Ah, please. I'm as radical left wing as they come. I don't think what I argued is right, it's just the argument the right wing is going to use in response to your original argument. That's why I presented a counter argument in the second paragraph. Did you even read the rest of my post? You do have me marked as a friend, I would have thought that you would have given me the benefit of the doubt at least enough to read my entire post. In fact, I agree with you completely, what the rich have done to our country is disgusting.
Here's a link to a USDA report on hunger in the US. Unfortunatly, it is on the rise. 11.9% of US households suffer from food insecurity, while 3.9% suffer from hunger. That's about 11 million people. But go on thinking everyone here is fat and happy, if that helps you sleep easier at night.
By that logic, why shouldn't the rich want to keep their higher standard of living by outsourcing our jobs? Outsourcing sucks, but so does the poverty that is prevalent in most of the world. Hopefully things will even out and everyone will be better off.
However, if capital and goods are free to move across national borders and people aren't, the rich can simply play one nation off against another, moving to poorer areas when a region gets wealthier. When a nation becomes poor again, they will move back.
This new theory of scalar-tensor-vector gravity explains galactic rotations, mass distribution in galactic clusters, and the slowing of the Pioneer probes. However,it doesn't look like it will explain the cosmic microwave background radiation, which kinda negates all the other points.
Hell, set up some kind of a honeynet with several types of servers (Windows, Mac, *nix) in various states of security. There's absolutely no reason to make these students scan actual production servers. By using custom built servers, the professor will have more control over the lesson, and will be able to tell what the students are actually doing.
Dude, that explains last night. I pulled up to a four way stop and this lightning pulled up and just kinda slowed down a little then blasted right through the intersection without stopping and I was like, "Damn you, lightning!" but I guess it had the right of way.
This happened in 1995. There weren't that many people using the internet back then, and no one who was really had the bandwidth to watch much video. If you go to Leather Tounge video in SF, they may still have copies of the tapes, though. We did get a fair amount of publicity from alternative sources back then. Heck, Green Day did a benefit concert in Golden Gate for us and donated $20,000.
As one of the people involved in this fiasco, let me fill in the details. The group is called Food-Not-Bombs. When I worked with them, we would get donations from supermarkets, wholesale food distributors and bagel shops. We would take the food to volunteer's kitchens and cook soup, usually around 15 gallons. Then we would take it to city hall or the UN plaza and feed people. Right in public where the tourists could see them. Frank Jordan, San Francisco's mayor of the time, was trying to sweep the homeless under the rug. So he was pretty pissed about the whole thing.
What they said was, you can't serve food in public without a permit. And, by the by, they did away with the permit process. Oh, you could still feed people in public if you had a permit, but no one could get one. We kept doing it anyway. So he called in the special squads.
I've watched these goons slam my friends into the ground and drag them off by their hair. For feeding people. They dumped the soup in the gutter, in front of all the hungry people. They poured bleach on the bagels. So we got creative. We would stage five or six fake servings, and while they were hassling the people with the empty buckets, the real serving would go on quietly. Or we would stand in the fountain and serve. The cops hate to get wet.
There were plenty of cameras. I still have tapes. I could show you one where they slam this cute little 5'1" girl down onto the pavement and stand on her back while cuffing her hands behind her, then nearly dislocating her shoulders dragging her off by the cuffs. Fun stuff, but oddly none of the monied interests that own the media had any desire to show those videos.
Sure, there was a big backlash against dear old Frank, and some people even credit the bruhaha for helping get someone else elected. Unfortunately, that someone was Willy Brown, a slick machine Democrat who knew that if he just made things very difficult without actually using the sort of over the top fascist antics that Jordan had, eventually the silly hippies would get bored and go chain themselves to trees somewhere, which is exactly what happened. At the height of Jordan's repression, Food not Bombs served twice a day. Last time I checked, they were serving twice a week.
It will be easy to ignore because no one I know ever sends text messages. Yeah, I'm over 30, too. We'll be the ones laughing when all the kids get arthritis of the thumbs...
There exists now a microbe with the ability to digest nylon, a substance that didn't exist in nature before man invented it. That microbe cannot breed with any other we know of. Therefore it is a new species and speciation has been observed in nature.
Um, viruses don't just sneak in through open ports. Worms and trojans sneak in through exploits in programs running on those ports. Which exact ports are open? Look, I'm as big a linux zealot as the next guy, but this sounds like a scam. "See the, uhm, viruses are sneaking in through the, uhm, open ports in your windows. You need me to install all new Linux based stuff. See, linux doesn't have ports or windows, so the viruses can't sneak in!"
