In the latest hoax, Man Made Global Warming(TM), we learn that Ursilua nauticus, the polar bear is drowning in large numbers. Despite my bad spelling, these bears not only tend to float...they swim. Which is why their name means "Water Bears" or "Swimming Bears".
The problem comes in where the name has already been used.:)
It also suggests to me that, unlike a VCR that can actually improve reception for a TV-tuned-to-channel-3, it doesn't help. Not encouraging. But maybe I have something for you, anyway.
This place has a LOT of the series you're probably looking for; The Closer, Firefly:), Always Sunny, bunches of new stuff. It has limited commecial interruption, and you can be made available when new series/movies/episodes are available.
I'm not a drone...I just moved back into town from "TractorTown*" so I can get the net again. I'm in no hurry to get a TV setup, but I *do* want to start watching things on Hulu instead of the cable.
*I call it that because, four miles outside the city of Evansville, Indiana everyone there owns at least one tractor, but can't have anything but dialup and analog TV...
IT work is one place a person without certs can actually work...unionizing doesn't guarantee that the work will get done better, though it DOES guarantee more pay for the few IT people who will have jobs.
Trust me guys, you don't have it tough. Not enough to kill the market with an artificial market force.
The American unions were created on the idea of the railroad unions. There, you worked until you collapsed- literally. And because the equipment tended to 'eat' men's hands, caused employers to select workers by the number of missing fingers.
I'm not kidding; work was once this hard. IT work has a long way to go.
Similarly, unions in my town of Evansville, Indiana set up a protest for more money every year, and went on strike in sync with deer season until the guy putting on a piece of plastic at the factory was making more money than a lawyer, so it was no surprise when the factory moved it's labor to a place it could be afforded. It's nuts. It's not about dignity; unions become all about powering the union. About making the typical union leader's wages of 90 TIMES that of the average worker, because when you overpay someone, you can ask so much more of them.
So, no...we don't need wasteful spending. We don't need to work someplace where we lunch with a guy today, and cut his tires tomorrow 'cause he's a 'scab'. Just do the freaking job and be thankful you're not on minimum wage again.
I started with Redhat 4.0. I had been with them quite a long time. I was quite a fan.
I wasted most of a YEAR trying to get Redhat's version to work. The simplest code would fail, unless you built everything from scratch. Loading updated RPMs caused it to fail again. It was quarter-past-annoying. This was the time Redhat was getting ready it's $91M purchase of the Netscape Directory.
And surprise! Once Netscape's Directory came out, OpenLDAP worked on Redhat again.
I was pissed. There's no reason the exact same code working on other platforms should remain busted [for a YEAR(!)] just because they're making an investment.
It's why I've run Ubuntu ever since. It loaded and RAN, successfully LDAP on the first attempt, and not once have I ever had the feeling I was being 'played'.
Well...perhaps the question is, why are they carrying into space an OS, for about 20 years has been "unable" to stop viruses, and put on something more...shall we say...professional?
Sorry, but it's true. If you want mission-critical, you don't go to Best Buy.
"Seven of nine samples that were called red snapper were mislabeled, and they turned out to be anything from Atlantic cod to Acadian redfish, an endangered species."
OK, first:
- No one said there'd be "Seven of Nine" Samples. Jeri Ryan would want to know this. (Well, it did SAY sushi...) - Red Snapper: I'm leaving that alone.
Can you see how distracting this kinda labeling can be?:>
Ask anyone with a penchant for sea food; "Crab meat" rarely is. And "Sardines"? They're a category of fish, not a species. Just passing the word.
Ordinarily, sure...I can't TELL you how many such dust-ups I've heard from in-laws. Comedians have taken themselves through entire careers based on it.
But one thing that's overlooked is the religious angle.
Sure, they're following a modified version of the Bible [assuming Mormons], promoted by a fellow claiming to have recieved the Writ of Abraham in Egypt that merely turned out to be a scroll having to do with whoever was buried in a tomb, but some of the faith abides:
- Don't murder anyone. Don't even think about it. - Don't avenge yourself or others: God does it better, and offers a chance to show them the light - Pay your own debts. - Always tell the truth - You'll be judged by your sins [which are the cause of misery]
Concepts like these go on and on- if you learn to adapt the mindset, the stress it relieves is incredible. Christians (and here, I mean _observant_ Christians, not just people who show up at mass twice a year, embody such philosophy. It's not really a stretch to realize, when you're not trying to get even with the neighbor who just got a bigger TV, you're going to be happier, knowing you only need be here for the one lifetime and move on.
Christians of this type _should_ be welcomed all around the world; the whole, 'be truthful with friends AND enemies' and 'have compassion for strangers' ideas should make them a breath of fresh air, but they're despised. We represent the truth they can't bring themselves to see or disprove, and that makes them nervous.
For example, not one cuss word appears in any of my texts; not one place do I pull a 'your momma!' and yet because people can't bear to think my viewpoint is right, I'm modded down to 'Karma: Bad'.
It all comes down to this: there IS a singular reality. Investigate the truth, and you'll likely follow the cause. Even scientific proof exists. But instead of investigating the proof, techno-philes prefer to whistle past the graveyard and believe Darwin, who's been disproved as much as Freud.
Why? I'm not sure. It doesn't stop them from investigating homosexuality, nor gambling, nor non-marital sex. You either will see, or you can't be made to see.
Someone violates any other law, and we talk about the details of the case. Here, we rebut the law with a strategic viewpoint on the society. Interesting change in tactics.
It bothers me greatly that a handful of men have now outlawed the singing of "Happy Birthday" in all public places. Thanks to YET ANOTHER FABULOUS FLAW by our Men in Black(TM) at the Supreme Court though, the Interstate Commerce law means that the Fed has the power to poke it's powerful and blind nose into even backyard garage sales. And that gives the RIAA seriously malicious power.
At the same time, artists need payment for their craft; they, too, need to eat.
I like the idea that Steely Dan choses. They actually PROVIDE their ancient tunes on the net, since they can't be had anyplace else. It helps to bring along fans looking for their roots. And they don't mind the bootlegging- they know that actual fans who *can* pay the price would rather get the good stuff, not the crappy copy of a bootlegged camera brought in under someone's hat.
