Certainly not. A driver's response to broken hardware should never be to segfault.
You are wrong Ian. The flaw in your logic is your failure to consider that the SCSI
driver is responsible for causing executable code to be loaded.
When the driver in question loads executable code, bad hardware can cause
segmentation and other faults. Even a perfect, totally bug-free driver is susceptible.
It helps to remember that the SCSI bus is a transmission line, not an ideal digital bus.
A bad hardware configuration causes a segfault when some of the data from the disk is corrupted as it passes
through the SCSI bus. When the corrupted data happens to be executable code it can fault for
several reasons:
corruption results in illegal pointer.
corruption results in an illegal jump target.
corruption results in an illegal instruction.
With SCSI, one of the first symptoms of improper termination is spurious segmentation faults.
Since there are no widespread reports of serious AIC7xxx problems, and since SCSI hardware misconfiguration
is by and large the most common cause for SCSI problems, the odds are stacked against this
being a driver problem.
Re:Adaptec AIC7xxx driver broken with patch.
on
Linux 2.4.19 Released
·
· Score: 2, Informative
ashpool7 writes:
(with segfaults in the package install) but you can't compile a thing with it.
Your problem is almost certainly a SCSI hardware problem. The AIC7xxx is
one of the most widely used of all SCSI drivers and if it were broken there would
be a huge outcry.
It may be a bore but here are some things to check:
termination - using proper terminators for LVD? for SE? Both ends of bus terminated? only ends of
the bus terminated?
cables - quality cables of proper impedance? correct cables for LVD, for SE?
general - are you mixing LVD and SE? is bus length too long? all jumpers settings configured correctly on
all devices on SCSI bus? bus speed set too fast for length?
connectors - properly and tightly seated? oxidized connectors? remove and re-seat them a couple
times to break oxidation.
term power - are you sure that your bus is getting termination power? Check term power voltage
at each end of the bus? are term power fuses blown on controller or external devices (yes, it happens )?
You may be in denial. But it is not the kernel that is broken. Somewhere there is a fault in
your SCSI hardware configuration. I tell this to you as a grizzled SCSI veteran. I've blamed software
and various kernels and *always* in the end it turned out to be a problem with *my* configuration.
There are a whole lot of variables. It sometimes takes a little more effort to
run SCSI. . But IDE is not without its
own set of problems either.
Normal humans understand that the clitoris
is the root of female sexual orgasm.
Many times we see the television depict breasts
and buttock as highlighted sexual attributes
of females. However, we never see an engorged
clitoris on television in the USA on the
mainstream channels. It goes without saying
that we never see a penis engorged despite
the constant hammering of "VIAGRA" advertisements.
Courtney Love perpetuates the idea of vaginal
orgasm. This has been discredited. The female
orgasm take place in the clitoris. It is a
"penis like" growth just above the vulva.
Indirect stimulation of this organ is usually
pleasurable to females. Lubricating and fondling
the area of the hood of the clitoris will usually
provoke intense orgasm in your female partner.
A good source of lubrication for stimulating
the clitoris is the female vagina itself. During
sexual arousal the female vagina produces an
excess of lubricating fluid which may be
called into service in an effort to stimulate
the clitoris. But do not be too heavy handed.
It is often better to stimulate the tissue
adjacent to the clitoris than to
direct you efforts to the clitoris itself.
Tease and please.
Can *BSD survive? It is not the trend. There are
two reasons:
License problems
PR problems
The main difference between successful operating
systems and *BSD can be explained in terms
of licenses. For example, most important Unix
vendors are choosing the GPL license: SGI, SCO,
HP-UX, LINUX, AIX, DEBIAN, REDHAT, etc.
Where does that leave *BSD? Good question. *BSD
is the now the outside guy looking in. They
assumed that the parade would follow them.
But then they turned around. The parade had
veered off to another course and the ring leaders
were left twirling their batons to an empty
crowd. Can *BSD recover? Smart money says no.
