Still, I don't expect even the blogosphere to treat Obama like it treated Bush
Well, let's be a bit fair. You really can't piss off the left wing any more than by making up some stuff to invade a country stuffed with oil. Iraq runs the gamut of everything they hate in one little package. It smacks of imperialism, assumes American cultural superiority, has loads of killing. So, you know, with Bush, the left wing was going to be loud, because, well, Bush started a war! I'm not even sure what Obama could do that could piss of the right wing that much...
Still, rest assured, I'm working on a rather detailed Obama skewering web site now that I hope to launch before Earth Day... I'll send out links to all my right wing friends when its up..
I think your anglophobic ranting has blinded you to the OP's statement and argument.
There's nothing anglophobic about it.
First off, I'm not expressing any kind of fear, therefor, there's no phobia. In fact, if someone says, they do not like gays, whites, or spiders, they are not homophobic, white-o-phobic, or spider-phobic. Dislike is not caused by fear. So let's burst that bubble.
Secondly, merely stating history is, well, telling the truth. The British treated the Irish like dirt for a long time. I think they are a super ally to the USA and I would exclude them from any vision I have of an American withdrawal from NATO... the Continent can go do what it will, but the USA should always stand beside the UK just as much as the UK has stood beside us... not only in Iraq, but also in the Pacific during late WWII..
Your suggestion that opposing open-source is a necessary step in increasing OS variety is weird and baseless.... o suggest open-source development discourages variety though...? Wow. What's your reasoning behind that posit?
Because Open Source is standards based development encoded into the practice. Like, there's only one Linux kernel, only one C compiler, only one bash shell.. only one Perl, only one Java... the whole concept of Open Source revolves around a brief period of competition followed by universal adoption of one solution per a problem domain - mirroring current practices in the academic world. Even now, although Linux prides itself on having more than one window manager, things have coalesced around two, and one of those is not going to survive. So, really, to be open source, is going to ultimately reduce variety. The academic culture with Linux just doesn't see a point to continual competition, preferring consensus instead. Consensus means, everybody agrees on one.
I'm sorry to point out the disadvantage of this approach, but ultimately, a lot of people, outside of this context, would actually hail this as an advantage.
One of the major causes of the Potato famine in Ireland was the reliance on a single product (the potato) and an inability to shift to a more varied diet
No, the cause of the potato famine in Ireland was because the British deliberately starved the people. At the time, Britain had trading policies in place the prevented the Irish from actually developing their own economy. Do you think they wanted to eat nothing but potatoes? It was all they had.
Now given that this homogeneity
If you want to have more varied products, then you need to oppose free trade, and incidentally, open source. That way, you could encourage the capital formation necessary to create multiple, regionally designed operating systems.
But yeah in these types of topics I generally get modded Troll for telling people they need to give up their cars and ride bicycles
That's dumb. If you really wanted to be a troll, you could recommend that the nuclear nations go and nuke the third world, cutting the population of the earth down to a more sustainable 2 billion.
Really, with nuclear proliferation, this is probably inevitable anyway. Some American cities will survive because of a limited missile defense system, but the rest of the world will probably be exterminated.
It rains. That gets the dirt out of the air. So the problem with mitigation will be, what will happen when all of these things we launch into the air come back and hit the ground.
We had a ton of pollution that essentially accomplished this effect and to some degree masked global warming. Once we got smart and lowered the size of and then got rid of particulate emissions of many kinds, that's when temperatures started moving up.
It's a silly thing but the operative part of a tree that we want is photosynthesis. A key challenge of absorbing CO2 is to optimize the surface area of the photosynthetic elements while keeping all of them illuminated. Nature did this pretty well, but one wonders if mankind could do better if we have LEDs inside otherwise dark areas.
Venus's atmosphere has a few magnitudes more CO2 than the earth. So far the most workable modern plan for terraforming Venus would involve creating a sun shield to freeze the planet, then launch a bunch of CO2 blocks into space.
