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On the campaign trail Mitt Romney has been clobbering Barack Obama for being too keen on the Arab awakening. Many conservative Americans associate it with hostile Islamists... surely it is time for them to leave the world's least grateful people to make a mess of their lives by themselves?
The juxtaposition of Mitt Romney with "many conservative Americans" who think that we should get out of the Middle East ASAP (see In the Long Run below) is sort of weird. Yesterday, Romney delivered some remarks about the attacks in Libya and Egypt to the- you know what, I'll just quote.
""The attacks in Libya and Egypt underscore that the world remains a dangerous place and that American leadership is still sorely needed. In the face of this violence, America cannot shrink from the responsibility to lead. American leadership is necessary to ensure that events in the region don't spin out of control. We cannot hesitate to use our influence in the region to support those who share our values and our interests. Over the last several years, we have stood witness to an Arab Spring that presents an opportunity for a more peaceful and prosperous region, but also poses the potential for peril, if the forces of extremism and violence are allowed to control the course of events."
Seems pretty keen on the Arab Spring himself.
Don't just send in the warships. Send in the drone to take out those harbouring the so-called terrorists who have been incensed by the insulting film.
You are a stirrer - a trouble maker
On the one hand you say that societies have to build bridges, and then you are asking the Yanks( I hope the southern Americans will forgive me for this name) to send in Drones
Its getting to be quite tiring hearing "Islam is a religion of peace" or "These murderers don't represent our religion".
Two things that such apologists need to understand -
1. It does not matter what Islam wants or says. What matters is what Muslims DO. That's all that really counts. Its like saying "Yeah my sports team sucks when it takes to the field of play, but its very good in theory/on paper." Who cares about that! And how many people are willing for example to give Communism a free pass just because its supposed to be a nice system in theory? Yes, teaching the tolerant tenets of Islam may be helpful but at the end of the day what matters is not what the Quran says. Its what Muslims do.
2. Yes, a vast majority of Muslims are peaceful. Well, I'm not even terribly sure about how large that majority is. Most Pakistanis for example don't support terrorism but they are fully in favor of death as a punishment for apostasy or blasphemy. Now call me crazy but that seems like terrible violence to me and this is their mainstream society, not some fringe group. But even if say only 5% of Muslims are violent fanatics, that's a very large number! As a point in comparison, the cities of the world with the highest crime or murder rates still have a very small proportion of their citizens who are murderers. Perhaps well below 5%. The vast majority are peaceful. But the 5% who aren't, turn the place into a hellhole.
These two popular defenses are wearing thin.
Instead of constantly talking of living in harmony with its peaceful Moslem citizens, the West must take concrete actions against the hate crimes and Islamphobia in their own societies.
Concrete actions? Like what?
Pouring liquid concrete into a bucket where Islamophobes' feet are and dumping them at sea after that?
What concrete actions for example?
Western nations simply need to live by their admirable liberal principles. Unfortunately several of them have already started to cave in where it comes to freedom of speech.
In Canada and France for example, people are punished with fines for criticizing Islam and saying things deemed "insensitive".
In the UK, the Dutch politician Geert Wilders was refused entry for stating things that are unpalatable about Islam. But leaders or celebrities who mock Christianity are more than welcome. Why this double standard? Christian schoolgirls are prohibited from wearing a cross but the hijab is OK, Sikhs can wear their turban and that's OK. Just use the same standard for all - either allow everyone to wear their respective religious symbols or don't allow any of them to do it.
I read the top comments in the NY Times article on the Libyan killing yesterday. Repeatedly people criticize that crazy pastor who has done nothing to call for violence against Muslims. And they say "We should hold him accountable as much as the terrorists" -
HOW? And under WHAT LAW? By censoring movies made in America? Fining him? Prosecuting him? For what crime? Disturbing the peace and societal harmony ala the Chinese system? Despicable. Truly disgusting holding that priest,as nutty as he is, to be as responsible as murderous criminals.
There can always alway some sedition laws to be made by men if there is a genuine political will to live in peace and harmony. Otherwise, there are always those theocractic rules to put away those malacious offenders who are only out to disturb the public peace by provoking other believers.
(To your original post)
1. It's true that what really counts is what people do, and not what they intended to or want to do. However, most people do things not just because of one single reason. The recent violence in Egypt, Libya and Yemen stems from Islamic beliefs, true, but also from frustration with economic dysfunction and political instability. Furthermore, followers of all religions in the world have committed atrocious acts of violence from time to time throughout history. Does that make every devout person a potential mass murderer? No. The danger of over-generalisation is primarily in the fact that it is very, very tempting.
2. Well, 34 states in the US have the death penalty for crimes. Explain to me how that's different from your Pakistani example.
AlfreYWong -
Answer to each of your points -
1. Sorry the economic dysfunction, povery and corruption argument is simply a non starter. Why? Because there are several poorer nations. Take the Philippines. Or Vietnam. Or Brazil. These are all nations with plenty of corruption, poverty, economic inequality etc. Why don't you see the people burning and killing in the name of Hinduism, Buddhism or Christianity. Heck, take the second biggest nation in the world India. And compare it to Pakistan. Both nations with roughly the same economic status. Both racked by corruption. Why is it that India has a much more peaceful society than the madness in Pakistan? Islam is a very common feature in the violence these Muslim nations. It is not indcidental, it is central to it.
2. This is quite frankly a most ridiculous argument. You may or may not agree with the death penalty but I trust you see the difference between sentencing someone to death for raping and murdering an old woman versus someone put to death for being gay or converting from Islam to Christianity. You seriously cannot think both crimes are equivalent? Heck, being gay or converting to other religions isn't even a crime, morally speaking! It is a basic human right that is punishable by death in these mad barbaric and evil cultures. Its like saying "I have my faults like arriving late for appointments, Hitler has his faults like genocide, what's the difference? We're both not perfect".
1. "Why don't you see people burning and killing in the name of Hinduism, Buddhism or Christianity."
Hinduism: the NLFT in Tripura, the killing of Hindu monk Saraswati.
Christianity: the Lord's Resistance Army, the KKK, Breivik's 2011 shooting in Norway, etc. etc.
Buddhism is a philosophy, not a religion, and also not subject to sectarian tensions. In regions where Buddhism is prevalent (SE Asia, China, etc.), violence is often the result of ethnic and economic tensions.
If you look at India and Pakistan and see only their religious differences, then I think you're looking at the world through religion-coloured lenses. The reasons that India and Pakistan are different economically, politically and militarily, date back to the 1947 split. Pakistan has a military government dating back to 1958, which obviously leads to a more aggressive and militaristic state, as well as a military-focused economy, which (as learned in the Cold War) cannot in the long run defeat a capitalist economy like India.