BeOS is far far quicker. I'm sorry that Mac OS
is so poor in terms of performance. Because
of the many levels of complexity, it is hard
to say who is at fault. I can understand crashes
in an alpha release. But crashes in beta/production
software? Un-thinkable. I know that some people
do not look with favor upon the FSF, but at
least there coding guidelines say it all: "zero tolerance for crashes"
Give me a break, gents. Every sane human alive
knows that all the incompatible versions of
BSD unix are dead. Look at Usenet. How many
BSD posts are there? You do the math. FreeBSD has
about 80 or 90 posts per day. NetBSD has about
1 or 2 posts per day. OpenBSD has about 15 or 20
posts per day. BSDi had about 1 or 2 posts per
day. Look at the competition (for any reasonable
definition of "competition"). Those other guys
are getting 30 or 40 times the interest.
NetBSD has about the same level of interest as Xinu (ever heard of that?).
Here's an article about/. and Andover.Net that you won't see passing the the submitter's desk. Upside takes an inside look at Slashdot and Andover net. The article is called Andover.Net's Media Kludge.
Polls show that the vast majority of Americans want legal immigration reduced and illegal immigration stopped. I wonder why our government has taken no action to stem the flow of third-world minorities, a flow that is now so great that it literally transforming our nation in a way that ordinary Americans find frightening and disturbing.
In fact, why does the U.S. Congress actually promote immigration, legal and illegal, against all reason? Our nation, already mired in debt, cannot productively employ our existing population and must create non-productive taxpayer-supported "service" jobs to absorb the surplus labor we now have.
With rare exception, the immigrant, legal or illegal, from a third world area is fleeing, not political persecution, but economic deprivation as a direct result of indiscriminate breeding and its consequence, over-population, in quasi-feudalistic societies steeped in ignorance and authoritarian religious dogma. Decades of experience has shown that many of these immigrants and their numerous offspring end up as drains on one or more of the myriad Liberal-sponsored county, state, and federal give-away programs. Not satisfied with our bounty, they have leisure to turn to violence and jam our law enforcement, judicial, and prison systems. All of this is paid for by confiscatory taxing of a diminishing number of mostly White, legitimate U.S. citizens productively employed in the private sector.
Why do Congress and federal bureaucrats ignore, when considering the illegal immigrant, our statutes that require a legal immigrant to be conversant with our history and our institutions, guarantee that he will not require support from any federal or state program for a minimum of five years, be in good health, and have a working knowledge of English? Why this special status for the illegal - and now, even the legal immigrant as long as he is a member of a so-called minority? (This word "minority" is wildly inappropriate, you know, when you consider that persons of European descent constitute only about 12% of the world's population!)
And why, when a foreign woman gives birth in the U.S., is she not sent back to Mexico - or wherever she may belong - with her infant? Born in the U.S., the infant is by a quirk of the law a U.S. citizen. His mother is not. The courts have held that simply having received hospital delivery care in the United States at U.S. taxpayer expense, does not bestow upon the mother a right to U.S. citizenship. She must return to wherever she belongs and, since a minor child should not be separated from its mother, the court has held that the infant must go with her. When the child has reached his majority at the age of 21 years, only then may he return legally. But this deliberately hidden aspect of the law is not enforced.
By the way, the word "Hispanic" to designate these illegal immigrants from Mexico and Central America is really a misnomer. "Hispanic" literally means "from Spain," and only a very few of these illegal immigrants are of European Spanish descent. Most of them are mestizos, meaning part European and part Indian. Their special-interest organization is even called La Raza, which means "the race," expressing their racial solidarity as mestizos.
For decades, it has been no secret that a mestizo Mexican female will cross the border surreptitiously or on a tourist visa, ostensibly for a day of "shopping," when she knows delivery of her pregnancy is imminent. Within hours, she is in a U.S. hospital giving birth to her little U.S. citizen, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer. Almost certainly, the mother, often a child herself, has had no prenatal care and her pregnancy is at high risk. If there should be problems, there is no shortage of hungry lawyers waiting to pounce on the delivering physician and hospital with law suits regardless of merit. Such an infant is more likely to require care in an Intensive Care Nursery where costs routinely are measured in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. In California, Los Angeles County alone spends millions of dollars for the care of illegal aliens.
