As opposed to a lot of inmate on inmate/guard murder from lack of isolation?
Some Federal (BOP) inmates are sent to Florence because there is no other safe place to keep them, and those around them, alive. It costs many times more to house them there than in the normal FCI population.
They don't send them there for revenge either. They have another program for that; transferring an inmate from one facility to another, over and over, never at one place long enough for money or mail to catch up. They call it diesel therapy.
compostable biodegradeable organic clamshells and food containers
That you then ship north to Snohomish County to sit and rot in the sun. Then, once it stops stinking, you by it all back in plastic bags and plant your organic veggies in it. Rinse and repeat.
How about a huge compost hill at UW main campus? Own the whole cycle!
No Will, it gets turned to compost in Marysville. Trust me, I smell it every day. Don't tell me that Seattle's shit doesn't smell!
And why do we recycle paper? It's already sequestered carbon. Just grow more trees if you want more paper. That way you take more carbon out of the air and put more people to work. Store all the old paper in Yucca Mountain since they are never going to get the Hanford crap moved there.
Oh, and that 7509 from back in the day... I hosted images.slashdot.com through it to a Pent 133 running slackware. Rob had maxed out his T1 and needed to offload some bandwidth. I had a cool boss that said, "That looks like a cool site, sure."
I hear you on the rack stuff. I've got enough stashed away to start a small ISP, if it was 2003 again. Glad I passed on that Cisco 7509 a few years back. But I remember back in the late 90s we were the hot kids on the block (or in the telco hotel) with a pair of T3s going into one.
It's sad how some of this stuff ages, and how loud the fans are.
My wife and I recently purchased a very well cared for 2001 Volvo S60. Almost all the people that have seen it are surprised that it is not a new car. It was the first year of that body style and the carried it through to 2010 so it still has fairly modern lines. But it still has 130k miles and cost us $4300. To me it's like a new car after years with the '93 Saturn!
In the same vain I work in IT and just took home an old box from work left over from the latest round of upgrades. It's an HP dc7900 Core2 box with 16MB RAM, Nvidia business graphics card and I stuck in an SSD. With a couple of 22" screens it will serve as my home development box for many years. I'm not much of a gamer so this old Acad engineering box is like a new computer to me.
I just can't really see having to have the latest and greatest anymore. It's not worth the time or money.
We got a few HTC Windows Phone 8X from T-Mobile to send with those in our company that travel overseas. From the little I've played with them they are not a bad phone/OS. I can say that it's simple stupid to get Outlook running on them, which is why we got them in the first place.
The interface is responsive and easy to understand if you run Windows all day.
We also got some of the Samsung Windows 8 tablets. Not so happy with those but I'm not really a tablet guy anyway. We got them because we needed a tablet that would run AutoCAD but agile enough for working inside an airliner while configuring/installing the cabin. They work about as good as they can for that application but that's about all I can say.
And to further the line of barons I can name two of those wireline companies that came out of the railroads. Sprint (Southern Pacific Internal Network Telecommunications) and Qwest (BNSF) used the railroad right of way to lay fiber. Back in the wire/fiber days, right of way was king.
McCaw did a trick with Clearwire. He, where he could, bypassed the wire. He built it up mostly using Dragonwave microwave links using both mobile-wireless and point-to-point wireless spectrum that he is so good at getting. Clearwire was made to be sold. It was really the first turn-key mobile spectrum sale. (I contracted to Clearwire for most of a year building out the network as a commissioning engineer, i.e. I would turn up data centers once they were built.)
because they started later, without all the baggage of powerful existing telecoms.
No, because the new telecoms didn't have to also support the existing legacy wire outside plant. Remember that most of the mobile companies grew out of wireline companies.
We get HP6300's with W8 stickers but W7 pro on them from CDW. I don't image mostly because it doesn't work too well with AutoCAD. We have NO PLANS to "upgrade" to W8. Hell, I'm still prying the last few XP boxes out of cold dead fingers. I only load maybe 2-3 a week so it's not much of a problem. We still use the XP VMs a lot for accessing data from various aerospace partners. Each one seems to need it's own specific version of IE with just the right settings and plug-ins.
But yeah, 8 ain't going to fly here, now with dual screen workstations and AutoCAD.
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As opposed to a lot of inmate on inmate/guard murder from lack of isolation?
Some Federal (BOP) inmates are sent to Florence because there is no other safe place to keep them, and those around them, alive. It costs many times more to house them there than in the normal FCI population.
They don't send them there for revenge either. They have another program for that; transferring an inmate from one facility to another, over and over, never at one place long enough for money or mail to catch up. They call it diesel therapy.
Not here in Washington State. But the police will give you some free munchies. Oh, you will get a ticket for smoking indoors though.
compostable biodegradeable organic clamshells and food containers
That you then ship north to Snohomish County to sit and rot in the sun. Then, once it stops stinking, you by it all back in plastic bags and plant your organic veggies in it. Rinse and repeat.
How about a huge compost hill at UW main campus? Own the whole cycle!