The artists should get EVERY PENNY of concert profits. Physically performing the music is not only exhausting, it's costly, too. But let's not forget where this started: Elvis, Johnny Cash and a couple of other performers used to drive their own cars, before that, too, became a business. Now it takes a $1,000,000 bus, 'handlers' and all this other stuff.
Using the Steely Dan, pay-for-play and high-quality record sales idea, there's room for fans to share and 'tune in' their friends. There's money for the hard parts of moving from city to city. And no one has to go to jail because they whistled Happy Birthday at a Denny's.:)
I've been bitchy about news stories akin to "Water is now wet: film at 11!" but this is *exactly* the kinda thing we IT people need to know about. As a sysadmin, for example, what are the limits on revealing the passphrase? (rhetorical)
Great addition. If I knew how to mod up the original story, I'd love to.
(Man, it's FUN to not have to bitch and moan...):>
I find myself writing most often about "new" stories that are variations-on-a-theme that we've seen so many times.
Sure, this *could* be a trick, but there are some serious issues to face:
- Obama thinks there are more than 57 states in America. - He thinks he sees dead war heroes at memorial ceremonies. - He decries religion ('bitter clingers') yet wants to be seen as one, himself - He now sees making money as selling out...now that he's made millions after getting his schooling
And his party:
- Wants us to so respect Europe's wishes to consider them our boss. Recall their mindset gave us two world wars, from which we saved them.
- Wants to decide for us the light bulbs we can use, the cars we can drive, and the food we're permitted to eat. Fascism?
- Has the full faith and trust of communist thinkers (who've been SUCH good achievers so far...)
- Pushes homosexuality for all, in fact encourages it, and takes money from NAMBLA, the North American Man-Boy Love Association for permitting middle-aged men having gay sex with underaged boys. Creepy enough for you?
- Is the source and power for all national hoaxes: The Ozone Hole(TM), Killer Bees(TM) and The Coming Ice Age(TM), and the Swine Flu(TM).
But this has very, very little to do with Obama himself: the last three people the Democrats have fielded have been comically worthless. Can you actually say you'd permit these people to park your car:
- John "I voted against it, before I voted for it" Kerry, who keeps marrying into more and more money. This guy can be paid to claim the sky is red, and actually believe it when the day is over.
- Al "HennyPenny" Gore making millions (and stands to make more) with his 'sky is falling' hoax of Global Warming(TM).
- John "Look at me- aren't I cute?" Edwards who takes self-absorbsion to new levels.
These people are men based on gender, not accomplishments. The Democrat party is an empty-suit FACTORY.
In fairness, I wouldn't vote for McCain on a bet. He's backs-tabbed the Conservatives so many times that now it's his turn. And the Left/Democrats love it: they call him a 'Maverick'. Ever notice how no Democrat gets that label? Not on their lives.
So who to vote for? Anyone but Obama or McCain.
NASA? Don't worry about it: we can't get there anyway.
With all the discussion of multiple universes, none has ever been found. Not one. (See also: Multiple Planets Like Earth)
This is pure speculation. It assists in the idea that, given enough universes, we just happened to land in the one that 'works'. Other than this one, there 'must have been trillions of others' that didn't get Earth right, so nothing happened there.
(It also avoids the question, "Who is it, making all these universes until it gets right?" but let's not bother the scientists with that, just yet...):>
Keep in mind: every creation has a cause greater than itself. And this one universe was created, not continually recreated. Hubble shows the stars accelerating, not slowing down; this is well known.
One book points out, correctly, that the "Earth is suspended from nothing" and says this reality began with "Let there be light", and the "dividing the land" part, discussing the parting of the continents through tectonic action. It also has dozens of other 'how could they have known?' instances all throughout it's pages: the Bible. No one else got any of these right.
So why are scientists so afraid to look there?
I'd like to live in a Star Trek Universe of some sort- all kinds of discoveries and most of life's little troubles worked out, but this reality doesn't work that way. We're not solving problems, we're changing them. And life on the 'next inhabitable planet' requires FTL tech that we don't have. Wouldn't it be better to be happy here, than crawling over each other to get off this rock in the off-chance we ever break the FTL problem? Answers to these problems are in that same book.
One thing that has stuck me for several decades is the facade of the Olys.
The participants literally dedicate all of their lives for a one-time-thing. Other people, restoring cars or collecting beanie babies the same way would be taken to psychological help, And they go to 'the big game' and compete against cheaters and various punks from across the globe.
Why, again?
This isn't 1933; there's no Hitler trying to compare his Master Race(TM) to other societies. When it's all done, what has been done? It's just so meaningless, as a whole. Jamaica beats Venezuela in bobsledding. So? Mexico beats Morroco in the 144 meter dash. So?
And since the last Olys were so under-rated, they've needed to 'chick-ify' them. Every participant 'just barely made it' with persecution in their homeland, overcoming AIDS, cannibals, or tribes of mobsters. (Just a good backstory for each one, whatever the details may be, for the purposes of getting women to watch).
How many of us actually WATCH swimming meets anyway? 1/2%? Ever been to a swim meet? Around here it's done for the parents/family of the swimmers- not exactly a world-altering event. Talented swimmers breaking a world record do as much for me as Angolena Jolie having another baby: absolutely nothing. I just can't build concern.
Sure I appreciate the talent. Sure, I appreciate just how good at these things they must be, and how much of their lives was dedicated to getting these things done. But other than getting media mogols and corrupt government officials paid, what does it do?
Maybe I'm just a putz; it's totally possible-:) I don't see much point in sending a pigskin between goalposts, either. My childhood heroes jumped into enemy fire and saved the world from Nazis. Men playing baseball don't hold much excitement for me.
But in their usual style, the TV Programmers are hard at work making you care...filling the screens with this stuff, and wondering what (else) they must do to make people watch. It's just not that exciting...as the previous event's numbers show...and this time there was even less viewer than last time.
Maybe THAT's why it didn't 'melt the internet', because so few people watched?
Well, yeah...this is IT; it's full of people that saw the "money" sign and trampled in; those folks don't tend to be deep thinkers, if it's not 'about them'. I know, and am free to say this, as I was like them, too.
If I didn't have a "BAD" karmic score on this website, I'd not be doing my job, aye?:)
This is actually about the failure of Air America, and the failure to silence Limbaugh.