Hospital Discharge Planning acquaints the new mother with all the taxpayer-supported programs ready to help her and her little one. More often than not, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has not been notified of her illegal status. Even if INS were notified, political pressures from leftist church groups, the previously mentioned La Raza group, and various mestizo activist groups would force the INS to keep a strictly hands-off position. Our new mother fades into the populace, untraced and untracable - just one more of a vast and ever-growing brown multitude.
Almost immediately, she has obtained a Social Security card for herself and for her new baby. Shortly thereafter, she is on welfare, living in government-subsidized housing, and receiving the benefits of Food Stamps, the WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) Program, and Medicaid. She has sent for her four to six older children - or siblings - her "husband," and, having learned of the Supplemental Security Income Program (SSI), her "disabled" parents and grandparents. Smiling to themselves, they settle down to a life of ease and luxury such as they have never known. A little later, having come to realize the unbelievably stupid leniency of their new host nation, she and her extended family begin to complain loudly of the injustices of U.S. society. By now, they have learned that the open display of the contempt they have long felt for the "gringo" brings not anger and retribution, but obsequious groveling from their "caseworker."
In a classic example of split thinking, they clamor that their native language and cultural mores should be officially designated as national "alternatives," while they complain that they are not accepted by the dominant White culture.
Meanwhile, their older children have found their place in society, joined a gang, and become deeply involved in lucrative criminal activities they would not have dared attempt in their homeland. Their arrogant contempt grows for a system of law enforcement that, compared to the feared, often lethal, justice of their native country, is laughably lenient and totally ineffective in dealing with them. We Americans have yet to learn the lesson that the penalty must fit the criminal, not the crime.
You might call this an extreme example - but it is not at all uncommon in modern America as Congress and the federal and state bureaucracies dance to the tune of multiculturalism and the New World Order that is being imposed on an uninformed and unconsulted American people.
By what right does a judge, solely on his own, decide that a boatload of Haitians - or whomever - rescued from a watery grave by the brave men of the U.S. Coast Guard, should be considered for U.S. citizenship rather than repatriated or left to the mercies of the sea? Is not the act of rescue itself sufficient demonstration of our humane good will? Must we allow a single man who calls himself a judge to second-guess the majority of our citizens? What loopholes allow him and the racially-motivated Jewish and Liberal groups and their money-hungry lawyers to circumvent reason, logic, and our laws and determine that these obviously economically-motivated emigres are really political refugees? Why does Congress allow a judge to transgress the interests of those taxpayers who support him and allow him to flaunt the laws of this nation which he is supposed to uphold? When our nation was vibrant and forthright in support of the interests of its own, such behavior by a public servant would not have been tolerated. But a few years ago our imperial Congress flew in the face of the well-being of its constituents and passed an immigration amnesty act that forgave most illegal immigrants their crime and guaranteed that even greater numbers would cross our border illegally.
Now that Congress has demonstrated its abject lack of integrity by having granted amnesty to countless illegals who have verified their fitness to become US citizens by having avoided our law enforcement institutions for a few years, millions more are now emboldened to break our laws. They now know that there exists a foolishly generous nation where a criminal must spend only a short time as a fugitive to have his crime forgiven with no greater penalty for being caught before he qualifies for amnesty, than the necessity to begin over again. When he achieves this goal not only is his crime forgiven - even if suspected - but he is rewarded beyond his greatest dreams. He is instantly eligible for the multitude of federal, state, and local give-away programs that are denied to those here legally. His cornucopia is overflowing, particularly when he learns that, for a few dollars, he need not even exist as a fugitive. He can purchase illegally the papers necessary to qualify immediately, with little likelihood that he will be discovered. For all this, there is a small risk. He risks neither life nor incarceration: If he fails this time, he but needs to try again - and again - and again.
