It wouldn't be that bad of an idea. Regardless, there must be some way for a state to exercise defiance to a corrupt federal government in a meaningful way.
My father brought up an interesting point with regards to the feds withholding state road funds: if the states are being denied money on the condition of compliance, why not just suspend all federal tax payments?
If the feds can deny money, surely the state can simply not pay any taxes to the federal government to recoup the cost (and probably a lot more).
If only the people in charge weren't such spineless shills.
Do they? I don't mean to be confrontational, I'm actually simply not that aware of the activities of the ACLU beyond the headlines (which I do tend to agree with). What exactly were you referring to?
It's sometimes easy to forget about the work that organizations such as the ACLU do. I doubt most citizens are even aware of the kind of things that the ACLU actively fights for.
Organizations like these should be applauded for their work. We need more people willing to do this kind of thing.
Especially here in the states. If it means saving this many lives, will you pay twice as much and drive at half speed, at least for a little while?
Ha! In the USA? People here are usually glad to pay ridiculous prices for things that are otherwise free or far less costly (I'm thinking bottled water and cars that aren't gas guzzlers). But that is a stretch even for Americans. And lets face it, saving lives generally doesn't make it to the top of most people's lists of Important Things.
It was going up a tic every few seconds or so. I think this has been mentioned elsewhere by now, but
hdparm -B 255/dev/hda
takes care of it. It states on the hdparm man page that a value of 255 disables apm on the drive, thereby preventing any more Load_Cycle_Count's. Of course I'm not sure if disabling apm is the correct solution, but as I stated before I'm not terribly familiar with acpi/apm.
Does anyone know of any sane apm settings or is disabling apm the most appropriate solution?
I have Slackware 11 on my laptop and I just checked the Load_Cycle_Count with:
smartctl -d ata -a/dev/hda
Currently the count is up to 1195740! So either I have the most durable drive ever created or this thing is going to explode soon. Does anybody have any suggestions on this? I don't know much about acpi.
We're talking about companies who receive nothing but tax breaks from this administration. Tax incentives are a joke. The only effective means against this administration is legal, and even the law has been marginalized in recent years.
Don't kid yourself, both methods are a pipe dream, but at least a lawsuit has a shot.
I like to leave my Slackware downloads seeding just for the hell of it, and I've noticed that Comcast doesn't exactly block the traffic but does something similar to what this article describes. During certain hours (typically mid-morning and evening, roughly), all torrent activity will cease for a minute or two and then resume normally. This only happens at certain "peak" times and usually rather infrequently. Torrent speeds are generally quite good later on at night and on the weekends.
Not that I agree with Comcast screwing around with traffic and killing off connections, but they at least appear to be telling the truth here.
This story reminded me of the album, and after spending the last half hour trying to figure out where the stupid download link is and exactly how the fuck I'm supposed to download and pay for it I said screw it and grabbed the torrent from the pirate bay.
I actually want to pay these guys but this has to be the worst website I've ever seen.
(btw I'm using firefox on linux and there's not a chance in hell I'm entering credit card info on a windows machine).
I know its off topic, but I find much of Radiohead's music tends to get better after a few listens. There's often a lot that you sort of miss the first time around due to their strange (although quite good) style. I've been meaning to grab that album myself and pay for it just to support their ingenuity.
Actually now that I think about it, Radiohead is one of the few bands that I've continued to purchase albums of consistently over the years.
The spirit of the rules has a lot to do with how those rules should be enforced. Think "extraordinary rendition" or the War on Drugs. Both are legal, but are they actually following the spirit of the rules?
If the only way to get Linux on the desktop is to add a bunch of cutesy little gadgets/widgets/whatever so that some 13 year old somewhere says "wow, neat!" then flips on mtv, I hope it never happens. This kind of argument makes a BonziBuddy seem like the single most important and popular piece of software ever written.
I understand the need to make software that is user friendly and usable for non-technical people, but certainly not at the expense of the very technology that makes this software viable in the first place. If its a toy that people want they should go buy an iPhone.
I'm pretty sure that's Geek Squad's whole business model. A family friend once told me (after the fact) that they charged her $90 to back up all of her data to a CD, which consisted of a couple dozen family photos and a few papers. (This was a few years ago, so the prices might not be quite so crazy now).
A buddy of mine who worked at Best Buy (but not for the Geek Squad) used to explain to inquiring customers that their problem was most likely due to a faulty flux-capacitor. Kind of mean, I know, but still funny as hell.
