Yep, good tips there. However, my main problem is cleanup. Everything single thing you're doing requires cleanup. Clean the grill, clean the pans, clean the bread machine.
Cleaning pans really isn't a big hassle. Two things seem to help. One is to buy good heavy pans, restaurant supply stores are a good source. The other is to clean the pan while it is still warm. You should still let the pan cool for 5 minutes or so after coming off the stove but if you don't let them sit they shouldn't be much of a problem to clean. None of my pans are non-stick and I hand wash almost all of my pans, typically don't have to do more than run some hot water into them, give a couple swipes with a soapy scrubber, rinse, and toss in the dish rack to dry.
Spaghetti & Tomato sauce -- in the time it takes to boil water and heat up a jar of sauce, you're in business. Usually, I'll take a couple more minutes to mince up some garlic, and saute it in my pan with some olive oil before adding sauce. You can also buy pre-minced garlic in jars in any grocery store.
To take it to the next level it really doesn't take much more time to make a fresh sauce from canned or fresh tomatoes. The sauce will still be done by the time the pasta is cooked.
As for garlic, I always buy it whole. A decent garlic press will make short work of turning it to pulp for things like tomato sauce. You can also chop a bunch in a food processor and freeze it if you prefer the texture of minced garlic. Avoid the pre-minced stuff in jars as it often has added salt and doesn't taste as good.
Grilled Veggies speaking of the George Foreman grill, which you can buy for less than $30 on Amazon, I use this thing all the time for ultra-healthy snacks. You can grill up just about any type of vegetable. My favorites are broccoli and cauliflower. I'll usually break them into pieces, then grill them give minutes or so. Then flip them around in the grill, turn off the power, and keep the grill on them for another five minutes or so. I'll then top with some non-transfatty acid margarine and some flax oil in a serving bowl.
Personally I don't see the point of the Foreman grills. For 90% of the things I can see cooking on them the broiler or a cast iron skillet works better and has fewer cleanup hassles.
If the vegetables are fresh enough I often don't top them with anything more than a little fresh garlic and fresh ground black pepper. Other times I'll use a little extra-virgin olive oil or butter. (though I know for the vegans out there the butter isn't an option)
Bread Machine.Amazon.com offers a West Bend bread machine that makes a small loaf suitable for one or two people in less than an hour. You can modify the recipes so that the breads are nearly all whole grain. And it takes only about five minutes to measure out the ingredients. Then, just go away for 45 minutes, and when you get back you've got a piping hot loaf of bread, that costs something like 30 cents even if you've used organic flour.
Again I don't really see the point of bread machines. I have a good stand mixer so making bread involves only a few more steps than a bread machine and I feel the results are much better.
Sure. I understand the health aspect. The only thing I object to is the people that claim it's more convenient. Unless you live on a farm or something, it isn't more convenient in any way. You need to shop more often, it takes longer to prepare. It takes longer to cook.
I suspect there is a bit of a perspective thing going on here.
People who like to cook and who like eating fresh fruits and vegetables don't really see stopping at the market every couple of days to buy perishables as a chore.
On the other hand people who really don't like cooking tend to see grocery shopping as a waste of time and generally wish to spend as little time as possible doing it.
In addition it is easier for some of us to shop every day for fruit, vegitables, meat, and fish because there is a good supplyer close to our house or on the way home from work. I tended to eat very well when I was living across the street from a good produce market on the way home every day.
That happens in the U.S. too but we just start a war somewhere and blow up other peoples public works.
The us has its Pork barrel public works projects too.
BTW I seem to recall that there was a high bridge/viaduct built in the US recently to protect a senic valley from auto traffic. I think it was in Shenandoah National Park but I could be wrong.
Something like 20% of the power in the US comes from hydro sources. Considering just how much power the US uses per day this is a pretty damn (no pun intended) big number.
The Grand Coulee Dam in Washington State alone is capable of generating 6,809,000 kW at peak output.
