Had to pick up my bag in Toronto, go through immigration in Toronto with the bag, then check it again there. Thus giving me TWO chances to put evil things in the checked luggage (which went on a conveyor belt both times, didn't have to open it or anything)
Yeah, dangerous white substance is bad too. Hmmmm.... hickory twigs?
I fly in the US an average of once every week or so. Monday I flew to Canada for a presentation, Boston to Toronto to Edmonton. Got to Edmonton, my glasses (!?) and 2 packs of cigarettes were stolen from my checked luggage (presumably my slashdot shirt wasn't as appealing as prescription glasses that would be useless to those theiving bastards).
I suppose it's possible that the items were stolen in Boston, but I've never, ever had an item lost/stolen in a US only airport or flight and based on the price of cigarettes in Canada I'm sure it happened there.
I guess if I start using baking soda to brush my teeth I won't have to check my bag, but I prefer Crest thanks very much. It was nice not having to watch people take 20 minutes to realize that their 4'x6' rollerbag won't fit in overhead though.
stupidest idea ever. Granted, it's news for nerds, but if you're so undecided still that you pick based on which website looks better, then please surrender your franchise immediately
Some quick research:
Florida population in 2000: 15,982,378
Percent of poulation under 18: 22.8% , or roughly 3,643,982
Number that voted for one of top three candidates: 5,922,531
Percent of Florida population over 18 in 2000 that voted: 48%
Seems to me like we need to worry less about 15,000, which is.000938% of the population and GET PEOPLE TO VOTE.
sorry for the delay, I had to go cash my check from Japan, Germany, and Italy. You know, the Axis of Evil that we fought in WWII. Yeach, obviously we stayed there and took control of their new infant governments and societies.
I love how people assume that we want to control them. I know, maybe cheney could go over and be an "advisor" to them, thus starting a cheney-iraq connection just like the famous bush-saudi arabia connection.
Yeah, that all makes sense.
Make sure you take the tinfoil hat off when it rains, it tends to draw lightening.
True, but maybe I'm just an optimist, but I can't believe that the president and vice president would go to war to earn... what? Cheney got something like $180k in the last year from Haliburton, right?
How much do ex-presidents make on the lecture circuit? What did Clinton get for an advance for his book?
I think there's a lot of other ways for them to make substantially more money than to just go to war for no other reason than to line their pockets.
how about a link to some facts to back these up too:
1. The present system of violence in the U.S. and Britain started in the 1940s.
2. Only an estimated 2% read non-fiction books not connected with work.
I believe Halliburton makes money from OIL, not "violence"
As far as the 24 wars, if you click the link you see that: "The list below includes only countries bombed, not countries in which the U.S. government was responsible for other violence"
certainly a nice view, but a tad one-sided. And seems to be mostly from one site, maybe pumping up his own info?
Certainly reading books _is_ a good thing, but maybe you should broaden your horizons some and read some from _both_ sides of the US political sphere.
Is it just me, or does most every record store I've been to in the last year have the little scanner things where you can preview any of the songs before buying the disc?
Some people still buy cd's, whether or not they use p2p to download songs. I'd prefer ripping it myself to a high quality version that I can play at work or in the car or whatever than taking chances on dling 5 or 6 crap versions before I find a decent one.
UN/CEFACT works on standards for business documents. There's something called EDI (Electronic Document Interchange) which has 2 major forks - in North America a group called DISA has an X-12 committee to create and maintain the standards. Everywhere else in the world uses EDIFACT standards, which are made and maintained by UN/CEFACT.
So when you go to Wal-Mart or JC Penney or even Dell and buy something, the whole business process behind that revolves around electronic documents. An electronic Purchase Order is created by Company X, which sends it to it's supplier, Company Y. Company Y acknowledges it and eventually sends back Ship Notification and an Invoice electronically. Saving both companies money.
ebXML was a proposed format to replace a lot of the old standards by using their own flavor of XML and their own comms stuff.
Helen and Scott Nearing wrote a book called The Good Life that details their efforts at homesteading in the early-mid 1900's. You may not agree with their politics [I think they are raving communists in a lot of ways], but they detail how they built all of their buildings of concrete and local stones. They used "frames" to build the walls a section at a time. I'm willing to bet that those buildings will last a lot longer than most anything else in Vermont.
