Ok, having been to a war zone I can tell you first hand that you're completely wrong. What the hell do you think PTSD is? You cannot imagine the total mindfuck it is to kill a living breathing person even if that person was trying to kill you. I'll have nightmares the rest of my life because of it, and that's only the direct instances. Nevermind that for what I did, I had a very high kill count even though it was more distant and I wasn't necessarily pulling the trigger. Yeah, we may joke about with eachother but all this is is a defense mechanism. If we don't "dehumanize" it we go fucking crazy. I have several friends that are so messed up from thinking about all the horror that they've had to do that they'll never really be a good part of society. So yeah it's inhumane, I did it because I had a choice. Kill him or he'll kill me, not a really hard choice for me to make but I have to live with it for the rest of my life. Once the trigger is pulled there's not taking it back ever. I do agree that it isn't necessarily right and something should be done. That's why I vote and take an active part in trying to get people out of there because I know first hand the horrors of a war zone, horrors that I hope people like you never have to face. Don't blame the soldiers that do the killing, blame the people in their pinstriped suits that don't have to do the trigger pulling.
If enough people refuse the chip by breaking it, maybe someone somewhere will get the hint. Besides, it'll never come to what you suggest....at least not in my lifetime. If it does I'll move somewhere else.
What's sad is that I had a friend one time that was wondering why his IE browser was running like ass. When I took a look it was almost identical to what you see there, nevermind the 5000 spyware instances he had running and 53 viruses to boot.
You know, I was actually considering making something like what you're talking about. It would be pretty easy to make. All you need is a computer to control the mirrors and keep maximum amount of focused light on the heat collector, some valved piping to flash steam water and drive the turbine then a cold water return line. Wouldn't do much for you in a rain storm or snow storm, but for the most part (especially where I live) it would be on many hours of the day.
Well at any rate I'm going to buy a few of these for one of the countries, I'll keep one for me and my kids though. I think it'll be a good educational tool for my children, maybe even me we'll have to see.
I didn't mean to imply that, my father works at Wal-mart for instance and I have several close friends of mine that have fallen on hard times, which is about where half of my money goes. I just think that all those years growing up the outsider who people only pretended to like when they needed something (homework) ended up wondering how the hell I got where I am. They don't like the truth either which was fighting in a war zone for two years and then clawing my way up to the position that I am at the age that I am by constantly having to work twice as hard as someone just a few years older than me, not to mention proving that I can actually do what I say I can do. The point being that I do actually give a damn, but I just enjoy the fact that all those people who repeatedly told me that I would never make anything of myself now wish that they had maybe treated me a little different (my wife is the only one who actually saw through and loved the person she knew in highschool). Oh, and no one is forcing anyone to eat at those places personally I much prefer to eat at home than anywhere else.
I know I just posted a second ago but I also had a thought. Is M$ maybe trying to get all these people using and programming with Windows so that they can set up Developer sweatshops similar to clothing lines? I do remember some exec saying at one time something about developers developers developers........
*stares stupidly at chair flying towards head*
I get the feeling sometimes that the heads at M$ have a robber baron complex. They stole ideas and software so much that they feel bad and try to give back somehow as well as force their crap on unsuspecting indiginous peoples. I just don't think that this is necessarily a good venue for them. First I think that it'll actually degrade the performance of the machine and what happens when all these machines get out in the world and they mesh network a virus? (if this doesn't make much sense please break out a decoder ring, I'm 11 1/2 hours into my shift at 5:30 in the morning) It seems to me that it would create a lot more problems than it's worth, not to mention that for kids in the developing world the XO interface looks like it's more language/culture neutral than a windows style interface. Oh and last I checked every dollar counts in this thing, most developing countries don't have a ton of money to throw at these so the cheaper the better, so an extra few dollars per machine may not seem like a lot to us but for where they're going and the numbers that are estimated it adds up pretty quickly.
I get a kind of vindictive humor when I compare my paycheck with all the bastards that I went to school with. They hate the fact that four years after highschool I have a house, new car, and a great job working in the aerospace industry and they have dreams of being factory foreman someday.
Thank you mom and dad for never letting me down and always making sure that I knew I was better than they were because it turns out that you were right.
That's why I recycle my paper by feeding it to worms. The worms in my bin eat the kitchen waste and all the paper which I then put into my garden as the best fertilizer you have ever seen. Then all the dead plants at the end of the season go into the bin and come spring time I have a ton of that same good fertilizer. The best part is that it's not chemically made and there really isn't anything in the worm castings that is bad for the environment.
You know in all honesty you have a good point there. I'm really considering that for my computers I have connected to the internet making a livecd with all the preloaded information that I need and encrypting my disks heavily with the decryption key hiding on a thumbdrive somewhere (hmmm, where did I put that again?). So that gives me a disk only I can read, an OS that is troublesome to corrupt, and a level of security achieved by few.
Or, more specifically: why don't the SHEEPLE see anything wrong with it when the administration(s) (both past and present) think they have the right to meddle in the affairs of other countries?
There I fixed that for you. I could go into depth about the stupidity, arrogance, and laziness of my fellow countrymen, however I don't think/. has enough space for it. That'll have to do I guess.
