That's about the same reaction I got. One of the teachers said that I probably should be careful about who I showed it to as "Some of the people here are too tightly wound for their own good."
Add in the fact that homosexuals are being blamed for this "marriage crisis" or whatever, and no one can see the real people who are "ruining" marriage (whatever that means).
Would we have a "marriage" crisis if single women lost their "right" to have kids outside of marriage?
Or is suggesting that welfare only handle kids that were conceived in a marriage oppressing women somehow?
Go ahead and mod me down, but I see this right before my eyes every day, and these women don't see anything wrong with what they're doing.
I don't care if a single woman wants to have all kinds of wild sex
(you peg me wrongly if you think I give a crap about Christian morals),
but I don't want my taxes paying for when she choses to start a family, marriage or no.
Neither does she. That's why tying it to marriage doesn't work either. They just find someone to marry to keep the money coming.
Its been suggested that we tie child support to economic stability and capability but as soon as the public hears it it immediately becomes dead on arrival as they insist that it only apply to "Those people." on moral grounds.
It has to be "Their" fault since we are god's people after all.
Of course, they know from experience how many people are leeching off the system. That's why they're trying to keep it going as well as trying to keep other welfare wannabees off of it.
In the past it was "Those foreigners, blacks, women, etc. are taking our jobs!" Now its "Those foreigners, blacks, women, etc. are taking our Govt. checks!"
What's more is that after doing some calculations, it looks like you only need about 510cc of the stuff to reach critical mass and there's 400cc here. Could this have been dangerous in the wrong hands?
Not especially. Its useless for making a fission capable nuclear device fortunately. It could make a pretty nasty poison but I doubt it could do a lot of damage over a large area in terms of mortality. There are also better, cheaper, easier to obtain poisons available. The stuff could make a big, expensive, politically 'hot' mess though.
Some of the old 'blue bombs' are responsible for a significant part of the smog. Some sort of smog sniffing patrol unit might well be more cost effective at catching these than testing though.
Hm, that's actually a pretty neat look as far as I'm concerned. Govt. mandates, though, thats what created the SUV glut. Others have said it before with good reason. If you want better efficiency either reduce price controls on gasoline or use a gas tax instead.
We don't have the discipline needed for that. Here rules are made for the peons lower on the pole to endure or perhaps for your political enemies to suffer. The concept that such a thing could serve some purpose other than 'punishment' is almost alien now.
Combine this with a culture where you really do need a car to be more than an unemployed unemployable and there will never be decent testing in much of the country.
You got that from the above posts but you didn't get this:
What they don't tell you is that you can create a self-booting (MS)-DOS floppy/CD so you can test your drive, regardless of your OS (as long as the system is X86). Get it here: http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools/seatooldreg [seagate.com] but if you DO need to flash it, you have to contact Seagate via Email and wait for a response and code so you can use yet another program to flash the drive.
He seemed to be talking about the fact that is was more important for them to direct people to the Windows tool than it was to even mention the DOS tool. That is this was a pretty badly done page.
This is the sort of thing that drove me away from the GLBT community. They so often indulge the same sort of thinking that their opposition does. Never miss an opportunity to piss on someone despite the fact that he's not even talking about what you say he's talking about.
The more I hear about this sort of drivel the more I am inclined to agree. I supported the intent of gay rights for many years and I still do but removing govt. from the marriage institution altogether makes so much more sense. As long as this remains the law in so many areas it is difficult to take the concept of freedom of religion seriously. The US may not have an official state religion but it certainly does have a de-facto one.
That said a certain amount of subsidization of families does not pose a problem to me. More practically, Govt. will probably always support this sort of thing especially in nations where population growth is nearly negative. I have no problem with civil unions, even those that contain such 'pro-child' language, but we should leave marriage to the religions and other private groups that want them.
There's a difference with web browsers. People with dial up or satellite connections would have trouble with that. Back when I was still on dial up I noticed that it took much longer for some servers to respond than would be easily explained by the slower speeds involved. Sometimes adjusting the timeout settings would allow me to reach a server that would otherwise return a timeout error.
I am getting it. This is on Ubuntu running the 2.6.20-generic kernel that came from the distro. My backups (~19GB) are responsive but I am currently running Ben Gamari's suggested method to reproduce it and it appears to be showing up. I get 'small' freezes of ~1-3 seconds when entering text as well as larger freezes of ~5-15 seconds upon maximizing a minimized program.