_First, the crowds are different:_ Conservatives actually *care* about issues and details. They talk about what's good for the country, from the viewpoint of history. They take the time to listen to the radio, they've been taught to think critically and ask questions. This makes for interesting radio. 90% of Democrats can't tell you the name of a single Supreme Court Justice, many Conservatives can name them all.
Democrats/Liberals appear to choose their presidents based on how they look. Why else? Ask yourself: can you actually say you'd trust these people to park your car?
- Al "I invented the internet" Gore and his sky-is-falling global money scam.
- John "I voted against it, before I voted for it" Kerry and his core values that change with each and every poll.
- Barak "That's not the [person] I know" OBama. He thinks the Japanese started WW2 by 'dropping the bomb' on Pearl Harbor, Claims to have visited "about 57 [US] states so far" in the primary race, and he "was going to several more". He claimed to see dead war heroes in attendance at a memorial service. Ever hear him NOT on a teleprompter? SHEESH!
These guys make Dan Quayle seem smart.
And let's be clear: Barak's darker-skin means nothing to me; he's just the latest goofball offered.
_The Content is Different:_ Spewing hate and repeating lies doesn't sell. Case in point: - Air America was a VERY well funded attempt to break into talk radio. It failed miserably. No one tuned in.
Liberals/Democrats constantly pushing towards Communism, though it too, has been disproved roundly.. They still keep trying to elect people who tell us what kinds of cars we can purchase, what kinds of light bulbs we're permitted to buy, and what kind of ingredients are in our food. (See: Transfats banned in NYC). Then they complain about the intrusion of government into our daily lives, and assuming the Republicans did it. (The media tells them this)
Liberals are constantly unhappy. They talk about what's wrong with the world. They intone discrimination where there is none, to open new lines of advance. It's all about enslaving free people because they're not living their life properly.
Meanwhile, Liberal voters are tuned to FM Music radio and can't be bothered by the news.
- Limbaugh's been growing a massive audience for TWO DECADES.
Now if you don't listen to Rush Limbaugh, there are a number of things you don't know.
- He's not been a big, fat man for about a decade. Really.
- He's not a drug dealer/user/promoter. He did lose part of his hearing, though.
- He's probably the biggest civil-rights advocate you'll find.
- He's also not anti-gay or anti-Jew, or anti ANYTHING but stupid.
- He's completely wrong about Microsoft, but has a vision for seeing political trends unlike anyone I've seen.
Limbaugh talks in terms of optimism. He tells us about how it'll get better if we stay to our message:
- Smaller government
- Less intrusion
- Controlled immigration
- Term Limits
- People having more power than the government
Why would anyone want anything else?
_Conclusion:_ Understand that ONE media machine:
- Portrays fathers as ignorant boobs in TV commercials 20 years. Watch and see.
- Denies promotion of heros. I don't mean "fallen" or "broken" heroes.
- Cuts off all secondary information. What's Bolivia's beef with it's neighbors?
- Promot
I seem to remember telling people that all this couldn't have just happened. That something like 90% of the solar systems out there contained gas giants, if any planets at all.
It's a rare thing to get several-thousands of combinations right at the same time. Not the least of which are:
- Distance from the sun/size of planet for proper G load and lighting - Being away from black holes for obvious reasons - Being out of nebula and such, which would prohibit exploring the universe - Having not only water, but the right amount of it - Having not only land, but the right amount of it. - (continue for hundreds of items) - Rotation of the planet so one side doesn't burn/boil, the other stays frozen - Neighboring huge planet and/or gas giants to deflect asteroids so that life can get started and stay that way - You get the idea
Check the fossil records. The animals didn't start small and get big- all the animals, with and without vertebrae we made around the same time, in the pre-Cambrian era. No long, slow development; that was a diagram in Darwin's work, the "Tree of Life", but has been disproven by the fossil record.
Only one book points to the Earth as "Suspended by nothing" centuries before John Glen. It also held the dimensions of the first sucessful sea-going vessel that way, too. While it doesn't detail the development of animals, it *does* detail the development of plants, and that matches the fossil record.
So why don't more "scientific" people give it a moment's notice?
I'm always amazed at 'news stories' that reveal nothing new. "Water is wet: film at 11!".
Japan is a small island, densely populated. There are still parts of America just getting used to indoor plumbing. Still. On the East coast it's packed pretty tightly, but out west, there's a LOT of land to cover. Haven't they had new advances in Japan, better cyber-plumbing and 'cooler' titles on video games for like three decades now?
Dvorak gets a technology move wrong! Netizen blames George Bush! Scientist claim sun will only come up tomorrow for a few million years.
Really, guys. Next you'll be telling me the latest release of Windows isn't being accepted by industry as "experts" guessed. How many times can you see the same thing over and over and claim it to be new?
I have to agree about some of the Creationists; to think the world is only 6,000 years old is pretty "MaGoo". There are all sorts of simple tests like counting layers of ice that go farther back than that. Plus, it isn't logical. Fossils don't lie, and neither do large batteries of tests.
The Bible is many things to many people, but a calendar- it's not. Not a play-by-play of the dinosaurs, not a technical discussion of DNA or mutations, nor a map of the approximate 12M species of animal. But there's reasons for this: it's a love letter from the Creator. He wants to redeem us all, for a life past this world, and all we need do is ask and accept.
But there are things that really annoy the scientific community:
1. Dinosaurs aren't mentioned in the Bible; what would, say, Moses have done with the information? We've only been studying what we did up for a couple hundred years. Why detail them? They were long-dead before anything that looked like man was on the prowl.
2. From the start [The Big Bang | "Let there be light"] until now has been a very long time indeed. But let's not forget an important detail: Darwin's Origin of Species included a "Tree of Life" graphic, but it was unsubstantiated. The idea of starting with two amoebas and a billion years later there's Armani just isn't scientific. The fossil record shows *nothing* for the largest span of time, up until a point in time (probably several thousand years) in which *all* current phylum appear, in the pre-Cambrian era. They sprung up fully-formed overnight. (Cosmologically anyway)
3. The Bible *can't* detail the beginning any more than it can. To do so would provide a time that science would have to agree with, and then faith would no longer have meaning. If God/Satan gave you his phone number, you wouldn't need faith anymore, aye? It's all about taking that first step without proof.