Heh. Yeah. And I would say that the "right" numbers would reflect the nation's desire to elect a Libertarian president.
I certainly hope you don't mean Bush. He is about as far from the Libertarian position as you can be and still be a pro-business socially conservative Republican.
Rep. Ron Paul would be someone I would consider an example of a real Libertarian. (How I wish he was the Republican nominee instead of Bush, maybe the Libertarian party will nominate him again)
I'm sorry while I dispair at the quality of some of the more popular TV "news" shows in the US there are are also some very high-quality shows and outlets as well.
For example almost nobody mentions the print media. Some of the best journalism I've seen from the US has been print: The LA Times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, The Atlantic, New Yorker, and even the Wall Street Journal all have done excellent work often on a consistent basis.
Even TV and radio have some excellent shows and outlets: NPR, PBS, C-SPAN, Nightline, 60 Minutes, Meet the Press, This Week, Face the Nation, etc.
Actually, the easiest way to get a bomb into the US of A is NOT to smuggle it at all. All the parts you need to make a bomb can be gotten hold of locally.
Depends somewhat on exactly what type of bomb you want. For conventional explosives your are probably better off making your bomb in the same country as your target.
On the other hand you might have a need to smuggle that nuclear warhead you bought off those nice Pakistani scientists into the US. In that case hiding it in the heroin shipment might be your best bet.
What use is freedom when you're dead from a terrorist attack?
So just how far are you willing to go to make sure you won't be a victim of a terrorist attack?
Checkpoints every 1/4 mile? Internal passports? Allow police to detain anyone they want for as long as they want for any reason? Jail anyone who dares criticise the government? Have every 3rd American working as a police or government informant spying on his or her neighbors?
After all we must destroy freedom in order to save it.
Personally I would be much more worried about dying from an automobile accident or accidental fall than from a terrorist attack. In case you don't know auto accidents and falls are the two leading causes of acciental death in the US. Your chances of being killed in a terrorist attack on US soil are somewhat lower than the chances of your being killed by lightning.
Still I haven't heard anyone say What use is freedom when you're dead from an automobile acciedent? or What use is freedom when you're dead from falling and hitting your head? or even What use is freedom when you're dead from being struck by lightning?
At least Washington allows people who apply and pass the background check to get concealed carry permits.
Many states either don't allow ordinary citizens to carry concealed weapons or like California make it effectively next to impossible for them to get a permit.
I do wish more states were like either Vermont or Alaska with their firearms laws.
Rule Number Three: The police and military are always outnumbered by the civillian population. Rule Number Four: Partisan or resistance movements will never be rooted out as long as they have the support of a signifigant minority of the civillian population.
What you say is true in a Waco or Ruby Ridge type situation. However if even 1% or 2% of the US adult population felt the US government needed to be violently overthrown it would be very difficult to prevent them from causing all sorts of chaos much less caputre them.
In any sort of realistic scenario (or at least any where I would feel compelled to pick up a gun and attempt to remove a tyrannical government) it would be likely that enough police and military would defect to even up the firepower situation a bit.
To take Iraq or the Occupied Territories as an example, it would be possible to eliminate every Iraqi or Palistinian insurgent but that would likely require leveling almost every city or town and killing most of the civilian population. While this is well within the capablity of either the US or the Israeli military neither has been willing to go quite that far yet.
To take it back to the US I doubt that if a large number of citizens felt the need to take up arms against the government that the police or the military would be all that thrilled with the idea of laying waste to portions of American cities and towns in order to eliminate the rebels.
If it really comes to that all you need is something that allows you to steal a better gun. There are plenty of weapons including modern crossbows or black powder firearms that don't have the hassle of a paper trail.
On the other hand I suspect any widespread attempt to seize privately owned firearms in the US would result at the very least in a lot of dead law enforcement officers and military personel. This is without taking into account the rather large numbers of firearms in this country that are effectively "off the books" for one reason or another.