It only seems to cause a problem for maximizing minimized programs when it happens at the same time as you maximize the window. It doesn't seem to happen very much but when it does its pretty noticeable.
I never really noticed this before. I suppose I just expected it after hearing about how bad IDE drives are for anything involving heavy multitasking.
Yep, I've left it running and it just did it again.
Once a company creates a human resources dept. they have effectively become a bureaucracy and from that point onward filling out the paperwork properly becomes much more important to them than any other concerns.
Seconded. They appear to want people who are 'confident' and 'self-assured' of their own ethics. It doesn't seem to matter that the most incompetent people tend to believe they are competent and 'self-assured'. Nor does it concern them that such people are sometimes that way because they don't bother thinking before they act.
I remember someone back in the old days saying that they'd rather see Unix die at Microsofts hands than support standards. Given that the primary value of Linux in the marketplace so far has been to serve as a Unixlike standard I'd say that this looks like that sort of mindset managed to take hold of SCO and/or their backers. As near as I can tell its just insane, selfish, stubbornness. The old "If we can't compete nobody will." mentality.
I had one of those old slot-A systems that had had its fan seize up. It overheated and eventually failed and when I went in to check it out the can had a coating of dust on it. It had evidently been running for some months with a seized fan and only the heat of oncoming summer had revealed the problem.
I get a little hiss sometimes but its only noticeable if I'm listening for it. No squeals or squeaks. I've heard the onboard sound stinks argument before but so far no one has been able to tell that it was onboard or not in my systems.
One of my teachers from high school was so far gone he was barely in the room. He couldn't see the back of the room well enough to recognize students, he fell asleep several times, got confused as to what assignments were due, etc. One day not too long after such an incident he sacked out at his desk and we got up and left the room.
Just like that.
He was a nice guy, one of those well-liked teachers who knew the subject when he was all there, but he really shouldn't have been teaching at that point. He just wasn't capable of managing the workload any more.
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That's about the same reaction I got. One of the teachers said that I probably should be careful about who I showed it to as "Some of the people here are too tightly wound for their own good."
Add in the fact that homosexuals are being blamed for this "marriage crisis" or whatever, and no one can see the real people who are "ruining" marriage (whatever that means). Would we have a "marriage" crisis if single women lost their "right" to have kids outside of marriage? Or is suggesting that welfare only handle kids that were conceived in a marriage oppressing women somehow?
Go ahead and mod me down, but I see this right before my eyes every day, and these women don't see anything wrong with what they're doing.
I don't care if a single woman wants to have all kinds of wild sex (you peg me wrongly if you think I give a crap about Christian morals), but I don't want my taxes paying for when she choses to start a family, marriage or no.
Neither does she. That's why tying it to marriage doesn't work either. They just find someone to marry to keep the money coming.
Its been suggested that we tie child support to economic stability and capability but as soon as the public hears it it immediately becomes dead on arrival as they insist that it only apply to "Those people." on moral grounds.
It has to be "Their" fault since we are god's people after all.
Of course, they know from experience how many people are leeching off the system. That's why they're trying to keep it going as well as trying to keep other welfare wannabees off of it.
In the past it was "Those foreigners, blacks, women, etc. are taking our jobs!" Now its "Those foreigners, blacks, women, etc. are taking our Govt. checks!"
I thought that was factored into the quantity mentioned above. If its not then yes. Thats the whole point of a nuclear weapon.
What's more is that after doing some calculations, it looks like you only need about 510cc of the stuff to reach critical mass and there's 400cc here. Could this have been dangerous in the wrong hands?
Not especially. Its useless for making a fission capable nuclear device fortunately. It could make a pretty nasty poison but I doubt it could do a lot of damage over a large area in terms of mortality. There are also better, cheaper, easier to obtain poisons available. The stuff could make a big, expensive, politically 'hot' mess though.
Ah, eel flambe. Good then. Carry on.
There are plenty of such comments above. (including about 3/4 of mine in this thread)
Well put. Its beginning to look like a 'cryocracy' here.
Some of the old 'blue bombs' are responsible for a significant part of the smog. Some sort of smog sniffing patrol unit might well be more cost effective at catching these than testing though.
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Hm, that's actually a pretty neat look as far as I'm concerned. Govt. mandates, though, thats what created the SUV glut. Others have said it before with good reason. If you want better efficiency either reduce price controls on gasoline or use a gas tax instead.
