He goes back to his hometown in [Chiacgo] the better.
If you are going to defame someone and make things up it would really behoove you to at least spell the name of his hometown correctly. It is spelled CHICAGO.
Government spends because you demand the services they provide. If you are unhappy with those services please list those services that you personally will be happy to do without. And while you are contemplating which government agencies you can live without please consider the downside to life without said agency. For example, no FDA and drug companies can do whatever they want with the drugs your aging parents take. Consider the company behind the Extenze ads. Now think of them as the industry model.
I used to work for Cisco in San Jose. I was part of the group that ran the Unix email systems for the entire company. Cisco is a company of 60,000 plus people around the world. All the email for Cisco goes through Sun Jose. In my group we had 9 system admins and 1 manager who were dedicated to handling spam. When I was there (2004 - 2005) we had a dozen top-of-the-line IronPort anti-spam servers. We were adding an additional one every couple of quarters. I don't really know but an educated guess would be that the spam consumed a very large part of the bandwidth the San Jose campus used, I'm sure it was more that 40%. Now think about what it cost to pay 9 very experienced system admin and 1 manager (salary, benefits, stock options, office equipment, etc) not to mention the equipment and bandwidth costs, just to deal with the spam.
If it was not for the spammers, Cisco and other large companies could be putting that money into new products. Instead the money is spent to deal with idiots who, were it not for our anti-spam group, would be wasting the productivity of the entire company.
Since spammers are, in fact stealing bandwidth, I have often thought that they should be charged, at the very least, with theft of service or grand theift.
Today we have about as much forest as we did 100 years ago
BULLSHIT. Cite your references.
When Europeans first came to this continent five centuries ago the eastern half, from the shoreline to the Mississippi river, was covered in trees. Now most of that is gone. On my Father's side I am a fifth generation New Yorker. In Great Grandfathers time northern Manhattan was still forest. My Grandfather used to tell me about going up to Harlem to buy vegetables. There are no more farms anywhere on the island of Manhattan. I have relatives living in upstate New York who remember their Fathers and Grandfathers felling trees to clear the land to farm.
Since the end of the second world war very large tracks of land have been turned into suburbs. In my own lifetime, while living in the Tidewater area of southeast Virginia, I have seen large sections of forests flattened to make room for development. I call bullshit and ask that you cite your reference.
Yes, FreeBSD has been able to run Linux binaries for years. A little effort on your part to do some research before you post could have saved you from looking like a fool. Oh, wait..
I always find this sort of attitude to be very amusing. The author advocates government spending, and I'm extrapolating here, be restricted to those things listed in the Constitution. The irony, which is lost on the author, is that the forum he/she uses to express his/her opinion would not exist without government spending. Until 1984 AT&T was a regulated monopoly and, by law, was restricted to how much profit they could earn. Part of AT&T solution to making too much money was to have Bell Labs which paid Kernighan and Ritchie to do "research" on a PDP-8. TCP/IP, the basic protocol on the Internet was developed under a DARPA grant. DARPA paid BBN to put a TCP/IP stack into what we now call System V Unix. They did such a poor job that Bill Joy and company, also being paid by the government through the University of California, put there own stack into BSD Unix as well as many other improvement. The one of the first web server was developed at NCSA by Robert McCool after Tim Berners-Lee developed HTTP at CERN.
These are just a few examples of government spending benefiting the larger society. Pissing and moaning about the evils of government spending on a medium developed by government spending is the very definition of irony. The fact that the irony is lost on the author is just sad and pathetic.
I once worked at a Fortune 25 company in Chicago. They had this ENORMOUS mainframe program written in COBOL that ran their order inventory system which accounted for 20% of the companies revenue. All the guys who wrote this grunting pig of a system had either retired or had passed away. In the middle of the code was the following;
*
* We don't know what this does.
* Please leave it alone !
*
SET INSIDE-INDEX TO 1.
*
* We don't know what this does.
* Please leave it alone !
*
If this statement was commented out or removed the system stopped working. No one could find the problem. People had spent years looking for it but the code was such a mess and the documentation was so useless that they just left it alone and made a note that when the order inventory was re-done to make sure they left this "feature" out. I have been told that many old system have similar problems.
I'm 50 years old and the product of private Jewish schools. Penmanship was a requirement in grades 2 through 6, if I remember correctly and, yes, I was taught the Palmer method with a fountain pen. Ball point pens were forbidden. I high school I reverted to block printing with a ball point and my penmanship sucked. During my career as a software engineer I have worked a number of places that required us to keep notes in a hard bond notebook. When the notebook was full they were turned over to the company lawyers who reviewed them for anything that could be patented. I got so sick and tired of having to go down to their office and translate my handwriting that went out and bought a few used fountain pens and forced myself to relearn good penmanship.
Oh, the reason that writing with a fountain pens often produces better handwriting is the fact that it requires a certain technique and discipline that writing with a bell point does not require.
