Why offer a $45m bounty on something like this, that they can build themselves, when nuclear power is strong (as the French, using it for 70% of their power) and viable, while wind power is less certain than solar. (i.e., how do we save and re-generate as the wind stops moving, etc?)
Nuclear power is now clean, has no nuclear-waste bugaboo anymore, and is about as tested as anything. Doesn't pollute, doesn't even spew CO2.
So why aren't liberals getting on the bandwagon?
I'd tell you, but you won't believe it, so nevermind.
The BBC is the last group of people I'd imagine would help such a cause. Let's not forget: - "The GENIUS of Charles Darwin" - "The God Who wasn't There" - "The Secret Diary of a Call Girl" with everyone's favorite Dr Who girl, giving a blow-job on national TV.
These people have no visible motive for setting the records straight.
Then top it off with the neo-pagan-antichrist on this forum and....why?
Seriously: want to get modded down? Mention Christ. I do, it is. Whatever happened to that "Enlightened" and "Inclusive" culture we were promised with the liberals? They won't open the book- they feel uncomfortable with one in the ROOM!
Why does the BBC post it, and why would anyone thing Slashdot would care?
Real operating systems come on torrents...and their organizers encourage you use them!
In Windows, as with the case of TCP/IP, it was a foreign body to Win95. Someone made "WinSock" and pirated the hell out of it, and later versions came as part of the OS as if it'd been there all the time. Moral: Microsoft didn't invent the internet: Unix did.
Later, they decided to build it in, but they butchered the standard. Instead of following the standard agreed-upon by hundreds of vendors, they detected when an IIS webserver was on the other end, and agreed to ignore the ACKs and NAKs. This wasn't the only time they munged the standard to make them look better. They also chewed up DHCP servers, because a Win95 host would KEEP TALKING AFTER IT LOST IT'S LEASE on an IP address.
So those parts have been thrown away, rebuilt, thrown away partly, given new logos, recompiled for marketing reasons and are as they are, today.
In Linux, TCP/IP was one of several standards adopted early on. Sure, *very* early they probably threw something away, but the development model is more about "polishing the apple" over, and over, and over again.
When you do that, parts of the OS, probably like login.c (inspired and running years before Linux was created, then with one major change when PAM came in) have been patched and matured to the point they need no more fixing: they've beaten all the bugs. Login.c is one of 100,000 files on my machine at this moment- they're all being polished into leaner, stronger, better files every time someone files a bug report.
Windows can't possibly do this. Never mind the stolen code from Sybase (now called Access, and largely re-written) every release, they have to *pay* a cadre of people to build something which has huge chunks that are fresh and buggy. Linux never does, and has an even larger audience to check for bugs, both before and after launch.
Where's this lead?
At some point, Microsoft won't be able to release a version more stable, or more bug-free than your garden-variety Linux. 20+ years later, and we're STILL fighting an ever-growing batch of malware of various kinds, we're STILL being told the new version will be stronger and we're STILL requiring a third-party program to help Windows make it through the day. And sometimes that's not enough.
Cisco makes routers that make sense of the "Windows Networking" that seems to have never figured out how to leave a subnet.
Banks all over the world, flush-n-fill each and every PC in their employ every night because it's more likely to let them miss viruses. They're real data is on non-Microsoft servers. More and more, guess who that is?
So yeah...continue with that horse-n-buggy thinking that has scared real creative geniuses out of the PC marketplace for 15-20 years. Help along that product-liability suit or that cadre of stormtroopers who comes in looking for pirated software and leaves with a $100,000 check a month later, after bringing your business to a halt.
My operating system was made *on the internet*, programmed by fellows with compassion and vision. Won't you leave your horse and buggy world and try something new?
Before Watergate, journalism was what it was. Objective. Sure, they could WISH their guys would win, but they wouldn't jeopardize their standards to SAY so.
Then Watergate: reporters "take down" a president. Or so it appeared. Then all the sudden everyone signing up for journalism classes wants to "make a difference", which is NOT the intent of journalism at all. It's to REPORT THE ACTUAL NEWS.
Now, the three networks, who couldn't be bothered to get on a plane and go see the troops unless a nuke went off, were climing over themselves to take Obama there. Hey! How about the umpteen trips McCaine (the bastard) took and you wouldn't go?
And more recently, one network decided to broadcast a'la Provda, right from the White House on the issue of Healthcare, with no dissenting opinion. Da!
So yeah, if you can *find* high quality journalism, it's probably not American. Here, they don't bother to turn on a radio to learn about Limbaugh, they just use the 20-year-old stuff left behind by other 'journalists' and use presumptions. He's not racist, he's not homophobic, he's not a woman hater. But you'll ONLY KNOW THAT IF YOU LISTEN.
