9/11 was a disaster that may have been triggered 56 years ago, and since that morning in 2001, it's been continuing to extract a toll ever since. Who knows how long the deaths from 9/11 will continue? Who knows how long these events will erode human civilization? Who knows how much progress we've made since The Enlightenment will be undone? Who knows what the ultimate cost will be?
The real tragedy is that the application of some basic human decency at several points along the course of this historical train-wreck could have stemmed the losses, or even prevented it from occuring in the first place.
No not really if the US would adopt low sulfur diesel then it would not be much different than gas.
Unfortunately, if you take a realistic look at the oil industry in the US, it doesn't look like ULSD is going to happen. You can yell at and spank a spoiled, coddled child all you want, and they'll still whine and cry, kick and scream.
I think that the only long-term hope for Diesel technology in the US is a replacement of the current petroleum industry with a competitive supplier of Biodiesel. The technology for supplying biodiesel on that scale, does not exist. Yet./Jetta TDI owner. Biodiesel consumer.
Last year saw the rebirth of the old Atari 2600 games, with those cheap battery-powered joystick things, that have a bunch of pre-loaded classic videogames.
I got one as a stocking-stuffer, and spent hours playing the old 2600 Adventure, Asteroids, etc. (and the newer console that had Galaxians, and Dig-Dug).
My kids would just look at me, shake their heads, go back to their rooms and go back to playing their xBox.
"Mom? I don't get it. Why does dad play those stupid games?"
Society does not give YOU freedom from consequences. When your actions harm others, you will be held accountable.
yeah. let me know when someone in the Bush administration is held accountable for exposing an undercover CIA agent working on nuclear proliferation, as a means of "punishing" Joe Wilson for speaking out against the Administration's policies.
Oops! there's another exception to the First Amendment. You're *not* free to reveal identities of undercover CIA agents. But as a conveeeenient side effect of First Amendment, Robert Novak doesn't have to reveal his source "within the Bush Administration".
"Freedom of speech" does not mean others are forced to be exposed to such speech nor that the speaker will be free of responsibility
It's called an off-switch.
Explain and demonstrate a preponderance of American court decisions in which individuals are granted complete and total absence of repurcussion from actions deemed offensive when using community-owned resources
He's 'DESTROYED' radio with monopolies like Clear Channel
Actually, I hope this continues further. In about 10 more years, people will stop watching and listening to the ONE media empire that's left, knowing full-well that it's nothing but an empty void of self-promoting garbage.
It's not obvious to most people now, because there's the ILLUSION that there's competition and that the Free Market has things under control.
I say, stop trying to fight it. Let it all glom together, and the Free Market will REALLY come into play. I'm not usually a big believer in the whole "Monopolies eventually destroy themselves" meme. But if less people watch and listen to the media we have today, I can't help but think that we'll ALL be far better off.
But I still think Michael Powell has his head up his ass.
> Only those against the US were involved in scandalous activities
Lets look at polls, now shall we?
jeez, Rei, you're WAY too easy on him.
Need we break out the picutres of Rumsfeld shaking Saddam's hand?
Need we point out the billions of dollars of illegal business Halliburton did with Iraq in the 1990's, under Cheney's watch (as CEO of Halliburton)?
Need we point out that EVERY SINGLE SHRED of evidence in the so-called "oil for food fraud scandal" was *lost* when "evul hackerz broke into my computer and erased the hard drive and all the backups, HONEST!" - All the evidence comes from Ahmed Chalabi's INC. The same Ahmed Chalabi who's wanted in Jordan for embezzling $300 Million from Petra Bank. The same Ahmed Chalabi who passed on highly sensitive (read: Classified) US SIGINT information to Iranian Intelligence. The same Ahmed Chalabi that ran a ring to re-submit old Saddam Dinars in exchange for new CPA Dinars, AT US TAXPAYER EXPENSE! The same Ahmed Chalabi whose Nephew had an Iraqi finance minister assassinated. The same Ahmed Chalabi who took tens of millions of US TAXPAYER dollars every month throughout the Bush Administration, in exchange for information about Saddams WMD programs - ALL of which ultimately proved FALSE. The same Ahmed Chalabi who has ties to Ghorbanifar (yes, THAT Ghorbanifar, the arms dealer from the Iran-Contra days).
The SAME Ahmed Chalabi who sat behind Laura Bush at the State of the Union address in 2002.
George Bush and his Administration has made a very close ally of this man. They trusted a traitor. They are NOT on our side, and have done more harm than good to US security. Both with their policies enacted during the Reagan and Bush I adminsitrations, and the crap they're pulling in the Bush Administration.
And you people put these white-collar criminals back in office.
The "Only those who were opposed to the US were involved in scandalous activities" is a laugh and a half. Keep watching Fox and keep taking those Blue Pills Neo.
