What's next? Complaining that you can't use company funds to go on a vacation? Complaining that you can't use company computers to play games?
Complaining that the shackles won't let you move more than 3 feet from your desk?
Tell ya what, if I can't use the company phone/email to make that doctor's appointment or let my wife know I'll be home late, well, I'm leaving for the day, and you can fuck your deadline and TPS reports.
I work because it is necessary to maintain my life. I do not work so I can maintain yours. If we cannot formulate a reasonable social contract where we both benfit our lives by pooling our resources you will have to do without me. I am neither your mommy nor your slave.
"- mandating a switch to ethanol or methanol biofuels for federal fleets"
I assign as an exercise to the student the making of a gallon of ethanol, from scratch, and reporting how much energy it took to produce it and where that energy came from, as well as the effect of such production on greenhouse gasses.
I have singled out ethanol because it's much easier and cheaper to produce than methanol, most of which these days is created from petroleum stocks, because that's the easiest, cheapest way to do it. Petroleum is a biofuel. The only difference between petroleum and alcohols is that petroleum is a found, concentrated biofuel partially preprocessed by natural phenomena. That's why it has been cheap, and, I'm afraid, actually more environmentally friendly in many ways than "alternative" fuels. Corn fields are not natural phenomena. Ever see what the creation of a massive corn field does to the natural environment? If you love the natural environment it'll make you cry.
Of course what petroleum is not is inside the carbon cycle. Hence the greenhouse gas issue. Which brings us to:
- massage research into alternative energy
Nuclear powerplants and current solar. That's it. Those are the only alternatives (yes, there's geothermal, but really, that doesn't count for squat). "Alternate" fuels are the chimera of those who wish to maintain their current energy use lifestyle and cannot admit that it is the lifestyle that is the problem.
- Wind mill farms granted more eminent domain power (e.g., to overcome NIMBY opposition by estate owners in Marblehead, Massachusetts because "it ruins the view").
I resemble that remark (well, it isn't an estate,there aren't any proper estates in Marblehead, it's a village, and my parents are the actual owners, but it is in Marblehead, a village where we've managed to remain free of having to gaze at "Golden Arches" all the hell over the place). I'm afraid I'm of the environmental bent that considers "the view" to be one of the aspects of the environment to be preserved. Having some in your backyard beats having to drive to Yellowstone Park to see one, which you likely can't even see when you get there because of all the people driving to it.
I have a partial solution, but if you're addicted to profligate energy use you may not like it:
Stop driving, even by proxy (trains and busses may be better than private cars, but that's not the same thing as saying they are good).
Sleep when it gets dark, or get used to the dark. Stop lighting up the whole goddam planet like a Christmas tree every night.
Use the ultimate biofuel. We call it "food." Learn to walk, bicycle and crank your own damned generator if you want electricity.
Marblehead, sans windmills, is actually a pretty fair example of how to do things. Check out Charlottesville, Virgina as well, where you can walk to the corner to buy your groceries (don't even need public transport) instead of having to drive 10 miles.
I'm just old enough to remember the proper, American small city where everything was within walking distance, and it not only didn't suck, it was a dramtically more enjoyable way to live. Paris is a reasonable example of how even large cities can be constructed as as series of village like neighborhoods; without creating an asphalt desert.
To preserve the "American Way of Life," rediscover it. What we are living now is a Tim Burtonesque synthesized travesty of the real thing.
Forget the economy. There are more important things in life than money.
Always remember the subtitle of Schumacher's Small is Beautiful:
Economics as if People Mattered.
Within my own lifetime I have watched American culture transform itself from jobs being something you did to support the home into homes being something you have to support your job.
It's totally bassakwards and a very sad state of affairs.
if it takes 10 million human brains irradiated over 20 years to induce an extra 50 tumors. ..
The risk is so small that it would be impossible to demonstrate an increased risk factor, because, well, there really isn't one. There's this Confidence Interval thingy to take into account. Ya know, flip a fair coin 10 million times and you won't actually get 5 million heads and 5 million tails, even though the odds are 50/50.
If you wish to speak about inducing tumors you'll have to show me a cause/effect relationship, not a risk factor below the statistical noise level.
Do you understand the difference between "inducing" and "increased risk"?
If I go for a bike ride I am at a certain risk of some nut in a car running a red light and hitting me. If I am actually hit my injuries were induced by the nut in the car, not me going for a bike ride.
Just like all the pastor's kids who became coke dealers, right?
Not coke dealers, no, but a good many of them, perhaps even the vast majority, become anti-orginized religion and even; gasp!
Atheists.
If you want to get something done:
1. Do it yourself 2. Hire someone to do it for you 3. Forbid your kids to do it
Children of pastors all sin intentionally at least once or twice, just, well, because. It's called "growing up." Asserting yourself as an individual human being and not just a plaything of your parents.
One of the key factors in determining whether a child adopts a permanant choice agaisnt their parent's directives is whether or not, as adults, they can perceive that the stricture actually makes sense, or whether their parents were just being assholes.