I saw a guy on one of those shows...might have been Donahue, do that knowing only the guy's age and state....verifying whether it was the right number.
The whole SSN thing is such a misnomer. There's only so many digits; people think every number has one person....it doesn't work that way. Instead, it's intended to weed out the (possibly) 10,000,000 "Joe Smiths" out there.
Ya know, back in the days when Capitalism was making us the envy of the world, what something cost wasn't generally important: just none of my business.
Sure, the '80's, when Regan came in and rescued us from the MISERABLE conditions of overtaxing and over-control via Jimmy Carter, being able to have a job became a bigger deal....having a house and a car were similarly more to cheer about, too.
But those guys at AIG? Federal guidelines had them getting paid only once a year. A YEAR! Imagine living on nothing until Christmas. Then they cut a deal with the president, and the president's men shoved on-lookers and like a lynch mob, they took THAT away, as well.
When we go socialist- we're *ALL* going to be poor, not all going to be rich. The only rich are the people in the politbureau; those in power. It will be them that buy this car.
And then it will be no one's business to know how much it costs; no one will advertise to the American public, whose electricity costs skyrocketed because Obama doesn't like coal.
Yeah, it's parly rant, but it's truth; and that's exactly why I expect to get modded down again.
We're talking about an environment that has more then TWO MILLION VIRUSES in the wild, and if your choice of Window-hardening software doesn't stop every one of them, you're screwed anyway, headed for a flush and fill. (And potenitally paying another $100). Welcome to Windows.
Sure, it's been a LONG time since Stacker, the 'wonderful new idea to double drive space', but since it was in Windows, it would last about a week before some memory-hogging virus or poorly-written program would stomp on it.
Hardware RAID can be a disaster; I got in a place and time where corporate data was on a set of drives, there was a failure, and the OS maker decided NOT to make a driver for the replacement RAID card we had. (at great cost and by FedEx!) I had to downgrade the OS, load the data to another device, upgrade it and throw away the raid entirely. What a bitch!
It's even part of the reason I delayed using software RAID on Linux- I was gunshy.
But I tried it. You'd expect the extra overhead to cost access-time, instead it speeds up reads! And the writes (at least in Linux) happen in the background so you don't notice any lag. I've run software RAID in Linux for YEARS, replacing drives and adding spares, etc. It's solid. Not only solid, but (for small applications) the best thing out there.
(If you're gonna approach Amazon.com, hardware RAID, all the way!)
Across the distributions, Redhat's got the lead in RAID-at-install-time, but every Linux out there has the ability. It's worth a shot!
Why, despite all the problems, we continue to use Microsoft?
What feature of Windows makes it OK to spend millions getting rid of Conficker, as they did in Britian at the metro bus system?
What functionality makes it worth getting your life savings stolen by the Russian Mob, and then spending 5-6 years fighting with your bank to get it back?
For how many more years will we continue to use a product that can't make it through the day without someone else's helper-program?
Linux is _complete_, free, and maintained by people who give a damn.
I thought he was an astro-guy, probing the heavens, and trying to prove that something (literally) could come from nothing so as to make God go away before he dies.
Where's this anthropologist been hiding all this time?
You'd be surprised how many college kids don't know this, drink while they have a headache (or worse yet, a hangover AND drinking) and they die from liver failure.
Last year when I came across the story the number of deaths from "Non-Steroidal NSAIDS" (including Tylenol) was 8,000 in a year. (!)
Did you notice that every instance you quoted was about the errant people of God, not God himself? That's the nature of people; look around you. People are hypocrits- it's their nature.
The 'big-picture' of a proper Christian has him taking the (metaphoric) leap and comin to Christ. From that point on, he does his best to be just like Him. No one ever makes it, but the attempt is what's important.
Look at David; after many years of the Hebrew people begging God for a man-king, and God telling them "you won't like it", David rose through the ranks as a man subservient and powerful. He fought for like 25+ years and never lost a fight. He was 'golden'.
But one day he, too, he eyed the wife of his junior commander. They had an affair- he even sent the commander to a kamikaze patrol where he died. (Uriah). This guy, as 'good' as he was, he too fell from grace. We all do!
We're all screwups in His eyes; Christ gives us the reason to be redeemed.
Everyone talks about "life should be simpler", and "what's wrong with man? (for the hate and the killing)" both are answered by the same book: we screwed up due to an external influence. It doesn't force us, we give into it.
That's the life of a Christian. You won't find it on TV; there, only recalitrant Catholics and antique (Jewish) sects are known. But then, the people that put shows on TV are working to make Him disappear, too.
NONETHELESS...
Does no one know the answer? Surely NASA does, right?
Again; the specification of the story have us all making assumptions that don't make sense.
