The original Motorola Iridium satellite phone has a NSA high-encryption pack available for it that fits in the back - this model with the DOD pack or a a more modern Iridium phone with another type of sleeve that I've never seen myself, is how secure communication is done over the Iridium network.
Iridium airtime generally costs around $1.50 per min if you shop around. you can get prepaid service at around $2.00 per min, or with a big enough pool of minutes you can get it down to $1.0 or so.
The airtime is cheap enough that I brought mine to Japan and Europe so I didn't have to pay crazy roaming costs. Oddly it was a great conversation starter in Japan - people assumed I was some sort of awesome dude to have a sat phone.
Really oddly, I have an original Motorola Iridium phone and it's value has gone up ever science I bought it.
A friend borrowed my Iridium phone and had to use their emergency services (911) - the call center that they were hooked up to was in his words "frighteningly competent."...
Rambling Iridium thoughts:
I've enjoyed the service myself - with the phone and and a Psion Revo (It has a native serial port), I can telnet to any of my severs while in the woods. Strangely, it let's me relax knowing that I can help out my users.
At around 2400 baud - don't use SSH. Oh... Screen is your friend as it does cut out enough.
If you use a PC - it come with some proxy software and a proxy server that will remove/compress images, but any computer with a serial port can use it as a modem. Sadly, modern pdas lack serial ports, but old Posion Revos/5-series are cheap, last a long time, and have awesome keyboards and work well.
I have an older Motorola Iridium phone, so I don't know if this setup would work with the more modern phones.
Did you "zpool export tank" before you moved the drives over? If not, then the FreeBSD box saw the drives but said to itself "Those drive don't belong to me!" I've done a migration from FreeBSD to Solaris, but always with full drive devices ie/dev/ad0 - thus ignoring partitions tables and other such cruddyness.
If you're clean cut, articulate and not at all slimy - then it will be a good thing to have gambling experience.
If you're even remotely suspicious looking, it will hinder you as it will give seemingly tangible evidence that you *may* by a risk...
That said, I did hire someone who worked at at offshore gabling site, and the stories were awesome. He came across as someone who I could trust - so that made the hire easy.
>>Conversely, most informed audience: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Oops.
I'm a Daily Show viewer here.... and I don't read too much into "being informed."
Sure - knowing the triviality of short-term world events is great and all.
But raising a family, working hard, being kind, helping your friends and neighbors, looking around for love and perhaps spirituality are worth so much more in the long term.
I have more respect for a man who can drop a transmission than one who knows the top three reasons why Chavez is an awesome leader.
Thanks for the nice posting, I was hoping it would degrade to name calling and then I'd win:)
When most of us right-wing-nut-job think of Socialism, it's Stalin, Pol-Pot, or Cuba. As you would term it "Authoritarian Socialism" - and I don't see any practical difference between it and Fascism. Both are devolve into one-party states that kill millions of people and have shitty economies.
But here's my silly point - democratic Socialism is not the panacea that we all wish it was, as there's no democratic socialism state that can even support it's own population. All of western Europe is having trouble keeping their birth-rates up. My pet theory, is that mentally people are so taxes that they can't even thing about having children - especially when both parents work.
Socialism also removes a bit of Darwinin strees on a culture/people - it protects people who don't or can't contribute. This may or may not be bad given your long term viewpoint.
Our family fought this by just not being greedy - we don't own a bunch of junk so we have enough money and time to spawn....
I do love a good CoOp - but they work simply because you can leave whenever you want to and thus have to 'compete' to survive....
Enjoy your latte - I hope it's shade grown organic fair trade.;)
No, fascism, socialism and communism are all quite similar: failures. Regardless what your 5 years in collage and the 'barista' at the coffee house tell you.
Nazi was short for National Socialist or more specifically Nationalsozialistische deutsche Arbeiter-Partei - National Socialist German Workers' Party.
Facism/Socialism/Communism are all the same thing: Collectivism. Where the good of the group is put ahead of the individual.
While it sounds good, I haven't seen an examples of where it works out. Even the in the best example, Norway can't even produce enough children to maintain their native population.
The scientist in me rejects collectivism - the evidence points to it not working.