4. Christianity is historical and evidential. The Greeks: The Earth is on Atlas' shoulders. Indians: The Earth is in a pool of milk with a elephant....well, you get the idea. Know what the Bible says? "The Earth is suspended by nothing." The only book to get it right. It also got right the Hittites and the true end of the Babylonians, having two rulers instead of the usual one. I'm actually beginning to believe there are *no* contradictions. I've come a long way in 2-3 years.
5. Believe in the story of Noah or not, you have to hand it to a document that revealed the dimensions of the first successful sea-going vessel before it was known to man. And it's kinda cool how this 'fairy tale' managed to get into the histories of something like 110 different nations. Some fairy tale.
My point here is, science doesn't want to believe what they're finding. Learning who God is means having to deal with him; many aren't ready for that, and their pride suggests they can solve any problem that life throws at them. Except they can't: meet these people after a tornado comes and takes the rest of their neighborhood away- they'll have no answer.
Ya See? We have science that backs up the Bible. It's *clear* to anyone who genuinely wants to prove it to themselves that there's something special about that book, and the God to which it's written by. There's almost unimaginable consistency in there- foretelling of Christ's virgin birth and his birthplace **700** years before it happened. Think it's a trick? Go to Israel and see the carbon dating. People have spent their lives trying to explain it away and become believers.
There's gotta be a reason for that, other than blind stupidity.
Ya see, I'm not a "churchgoer", not a "team member" or other casual associate. I've seen His work, and I've met His people. I've felt his work in my heart and in my life. You'll find me in church on Sunday because that's where everyone goes, who's 'seen' Him, not the other way around. I don't do good works to fit-in at the church; I do them anyway. Having felt this, and then see someone calling others like me "with an agenda" and having "less than op
1) A congressman that has met his own 'term limit' (since we can't seem to get them to pass that) or
2) A wild accusation puffed up by the media?
Recall that one Republican was removed from office because he told a very, very old congressman "You woulda been the right guy in power all your (90=something years) and he wasn't doing anything illegal.
Another was drummed out because he seemed to be having a homosexual affair, something the Liberals/Democrats are trying to get people to embrace in the first place.
Yet another congressman had something like $90,000 cash in his fridge that he tried to get the National Guard to remove during Katrina. He's on charges the last I heard, despite casting votes and kissing babies.
Guess which one was a Democrat?
And let's not forget: every media channel other than Fox News is voting Democratic, and has shown this bias in the recent volunteering of a trip with O'Bama while ignoring every trip Mc Cain has ever taken. These are the people who were painting the picture of Karl Rove Frog-marching in prison-Orange for a leak a Liberal reporter broke, not Scooter Libby. (This was known within 2 weeks, yet we dealt with the media show for about two YEARS until it ran out of steam.)
I'm in favor of tossing actually-corrupt elected officials of ANY stripe. And I'm no fan of ANY working there as long as Hugh Hefner has worked at Playboy. But if this is another media-kill, I"m once again pissed.
And while I've brought up the subject, have you called your representative about a term limit law?
Well ok, then. Surely because you say it's so, Jesus is a figment of our collective imaginations. Forget the historical and evidentual references throughout history; you're safe to do as you please with no recourse at the end of things.
Feel free to assume all of this is just stuff and nonsense. Just continue as you will. Have a nice day!
Let's talk about the 'end of the sysadmin' or the 'flying car'. Maybe a dog that walks itself! Mice are cheap, have a long history of successful use on a LOT of systems. People are just very, very used to it. Heck, I see even geeks using them (if only for backup) for quite a long time.
Just like it did, the last time. CP/M was around for a while, it was powerful (next to the ultra-expensive mainframes and helpless abacus] was to go to businesses that want an edge over the competition and show off the product. Don't tell'em "Windows is wrong" but instead, tell'em "this is what you need".
Hate really doesn't play into it; this is business.
When you mention you work on _retainer_, not on an hourly rate, they look at you funny, and it gives you the reason to explain why: the ultra reliability. All that's missing from Windows is Outlook, Halo, and Quicken. Most companies don't use these, by the way.
Really? You've been covered up in a pile of bliss your whole life? Great. No one dies, no one leaves when you need'em most, and there are no thunderstorms in your world.
You're fooling yourself, but I'm not gonna push. Everyone seeks happiness; very few get it, and even fewer keep it. But everyone's hunting for it. For some it's fast cars, some is fast women, others [granted, I'm sure they all read Slashdot] collect spores mold and fungus.:) But we all work hard to find the answer to that which makes us keep wanting.
Like Trump; with all his money, happy must be waiting in the wings, aye? No- I've known a lot of rich men that have miserable lives. Once they 'climb that hill' and make their first million they wonder, "Shouldn't I be happier?".
And it's not my faith, any more than Earth is 'my' planet. It's what's here. Once I allowed myself to see it, it all became clear. I wasn't raised this way; and now I see very few "Christians" that behave as I do. It's all about love, and many seem to overlook that- I don't know why.
The old saw about "Christians hate gays" for example: no, we don't. Just the ones on TV. And we don't go killing people because "don't suffer a witch to live" is written in the most ancient and outmoded parts of our Bible. We love the sinner, and hate the sin. It's the sin that causes our misery, not the sinner; it's rare than one in a million of them even know they're causing it: it's not their fault.
Like the sex issue. God doesn't _hate_ sex; it's the most glorious gift he's given us, except one. What he hates is it's misuse; doing so makes us [and our childen...] unhappy. There are fixed, repeatable-testable reasons for the hymen (virginity). When we take it wrongly, it causes the kind of relationships seen on "Seinfeld" and "Sex in the City". All that looking for the "right" person who'll never be there. It's so sad, I can't even watch these shows anymore.
Feel free to look around. Check out Eastern Mysticism, try one Bhudda for a while, go New Age for a bit, but that shadow of emptiness will follow you. (It did, me.) One day you'll open the one book that said "The Earth is suspended from nothing" a long time before John Glenn. The same one who told a father the dimensions of a sucessful sea-going vessel LONG before mankind "knew" it. And when you do, thing's will all make sense for the first time in your life. It's all very personal, and all in-tune to you.
Ya won't find me throwing stones though, while ya look.
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I wasn't aware I was using a sig! I'll look into it- thanks.
In the latest hoax, Man Made Global Warming(TM), we learn that Ursilua nauticus, the polar bear is drowning in large numbers. Despite my bad spelling, these bears not only tend to float...they swim. Which is why their name means "Water Bears" or "Swimming Bears".
