Anyone admining a server ought to have enough skills to handle a command line or they need a new job.
Couldn't agree with you more. In fact recently in one of my networking classes, one smart-ass tried to 'out-wit' the instucter going over command line info. (This was a Novell Server class)
To the best of my recollection this is what he said. "Why are we even learning about these archaic(spelling?) DOS like commands? Isn't DOS like dead? Why would anybody want to learn DOS commands when we can do everything in a GUI? This is pointless?" To that comment, I let out an audible chuckle. The instructer quickly countered by asking him to write a Novell login script, or a batch file for the server.
The really scary part was that roughly 3/4ths of the class agreed with the nut-case. I mean I'm going to have to work with these people who have this point-and-click-can-do-everything mentality.
I'm am currently a 90% windows user and 10% linux. I used to use Linux 90% and window 10%. Why the change? Linux never worked properly. It would go bonkers after using my NIC card for more then 5 minutes. MANY applications would crash. Star Office, Xmms. Heck, even GNOME itself would crash and burn periodically. KDE wasn't much better. Besides, it lacked ease of use.
The only 10% of linux use left is on my sever. I'm using it as a NOS (network operating system). Shit, that's the last time I do that again. I'm currently in the process of finallizing my Novell Netware 5.0 setup. Can anyone say, ease of use, stable, and extremly powerful as a NOS.
Linux still has many years before it will become a 'viable' alternative in the market place.
What is this (at home)? I see 5 of the top 10 running a IIS. One thing that everyone seems to forget is how well a product can integrate with other products, efficiently. Some of the clumsy modules that come with apache make me want to laugh. How scalable are the products. Can I get updates and patches from a Trusted Source and is it going to be done right? I haven't run across very many Apache webservers that integrate with large databases like Oracle. I'm mean like Terabyte sized databases. but again, to be able to do it in an efficient manner.
Apache may be more popular, but it is by no means better.
My beer analogy. What would you rather have free beer or $5 beer.
Those who need a product that performs to the max in conjunction with their hardware are going to pay to have the proper solution implemented.
kindly define the sort of 'big idea' that must be restricted and kept under wraps and never ever shared with others
Ah shit, I hate it when people can't read right and transform words. I NEVER said 'never ever shared.'
Big ideas? Car companies go to great lengths to keep competitors from seeing their new designs. Heck, the military even goes to greater lengths at covering up new technology. Do silicon chip manufacturers advertise how they create their chips. NO. Let the competitors figure it out for themselves.
Granted no one owns and idea. But, If I come up with it, I'm going to do my best to make sure I can bank in on it first. I'm going to do my best to make it harder for others to do the same. Being the first to work on an idea has it's advantages. That's why you would keep said 'big idea' under wraps.
If have an idea on how to dramatically improve the internal combustion engine. I'm not going to go blabbing about it until I have a working implementation and has been patented. Otherwise some other schmuck may get the bright idea and try to beat me out on the exact same design. Being the first to the market has its advantages.
I know that there is no preventing others from creating copy-cat devices. It's the time between the initial product and the copy-cats. If I can generate revenue in the begining with out competition it gives me an advantage in the market place. I can use the revenue to better the product, use it for product placement, advertisment, etc. It's all about advantages.
Does this make any sense, or am I talking to a wall?
Hey I've got an idea. Whoever developes a fussion weapon (next step after fission), lets open the idea to all. After all, it's an open source world!!!
A lot of open source project were closed at one point in time. They were only opened up because they were outdated and useless. Something better had come along and the company dumped it. Or it is some last ditch effect of a company to try recover a failing product that can't compete.
I've yet to see anything yet from Mozilla that competes with IE. Netscape 4.x is a pathetic joke. Star Office is so full of holes an bugs it's also pathetic. It crashes at least twice a day for me when I used to use Linux primarily.
IMO, Linux has a LONG ways to go before it is comparable to MS or MAC. By that time MS and MAC will have moved on to better things. Leaving Open source in it's dust.
"Hey, if I come up with a great idea, I sure as hell ain't gonna let it get out for free. No way!"
