Bureaucrats at the FTC don't write the federal budget; that gets decided by congress which is largely owned by business interests.
The US government isn't just some monolith with no capacity for competence; it's pretty much legislators and the military portion of the executive that cause all of the country's problems.
I hate it when I look at a field and start typing only to find out that something else has focus. This happens to me in every GUI I've ever used and if a webcam with gaze vectoring can fix that I'd really like it.
the naked annihilation of even the illusion of capitalism, via the bank bailouts
Free markets tend to lead towards capitalism, but it is not the same thing as capitalism. Those banks that received bailouts are still making capital investments and are able to make their living doing nothing but investing. That is the definition of capitalism.
This is an extremely broad brush that can only be justified by ignoring history. Take El Salvador, for example. I have a lot to complain about what the US did in El Salvador, but there is no doubt US action in that country was in favor of democracy. The US strongly pressed the Salvadoran government to hold elections, and in the end pressured them into a compromise that in my opinion was the best possible outcome of the war. Some people disagree with me on that point, but it is clear that the US was pressing for democracy.
You should read the history again. The US funded the military dictatorship for 12 years against a popular coalition trying to overthrow them. The side the US supported was the one with the "death squads" and was also the one that held the fraudulent elections that instigated the initial protests (which were met with violence).
This is just fine, of course, since the Salvadrucos were trying to put leftists into their government and the US knew that was not in the best interest of the people there. Silly El Salvador, trying to install the wrong kind of popularly supported government!
the countries where we did stop Communism are markedly better off now, in particular North vs. South Korea.
This might have something to do with the war killing 1/4 of all North Koreans and utterly destroying all of its infrastructure, followed by economic sanctions that would bring any country to mass starvation.
Now, years later, we know that the primary achievement of the whole Iraq war effort has been to transform their country from a secular dictatorship to a theocratic dictatorship.
It's worth mentioning that most American foreign interventions before Iraq had been for the purpose of removing democratically elected politicians and replacing them with pro-US dictators. The missions don't always succeed, but the outcome is always disastrous for the inhabitants.
Next time a anyone mentions "liberating" a foreign country, think about the Philippines, Chile, Indonesia, El Salvador, Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran, Vietnam, Laos, Afghanistan, Guatemala, the Seminoles, and Haiti. I've probably missed a few in there, but anyone with a grasp of US history with regard to foreign interventions should be quite skeptical of any claims of "liberation" or "promoting democracy" abroad.
But there is a way to minimize the impact, correct? Take this vulnerability for example. It might have had an effect on just the one user, but it wasn't going to be able to infect the system folder...
Not true. It affects the system as a whole because packages need root privileges to install.
It's not anti-capitlist. The companies will still be owned by capital investors expecting a return on their investment. Perhaps a few capitalists will have some of their potential gains transferred to the hands of other capitalists, but the class as a whole would suffer no net loss.
This is America. Capital always wins at the end of the day.
Wouldn't they need about 100,000 computers for it to take one year? And why don't they just use BOINC and enlist random computers and attempt to get more computing power?
Not if they're using CUDA. I did some fairly simple experiments in college and cut compute time on large datasets by 95% using a GeForce (don't remember which one) instead of a Core2 Duo. That was over almost two years ago, so I imagine the modern graphics boards are even better.
Windows has had a stranglehold on laptop orchestras for such a long time that it's really good to be reading about the world's first Linux Laptop Orchestra.
Yes, of course. But consider that Catholicism is both mainstream and infamous while Scientology is still a cult and most people don't really know what it is except that Tom Cruise joined it and went nuts.
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It's a tiny step in the direction of nuclear disarmament, which is a deep point about the fate of humanity.
Bureaucrats at the FTC don't write the federal budget; that gets decided by congress which is largely owned by business interests.
The US government isn't just some monolith with no capacity for competence; it's pretty much legislators and the military portion of the executive that cause all of the country's problems.
I hate it when I look at a field and start typing only to find out that something else has focus. This happens to me in every GUI I've ever used and if a webcam with gaze vectoring can fix that I'd really like it.
function Apple (type) {
this.type = type;
this.color = "red";
this.getInfo = getAppleInfo;
}
var apple = new Apple('macintosh');
What is not OO about this? Maybe there's no keyword for it, but I certainly made a new instance of a class here.