It's the supposition of John Clayton, a geologist, that the flood was partial. The list (which you can still read today) talks about pairs of categories of animals. Birds and fish aren't even on the list- they could survive it anyway. But over the years, we take with us the notion that 'all' animals were in the ark, when that's not what the story says.
Now while I can't point to various proof and close the case, there sure seems to be a great deal of circumstantial evidence. How does something like 110 civilizations get someone saving them all from a great flood in their distant histories? It's not like it was a catchy tune like the Macarana.:)
But really- anyone know the _actual_ presumed effect of the solar wind on the bare planet's surface?
Well maybe you need to look closer; Muslims are *ordered* to kill if they can't enslave the non-Muslim. After Muhommod got back from Medina (and whatever happened there) the religion took an entirely different turn.
Christrianity is constrained _against_ killing. The parable of the tares for example. Tares look just like wheat until the harvest time, but are poisonous. Given the notion that God'd field was sprinkled with tare, a servant asks what to do about them- want us to cull them? He very clearly says "no" and continues to say that not only is it not our job to do the sorting, but to wait for the sorting until harvest. We're even NOT supposed to smack people when they've wronged us, because that's His job.
Clearly, the two are about as different as a tomato and a suspension bridge.
But notice:
1) I'm not shoving. There's no AK in my hand, and anyone using one to convert to Christ is clearly not Christian.
2) You're free to believe what you want, even if you're intentionally mean to me (or Him).
3) There's even a clause where, if you get salvation then decide you don't want it, where you can give up God's grace and be done with it.
Christianity isn't hateful or dangerous; anyone claiming to be Christian using these tactics is wrong. But no surprise there- the content of the religion contains _people_ not toasters. People are like that.
That's all. Kinda a difference, one centered on killing, one centered on life.
Yeah, I've heard things in the Bible explained as having happened before; never is there truth to it- like the Iranian tale of Mithri: "Just like the messianic tale, Mithri died to save the world!" Execpt he didn't; according to scholars, the most he ever did was kill a bull of some sort. There's a great many people trying to make God go away. Kinda sad, really. No one tries to make Buddah go away, or discount Ra, or dispute Karma.
The presumption that science != christianity kinda bothers me. Was it not the Bible that suggested this reality began with "let there be light" as the nuclear scientists of the 30's and 40's posited? Wouldn't the Bible have looked stupid for a long time until then?
How about the part deep in Genesis where it says "The Earth is suspended from nothing". That, too, was up for debate until John Glen learned that the Indian idea of it being on the trunk of an elephant, swimming in a sea of milk was wrong. And Atlas was wrong. But for a long time the Bible looked stupid.
The Hittites. The co-management of Babylon's last regime. All these were thought to be stuff and nonsense until actual hard proof arrived. Science and Christianity agree. When they don't (see also The Pope & Capernicous) we have bad theology or bad science. Did you know that for some 700 years the speed of light was thought to be about 30 miles an hour? Things change.
But back to the story; there is a suggestion of a waterfall-churn being at that narrow point south of Portugal- as if, water on the other side flowed for a long time. And, if you draw a straight line, 90 degrees from that point, you wind up on Mt Ararat.
I dunno; the tale is repeated through some 110 civilizations. Record keeping, as date-keeping was spotty back then. But upon a re-read of the tale, through modern eyes, it just keeps seeming more possible, not less.
As to this density of the solar wind; is there no study on this? Are these just guesses- that's all I've gotten so far. Or is even the actual concept of a pole reversal well known? I know it's been a heck of a long time since one happened...
I keep going over the proof for Noah's flood. It's not as far-flung as it sounds if you actually RTFM. It calls for a number of animals that would fit in a rowboat- it doesn't have to be millions. And it doesn't have to be a full world, either: Rome 'taxed the world' and I'm certain they didn't get New Jersey.
So here's the question.
What *actually* happens when the poles reverse and the Van Allen (etc) belts come down for a short time? The solar wind, largely H3 I'm told, touches an oxygen-covered surface at 33,000mph. So hot hydrogen..on oxygen...rain?
Everyone I've asked just asserts how ridiculous the question is, but no one ever has a response, other than to roll their eyes. There must be an answer- another reversal is coming up.
And this relates to the article by suggesting the pathology that the planet was heavy *nitrogen* first, and the added water brought the oxygen...
I'm not a scientist, but obviously neither are the people I've asked.
There's an airport in Indy that has two men on payroll, specifically to rebuild Outlook as a messenging-agent, every week when it takes a dump. This is needless, especially since Zimbra's done so very well on wide rollout.
Can you imagine trying to hire two people because Postfix goes down every couple of weeks? Unheard-of. But people will do anything for Microsoft.
And we're not even figuring-in the cases where a man loses $30,000 removed from his bank account, and spends six YEARS trying to get it back, becauase of malware.