Then why on earth should anybody cooperate with you? Nice trolling, but if there's an atom of sincerity in your claims, it's rather sad, as you're crippling yourself by refusing to have your ideas (whatever they are, if any) exist in a social context with the ideas of others.
I'm talking about good ideas, big ones, not the little day to day things.
This translates roughly to 'I am smarter than everybody else in the world regarding the field in which I work'. You won't ever communicate your ideas- they are for franchising only, not for discussion. There are few people who have any business whatsoever taking such an attitude- among them, possibly, John Carmack- who opensources his old engines, pitches in on opensource projects, and posts to Slashdot like any member of the community.
Don't put words in my mouth that I didn't say. I never said I wouldn't communicate my ideas. I communicate my ideas with my friends quite frequently actually. None, of these are exactly earth shattering though. What I meant, is that in the situation that I happen across something that could quite potentially be big, I would make sure that I have an initial advantage over a competitor. Meaning, patent, copyrights, trademarks, or anything that is going to make it more difficult for others to compete with me in the market.
It looks like the people who _really_ have ideas and aren't just wanking about it tend to be the people who are discussing them with others and placing more importance on their superior ability to reach a synthesis with the ideas of the community, rather than those who say 'if' I come up with a great idea I will defend it with my life and never tell anybody.
Again, I discuss my ideas. In the event of said idea, I would be very discrete about who I go blabbing to. Only trusted individuals would get in on it.
This might be a little counterintuitive- but it's so well established that it bears closer examination. Essentially, the people most capable of continuing to turn out competitive work are the ones most likely to want to cross-pollenate with other developers in the community, secure in the belief that they can execute on the ideas better than their competition. And on the other hand, the people (and companies) least capable of coming up with new ideas or executing on their existing ideas are the ones who most want to chain up the ideas themselves, the ones saying 'I wouldn't let an idea go out there for free, are you crazy?'.
Ah, but those people who are out there 'cross pollinating' there ideas with others, have most likely taken appropriate measures to ensure competitors don't take advantage of them and their ideas, or products. It's these measures which I'm am referring to.
It looks to me like this is a convenient little litmus test, to distinguish between classes of developer and their relative capacities. In a way, to act from a presumption of idea scarcity almost _proves_ you don't have many... if you can't consistently come up with new ideas for new situations so easily that you can afford to give them away, what business do you have aspiring to be a professional programmer?
AGAIN, I'm not talking about the little day to days ideas. THE BIG ONES. And what makes you think I'm aspiring to be a proffesional programmer?
I'm really quite surprised at how someone can come to such conclusions based on a few sentances.
Two bars, opposite sides of the street. One charges you for good tasting beer after you go inside. The other gives you bad tasting beer lock in some new-fangled contraption outside on the street, and then asks you to come inside for $5 to teach you how to drink the beer.
What would you do?
I would take the bad beer home with out going inside for $5 only becuase it's free. I'll break the damn thing open with hammer.
The only reason 99% of open source software is gaining popularity is because it is free. That's it.
Given a choice, would you pay $50 for Windows or $50 for *nix.
i seem to see the netcraft results a little differently. It appears that the top ranking companies DO NOT use apache software.
Besides, from what I have been able to surmise. Apache's use is mainly on low-end low-traffic servers. And the results of netcraft do not show what is virtualy hosted. in others words netcraft has a serious flaw in there information gathering. With virtual hosting there may be hundreds of hits for apache when it should only count as one. one hit, one server. that would definatly level the playing field.
The one reason that I see open source as never taking a lead is because there is a minimal amount of funding. This causes those with great ideas to be sucked in to the larger companies with large capital and can pay them respectively. Hey, if I come up with a great idea, I sure as hell ain't gonna let it get out for free. No way!
Apache can remain open source. It isn't something that I would trust as a high end server though. Netcraft had some interesting info about top companies and what they use.
Now I'm all for open source. I like it. I've used some open source programs and have even written a few things that I guess I could considered to be open source. But there has been one thing that beefs me about this whole 'open source movement.' It's that they think it is going to take over the world. I don't think so!
