"Without constant shipments of oxygen, food, water, and many other supplies;"
There is plenty of water on mars.
becomes: "Without constant shipments of oxygen, food, and many other supplies;"
water + nuke powered electrolysis = oxygen + hydrogen
becomes: "Without constant shipments of food, and many other supplies;"
plenty of base elements to grow food; iron, calcium, potassium, in martian soil
becomes: "Without constant shipments of many other supplies;"
well yes they can't make everything. I agree that the europe->n. america was a much easier jump than earth -> mars... but it can be done. It is a question of WILL.
Have scanned the comments and didnt see this.... so... stay for the credits. As they're wrapping up, you hear the music cue song. Then there's a thud and everything shudders... the last kick. *you* the viewer are free of the dream that *you* entered, and return to reality. I thought that was a nice touch.
One of the anonymous comments from the Original Original Post... claiming to have had access to the developer release said they were dual booting win and osx. I am however too lazy being that its still pre-coffee AM for me...
please find and view "the phantom edit" which has less jar jar, less annoying little slaveboi ani, and is I think something like 20 minutes shorter than the original. Jar Jar still exists, he just doesn't piss you off so much. Problem solved.
nor will you ever have to waste your time reading and writing stuff here on/. so long sucker!;-)
jk. really though in all honesty, how dumb is this? This doesn't help you. It only hurts you.
Set up your own nameservers and come to some agreement with ICANN about which namespaces you own. When ICANN tries to steal that namespace... then you do all the bitching... until then, I really don't see what the problem is...
It's just a well-known protocol that everyone can agree on.
Yup. You're right. TCP/IP is a well known protocol that everyone can agree on... so give credit where credit is due.
But we're not talking about TCP/IP... we're talking about DNS. I think this is more like agreeing on which dictionary to use in scrabble... right now, the world is at the USA's house, and its house rules. If they want to play the game their way, there is absolutely nothing stopping them... its just that the US won't be in that game =)
"The internet is now a key part of the infrastructure of many countries and no matter if you like it or not, nations don't like it when a critical part of their infrastructure is controlled by a foreign government"
Gee that was pretty stupid of them to use US controlled nameservers then isn't it? You'd think if it was such critical national infrastructure, they would have developed something on their own, rather than piggyback off the work done by the US. Did the US Gov point a gun at their heads and say "use our internet or else!!!"? I think not.
The poor nations have the option of supplying troops for Peacekeeping operations in lieu of directly paying their financial obligations to the UN. The UN then generously pays something like $1k per soldier / month which goes right back to that member country paying off their aforementioned fees to the UN. Since they have more people than $, you can guess how it works out.
The Mormon recommended "minimum" afaik it is 2 months food supply (wife is LDS). Its amazingly cheap to prepare, even if you don't eat it and just donate it every year or so to get fresh stuff.
If you haven't prep'd before, google for "bug out bag" for a sampling of what other people suggest.
ok let me try that again. Heres my problem with the article... it basically said the countries that "got on the internet first" took all the good stuff. Heres the reality. They didn't get on it first. It wasn't like the internet is some vast undiscovered country. They fscking built it! They created it out of nothing with their own ideas and inspirations. They created new technologies, new ways of communicating and doing business with each other. They didn't show up early to the party. They MADE the party.
So let me go back to my rich guy, poor guy analogy. I'm about the same as everyone around me. Except say I have a river flowing through my backyard. I build a waterwheel and use it to grind wheat into flour. I provide the service to people who live around me to use my grinder in exchange for some of their wheat. So... I'm richer than my fellow men for an idea I developed, and I "give back" to them by saving them the time it takes to grind the wheat by hand...
After a time, those people begin to depend on my grinder and the waterwheel. Does that mean they should own it? Or have a say in what I do with it? Its still mine isn't it?
I still don't like it, but perhaps its a closer analogy...?
In your world view, people don't become wealthy based on good ideas and/or hard work 90% of the time? If you think the primary road to wealth is by exploiting others... wow. I dunno what else to type...
Actually I can. Say you're rich, and your neighbors are not... sure you help them out, but thats not good enough for them. They decide to gang up on you and redistribute your wealth (to them of course). Is that right? Doesn't that rich guy "deserve" to keep what he worked for? Or do the poor have the right to take it from them?
