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Reply to Losing an old friendship over virtually nothing in Misc JoeUser Forums

"I asked my friend to pick up a cake, and I would pay them for it." "My friend still expected to be paid for the cake." Now, where is the conflict here? And before you think about what happened in between, be reminded that your obligations here are based solely and only on the above statements. It doesn't matter what happened to the cake, who ate it, who stole it, who kept it, YOU have to pay for it, because _you said you wou

Reply to What was Your First Favorite Movie as a Child? in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

I really don't remember much about what I liked in my childhood, maybe because it took place in a different language than I use today. But I believe my favourite movie was Star Wars as soon as I saw it. I saw a New Hope (before it had the title) on video in Bavaria and Empire Strikes Back on video in Ireland. I had to wait for Return of the Jedi until it was on television in 1990 or so. Bambie is the first movie I remember seeing in c

Reply to Civilization 4 in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

On a sidenote, I also hope Civ4 makes it to the Mac quickly. Considering that Intel Macs are coming and that many game developers might target only them, this seems like a potential problem now.

Reply to This is Exactly What's Wrong With America!! in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

"complete waste of human flesh"? Because he managed to get a judge to agree with him on a subject you happen to feeel strongly about? Are you out on a crusade to convince people that the atheist is right in pointing to Christianity as a bad influence?

Reply to Civilization 4 in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

"I enjoyed Civ3, but what I have seen of Civ4 makes me think it is aimed at young kids." I didn't like Civ3, because I thought it had too much dictated complicatedness (as opposed to SMAC, which was complicated but based on a fairly simple rule system). I also thought that strategy games, the few that still exist, have become too realistic, graphics-wise. I look forward to a game that would look like it was made for young kids.

Reply to Blog Power! in Politics JoeUser Forums

Yes, but did the designer say he will rework the plans, because a) he claims that the crescent was a coincidence and he doesn't really agree that it shouldn't be there (the "designer" presumably didn't know that the crescent if a symbol of Islam like the cross is for Christianity)? b) he claims that the crescent was a coincidence and he now agrees that it shouldn't be there (same note applies)? c) he knows of the symbolism an

Reply to Israel vs. UN: Why has it always been on bad terms with it.. in International JoeUser Forums

Furry did make a good point though. Without that reminder, one might have gotten the impression that the last few decades were somehow representative of the UN's general behaviour towards the Jewish state.

Reply to Israel vs. UN: Why has it always been on bad terms with it.. in International JoeUser Forums

Good summary. Just for the sake of my own country of birth, Germany, I'd like to add that MOST OF THE TIME Germany treated Jews better than everybody else did. That is why most European Jews eventually moved to Germany, started speaking German (Yiddish), referred to themselves as Germans (Ashkenazi in Hebrew), and spread eastwards, still clinging to the German language and German traditions. Some orthodox Jews still speak Yiddish at home becau

Reply to Israel vs. UN: Why has it always been on bad terms with it.. in International JoeUser Forums

Have you noticed that it is always the current anti-semitism that is justified (or not anti-semitism)? Past violence or discrimination directed at Jews was always unjustified, but current violence and discrimination directed at Jews is always acceptable. In 50 years or so people will look at the second half of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st and they will find that Arabs burning down synagogues IS anti-semitism, was wrong, an

Reply to WinFX API Primer in PDC 2005 JoeUser Forums

I figure that since all of Microsoft's big applications (Office!) are Win32, Win32 won't go away for a long time. Perhaps it might be replaced by a Win32 runtime for WinFX though.

Reply to Israel vs. UN: Why has it always been on bad terms with it.. in International JoeUser Forums

"You need to go back further than three decades, Lucas. Find out about the origins of the state. Then the animosity between Israel and its immediate neighbours may begin to make more sense to you." Yes, go back to the time when Israel's neighbours did not only want to destroy it, but actually attempted it and came fairly close. Learn how the UN divided Palestine and how the Arabs rejected the plan and vowed to kill every Jew instead. Compare the fate of Arab refugees a

Reply to PDC 2005: Monad for power users in PDC 2005 JoeUser Forums

Monad means "one" or "unique" in Greek. In functional programming languages a monad is a data type that allows for I/O.