The billions that constitute the surplus population of Africa, the Caribbean, Central America, and Asia have been given the signal that America is a rich land ripe for conquest, that its citizens are prevented from stopping the invasion by their own government. And they are coming, by land and by sea and by air, they are coming.
These invaders are breaking our laws. They are committing a crime against the United States - against you and me. Under our truly ineffective Liberal laws, they are committing only a misdemeanor. In many other countries of the world, they would be shot the instant they trespassed. Those who aid them, whether by giving them work or sanctuary, are also criminals. They have committed a felony. But the long-term harm such felons do to the future of our nation far outweighs the penalties our laws could exact, were they enforced. Why do we let them get away with it?
One reason is psychological intimidation and Liberal brainwashing. We are always hearing the cry "we are all immigrants - and the statue of Liberty proclaims our open door to the world's poor and oppressed." Such claims ignore the fact that the Statue of Liberty was never intended to symbolize such a thing - it was entitled "Liberty Enlightening the World" and was a gift from one European people (France) to another. More importantly, such claims misapply the past to a very different present. The immigrants of the last century were nearly all Europeans and were assimilated to our culture and institutions quickly and they proved their mettle by hard work by which they built our Western Civilization across a nearly empty wilderness. The character of the immigrants has changed - and so has America. No longer able to absorb millions on a frontier, we are unable even to provide jobs and homes for even those that are already here.
Another argument made by both Liberals and Conservatives to excuse these crimes is that without illegal immigrants, crops would rot on the ground and garments would go unsewn. A more ridiculous argument cannot be imagined. With unemployment statistics in the multiple millions - and with many more Americans not listed in the figures because they have given up looking for work - and with factories closing down every day as more and more companies, encouraged by our internationalist rulers, move their production to the third world, it is absurd to suggest that we do not have enough American hands to do the work that must be done. What is not laughable, however, is the fact that so many disloyal businessmen would rather pay a Mexican peon slave wages to do the work than pay a living wage to an American, the law notwithstanding. When justice comes to America such businessmen will be given a fair trial.
It is also said that these illegal immigrants bring their cultures and add "richness" and "diversity" to our society. We might, however, question whether or not we really need what they bring of their "culture." Have we not enough of whatever "richness" they might provide now? Have the Liberals who push this "diversity" line of argument ever told us just how much "diversity" is needed or when we will finally have enough diversity, and when third world immigration can therefore stop? Have we not enough of ignorance, crime, filth, disease, hatred, and irresponsible breeding right now? It is a fact of chilling import that these illegals are not only flowing by the multiple millions across our southern border, but are now reproducing at a rate well in excess of nine times the rate of ordinary White Americans. And they are bringing a true "diversity" of diseases - diseases that had been virtually eliminated from America - with them. These are diseases which we often no longer have the familiarity or the means to diagnose and treat: measles, syphilis, gonorrhea resistant to treatment, chlamydia, all manner of parasites, and now AIDS and a terrible drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis. We must protect our children! And we must jealously guard and be proud of the civilization which we of European descent have built in America at the cost of so much labor, and so much blood. It has given the world the most freedom and the greatest discoveries the world has ever known. It must not be adulterated.
Already our standard of living has declined. This is a warning sign. Our fall to the status of a Third World nation is assured unless we take immediate steps to clean up the corruption in our government and close our borders.
I wonder what might be the reasons that our elected representatives have for being so signally unrepresentative of Americans. Could it be that they have a fear of either alienating or no longer enlarging certain "minority" voting blocs? Is it possible that our politicians rely upon an uninformed, easily manipulated, illiterate electorate of legal and illegal "minorities" to tip the voting balance in their favor? Is it possible that politicians would betray the principles upon which this nation was founded just so they can spend a few more years at the bountiful Federal feeding trough? Or are they merely well-rewarded puppets of the scheming internationalists who want to erode our national identity so they can erect their one-world government on America's corpse? Or all of the above? Perish the thought.
Yes, these IT methodologies are important because
they enforce the measurement of quality. Without
measurement there is no science.