Open source this. Open source that. I personally have yet to see anything that is in anyway competitive with closed source software. There isn't anything. I'm willing to debate it to!!!
Here are some reasons I would not use open source software.
1.) the availability of source code makes it an easy target for those with motives that don't exactly see eye to eye with the origonal programmer. I've got a story about this, if anyone cares.
2.) In a similar fashion to #1, the availability of the code means that you may not always get what you need or wanted. updates, features, or fixes may not always end up being included in every version of every copy that is out there.
3.) The interaction between differing software isn't alway pretty. I've got another story.
4.) hey, I don't want joe schmoe recompling my kernel. Period!
Like I said though, I'm not against open source. It's just that it has its own time and place. Taking over the world isn't going to happen. We are not going to live in an open source world. Sorry Guys.
You know what I've been waiting for. When some wacko just like Virgil is wandering down the street during a protest and an officer stops and asks him. "What do you have in your backpack." and gets a response. "none of your fucking business, get a warrent". to the officer respond "oh, yes sir, don't want to violate your rights, have a nice day, sorry"
A couple hours later there are dead bodies, body parts, and 100's of injured people. What happened? He only just happened to be carrying C4 and dynamite. BOOM. Can you say extremist.
Now I admit this situation is most likely on the extreme side. But guess who's going to be complaining when they learn that the police stopped this guy earlier in the day and could have prevented a tragity. It's going to be the same people who are complaining now about the current situation in philly.
I'm certainly glad nothing like this has happened. But when the time does, i'll be waiting for the same people to start complaining all over again.
Damaging property IS NOT violence. Property is inanimate and can't feel pain.
Really, Where do you live, because I have some non-violence that I would like to inflict to your home, your car, your belongings.
In the case of crop destruction (which I support) activists are trying to stop a technology which is dnagerous to the ecosystems in which it is deployed.
On what basis is that statement made on? I see GM foods as being a viable solution to increasing demand for foodstuffs. GM foods can increase crop yields dramaticly and can be engineered to resist diseases that would normally cause crop failure or reduced crop yields.
The whole point of taking on the police is to win the confrontation, or at least get away with as much damage to their side as possible.
I sure hope that you don't plan on having any children, if you haven't already breeded. Especially with that sort of mentality.
On Tuesday, the Black Bloc anarchists had the cops on the run. They damaged 20+ cops cars, injured over a dozen officers, and knocked the police chief on his ass.
And just how do these sorts of actions work to persuade your average citizen to side with you. I my book it isn't exactly helping your case at all.
I am really disappointed.
"... how do we draw the line between protection of national security,
obviously the governments need to obtain intelligence data, and the
protection of civil liberties? Particularly, the sanctity of my home. You've
got no right to come into my home." Larry King, Enemy of the State
Speaking of police, in my area there are to freaking many of them. in fact there are sooo many of them, that most of them spend all of thier time trying to decide where to set up the next speed trap. In my opinion they should be out in the neighborhoods making themselves visible in the real community, rather than sitting in the ditch trying to decide who to pull over next.
Ah Gore... The man who wants to eliminate the internal combustion engine. The man who invented the Internet. The enviro-nut. The hypocrite.
Those damn democrats want a program for every damn thing they can think of. If there is money to be spent. They will spend it.
Did you know that Gore wants to prevent anyone from going into our nations national parks. Yes, that means even the tree-huggers won't beable to become-one with nature. Clinton and Gore have spent more money than any other government officials in history buying up US property and having it declared as Monuments. Thus bypassing congressional approval.
I think my moderation will be undone with me participating in this thread, but I have to respond.
I agree 100% with you Rahga. The way they want to redistribute income makes me want to smack them in the heads. Granted income redistribution needs to be done, it does not need to be taken into such extremes. The high level of taxes for anyone currently making over $100,000 becomes insane. It basically removes any ambition that someone may have to becoming succesful. Don't believe me. Look at Canada. It is totally rediculous to have to work 1/3 of the year just pay taxes.
I can't believe the puplic is so blind as to not notice how much Gore changes his stances on issues from one side to the other.