Very good read if you are interested in building with stone and concrete with the thought of lasting.
Drove down from NH wednesday, went to the show yesterday with my brother [who lives in NY]. Not like going to trade shows back in the big boom days (read as not much free stuff), but still pretty fun.
Odd things I noticed: although there were tons of Linux Journals, SysAdmin's and C/C++ mags, Dr. Dobbs was empty all day. Either everyone else reads it or they only sent a dozen to the show.
Saw _several_ SGI ALtix's, even got a picture of me standing next to them. Even though they've gone to the dark side [x86] they were very friendly and had a nice booth.
Ximian had the best booth by far, the whole jungle theme rocked. Unfortunately they were right next to Microsoft.
Speaking of, the were tre chic in black long sleeve shirts and jeans. I admit that I dropped my business card in the fishbowl for a chance to win a free Xbox... now that it's been hacked to run Linux I didn't feel too much pain in my soul. My brother refused to come within 5 feet of the booth.
Sun was awesome. Got DVD's of Solaris 9 for both x86 and Sparc. They've sold out and gone x86 as well, but I still have a thing for old Sparc SBUS boxen.
The LPI test was ok. suitably hard enough.
I went prepared to be impressed by RedHat, but was sorely let down. Very corporate. Very stand-offish IMHO. Too bad, I would love to move to nice, warm, NC and get a job there.
SUSE has a great booth, with an absolutely gorgeous girl there. Best of the show, unfortunately they were also close to SCO, who had a huge booth. Even _I_ refused to get within 5 feet of the SCO booth. At least M$ has a track record, these guys... I dunno, anyway
Not a SINGLE booth offering CD's, except for the aforementioned Sun and NetBSD.
the Icculus guy was great..org rocked and was way better overall. Got my GNU shirt. Even applied for the Linux credit card because of the hot chicks shilling.
Wish the Debian booth had more stuff... guess it took to long to install *grin*
Last but not least, the Linux Journal folks were really nice and went out of their way to take care of us and make us feel good.
There were definately some geeks out on Thursday, don't know about Wednesday, but I saw quite a few.
All in all a good time, hope I'll go next year. I'm still pawing through my 2 bags of goodies.
My company (we're a software company) recently posted a position for a technical support rep. Within one week we had 500+ applications. Datamining those resumes was interesting. Some were still newbies, but we had large numbers of people applying for a shitty, entry-level job with MBA's, Master's in CS or EE, former CS teachers, etc. It amazed me that the job market was that sparse that we were getting so many _way_ overqualified people.
To be honest, I see this less a game and more of a marketing tool for the Army. In that case, it isn't a "fun mod" to Quake or whatever, it's a tool to let people "try out" the Army. Of course they would want to add in exciting parts, but for the most parts Army life is dull. Of course the exciting parts more than make up for it. *grin*
And by the way, when you get hit with MILES [http://www.dtic.mil/armylink/photos/Jul2001/setaf 1.html] gear you're dead too. No injuries, just dead or alive.
I bought my trusty N** R***** Debian GNU/Linux a while back, which included 2.1 on CD. Last week, I popped that in a new box, installed, then ran apt-get dist-upgrade and I'm good to go.
this box is at work, so it didn't really matter, but at home where I'm stuck with 56k, this would have been the only option.
If you are thinking about including enough files that are big enough, definately put the CD in. I don't buy books just because they have CD's, but sometimes it's nice. Depends on the topic, obviously anything including a distro NEEDS it, anything with examples or small stuff it's just much easier to put the website.
As far as the pdf discussion, maybe more people need to look at the GNU Free Documentation license: http://laespiral.org/fdl.html I think anyone publishing ANYTHING related to Linux or GNU Tools should use that, include the cd with the manual or put the link on how to get it. 90% of the time it's easier to just pop open the book, but what if I'm not in the same location as the book? Plus, my Unix CD Bookshelf that I keep at home takes up less space than the book set.
Include it if you need it, but open your documentation to distribute.
Upon further review, I guess that was a bit harsh.