Why do people
complain? Because there are often not enough hours
in the day to take care of the details required
by these methodologies, and to get the "other"
work done. Many folks would rather "get on" with
the coding (or whatever) rather than take care
of procedural chores. This is the wrong attitude.
The procedural chores are part of the
work. CS people seem to be the only folks who
don't recognize this.
Would you want the biotech
labs or pharmaceutical companies to "get on" with
their work while ignoring procedural safeguards?
How would you like the ironworkers erecting a
skyscraper to "practice their art" while ignoring
the directives of engineering inspectors?
The IT methodologies put the science
back into "CS".
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It helps to remember that the SCSI bus is a transmission line, not an ideal digital bus. A bad hardware configuration causes a segfault when some of the data from the disk is corrupted as it passes through the SCSI bus. When the corrupted data happens to be executable code it can fault for several reasons:
- corruption results in illegal pointer.
- corruption results in an illegal jump target.
- corruption results in an illegal instruction.
With SCSI, one of the first symptoms of improper termination is spurious segmentation faults. Since there are no widespread reports of serious AIC7xxx problems, and since SCSI hardware misconfiguration is by and large the most common cause for SCSI problems, the odds are stacked against this being a driver problem.It may be a bore but here are some things to check:
- termination - using proper terminators for LVD? for SE? Both ends of bus terminated? only ends of
the bus terminated?
- cables - quality cables of proper impedance? correct cables for LVD, for SE?
- general - are you mixing LVD and SE? is bus length too long? all jumpers settings configured correctly on
all devices on SCSI bus? bus speed set too fast for length?
- connectors - properly and tightly seated? oxidized connectors? remove and re-seat them a couple
times to break oxidation.
- term power - are you sure that your bus is getting termination power? Check term power voltage
at each end of the bus? are term power fuses blown on controller or external devices (yes, it happens )?
You may be in denial. But it is not the kernel that is broken. Somewhere there is a fault in your SCSI hardware configuration. I tell this to you as a grizzled SCSI veteran. I've blamed software and various kernels and *always* in the end it turned out to be a problem with *my* configuration. There are a whole lot of variables. It sometimes takes a little more effort to run SCSI. . But IDE is not without its own set of problems either.Use your best debugging skills. You can do it!
Rock, Oi!, Metal, Techo, Country, Folk, they have White Music for all tastes. Two of my favorites are Boot Party Mix '99 and Six Million More. I enjoy country music too. Here are two of my country favorites by Johnny Rebel: Move Them Niggers North and Coon Town.
Courtney Love perpetuates the idea of vaginal orgasm. This has been discredited. The female orgasm take place in the clitoris. It is a "penis like" growth just above the vulva. Indirect stimulation of this organ is usually pleasurable to females. Lubricating and fondling the area of the hood of the clitoris will usually provoke intense orgasm in your female partner. A good source of lubrication for stimulating the clitoris is the female vagina itself. During sexual arousal the female vagina produces an excess of lubricating fluid which may be called into service in an effort to stimulate the clitoris. But do not be too heavy handed. It is often better to stimulate the tissue adjacent to the clitoris than to direct you efforts to the clitoris itself. Tease and please.
The main difference between successful operating systems and *BSD can be explained in terms of licenses. For example, most important Unix vendors are choosing the GPL license: SGI, SCO, HP-UX, LINUX, AIX, DEBIAN, REDHAT, etc.
Where does that leave *BSD? Good question. *BSD is the now the outside guy looking in. They assumed that the parade would follow them. But then they turned around. The parade had veered off to another course and the ring leaders were left twirling their batons to an empty crowd. Can *BSD recover? Smart money says no.
BeOS is far far quicker. I'm sorry that Mac OS is so poor in terms of performance. Because of the many levels of complexity, it is hard to say who is at fault. I can understand crashes in an alpha release. But crashes in beta/production software? Un-thinkable. I know that some people do not look with favor upon the FSF, but at least there coding guidelines say it all: "zero tolerance for crashes"
Give me a break, gents. Every sane human alive knows that all the incompatible versions of BSD unix are dead. Look at Usenet. How many BSD posts are there? You do the math. FreeBSD has about 80 or 90 posts per day. NetBSD has about 1 or 2 posts per day. OpenBSD has about 15 or 20 posts per day. BSDi had about 1 or 2 posts per day. Look at the competition (for any reasonable definition of "competition"). Those other guys are getting 30 or 40 times the interest. NetBSD has about the same level of interest as Xinu (ever heard of that?).
