Whatever - I'm reminded of the difference between a freedman and a vassal. It amounts to little more than possession of a weapon. Whatever the law says, I will be armed, as will my sons. You city boys stay in the city, us country boys will stay in the country, and everyone can be happy. And, keep your cars in the city too, alright? I'm tired of country boys being killed by city cars.
Well, maybe you're right. In part, at least. I've seldom handled anything more beautiful than a well designed rifle. Simple, yet efficient. Half a dozen moving parts (bolt, trigger, sear, spring(s) and firing pin) machined to exact dimensions, that do exactly the same thing, every time. Load the rifle, find a critter, aim carefully, and BANG! DINNER!!
As opposed to an automobile, let's say. Thousands of parts, designed to move people from point to point. Except, those auto frequently break down, or cause accidents - often fatal. Those much sought after automobiles are responsible for more deaths in a single year, than all of the casualties that the US suffered in the Vietnam conflict. Damned cars are unreliable on ice, or lightly flooded roadways. Cold and heat cause them to fail in all manner of ways. I have to agree with you - automobiles are pure evil. I simply cannot understand how man could ever have invented such an evil item.
Give me a bolt action rifle any day. It always does what I want it to do, no surprises, no expensive maintenance, it never cares how hot or cold it gets, and doesn't even care much about water, snow, or ice. Just a quick wipe with a oily rag, and that rifle is back in top condition. Even better, the rifle is pretty ecologically friendly! Nearly zero CO2 emissions, or any other emissions for that matter.
The weather had been reported satisfactory earlier in the day over Kokura Arsenal, but by the time the B-29 finally arrived there, the target was obscured by smoke and haze. Two more passes over the target still produced no sightings of the aiming point. As an aircraft crewman, Jacob Beser, later recalled, Japanese fighters and bursts of antiaircraft fire were by this time starting to make things "a little hairy." Kokura no longer appeared to be an option, and there was only enough fuel on board to return to the secondary airfield on Okinawa, making one hurried pass as they went over their secondary target, the city of Nagasaki. As Beser later put it, "there was no sense dragging the bomb home or dropping it in the ocean."
Fat Man at Tinian Island, August 1945 As it turned out, cloud cover obscured Nagasaki as well. Sweeney reluctantly approved a much less accurate radar approach on the target. At the last moment the bombardier, Captain Kermit K. Beahan, caught a brief glimpse of the city's stadium through the clouds and dropped the bomb. At 11:02 a.m., at an altitude of 1,650 feet, Fat Man (right) exploded over Nagasaki. The yield of the explosion was later estimated at 21 kilotons, 40 percent greater than that of the Hiroshima bomb.
Nagasaki was an industrial center and major port on the western coast of Kyushu. As had happened at Hiroshima, the "all-clear" from an early morning air raid alert had long been given by the time theMitsubishi-Urakami Torpedo Works, 1,400 feet north of ground zero, Nagasaki. Torpedoes used in the attack on Pearl Harbor were built here. B-29 had begun its bombing run. A small conventional raid on Nagasaki on August 1st had resulted in a partial evacuation of the city, especially of school children. There were still almost 200,000 people in the city below the bomb when it exploded. The hurriedly-targeted weapon ended up detonating almost exactly between two of the principal targets in the city, the Mitsubishi Steel and Arms Works to the south, and the Mitsubishi-Urakami Torpedo Works (right) to the north. Had the bomb exploded farther south the residential and commercial heart of the city would have suffered much greater damage.
"Or was the military too blended in with the civilians?"
You answered your own question, there.
Minutes of the second meeting of the Target Committee Los Alamos, May 10-11 1945
Source: U.S. National Archives, Record Group 77, Records of the Office of the Chief of Engineers, Manhattan Engineer District, TS Manhattan Project File '42-'46, folder 5D Selection of Targets, 2 Notes on Target Committee Meetings.