Really, wouldn't it be better to stick with a known system and, you know, do your job as a sysadmin by fixing any security holes?
Read the books I mentioned for a dissenting view. More than likely, the tribes interviewed by your writer all had similar backgrounds and lifestyles. While "The Continuum Concept" discusses only a single tribe in depth, "Saharasia" represents research on over 1,000 cultures around the world.
You have one unnamed writer who you think you remember showing all tribes as violent, while I have refered to two specific books by different writers that contradicts that view, yet you still choose to believe what you believe without even checking the evidence I present (you can google both titles for synopsis or overviews on the web).
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that your world view is based on the concept that humans are inherently prone to violence and need some sort of civilization forced on them through coercion. Needless to say, I disagree, and I have actual research by actual named sources to back me up.
Consider why we have juries, rather than just allowing a judge to make all the judgements. The jury is the final check in a system of checks and balances. If congress enacts an unjust law, the president passes it and the courts uphold it, but twelve average citizens won't convict based on it, then the law shouldn't stand. This is how our jury system originally worked, but things have changed and now juries are not allowed to judge the law itself, only the facts. Think about it, if only the facts are to be disputed, why have juries at all, why not allow a judge to rule?
Completly OT, but many tribes such as you describe are non-violent. The average age is not 35, the average lifespan is. This is due to the fact that most people in these tribes never live beyond childhood due to disease. If you want to read more about life in tribes such as these, I would recommend "The Continuum Concept" by Jean Liedloff. If you want to understand why some tribes are violent and some aren't, I recommend "Saharasia" by James DeMeo.
Oh, silly cubicledrone! You have to understand, the system still works for some people. These people do not want to believe they succeded through luck. They do not want to believe they are part of an unjust system. Therefore, they have to defend the system and state that it can work for anyone as well as it did for them. This is just what the corporate fat-cats want, an unpaid group of fanbois promoting corporate fat-cat interests.
Remember, if you aren't succesful, it's your problem. You are the failure, not the system. Everyone in this country has exactly the same opportunities, the playing field is completely level, and any unfairness is all in your head. So STFU and get back to work. Some rich guy has a boat payment due, you know./sarcasm
Mod parent insightful. Government agencies are simply too incompetant to pull off something of this magnitude. They are full of people who are too jealous and small minded to manage this level of cooperation. This is why I don't believe in conspiracy theories, in general.
I think people who believe in conspiracies desperately need to believe that someone or something is in control, even if they are evil.
I don't disagree, I'm just saying, if it gets warm enough, the Atlantic Conveyor will shut off and some parts of the world will get much colder even as other parts get much warmer.
That's an important point. Calling the phenomenon Global Warming is perhaps misleading. Some places will get warmer, others colder. Some will be wetter, some dryer. Dumping more energy into a chaotic system like the climate means more extreme climates, not necessarily warmer ones.
The point of a union is to make going non-union less profitable. Whether this works, and whether the methods used are ethical is certainly open to debate.
I agree, 7 Habits is a great book, especially for sysadmins, most of whom spend far to much time in firefighter mode. If you spend all your time putting out fires, stop! Start doing what it takes to make sure the fires don't start in the first place. It will seem like everything is falling apart at first, but then things will start to come together and you will have more time for important things, like reading slashdot ot playing nethack.
Also, winkydink is right about learning time management, or really about changing any ingrained behavior. It took me into my thirties to realize that I couldn't just decide to be different, then wake up the next morning a new person. Any kind of personal change takes commitment and a willingness to face the fact that, yet again, you have screwed up and you aren't where you want to be yet. You'll get there as long as you don't use your failure as an excuse to stop trying.
Thinking about it, that may be part of the reason I love computers so much. You tell them to be something new, and they are. Instantly. Unlike people...
Find me one CEO who doesn't try to artificially bolster their salary beyond what (true, open, honest) market forces would dictate, and I will concede you may have a point. As long as the ruling class uses it's power and money to screw us working folk out of the fruits of our labor, we are completely justified in screwing them back. And if you say, "Well the market doesn't work that way," I will reply, "It sure as hell does for the rich, why not us?"
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Ah, please. I'm as radical left wing as they come. I don't think what I argued is right, it's just the argument the right wing is going to use in response to your original argument. That's why I presented a counter argument in the second paragraph. Did you even read the rest of my post? You do have me marked as a friend, I would have thought that you would have given me the benefit of the doubt at least enough to read my entire post. In fact, I agree with you completely, what the rich have done to our country is disgusting.
