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With Gaza, Journalists Fail Again
Posted on Jan 26, 2009
By Chris Hedges
The assault on Gaza exposed not only Israel's callous disregard for international law but the gutlessness of the American press. There were no major newspapers, television networks or radio stations that challenged Israel's fabricated version of events that led to the Gaza attack or the daily lies Israel used to justify the unjustifiable. Nearly all reporters were, as during the buildup to the Iraq war, pliant stenographers and echo chambers. If we as journalists have a product to sell, it is credibility. Take that credibility away and we become little more than propagandists and advertisers. By refusing to expose lies we destroy, in the end, ourselves.
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We retreated, as usual, into the moral void of American journalism, the void of balance and objectivity. The ridiculous notion of being unbiased, outside of the flow of human existence, impervious to grief or pain or anger or injustice, allows reporters to coolly give truth and lies equal space and airtime. Balance and objectivity are the antidote to facing unpleasant truths, a way of avoidance, a way to placate the powerful. We record the fury of a Palestinian who has lost his child in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza but make sure to mention Israel's "security needs," include statements by Israeli officials who insist there was firing from the home or the mosque or the school and of course note Israel's right to defend itself. We do this throughout the Middle East. We record the human toll in Iraq, caused by our occupation, but remind everyone that "Saddam killed his own people." We write about the deaths of families in Afghanistan during an airstrike but never forget to mention that the Taliban "oppresses women." Their crimes cancel out our crimes. It becomes a moral void. And above all we never forget to mention the "war on terror." We ask how and who but never, never do we ask why. As long as we speak in the cold, dead language of those in power, the language that says a lie is as valid as a fact, the language where one version of history is as good as another, we are part of the problem, not the solution.
"Bombs and rockets are flying between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza, and once again, The Times is caught in a familiar crossfire, accused from all sides of unfair and inaccurate coverage," New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt breezily began in writing his assessment of the paper's coverage, going on to conclude "though the most vociferous supporters of Israel and the Palestinians do not agree, I think The Times, largely barred from the battlefield and reporting amid the chaos of war, has tried its best to do a fair, balanced and complete job—and has largely succeeded."
The cliché that Israel had a right to defend itself from Hamas rocket attacks—that bombs and rockets were "flying between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza"—was accepted in the press as an undisputed truth. It became the starting point for every hollow discussion of the Israeli attack. It left pundits and columnists chattering about "proportionality," not legality. Israel was in open violation of international law, specifically Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which calls on an occupying power to respect the safety of occupied civilians. But you would not know this from the press reports. The use of attack aircraft and naval ships, part of the world's fourth-largest military power, to level densely packed slums of people who were hungry, without power and often water, people surrounded on all sides by the Israeli army, was fatuously described as a war. The news coverage held up the absurd notion that a few Hamas fighters with light weapons and no organization were a counterforce to F-16 fighter jets, tank battalions, thousands of Israeli soldiers, armored personnel carriers, naval ships and Apache attack helicopters. It fit the Israeli narrative. It may have been balanced and objective. But it was not true.
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By Cherubim, May 20, 2012 at 7:14 pm Link to this comment
Every nation and society throughout history which has tried to destroy, conquer, or just plain opposes the Jewish people and Israel has failed or been destroyed. I.E: Egypt, Rome, Greece, Persian Empire, British Empire, Nazi Germany, Europe is currently in shambles and America is following suit. Israel on the other hand has only thrived and grew stronger over time. Wake up people.
By Sepharad, February 27, 2009 at 10:48 pm Link to this comment
Yes, the settlers are hyperreligious extremists and as are the rabbis of Hebron (and elsewhere in the country, but those in Hebron as well as non-Fatah extremists in that same city made Arab friends in East Jerusalem talk us out of going to that city last November). Religious extremists on every side have done terrible harm to bringing people together as human beings. Humanistic Jews (to which I belong) observe the same rituals and traditions as other Jews but without mentioning a god or miracles or anything religious. (The old zealots were notoriously secular, though Simon bar Kochba's rebellion was supported by Rabbi Akiva, who was also skinned alive by the Romans, just another of their bloody examples.)
Not so much their song lyrics but the experiences of those two women who have lived what everyone is talking about here—the possibilities and difficulties of coexistence—are worth grasping. As for the rest, you seem sufficiently concerned and the material is there.
You quote articles from Ha'aretz but there are other newspapers and periodicals in Israel, some to the left of Ha'aretz and others centrist and others to the right. Best magazine is Jerusalem Reports, which carries lengthy stories and opposing opinions in the same issue. I don't think JR is on the Net but the others are. Also Cairo Times, which has material all over the place—conflicted country, Egypt, but some good writers.
Studying detailed histories is essential, however.
By Sepharad, February 27, 2009 at 7:20 pm Link to this comment
Shingo & Patrick Henry,
There's just too much you don't know and understand about the Middle East's history and all the different people who've had a hand in shaping it, and what its realities past and present are. (The most destructive influences by far have been the hacking up that occurred post-Ottoman, the presence of oil and the international arms dealers.) (Maybe you should listen to the lyrics of the songs Nini and Awad are putting together re the difficulties of coexinstence and being caught between the right and the left.)
Extreme Islamists have always been with us, often in conflict with other Moslems. Re the Jewish Zealots, they were not religious—roundly criticized by the priestly classes not only for their impiety but for their dogged resistance to the Roman rule, their respect for the teachings of Jesus re the poor though rebellious at his turn-the-other-cheek teachings, and were the main defenders of Masada. Today's settlers are not like the zealots in that they as hyperreligious as their opposite numbers among the Palestinians.
Re Sunni and Shiia in Iraq, one of the only decent excuses for the Iraq war (not nearly enough for the toll it has taken on both Americans and Iraqis) was that post-Gulf War Saddam's Sunni ruling class were not at all reluctant to go along when he gassed Shiia and Kurds.