Malware is very, very expensive. And Microsoft is quite the petri dish for growing such problems.
Don't tell me that, when Linux gets big enough, it'll have 2,000,000 viruses out in the wild, too. That stable of viruses was grown because it's done in closed-source and/or to cause people to buy support.
Linux, now, is larger than Apple, and still has less infections and malware trouble. I don't see a time when TWO MILLION viruses will be tolerated by the Linux brotherhood.
I could really use the CAPS LOCK key taken off. Completely. I've thought about just taking a screwdriver to the darned thing. I suppose _someone_ uses it, right?
Do the math; 14,000 machines, 2190 days (6 years, ballpark) is 6 machines a day. I can do the physical conversion with just one other person in that time.
I understand the virtual conversion- putting people on Firefox and OpenOffice...but with the teams surely available to any organization _requiring_ 14,000 machines, doesn't it seem like they'd be done by now?
Well, I'm sorry; there's just no right to privacy in the Constitution. And it can't be clearer about the rights of 1) *Life* 2) Liberty and 3) Pursuit of happiness. Later things like the search-n-seizure law limit what can be taken with/without a warrant, etc, but the Constitution has no mention of privacy. (Though, I really wish it did, with clear lines of demarcation)
And here were are, 40+ years still griping about it. CLEARLY this is a law that deserves more than a handful of people to decide for 300 million. The states should decide for themselves. That's one of the things that made America great.
This is parallel to the Roe Vs Wade case. When something isn't in the Constitution, it then falls to the states to decide. Instead, a handful of people we can't vote out decided FOR US that abortion was somehow in the Constitution (never read it in there...) and all states were required to agree.
Abortion's murder alright, but in places where they think differently, they should have the right to enact their own law. This was one of hundreds of other bad laws that error on the side of smothering us with Federal power.
The next one is Healthcare. They want the power to control who lives and dies, period. Only then can we arguably get rid of inconvenient people, legally. The old, the sick, the unwanted babies, the car salesmen, the people who don't agree with the president...
It's time to ask questions. It's time to call a congressman. Time to pay attention.
And what's with this "Bush Era Secrecy"? You ain't seen NOTHING yet, until you look at the Obama administration.
His reichmarchalls are hard at work at a plausible way to silence talk radio. The first thing a dictator does upon gaining power is to quench dissent. Da!
He used that 747 for a joy ride, at around a 1/4 million dollars, supposedly to get a good photo of Air Force One, then forbids anyone to see the pictures. At any cost.
Ask "Joe the Plumber" who asked, are you trying to tax me out of my ambitions?" (Paraphrasing) and the media scrambled to learn everything about him, ratting him out to the local union house so he can't get a job there, and starting a media wave to make him look like some kind of hick.
THEN WE CAN TALK ABOUT Palin. The only *real* choice in the last election, the Left is so afraid of her freedom-loving ways they want you to think she's a stupid dork with a white trash family. Most of the slashdotters here believe it for that reason.
Oh, no...Bush was never this restrictive, controlled the media, and Bush (being a dork that he was) was at least able to create jobs. The same cannot be said for THIS particular dork.But this dork wants POWER. And he wants it NOW. (See Cap-and-Trade legislation).
Here, here. This concept is one of the primary reasons I hated voting for McCain. It also keeps me voting for Newt.
The original concept of ManMadeGlobalWarming(TM) was a political tool taken from a British kook during a mining issue. As much as I loved her, it came from Maggie Thatcher.
The concept is based on the theory that CO2 is "out of control" and the sun plays no role in global temperature change whatsoever. Also, members of the church of Al Gore believe that CO2 has something to do with the way the Earth regulates it's temperature.
They're a little bit right; just in the wrong direction.
Al Gore shows two massive charts that appear to be the same, each 20 feet long on casters. He acts incredulous as he says "Ya know, these two might have something in common". But what he doesn't mention is that the two are offset by 800 years.
CO2 is ejected by the oceans (you know, 75% of the Earth's surface or so) 800 years after a global heating. But Al is slick in making it look like the cause, not the resolution, to the heating.
This bill isn't Democrat nor Republican: it's one of two power-grabbing acts meant to put even tighter control over businesses. It will also help to collapse the economy.
GlobalWarming(TM) is a political tool for big government to take your money AND your rights, and it must be defeated.
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Why offer a $45m bounty on something like this, that they can build themselves, when nuclear power is strong (as the French, using it for 70% of their power) and viable, while wind power is less certain than solar. (i.e., how do we save and re-generate as the wind stops moving, etc?)
Nuclear power is now clean, has no nuclear-waste bugaboo anymore, and is about as tested as anything. Doesn't pollute, doesn't even spew CO2.
So why aren't liberals getting on the bandwagon?