Furthermore, in the 1971 (3rd) Indo-Pakistan war, India soundly defeated Pakistan and created the state of Bangladesh. This established India as the dominant power in the subcontinent, and left Pakistan paranoid and desperate to achieve nuclear and military parity.
India's prosperity relative to Pakistan reduces chances of violence in India. Legitimate democracy (while ineffective and corrupt) in India also allows public opinion to be expressed through democratic means, while in Pakistan the military obviously dominates the government and courts, leaving the people powerless.
2. My point wasn't that the death penalty and sharia law are equivalent, but that violence is condoned in both cases, and in "mainstream society". Also, Pakistan has enacted a moratorium on executions since 2008. The US also executes more people than Pakistan.
Furthermore, what the Quran recommends as punishments is really no different than what the Old Testament recommends. The reason Christians today don't follow "an eye for an eye" is because the theocratic Christian states died in the Enlightenment, and the West have heretofore lived under secular rule.
Lastly, Islam may be "mad, barbaric and evil", but it's still an Abrahamic religion, and shares many of its tenets with Christianity and Judaism.
"There can always alway some sedition laws to be made by men if there is a genuine political will to live in peace and harmony. "
There is actually a law that guarantees peace and harmony in the US. It's called the 2nd amendment. It guarantees that if you try to take away my freedom of speech then I will kill you. How is that? It's been a pretty good rule at least sense 1776. This is America not the ME and not North Korea.
The Christian examples you cited are not relevent and/or not equivalent to the current situation.
The Lord's Resistance Army is an outlaw group that is hunted. The KKK is a group which is constrained by the force of law and exists in the U.S but not across the entire Christian world. They no longer commit crimes without fear, but can only assemble and express their (hateful) views. Breivik was a criminal murderer, an individual motivated by distorted views and driven to individual criminal action no differently than atheist/anarchists/[sychotics such as Jared Loughner or James Holmes.
The current situation has large groups across multiple countries in Islam, and across multiple continents and oceans. They are unconstrained by the rule of law, and are not on the run but rather have their governments cowed. This is because there is large support for these groups and the ideas they are promoting within those societies, and to a degree within the government institutions themselves. Thus the Egyptians knew of the protest but were "surprised" and unable to respond to the situation, and the Libyan security forces melted away before the attack and some are reported to have provided intelligence/guidance to the murderers.
I make no comment on India/Pakistan. It is not my expertise nor my concern. My concern is with the West and Christianity vis a vis Islam.
2. Your response is a non-sequitur. It does not follow. The previous poster still has the valid argument.
Moreover, your response, will not addressing the argument, is also factually flawed.
The Old Testament laws you refer to never applied to non-hebrew Christians. It is the "old" testament, and the "first covenant". Christians have the "old" testament to lay out the story of our origins and the "new" testament lays out the "new" covenant. The "new" testament very specifically addresses the issue that christians are not required to follow the old testament law.
"Lastly, Islam may be "mad, barbaric and evil", but it's still an Abrahamic religion, and shares many of its tenets with Christianity and Judaism." This is a popular misconception. Christianity was born out of Judaism, but Islam was not born out of either of those. It borrowed/copied some aspects of scripture, but totally rejects jews and christians. Islam believes that the Jews and Christians have corrupted and distorted the old testament to the point of unusability, AND that the "real" old testament has been lost as a result. Their conclusion is that this corruption is the fault of the Jews/Christians, AND that the loss of the old testament to Islam is also the fault of the Jews/Christians.
The term "angry muslim" is redundant. The US needs to attain energy independence ASAP and GTFO of the Medieval East. Let these forever pissed off ragheads go find someone else to hate on.
This is a globalised world. Hatred will only breed more hatred. Rather than thinking only about oil and gas resources, there is obviously a huge cultural gap as some people are constantly lampooning the Moslems with abandon under the ambit of their legal system by cartoonising the holy Prophet, urinating on holy Koran or enjoying a bonfire etc. just to denigrate a religion, to provoke and elicit a response from the Ummah.
Are you trembling, Fish? Go on, try to suck up more tenderly to those whose 'holy prophet' you respect that much. Otherwise the big bad Ummah will come and eat you for breakfast sipping her halal Coke.
"Small amounts of aid, especially if it is contingent on economic reform, could make a huge difference."
Aid needs to be made contingent not only to economic reform, but political reform, legislative reform (especially antiquated personal status laws that place females somewhere below camels in the pecking order), measurable reductions in corruption, improvements in human rights, and a host of other improvements. In the Middle East, it's not only about the economy.
How long have you been staying in space station?
Finger pointing at one side will not solve the cultural problems and divide. Reform is a 2 way street as offenders must be bought to justice whether it is bombing the embassy in Libya or Islamphobics insulting the holy Prophet in the West.
Yeah right, and any cultural reform starts from one's personal self-reform. You can start from wearing a tea towel for a head dress and praying to the prophet five times a day.
As to the killing of the ambassador,we feel sorry for him.But as a whole we congratulate on Uncle Sam, you deserve it.
Many years ago Uncle Sam wrongly bombed the Chinese ambassy in former Yugoslavia ,killing several journalists.No one believes the so-called "wrongly bombing".
America always supports democratic movement in the Middle East,now the US can see the good results of democracy.
Saying sorry or giving all sorts of excuses is not the way to solve the cultural divide. There is a need for genuine understanding between Civilisations rather than the constant cacophony of noises from Western Media and Academia on the Clash of Civilisations.
Radical Muslim: Let's bomb america
Radical Christian: Let's bomb an abortion clinic
Radical Atheist: Let's get bombed and watch sci-fi
See the difference?
Not a single American go out on the street burning the koran or even protesting after the embassy bombing in Libya, while angry mobs are out protesting and burning the US flag in Yemen and Egypt over one lousy stinking movie that no one in the US has even heard of.
See the difference?
No, radical atheists annoy people on the internet. Which is pretty harmless, but they're also a lot more common (seemingly) than radical Christians and perhaps radical Muslims.
Not only that: non-radical, so called moderate Mohammedans are dancing in the streets when they hear the news that the American, who actually was one of the main movers of "change" in Libya, was murdered by those who he worked so hard to put in the helm of their country.
But of course this is cultural, by happyfish18's yardstick, so we should join them maybe? Just for the sake of cultural understanding.
If they were more common the world would be a more peaceful place, that is for sure.
Damn Dirty Ape
Radical Atheist: Let's got control of this country by persecuting Christians and Jews, and then bomb other countries.
Atheists. Hundreds of millions dead.
I'm radically opposed to all radicals.
You could make the argument that Stalin's et al atheism was only tangentially related to their killing people, but then again, you could say that religious terrorists are just subverting religion for their own ends.