The problem comes in where the name has already been used. :)
I was wondering how this was about to go.
It also suggests to me that, unlike a VCR that can actually improve reception for a TV-tuned-to-channel-3, it doesn't help. Not encouraging. But maybe I have something for you, anyway.
http://hulu.com/
This place has a LOT of the series you're probably looking for; The Closer, Firefly :), Always Sunny, bunches of new stuff. It has limited commecial interruption, and you can be made available when new series/movies/episodes are available.
I'm not a drone...I just moved back into town from "TractorTown*" so I can get the net again. I'm in no hurry to get a TV setup, but I *do* want to start watching things on Hulu instead of the cable.
*I call it that because, four miles outside the city of Evansville, Indiana everyone there owns at least one tractor, but can't have anything but dialup and analog TV...
Enjoy Hulu- it's fun!
IT work is one place a person without certs can actually work...unionizing doesn't guarantee that the work will get done better, though it DOES guarantee more pay for the few IT people who will have jobs.
Trust me guys, you don't have it tough. Not enough to kill the market with an artificial market force.
The American unions were created on the idea of the railroad unions. There, you worked until you collapsed- literally. And because the equipment tended to 'eat' men's hands, caused employers to select workers by the number of missing fingers.
I'm not kidding; work was once this hard. IT work has a long way to go.
Similarly, unions in my town of Evansville, Indiana set up a protest for more money every year, and went on strike in sync with deer season until the guy putting on a piece of plastic at the factory was making more money than a lawyer, so it was no surprise when the factory moved it's labor to a place it could be afforded. It's nuts. It's not about dignity; unions become all about powering the union. About making the typical union leader's wages of 90 TIMES that of the average worker, because when you overpay someone, you can ask so much more of them.
So, no...we don't need wasteful spending. We don't need to work someplace where we lunch with a guy today, and cut his tires tomorrow 'cause he's a 'scab'. Just do the freaking job and be thankful you're not on minimum wage again.
Sheesh!
Microsoft software large, bloated and slow. Film at 11.
(Night is still dark, water is still wet: this story has been true since about October of 1989.)
I started with Redhat 4.0. I had been with them quite a long time. I was quite a fan.
I wasted most of a YEAR trying to get Redhat's version to work. The simplest code would fail, unless you built everything from scratch. Loading updated RPMs caused it to fail again. It was quarter-past-annoying. This was the time Redhat was getting ready it's $91M purchase of the Netscape Directory.
And surprise! Once Netscape's Directory came out, OpenLDAP worked on Redhat again.
I was pissed. There's no reason the exact same code working on other platforms should remain busted [for a YEAR(!)] just because they're making an investment.
It's why I've run Ubuntu ever since. It loaded and RAN, successfully LDAP on the first attempt, and not once have I ever had the feeling I was being 'played'.
Way to go, Redhat.
Well...perhaps the question is, why are they carrying into space an OS, for about 20 years has been "unable" to stop viruses, and put on something more...shall we say...professional?
Sorry, but it's true. If you want mission-critical, you don't go to Best Buy.
"Seven of nine samples that were called red snapper were mislabeled, and they turned out to be anything from Atlantic cod to Acadian redfish, an endangered species."
OK, first:
- No one said there'd be "Seven of Nine" Samples. Jeri Ryan would want to know this. (Well, it did SAY sushi...)
- Red Snapper: I'm leaving that alone.
Can you see how distracting this kinda labeling can be? :>
Ask anyone with a penchant for sea food; "Crab meat" rarely is. And "Sardines"? They're a category of fish, not a species. Just passing the word.
Ordinarily, sure...I can't TELL you how many such dust-ups I've heard from in-laws. Comedians have taken themselves through entire careers based on it.
But one thing that's overlooked is the religious angle.
Sure, they're following a modified version of the Bible [assuming Mormons], promoted by a fellow claiming to have recieved the Writ of Abraham in Egypt that merely turned out to be a scroll having to do with whoever was buried in a tomb, but some of the faith abides:
- Don't murder anyone. Don't even think about it.
- Don't avenge yourself or others: God does it better, and offers a chance to show them the light
- Pay your own debts.
- Always tell the truth
- You'll be judged by your sins [which are the cause of misery]
Concepts like these go on and on- if you learn to adapt the mindset, the stress it relieves is incredible. Christians (and here, I mean _observant_ Christians, not just people who show up at mass twice a year, embody such philosophy. It's not really a stretch to realize, when you're not trying to get even with the neighbor who just got a bigger TV, you're going to be happier, knowing you only need be here for the one lifetime and move on.
Christians of this type _should_ be welcomed all around the world; the whole, 'be truthful with friends AND enemies' and 'have compassion for strangers' ideas should make them a breath of fresh air, but they're despised. We represent the truth they can't bring themselves to see or disprove, and that makes them nervous.
For example, not one cuss word appears in any of my texts; not one place do I pull a 'your momma!' and yet because people can't bear to think my viewpoint is right, I'm modded down to 'Karma: Bad'.
It all comes down to this: there IS a singular reality. Investigate the truth, and you'll likely follow the cause. Even scientific proof exists. But instead of investigating the proof, techno-philes prefer to whistle past the graveyard and believe Darwin, who's been disproved as much as Freud.
Why? I'm not sure. It doesn't stop them from investigating homosexuality, nor gambling, nor non-marital sex. You either will see, or you can't be made to see.
Someone violates any other law, and we talk about the details of the case. Here, we rebut the law with a strategic viewpoint on the society. Interesting change in tactics.
It bothers me greatly that a handful of men have now outlawed the singing of "Happy Birthday" in all public places. Thanks to YET ANOTHER FABULOUS FLAW by our Men in Black(TM) at the Supreme Court though, the Interstate Commerce law means that the Fed has the power to poke it's powerful and blind nose into even backyard garage sales. And that gives the RIAA seriously malicious power.
At the same time, artists need payment for their craft; they, too, need to eat.
I like the idea that Steely Dan choses. They actually PROVIDE their ancient tunes on the net, since they can't be had anyplace else. It helps to bring along fans looking for their roots. And they don't mind the bootlegging- they know that actual fans who *can* pay the price would rather get the good stuff, not the crappy copy of a bootlegged camera brought in under someone's hat.
