Don't forget that ext4 wants your inode size to be 256 not 128, so you may want to increase the size. This can be done with the tune2fs -I command, but I hear it takes like 20 hours and I don't know how reliable it is (anyone?)
Detroit didn't come up with SUVs to dupe anybody. SUVs were popular because of their versatility, perceived sturdiness and their status.
And because the US decided to give Americans up to $100,000.00 in tax rebates for buying SUVs. Not only did this prop up Detroit and shit all over the environment, according to the Taxpayers for Common Sense, this cost American taxpayers $840 million and $987 million for every 1,000 vehicles sold. They called it "Robin Hood in reverse.
With their recent rise in popularity, accountants have been advising more and more of their clients to take advantage of this loophole in the law. The tax break applies specifically to small business owners -- including doctors, lawyers, financial advisers, real estate agents, and independent contractors -- who buy a truck or SUV for business purposes. Thus, the deduction is legal whether the vehicle is used to haul seven construction workers, 3,000 pounds of plumbing tools, or one certified public accountant. The main requirement is that the buyer uses their SUV more than 50% of the time in their business.
So, for example, last year a business owner could deduct $25,000 outright off the cost of a new SUV. Under Bush's economic stimulus package (which became law last year) the purchaser got an extra 30% bonus deduction off the balance of the sticker price. Subtract another 20% a year in depreciation over five years, and business owners who purchased SUVs already got a hefty tax write-off. Now, Bush wants to increase the small business deduction from $25,000 to $75,000.
In fact, raising the cap on business equipment to $75,000 will make it possible to write off the entire cost of most SUVs (including the Hummer H2 - MSRP $49,270 and BMW X5 - MSRP $40,195) in the first year. Others, like the Hummer H1 will be practically free to the business owner.
Not to go all Paul Wellstone on everyone, but rawstory is reporting that "45-year-old Republican operative and experienced pilot had been warned not to fly his plane in the days before the crash."
"Connell...was apparently told by a close friend not to fly his plane because his plane might be sabotaged," Renault said. "And twice in the last two months Connell, who is an experienced pilot, cancelled two flights because of suspicious problems with his plane."
A tipster close to the McCain campaign disclosed to VR in July that Mr. Connell's life was in jeopardy and that Karl Rove had threatened him and his wife, Heather. VR's attorney, Cliff Arnebeck, notified the United States Attorney General , Ohio law enforcement and the federal court about these threats and insisted that Mr. Connell be placed in protective custody. VR also told a close associate of Mr. Connell's not to fly his plane because of another tip that the plane could be sabotaged. Mr. Connell, a very experienced pilot, has had to abandon at least two flights in the past two months because of suspicious problems with his plane. On December 18, 2008, Mr. Connell flew to a small airport outside of Washington DC to meet some people. It was on his return flight the next day that he crashed.
Alternet reports the following exchange on Amy Goodman's program Democracy Now:
Amy Goodman: Velvet Revolution, a non-profit investigating Connell's activities, revealed this weekend that Connell had recently said he was afraid George Bush and Dick Cheney would "throw [him] under the bus." Cliff Arnebeck had also previously alerted Attorney General Michael Mukasey to alleged threats from Karl Rove to Connell if he refused to "take the fall." Well, Mark Crispin Miller joins us now, a professor of media culture and communication at New York University
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Marc Crispin Miller: Well, I cannot assert with perfect confidence that this was no accident, but I will say that the circumstances are so suspicious and so convenient for Rove and the White House that I think we're obliged to investigate this thing very, very thoroughly. And that means, first of all, taking a close look at some of the stories that were immediately circulated to account for what happened, that it was bad weather. That was the line they used when Wellstone's plane went down. There had been bad weather, but it had passed two hours before. And this comes from a woman at the airport information desk in Akron. We're told that his plane was running out of gas, which is a little bit odd for a highly experienced pilot like Connell, but apparently, when the plane went down, there was an explosion, a fireball that actually charred and pocked some of the house fronts in the neighborhood. People can go online and see the footage that news crews took. But beyond the, you know, dubiousness of the official story, we have to take a close look at -- and a serious look at all the charges that Connell was set to make.
AG: Now, he had asked the Attorney General Mukasey for protective custody, because of threats to him and his wife?
MCM: He reported threats to his lawyer, Cliff Arnebeck, and Arnebeck -- also, Velvet Revolution heard from tipsters, as well, tipsters who also claimed that Connell's life was at risk. Stephen Spoonamore, the whistleblower who was the first -- who was the one to name Connell in the first place, also had an ear to the inside. He's also very connected. And all these people were
an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday.
I think you can substitute the word 'email' for internet and that quote makes perfect sense.
Yeah, great... and you can substitute "gift" for Internet and "Santa Claus" for "my staff" and he goes back to crazy. Let's examine what he said in context not what you want him to have been saying. It's pretty clear from the speech overall the guy was rambling and had only the vaguest familiarity with the industry he was in charge of regulating.
but with utilities and images already available to replace the flash image with your own signed code, it looks like the manufacturer-hacker arms race is on."