Yes, I know it is archaic but cursive writing does have its uses. Do you ever write to your congress person? Any damn fool can send an email but a hand written letter gets their attention. They get so few of them they are treated as special especially by those on their staff who have never hand written a letter before.
I can't speak for Linux, I'm a FreeBSD guy but I work of a large network company here in Sunnyvale, Ca. Our product is based on FreeBSD. I know for a FACT that Yahoo, Cicso, F5, Mira point, Ironport, etc. all of which are based here in America, use FreeBSD as the basis of their product and do most of their development in America.
I would guess you never tried "driving while Black" in L.A. Yes, police do randomly detain citizens. It happens more in big cities here in America then in rural areas but it does happen, especially if they don't like your politics. Trust me, an uncomfortably large percentage of cops are just bullies with a badge.
Oh, and forget about trying to sue them. Cops lie to protect each other and courts really are not very interested in seeing cops get sued even if you have a case. Sorry guy, but when it comes to cops the deck is stacked against you.
I'm in favor of what Hunter S. Thompson once suggested; get hold of a grizzly bear, starve him for a few days, then feed him a bucket full of meat laced with LSD. Then set him loose in the office of SCO's lawyers. Make sure you bring along your video camera!
I think you are on to something there. The phone company in this country (US) has the unique problem of they have sold a phone to everyone who wants one. I read somewhere that some where between 98% and 99% of this country has a phone. How the phone company expands profits is by selling new services like call waiting and voice mail. Here is a new service that I would pay good money for; A phone company provided list of everyone who called my number in say the last month and I could take any number on that list, dial it, and get the person who called me. No spoofed numbers. They have this information, it's in the billing system.
When 78s first came out, the turntable was a windup mechanism and it used cactus needles. Later, the late 20's I think, they went to steel needles. I have very fond memories of listening to Enrico Caruso on my grandmothers windup victrola.
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He goes back to his hometown in [Chiacgo] the better.
If you are going to defame someone and make things up it would really behoove you to at least spell the name of his hometown correctly. It is spelled CHICAGO.
Tesla has partnered with Toyota and will be building cars in Toyota's NUMMI plant in Fremont, CA. Look up NUMMI on Wikipedia
Government spends because you demand the services they provide. If you are unhappy with those services please list those services that you personally will be happy to do without. And while you are contemplating which government agencies you can live without please consider the downside to life without said agency. For example, no FDA and drug companies can do whatever they want with the drugs your aging parents take. Consider the company behind the Extenze ads. Now think of them as the industry model.
I used to work for Cisco in San Jose. I was part of the group that ran the Unix email systems for the entire company. Cisco is a company of 60,000 plus people around the world. All the email for Cisco goes through Sun Jose. In my group we had 9 system admins and 1 manager who were dedicated to handling spam. When I was there (2004 - 2005) we had a dozen top-of-the-line IronPort anti-spam servers. We were adding an additional one every couple of quarters. I don't really know but an educated guess would be that the spam consumed a very large part of the bandwidth the San Jose campus used, I'm sure it was more that 40%. Now think about what it cost to pay 9 very experienced system admin and 1 manager (salary, benefits, stock options, office equipment, etc) not to mention the equipment and bandwidth costs, just to deal with the spam.
If it was not for the spammers, Cisco and other large companies could be putting that money into new products. Instead the money is spent to deal with idiots who, were it not for our anti-spam group, would be wasting the productivity of the entire company.
Since spammers are, in fact stealing bandwidth, I have often thought that they should be charged, at the very least, with theft of service or grand theift.
Who says the age of miracles is over?
ummmm, not really. Reference the Salton Sea
Bullshit. Cite your references
Today we have about as much forest as we did 100 years ago
BULLSHIT. Cite your references.
When Europeans first came to this continent five centuries ago the eastern half, from the shoreline to the Mississippi river, was covered in trees. Now most of that is gone. On my Father's side I am a fifth generation New Yorker. In Great Grandfathers time northern Manhattan was still forest. My Grandfather used to tell me about going up to Harlem to buy vegetables. There are no more farms anywhere on the island of Manhattan. I have relatives living in upstate New York who remember their Fathers and Grandfathers felling trees to clear the land to farm.
Since the end of the second world war very large tracks of land have been turned into suburbs. In my own lifetime, while living in the Tidewater area of southeast Virginia, I have seen large sections of forests flattened to make room for development.
I call bullshit and ask that you cite your reference.
Could they come up with a more idiotic name? I sure hope they did not pay someone for than name.
Oh, jeez. If I ever start making serious money I know what to buy. That is an amazing looking turntable.
What? You can emulate Linux binaries?
Yes, FreeBSD has been able to run Linux binaries for years. A little effort on your part to do some research before you post could have saved you from looking like a fool. Oh, wait..
