Another incisive article from Asia Times about the absence of these three words together in recent reporting (even critical ones) on Iraq.
If WMD was a sham and occupying Iraq was a non-goal, what then was the real goal? Permanent bases sounds plausible, with a military cost equal to the number of Russian soldiers dying in boot camps every year (The Economist alleges that parents need to pay officers to save their sons).
If your kid sometimes decides to show off his drawing skills on a $600 LCD monitor that you use everyday and you want a quick solution (no, water doesn’t work) here is one:
I used the tiniest amount of isopropyl alcohol (generic walgreens brand) with a moist wipe to clean it up. It worked well for me.
Not many people seem to know about the FreeBSD hg repo that is tracking cvs. It seems to have all 13 years of history in it.
And of course, there is the linux kernel repo hosted on kernel.org.
Reuters quotes a few people claiming that Islam is not unique in this kind of violence and quotes a couple of examples about buddhism and hinduism which seems to be completely irrelevant.
Of course, there will be criminals and fanatics in every religion. But that comes no where near the political islam in the current context.
If they quoted Babri Masjid, that’d have been a lot more relevant, although it’s also more political than religious.
It seems to me that these things have more to do with colonialism (a lot of Hindus feel that they got colonialized twice - once by muslims and again by christians) than with religion.
The cartoon row seems to be as much political as it is religious. Islam is unique in the sense that it brings together so many nations which are geographically and racially diverse. So it’s hard to compare it to other religions which have a much smaller and localized political component.
This probably is the best possible ending to the row over cartoons offending Islam. Instead of burning embassies, they should just excersize their
“freedom of speech” and be done with the whole thing, so that the next time, the other side is more sensitive.
This happens every 5-10 years in Indian newspapers as well. Normally I’d say we need more of these to reduce what seems to be over-sensitivity (to the untrained eyes of a disinterested third party) of either side in this war of civilizations. But everyime this happens, more people get killed, which is bad.
The Register is running a piece critical of Linus that seems to be high on morality and freedom.
I find suggestions that BSDs are less popular because of their license or that the BSD license is a failed concept as having no factual basis. On the other hand, Linus’s explanation that he found the right balance between the religious right and the “I-dont-care-about-my-software” developer sounds more credible to me.
GPL has goals I share (encourage more people to share software), but its methods are complicated and GPLv3 makes things more complicated.
I still believe that having strong leadership, good timing, pragmatic approach and good code make a project successful, not the license.