You both have good minds and fundamentally fair attitudes. Please just take the time to avail yourselves of all the history that's been written about the region (links and contemporary journalistic opinion is inadequate) and by all means travel there, talk to Arabs and Jews on the streets, to the scholars, to people who regard themselves as neutral.
By Sepharad, February 26, 2009 at 2:30 pm Link to this comment
Sad but true, story on p. 5 of 2/25 NYTimes headlined "In Israel, Jew and Arab Sing but Political Chorus is Heard." Singers and peace activists Achinoam Nini (Jew) and Mira Awad (Arab) will, together, represent Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Moscow in May. But the leftwing is circulating a petition against their appearance as a way to prettify an ugly situation. As peace advocates (Nini has refused to appear in the West Bank, denounced settlers, and been threatened with bombing from the rightwing), they are very frustrated. They say that with the leftwing turned into an apologist for Hamas and the political turn to the right, they feel like orphans. (I'm not famous but boy do I relate to that feeling.)
Awad says her vision of an independent Palestine is not one of an extreme religious state in which people disliked by the rulers are shot in the leg. (Awad is more famous in Israel as a singer and actress; Nini is more famous as an international singer, being of Yemenite Jewish extraction which gives her music special interest in Europe.)
On her blog, Nini sharply denounced Islamist Hamas and called on her Palestinian brothers "to join together to eliminate the ugly monster Hamas." The blog has—big surprise—been widely criticized by the leftwing, but her defense is that she's just repeating what her Palestinian friends in Gaza are telling her, that they have been threatened by Hamas.
Nini, Awad and their artistic collaborator Gil Dor are preparing four songs for the contest which is now in its 30th year (Israeli entries have won a few times). Each of their songs is written in equal parts Arabic, Hebrew and English. (The two women have been collaborating for eight years, offering during the 2nd intifada their version of the Beatles' "We Can Work It Out.")
The two singers and their artistic collaborator say they spend hours arguing over the meaning of a Jewish democratic nation, the Arab-Israeli conflict and what they can do to make things better. Nini says everyone is responsible for putting in their two-cents' worth, and theirs' is music. They are friends, they argue, and she believes they offer an example of what coexistence could look like.
(Their story heartens me, and coexistence looks beautiful, but it will continue to recede from reality as long as the left and right continue to insist on their stupid, nonproductive polarization.)
By Sepharad, February 26, 2009 at 10:10 am Link to this comment
Hamas itself is inconsistent: their charter and writings define themselves. But now, they play to an international audience, knowing what to say to fold Westerners into their camp. (With Moslems, they use acts, not words, e.g. violent purges of Fatah and anyone else who disobeys them.) They say and do anything that moves them an inch closer to their aim: eradicating Israel.
Israel foolishly allowed Hamas a foothold, an attempt to halt Fatah's siphoning off and keeping for themselves aid money destined for the Palestinians, whose poverty made them easy prey to extremist teachings. Hamas sprang from the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and the allied Islamic Jihad group, murderers of Sadat for making peace with Israel.
The rise of a rightwing government in Israel expresses citizens' growing anger. Hamas' behavior in Gaza is crippling Israel's centrist drive to force the settlers out of the West Bank. Not doing so will lead to more war, which Hamas wants.
It may seem inconsistent to you for me to take the Charter at face value and call Hamas liars in their other statements, but they are playing under Middle Eastern rules. How consistent is it for both Shiia Iran and Sunni Syria to back Sunni Hamas and Shiia Hezbollah? They will, because they have a common enemy. In Iraq, Shiia murders Sunni and Sunni murders Shiia, sects within each strain kill each other. Hafiz Assad, father of Syria's current President, slaughtered 10-20,000 Sunni civilians in Hamah he considered to be a threat to his rule, using what Thomas Friedman calls "Hamah rules", which most Arabs play by, unconcerned by civilian deaths.
Given such conditions, Israel cannot survive without fighting back. What happened in Gaza was terrible, but much more the doing of Hamas than Israel. Isralis seem to be asking a rightwing government to look out for them in the near future. The Sioux, Cheyenne and other Native American tribes facing the unending white hordes advancing on them asked their War Chiefs to lead. In the Middle East, the historically-rooted Israelis are like the Native Americans, asking nothing more than a piece of their original territory to live on, while the Arabs are the hordes. Israelis will not, don't want to, destroy the Arabs; the Arabs do want to destroy the Israelis. The Israelis have never threatened to use the nuclear capability they've had for decades, never threatened to push any Arabs into the sea—they just want to live in peace in a small portion of ancient Israel. They have sought peace and compromise for a very long time (succeeding with Jordan and Egypt, as well as non-Arab Turkey). Until the first intifada, there were no checkpoints between Israel and the West Bank from '67 and '93; West Bank Palestinians moved freely in and out of Israel. Instead of building a nation, the Palestinians allowed and abetted continual terror attacks which, with the first intifada, ended that freedom to come and go from the West Bank to Israel. Checkpoints and finally the Wall cut terror attacks inside Israel by 80%. Israelis did not wall in Gaza on the Egypt border—in fact they offered the Rafiah camp and territory to Egypt when they returned the Sinai (including its Israeli-developed oil fields) following the peace agreement. The Egyptians refused, putting up a wall dividing community and families.
Israelis have seen nothing good come from returning territory in Gaza and south Lebanon. A second state is the ONLY solution, but internationally, demands are always that Israel do or give up something, never asking Palestinians to take responsibility. Trying to dance on one leg is difficult. Maybe, impossible.
By Sepharad, February 24, 2009 at 9:46 pm Link to this comment
Thanks to you, I read part of the Horowitz "Big Lies" source Laura used. The early settlement through the '48 war bits, particularly re Deir Yassin, had sources that I think even you would acknowledge, particularly the Arab ones. (The 2005 University of Beirut reference was not one I had seen previously, and is causing me to revise my opinion of David Horowitz's research. Maybe it's the time he's put in as a journalist the last 15-20 years. I think he did perhaps lose his bearings during the rapid switch from radical left to center-right as far as issues re Israel were concerned but he's apparently found a more balanced place. Haven't read much of his work for a long time. Will have to revisit.) This does not change my basic positions re removing settlers from West Bank and helping Palestinians get their economy going and other things necessary for an independent state—a better-equipped police force and their own army so they don't have to depend on UN peacekeepers. Also remain completely opposed to invading or attacking Iran.