I just can't waste my vote for another member of the government who is going to spend more money, for more programs, that don't work, to try to solve problems, that should be left up to local governments to handle.
Here is a little information tidbit. According to the democrats, any family making over $100k a year is considered to be wealthy. haha, that's a joke.
Ooh fuck that bullshit. Your chances of survival in a 6000 lb truck versus a 2500 lb car is a hell of a lot better.
Most crash test are perform in a lab where they send varying vehicle into an "non-movable" cement barrior. Key word here is "non-movable". In these kinds of tests, yes, your Insight, Civic, or Golf is going to perform better because of inertia. But lets face the fucking facts. Most crashes do not involve collisions with fixed object. They are primarily vehicle to vehicle collision. Now, if you actually paid attention in Physics class you would know that the more inertia and object has the less likely that object will be changed from an encounter with another object of lesser inertia.
Example, lets take the 6000+ lb F150 that I drive, and drive it head on at 35 mph into a roughly 2000 lbs Civic. Sure it's going mess up the front of my vehicle pretty darn good. But that civic is going to be totally trash with the driver either dead or severely injured. In fact during the collision my vehicle will still be traveling forwards after the accident resulting in less body trauma to me, while civic is going to actually reverse direction at the moment of impact resulting in sever internal organ damage.
As far as "increasing the likelyhood of killing someone else." So be it. It's either them or me. Fuck the other person. I like my odds.
Yeah, it probably isn't. But I always like to look at things at how they could be used rather than what they are used for. This program could very well have been just intended to allow the transmission of jpeg images. But what else could it possibly do. But yeah, it probably isn't anything big. But I guess most (or maybe just some) people don't like things going on that they are not aware of.
This just goes to show you what a company is willing to go through or endure just to earn your buck. Whether is be by ad placement or information collection. In my book though, Matel is just digging itself a really deep hole. First censorship and now hidden information collection. I'm waiting to see what else they can screw up.
Do you mind if I use this as my new sig, it so totally hilarious, but makes such an important point.
"So I did what most ordinary people would do in that situation. I caught a squirrel, and sacrificed it to Zaqurarlin the Space God from the Third Comet Under the Setting Shoe. Zaqurarlin called upon his poet-assasins, and sent forth Hrrranak, the Most Exhalted, Feared, and Rhythmic. The poor bastard didn't stand a chance." Anonymous Coward
Well, theoretically. I see this as being kinda a leading edge type of deal. The light is still traveling at c when it enters, when it travels through the cesium, and when it exits. What happens is as soon as part of the wave hits the cesium it is simply recreated at the other end.
Here is a simple analogy. Say I have a 1 mile long tube filled end-to-end with marbles, each touching each other. Now when I try to cram one marble in the end, a marble is going to pop out the other side. It isn't the origional marble, but it's just like.
If you do this at the speed of light, the marble pattern will pop out the other side quicker than it would take the origional marble traveling at the speed of light to get there. Really, nothing breaks the speed of light. Einstien can sleep easy tonight.
So, in theory with this system, the longer the distance the pipeline the faster the message appears to break the speed of light.
Chances are this 'ring of fire' cable they are laying around africa is more than just "one" fiber cable. Most likely it is composed of many 'fibers' per fiber, and there are possibly even more than one fiber cable being layed. This would hold to its claim of being self healing and provide redundancy. This recent article has to do with sending 40Gbps through only "one" individual fiber. Now that's something to talk about... until, 80Gb, 160Gb, Naw... It'll be big news when they cram 1Tbps through one tiny fiber cable.
I have registered a few domains that I have set up for clients, and boy would they be pissed if all of a sudden they had it revoked. When I registered these domains they were under the origional license, contract, or whatever it's called. Can they legally change this to apply to me without prior notification? I wish I had a copy of the previous agreement. I registered those domains based on a prior agreement. I don't get how they could change an agreement with out me signing some papers. Correct me if I'm out on a limb here.
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Anyone admining a server ought to have enough skills to handle a command line or they need a new job.