(Thought I'd preempt DDA there)
Stalin was a divinity student [Orthodox Christian].
Hitler was Catholic until he went crazy and tried to revive Odin.
Mao and Khrushchev were Communists.
That is only 2 out of 2 for atheists.
So how many Bosnians, Croats and others did "Christian" Serbs kill? How many Muslims did Saddam Hussein kill?
I think that's enough.
No religion is innocent of killing others. Need I bring up persecution of Native American, Hawaiian and African religions by Christians. Need I go back to Catholics and Protestants slaughtering each other during the Reformation?
"Stalin was a divinity student [Orthodox Christian]." Being instructed in theology does not make a person a Christian.
"until he tried to revive Odin" Sorry, not Christian, even if he once appeared to be.
We are back to 4 for 4, but even if it were "only" 2 of 4, they still killed more people in the last 100 years than all of Christianity throughout all of history.
No group is innocent of killing others. None. Native Americans routinely killed from other tribes. King Kameameaha was king of an empire which existed because tribes fought each other between the hawaiian islands. I have personally seen a monument to a battle between tribes where the losing tribe warriors were forced off a cliff. And it is well known that Catholics and Protestants periodically killed each other quite gruesomely for a long period in europe.
Nevertheless, the facts are that there is less murder in the name of Christianity than in the name of "there is no god". Don't take my word for it. Check it out for yourself.
Declaring someone who commits an atrocity "not a real Christian" because of the atrocity is a neat magic trick. By defining anyone who does anything bad as a "non Christian" and anyone who does anything bad to therefor be an atheist you perpetrate a very dishonest ploy.
I was molested by one of your priests from hell [Porter], but of course, because of his acts he was neither Christian nor priest nor Catholic, just probably an atheist criminal, right?
Your false logic of sophistry by definition is worthy of the most harsh criticism.
I am very sorry for the horrific outrage done to you. I cannot know your pain, I will only say that on occasion I have raged at God over lesser hurts than yours, and at other times I express profound disappointment. One of the top questions/angers I have is "why do children suffer?" I do not have an adequate answer.
I have a response to our discussion that does not include cleverness or magic tricks. Right now however I just want to say again how sorry I am for the crime committed against you by a Christian Priest.
A "holy priest" as my family called them, being Catholic, who always regarded all claims against them to be as the Vatican dictated "exaggerations by the American press" and, of course, "only made by people who want money from the church."
I abandoned the church on my 18th birthday, when my family could no longer compel my obedience [at which point I became proudly Protestant].
I asked for no money and would accept none. I was not offered crocodile tears and insincere apology, and would accept none. If Cardinal O'Malley himself came to me in sack cloth and ashes I would slam the door in his face as long as the ironically named Cardinal Law, the enabler of pederastic priests, has a cushy Vatican job.
I do not hold all priests guilty, only a minority. The hierarchy, however, is rotten to the core, and refuses to solve the problem at the source. I belong to a church that is as old as the Reformation [that sadly the Roman Catholic needs as much as Martin Luther said, but still resists].
If my church should ever [very unlikely] support breach of the Constitution or putting barbaric Bible-based laws into effect, I would probably change to Universalism or the Quakers [who at least are pacifists and mind their own business}.
You need not apologize, the sin is not on you but on every bishop, archbishop, cardinal and the pope himself.
I walked away from the Catholic church at age 19, simply because I noticed I felt worse when I left mass each Sunday than when I entered. 22 years went by, and now I have been a Protestant for 8 years. When the scandal in the Catholic church became public I only read the headlines and not the details, not wanting to delve into the hurt. Living in southern California, we are no bastion of Catholicism or Protestantism either for that matter, I was further insulated. So when you mentioned Cardinal Law, I had to search him, only to find that he resigned from his post running a Vatican basilica in late 2011, and no longer holds membership in any Vatican committees.
Perhaps this news gives your spirit a bit of rest today. God bless.
All I can say is - What happened to Europe?
Why is the Economist so anti Europe?
Surely Europe would benefit much more from a peaceful area here then would America.
For a start - all these refugees would stop streaming to Europe.
This thing with the Euro happened.
So was I wrong?
Northern Europe is well off , and growing their economies as well.
and even before this - In places like the former Yugoslavia, the Europeans have always dragged their feet
And also - Is the USA in some sort of financial trouble as well?
I find this leader largely persuasive and I especially agree that Mr. Obama's instincts on ME foreign policy have been better than Mr. Romney's. More should be asked of the rest of the world as well. America may be indispensable but the responsibility and costs in blood and treasure of any assistance should not be borne by America alone.
Mr. Obama's support for the the Arab Spring has been, if anything, too timid but it's, admittedly, been a difficult balance to strike. Too much support for nascent small "d" democrats in the M.E. would risk delegitimizing them in the eyes of suspicious electorates. Humanitarian and economic aid should be easy decisions. No-fly zones, arms and boots on the ground require more guts - and probably more than Mr. Obama possesses. I'd be surprised to see him take a bold step in the run up to the election. Domestic political calculation seems likely to trump values.
Greater Islam needs to grow up and realize that in the West in general and the USA in particular, there is a fundamental right to criticize and in the end denounce religion that is not going away. They call themselves the faithful, yet they have so little faith as to imagine that a joke of a film would somehow threaten their 14 century old belief system. The President rushed to condemn the film without also asserting that Freedom of Expression is as fundamental to our belief system as the tenets of Islam are to theirs. The world is full of different ideas and beliefs, but the Islamic world seems to have a world view that is, in many ways, fully incompatible with the basic tenets of a free society that is open to all.
....there is a fundamental right to criticize and in the end denounce religion that is not going away.
Wide spread of economic mismanagement. (If most should be blamed on government, what is so great about THE democracy that routinely put idiots in offices?)
Now try to criticize your system.
What exactly did your question have to do with my comment, or with Islam, or with world politics? Nothing!
Did you not read the statements of the President and Secretary of State? They did defend our rights while stating that the publisher of the film was wrong to offend people. Do you think he was right to cause the deaths and destruction he caused? I don't, and I do think he has freedom of expression. I also think that people who have suffered because of his misuse of the right can and should sue his ass off.
Looks like The Economist is now the world's policeman. Objective journalism is increasingly replaced by conservative proseltysing, telling the world's leaders what to do. Why don't you desk militarists arm up, and fly a few thousand sorties against Syria, just as you supported NATO strikes in Libya. Oh, that's right, Assad has a real army, and powerful friends. You might get hurt.
You just don't get it. War begets war, and it is U.S. military and political interference in the Middle East that has caused the rise of Islamic extremism in the first place. American military action is not going to lead to moderate democracies, as you claim, more likely the opposite.