Re Hamas, their Charter is their Charter and their leaders' writings are their writings. That never changes. But they are wonderfully skillful at deluding Westerners—particularly dopey and reflexive leftwingers who WANT to be deluded, though I can't imagine why, given their attitudes toward women and religion and basic freedoms.
Laura—Thanks for the Horowitz link. Will read the rest of it carefully; but the portion on the early settlements and the '48 war are very well documented.
By Sepharad, February 24, 2009 at 7:02 pm Link to this comment
I never said Horowitz and Pipes were lunatics. I said that I did not disagree with them and that they were beyond my political pale. I think it WOULD be lunatic to attack Iran and equally lunatic to believe a single word Hamas says. They are professional liars of this highest order—but they have to be talked to and dealt with. Unfortunately.
If I called everyone I disagree with a "lunatic" I couldn't talk to anyone on this site with a few intellectually independent exceptions.
Laura is using some sites that are comparable to the Israelophobe sites you guys resort to all the time. She also is using a considerably wider range of sources than you've produced. Unless something is patently provably untrue, despite this or that bias, it has to be considered.
By Sepharad, February 20, 2009 at 5:26 pm Link to this comment
No, it doesn't mean that Israel supports Al Quaeda. It means that Bibi is an idiot and Livni, Mofaz and Barak are right to reject posts in his government. As Tzipi put it, "We weren't elected to be a figleaf for a rightwing government."
By Sepharad, February 20, 2009 at 3:46 pm Link to this comment
Mufti of Jerusalem did absolutely everything he could for Germans in WWII, both in Europe and in Mideast/North Africa. Shenonymous has posted details elsewhere on this. Hell, it's probably even in Wikipedia if that's as far as your research ever takes you.
By curiouscdn, February 19, 2009 at 5:54 pm Link to this comment
Inherit the Wind:
I have to vehemently disagree with your assessment of the meaning of racism. You are way off the mark. I don't know anything regarding the Spike Lee case, however, all I can say is, his lawyer read the definition in a dictionary. It probably didn't work because people these days pride themselves on being ignorant and assumed racism can be committed by any race. That's not true.
Racism is, by definition, treating another race(s) inferior. Blacks can be discriminatory, but they can't be racist, because they're not the race that has the "upper hand" or "holding all the cards".
As well, if one looks into the history of the word, "Semite", it means a member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Near East and northern Africa, including the Arabs, Arameans, Babylonians, Carthaginians, Ethiopians, Hebrews, and Phoenicians. So if Arabs were anti-Semitic, would they not be self-hating Arabs?
Therefore, it becomes rather pedestrian when anyone speaks out against Israel's policies, and is automatically called anti-Semitic…just as Jews who also speak out against the same atrocities are called self-hating Jews. It is the ZIONIST POLICIES we abhor, not the Jewish people.
When you defend their racist policies, you defend, justify and even pontificate about the murdering and slaughtering of innocent Palestinians to build illegal settlements.
By Sepharad, February 18, 2009 at 5:58 pm Link to this comment
cyrena, You're wrong, I'm not miserable. But you're also right: Shenonymous doesn't need protecting from you. You just get on these hysterical bullying rants sometimes and if she knows you she's heard it all before. (What would Obama say? Not his style at all.) But Shenonymous is a real scholar who is NOT looking only for facts that support her hypothesis but, instead, the truth, which usually involves information that doesn't support one's pet hypothesis. You have to gather information, evaluate and compare. Otherwise all you get are slogans.
By Sepharad, February 18, 2009 at 11:31 am Link to this comment
Laura, you said to cyrena most of what I would've said, and then some.
cyrena, seeing yourself as triumphant on this website is messing with your head. I've known you to have, in the past, actually posted some interesting and accurate material, which is why I'm still responding to you at all. Something to be salvaged there. I've also learned, being away from my own research library built up over decades, that sometimes Wikipedia is very useful, though sometimes, I've thought, not deep enough in its cites and bibliographies—yet I found one instance where Wikipedia sources disputed, to my satisfaction, a specific that I had been certain of.
So before you go completely nutty, suggest you go to Wikipedia and read, five times, the entire entry and click on every emphasized related points re Israeli-Arab conflict before you even think about posting on the topic again.
Also suggest you stop dissing Shenonymous: she is not a Zionist, not a pro-Israel partisan, but she does have an innate spirit of intellectual curiosity and respects the truth more than her own opinion. (In that respect she and I are similar, and we are also both humanists.) Her respect for truth over self-aggrandizement is the opposite of your own attitude, which is why you don't understand her and become vicious when she disagrees with you about something.
But don't worry. If all else fails you can journey to the Swati Valley in Pakistan, lower your voice, paste on a fake beard and try to join the Taliban, whose way of thinking may be more amenable to your own.
By Sepharad, February 17, 2009 at 5:40 pm Link to this comment
Bitter? Of course not; just passing on words of advice to someone who's new to Truthdig. You & some of the other more venomous posters can be quite shocking to people who assume progressives are, well, progressive and rational people.
Oh—Amos Oz isn't an Arab.
FYI, I'm interested in non-Middle Eastern topics as well, but sometimes wonder how some of you manage to bring every issue back to the Middle East. Very tedious but it goes with the territory.