(example from http://www.phpied.com/3-ways-to-define-a-javascript-class/)
It's only 19kb and that tiny transfer only happens once because of browser caching. It's not too big for anything.
Some stories kick so much ass that I don't mind reading them twice.
You may be surprised to read that the Sonora desert is the second most diverse habitat in the world after the Amazon rain forest!
Clearly you have never had to work on software that was designed by someone with no intelligence!
Lithiumhas been a competent host for me. They've got MySQL and Postgres, and it's not too expensive either.
Didn't the Kama Sutra come out of India?
Have you ever tried reading it? It's about as exciting as the Bible (or any other ancient text), though at least it's more relevant.
the naked annihilation of even the illusion of capitalism, via the bank bailouts
Free markets tend to lead towards capitalism, but it is not the same thing as capitalism. Those banks that received bailouts are still making capital investments and are able to make their living doing nothing but investing. That is the definition of capitalism.
This is an extremely broad brush that can only be justified by ignoring history. Take El Salvador, for example. I have a lot to complain about what the US did in El Salvador, but there is no doubt US action in that country was in favor of democracy. The US strongly pressed the Salvadoran government to hold elections, and in the end pressured them into a compromise that in my opinion was the best possible outcome of the war. Some people disagree with me on that point, but it is clear that the US was pressing for democracy.
You should read the history again. The US funded the military dictatorship for 12 years against a popular coalition trying to overthrow them. The side the US supported was the one with the "death squads" and was also the one that held the fraudulent elections that instigated the initial protests (which were met with violence).
This is just fine, of course, since the Salvadrucos were trying to put leftists into their government and the US knew that was not in the best interest of the people there. Silly El Salvador, trying to install the wrong kind of popularly supported government!
the countries where we did stop Communism are markedly better off now, in particular North vs. South Korea.
This might have something to do with the war killing 1/4 of all North Koreans and utterly destroying all of its infrastructure, followed by economic sanctions that would bring any country to mass starvation.
Now, years later, we know that the primary achievement of the whole Iraq war effort has been to transform their country from a secular dictatorship to a theocratic dictatorship.
It's worth mentioning that most American foreign interventions before Iraq had been for the purpose of removing democratically elected politicians and replacing them with pro-US dictators. The missions don't always succeed, but the outcome is always disastrous for the inhabitants.
Next time a anyone mentions "liberating" a foreign country, think about the Philippines, Chile, Indonesia, El Salvador, Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran, Vietnam, Laos, Afghanistan, Guatemala, the Seminoles, and Haiti.
I've probably missed a few in there, but anyone with a grasp of US history with regard to foreign interventions should be quite skeptical of any claims of "liberation" or "promoting democracy" abroad.
Of course they are, but half of them still won't admit it even into adulthood.
I remember when I was a minor on the internet I had access to explicit content.
You know what they're really missing here? Teenaged boys are looking for explicit content and you'll never be able to stop them from finding it.
But there is a way to minimize the impact, correct? Take this vulnerability for example. It might have had an effect on just the one user, but it wasn't going to be able to infect the system folder...
Not true. It affects the system as a whole because packages need root privileges to install.
He scurries in the darkness because he fears the light that is the Sun Source... Sinanju.
So Solaris users are unaffected?
It's not anti-capitlist. The companies will still be owned by capital investors expecting a return on their investment. Perhaps a few capitalists will have some of their potential gains transferred to the hands of other capitalists, but the class as a whole would suffer no net loss.
This is America. Capital always wins at the end of the day.
Wouldn't they need about 100,000 computers for it to take one year? And why don't they just use BOINC and enlist random computers and attempt to get more computing power?
Not if they're using CUDA. I did some fairly simple experiments in college and cut compute time on large datasets by 95% using a GeForce (don't remember which one) instead of a Core2 Duo. That was over almost two years ago, so I imagine the modern graphics boards are even better.
Not even when it's set to vibrate?
Windows has had a stranglehold on laptop orchestras for such a long time that it's really good to be reading about the world's first Linux Laptop Orchestra.
Yes, of course. But consider that Catholicism is both mainstream and infamous while Scientology is still a cult and most people don't really know what it is except that Tom Cruise joined it and went nuts.
I think you're confusing "mainstream" and "infamous"
out in my van
actually it seems I have one right here in my pants