Copyright Notice: This document is believed to be in the public domain. Its transcription and formatting as an e-text, however, is copyright 1995 by Gene Dannen (danneng@peak.org). This e-text resides on the World-Wide Web at http://www.peak.org/~danneng/decision/targets.html TOP SECRET
Auth: C.O., Site Y, N.M. Initials: Date: 12 May 1945 6. Status of Targets
A. Dr. Stearns described the work he had done on target selection. He has surveyed possible targets possessing the following qualification: (1) they be important targets in a large urban area of more than three miles in diameter, (2) they be capable of being damaged effectively by a blast, and (3) they are unlikely to be attacked by next August. Dr. Stearns had a list of five targets which the Air Force would be willing to reserve for our use unless unforeseen circumstances arise. These targets are:
(1) Kyoto - This target is an urban industrial area with a population of 1,000,000. It is the former capital of Japan and many people and industries are now being moved there as other areas are being destroyed. From the psychological point of view there is the advantage that Kyoto is an intellectual center for Japan and the people there are more apt to appreciate the significance of such a weapon as the gadget. (Classified as an AA Target)
(2) Hiroshima - This is an important army depot and port of embarkation in the middle of an urban industrial area. It is a good radar target and it is such a size that a large part of the city could be extensively damaged. There are adjacent hills which are likely to produce a focussing effect which would considerably increase the blast damage. Due to rivers it is not a good incendiary target. (Classified as an AA Target)
(3) Yokohama - This target is an important urban industrial area which has so far been untouched. Industrial activities include aircraft manufacture, machine tools, docks, electrical equipment and oil refineries. As the damage to Tokyo has increased additional industries have moved to Yokohama. It has the disadvantage of the most important target areas being separated by a large body of water and of being in the heaviest anti-aircraft concentration in Japan. For us it has the advantage as an alternate target for use in case of bad weather of being rather far removed from the other targets considered. (Classified as an A Target)
(4) Kokura Arsenal - This is one of the largest arsenals in Japan and is surrounded by urban industrial structures. The arsenal is important for light ordnance, anti-aircraft and beach head defense materials. The dimensions of the arsenal are 4100' x 2000'. The dimensions are such that if the bomb were properly placed full advantage could be taken of the higher pressures immediately underneath the bomb for destroying the more solid structures and at the same time considerable blast damage could be done to more feeble structures further away. (Classified as an A Target)
(5) Niigata - This is a port of embarkation on the N.W. coast of Honshu. Its importance is increasing as other ports are damaged. Machine tool industries are located there and it is a potential center for industrial despersion. It has oil refineries and storage. (Classified as a B Target)
(6) The possibility of bombing the Emperor's palace was discussed. It was agreed that we should not recommend it but that any action for this bombing should come from authorities on military policy. It was agreed that we should obtain information from which we could determine the effectivenes
Now, repeat after me: guns don't kill - evil bastards use guns to kill. Knives don't kill - evil bastards use knives to kill. Rocks don't kill - evil bastards use rocks to kill. Nukes don't kill - evil bastards use nukes to kill.
For one thing - the purple hearts awarded throughout WW2 were ordered before each campaign or major action. The bean counters got really, really accurate when estimating how many to order. They seldom missed by more than a couple percent. Look it up, google is your friend.
The estimated number of purple hearts required for an invasion of the Japanese homeland was 1/4 million. The medals were ordered, and plans were progressing. The allies knew we were about to sacrifice those 1/4 million men.
Then, the bombs fell. Japan surrendered. Those 1/4 million purple hearts are STILL being used today. Casualties from every single conflict that we've been involved in are wearing medals that were intended for the invasion of Japan.
And, that 1/4 million is ONLY American casualties. Estimates for Japanese casualties? Look 'em up. You'll be amazed. Nope, I'm not going to spoil the surprise.
The rest of your post is just as ridiculous. Japan would never have been "contained" in 1945. Fanatical supporters of the Emperor were still coming out of the hills in the 1970's. Contain? Yeah, right.
Decimation was nothing to do with civilians. It was a form of discipline exacted against a legion. Mutiny was dealt with by decimation. Cowardice was dealt with by decimation. Yeah, I know, I'm talking shit, and there's no reason to believe me. Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(Roman_army)
I'll agree. Only cowards kill civilians, and POW's, and political prisoners, and - just anyone they don't admire. Now, just how many millions did the WW2 era Japanese kill, rape, mutilate, or otherwise treat inhumanely between 1935 and 1945? Those civilians killed at Nagasaki and Hiroshima were a drop in the bucket. History - try reading it.
As an American whose father left a large piece of his skull on some forgotten, nameless Pacific island, I can't quite say I'm proud of those two bombs - but I'll be damned if I dishonor the millions killed with an apology. Suck it up, and move on.
I see no hint as to what BorgeStrand wants to patent. Is it some PHYSICAL ITEM OR METHOD?? Some NEW GADGET? If not, you need to look at COPYRIGHT LAW. "Patent or publish". It sounds to me like you, like most of corporate America, haven't a clue as to what a patent is SUPPOSED to be.