"Objective journalism is increasingly replaced by conservative proseltysing, telling the world's leaders what to do."
It's a leader. It's like an editorial.
All good and bad Newspapers and Magazines give us their ' Informed Opinion'
Some of us call it an editorial.
This is no different from you giving everyone an 'Informed opinion' at a dinner party.
People do invite you to dinner parties, do they?
In my experience as a journalist, a leader is your best journalism, your front-running, breaking story. I know this isn't The Economist's role, and it's not a newspaper, no matter what it calls itself, but opinion is cheap. Hell, anyone can do that, look at all these comments, haha.
The hatred behind videos and cartoons cannot compare to the hatred of storming diplomatic missions, causing property damage and murder.
Muslims need to fix the deep problems within islam themselves - why are extremists not kept in check? Until they do that, they should stop blaming the world for their shortcomings.
And what about those extremist christians, bombing Planned Parenthood offices and shooting doctors?
Let's keep ALL extremists in check....Muslim and Christian alike.
More blood has been spilt in the name of Christ or Mohamed or whoever the mythological deity of the year is. Let's keep mythology (i.e., religion) in check, and if we cannot, let's ban it because it is useless to begin with.
In regard to what happened in Libya, the answer to your question ('what about those extremist christians'... and so on) is:
Extremist Christians, whatever you mean by this, have nothing to do with the murder of diplomats in Libya. They are unconnected events, capiche?
Blood will spill in the name of nationalism and environmentalism if all religions were banned.
More deaths in the last hundred years in the name of atheism than in all of history in the name of christianity. By an exponential factor.
I make no defense for other religions.
Check it for yourself. Have atrocities been committed the name of christianity. Absolutely. Far, far, far greater atrocities have been committed in the name of no god at all.
I think the author of this article intended to leave us with the message that the U.S. must remain engaged with the region and expend the necessary resources to do so. But by the time I reached the end of the article I was convinced that the reason the U.S. keeps Syria and its civil war at arms-length (like every other country) is the likelyhood that it is destined to be another Libya, maybe worse.
I see little or nothing in the region to be positive about. I don't want to spend the money or lives, and none of the "players" there are, how should I put it, "compatible" with my values.
Obama is correct in not getting involved as the American people have had enough of Arab/mus*** "politics." I am not allowed to explain my contempt for the perpetrators of such violence as this is a Family website. Asad and his tribe are truly evil, and a 1,200 pound JDAM would do a lot of good if you know what I mean. But then what?
So let's resolve to follow the EU on this and keep-out of the Syria situation. I would rather tolerate Asad than have the bearded-ones sitting on the throne.
America is in the process of retreating from the region and "the Isunomi" (the wave of Islamic awakening) has landed on the shores of Libya, Tunisia and Egypt. But what kind of Islamism?
One needs to distinguish between the 3 Islamic regimes in Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the rest of countries in the middle east (and Africa) who were former Ottoman clients. Each of the troika (i.e 3) represent a model for Sharia based government and is trying to attract other countries to its model, and to expand its own influence.
The traditional Wahabi Saudi kingdom model is the most extreme thesis and its anti-thesis is the Turkish classical model of president/parliamentary model. While the Iranian Shiite "government of jurist" model, is turning into a failed synthesis of "Khalife model" of Saudi Arabia Model and Turkish President/parliament model.
It may be "more effective" if the US and the west encourage the troika to adopt more democratic reforms so that the undemocratic repressive aspects of their models are not adopted by the newly liberated countries. So put more pressure on Iran, Turkey and especially on Saudi Arabia to reform, to have fair elections, to respect women rights, to respect ethnic and religious minorities. Then countries like Afghanistan, Egypt and Libya will have better troika role models to follow.
The USA and west can also provide assistance to the new liberated countries to adopt a presidential/parliamentary model with more respect for ethnic and religious minorities but make sure that their diplomats are not caught under the waves of this Isunomi and in the middle of the troika proxy wars.
Have you read the "influential" book of the countries you mentioned? If you have, then you know that with the exception of some Turkish demographic, your proposed changes are considered herecy. Really. Likely to get advocates jailed or executed. Seriously. I read about it on a regular basis. If you have not read the book, then I suggest you do a little web research and you will understand.
I agree with the good-will of your post, but it is like denouncing slavery in the 1850's South. Not likely to win you any friends.
Unfortunately, the Middle East is in an historic period similar to the late middle ages in Europe where religion, heresy, schism in the church were rampant. Today's violent reactions on the streets of Egypt are similar to the reactions that you would have seen in the streets of middle ages, if someone insulted a christian prophet or church.
It took a long time for Europe to go through that stage of civilization and for church and religion to lose its grip, and the present middle east may or may not reach modernity without going through that dark age. But what in the "age of modernity" can we do to help those backward societies to grow? Societies in which Judo-christian prophets and messengers are still highly respected and naturally in return, they do not expect a disrespectful discourse making fun of their own religion and prophet. The current discourse is not helpful and is backfiring and it should be discouraged similar to other hate discourse. "Free speech", yes, but a more mutual respectful speech and discourse.
The Economist seems guilty of assuming that reason can triumph over unreason, and many of the comments this article has attracted seem guilty of assuming that a few extremists are unrepresentative of their nations as a whole. This is akin to arguing, in 1936, that Hitlerism was not dangerous because most Germans were sensible folk, not hot-headed extremists. In fact, once a certain critical threshold has been reached, the hot-heads dominate. Humans are herd animals. They follow the leader. When the leader(s) are strident, the herd becomes strident. The huge mobs in Pakistan, Egypt, etc are not anomalous - they are increasingly indicative of where these societies are heading. To pretend that western values and lives are not under threat from an increasingly hostile, primitive, and violent Islam is to retreat into wishful thinking. Intelligent and thoughtful people always struggle to recognize and comprehend unreason and mob behavior - which is why the mob so often wins. We need only think of the French Revolution to see where such behavior leads. Unless the west recognizes quite clearly that the time for reason and talk and thoughtfulness is past, we will simply present an increasingly soft target for the growing numbers of extremists whose iron-age mentalities permit only black and white. There are no easy solutions, but "carrying on as before" will be the greatest error possible.
I can't disagree with much of what you posted. But the U.S. can still play a positive role, trying to keep the lazy but practical E.U. engaged and shine a light on the truth while still hardening our defences where it makes sense.
The nutcases will never be tamed but they will die of old age (if not car bombs). We must influence the younger generations to modify their beliefs to a more benign form. You and I will not live to see the results.
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The same stupidity can be attributable to the citizens of the US,and the UK in allowing their governments to conduct an illegal war in Iraq and then Libya!