By Sepharad, February 17, 2009 at 10:09 am Link to this comment
Laura, Disregard the sniping from Cyrena et al. Truthdig has this cabal of Israel haters and you will doubtless hear from all of the them. But there are a handful of us who respect and wish to protect Israel from false accusations, which are hurled on nearly every thread, no matter what the topic of the actual article. The poster Shenonymous is not so much an Israel partisan as she is an intellectual, thorough, and does great research on things she does not at first understand. She is one of the few people here who literally dig for the truth,and keeps an open mind on issues till she has all the information to make a decision then argues it forcefully. Being called a clone of Shenonymous is high praise (though cyrena does not like Shenonymous or anyone else unless they are in agreement with herself).
There's one thing in your post I disagree with: the Palestinians weren't "stupid" when they voted for Hamas, they were just angry with Fatah's corruption that had been exposed. Arafat and cronies and his wife Suha had long been siphoning off, for their personal use, most of the millions of dollars being donated to the Palestinian people the vote for Hamas was more of a vote against Fatah. I suspect most Gazans have long since regretted their choice, but the real problem is that they have no good choices for leaders. (If Israel ends up with Netanyahu on top, Israel will also be without a good leader.)
The last time I was in Israel, was talking to a man who sometimes negotiates for the Palestinians and gave him Amos Oz's tiny book "Please Help Us Divorce" with the most sensible path to a second state I've seen anywhere. A few days later he returned it to me glowing, said he was going to buy additional copies for himself and others, felt there was somewhere to go from there and apologized for making notes in the margins. Looking through the notes, I noticed that his greatest interest was in a part regarding the things that could be achieved if the Palestinians could come up with the right leader. (Oz also discussed a "right leader" for Israel and his description sounds a lot like Tzipi Livni and lightyears away from Netanyahu, so cross your fingers that she can put together a government coalition.)
By Sepharad, February 16, 2009 at 9:38 pm Link to this comment
I spend a fair amount of time on Truthdig, much of it trying to put facts about Israel, its history, and its enemies in terms people here can understand, maybe even shock them out of their close-mindedness—most of them aren't true bigots, but a handful are. The rest are just ill-informed and don't want to change because it doesn't fit their ideas of political correctness or self-interest or who the real "underdogs" are as well identifying the real "top dogs" keeping them down—it's too complicated. What you're doing is not a waste of time, though, because there are flickers of comprehension occasionally so keep fighting the good fight.
On another thread, a regular poster, Shenonymous, put up a link (UnitedAgainstFascists on YouTube)—a group I'd never heard of, but it did an excellent job of explaining the Islamofascist expansion agenda in a way that even the most blatant Israel-hater would have to take seriously. Framing it are some British scholars and—amazingly, a former member of Hitler Youth—who show the history of the Mufti of Jerusalem, footage of him with Hitler in discussion, of the Bosnian Muslims he recruited for the SS, and also clips of various mullahs and imams following in those footsteps. These Moslem religious figures of course do not represent every Moslem, but they do represent the intentions of the words of the Koran in terms of expansion and the fate of infidels only they do so in exhortations to their fellow Moslems to support the expansion of Islam and Sharia, and several of them talk about how their flag will sooner or later fly over Israel, over Britain, over the U.S., over the European countries—and one, speaking very clearly, said that "the fate of Israel will be the fate of the world." This is probably a foregone conclusion in their minds and part of the plans for expansion right on track so far in Europe, but I thought that perhaps it would make even the most hardened anti-Israel Truthdigger think about the relationship between what Hamas and Hezbollah have in mind for the Israelis (as well as Arabs who don't go along with their religious extremism) AND for everyone else. (Sometimes it takes a major dose of "self-interest" for people to see the true dimensions of a threat—whether its AIDS or some deadly virus or extremist Islamic expansionism.)
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The regulator concluded: "Each reference to the Corinthia hotel did not raise issues of undue prominence, in the context of establishing where the contestants would be living during the final stages of the competition, and conveying their excitement at their new surroundings.
"However, Ofcom considered the overall number of references to be excessive for the purpose of establishing this."
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Bulandshahr, Dec 31 (UNI) Uttar Pradesh Primary Education Minister Kiran Pal Singh today refutted all charges that he was involved in the murder of Meerut University's ad hoc lecturer Dr Kavita Rani Chaudhary and asserted he would not resign from his post.
''I swear I am innocent and its just a conspiracy hatched against me by media and some vested forces. I will write to President A P J Abdul Kalam, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and AICC President Sonia Gandhi and UP Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav demanding a high level probe into the case,'' he said, addressing a rally here.
''I believe in the court of people and that is the reason why I organised a rally. No one can befool people and I leave upto the people whether they want to believe whatever 'rubbish' a killer Ravindra Pradhan is uttering or me, who is completely innocent,'' Mr Singh maintained.
Dr Kavita Rani -- an ad hoc lecturer at the Lalit Kala Department of the Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut had been missing since last week of October. On December 25, police confirmed that she was dead.
The main accused Ravindra Pradhan had surrendered before a news channel in Noida.
On interrogation, Ravindra alleged Kavita had intimate relations with some UP ministers, and claimed she used to prepare their pornographic CDs and blackmail them. She had prepared CDs of some ministers and managed to get Rs 35 lakh from them.
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Most people are familiar with "Major level"."Minor Level"."Patch Level" version numbering, but is this form of version numbering *really* all that important?
Most people are familiar with "Major level"."Minor Level"."Patch Level" version numbering, but is this form of version numbering *really* all that important?
A small story to illustrate what I'm trying to get at with this article...
A while back, I got an email from a user of one of the projects that I contribute code to. At the time, the project's latest released version was 0.9. The basic jist of the email was that the project had existed for close to a year, and it had fairly good features, good stability, and was being used. The user then told me that I should go ahead and hurry up and release a 1.0 version, since having the project sitting in a pre-1.0 phase was hurting the credibility of the program.
Hurting the credibility of the program???