For what it may be worth, there's a page set up with succinct instructions for flashing the modded RC-30 that preserves root.
Also, for those who have RC19 or RC29 and simply want to delay/avoid an over-the-air (OTA) update, there are also instructions for a simple change that will keep the RC30 from installing in the first place. This will not address the root bug however, so typing CR-reboot-CR will for example still restart your phone.
If you don't at least take measures to prevent the OTA update, the firmware may be updated automatically, even if you manually reject it.
As one who participated in the first G1G1 I can attest that they were totally unprepared to handle the orders. It was a huge mess. That said, it was eventually made right, the little green guy showed up, and although the initial software kind of sucked, the new build is a lot, LOT better.
And as a bonus it came with a year of T-Mobile Hotspot access free, which is nice.
I presume the new OLPC this year will not look like the 2.0 "all touch" dual-screen design previewed in May?
Actually somre more info re: the new G1G1 is here. From TFA, looks like Amazon will be handling the orders this time, which should be a major improvement. Is T-Mobile going to throw in like last time?
This is slightly offtopic, I actually did some research for nethack for Android. Found this thread, and if you look on sourceforge there are a few java implementations of rogue-like games. Of course, with the supremely awesome ConnectBot (the ssh client) + screen, you can pretty much do anything consoley, including games like rogue, MUDS, etc.
To get back ontopic, Android is actually a cool little platform to learn to program Java in. I've never programmed a line of Java before or ever used eclipse, but after reading the first few chapters of thinking in Java, downloading and installing the SDK on my mac, reading the SDK documentation, and asking tons of dumb questions in #android (freenode), I got my first little all-text game going in about a week and a half.
Seems like right now when everything is now there is so much good stuff that can be done with Android-- so much "low-hanging fruit" - simple apps that people would love to have if only someone would write it.
11:01AM Q: Concern about the glossy screens. Are you going to offer another option? A: Steve: We're going all glass -- we won't offer another version. Phil: You offset the reflection by the brightness, and consumers love it. One of the great things about a notebook is you can turn it however you want!
Uh, yeah. Great. Guess I'm keeping my matte for a while.
From what I've been reading on the liveblogs, these new notebooks are available in glossy screens only, even for the MBP. If that's the case, I think a lot of people will be pretty upset.
You wouldn't need to rely on upper body strength alone if you also have the stuff on your feet. That lets you use your leg muscles as well.
My question-- do the outer layers of skin on my fingers/toes have the adhesive properties to the inner-layers of skin or will I fall 30 stories leaving finger-skin behind? Also, how much building-dust and pollution accumulates to the adhesive, and how quickly?
You of course already know how a monopoly is broken because it happens so frequently. Y'know, cuz like... it's always in the news that our government breaks monothic companies like Microsoft or Halliburton into pieces to foster competition, create free markets, and promote options for the consumer.
Regardless, here is a handy chart to illustrate how Ma Bell was broken up in '84 and what has happened since. Stephen Colbert broke it down nicely here, although that link has been removed do to copyright claims by Viacom, one of our six global media conglomerates.
I don't think that's right... I remember reading in the mailing lists that people couldn't overclock (or in this case, normalclock) the CPU because of timing/sync issues with other components...
I could be wrong about this, but I believe the freerunner has a cpu rated for 500Mhz but is clocked down to 400mhz. I don't think it can be clocked back up because that breaks other things...
Also as I understand it, although the freerunner has decent accelerated video, it will not be able to play actual video too well due to bus issues having to do (i think) with accessing memory fast enough. Something about memory and the gpu having to share the same bus or something...
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That's FRANCIS Bacon, you insensitive clod!
How's this:
William Shakespeare wrote Romeo + Juliet which starred Leonardo DeCaprio who starred in Gangs of New York with Tim Pigott-Smith who was in Sweet William with Melvyn Bragg who was the narrator in Francis Bacon.
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(thanks to the Oracle.)
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It's all detailed in RFC3514.
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Hey thanks!
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Don't forget that ext4 wants your inode size to be 256 not 128, so you may want to increase the size. This can be done with the tune2fs -I command, but I hear it takes like 20 hours and I don't know how reliable it is (anyone?)
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Detroit didn't come up with SUVs to dupe anybody. SUVs were popular because of their versatility, perceived sturdiness and their status.
And because the US decided to give Americans up to $100,000.00 in tax rebates for buying SUVs. Not only did this prop up Detroit and shit all over the environment, according to the Taxpayers for Common Sense, this cost American taxpayers $840 million and $987 million for every 1,000 vehicles sold. They called it "Robin Hood in reverse.
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I suspect this be too.
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there wasn't a lot of bankers who committed suicide after the crash in 1929. Looks like that's a bit of an urban legend.
I suspect this be too. Who are these three bankers? Banks don't really seem to be held accountable to anyone these days.
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Does anyone really think this was an accident?
Not to go all Paul Wellstone on everyone, but rawstory is reporting that "45-year-old Republican operative and experienced pilot had been warned not to fly his plane in the days before the crash."
From PRNewsWire:
Alternet reports the following exchange on Amy Goodman's program Democracy Now:
an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday.