>>2) There're are no fact that could lead us to think after-life exists (from a scientifical point of view)
Given that it looks like there's an infinite number of universes and an infinite amount of time - I imagine that at some-point in that infinite space and time there will be a point where we will exist again.
>>The freedom to chose alternate, or non mainstream healthcare.
Do you think that chinese herbal medicine will be covered? Not a chance. Remember, you can't just tell people to buy it - they won't be able to afford it because they're already paying for the socialized medicine and are much poorer than they would be.
>>The freedom to not buy healthcare so that your children can afford get the best care possible.
Some people make individual sacrifices so that their children can have a better life. Some people will choose to eschew costly medical treatments so that their children can go to collage.
>The freedom to not be part of a insurance-lottery.
With any insurance scheme, some people pull out more in coverage than they put it. Rather like gambling where you put in a small amount of money and hope for a large return. Some religions have very strict prohibitions against gambling and don't allow for their members to have insurance. The Amish have an exemption to our Social Security scheme for example.
>>What sort of heartless fuck are you? Will you laugh when your family is killed, or will you just not care?"
I don't intentionally cry about personal issues years after the fact just to advance my career.
You didn't see Palin publicly crying over her down's child did you? You didn't see Obama crying that most of his elder immediate family is dead? You didn't see McCain crying over being tortured did you?
A lot of the braver Swedes have chosen otherwise and immigrated to the USA - what's left is decaying civilization that can can't maintain it's own population and is becoming a breading ground for non-integrating Muslims.
Hopefully your culture will snap out of it's malaise - and change back the proud and bold people you once were.
There's a huge loss of freedom if government controls healthcare.
The freedom to chose alternate, or non mainstream healthcare. The freedom to not buy healthcare so that your children can afford get the best care possible. The freedom to chose your treatments. The freedom to *not* have healthcare.* The freedom to keep the fruits of your labor. The freedom to not be part of a insurance-lottery.* The freedom to care for yourself.
* some religions proscribe these freedoms - Christian Scientists and the Amish respectively.
Biden does a fine job of making himself look stupid, he doesn't need our help. Though surprisingly he did manage to cry in the debate.
I mean, those gaffs were more than embarrassing, they were frightening. Dosen't kown who the president was in the Great Depression, or know what decade TV was invented. Dosn't know what Article Two of the constitution - and he claims to be a lawyer. Says his ticket is for the Iraq war before he was against it. Thinks being wealthy and never donating to charity in the last ten years (well $300) makes him part of the common people.
If I remember correctly, you had to pretty much yell at the early wax recorders to get them to register. We're probably hearing someone pretty much doing his best to yell and sound reasonable at the same time.
>>the reason most Americans chafe at socialist programs today is primarily because they are EXPENSIVE
Some of us recognize that the short-term material gains of socializing things may not outweigh the long term decrease of our freedom.
Socializing roads makes sense - we trade only a small amount of freedom for a lot of practical benefit. We have a few road-rules to obey and a small amout of taxes to pay to be able to travel quickly just about anywhere.
Socializing health care makes no sense as a trade off - we allow the government make life and death choices over us for a marginal increase of benefit to our pocket books.
I'm not greedy enough to trade a smaller health-care bill for the freedom to do with my very health and life as I see fit? Are you?
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The original Motorola Iridium satellite phone has a NSA high-encryption pack available for it that fits in the back - this model with the DOD pack or a a more modern Iridium phone with another type of sleeve that I've never seen myself, is how secure communication is done over the Iridium network.
Search Google for "Paul Allen harassment"
I'm counting about four victims.
Iridium airtime generally costs around $1.50 per min if you shop around. you can get prepaid service at around $2.00 per min, or with a big enough pool of minutes you can get it down to $1.0 or so.
The airtime is cheap enough that I brought mine to Japan and Europe so I didn't have to pay crazy roaming costs. Oddly it was a great conversation starter in Japan - people assumed I was some sort of awesome dude to have a sat phone.
Really oddly, I have an original Motorola Iridium phone and it's value has gone up ever science I bought it.