Here's an article about /. and Andover.Net that you won't see passing the the submitter's desk. Upside takes an inside look at Slashdot and Andover net. The article is called Andover.Net's Media Kludge.
Polls show that the vast majority of Americans want legal immigration reduced and illegal immigration stopped. I wonder why our government has taken no action to stem the flow of third-world minorities, a flow that is now so great that it literally transforming our nation in a way that ordinary Americans find frightening and disturbing.
In fact, why does the U.S. Congress actually promote immigration, legal and illegal, against all reason? Our nation, already mired in debt, cannot productively employ our existing population and must create non-productive taxpayer-supported "service" jobs to absorb the surplus labor we now have.
With rare exception, the immigrant, legal or illegal, from a third world area is fleeing, not political persecution, but economic deprivation as a direct result of indiscriminate breeding and its consequence, over-population, in quasi-feudalistic societies steeped in ignorance and authoritarian religious dogma. Decades of experience has shown that many of these immigrants and their numerous offspring end up as drains on one or more of the myriad Liberal-sponsored county, state, and federal give-away programs. Not satisfied with our bounty, they have leisure to turn to violence and jam our law enforcement, judicial, and prison systems. All of this is paid for by confiscatory taxing of a diminishing number of mostly White, legitimate U.S. citizens productively employed in the private sector.
Why do Congress and federal bureaucrats ignore, when considering the illegal immigrant, our statutes that require a legal immigrant to be conversant with our history and our institutions, guarantee that he will not require support from any federal or state program for a minimum of five years, be in good health, and have a working knowledge of English? Why this special status for the illegal - and now, even the legal immigrant as long as he is a member of a so-called minority? (This word "minority" is wildly inappropriate, you know, when you consider that persons of European descent constitute only about 12% of the world's population!)
And why, when a foreign woman gives birth in the U.S., is she not sent back to Mexico - or wherever she may belong - with her infant? Born in the U.S., the infant is by a quirk of the law a U.S. citizen. His mother is not. The courts have held that simply having received hospital delivery care in the United States at U.S. taxpayer expense, does not bestow upon the mother a right to U.S. citizenship. She must return to wherever she belongs and, since a minor child should not be separated from its mother, the court has held that the infant must go with her. When the child has reached his majority at the age of 21 years, only then may he return legally. But this deliberately hidden aspect of the law is not enforced.
By the way, the word "Hispanic" to designate these illegal immigrants from Mexico and Central America is really a misnomer. "Hispanic" literally means "from Spain," and only a very few of these illegal immigrants are of European Spanish descent. Most of them are mestizos, meaning part European and part Indian. Their special-interest organization is even called La Raza, which means "the race," expressing their racial solidarity as mestizos.
For decades, it has been no secret that a mestizo Mexican female will cross the border surreptitiously or on a tourist visa, ostensibly for a day of "shopping," when she knows delivery of her pregnancy is imminent. Within hours, she is in a U.S. hospital giving birth to her little U.S. citizen, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer. Almost certainly, the mother, often a child herself, has had no prenatal care and her pregnancy is at high risk. If there should be problems, there is no shortage of hungry lawyers waiting to pounce on the delivering physician and hospital with law suits regardless of merit. Such an infant is more likely to require care in an Intensive Care Nursery where costs routinely are measured in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. In California, Los Angeles County alone spends millions of dollars for the care of illegal aliens.
Hospital Discharge Planning acquaints the new mother with all the taxpayer-supported programs ready to help her and her little one. More often than not, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has not been notified of her illegal status. Even if INS were notified, political pressures from leftist church groups, the previously mentioned La Raza group, and various mestizo activist groups would force the INS to keep a strictly hands-off position. Our new mother fades into the populace, untraced and untracable - just one more of a vast and ever-growing brown multitude.