In any case it is supprisingly easy to make an effective firearm with simple tools particularly if accuracy isn't much of a concern. Probably the best things one can do are to gain some skill with metalworking (machining, welding, casting, etc.)and gunsmithing, and perhaps purchasing an inexpensive metalworking mini-lathe and one of the inexpensive mini-milling machines. In addition it is worth practicing shooting both rifles and pistols. Join your local shooting club or firing range and buy a good target pistol and rifle. While these will be tracable you only want them to gain skill and put holes in paper. For most people it is probably best to keep these firearms in a locker at the shooting range rather than at home. Paintball is a good way of getting somewhat realistic combat training particularly if you have an opporturnity to participate with current or ex-military personel.
Still I haven't become quite this paranoid yet. I'm interested in metalworking, gunsmithing, target shooting, and paintball for their own merits and not as skills to aquire before the revolution comes. I did some target shooting and paintball when I was younger but haven't done either in years.
I still think the political and legal process in the US is sufficent to prevent things from getting too far out of whack or down the road to totalitarianism. They may not move as quickly as some would like but I believe they are still effective.
No one here really cares about the truth, they just want to bash America or Bush or both.
I care about the the truth. Unfortunately due to the rather overheated partisan atmosphere in DC I doubt we'll ever see anything that is widely accepted as "the truth". Even if we do I doubt what is accepted will meet empirical standards of truth and will only be thought to be the truth because it is widely accepted.
As for the Bush Administration it is becoming increasingly clear to me that they are no more interested in the truth than many of the posters here at Slashdot. Ideology is being used to make most policy decisions and facts are cherry-picked to support those ideological decisions and anything that would contradict them is ignored. Mind you it isn't so much that ideology is a component of the policy decisionmaking process that I have a problem with, it is that the ideology comes prior to the facts rather than being used as a guide to make decisions based on the facts.
In any case criticism of current and past policies of the US government or of the current US Presidential Administration do not necessarily consititute America or Bush bashing. It does not necessarily make one a "leftist", "liberal", "appeaser", or "cheese eating surrender monkey" either. There are plenty of people who consider themselves and would be considered by others foriegn policy hawks, conservatives, libertarians, or life-long Republicans who have rather sharp disagreements with the current administration over policy and the priorities of the US government. In fact the propensity of the Bush administration and it's supporters to dismiss any criticism as "bashing" by "partisans" and "those who would support our enemies" is having the effect of turnig a nuber of people off who otherwise support administration policy.
We'll probably start affixing GPS tracking ankle bracelets to all visitors next.
The only good news about this sort of nonsense and similar nonsense such as requiring fingerprints for drivers licences or storing all drivers license photos in a big database is it creates a false sense of security. If someone really wants to fake their identity there are still ways to do so. In addition by creating such huge databases you greatly increase the difficulty of tracking down those individuals you really have reason to want to keep a good eye on.
Real law enforcement tries to narrow down the list of suspicious characters that need to be tracked closely rather than treating everyone like a suspect.
Another great battle is over wind power. You'd think all the environmentalists would be on top of that one. Not so - it disrupts migratory patterns and splatters a lot of birds, so many conservationists are against it. Same with things like tidal power (similar effect on fish).
Again, pedanticism aside, the environmental "faction" is far more fractured than you might think. Frequently the anti-global-warming, conservation, and wilderness camps take diametrically opposing views.
A good example of this is nuclear power. Personally I think nuclear power is probably the best near term solution to global warming, the global oil and natural gas peak, and the problems created by coal fired powerplants. However because nuclear == bad is so ingrained in the minds of most people you probably won't find many, especially environmentalists, who would agree with me.
Another example that provides much personal amusement is the NIMBY types who are fighting the two mass transit systems in the process of being built locally. Many of the arguments they are using could be considered "environmental" such as noise and asthetics (in other words elevated tracks are ugly and block views). Not to mention the complaints about the disruptions caused by construction or demolition of buildings to make room for the right of way and stations. Of course highways are so much quieter, more pleasing to look at, are less disruptive to construct, and require fewer demolitions for their right of way. Actually I'm sure that the same people making such a stink over mass transit would likely be even more upset if there was a new highway being built instead.