I think you can substitute the word 'email' for internet and that quote makes perfect sense.
Yeah, great... and you can substitute "gift" for Internet and "Santa Claus" for "my staff" and he goes back to crazy. Let's examine what he said in context not what you want him to have been saying. It's pretty clear from the speech overall the guy was rambling and had only the vaguest familiarity with the industry he was in charge of regulating.
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So wait- is the Internet something you dump something on? More importantly, is it a big truck?
I only ask because I just the other day got...an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday.
Why? Why?
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You think you're confused... I didn't even know Rush Limbaugh could sing!
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but with utilities and images already available to replace the flash image with your own signed code, it looks like the manufacturer-hacker arms race is on."
For what it may be worth, there's a page set up with succinct instructions for flashing the modded RC-30 that preserves root.
Also, for those who have RC19 or RC29 and simply want to delay/avoid an over-the-air (OTA) update, there are also instructions for a simple change that will keep the RC30 from installing in the first place. This will not address the root bug however, so typing CR-reboot-CR will for example still restart your phone.
If you don't at least take measures to prevent the OTA update, the firmware may be updated automatically, even if you manually reject it.
W
As one who participated in the first G1G1 I can attest that they were totally unprepared to handle the orders. It was a huge mess. That said, it was eventually made right, the little green guy showed up, and although the initial software kind of sucked, the new build is a lot, LOT better.
And as a bonus it came with a year of T-Mobile Hotspot access free, which is nice.
I presume the new OLPC this year will not look like the 2.0 "all touch" dual-screen design previewed in May?
Actually somre more info re: the new G1G1 is here. From TFA, looks like Amazon will be handling the orders this time, which should be a major improvement. Is T-Mobile going to throw in like last time?
W
This is slightly offtopic, I actually did some research for nethack for Android. Found this thread, and if you look on sourceforge there are a few java implementations of rogue-like games. Of course, with the supremely awesome ConnectBot (the ssh client) + screen, you can pretty much do anything consoley, including games like rogue, MUDS, etc.
To get back ontopic, Android is actually a cool little platform to learn to program Java in. I've never programmed a line of Java before or ever used eclipse, but after reading the first few chapters of thinking in Java, downloading and installing the SDK on my mac, reading the SDK documentation, and asking tons of dumb questions in #android (freenode), I got my first little all-text game going in about a week and a half.
Seems like right now when everything is now there is so much good stuff that can be done with Android-- so much "low-hanging fruit" - simple apps that people would love to have if only someone would write it.
Lovin my g1,
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Answering my own query:
11:01AM Q: Concern about the glossy screens. Are you going to offer another option?
A: Steve: We're going all glass -- we won't offer another version. Phil: You offset the reflection by the brightness, and consumers love it. One of the great things about a notebook is you can turn it however you want!
Uh, yeah. Great. Guess I'm keeping my matte for a while.
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From what I've been reading on the liveblogs, these new notebooks are available in glossy screens only, even for the MBP. If that's the case, I think a lot of people will be pretty upset.
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I think ESR would be more on the side of the Bazaar. If only the G1s were available a few weeks earlier...
Then again, the Apple Cathedral does have a kind of Bazaar in their developer program. Although really, it's more like a tightly-supervised Mall.
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You wouldn't need to rely on upper body strength alone if you also have the stuff on your feet. That lets you use your leg muscles as well.
My question-- do the outer layers of skin on my fingers/toes have the adhesive properties to the inner-layers of skin or will I fall 30 stories leaving finger-skin behind? Also, how much building-dust and pollution accumulates to the adhesive, and how quickly?
I really need to know this before I try.
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PS- are web shooters included?
Sounds like someone's been watching this video and didn't go to the end...
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They weren't able to stop this one, which, if you haven't seen yet, is pretty amazing.
I know you're just trolling, but go watch City Lights and The General, then come back to apologize.
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You of course already know how a monopoly is broken because it happens so frequently. Y'know, cuz like... it's always in the news that our government breaks monothic companies like Microsoft or Halliburton into pieces to foster competition, create free markets, and promote options for the consumer.
Regardless, here is a handy chart to illustrate how Ma Bell was broken up in '84 and what has happened since. Stephen Colbert broke it down nicely here, although that link has been removed do to copyright claims by Viacom, one of our six global media conglomerates.
Thank goodness you can still watch it in Canada.
Of all the AT&T derivatives... we know Qwest didn't spy on us. So that's one.
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Yeah wasn't the UT3 linux client supposed to come out months ago?
Oh, but I did find this on his finger. Ah, finger.
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I don't think that's right... I remember reading in the mailing lists that people couldn't overclock (or in this case, normalclock) the CPU because of timing/sync issues with other components...
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I could be wrong about this, but I believe the freerunner has a cpu rated for 500Mhz but is clocked down to 400mhz. I don't think it can be clocked back up because that breaks other things...
Also as I understand it, although the freerunner has decent accelerated video, it will not be able to play actual video too well due to bus issues having to do (i think) with accessing memory fast enough. Something about memory and the gpu having to share the same bus or something...
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