From your article:
'....but America should vigorously point out that each new (illegal)settlement that Israel builds in the West Bank makes it harder to make peace between Jews and Arabs.'
How true and perceptive. However, it would seem to me that making peace should be between the israeli government(NOT THE JEWS)and the weak authorities that have minimum control of the occupied West Bank and the Gaza area(and NOT the Arabs).
The "Palestinian" thing is just an excuse to act-out their own frustrations and violence.
The conservative Israeli's are not very nice people and will take whatever land they can from the Palestinians while avoiding military service. I get that. But when the Palestinians and others started harming Americans years ago they lost any respect and sympathy that existed in America at the time. Rather than cultivate that sympathy, they killed it. What dopes!
I am not sure how your reply applies to my point about Not 'Jews vs. Arabs', but 'israeli government vs. the people who live under their ALMOST complete control'.
Further, name calling does NOT solve problems.
This is not as easy as The Economist thinks. I was there in WW-ll and the way these people think and do goes back a long ways and they were totaly different from ours in every way. Trying to force them to do our way is not going to work. We have problems too that they don't like. So what do we do. I don't know but we have to know soon or we will lose this war that seems to go on forever. What I did when I was there was to ignore them where I did not have to go. It was their country, not mine, as there was nothing else that I could do anyways. I got along with them and made many friends.
War is a different thing and I know what that is too, all of us go insane, or die. And war has changed too. At least we died when our turn came. Our problem today is we think we know everything but we know only ourselves and ignore others. Give some thought to why some people will die just to kill us and we have to kill them first and this seems to go on forever. The people in the West should all do more and not just depend on us in America. Europe seems to want to set up the rules for us to do the killing and there is a lot that I disagree with like making them give-up their religions in their own country.
"I was there in WW-ll and the way these people think and do goes back a long ways and they were totaly different from ours in every way. "
For the most part the way they do things doesn't go back that far, "depending on which part we're talking about". Persia, yes have been fairly consistent as a civilized culture along with the Ottomans for a very long time but before the 1900's Saudis Arabia all the way to the whole of Northern Africa has been Bedouin for the most part. I mean you had the Mamluk's for a time but there power waxed and waned between other civilizations ranging from the french to the Ottomans.
I mean they didn't even have knowledge of there own history before the Rosetta Stone was translated in the 1800's along with cuneiform. When you here people say that Plato and Aristotle where preserved by the Muslim world they're talking about the Ottomans and the Persians.
For all those claiming Obama was apologizing for the video before condemning the attacks (as per Mitt Romney's statements):
In short, Romney was lying, and should be ashamed of himself for trying to use such a tragic incident for political gain.
A nation moving from an authoritarian regime characterized by close relations to another nation to some version of democracy can not be considered truly self determining until it does something to demonstrate its independence from ties of the past. If the US is to be true to the ideas of its creation, it will have to trade the perceived predictability of dictators for the uncertainty of democracy in its allies. The ideas that created the US are not risk free.
I am really annoyed that the Islamic world would be so juvenile as to hold the entire West accountable for the actions of some Californian nut - if he was even an American, and not a Russian intelligence operative as creatively suggested by another commenter. No matter how you put it, a good portion of the denizens of the Islamic world are childish, immature and barbaric.
Kind of like its really juvenille for the western world to hold all of Islam (a billion + people) responsible for the actions of a few thousand nuts. And these few thousand nuts probably generalize about the western world in the same silly way that you do
Oh yes! Just a 'few thousand' nuts! Not a large enough sample at all to be representative of seven million Libyans, to be sure! Even if violent protests by thousands rage across the Islamic heartland, from Bengazhi to Kashmir, for the umpteenth time over some minor provocation by an individual westerner, it is never representative of Islam, is it? No sir, we must meticulously interview all of the world's 1.5 billion Muslims to REALLY understand them!
Onward, understanding souls, in search of that elusive being, moderate Muslims of the Middle East!
Having lived and travelled in the middle east I can assure you that there are millions of moderate muslims out there who just want to earn a decent living, raise their families, and are for the most part no more religious than your average Christian. I am sorry if that does not fit into your neatly designed world view
Curate gets his talking points from Faux "News".
Kind of juvenile of the Muslim world not hold their peers responsible for their criminal actions or discourage them from getting stupid ideas in the first place.
Possibly true, just as its kind of juevenile for Christians to not hold the United States and its allies responsible for the bombing and the killing thousands of innocent people in Iraq and Pakistan in the name of fighting terrorsim. Oh I forgot, those are not criminal acts, that is collateral damage
Kind of pathetic that the muslim world did not rally to defend Iran when Iraq attacked it.
Kind of pathetic that the muslim world did not defend the marsh arabs, or the kurds, from murder and chemical warfare by Iraq.
Kind of pathetic that the muslim world did not defend Kuwait when Iraq attacked it, and welcomed the United States all across the region (SA, UAE, Bahrain, Oman, Egypt), yet hate us for helping save and restore a muslim country and remove.
Muslim kills a muslim, apparently that is no big deal. American prevents a muslim from killing another muslim. Call for JIHAD!
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Hey does anyone have any either naked or topless pictures of that hunk Brian Krause i mean gawd wow watching charmed always gets me horny coz of him *drools*
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This topic gets my fav fake:
Hell ya, Chris is way hot. He is played by Drew Fuller. (Unfortunatly he never takes his shirt off, like ever.) Wish they hadn't sent him back so he could have stayed on the show.
That is an awesome fake, if I didn't know better, I'd say it was real.
They're both hot. I'd love to see them together but it would have a creepy incest vibe even though they're not related but they're both straight to my knowledge so not that it matters
I've had the Chris/Leo fantasy. They're both hot. And when you think about it - it wouldn't be Krause's first foray into "film" incest since he slept with Alice Krige, his mother in Sleepwalkers.
Darkspear... that is priceless... lol...
my god...imagine them together....leo totally fucking chris..Originally Posted by Grace17fan
Good enough?
If that is fake, 99 % is right, that is the best fake of him i have ever seen, that totally made me wet my pants .
wat a great fake!
he is soooo hot! that pic is really hot. oh yeah i am soo thinking about him and chris!! back to basics, primal only man animal instincts sex. how hot, i wanna see that. lol i will be fantasising all night long!!!!!
thanx for the link, i can pretend it is real!!
btw i hae always thought that brian krause is the hottest celeb, he is my personal fave!
oh yeah sexy hot sweaty father Leo f**king his hot and sxy son!!!!
brian hot?!
he was in season 1 of charmed.-..back in 1998...
