I agree with you somewhat...but we are plowing down plants to build suburbia and malls for spoiled consumers.
Or some countries are plowing all their plants for farming, housing, fuel, or even just to make work.
The good news is, you are right...it's idiot proof, if we fuck it up too bad, huge wars, death, famine, disease, and weather will put things back were they were...and it will get back to normal. (:
Ask the average person:
Do you want the government to tell you when you can drive? What temperature to set your house at? How many kids you can have? What you can do, see, eat, or be?
The average person will tell you that, NO...they don't want any of this. Of course, the same person will say they want OTHERS regulated. The government should come in and regulate companies, they should regulate cities! Regulate farmers, miners, whatever, as long as it doesn't mean THEY are effected.
If your AVERAGE person really gave a shit, they would ALREADY be limiting their impact. For example, I drive as little as I can, recycle, bike as much as I can, turn off my CFL bulbs when not in use, xeriscape, etc...ALL without the government having to tell me to. This is what we call FREE AGENCY. Freedom...liberty. The choice to drive a Prius or a Hummer.
Thomas Jefferson would punch most of you dead in your shit!
How come liberals don't believe in liberty? Why are they only pro-choice when it comes to abortion? Thomas Jefferson would punch most of you dead in your shit!
So Bush doesn't sign us up for Kyoto or other measures...and everyone shits their collective pants about how evil Bush and the USA are cause of it. Most of the countries that DO sign these things don't even have to do anything! How fucking easy is it to sign something that doesn't require you to do anything? Most of these countries sign stuff left and right, like pledging troops for the SFOR, or Darfor...like pledging money for Afghan reconstruction..and they never actually pitch in....
How fucking easy is it to sign up when you don't intend to actually do your part? And the US is the bad guy, cause we just don't sign up? Fuck that.
There be a fine line between piracy and bootlegging.
In all honesty, I would bet that piracy has ACCOUNTED for much of Microsoft's success. Everyone you know (I'm talking about the average folks out there, not/.ers) uses windows...so you get a computer with windows.
Adobe can basically attribute its success to 2 things: colleges teach adobe products in VT programs and students pirate them to get good at using them.
But piracy in the workplace? Learn to internets and get some FOSS, ya cheap fuckers.
We have a pickup for hauling stuff and a Prius for hauling people.
There's no reason to drive the truck to work, and there's no way I'm putting a yard of gravel in my Prius.
I DID manage to fit 2 single kayaks INSIDE the Prius though!
I parked next to some meshback driving a Ford F650 at the grocery store a while back. He seemed to chuckle at my car...I asked him what was so funny. He said my little car was funny. So I asked him if he had kids...he said he did. So I told him "Well your kids are breathing your exhaust, hows that for funny"?
Hardy Heron maxes out the CPU for tasks XP handles with less muscle. The MP3 player skips if you open a new firefox tab. Nice!
Gnome freezes every 3 hours at best.
After fighting with "restricted" drivers for a week, I gave up running dual monitors. This is of course a "driver" issue and therefore the fault of capitalism...at least that's what I garner from all the forums. Oh and I should RTFM.
The wireless card stops running after 2 hours.
Ubuntu makes a fine server, but geeze does it suck cocks as a desktop.
Then I won't bother telling you about the Iraqi alcohol establishments that were around Ramadi.
Oh, and since you are so educated, you might know the difference between Arabs and Muslims.
Buddy, this is just a part of the global balance of power, between the religiously-free and the Muslims. Just like the cold-war is just a global balance of power between the politically-free and the communists. Just like when the Catholics ruled Europe, and tried to rule the world. Oil you say? Whoever controls the energy will factor better in the balance of power. In the end, it comes down to which side of the ideology you are on. I'm not duped, I'm not stupid, and I even understand that Arabs != Muslims and both drink alcohol if they feel like it (and depending on who's watching). In any case, that beer thing was something of a joke, like us getting together and laughing about the old times.
