I actually mentioned that to my US Rep in an email when I first got word of the French-TotalFina/Elf deal to exploit the Iraqi oil fields under the table. I get the impression that the French embarassment will come out after we take Baghdad and/or Tikrit, apparentely the Ba'athists and the RCC are meticulous record keepers. I just hope it was a purely monetary deal that France was trying to negotiate, as what little credibility they have left by the US will be gone, forever, if evidence of France was trying to undermine the stature of her allies comes to light.
I'm going off the assumption you are not a USian, please correct me if I'm wrong.
What I was saying was that a signifigant portion of the world's economic prosperity (and political stability) requires a steady supply of crude from the Gulf. The four listed above have violated UNSEC resolutions regarding trade with Iraq and the 91 cease fire for many years now. This underhanded dealing has not helped the Iraqi people, only funded Saddam and his Ba'athist/Socialist cronies to rearm and to continue to live their lives of oppulence on the backs of the oppressed peoples of Iraq. Those four had the chance to drop the economic sanctions against Iraq, allowing trade to return on the open market, but that wasn't good enough of them.
We offered Saddam a final chance in 1441, with France, Russia, and China's blessing, when Saddam did not take the carrot (disarmament and normalization), they blocked the application of the stick (Regime change). France flatly refused her allies in the UK and the US proposal for another extension, so those two and a coalition of 40+ other nations have taken matters into their own hands since the four have shown either cowardice or corruption. I think I have outlined why these nations oppose action and that is the unjust action being taken.
Your argument about bread and theft laws begs the question, what gives you the right to steal from the farmer and the baker instead of raising your own wheat and baking your own bread?
note: I'm bofkentucky switched to my old account, I'm over my post limit
Thank you for your insight into the capabilities of our various anti-radiation missles, I am merely facinated by military and weapon history, no operational experience with anything newer than enemy small arms siezed by family in WWII (I have nifty Vichy french rifle chambered in 8mm Lebel, very effective against deer and vermin on the farm, but stripper clips and ammo are rare, so we have to handload).
As to your "offtopic" section, I respect you opinion, but I find your paranoia unjustified IMO.
As to the Bush and Ashcroft domestic legislation, I don't believe they will hold up in court when used against "non islamic terrorist" US citizens, and therefore struck down.
As to the extension of the Monroe Doctrine into the 21st century, there are too many checks on the US in building a world empire for it to work.
Volunteer military: to hold the mideast indefinetely would require a large conscripted garasion force. I question how much longer our bases in West Germany and S Korea could have held with an all volunteer force as a bulwark against the Warsaw pact, we only had less than 20 years to test and already there were some growing questions about base sustainability in Western Europe and we lost the Philipenes base, a 20 year empire is fairly useless and the American people are not ready for conscription again, not even post 9/11
World powers: The EU, China, and India would protest severly at a concerted effort to form our new empire
Operational readiness, counting reserves and national guard, we only have 2 million warfighters, and recruitment is in a major lull after the post-9/11 patriotic push. We are also missing a signifigant portion of officers and NCO's thanks to the prosperity of the mid/late-90's, we have several 26-30 year olds and lots of 18-19YO's, but there are 5-7 years of soldiers that are missing, not counting the declines in the mid-80's recruits that are now senior officers.
All of these things consipire against a modern physical empire, now an economic empire is possible, but America already has this in place and has since WWII with little to no bitching except the Anti-globalization front groups for the socialist movements of the world, which are known failures and not a threat to global peace and prosperity. The age of physical empire died with the Warsaw Pact, and even I hesitate to call it an empire, as each country was largely self-garasioned as opposed to French Indochina, Cuba, India, or the Philipines.
Switching to my other account, I'm over the 50 limit for the day.
What determines signifigance, why should France, Gremany, Russia, and China's opinion when our national defense and economic stability is threatened by their treachery in violating standing UNSEC resolution on trade with Iraq.
Yeah, but Hans will be able to steal the 600 million in bearer bonds from the Nakitomi corp, unless of course Bruce Willis and Reginald Veljohnson are there to save the day.
IT staff at work used a dell optiplex/IBM netfinity with shoddy memory and slow disks, you actually went to the trouble of specing out your home machine though?