What I find even more shocking is the utter inability to write displayed by co-workers daily in various documents and email. Supposedly most of them have graduated from high school if not college.
While I don't expect correct spelling, punctuation, or grammar in email it shouldn't read as if it was written by a dyslexic third-grader. Especially when that email is copied to someone outside the company.
I would expect more formal documents like interoffice memos, product roadmaps, marketing plans, draft documentation, etc. to show somewhat more care in their preparation. Unfortunately many documents appeared to be written just as poorly as some of the emails were prior to being autocorrected by Microsoft Word.
Supprisingly the worst examples seem to come from people in sales, marketing, or upper management. Those with the best writing ablility other than the technical writers tend to be the programmers or technical support represenatives.
That said, there really are some dumb things going on in California, like an overwhelming majority electing a political novice to the governor's office. Clearly people didn't pay much attention when a similar thing happened in Minnesota not so long ago.
That said he seems to be less of a disaster than Grey Davis and appears to be doing a better job than I would have expected.
On the other hand I don't live in California so I might be getting a distorted view of the situation.
Copyright 1984-1995 Novell, Inc. All Rights Reserved.??? Whats this???
UnixWare was the old AT&T/Novell port of System V R4 to the i386.
Novell bought out all of AT&T's rights to UNIX including all copyrights, patents, and trademarks.
When old-SCO bought UnixWare from Novell they didn't buy the copyrights (or patents). Therefore old-SCO had to include notice of Novell's copyrights and patents.
Not quite right the sequence of events is more like the following:
UNIX developed at AT&T Bell Labs AT&T begins licensing UNIX commercially. AT&T sells all intrest in UNIX to Novell. Novell sells it's Unixware product and certain rights related to UNIX licensing to old-SCO. They also donate the UNIX trademark to The Open Group. Old-SCO sells the rights it bought from Novell, Unixware, OpenServer, its reseller network, rights to the SCO name, and its Unix consulting business to Caldera. Old-SCO changes its name to Tarantella. Caldera changes its name to The SCO Group.
Remember Microsoft is already under court supervision for the anti-trust case they lost (even if the punishment was weak).
The judge can take things like Microsoft funding SCO's crusade against Linux as evidence that Microsoft isn't complying with the remedies ordered.
Also if there is enough of a smoking gun with the memo IBM, RedHat, and Novell could potentially drag Microsoft into their lawsuits with SCO. As well as turn up enough evidence for later lawsuits against Microsoft including private anti-trust suits.
One more step in virtualizing the whole world. How soon can we have virtual war, where nobody dies?
Wag The Dog anyone?
Of course I doubt that the media just making shit up would really supprise anyone. People of all political stripes who pay much attention already think they do that.
A quick search on Google shows that Haitian civil rights groups are being paid by hollywood to lobby against video games. We all know that the old boys club on the west coast can't handle competition in entertainment industry. They need more kids to rent violent movies and less kids to rent violent video games.
Interesting, but hardly supprising considering that revenue for the combined US videogames market exceeded revenue for the combined US film and television production market.
Also it's fairly interesting that the games that get the most flack from the media and politicians are the ones made and marketed by independent game publishers rather than the major entertainment companies software publishing arms.
For what its worth many NeXT applications run on OS X with only a simple re-compile.
There is a lot more of NeXTstep under the hood of OS X than most people know, even most Mac developers.
NeXTs two biggest problems were it was ahead of it's time and Jobs refused to cater his company's products or even sell machines to the people who were trying to beat down the doors and buy hardware the first couple of years after the NeXT cubes were released.
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Yep, good tips there. However, my main problem is cleanup. Everything single thing you're doing requires cleanup. Clean the grill, clean the pans, clean the bread machine.