I once did something like this. I'm from the camp of "you can search my drive when you pry it from my cold dead fingers". While in the Army we were getting ready to redeploy back to the States and we were told that our hdd's were going to be searched for classified *cough* porn (porn on your computer is bad news in a foreign country for some reason). Well found out the method that they were using was just a stupid little keyword search that displayed whatever picture or movie matched some key words and being the fun loving lad that I am I took a picture of myself flipping off the camera and titled it "fuck me big boy". Then I made thirteen thousand copies of it and flung them all over my hdd. Needless to say they gave up after about three hours of looking at me giving them the finger, oh and all my porn was well hidden in a cryptainer.
Exactly, more laws mean that average Joe cannot get through the day without breaking a couple of them. For example, everyone goes on and on about drugs and the cartels that support them, the crime that surrounds them and whatnot. Make the worst ones legal and suddenly there is no incentive for the any of that, the drug lords won't make money and the violence of drug dealing and underground smuggling suddenly just disappears. Here's another interesting concept of the drugs too, with a lot of the worst ones the addicts will quickly kill themselves off since they can get as much as they want. I know what the next comment is going to be "think of the children!", how about "BE A FUCKING PARENT AND KNOW WHAT YOUR KIDS ARE DOING,WHERE THEY ARE AND WHO THEIR FRIENDS ARE!". People that want to do drugs are going to find a way and eventually go away. Look at the percentage of the populace that smokes these days, it's getting lower and more and more teenagers that I talk to think it's a disgusting habit. Anyway, this kind of thing with the card is bullshit. It's just another program that means nothing, does nothing, makes it easier to break the law, and lines the legislators pockets with money from whoever gets the contracts for it.
Thank god someone pointed out the obvious. As a sneaky bastard for the armed forces that has been deployed a few times I can agree with you whole heartedly, especially since in order to do my job I have to carry around a ton of extra shit. The remark about Solaris is spot on too, I fsking hate the hardened Solaris boxes that I had to baby, what's funny is my old Cisco 3600 did great as a router and never failed but some of the "hardened" systems had to be replaced.
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Ok, having been to a war zone I can tell you first hand that you're completely wrong. What the hell do you think PTSD is? You cannot imagine the total mindfuck it is to kill a living breathing person even if that person was trying to kill you. I'll have nightmares the rest of my life because of it, and that's only the direct instances. Nevermind that for what I did, I had a very high kill count even though it was more distant and I wasn't necessarily pulling the trigger. Yeah, we may joke about with eachother but all this is is a defense mechanism. If we don't "dehumanize" it we go fucking crazy. I have several friends that are so messed up from thinking about all the horror that they've had to do that they'll never really be a good part of society. So yeah it's inhumane, I did it because I had a choice. Kill him or he'll kill me, not a really hard choice for me to make but I have to live with it for the rest of my life. Once the trigger is pulled there's not taking it back ever. I do agree that it isn't necessarily right and something should be done. That's why I vote and take an active part in trying to get people out of there because I know first hand the horrors of a war zone, horrors that I hope people like you never have to face. Don't blame the soldiers that do the killing, blame the people in their pinstriped suits that don't have to do the trigger pulling.
If enough people refuse the chip by breaking it, maybe someone somewhere will get the hint. Besides, it'll never come to what you suggest....at least not in my lifetime. If it does I'll move somewhere else.
I have the cure for an RFID chip. It is also coincidentally a known terrorist weapon also known as a common household hammer.
The name says it all.
You know, if they came after me with one of these "SWAT" teams I think that my PTSD from multiple Iraq tours would have to rear its ugly head.
What's sad is that I had a friend one time that was wondering why his IE browser was running like ass. When I took a look it was almost identical to what you see there, nevermind the 5000 spyware instances he had running and 53 viruses to boot.
Or they could try to be a little more honest...oh wait, nevermind.
Sure they do, they're mounted on satellites and they do a great job actually.
I agree, AIX is a dream compared to IRIX which is what my shop currently uses. I can't wait for our migration to AIX.....
You know, I was actually considering making something like what you're talking about. It would be pretty easy to make. All you need is a computer to control the mirrors and keep maximum amount of focused light on the heat collector, some valved piping to flash steam water and drive the turbine then a cold water return line. Wouldn't do much for you in a rain storm or snow storm, but for the most part (especially where I live) it would be on many hours of the day.
Well at any rate I'm going to buy a few of these for one of the countries, I'll keep one for me and my kids though. I think it'll be a good educational tool for my children, maybe even me we'll have to see.
I didn't mean to imply that, my father works at Wal-mart for instance and I have several close friends of mine that have fallen on hard times, which is about where half of my money goes. I just think that all those years growing up the outsider who people only pretended to like when they needed something (homework) ended up wondering how the hell I got where I am. They don't like the truth either which was fighting in a war zone for two years and then clawing my way up to the position that I am at the age that I am by constantly having to work twice as hard as someone just a few years older than me, not to mention proving that I can actually do what I say I can do. The point being that I do actually give a damn, but I just enjoy the fact that all those people who repeatedly told me that I would never make anything of myself now wish that they had maybe treated me a little different (my wife is the only one who actually saw through and loved the person she knew in highschool). Oh, and no one is forcing anyone to eat at those places personally I much prefer to eat at home than anywhere else.