This is of course a gross analogy and subject to over-simplification... but the fact remains, most of the significant contributors to the development of the net control the resources of the net. The mother of all of course being the US gov, since they started the damn thing.
MIT owns that space. The people at MIT contributed significantly to the development of the net as it is today. It is for them to do with as they wish. I don't see how I could put that with anything other than a straight face.
Yawn. If they want control, they can set up their own network and go for it. Come up with their own IPvX and make it play with IPv4 to access the US content. Otherwise, STFU!!!!11` This is our fscking toy and we'll decide who plays with it. This sense of entitlement is sickening. They need to innovate on their own and make it so useful, the netizens of the US clamor for access to THEIR network.
Thats my feeling as well. I also don't understand the following...
Some countries have been frustrated that the United States and European countries that got on the Internet first gobbled up most of the available addresses required for computers to connect, leaving developing nations with a limited supply to share.
They expect entitlement. What they should be doing is developing! They have the ability to start with IPv6 from the word go, and yet they want to fight over IPv4 space. If they innovate on their own, create something other people actually want access to, they could help drive the move to IPv6. Hell they could work on IPvX, declare their own controller of the address space and dole it out to who ever they wish. Of course all they really care about is making sure their precious Nigerian emails get through.
if he was in CA, would have been fine. Californians are protected by CA 2870 which basically means, if he did it on his own time, without company resources, and it doesn't relate to the employer's business, they can't touch it... I am of course summarizing, and this doesn't constitute legal advice... however, he probably could have easily given them the finger if he lived here;-)
If my mom didn't work for HM when I was in College (and thus supplied me with an Aeron...) I would have bought one on ebay by now... They're like $600, and worth every friggin penny.
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"Without constant shipments of oxygen, food, water, and many other supplies;"
There is plenty of water on mars.
becomes: "Without constant shipments of oxygen, food, and many other supplies;"
water + nuke powered electrolysis = oxygen + hydrogen
becomes: "Without constant shipments of food, and many other supplies;"
plenty of base elements to grow food; iron, calcium, potassium, in martian soil
becomes: "Without constant shipments of many other supplies;"
well yes they can't make everything. I agree that the europe->n. america was a much easier jump than earth -> mars... but it can be done. It is a question of WILL.
Have scanned the comments and didnt see this.... so ... stay for the credits. As they're wrapping up, you hear the music cue song. Then there's a thud and everything shudders... the last kick. *you* the viewer are free of the dream that *you* entered, and return to reality. I thought that was a nice touch.
and this.. is why I still come to /.
One of the anonymous comments from the Original Original Post... claiming to have had access to the developer release said they were dual booting win and osx. I am however too lazy being that its still pre-coffee AM for me...
I wonder if inciting a DDOS will eventually be a crime...
so cancel your cable and STFU already. Stop wasting your time watching the damn thing and get a life.
why not? you're obviously over qualified ;-)
wait... you mean... I have to pay it back? ;-)
please find and view "the phantom edit" which has less jar jar, less annoying little slaveboi ani, and is I think something like 20 minutes shorter than the original. Jar Jar still exists, he just doesn't piss you off so much. Problem solved.
nor will you ever have to waste your time reading and writing stuff here on /. so long sucker! ;-)
jk. really though in all honesty, how dumb is this? This doesn't help you. It only hurts you.
Set up your own nameservers and come to some agreement with ICANN about which namespaces you own. When ICANN tries to steal that namespace... then you do all the bitching... until then, I really don't see what the problem is...
It's just a well-known protocol that everyone can agree on.
Yup. You're right. TCP/IP is a well known protocol that everyone can agree on... so give credit where credit is due.
But we're not talking about TCP/IP... we're talking about DNS. I think this is more like agreeing on which dictionary to use in scrabble... right now, the world is at the USA's house, and its house rules. If they want to play the game their way, there is absolutely nothing stopping them... its just that the US won't be in that game =)
"The internet is now a key part of the infrastructure of many countries and no matter if you like it or not, nations don't like it when a critical part of their infrastructure is controlled by a foreign government"
Gee that was pretty stupid of them to use US controlled nameservers then isn't it? You'd think if it was such critical national infrastructure, they would have developed something on their own, rather than piggyback off the work done by the US. Did the US Gov point a gun at their heads and say "use our internet or else!!!"? I think not.