Cleaning pans really isn't a big hassle. Two things seem to help. One is to buy good heavy pans, restaurant supply stores are a good source. The other is to clean the pan while it is still warm. You should still let the pan cool for 5 minutes or so after coming off the stove but if you don't let them sit they shouldn't be much of a problem to clean. None of my pans are non-stick and I hand wash almost all of my pans, typically don't have to do more than run some hot water into them, give a couple swipes with a soapy scrubber, rinse, and toss in the dish rack to dry.
Spaghetti & Tomato sauce -- in the time it takes to boil water and heat up a jar of sauce, you're in business. Usually, I'll take a couple more minutes to mince up some garlic, and saute it in my pan with some olive oil before adding sauce. You can also buy pre-minced garlic in jars in any grocery store.
To take it to the next level it really doesn't take much more time to make a fresh sauce from canned or fresh tomatoes. The sauce will still be done by the time the pasta is cooked.
As for garlic, I always buy it whole. A decent garlic press will make short work of turning it to pulp for things like tomato sauce. You can also chop a bunch in a food processor and freeze it if you prefer the texture of minced garlic. Avoid the pre-minced stuff in jars as it often has added salt and doesn't taste as good.
Grilled Veggies speaking of the George Foreman grill, which you can buy for less than $30 on Amazon, I use this thing all the time for ultra-healthy snacks. You can grill up just about any type of vegetable. My favorites are broccoli and cauliflower. I'll usually break them into pieces, then grill them give minutes or so. Then flip them around in the grill, turn off the power, and keep the grill on them for another five minutes or so. I'll then top with some non-transfatty acid margarine and some flax oil in a serving bowl.
Personally I don't see the point of the Foreman grills. For 90% of the things I can see cooking on them the broiler or a cast iron skillet works better and has fewer cleanup hassles.
If the vegetables are fresh enough I often don't top them with anything more than a little fresh garlic and fresh ground black pepper. Other times I'll use a little extra-virgin olive oil or butter. (though I know for the vegans out there the butter isn't an option)
Bread Machine.Amazon.com offers a West Bend bread machine that makes a small loaf suitable for one or two people in less than an hour. You can modify the recipes so that the breads are nearly all whole grain. And it takes only about five minutes to measure out the ingredients. Then, just go away for 45 minutes, and when you get back you've got a piping hot loaf of bread, that costs something like 30 cents even if you've used organic flour.
Again I don't really see the point of bread machines. I have a good stand mixer so making bread involves only a few more steps than a bread machine and I feel the results are much better.
Sure. I understand the health aspect. The only thing I object to is the people that claim it's more convenient. Unless you live on a farm or something, it isn't more convenient in any way. You need to shop more often, it takes longer to prepare. It takes longer to cook.
I suspect there is a bit of a perspective thing going on here.
People who like to cook and who like eating fresh fruits and vegetables don't really see stopping at the market every couple of days to buy perishables as a chore.
On the other hand people who really don't like cooking tend to see grocery shopping as a waste of time and generally wish to spend as little time as possible doing it.
In addition it is easier for some of us to shop every day for fruit, vegitables, meat, and fish because there is a good supplyer close to our house or on the way home from work. I tended to eat very well when I was living across the street from a good produce market on the way home every day.
That happens in the U.S. too but we just start a war somewhere and blow up other peoples public works.
The us has its Pork barrel public works projects too.
BTW I seem to recall that there was a high bridge/viaduct built in the US recently to protect a senic valley from auto traffic. I think it was in Shenandoah National Park but I could be wrong.
Hydro doesn't produce much? WTF?
Something like 20% of the power in the US comes from hydro sources. Considering just how much power the US uses per day this is a pretty damn (no pun intended) big number.
The Grand Coulee Dam in Washington State alone is capable of generating 6,809,000 kW at peak output.
Heh. Yeah. And I would say that the "right" numbers would reflect the nation's desire to elect a Libertarian president.
I certainly hope you don't mean Bush. He is about as far from the Libertarian position as you can be and still be a pro-business socially conservative Republican.
