I was a sailor, not a pilot. And, I've seen many, many times when it was hard to tell the sky from the sea. To almost echo, jholyhead, "Ever heard of storms?"
Yes, you're probably right. Just like, only bad carpenters ever got replaced by illegal alien invaders from Mexico. Unfortunately, ALL American citizens who were carpenters were bad carpenters!!
(hint for the stupid: any professional or craftsman who expects to make a good living wage is "bad" by definition)
Oh - should I also point out the inherent racism in your ASSumption? You ASSume that all those offshore employees are stupid, substandard, uneducated or worse, and that they can't do the job of a good engineer. Bigot - while I am prejudiced against those illegal alien invaders who stole my job, I'm not stupid enough, or bigoted enough, to claim that those invaders are stupid, or whatever.
In a few years, when your own job is off shored, and you have to accept some shit paying job just to keep food on the table, we'll all listen attentively to your sorry assed explanations for what happened.
There is nothing irrational about the hatred of lawyers in today's world. A lawyer will take a struggling single parent's last dollar, before telling her that he cannot help her. We've seen lawyers take money to represent a client, then abandon that client days before a court hearing. I've personally seen a lawyer take hundreds of dollars from struggling young parents AT CHRISTMAS TIME, just to inform them that there is almost nothing he can do for them.
While some individuals might be admirable persons, as a class lawyers are despicable people.
Remember that the damned fools who author all those repressive bills for congress to debate are lawyers. The "Patriot" act was debated, kicked around, and rewritten by lawyers for years before 9/11/01.
Lawyers? If you can find a good admirable person who is also a lawyer, be sure to nominate him for congress or the presidency. He is probably the last of a dying breed.
Is Japan in the Pacific theater, or is it in the Atlantic? The enemy in the Pacific theater, and the military pretty much equated "Pacific theater" with "Japanese". I'm not aware of any other enemies we fought in the Pacific, and every battle fought in the Pacific Theater was a deliberate step closer to the Japanese homeland.
You poor simple douche. You did get part of your idiocy right - red heads aren't cool, they are HOT! The rest? I hear you whining, "I haven't managed to code any malware that will run reliably on Linux - aww, fuck it, there aren't enough Linux computers to infect anyway!"
Just run along and play with your self, you douche. Here's a magnifying glass and a pair of tweezers. And, don't be messing with that redhead down the street. She'll tear your fucking head off, and shit down your windpipe, 'cause she doesn't like limp dicked douches like yourself.
Uhhhhh - no. Laminated business cards? That's geek, not professional. Pros get those cool embossed stiff paper business cards. Laminated is just to protect a geek's card from Cheeto dust.
Uhhhh - yeah. 'Cause the job market, the housing market, nor any other markets tanked until Obama was sworn in to office. Yes, I remember clearly - Bush left everything looking so rosy and cheerful.
Sorry - I tried. It's going to take me about 30 years of senility before I can believe that story.
Infrastructure buildup? Where? I'm not seeing it where I live. If I walk to my window, and hold the phone close to the window, I can get one bar. I can't actually TALK to anyone, but the phone updates itself. Walking out into the yard gets me a WORKING signal. Which means, the phone will ring to let me know that someone is trying to reach me, I answer, make a mad dash out beside the driveway, then I can hear the person who wants to talk to me. That doesn't always mean that HE can hear ME.
And, no, I don't live in some barren part of Utah, or Nevada. I live 40 miles from Texarkana. If I were to move just three miles further south, I'd be in that telecom corridor that follows Interstate 30. That corridor has a signal for every major telecom, as well as the secondary carriers. Here? No one is going to spend money on infrastructure that won't pay for itself in less than two years.
The New American Century's site has changed quite a lot since Bush was ranting for the invasion of Iraq. Last time I looked, it was barely recognizable as the same site. Alright - I'll look again, right now. Still about the same.
I wish that I had actually saved the site, way back in 2001, or 2002. Landing on the home page, their statement was pretty blatant about turning the entire world into slaves to Wall Street. Oh - the language wasn't quite as blatant as my paraphrasing, but that's what it was all about. The same fools who have been exporting jobs to China for the last decade actually expect that all those jobs will create profits for Wall Street, indefinitely.
