I'm curious... where was the good old US of A during the Ukrainian Genocide, where people were killed on a similar (and perhaps greater) scale?
The main difference between then and now is the extent of media control. Back then, presidents didn't have scandals or affairs, your government didn't subject its enemies to slave labor camps, torture, show trials or summary execution and the enemies of the country (or whoever it was who paid the bribes) were the most dastardly of moustache twirling villains.
Here are some more famous last words that illustrate your point.
"From a mathematical standpoint we cannot speak of a theoretically absolute unsolvability of a cryptogram, but due to the special procedures performed by the Enigma machine, the solvability is so far removed from practical possibility that the cipher system of the machine, when the distribution of keys is correctly handled, must be regarded as virtually incapable of solution." -German cryptographer http://www.nsa.gov/publications/publi00004.cfm
What sort of tables are you using in MySQL... InnoDB or something else? Only if you were using InnoDB tables would it be an apples to apples comparison.
"The reason vi and emacs and other command-based editors aren't in common use outside of the geek world is because no one wants to do that except geeks."
And the reason why they don't want to do it is because they figure (often wrongly) that they would prefer anything to short term discomfort.
Which is why the following are common: -all sorts of debt, especially credit card -spyware riddled Windows systems -fast food and fat people -no routine backup procedures -MySQL
"What will become clear in time is the role the iPhone will play in the death of the mouse. The version of OS X on the iPhone, not Leopard by the way, is the next big thing - get on board now and enjoy the ride."
And touch is just a proxy by which the brain implements decisions, with the potential to get smudged and the requirement that my multiple monitors be handheld or within 1 foot of my face.
You think the iPhone is big? The iProduct will make the iPhone look like the Newton! It taps in to the reality distortion field and allows you to manipulate your computer directly!
This is the year I will make the switch to OpenBSD, or if I come to an impasse there, a Linux distro.
I've tried this before, but only with a dual boot. I have more than 50 different folders and icons in my startup menu. A lot of those programs do the same thing, but that represents a lot of capability that will Just Work (TM). I'm sure it took me cumulative weeks to figure out how to use, find and install everything, but that's a sunk cost.
The problem with dual booting is that it's like an alcoholic giving up alcohol with a fully stocked bar in the house. You use linux for a day, surf with firefox, and then you need to do something. Now. You surf around a bit, try a few different things, get stuck, PAIN. It's so much easier to just go back to XP. And all you have to do is click restart... and get it done. But you don't have anything compelling you to restart again.
And I hate the idea of throwing anything away, even if I'll never use it again. So just deleting the XP partition is not an option.
The key is to make the XP partition non-bootable. The best way is to make a brand new disk your master and either remove the XP disk or at least remove the option of booting it. The best time to do this is likely the beginning of some major time off.
But I'm NOT upgrading to Vista, and I'm not going to live with malware in XP, and I refuse to go to closed source OSX. So this time I go cold turkey.
Yes, you are right, VPN is a phenomenal PITA to set up. Setting up a PPTP VPN took forever. But at least it's technically possible.
If that can be made easy, it should speed adoption for those with access to corporate VPNs. If they don't need the latest and greatest games, they can use their corporate VPN for ms office and linux (or BSD) for everything else.
"There are stereotypes everywhere in comedy - if you don't like it, don't watch. It's not like anybody really comes out looking good in the Simpsons. Except maybe Lisa, but nobody makes fun of smart, well adjusted girls."
The Simpsons is letter perfect multicultural propaganda, mostly unlike any town in America.
You've got your (rare enough to be almost mythical) sympathetic Black doctor, who is the only competent physician in the town. Lisa's saxophone teacher also comes out looking pretty good.
It only follows that their idea of a "well adjusted" White girl is one who associates the idea of having lots of children with stupid White southerners, follows an Indian religion, believes in the US political system (and would hate to have a weapon in the house that might someday protect her family against that same corrupt system), and will probably grow up a lesbian. So of course, she is rarely made the butt of jokes.