Why not try a prepaid setup for a month/week whatver from the carrier you are looking at. You have to buy the phone (or an outrageous amount of prepaid time to get their crap phone for free) but it lets you test their coverage, plus the phone is yours.
I've mentioned it before but the local rural phone coops in my area (and that I work for in a round-about way) are doing this. This is the CLEC we are running in Elizabethtown, KY against Verizon/Alltel and Comcast. My phone company is the ILEC in Barren County and their service is very similar.
The only downside to our combined services (Voice/Data/TV) is to get the TV/DSL, you have to be within our ADSL range ~20000'. Inside the towns where the CO's exist is not a problem, but we have to drop a remote DSLAM/Video head every 6 miles to cover, which is both expensive and makes for a slow rollout.
I had our cache guy reboot the akamai and it loaded fine, at least it is doing better than last year when we would lose MTV and monster at random times.
Ssssssh, you don't want to scare users off with 20+ year old tech that we are just now rolling out to their homes. Yes ADSL is an odd implmentation of IP over ATM, much as IDSL is ISDN rebadged.
It was a number that was decided upon when the ISP started, so I have no clue why that was special instead of 4 or 6, other than it's is 1/2 of the mailbox quota. We get relatively few complaints about it so it has stuck around. Perhaps it will be increased if the complaints pick up.
The merged company wouldn't have had to spend for extra bandwidth to get the locals, when you eliminate the duplication of the two systems (4 espns instead of 8, 1 techtv stream instead of 2, 4 history channels into 1, 4 MTV into 2, etc) it would have freed bandwidth to get to the markets.
What burns me up is that I live between 2 large markets (Louisville, KY and Nashville, TN) with an ABC affiliate as the only local in Bowling Green (NBC and WB are rebroadcast out of Nash. and Lou., respectively, so I' don't consider them as "local" channels), that means that even with an YAGI on a 75' mast with a booster and rotator, I still can't get UPN, Fox, and CBS. But the Nashville/Louisville affiliates went apeshit when a group asked DishNet to carry the stations that aren't broadcast out of BG.
Fortunately, the telco I work for is getting ready to elimiate the problem, the partnership that is handling it has set up arial farms at our extreme southern and northern edges of the territory, feeding our combined, phone, dsl, and digital video (cable TV) over the telephone network. The only problem is that we have the same CO range limitations as standard DSL, even for the video system, so we have to drop a remote dslam/video head every 6 miles or so. Total pricing for the works (768/128 DSL, 12 locals, 80 cable TV channels and 20 movie channels) is like $80/month, we rock
Aaah now were getting to the core of the problem, its A) Marketing and B) Microsoft (Powerpoint)/. now understands the question and will spring forth an answer shortly
Answer
Kill the marketing people, replace powerpoint with OpenOffice Impress.
Seriously though, 5mb should be plenty for the users. The ISP I work for has a hard cap of 5MB/email, with 10MB mailboxes and it works fairly well for our 30,000 customers. The horde project has a good PHP framework that includes a file upload interface in addition to their fine webmail and cal systems
No, but the union will shut you up if you object to your "dues" being used to fund the next communist^Wliberal democrat that runs for president.
Not so quick, those of you at the University, your Student Activity fee is divided equally amongst whoever starts a student org typically, so the college democrats, amnesty international, the green party, NORML, and the college republicans split your dollar, when you should be able to fund whoever you damn well want.
A Chevy dealership doesn't have to pay for a Ford ad everytime they air one of their own ads do they? Yet the US CofA has allowed it to go on at universtiies all around this land
Those P4 Xeons might be Hypertthreading capable, which, if MSSQL2K was tuned for would make an ideal choice. I'm sure $price/$NUM_of_CPUs vendors were not happy with this move to multi-core/single die/socket procs, it will be interesting to see if M$FT charges different prices for a HT machine than a Non-HT box.
To extend this to RL, what would the Warren Buffet vs Bill Gates vs The Waltons (of Wal-Mart) triple-threat match look like?
Personally, I'd take BillG, I'm sure he has some pent up rage from his night as "bitch" for the Albuquerque Detention Center. I'm pretty sure none of the other combatants have done time.