If the parents were just being assholes then the likelyhood of the children adopting a contrarian position to "stick it to them" goes up dramatically.
So the question is, is Steve Ballmer making a stricture that makes sense (i.e., don't be a crack ho), or is he just an asshole?
I leave this as an exercise for the stundent, but advise you to know where your chair is.
By virtue of the fact that the early developers of email never thought that you might well get email, lots and lots of email, from people you not only didn't know, but didn't want to know; and thus did not take this scenario into account when developing the protocols.
Whether or not they wanted their penises enlarged I leave as an exercise for the student.
It is FUD, by definition, if the statement is being made to strike fear, uncertainty and doubt into the hearts and minds of businesses and government agencies considering switching to Linux.
The degree to which the statement is a complete weasel (I think there are experts. ..I'm not going to comment. . . To the degree that's the case. ..When there's something interesting to say. ..") tends to bear out that hypothesis. To the cynical mind it might even look exactly like a carefully preprepared answer to say something, without saying anything, but looking like you're saying something specific.
i.e., FUD.
sound business tactics
However, FUD is often a sound business practice, despite the number of people it just makes you look like an asshole to.
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You're fired
Thank you.
KFG
First, he cracked the encryption. . .
A pretty good warning that the insecurity was not merely theoretical.
KFG
What's your point?
That God is an AC. D'oh!
KFG
"Everyone needs to buy a copy of Windows Vista, which will solve the malware problem."
Mostly, after Service Pack 2; and excepting signed malware (a software company has to make a living).
KFG
God is an Anonymous Coward?
Ever see an autographed Bible?
Well, actually, I have, but it is the suspected work of a handle thief.
KFG
What's next? Complaining that you can't use company funds to go on a vacation? Complaining that you can't use company computers to play games?
Complaining that the shackles won't let you move more than 3 feet from your desk?
Tell ya what, if I can't use the company phone/email to make that doctor's appointment or let my wife know I'll be home late, well, I'm leaving for the day, and you can fuck your deadline and TPS reports.
I work because it is necessary to maintain my life. I do not work so I can maintain yours. If we cannot formulate a reasonable social contract where we both benfit our lives by pooling our resources you will have to do without me. I am neither your mommy nor your slave.
KFG
KFG
"- mandating a switch to ethanol or methanol biofuels for federal fleets"
I assign as an exercise to the student the making of a gallon of ethanol, from scratch, and reporting how much energy it took to produce it and where that energy came from, as well as the effect of such production on greenhouse gasses.
I have singled out ethanol because it's much easier and cheaper to produce than methanol, most of which these days is created from petroleum stocks, because that's the easiest, cheapest way to do it. Petroleum is a biofuel. The only difference between petroleum and alcohols is that petroleum is a found, concentrated biofuel partially preprocessed by natural phenomena. That's why it has been cheap, and, I'm afraid, actually more environmentally friendly in many ways than "alternative" fuels. Corn fields are not natural phenomena. Ever see what the creation of a massive corn field does to the natural environment? If you love the natural environment it'll make you cry.
Of course what petroleum is not is inside the carbon cycle. Hence the greenhouse gas issue. Which brings us to:
- massage research into alternative energy
Nuclear powerplants and current solar. That's it. Those are the only alternatives (yes, there's geothermal, but really, that doesn't count for squat). "Alternate" fuels are the chimera of those who wish to maintain their current energy use lifestyle and cannot admit that it is the lifestyle that is the problem.
- Wind mill farms granted more eminent domain power (e.g., to overcome NIMBY opposition by estate owners in Marblehead, Massachusetts because "it ruins the view").
I resemble that remark (well, it isn't an estate,there aren't any proper estates in Marblehead, it's a village, and my parents are the actual owners, but it is in Marblehead, a village where we've managed to remain free of having to gaze at "Golden Arches" all the hell over the place). I'm afraid I'm of the environmental bent that considers "the view" to be one of the aspects of the environment to be preserved. Having some in your backyard beats having to drive to Yellowstone Park to see one, which you likely can't even see when you get there because of all the people driving to it.
I have a partial solution, but if you're addicted to profligate energy use you may not like it:
Stop driving, even by proxy (trains and busses may be better than private cars, but that's not the same thing as saying they are good).
Sleep when it gets dark, or get used to the dark. Stop lighting up the whole goddam planet like a Christmas tree every night.
Use the ultimate biofuel. We call it "food." Learn to walk, bicycle and crank your own damned generator if you want electricity.
Marblehead, sans windmills, is actually a pretty fair example of how to do things. Check out Charlottesville, Virgina as well, where you can walk to the corner to buy your groceries (don't even need public transport) instead of having to drive 10 miles.
I'm just old enough to remember the proper, American small city where everything was within walking distance, and it not only didn't suck, it was a dramtically more enjoyable way to live. Paris is a reasonable example of how even large cities can be constructed as as series of village like neighborhoods; without creating an asphalt desert.
To preserve the "American Way of Life," rediscover it. What we are living now is a Tim Burtonesque synthesized travesty of the real thing.
