I grew up in, live in, and work full time in the South, proudly, and in just about as small-town South as you can get, for 48 years now. AAMOF, the population of the county I live in is 70% black, and as an aside it is only a few miles up the road from where the opening shots of the Civil War were fired. I live alone, so I do not have a black roomate (as if that would/should qualify anyone for anything...???), yet many of the people in my circle of friends are black, just as I am white. We happened to be born that way, it was not of our choosing.
As to the allegations of the poster above: Yes, there is racism around here, but trust me, it ain't one-sided, and it most certainly is not at all solely on the part of "the Klan", or IOW white people, as you imply. "The Klan"? Really? That "the Klan" is even brought up is so baffling that if it wasn't so sad it would be almost amusing. In my 48 years as a Southerner here in the deep South, I have known exactly _one_ white person whom I can say was at least somewhat acquainted with "the Klan". She was in my 3rd or 4th grade class, this was back in the 1970's, and she was a bit of an outcast to everyone even at that age, as it was rumored her father was a Klansman. To this day I don't know if he was or not, but even that far back, and that close to the 60's, prejudice of that sort was frowned upon by anyone and everyone else I can ever think of whom I know was/is a Southerner.
In all honesty, I actually meet very few bigots of either color here in the South, yet they are exactly that - idiots of both colors. To claim otherwise is disengenuous, misleading, and perpetuates stereotypes which should have long ago been abandoned in the face of reality. Yet it somehow fits the agenda of some people to make Southern white folk seem like bigoted hayseeds who've never changed in the almost 150 years since the Civil War ended, or in the 50 some odd years since the Civil Rights movement.
This totally ignores the fact that nearly *every* large Northern city is de facto segregated, and that the black populations there live in areas with crime rates that soar far above anything we have in the rural South, or that their white neighbors up there have to deal with. If you ask me, *those* places are the bastions of prejudice, they are the more likely breeding grounds for racial discontent, and this is due to a continued economic enslavement of a people who are not being allowed equal opportunity by those around them, the ones who control the money, jobs, and power structure.
tThink about it - why is the South always pilloried over racism, when it is Chicago which has a "South Side", LA a "Watts", NYC a "Brooklyn" or "Harlem" or whatever the 'black area' of the city is up there, etc etc...?
It seems to me that the people who point fingers and decry white Southerners as "prejudiced" and "Klansmen" merely do so in order to keep the focus away from themselves and the conditions in the areas in which they live that continue to perpetuate a strict divide between the races.
My Southerner black friends don't like to be stereotyped, and - surprise surprise - neither do I nor any of my Southerner white friends. If you think that the South is the holdout of racism and bigotry, come for a visit, see how us Southerners work, live, love, and die together as a *community* of people, and after that we'll go travel up north, to one of those urban areas I listed, and you'll see what the *real* face of racism looks like, and where it is being practiced.
Is it any surprise that the Federal govt. has knee-jerked and not thought through the repercussions, or the real-world applicability of their solutions?
Perhaps through our better handling of data management these days the War on Guns will prove to be as successful and as effective as the War on Drugs has proven to be.
It's better than what I have seen proposed - much less done - from the other side of the aisle top-down for the past four years, which in a nutshell has been increased meddling, decreasing privacy, a disturbing lack of transparency, and attacks on several of our basic rights.
These are all broken campaign promises, things that people voted certain folks into office over, "Hoping for Change", if I can borrow a slogan... It sure didn't!
SMF (Simple Machines Forum) seconded, coming from someone who's administered both vB and phpBB forums. Once I started using SMF I never looked back, and converted all the other boards I ran to it.
It was not I who made this about "Rs" or "Ds" - that is your claim, and yours alone. I say vote out the incumbents, scramble things up, break up the good-ol-boy system of this 2 party hegemony we have.
Nowhere did I mention members of a particular party. Rather, I mentioned those currently in office. Incumbents, IOW. It would help things too if such persons as yourself would stop playing party politics. Sitting pols may not vote in 'term limits', but we as voters can *create* them. Start now. Have a good day.