Rep. Ron Paul would be someone I would consider an example of a real Libertarian. (How I wish he was the Republican nominee instead of Bush, maybe the Libertarian party will nominate him again)
I'm sorry while I dispair at the quality of some of the more popular TV "news" shows in the US there are are also some very high-quality shows and outlets as well.
For example almost nobody mentions the print media. Some of the best journalism I've seen from the US has been print: The LA Times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, The Atlantic, New Yorker, and even the Wall Street Journal all have done excellent work often on a consistent basis.
Even TV and radio have some excellent shows and outlets: NPR, PBS, C-SPAN, Nightline, 60 Minutes, Meet the Press, This Week, Face the Nation, etc.
Probably because China would get all the benefit from sharing our superior technology, and we would get nothing in return.
I don't know the US would gain a backup to the creaky shuttles other than the Russians, someone else to help foot the ISS bill, etc.
Also the Chinese are flying manned missions now unlike the US.
Actually, the easiest way to get a bomb into the US of A is NOT to smuggle it at all. All the parts you need to make a bomb can be gotten hold of locally.
Depends somewhat on exactly what type of bomb you want. For conventional explosives your are probably better off making your bomb in the same country as your target.
On the other hand you might have a need to smuggle that nuclear warhead you bought off those nice Pakistani scientists into the US. In that case hiding it in the heroin shipment might be your best bet.
What use is freedom when you're dead from a terrorist attack?
So just how far are you willing to go to make sure you won't be a victim of a terrorist attack?
Checkpoints every 1/4 mile? Internal passports? Allow police to detain anyone they want for as long as they want for any reason? Jail anyone who dares criticise the government? Have every 3rd American working as a police or government informant spying on his or her neighbors?
After all we must destroy freedom in order to save it.
Personally I would be much more worried about dying from an automobile accident or accidental fall than from a terrorist attack. In case you don't know auto accidents and falls are the two leading causes of acciental death in the US. Your chances of being killed in a terrorist attack on US soil are somewhat lower than the chances of your being killed by lightning.
Still I haven't heard anyone say What use is freedom when you're dead from an automobile acciedent? or What use is freedom when you're dead from falling and hitting your head? or even What use is freedom when you're dead from being struck by lightning?
At least Washington allows people who apply and pass the background check to get concealed carry permits.
Many states either don't allow ordinary citizens to carry concealed weapons or like California make it effectively next to impossible for them to get a permit.
I do wish more states were like either Vermont or Alaska with their firearms laws.
Rule Number Three: The police and military are always outnumbered by the civillian population.
Rule Number Four: Partisan or resistance movements will never be rooted out as long as they have the support of a signifigant minority of the civillian population.
What you say is true in a Waco or Ruby Ridge type situation. However if even 1% or 2% of the US adult population felt the US government needed to be violently overthrown it would be very difficult to prevent them from causing all sorts of chaos much less caputre them.
In any sort of realistic scenario (or at least any where I would feel compelled to pick up a gun and attempt to remove a tyrannical government) it would be likely that enough police and military would defect to even up the firepower situation a bit.
To take Iraq or the Occupied Territories as an example, it would be possible to eliminate every Iraqi or Palistinian insurgent but that would likely require leveling almost every city or town and killing most of the civilian population. While this is well within the capablity of either the US or the Israeli military neither has been willing to go quite that far yet.
To take it back to the US I doubt that if a large number of citizens felt the need to take up arms against the government that the police or the military would be all that thrilled with the idea of laying waste to portions of American cities and towns in order to eliminate the rebels.
If it really comes to that all you need is something that allows you to steal a better gun. There are plenty of weapons including modern crossbows or black powder firearms that don't have the hassle of a paper trail.
On the other hand I suspect any widespread attempt to seize privately owned firearms in the US would result at the very least in a lot of dead law enforcement officers and military personel. This is without taking into account the rather large numbers of firearms in this country that are effectively "off the books" for one reason or another.
