but I just feel that responsible people should be allowed to run whatever servers they want to.
Absolutely NOBODY is preventing this guy from running whatever server he wants to.
Some people are, however, exercising their own rights to refuse to accept communications from him, for a reason that may or may not be reasonable, valid, or useful.
I seem to recall that Intel procs are the only major ones that didn't have a unique ID; SPARCs do, I'm pretty sure that PowerPCs do....
As for the Itanium, Intel can't win. "x86 is so crappy! They should do away with it and start fresh!" Well, they did. "Itanium is so crappy! They should just extend x86!"
Remember that those shiney Pixar movies you see generally don't bother with ray-tracing (I think Finding Nemo did a little bit of it; the previous ones didn't) because, as has been said, you can get 'good enough' using rules-of-thumb and hacks, most of the time.
If you look hard enough on line, you can find pictures of Imperial troops mugging for the camera; tossing around heads, giant piles of bodies, stuff to make the recent Iraqi Prisoner stuff look like a Sunday picnic.
To the best of my knowledge, Japan still doesn't admit to any of it, but they have apologized, in general, for forcing Chinese women into sexual slavery in 'Pleasure Batallions' for the soldiers.
Think of that the next time you're watching one of those 'Oh, those terrible Americans nuked peace-loving Japan' movies.:-)
What's that line from Snow Crash? "This was before we nuked them, and they suddenly realized they were pacifists."
And, for the record, I'm a bit of a Japan-o-phile. And they're certainly not alone in the wartime atrocity department.
Aye, lots of it is just good old fashioned markup. Sun used to be bad for this as well; haven't bought any kit from them recently, so I don't know if they still are....
What you're paying for there is the fact that Cisco warrents that those will work, and if they don't work, you'll have replacements, or an engineer on a plane, within x number of hours.
Sir, your dog has an incurable sickness; we'll put the poor thing to sleep, as it would be inhumane to let him suffer.
And yet, when my grandfather had his intestines necrotize, and was guarenteed to die within six days, yet during those days, was in so much pain that morphene couldn't help, well, lets just say that what's inhumane for a dog is humane for a person.
Ask yourself how you might feel if, oh, say, downtown Ottowa was utterly leveled.
Ottawa. But let me draw an even better parallel.
In October, 1970, we had our very own terrorist attack, thanks to the FLQ; a bunch of "extremist Quebec separatists." They killed the Quebec justice minister, and kidnapped a British Trade Commissioner.
Trudeau sent the army into Ottawa, the army was 'invited' into Quebec, and the War Measures act was invoked. This act gives sweeping powers to the federal gov't, suspends outright the bill of rights, and so on.
...The powers include the right to search and arrest without warrant, to detain suspected persons without the necessity of laying specific charges immediately, and to detain persons without bail.
So, what's the difference between this, and what America is doing now? Simple. When the crisis was over, the Act was revoked, the army went home, and everybody went on with their lives.
Hrm. For DSL, we give business class if the phone line is registered as, well, business class. This tends to annoy people running businesses out of their living rooms.
For cable, satellite, or fixed-wireless, it's user choice.
Convict 1: Hey, that's the guy what sent me all those 'enlarge your p3n1s' emails! I even ordered some, just to see if it would work!
Convict 2: Well, did it?
Howard: I hope not!
You know, my first thought upon hearing Bush say 'we will consider any country which gives aid, comfort or support to terrorists, to be terrorists,' was 'Gee, George, how much money does Sinn Fein get from the USA every year?'
I think quite a bit of the problem came not from the fact that 9/11 happened, but from the handling of it by George. And that, as you say, probably stems, in part, from the confusion about just who really did win the election. Myself, I say Gore, but it's rather academic, now.
I'll also point out that six months ago, I said to a co-worker, 'I wonder if Bush will really let the elections go through, or if there will be a 'crisis' or something to suspend them.' Bush really strikes me as the 'I know what's best for you, so I'll force it upon you; if you argue, well, you're proving to me that you don't know what's best for you.' sort of guy.
The other thing is, the roots of terrorism are not even acknowledged. Before people become terrorists they are extremists, and before that, they have a grievance or two. These grievances are never acknowledged to be real, and they are dissed as "evil" or "freedom hating" or whatever other sound bits put out.... Alas this does not seem to be changing any time soon.
I think, actually, that America as a group are incapable of understanding that hey, guess what, that group over there? They honestly believe that they have a mandate from God to kill you, and that they will be assured a life in Paradise should they die in the course of taking some of you out. America always believes that something can be negotiated, discussed, bargained. And, in this case, I don't think it is so.
Couple that with the fact that, kill Bin Laden, and you get a martyr, and you're kind of screwed. In this case, I would think, you'd turn to international support. But, Bush has kind of alienated the international community, hasn't he?
Don't know much about whether Roosevelt actually allowed it conciously, or by neglect though.