I'd tell you, but you won't believe it, so nevermind.
The BBC is the last group of people I'd imagine would help such a cause. Let's not forget:
- "The GENIUS of Charles Darwin"
- "The God Who wasn't There"
- "The Secret Diary of a Call Girl" with everyone's favorite Dr Who girl, giving a blow-job on national TV.
These people have no visible motive for setting the records straight.
Then top it off with the neo-pagan-antichrist on this forum and....why?
Seriously: want to get modded down? Mention Christ. I do, it is. Whatever happened to that "Enlightened" and "Inclusive" culture we were promised with the liberals? They won't open the book- they feel uncomfortable with one in the ROOM!
Why does the BBC post it, and why would anyone thing Slashdot would care?
Once again the marketing droids will have to go to work to say the same thing, only differently:
Light comes outta dis bulb. :>
How many different "sunlight equivelant" and "efficient" and similar-sounding ways can you say that?
Real operating systems come on torrents...and their organizers encourage you use them!
In Windows, as with the case of TCP/IP, it was a foreign body to Win95. Someone made "WinSock" and pirated the hell out of it, and later versions came as part of the OS as if it'd been there all the time. Moral: Microsoft didn't invent the internet: Unix did.
Later, they decided to build it in, but they butchered the standard. Instead of following the standard agreed-upon by hundreds of vendors, they detected when an IIS webserver was on the other end, and agreed to ignore the ACKs and NAKs. This wasn't the only time they munged the standard to make them look better. They also chewed up DHCP servers, because a Win95 host would KEEP TALKING AFTER IT LOST IT'S LEASE on an IP address.
So those parts have been thrown away, rebuilt, thrown away partly, given new logos, recompiled for marketing reasons and are as they are, today.
In Linux, TCP/IP was one of several standards adopted early on. Sure, *very* early they probably threw something away, but the development model is more about "polishing the apple" over, and over, and over again.
When you do that, parts of the OS, probably like login.c (inspired and running years before Linux was created, then with one major change when PAM came in) have been patched and matured to the point they need no more fixing: they've beaten all the bugs. Login.c is one of 100,000 files on my machine at this moment- they're all being polished into leaner, stronger, better files every time someone files a bug report.
Windows can't possibly do this. Never mind the stolen code from Sybase (now called Access, and largely re-written) every release, they have to *pay* a cadre of people to build something which has huge chunks that are fresh and buggy. Linux never does, and has an even larger audience to check for bugs, both before and after launch.
Where's this lead?
At some point, Microsoft won't be able to release a version more stable, or more bug-free than your garden-variety Linux. 20+ years later, and we're STILL fighting an ever-growing batch of malware of various kinds, we're STILL being told the new version will be stronger and we're STILL requiring a third-party program to help Windows make it through the day. And sometimes that's not enough.
Cisco makes routers that make sense of the "Windows Networking" that seems to have never figured out how to leave a subnet.
Banks all over the world, flush-n-fill each and every PC in their employ every night because it's more likely to let them miss viruses. They're real data is on non-Microsoft servers. More and more, guess who that is?
So yeah...continue with that horse-n-buggy thinking that has scared real creative geniuses out of the PC marketplace for 15-20 years. Help along that product-liability suit or that cadre of stormtroopers who comes in looking for pirated software and leaves with a $100,000 check a month later, after bringing your business to a halt.
My operating system was made *on the internet*, programmed by fellows with compassion and vision. Won't you leave your horse and buggy world and try something new?
Someone has to actually DO that, first.
Before Watergate, journalism was what it was. Objective. Sure, they could WISH their guys would win, but they wouldn't jeopardize their standards to SAY so.
Then Watergate: reporters "take down" a president. Or so it appeared. Then all the sudden everyone signing up for journalism classes wants to "make a difference", which is NOT the intent of journalism at all. It's to REPORT THE ACTUAL NEWS.
Now, the three networks, who couldn't be bothered to get on a plane and go see the troops unless a nuke went off, were climing over themselves to take Obama there. Hey! How about the umpteen trips McCaine (the bastard) took and you wouldn't go?
And more recently, one network decided to broadcast a'la Provda, right from the White House on the issue of Healthcare, with no dissenting opinion. Da!
So yeah, if you can *find* high quality journalism, it's probably not American. Here, they don't bother to turn on a radio to learn about Limbaugh, they just use the 20-year-old stuff left behind by other 'journalists' and use presumptions. He's not racist, he's not homophobic, he's not a woman hater. But you'll ONLY KNOW THAT IF YOU LISTEN.
I saw a guy on one of those shows...might have been Donahue, do that knowing only the guy's age and state....verifying whether it was the right number.