Here's a link to a USDA report on hunger in the US. Unfortunatly, it is on the rise. 11.9% of US households suffer from food insecurity, while 3.9% suffer from hunger. That's about 11 million people. But go on thinking everyone here is fat and happy, if that helps you sleep easier at night.
JULES: Do they call it a Curry Quarter Pounder?
VINCENT: No, they got the metric system there, they wouldn't know what the fuck a Quarter Pounder is.
JULES: What'd they call it?
VINCENT: Curry Royale.
By that logic, why shouldn't the rich want to keep their higher standard of living by outsourcing our jobs? Outsourcing sucks, but so does the poverty that is prevalent in most of the world. Hopefully things will even out and everyone will be better off.
However, if capital and goods are free to move across national borders and people aren't, the rich can simply play one nation off against another, moving to poorer areas when a region gets wealthier. When a nation becomes poor again, they will move back.
This new theory of scalar-tensor-vector gravity explains galactic rotations, mass distribution in galactic clusters, and the slowing of the Pioneer probes. However ,it doesn't look like it will explain the cosmic microwave background radiation, which kinda negates all the other points.
Damn you AC, you beat me to the joke!
The videos aren't mine. I'd actually have to ask my friend James who shot the videos.
Hell, set up some kind of a honeynet with several types of servers (Windows, Mac, *nix) in various states of security. There's absolutely no reason to make these students scan actual production servers. By using custom built servers, the professor will have more control over the lesson, and will be able to tell what the students are actually doing.
Dude, that explains last night. I pulled up to a four way stop and this lightning pulled up and just kinda slowed down a little then blasted right through the intersection without stopping and I was like, "Damn you, lightning!" but I guess it had the right of way.
This happened in 1995. There weren't that many people using the internet back then, and no one who was really had the bandwidth to watch much video. If you go to Leather Tounge video in SF, they may still have copies of the tapes, though. We did get a fair amount of publicity from alternative sources back then. Heck, Green Day did a benefit concert in Golden Gate for us and donated $20,000.
As one of the people involved in this fiasco, let me fill in the details. The group is called Food-Not-Bombs. When I worked with them, we would get donations from supermarkets, wholesale food distributors and bagel shops. We would take the food to volunteer's kitchens and cook soup, usually around 15 gallons. Then we would take it to city hall or the UN plaza and feed people. Right in public where the tourists could see them. Frank Jordan, San Francisco's mayor of the time, was trying to sweep the homeless under the rug. So he was pretty pissed about the whole thing.
What they said was, you can't serve food in public without a permit. And, by the by, they did away with the permit process. Oh, you could still feed people in public if you had a permit, but no one could get one. We kept doing it anyway. So he called in the special squads.
I've watched these goons slam my friends into the ground and drag them off by their hair. For feeding people. They dumped the soup in the gutter, in front of all the hungry people. They poured bleach on the bagels. So we got creative. We would stage five or six fake servings, and while they were hassling the people with the empty buckets, the real serving would go on quietly. Or we would stand in the fountain and serve. The cops hate to get wet.
There were plenty of cameras. I still have tapes. I could show you one where they slam this cute little 5'1" girl down onto the pavement and stand on her back while cuffing her hands behind her, then nearly dislocating her shoulders dragging her off by the cuffs. Fun stuff, but oddly none of the monied interests that own the media had any desire to show those videos.
Sure, there was a big backlash against dear old Frank, and some people even credit the bruhaha for helping get someone else elected. Unfortunately, that someone was Willy Brown, a slick machine Democrat who knew that if he just made things very difficult without actually using the sort of over the top fascist antics that Jordan had, eventually the silly hippies would get bored and go chain themselves to trees somewhere, which is exactly what happened. At the height of Jordan's repression, Food not Bombs served twice a day. Last time I checked, they were serving twice a week.
It will be easy to ignore because no one I know ever sends text messages. Yeah, I'm over 30, too. We'll be the ones laughing when all the kids get arthritis of the thumbs...
Well, your right, silly me. But we do know of a creature that has evolved a completely new ability, I think that's proof enough of the concept.
There exists now a microbe with the ability to digest nylon, a substance that didn't exist in nature before man invented it. That microbe cannot breed with any other we know of. Therefore it is a new species and speciation has been observed in nature.
