Hmmm... make a user named "daemon" or an otherwise unremarkable name to see in process lists, and have/home/daemon as a hidden partition? All of those "~/$file" footprints suddenly aren't a problem.
Design By Contract and formal methodology (mathematically proving a program's "correctness") would be a start. The only time I'd even think of trusting voting machine software would be if it was FOSS. It's the only way to be sure that there isn't something in the code that scales the number of votes for a candidate by how much money the machine makers have given them...
The point was they got it, rather than just trading their way back into business, as the GP implied.
Thanks for that link; I never dug too deeply into the details of the Marshall Plan. I will, of course, be holding you responsible for productivity lost to Wikipedia as a result. (",)
Germany had been one of the biggest economies in the world pre-WWI. While the inflation that happened in the 20s did that in, they had solid industries. Which then got bombed back to the Stone Age in WWII. But they had the skills, and they knew what they were aiming for, and most importantly, they were handed bucketloads of cash to rebuild.
Big difference to bootstrapping yourself to industrialized nation status.
The perfect example would be Northern Ireland, where the British were asked to send in troops by the Catholics to protect them from anti-civil rights attacks. 30 years and several thousand deaths later, they get to go home...
He also had biological agents supplied to him by the CDC, and two men, a Mr. D. Rumsfeld and G.H.W. Bush, were supplying cash. Graveyhead is wrong, but there's very few Westerners who could be smug about it; as Bill Hicks said, to know Hussein had WMDs back then, we only had to "check the receipt."
Saddam support the PKK?! That's like PIRA being given money by the Queen! He backed Hezbollah, so Graveyhead is wrong again, but the example you cite is just laughable. It is a Turkish source...
Saddam would never have backed Al-Qaeda; he was a secularist, and he and Bin Laden did not get on (Bin Laden wanted him quite severely dead, if I remember). I don't know about Islamic Jihad, but the religion thing pops its head again.
And... that last paragraph reads like someone got Gaddafi and Hussein mixed up. That's Libya's M.O., down to the airplane (Libya backed the Lockerbie bombers, as well as UTA Flight 772). Hussein favoured groups in and around Israel. Gaddafi would fund anyone, on a "the enemy of my enemy" basis. How's this for a list of people owing you a favour: "the IRA, the Japanese Red Army, ETA, the Baader-Meinhof Gang, the Philippine Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Kurdish separatists, the Black Panthers, and the Nation of Islam." Supposedly Carlos the Jackal and Black September [Munich 1972], too.
Argue all you want, but please get the facts right. ",)
Bullcrap.
I knew Saddam had no appreciable stock of WMDs before the invasion. And if I knew it, the only way everyone else could have missed it was because it was just too obvious. No special knowledge, just some logic (see below) and one observation: if Hussein had WMDs, why not let Hans Blix finish his inspection? If he found something, however slim the chance, the "Coalition of the Willing" might actually have been.
Saddam Hussein was an egomaniac. If he thought he was going to go, he would do as much damage as he could while going down. Evidence: Scud bombardment of Israel in Gulf Mk. I. If he had a nuke, given the previous, what was the likeliest consequence of the first US boot landing on Iraqi territory? And who would risk that devastation? He had multitudes of targets, any of which would have been catastrophic.
10. World War I, Agincourt, and the Charge of the Light Brigade are all examples of a good ranged offence used as defence. They all had much the same result.
20. GOTO GP's point.
This is why I prefer 'value'-neutral statements in politics. For instance: Bush is an irresponsible, know-little bastard who has never learned there are such things are consequences. Most, if not all, of his cabinet are (and were) bastards looking to skew the entire country to their own advantage and/or advance their own strange ideology, even when it takes ignoring reality (an honourable exception is Ms. Rice: she's a bitch who [insert previous rant here]). And his party are spineless twats who would not challenge a president from their side, no matter how stupid, arrogant, and unconstitutional the action. Even when he declared he could ignore Congress if he wanted to, the people whose power he'd just land-grabbed continued to support him! Even the most uninterested know-nothing is generally self-interested enough to start making noise then, but no...
