ReCoder’s Neighborhood

Если вы, скажем, мусульманский террорист, и вас поймали в тренировочном лагере в Афганистане и отвезли в Гитмо, но вы собирались устраивать теракты не в США и не в Израиле, а в Китае, то что с вами будет?
А вот что - вас отвезут в Бермуды и поселят там за счет американских налогоплательщиков:

Nearby, their government-supplied home has spotless hardwood floors, a fresh coat of paint, new furniture and appliances, and a sweeping view of the ocean. Washington is paying for the Uighurs' housing, job training, food and other costs in Palau.

To the men's visible relief, a large air conditioner was delivered Tuesday afternoon to help them cope with the tropical heat. High speed internet--a rarity in Palau--and cable television are scheduled to be installed on Wednesday.

Неплохо ребята устроились, да?

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Большинство не-художественных книг можно легко читать с любого места, т.к. они, как правило, не имеют сквозного нарратива, а разбиты на отдельные кусочки. А журналы - тем более.
И все же я обычно читаю их подряд, а если нет - испытываю непонятное чувство вины, вроде как сжульничал.

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Нидаль Малик Хасан из форта Hood:

A recent classmate said Hasan once gave a jarring presentation to students in which he argued the war on terrorism was a war against Islam, and "made himself a lightning rod for things" when he felt his religious beliefs were challenged.
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He said that at a class presentation by public health students, at which topics like dry cleaning chemicals and house mold were discussed, Hasan talked about U.S. military actions as a war on Islam. Hasan made clear he was a "vociferous opponent" of U.S. wars in Muslim countries, Finnell said.
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"He said maybe Muslims should stand up and fight against the aggressor," retired Col. Terry Lee told Fox News. "At first we thought he meant help the armed forces, but apparently that wasn't the case. Other times he would make comments we shouldn't be in the war in the first place."
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On a form filled out by those seeking spouses through a program at the mosque, Hasan listed his birthplace as Arlington, Va., but his nationality as Palestinian.
"I don't know why he listed Palestinian," Khan said, "He was not born in Palestine."
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His fellow students complained to the faculty about Hasan's "anti-American propaganda," but said a fear of appearing discriminatory against a Muslim student kept officers from filing a formal written complaint.
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Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas, attended the controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia, in 2001 at the same time as two of the September 11 terrorists, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. His mother's funeral was held there in May that year.
The preacher at the time was Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born Yemeni scholar who was banned from addressing a meeting in London by video link in August because he is accused of supporting attacks on British troops and backing terrorist organisations.
Hasan's eyes "lit up" when he mentioned his deep respect for al-Awlaki's teachings, according to a fellow Muslim officer at the Fort Hood base in Texas, the scene of Thursday's horrific shooting spree.
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Soldiers reported that the gunman shouted "Allahu Akbar!" — an Arabic phrase for "God is great!" — before opening fire Thursday, said Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, the post commander.

Интересные личности служат в американской армии...
Тем временем BBC докладывает, кто на самом деле является жертвой: Shooting raises fears for Muslims in US army

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Интервью с пресс-секретарем правительства, 15 февраля 2009:

SCHIEFFER: Somehave said that unemployment may actually get to 10 percent. With this stimulus now passed, do you believe that we will not get to 10 percent unemployment?

GIBBS: You know, the economic team believes that this bill will help us stay away from those double-digit economic unemployment numbers. So we're certainly hopeful of that. Again you've seen, in just the last few months, the unemployment rate jump a lot each month. So we're certainly going to watch that as time goes on, to see and chart the progress of this economic recovery plan.
But I think the American people can feel good that Congress acted quickly.

Hope! Change! Quickly!