He has been on Charmed up to this year . . . more than a season
sorry i meant "he was hot IN season 1..."
and the rest... he has made me cum more than any other man b4. HE IS SOOO HOT AND I WANT NOTHING MORE THAN TO GRAB HIM AND HAVE HOT ANIMAL SEX WITH HIM.Originally Posted by just_a_boy
I think Brian is sooo hot in Charmed...he was looking his best in seasons 2 & 3 when he took his shirt off a couple of times...and had some really sexy moments...
1st time was when he was posing as a 'handyman' for the sisters- and he was fixing their kitchen sink- down, face under the sink with his legs spread apart facing the camera :P
2nd time was the shower scene- Prue walks in on him in the shower. You don't get to see a whole lot but you get the idea as Piper chucks a towel to him and the camera does a swivel.
3rd time was when Phoebe walks in on Leo & Piper getting ready to 'do it' in her office at the club- Leo has his shirt off for a while in that.
I also think Drew Fuller is really, really sexy. And for those of you complaining about him not doing any shirtless scenes, search for some screencaps of 'Voodoo Academy'- there is a scene in that where Drew lies in bed only in his underwear and rubs himself up a bit- also a bath scene which is reasonable lengthy.
Hope I helped some of you guys out If you want to know the episodes in which those things happen I can find out for you too.
http://www.thedemonsjumble.com/pictu...x05-thumbs.htm u will find some shrtless pix here, and if u go through seasons u will find some others.... WAT AN ASS *DROOLING*
I Would Apreciate If YOu Could Put Pictures Of Brian Krause Having Sex With Drew Fuller Or Just Him Naked Plllz And Thankxxxxxxxz
Damn he's got a nice ass *drool*
He used to.... 1993.... so far.... he was fat in the recent seasons of "Charmed"...Originally Posted by dark-mirror158
I heard he've lost some weight these days ?.... recent shirtless pics, anybody ?...
He's butt is flat.
that is nice. i love seeing celebrities naked.
omg omg anymore brian ass shots
Some fakes ?
... or real pics ? (just pic his name on the list...)
"Il n'y a pas d'hétéros, il n'y a que des mecs mal dragués ..." - Patrick Timsit in "Pédale Douce"
guys, can you like change the title under your sn, or it automatically changes? jw.
Originally Posted by meheartdicks
translation, pliz ???
"Il n'y a pas d'hétéros, il n'y a que des mecs mal dragués ..." - Patrick Timsit in "Pédale Douce"
sorry, speaka no espanol.Originally Posted by coco2006
If you mean where it says "virgin" under your name, then no you can't until you reach 1000 posts
Originally Posted by donnykabob
thanks! but how can I reach 1000 posts if they keep deleting my posts? lol!
If you click on FAQ, you'll find all sorts of interesting stuff - including this:Originally Posted by meheartdicks
sorry being too lazy, lol! I just have one question, how do you make the email notifications to stop coming, but is still there when you click on my settings on the subcribed lists?Originally Posted by TriBi
"translation" is an english word.... I think.... and you should be more respectful with a french sex god !!!Originally Posted by meheartdicks
"Il n'y a pas d'hétéros, il n'y a que des mecs mal dragués ..." - Patrick Timsit in "Pédale Douce"
haha! I'm so sorry your almighty, please excuse my rudeness, I humbly apologize.Originally Posted by coco2006
Originally Posted by meheartdicks
"Il n'y a pas d'hétéros, il n'y a que des mecs mal dragués ..." - Patrick Timsit in "Pédale Douce"
veeeeeeeeeery nice
OMG !!!!.... I thought fakes were forbidden, now.......
"Il n'y a pas d'hétéros, il n'y a que des mecs mal dragués ..." - Patrick Timsit in "Pédale Douce"
Heres The Site For The Nudes
lol, awful fakes. but brian krause is still sexy for me!
i wish th were real, i swear this guy does something to me.... I WANT HIM!!!
wow guys hotttttttt keep it up for us pervs lol


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Podcasts app: another fiasco?
Podcasts app is probably most used app on my iPhone 4s. Despite not the most optimal design choices and reported issues, I've never been bitten by them hard enough to look for an alternative.
So, this morning I was kind of excited to learn that an updated Podcasts app has been released promising interesting goodies. I rushed to update hoping that at least some annoyances will go away. Unfortunately, not only them did...
Notice anything missing?
- Can you see the reel-to-reel scrubber? Nope!
- Can you tell how much time is left to play? Nope.
- Can you seek 30 minutes into the podcast? Nope.
- Can you change playback speed? Nope.
(Not) suprisingly on all of the screenshoots taken on iPhone 5 all necessary controls are present making for, I can only image, a great user experience.
I have three theories for why this happened, all of which are equally disturbing:
- This release of Podcasts was sponsored by Downcast.
- Apple wants to push me to upgrade to iPhone 5, which is less than perfect business practice.
- This is just a bug. But the fact that it made it into release makes me want to question engineering practice.
I've already lost around 2 hours of podcast time today and this makes me sad.
Great Python Web Frameworks Showdown Aftermath
The Event
I finally got to processing video shoot at DneprPy #1 - The Great Python Web Frameworks Showdown. We tried to build a simple "wall blog" to compare Django, Pyramid and Flask and it was interesting and fun:
Here are the links to projects created for this showdown:
- Django - https://github.com/e0ne/showdown_wblog
- Pyramid - https://github.com/nskrypnik/dneprpy
- Flask - https://github.com/nimnull/flask-blog-sample
The Aftermath
This was the first event to be run in the way I envisioned for the showdowns and it was a perfect opportunity to validate some ideas and assumptions.
This time we've split all the talks into shorter segments to make sure things we are comparing are close to one another in time. Consider following. Overall each presentation was around hour and 20 minutes. Given that presentations follow the same structure talks about database access in different frameworks would be separated by 2 hours and 40 minutes - way to much for the audience to be able to meaningfully grasp differences and come to any conclusions. Segmented approach lets keep all the related points together making it easy to understand and evaluate them.
As we saw in the discussions after the event, segmented approach also calls for more orchestration with more or less detailed description of the overall format and the content of the segments upfront and short introductions before each segment.
Panel discussion with all the speakers after the main agenda also proven to be a valuable addition to the presentations.
Technical Setup
For quick switching between the presenters we used TeamViewer in the following setup:
- One laptop (the "director's laptop") was connected to the projector
- From "director's laptop" a TeamViewer session was open to each of presenters' laptops
- Resolution on all laptops should be set to projector's resolution. For most modern projectors 1024x768 should work fine
This setup allows for quick and seamless switching between the presenters from director's seat and it is exactly what's needed to run segmented presentations.
Another benefit of a setup like this may be in allowing people in the audience to connect to director's laptop via TeamViewer. Unfortunately, live coding and, for that matter, working with the code in an IDE or text editor does not look good on a project, so connecting via TeamViewer to director's lapton can be an option for those in the audience, who have seat further away from the stage.