The artists should get EVERY PENNY of concert profits. Physically performing the music is not only exhausting, it's costly, too. But let's not forget where this started: Elvis, Johnny Cash and a couple of other performers used to drive their own cars, before that, too, became a business. Now it takes a $1,000,000 bus, 'handlers' and all this other stuff.
Using the Steely Dan, pay-for-play and high-quality record sales idea, there's room for fans to share and 'tune in' their friends. There's money for the hard parts of moving from city to city. And no one has to go to jail because they whistled Happy Birthday at a Denny's. :)
I've been bitchy about news stories akin to "Water is now wet: film at 11!" but this is *exactly* the kinda thing we IT people need to know about. As a sysadmin, for example, what are the limits on revealing the passphrase? (rhetorical) Great addition. If I knew how to mod up the original story, I'd love to. (Man, it's FUN to not have to bitch and moan...) :>
I find myself writing most often about "new" stories that are variations-on-a-theme that we've seen so many times.
Sure, this *could* be a trick, but there are some serious issues to face:
- Obama thinks there are more than 57 states in America.
- He thinks he sees dead war heroes at memorial ceremonies.
- He decries religion ('bitter clingers') yet wants to be seen as one, himself
- He now sees making money as selling out...now that he's made millions after getting his schooling
And his party:
- Wants us to so respect Europe's wishes to consider them our boss. Recall their mindset gave us two world wars, from which we saved them.
- Wants to decide for us the light bulbs we can use, the cars we can drive, and the food we're permitted to eat. Fascism?
- Has the full faith and trust of communist thinkers (who've been SUCH good achievers so far...)
- Pushes homosexuality for all, in fact encourages it, and takes money from NAMBLA, the North American Man-Boy Love Association for permitting middle-aged men having gay sex with underaged boys. Creepy enough for you?
- Is the source and power for all national hoaxes: The Ozone Hole(TM), Killer Bees(TM) and The Coming Ice Age(TM), and the Swine Flu(TM).
But this has very, very little to do with Obama himself: the last three people the Democrats have fielded have been comically worthless. Can you actually say you'd permit these people to park your car:
- John "I voted against it, before I voted for it" Kerry, who keeps marrying into more and more money. This guy can be paid to claim the sky is red, and actually believe it when the day is over.
- Al "HennyPenny" Gore making millions (and stands to make more) with his 'sky is falling' hoax of Global Warming(TM).
- John "Look at me- aren't I cute?" Edwards who takes self-absorbsion to new levels.
These people are men based on gender, not accomplishments. The Democrat party is an empty-suit FACTORY.
In fairness, I wouldn't vote for McCain on a bet. He's backs-tabbed the Conservatives so many times that now it's his turn. And the Left/Democrats love it: they call him a 'Maverick'. Ever notice how no Democrat gets that label? Not on their lives.
So who to vote for? Anyone but Obama or McCain.
NASA? Don't worry about it: we can't get there anyway.
With all the discussion of multiple universes, none has ever been found. Not one. (See also: Multiple Planets Like Earth)
This is pure speculation. It assists in the idea that, given enough universes, we just happened to land in the one that 'works'. Other than this one, there 'must have been trillions of others' that didn't get Earth right, so nothing happened there.
(It also avoids the question, "Who is it, making all these universes until it gets right?" but let's not bother the scientists with that, just yet...) :>
Keep in mind: every creation has a cause greater than itself. And this one universe was created, not continually recreated. Hubble shows the stars accelerating, not slowing down; this is well known.
One book points out, correctly, that the "Earth is suspended from nothing" and says this reality began with "Let there be light", and the "dividing the land" part, discussing the parting of the continents through tectonic action. It also has dozens of other 'how could they have known?' instances all throughout it's pages: the Bible. No one else got any of these right.
So why are scientists so afraid to look there?
I'd like to live in a Star Trek Universe of some sort- all kinds of discoveries and most of life's little troubles worked out, but this reality doesn't work that way. We're not solving problems, we're changing them. And life on the 'next inhabitable planet' requires FTL tech that we don't have. Wouldn't it be better to be happy here, than crawling over each other to get off this rock in the off-chance we ever break the FTL problem? Answers to these problems are in that same book.
One thing that has stuck me for several decades is the facade of the Olys.
The participants literally dedicate all of their lives for a one-time-thing. Other people, restoring cars or collecting beanie babies the same way would be taken to psychological help, And they go to 'the big game' and compete against cheaters and various punks from across the globe.
Why, again?
This isn't 1933; there's no Hitler trying to compare his Master Race(TM) to other societies. When it's all done, what has been done? It's just so meaningless, as a whole. Jamaica beats Venezuela in bobsledding. So? Mexico beats Morroco in the 144 meter dash. So?
And since the last Olys were so under-rated, they've needed to 'chick-ify' them. Every participant 'just barely made it' with persecution in their homeland, overcoming AIDS, cannibals, or tribes of mobsters. (Just a good backstory for each one, whatever the details may be, for the purposes of getting women to watch).
How many of us actually WATCH swimming meets anyway? 1/2%? Ever been to a swim meet? Around here it's done for the parents/family of the swimmers- not exactly a world-altering event. Talented swimmers breaking a world record do as much for me as Angolena Jolie having another baby: absolutely nothing. I just can't build concern.
Sure I appreciate the talent. Sure, I appreciate just how good at these things they must be, and how much of their lives was dedicated to getting these things done. But other than getting media mogols and corrupt government officials paid, what does it do?
Maybe I'm just a putz; it's totally possible- :) I don't see much point in sending a pigskin between goalposts, either. My childhood heroes jumped into enemy fire and saved the world from Nazis. Men playing baseball don't hold much excitement for me.
But in their usual style, the TV Programmers are hard at work making you care...filling the screens with this stuff, and wondering what (else) they must do to make people watch. It's just not that exciting...as the previous event's numbers show...and this time there was even less viewer than last time.
Maybe THAT's why it didn't 'melt the internet', because so few people watched?
Well, yeah...this is IT; it's full of people that saw the "money" sign and trampled in; those folks don't tend to be deep thinkers, if it's not 'about them'. I know, and am free to say this, as I was like them, too.
If I didn't have a "BAD" karmic score on this website, I'd not be doing my job, aye? :)
(I don't care about the scores)
This is actually about the failure of Air America, and the failure to silence Limbaugh.