In any case it is supprisingly easy to make an effective firearm with simple tools particularly if accuracy isn't much of a concern.
Probably the best things one can do are to gain some skill with metalworking (machining, welding, casting, etc.)and gunsmithing, and perhaps purchasing an inexpensive metalworking mini-lathe and one of the inexpensive mini-milling machines.
In addition it is worth practicing shooting both rifles and pistols. Join your local shooting club or firing range and buy a good target pistol and rifle. While these will be tracable you only want them to gain skill and put holes in paper. For most people it is probably best to keep these firearms in a locker at the shooting range rather than at home.
Paintball is a good way of getting somewhat realistic combat training particularly if you have an opporturnity to participate with current or ex-military personel.
Still I haven't become quite this paranoid yet. I'm interested in metalworking, gunsmithing, target shooting, and paintball for their own merits and not as skills to aquire before the revolution comes. I did some target shooting and paintball when I was younger but haven't done either in years.
I still think the political and legal process in the US is sufficent to prevent things from getting too far out of whack or down the road to totalitarianism. They may not move as quickly as some would like but I believe they are still effective.
No one here really cares about the truth, they just want to bash America or Bush or both.
I care about the the truth. Unfortunately due to the rather overheated partisan atmosphere in DC I doubt we'll ever see anything that is widely accepted as "the truth". Even if we do I doubt what is accepted will meet empirical standards of truth and will only be thought to be the truth because it is widely accepted.
As for the Bush Administration it is becoming increasingly clear to me that they are no more interested in the truth than many of the posters here at Slashdot. Ideology is being used to make most policy decisions and facts are cherry-picked to support those ideological decisions and anything that would contradict them is ignored. Mind you it isn't so much that ideology is a component of the policy decisionmaking process that I have a problem with, it is that the ideology comes prior to the facts rather than being used as a guide to make decisions based on the facts.
In any case criticism of current and past policies of the US government or of the current US Presidential Administration do not necessarily consititute America or Bush bashing. It does not necessarily make one a "leftist", "liberal", "appeaser", or "cheese eating surrender monkey" either. There are plenty of people who consider themselves and would be considered by others foriegn policy hawks, conservatives, libertarians, or life-long Republicans who have rather sharp disagreements with the current administration over policy and the priorities of the US government. In fact the propensity of the Bush administration and it's supporters to dismiss any criticism as "bashing" by "partisans" and "those who would support our enemies" is having the effect of turnig a nuber of people off who otherwise support administration policy.
We'll probably start affixing GPS tracking ankle bracelets to all visitors next.
The only good news about this sort of nonsense and similar nonsense such as requiring fingerprints for drivers licences or storing all drivers license photos in a big database is it creates a false sense of security. If someone really wants to fake their identity there are still ways to do so. In addition by creating such huge databases you greatly increase the difficulty of tracking down those individuals you really have reason to want to keep a good eye on.
Real law enforcement tries to narrow down the list of suspicious characters that need to be tracked closely rather than treating everyone like a suspect.
Another great battle is over wind power. You'd think all the environmentalists would be on top of that one. Not so - it disrupts migratory patterns and splatters a lot of birds, so many conservationists are against it. Same with things like tidal power (similar effect on fish).
Again, pedanticism aside, the environmental "faction" is far more fractured than you might think. Frequently the anti-global-warming, conservation, and wilderness camps take diametrically opposing views.
A good example of this is nuclear power. Personally I think nuclear power is probably the best near term solution to global warming, the global oil and natural gas peak, and the problems created by coal fired powerplants. However because nuclear == bad is so ingrained in the minds of most people you probably won't find many, especially environmentalists, who would agree with me.
Another example that provides much personal amusement is the NIMBY types who are fighting the two mass transit systems in the process of being built locally. Many of the arguments they are using could be considered "environmental" such as noise and asthetics (in other words elevated tracks are ugly and block views). Not to mention the complaints about the disruptions caused by construction or demolition of buildings to make room for the right of way and stations. Of course highways are so much quieter, more pleasing to look at, are less disruptive to construct, and require fewer demolitions for their right of way. Actually I'm sure that the same people making such a stink over mass transit would likely be even more upset if there was a new highway being built instead.