Let me ask you dude, what if this was a war for oxygen? Would you cry-ass about a war for oxygen? Why not? We need oil to support EVERY aspect of our current society. So does EVERY nation on this planet. Just like oxygen. I'd like to transition to a better energy source, post haste! But we aren't there yet.
Oil is just a means to an end, economics, and power just the same. This war, and all the wars before it, are just about jockeying for position in the grand scheme, balance of power of ideologies. Which side are you on? There's only a couple of camps. The free-agency team, and the others.
In 20 more years, you will be a minority in your own country. Most of your elected officials will have been replaced by Muslims. All of your liberties and socially-liberal policies will be reverted and you will find yourself living under a very real Sharia.
I found the insurgent videos to be, well lacking in their musical choice. However, they provided an excellent view into the operations of the insurgents. We sometimes would watch them just to get a better idea about them.
And the Uhm Kfar (spelling?) video did have some hella tight beats.
You know...once this whole world-struggle for ideologies (this really isn't about Iraq, as far as the insurgents see it) is over, we are gonna sit down, have some beers, and play our videos together, and laugh about the old times.
They are going to post their videos on some site... we certainly post ours. Why shouldn't a US company get the ad revenue?
What's really awesome is that PV cells have undergone constant improvement in lab performance for 20 years, but since nothing ever gets put into production, the industry is held in a constant state of "early adoption" and we get screwed like perpetual "early adopters".
Know what would rawk? A 5 year moritorium on new PV cell research so we could get some actual PV cell production going.
...it became clear that the ultimate weapon would project dead AA batteries a few thousand feet per second. We were never in short supply.
But yeah, now that I work for a school district, it's quite clear that a microfloppy cannon is the way to go. For anti-armor purposes, maybee a zip-disk launcher.
Right, cause when the North Koreans, Russians, Chinese, et al. came in to "save you" from the "evil US military" your freedoms would finally be secure for all time.
Those countries always bring liberty, equality, and cell-phone coverage to all they conquer.
It's probably taken for granted that most journalists don't really understand military strategy and tactics at a core level...but when they say Iraq is a shit samich, everyone listens.
Most kids writing in gamer-enthusiast magazines don't understand how the cpu registers keep track of memory in the stack, but who fucking cares? They know about what they know about...I bet there's something you don't know either, but if you make a good point, most of us won't be so 1337 that your article wouldn't be "worth reading".
It was to protect you from the O'Malleys and O'Connors.
The PHP framers were obviously fans of Mel Brooks' film, Blazing Saddles: "We'll take the niggers and the chinks but we don't want the Irish".
Or I'm missing something.
The only thing that can protect us is government involvement and licensure. Only large companies, approved by a governmental body, can be trusted with a compiler.
From my cold, dead hard-drive!
How about the Flash vulnerability that felled the Vista box at the SEC competition? Do you need a license to use Flash CS3 or just to write the Flash player? Cause I'm sure Adobe can get this license.
Apple Corp can probably get a concealed-carry-compiler permit too...and they wrote the Safari flaw that felled the Air in the same competition. Or do we need javascript certificates from city hall?
Here's another scenario, Stalin. How about we keep doing our jobs, filtering the spam, enjoying the porn and don't worry about the BotNet kicking in your door and dragging you off to Gitmo in the night...we don't need more governance.
There's a lot of professionally-unemployed meth addicts in the Puget Sound area who could REALLY use some more welfare!
How much longer will evil profit makers be able to keep money they make? Its a shame! Employing people at the expense of non-working people! For shame!
What personal shortcoming makes you have to belittle people doing that job?
Mindless TSA Buffoon? These are just people doing a job...much like you. You could just say, "Now I have to share my medical history with a TSA employee? That's stupid." But you've got to make the extra effort to contribute nothing to the conversation by being a dick.
Not that this makes me a worldly expert or anything, but each Iraqi home is allowed up to 1 rifle (generally an AK series) and up to 200 rounds of ammunition WITHOUT a permit from the local CPA/Gov Center. Just about every Iraqi home I visited there had one. They man of the house was happy to show it to us, and I usually had to lecture him (away from his family, and with the aid of a translator) on the importance of weapons maintenance.