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I actually mentioned that to my US Rep in an email when I first got word of the French-TotalFina/Elf deal to exploit the Iraqi oil fields under the table. I get the impression that the French embarassment will come out after we take Baghdad and/or Tikrit, apparentely the Ba'athists and the RCC are meticulous record keepers. I just hope it was a purely monetary deal that France was trying to negotiate, as what little credibility they have left by the US will be gone, forever, if evidence of France was trying to undermine the stature of her allies comes to light.
I'm going off the assumption you are not a USian, please correct me if I'm wrong.
What I was saying was that a signifigant portion of the world's economic prosperity (and political stability) requires a steady supply of crude from the Gulf. The four listed above have violated UNSEC resolutions regarding trade with Iraq and the 91 cease fire for many years now. This underhanded dealing has not helped the Iraqi people, only funded Saddam and his Ba'athist/Socialist cronies to rearm and to continue to live their lives of oppulence on the backs of the oppressed peoples of Iraq. Those four had the chance to drop the economic sanctions against Iraq, allowing trade to return on the open market, but that wasn't good enough of them.
We offered Saddam a final chance in 1441, with France, Russia, and China's blessing, when Saddam did not take the carrot (disarmament and normalization), they blocked the application of the stick (Regime change). France flatly refused her allies in the UK and the US proposal for another extension, so those two and a coalition of 40+ other nations have taken matters into their own hands since the four have shown either cowardice or corruption. I think I have outlined why these nations oppose action and that is the unjust action being taken.
Your argument about bread and theft laws begs the question, what gives you the right to steal from the farmer and the baker instead of raising your own wheat and baking your own bread?
Thank you for your insight into the capabilities of our various anti-radiation missles, I am merely facinated by military and weapon history, no operational experience with anything newer than enemy small arms siezed by family in WWII (I have nifty Vichy french rifle chambered in 8mm Lebel, very effective against deer and vermin on the farm, but stripper clips and ammo are rare, so we have to handload).
As to your "offtopic" section, I respect you opinion, but I find your paranoia unjustified IMO.
As to the Bush and Ashcroft domestic legislation, I don't believe they will hold up in court when used against "non islamic terrorist" US citizens, and therefore struck down.
As to the extension of the Monroe Doctrine into the 21st century, there are too many checks on the US in building a world empire for it to work.
All of these things consipire against a modern physical empire, now an economic empire is possible, but America already has this in place and has since WWII with little to no bitching except the Anti-globalization front groups for the socialist movements of the world, which are known failures and not a threat to global peace and prosperity. The age of physical empire died with the Warsaw Pact, and even I hesitate to call it an empire, as each country was largely self-garasioned as opposed to French Indochina, Cuba, India, or the Philipines.
Switching to my other account, I'm over the 50 limit for the day.
What determines signifigance, why should France, Gremany, Russia, and China's opinion when our national defense and economic stability is threatened by their treachery in violating standing UNSEC resolution on trade with Iraq.
Yeah, but Hans will be able to steal the 600 million in bearer bonds from the Nakitomi corp, unless of course Bruce Willis and Reginald Veljohnson are there to save the day.
IT staff at work used a dell optiplex/IBM netfinity with shoddy memory and slow disks, you actually went to the trouble of specing out your home machine though?
You don't have to do that from the PC, you can dial their 1-800 line, if you are a tinfoil hat type.
You really should have your kid taken away for exposing him to OS/2. Next thing you know, they'll be running BE, VMS, or God forbid, GNU/HURD.
Why not try a prepaid setup for a month/week whatver from the carrier you are looking at. You have to buy the phone (or an outrageous amount of prepaid time to get their crap phone for free) but it lets you test their coverage, plus the phone is yours.
Horde. The only hole they have for your project is for IRC, but I'm bet it could be integrated from Jabber readily.
I've mentioned it before but the local rural phone coops in my area (and that I work for in a round-about way) are doing this. This is the CLEC we are running in Elizabethtown, KY against Verizon/Alltel and Comcast. My phone company is the ILEC in Barren County and their service is very similar.