BorgeStrand needs to get off our lawns, at least until he's able to come back and post a meaningful question. "Patent or publish?" Just plain stupid.
I don't see people walking around with laptops either - but I live in the US, in a rural area, far from any city. Bearing in mind that TFA is not about the United States, and many posters don't live in the US, it's kinda silly to assume that they should conform to what "we" expect to see. It only takes a little thought to realize that a lot of people in this world DO NOT own a car, and that they might be carrying all sorts of things around, on their way to work, to school, or whatever. Think a little bit, huh?
The evidence is in the billions of dollars that corporate America has spent on prevention and recovery from exploits. For more evidence, tally up the cost that homeowners have paid for prevention and recovery - and don't forget to attach some value to all the time spent re-installing Windows. Again, we are looking at billions of dollars. Every time a Windows based online bank is exploited, you can add to the overall figure.
Only a fool would try to convince you that Linux can't be exploited - but, what has been the total cost of Linux exploits in the past 10 years? A mere drop in the bucket, compared to Windows exploited systems.
Maybe I'm not a very sharp tool or something. But, if I need to contact my Veteran's Administration office, I simply don't know how to do that on Facebook. More, I don't really want to post all my personal details on Facebook. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I regard my medical history as kinda private. Also, I'm married. If I could bring myself to post all of my more intimate messages to my wife on Facebook, she would take offense. Isn't everything on facebook pretty much public? Whatever I post, all of my circle of friends can see it, right? I don't even see the value of posting the details of a father/son relationship in public - while not as intimate as a marital relationship, it's still private.
Careful what you wish for. You could wake up tomorrow, and find yourself promoted. Have you ever really wondered what life is like in that rarified atmosphere? Not only do you not know what the hell is going on, but you have to act in such a way that your subordinates THINK that you do know what is going on. Pulling answers and explanations out of your ass requires a whole new wardrobe, unless you want to just drop your pants in front of everyone. No sirree! I don't ever want to get close to a management position again! I just want to lurk in a back room, out of sight, and out of mind. Just send the broken stuff to me, then go away and leave me alone - we will all be much happier that way!
Hah. Where I work, you only need outlive everyone else to get promoted.
The Office? I've never watched an entire episode. All that I was ever able to see are some egotistical brain dead and possibly gay fools posing for a camera. What do they DO at that office? Nothing ever gets done, it seems. I miss the days of Mary Tyler Moore. It was easy to see that THEIR office was a NEWS office. They occasionally pretended to do news, in among all the silly humour. Having a plot makes it so much easier to follow the plot......
Don't need movies - it's all mindless drivel. Totally mindless. Hollywood pumps out the sludge by the score, but they can't make more than one movie per year that's actually worth watching. I'm not sure that they can even make that one.
We could do with less music, but music will not die. There will always be little bands playing in bars, weddings, you name it. If people really want music, they'll pay for someone to perform. Meanwhile, millions of people play music just because they love music. We DO_NOT_NEED_THE_LATEST_OVERHYPED_WHINEY_BITCH that some label wants to sell to us. Music will actually improve without the whiney little bitch.
Games? Gimme a break. There are already so many thousands of hours of gaming available. Do we really need more games? If so - well, there is open source. People who really love games, and see a need to create new games can and will get together on the internet, and make what they want.
Ditto with software.
Open source, copyleft, and an OPEN MARKET will ensure that things move forward. Copyright and monopoly will ensure that we struggle to move forward through a maze of restrictive laws that benefit no one - except the people who control the monopolies.
If people like yourself are so worried about the future of the arts, and you are really convinced that the arts cannot survive without copyright, then you had BETTER get busy overhauling the copyright system. People might actually respect a copyright that is rooted in reality, justice, and sensibility. 5 year software, movies, and game copyright, no more than 15 years for books, and we can move forward from there.
The idea that a corporation should be ensured a steady income forever for buying up some copyrights is preposterous. The record labels should have been bankrupted 30 years ago, at least. The movie industry might make a better argument for slightly longer copyrights - but they are out of control.
When an industry no longer SERVES it's customers, they need to die. Period.
Uhhh - you're trying to pretend that Obama has money to clean up all those sites, after several administrations have passed the buck, and done nothing? Get real. BTW - a lot of those sites are being cleaned up naturally anyway. Bacteria, nematodes, wildlife, sunshine, rain and wind all work to decompose and recycle a lot of the waste that has gone into the ground. Putting up something like a windfarm will tend to isolate those areas until nature has finished cleaning up our mess.