The conspiracy theory goes that FDR knew exactly what was going to happen, but also knew that America traditionally loves to bolt the barn door shut only after the horses have buggered off; so he let Pearl Harbour take it in the shorts to shake America out of it's illusions.
I might think the same of Bush, if, as FDR did, he'd then gone on to prosecute a successful war. Bush seems more interested in dead horses, and the flogging thereof.
Which, of course, leads back to the original premise; anything Bush has done, taken individually, isn't cause for comment. But action after action he's taken really raises eyebrows. Why the drama over Iraq? If Bush had said 'We're going back to Iraq to finish what we started ten years ago,' America would have supported him. No question. If he'd said 'Lets go into Afghanistan and clean up the mess we made when we were using it to fuck with the USSR,' again, there'd have been support, I think. Or, at least, not opposition.
Hrm. Most of the suppositions I've heard about Bush is that he ignored warnings about increased terrorist threats because a) Clinton did the warning, so Bush had a 'fuck you' attitude, b) he, having hired his dad's Cold War era cabinet, was focused on nation-states rather than small groups, or c) just incompetant.
I've not heard it suggested that he orchestrated 9/11, but I have heard the inevitable comparisons to Roosevelt 'allowing' Pearl Harbour to happen.
When you get right down to it, though, 9/11 was inevitable; the book on air terrorism (at the time) said that the pilot was to do what the terrorists demanded, as the terrorists wanted to survive the encounter. Guess what; now they don't.
And yes, I'm from Ontario; no, I didn't see that particular show.
No, because the step tracks are generally syncronized to the songs.
What you *can* do, however, is to download one of the clone versions, like Stepmaina, or Dance With Intensity, and either find or make appropriate step tracks for your own music.
The fact that the Bush clan had dealings with the (rather extended) Bin Laden clan is just fine.
The fact that Bush (or the Bush gov't; same thing, really) snuck them out of the country on a secret, special flight, during the no-fly period, without letting, say, the FBI so much as ask 'So...know where Osama is these days?' really does raise some eyebrows.
Was he trying to protect them, innocents, from a backlash due to their last name? Quite possibly, and not a bad idea in America.
Still, it *does* raise some questions. Questions Bush hasn't answered.
Now, as a Moore fan, I'll say that I've never seen his films, but his books, especially Stupid White Men, are well worth reading.
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He's not blacklisted. He's accurately listed as being a residential dynamic-assigned user.
The fact that some other mail servers choose not to accept his mail, based on that fact, has nothing to do with his ISP.
Absolutely NOBODY is preventing this guy from running whatever server he wants to.
Some people are, however, exercising their own rights to refuse to accept communications from him, for a reason that may or may not be reasonable, valid, or useful.
I seem to recall that Intel procs are the only major ones that didn't have a unique ID; SPARCs do, I'm pretty sure that PowerPCs do....
As for the Itanium, Intel can't win. "x86 is so crappy! They should do away with it and start fresh!" Well, they did. "Itanium is so crappy! They should just extend x86!"
Actually, I believe the CYA response is "I can confirm that so and so was employed here between THISDATE and THATDATE."
They might also be able to give out job titles, possibly even job descriptions.
Remember that those shiney Pixar movies you see generally don't bother with ray-tracing (I think Finding Nemo did a little bit of it; the previous ones didn't) because, as has been said, you can get 'good enough' using rules-of-thumb and hacks, most of the time.
Slightly more to the point.
If you look hard enough on line, you can find pictures of Imperial troops mugging for the camera; tossing around heads, giant piles of bodies, stuff to make the recent Iraqi Prisoner stuff look like a Sunday picnic.
To the best of my knowledge, Japan still doesn't admit to any of it, but they have apologized, in general, for forcing Chinese women into sexual slavery in 'Pleasure Batallions' for the soldiers.
Think of that the next time you're watching one of those 'Oh, those terrible Americans nuked peace-loving Japan' movies. :-)
What's that line from Snow Crash? "This was before we nuked them, and they suddenly realized they were pacifists."
And, for the record, I'm a bit of a Japan-o-phile. And they're certainly not alone in the wartime atrocity department.
LINUX - Linux Is Not UniX.
Aye, lots of it is just good old fashioned markup. Sun used to be bad for this as well; haven't bought any kit from them recently, so I don't know if they still are....
Tell that to Nanking.
What you're paying for there is the fact that Cisco warrents that those will work, and if they don't work, you'll have replacements, or an engineer on a plane, within x number of hours.
Up to you to decide if it's worth it or not.
And yet, when my grandfather had his intestines necrotize, and was guarenteed to die within six days, yet during those days, was in so much pain that morphene couldn't help, well, lets just say that what's inhumane for a dog is humane for a person.
By not wearing your seatbelt, you're less able to retain any level of control over your car in the event of an accident.
Ottawa. But let me draw an even better parallel.