I always find this sort of attitude to be very amusing. The author advocates government spending, and I'm extrapolating here, be restricted to those things listed in the Constitution. The irony, which is lost on the author, is that the forum he/she uses to express his/her opinion would not exist without government spending. Until 1984 AT&T was a regulated monopoly and, by law, was restricted to how much profit they could earn. Part of AT&T solution to making too much money was to have Bell Labs which paid Kernighan and Ritchie to do "research" on a PDP-8. TCP/IP, the basic protocol on the Internet was developed under a DARPA grant. DARPA paid BBN to put a TCP/IP stack into what we now call System V Unix. They did such a poor job that Bill Joy and company, also being paid by the government through the University of California, put there own stack into BSD Unix as well as many other improvement. The one of the first web server was developed at NCSA by Robert McCool after Tim Berners-Lee developed HTTP at CERN.
These are just a few examples of government spending benefiting the larger society. Pissing and moaning about the evils of government spending on a medium developed by government spending is the very definition of irony. The fact that the irony is lost on the author is just sad and pathetic.
I once worked at a Fortune 25 company in Chicago. They had this ENORMOUS mainframe program written in COBOL that ran their order inventory system which accounted for 20% of the companies revenue. All the guys who wrote this grunting pig of a system had either retired or had passed away. In the middle of the code was the following;
*
* We don't know what this does.
* Please leave it alone !
*
SET INSIDE-INDEX TO 1.
*
* We don't know what this does.
* Please leave it alone !
*
If this statement was commented out or removed the system stopped working. No one could find the problem. People had spent years looking for it but the code was such a mess and the documentation was so useless that they just left it alone and made a note that when the order inventory was re-done to make sure they left this "feature" out. I have been told that many old system have similar problems.
OK, in order.
1) I guess you are never going to take someone out to a formal affair.
2) Never date anyone into horses or works/lives on a farm
3) Never going to drive a sports and/or older car. I suspect you are never going to drive anywhere outside the US
4) Yeah, Morse code has become a cult.
So what you are advocating here is you WANT a restricted life. You must be an American.
I'm 50 years old and the product of private Jewish schools. Penmanship was a requirement in grades 2 through 6, if I remember correctly and, yes, I was taught the Palmer method with a fountain pen. Ball point pens were forbidden. I high school I reverted to block printing with a ball point and my penmanship sucked. During my career as a software engineer I have worked a number of places that required us to keep notes in a hard bond notebook. When the notebook was full they were turned over to the company lawyers who reviewed them for anything that could be patented. I got so sick and tired of having to go down to their office and translate my handwriting that went out and bought a few used fountain pens and forced myself to relearn good penmanship.
Oh, the reason that writing with a fountain pens often produces better handwriting is the fact that it requires a certain technique and discipline that writing with a bell point does not require.
Yes, I know it is archaic but cursive writing does have its uses. Do you ever write to your congress person? Any damn fool can send an email but a hand written letter gets their attention. They get so few of them they are treated as special especially by those on their staff who have never hand written a letter before.
Amen, brother!
I can't speak for Linux, I'm a FreeBSD guy but I work of a large network company here in Sunnyvale, Ca. Our product is based on FreeBSD. I know for a FACT that Yahoo, Cicso, F5, Mira point, Ironport, etc. all of which are based here in America, use FreeBSD as the basis of their product and do most of their development in America.
I would guess you never tried "driving while Black" in L.A. Yes, police do randomly detain citizens. It happens more in big cities here in America then in rural areas but it does happen, especially if they don't like your politics. Trust me, an uncomfortably large percentage of cops are just bullies with a badge.
Oh, and forget about trying to sue them. Cops lie to protect each other and courts really are not very interested in seeing cops get sued even if you have a case. Sorry guy, but when it comes to cops the deck is stacked against you.
I'm in favor of what Hunter S. Thompson once suggested; get hold of a grizzly bear, starve him for a few days, then feed him a bucket full of meat laced with LSD. Then set him loose in the office of SCO's lawyers. Make sure you bring along your video camera!
My main workstation is Odin. My 2 other servers are named Hugin and Munin. Can you guess why?
I think you are on to something there. The phone company in this country (US) has the unique problem of they have sold a phone to everyone who wants one. I read somewhere that some where between 98% and 99% of this country has a phone. How the phone company expands profits is by selling new services like call waiting and voice mail. Here is a new service that I would pay good money for; A phone company provided list of everyone who called my number in say the last month and I could take any number on that list, dial it, and get the person who called me. No spoofed numbers. They have this information, it's in the billing system.
My knowledge of phone technology is limited but could someone explain why we don't have a reliable traceback method for the phone system?
ummmm mud? Pyroclastic flow ?
Yep, I'm still getting my standard quota of spam.
When 78s first came out, the turntable was a windup mechanism and it used cactus needles. Later, the late 20's I think, they went to steel needles. I have very fond memories of listening to Enrico Caruso on my grandmothers windup victrola.