I wouldn't be so quick to blindly say that you do not pay for power factor. For larger customers, utilities have a reactive component portion of their bill and it works just like a standard demand charge. Smart meters exist to measure all this stuff and can capture it, along with spikes and sags and other things goofy with your power, and wrap all of that up in a nice little bill for you. IT's just a matter of deploying the technology to the field.
I don't mean to be callous... but I just can't help it. Why should I care if Dolphins die or not.
If I'm religious, then God gave me and not they a soul, so its ok to whack them.
If I'm not religious, then, it's just a popularity contest to be nice to dolphins, but, may I like the fish that dolphins eat... dolphins heard those little fish with their sonar and just gobble them up.
Here's what I'll do. I'll just get the O'Reilly book and set up DNS on my trusty dual opteron and that can be the ultimate root of all the internet. If anyone wants to register a domain, its $15. No bulk registrations, but, every transfer has a tax of 10%, payable, to well me...
seriously... I think the more ICANN becomes a bunch of tools, the more likely it is that we will wind up with more than one ultimate top level domain administrator.
For that reason, having a gold rush for TLDs is just a bad idea, because, you could in the future use the TLD to distinguish between ICANN and.com,.net,.org, etc... versus, another party's.net2,.org2, and so on.
They put the stuff on the grid so they can do real time monitoring of the health of the grid. Such monitoring is a prerequisite to the "smart grid", and it includes things like determining in greater detail who will need power and at what time, aligning contracts with greater granularity. From there, you can get the most efficient generation and purchased power stack for the given power profile.
You really are going to need to do this too, to have your windmill future.
Problem solved. Someone starts sending messages back to father China and mother Russia, well, round them up. If they start using encrypted communications, then, you might need to rescrict their movements away from infrastructure areas.
Do you consider nuclear bombs dropped on Tokyo and Nagasaki humane? Me neither.
They weren't humane, but they deserved it, and I would rather have 250,000 Japanese dead than even 50,000 Americans killed in an Operation Olympic. In fact, I'd rather have had 250,000 Japanese dead than even 5 American dead killed in an Operation Olympic.
It's war, they declared it. We finished it. If the Japanese did not want to get nuked, they should not have invaded China, demanded the annexation of Hawaii and Midway, and then bombed the USA at Pearl Harbor. The Japanese at the time thought it was honorable to die in war, well, I have no problem with the USA helping them to achieve their greater glory.
Yeah, because the Germans didn't believe in strategic bombing as a doctrine. Sure, they made some half-assed effort during the Battle of Britain but that was a joke because they couldn't think of anything else. But by and large the role of the Luftwaffe was to do air superiority and tactical air support to clear out obstacles ahead of the advancing German army.
Now, that my friend was a different story. Overall, German military forces were responsible for all sorts of killings. The Einzatrzgruppe alone drove all over Eastern Europe, gathered up Jews and other undesirables, and shot them. This they did about a million times, and it was only because too much gore spattered literally on Himmler's face that -he- finally ordered a stop to it and drove the creation of the railway / death camp based holocaust.
By comparison, the armed forces of the United States did NOT go and shoot up a bunch of innocent people willingly the way the Germans did. Did not go and arbitarily execute officers of the German army or even German civil authorities the way that the Germans did...
Quite frankly, you could make a pretty good case that, as terrible as firebombing was, German civilians did deserve it after all.
Now, as for Japan... let's see, the Japanese murdered at LEAST 20 million Chinese, if not more, in the name of their little war... and the only reason Chinese people don't have a count is because China was so devastated by the Japanese invasion following multiple civil wars in China. The whole country was screwed up... but there you go, the Chinese were getting murdered.. in fact, the Japanese were out there experimenting with bacteriological weapons on Chinese civilians, vivisecting Allied Airmen, completely ignoring the Geneva Convention...