Your country is not the one putting this forth. The current set of "leaders" is. Vote them out next Tuesday.
2008 called, they want their optimism back
Then they too should vote for someone other than the person/group they voted into office back in '08. Because in the past 4 years, we've seen privacy and rights and wealth dwindle to a fraction of what they were prior...
The administration really has no responsibility to tell us ANYTHING until all the facts are known.
Really? You honestly think that? No wonder that the Feds can get away with the stuff they do, with people believing such...
The facts in the matter ARE known - by the insiders, who it seems to me are doing their level best to keep said facts *unknown* to the public, for political reasons, likely. The "ongoing investigation" which matters is the one that is rooting out just which of them knew what, and when, and why that knowledge was not used to avoid the death of an American Ambassador (for the first time in over 30 years) and 3 other Americans.
As far as exploiting it for political gain, your guy isn't any better than Romney - wanna guess who's over in Libya right now? None other than John Brennan, Obama’s current counterterrorism adviser - the same guy who made up the drone assassination lists. What do you think the odds are that he oh-so conveniently fingers some fringe Islamist group or another, and we see some sort of remote attack "on the perpetrators of the Benghazi Embassy assault" a week or so before voting day...
Those were the primaries, as I recall - distros which stayed on the disk long enough to remember having used them for work/play. Libranet always stands out as the first distro I ran across with a graphical install (ncurses). It was amazing and fun to be able to see results so quickly.:) Was a Beta tester for Xandros from the beginning, dropped it when they started getting *very* commercial and climbed into bed with MS. Beta'ed for Mepis, too - Warren did a good job. Besides these, being a "distro 'ho", I've tried out any number of other solutions, a few from the top of my head:
Students and business people and IT workers, etc, but not the 'general public'. For "them", it seems to me that we are simply getting back to the then-failed "internet devices" of ~2000 or so, which is all that *most* people really need; an internet-connected device as simple as a toaster, perfect for clueless/non-techie end users. Push a button and it works, no real worries about keeping up the security and updates and all that stuff like that which people with "real computers" have and will have to continue doing. Security for these 'toasters' can be pushed out by the OEM, as needed, and due to fragmentation and customization of the various embedded OS'es by the OEM's, that may be a good thing, creating several smaller targets for black hats instead of the one monolithic MS OS that is around for years to poke at until they find a break in it that puts 90+% of the market into vulnerability phase. Phones, tablets, WebTV (then and now), Audrey, Netpliance iOpener - same paradigm, slightly different form factors. What was old, is new again...
Har. Nice try - but check out who wrote that, it's no surprise they're spouting the praise of and defense for Obama.
Author - Michael Linden of the "Center for American Progress Action Fund". Who are they? Wikipedia says:
The Center for American Progress is a progressive public policy research and advocacy organization. Its website states that the organization is "dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through progressive ideas and action." It has its headquarters in Washington D.C.
Its President and Chief Executive Officer is Neera Tanden, who worked for the Obama and Clinton administrations and for Hillary Clinton’s campaigns. Its first President and Chief Executive Officer was John Podesta, who served as chief of staff to then U.S. President Bill Clinton. Podesta remains with the organization as Chairman of the Board. Located in Washington, D.C., the Center for American Progress has a campus outreach group, Campus Progress, and a sister advocacy organization, the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Citing Podesta's influence in the formation of the Obama Administration, a November 2008 article in Time stated that "not since the Heritage Foundation helped guide Ronald Reagan's transition in 1981 has a single outside group held so much sway."
Wow - could they even fit any more Democrats in there? It'd be tough...
No surprise it is funded by none other than George Souros. If you'll take the time to check out the origins and organizational makeup of that "non-partisan" (Hah!) CAP, you'll see that it is a literal Who's Who of Democratic Party faithful power brokers.
"Blaming Bush" is just Obama's lame excuse, that's obvious to see. IIRC, during his campaign he vowed to clean the mess up, and rather quickly. "Epic fail", I believe that is called.