Reply to WinFX API Primer in PDC 2005 JoeUser Forums

I think you are right. If Microsoft plan to eventually phase out Win32 (or at least to make that possible), they would probably replace it with another subsystem, like Win32 replaced the OS/2 subsystem (that happened before the first release, although the OS/2 subsystem was with us until Windows 2000 inclusive).

Reply to WinFX API Primer in PDC 2005 JoeUser Forums

Yes, that is clear. But is WinFX a subsystem implementing this API or merely an extension of .NET? Cygwin and Interix both implement the POSIX API for Windows, but Interix (or ather "Windows Services for UNIX") is a subsystem and Cygwin works on top of Win32 (like Wine does in the opposite direction, I wonder if Wine runs on Interix).

Reply to Windows Vista user interface guidelines in Aero JoeUser Forums

"They did? Who are they?" Microsoft. But actually, I don't think most people like non-boring user interfaces that much. It is most distracting. I have always found that I am most happy with Solaris/CDE. I can barely accept Aqua and for a long time used its grey mode (as opposed to mostly blue with red buttons etc.).

Reply to Peace Takes Courage in Politics JoeUser Forums

Rightwinger, I did not think that you made such a remark. I just think that, in general, when you (as in "when one") count American lives among the thousands who die or have died, and then announce that it wasn't worth it, regardless of the other lives saved, you would imply that American lives are worth more than the others.

Reply to Peace Takes Courage in Politics JoeUser Forums

While I have the greatest respect for American and British soldiers who give their lives in foreign countries (my own home was one of the targets and I owe my freedom to these soldiers), I resent the implication that American lives should be valued higher as the lives of Iraqis who are now alive because of the invasion. http://www.shianews.com/hi/articles/politics/0000374.php Another implication is that this invasion started the blood

Reply to REMEMBER!!!!! in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

Moderateman, I figured such. But I did not want to repeat my explanation of WW1.

Reply to Rise of Anti-Semitism in Current Events JoeUser Forums

When a culture is failing or has failed, when a nation lost its pride, whenever something bad happens that is within a people's control but that they would rather have without their control, the blame falls on others. A failed culture will blame the rest of the world, but never itself. And the easiest target are minorities. Gypsies and Jews are ominipresent minorities and are thus always among the first targets. (Jews have a better lobby, so t

Reply to Palistians Celibrate Freedom in Gaza in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Everybody is in control of their own fate. But just to make sure the Palestinians set fire to a house of G-d. They piss off G-d and they piss of G-d's own people. Perhaps the Palestinians should read the Qu'ran?

Reply to REMEMBER!!!!! in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

"yep I am turkish and the 2 things that shame me most are.. the way we tried to eradicate the armenians and being allies with germany in ww1" I don't think being allies with Germany in WW1 was really bad. WW1 was not as clear as WW2 in who was the bad guys and who was the good guys. WW1 was a war between nations, not ideologies. The idea that the peoples rules by the Turkish should rule themselves was probably good though. But seeing

Reply to WinFX API Primer in PDC 2005 JoeUser Forums

Zoomba, where did you read this? So WinFX is more or less a complete NT subsystem implementing the same API (plus new extensions and features) as .NET implements on top of Win32? Is .NET to WinFX like Cygnus to Interix? (Apart from the binary compatibility in the first case.)

Reply to Unfortunate Joke in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

I thought the PA would protect the synagogues, just like the Israeli police protect mosques in Israel (they might not even have to). Whenever I assume equivalence between Israelis and Palestinians something like that comes along. What's wrong with these people?

Reply to Unfortunate Joke in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

I actually believed that the Palestinians could manage to not burn down synagogues when given the choice. It does make me wonder though. If the Palestinians believe in G-d, as they so proudly claim, why do they do everything in their power to piss Him off? Burning down a house of G-d is certainly not the best way to give thanks.

Unfortunate Joke in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

A Palestinian stands next to a synagogue...