudi Arabia, which is not a capital offense. Adultery is a subset of sex crime law, and is punished by flogging if unmarried, only married people qualify for capital punishment for adultery..
Being raped is not a capital crime in Saudi Arabia. The myth of that got out when a married woman claimed she was raped, and since there wasn't enough evidence to prove it, the prosecutor decided to charge her with adultery. It's screwed up and Muslims around the world protested the case, but they're a US-backed dictatorship and that's that.
having a sick and dying workforce is not a way to grow an economy.
yeah - if it takes effort to draw-in breath, then you have a proper seal. (used to wear one spray painting).
What would have been a better way to deal with this? Send in a warning and watch it be ignored?
This is the same with Google Hangouts, WhatsApp, BBM, and all the rest. At least I can copy my iPhone's messages to a PC and archive them.
Apple's security documents show just how secure it actually is, with iMessage using public key cryptography. Are we going to also complain that PGP locks you in too now?
Do you have any fukken idea what probiotics are?
but at some point it will always be impossible to evolve without messing up at least some of the workflow and without making some people get used to different paradigms
Why is "evolving" necessary? Some of us want tools, not eye sores^w candy.
There's no inherent advantage in having a desktop that looks like Windows, a Mac, or a cell phone.
I ditched GNOME for MATE about two weeks ago. A few bugs (e.g., screensaver timer is off), but also fixes things that have been broken in GNOME for years (single left-click on window list to pop something up, vs. right click and pick a menu option).
Restoring my customizations was surprisingly easy - easier than restoring them after the last few GNOME upgrades.
No regrets whatsoever.
150 years from now, we'll be saying that banning CO2 was the best environmental law we ever passed.
Or, we'll be saying, "maybe tomorrow, if we can finish crossing this wasteland, we'll find an abandoned town we can scavenge some food from"... "or at least some ammo."
ppp chat. It's the only way to be sure. Unless. . . TEMPEST. . . .
yeah. Basically, there are two use-cases. Civil Defense alerts. And spam.
You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred. -- Superchicken