100 trillion dollars isn't exactly a lot of money these days, dr. evil.
Thanks to our recent Government for the fact that numbers previously almost incomprehensible are now simply part of our daily cultural consciousness...
The National Debt has now increased more during President Obama's three years and two months in office than it did during 8 years of the George W. Bush presidency.The Debt rose $4.899 trillion during the two terms of the Bush presidency. It has now gone up $4.939 trillion since President Obama took office.
The latest posting from the Bureau of Public Debt at the Treasury Department shows the National Debt now stands at $15.566 trillion. It was $10.626 trillion on President Bush's last day in office, which coincided with President Obama's first day.
Of course, Obama blames it on Bush {roll_eyes}, but that's a little disingenuous, given that at his rate until now he will have eclipsed the Bush spending by well over a factor of 2.5 by the time he leaves office if, Deity forbid, he gets reelected.
Not much Hope, and less Change, is what I've seen out of him and his administration/cabinet during his term in Office. Not that I expected it - politicians of the two parties just tell a different set of lies to get elected.
"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office." - H.L. Mencken
Let's get the current incompetent boob out of Office and try a new one to see if it can do any better. Maybe things will work better with someone in charge who understands making money, not just taking money...
Poke an animal or a person, with a sharp stick, and see what kind of reaction you get - it won't be a smile and a "Let me do whatever it takes to help you...". Instead it will be similar to what this guy saw, by metaphorically poking the bureaucrats that are the TSA and airline security crowd with an offensive-to-them shirt.
As a doctoral candidate, he should be intelligent enough to hypothesize this sort of reaction, yet when that is exactly what happens, he gets all huffy. No sympathy from me, for being a dumbass and now getting whiny about it. Man up, Arijit, stop being a whiny puss.
Should the TSA and airline security be what it is now? IMO, hell no, it is doing no good, it is pointless, security theater. But that doesn't change that this person got pretty much what anyone with a lick of common sense would have guessed would be the sort of reaction one could expect. Newtons Law, and all that...
Re: wasteful - FTFA: "The savings from divesting from the aforementioned facilities is projected at $20 million."
Wow! That's a bunch of money!
But wait, whats that other thing where a bunch of money was wasted? Ahh, Solyndra... how much?
FTFWikipedia: - "Solyndra's loan approval process began under the Bush administration. However, emails show that two weeks before Obama took office, the Energy Department panel considering the loan unanimously decided not to proceed. In March 2009, one White House budget analyst wrote an email stating that "This deal is NOT ready for prime time." However, Solyndra was the first company approved for a loan guarantee under the Obama administration. On March 20, 2009 the United States Department of Energy made a "conditional commitment" to a $535 million loan guarantee to support Solyndra's construction of a commercial-scale manufacturing plant for its proprietary solar photovoltaic panels. The White House scheduled a press event for September 4 and federal reviewers gave final approval on September 2. After securing the loan guarantee, the Federal Financing Bank, a part of the Department of the Treasury, loaned Solyndra $527 million.
Solyndra also received a $25.1 million tax break from California's Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority."
Based on the chart FTFA, Solyndra cost us more than the *entire* projected astronomy budget *for 2022*, by _20%+_.
Karma be damned - let's put someone in charge who understands how and where to spend my money. Please. Give us more science and scientists, and less government. Obviously, the ones in charge right now have failed miserably at that. Boot 'em.
Linux is great for systems that will be managed by folks who do Linux, and its great when those folks can set up a locked down system for someone else. But as an every day replacement for Windows, to be managed and run by average Joe? Yea, not quite yet.
Not even Windows can be adequately managed by Joe and Jane Average. You need a minimal level of understanding in order to keep any system running - not even talking about keeping it safe. I even get silly questions from the Mac users...