Couldn't agree with you more. In fact recently in one of my networking classes, one smart-ass tried to 'out-wit' the instucter going over command line info. (This was a Novell Server class)
To the best of my recollection this is what he said. "Why are we even learning about these archaic(spelling?) DOS like commands? Isn't DOS like dead? Why would anybody want to learn DOS commands when we can do everything in a GUI? This is pointless?" To that comment, I let out an audible chuckle. The instructer quickly countered by asking him to write a Novell login script, or a batch file for the server.
The really scary part was that roughly 3/4ths of the class agreed with the nut-case. I mean I'm going to have to work with these people who have this point-and-click-can-do-everything mentality.
Yikes
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I'm am currently a 90% windows user and 10% linux. I used to use Linux 90% and window 10%. Why the change? Linux never worked properly. It would go bonkers after using my NIC card for more then 5 minutes. MANY applications would crash. Star Office, Xmms. Heck, even GNOME itself would crash and burn periodically. KDE wasn't much better. Besides, it lacked ease of use.
The only 10% of linux use left is on my sever. I'm using it as a NOS (network operating system). Shit, that's the last time I do that again. I'm currently in the process of finallizing my Novell Netware 5.0 setup. Can anyone say, ease of use, stable, and extremly powerful as a NOS.
Linux still has many years before it will become a 'viable' alternative in the market place.
Exactly!
What is this (at home)? I see 5 of the top 10 running a IIS. One thing that everyone seems to forget is how well a product can integrate with other products, efficiently. Some of the clumsy modules that come with apache make me want to laugh. How scalable are the products. Can I get updates and patches from a Trusted Source and is it going to be done right? I haven't run across very many Apache webservers that integrate with large databases like Oracle. I'm mean like Terabyte sized databases. but again, to be able to do it in an efficient manner.
Apache may be more popular, but it is by no means better.
My beer analogy. What would you rather have free beer or $5 beer.
Those who need a product that performs to the max in conjunction with their hardware are going to pay to have the proper solution implemented.
kindly define the sort of 'big idea' that must be restricted and kept under wraps and never ever shared with others
Ah shit, I hate it when people can't read right and transform words. I NEVER said 'never ever shared.'
Big ideas? Car companies go to great lengths to keep competitors from seeing their new designs. Heck, the military even goes to greater lengths at covering up new technology. Do silicon chip manufacturers advertise how they create their chips. NO. Let the competitors figure it out for themselves.
Granted no one owns and idea. But, If I come up with it, I'm going to do my best to make sure I can bank in on it first. I'm going to do my best to make it harder for others to do the same. Being the first to work on an idea has it's advantages. That's why you would keep said 'big idea' under wraps.
If have an idea on how to dramatically improve the internal combustion engine. I'm not going to go blabbing about it until I have a working implementation and has been patented. Otherwise some other schmuck may get the bright idea and try to beat me out on the exact same design. Being the first to the market has its advantages.
I know that there is no preventing others from creating copy-cat devices. It's the time between the initial product and the copy-cats. If I can generate revenue in the begining with out competition it gives me an advantage in the market place. I can use the revenue to better the product, use it for product placement, advertisment, etc. It's all about advantages.
Does this make any sense, or am I talking to a wall?
Hey I've got an idea. Whoever developes a fussion weapon (next step after fission), lets open the idea to all. After all, it's an open source world!!!
True to the core.
A lot of open source project were closed at one point in time. They were only opened up because they were outdated and useless. Something better had come along and the company dumped it. Or it is some last ditch effect of a company to try recover a failing product that can't compete.
I've yet to see anything yet from Mozilla that competes with IE. Netscape 4.x is a pathetic joke. Star Office is so full of holes an bugs it's also pathetic. It crashes at least twice a day for me when I used to use Linux primarily.
IMO, Linux has a LONG ways to go before it is comparable to MS or MAC. By that time MS and MAC will have moved on to better things. Leaving Open source in it's dust.
"Hey, if I come up with a great idea, I sure as hell ain't gonna let it get out for free. No way!" Then why on earth should anybody cooperate with you? Nice trolling, but if there's an atom of sincerity in your claims, it's rather sad, as you're crippling yourself by refusing to have your ideas (whatever they are, if any) exist in a social context with the ideas of others.