The poor nations have the option of supplying troops for Peacekeeping operations in lieu of directly paying their financial obligations to the UN. The UN then generously pays something like $1k per soldier / month which goes right back to that member country paying off their aforementioned fees to the UN. Since they have more people than $, you can guess how it works out.
see:
http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/dpko/faq/q7.htm
and draw your own conclusions.
The Mormon recommended "minimum" afaik it is 2 months food supply (wife is LDS). Its amazingly cheap to prepare, even if you don't eat it and just donate it every year or so to get fresh stuff.
If you haven't prep'd before, google for "bug out bag" for a sampling of what other people suggest.
ok let me try that again. Heres my problem with the article... it basically said the countries that "got on the internet first" took all the good stuff. Heres the reality. They didn't get on it first. It wasn't like the internet is some vast undiscovered country. They fscking built it! They created it out of nothing with their own ideas and inspirations. They created new technologies, new ways of communicating and doing business with each other. They didn't show up early to the party. They MADE the party.
So let me go back to my rich guy, poor guy analogy. I'm about the same as everyone around me. Except say I have a river flowing through my backyard. I build a waterwheel and use it to grind wheat into flour. I provide the service to people who live around me to use my grinder in exchange for some of their wheat. So... I'm richer than my fellow men for an idea I developed, and I "give back" to them by saving them the time it takes to grind the wheat by hand...
After a time, those people begin to depend on my grinder and the waterwheel. Does that mean they should own it? Or have a say in what I do with it? Its still mine isn't it?
I still don't like it, but perhaps its a closer analogy...?
In your world view, people don't become wealthy based on good ideas and/or hard work 90% of the time? If you think the primary road to wealth is by exploiting others... wow. I dunno what else to type...
Actually I can. Say you're rich, and your neighbors are not... sure you help them out, but thats not good enough for them. They decide to gang up on you and redistribute your wealth (to them of course). Is that right? Doesn't that rich guy "deserve" to keep what he worked for? Or do the poor have the right to take it from them?
This is of course a gross analogy and subject to over-simplification... but the fact remains, most of the significant contributors to the development of the net control the resources of the net. The mother of all of course being the US gov, since they started the damn thing.
MIT owns that space. The people at MIT contributed significantly to the development of the net as it is today. It is for them to do with as they wish. I don't see how I could put that with anything other than a straight face.
Yawn. If they want control, they can set up their own network and go for it. Come up with their own IPvX and make it play with IPv4 to access the US content. Otherwise, STFU!!!!11` This is our fscking toy and we'll decide who plays with it. This sense of entitlement is sickening. They need to innovate on their own and make it so useful, the netizens of the US clamor for access to THEIR network.
Thats my feeling as well. I also don't understand the following...
Some countries have been frustrated that the United States and European countries that got on the Internet first gobbled up most of the available addresses required for computers to connect, leaving developing nations with a limited supply to share.
They expect entitlement. What they should be doing is developing! They have the ability to start with IPv6 from the word go, and yet they want to fight over IPv4 space. If they innovate on their own, create something other people actually want access to, they could help drive the move to IPv6. Hell they could work on IPvX, declare their own controller of the address space and dole it out to who ever they wish. Of course all they really care about is making sure their precious Nigerian emails get through.
if he was in CA, would have been fine. Californians are protected by CA 2870 which basically means, if he did it on his own time, without company resources, and it doesn't relate to the employer's business, they can't touch it... I am of course summarizing, and this doesn't constitute legal advice... however, he probably could have easily given them the finger if he lived here ;-)
If my mom didn't work for HM when I was in College (and thus supplied me with an Aeron...) I would have bought one on ebay by now... They're like $600, and worth every friggin penny.
If that is the case, then I guess all us lefties out there are the meek who shall inherit the earth when all you righties get sent to hell?
yup. and its a pain in the @$$ to fully remove. You basically have to drop into safe mode to fully rip that sucker out.
bravo!!! *claps*
had wireless sennheisers... nice... but not worth it. I'm back on the POS sony's.