Still, when you factor in breakability, random quirks, replacement batteries, etc, I'll STILL take a compass. Besides, I carried enough spare batteries for the SINCGARS [radio], spare ammo, spare 60 ammo, spare socks, and spare spares to make one less a happy thing *grin*
As a former light infantryman in the 10th Mountain Division [you may have heard of them recently] I can say with absoulte conviction that GPS is a hunk of crap.
Yes, we had them, no they were not accurate enough. Several times we took a GPS reading to a KNOWN location. Known as in to 8 digits. For those who don't know what that means, here's a link: http://www.adtdl.army.mil/cgi-bin/atdl.dll/ fm/3-25.26/toc.htm
The GPS was consistently off by at least 30 meters. That may not sound like a lot, but when you are calling for direct fire, 30 meters is the difference between wiping out the enemy and wiping out your squad or platoon.
Yes, the lensatic compass is still standard issue: http://www.rangerjoes.com/catalog/selection.cfm?ca tegory=main&id=795
The biggest reason why people wash out of military schools is LandNav [well, and PT I guess]. No combat soldier trusts his luck to a contraption that may/may not be accurate.
Of course this doesn't apply to helicopter pilots and others. And also it doesn't apply to desert regions like Iraq [see Bravo Two Zero for an example of a GPS must]. But for day to day use I'll take my lensatic compass over a GPS in a heartbeat.
Hate to say it, but that's the shakes these days. Especially working where you do. Other people have posted it, but you probably agreed to it in your contract, and if you don't like it, then quit or leave the country [as another person wrote]
People love to bitch until a search like that prevents something harmful from happening. Free speech is great, America is great, but don't bitch and complain that people are trying to keep you and us safe.
Slashdot Mirror
No, that would make too much sense :)
.... hickory twigs?
Had to pick up my bag in Toronto, go through immigration in Toronto with the bag, then check it again there. Thus giving me TWO chances to put evil things in the checked luggage (which went on a conveyor belt both times, didn't have to open it or anything)
Yeah, dangerous white substance is bad too. Hmmmm
I fly in the US an average of once every week or so. Monday I flew to Canada for a presentation, Boston to Toronto to Edmonton. Got to Edmonton, my glasses (!?) and 2 packs of cigarettes were stolen from my checked luggage (presumably my slashdot shirt wasn't as appealing as prescription glasses that would be useless to those theiving bastards).
I suppose it's possible that the items were stolen in Boston, but I've never, ever had an item lost/stolen in a US only airport or flight and based on the price of cigarettes in Canada I'm sure it happened there.
I guess if I start using baking soda to brush my teeth I won't have to check my bag, but I prefer Crest thanks very much. It was nice not having to watch people take 20 minutes to realize that their 4'x6' rollerbag won't fit in overhead though.
stupidest idea ever. Granted, it's news for nerds, but if you're so undecided still that you pick based on which website looks better, then please surrender your franchise immediately
but there's an uproar over 61 hispanic voters?
Some quick research: .000938% of the population and GET PEOPLE TO VOTE.
Florida population in 2000: 15,982,378
Percent of poulation under 18: 22.8% , or roughly 3,643,982
Number that voted for one of top three candidates: 5,922,531
Percent of Florida population over 18 in 2000 that voted: 48%
Seems to me like we need to worry less about 15,000, which is
The UK has this, it's called Question Time or Parliamentary Questions (PQs) Note also that the questions and answered are published in book form.
Something we could well copy from them, although I admit that it's highly unlikely under the current adminstration.
sorry for the delay, I had to go cash my check from Japan, Germany, and Italy. You know, the Axis of Evil that we fought in WWII. Yeach, obviously we stayed there and took control of their new infant governments and societies.
Yeah, or something like that.
I love how people assume that we want to control them. I know, maybe cheney could go over and be an "advisor" to them, thus starting a cheney-iraq connection just like the famous bush-saudi arabia connection.
Yeah, that all makes sense.
Make sure you take the tinfoil hat off when it rains, it tends to draw lightening.
True, but maybe I'm just an optimist, but I can't believe that the president and vice president would go to war to earn ... what? Cheney got something like $180k in the last year from Haliburton, right?