_First, the crowds are different:_
Conservatives actually *care* about issues and details. They talk about what's good for the country, from the viewpoint of history. They take the time to listen to the radio, they've been taught to think critically and ask questions. This makes for interesting radio. 90% of Democrats can't tell you the name of a single Supreme Court Justice, many Conservatives can name them all.
Democrats/Liberals appear to choose their presidents based on how they look. Why else? Ask yourself: can you actually say you'd trust these people to park your car?
- Al "I invented the internet" Gore and his sky-is-falling global money scam.
- John "I voted against it, before I voted for it" Kerry and his core values that change with each and every poll.
- Barak "That's not the [person] I know" OBama. He thinks the Japanese started WW2 by 'dropping the bomb' on Pearl Harbor, Claims to have visited "about 57 [US] states so far" in the primary race, and he "was going to several more". He claimed to see dead war heroes in attendance at a memorial service. Ever hear him NOT on a teleprompter? SHEESH!
These guys make Dan Quayle seem smart.
And let's be clear: Barak's darker-skin means nothing to me; he's just the latest goofball offered.
_The Content is Different:_
Spewing hate and repeating lies doesn't sell. Case in point:
- Air America was a VERY well funded attempt to break into talk radio. It failed miserably. No one tuned in.
Liberals/Democrats constantly pushing towards Communism, though it too, has been disproved roundly.. They still keep trying to elect people who tell us what kinds of cars we can purchase, what kinds of light bulbs we're permitted to buy, and what kind of ingredients are in our food. (See: Transfats banned in NYC). Then they complain about the intrusion of government into our daily lives, and assuming the Republicans did it. (The media tells them this)
Liberals are constantly unhappy. They talk about what's wrong with the world. They intone discrimination where there is none, to open new lines of advance. It's all about enslaving free people because they're not living their life properly.
Meanwhile, Liberal voters are tuned to FM Music radio and can't be bothered by the news.
- Limbaugh's been growing a massive audience for TWO DECADES.
Now if you don't listen to Rush Limbaugh, there are a number of things you don't know.
- He's not been a big, fat man for about a decade. Really.
- He's not a drug dealer/user/promoter. He did lose part of his hearing, though.
- He's probably the biggest civil-rights advocate you'll find.
- He's also not anti-gay or anti-Jew, or anti ANYTHING but stupid.
- He's completely wrong about Microsoft, but has a vision for seeing political trends unlike anyone I've seen.
Limbaugh talks in terms of optimism. He tells us about how it'll get better if we stay to our message:
- Smaller government
- Less intrusion
- Controlled immigration
- Term Limits
- People having more power than the government
Why would anyone want anything else?
_Conclusion:_
Understand that ONE media machine:
- Portrays fathers as ignorant boobs in TV commercials 20 years. Watch and see.
- Denies promotion of heros. I don't mean "fallen" or "broken" heroes.
- Cuts off all secondary information. What's Bolivia's beef with it's neighbors?
- Promot
I seem to remember telling people that all this couldn't have just happened. That something like 90% of the solar systems out there contained gas giants, if any planets at all.
It's a rare thing to get several-thousands of combinations right at the same time. Not the least of which are:
- Distance from the sun/size of planet for proper G load and lighting
- Being away from black holes for obvious reasons
- Being out of nebula and such, which would prohibit exploring the universe
- Having not only water, but the right amount of it
- Having not only land, but the right amount of it.
- (continue for hundreds of items)
- Rotation of the planet so one side doesn't burn/boil, the other stays frozen
- Neighboring huge planet and/or gas giants to deflect asteroids so that life can get started and stay that way
- You get the idea
Check the fossil records. The animals didn't start small and get big- all the animals, with and without vertebrae we made around the same time, in the pre-Cambrian era. No long, slow development; that was a diagram in Darwin's work, the "Tree of Life", but has been disproven by the fossil record.
Only one book points to the Earth as "Suspended by nothing" centuries before John Glen. It also held the dimensions of the first sucessful sea-going vessel that way, too. While it doesn't detail the development of animals, it *does* detail the development of plants, and that matches the fossil record.
So why don't more "scientific" people give it a moment's notice?
I'm always amazed at 'news stories' that reveal nothing new. "Water is wet: film at 11!".
Japan is a small island, densely populated. There are still parts of America just getting used to indoor plumbing. Still. On the East coast it's packed pretty tightly, but out west, there's a LOT of land to cover. Haven't they had new advances in Japan, better cyber-plumbing and 'cooler' titles on video games for like three decades now?
Dvorak gets a technology move wrong! Netizen blames George Bush! Scientist claim sun will only come up tomorrow for a few million years.
Really, guys. Next you'll be telling me the latest release of Windows isn't being accepted by industry as "experts" guessed. How many times can you see the same thing over and over and claim it to be new?
I have to agree about some of the Creationists; to think the world is only 6,000 years old is pretty "MaGoo". There are all sorts of simple tests like counting layers of ice that go farther back than that. Plus, it isn't logical. Fossils don't lie, and neither do large batteries of tests.
The Bible is many things to many people, but a calendar- it's not. Not a play-by-play of the dinosaurs, not a technical discussion of DNA or mutations, nor a map of the approximate 12M species of animal. But there's reasons for this: it's a love letter from the Creator. He wants to redeem us all, for a life past this world, and all we need do is ask and accept.
But there are things that really annoy the scientific community:
1. Dinosaurs aren't mentioned in the Bible; what would, say, Moses have done with the information? We've only been studying what we did up for a couple hundred years. Why detail them? They were long-dead before anything that looked like man was on the prowl.
2. From the start [The Big Bang | "Let there be light"] until now has been a very long time indeed. But let's not forget an important detail: Darwin's Origin of Species included a "Tree of Life" graphic, but it was unsubstantiated. The idea of starting with two amoebas and a billion years later there's Armani just isn't scientific. The fossil record shows *nothing* for the largest span of time, up until a point in time (probably several thousand years) in which *all* current phylum appear, in the pre-Cambrian era. They sprung up fully-formed overnight. (Cosmologically anyway)
3. The Bible *can't* detail the beginning any more than it can. To do so would provide a time that science would have to agree with, and then faith would no longer have meaning. If God/Satan gave you his phone number, you wouldn't need faith anymore, aye? It's all about taking that first step without proof.