KFG
Forget the economy. There are more important things in life than money.
Always remember the subtitle of Schumacher's Small is Beautiful:
Economics as if People Mattered.
Within my own lifetime I have watched American culture transform itself from jobs being something you did to support the home into homes being something you have to support your job.
It's totally bassakwards and a very sad state of affairs.
KFG
I asked him if he would put a postage stamp on a brick and mail it...
If the "stamp" is on a bit of postage paid by sender bit of junk mail, sure, why not?
KFG
Worse than that. It's a "meme."
KFG
I said that if there existed a causal relationship, it would take a lot of rats to determine it.
It need not take more than a few to show a causal relationship.
It only takes one to negate the hypothesis of causality.
KFG
if it takes 10 million human brains irradiated over 20 years to induce an extra 50 tumors. . .
The risk is so small that it would be impossible to demonstrate an increased risk factor, because, well, there really isn't one. There's this Confidence Interval thingy to take into account. Ya know, flip a fair coin 10 million times and you won't actually get 5 million heads and 5 million tails, even though the odds are 50/50.
If you wish to speak about inducing tumors you'll have to show me a cause/effect relationship, not a risk factor below the statistical noise level.
Do you understand the difference between "inducing" and "increased risk"?
If I go for a bike ride I am at a certain risk of some nut in a car running a red light and hitting me. If I am actually hit my injuries were induced by the nut in the car, not me going for a bike ride.
Correlation is not causation.
KFG
Well where did you think little lights come from?
Anyway, what a man, his Sphere of Light and his pony do in the privacy of their own RPG is really none of your business.
KFG
My daughter is about to turn twentysix, and I'm still wasting brain cells remembering about Rainbow Brite and the Sphere of Fucking Light.
After you raise a daughter I think a lobotomy can actually raise your IQ.
KFG
Well, D'oh!
He needs it to run his CoCo OS-9 emulator.
KFG
sexism is not funny
If you do it badly.
KFG
As someone who actually does go to church, I can tell you that NONE of the pastor's kids I have ever known have become atheists.
You are in the church, so you see the ones that stay in the church.
I am not in the church, so I see the ones that left.
KFG
If he eats it 'cuz you told him not to, he's stupid
There is an to "forbidding." You don't just say "You can't eat broccoli."
You eat broccoli, in front of him, but tell him it's for grownups so he isn't supposed to have it because he isn't grownup enough yet.
He'll sneak more of it than you could possibly get him to eat any other way.
Yes, your 14 year old is drinking beer, no matter what he tells you. He doesn't even like it, but he's drinking it anyway.
KFG
What is the difference between a typewriter and a word processor?
KFG
Just like all the pastor's kids who became coke dealers, right?
Not coke dealers, no, but a good many of them, perhaps even the vast majority, become anti-orginized religion and even; gasp!
Atheists.
If you want to get something done:
1. Do it yourself
2. Hire someone to do it for you
3. Forbid your kids to do it
Children of pastors all sin intentionally at least once or twice, just, well, because. It's called "growing up." Asserting yourself as an individual human being and not just a plaything of your parents.
One of the key factors in determining whether a child adopts a permanant choice agaisnt their parent's directives is whether or not, as adults, they can perceive that the stricture actually makes sense, or whether their parents were just being assholes.
If the parents were just being assholes then the likelyhood of the children adopting a contrarian position to "stick it to them" goes up dramatically.
So the question is, is Steve Ballmer making a stricture that makes sense (i.e., don't be a crack ho), or is he just an asshole?
I leave this as an exercise for the stundent, but advise you to know where your chair is.
KFG
. . .what does that have to do with spam?
By virtue of the fact that the early developers of email never thought that you might well get email, lots and lots of email, from people you not only didn't know, but didn't want to know; and thus did not take this scenario into account when developing the protocols.
Whether or not they wanted their penises enlarged I leave as an exercise for the student.
KFG
This just in; business suits and short hair (what there is of it) hold back the adoption of ethics.
KFG
No, but I've got some RR that'll do the trick:
Drop and give me twenty!
Count out loud.
I can't heeeeeeeeeeeear you; Maggot!
KFG
Not FUD
.I'm not going to comment. . . To the degree that's the case. . .When there's something interesting to say. . .") tends to bear out that hypothesis. To the cynical mind it might even look exactly like a carefully preprepared answer to say something, without saying anything, but looking like you're saying something specific.
It is FUD, by definition, if the statement is being made to strike fear, uncertainty and doubt into the hearts and minds of businesses and government agencies considering switching to Linux.
The degree to which the statement is a complete weasel (I think there are experts. .
i.e., FUD.
sound business tactics
However, FUD is often a sound business practice, despite the number of people it just makes you look like an asshole to.
KFG
That's 10 minutes top, anything else can be cut without taking away from the plot.
Romeo: Whoa! Juliet, yer a babe. Wanna get married?
Juliet: Shit Yeah!
Priest: I now pronounce you man and wife.
Romeo and Juliet kill themselves.
Fin
5 minutes -- Tops.
KFG