"anyone who says anything to the contrary is a lair and a drunkard who wears women's panties."
Wait - do nerds no longer enjoy life's finer pleasures? I always enjoyed luring drunks to my lair so that I could get them out of their panties. In fact, they didn't even have to be very drunk. What's up, junior nerds? Don't tell me that ALL of you live in your mama's basements!!
Unix, Linux, Mac, even Windows lovers all agree that the biggest security hole in any operating system is the USER! Delete the worthless user, and the system will be much more secure! Mac needs to capitalize on this feature.
"Your users are compromising your security? Can't get a handle on all those backdoors? Now, you can delete the user, AND his data! Upgrade to OSX 10.666 now."
As I said, "I'll have to see this in action before I believe it." Alright, I'm moderately impressed. While you aren't showing the 100% increase in speed that Commodore Love cited on the ISP's home adverts, you are showing a few hundred percent.
But - how does that work on the type of sites I asked about? Test it on flash heavy pages, and java, or streaming sites. I think that you're going to find the compression to be almost useless on the vast majority of web pages.
Ahem. "People" don't find the loopholes. Lawyers find them. If Joe and Margaret Sixpack want to cheat the government out of money, they aren't going to get away with it. They'll be taken to court, where some LAWYER will build some ridiculous defense using some set of loopholes that the Sixpacks would NEVER have thought of.
A ramjet is not a space engine, sorry. Jets work in atmosphere, and rely on an external oxygen source. More, the reaction mass consisted of external atmosphere. Any working engine in space will resemble a rocket, in that the vehicle must carry it's own reaction mass, and/or find bodies of reaction mass while in space.
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Am I to take it that you would disapprove if I upgraded my shootin' iron?
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hotstories/6668884.html
Whatever - I'm reminded of the difference between a freedman and a vassal. It amounts to little more than possession of a weapon. Whatever the law says, I will be armed, as will my sons. You city boys stay in the city, us country boys will stay in the country, and everyone can be happy. And, keep your cars in the city too, alright? I'm tired of country boys being killed by city cars.
Well, maybe you're right. In part, at least. I've seldom handled anything more beautiful than a well designed rifle. Simple, yet efficient. Half a dozen moving parts (bolt, trigger, sear, spring(s) and firing pin) machined to exact dimensions, that do exactly the same thing, every time. Load the rifle, find a critter, aim carefully, and BANG! DINNER!!
As opposed to an automobile, let's say. Thousands of parts, designed to move people from point to point. Except, those auto frequently break down, or cause accidents - often fatal. Those much sought after automobiles are responsible for more deaths in a single year, than all of the casualties that the US suffered in the Vietnam conflict. Damned cars are unreliable on ice, or lightly flooded roadways. Cold and heat cause them to fail in all manner of ways. I have to agree with you - automobiles are pure evil. I simply cannot understand how man could ever have invented such an evil item.
Give me a bolt action rifle any day. It always does what I want it to do, no surprises, no expensive maintenance, it never cares how hot or cold it gets, and doesn't even care much about water, snow, or ice. Just a quick wipe with a oily rag, and that rifle is back in top condition. Even better, the rifle is pretty ecologically friendly! Nearly zero CO2 emissions, or any other emissions for that matter.
The weather had been reported satisfactory earlier in the day over Kokura Arsenal, but by the time the B-29 finally arrived there, the target was obscured by smoke and haze. Two more passes over the target still produced no sightings of the aiming point. As an aircraft crewman, Jacob Beser, later recalled, Japanese fighters and bursts of antiaircraft fire were by this time starting to make things "a little hairy." Kokura no longer appeared to be an option, and there was only enough fuel on board to return to the secondary airfield on Okinawa, making one hurried pass as they went over their secondary target, the city of Nagasaki. As Beser later put it, "there was no sense dragging the bomb home or dropping it in the ocean."
Fat Man at Tinian Island, August 1945 As it turned out, cloud cover obscured Nagasaki as well. Sweeney reluctantly approved a much less accurate radar approach on the target. At the last moment the bombardier, Captain Kermit K. Beahan, caught a brief glimpse of the city's stadium through the clouds and dropped the bomb. At 11:02 a.m., at an altitude of 1,650 feet, Fat Man (right) exploded over Nagasaki. The yield of the explosion was later estimated at 21 kilotons, 40 percent greater than that of the Hiroshima bomb.
