I loved BeOS back then. I have a thing for cute operating systems -- RISC OS, Epoc 32, BeOS. I even chose to buy a Palm phone because of WebOS, which I'm using to type this comment right now!
The papers authorising war in Afghanistan were on the President's desk on the 10th September 2001, waiting to be signed. This is completely documented and in the public domain.
The war had nothing to do with 9/11. It was completely pre-planned. The Taliban were promised a "carpet of gold or a carpet of bombs" if they didn't cooperate with the pipeline project. They didn't cooperate.
I could say a lot more -- especially about 9/11 -- but this isn't the site for it.
Wrong. That was a simple typo he made when he first set up the site, when he was still planning to write in over the weekend.
He didn't back out because he thought it would be too hard. According to him, he backed out because it would be disrespectful.
IMO, if he still thinks he can do it, he should do it and make everyone who is putting him down shut up. And if he fails, so what? At least he will learn a lot.
Buy 50k worth of gold & silver bullion as a future proof investment.
Give 10k as a gift to your parents and close family.
40k left. From that, mark 20k for one year living expenses. The remaining 20k, use to launch a business. So you have 1 year where you can work on building your own business without any other worries or stress.
If at the end of that one year, you have failed, get a normal job. If you succeed though, you will turn that 20k in 200k soon enough, God willing.
Make it a goal to be able to retire by the age of 40. Ponder life and the purpose of life and the reason for existence.
CNProg lacks the polish that makes SO what it is. Although it would be more sensible to help out with CNProg rather than build your own, I would have been interested in seeing just how well you were able to do in a weekend.
BTW, what project are you referring to? Let us know once it's done in any case!
Stop talking, start writing! Seriously, if you can do it in two or three days, what are you waiting for?
These guys are experienced businessmen and have analysed and guessed that they can charge $$$ (per month!) for StackExchange and that it will be a success.
If you can put out a clone and charge $$ for it (one time), and allow people to host on their own servers (which StackExchange disallows AFAIK), I'm sure that people will be interested.
Seriously though guys, I don't think it's that difficult to do in a week. Simply because; you've already got a perfect specification and model in StackOverflow. You've just got to copy it and every single feature until it works exactly the same. You even have an open source (CNProg) copy available for code reference if needed.
Do it, I'm waiting for a thread on HN from you and from ktharavaad on monday.
Commentators are “explaining” the Iran elections based on their own illusions, delusions, emotions, and vested interests. Whether or not the poll results predicting Ahmadinejad’s win are sound, there is, so far, no evidence beyond surmise that the election was stolen. However, there are credible reports that the CIA has been working for two years to destabilize the Iranian government.
On May 23, 2007, Brian Ross and Richard Esposito reported on ABC News: “The CIA has received secret presidential approval to mount a covert “black” operation to destabilize the Iranian government, current and former officials in the intelligence community tell ABC News.”
On May 27, 2007, the London Telegraph independently reported: “Mr. Bush has signed an official document endorsing CIA plans for a propaganda and disinformation campaign intended to destabilize, and eventually topple, the theocratic rule of the mullahs.”
A few days previously, the Telegraph reported on May 16, 2007, that Bush administration neocon warmonger John Bolton told the Telegraph that a US military attack on Iran would “be a ‘last option’ after economic sanctions and attempts to foment a popular revolution had failed.”
On June 29, 2008, Seymour Hersh reported in the New Yorker: “Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the President sought up to four hundred million dollars, were described in a Presidential Finding signed by Bush, and are designed to destabilize the country’s religious leadership.”
Yep, there's obviously a lot going on behind the scenes that we don't know about. The people really behind the Twitter protests is just one part of it.
So because they do it, it's okay for us to do it too? We've moved completely away from the "Trade with all nations and have emnity with none" of the Founders to the Machiavelian games of Brezinski, Kissenger and their friends at the CFR.
Why did the CIA plan and execute a coup against the democratically-elected Hugo Chavez, and attempt to overthow the legitimate democracy in Venezuela? How can it be justified from a non-Machiavelian (i.e. moral) worldview? Can it? The crazy thing is, the US subverts democracy in the name of democracy.
The situation in Iran, esp. the reaction to the Twittering, strikes me as the exact same thing, especially given the US history in the region covertly bringing down the democratic government of Mossadeq. Israel and therefore America want to destabilise Iran at any cost. They don't want democracy, they want a 'friendly' democracy -- that's the key.
It's been going on covertly and not-so-covertly for a long time:
