"....or laughable contempt, depending on how old/jaded you are...."
Yup; very old, very jaded. I was bossing mainframes when little Billy Gates was still sleeping on computer room floors, and I have yet to see anyone who didn't eventually get stabbed in the back by little Billy and his pack of thugs.
Just wait for it. They've always gotten away with it, so there's no reason for that pack of rats to change their ways now.
....And if he produces a few gigawatts of clean power in the process, then what exactly is your problem with this?
Oh, that's right, I forgot. Making a profit in the U.S. is E-E-EVIL, and anyone proposing to create such a (shudder) thing is automatically dragged out into the middle of the street and shot. Please disregard the resultant stimulus to 'hard' industry, the people put to gainful work, the economic benefits, and the reduction in the petro-deficit; the thing to remember is that profit is E-E-EVIL.
(Four legs good, two legs bad! Four legs good, two legs bad!....)
Don't like the subsidy? Ask your representative to help repeal it (and get crucified by the tree-huggers). But please, don't blame a businessman for being smart enough to utilize all the resources at his disposal.
Honeytrap, my ass. If this had been an intel op on the part of a competent apparatus (and the ChiCom are quite competent, thank you very much), the unit would have been lifted, the content store replicated, and the unit replaced before the honourable Mr Dickbrain ever missed it.
Simply stealing the unit is pretty much worthless, as within minutes of the device's disappearance being noted, any sensitive data it may have contained would have been rendered invalid. Sensitive data loses a lot of its worth if the other side knows you lifted it; all it takes is a spin of a dial, the tap of a few buttons, and the swipe of a pen to turn most of it into useless history.
The real story here is just what the devil has MI5 been doing in regards to getting just the most basic counter-intel training pounded into the heads of silly little gits like these? On Holiday, boys?
. . ..So what's their solution? Kill off the whole human race?
For some of the more radical ones, it is. Really.
Sure, no power generation method is perfect, but we should be selecting the best options rather than rejecting all of them.
Ah, but what you don't understand is that Environmentalism is no longer a movement but an institution. Institutions beget bureaucracies and vested interests. The true objectives of bureaucracies and vested interests throughout human history are: 1) self-preservation, and 2) expansion.
Therefore, it is in these institutions' best interest to oppose any solution which has even the slightest imperfection, lest it reduce their influence, or, heaven forbid, render them obsolete.
The closest term I can think of for what they are is neo-imperialists (gad, I can't believe I used that word). Conservative, whether "neo" or whatever, is something they most certainly are NOT.
....I'm a conservative. I even had a political party, once.... :(
We have all this content-less mudslinging, the context-less word-twisting, the disinformation and outright lies, all of it courtesy the foaming partisans that have hijacked the parties on both sides and aided and abetted by a mass media that cares for nothing but ad revenue.
Couple all that with a electoral process systematically undermined by one side after another claiming the other side "cheated" when a vote doesn't go their way, and what do you have left?
Sometimes I wonder if this was how things got started in Bosnia.
Back during the 2000 election, I talked to a man from Haiti. He was astonished at how civilly everyone was behaving regarding the vote controversy. "Where I come from," he stated, "we would have had blood flowing through the streets by now."
"Yup; no-one's shooting at anyone," I replied. "Not yet, anyway...."
. . . if school performance were scored by the entry exam results of accredited colleges?
Doing it this way, drop-outs would get their school a zero, those who opt-out of college would get their school a 50 as one possibility, those who go on to college get a base of 50 as well, plus some value based-upon their entry exam results, plus an amount based upon the degree they achieve: drop-out=0, associates=10, etc.
I suspect this would be a little more difficult to game; it takes the metrics out of the hands of some political bureaucrat and puts them into the hands of organizations that have a vested interest in keeping the quality of their 'product' just as high as possible.
Just a quick thought, and a pretty rough one at that, but I thought I'd throw it out there.
For some reason, certain species of ants consider wiring insulation delicious, which can lead to some interesting situations.
Once when I was down in Panama, a swarm of ants got into a street-side power junction box that supplied industrial-class juice to three huge aircraft hangars. The cute little buggers immediate set themselves to devouring all the insulation off of the main power feeds, and when those arm-thick bundles of now-bare copper came into contact. . . .
BOOM!
The nearest hangar was five stories tall. The shredded remains of that junction box landed on the roof. And I swear it rained ants for the next half hour.... :\
....We'll have created dangerous people whose careers are dedicated to acts that are illegal, and threaten national (and private) security if they are used in attacks outside the proper military context..... Um, you mean like infantry?
....We should consider how to track these people and their later activities..... Well, we could just go the cheap and easy route and just kill them when they are no longer of use, like many Third World tin-pots do with their burned-out Intelligence agents.
Or, we could do with them what we do with all the rest of our military and Intelligence veterans; accept their word of honor. I know this "honor" thing may be a hard concept for someone like you to accept into your world-view, but, believe it or not, it actually works.
The Hindenburg crash set airships back? Nope.
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What really killed the airships wasn't the Hindenburg, though that certainly didn't help. It was the weather.
Airships have a HUGE sail (amount of surface the wind can push against) compared to their weight, and that puts them at the mercy of any sort of significant convective weather. Couple that with the pathetic state of weather forecasting during that period, and you have disasters like those that occurred to the U.S.S. Macon and the U.S.S. Akron. So, launching one of these ships in anything but ridiculously mild weather was out of the question. Couple that with the state of weather forecasting, and you had a business model that would make any sane businessman run for his life.
I'm still not sure that forecasting has matured to the point that you can take a significant number of these ships on, say, transcontinental or transatlantic runs, but perhaps the safety of shorter routes may have improved to the point that a banker won't laugh you out of his office. The majority of passenger traffic would be out, however; people want to get there NOW, not a week from now.
What may, however, bring at least a limited number of these lumbering beasts back is their cargo-carrying capacity. That, and their ability to hold said cargo motionless over a point (think bridge assembly, etc) makes for some interesting possibilities. I'd like to see what the station-holding technology that mobile oil-drilling platforms use could do when applied to this scenario.
Those West Pointers usually make pretty good officers. Or, at least they do after a few SFCs drag the new looie behind the barracks and beat all the West Point hogwash out of them. ];)
The monolithic nature of Windows...not only makes it tough to deliver a worthwhile upgrade, but threatens Microsoft in the mid- and long-term. In other words, they need a Linux-style kernel.
Wow; I didn't think it was possible to stuff that many left-wing buzzwords, slogans, and code-phrases into that small a space. I take it you're the guy who folds those plastic raincoats into those impossibly small plastic pouches? You know; the ones that, once you pull them out, you can never fit them back in again?
I'll bet you never blinked an eye when you put "peace lover" in the same paragraph with "permanently eliminate," "go for the jugular," and "deadly force." .
2. Russia. Only 0.8 % of Internet Fraud comes from Russia??? For all the bad press over the years... Is anyone else having a hard time accepting this number? I highlighted the answer to your question above, in the quote.
Why is it that so many people automatically take as holy gospel anything written by some kid who came slouching out of some no-name college with a Journalism degree in his paw, and who probably never set foot in Russia in his life?
You're kidding, right? This is a late April Fools joke, right? I spend half my working hours cleaning up luser screw-ups, and you want me to let them ADMINISTER?
Slashdot Mirror
. . . to apply more "active" measures to the spam problem.
. . . . Hey: I can dream, can't I?
];)
*sigh*
Well, it's for real. I've confirmed it here, and my whole data center is affected.
It's time like this when I wish I hadn't left the Army; at least there, you can shoot back.
This is going to be one hell of a long night. :(
"....or laughable contempt, depending on how old/jaded you are...."
Yup; very old, very jaded. I was bossing mainframes when little Billy Gates was still sleeping on computer room floors, and I have yet to see anyone who didn't eventually get stabbed in the back by little Billy and his pack of thugs.
Just wait for it. They've always gotten away with it, so there's no reason for that pack of rats to change their ways now.
....And if he produces a few gigawatts of clean power in the process, then what exactly is your problem with this?
Oh, that's right, I forgot. Making a profit in the U.S. is E-E-EVIL, and anyone proposing to create such a (shudder) thing is automatically dragged out into the middle of the street and shot. Please disregard the resultant stimulus to 'hard' industry, the people put to gainful work, the economic benefits, and the reduction in the petro-deficit; the thing to remember is that profit is E-E-EVIL.
(Four legs good, two legs bad! Four legs good, two legs bad!....)
Don't like the subsidy? Ask your representative to help repeal it (and get crucified by the tree-huggers). But please, don't blame a businessman for being smart enough to utilize all the resources at his disposal.
Honeytrap, my ass. If this had been an intel op on the part of a competent apparatus (and the ChiCom are quite competent, thank you very much), the unit would have been lifted, the content store replicated, and the unit replaced before the honourable Mr Dickbrain ever missed it.
Simply stealing the unit is pretty much worthless, as within minutes of the device's disappearance being noted, any sensitive data it may have contained would have been rendered invalid. Sensitive data loses a lot of its worth if the other side knows you lifted it; all it takes is a spin of a dial, the tap of a few buttons, and the swipe of a pen to turn most of it into useless history.
The real story here is just what the devil has MI5 been doing in regards to getting just the most basic counter-intel training pounded into the heads of silly little gits like these? On Holiday, boys?
>:P
. . . .So what's their solution? Kill off the whole human race?
For some of the more radical ones, it is. Really.
Sure, no power generation method is perfect, but we should be selecting the best options rather than rejecting all of them.
Ah, but what you don't understand is that Environmentalism is no longer a movement but an institution. Institutions beget bureaucracies and vested interests. The true objectives of bureaucracies and vested interests throughout human history are: 1) self-preservation, and 2) expansion.
Therefore, it is in these institutions' best interest to oppose any solution which has even the slightest imperfection, lest it reduce their influence, or, heaven forbid, render them obsolete.
The closest term I can think of for what they are is neo-imperialists (gad, I can't believe I used that word). Conservative, whether "neo" or whatever, is something they most certainly are NOT.
:(
Otherwise, you'd have been SOL, Delaware.
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/12/17/90822.shtml
Pack of billionaire hypocrites, the lot of them.
>:P
....It's only rarely that we admins get to do heroics.
As a very wise Army officer once said, "Behind every hero is someone else's screw-up. I don't want any heroes today."];)
No, seriously.
We have all this content-less mudslinging, the context-less word-twisting, the disinformation and outright lies, all of it courtesy the foaming partisans that have hijacked the parties on both sides and aided and abetted by a mass media that cares for nothing but ad revenue.
Couple all that with a electoral process systematically undermined by one side after another claiming the other side "cheated" when a vote doesn't go their way, and what do you have left?
Sometimes I wonder if this was how things got started in Bosnia.
Back during the 2000 election, I talked to a man from Haiti. He was astonished at how civilly everyone was behaving regarding the vote controversy. "Where I come from," he stated, "we would have had blood flowing through the streets by now."
"Yup; no-one's shooting at anyone," I replied. "Not yet, anyway...."
....Not long after that, we'll start building power generation capacity in the US again. And burning treehuggers at the stake?I'll supply the gas^h^h^hhydr^h^h^h^hethan^h^h^h^h^hbeer.
. . . if school performance were scored by the entry exam results of accredited colleges?
Doing it this way, drop-outs would get their school a zero, those who opt-out of college would get their school a 50 as one possibility, those who go on to college get a base of 50 as well, plus some value based-upon their entry exam results, plus an amount based upon the degree they achieve: drop-out=0, associates=10, etc.
I suspect this would be a little more difficult to game; it takes the metrics out of the hands of some political bureaucrat and puts them into the hands of organizations that have a vested interest in keeping the quality of their 'product' just as high as possible.
Just a quick thought, and a pretty rough one at that, but I thought I'd throw it out there.
Thanks; I'm saving this one.
:)
Maybe they heard about the blizzard of pure sewage all the rest of us put up with, and decided "thanks, but no thanks."
Sounds pretty smart to me....
For some reason, certain species of ants consider wiring insulation delicious, which can lead to some interesting situations.
Once when I was down in Panama, a swarm of ants got into a street-side power junction box that supplied industrial-class juice to three huge aircraft hangars. The cute little buggers immediate set themselves to devouring all the insulation off of the main power feeds, and when those arm-thick bundles of now-bare copper came into contact. . . .
BOOM!
The nearest hangar was five stories tall. The shredded remains of that junction box landed on the roof. And I swear it rained ants for the next half hour....
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....We'll have created dangerous people whose careers are dedicated to acts that are illegal, and threaten national (and private) security if they are used in attacks outside the proper military context.
....We should consider how to track these people and their later activities.Or, we could do with them what we do with all the rest of our military and Intelligence veterans; accept their word of honor. I know this "honor" thing may be a hard concept for someone like you to accept into your world-view, but, believe it or not, it actually works.
What really killed the airships wasn't the Hindenburg, though that certainly didn't help. It was the weather.
Airships have a HUGE sail (amount of surface the wind can push against) compared to their weight, and that puts them at the mercy of any sort of significant convective weather. Couple that with the pathetic state of weather forecasting during that period, and you have disasters like those that occurred to the U.S.S. Macon and the U.S.S. Akron. So, launching one of these ships in anything but ridiculously mild weather was out of the question. Couple that with the state of weather forecasting, and you had a business model that would make any sane businessman run for his life.
I'm still not sure that forecasting has matured to the point that you can take a significant number of these ships on, say, transcontinental or transatlantic runs, but perhaps the safety of shorter routes may have improved to the point that a banker won't laugh you out of his office. The majority of passenger traffic would be out, however; people want to get there NOW, not a week from now.
What may, however, bring at least a limited number of these lumbering beasts back is their cargo-carrying capacity. That, and their ability to hold said cargo motionless over a point (think bridge assembly, etc) makes for some interesting possibilities. I'd like to see what the station-holding technology that mobile oil-drilling platforms use could do when applied to this scenario.
Those West Pointers usually make pretty good officers. Or, at least they do after a few SFCs drag the new looie behind the barracks and beat all the West Point hogwash out of them.
];)
Oh, the irony....
Wow; I didn't think it was possible to stuff that many left-wing buzzwords, slogans, and code-phrases into that small a space. I take it you're the guy who folds those plastic raincoats into those impossibly small plastic pouches? You know; the ones that, once you pull them out, you can never fit them back in again?
I'll bet you never blinked an eye when you put "peace lover" in the same paragraph with "permanently eliminate," "go for the jugular," and "deadly force."
.
Why is it that so many people automatically take as holy gospel anything written by some kid who came slouching out of some no-name college with a Journalism degree in his paw, and who probably never set foot in Russia in his life?
poor business model to sue your customers?
Must not be a Harvard Boy.
*sniff*
BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!
You're kidding, right? This is a late April Fools joke, right? I spend half my working hours cleaning up luser screw-ups, and you want me to let them ADMINISTER?
The malware writers must be drooling.
It is absolute immunity that corrupts absolutely.
Wow.
I work in a court house, and I must say that is the best legal document I've ever read.
I sure I wish they all read like that....