A friend borrowed my Iridium phone and had to use their emergency services (911) - the call center that they were hooked up to was in his words "frighteningly competent." ...
Rambling Iridium thoughts:
I've enjoyed the service myself - with the phone and and a Psion Revo (It has a native serial port), I can telnet to any of my severs while in the woods. Strangely, it let's me relax knowing that I can help out my users.
At around 2400 baud - don't use SSH. Oh... Screen is your friend as it does cut out enough.
If you use a PC - it come with some proxy software and a proxy server that will remove/compress images, but any computer with a serial port can use it as a modem. Sadly, modern pdas lack serial ports, but old Posion Revos/5-series are cheap, last a long time, and have awesome keyboards and work well.
I have an older Motorola Iridium phone, so I don't know if this setup would work with the more modern phones.
Did you "zpool export tank" before you moved the drives over? If not, then the FreeBSD box saw the drives but said to itself "Those drive don't belong to me!" I've done a migration from FreeBSD to Solaris, but always with full drive devices ie /dev/ad0 - thus ignoring partitions tables and other such cruddyness.
Yes... Liberals founded america, but they were Limited government liberals. "Classical Liberals" is what we call them now.
Not the current crop of full-government-mandated "liberals" bent on removing individual freedom in pursuit of a control-freak utopia.
Honesty mode, and only speaking for me:
If you're clean cut, articulate and not at all slimy - then it will be a good thing to have gambling experience.
If you're even remotely suspicious looking, it will hinder you as it will give seemingly tangible evidence that you *may* by a risk. ..
That said, I did hire someone who worked at at offshore gabling site, and the stories were awesome. He came across as someone who I could trust - so that made the hire easy.
>>Conversely, most informed audience: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Oops.
I'm a Daily Show viewer here.... and I don't read too much into "being informed."
Sure - knowing the triviality of short-term world events is great and all.
But raising a family, working hard, being kind, helping your friends and neighbors, looking around for love and perhaps spirituality are worth so much more in the long term.
I have more respect for a man who can drop a transmission than one who knows the top three reasons why Chavez is an awesome leader.
If I remember my history it was the Republicans (conservatives) that got rid of slavery and supported women's sufferage.
Pesky things... those facts.
I remember in the late 80's being horribly shocked to find out that X added 64K of overhead to a simple "Hello World" app.
Nowadays, 64K is lean and mean.
Thanks for the nice posting, I was hoping it would degrade to name calling and then I'd win :)
When most of us right-wing-nut-job think of Socialism, it's Stalin, Pol-Pot, or Cuba. As you would term it "Authoritarian Socialism" - and I don't see any practical difference between it and Fascism. Both are devolve into one-party states that kill millions of people and have shitty economies.
But here's my silly point - democratic Socialism is not the panacea that we all wish it was, as there's no democratic socialism state that can even support it's own population. All of western Europe is having trouble keeping their birth-rates up. My pet theory, is that mentally people are so taxes that they can't even thing about having children - especially when both parents work.
Socialism also removes a bit of Darwinin strees on a culture/people - it protects people who don't or can't contribute. This may or may not be bad given your long term viewpoint.
Our family fought this by just not being greedy - we don't own a bunch of junk so we have enough money and time to spawn. ...
I do love a good CoOp - but they work simply because you can leave whenever you want to and thus have to 'compete' to survive. ...
Enjoy your latte - I hope it's shade grown organic fair trade. ;)
No, fascism, socialism and communism are all quite similar: failures. Regardless what your 5 years in collage and the 'barista' at the coffee house tell you.
Nazi was short for National Socialist or more specifically Nationalsozialistische deutsche Arbeiter-Partei - National Socialist German Workers' Party.
Facism/Socialism/Communism are all the same thing: Collectivism. Where the good of the group is put ahead of the individual.
While it sounds good, I haven't seen an examples of where it works out. Even the in the best example, Norway can't even produce enough children to maintain their native population.
The scientist in me rejects collectivism - the evidence points to it not working.
>>due to a disagreement over economic systems.
The Communists/Socialists had a nasty habit of murdering millions of their own citizens. That was a compelling reason to keep them 'over there.'