I'm not sure what he meant, but when I first read that, my impression was to reject it out of hand. Projects like Enlightenment, Window Maker, and many other well-known software packages that aren't anywhere close to version 1.0 have been out there for quite a while, and don't seem to have suffered any in the credibility department. In fact, they're included as standard software inside Linux distributions that are meant for "production" work. Red Hat and many other distributions include Enlightenment as one of the choices for a default window manager, yet it's only versioned at DR 0.16.3 currently. (and Red Hat hasn't even included the most recent version - but that's another story)
As it has been explained to me, a major level, (i.e. version 1.0) has several characteristics. It should contain as few known bugs as possible, (none at all is very ambitious, as I think most developers would agree) none of which should be "severe". It should probably implement at least the majority of the spec for what the program was originally intended to do, and it should be reasonably thoroughly tested. Whether or not other developers feel the same way about the "criteria" for a version 1.0 release is something I do not know. This is what I told the user who sent me that email. Within the framework of the way that software was being version numbered, it didn't make any sense to arbitrarily say "We're tired of being considered 'beta' or 'alpha' software just because of our version number, so we'll fix a few bugs and slap a '1.0' label on it."
I've also gotten flak from different people around the internet because the versioning scheme hasn't suited various people. Most developers are familiar with GNU version numbering (major.minor.patch) and similar systems. There are a lot of other systems that are similar, some with rules that are agreeable, but essentially arbitrary. The system makes sense in and of itself, it is internally consistent, but as far as the nitpicky rules, it really is arbitrary. And if both your system and mine are arbitrary, yet internally consistent, who's to say your version is 'better' than mine or 'more correct' or vice versa? For example, when dealing with Linux kernels, any minor number that is even corresponds to a stable kernel, and an odd minor number corresponds to a development kernel. A lot of projects don't do it that way though. For me though, the important part about the kernel versioning system is that everybody knows what the rules are and how version numbers are determined, which means that you can look at a version number and know if the software is worth upgrading. I'm running linux-2.2.13 at home. I know that linux-2.2.14 is now available at kernel.org, but since it's only a patchlevel, I can usually safely assume that all that really changed was a fix for the GraphicsFoo accelerator card (with extreme bogon particle emission fixes), which I don't really care about, since I don't have a GraphicsFoo card.
And then there's the confusion in some new users about how most version numbers are NOT floating point numbers. For example, a new Linux user that I know recently asked me why a project recently went from version 0.9 to 0.10. That seems like a huge backward leap, right? But version numbers aren't floating point numbers, so actually, 0.10 is a minor number higher than 0.9, not 8 minor levels lower than 0.9.
Is structured version numbering really all that important? It would be nice if everyone would stick to one well-defined format, but as a user (or a developer), as long as I'm familiar with the way things are done in a project, I personally don't really care how version numbering is done as long as it's clear from one release to the next that progress was made. A good ChangeLog helps too, since that way as a user I can look into the innards of the program and find out if something obscure and totally irrelevant to my usage got changed, or if large structures changed that affect the way the program operates. I don't really feel that it's realistic to expect all or even most projects to use one form of versioning, but I wanted to open it up to other advogato readers to hear about bad/good/indifferent experiences with version numbering and whether or not it's even an issue that needs to be addressed.
In two major ways.
First, they can indicate how much a program can be expected to crash. The two programs you've mentioned, Enlightenment and WindowMaker, have had a bunch of bugs while I've been using them. I haven't used E recently, but WindowMaker crashed enough that I was glad it got the segfault handler so I could automatically restart it. While it's certainly usable, it's not as rock solid as I would expect from a mature program.
The other way a version number can indicate stability is by showing where a program is in its lifecycle. Most programs that have a version less than 1.0 are under fairly heavy development. A user may have to put forth some effort to keep up with it. But once it hits 1.0, the user has a stable platform that they shouldn't need to upgrade much (ie, showstopper bugs are pretty much absent).
When to declare 1.0? Well, I don't think a program has to have all the features it'll eventually have. I like to think of a set of base features that makes the program usable, and set that as my 1.0 target. (Those who've seen my release history know that I'm still overly optimistic.) Features beyond that can wait for 2.0.
In my capacity as amateur GNU historian (who wasn't even there at the time)
Changes in Emacs 13
* There is a new version numbering scheme.
What used to be the first version number, which was 1, has been discarded since it does not seem that I need three levels of version number.
However, a new third version number has been added to represent changes by user sites. This number will always be zero in Emacs when I distribute it; it will be incremented each time Emacs is built at another site.
According to the original scheme, then, I'm now running emacs 22.214.171.124 Looks more like a CVS revision number than a release, really ...
If RMS can flout version number convention, I think anyone else ought reasonably to be able to get away with it too.
we have....Binutils, currently at Version 184.108.40.206.27
What does that all mean?
There is that user perception of versions to deal with. But that is a documentation issue. Jabber is a reality at 90% done!
Here are some thoughts:
I agree with evertyhing said. Especially:
- People should not be too eager to release programs/code
I tend to actually hold any of my own releases and test them on my own crash boxes as well as a small group of gunia pigs that may want to give it try. This hold time can sometimes be 6 months untill I feel it is secure enough and well put thru it's paces.
What I find extremely hillarious is people who have been basically brainwashed into thinking that they absolutly MUST have the latest software revision, even if what they have works well and gets done what they need to get done. This tends to put unfair pressure on the developers of the program, early releases with bugs or other anomolies. On my own system, I *STILL* have programs that are a.out and are fully secure and functional. I don't even have glibc on it (yet) because I haven't had a seriously compelling need for it, and glibc seems to have a problem with group permissions (ahem). Same for word processing... how many people aimlessly grab the absolute latest GUI for word processing? Why bother? I am happy with WordStar 2.26 on a CP/M machine. You know what? The output on the inkjet printer is no different than GUI word processing programs. :-)
My point is simple. If it works, don't fix it, especially if it is pay software. If you need newer fetures and absolutly can't live without them, upgrade, but procede with caution (and a backup of the one that actually worked in the first place). Don't upgrade just to feel cool, you might end up getting nipped in the butt.