The Japanese deserved to get nuked and if anything, they did not get nuked enough.
No wonder Stevens got off the hook. When it comes to people in power, there is plenty of reason to believe that the law is more overly applied by political opponents than it is applied at all.
Same thing with Obama's economic team.
Did the Sec-Treasury cheat on his taxes? Yeah, but, making a big circus out of it was overkill from a political opposition. I would only really be bitter about Obama's people getting all nazi-fied over taxes if they started nailing everyone else to the wall.
Remember Bush in 2000? Gonna govern from the "Center"?
WELL, except for that part of tripling the defense budget, picking on gay people and invading a couple of countries, he really did try to build a center-right coalition. His immigration reform legislation was certainly on the mark, and, if his policy of using the Fannie Mae to put people into homes ultimately blew up in his face, he did try to get everyone a home. And, if you really want to get down to the brass tacks, his "privatization " of social security would have been the largest redistribution of ownership and consequently wealth in the history of humanity. Everyone really would have owned a piece of every American company... when you think about it... it's actually pure socialism and you really have to sweat hard to try and figure out why the right was so in favor, and the left was so against.
I'm *hic* sawwwy *gulp* fer sinkin yerr battleshep *hic*. ish i'm forgivn?:D
Then ya'd probably work in the diplomacy and actually do something to, well, amend. Like, say, "sorry about sinking your battleship, but what we can do is uh, [fill in concession here]"
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Still, I don't expect even the blogosphere to treat Obama like it treated Bush
Well, let's be a bit fair. You really can't piss off the left wing any more than by making up some stuff to invade a country stuffed with oil. Iraq runs the gamut of everything they hate in one little package. It smacks of imperialism, assumes American cultural superiority, has loads of killing. So, you know, with Bush, the left wing was going to be loud, because, well, Bush started a war! I'm not even sure what Obama could do that could piss of the right wing that much...
Still, rest assured, I'm working on a rather detailed Obama skewering web site now that I hope to launch before Earth Day... I'll send out links to all my right wing friends when its up..
I think your anglophobic ranting has blinded you to the OP's statement and argument.
There's nothing anglophobic about it.
First off, I'm not expressing any kind of fear, therefor, there's no phobia. In fact, if someone says, they do not like gays, whites, or spiders, they are not homophobic, white-o-phobic, or spider-phobic. Dislike is not caused by fear. So let's burst that bubble.
Secondly, merely stating history is, well, telling the truth. The British treated the Irish like dirt for a long time. I think they are a super ally to the USA and I would exclude them from any vision I have of an American withdrawal from NATO... the Continent can go do what it will, but the USA should always stand beside the UK just as much as the UK has stood beside us... not only in Iraq, but also in the Pacific during late WWII..
Your suggestion that opposing open-source is a necessary step in increasing OS variety is weird and baseless.... o suggest open-source development discourages variety though...? Wow. What's your reasoning behind that posit?
Because Open Source is standards based development encoded into the practice. Like, there's only one Linux kernel, only one C compiler, only one bash shell.. only one Perl, only one Java... the whole concept of Open Source revolves around a brief period of competition followed by universal adoption of one solution per a problem domain - mirroring current practices in the academic world. Even now, although Linux prides itself on having more than one window manager, things have coalesced around two, and one of those is not going to survive. So, really, to be open source, is going to ultimately reduce variety. The academic culture with Linux just doesn't see a point to continual competition, preferring consensus instead. Consensus means, everybody agrees on one.
I'm sorry to point out the disadvantage of this approach, but ultimately, a lot of people, outside of this context, would actually hail this as an advantage.
Way to go Frenchies! Nicely done.
One of the major causes of the Potato famine in Ireland was the reliance on a single product (the potato) and an inability to shift to a more varied diet
No, the cause of the potato famine in Ireland was because the British deliberately starved the people. At the time, Britain had trading policies in place the prevented the Irish from actually developing their own economy. Do you think they wanted to eat nothing but potatoes? It was all they had.