You can google for the story behind purple hearts. The United States was fully expecting to invade Japan, and they had already planned for a quarter million casualties. With the expectation that 250,000 American soldiers, sailors, and airmen would be killed or wounded, plans for the invasion proceeded. These "predictions" of casualty figures had been remarkably accurate all through the second world war. There is no reason to suspect that this estimate was any less accurate than any previous estimate.
The US government had already purchased those purple heart medals, in preparation for the invasion. Those losses were deemed "acceptable".
Tanks were an option, the casualties were an option - right up until the time that science provided a better option. Without those atomic bombs, plans for the invasion would have proceeded on schedule, and the war would have been concluded in another several months, with horrifying casualty figures on both sides.
As for those bombs - there has already been discussion here on slashdot about the more conventional firebombings. I had been unaware that one single firebombing in Japan caused more deaths than either of the atomic bombs.
" In the Pacific Theater, the Sherman was used chiefly against Japanese infantry and fortifications; in its rare encounters with much lighter Japanese tanks with weaker armor and guns, the Sherman's superiority was overwhelming."
Tanks were most definitely an option in the Pacific theater. Granted, they had their drawbacks. But, if the Allies had decided to go ahead with the invasion of Japan, I'm quite certain that when the fleets were finally marshaled, they would have been carrying huge convoys of tanks. The US and allies had already figured out that 'combined forces' won more victories, more rapidly, and at reduced costs than any more conventional method of combat. And, armor is part of the 'combined forces' concept.
There a huge load of wisdom in that observation. I guess it should suffice to point out that no War College or academy teaches that there is a set formula for winning a battle, or a war. It has always been doctrine in the US military to gain LOCAL air superiority, as quickly as possible. It doesn't matter that the opposition might actually have overall air superiority, if you can gain superiority in your own local theater or operations.
I'm kind of rambling here. My point is, officers like General Sherman or General Erwin Rommel can hand you victory after victory because they can take advantage of resources, mobility, local superiority, and a host of other factors. Both men faced superior forces, repeatedly, and beat those forces into the ground.
There have been plenty of posts pointing to Microsoft Office' inability to open, or to save, older Microsoft Office documents. I don't even use Microsoft Office, so I've just read those posts for amusement.
Try running this search on Google: "Microsoft office can't read". Office can't do this, office can't do that, office won't read Microsoft's own proprietary formats without some addon kludge.
Personally, I'd rather have problems with Open/Libre Office than to pay a hundred dollars for a "polished" product that gives me problems.
I think that open source won long ago. The primary driving force behind closed source is Microsoft. And, Microsoft no longer has the world's population trying to force feed cash to Microsoft. Things are changing, Microsoft has less money to spend on bribes, and those stocking stuffers are more targeted now.
Eventually, the world will realize that it makes no sense to pay licensing fees for something that has a free equivalent.
The biggest obstacle to adoption of open source now, are all those kids of the '90's and '00's who grew up using Microsoft, believing that manipulating Microsoft's GUI made them "computer scientists". It's a slow process, but stupidity and ignorance can be healed.
I like this guy, already. He isn't suing for millions, he is suing for $100,000. And, he wants a certificate of good conduct so that he can work in the field of his choosing. Obviously, he wants to embarrass the fools responsible. Sounds like a reasonable guy to me. I get so disgusted with people who have a legitimate greivance, but blow it all out of proportion by suing for tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. It's like, "Oh, these guys insulted me - I should never have to work again! Set me up with luxury homes, luxury cars, furs, diamonds, yachts and private jets!"
I'll just say, that I hate hearing that Android is "linux based". The wife's computer has nothing that didn't come from a trusted repository. The two worst things on her computer are Java and Flash - and only one of those came from a proprietary vendor. That is "Linux".
My own computer has a lot more proprietary stuff on it than hers does. I play with VMWare, I've diddled with some game emulators, and I experiment with stuff now and then, just to see what it does. Even so, there is nothing on my machine that can gain root access, that I haven't researched pretty thoroughly before downloading and installing.
Android? I think that it is safe to say that each and every version in use is "proprietary", and the source code is obscured in some way or another. The guy who owns the phone is NOT ROOT. Worse, the Android marketplace has invited totally unknown people to "develop" for Android, then failed to properly police their marketplace.