Out on the road, with a permit, people could have weapons for self defense...and shepherds we would talk to often had them without a permit. We usually let them keep them...again with a warning on the importance of keeping rifles clean.
Iraq is a great example of why you DONT want gun control. You never know when you need to protect yourself. There is no 911 for the average Iraqi to call. It is up to the head of household to protect his family. If the local Sheik is so inclined, he may create local security organizations (militias) to collectively safegard life and property.
The only people who realllly want to take guns from people are politicians who want to take control from people. Creating a dependent populace who NEEDS the government more than the government NEEDS them. This is not the basis for a truly free society.
I am in no way an anti-MS guy, I use MS stuff all the time quite harmoniously along with macs and lots of linux...
I remember some early CS classes where the professor explained that, as programmers get better, math gets better, and new languages and paradigms come out, things should require LESS resources.
Take, for example, our forefathers or prehistoric ancestors searching arrays of pointers in a linear fashion. Then someone figured out binary search...bam! Instant big-O improvement!
Ideally, each new version of any OS *SHOULD* be able to run on slower equipment. Or at least, respectably fast on the same equipment.
Now before all the macintrash kids chime in, Apple WAS the king of bloat for a long time. I remember running win2k at amazingly fast speeds compared to the slugish macOS. That slugishness was part ppc and part bloated pretty-ware. OSX was realllllly slow compared to win2k, all those cycles taken up by geenie effect and other such bullshit.
I guess my problem is that, in just a couple generations, an OS (which does the same job as any other OS) takes now 8 times the RAM? WTF? MS has taken the SUV approach. Only, theres so much engine, theres hardly room for passengers. I want an OS that takes little ram, few cycles, and less HDD. Neither MS nor Apple are doing this.
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Or some countries are plowing all their plants for farming, housing, fuel, or even just to make work.
The good news is, you are right...it's idiot proof, if we fuck it up too bad, huge wars, death, famine, disease, and weather will put things back were they were...and it will get back to normal. (:
Do you want the government to tell you when you can drive?
What temperature to set your house at?
How many kids you can have?
What you can do, see, eat, or be?
The average person will tell you that, NO...they don't want any of this. Of course, the same person will say they want OTHERS regulated. The government should come in and regulate companies, they should regulate cities! Regulate farmers, miners, whatever, as long as it doesn't mean THEY are effected.
If your AVERAGE person really gave a shit, they would ALREADY be limiting their impact. For example, I drive as little as I can, recycle, bike as much as I can, turn off my CFL bulbs when not in use, xeriscape, etc...ALL without the government having to tell me to. This is what we call FREE AGENCY. Freedom...liberty. The choice to drive a Prius or a Hummer.
Thomas Jefferson would punch most of you dead in your shit!
How come liberals don't believe in liberty? Why are they only pro-choice when it comes to abortion? Thomas Jefferson would punch most of you dead in your shit!
So Bush doesn't sign us up for Kyoto or other measures...and everyone shits their collective pants about how evil Bush and the USA are cause of it. Most of the countries that DO sign these things don't even have to do anything! How fucking easy is it to sign something that doesn't require you to do anything? Most of these countries sign stuff left and right, like pledging troops for the SFOR, or Darfor...like pledging money for Afghan reconstruction..and they never actually pitch in....
How fucking easy is it to sign up when you don't intend to actually do your part? And the US is the bad guy, cause we just don't sign up? Fuck that.
I'm sure your piracy on the high seas (on a house boat) would work out in the long run. Follow your dreams!
There be a fine line between piracy and bootlegging.
In all honesty, I would bet that piracy has ACCOUNTED for much of Microsoft's success. Everyone you know (I'm talking about the average folks out there, not /.ers) uses windows...so you get a computer with windows.