Fine. Then allow the child pornographers to distribute their "product" - and bust them at other phases of their operation.
Tell me this. How many child pornographers are busted when someone trades illegal pictures? Not illegal picture-traders, the actual people who TAKE the pictures?
By blocking the flow of information, you can only bust the picture-traders. And you get a nice excuse to bust anyone else whom you can reasonably define as a "terrorist" or other undesirable.
Bust the guys taking the pictures, at the source. When you get a kid who's been abused in this way, they can lead you to the picture taker.
The excuse of "needing better tools for law enforcement" is very often used as an excuse to abridge civil rights. Child pornographers are bad. And should be stopped wherever their found. But I'm not ready to accept that we, as a civilization, can afford to eliminate anonymous speech. When we have better rules (that are enforced) to protect whistleblowers and dissidents, then maybe we can do away with anonymity.
Bah. I was there in FL in early Dec. If this thing had launched on the 17th like it was supposed to, I'd have seen it. Not only do I miss the D-IVH, I missed the A-V as well.
It was a success in that Boeing *probably* learned a lot about what caused the problems, and will likely be able to address them in future launches.
On the other hand, since the outcome of this mission probably will not affect sales of D-IVH in any meaningful way, (which would probably have been the case had it blown up on the pad), in the economic sense, it was also a success. The Free Market at work.
He says that all the scientists are engaged in a massive conspiracy to promote the Global Warming hoax, so they can milk governments for research dollars, which they then use to bribe Democrats to pass laws promoting Communism, Baby Eating, and banning the Bible.
I predict the VxVM/VxFS group will be sold to Sun.
Ironically, this group was probably the group that drew in the most reliable, sustainable revenue for the company, historically. Mainly through OEM sales to Sun.
(is it just my imagination, or can Backup Exec trace its lineage to Norton Backup?
In-FUCKING-deed, yes!
Kevin Azzouz, former CEO of Arcada, once remarked that he had done some coding for Norton Backup, back in the day. So yes, it's true, there probably IS some relationship there.
In general, the NetWare team's going to be more competent, just because it's comprised mainly of crusty-old grouchy Netware gurus.
The Windows team is more likely to be composed of the latest batch of paper MCSE's fresh out of community college. Crusty-old MSCE's ask for too much money.
All I can say is that I believe in the product - but its success has been undercut by ever changing upper management/product direction and again by a lack of commitment to good customer support by upper management.
All I can say, is as a former employee of Veritas, who literally worked in every level of support from the lowest to highest levels;) - it sounds like you're describing Veritas precisely. I think these two companies have a whole lot in common.
In fact, I was expecting CA to purchase Veritas, or the other way around, as soon as one of them blinked. But since 2000 or so, both have been blinking at eachother so rapidly, the stalemate continued.
Now, this Symantec acquisition, I don't know what to think. . . other than, I guess it's time for CA to buy Legato, or EMC to buy CA, or some crazy shit like that, then Oracle to buy that, then IBM, then Sun. Then Microsoft drive them all out of business.
As much as Veritas sucks, every other backup solution out there sucks too.
Many other backup solutions are no longer on the market because they were acquired and snuffed by Seagate/Veritas over the years. Some of them were. . . better.
Access database for your config file? WTF?!
Probably the original design was "scalable" in intent, and looked towards SQL or Oracle, but WTF, were you going to pay for either of those just to track your backup tapes?
It's a problem that's best solved with a relational database, and Access is the kneejerk reaction for small databases on Windows.
Veritas is actually a massive conglomeration of many many smaller dotcom-era acquisitions. Big fish, swallowing smaller fish, getting swallowed by another big fish.
When I worked there, I lived through several M&A cycles, but sooner or later, they always look at site redundancies as a way to settle old scores, (former competitors, internal power struggles).
I'd be very nervous if I worked at any of the smaller sites, or especially HQ in MV, or for any "overlap" departments (Support, HR, etc.).
The long history of fratracide in that "company" is just a symptom of further shakeout of dotcoms that failed, but continued on life-support until a bean-counter somewhare decided to pull the plug.
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Perhaps it's because governments have a long history of doing things inefficiently and ineffectively.
So, like Private Industry sure is fighting the Iraqi War a lot better than the Government fought WWII. . .
I've been reading slashdot for what, 7 years now?
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I've NEVER seen a thread dis Unix like this before.
Never!
I've always held that Unix is to operating systems, what Fundamentalism is to religions.
It served a good purpose; prevent the heretics (Windows) from taking over. Now it's time for a Reformation, I guess. .
A lot of folks seem to be saying that OS X answers a lot of these problems.
Still gots POSIX permissions to deal with tho. . .