I know I just posted a second ago but I also had a thought. Is M$ maybe trying to get all these people using and programming with Windows so that they can set up Developer sweatshops similar to clothing lines? I do remember some exec saying at one time something about developers developers developers........ *stares stupidly at chair flying towards head*
I get the feeling sometimes that the heads at M$ have a robber baron complex. They stole ideas and software so much that they feel bad and try to give back somehow as well as force their crap on unsuspecting indiginous peoples. I just don't think that this is necessarily a good venue for them. First I think that it'll actually degrade the performance of the machine and what happens when all these machines get out in the world and they mesh network a virus? (if this doesn't make much sense please break out a decoder ring, I'm 11 1/2 hours into my shift at 5:30 in the morning) It seems to me that it would create a lot more problems than it's worth, not to mention that for kids in the developing world the XO interface looks like it's more language/culture neutral than a windows style interface. Oh and last I checked every dollar counts in this thing, most developing countries don't have a ton of money to throw at these so the cheaper the better, so an extra few dollars per machine may not seem like a lot to us but for where they're going and the numbers that are estimated it adds up pretty quickly.
I get a kind of vindictive humor when I compare my paycheck with all the bastards that I went to school with. They hate the fact that four years after highschool I have a house, new car, and a great job working in the aerospace industry and they have dreams of being factory foreman someday. Thank you mom and dad for never letting me down and always making sure that I knew I was better than they were because it turns out that you were right.
That's why I recycle my paper by feeding it to worms. The worms in my bin eat the kitchen waste and all the paper which I then put into my garden as the best fertilizer you have ever seen. Then all the dead plants at the end of the season go into the bin and come spring time I have a ton of that same good fertilizer. The best part is that it's not chemically made and there really isn't anything in the worm castings that is bad for the environment.
Well, I had this cool ass ASCII hand all ready to go, but the damn filter wouldn't let me put it in so consider it raised.
You know in all honesty you have a good point there. I'm really considering that for my computers I have connected to the internet making a livecd with all the preloaded information that I need and encrypting my disks heavily with the decryption key hiding on a thumbdrive somewhere (hmmm, where did I put that again?). So that gives me a disk only I can read, an OS that is troublesome to corrupt, and a level of security achieved by few.
Or, more specifically: why don't the SHEEPLE see anything wrong with it when the administration(s) (both past and present) think they have the right to meddle in the affairs of other countries?
/. has enough space for it. That'll have to do I guess.
There I fixed that for you. I could go into depth about the stupidity, arrogance, and laziness of my fellow countrymen, however I don't think
I once did something like this. I'm from the camp of "you can search my drive when you pry it from my cold dead fingers". While in the Army we were getting ready to redeploy back to the States and we were told that our hdd's were going to be searched for classified *cough* porn (porn on your computer is bad news in a foreign country for some reason). Well found out the method that they were using was just a stupid little keyword search that displayed whatever picture or movie matched some key words and being the fun loving lad that I am I took a picture of myself flipping off the camera and titled it "fuck me big boy". Then I made thirteen thousand copies of it and flung them all over my hdd. Needless to say they gave up after about three hours of looking at me giving them the finger, oh and all my porn was well hidden in a cryptainer.
Besides, they're criminals and criminals lie all the time.
Poor legislation that does nothing, is nothing, and lines more legislators pockets with corporate money.
by a tech support person, "because Linux and free software are hacker tools".
Exactly, more laws mean that average Joe cannot get through the day without breaking a couple of them. For example, everyone goes on and on about drugs and the cartels that support them, the crime that surrounds them and whatnot. Make the worst ones legal and suddenly there is no incentive for the any of that, the drug lords won't make money and the violence of drug dealing and underground smuggling suddenly just disappears. Here's another interesting concept of the drugs too, with a lot of the worst ones the addicts will quickly kill themselves off since they can get as much as they want. I know what the next comment is going to be "think of the children!", how about "BE A FUCKING PARENT AND KNOW WHAT YOUR KIDS ARE DOING,WHERE THEY ARE AND WHO THEIR FRIENDS ARE!". People that want to do drugs are going to find a way and eventually go away. Look at the percentage of the populace that smokes these days, it's getting lower and more and more teenagers that I talk to think it's a disgusting habit. Anyway, this kind of thing with the card is bullshit. It's just another program that means nothing, does nothing, makes it easier to break the law, and lines the legislators pockets with money from whoever gets the contracts for it.
Thank god someone pointed out the obvious. As a sneaky bastard for the armed forces that has been deployed a few times I can agree with you whole heartedly, especially since in order to do my job I have to carry around a ton of extra shit. The remark about Solaris is spot on too, I fsking hate the hardened Solaris boxes that I had to baby, what's funny is my old Cisco 3600 did great as a router and never failed but some of the "hardened" systems had to be replaced.