Isn't that much better than just calling them 'evil'? Cathartic, even. (",)
Uh, an alternate reading of that first part includes the phrase "supply canister bouncing around unpredictably on the end of its tether." Even if the ISS survived all the other problems with this idea, I really don't know how it would handle the forces involved in several months of supplies as the weight on the end of a yo-yo.
Last winter wasn't too bad here, actually - it's the summers that have been terrible. I'm in one of those places that "global warming" is actually going to make colder, too. On the internets means global audience, remember? ",)
Aren't we at solar minimum right now? Anyway; even if we are the aforementioned lighter in the room, we don't know that for sure. There are reasons for why we should behave as if anthropocentric climate change is fact and going to kill us all in ten years' time; a good one is the logic behind Pascal's Wager.
What mpg does it get? Just saying it "gets good mileage, take my word for it" isn't easily believed, especially when you're talking about a Hummer. (",
Or use Haiku, which boots ridiculously fast. It's a highly odd experience to start a virtual machine running it; it actually takes longer for VMware to start than the OS.
Fair enough.
Gravity storage is one of those ideas that have been knocking around for years. Essentially you make two lakes, one on top and one at the foot of a mountain. Add channel between them. Add BIG pumps. Off-peak, use spare cycles to pump water from Down to Up; on-peak, open the sluices. The falling water turns the pumps, the well-known "a generator is a motor you turn yourself" principle kicks in...
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Is said tool published anywhere?
And gives the Comptroller a fit about the extra fuel expenditure? (",)
Hmmm... make a user named "daemon" or an otherwise unremarkable name to see in process lists, and have /home/daemon as a hidden partition? All of those "~/$file" footprints suddenly aren't a problem.
You made two fatal mistakes:
1) You didn't do it where no-one could see you.
2) You flew Ryanair.
Unfortunately, this NIC's fault showed up as the radar not working. What were they supposed to fail-over to? Binoculars?
From Wikipedia. Used in the 1800's, at least. Would you like to reconsider your previous statement?
Design By Contract and formal methodology (mathematically proving a program's "correctness") would be a start.
The only time I'd even think of trusting voting machine software would be if it was FOSS. It's the only way to be sure that there isn't something in the code that scales the number of votes for a candidate by how much money the machine makers have given them...
The point was they got it, rather than just trading their way back into business, as the GP implied.
Thanks for that link; I never dug too deeply into the details of the Marshall Plan. I will, of course, be holding you responsible for productivity lost to Wikipedia as a result. (",)
Germany had been one of the biggest economies in the world pre-WWI. While the inflation that happened in the 20s did that in, they had solid industries. Which then got bombed back to the Stone Age in WWII. But they had the skills, and they knew what they were aiming for, and most importantly, they were handed bucketloads of cash to rebuild.
Big difference to bootstrapping yourself to industrialized nation status.
Nah, I'll finish what I'm at, I think. Can I use you as a reference, though, if I do decide to change?
(",)
The perfect example would be Northern Ireland, where the British were asked to send in troops by the Catholics to protect them from anti-civil rights attacks. 30 years and several thousand deaths later, they get to go home...
He also had biological agents supplied to him by the CDC, and two men, a Mr. D. Rumsfeld and G.H.W. Bush, were supplying cash. Graveyhead is wrong, but there's very few Westerners who could be smug about it; as Bill Hicks said, to know Hussein had WMDs back then, we only had to "check the receipt."
Saddam support the PKK?! That's like PIRA being given money by the Queen!
He backed Hezbollah, so Graveyhead is wrong again, but the example you cite is just laughable. It is a Turkish source...
Saddam would never have backed Al-Qaeda; he was a secularist, and he and Bin Laden did not get on (Bin Laden wanted him quite severely dead, if I remember). I don't know about Islamic Jihad, but the religion thing pops its head again.