What I find even more shocking is the utter inability to write displayed by co-workers daily in various documents and email. Supposedly most of them have graduated from high school if not college.
While I don't expect correct spelling, punctuation, or grammar in email it shouldn't read as if it was written by a dyslexic third-grader. Especially when that email is copied to someone outside the company.
I would expect more formal documents like interoffice memos, product roadmaps, marketing plans, draft documentation, etc. to show somewhat more care in their preparation. Unfortunately many documents appeared to be written just as poorly as some of the emails were prior to being autocorrected by Microsoft Word.
Supprisingly the worst examples seem to come from people in sales, marketing, or upper management. Those with the best writing ablility other than the technical writers tend to be the programmers or technical support represenatives.
That said, there really are some dumb things going on in California, like an overwhelming majority electing a political novice to the governor's office. Clearly people didn't pay much attention when a similar thing happened in Minnesota not so long ago.
That said he seems to be less of a disaster than Grey Davis and appears to be doing a better job than I would have expected.
On the other hand I don't live in California so I might be getting a distorted view of the situation.
Copyright 1984-1995 Novell, Inc. All Rights Reserved.??? Whats this???
UnixWare was the old AT&T/Novell port of System V R4 to the i386.
Novell bought out all of AT&T's rights to UNIX including all copyrights, patents, and trademarks.
When old-SCO bought UnixWare from Novell they didn't buy the copyrights (or patents). Therefore old-SCO had to include notice of Novell's copyrights and patents.
Someone at CA is worried about ethics?
Yea, it's got to be a pretty low blow when even CA employees start calling your company unethical.
I guess that shows just how slimy SCO is.
Not quite right the sequence of events is more like the following:
UNIX developed at AT&T Bell Labs
AT&T begins licensing UNIX commercially.
AT&T sells all intrest in UNIX to Novell.
Novell sells it's Unixware product and certain rights related to UNIX licensing to old-SCO. They also donate the UNIX trademark to The Open Group.
Old-SCO sells the rights it bought from Novell, Unixware, OpenServer, its reseller network, rights to the SCO name, and its Unix consulting business to Caldera.
Old-SCO changes its name to Tarantella.
Caldera changes its name to The SCO Group.
Remember Microsoft is already under court supervision for the anti-trust case they lost (even if the punishment was weak).
The judge can take things like Microsoft funding SCO's crusade against Linux as evidence that Microsoft isn't complying with the remedies ordered.
Also if there is enough of a smoking gun with the memo IBM, RedHat, and Novell could potentially drag Microsoft into their lawsuits with SCO. As well as turn up enough evidence for later lawsuits against Microsoft including private anti-trust suits.
One more step in virtualizing the whole world. How soon can we have virtual war, where nobody dies?
Wag The Dog anyone?
Of course I doubt that the media just making shit up would really supprise anyone. People of all political stripes who pay much attention already think they do that.
A quick search on Google shows that Haitian civil rights groups are being paid by hollywood to lobby against video games. We all know that the old boys club on the west coast can't handle competition in entertainment industry. They need more kids to rent violent movies and less kids to rent violent video games.
Interesting, but hardly supprising considering that revenue for the combined US videogames market exceeded revenue for the combined US film and television production market.
Also it's fairly interesting that the games that get the most flack from the media and politicians are the ones made and marketed by independent game publishers rather than the major entertainment companies software publishing arms.
For what its worth many NeXT applications run on OS X with only a simple re-compile.
There is a lot more of NeXTstep under the hood of OS X than most people know, even most Mac developers.
NeXTs two biggest problems were it was ahead of it's time and Jobs refused to cater his company's products or even sell machines to the people who were trying to beat down the doors and buy hardware the first couple of years after the NeXT cubes were released.