Of course, intelligent White guys in the show are primarily depicted as unattractive to females, homosexual or evil. E.g. Professor Frink, Comic Store guy, Smithers, Mr Burns, Martin, Principal Skinner, mayor Quimby.
There are laws against jumping a border, whether or not you "are just looking for work". Doing so makes you a criminal too. Deport one, arrest the other. It's not an either or.
Google logs a little over 50% of all searches in the US. And rising - another 1% in only the last three months.
For those people who use it, it decides what is newsworthy and what is not, acting as an overriding editor for many people as print declines. But it has more power than the television networks and movie studios used to; it's more like the telescreen in 1984 in that you are being watched at the same time, always.
It knows what you search. It knows what pages you like. It never forgets. Daniel Brandt articulates it better.
I don't yet have reason to hate google. But fear, certainly, just as any entity wielding a large enough cudgel should rightly be feared. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
"You can only judge a school if they have to take in a completely random selection of kids."
Bingo. It's like saying "look how great the atmosphere/teachers/school spirit/magic beans are at MIT/Caltech/Harvard/Yale" when their average student has better than the top 1% of SAT scores.
The idea behind a country is ostensibly to serve its citizens (who in general, would like to have some children of their own before the land reaches carrying capacity). The idea of a corporation is to increase the wealth of its shareholders - a small subset of that country.
There is a fundamental conflict there.
People are not economic robots, they are not interchangeable "plug and play" parts any more than a cat will act like a dog once you put a leash on it. Often immigrants will not "pay taxes, live in the neighborhood, and become an active, involved contributor to our society, regardless of where he/she was born". Only if they share considerable genetic and cultural similarities to the citizens of the country will this take place.
If this is not the case, they will attempt to shirk their tax and ignore any other native law that harms their competitiveness, invite their less skilled relatives, form a ghetto, hire of their own kind irrespective of skill and form an ethnic voting bloc that will attempt to maximize resource transfer from the majority to their own kind through legislation. They will also maintain fluency in their old tongue as it forms a helpful veil of secrecy and obfuscation when required.
Most citizens realize this and that's why we have such "antiquated" laws, disassociated from the "reality" of an economics textbook.
Or if you want to find out what the US is actually like, just book a flight to Mexico and jump the border. Very likely you'll soon get amnesty from President Jorge Bush.
The way you phrased it made it sound as if they'd be releasing a bunch of fictitious information 70 years on, because no one is around to contradict them, and that was the main point, with the side effect being that it would protect any conspirators. Your main point doesn't really make sense as a reason, since most of the info put out after the fact with any sort of thing like this can be contradicted by people immediately after, and is often self-contradictory.
"That way no one who was old enough to remember what happened will be around to contradict the official version of events (nor to suffer the consequences of their actions)."
I think that's as much a testosterone thing as anything. Europeans have more testosterone on average, which leads to more risk taking, more being stubborn, less group/committee type decisions compared to Japanese. More chair throwing too.
Give me a cast iron skillet for $30 any day versus teflon anything, irrespective of cost. Your great grandkids will still be frying bacon on that thing.
It all comes down to money. There is a good living to be made in parting fools from money.
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"The same capitalism that brought you the internet, btw."
Ever heard of DARPA?
I'm curious... where was the good old US of A during the Ukrainian Genocide, where people were killed on a similar (and perhaps greater) scale?
The main difference between then and now is the extent of media control. Back then, presidents didn't have scandals or affairs, your government didn't subject its enemies to slave labor camps, torture, show trials or summary execution and the enemies of the country (or whoever it was who paid the bribes) were the most dastardly of moustache twirling villains.
"So for some scientist to say that there can't be life, I just have to role my eyes."