And... that last paragraph reads like someone got Gaddafi and Hussein mixed up. That's Libya's M.O., down to the airplane (Libya backed the Lockerbie bombers, as well as UTA Flight 772). Hussein favoured groups in and around Israel. Gaddafi would fund anyone, on a "the enemy of my enemy" basis. How's this for a list of people owing you a favour: "the IRA, the Japanese Red Army, ETA, the Baader-Meinhof Gang, the Philippine Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Kurdish separatists, the Black Panthers, and the Nation of Islam." Supposedly Carlos the Jackal and Black September [Munich 1972], too.
Argue all you want, but please get the facts right. ",)
Bullcrap. I knew Saddam had no appreciable stock of WMDs before the invasion. And if I knew it, the only way everyone else could have missed it was because it was just too obvious. No special knowledge, just some logic (see below) and one observation: if Hussein had WMDs, why not let Hans Blix finish his inspection? If he found something, however slim the chance, the "Coalition of the Willing" might actually have been.
Saddam Hussein was an egomaniac. If he thought he was going to go, he would do as much damage as he could while going down. Evidence: Scud bombardment of Israel in Gulf Mk. I. If he had a nuke, given the previous, what was the likeliest consequence of the first US boot landing on Iraqi territory? And who would risk that devastation? He had multitudes of targets, any of which would have been catastrophic.
10. World War I, Agincourt, and the Charge of the Light Brigade are all examples of a good ranged offence used as defence. They all had much the same result.
20. GOTO GP's point.
This is why I prefer 'value'-neutral statements in politics. For instance: Bush is an irresponsible, know-little bastard who has never learned there are such things are consequences. Most, if not all, of his cabinet are (and were) bastards looking to skew the entire country to their own advantage and/or advance their own strange ideology, even when it takes ignoring reality (an honourable exception is Ms. Rice: she's a bitch who [insert previous rant here]). And his party are spineless twats who would not challenge a president from their side, no matter how stupid, arrogant, and unconstitutional the action. Even when he declared he could ignore Congress if he wanted to, the people whose power he'd just land-grabbed continued to support him! Even the most uninterested know-nothing is generally self-interested enough to start making noise then, but no...
Isn't that much better than just calling them 'evil'? Cathartic, even. (",)
And we can do that here, given a big enough microwave. ",)
Uh, an alternate reading of that first part includes the phrase "supply canister bouncing around unpredictably on the end of its tether." Even if the ISS survived all the other problems with this idea, I really don't know how it would handle the forces involved in several months of supplies as the weight on the end of a yo-yo.
Thanks; I was trying to say a lot of that with zero knowledge of the actual figures, while remembering 4-year-gone physics. Coherent, it was not. ",)
Last winter wasn't too bad here, actually - it's the summers that have been terrible.
I'm in one of those places that "global warming" is actually going to make colder, too. On the internets means global audience, remember? ",)
But we ALL know how to use Google. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window/.
Aren't we at solar minimum right now?
Anyway; even if we are the aforementioned lighter in the room, we don't know that for sure. There are reasons for why we should behave as if anthropocentric climate change is fact and going to kill us all in ten years' time; a good one is the logic behind Pascal's Wager.
What mpg does it get? Just saying it "gets good mileage, take my word for it" isn't easily believed, especially when you're talking about a Hummer.
(",
Hey, there's plenty of methane in farts. Cheap home heating!
Or use Haiku, which boots ridiculously fast. It's a highly odd experience to start a virtual machine running it; it actually takes longer for VMware to start than the OS.
Fair enough. Gravity storage is one of those ideas that have been knocking around for years. Essentially you make two lakes, one on top and one at the foot of a mountain. Add channel between them. Add BIG pumps. Off-peak, use spare cycles to pump water from Down to Up; on-peak, open the sluices. The falling water turns the pumps, the well-known "a generator is a motor you turn yourself" principle kicks in...