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It wouldn't be that bad of an idea. Regardless, there must be some way for a state to exercise defiance to a corrupt federal government in a meaningful way.
My father brought up an interesting point with regards to the feds withholding state road funds: if the states are being denied money on the condition of compliance, why not just suspend all federal tax payments?
If the feds can deny money, surely the state can simply not pay any taxes to the federal government to recoup the cost (and probably a lot more).
If only the people in charge weren't such spineless shills.
Do they? I don't mean to be confrontational, I'm actually simply not that aware of the activities of the ACLU beyond the headlines (which I do tend to agree with). What exactly were you referring to?
It's sometimes easy to forget about the work that organizations such as the ACLU do. I doubt most citizens are even aware of the kind of things that the ACLU actively fights for.
Organizations like these should be applauded for their work. We need more people willing to do this kind of thing.
Ha! In the USA? People here are usually glad to pay ridiculous prices for things that are otherwise free or far less costly (I'm thinking bottled water and cars that aren't gas guzzlers). But that is a stretch even for Americans. And lets face it, saving lives generally doesn't make it to the top of most people's lists of Important Things.
It was going up a tic every few seconds or so. I think this has been mentioned elsewhere by now, but
/dev/hda
hdparm -B 255
takes care of it. It states on the hdparm man page that a value of 255 disables apm on the drive, thereby preventing any more Load_Cycle_Count's. Of course I'm not sure if disabling apm is the correct solution, but as I stated before I'm not terribly familiar with acpi/apm.
Does anyone know of any sane apm settings or is disabling apm the most appropriate solution?
I have Slackware 11 on my laptop and I just checked the Load_Cycle_Count with:
/dev/hda
smartctl -d ata -a
Currently the count is up to 1195740! So either I have the most durable drive ever created or this thing is going to explode soon. Does anybody have any suggestions on this? I don't know much about acpi.
We're talking about companies who receive nothing but tax breaks from this administration. Tax incentives are a joke. The only effective means against this administration is legal, and even the law has been marginalized in recent years.
Don't kid yourself, both methods are a pipe dream, but at least a lawsuit has a shot.
I like to leave my Slackware downloads seeding just for the hell of it, and I've noticed that Comcast doesn't exactly block the traffic but does something similar to what this article describes. During certain hours (typically mid-morning and evening, roughly), all torrent activity will cease for a minute or two and then resume normally. This only happens at certain "peak" times and usually rather infrequently. Torrent speeds are generally quite good later on at night and on the weekends.
Not that I agree with Comcast screwing around with traffic and killing off connections, but they at least appear to be telling the truth here.
This story reminded me of the album, and after spending the last half hour trying to figure out where the stupid download link is and exactly how the fuck I'm supposed to download and pay for it I said screw it and grabbed the torrent from the pirate bay.
I actually want to pay these guys but this has to be the worst website I've ever seen.
(btw I'm using firefox on linux and there's not a chance in hell I'm entering credit card info on a windows machine).
I know its off topic, but I find much of Radiohead's music tends to get better after a few listens. There's often a lot that you sort of miss the first time around due to their strange (although quite good) style. I've been meaning to grab that album myself and pay for it just to support their ingenuity.
Actually now that I think about it, Radiohead is one of the few bands that I've continued to purchase albums of consistently over the years.
The spirit of the rules has a lot to do with how those rules should be enforced. Think "extraordinary rendition" or the War on Drugs. Both are legal, but are they actually following the spirit of the rules?
If the only way to get Linux on the desktop is to add a bunch of cutesy little gadgets/widgets/whatever so that some 13 year old somewhere says "wow, neat!" then flips on mtv, I hope it never happens. This kind of argument makes a BonziBuddy seem like the single most important and popular piece of software ever written.
I understand the need to make software that is user friendly and usable for non-technical people, but certainly not at the expense of the very technology that makes this software viable in the first place. If its a toy that people want they should go buy an iPhone.
I'm pretty sure that's Geek Squad's whole business model. A family friend once told me (after the fact) that they charged her $90 to back up all of her data to a CD, which consisted of a couple dozen family photos and a few papers. (This was a few years ago, so the prices might not be quite so crazy now). A buddy of mine who worked at Best Buy (but not for the Geek Squad) used to explain to inquiring customers that their problem was most likely due to a faulty flux-capacitor. Kind of mean, I know, but still funny as hell.
Those of us who play the guitar call people like you "noobs".