Yeah, any Unix-like has vulnerabilities. In the hands of an idiot, the most secure Unix-like installation in the world can and will be compromised. But, I'll still put my faith in most of the distros trusted repositories. If something strange happens, the news hits the web pretty quickly, and I can inspect the source code for every package on my machine, and compile them for myself if I like.
Hell, those Gentoo nuts do it routinely, just for fun!
Half the business world seems to believe that it is acceptable to mail my ISP, and have me disconnected from the internet if I download a couple of songs, movies, or whatever. Three strikes, and you're out.
So - why isn't anyone clamoring to have these machines disconnected by the ISP's? If they had all those machines communicating with a sinkhole for months, then surely they have identified real IP addresses for most, if not all of them.
We have the ability to unplug people and computers from the internet. Why do we only want to use that ability to punish small time downloaders?
Screw us over with devices that WHO can't hack, exactly? I've not actually searched for hacks for all of Sony's devices, but it seems that there are hacks out there for everything they make.
The more important question might be, "Has anyone ever seen bonch breathe?" It's easy to imagine that he might be a zombie, masquerading as a common terrorist!
Huh? What? Are you implying that I shouldn't use Google to search for "methods to murder my wife and all the inlaws for profit"? Alright, fine, I'll switch to Bing!
" I try to be sensitive to the fact that guns can be terrifying to others."
While I would never wave or point a weapon with the intent of terrorizing others - I simply don't give a rat's ass if they are terrorized by my possession of weapons. Their terror is their problem, not mine.
Just as the United State's terror is our problem, not Al Queda's, or anyone else's.
It's time that we, as a nation, put on our "Big Boy Pants" (copyrighted, trademarked, patented, and guarded by rabid pit bulls with PMS) and grew some balls, to get over our terror.
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I was a sailor, not a pilot. And, I've seen many, many times when it was hard to tell the sky from the sea. To almost echo, jholyhead, "Ever heard of storms?"
Yes, you're probably right. Just like, only bad carpenters ever got replaced by illegal alien invaders from Mexico. Unfortunately, ALL American citizens who were carpenters were bad carpenters!!
(hint for the stupid: any professional or craftsman who expects to make a good living wage is "bad" by definition)
Oh - should I also point out the inherent racism in your ASSumption? You ASSume that all those offshore employees are stupid, substandard, uneducated or worse, and that they can't do the job of a good engineer. Bigot - while I am prejudiced against those illegal alien invaders who stole my job, I'm not stupid enough, or bigoted enough, to claim that those invaders are stupid, or whatever.
In a few years, when your own job is off shored, and you have to accept some shit paying job just to keep food on the table, we'll all listen attentively to your sorry assed explanations for what happened.
There is nothing irrational about the hatred of lawyers in today's world. A lawyer will take a struggling single parent's last dollar, before telling her that he cannot help her. We've seen lawyers take money to represent a client, then abandon that client days before a court hearing. I've personally seen a lawyer take hundreds of dollars from struggling young parents AT CHRISTMAS TIME, just to inform them that there is almost nothing he can do for them.
While some individuals might be admirable persons, as a class lawyers are despicable people.
Remember that the damned fools who author all those repressive bills for congress to debate are lawyers. The "Patriot" act was debated, kicked around, and rewritten by lawyers for years before 9/11/01.
Lawyers? If you can find a good admirable person who is also a lawyer, be sure to nominate him for congress or the presidency. He is probably the last of a dying breed.
Is Japan in the Pacific theater, or is it in the Atlantic? The enemy in the Pacific theater, and the military pretty much equated "Pacific theater" with "Japanese". I'm not aware of any other enemies we fought in the Pacific, and every battle fought in the Pacific Theater was a deliberate step closer to the Japanese homeland.
You pedantism is pointless here.
You poor simple douche. You did get part of your idiocy right - red heads aren't cool, they are HOT! The rest? I hear you whining, "I haven't managed to code any malware that will run reliably on Linux - aww, fuck it, there aren't enough Linux computers to infect anyway!"
Just run along and play with your self, you douche. Here's a magnifying glass and a pair of tweezers. And, don't be messing with that redhead down the street. She'll tear your fucking head off, and shit down your windpipe, 'cause she doesn't like limp dicked douches like yourself.