..It all gets turned into compost here..
No Will, it gets turned to compost in Marysville. Trust me, I smell it every day. Don't tell me that Seattle's shit doesn't smell!
And why do we recycle paper? It's already sequestered carbon. Just grow more trees if you want more paper. That way you take more carbon out of the air and put more people to work. Store all the old paper in Yucca Mountain since they are never going to get the Hanford crap moved there.
You come in with the World Book Encyclopedia and now exist with the Internet. I think we got fucking lucky.
Wanted in Washington or something?
In the words of former Gov. Tom McCall, "Welcome to Oregon! Now please go home."
Oh, and that 7509 from back in the day... I hosted images.slashdot.com through it to a Pent 133 running slackware. Rob had maxed out his T1 and needed to offload some bandwidth. I had a cool boss that said, "That looks like a cool site, sure."
Anyone got some HSSI cables to connect to... fuck, I don't know what.
The 10th Doctor had a beefcake sidekick, Capt. Jack Harkness.
You're right, Gigs. I must be getting old.
I hear you on the rack stuff. I've got enough stashed away to start a small ISP, if it was 2003 again. Glad I passed on that Cisco 7509 a few years back. But I remember back in the late 90s we were the hot kids on the block (or in the telco hotel) with a pair of T3s going into one.
It's sad how some of this stuff ages, and how loud the fans are.
My wife and I recently purchased a very well cared for 2001 Volvo S60. Almost all the people that have seen it are surprised that it is not a new car. It was the first year of that body style and the carried it through to 2010 so it still has fairly modern lines. But it still has 130k miles and cost us $4300. To me it's like a new car after years with the '93 Saturn!
In the same vain I work in IT and just took home an old box from work left over from the latest round of upgrades. It's an HP dc7900 Core2 box with 16MB RAM, Nvidia business graphics card and I stuck in an SSD. With a couple of 22" screens it will serve as my home development box for many years. I'm not much of a gamer so this old Acad engineering box is like a new computer to me.
I just can't really see having to have the latest and greatest anymore. It's not worth the time or money.
Yes, for the most part. And these guys just do cabin reconfigurations.
"I lost all my mapped drives and AutoCAD says my license is bad!"
"Yes, that's what happens when you connect the wifi to the Lowe's next door."
I'm working IT in aerospace now. Not a day goes by that I don't mutter to myself, "and these guys build airplanes."
The smeg you say!
We got a few HTC Windows Phone 8X from T-Mobile to send with those in our company that travel overseas. From the little I've played with them they are not a bad phone/OS. I can say that it's simple stupid to get Outlook running on them, which is why we got them in the first place.
The interface is responsive and easy to understand if you run Windows all day.
We also got some of the Samsung Windows 8 tablets. Not so happy with those but I'm not really a tablet guy anyway. We got them because we needed a tablet that would run AutoCAD but agile enough for working inside an airliner while configuring/installing the cabin. They work about as good as they can for that application but that's about all I can say.
And to further the line of barons I can name two of those wireline companies that came out of the railroads. Sprint (Southern Pacific Internal Network Telecommunications) and Qwest (BNSF) used the railroad right of way to lay fiber. Back in the wire/fiber days, right of way was king.
McCaw did a trick with Clearwire. He, where he could, bypassed the wire. He built it up mostly using Dragonwave microwave links using both mobile-wireless and point-to-point wireless spectrum that he is so good at getting. Clearwire was made to be sold. It was really the first turn-key mobile spectrum sale. (I contracted to Clearwire for most of a year building out the network as a commissioning engineer, i.e. I would turn up data centers once they were built.)
because they started later, without all the baggage of powerful existing telecoms.
No, because the new telecoms didn't have to also support the existing legacy wire outside plant. Remember that most of the mobile companies grew out of wireline companies.
What are these various catholic denominations you're talking about? Lutherans?
BoA charges $6.00 if you don't have an account on a check issued by them.
Ah, you did mention scumbags. Never mind.
25 years ago D-Star would have been considered encryption. I've got friends that run P25 on UHF, they just publish the key on their website.
We get HP6300's with W8 stickers but W7 pro on them from CDW. I don't image mostly because it doesn't work too well with AutoCAD. We have NO PLANS to "upgrade" to W8. Hell, I'm still prying the last few XP boxes out of cold dead fingers. I only load maybe 2-3 a week so it's not much of a problem. We still use the XP VMs a lot for accessing data from various aerospace partners. Each one seems to need it's own specific version of IE with just the right settings and plug-ins.
But yeah, 8 ain't going to fly here, now with dual screen workstations and AutoCAD.
Electronic signatures with ARX on Word, Acrobat, and AutoCAD for the FAA, Boeing, Airbus, and every airline you've ever heard of.
Yeah, we're sticking with Windows 7 for the duration.
I'm so looking forward to supporting AutoCAD Inventor in the cloud. Let's see, 100 aerospace engineers and a 20Mb/s pipe. That will work just fine.