Now given that this homogeneity
If you want to have more varied products, then you need to oppose free trade, and incidentally, open source. That way, you could encourage the capital formation necessary to create multiple, regionally designed operating systems.
But yeah in these types of topics I generally get modded Troll for telling people they need to give up their cars and ride bicycles
That's dumb. If you really wanted to be a troll, you could recommend that the nuclear nations go and nuke the third world, cutting the population of the earth down to a more sustainable 2 billion.
Really, with nuclear proliferation, this is probably inevitable anyway. Some American cities will survive because of a limited missile defense system, but the rest of the world will probably be exterminated.
It rains. That gets the dirt out of the air. So the problem with mitigation will be, what will happen when all of these things we launch into the air come back and hit the ground.
We had a ton of pollution that essentially accomplished this effect and to some degree masked global warming. Once we got smart and lowered the size of and then got rid of particulate emissions of many kinds, that's when temperatures started moving up.
It's a silly thing but the operative part of a tree that we want is photosynthesis. A key challenge of absorbing CO2 is to optimize the surface area of the photosynthetic elements while keeping all of them illuminated. Nature did this pretty well, but one wonders if mankind could do better if we have LEDs inside otherwise dark areas.
Venus's atmosphere has a few magnitudes more CO2 than the earth. So far the most workable modern plan for terraforming Venus would involve creating a sun shield to freeze the planet, then launch a bunch of CO2 blocks into space.
I wouldn't be so quick to blindly say that you do not pay for power factor. For larger customers, utilities have a reactive component portion of their bill and it works just like a standard demand charge. Smart meters exist to measure all this stuff and can capture it, along with spikes and sags and other things goofy with your power, and wrap all of that up in a nice little bill for you. IT's just a matter of deploying the technology to the field.
PS. I hate CFLs and LEDs and I miss normal bulbs.
Well, everyone's having a good laugh at the expense of the death of this guy. May as well laugh at a picture of him.
I don't mean to be callous... but I just can't help it. Why should I care if Dolphins die or not.
If I'm religious, then God gave me and not they a soul, so its ok to whack them.
If I'm not religious, then, it's just a popularity contest to be nice to dolphins, but, may I like the fish that dolphins eat... dolphins heard those little fish with their sonar and just gobble them up.
Little fish, I have come to liberate you!
Dolphins, you suck. P I N G....
Here's what I'll do. I'll just get the O'Reilly book and set up DNS on my trusty dual opteron and that can be the ultimate root of all the internet. If anyone wants to register a domain, its $15. No bulk registrations, but, every transfer has a tax of 10%, payable, to well me...
seriously... I think the more ICANN becomes a bunch of tools, the more likely it is that we will wind up with more than one ultimate top level domain administrator.
For that reason, having a gold rush for TLDs is just a bad idea, because, you could in the future use the TLD to distinguish between ICANN and .com, .net, .org, etc... versus, another party's .net2, .org2, and so on.
Is that, if it wasn't for the big pile of explosives money they put on the table, nobody would give a shit.
As someone about to donate a kidney this summer, I really hope they work on this research mo
Just out of curiosity...how much you getting from that?
Time to Upgrade...
If you don't like Vista, switch to Mac or Linux... but, Vista is the current version of Windows...
They put the stuff on the grid so they can do real time monitoring of the health of the grid. Such monitoring is a prerequisite to the "smart grid", and it includes things like determining in greater detail who will need power and at what time, aligning contracts with greater granularity. From there, you can get the most efficient generation and purchased power stack for the given power profile.
You really are going to need to do this too, to have your windmill future.
Problem solved. Someone starts sending messages back to father China and mother Russia, well, round them up. If they start using encrypted communications, then, you might need to rescrict their movements away from infrastructure areas.
possibly make you look more of a dick in it than on a segway!
