Amen. I am so damn sick of the constant snivelling about "nanny states" here; I don't have a freaking chemistry lab in my basement, I can't analyze every freaking thing I decide to eat or drink, and I don't have an army of investigators to compile statistics on what can kill you. Three young, healthy people died after DRINKING A CAN OF SODA. I want the government to jump all over this. --
Seriously - very interesting project - he'll ctach flack for being a newbie I'm sure - but a great endeavour all around. More power to him!
He's not exactly a newbie I think, he just isn't a guru in every programming language ever implemented. I don't think any of us are. --
So why not grow your own food so you only eat what you control and sew your own clothing and manufacture your own car and build your own house? Personally my time is too valuable to me to filter 3 million spam e-mails; it can be very time consuming, especially on a low-speed modem, and I'd prefer someone else do it. It's simply a division of labor. --
Even it's most basic premise, its original intended function, was to strike down free speech.
Actually, it was an expression of free speech itself. It simply was someone saying "these ip addresses are used to send mass unsolicited e-mail"; ISPs and individuals could deal with that information how they saw fit. There is no free speech issue involved; I may have a right to say just about anything I want, but you don't have the obligation to have to listen to me.
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To me this does NOT sound like an ego-maniac wanting his name and only his name all over the system.
I know, I just like provoking people who subscribe to that idiotic cult of personality. Actually I always assumed he called it linux to rhyme with minix. --
I've heard that seals sometimes arrive through the River Ness, but I could be mistaken. Anyway, I should have said "can" instead of "do" get through the canal. --
Well even in terms of biomass there isn't much there; I don't think Loch Ness has that many aquatic plants. Maybe one or two could be supported, but not a viable population. --
Not that any judges except Jackson himself are to blame. If he had acted a little more like a judge deciding a major case, and a little less like an instant celebrity, the decision may have stuck.
This appeals court has a definite right-wing bias, and a history of striking down anti-trust rulings; they would have voted against Jackson's decision anyway. This just gave them a convenient excuse.
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Well if the tremors around the lake created the myth of the dragon, then a lot of people in the area would be conditioned to interpret whatever they see in the lake as a dragon/dinosaur.
Personally I think people are just seeing other animals and just assuming it's a dinosaur. Remember, Loch Ness IS connected to the ocean through canals, and various ocean creatures such as seals, porpoises, eels, etc. do get in...
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I realise that union bashing appears to be a national sport among the US readers on slashdot. I never understood it myself. Even in the US the union movement has had an important role to play in many industries.
Just remember that the majority of slashdot readers from the US seem to represent a right-wing libertarian ideology that very few Americans support. It's just that those who do support it are so scarce they have to go online to meet each other. --
Now that's just ridiculous. Unions were formed to improve working conditions; having hundreds of your coworkers die because of overcrowding doesn't justify unionizing?
because PEOPLE WHO DO THINGS ARE NOT EVIL, management included
Reading a little too much Ayn Rand?
What about people who do EVIL THINGS? Aren't they evil? How about CEOs who fire thousands of workers without a thought, then accept million dollar bonuses for it? What about managers who decide that ignoring environmental regulations to save a few bucks is worth the health problems it causes in the community?
It has taken 60 years to climb out of that insanity and some industies will never recover. Just look at US automobile and tire companies.
The automobile companies suffered because they made overpriced, low-quality cars. Guess what; the cost-cutting takes place in boardrooms, not the line. When the car companies improved their quality they started getting market share back from the Japanese. --
Haven't we already figured out that "security through obscurity" doesn't work?
How do you know security through obscurity doesn't work? You hear about the times when it doesn't, but since the times that it works you don't hear about it. It might actually have a really high success rate, but since we only hear of the few failures and none of the successes we can't judge it's effectiveness. --
You're going to have to face the sad fact that there is no perfect solution.
Never said there was.
And no other type of fuel has problems associated with it?
Didn't say that either. I was just responding to the erroneous declaration that France didn't have problems with their breeder reactor program.