AMEN!!! I work with Windows (and to a proportionate degree, Mac) end users daily, and can safely say that the lack of understanding/knowledge/willingness to learn is the same, would be the same, regardless of OS. Silly things like networked printers and wireless...? That combo alone probably puts $200+ in my pocket every month per client, because when there is a burp in the network, or someones print queue gets jammed, or the on-printer shared folder for scans/faxes doesn't get reconnected at boot, etc etc... the first thing they do is call me.
That the tagline from The IT Crowd of "Have you tried turning it off and then on again..." is so funny to us all is indicative of how widespread this ignorance and lack of concern about it is. If I could get the clients on Linux, at least then they would save the money of me having to sweep and repair machines on a regular basis because of the inability of the end users to steer clear of every free clicky flashy thing online that promises "Free! FREE!!!" and winds up infecting their system with "Anti-Virus Total Solution WIndows 7 AND 8 - With Registry Cleaner!!!.
I picked up one of the TouchPad 16gb models a couple months ago. Rooted it and installed CyanogenMod the same day, but still have the webOS partition there and bootable because it allows use of the camera and a few other things like that which CM9 does not yet have working. Maybe in the near future... but until then, webOS will stay onboard. No pun intended.
In addition, the claim is made by the inventor that the US Navy has no defense plan in place WRT small boat swarms, so his is the only solution. Wrong.
I can attest that is a blatant falsehood, and that our Navy does indeed train for exactly that sort of warfare. I don't think it is revealing any sensitive info to point out the fact that a certain well known, very-fast-boat manufacturer has an ongoing contract with the Navy conducting offshore exercises using 40-50' "attack" boats powered by twin or triple 250-300hp outboard engines. I've hung out many times with the guys running those boats, and they do not operate in any sort of "blacked out" manner. They use public and privately-owned marine facilities, and conduct operations in broad daylight within areas used by recreational offshore fisherman, so I am sure that the inventor is aware of them as well. These boats can easily run in excess of 70mph, and while they may be very high-dollar craft in the consumer market, they cost less than $500K apiece.
The one advantage his invention has over these conventional hulled boats (other than raw speed) is that this is a wave piercing design, which as stated ITFA is better for the health of those aboard. That said, I seriously doubt it has anywhere near the maneuverability of more conventional offshore craft such as those I mention above. The turning radius would have to be *extremely* large with that cat hull configuration, and even moreso at super cavitation speeds. And how large a sea state can it run in? Keeping that pod above water and waves at 200mph (or even 1/4 that speed) would be absolutely critical. Water being non-compressible, one good impact would likely render that platform unusable. So - it's very fast, but can't turn/maneuver for shit, and will primarily be useful only in areas where seas will remain relatively calm.
The inventor speaks glowingly about his $20-million-dollar-per solution becoming a multi-billion dollar industry. To me, knowing what I know about water craft, it seems to me as if he is selling the US Navy a marine version of TSA body scanners. Another Federal boondoggle...
My experience is far different from yours. I work in and on computers 12-16 hours a day. I've got 3 Acers, from a Atom netbook to an i3 TimelineX, and they have done *extremely* well, and are in use constantly. I live on a boat, w/the resultant high humidity and salt content in the air, but no probs. I've recommended them to many clients, never a complaint from those who've purchased.
The OEM's I think of as "crap" are Asus & HP, and Toshiba is King of Bloatware.
Having a VM ready for these calls which has goatse for the wallpaper would be both Funny *and* Insightful.
I would love to hear/see the reaction when they remoted into some "suckers" computer and saw *that* staring them in the face bigger than life. Even better if the "sucker" played it straight...:)
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You'd better "earmark" a portion of that $150K for some serious hearing protection...
Watched the video and *phew* is that thing ever noisy, and in a range which is bothersome - like an overlarge mosquito.
I grew up in, live in, and work full time in the South, proudly, and in just about as small-town South as you can get, for 48 years now. AAMOF, the population of the county I live in is 70% black, and as an aside it is only a few miles up the road from where the opening shots of the Civil War were fired. I live alone, so I do not have a black roomate (as if that would/should qualify anyone for anything...???), yet many of the people in my circle of friends are black, just as I am white. We happened to be born that way, it was not of our choosing.