>>2) There're are no fact that could lead us to think after-life exists (from a scientifical point of view)
Given that it looks like there's an infinite number of universes and an infinite amount of time - I imagine that at some-point in that infinite space and time there will be a point where we will exist again.
I'll answer a few of them because you're sincere:
>>The freedom to chose alternate, or non mainstream healthcare.
Do you think that chinese herbal medicine will be covered? Not a chance. Remember, you can't just tell people to buy it - they won't be able to afford it because they're already paying for the socialized medicine and are much poorer than they would be.
>>The freedom to not buy healthcare so that your children can afford get the best care possible.
Some people make individual sacrifices so that their children can have a better life. Some people will choose to eschew costly medical treatments so that their children can go to collage.
>The freedom to not be part of a insurance-lottery.
With any insurance scheme, some people pull out more in coverage than they put it. Rather like gambling where you put in a small amount of money and hope for a large return. Some religions have very strict prohibitions against gambling and don't allow for their members to have insurance. The Amish have an exemption to our Social Security scheme for example.
>>What sort of heartless fuck are you? Will you laugh when your family is killed, or will you just not care?"
I don't intentionally cry about personal issues years after the fact just to advance my career.
You didn't see Palin publicly crying over her down's child did you? You didn't see Obama crying that most of his elder immediate family is dead? You didn't see McCain crying over being tortured did you?
>>. Let's stard by abolishing the FDA and CDC and disbanding every state medical and nursing board.
Nice strawman argument.
The FDA and DCD is fine because the tradeoff for a little bit of freedom for a lot of security is appropriate and is a good bargain.
Socializing healthcare is not a good bargain - it's a toss up at best and a slide to entitlement at worst.
Some of our freedom is silly - to *you*
A lot of the braver Swedes have chosen otherwise and immigrated to the USA - what's left is decaying civilization that can can't maintain it's own population and is becoming a breading ground for non-integrating Muslims.
Hopefully your culture will snap out of it's malaise - and change back the proud and bold people you once were.
There's a huge loss of freedom if government controls healthcare.
The freedom to chose alternate, or non mainstream healthcare.
The freedom to not buy healthcare so that your children can afford get the best care possible.
The freedom to chose your treatments.
The freedom to *not* have healthcare.*
The freedom to keep the fruits of your labor.
The freedom to not be part of a insurance-lottery.*
The freedom to care for yourself.
* some religions proscribe these freedoms - Christian Scientists and the Amish respectively.
Biden does a fine job of making himself look stupid, he doesn't need our help. Though surprisingly he did manage to cry in the debate.
I mean, those gaffs were more than embarrassing, they were frightening. Dosen't kown who the president was in the Great Depression, or know what decade TV was invented. Dosn't know what Article Two of the constitution - and he claims to be a lawyer. Says his ticket is for the Iraq war before he was against it. Thinks being wealthy and never donating to charity in the last ten years (well $300) makes him part of the common people.
>>Have fun dying of cancer when you decide not to get that lump checked out because it's "probably nothing, so why waste the money?".
Scare tactics!?!?
You can get a lot of people do all sorts of things if you scare them and give them enough fear.
Sadly for you, there are some people who are immune to your childish play on emotions.
If I remember correctly, you had to pretty much yell at the early wax recorders to get them to register. We're probably hearing someone pretty much doing his best to yell and sound reasonable at the same time.
>>the reason most Americans chafe at socialist programs today is primarily because they are EXPENSIVE
Some of us recognize that the short-term material gains of socializing things may not outweigh the long term decrease of our freedom.
Socializing roads makes sense - we trade only a small amount of freedom for a lot of practical benefit. We have a few road-rules to obey and a small amout of taxes to pay to be able to travel quickly just about anywhere.
Socializing health care makes no sense as a trade off - we allow the government make life and death choices over us for a marginal increase of benefit to our pocket books.
I'm not greedy enough to trade a smaller health-care bill for the freedom to do with my very health and life as I see fit? Are you?
>>I heard one kinda laughingly tell the other two, "Palin said, 'John McCain already *tapped me*'."
That certainly says more about the mind of the person who insinuated such garbage than and it does about Palin.