If they developed ways to handle the nuclear waste produced by nuclear reactors (or by reprocessing nuclear fuel), and prevent the leaking of radioactive materials (which has happened on more than one occasion in France), I'd be the first to jump on the nuclear bandwagon. I have no problem with my tax dollars going to research on nuclear power; I just think that at the present they're not reliable or clean enough for widespread use. Of course I'd like to see more reliance on solar/wind/water power, or natural gas, but I think the only way to really hold out until we develop better technologies is to conserve. Make car engines more efficient, encourage people to turn off the lights and the computers when they leave an office or home. --
You obviously have no clue.
No where in your reply do you address the SINGLE problem I pointed out with breeder reactors, i.e. the proliferation of vast amounts of weapons-grade plutonium. You do however go on to respond to attacks I didn't even make. But might as well respond to them, since they're pretty much wrong.
The use of breeder reactors works just fine in France.
I'm not sure where you're getting such incorrect information from. France has had several problems with their breeder reactors; they had to shut down their Superphenix reactor, the largest breeder reactor in the world, was shut down permanently because of the constant problems it was having. The Japanese have had similar problems.
You don't hear anyone bitching about it there
Except environmental activists, who have huge support in France.
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Yep, Tora! Tora! Tora! is one of the good ones.
The special effects for that one were truly amazing, considering they didn't have computer effects at that time. --
You're also not keeping very up todate with reactor technology (no doubt because you're just as clueless as President Carter).
An engineer who helped develop the nuclear navy, and who did graduate work in nuclear physics? You think you know more about the subject than him?
Wide-scale use of breeder reactors would create an enormous amount of weapons-grade plutonium. Personally, I'd rather not have that stuff floating around. --
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Amen. I am so damn sick of the constant snivelling about "nanny states" here; I don't have a freaking chemistry lab in my basement, I can't analyze every freaking thing I decide to eat or drink, and I don't have an army of investigators to compile statistics on what can kill you. Three young, healthy people died after DRINKING A CAN OF SODA. I want the government to jump all over this.
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I can't think of a single feature that Pine lacks that I would ever use.
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Seriously - very interesting project - he'll ctach flack for being a newbie I'm sure - but a great endeavour all around. More power to him!
He's not exactly a newbie I think, he just isn't a guru in every programming language ever implemented. I don't think any of us are.
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So why not grow your own food so you only eat what you control and sew your own clothing and manufacture your own car and build your own house? Personally my time is too valuable to me to filter 3 million spam e-mails; it can be very time consuming, especially on a low-speed modem, and I'd prefer someone else do it. It's simply a division of labor.
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Even it's most basic premise, its original intended function, was to strike down free speech.
Actually, it was an expression of free speech itself. It simply was someone saying "these ip addresses are used to send mass unsolicited e-mail"; ISPs and individuals could deal with that information how they saw fit. There is no free speech issue involved; I may have a right to say just about anything I want, but you don't have the obligation to have to listen to me.
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To me this does NOT sound like an ego-maniac wanting his name and only his name all over the system.
I know, I just like provoking people who subscribe to that idiotic cult of personality. Actually I always assumed he called it linux to rhyme with minix.
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But they were IN Scotland. They'd probably consider themselves more genuine than later Celtic groups...
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It's their server, they can code it however they want. If you can't code your way around it, whose fault is that?
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if I want to know the name of the person who wrote my drivers
Sounds like Linus wants only his name on the system...
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I've heard that seals sometimes arrive through the River Ness, but I could be mistaken. Anyway, I should have said "can" instead of "do" get through the canal.
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Well even in terms of biomass there isn't much there; I don't think Loch Ness has that many aquatic plants. Maybe one or two could be supported, but not a viable population.
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Not that any judges except Jackson himself are to blame. If he had acted a little more like a judge deciding a major case, and a little less like an instant celebrity, the decision may have stuck.
This appeals court has a definite right-wing bias, and a history of striking down anti-trust rulings; they would have voted against Jackson's decision anyway. This just gave them a convenient excuse.
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in all likelihood there are a number of them, with a decent-sized gene pool.