Nagasaki was an industrial center and major port on the western coast of Kyushu. As had happened at Hiroshima, the "all-clear" from an early morning air raid alert had long been given by the time theMitsubishi-Urakami Torpedo Works, 1,400 feet north of ground zero, Nagasaki. Torpedoes used in the attack on Pearl Harbor were built here. B-29 had begun its bombing run. A small conventional raid on Nagasaki on August 1st had resulted in a partial evacuation of the city, especially of school children. There were still almost 200,000 people in the city below the bomb when it exploded. The hurriedly-targeted weapon ended up detonating almost exactly between two of the principal targets in the city, the Mitsubishi Steel and Arms Works to the south, and the Mitsubishi-Urakami Torpedo Works (right) to the north. Had the bomb exploded farther south the residential and commercial heart of the city would have suffered much greater damage.
http://www.cfo.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/nagasaki.htm
"Or was the military too blended in with the civilians?"
You answered your own question, there.
Minutes of the second meeting of the Target Committee
Los Alamos, May 10-11 1945
Source: U.S. National Archives, Record Group 77, Records of the Office of the Chief of Engineers, Manhattan Engineer District, TS Manhattan Project File '42-'46, folder 5D Selection of Targets, 2 Notes on Target Committee Meetings.
Copyright Notice: This document is believed to be in the public domain. Its transcription and formatting as an e-text, however, is copyright 1995 by Gene Dannen (danneng@peak.org). This e-text resides on the World-Wide Web at http://www.peak.org/~danneng/decision/targets.html
TOP SECRET
Auth: C.O., Site Y, N.M.
Initials:
Date: 12 May 1945
6. Status of Targets
A. Dr. Stearns described the work he had done on target selection. He has surveyed possible targets possessing the following qualification: (1) they be important targets in a large urban area of more than three miles in diameter, (2) they be capable of being damaged effectively by a blast, and (3) they are unlikely to be attacked by next August. Dr. Stearns had a list of five targets which the Air Force would be willing to reserve for our use unless unforeseen circumstances arise. These targets are:
(1) Kyoto - This target is an urban industrial area with a population of 1,000,000. It is the former capital of Japan and many people and industries are now being moved there as other areas are being destroyed. From the psychological point of view there is the advantage that Kyoto is an intellectual center for Japan and the people there are more apt to appreciate the significance of such a weapon as the gadget. (Classified as an AA Target)
(2) Hiroshima - This is an important army depot and port of embarkation in the middle of an urban industrial area. It is a good radar target and it is such a size that a large part of the city could be extensively damaged. There are adjacent hills which are likely to produce a focussing effect which would considerably increase the blast damage. Due to rivers it is not a good incendiary target. (Classified as an AA Target)
(3) Yokohama - This target is an important urban industrial area which has so far been untouched. Industrial activities include aircraft manufacture, machine tools, docks, electrical equipment and oil refineries. As the damage to Tokyo has increased additional industries have moved to Yokohama. It has the disadvantage of the most important target areas being separated by a large body of water and of being in the heaviest anti-aircraft concentration in Japan. For us it has the advantage as an alternate target for use in case of bad weather of being rather far removed from the other targets considered. (Classified as an A Target)
(4) Kokura Arsenal - This is one of the largest arsenals in Japan and is surrounded by urban industrial structures. The arsenal is important for light ordnance, anti-aircraft and beach head defense materials. The dimensions of the arsenal are 4100' x 2000'. The dimensions are such that if the bomb were properly placed full advantage could be taken of the higher pressures immediately underneath the bomb for destroying the more solid structures and at the same time considerable blast damage could be done to more feeble structures further away. (Classified as an A Target)
(5) Niigata - This is a port of embarkation on the N.W. coast of Honshu. Its importance is increasing as other ports are damaged. Machine tool industries are located there and it is a potential center for industrial despersion. It has oil refineries and storage. (Classified as a B Target)
(6) The possibility of bombing the Emperor's palace was discussed. It was agreed that we should not recommend it but that any action for this bombing should come from authorities on military policy. It was agreed that we should obtain information from which we could determine the effectivenes
All that verbiage, just to make a single point.
Mankind has a lot of evil bastards in it's midst.