As to the allegations of the poster above: Yes, there is racism around here, but trust me, it ain't one-sided, and it most certainly is not at all solely on the part of "the Klan", or IOW white people, as you imply. "The Klan"? Really? That "the Klan" is even brought up is so baffling that if it wasn't so sad it would be almost amusing. In my 48 years as a Southerner here in the deep South, I have known exactly _one_ white person whom I can say was at least somewhat acquainted with "the Klan". She was in my 3rd or 4th grade class, this was back in the 1970's, and she was a bit of an outcast to everyone even at that age, as it was rumored her father was a Klansman. To this day I don't know if he was or not, but even that far back, and that close to the 60's, prejudice of that sort was frowned upon by anyone and everyone else I can ever think of whom I know was/is a Southerner.
In all honesty, I actually meet very few bigots of either color here in the South, yet they are exactly that - idiots of both colors. To claim otherwise is disengenuous, misleading, and perpetuates stereotypes which should have long ago been abandoned in the face of reality. Yet it somehow fits the agenda of some people to make Southern white folk seem like bigoted hayseeds who've never changed in the almost 150 years since the Civil War ended, or in the 50 some odd years since the Civil Rights movement.
This totally ignores the fact that nearly *every* large Northern city is de facto segregated, and that the black populations there live in areas with crime rates that soar far above anything we have in the rural South, or that their white neighbors up there have to deal with. If you ask me, *those* places are the bastions of prejudice, they are the more likely breeding grounds for racial discontent, and this is due to a continued economic enslavement of a people who are not being allowed equal opportunity by those around them, the ones who control the money, jobs, and power structure.
tThink about it - why is the South always pilloried over racism, when it is Chicago which has a "South Side", LA a "Watts", NYC a "Brooklyn" or "Harlem" or whatever the 'black area' of the city is up there, etc etc...?
It seems to me that the people who point fingers and decry white Southerners as "prejudiced" and "Klansmen" merely do so in order to keep the focus away from themselves and the conditions in the areas in which they live that continue to perpetuate a strict divide between the races.
My Southerner black friends don't like to be stereotyped, and - surprise surprise - neither do I nor any of my Southerner white friends. If you think that the South is the holdout of racism and bigotry, come for a visit, see how us Southerners work, live, love, and die together as a *community* of people, and after that we'll go travel up north, to one of those urban areas I listed, and you'll see what the *real* face of racism looks like, and where it is being practiced.
Is it any surprise that the Federal govt. has knee-jerked and not thought through the repercussions, or the real-world applicability of their solutions?
Perhaps through our better handling of data management these days the War on Guns will prove to be as successful and as effective as the War on Drugs has proven to be.
It's better than what I have seen proposed - much less done - from the other side of the aisle top-down for the past four years, which in a nutshell has been increased meddling, decreasing privacy, a disturbing lack of transparency, and attacks on several of our basic rights.
These are all broken campaign promises, things that people voted certain folks into office over, "Hoping for Change", if I can borrow a slogan... It sure didn't!
That one is a Gooter (Beta release, natch), not a gator...
SMF (Simple Machines Forum) seconded, coming from someone who's administered both vB and phpBB forums. Once I started using SMF I never looked back, and converted all the other boards I ran to it.
It was not I who made this about "Rs" or "Ds" - that is your claim, and yours alone. I say vote out the incumbents, scramble things up, break up the good-ol-boy system of this 2 party hegemony we have.
Nowhere did I mention members of a particular party. Rather, I mentioned those currently in office. Incumbents, IOW. It would help things too if such persons as yourself would stop playing party politics. Sitting pols may not vote in 'term limits', but we as voters can *create* them. Start now. Have a good day.
Your country is not the one putting this forth. The current set of "leaders" is. Vote them out next Tuesday.
2008 called, they want their optimism back
Then they too should vote for someone other than the person/group they voted into office back in '08. Because in the past 4 years, we've seen privacy and rights and wealth dwindle to a fraction of what they were prior...