Um, viruses don't just sneak in through open ports. Worms and trojans sneak in through exploits in programs running on those ports. Which exact ports are open? Look, I'm as big a linux zealot as the next guy, but this sounds like a scam. "See the, uhm, viruses are sneaking in through the, uhm, open ports in your windows. You need me to install all new Linux based stuff. See, linux doesn't have ports or windows, so the viruses can't sneak in!"
Really, wouldn't it be better to stick with a known system and, you know, do your job as a sysadmin by fixing any security holes?
Read the books I mentioned for a dissenting view. More than likely, the tribes interviewed by your writer all had similar backgrounds and lifestyles. While "The Continuum Concept" discusses only a single tribe in depth, "Saharasia" represents research on over 1,000 cultures around the world.
You have one unnamed writer who you think you remember showing all tribes as violent, while I have refered to two specific books by different writers that contradicts that view, yet you still choose to believe what you believe without even checking the evidence I present (you can google both titles for synopsis or overviews on the web).
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that your world view is based on the concept that humans are inherently prone to violence and need some sort of civilization forced on them through coercion. Needless to say, I disagree, and I have actual research by actual named sources to back me up.
Consider why we have juries, rather than just allowing a judge to make all the judgements. The jury is the final check in a system of checks and balances. If congress enacts an unjust law, the president passes it and the courts uphold it, but twelve average citizens won't convict based on it, then the law shouldn't stand. This is how our jury system originally worked, but things have changed and now juries are not allowed to judge the law itself, only the facts. Think about it, if only the facts are to be disputed, why have juries at all, why not allow a judge to rule?
Completly OT, but many tribes such as you describe are non-violent. The average age is not 35, the average lifespan is. This is due to the fact that most people in these tribes never live beyond childhood due to disease. If you want to read more about life in tribes such as these, I would recommend "The Continuum Concept" by Jean Liedloff. If you want to understand why some tribes are violent and some aren't, I recommend "Saharasia" by James DeMeo.
Oh, silly cubicledrone! You have to understand, the system still works for some people. These people do not want to believe they succeded through luck. They do not want to believe they are part of an unjust system. Therefore, they have to defend the system and state that it can work for anyone as well as it did for them. This is just what the corporate fat-cats want, an unpaid group of fanbois promoting corporate fat-cat interests.
/sarcasm
Remember, if you aren't succesful, it's your problem. You are the failure, not the system. Everyone in this country has exactly the same opportunities, the playing field is completely level, and any unfairness is all in your head. So STFU and get back to work. Some rich guy has a boat payment due, you know.
Mod parent insightful. Government agencies are simply too incompetant to pull off something of this magnitude. They are full of people who are too jealous and small minded to manage this level of cooperation. This is why I don't believe in conspiracy theories, in general.
I think people who believe in conspiracies desperately need to believe that someone or something is in control, even if they are evil.
I don't disagree, I'm just saying, if it gets warm enough, the Atlantic Conveyor will shut off and some parts of the world will get much colder even as other parts get much warmer.
That's an important point. Calling the phenomenon Global Warming is perhaps misleading. Some places will get warmer, others colder. Some will be wetter, some dryer. Dumping more energy into a chaotic system like the climate means more extreme climates, not necessarily warmer ones.
The point of a union is to make going non-union less profitable. Whether this works, and whether the methods used are ethical is certainly open to debate.
I agree, 7 Habits is a great book, especially for sysadmins, most of whom spend far to much time in firefighter mode. If you spend all your time putting out fires, stop! Start doing what it takes to make sure the fires don't start in the first place. It will seem like everything is falling apart at first, but then things will start to come together and you will have more time for important things, like reading slashdot ot playing nethack.
Also, winkydink is right about learning time management, or really about changing any ingrained behavior. It took me into my thirties to realize that I couldn't just decide to be different, then wake up the next morning a new person. Any kind of personal change takes commitment and a willingness to face the fact that, yet again, you have screwed up and you aren't where you want to be yet. You'll get there as long as you don't use your failure as an excuse to stop trying.
Thinking about it, that may be part of the reason I love computers so much. You tell them to be something new, and they are. Instantly. Unlike people...
Find me one CEO who doesn't try to artificially bolster their salary beyond what (true, open, honest) market forces would dictate, and I will concede you may have a point. As long as the ruling class uses it's power and money to screw us working folk out of the fruits of our labor, we are completely justified in screwing them back. And if you say, "Well the market doesn't work that way," I will reply, "It sure as hell does for the rich, why not us?"