Now, repeat after me: guns don't kill - evil bastards use guns to kill. Knives don't kill - evil bastards use knives to kill. Rocks don't kill - evil bastards use rocks to kill. Nukes don't kill - evil bastards use nukes to kill.
Are we clear now?
100% pure bullshit.
For one thing - the purple hearts awarded throughout WW2 were ordered before each campaign or major action. The bean counters got really, really accurate when estimating how many to order. They seldom missed by more than a couple percent. Look it up, google is your friend.
The estimated number of purple hearts required for an invasion of the Japanese homeland was 1/4 million. The medals were ordered, and plans were progressing. The allies knew we were about to sacrifice those 1/4 million men.
Then, the bombs fell. Japan surrendered. Those 1/4 million purple hearts are STILL being used today. Casualties from every single conflict that we've been involved in are wearing medals that were intended for the invasion of Japan.
And, that 1/4 million is ONLY American casualties. Estimates for Japanese casualties? Look 'em up. You'll be amazed. Nope, I'm not going to spoil the surprise.
The rest of your post is just as ridiculous. Japan would never have been "contained" in 1945. Fanatical supporters of the Emperor were still coming out of the hills in the 1970's. Contain? Yeah, right.
Decimation was nothing to do with civilians. It was a form of discipline exacted against a legion. Mutiny was dealt with by decimation. Cowardice was dealt with by decimation. Yeah, I know, I'm talking shit, and there's no reason to believe me. Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(Roman_army)
I'll agree. Only cowards kill civilians, and POW's, and political prisoners, and - just anyone they don't admire. Now, just how many millions did the WW2 era Japanese kill, rape, mutilate, or otherwise treat inhumanely between 1935 and 1945? Those civilians killed at Nagasaki and Hiroshima were a drop in the bucket. History - try reading it.
As an American whose father left a large piece of his skull on some forgotten, nameless Pacific island, I can't quite say I'm proud of those two bombs - but I'll be damned if I dishonor the millions killed with an apology. Suck it up, and move on.
I see no hint as to what BorgeStrand wants to patent. Is it some PHYSICAL ITEM OR METHOD?? Some NEW GADGET? If not, you need to look at COPYRIGHT LAW. "Patent or publish". It sounds to me like you, like most of corporate America, haven't a clue as to what a patent is SUPPOSED to be.
BorgeStrand needs to get off our lawns, at least until he's able to come back and post a meaningful question. "Patent or publish?" Just plain stupid.
I don't see people walking around with laptops either - but I live in the US, in a rural area, far from any city. Bearing in mind that TFA is not about the United States, and many posters don't live in the US, it's kinda silly to assume that they should conform to what "we" expect to see. It only takes a little thought to realize that a lot of people in this world DO NOT own a car, and that they might be carrying all sorts of things around, on their way to work, to school, or whatever. Think a little bit, huh?
"Intel segments the market intentionally!"
Don't forget virtualization. With AMD, you don't have to pay a premium if you plan to run virtual machines.
The evidence is in the billions of dollars that corporate America has spent on prevention and recovery from exploits. For more evidence, tally up the cost that homeowners have paid for prevention and recovery - and don't forget to attach some value to all the time spent re-installing Windows. Again, we are looking at billions of dollars. Every time a Windows based online bank is exploited, you can add to the overall figure.
Only a fool would try to convince you that Linux can't be exploited - but, what has been the total cost of Linux exploits in the past 10 years? A mere drop in the bucket, compared to Windows exploited systems.
Maybe I'm not a very sharp tool or something. But, if I need to contact my Veteran's Administration office, I simply don't know how to do that on Facebook. More, I don't really want to post all my personal details on Facebook. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I regard my medical history as kinda private. Also, I'm married. If I could bring myself to post all of my more intimate messages to my wife on Facebook, she would take offense. Isn't everything on facebook pretty much public? Whatever I post, all of my circle of friends can see it, right? I don't even see the value of posting the details of a father/son relationship in public - while not as intimate as a marital relationship, it's still private.
Well - let's just say that one of us is a tool.
Careful what you wish for. You could wake up tomorrow, and find yourself promoted. Have you ever really wondered what life is like in that rarified atmosphere? Not only do you not know what the hell is going on, but you have to act in such a way that your subordinates THINK that you do know what is going on. Pulling answers and explanations out of your ass requires a whole new wardrobe, unless you want to just drop your pants in front of everyone. No sirree! I don't ever want to get close to a management position again! I just want to lurk in a back room, out of sight, and out of mind. Just send the broken stuff to me, then go away and leave me alone - we will all be much happier that way!