Your country is not the one putting this forth. The current set of "leaders" is. Vote them out next Tuesday.
You'll have no need for such obscure knowledge in the USSO, Comrade.
Root it - you paid for it, why not own it, too? Then you can do your own upgrades...
CM7, 9
The administration really has no responsibility to tell us ANYTHING until all the facts are known.
Really? You honestly think that? No wonder that the Feds can get away with the stuff they do, with people believing such...
The facts in the matter ARE known - by the insiders, who it seems to me are doing their level best to keep said facts *unknown* to the public, for political reasons, likely. The "ongoing investigation" which matters is the one that is rooting out just which of them knew what, and when, and why that knowledge was not used to avoid the death of an American Ambassador (for the first time in over 30 years) and 3 other Americans.
As far as exploiting it for political gain, your guy isn't any better than Romney - wanna guess who's over in Libya right now? None other than John Brennan, Obama’s current counterterrorism adviser - the same guy who made up the drone assassination lists. What do you think the odds are that he oh-so conveniently fingers some fringe Islamist group or another, and we see some sort of remote attack "on the perpetrators of the Benghazi Embassy assault" a week or so before voting day...
RedHat - SuSe - Libranet - 'Drake - Turbolinux - Corel - Xandros (Beta Tester then user) - Mepis - Knoppix - DSL - Arch - Ubuntu - Mint.
:) Was a Beta tester for Xandros from the beginning, dropped it when they started getting *very* commercial and climbed into bed with MS. Beta'ed for Mepis, too - Warren did a good job. Besides these, being a "distro 'ho", I've tried out any number of other solutions, a few from the top of my head:
Those were the primaries, as I recall - distros which stayed on the disk long enough to remember having used them for work/play. Libranet always stands out as the first distro I ran across with a graphical install (ncurses). It was amazing and fun to be able to see results so quickly.
LOAF, Peanut, Yellow Dog, PCLinuxOS, Puppy, Bodhi, etc etc...
Students and business people and IT workers, etc, but not the 'general public'. For "them", it seems to me that we are simply getting back to the then-failed "internet devices" of ~2000 or so, which is all that *most* people really need; an internet-connected device as simple as a toaster, perfect for clueless/non-techie end users. Push a button and it works, no real worries about keeping up the security and updates and all that stuff like that which people with "real computers" have and will have to continue doing. Security for these 'toasters' can be pushed out by the OEM, as needed, and due to fragmentation and customization of the various embedded OS'es by the OEM's, that may be a good thing, creating several smaller targets for black hats instead of the one monolithic MS OS that is around for years to poke at until they find a break in it that puts 90+% of the market into vulnerability phase. Phones, tablets, WebTV (then and now), Audrey, Netpliance iOpener - same paradigm, slightly different form factors. What was old, is new again...
Har. Nice try - but check out who wrote that, it's no surprise they're spouting the praise of and defense for Obama.
Author - Michael Linden of the "Center for American Progress Action Fund". Who are they? Wikipedia says:
The Center for American Progress is a progressive public policy research and advocacy organization. Its website states that the organization is "dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through progressive ideas and action." It has its headquarters in Washington D.C. Its President and Chief Executive Officer is Neera Tanden, who worked for the Obama and Clinton administrations and for Hillary Clinton’s campaigns. Its first President and Chief Executive Officer was John Podesta, who served as chief of staff to then U.S. President Bill Clinton. Podesta remains with the organization as Chairman of the Board. Located in Washington, D.C., the Center for American Progress has a campus outreach group, Campus Progress, and a sister advocacy organization, the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Citing Podesta's influence in the formation of the Obama Administration, a November 2008 article in Time stated that "not since the Heritage Foundation helped guide Ronald Reagan's transition in 1981 has a single outside group held so much sway."
Wow - could they even fit any more Democrats in there? It'd be tough...
No surprise it is funded by none other than George Souros. If you'll take the time to check out the origins and organizational makeup of that "non-partisan" (Hah!) CAP, you'll see that it is a literal Who's Who of Democratic Party faithful power brokers.