I'm talking about good ideas, big ones, not the little day to day things.
This translates roughly to 'I am smarter than everybody else in the world regarding the field in which I work'. You won't ever communicate your ideas- they are for franchising only, not for discussion. There are few people who have any business whatsoever taking such an attitude- among them, possibly, John Carmack- who opensources his old engines, pitches in on opensource projects, and posts to Slashdot like any member of the community.
Don't put words in my mouth that I didn't say. I never said I wouldn't communicate my ideas. I communicate my ideas with my friends quite frequently actually. None, of these are exactly earth shattering though. What I meant, is that in the situation that I happen across something that could quite potentially be big, I would make sure that I have an initial advantage over a competitor. Meaning, patent, copyrights, trademarks, or anything that is going to make it more difficult for others to compete with me in the market.
It looks like the people who _really_ have ideas and aren't just wanking about it tend to be the people who are discussing them with others and placing more importance on their superior ability to reach a synthesis with the ideas of the community, rather than those who say 'if' I come up with a great idea I will defend it with my life and never tell anybody.
Again, I discuss my ideas. In the event of said idea, I would be very discrete about who I go blabbing to. Only trusted individuals would get in on it.
This might be a little counterintuitive- but it's so well established that it bears closer examination. Essentially, the people most capable of continuing to turn out competitive work are the ones most likely to want to cross-pollenate with other developers in the community, secure in the belief that they can execute on the ideas better than their competition. And on the other hand, the people (and companies) least capable of coming up with new ideas or executing on their existing ideas are the ones who most want to chain up the ideas themselves, the ones saying 'I wouldn't let an idea go out there for free, are you crazy?'.
Ah, but those people who are out there 'cross pollinating' there ideas with others, have most likely taken appropriate measures to ensure competitors don't take advantage of them and their ideas, or products. It's these measures which I'm am referring to.
It looks to me like this is a convenient little litmus test, to distinguish between classes of developer and their relative capacities. In a way, to act from a presumption of idea scarcity almost _proves_ you don't have many... if you can't consistently come up with new ideas for new situations so easily that you can afford to give them away, what business do you have aspiring to be a professional programmer?
AGAIN, I'm not talking about the little day to days ideas. THE BIG ONES. And what makes you think I'm aspiring to be a proffesional programmer?
I'm really quite surprised at how someone can come to such conclusions based on a few sentances.
s/bear/beer/g;
Two bars, opposite sides of the street. One charges you for good tasting beer after you go inside. The other gives you bad tasting beer lock in some new-fangled contraption outside on the street, and then asks you to come inside for $5 to teach you how to drink the beer.
What would you do?
I would take the bad beer home with out going inside for $5 only becuase it's free. I'll break the damn thing open with hammer.
The only reason 99% of open source software is gaining popularity is because it is free. That's it.
Given a choice, would you pay $50 for Windows or $50 for *nix.
i seem to see the netcraft results a little differently. It appears that the top ranking companies DO NOT use apache software.
Besides, from what I have been able to surmise. Apache's use is mainly on low-end low-traffic servers. And the results of netcraft do not show what is virtualy hosted. in others words netcraft has a serious flaw in there information gathering. With virtual hosting there may be hundreds of hits for apache when it should only count as one. one hit, one server. that would definatly level the playing field.
The one reason that I see open source as never taking a lead is because there is a minimal amount of funding. This causes those with great ideas to be sucked in to the larger companies with large capital and can pay them respectively. Hey, if I come up with a great idea, I sure as hell ain't gonna let it get out for free. No way!
Apache can remain open source. It isn't something that I would trust as a high end server though. Netcraft had some interesting info about top companies and what they use.
It isn't apache!
Now I'm all for open source. I like it. I've used some open source programs and have even written a few things that I guess I could considered to be open source. But there has been one thing that beefs me about this whole 'open source movement.' It's that they think it is going to take over the world. I don't think so!
Open source this. Open source that. I personally have yet to see anything that is in anyway competitive with closed source software. There isn't anything. I'm willing to debate it to!!!