The whole SSN thing is such a misnomer. There's only so many digits; people think every number has one person....it doesn't work that way. Instead, it's intended to weed out the (possibly) 10,000,000 "Joe Smiths" out there.
Ya know, back in the days when Capitalism was making us the envy of the world, what something cost wasn't generally important: just none of my business.
Sure, the '80's, when Regan came in and rescued us from the MISERABLE conditions of overtaxing and over-control via Jimmy Carter, being able to have a job became a bigger deal....having a house and a car were similarly more to cheer about, too.
But those guys at AIG? Federal guidelines had them getting paid only once a year. A YEAR! Imagine living on nothing until Christmas. Then they cut a deal with the president, and the president's men shoved on-lookers and like a lynch mob, they took THAT away, as well.
When we go socialist- we're *ALL* going to be poor, not all going to be rich. The only rich are the people in the politbureau; those in power. It will be them that buy this car.
And then it will be no one's business to know how much it costs; no one will advertise to the American public, whose electricity costs skyrocketed because Obama doesn't like coal.
Yeah, it's parly rant, but it's truth; and that's exactly why I expect to get modded down again.
We're talking about an environment that has more then TWO MILLION VIRUSES in the wild, and if your choice of Window-hardening software doesn't stop every one of them, you're screwed anyway, headed for a flush and fill. (And potenitally paying another $100). Welcome to Windows.
Sure, it's been a LONG time since Stacker, the 'wonderful new idea to double drive space', but since it was in Windows, it would last about a week before some memory-hogging virus or poorly-written program would stomp on it.
Hardware RAID can be a disaster; I got in a place and time where corporate data was on a set of drives, there was a failure, and the OS maker decided NOT to make a driver for the replacement RAID card we had. (at great cost and by FedEx!) I had to downgrade the OS, load the data to another device, upgrade it and throw away the raid entirely. What a bitch!
It's even part of the reason I delayed using software RAID on Linux- I was gunshy.
But I tried it. You'd expect the extra overhead to cost access-time, instead it speeds up reads! And the writes (at least in Linux) happen in the background so you don't notice any lag. I've run software RAID in Linux for YEARS, replacing drives and adding spares, etc. It's solid. Not only solid, but (for small applications) the best thing out there.
(If you're gonna approach Amazon.com, hardware RAID, all the way!)
Across the distributions, Redhat's got the lead in RAID-at-install-time, but every Linux out there has the ability. It's worth a shot!
Why, despite all the problems, we continue to use Microsoft?
What feature of Windows makes it OK to spend millions getting rid of Conficker, as they did in Britian at the metro bus system?
What functionality makes it worth getting your life savings stolen by the Russian Mob, and then spending 5-6 years fighting with your bank to get it back?
For how many more years will we continue to use a product that can't make it through the day without someone else's helper-program?
Linux is _complete_, free, and maintained by people who give a damn.
I thought he was an astro-guy, probing the heavens, and trying to prove that something (literally) could come from nothing so as to make God go away before he dies.
Where's this anthropologist been hiding all this time?
You'd be surprised how many college kids don't know this, drink while they have a headache (or worse yet, a hangover AND drinking) and they die from liver failure.
Last year when I came across the story the number of deaths from "Non-Steroidal NSAIDS" (including Tylenol) was 8,000 in a year. (!)
Did you notice that every instance you quoted was about the errant people of God, not God himself? That's the nature of people; look around you. People are hypocrits- it's their nature.
The 'big-picture' of a proper Christian has him taking the (metaphoric) leap and comin to Christ. From that point on, he does his best to be just like Him. No one ever makes it, but the attempt is what's important.
Look at David; after many years of the Hebrew people begging God for a man-king, and God telling them "you won't like it", David rose through the ranks as a man subservient and powerful. He fought for like 25+ years and never lost a fight. He was 'golden'.
But one day he, too, he eyed the wife of his junior commander. They had an affair- he even sent the commander to a kamikaze patrol where he died. (Uriah). This guy, as 'good' as he was, he too fell from grace. We all do!
We're all screwups in His eyes; Christ gives us the reason to be redeemed.
Everyone talks about "life should be simpler", and "what's wrong with man? (for the hate and the killing)" both are answered by the same book: we screwed up due to an external influence. It doesn't force us, we give into it.
That's the life of a Christian. You won't find it on TV; there, only recalitrant Catholics and antique (Jewish) sects are known. But then, the people that put shows on TV are working to make Him disappear, too.
NONETHELESS...
Does no one know the answer? Surely NASA does, right?
Again; the specification of the story have us all making assumptions that don't make sense.
It's the supposition of John Clayton, a geologist, that the flood was partial. The list (which you can still read today) talks about pairs of categories of animals. Birds and fish aren't even on the list- they could survive it anyway. But over the years, we take with us the notion that 'all' animals were in the ark, when that's not what the story says.