We don't have the discipline needed for that. Here rules are made for the peons lower on the pole to endure or perhaps for your political enemies to suffer. The concept that such a thing could serve some purpose other than 'punishment' is almost alien now.
Combine this with a culture where you really do need a car to be more than an unemployed unemployable and there will never be decent testing in much of the country.
You got that from the above posts but you didn't get this:
What they don't tell you is that you can create a self-booting (MS)-DOS floppy/CD so you can test your drive, regardless of your OS (as long as the system is X86). Get it here: http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools/seatooldreg [seagate.com] but if you DO need to flash it, you have to contact Seagate via Email and wait for a response and code so you can use yet another program to flash the drive.
He seemed to be talking about the fact that is was more important for them to direct people to the Windows tool than it was to even mention the DOS tool. That is this was a pretty badly done page.
This is the sort of thing that drove me away from the GLBT community. They so often indulge the same sort of thinking that their opposition does. Never miss an opportunity to piss on someone despite the fact that he's not even talking about what you say he's talking about.
The more I hear about this sort of drivel the more I am inclined to agree. I supported the intent of gay rights for many years and I still do but removing govt. from the marriage institution altogether makes so much more sense. As long as this remains the law in so many areas it is difficult to take the concept of freedom of religion seriously. The US may not have an official state religion but it certainly does have a de-facto one.
That said a certain amount of subsidization of families does not pose a problem to me. More practically, Govt. will probably always support this sort of thing especially in nations where population growth is nearly negative. I have no problem with civil unions, even those that contain such 'pro-child' language, but we should leave marriage to the religions and other private groups that want them.
There's a difference with web browsers. People with dial up or satellite connections would have trouble with that. Back when I was still on dial up I noticed that it took much longer for some servers to respond than would be easily explained by the slower speeds involved. Sometimes adjusting the timeout settings would allow me to reach a server that would otherwise return a timeout error.
I am getting it. This is on Ubuntu running the 2.6.20-generic kernel that came from the distro. My backups (~19GB) are responsive but I am currently running Ben Gamari's suggested method to reproduce it and it appears to be showing up. I get 'small' freezes of ~1-3 seconds when entering text as well as larger freezes of ~5-15 seconds upon maximizing a minimized program.
It only seems to cause a problem for maximizing minimized programs when it happens at the same time as you maximize the window. It doesn't seem to happen very much but when it does its pretty noticeable.
I never really noticed this before. I suppose I just expected it after hearing about how bad IDE drives are for anything involving heavy multitasking.
Yep, I've left it running and it just did it again.
Yes I have noticed this. It got so bad that I was better off using wget.
Once a company creates a human resources dept. they have effectively become a bureaucracy and from that point onward filling out the paperwork properly becomes much more important to them than any other concerns.
Seconded. They appear to want people who are 'confident' and 'self-assured' of their own ethics. It doesn't seem to matter that the most incompetent people tend to believe they are competent and 'self-assured'. Nor does it concern them that such people are sometimes that way because they don't bother thinking before they act.
I remember someone back in the old days saying that they'd rather see Unix die at Microsofts hands than support standards. Given that the primary value of Linux in the marketplace so far has been to serve as a Unixlike standard I'd say that this looks like that sort of mindset managed to take hold of SCO and/or their backers. As near as I can tell its just insane, selfish, stubbornness. The old "If we can't compete nobody will." mentality.
I had one of those old slot-A systems that had had its fan seize up. It overheated and eventually failed and when I went in to check it out the can had a coating of dust on it. It had evidently been running for some months with a seized fan and only the heat of oncoming summer had revealed the problem.
I get a little hiss sometimes but its only noticeable if I'm listening for it. No squeals or squeaks. I've heard the onboard sound stinks argument before but so far no one has been able to tell that it was onboard or not in my systems.
Agreed. The ones who are actually interested will learn to use the machine. The ones that aren't will nag you about it until you learn to say no.
Indeed. Whoever wrote this seems to think that computers are all diskless workstations.
One of my teachers from high school was so far gone he was barely in the room. He couldn't see the back of the room well enough to recognize students, he fell asleep several times, got confused as to what assignments were due, etc. One day not too long after such an incident he sacked out at his desk and we got up and left the room.
Just like that.
He was a nice guy, one of those well-liked teachers who knew the subject when he was all there, but he really shouldn't have been teaching at that point. He just wasn't capable of managing the workload any more.
Well put. We're quite good at talking about taking a stand but I doubt we'd actually do it even if 'they' did start taking people away in the night.