Hah. Where I work, you only need outlive everyone else to get promoted.
The Office? I've never watched an entire episode. All that I was ever able to see are some egotistical brain dead and possibly gay fools posing for a camera. What do they DO at that office? Nothing ever gets done, it seems. I miss the days of Mary Tyler Moore. It was easy to see that THEIR office was a NEWS office. They occasionally pretended to do news, in among all the silly humour. Having a plot makes it so much easier to follow the plot......
IP holders are a culture unlike any the world has seen before. Fortunately, we have antibiotics. That culture can be destroyed.
Don't need movies - it's all mindless drivel. Totally mindless. Hollywood pumps out the sludge by the score, but they can't make more than one movie per year that's actually worth watching. I'm not sure that they can even make that one.
We could do with less music, but music will not die. There will always be little bands playing in bars, weddings, you name it. If people really want music, they'll pay for someone to perform. Meanwhile, millions of people play music just because they love music. We DO_NOT_NEED_THE_LATEST_OVERHYPED_WHINEY_BITCH that some label wants to sell to us. Music will actually improve without the whiney little bitch.
Games? Gimme a break. There are already so many thousands of hours of gaming available. Do we really need more games? If so - well, there is open source. People who really love games, and see a need to create new games can and will get together on the internet, and make what they want.
Ditto with software.
Open source, copyleft, and an OPEN MARKET will ensure that things move forward. Copyright and monopoly will ensure that we struggle to move forward through a maze of restrictive laws that benefit no one - except the people who control the monopolies.
If people like yourself are so worried about the future of the arts, and you are really convinced that the arts cannot survive without copyright, then you had BETTER get busy overhauling the copyright system. People might actually respect a copyright that is rooted in reality, justice, and sensibility. 5 year software, movies, and game copyright, no more than 15 years for books, and we can move forward from there.
The idea that a corporation should be ensured a steady income forever for buying up some copyrights is preposterous. The record labels should have been bankrupted 30 years ago, at least. The movie industry might make a better argument for slightly longer copyrights - but they are out of control.
When an industry no longer SERVES it's customers, they need to die. Period.
Uhhh - you're trying to pretend that Obama has money to clean up all those sites, after several administrations have passed the buck, and done nothing? Get real. BTW - a lot of those sites are being cleaned up naturally anyway. Bacteria, nematodes, wildlife, sunshine, rain and wind all work to decompose and recycle a lot of the waste that has gone into the ground. Putting up something like a windfarm will tend to isolate those areas until nature has finished cleaning up our mess.
"anyone who says anything to the contrary is a lair and a drunkard who wears women's panties."
Wait - do nerds no longer enjoy life's finer pleasures? I always enjoyed luring drunks to my lair so that I could get them out of their panties. In fact, they didn't even have to be very drunk. What's up, junior nerds? Don't tell me that ALL of you live in your mama's basements!!
Unix, Linux, Mac, even Windows lovers all agree that the biggest security hole in any operating system is the USER! Delete the worthless user, and the system will be much more secure! Mac needs to capitalize on this feature.
"Your users are compromising your security? Can't get a handle on all those backdoors? Now, you can delete the user, AND his data! Upgrade to OSX 10.666 now."
Anonymous Coward get re-used for other purposes all the time, get over it.
Its especially true when you spend all your time hanging out at the closest meat market.
typo above, where I typed "100%" I meant "1000%"
As I said, "I'll have to see this in action before I believe it." Alright, I'm moderately impressed. While you aren't showing the 100% increase in speed that Commodore Love cited on the ISP's home adverts, you are showing a few hundred percent.
But - how does that work on the type of sites I asked about? Test it on flash heavy pages, and java, or streaming sites. I think that you're going to find the compression to be almost useless on the vast majority of web pages.
Ahem. "People" don't find the loopholes. Lawyers find them. If Joe and Margaret Sixpack want to cheat the government out of money, they aren't going to get away with it. They'll be taken to court, where some LAWYER will build some ridiculous defense using some set of loopholes that the Sixpacks would NEVER have thought of.
A ramjet is not a space engine, sorry. Jets work in atmosphere, and rely on an external oxygen source. More, the reaction mass consisted of external atmosphere. Any working engine in space will resemble a rocket, in that the vehicle must carry it's own reaction mass, and/or find bodies of reaction mass while in space.