"Blaming Bush" is just Obama's lame excuse, that's obvious to see. IIRC, during his campaign he vowed to clean the mess up, and rather quickly. "Epic fail", I believe that is called.
100 trillion dollars isn't exactly a lot of money these days, dr. evil.
Thanks to our recent Government for the fact that numbers previously almost incomprehensible are now simply part of our daily cultural consciousness...
From the May 19, 2012 - (CBS News) (emphasis mine):
The National Debt has now increased more during President Obama's three years and two months in office than it did during 8 years of the George W. Bush presidency.The Debt rose $4.899 trillion during the two terms of the Bush presidency. It has now gone up $4.939 trillion since President Obama took office.
The latest posting from the Bureau of Public Debt at the Treasury Department shows the National Debt now stands at $15.566 trillion. It was $10.626 trillion on President Bush's last day in office, which coincided with President Obama's first day.
Of course, Obama blames it on Bush {roll_eyes}, but that's a little disingenuous, given that at his rate until now he will have eclipsed the Bush spending by well over a factor of 2.5 by the time he leaves office if, Deity forbid, he gets reelected.
Not much Hope, and less Change, is what I've seen out of him and his administration/cabinet during his term in Office. Not that I expected it - politicians of the two parties just tell a different set of lies to get elected.
"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office." - H.L. Mencken
Let's get the current incompetent boob out of Office and try a new one to see if it can do any better. Maybe things will work better with someone in charge who understands making money, not just taking money...
Here's a .kmz of the crater, take a look around: http://minus.com/lbuIRyUOrBNfXR
:)
Not much else in the area with similar depressed topology. Seems if it is/was a sinkhole, there would be more like it there or nearby to be seen.
Dusty, I think it is neat that you are gathering this sort of evidence. Kudos!
Poke an animal or a person, with a sharp stick, and see what kind of reaction you get - it won't be a smile and a "Let me do whatever it takes to help you...". Instead it will be similar to what this guy saw, by metaphorically poking the bureaucrats that are the TSA and airline security crowd with an offensive-to-them shirt.
As a doctoral candidate, he should be intelligent enough to hypothesize this sort of reaction, yet when that is exactly what happens, he gets all huffy. No sympathy from me, for being a dumbass and now getting whiny about it. Man up, Arijit, stop being a whiny puss.
Should the TSA and airline security be what it is now? IMO, hell no, it is doing no good, it is pointless, security theater. But that doesn't change that this person got pretty much what anyone with a lick of common sense would have guessed would be the sort of reaction one could expect. Newtons Law, and all that...
Re: wasteful - FTFA: "The savings from divesting from the aforementioned facilities is projected at $20 million."
Wow! That's a bunch of money!
But wait, whats that other thing where a bunch of money was wasted? Ahh, Solyndra... how much?
FTFWikipedia: - "Solyndra's loan approval process began under the Bush administration. However, emails show that two weeks before Obama took office, the Energy Department panel considering the loan unanimously decided not to proceed. In March 2009, one White House budget analyst wrote an email stating that "This deal is NOT ready for prime time." However, Solyndra was the first company approved for a loan guarantee under the Obama administration. On March 20, 2009 the United States Department of Energy made a "conditional commitment" to a $535 million loan guarantee to support Solyndra's construction of a commercial-scale manufacturing plant for its proprietary solar photovoltaic panels. The White House scheduled a press event for September 4 and federal reviewers gave final approval on September 2. After securing the loan guarantee, the Federal Financing Bank, a part of the Department of the Treasury, loaned Solyndra $527 million.
Solyndra also received a $25.1 million tax break from California's Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority."
Based on the chart FTFA, Solyndra cost us more than the *entire* projected astronomy budget *for 2022*, by _20%+_.
Karma be damned - let's put someone in charge who understands how and where to spend my money. Please. Give us more science and scientists, and less government. Obviously, the ones in charge right now have failed miserably at that. Boot 'em.