If your going to release something, make sure the damn thing actually installs. Try and provide your intended audience with some kind of painless options file upgrade script too. I realize the pains of this, honest, however it can be done very cleanly and simply. Think about this angle:
If the last version parsed the rc file, why can't you parse it into the new format?
Makes sense to me...
TEST it ... then....
TEST IT AGAIN!!!... then....
Have a few other people test it. You *NEVER* can be certain how it might or might not interact or react to all the madness on someone else's system, especially someone's usage patterns, hand edited rc files, and so-on.
It's how I do it, and why all my code is of quality, not quantity.
The SmallEiffel compiler started from version -1.0, and has been counting upward (toward zero). They are currently at version -0.77. Go figure.
I'd tend to agree that version numbering consistency accross projects doesn't matter much. One thing that does matter is that the version numbers should be easily machine-comparable -- otherwise tools like rpm and dpkg don't work very well and various hacks have to be used in packages.
Quoting the Debian packaging manual:
(the author of this manual has heard of a package whose versions went `1.1', `1.2', `1.3', `1', `2.1', `2.2', `2' and so forth)Clearly that type of thing is Evil.
No more, no less. They convey little information of real value to the user, other than version 0.61.2 is assumed to be somewhat newer than version 0.59.4. Various development teams and marketing organizations (yes, free software has marketing also, it's just not very good nor very well thought out) assign different meanings to various version numbers, almost willy-nilly.
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This post is part of a debate with Justin of The Faith Heuristic. The topic is: The Evidence Supports the Existence of a God. The debate is structured as follows:Justin - Opening Statement Leah - Rebuttal --part 1 --part 2 Justin - Rejoinder --part 1 --part 2 Leah - Opening Statement Justin - Rebuttal Leah - Rejoinder In his last post, Justin has accused me of relying blindly on a "Naturalism of the Gaps." In his view, my belief that there is likely to be a … [Read more...]
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Many Christian filmgoers will condemn Brokeback Mountain because they will assume that it is evil due to its subject matter. That's the worst kind of reaction to it. It leads us to become reactionary and judgmental, and it prevents us from learning to be patient, to look closely, to discern.What I like about Steven D. Greydanus's review at Decent Films is that, even though he gives Brokeback Mountain a failing grade, at least he did the work of thinking through it and seeing it for what it … [Read more...]


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COLLEGE PARK, Maryland – For the second consecutive game, the Marist baseball team picked up a victory, this time beating the University of Pennsylvania Quakers 4-3 in Game 1 of the three game series. Due to weather in the Philadelphia area, the game was moved to Bob "Turtle" Smith Stadium on the campus of the University of Maryland.
With the win, the Red Foxes now stand at 8-6 on the season.
Sophomore Frankie Gregoire led Marist offensively going 2-for-5 with a two run home run, his fourth of the season, to go along with one run scored and two RBI. Sophomore Randy Taveras finished 2-for-4 with a run scored and redshirt freshman Tyler Kapuscinski went 1-for-4 with two runs scored and extended his hitting streak to six games. Redshirt junior Greg Kocinski finished 1-for-4 with one RBI.
On the mound, senior Sean Keenan picked up his second victory of the year, throwing seven and one third innings, giving up three runs on just four hits with a walk and five strikeouts. Tony Romanelli got the save, his fourth of the season, pitching a perfect one and two thirds innings while giving up no runs on no hits.
The Red Foxes opened the scoring in the top of the first inning. With one out, Kapuscinski singled to left field and Gregoire followed with a bomb to left field, his fourth of the year, giving Marist the early 2-0 lead.
The Quakers answered in the bottom of the second when Holden Morris singled through the right side with one out and Matt McGeagh followed with a two run homer to left center, tying the game at 2-2.
In the bottom of the fourth inning, Matt O'Neill led off with a walk, stole second on a strike out and then advanced to third on a wild pitch during the next at bat. McGeagh followed with an RBI ground out to the shortstop and Penn had the 3-2 lead.
Two innings later, the Red Foxes answered when Taveras singled up the middle with one out, stole second and then scored when Tyler Kirkpatrick reached on an error by the second baseman to even the score at 3-3.
One inning later, after a Quaker pitching change, Kapuscinski led off with a walk, stole second and advanced to third on a wild pitch. Two batters later, Kocinski hit a sac fly to left field that scored Kapuscinski and Marist regained the lead 4-3.
In the bottom of the eighth, Tim Graul reached on an error by the shortstop and advanced to second with one out. Romanelli replaced Keenan on the mound and got out of the jam with back-to-back ground outs to second.
Down to its last three outs, Penn came to bat in the bottom of the ninth, looking to rally. However, Romanelli was lights out and got a 1-2-3 inning with a fly out, ground out and fly out to secure the 4-3 victory.Up next, the two teams will play a doubleheader on Sunday (1:30 & 4 PM) at the Harford Sports Complex in Bel Air, MD. Game 2 will be seven innings, while Game 3 will be nine innings.


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County Championship week nine - Statistical Round up
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Lancashire and England fast bowler Sajid Mahmood spoke to Cricket World TV presenter Jim White at Old Trafford ahead of the start of the 2009 season.
As a member of the England 'A' tour to New Zealand he has described how he has enjoyed his five weeks away but will now have to re-adapt to English conditions.
He has also recently been named in England's Twenty20 squad but is keen to add to his full England caps as well as get more chances to bat.
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With the exposure of MPs' expenses still hogging the headlines, Allegra Stratton and Tom Clark look back on a constitutional crisis that has seen a Speaker of the house removed from the Commons for the first time in 300 years.
Michael Martin has paid the price for the ongoing scandal, but with the Conservatives and Lib Dems calling for a general election, how far-reaching will the damage ultimately be for Gordon Brown?
Panellists Jonathan Freedland, Polly Toynbee and Jenni Russell survey the wreckage of a momentous seven days in parliament, and look ahead to a new era of British politics – with new parties, independents, and possibly even celebrities like, er, Esther Rantzen challenging the status quo.
