I was in Iraq when the cables were cut last time. 90% of our internet connection was cut as well as significant portions of classified connections. I find it hard to believe we did that on purpose.
Less arrogant than someone willfully choosing to take offense because I wish them a single nice day?
Oh, I'm so sorry for not liking having your religion shoved down my throat everywhere I turn and every casual conversation.
Ok then Mr Grinch.
Is it really too much to ask that you respect others' beliefs without deriding them? I don't want to celebrate your holiday and I don't want to made fun of for it. Seriously, it is possible to not celebrate Christmas without the constant Grinch and Scrooge comments? How would you like it if everyone made fun of you for not participating in someone else's religious festival?
Frankly I say "Merry Christmas" to everyone, in the spirit that I want whoever I am saying it to to be happy on Christmas regardless of what they are actually celebrating.
And therein lies the problem. Do you know how arrogant that statement sounds to a non-Christian? Not everyone wants your holiday or your holiday cheer, and it would be nice if more Christians respected that instead of demanding everyone be happy for them.
There are holidays other than Christmas, hence the plural form. Back before Christians stole it, like they do everything else, the holiday was the winter solstice. It was a time of giving gifts and lighting candles.
SSRIs by themselves are not dangerous, or have not been conclusively shown to be at least. Many of those who had suicide ideation were also on other drugs, just like Megan. Many of them were on seven or more psychoactive drugs at once, and many also had suicide ideation before being put on the drugs (that probably being one of the reasons for going on anti-depression drugs in the first place). I've read some of the surveys where they attempted to correct for past suicide ideation, and they asked if the patient had suicide ideation in the past 30 days. Anything before that was irrelevant, including multiple attempts.
The apparent correlation between SSRIs and suicide, once again, does not mean causation.
I wouldn't get very far on the internet if I only clicked on links marked SFW, would I? Pretty much rules out every link on every page I would ever go to.
Thanks for the NSFW tag there. Much appreciated. Now when I'm asked why I was checking out that page on wikipedia, I'll have to explain what slashdot is, what an open source coffee maker is, what a lolcat is, and what icanhascheezburger.com is to justify why I went there on company time. Should be fun.
An example we ran into was a program called Analyst's Notebook, a link analysis and visualization program. The license is $3k for each terminal and we can not get an enterprise license from its distributor, i2. They couldn't make it available for each terminal without paying the license fee, so those of us who needed it had a thick client.
Also, we routinely got CDs from training, conferences, etc that we needed at work. So we would have to hunt down a communal thick client (before we finally got our own for AN) and load the material. I was a mobile trainer, so I had to also routinely burn CDs with training material. It is not feasible to send multiple CDs of information by email across the country or even across a command. And with so many networks, all of them laden with security features, sending from one network to another is not trivially easy, or even possible sometimes.
We also had some programs that were extremely graphics and/or processor intensive, and the thin clients just couldn't hack it.
And that "dumb remote terminal" is MY terminal, or "personal computer" if you will. I can install what I want, upgrade it, dual-boot it, whatever. The thin clients are closer to the mainframes of the 70s, where everyone asks a central computer to do some work. It's like a giant step backward, IMHO. The only people who think they're a good idea are those writing the checks. The users hate them with a passion.
USB drives are pretty much a no-go in classified environments for non-IT and non-security personnel. It's too easy to move, intentionally or otherwise, information between networks ie Secret material to the internet. CDs are used extensively, because no one has burners except appropriate security personnel. So for thin clients, there's no pretty much nothing. You have to find a thick client, upload to a share directory, and go back to your thin client. Highly efficient.
No, there's so much more. There's no CD drive, no USB drive, no external drive of any sort. There's no custom software or anything requiring its own license. We have a thin client terminal within the intelligence community called the DTW (Domain Trusted Workstation) that is pretty much universally despised by its users. DIA et al think it's a great idea though. Tom Freidman in his new book: Hot, Flat, and Crowded seems to think that it is the wave of the future though, even for home users. Let's just say I'll remain skeptical.
No kidding. I have a dual-boot XP/Ubuntu desktop at home. So depending on which one I'm using at the time would determine which OS I use. Not exactly scientific.
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I was in Iraq when the cables were cut last time. 90% of our internet connection was cut as well as significant portions of classified connections. I find it hard to believe we did that on purpose.
...porcine aviatrixes...Hades Icecapades...etc etc..you get the idea.
FEWER servers! FEWER! Aauughhhh!
Less arrogant than someone willfully choosing to take offense because I wish them a single nice day?
Oh, I'm so sorry for not liking having your religion shoved down my throat everywhere I turn and every casual conversation.
Ok then Mr Grinch.