Progress of this plan:

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На экраны выходит фильм 2012, в котором показывается гибель цивилизации. Там со вкусом расхерачиваются Белый Дом, Сикстинская капелла, собор св. Петра и т.п. А теперь угадайте, какое известное строение создатели фильма побоялись тронуть на экране?
Правильно - Каабу.
"Well, I wanted to do that, I have to admit, but my co-writer Harald [Kloser] said, 'I will not have a fatwa on my head because of a movie.' And he was right. We have to all, in the western world, think about this. You can actually let Christian symbols fall apart, but if you would do this with [an] Arab symbol, you would have ... a fatwa, and that sounds a little bit like what the state of this world is. So it's just something which I kind of didn't think was an important element, anyway, in the film, so I kind of left it out."

Следует ли удивлятся, что если тактика работает, то...

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5-6 декабря в Санкт-Петербурге будет проходить второй хакдей — мероприятие, завезённое на российскую землю прямо из Кремниевой Долины. Молодые хакеры будут 2 дня программировать, а вечером в воскресенье хвастаться тем, что получилось. Уже зарегистрировалось 155 человек.

Как Обама спасает рабочие места:

President Barack Obama's economic recovery program saved 935 jobs at the Southwest Georgia Community Action Council, an impressive success story for the stimulus plan. Trouble is, only 508 people work there.

Очевидно, некоторые рабочие места были настолько хилыми, что их пришлось спасать дважды, а то и трижды. Но это не единственный способ спасения. Можно, например, считать за спасение рабочего места прибавку к зарплате:

About two-thirds of the 14,506 jobs claimed to be saved under one federal office, the Administration for Children and Families at Health and Human Services, actually weren't saved at all, according to a review of the latest data by The Associated Press. Instead, that figure includes more than 9,300 existing employees in hundreds of local agencies who received pay raises and benefits and whose jobs weren't saved.

И если вы думаете, что это какая-то случайная ошибка, ну там не в ту графу внесли, клерк ошибся, не ту кнопку нажал, то вот:

But officials defended the practice of counting raises as saved jobs.
"If I give you a raise, it is going to save a portion of your job," HHS spokesman Luis Rosero said.
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Allen said a cost-of-living adjustment "may not be viewed traditionally as a job saved, but one could interpret it that, by providing COLA, you're retaining staff."

Понятно вам? Было приказано отчитаться об успехах соцсоревнования - вот и отчитались. Нетрадиционно. По заветам ЦСУ Госплана.

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Во время выборов вчера Обама расслаблялся - смотрел кино про себя, любимого, причем во второй (как минимум) раз:

During the 10AM ET hour of America’s Newsroom on Fox News Channel, fill-in co-host Martha Maccallum told viewers what President Obama watched on election night while Democrats suffered big losses in New Jersey and Virginia: “Robert Gibbs said, well, he was actually watching, you know, the HBO special about his year-long campaign and how it all went.”

А че, разве может быть что-то интереснее?

Update: говорят, не так всо это было.

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Посмотрел сейчас перевод своего ЖЖ на английский через Google Translate. Оказывается, он переводит гораздо лучше, чем я ожидал - некоторые посты выходят вполне осмысленными (гусары, молчать!). Многие фразы ясно переводятся идиоматически, не пословно. Интересно, как у него с китайским/японским?

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A few months ago, when discussing how to support the 'darkpan' (what Perl programmers call the vast body of perl code floating around the internet or in private companies that we know nothing about) I suggested leveraging the vast CPAN distribution system as a sort of continuous integration/build service which we could offer as a for pay service to companies using Perl.  This would have the dual benefit of encouraging corporations to package up their perl code properly (ie as  CPAN module with a Makefile.PL, etc) and could help raise money to sponser Perl development.

What I'm thinking about would be similar to a ruby only service I noticed: http://runcoderun.com

Check that out and let me know what you think.  What kind of services would the 'quasipan' be required to offer in order to entice companies into paying for it?  For example, what do you think of the idea of being able to build a EC2 or other cloud image type from a base OS that intergrate any given set of CPAN and Darkcpan modules?  Like, "I want a virtualbox VM with Perl 5.10.1 on debian with git, postgresql and Catalyst preinstalled, although with my private repo of proprietary code?"