I don't suppose you noticed that they got schools first, all the internet equipment was donated by their neighbor, Thailand, who well understand the local economy, needs, wants and special enviromental issues of the area and also have plenty of rice (which is even what the well to do folk in the cities eat in that part of the world) with additional equipment and monies coming from Japan?
This is a local show. We aren't part of it. They're taking care of their own, their own way.
I think we might at least have the decency to leave them to it without poking them with pointy sticks.
From my personal experience I can say that preview often ain't worth squat if the reason your post is buggered in the first place is because you're dyslexic.
"Ok, let's proof that."
Teh quick brown fox fumped over the lazy god.
"Yep. Poifect!"
(You have to be a dyslexic touch typist to understand the "fumped")
And of course an American pigeon was once awarded a specially struck Croix de Guerre (bearing the image of a pigeon) and damned well should have gotten a purple heart, if not the CMOH. But I guess we just aren't as romantic about these things as the French.
The problem being, or course, that they have no postal service in the relevant locations.
Postal service requires the carrying of literally tons of mail, which requires buildings, personel to do the sorting, loading etc, but most of all it requires trucks and the improved roads to carry them.
A motorbike with a Linksys strapped to the seat can go where where a postal truck can't and only requires a single person to run the show.
I was once living in a little Mexican village only 50 miles from the nearest post office. It took the truck 14 hours to cover that 60 miles. Postal service was not what you could call regular. A 30 year old Hodaka Wombat could have covered the same route in about 6 hours.
And that was on what would be considered an improved road in much of Cambodia.
Is this just another step towards an internet of legaly privileged "servers" broadcasting emsil and the rest of us "clients" soaking up whatever Corporate America decides we should?
Not entirely, but close enough. Of course in that case they were going from Germany to Germany. Returning to the homeland as it were.
In Russia they were already in the homeland. In China they still are. That makes a difference.
And if a 100 million left, well, they killed that many anyway, but generated a rather large resentment.
No, if they weren't totalitarian there would have been less reason to leave in the first place, and if they began to be concerned about people leaving they would have had to be more responsive to the issue instead of just killing people right and left and if they weren't totalitarian the traffic wouldn't have been anywhere near one way.
And like it or not there are still Russians who miss the old days and would prefer to go back to them.
Quite the contrary. In a time when the single ruled the pop single was king. That means lots of How Much is That Doggie in the Window. That means all Britney, all the time. That means the only Rickie Lee you ever would have been likely to hear was Chuck E's in Love. That means album length works were marginalinzed. Sgt. Pepper, Tommy, Sketches of Spain, Aereo-Plain.
In the future singles market it will be the computer vetted/generated guarunteed hit that will be pushed down the bandwidth.
And which cut of Sketches of Spain would you leave out anyway? The only reason to throw out most of the cuts of an album is if you're buying crappy albums made to push a single for $12. You're having your buttons pushed just the way they want to push them.
If you wish to push the recording industry to make more good music the way to do it isn't buying hit singles. It's to buy only albums, but only albums that are quality all the way through. Tape the jingles off the radio like we used to and deny them any profit from the catchy pop crap. Support bands that you like, not bands that you don't like but have one song that catches your attention.
That wasn't communism. That was capitalist anarchy. Join the army. That's a totalitarian oligarchy. Just like the USSR. You'll do your chores or sit in the stockade. They don't care much whether you like it or not.
I also don't recall saying anything about a country.
But if you're a small "boutique" outfit like TVR why bother making a "GM compatible" alternator when you can just buy one cheaper from GM?
Molding plastics for a limited run is expensive. You ever look closely at the taillights on the Ferrari when watching Magnum P.I.?
They're straight off the Corvette, even though Ferrari is a member of the Agnelli empire.
And when Microsoft first started making Word for Mac the "standard" was WordPerfect and the "standard" Office suite was Lotus.
Making Office for Mac was what helped make Office the default since it was available on both major platforms.
The story was the Mac Unit.
Yes, Linux is a different story since it can topple the entire MS empire, because it's free and can be had for free. Nor have I ever run into an incompatability issue with OpenOffice and MS Office personally, so. . . I don't use MS Office. They've completely lost me as a customer and thrown away my mindshare. They've done the same for everybody buying StarOffice. They're losing customers on their own platform.
I'm a nail that sticks up. I'm easy to take whacks at. You'd think that would take some of the sport out of it, but apparently not. It's no biggy here, but it happens now and again in meatspace too.
In fact the true failure of the modern Marxist state was their totalitarianism. They didn't allow dissenters to simply go elsewhere. If they had there would have been far less internal dissent to gum up the system.
KFG
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No, I'm afraid not. Other than posting on a few select forums and doing some work on other people's websites I am virtually invisible to the web.
No blog. No personal website.
I'm afraid I rather like it that way.