And ecologically speaking, Loch Ness probably couldn't support any real population of huge predators.
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Well if the tremors around the lake created the myth of the dragon, then a lot of people in the area would be conditioned to interpret whatever they see in the lake as a dragon/dinosaur.
Personally I think people are just seeing other animals and just assuming it's a dinosaur. Remember, Loch Ness IS connected to the ocean through canals, and various ocean creatures such as seals, porpoises, eels, etc. do get in...
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Selling things isn't a viable business model?
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Mind telling me which agency? Sounds pretty good, maybe they're hiring...
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I realise that union bashing appears to be a national sport among the US readers on slashdot. I never understood it myself. Even in the US the union movement has had an important role to play in many industries.
Just remember that the majority of slashdot readers from the US seem to represent a right-wing libertarian ideology that very few Americans support. It's just that those who do support it are so scarce they have to go online to meet each other.
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Now that's just ridiculous. Unions were formed to improve working conditions; having hundreds of your coworkers die because of overcrowding doesn't justify unionizing?
because PEOPLE WHO DO THINGS ARE NOT EVIL, management included
Reading a little too much Ayn Rand?
What about people who do EVIL THINGS? Aren't they evil? How about CEOs who fire thousands of workers without a thought, then accept million dollar bonuses for it? What about managers who decide that ignoring environmental regulations to save a few bucks is worth the health problems it causes in the community?
It has taken 60 years to climb out of that insanity and some industies will never recover. Just look at US automobile and tire companies.
The automobile companies suffered because they made overpriced, low-quality cars. Guess what; the cost-cutting takes place in boardrooms, not the line. When the car companies improved their quality they started getting market share back from the Japanese.
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Wish we had that at my last job. IT was drafted to do any manual labor that cropped up.
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I thought GRASS only ran on Unix platforms...
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Haven't we already figured out that "security through obscurity" doesn't work?
How do you know security through obscurity doesn't work? You hear about the times when it doesn't, but since the times that it works you don't hear about it. It might actually have a really high success rate, but since we only hear of the few failures and none of the successes we can't judge it's effectiveness.
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You're going to have to face the sad fact that there is no perfect solution.
Never said there was.
And no other type of fuel has problems associated with it?
Didn't say that either. I was just responding to the erroneous declaration that France didn't have problems with their breeder reactor program.
If they developed ways to handle the nuclear waste produced by nuclear reactors (or by reprocessing nuclear fuel), and prevent the leaking of radioactive materials (which has happened on more than one occasion in France), I'd be the first to jump on the nuclear bandwagon. I have no problem with my tax dollars going to research on nuclear power; I just think that at the present they're not reliable or clean enough for widespread use. Of course I'd like to see more reliance on solar/wind/water power, or natural gas, but I think the only way to really hold out until we develop better technologies is to conserve. Make car engines more efficient, encourage people to turn off the lights and the computers when they leave an office or home.
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You obviously have no clue.
No where in your reply do you address the SINGLE problem I pointed out with breeder reactors, i.e. the proliferation of vast amounts of weapons-grade plutonium. You do however go on to respond to attacks I didn't even make. But might as well respond to them, since they're pretty much wrong.
The use of breeder reactors works just fine in France.
I'm not sure where you're getting such incorrect information from. France has had several problems with their breeder reactors; they had to shut down their Superphenix reactor, the largest breeder reactor in the world, was shut down permanently because of the constant problems it was having. The Japanese have had similar problems.
You don't hear anyone bitching about it there
Except environmental activists, who have huge support in France.
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Yep, Tora! Tora! Tora! is one of the good ones. The special effects for that one were truly amazing, considering they didn't have computer effects at that time.
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Moan moan moan. Cry cry cry.
Ah, the call of the pro-nuclears.
You're also not keeping very up todate with reactor technology (no doubt because you're just as clueless as President Carter).
An engineer who helped develop the nuclear navy, and who did graduate work in nuclear physics? You think you know more about the subject than him?
Wide-scale use of breeder reactors would create an enormous amount of weapons-grade plutonium. Personally, I'd rather not have that stuff floating around.
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