9/11 was a disaster that may have been triggered 56 years ago, and since that morning in 2001, it's been continuing to extract a toll ever since. Who knows how long the deaths from 9/11 will continue? Who knows how long these events will erode human civilization? Who knows how much progress we've made since The Enlightenment will be undone? Who knows what the ultimate cost will be?
The real tragedy is that the application of some basic human decency at several points along the course of this historical train-wreck could have stemmed the losses, or even prevented it from occuring in the first place.
No not really if the US would adopt low sulfur diesel then it would not be much different than gas.
/Jetta TDI owner. Biodiesel consumer.
Unfortunately, if you take a realistic look at the oil industry in the US, it doesn't look like ULSD is going to happen. You can yell at and spank a spoiled, coddled child all you want, and they'll still whine and cry, kick and scream.
I think that the only long-term hope for Diesel technology in the US is a replacement of the current petroleum industry with a competitive supplier of Biodiesel. The technology for supplying biodiesel on that scale, does not exist. Yet.
Last year saw the rebirth of the old Atari 2600 games, with those cheap battery-powered joystick things, that have a bunch of pre-loaded classic videogames.
I got one as a stocking-stuffer, and spent hours playing the old 2600 Adventure, Asteroids, etc. (and the newer console that had Galaxians, and Dig-Dug).
My kids would just look at me, shake their heads, go back to their rooms and go back to playing their xBox.
"Mom? I don't get it. Why does dad play those stupid games?"
Society does not give YOU freedom from consequences. When your actions harm others, you will be held accountable.
yeah. let me know when someone in the Bush administration is held accountable for exposing an undercover CIA agent working on nuclear proliferation, as a means of "punishing" Joe Wilson for speaking out against the Administration's policies.
Oops! there's another exception to the First Amendment. You're *not* free to reveal identities of undercover CIA agents. But as a conveeeenient side effect of First Amendment, Robert Novak doesn't have to reveal his source "within the Bush Administration".
"Freedom of speech" does not mean others are forced to be exposed to such speech nor that the speaker will be free of responsibility
It's called an off-switch.
Explain and demonstrate a preponderance of American court decisions in which individuals are granted complete and total absence of repurcussion from actions deemed offensive when using community-owned resources
Activist Judges.
He's 'DESTROYED' radio with monopolies like Clear Channel
Actually, I hope this continues further. In about 10 more years, people will stop watching and listening to the ONE media empire that's left, knowing full-well that it's nothing but an empty void of self-promoting garbage.
It's not obvious to most people now, because there's the ILLUSION that there's competition and that the Free Market has things under control.
I say, stop trying to fight it. Let it all glom together, and the Free Market will REALLY come into play. I'm not usually a big believer in the whole "Monopolies eventually destroy themselves" meme. But if less people watch and listen to the media we have today, I can't help but think that we'll ALL be far better off.
But I still think Michael Powell has his head up his ass.
> Only those against the US were involved in scandalous activities
Lets look at polls, now shall we?
jeez, Rei, you're WAY too easy on him.
Need we break out the picutres of Rumsfeld shaking Saddam's hand?
Need we point out the billions of dollars of illegal business Halliburton did with Iraq in the 1990's, under Cheney's watch (as CEO of Halliburton)?
Need we point out that EVERY SINGLE SHRED of evidence in the so-called "oil for food fraud scandal" was *lost* when "evul hackerz broke into my computer and erased the hard drive and all the backups, HONEST!" - All the evidence comes from Ahmed Chalabi's INC. The same Ahmed Chalabi who's wanted in Jordan for embezzling $300 Million from Petra Bank. The same Ahmed Chalabi who passed on highly sensitive (read: Classified) US SIGINT information to Iranian Intelligence. The same Ahmed Chalabi that ran a ring to re-submit old Saddam Dinars in exchange for new CPA Dinars, AT US TAXPAYER EXPENSE! The same Ahmed Chalabi whose Nephew had an Iraqi finance minister assassinated. The same Ahmed Chalabi who took tens of millions of US TAXPAYER dollars every month throughout the Bush Administration, in exchange for information about Saddams WMD programs - ALL of which ultimately proved FALSE. The same Ahmed Chalabi who has ties to Ghorbanifar (yes, THAT Ghorbanifar, the arms dealer from the Iran-Contra days).
The SAME Ahmed Chalabi who sat behind Laura Bush at the State of the Union address in 2002.
George Bush and his Administration has made a very close ally of this man. They trusted a traitor. They are NOT on our side, and have done more harm than good to US security. Both with their policies enacted during the Reagan and Bush I adminsitrations, and the crap they're pulling in the Bush Administration.
And you people put these white-collar criminals back in office.
The "Only those who were opposed to the US were involved in scandalous activities" is a laugh and a half. Keep watching Fox and keep taking those Blue Pills Neo.
sad though it may seem, 60 Million Bad Apples is a bigger story than "first privately funded space flight".