Is it really too much to ask that you respect others' beliefs without deriding them? I don't want to celebrate your holiday and I don't want to made fun of for it. Seriously, it is possible to not celebrate Christmas without the constant Grinch and Scrooge comments? How would you like it if everyone made fun of you for not participating in someone else's religious festival?
Frankly I say "Merry Christmas" to everyone, in the spirit that I want whoever I am saying it to to be happy on Christmas regardless of what they are actually celebrating.
And therein lies the problem. Do you know how arrogant that statement sounds to a non-Christian? Not everyone wants your holiday or your holiday cheer, and it would be nice if more Christians respected that instead of demanding everyone be happy for them.
There are holidays other than Christmas, hence the plural form. Back before Christians stole it, like they do everything else, the holiday was the winter solstice. It was a time of giving gifts and lighting candles.
A wizard guild? Can I bring my robe and hat?
Many of the cases involve the person going off the drug abruptly, which usually can cause very dangerous psychotic break.
Not using the drug as prescribed is hardly the drug's fault.
SSRIs by themselves are not dangerous, or have not been conclusively shown to be at least. Many of those who had suicide ideation were also on other drugs, just like Megan. Many of them were on seven or more psychoactive drugs at once, and many also had suicide ideation before being put on the drugs (that probably being one of the reasons for going on anti-depression drugs in the first place). I've read some of the surveys where they attempted to correct for past suicide ideation, and they asked if the patient had suicide ideation in the past 30 days. Anything before that was irrelevant, including multiple attempts.
The apparent correlation between SSRIs and suicide, once again, does not mean causation.
You're missing several memes, like:
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1. In Soviet Russia,
2. Slashdot is pants
3. Imagine a beowulf cluster of those
4.
5. Profit!
P.S. You must be new here.
I wouldn't get very far on the internet if I only clicked on links marked SFW, would I? Pretty much rules out every link on every page I would ever go to.
Thanks for the NSFW tag there. Much appreciated. Now when I'm asked why I was checking out that page on wikipedia, I'll have to explain what slashdot is, what an open source coffee maker is, what a lolcat is, and what icanhascheezburger.com is to justify why I went there on company time. Should be fun.
I can haz free koffi?
Yeah, and imagine a beowulf cluster of those! I'd be up for months!
If that doesn't do it, try WD-40.
An example we ran into was a program called Analyst's Notebook, a link analysis and visualization program. The license is $3k for each terminal and we can not get an enterprise license from its distributor, i2. They couldn't make it available for each terminal without paying the license fee, so those of us who needed it had a thick client.
Also, we routinely got CDs from training, conferences, etc that we needed at work. So we would have to hunt down a communal thick client (before we finally got our own for AN) and load the material. I was a mobile trainer, so I had to also routinely burn CDs with training material. It is not feasible to send multiple CDs of information by email across the country or even across a command. And with so many networks, all of them laden with security features, sending from one network to another is not trivially easy, or even possible sometimes.
We also had some programs that were extremely graphics and/or processor intensive, and the thin clients just couldn't hack it.
And that "dumb remote terminal" is MY terminal, or "personal computer" if you will. I can install what I want, upgrade it, dual-boot it, whatever. The thin clients are closer to the mainframes of the 70s, where everyone asks a central computer to do some work. It's like a giant step backward, IMHO. The only people who think they're a good idea are those writing the checks. The users hate them with a passion.
When has wind or solar ever been shown to be an effective, reliable replacement for fossil fuels?
Are you using the fact that we haven't yet tried as a reason not to try in the future?
USB drives are pretty much a no-go in classified environments for non-IT and non-security personnel. It's too easy to move, intentionally or otherwise, information between networks ie Secret material to the internet. CDs are used extensively, because no one has burners except appropriate security personnel. So for thin clients, there's no pretty much nothing. You have to find a thick client, upload to a share directory, and go back to your thin client. Highly efficient.
No, there's so much more. There's no CD drive, no USB drive, no external drive of any sort. There's no custom software or anything requiring its own license. We have a thin client terminal within the intelligence community called the DTW (Domain Trusted Workstation) that is pretty much universally despised by its users. DIA et al think it's a great idea though. Tom Freidman in his new book: Hot, Flat, and Crowded seems to think that it is the wave of the future though, even for home users. Let's just say I'll remain skeptical.
No kidding. I have a dual-boot XP/Ubuntu desktop at home. So depending on which one I'm using at the time would determine which OS I use. Not exactly scientific.
But then we'd be stuck with the mammoth overlords!
No, that's the beauty of it. When winter comes, they'll all freeze to death!
I thought he was trying to say you should always do your best, like you know, do your homework and study for school.
Gimme a break. I just wanted to know how babby was formed.
Yeah, and sue Fruit of the Loom too, since it turns out many criminals wear underwear.
In the interest of saving time, I will go ahead and get off your lawn so you won't have to ask. Good day, sir.