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Alumnus Brandon Barnholt, president and CEO of the second-largest natural and specialty foods distributor in North America, will return to the Monfort College of Business April 9 to share his perspectives on corporate culture. He talks about those perspectives - and how UNC's culture motivates him to stay involved with his alma mater - in an Alumni Association Bear Den blog.
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The Faculty Research and Publications Board, College Deans and Office of Sponsored Programs will recognize faculty achievement in research and other academic pursuits at the Distinguished Scholar Luncheon on Monday, April 7. RSVPs for the luncheon were due March 27.
Nine faculty will be presented with awards.
Steven Anderson, professor of Earth Science and director of the Mast Institute, will receive the 2014 A.M. and Jo Winchester Distinguished Scholar award - given annual to a faculty member who's consistently demonstrated outstanding scholarly performance.
Awards for college scholars will be presented to:
In addition, Elizabeth Franklin, professor of Hispanic Studies, will receive the Outstanding Achievement in Sponsored Programs Award, and David Hydock, assistant professor of Sport and Exercise Science, will receive the Sponsored Programs New Faculty Recognition Award.
Read honorees' profiles at http://www.unco.edu/osp/news/2014scholars.pdf.
The highlights of the many activities promoting academic excellence and recognizing student, faculty and staff scholastic achievements during the celebration include:
For a complete schedule of activities or additional information about UNC's celebration of academic excellence, visit the Academic Excellence Week website at www.unco.edu/aew or contact the Center for Honors, Scholars and Leadership at 970-351-2940.
Academic Excellence Week is coordinated and sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Research; the Center for Honors, Scholars and Leadership; and the Graduate Student Association along with academic departments and programs across campus.
Registration for Summer Session is now open on Ursa and does not require a PIN. Hundreds of undergraduate, graduate and extended studies courses will be offered in six-, eight- and 12-week formats both online and on campus. For more information about maximum course loads and tuition, visit the Summer Session website.
UNC will join the city of Greeley in celebrating the conclusion of the Benjamin Moore Main Street Matters program from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Friday, April 11, at DP Dough, 901 16th St. Witness the final paint strokes applied to the last building, then enjoy refreshments, entertainment and give-aways. Greeley Mayor Tom Norton, along with local dignitaries, will recognize Greeley for its efforts to bring the program to town.
Greeley is one of 20 communities across North America selected by the program to have a main street fixed up and repainted with Benjamin Moore providing the paint.
For more information about the program, visit Main Street Matters or contact Becky Safarik at 970-350-9785.
Join Bears PAY It Forward and the UNC Alumni Association from 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, April 12, to assist in neighborhood clean-up and flood recovery projects. Help enhance the Evans community by cleaning the State Farm neighborhood (next to the Monfort Family Clinic) or clean up flood damage near the South Platte River about one mile east of Greeley.
To sign up for the event, click here. Groups will meet at the University Center's west patio at 8:30 a.m. Be sure to wear sturdy shoes and clothes you won't mind getting dirty. Tools and lunch will be provided.
For more information, email Jimmy Kohles, Chris Garcia, call 970-351-2172 or visit the Bears PAY It Forward website.
The UNC Read-In scheduled for April 10 has been canceled but readers and listeners are sought for the April 21 Read-In commemorating the Holocaust. Read or listen to published works about the Holocaust from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. in Michener Library. Anyone interested in reading can sign up online for a 15-minute time slot and listeners can drop by as their schedules permit.
The series is co-sponsored by the English Education Program and Michener Library.
For more information about the series, contact Jeri Kraver.
The Dean's Office of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences will host a blood drive from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Wednesday, April 9, in the parking lot in front of Candelaria. To sign up, click here. If you're interested in donating, remember to eat a healthy meal and drink plenty of water beforehand. Don't forget to bring a valid driver's license or photo I.D. with a date of birth.
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U.S. draws fewer visitors than in 2000: USTA
By Bernd Debusmann Jr.
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Despite a boom in international travel over the past decade, the United States still attracts fewer visitors than it did in 2000, according to new data from the U.S. Travel Association (USTA).
Figures released by the U.S. Department of Commerce show a ten percent rise in foreign visitors during the first 11 months of 2010 compared with the same period in 2009.
But the USTA, which works to promote the travel industry, said the numbers mean that the U.S. drew fewer overseas visitors than in 2000 for the tenth consecutive year.
"They are putting out the numbers as a positive highlight," Geoff Freeman, the president of USTA, told Reuters. "but it's more important to dig deeper into the numbers and look at trends."
In 2000, Commerce Department figures showed that 25,974,700 visitors arrived in the U.S. from overseas, compared to 25,715,300 in 2010 - one percent less, according to the association.
During the same period, according to data from Oxford Economics, world long haul arrivals increased from 151,371,900 to 210,815,000 -- a 39.3 percent rise, it added.
The travel industry values overseas visitors because they spend an average of $4,000 each per trip, compared to $900 for Canadian and Mexican visitors, according to USTA. The numbers are based on the relationship between the total spending of overseas travelers while in the U.S. and the number of overseas arrivals to the U.S.
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The New Zealand National Quidditch team is the national Quidditch team of New Zealand. The team are nicknamed the Kiwis.[1]
Their flag is a defaced Blue Ensign with the Union Flag in the canton, and four red stars with white borders to the right. The stars represent the constellation of Crux, the Southern Cross.
The team partook in the 2014 Quidditch World Cup held in Argentina. The team was managed by Charlie Baverstock.
They were knocked out in the first round on May 20th against Bulgaria. Their Chaser Dennis Moon was sent off in controversial circumstances, after colliding with Bulgarian Chaser Bogomil Levski in the 106th minute, in an incident which looked accidental to many spectators, but the referee Georgios Xenakis ruled had been caused by Moon. Bulgarian Seeker Viktor Krum beat Ngapo Ponika to the Snitch.