Uhhhhh - no. Laminated business cards? That's geek, not professional. Pros get those cool embossed stiff paper business cards. Laminated is just to protect a geek's card from Cheeto dust.
Uhhhh - yeah. 'Cause the job market, the housing market, nor any other markets tanked until Obama was sworn in to office. Yes, I remember clearly - Bush left everything looking so rosy and cheerful.
Sorry - I tried. It's going to take me about 30 years of senility before I can believe that story.
Infrastructure buildup? Where? I'm not seeing it where I live. If I walk to my window, and hold the phone close to the window, I can get one bar. I can't actually TALK to anyone, but the phone updates itself. Walking out into the yard gets me a WORKING signal. Which means, the phone will ring to let me know that someone is trying to reach me, I answer, make a mad dash out beside the driveway, then I can hear the person who wants to talk to me. That doesn't always mean that HE can hear ME.
And, no, I don't live in some barren part of Utah, or Nevada. I live 40 miles from Texarkana. If I were to move just three miles further south, I'd be in that telecom corridor that follows Interstate 30. That corridor has a signal for every major telecom, as well as the secondary carriers. Here? No one is going to spend money on infrastructure that won't pay for itself in less than two years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMlXVpUAwAA
I hate dumping on Americans. I hate it even more when we deserve it.
The New American Century's site has changed quite a lot since Bush was ranting for the invasion of Iraq. Last time I looked, it was barely recognizable as the same site. Alright - I'll look again, right now. Still about the same.
I wish that I had actually saved the site, way back in 2001, or 2002. Landing on the home page, their statement was pretty blatant about turning the entire world into slaves to Wall Street. Oh - the language wasn't quite as blatant as my paraphrasing, but that's what it was all about. The same fools who have been exporting jobs to China for the last decade actually expect that all those jobs will create profits for Wall Street, indefinitely.
You can google for the story behind purple hearts. The United States was fully expecting to invade Japan, and they had already planned for a quarter million casualties. With the expectation that 250,000 American soldiers, sailors, and airmen would be killed or wounded, plans for the invasion proceeded. These "predictions" of casualty figures had been remarkably accurate all through the second world war. There is no reason to suspect that this estimate was any less accurate than any previous estimate.
The US government had already purchased those purple heart medals, in preparation for the invasion. Those losses were deemed "acceptable".
Tanks were an option, the casualties were an option - right up until the time that science provided a better option. Without those atomic bombs, plans for the invasion would have proceeded on schedule, and the war would have been concluded in another several months, with horrifying casualty figures on both sides.
As for those bombs - there has already been discussion here on slashdot about the more conventional firebombings. I had been unaware that one single firebombing in Japan caused more deaths than either of the atomic bombs.
Here, read the discussion for yourself: http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/01/08/0629238/north-korean-nuclear-facilities-from-30000-feet
"tanks were not an option"
Citations?
" In the Pacific Theater, the Sherman was used chiefly against Japanese infantry and fortifications; in its rare encounters with much lighter Japanese tanks with weaker armor and guns, the Sherman's superiority was overwhelming."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4_Sherman
Tanks were most definitely an option in the Pacific theater. Granted, they had their drawbacks. But, if the Allies had decided to go ahead with the invasion of Japan, I'm quite certain that when the fleets were finally marshaled, they would have been carrying huge convoys of tanks. The US and allies had already figured out that 'combined forces' won more victories, more rapidly, and at reduced costs than any more conventional method of combat. And, armor is part of the 'combined forces' concept.
"the odds were never 1:1"
There a huge load of wisdom in that observation. I guess it should suffice to point out that no War College or academy teaches that there is a set formula for winning a battle, or a war. It has always been doctrine in the US military to gain LOCAL air superiority, as quickly as possible. It doesn't matter that the opposition might actually have overall air superiority, if you can gain superiority in your own local theater or operations.
I'm kind of rambling here. My point is, officers like General Sherman or General Erwin Rommel can hand you victory after victory because they can take advantage of resources, mobility, local superiority, and a host of other factors. Both men faced superior forces, repeatedly, and beat those forces into the ground.
A good commander never allows the odds to be 1:1.
I think that most of France's most memorable victories were won by the Foreign Legion. And, they have disbanded the Legion.