How much do ex-presidents make on the lecture circuit? What did Clinton get for an advance for his book?
I think there's a lot of other ways for them to make substantially more money than to just go to war for no other reason than to line their pockets.
how about a link to some facts to back these up too:
1. The present system of violence in the U.S. and Britain started in the 1940s.
2. Only an estimated 2% read non-fiction books not connected with work.
I believe Halliburton makes money from OIL, not "violence"
As far as the 24 wars, if you click the link you see that:
"The list below includes only countries bombed, not countries in which the U.S. government was responsible for other violence"
certainly a nice view, but a tad one-sided. And seems to be mostly from one site, maybe pumping up his own info?
Certainly reading books _is_ a good thing, but maybe you should broaden your horizons some and read some from _both_ sides of the US political sphere.
Is it just me, or does most every record store I've been to in the last year have the little scanner things where you can preview any of the songs before buying the disc?
Some people still buy cd's, whether or not they use p2p to download songs. I'd prefer ripping it myself to a high quality version that I can play at work or in the car or whatever than taking chances on dling 5 or 6 crap versions before I find a decent one.
UN/CEFACT works on standards for business documents. There's something called EDI (Electronic Document Interchange) which has 2 major forks - in North America a group called DISA has an X-12 committee to create and maintain the standards. Everywhere else in the world uses EDIFACT standards, which are made and maintained by UN/CEFACT.
So when you go to Wal-Mart or JC Penney or even Dell and buy something, the whole business process behind that revolves around electronic documents. An electronic Purchase Order is created by Company X, which sends it to it's supplier, Company Y. Company Y acknowledges it and eventually sends back Ship Notification and an Invoice electronically. Saving both companies money.
ebXML was a proposed format to replace a lot of the old standards by using their own flavor of XML and their own comms stuff.
yeah, you definitely don't want to be clicking on that link at work. lets just say consumption junction, ok?
Thinkgeek has the answer Yeah, it's your mom, but you gotta draw the line man.
Helen and Scott Nearing wrote a book called The Good Life that details their efforts at homesteading in the early-mid 1900's. You may not agree with their politics [I think they are raving communists in a lot of ways], but they detail how they built all of their buildings of concrete and local stones. They used "frames" to build the walls a section at a time. I'm willing to bet that those buildings will last a lot longer than most anything else in Vermont.
Very good read if you are interested in building with stone and concrete with the thought of lasting.
Drove down from NH wednesday, went to the show yesterday with my brother [who lives in NY]. Not like going to trade shows back in the big boom days (read as not much free stuff), but still pretty fun.
... now that it's been hacked to run Linux I didn't feel too much pain in my soul. My brother refused to come within 5 feet of the booth.
... I dunno, anyway
.org rocked and was way better overall. Got my GNU shirt. Even applied for the Linux credit card because of the hot chicks shilling.
... guess it took to long to install *grin*
Odd things I noticed:
although there were tons of Linux Journals, SysAdmin's and C/C++ mags, Dr. Dobbs was empty all day. Either everyone else reads it or they only sent a dozen to the show.
Saw _several_ SGI ALtix's, even got a picture of me standing next to them. Even though they've gone to the dark side [x86] they were very friendly and had a nice booth.
Ximian had the best booth by far, the whole jungle theme rocked. Unfortunately they were right next to Microsoft.
Speaking of, the were tre chic in black long sleeve shirts and jeans. I admit that I dropped my business card in the fishbowl for a chance to win a free Xbox
Sun was awesome. Got DVD's of Solaris 9 for both x86 and Sparc. They've sold out and gone x86 as well, but I still have a thing for old Sparc SBUS boxen.
The LPI test was ok. suitably hard enough.
I went prepared to be impressed by RedHat, but was sorely let down. Very corporate. Very stand-offish IMHO. Too bad, I would love to move to nice, warm, NC and get a job there.
SUSE has a great booth, with an absolutely gorgeous girl there. Best of the show, unfortunately they were also close to SCO, who had a huge booth. Even _I_ refused to get within 5 feet of the SCO booth. At least M$ has a track record, these guys
Not a SINGLE booth offering CD's, except for the aforementioned Sun and NetBSD.
the Icculus guy was great.