Next Event
Next event - Java IDEs Showdown on Dnipropetrovsk JUG meetup on March 21, 2013 - will also be run in segmented format with TeamViewer. Stay tuned for the announcement with details!
Chromebooks and iPads
When I put together my thoughts about the death of netbooks I caught myself repeating the word underpowered more than probably allowed by the style guides. What's interesting is that transition from underpowered devices to underserved users can explain why certain things happened and what the future might have for us.
Why Underpowered Netbooks Failed, but iPad Did Not?
Let's return back to 2010, the time when netbooks blossomed enjoying 34 million units in worldwide sales last year and analysts drawing all but wonderful future for this class of devices. This was also the year, when iPad was introduced. Remember it?
1st generation iPad with 1GHz CPU and only 256Mb of RAM did not look that much impressive compared to an average netbook of that time equipped with 1.6 GHz CPU with as much as 1GB of RAM. How then could it have happened that 2010 was also a year when netbooks decline started and less powerful and more expensive iPads began their victorious march?
The reason for this turnover is that for netbooks insufficient overall performance translated into underserved users, but Apple managed to avoid this trap and instead created customer delight. And if there is a single explanation of how that happened it is in the word "apps". Netbook users were given underpowered general purpose hardware to run traditional desktop applications on top of general purpose operating system and were lead to believe that they would be able to do that with the level of comfort they were used to with their heavy laptops. In retrospect it is easy (many things are easier in retrospect) to see why that would not fly, and why users would not like the sub par experience and would search for alternatives: tablets and later ultrabooks.
With custom operating system and, more importantly, apps iPad is able to provide superior experience on substantially less powerful hardware. It was only possible because both OS and the apps were carefully crafted to take most out of the underlying platform and not give the false promise that traditional software would work ok. Netbooks did not have any of that and initial "specification excitement"[1] turned into mediocre daily experience.
So What About Chromebooks?
Chromebook, just like the iPad, does not pretend to be "just what you are used to, but better in some ways". From day one its was marketed and seen as something different. Of course, the fact that Chromebooks have all the familiar laptop shape adds to the confusion, but we can be sure that people who get them do not simply go after cheaper general purpose PC laptops.
Another area where difference helps is applications. Because of the fact that the platform decidedly does not run applications from earlier era, developers are forced to create new applications, which specifically target the new device. Applications that cater for the strengths of the platform and workaround it's weaknesses are what gives Chromebooks and Chrome OS at least a fighting chance against others for the future consumer computing.
That's when you get excited about something after reading the specs, but before actually using it. ↩
Netbooks: come and gone?
For the last week I've been meaning to write about the death of netbooks. But as I tried to pull my thoughts together it was difficult to come to some sort of overarching conclusion.
My wife have been [almost] happily using netbook for more than 2 years now, but her complaints about unresponsiveness, when she opens more than several tabs in Firefox, seem to grow every day. Still she does not want to change it for a far superior (performance wise) 15" Dell as she likes the form factor and the fact that she does not have to be on power leash most of the time. As for me, I definitely liked the price when I bought it and looking back I do not see anything which would have given same return on investment. Why is that?
Throughout the history of portable computers we always wanted 4 things
- powerful
- lightweight
- longer battery life
- inexpensive
Traditional laptops gravitated towards kind of powerful and relatively inexpensive and that was what was needed to have a "mobile office" and be able to easily setup a workplace, when you moved between locations. But times changed. As free WiFi in public places started becoming a norm, getting power for your laptop right where you needed became more problematic hence emphasizing drawback of short battery life. Also carrying around 3 kilos was not exactly the most pleasant exercise for a more mobile yet always connected lifestyle.
Netbooks were (yep, it is "were" not "are" since powerhouses of netbooks wave Asus and Acer stopped production on January 1, 2013) an interesting experiment to meet changing demands of a modern computer user. Cheap, lightweight yet underpowered computers with relatively long life on battery looked like a promising way into the future of mobile computing.
While the bet on mobility was right for netbooks the compromise on the performance went too far. Now many of those who need a mobile laptop would rather pay the price for a more powerful ultrabook or MacBook Air, and those who value mobility above all would opt-in for iPad.
We could have declared the death of netbooks as a class right here, but let's take a look at Amazon's best selling laptops:
From hardware standpoint Chromebook is still a netbook and it remains to be seen whether it drag the idea of relatively underpowered,
inexpensive cheap mobile computer into the future.
The Great Web Technology Showdown
Not long ago at Dnipro .Net User Group we've conducted first great showdown -- The Great Web Technology Showdown, where we gathered masters of 5 different web development platforms to show what it takes to build a sample app using their tools:
- Time proven Java
- Always young Python
- Shiny .Net
- Glamorous Ruby
- Furious Node.js
The sample app was simple enough to be easily understood and actually build, but also featureful enough to showcase wide variety of tools in the arsenal of each platform. This time we set the goal of building a Blog Wall.
Blog Wall is a site, where anyone can register and post text messages (up to 1024 characters) and picture messages (image + description up to 256 characters). All posts are then shown on the main page along with author and date/time of the post.
And here is what we've got.
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Building a team
Not long ago I was honored to presented for a second time on a great on-line conference IT-Brunch. This event was devoted to finding, hiring and keeping right professionals for your team. Here is the slidecast for my presentation (in Russian) where I try to draw analogies between software teams, FC Barcelona and army recruiting.
Here are some highlights:
- Job market for developers suffers from the lemon problem on both sides: there are not only many less competent developers, but also there are lots of crapy developer jobs. Every day makes it even harder for a good developer to find a decent job, and vice versa.
- When you set out on a journey of building a team, first think about what you plan to achieve with this team. Winning school championship is very different from selling girl scout cookies: different goals, different teams, different approaches to building them.
- Make team part of the hiring decision.
- Hire for a specific position, not a generic job description.
- Look for new team members in the company first. And, as a consequence, do not be afraid of letting people go to other teams.
- Be honest on the interview: do not promise a candidate something, which will never come true, simply to get him in.
Fatal miscalculation for OnLive →
Perlman told his workers that when the service started they were not sure how many servers would be required and they ended up with around 8,000 servers on three-year leases as well as the networking resources to support the gear. On average the company had only about 2,000 users online at any one time so it was not able to turn a profit.
8,000 servers can burn your money very effectively. I wonder why they decided to scale well in advance of the actual demand instead of scaling with the demand.
Sad thing, though, is that despite all the cloud hype still the only cost-efficient way to get substantial server resources is to lease them with the longest billing cycle possible.