Here are some reasons I would not use open source software.
1.) the availability of source code makes it an easy target for those with motives that don't exactly see eye to eye with the origonal programmer. I've got a story about this, if anyone cares.
2.) In a similar fashion to #1, the availability of the code means that you may not always get what you need or wanted. updates, features, or fixes may not always end up being included in every version of every copy that is out there.
3.) The interaction between differing software isn't alway pretty. I've got another story.
4.) hey, I don't want joe schmoe recompling my kernel. Period!
Like I said though, I'm not against open source. It's just that it has its own time and place. Taking over the world isn't going to happen. We are not going to live in an open source world. Sorry Guys.
You know what I've been waiting for. When some wacko just like Virgil is wandering down the street during a protest and an officer stops and asks him. "What do you have in your backpack." and gets a response. "none of your fucking business, get a warrent". to the officer respond "oh, yes sir, don't want to violate your rights, have a nice day, sorry"
A couple hours later there are dead bodies, body parts, and 100's of injured people. What happened? He only just happened to be carrying C4 and dynamite. BOOM. Can you say extremist.
Now I admit this situation is most likely on the extreme side. But guess who's going to be complaining when they learn that the police stopped this guy earlier in the day and could have prevented a tragity. It's going to be the same people who are complaining now about the current situation in philly.
I'm certainly glad nothing like this has happened. But when the time does, i'll be waiting for the same people to start complaining all over again.
Damaging property IS NOT violence. Property is inanimate and can't feel pain.
Really, Where do you live, because I have some non-violence that I would like to inflict to your home, your car, your belongings.
In the case of crop destruction (which I support) activists are trying to stop a technology which is dnagerous to the ecosystems in which it is deployed.
On what basis is that statement made on? I see GM foods as being a viable solution to increasing demand for foodstuffs. GM foods can increase crop yields dramaticly and can be engineered to resist diseases that would normally cause crop failure or reduced crop yields.
The whole point of taking on the police is to win the confrontation, or at least get away with as much damage to their side as possible.
I sure hope that you don't plan on having any children, if you haven't already breeded. Especially with that sort of mentality.
On Tuesday, the Black Bloc anarchists had the cops on the run. They damaged 20+ cops cars, injured over a dozen officers, and knocked the police chief on his ass.
And just how do these sorts of actions work to persuade your average citizen to side with you. I my book it isn't exactly helping your case at all.
I am really disappointed.
"... how do we draw the line between protection of national security, obviously the governments need to obtain intelligence data, and the protection of civil liberties? Particularly, the sanctity of my home. You've got no right to come into my home." Larry King, Enemy of the State
Speaking of police, in my area there are to freaking many of them. in fact there are sooo many of them, that most of them spend all of thier time trying to decide where to set up the next speed trap. In my opinion they should be out in the neighborhoods making themselves visible in the real community, rather than sitting in the ditch trying to decide who to pull over next.
Ah Gore... The man who wants to eliminate the internal combustion engine. The man who invented the Internet. The enviro-nut. The hypocrite.
Those damn democrats want a program for every damn thing they can think of. If there is money to be spent. They will spend it.
Did you know that Gore wants to prevent anyone from going into our nations national parks. Yes, that means even the tree-huggers won't beable to become-one with nature. Clinton and Gore have spent more money than any other government officials in history buying up US property and having it declared as Monuments. Thus bypassing congressional approval.
I think my moderation will be undone with me participating in this thread, but I have to respond.
I agree 100% with you Rahga. The way they want to redistribute income makes me want to smack them in the heads. Granted income redistribution needs to be done, it does not need to be taken into such extremes. The high level of taxes for anyone currently making over $100,000 becomes insane. It basically removes any ambition that someone may have to becoming succesful. Don't believe me. Look at Canada. It is totally rediculous to have to work 1/3 of the year just pay taxes.
I can't believe the puplic is so blind as to not notice how much Gore changes his stances on issues from one side to the other.
I just can't waste my vote for another member of the government who is going to spend more money, for more programs, that don't work, to try to solve problems, that should be left up to local governments to handle.