That new CEO SCO's got, he wouldn't happen to be a retired Army Colonel, would he?
Fine. Then allow the child pornographers to distribute their "product" - and bust them at other phases of their operation.
Tell me this. How many child pornographers are busted when someone trades illegal pictures? Not illegal picture-traders, the actual people who TAKE the pictures?
By blocking the flow of information, you can only bust the picture-traders. And you get a nice excuse to bust anyone else whom you can reasonably define as a "terrorist" or other undesirable.
Bust the guys taking the pictures, at the source. When you get a kid who's been abused in this way, they can lead you to the picture taker.
The excuse of "needing better tools for law enforcement" is very often used as an excuse to abridge civil rights.
Child pornographers are bad. And should be stopped wherever their found. But I'm not ready to accept that we, as a civilization, can afford to eliminate anonymous speech. When we have better rules (that are enforced) to protect whistleblowers and dissidents, then maybe we can do away with anonymity.
Bah. I was there in FL in early Dec. If this thing had launched on the 17th like it was supposed to, I'd have seen it. Not only do I miss the D-IVH, I missed the A-V as well.
One could infer six nines by testing individual critical components to that degree, and extrapolating the same reliability to the integrated vehicle.
It was a success in that Boeing *probably* learned a lot about what caused the problems, and will likely be able to address them in future launches.
On the other hand, since the outcome of this mission probably will not affect sales of D-IVH in any meaningful way, (which would probably have been the case had it blown up on the pad), in the economic sense, it was also a success. The Free Market at work.
Wil Smith as Arthur Dent?
Addition to #1:
Biodiesel.
It's effectively a form of Solar Power, which leverages existing infrastructure.
Don't you read Michael Crichton books?
He says that all the scientists are engaged in a massive conspiracy to promote the Global Warming hoax, so they can milk governments for research dollars, which they then use to bribe Democrats to pass laws promoting Communism, Baby Eating, and banning the Bible.
I predict the VxVM/VxFS group will be sold to Sun.
Ironically, this group was probably the group that drew in the most reliable, sustainable revenue for the company, historically. Mainly through OEM sales to Sun.
(is it just my imagination, or can Backup Exec trace its lineage to Norton Backup?
In-FUCKING-deed, yes!
Kevin Azzouz, former CEO of Arcada, once remarked that he had done some coding for Norton Backup, back in the day. So yes, it's true, there probably IS some relationship there.
In general, the NetWare team's going to be more competent, just because it's comprised mainly of crusty-old grouchy Netware gurus.
The Windows team is more likely to be composed of the latest batch of paper MCSE's fresh out of community college. Crusty-old MSCE's ask for too much money.
Quest->Arcada->Conner-Seagate->Veritas.
I happen to know that these poor saps spend a LOT of time re-branding that software.
They should just give up, and define BRAND as a constant in the header, so it can be a one-liner.
All I can say is that I believe in the product - but its success has been undercut by ever changing upper management/product direction and again by a lack of commitment to good customer support by upper management.
;) - it sounds like you're describing Veritas precisely. I think these two companies have a whole lot in common.
All I can say, is as a former employee of Veritas, who literally worked in every level of support from the lowest to highest levels
In fact, I was expecting CA to purchase Veritas, or the other way around, as soon as one of them blinked. But since 2000 or so, both have been blinking at eachother so rapidly, the stalemate continued.
Now, this Symantec acquisition, I don't know what to think. . . other than, I guess it's time for CA to buy Legato, or EMC to buy CA, or some crazy shit like that, then Oracle to buy that, then IBM, then Sun. Then Microsoft drive them all out of business.
shudda sold in 2000 when it was at $160/shr. Like I did.
As much as Veritas sucks, every other backup solution out there sucks too.
Many other backup solutions are no longer on the market because they were acquired and snuffed by Seagate/Veritas over the years. Some of them were. . . better.
Access database for your config file? WTF?!
Probably the original design was "scalable" in intent, and looked towards SQL or Oracle, but WTF, were you going to pay for either of those just to track your backup tapes?
It's a problem that's best solved with a relational database, and Access is the kneejerk reaction for small databases on Windows.
Veritas is actually a massive conglomeration of many many smaller dotcom-era acquisitions. Big fish, swallowing smaller fish, getting swallowed by another big fish.
When I worked there, I lived through several M&A cycles, but sooner or later, they always look at site redundancies as a way to settle old scores, (former competitors, internal power struggles).
I'd be very nervous if I worked at any of the smaller sites, or especially HQ in MV, or for any "overlap" departments (Support, HR, etc.).
The long history of fratracide in that "company" is just a symptom of further shakeout of dotcoms that failed, but continued on life-support until a bean-counter somewhare decided to pull the plug.