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Tragedy of the commons
The tragedy of the commons was an article published by Garrett Hardin in the journal Science in 1968.[1] It describes a problem where many people with their own ideas can make something they all share worse, even if no one wants to. For example, even if no one wants to pollute water because that makes it unhealthy, it can still end up like that because so many want to use the water for their own reasons, like washing and throwing away rubbish. Each person thinks that their small bit of pollution of the water is too small to affect the quality of the water, but because there are many people the total effect ends up making the water too polluted for mostly anybody to use for drinking or even washing. This may occur in slums and other overcrowded places like refugee camps.[2]
The idea was not Hardin's, but a person writing in 1833, William Forster Lloyd. In those days people often grazed cows and sheep on common land. Sheep graze more closely than cows. Lloyd pointed out that each sheep added benefited its owner, but made the grazing overall was damaged by overgrazing.[3]
The tragedy of the commons is very clear in modern debates on ecology. It is also a topic in game theory.
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- ↑ Hardin, Garrett 1968. "The tragedy of the commons", Science, 162, pp. 1243-1248. Also available here and here.
- ↑ Shiklomanov I.A. Appraisal and assessment of world water resources. Water International 25(1): 11-32 (2000)
- ↑ Lloyd, William Forster (1833). Two Lectures on Population. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1972412.


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Liverpool defender Martin Skrtel insists there was never any doubt in his mind about wanting to stay at the club and was more than happy to sign a new contract.
Even last season's disappointing eighth-place finish, a summer change of manager and speculation about a move away did nothing to dissuade the Slovakia international.
In fact Skrtel believes there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic.
"After last season there was a lot of talk about my future but I have to say that the first priority for me was always to sign a new deal with Liverpool," said the 27-year-old.
"I have been here almost four-and-a-half years and I have enjoyed that time here - myself and also my family - so there were no questions about whether to stay or to leave.
"A lot of things have changed, a new manager (Brendan Rodgers) has come and I think we can start to make history and I want to be a part of that history.
"We have our target. For this season it is the top four and I hope we can do it. Then we will see.
"I think Brendan Rodgers showed his quality with Swansea and now he's carrying on doing that at Liverpool.
"He's showed he's a great manager and I hope we can play better football than we did in the last seasons and I hope we can get our target."
Skrtel's centre-back partnership with Daniel Agger is viewed as the bedrock of Rodgers' foundations for the coming years so the next job for the Reds boss is to tie the Denmark international down to a new contract.
Manchester City are believed to have made two enquiries about Agger over the summer but Rodgers has stressed he does not want to sell the defender.
Skrtel undoubtedly looks more comfortable with the ball-playing centre-back alongside him and last season's player of the year is keen to carry on improving.
"You can always play better. I can say the last two seasons were really good for me - probably the best two seasons of my career," he told liverpoolfc.com.
"If I can repeat the performances of the last two years this season I can be happy.
"For me it's a great thing to play for Liverpool. I am proud to play for Liverpool with these great players - probably some of the best players in the world.
"I hope I can create history at this club and that the fans will always remember me - that's my target for the future."
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Now that I'm back from Las Vegas to a last-gasp March cold snap in Texas, it's time to wrap up my days at the last ever ManageFusion, the Altiris user group conference. Next year, ManageFusion and the Altiris products will be part of the Symantec Vision conference. Let's hope the high energy level and enthusiasm of ManageFusion carries over to the combined events. A keynote with a live band onstage tells you right away this is no boring PowerPoint overloaded snoozefest with suited VPs droning on.
More Symantec executives appeared in the keynote presentations than in years past, which makes sense. Symantec has done a good job of welcoming Altiris products, employees, and customers the past two years. Putting some of their top execs on display at ManageFusion helps that transition.
Altiris 7 beta customers trotted out and said nice things, as one would expect. But when a long time grocery chain customer IT manager says they manage about 60,000 devices with a staff of five IT techs, you start to understand the real value of solid desktop and server management. Add in the new Workflow tools that let you automate an enormous number of tasks without the need for anyone to touch a keyboard, and you understand how you can run a huge network with a limited number or techs.
The mood among attendees seemed pretty good. I overheard several conversations about big deals pitched and purchased recently. One common tactic seemed to be rolling the cost of three years worth of support into the purchase price upfront. After all, you don't want to go back asking for money next year, just in case things haven't turned around yet. And you can't let support slide with security products, because patches never stop because the malware never stops.
Painful statistics includes the fact that 90 percent of exploits happen to systems with a patch already in the field. More painful is that the patches are at least six months old. The old quote was "you snooze, you lose." Now it's "you snooze, you become a zombie PC."
Speaking of Altiris 7 beta customers, one of them is the Fender musical instrument company, makers of some of the world's best and most popular guitars and amplifiers. They presented Symantec with a white Stratocaster with a Symantec logo, a one-off custom guitar. The Altiris corporate band, ManageThis, used it at the pool party on Wednesday night. Here's to the last ManageFusion, and here's hoping the good management and good music continue as part of the Symantec family.


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URUZGAN, Afghanistan - Afghan National Security Forces medics, advised and assisted by coalition special operations forces medics conducted a medical clinic in the Khas Uruzgan district, Aug. 8 through Sept. 8.
According to district reports, the clinic is open to treat local citizens for acute cases, emergency care and patients who received referral slips from the Khas Uruzgan district clinic.
"The people in Khas Uruzgan come to receive treatment from ANSF medics, which shows their confidence in the ability of Afghan medical providers," said a coalition special operations forces team leader.
An Afghan National Army medic said that the clinic is also used by members of the ANA as an opportunity to train their medical counterparts.
"We love to cross train and teach basic medical skills and knowledge to other Afghan medical providers," said an ANA team medic.
The clinic is staffed with members of the ANSF as well as coalition medics who assist in teaching advanced medical techniques, said a local district official.
"ANSF medics are heavily involved in all cases that are received during the clinic," said a coalition medic. "Local citizens recognize ANSF medics as being knowledgeable and capable providers of safety and medical care for the people of Afghanistan."
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