The only downside to our combined services (Voice/Data/TV) is to get the TV/DSL, you have to be within our ADSL range ~20000'. Inside the towns where the CO's exist is not a problem, but we have to drop a remote DSLAM/Video head every 6 miles to cover, which is both expensive and makes for a slow rollout.
I had our cache guy reboot the akamai and it loaded fine, at least it is doing better than last year when we would lose MTV and monster at random times.
It would appear to be a caching issue on their end or with our akami box (if NVIDIA is part of their setup), I'm not getting it either.
Ssssssh, you don't want to scare users off with 20+ year old tech that we are just now rolling out to their homes. Yes ADSL is an odd implmentation of IP over ATM, much as IDSL is ISDN rebadged.
It was a number that was decided upon when the ISP started, so I have no clue why that was special instead of 4 or 6, other than it's is 1/2 of the mailbox quota. We get relatively few complaints about it so it has stuck around. Perhaps it will be increased if the complaints pick up.
The merged company wouldn't have had to spend for extra bandwidth to get the locals, when you eliminate the duplication of the two systems (4 espns instead of 8, 1 techtv stream instead of 2, 4 history channels into 1, 4 MTV into 2, etc) it would have freed bandwidth to get to the markets.
What burns me up is that I live between 2 large markets (Louisville, KY and Nashville, TN) with an ABC affiliate as the only local in Bowling Green (NBC and WB are rebroadcast out of Nash. and Lou., respectively, so I' don't consider them as "local" channels), that means that even with an YAGI on a 75' mast with a booster and rotator, I still can't get UPN, Fox, and CBS. But the Nashville/Louisville affiliates went apeshit when a group asked DishNet to carry the stations that aren't broadcast out of BG.
Fortunately, the telco I work for is getting ready to elimiate the problem, the partnership that is handling it has set up arial farms at our extreme southern and northern edges of the territory, feeding our combined, phone, dsl, and digital video (cable TV) over the telephone network. The only problem is that we have the same CO range limitations as standard DSL, even for the video system, so we have to drop a remote dslam/video head every 6 miles or so. Total pricing for the works (768/128 DSL, 12 locals, 80 cable TV channels and 20 movie channels) is like $80/month, we rock
see hpaq
Don't duplicate work, check out the horde project. They have an excellent file manager for web use, coded in php.
Aaah now were getting to the core of the problem, its A) Marketing and B) Microsoft (Powerpoint) /. now understands the question and will spring forth an answer shortly
Answer
Kill the marketing people, replace powerpoint with OpenOffice Impress.
Seriously though, 5mb should be plenty for the users. The ISP I work for has a hard cap of 5MB/email, with 10MB mailboxes and it works fairly well for our 30,000 customers. The horde project has a good PHP framework that includes a file upload interface in addition to their fine webmail and cal systems
Are *BSD binaries elf or some other format? I know they have ELF compatability layers, but I'm guessing this would be for straight BSD binaries
No, but the union will shut you up if you object to your "dues" being used to fund the next communist^Wliberal democrat that runs for president.
Not so quick, those of you at the University, your Student Activity fee is divided equally amongst whoever starts a student org typically, so the college democrats, amnesty international, the green party, NORML, and the college republicans split your dollar, when you should be able to fund whoever you damn well want.
A Chevy dealership doesn't have to pay for a Ford ad everytime they air one of their own ads do they? Yet the US CofA has allowed it to go on at universtiies all around this land
Quiet down, don't give the spammers any ideas on contesting this in court.
Those P4 Xeons might be Hypertthreading capable, which, if MSSQL2K was tuned for would make an ideal choice. I'm sure $price/$NUM_of_CPUs vendors were not happy with this move to multi-core/single die/socket procs, it will be interesting to see if M$FT charges different prices for a HT machine than a Non-HT box.
Speaking of Rollins, go see Jackass, he has a great cameo where he gets to indirectly mutilate Steve-O, in a White-Trashy, San Bernadino way.
To extend this to RL, what would the Warren Buffet vs Bill Gates vs The Waltons (of Wal-Mart) triple-threat match look like?
Personally, I'd take BillG, I'm sure he has some pent up rage from his night as "bitch" for the Albuquerque Detention Center. I'm pretty sure none of the other combatants have done time.