Almost immediately, she has obtained a Social Security card for herself and for her new baby. Shortly thereafter, she is on welfare, living in government-subsidized housing, and receiving the benefits of Food Stamps, the WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) Program, and Medicaid. She has sent for her four to six older children - or siblings - her "husband," and, having learned of the Supplemental Security Income Program (SSI), her "disabled" parents and grandparents. Smiling to themselves, they settle down to a life of ease and luxury such as they have never known. A little later, having come to realize the unbelievably stupid leniency of their new host nation, she and her extended family begin to complain loudly of the injustices of U.S. society. By now, they have learned that the open display of the contempt they have long felt for the "gringo" brings not anger and retribution, but obsequious groveling from their "caseworker."
In a classic example of split thinking, they clamor that their native language and cultural mores should be officially designated as national "alternatives," while they complain that they are not accepted by the dominant White culture.
Meanwhile, their older children have found their place in society, joined a gang, and become deeply involved in lucrative criminal activities they would not have dared attempt in their homeland. Their arrogant contempt grows for a system of law enforcement that, compared to the feared, often lethal, justice of their native country, is laughably lenient and totally ineffective in dealing with them. We Americans have yet to learn the lesson that the penalty must fit the criminal, not the crime.
You might call this an extreme example - but it is not at all uncommon in modern America as Congress and the federal and state bureaucracies dance to the tune of multiculturalism and the New World Order that is being imposed on an uninformed and unconsulted American people.
By what right does a judge, solely on his own, decide that a boatload of Haitians - or whomever - rescued from a watery grave by the brave men of the U.S. Coast Guard, should be considered for U.S. citizenship rather than repatriated or left to the mercies of the sea? Is not the act of rescue itself sufficient demonstration of our humane good will? Must we allow a single man who calls himself a judge to second-guess the majority of our citizens? What loopholes allow him and the racially-motivated Jewish and Liberal groups and their money-hungry lawyers to circumvent reason, logic, and our laws and determine that these obviously economically-motivated emigres are really political refugees? Why does Congress allow a judge to transgress the interests of those taxpayers who support him and allow him to flaunt the laws of this nation which he is supposed to uphold? When our nation was vibrant and forthright in support of the interests of its own, such behavior by a public servant would not have been tolerated. But a few years ago our imperial Congress flew in the face of the well-being of its constituents and passed an immigration amnesty act that forgave most illegal immigrants their crime and guaranteed that even greater numbers would cross our border illegally.
Now that Congress has demonstrated its abject lack of integrity by having granted amnesty to countless illegals who have verified their fitness to become US citizens by having avoided our law enforcement institutions for a few years, millions more are now emboldened to break our laws. They now know that there exists a foolishly generous nation where a criminal must spend only a short time as a fugitive to have his crime forgiven with no greater penalty for being caught before he qualifies for amnesty, than the necessity to begin over again. When he achieves this goal not only is his crime forgiven - even if suspected - but he is rewarded beyond his greatest dreams. He is instantly eligible for the multitude of federal, state, and local give-away programs that are denied to those here legally. His cornucopia is overflowing, particularly when he learns that, for a few dollars, he need not even exist as a fugitive. He can purchase illegally the papers necessary to qualify immediately, with little likelihood that he will be discovered. For all this, there is a small risk. He risks neither life nor incarceration: If he fails this time, he but needs to try again - and again - and again.
The billions that constitute the surplus population of Africa, the Caribbean, Central America, and Asia have been given the signal that America is a rich land ripe for conquest, that its citizens are prevented from stopping the invasion by their own government. And they are coming, by land and by sea and by air, they are coming.
These invaders are breaking our laws. They are committing a crime against the United States - against you and me. Under our truly ineffective Liberal laws, they are committing only a misdemeanor. In many other countries of the world, they would be shot the instant they trespassed. Those who aid them, whether by giving them work or sanctuary, are also criminals. They have committed a felony. But the long-term harm such felons do to the future of our nation far outweighs the penalties our laws could exact, were they enforced. Why do we let them get away with it?