Now while I can't point to various proof and close the case, there sure seems to be a great deal of circumstantial evidence. How does something like 110 civilizations get someone saving them all from a great flood in their distant histories? It's not like it was a catchy tune like the Macarana. :)
But really- anyone know the _actual_ presumed effect of the solar wind on the bare planet's surface?
Well maybe you need to look closer; Muslims are *ordered* to kill if they can't enslave the non-Muslim. After Muhommod got back from Medina (and whatever happened there) the religion took an entirely different turn.
Christrianity is constrained _against_ killing. The parable of the tares for example. Tares look just like wheat until the harvest time, but are poisonous. Given the notion that God'd field was sprinkled with tare, a servant asks what to do about them- want us to cull them? He very clearly says "no" and continues to say that not only is it not our job to do the sorting, but to wait for the sorting until harvest. We're even NOT supposed to smack people when they've wronged us, because that's His job.
Clearly, the two are about as different as a tomato and a suspension bridge.
But notice:
1) I'm not shoving. There's no AK in my hand, and anyone using one to convert to Christ is clearly not Christian.
2) You're free to believe what you want, even if you're intentionally mean to me (or Him).
3) There's even a clause where, if you get salvation then decide you don't want it, where you can give up God's grace and be done with it.
Christianity isn't hateful or dangerous; anyone claiming to be Christian using these tactics is wrong. But no surprise there- the content of the religion contains _people_ not toasters. People are like that.
That's all. Kinda a difference, one centered on killing, one centered on life.
Yeah, I've heard things in the Bible explained as having happened before; never is there truth to it- like the Iranian tale of Mithri: "Just like the messianic tale, Mithri died to save the world!" Execpt he didn't; according to scholars, the most he ever did was kill a bull of some sort. There's a great many people trying to make God go away. Kinda sad, really. No one tries to make Buddah go away, or discount Ra, or dispute Karma.
The presumption that science != christianity kinda bothers me. Was it not the Bible that suggested this reality began with "let there be light" as the nuclear scientists of the 30's and 40's posited? Wouldn't the Bible have looked stupid for a long time until then?
How about the part deep in Genesis where it says "The Earth is suspended from nothing". That, too, was up for debate until John Glen learned that the Indian idea of it being on the trunk of an elephant, swimming in a sea of milk was wrong. And Atlas was wrong. But for a long time the Bible looked stupid.
The Hittites. The co-management of Babylon's last regime. All these were thought to be stuff and nonsense until actual hard proof arrived. Science and Christianity agree. When they don't (see also The Pope & Capernicous) we have bad theology or bad science. Did you know that for some 700 years the speed of light was thought to be about 30 miles an hour? Things change.
But back to the story; there is a suggestion of a waterfall-churn being at that narrow point south of Portugal- as if, water on the other side flowed for a long time. And, if you draw a straight line, 90 degrees from that point, you wind up on Mt Ararat.
I dunno; the tale is repeated through some 110 civilizations. Record keeping, as date-keeping was spotty back then. But upon a re-read of the tale, through modern eyes, it just keeps seeming more possible, not less.
As to this density of the solar wind; is there no study on this? Are these just guesses- that's all I've gotten so far. Or is even the actual concept of a pole reversal well known? I know it's been a heck of a long time since one happened...
I keep going over the proof for Noah's flood. It's not as far-flung as it sounds if you actually RTFM. It calls for a number of animals that would fit in a rowboat- it doesn't have to be millions. And it doesn't have to be a full world, either: Rome 'taxed the world' and I'm certain they didn't get New Jersey.
So here's the question.
What *actually* happens when the poles reverse and the Van Allen (etc) belts come down for a short time? The solar wind, largely H3 I'm told, touches an oxygen-covered surface at 33,000mph. So hot hydrogen..on oxygen...rain?
Everyone I've asked just asserts how ridiculous the question is, but no one ever has a response, other than to roll their eyes. There must be an answer- another reversal is coming up.
And this relates to the article by suggesting the pathology that the planet was heavy *nitrogen* first, and the added water brought the oxygen...
I'm not a scientist, but obviously neither are the people I've asked.
See also: Firefly: Episode "Our Mrs Reynolds" where our bad girl is told, "Listen to me- I'm babbling like a MOON BRAIN."
Oh, yeah: the moon and (creative|dangerous|unpredictable) folks is well established.
Thank you for saying so! I tend to say such things and get modded down. The truth usually is.
Nevermind the fossil record shows CO2 (exuded by the ocean [75% of the Earth's surface] actually COOLS the scene, not heats it..)
And they think *I* am the blind religious zealot. :>
There's an airport in Indy that has two men on payroll, specifically to rebuild Outlook as a messenging-agent, every week when it takes a dump. This is needless, especially since Zimbra's done so very well on wide rollout.