Adobe can basically attribute its success to 2 things: colleges teach adobe products in VT programs and students pirate them to get good at using them.
But piracy in the workplace? Learn to internets and get some FOSS, ya cheap fuckers.
We have a pickup for hauling stuff and a Prius for hauling people.
There's no reason to drive the truck to work, and there's no way I'm putting a yard of gravel in my Prius.
I DID manage to fit 2 single kayaks INSIDE the Prius though!
I parked next to some meshback driving a Ford F650 at the grocery store a while back. He seemed to chuckle at my car...I asked him what was so funny. He said my little car was funny. So I asked him if he had kids...he said he did. So I told him "Well your kids are breathing your exhaust, hows that for funny"?
If you ask me, gas doesn't cost enough.
Hardy Heron maxes out the CPU for tasks XP handles with less muscle. The MP3 player skips if you open a new firefox tab. Nice!
Gnome freezes every 3 hours at best.
After fighting with "restricted" drivers for a week, I gave up running dual monitors. This is of course a "driver" issue and therefore the fault of capitalism...at least that's what I garner from all the forums. Oh and I should RTFM.
The wireless card stops running after 2 hours. Ubuntu makes a fine server, but geeze does it suck cocks as a desktop.
Then I won't bother telling you about the Iraqi alcohol establishments that were around Ramadi.
Oh, and since you are so educated, you might know the difference between Arabs and Muslims.
Buddy, this is just a part of the global balance of power, between the religiously-free and the Muslims. Just like the cold-war is just a global balance of power between the politically-free and the communists. Just like when the Catholics ruled Europe, and tried to rule the world. Oil you say? Whoever controls the energy will factor better in the balance of power. In the end, it comes down to which side of the ideology you are on. I'm not duped, I'm not stupid, and I even understand that Arabs != Muslims and both drink alcohol if they feel like it (and depending on who's watching). In any case, that beer thing was something of a joke, like us getting together and laughing about the old times.
Let me ask you dude, what if this was a war for oxygen? Would you cry-ass about a war for oxygen? Why not? We need oil to support EVERY aspect of our current society. So does EVERY nation on this planet. Just like oxygen. I'd like to transition to a better energy source, post haste! But we aren't there yet.
Oil is just a means to an end, economics, and power just the same. This war, and all the wars before it, are just about jockeying for position in the grand scheme, balance of power of ideologies. Which side are you on? There's only a couple of camps. The free-agency team, and the others.
I did it for the lulz!
In 20 more years, you will be a minority in your own country. Most of your elected officials will have been replaced by Muslims. All of your liberties and socially-liberal policies will be reverted and you will find yourself living under a very real Sharia.
Cheers! (:
I found the insurgent videos to be, well lacking in their musical choice. However, they provided an excellent view into the operations of the insurgents. We sometimes would watch them just to get a better idea about them.
And the Uhm Kfar (spelling?) video did have some hella tight beats.
You know...once this whole world-struggle for ideologies (this really isn't about Iraq, as far as the insurgents see it) is over, we are gonna sit down, have some beers, and play our videos together, and laugh about the old times.
They are going to post their videos on some site... we certainly post ours. Why shouldn't a US company get the ad revenue?
Know what would rawk? A 5 year moritorium on new PV cell research so we could get some actual PV cell production going.
...it became clear that the ultimate weapon would project dead AA batteries a few thousand feet per second. We were never in short supply.
But yeah, now that I work for a school district, it's quite clear that a microfloppy cannon is the way to go. For anti-armor purposes, maybee a zip-disk launcher.
Right, cause when the North Koreans, Russians, Chinese, et al. came in to "save you" from the "evil US military" your freedoms would finally be secure for all time.
Those countries always bring liberty, equality, and cell-phone coverage to all they conquer.
Most kids writing in gamer-enthusiast magazines don't understand how the cpu registers keep track of memory in the stack, but who fucking cares? They know about what they know about...I bet there's something you don't know either, but if you make a good point, most of us won't be so 1337 that your article wouldn't be "worth reading".