One reason is psychological intimidation and Liberal brainwashing. We are always hearing the cry "we are all immigrants - and the statue of Liberty proclaims our open door to the world's poor and oppressed." Such claims ignore the fact that the Statue of Liberty was never intended to symbolize such a thing - it was entitled "Liberty Enlightening the World" and was a gift from one European people (France) to another. More importantly, such claims misapply the past to a very different present. The immigrants of the last century were nearly all Europeans and were assimilated to our culture and institutions quickly and they proved their mettle by hard work by which they built our Western Civilization across a nearly empty wilderness. The character of the immigrants has changed - and so has America. No longer able to absorb millions on a frontier, we are unable even to provide jobs and homes for even those that are already here.
Another argument made by both Liberals and Conservatives to excuse these crimes is that without illegal immigrants, crops would rot on the ground and garments would go unsewn. A more ridiculous argument cannot be imagined. With unemployment statistics in the multiple millions - and with many more Americans not listed in the figures because they have given up looking for work - and with factories closing down every day as more and more companies, encouraged by our internationalist rulers, move their production to the third world, it is absurd to suggest that we do not have enough American hands to do the work that must be done. What is not laughable, however, is the fact that so many disloyal businessmen would rather pay a Mexican peon slave wages to do the work than pay a living wage to an American, the law notwithstanding. When justice comes to America such businessmen will be given a fair trial.
It is also said that these illegal immigrants bring their cultures and add "richness" and "diversity" to our society. We might, however, question whether or not we really need what they bring of their "culture." Have we not enough of whatever "richness" they might provide now? Have the Liberals who push this "diversity" line of argument ever told us just how much "diversity" is needed or when we will finally have enough diversity, and when third world immigration can therefore stop? Have we not enough of ignorance, crime, filth, disease, hatred, and irresponsible breeding right now? It is a fact of chilling import that these illegals are not only flowing by the multiple millions across our southern border, but are now reproducing at a rate well in excess of nine times the rate of ordinary White Americans. And they are bringing a true "diversity" of diseases - diseases that had been virtually eliminated from America - with them. These are diseases which we often no longer have the familiarity or the means to diagnose and treat: measles, syphilis, gonorrhea resistant to treatment, chlamydia, all manner of parasites, and now AIDS and a terrible drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis. We must protect our children! And we must jealously guard and be proud of the civilization which we of European descent have built in America at the cost of so much labor, and so much blood. It has given the world the most freedom and the greatest discoveries the world has ever known. It must not be adulterated.
Already our standard of living has declined. This is a warning sign. Our fall to the status of a Third World nation is assured unless we take immediate steps to clean up the corruption in our government and close our borders.
I wonder what might be the reasons that our elected representatives have for being so signally unrepresentative of Americans. Could it be that they have a fear of either alienating or no longer enlarging certain "minority" voting blocs? Is it possible that our politicians rely upon an uninformed, easily manipulated, illiterate electorate of legal and illegal "minorities" to tip the voting balance in their favor? Is it possible that politicians would betray the principles upon which this nation was founded just so they can spend a few more years at the bountiful Federal feeding trough? Or are they merely well-rewarded puppets of the scheming internationalists who want to erode our national identity so they can erect their one-world government on America's corpse? Or all of the above? Perish the thought.
Visit the National Alliance and start working to rebuild America.
Why do people complain? Because there are often not enough hours in the day to take care of the details required by these methodologies, and to get the "other" work done. Many folks would rather "get on" with the coding (or whatever) rather than take care of procedural chores. This is the wrong attitude. The procedural chores are part of the work. CS people seem to be the only folks who don't recognize this.
Would you want the biotech labs or pharmaceutical companies to "get on" with their work while ignoring procedural safeguards? How would you like the ironworkers erecting a skyscraper to "practice their art" while ignoring the directives of engineering inspectors?
The IT methodologies put the science back into "CS".