Wish the Debian booth had more stuff
Last but not least, the Linux Journal folks were really nice and went out of their way to take care of us and make us feel good.
There were definately some geeks out on Thursday, don't know about Wednesday, but I saw quite a few.
All in all a good time, hope I'll go next year. I'm still pawing through my 2 bags of goodies.
The Song of Fire and Ice series. Highly recommended.
http://www.georgerrmartin.com/
My company (we're a software company) recently posted a position for a technical support rep. Within one week we had 500+ applications. Datamining those resumes was interesting. Some were still newbies, but we had large numbers of people applying for a shitty, entry-level job with MBA's, Master's in CS or EE, former CS teachers, etc. It amazed me that the job market was that sparse that we were getting so many _way_ overqualified people.
The times still aren't great.
To be honest, I see this less a game and more of a marketing tool for the Army. In that case, it isn't a "fun mod" to Quake or whatever, it's a tool to let people "try out" the Army. Of course they would want to add in exciting parts, but for the most parts Army life is dull. Of course the exciting parts more than make up for it. *grin*
f 1.html] gear you're dead too. No injuries, just dead or alive.
And by the way, when you get hit with MILES [http://www.dtic.mil/armylink/photos/Jul2001/seta
I bought my trusty N** R***** Debian GNU/Linux a while back, which included 2.1 on CD. Last week, I popped that in a new box, installed, then ran apt-get dist-upgrade and I'm good to go.
this box is at work, so it didn't really matter, but at home where I'm stuck with 56k, this would have been the only option.
If you are thinking about including enough files that are big enough, definately put the CD in. I don't buy books just because they have CD's, but sometimes it's nice. Depends on the topic, obviously anything including a distro NEEDS it, anything with examples or small stuff it's just much easier to put the website.
As far as the pdf discussion, maybe more people need to look at the GNU Free Documentation license: http://laespiral.org/fdl.html I think anyone publishing ANYTHING related to Linux or GNU Tools should use that, include the cd with the manual or put the link on how to get it. 90% of the time it's easier to just pop open the book, but what if I'm not in the same location as the book? Plus, my Unix CD Bookshelf that I keep at home takes up less space than the book set.
Include it if you need it, but open your documentation to distribute.
my 2 cents
Upon further review, I guess that was a bit harsh.
Still, when you factor in breakability, random quirks, replacement batteries, etc, I'll STILL take a compass. Besides, I carried enough spare batteries for the SINCGARS [radio], spare ammo, spare 60 ammo, spare socks, and spare spares to make one less a happy thing *grin*
As a former light infantryman in the 10th Mountain Division [you may have heard of them recently] I can say with absoulte conviction that GPS is a hunk of crap.
/ fm/3-25 .26/toc.htm
a tegory=main&id=795
Yes, we had them, no they were not accurate enough. Several times we took a GPS reading to a KNOWN location. Known as in to 8 digits. For those who don't know what that means, here's a link:
http://www.adtdl.army.mil/cgi-bin/atdl.dll
The GPS was consistently off by at least 30 meters. That may not sound like a lot, but when you are calling for direct fire, 30 meters is the difference between wiping out the enemy and wiping out your squad or platoon.
Yes, the lensatic compass is still standard issue: http://www.rangerjoes.com/catalog/selection.cfm?c
The biggest reason why people wash out of military schools is LandNav [well, and PT I guess]. No combat soldier trusts his luck to a contraption that may/may not be accurate.
Of course this doesn't apply to helicopter pilots and others. And also it doesn't apply to desert regions like Iraq [see Bravo Two Zero for an example of a GPS must]. But for day to day use I'll take my lensatic compass over a GPS in a heartbeat.
When my money-bleeding company stiffed me.
So I softened it by expensining some goodies at http://wwww.softpro.com. So maybe it isn't so bad.
Hate to say it, but that's the shakes these days. Especially working where you do. Other people have posted it, but you probably agreed to it in your contract, and if you don't like it, then quit or leave the country [as another person wrote]
People love to bitch until a search like that prevents something harmful from happening. Free speech is great, America is great, but don't bitch and complain that people are trying to keep you and us safe.