I don't do anything particularly revolutionary though. It's a fairly well worn field. You might want to look into playing with elastomers to replace the coilover. They have their limitations but they're interesting nonetheless and if used perspicaciously result in some rather different layouts than coilovers do since they can be placed differently, be molded into various shapes and be made up in mulitple layers each with different properties. Most people's dissatisfaction with them comes from just using them as a coil replacment. Various torsion devices are also unduly overlooked. Check out the front suspension on the Lotus 72. Modern materials also open up the possiblity of very short leaf springs incorporated directly in the suspension arms themselves, flexible but solid bits replacing spherical bearings or other types of mechanical pivots. Ferrari did this on an F1 a few years ago (banned as not complying with the letter of the rules, although it really didn't violate the spirit).
I haven't built anything like a sand rail in 30 years, but you'll probably find the coil over the 98% solution because of the suspension travel needed. They've become the default method for a reason. I only work on pavement pounders these days where the limitations of certain systems never really get pronounced.
By my estimation, judging by similar occurences, there is a 99.999. ..% chance you are a sociopathic idiot. Your personal acquaintence with Bubba only serves to strengthen that likelyhood. But, at least while you are here, you are free to be so.
I don't even know why we're still bothering with Calculus. It's 17th century technology for Christ's sake.
Yes, for those keeping score at home, the above is deliberate and pointed social satire reflecting personal observations about the current state of affairs in the software industry, as well as elsewhere.
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Well then what the hell is he doing with all that money he told me was going into my 401k?
KFG
Charlie, we are the strongest country i the world
I don't suppose you noticed that they got schools first, all the internet equipment was donated by their neighbor, Thailand, who well understand the local economy, needs, wants and special enviromental issues of the area and also have plenty of rice (which is even what the well to do folk in the cities eat in that part of the world) with additional equipment and monies coming from Japan?
This is a local show. We aren't part of it. They're taking care of their own, their own way.
I think we might at least have the decency to leave them to it without poking them with pointy sticks.
KFG
This particular breed of PPOC is one that I run into a lot and they always get my goat.
And they have absolutely no idea how denegrating they are being to those they are offering their "respect."
KFG
From my personal experience I can say that preview often ain't worth squat if the reason your post is buggered in the first place is because you're dyslexic.
"Ok, let's proof that."
Teh quick brown fox fumped over the lazy god.
"Yep. Poifect!"
(You have to be a dyslexic touch typist to understand the "fumped")
KFG
And of course an American pigeon was once awarded a specially struck Croix de Guerre (bearing the image of a pigeon) and damned well should have gotten a purple heart, if not the CMOH. But I guess we just aren't as romantic about these things as the French.
Cher Ami
KFG
The problem being, or course, that they have no postal service in the relevant locations.
Postal service requires the carrying of literally tons of mail, which requires buildings, personel to do the sorting, loading etc, but most of all it requires trucks and the improved roads to carry them.
A motorbike with a Linksys strapped to the seat can go where where a postal truck can't and only requires a single person to run the show.
I was once living in a little Mexican village only 50 miles from the nearest post office. It took the truck 14 hours to cover that 60 miles. Postal service was not what you could call regular. A 30 year old Hodaka Wombat could have covered the same route in about 6 hours.
And that was on what would be considered an improved road in much of Cambodia.
KFG
Dude, that was bicycles in Laos. Totally different. Sheesh.
KFG
do they have redundancy plan. . .
Would you believe CPIP?
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KFG
Sun and IBM are competing rivals. Nothing more ugly than that. It's a credit to Sun than IBM should name their work in such a way.
Indeed. Sun should feel honored to have such a noble and gallant competeing rival pissing on its shoes in public.
KFG
Perhaps you were being too subtle. Next time slip on a banana peel at the end. That might do the trick.
KFG
Is this just another step towards an internet of legaly privileged "servers" broadcasting emsil and the rest of us "clients" soaking up whatever Corporate America decides we should?
Yes.
KFG
Not entirely, but close enough. Of course in that case they were going from Germany to Germany. Returning to the homeland as it were.
In Russia they were already in the homeland. In China they still are. That makes a difference.
And if a 100 million left, well, they killed that many anyway, but generated a rather large resentment.
No, if they weren't totalitarian there would have been less reason to leave in the first place, and if they began to be concerned about people leaving they would have had to be more responsive to the issue instead of just killing people right and left and if they weren't totalitarian the traffic wouldn't have been anywhere near one way.
And like it or not there are still Russians who miss the old days and would prefer to go back to them.
KFG
Quite the contrary. In a time when the single ruled the pop single was king. That means lots of How Much is That Doggie in the Window. That means all Britney, all the time. That means the only Rickie Lee you ever would have been likely to hear was Chuck E's in Love. That means album length works were marginalinzed. Sgt. Pepper, Tommy, Sketches of Spain, Aereo-Plain.
In the future singles market it will be the computer vetted/generated guarunteed hit that will be pushed down the bandwidth.
And which cut of Sketches of Spain would you leave out anyway? The only reason to throw out most of the cuts of an album is if you're buying crappy albums made to push a single for $12. You're having your buttons pushed just the way they want to push them.