Here is a little information tidbit. According to the democrats, any family making over $100k a year is considered to be wealthy. haha, that's a joke.
Ooh fuck that bullshit. Your chances of survival in a 6000 lb truck versus a 2500 lb car is a hell of a lot better.
Most crash test are perform in a lab where they send varying vehicle into an "non-movable" cement barrior. Key word here is "non-movable". In these kinds of tests, yes, your Insight, Civic, or Golf is going to perform better because of inertia. But lets face the fucking facts. Most crashes do not involve collisions with fixed object. They are primarily vehicle to vehicle collision. Now, if you actually paid attention in Physics class you would know that the more inertia and object has the less likely that object will be changed from an encounter with another object of lesser inertia.
Example, lets take the 6000+ lb F150 that I drive, and drive it head on at 35 mph into a roughly 2000 lbs Civic. Sure it's going mess up the front of my vehicle pretty darn good. But that civic is going to be totally trash with the driver either dead or severely injured. In fact during the collision my vehicle will still be traveling forwards after the accident resulting in less body trauma to me, while civic is going to actually reverse direction at the moment of impact resulting in sever internal organ damage.
As far as "increasing the likelyhood of killing someone else." So be it. It's either them or me. Fuck the other person. I like my odds.
Yeah, it probably isn't. But I always like to look at things at how they could be used rather than what they are used for. This program could very well have been just intended to allow the transmission of jpeg images. But what else could it possibly do. But yeah, it probably isn't anything big. But I guess most (or maybe just some) people don't like things going on that they are not aware of.
This just goes to show you what a company is willing to go through or endure just to earn your buck. Whether is be by ad placement or information collection. In my book though, Matel is just digging itself a really deep hole. First censorship and now hidden information collection. I'm waiting to see what else they can screw up.
ROFLMFAO...
Do you mind if I use this as my new sig, it so totally hilarious, but makes such an important point.
"So I did what most ordinary people would do in that situation. I caught a squirrel, and sacrificed it to Zaqurarlin the Space God from the Third Comet Under the Setting Shoe. Zaqurarlin called upon his poet-assasins, and sent forth Hrrranak, the Most Exhalted, Feared, and Rhythmic. The poor bastard didn't stand a chance." Anonymous Coward
Well, theoretically. I see this as being kinda a leading edge type of deal. The light is still traveling at c when it enters, when it travels through the cesium, and when it exits. What happens is as soon as part of the wave hits the cesium it is simply recreated at the other end.
Here is a simple analogy. Say I have a 1 mile long tube filled end-to-end with marbles, each touching each other. Now when I try to cram one marble in the end, a marble is going to pop out the other side. It isn't the origional marble, but it's just like.
If you do this at the speed of light, the marble pattern will pop out the other side quicker than it would take the origional marble traveling at the speed of light to get there. Really, nothing breaks the speed of light. Einstien can sleep easy tonight.
So, in theory with this system, the longer the distance the pipeline the faster the message appears to break the speed of light.
SWEET!!! A cellular videophone. *Drooool* Tthe funny thing about it though... it will most likely happen too.
Now, what kind of bandwidth are we going to need to send holographic information.. Could you imagine playing holographic Quake.
Chances are this 'ring of fire' cable they are laying around africa is more than just "one" fiber cable. Most likely it is composed of many 'fibers' per fiber, and there are possibly even more than one fiber cable being layed. This would hold to its claim of being self healing and provide redundancy. This recent article has to do with sending 40Gbps through only "one" individual fiber. Now that's something to talk about... until, 80Gb, 160Gb, Naw... It'll be big news when they cram 1Tbps through one tiny fiber cable.
I have registered a few domains that I have set up for clients, and boy would they be pissed if all of a sudden they had it revoked. When I registered these domains they were under the origional license, contract, or whatever it's called. Can they legally change this to apply to me without prior notification? I wish I had a copy of the previous agreement. I registered those domains based on a prior agreement. I don't get how they could change an agreement with out me signing some papers. Correct me if I'm out on a limb here.