Dude, nothing even GM could come up with would make you look like a bigger dick than being on a segway... if they could, they would be profitable.
Do you consider nuclear bombs dropped on Tokyo and Nagasaki humane? Me neither.
They weren't humane, but they deserved it, and I would rather have 250,000 Japanese dead than even 50,000 Americans killed in an Operation Olympic. In fact, I'd rather have had 250,000 Japanese dead than even 5 American dead killed in an Operation Olympic.
It's war, they declared it. We finished it. If the Japanese did not want to get nuked, they should not have invaded China, demanded the annexation of Hawaii and Midway, and then bombed the USA at Pearl Harbor. The Japanese at the time thought it was honorable to die in war, well, I have no problem with the USA helping them to achieve their greater glory.
The Germans got about 100,000
Yeah, because the Germans didn't believe in strategic bombing as a doctrine. Sure, they made some half-assed effort during the Battle of Britain but that was a joke because they couldn't think of anything else. But by and large the role of the Luftwaffe was to do air superiority and tactical air support to clear out obstacles ahead of the advancing German army.
Now, that my friend was a different story. Overall, German military forces were responsible for all sorts of killings. The Einzatrzgruppe alone drove all over Eastern Europe, gathered up Jews and other undesirables, and shot them. This they did about a million times, and it was only because too much gore spattered literally on Himmler's face that -he- finally ordered a stop to it and drove the creation of the railway / death camp based holocaust.
By comparison, the armed forces of the United States did NOT go and shoot up a bunch of innocent people willingly the way the Germans did. Did not go and arbitarily execute officers of the German army or even German civil authorities the way that the Germans did...
Quite frankly, you could make a pretty good case that, as terrible as firebombing was, German civilians did deserve it after all.
Now, as for Japan... let's see, the Japanese murdered at LEAST 20 million Chinese, if not more, in the name of their little war... and the only reason Chinese people don't have a count is because China was so devastated by the Japanese invasion following multiple civil wars in China. The whole country was screwed up... but there you go, the Chinese were getting murdered.. in fact, the Japanese were out there experimenting with bacteriological weapons on Chinese civilians, vivisecting Allied Airmen, completely ignoring the Geneva Convention...
The Japanese deserved to get nuked and if anything, they did not get nuked enough.
No wonder Stevens got off the hook. When it comes to people in power, there is plenty of reason to believe that the law is more overly applied by
political opponents than it is applied at all.
Same thing with Obama's economic team.
Did the Sec-Treasury cheat on his taxes? Yeah, but, making a big circus out of it was overkill from a political opposition. I would only really be bitter about Obama's people getting all nazi-fied over taxes if they started nailing everyone else to the wall.
"Hey GM, if you want to get another gov't loan, you have to do this partnership with Segway..."
Will create the perfect urban vehicle that sells as much as the original Segway does.
Why not just have GM resell these... Maybe bring the Oldsmobile name back just for them...
Oldsmobile Golf Cart!
Remember Bush in 2000? Gonna govern from the "Center"?
WELL, except for that part of tripling the defense budget, picking on gay people and invading a couple of countries, he really did try to build a center-right coalition. His immigration reform legislation was certainly on the mark, and, if his policy of using the Fannie Mae to put people into homes ultimately blew up in his face, he did try to get everyone a home. And, if you really want to get down to the brass tacks, his "privatization " of social security would have been the largest redistribution of ownership and consequently wealth in the history of humanity. Everyone really would have owned a piece of every American company... when you think about it... it's actually pure socialism and you really have to sweat hard to try and figure out why the right was so in favor, and the left was so against.
I'm *hic* sawwwy *gulp* fer sinkin yerr battleshep *hic*. ish i'm forgivn? :D
Then ya'd probably work in the diplomacy and actually do something to, well, amend. Like, say, "sorry about sinking your battleship, but what we can do is uh, [fill in concession here]"