Timmy the Parakeet says: Don't be a dick.
It was to protect you from the O'Malleys and O'Connors. The PHP framers were obviously fans of Mel Brooks' film, Blazing Saddles: "We'll take the niggers and the chinks but we don't want the Irish". Or I'm missing something.
In Soviet Russia, Socialism controls YOU! er...wait. amidoinitright?
Now...if we can start second-guessing some more disasters, we can really get the lawsuits going.
I think you just explained communism-works-in-theory better than anyone. And you probably didn't even mean it like that.
The only thing that can protect us is government involvement and licensure. Only large companies, approved by a governmental body, can be trusted with a compiler.
From my cold, dead hard-drive!
How about the Flash vulnerability that felled the Vista box at the SEC competition? Do you need a license to use Flash CS3 or just to write the Flash player? Cause I'm sure Adobe can get this license.
Apple Corp can probably get a concealed-carry-compiler permit too...and they wrote the Safari flaw that felled the Air in the same competition. Or do we need javascript certificates from city hall?
Here's another scenario, Stalin. How about we keep doing our jobs, filtering the spam, enjoying the porn and don't worry about the BotNet kicking in your door and dragging you off to Gitmo in the night...we don't need more governance.
Am I to understand that you have never made a mistake in the performance of your job?
You could just say the diver made a mistake or did the wrong thing...but you have to go the extra mile to be a dick?
Do you wonder why most of society loathes the IT department? It's not Streetview, it's the condescending bullshit.
There's a lot of professionally-unemployed meth addicts in the Puget Sound area who could REALLY use some more welfare!
How much longer will evil profit makers be able to keep money they make? Its a shame! Employing people at the expense of non-working people! For shame!
Yes...and I think Freud might have had something to say about this.
Mindless TSA Buffoon? These are just people doing a job...much like you. You could just say, "Now I have to share my medical history with a TSA employee? That's stupid." But you've got to make the extra effort to contribute nothing to the conversation by being a dick.
Not that this makes me a worldly expert or anything, but each Iraqi home is allowed up to 1 rifle (generally an AK series) and up to 200 rounds of ammunition WITHOUT a permit from the local CPA/Gov Center. Just about every Iraqi home I visited there had one. They man of the house was happy to show it to us, and I usually had to lecture him (away from his family, and with the aid of a translator) on the importance of weapons maintenance.
Out on the road, with a permit, people could have weapons for self defense...and shepherds we would talk to often had them without a permit. We usually let them keep them...again with a warning on the importance of keeping rifles clean. Iraq is a great example of why you DONT want gun control. You never know when you need to protect yourself. There is no 911 for the average Iraqi to call. It is up to the head of household to protect his family. If the local Sheik is so inclined, he may create local security organizations (militias) to collectively safegard life and property. The only people who realllly want to take guns from people are politicians who want to take control from people. Creating a dependent populace who NEEDS the government more than the government NEEDS them. This is not the basis for a truly free society.
I remember some early CS classes where the professor explained that, as programmers get better, math gets better, and new languages and paradigms come out, things should require LESS resources.
Take, for example, our forefathers or prehistoric ancestors searching arrays of pointers in a linear fashion. Then someone figured out binary search...bam! Instant big-O improvement!
Ideally, each new version of any OS *SHOULD* be able to run on slower equipment. Or at least, respectably fast on the same equipment.
Now before all the macintrash kids chime in, Apple WAS the king of bloat for a long time. I remember running win2k at amazingly fast speeds compared to the slugish macOS. That slugishness was part ppc and part bloated pretty-ware. OSX was realllllly slow compared to win2k, all those cycles taken up by geenie effect and other such bullshit.
I guess my problem is that, in just a couple generations, an OS (which does the same job as any other OS) takes now 8 times the RAM? WTF? MS has taken the SUV approach. Only, theres so much engine, theres hardly room for passengers. I want an OS that takes little ram, few cycles, and less HDD. Neither MS nor Apple are doing this.