Wildcard DNS Service
xip.io - brilliant simple service for developers:
10.0.0.1.xip.io resolves to 10.0.0.1
www.10.0.0.1.xip.io resolves to 10.0.0.1
mysite.10.0.0.1.xip.io resolves to 10.0.0.1
foo.bar.10.0.0.1.xip.io resolves to 10.0.0.1
Chromebox →
Google's new Chrome OS device - Chromebox. I'm puzzled by lack of any description of any(!) use cases for this device for a user. Watch YouTube on TV? Hang out on Facebook? Why would I want to buy this computer?
Good news, however, is that you can use rollApp to run desktop applications on Chromebox.
Firefox 8: secure page vs. non-secure web socket server →
Mixed content is not allowed with WebSockets; that is, you can no longer open a connection to a non-secure WebSocket server from secure content.
Other browsers still allow this.
Mercurial Tags and Jenkins
If you like us use Mercurial for your source control and use Jenkins for continous integration and deployment, there is something you should know. We use Mercurial tags to designate revisions suitable for some practical purposes. For example, we use tag 'qa' to mark a version of the system, which we think is worth deploying into our testing environment and running exetended set of tests. We also have a bunch of jobs on Jenkins, which are supposed to get latest 'qa' revision, build and deploy the system to testing environment.
Theoretical setup looks like following:
And one would think that since Mercurial's -r parameters work equally well with branches and tags, he is all set. And we apparently thought so.
Unfortunately, Mercurial's approach to tags and Jenkins' approach to checking for changes in repositories do not let the magic happen:
- Tags in Mercurial are merely records in a version controlled file .hg/hgtags. So in order to see moved tag you have to have this file in local repository.
- Jenkins uses a variation of hg incoming -r 'tag' to check for changes in repository. However, since in local .hg/hgtags tag points to the "old" revision, it thinks nothing has changed for that tag-branch.
Jenkins developers already know about this issue: Support tags instead of branches
Simple (although not excatly most efficient) trick that works is wiping the workspace before build. There is a plugin, which can make this a part of a build job: Workspace Cleanup Plugin. Do not forget to mark this checkbox in job configuration:
This solutions has an obvious drawback of discarding any artifacts from previous build, which might save time during the next build and cloning the entire repository from the source control each time instead of just a bunch of changes.
For us I figured we are not running these 'qa' builds too often and the codebase is not too big yet, so we've settled with this workaround for the time being.
WebSockets one step closer to becoming a standard →
Web Socket specification published as RFC:
This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.
The RFC 6455 is available here.
Pigeonholes in architecture →
Why Android Will Always Be Laggier Than iOS
Every time you touch your finger to your iPhone's display, the OS literally goes crazy: "Someone's touching us! Someone's touching us! Stop everything else you're doing, someone's touching us!"
That's the trick →
Stop writing good code ; start writing good software
Good code is not elaborate code. Good code is what makes a good product.
Success in software development is determined by users willing to use you product, not from fellow developers, who praise your code, alas.
Sharing, sharing, sharing →
Why Instagram Is So Popular: Quality, Audience, & Constraints
Those little switches. Using the APIs from Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and other services, Instagram lets you share from one single screen. Brilliant. I had never seen photo-sharing across services stripped down so simply before.
The keywords are: sharing and simple.
Part Time Agile
Recently I presented at IT Brunch online conference with a talk about experience of my team doing part time agile development. Here are some highlights:
- On a personal productivity level do not mix narrow focus tasks like fixing a bug in code with wide focus activities like contemplating about future of technology in your niche.
- If your team is distributed in time, but not in space, which is not unusual for a team of parttimers or freelancers, give yoursleves a time to get together and just talk (you can eat your lunches at that time too).
- It's hard enough to do even one big thing, let alone two. Don't try to focus your effort on several major features.
- General management practices still work: if you are a manager, have one-on-ones with your team members.
- Do not neglect up front design and specification development. There are situations, when it's easier to try to foresee a problem, than try to resolve it.
There was a questions on where to get more information about one-on-one meetings. I suggest you start with One-on-Ones: The Single Most Effective Management Tool and check out other podcasts on this topic from Manager Tools.
Route 53 in AWS Management Console (and their hidden reminder)
Yesterday Amazon announced immediate availability of Route 53 (their DNS service) tools in AWS Management Console, which is great news for all the AWS users. But it also bad news to services like Interstate53, which I was using to manage DNS records hosted on Amazon, because it immediately renders them irrelevant. It is good time to remind ourselves how addon development is not exactly the best spot for software vendors and how in some cases you can still compete against the platform vendor by having significant value add.
Busy? Again?
You can not make washing machine do your laundry for you by saying you are busy.
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Some Thoughts on Manipulation
Recently I've got a question from a colleague: "Have you had a situation when somebody was trying to manipulate you or your behavior? What can be the best way to stop/resist this sort of attitude? Stop any interaction with the person?" From my perspective manipulation, generally, has to aspects to it:
- Other person wants you to do something (which is not necessarily a bad thing).
- She wants to make you do it in a sort of "covert" way, which I would generally call a bad thing in professional environment.
When it comes to response to manipulation, all things being equal, I would have a conversation with a person saying something along the lines of "Hey, I've noticed that you try to trick me into something and don't like you doing that. If you need something from me, let's discuss, but don't try to trick me."
This kind of feedback serves two purposes: (a) letting other party know that you've noticed manipulation and don't like it (who does?); (b) showing a better way to do business with you. If a case is not helpless, this should help.
What do you do when somebody tries to manipulate you?


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WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. services firms grew at the fastest rate in more than eight years in July, the latest sign of an economy picking up speed in the second half of the year. In addition, a second report issued Tuesday shows U.S. factory orders are up.
The Institute for Supply Management said Tuesday that its service-sector index jumped to 58.7, up from 56 in June. Any figure above 50 indicates expansion. June's reading is the highest since December 2005. The ISM is a trade group of purchasing managers.
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The strong reading suggests Americans are increasingly confident about the economy and willing to spend more. Sixteen industries tracked by the survey grew in July, led by construction, educational services and retail. Only utilities said that business slowed last month.
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Orders to U.S. factories increased in June, led by demand for aircraft, industrial machinery and computers and electronics.
Orders rose a seasonally adjusted 1.1 percent compared to the previous month, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday. Factory orders had fallen 0.6 percent in May after three straight months of gains.
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As the ill-fated new GTO wrapped up its production run, Pontiac was busy stuffing a front-wheel-drive-adapted LS Series V8 into the Grand Prix for 2006. Along with a Bilstein-tuned suspension, factory paddle shifters, and equal-length half shafts to shunt torque steer, the 303-hp GXP was everything Ford's Taurus SHO wished it could be.
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