If you wish to push the recording industry to make more good music the way to do it isn't buying hit singles. It's to buy only albums, but only albums that are quality all the way through. Tape the jingles off the radio like we used to and deny them any profit from the catchy pop crap. Support bands that you like, not bands that you don't like but have one song that catches your attention.
KFG
That wasn't communism. That was capitalist anarchy. Join the army. That's a totalitarian oligarchy. Just like the USSR. You'll do your chores or sit in the stockade. They don't care much whether you like it or not.
I also don't recall saying anything about a country.
KFG
Or at least add an email feature and give it a UI in transparant primary colors.
KFG
Chevrolet is its own marque, a division of GM.
Who owns TVR, Morgan, Panoz?
KFG
But if you're a small "boutique" outfit like TVR why bother making a "GM compatible" alternator when you can just buy one cheaper from GM?
Molding plastics for a limited run is expensive. You ever look closely at the taillights on the Ferrari when watching Magnum P.I.?
They're straight off the Corvette, even though Ferrari is a member of the Agnelli empire.
And when Microsoft first started making Word for Mac the "standard" was WordPerfect and the "standard" Office suite was Lotus.
Making Office for Mac was what helped make Office the default since it was available on both major platforms.
The story was the Mac Unit.
Yes, Linux is a different story since it can topple the entire MS empire, because it's free and can be had for free. Nor have I ever run into an incompatability issue with OpenOffice and MS Office personally, so. . . I don't use MS Office. They've completely lost me as a customer and thrown away my mindshare. They've done the same for everybody buying StarOffice. They're losing customers on their own platform.
KFG
I'm a nail that sticks up. I'm easy to take whacks at. You'd think that would take some of the sport out of it, but apparently not. It's no biggy here, but it happens now and again in meatspace too.
Then it's a real frickin' pain in the ass.
KFG
don't be scared, leave.
Yes, this a very valid option.
In fact the true failure of the modern Marxist state was their totalitarianism. They didn't allow dissenters to simply go elsewhere. If they had there would have been far less internal dissent to gum up the system.
KFG
No, I'm afraid not. Other than posting on a few select forums and doing some work on other people's websites I am virtually invisible to the web.
No blog. No personal website.
I'm afraid I rather like it that way.
I don't do anything particularly revolutionary though. It's a fairly well worn field. You might want to look into playing with elastomers to replace the coilover. They have their limitations but they're interesting nonetheless and if used perspicaciously result in some rather different layouts than coilovers do since they can be placed differently, be molded into various shapes and be made up in mulitple layers each with different properties. Most people's dissatisfaction with them comes from just using them as a coil replacment. Various torsion devices are also unduly overlooked. Check out the front suspension on the Lotus 72. Modern materials also open up the possiblity of very short leaf springs incorporated directly in the suspension arms themselves, flexible but solid bits replacing spherical bearings or other types of mechanical pivots. Ferrari did this on an F1 a few years ago (banned as not complying with the letter of the rules, although it really didn't violate the spirit).
I haven't built anything like a sand rail in 30 years, but you'll probably find the coil over the 98% solution because of the suspension travel needed. They've become the default method for a reason. I only work on pavement pounders these days where the limitations of certain systems never really get pronounced.
But as you say, it's fun just to do new things.
KFG
Indeed, there is a good deal of legal and political power, as well as economic, from having vassel "competitors."
One aspect of that power is to economically cross political and legal boundries where you would otherwise be forbidden or constrained in some manner.
Another is to simply maintain the illusion of competition.
KFG
The only problem is that that statement belies a complete ignorance of the economics and corporate ties of the auto industry.
GM, Ford, Volkswagon, Honda, Toyota, etc, all make parts for "competitors."
It's called doing business and making a profit. What does GM care if the motor they're making money on has someone elses label on the hood?
What does Microsoft care if office is running on a Mac as long as they get the same cut they would if it were running under Windows?
Either way they derive profit, market share and mind share.
KFG
By my estimation, judging by similar occurences, there is a 99.999. . .% chance you are a sociopathic idiot. Your personal acquaintence with Bubba only serves to strengthen that likelyhood. But, at least while you are here, you are free to be so.
KFG
And what rights to retain in those text"books"?
I may have payed eighty bucks for my Halliday & Resnick, and a hundred and fifty for my Feynman lectures, but they remain mine.
Electronic textbooks unleash the DMCA upon textbooks, allowing publishers to attach restrictive license right on them.
If they ain't public domain in the first place (which alone would alleviate the cost issue) electronic textbooks are a horrible idea.
My books are mine, Goddamn it, and I'm intend to keep them that way.
KFG
I don't even know why we're still bothering with Calculus. It's 17th century technology for Christ's sake.
Yes, for those keeping score at home, the above is deliberate and pointed social satire reflecting personal observations about the current state of affairs in the software industry, as well as elsewhere.
KFG