Linux is great for systems that will be managed by folks who do Linux, and its great when those folks can set up a locked down system for someone else. But as an every day replacement for Windows, to be managed and run by average Joe? Yea, not quite yet.
Not even Windows can be adequately managed by Joe and Jane Average. You need a minimal level of understanding in order to keep any system running - not even talking about keeping it safe. I even get silly questions from the Mac users...
AMEN!!! I work with Windows (and to a proportionate degree, Mac) end users daily, and can safely say that the lack of understanding/knowledge/willingness to learn is the same, would be the same, regardless of OS. Silly things like networked printers and wireless...? That combo alone probably puts $200+ in my pocket every month per client, because when there is a burp in the network, or someones print queue gets jammed, or the on-printer shared folder for scans/faxes doesn't get reconnected at boot, etc etc... the first thing they do is call me.
That the tagline from The IT Crowd of "Have you tried turning it off and then on again..." is so funny to us all is indicative of how widespread this ignorance and lack of concern about it is. If I could get the clients on Linux, at least then they would save the money of me having to sweep and repair machines on a regular basis because of the inability of the end users to steer clear of every free clicky flashy thing online that promises "Free! FREE!!!" and winds up infecting their system with "Anti-Virus Total Solution WIndows 7 AND 8 - With Registry Cleaner!!!.
I picked up one of the TouchPad 16gb models a couple months ago. Rooted it and installed CyanogenMod the same day, but still have the webOS partition there and bootable because it allows use of the camera and a few other things like that which CM9 does not yet have working. Maybe in the near future... but until then, webOS will stay onboard. No pun intended.
In addition, the claim is made by the inventor that the US Navy has no defense plan in place WRT small boat swarms, so his is the only solution. Wrong.
I can attest that is a blatant falsehood, and that our Navy does indeed train for exactly that sort of warfare. I don't think it is revealing any sensitive info to point out the fact that a certain well known, very-fast-boat manufacturer has an ongoing contract with the Navy conducting offshore exercises using 40-50' "attack" boats powered by twin or triple 250-300hp outboard engines. I've hung out many times with the guys running those boats, and they do not operate in any sort of "blacked out" manner. They use public and privately-owned marine facilities, and conduct operations in broad daylight within areas used by recreational offshore fisherman, so I am sure that the inventor is aware of them as well. These boats can easily run in excess of 70mph, and while they may be very high-dollar craft in the consumer market, they cost less than $500K apiece.
The one advantage his invention has over these conventional hulled boats (other than raw speed) is that this is a wave piercing design, which as stated ITFA is better for the health of those aboard. That said, I seriously doubt it has anywhere near the maneuverability of more conventional offshore craft such as those I mention above. The turning radius would have to be *extremely* large with that cat hull configuration, and even moreso at super cavitation speeds. And how large a sea state can it run in? Keeping that pod above water and waves at 200mph (or even 1/4 that speed) would be absolutely critical. Water being non-compressible, one good impact would likely render that platform unusable. So - it's very fast, but can't turn/maneuver for shit, and will primarily be useful only in areas where seas will remain relatively calm.
The inventor speaks glowingly about his $20-million-dollar-per solution becoming a multi-billion dollar industry. To me, knowing what I know about water craft, it seems to me as if he is selling the US Navy a marine version of TSA body scanners. Another Federal boondoggle...
My experience is far different from yours. I work in and on computers 12-16 hours a day. I've got 3 Acers, from a Atom netbook to an i3 TimelineX, and they have done *extremely* well, and are in use constantly. I live on a boat, w/the resultant high humidity and salt content in the air, but no probs. I've recommended them to many clients, never a complaint from those who've purchased.
The OEM's I think of as "crap" are Asus & HP, and Toshiba is King of Bloatware.
Having a VM ready for these calls which has goatse for the wallpaper would be both Funny *and* Insightful.
:)
I would love to hear/see the reaction when they remoted into some "suckers" computer and saw *that* staring them in the face bigger than life. Even better if the "sucker" played it straight...