Can you imagine trying to hire two people because Postfix goes down every couple of weeks? Unheard-of. But people will do anything for Microsoft.
And we're not even figuring-in the cases where a man loses $30,000 removed from his bank account, and spends six YEARS trying to get it back, becauase of malware.
Malware is very, very expensive. And Microsoft is quite the petri dish for growing such problems.
Don't tell me that, when Linux gets big enough, it'll have 2,000,000 viruses out in the wild, too. That stable of viruses was grown because it's done in closed-source and/or to cause people to buy support.
Linux, now, is larger than Apple, and still has less infections and malware trouble. I don't see a time when TWO MILLION viruses will be tolerated by the Linux brotherhood.
I could really use the CAPS LOCK key taken off. Completely. I've thought about just taking a screwdriver to the darned thing. I suppose _someone_ uses it, right?
Do the math; 14,000 machines, 2190 days (6 years, ballpark) is 6 machines a day. I can do the physical conversion with just one other person in that time.
I understand the virtual conversion- putting people on Firefox and OpenOffice...but with the teams surely available to any organization _requiring_ 14,000 machines, doesn't it seem like they'd be done by now?
Maybe I'm overlooking something?
Well, I'm sorry; there's just no right to privacy in the Constitution. And it can't be clearer about the rights of 1) *Life* 2) Liberty and 3) Pursuit of happiness. Later things like the search-n-seizure law limit what can be taken with/without a warrant, etc, but the Constitution has no mention of privacy. (Though, I really wish it did, with clear lines of demarcation)
And here were are, 40+ years still griping about it. CLEARLY this is a law that deserves more than a handful of people to decide for 300 million. The states should decide for themselves. That's one of the things that made America great.
Now, though, we're all under Federal attack.
AMEN! It's the core of what made America great!
This is parallel to the Roe Vs Wade case. When something isn't in the Constitution, it then falls to the states to decide. Instead, a handful of people we can't vote out decided FOR US that abortion was somehow in the Constitution (never read it in there...) and all states were required to agree.
Abortion's murder alright, but in places where they think differently, they should have the right to enact their own law. This was one of hundreds of other bad laws that error on the side of smothering us with Federal power.
The next one is Healthcare. They want the power to control who lives and dies, period. Only then can we arguably get rid of inconvenient people, legally. The old, the sick, the unwanted babies, the car salesmen, the people who don't agree with the president...
It's time to ask questions. It's time to call a congressman. Time to pay attention.
And what's with this "Bush Era Secrecy"? You ain't seen NOTHING yet, until you look at the Obama administration.
His reichmarchalls are hard at work at a plausible way to silence talk radio. The first thing a dictator does upon gaining power is to quench dissent. Da!
He used that 747 for a joy ride, at around a 1/4 million dollars, supposedly to get a good photo of Air Force One, then forbids anyone to see the pictures. At any cost.
Ask "Joe the Plumber" who asked, are you trying to tax me out of my ambitions?" (Paraphrasing) and the media scrambled to learn everything about him, ratting him out to the local union house so he can't get a job there, and starting a media wave to make him look like some kind of hick.
THEN WE CAN TALK ABOUT Palin. The only *real* choice in the last election, the Left is so afraid of her freedom-loving ways they want you to think she's a stupid dork with a white trash family. Most of the slashdotters here believe it for that reason.
Oh, no...Bush was never this restrictive, controlled the media, and Bush (being a dork that he was) was at least able to create jobs. The same cannot be said for THIS particular dork.But this dork wants POWER. And he wants it NOW. (See Cap-and-Trade legislation).
Here, here. This concept is one of the primary reasons I hated voting for McCain. It also keeps me voting for Newt.
The original concept of ManMadeGlobalWarming(TM) was a political tool taken from a British kook during a mining issue. As much as I loved her, it came from Maggie Thatcher.
The concept is based on the theory that CO2 is "out of control" and the sun plays no role in global temperature change whatsoever. Also, members of the church of Al Gore believe that CO2 has something to do with the way the Earth regulates it's temperature.
They're a little bit right; just in the wrong direction.
Al Gore shows two massive charts that appear to be the same, each 20 feet long on casters. He acts incredulous as he says "Ya know, these two might have something in common". But what he doesn't mention is that the two are offset by 800 years.
CO2 is ejected by the oceans (you know, 75% of the Earth's surface or so) 800 years after a global heating. But Al is slick in making it look like the cause, not the resolution, to the heating.
This bill isn't Democrat nor Republican: it's one of two power-grabbing acts meant to put even tighter control over businesses. It will also help to collapse the economy.
GlobalWarming(TM) is a political tool for big government to take your money AND your rights, and it must be defeated.