4. Christianity is historical and evidential. The Greeks: The Earth is on Atlas' shoulders. Indians: The Earth is in a pool of milk with a elephant....well, you get the idea. Know what the Bible says? "The Earth is suspended by nothing." The only book to get it right. It also got right the Hittites and the true end of the Babylonians, having two rulers instead of the usual one. I'm actually beginning to believe there are *no* contradictions. I've come a long way in 2-3 years.
5. Believe in the story of Noah or not, you have to hand it to a document that revealed the dimensions of the first successful sea-going vessel before it was known to man. And it's kinda cool how this 'fairy tale' managed to get into the histories of something like 110 different nations. Some fairy tale.
My point here is, science doesn't want to believe what they're finding. Learning who God is means having to deal with him; many aren't ready for that, and their pride suggests they can solve any problem that life throws at them. Except they can't: meet these people after a tornado comes and takes the rest of their neighborhood away- they'll have no answer.
Ya See? We have science that backs up the Bible. It's *clear* to anyone who genuinely wants to prove it to themselves that there's something special about that book, and the God to which it's written by. There's almost unimaginable consistency in there- foretelling of Christ's virgin birth and his birthplace **700** years before it happened. Think it's a trick? Go to Israel and see the carbon dating. People have spent their lives trying to explain it away and become believers.
There's gotta be a reason for that, other than blind stupidity.
Ya see, I'm not a "churchgoer", not a "team member" or other casual associate. I've seen His work, and I've met His people. I've felt his work in my heart and in my life. You'll find me in church on Sunday because that's where everyone goes, who's 'seen' Him, not the other way around. I don't do good works to fit-in at the church; I do them anyway. Having felt this, and then see someone calling others like me "with an agenda" and having "less than op
Usually things like this are one of two things:
1) A congressman that has met his own 'term limit' (since we can't seem to get them to pass that) or
2) A wild accusation puffed up by the media?
Recall that one Republican was removed from office because he told a very, very old congressman "You woulda been the right guy in power all your (90=something years) and he wasn't doing anything illegal.
Another was drummed out because he seemed to be having a homosexual affair, something the Liberals/Democrats are trying to get people to embrace in the first place.
Yet another congressman had something like $90,000 cash in his fridge that he tried to get the National Guard to remove during Katrina. He's on charges the last I heard, despite casting votes and kissing babies.
Guess which one was a Democrat?
And let's not forget: every media channel other than Fox News is voting Democratic, and has shown this bias in the recent volunteering of a trip with O'Bama while ignoring every trip Mc Cain has ever taken. These are the people who were painting the picture of Karl Rove Frog-marching in prison-Orange for a leak a Liberal reporter broke, not Scooter Libby. (This was known within 2 weeks, yet we dealt with the media show for about two YEARS until it ran out of steam.)
I'm in favor of tossing actually-corrupt elected officials of ANY stripe. And I'm no fan of ANY working there as long as Hugh Hefner has worked at Playboy. But if this is another media-kill, I"m once again pissed.
And while I've brought up the subject, have you called your representative about a term limit law?
Well ok, then. Surely because you say it's so, Jesus is a figment of our collective imaginations. Forget the historical and evidentual references throughout history; you're safe to do as you please with no recourse at the end of things.
Feel free to assume all of this is just stuff and nonsense. Just continue as you will. Have a nice day!
Let's talk about the 'end of the sysadmin' or the 'flying car'. Maybe a dog that walks itself! Mice are cheap, have a long history of successful use on a LOT of systems. People are just very, very used to it. Heck, I see even geeks using them (if only for backup) for quite a long time.
And why aren't we 'replacing' the keyboard, too?
Just like it did, the last time. CP/M was around for a while, it was powerful (next to the ultra-expensive mainframes and helpless abacus] was to go to businesses that want an edge over the competition and show off the product. Don't tell'em "Windows is wrong" but instead, tell'em "this is what you need".
Hate really doesn't play into it; this is business.
When you mention you work on _retainer_, not on an hourly rate, they look at you funny, and it gives you the reason to explain why: the ultra reliability. All that's missing from Windows is Outlook, Halo, and Quicken. Most companies don't use these, by the way.
Just give it time.
Straw man? Walk the world a while, you'll see what I mean. Never let it be said that a Christian brings a convert at the point of a gun, aye? :>
Have a nice day.
Really? You've been covered up in a pile of bliss your whole life? Great. No one dies, no one leaves when you need'em most, and there are no thunderstorms in your world.
You're fooling yourself, but I'm not gonna push. Everyone seeks happiness; very few get it, and even fewer keep it. But everyone's hunting for it. For some it's fast cars, some is fast women, others [granted, I'm sure they all read Slashdot] collect spores mold and fungus. :) But we all work hard to find the answer to that which makes us keep wanting.
Like Trump; with all his money, happy must be waiting in the wings, aye? No- I've known a lot of rich men that have miserable lives. Once they 'climb that hill' and make their first million they wonder, "Shouldn't I be happier?".
And it's not my faith, any more than Earth is 'my' planet. It's what's here. Once I allowed myself to see it, it all became clear. I wasn't raised this way; and now I see very few "Christians" that behave as I do. It's all about love, and many seem to overlook that- I don't know why.
The old saw about "Christians hate gays" for example: no, we don't. Just the ones on TV. And we don't go killing people because "don't suffer a witch to live" is written in the most ancient and outmoded parts of our Bible. We love the sinner, and hate the sin. It's the sin that causes our misery, not the sinner; it's rare than one in a million of them even know they're causing it: it's not their fault.
Like the sex issue. God doesn't _hate_ sex; it's the most glorious gift he's given us, except one. What he hates is it's misuse; doing so makes us [and our childen...] unhappy. There are fixed, repeatable-testable reasons for the hymen (virginity). When we take it wrongly, it causes the kind of relationships seen on "Seinfeld" and "Sex in the City". All that looking for the "right" person who'll never be there. It's so sad, I can't even watch these shows anymore.
Feel free to look around. Check out Eastern Mysticism, try one Bhudda for a while, go New Age for a bit, but that shadow of emptiness will follow you. (It did, me.) One day you'll open the one book that said "The Earth is suspended from nothing" a long time before John Glenn. The same one who told a father the dimensions of a sucessful sea-going vessel LONG before mankind "knew" it. And when you do, thing's will all make sense for the first time in your life. It's all very personal, and all in-tune to you.
Ya won't find me throwing stones though, while ya look.