IF NOT (SELECT is_there_life FROM scientist WHERE name = 'Tinetti')
CREATE ROLE eyes;
END IF;
In fairness, I think that's just a bad paraphrasing. "This is a far from habitable world," if you RTA.
Here are some more famous last words that illustrate your point.
"From a mathematical standpoint we cannot speak of a theoretically absolute unsolvability of a cryptogram, but due to the special procedures performed by the Enigma machine, the solvability is so far removed from practical possibility that the cipher system of the machine, when the distribution of keys is correctly handled, must be regarded as virtually incapable of solution."
-German cryptographer
http://www.nsa.gov/publications/publi00004.cfm
If the final decision in choosing an RDBMS comes down to the logo, the choice of database will be the least of your problems.
What sort of tables are you using in MySQL... InnoDB or something else? Only if you were using InnoDB tables would it be an apples to apples comparison.
It will be biased towards linux because of the firefox install base, which is higher in the linux world and automatically defaults to google.
Taking an average from the different major search engines would be better, but probably difficult to trust/coordinate.
"The reason vi and emacs and other command-based editors aren't in common use outside of the geek world is because no one wants to do that except geeks."
And the reason why they don't want to do it is because they figure (often wrongly) that they would prefer anything to short term discomfort.
Which is why the following are common:
-all sorts of debt, especially credit card
-spyware riddled Windows systems
-fast food and fat people
-no routine backup procedures
-MySQL
"What will become clear in time is the role the iPhone will play in the death of the mouse. The version of OS X on the iPhone, not Leopard by the way, is the next big thing - get on board now and enjoy the ride."
g if
And touch is just a proxy by which the brain implements decisions, with the potential to get smudged and the requirement that my multiple monitors be handheld or within 1 foot of my face.
You think the iPhone is big? The iProduct will make the iPhone look like the Newton! It taps in to the reality distortion field and allows you to manipulate your computer directly!
http://cache.gizmodo.com/gadgets/images/iProduct.
Hop on now!
This is the year I will make the switch to OpenBSD, or if I come to an impasse there, a Linux distro.
I've tried this before, but only with a dual boot. I have more than 50 different folders and icons in my startup menu. A lot of those programs do the same thing, but that represents a lot of capability that will Just Work (TM). I'm sure it took me cumulative weeks to figure out how to use, find and install everything, but that's a sunk cost.
The problem with dual booting is that it's like an alcoholic giving up alcohol with a fully stocked bar in the house. You use linux for a day, surf with firefox, and then you need to do something. Now. You surf around a bit, try a few different things, get stuck, PAIN. It's so much easier to just go back to XP. And all you have to do is click restart... and get it done. But you don't have anything compelling you to restart again.
And I hate the idea of throwing anything away, even if I'll never use it again. So just deleting the XP partition is not an option.
The key is to make the XP partition non-bootable. The best way is to make a brand new disk your master and either remove the XP disk or at least remove the option of booting it. The best time to do this is likely the beginning of some major time off.
But I'm NOT upgrading to Vista, and I'm not going to live with malware in XP, and I refuse to go to closed source OSX. So this time I go cold turkey.
Yes, you are right, VPN is a phenomenal PITA to set up. Setting up a PPTP VPN took forever. But at least it's technically possible.
If that can be made easy, it should speed adoption for those with access to corporate VPNs. If they don't need the latest and greatest games, they can use their corporate VPN for ms office and linux (or BSD) for everything else.
What emulator would you recommend for OOT?
I think his point was that there are almost certainly richer men in the world than Bill Gates, they just keep a lower profile.
1. Make identical mould of duck.
2. Mass produce in China.
3. Run through a stone wash
4. Douse with intense UV light.
5. Profit!
"There are stereotypes everywhere in comedy - if you don't like it, don't watch. It's not like anybody really comes out looking good in the Simpsons. Except maybe Lisa, but nobody makes fun of smart, well adjusted girls."
The Simpsons is letter perfect multicultural propaganda, mostly unlike any town in America.