In October, 1970, we had our very own terrorist attack, thanks to the FLQ; a bunch of "extremist Quebec separatists." They killed the Quebec justice minister, and kidnapped a British Trade Commissioner.
Trudeau sent the army into Ottawa, the army was 'invited' into Quebec, and the War Measures act was invoked. This act gives sweeping powers to the federal gov't, suspends outright the bill of rights, and so on.
So, what's the difference between this, and what America is doing now? Simple. When the crisis was over, the Act was revoked, the army went home, and everybody went on with their lives.
Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar, but it is, nevertheless, a cigar.
Hrm. For DSL, we give business class if the phone line is registered as, well, business class. This tends to annoy people running businesses out of their living rooms.
For cable, satellite, or fixed-wireless, it's user choice.
Upgrade to business class?
Convict 1: Hey, that's the guy what sent me all those 'enlarge your p3n1s' emails! I even ordered some, just to see if it would work!
Convict 2: Well, did it?
Howard: I hope not!
Maybe, but the guy executed will never murder again.
The problem, of course, is that America tends to put so many innocent people on death row....
Funny you should mention that....
And yes, it's horrible.
You know, my first thought upon hearing Bush say 'we will consider any country which gives aid, comfort or support to terrorists, to be terrorists,' was 'Gee, George, how much money does Sinn Fein get from the USA every year?'
I think quite a bit of the problem came not from the fact that 9/11 happened, but from the handling of it by George. And that, as you say, probably stems, in part, from the confusion about just who really did win the election. Myself, I say Gore, but it's rather academic, now.
I'll also point out that six months ago, I said to a co-worker, 'I wonder if Bush will really let the elections go through, or if there will be a 'crisis' or something to suspend them.' Bush really strikes me as the 'I know what's best for you, so I'll force it upon you; if you argue, well, you're proving to me that you don't know what's best for you.' sort of guy.
I think, actually, that America as a group are incapable of understanding that hey, guess what, that group over there? They honestly believe that they have a mandate from God to kill you, and that they will be assured a life in Paradise should they die in the course of taking some of you out. America always believes that something can be negotiated, discussed, bargained. And, in this case, I don't think it is so.
Couple that with the fact that, kill Bin Laden, and you get a martyr, and you're kind of screwed. In this case, I would think, you'd turn to international support. But, Bush has kind of alienated the international community, hasn't he?
The conspiracy theory goes that FDR knew exactly what was going to happen, but also knew that America traditionally loves to bolt the barn door shut only after the horses have buggered off; so he let Pearl Harbour take it in the shorts to shake America out of it's illusions.
I might think the same of Bush, if, as FDR did, he'd then gone on to prosecute a successful war. Bush seems more interested in dead horses, and the flogging thereof.
Which, of course, leads back to the original premise; anything Bush has done, taken individually, isn't cause for comment. But action after action he's taken really raises eyebrows. Why the drama over Iraq? If Bush had said 'We're going back to Iraq to finish what we started ten years ago,' America would have supported him. No question. If he'd said 'Lets go into Afghanistan and clean up the mess we made when we were using it to fuck with the USSR,' again, there'd have been support, I think. Or, at least, not opposition.
Well, time will tell.
Hrm. Most of the suppositions I've heard about Bush is that he ignored warnings about increased terrorist threats because a) Clinton did the warning, so Bush had a 'fuck you' attitude, b) he, having hired his dad's Cold War era cabinet, was focused on nation-states rather than small groups, or c) just incompetant.
I've not heard it suggested that he orchestrated 9/11, but I have heard the inevitable comparisons to Roosevelt 'allowing' Pearl Harbour to happen.
When you get right down to it, though, 9/11 was inevitable; the book on air terrorism (at the time) said that the pilot was to do what the terrorists demanded, as the terrorists wanted to survive the encounter. Guess what; now they don't.
And yes, I'm from Ontario; no, I didn't see that particular show.
No, because the step tracks are generally syncronized to the songs.
What you *can* do, however, is to download one of the clone versions, like Stepmaina, or Dance With Intensity, and either find or make appropriate step tracks for your own music.
SMP is not the same as distributed computing.
The fact that the Bush clan had dealings with the (rather extended) Bin Laden clan is just fine.
The fact that Bush (or the Bush gov't; same thing, really) snuck them out of the country on a secret, special flight, during the no-fly period, without letting, say, the FBI so much as ask 'So...know where Osama is these days?' really does raise some eyebrows.
Was he trying to protect them, innocents, from a backlash due to their last name? Quite possibly, and not a bad idea in America.
Still, it *does* raise some questions. Questions Bush hasn't answered.
Now, as a Moore fan, I'll say that I've never seen his films, but his books, especially Stupid White Men, are well worth reading.
What about those who give up non-essential liberty? Or who purchase a lot of temporary safety? Or who purchase some permanent safety?