And, thanks for the reminder. Camerone Day is coming soon - just after my birthday.
There have been plenty of posts pointing to Microsoft Office' inability to open, or to save, older Microsoft Office documents. I don't even use Microsoft Office, so I've just read those posts for amusement.
Try running this search on Google: "Microsoft office can't read". Office can't do this, office can't do that, office won't read Microsoft's own proprietary formats without some addon kludge.
Personally, I'd rather have problems with Open/Libre Office than to pay a hundred dollars for a "polished" product that gives me problems.
The state could always recompile Chrome/Chromium to fit their own needs. No need to rely on any company, is there?
I think that open source won long ago. The primary driving force behind closed source is Microsoft. And, Microsoft no longer has the world's population trying to force feed cash to Microsoft. Things are changing, Microsoft has less money to spend on bribes, and those stocking stuffers are more targeted now.
Eventually, the world will realize that it makes no sense to pay licensing fees for something that has a free equivalent.
The biggest obstacle to adoption of open source now, are all those kids of the '90's and '00's who grew up using Microsoft, believing that manipulating Microsoft's GUI made them "computer scientists". It's a slow process, but stupidity and ignorance can be healed.
I like this guy, already. He isn't suing for millions, he is suing for $100,000. And, he wants a certificate of good conduct so that he can work in the field of his choosing. Obviously, he wants to embarrass the fools responsible. Sounds like a reasonable guy to me. I get so disgusted with people who have a legitimate greivance, but blow it all out of proportion by suing for tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. It's like, "Oh, these guys insulted me - I should never have to work again! Set me up with luxury homes, luxury cars, furs, diamonds, yachts and private jets!"
I'll just say, that I hate hearing that Android is "linux based". The wife's computer has nothing that didn't come from a trusted repository. The two worst things on her computer are Java and Flash - and only one of those came from a proprietary vendor. That is "Linux".
My own computer has a lot more proprietary stuff on it than hers does. I play with VMWare, I've diddled with some game emulators, and I experiment with stuff now and then, just to see what it does. Even so, there is nothing on my machine that can gain root access, that I haven't researched pretty thoroughly before downloading and installing.
Android? I think that it is safe to say that each and every version in use is "proprietary", and the source code is obscured in some way or another. The guy who owns the phone is NOT ROOT. Worse, the Android marketplace has invited totally unknown people to "develop" for Android, then failed to properly police their marketplace.
Yeah, any Unix-like has vulnerabilities. In the hands of an idiot, the most secure Unix-like installation in the world can and will be compromised. But, I'll still put my faith in most of the distros trusted repositories. If something strange happens, the news hits the web pretty quickly, and I can inspect the source code for every package on my machine, and compile them for myself if I like.
Hell, those Gentoo nuts do it routinely, just for fun!
Half the business world seems to believe that it is acceptable to mail my ISP, and have me disconnected from the internet if I download a couple of songs, movies, or whatever. Three strikes, and you're out.
So - why isn't anyone clamoring to have these machines disconnected by the ISP's? If they had all those machines communicating with a sinkhole for months, then surely they have identified real IP addresses for most, if not all of them.
We have the ability to unplug people and computers from the internet. Why do we only want to use that ability to punish small time downloaders?
Obviously, if you can buy a law, then the law doesn't apply to you . . .
Screw us over with devices that WHO can't hack, exactly? I've not actually searched for hacks for all of Sony's devices, but it seems that there are hacks out there for everything they make.
The more important question might be, "Has anyone ever seen bonch breathe?" It's easy to imagine that he might be a zombie, masquerading as a common terrorist!
Huh? What? Are you implying that I shouldn't use Google to search for "methods to murder my wife and all the inlaws for profit"? Alright, fine, I'll switch to Bing!
" I try to be sensitive to the fact that guns can be terrifying to others."
While I would never wave or point a weapon with the intent of terrorizing others - I simply don't give a rat's ass if they are terrorized by my possession of weapons. Their terror is their problem, not mine.
Just as the United State's terror is our problem, not Al Queda's, or anyone else's.
It's time that we, as a nation, put on our "Big Boy Pants" (copyrighted, trademarked, patented, and guarded by rabid pit bulls with PMS) and grew some balls, to get over our terror.