You've got your (rare enough to be almost mythical) sympathetic Black doctor, who is the only competent physician in the town. Lisa's saxophone teacher also comes out looking pretty good.
It only follows that their idea of a "well adjusted" White girl is one who associates the idea of having lots of children with stupid White southerners, follows an Indian religion, believes in the US political system (and would hate to have a weapon in the house that might someday protect her family against that same corrupt system), and will probably grow up a lesbian. So of course, she is rarely made the butt of jokes.
Of course, intelligent White guys in the show are primarily depicted as unattractive to females, homosexual or evil. E.g. Professor Frink, Comic Store guy, Smithers, Mr Burns, Martin, Principal Skinner, mayor Quimby.
Maybe he runs a UPS as well? Lower VA will allow him to get away with either a lower spec unit or run longer.
There are laws against jumping a border, whether or not you "are just looking for work". Doing so makes you a criminal too. Deport one, arrest the other. It's not an either or.
Google logs a little over 50% of all searches in the US. And rising - another 1% in only the last three months.
For those people who use it, it decides what is newsworthy and what is not, acting as an overriding editor for many people as print declines. But it has more power than the television networks and movie studios used to; it's more like the telescreen in 1984 in that you are being watched at the same time, always.
It knows what you search. It knows what pages you like. It never forgets. Daniel Brandt articulates it better.
http://www.google-watch.org/
I don't yet have reason to hate google. But fear, certainly, just as any entity wielding a large enough cudgel should rightly be feared. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
"You can only judge a school if they have to take in a completely random selection of kids."
Bingo. It's like saying "look how great the atmosphere/teachers/school spirit/magic beans are at MIT/Caltech/Harvard/Yale" when their average student has better than the top 1% of SAT scores.
The idea behind a country is ostensibly to serve its citizens (who in general, would like to have some children of their own before the land reaches carrying capacity). The idea of a corporation is to increase the wealth of its shareholders - a small subset of that country.
There is a fundamental conflict there.
People are not economic robots, they are not interchangeable "plug and play" parts any more than a cat will act like a dog once you put a leash on it. Often immigrants will not "pay taxes, live in the neighborhood, and become an active, involved contributor to our society, regardless of where he/she was born". Only if they share considerable genetic and cultural similarities to the citizens of the country will this take place.
If this is not the case, they will attempt to shirk their tax and ignore any other native law that harms their competitiveness, invite their less skilled relatives, form a ghetto, hire of their own kind irrespective of skill and form an ethnic voting bloc that will attempt to maximize resource transfer from the majority to their own kind through legislation. They will also maintain fluency in their old tongue as it forms a helpful veil of secrecy and obfuscation when required.
Most citizens realize this and that's why we have such "antiquated" laws, disassociated from the "reality" of an economics textbook.
Or if you want to find out what the US is actually like, just book a flight to Mexico and jump the border. Very likely you'll soon get amnesty from President Jorge Bush.
The way you phrased it made it sound as if they'd be releasing a bunch of fictitious information 70 years on, because no one is around to contradict them, and that was the main point, with the side effect being that it would protect any conspirators. Your main point doesn't really make sense as a reason, since most of the info put out after the fact with any sort of thing like this can be contradicted by people immediately after, and is often self-contradictory.
"That way no one who was old enough to remember what happened will be around to contradict the official version of events (nor to suffer the consequences of their actions)."
I wonder how many citizens are going to be turning in tapes of some crackhead killing a cop. I'm guessing not many.
I think that's as much a testosterone thing as anything. Europeans have more testosterone on average, which leads to more risk taking, more being stubborn, less group/committee type decisions compared to Japanese. More chair throwing too.
No shit.
Give me a cast iron skillet for $30 any day versus teflon anything, irrespective of cost. Your great grandkids will still be frying bacon on that thing.
It all comes down to money. There is a good living to be made in parting fools from money.