Amalfi coast is amazing. Pompeii very interesting. Napels Spanish quarters. As Pimeys says the restaurants are just too good. The seafood is very very good.
In which freaking world are assassinations without due process legal or even desirable? The mere fact that we are debating whether someone was or wasn't assassinated is a perversion in itself.
Arrest them and try them in a court of justice. End of story.
I will not, in any way, defend the actions of the current programs being run.
However, your statement:
Arrest them and try them in a court of justice. End of story.
Is not at all easy to accomplish. The government of Pakistan doesn't control a significant part of the country.
Add to that the corruption at all levels, and it would be difficult to pursue an arrest warrant effectively. If you try to negotiate your way into the areas where the suspects are, it will take a while (and likely a lot of bribes) and they will hear of it and go into hiding. If you want to ignore all the formalities, and just rush in and grab the suspect, you're effectively mounting a small invasion, which the central government AND the tribal leaders will oppose. So you're back to shooting people again.
Again, I'm not saying what the USA is doing is a good solution, I'm just saying I'm not aware of a good and effective solution at all.
Arrest them? They were in freaking Pakistan. Why would you arrest them? You guys are going crazy. Don't be surprised when you travel and realize the world hates you.
Share information about terrorism suspects, arrest them, bring them to justice. Don't go all Rambo, shooting first, asking questions later. That only perpetuates terrorism - "you killed my innocent parents, I'm shall take my revenge" - and the circle of violence continues.
(Plus, it's already been proven that anyone shot is marked as an "Enemy Killed in Action" posthumously, just to cover the perpetrators asses.)
We're making a fuss about mathematics because this program is sold on the basis of the infallibility of mathematical tools. Especially for non-technical people of a certain age, this is a very persuasive argument (just watch any movie with a computer in it made in the 60's or 70's - computers are magical instruments that find truth where mere humans cannot).
Actually, in my experience the private-sector developers doing government contracts are well paid but are sub par skill wise. The software you work with, the slow procedures and the negativity surrounding failing projects ensure only the mediocre stay, which in turn results in longer and more failing projects. The good developers leave for startups etc.
Have a look at Holacracy for interesting ways in how to structure teams and at the same time gearing up for continuous change. It's a very different approach than creating hierarchy, but it's not completely flat either.
I'd be careful with holacracy. There hasn't exactly been glowing successes in the press lately: 16% of Zappos's company quit over it, Buffer has completely abandoned it after a very public foray into it, and I saw a talk by the HR people at Medium and they've had to make significant adjustments to fit (for instance having one on ones even though there aren't technically managers).
That's a great tradition, that could be applied to not just coffee and pizza. Hope it takes off at other food joints as well.
On a side note, you wonder how many poor people go to coffee bar Gambrinus, featured in the article. It's well known, but a caffè costs more than 2 euro's there, whereas coffee bars in living neighbourhoods charge 70 euro cents. Gambrinus is a place where tourists and well-to-do's frequent.
The amount of compendiums sold isn't acurate. The prize pool is being buffed by the purchase of compendium points to garner additional features (with many players sinking money many times more than what the compendium cost).
I wouldn't be surprised if this is a big factor behind how fast the prize pool is growing.
Indeed. The added option of leveling up your compendium was a genius move by Valve. There is a screenshot[1] of someone with level 1058 on his compendium already. Seeing as $10 buys you 24 levels, he spent over $400 on it.
Valve's profit is probably a function of the current prize pool, right? So it seems like they should have made at least 2x above what they're offering. Since the pool increased by $1.76M, it seems likely they've made at least $3.5M. But I'm just speculating based on intuition. If you have hard details, please post 'em!
I'm pretty sure all of the purchases result in the same 75-25 split so that part of the math isn't wrong. It's just that fewer total people have donated that amount.
Facebook.com isn't responsive (you'll see fixed width's, just check it out), so it does seem that responsive design is something they disregard purposefully.
