Wave a plan near congress and they're sure to kill it before breakfast.
Sure they will. The aliens don't want our crap in outer space at least until we can handle our problems like adult persons instead of reacting emotionally to every single difference between us. So, what's better than keep tabs in the govment of the only country that can fund such stuff?
After all, the market's already shown it's willing to pay ten bucks, right?
Partially right. Part of the market is already paying ten bucks. But a large part of the market is paying three for a crack stone when they could get stoned (hehe) with your industrial coke. If it's not illegal -- and if it does not require a trip to the favela's dope-selling-point, a lot of people would try it, too. Today, you can be incarcerated for sniffing some white, eating some candy or smoking some pot. If this restriction falls, a lot of people will want to try them.
And some poor cancer/aids/glaucoma patients would have their THC in pills to alleviate their simptoms.
Apart from preparation, and the economic thing, there is not one good reason for maintaing the "War on *".
... that the government stop trying to aprehend and prosecute hard drug users/dealers?
YES. YES. YES. The day you can buy 100mg of pure-brand, made by a certified lab, coke in the farmacy, it will cost a nickel instead of ten bucks (*), it will cause less ill effects, and after a brief explosion in the demand, things will stabilize again.
(*) in my town,.5 grams of highly-cut (ie. lots of chalk, flour, smashed glass (**) and other garbage) white costs about US$ 10. The cocaine content is probably under 100mg. The pure cost of production of one kilo of coke is around US$ 100, and would fall under US$ 50 if automated.
(**) yes, smashed glass: it cuts the interior of the nostils, making yet another passage for the coke into the bloodstream.
BUT... exists a reason (non-political) for not ending the "War On *" things: the economic depression that will follow. The problem is, today you have some goods that are sold with enourmous profits to compensate for the offer/demand imbalance. This money goes to the hands of the big dealers -- and their servants, and the supplier of the "normal" goods they all buy (cars, houses, dinners, clothes, etc). When you yank this enourmous profit margin from the economy, you'll slow down a lot the production of these "normal" goods... This, and the fact that your health system would have to absorb the impact of treating those addicts, and the fact that you'll put all those guys in the DEA and the drug precincts out of their jobs, etc, etc, etc...
180degrees and the thing will hit you 2hours later, in your next orbital round. You want to jettison it 90degrees, ie, in the direction of the center of the Earth. It will describe a nice long spiral (angular speed of 20000 and centripetal of 200, plot a graph) and burn in the atmosphere.
I was breast-fed 17 days. My younger brother was breast-fed 2 years. Altough we live in Brasil (more butt-lovers than tit-) I give a really higher value to breasts than my brother. Quod erat demonstratum.
A neighbour of mine had a Chevette 84 (originally 1.4 gasoline 70cv) retrofitted with a turbo 4.2 GM engine with 350cv or so. Obviously he changed a lot of other stuff as well, like brakes, transmission, suspension, etc, but the point is that the engine fit under the hood (with some effort -- he had to make a larger air intake in the front and he also had to put the battery and some other stuff in the trunk), so he put it there. And it worked like a charm.
This is the best idea. EVER. No lawyer fees. No frills. Just secretly hang the goatse and/or tubgirl in front of this. Hilarity ensues. You are a genius, jo42. one megakudos for you.
1. at the present time, we all have a choice. If necessary, we can recycle a lot of oldies for a lot of time for a lot of purposes. Showcase #1: I work for the State House in my state, and we have a lot of 6-8 yo servers. 2. hardware, without DMCA, cannot lock anyone out. I fully agree with Bruce Schneier's CRYPTO-GRAM on this: if I have the key and the cyphertext, I have the cleartext no matter what you want me to do. 3. this comes to that: if there is one single country producing "unprotected" hardware, a LOT of people -- like me -- will chose them and it will damage or even ruin the "protected" makers. so, yes, there will be alternatives, and I predict exactly the opposite: in 10 years this TrustedComputing thing will be completely forgotten. 4. and it can be made in a lot of places, under a lot of laws and a lot of cultural differences.
Yes, Microsoft is big, but it is not -- yet -- bigger than the entire industry. If they try to lock a lot of people out, they will be locked out too... And you can't forget cases like Brasil and other South American countries that are beginning to see that Microsoft is a drain of money, expertise, and security out of the country in exchange for nothing.
No. The better hope is we try to make Free Software better, better than all alternatives, because than, the market laws will lock THEM out of the money vault.
You have one wrong point (the same of the brother [Smallpond] post) and one right.
1 (wrong). Pointers: Partial Template Specialization enable at compile-time all the optimizations that the lax aliasing rules of C++ normally would disable. Good c++ numeric libraries are full of well-tought, well-defined PTSs that make the hard work for you.
2 (right). Portability: Yes, this is a plus for Fortran. But what I said in my original post is about New Code To Be Written. I really doubt any 21st century engineers need their code to run the the PDP11, so, to write new engineering code, I would surely go with C++ and a good numeric library.
Why? because anything I would write in FORTRAN I can write with equal expressiveness and efficiency in c++.
Notwithstanding the other two irrelevant answers (yes, Brasil is not a continent... but it's a country of continental dimensions and THAT was the metaphor used for those without the sensibility): They can, and they will. Our people is a pacific and pacifist one, we have crappy crappy crappy armed forces less than 1/10 the size of an invasion US force, and to boot we don't have the real strong anti-american force that Muslim countries have. What do you think it would take to a liberation to occur down here? I will give you the recipe:
* assassination of some head PT figures (Lula, Marta & Eduardo, Dirceu, etc) and maybe some other ones (Aecio, Jereissati, FHC, etc); leave the ones who will "play ball". This would eliminate like 90% of the knowledgeable leaderships and make way for any puppet government.
* air-borne bombing of Praça dos Três Poderes in Brasilia, the palaces in Rio, SP, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba, Salvador, Fortaleza, Porto Alegre. Maybe some bombing of the country's biggest favelas would be possible, picturing them as "the safehaven of drug dealers" -- which would not be false, you know.
* after this, is just put some troops in Brasilia or Rio, establishing a new government, and squashing two or three armed forces "tenentadas".
To "liberate" our country, we are just a coup away, and we can't do jack shit about it.
My wife is a D.A., and uses a 486 Compaq that I bought for her when she (that was my gf at the time) passed the exams for her job TEN YEARS AGO (down here District Attorney jobs are gotten by exams, not vote).
It's one of those "integrated" Presarios, and (remember this is pre-iMac era) altough they were expensive, I tought it would be easier for her to assemble wherever she had to go (DA's are sent to small-town districts before they can apply for a transfer -- even today, 10 years later, my wife is the DA of a sub-100,000-people district -- initially, she was sent to a district 700km (~450miles?) away from our home town)
It has 8Mb of RAM, 270Mb HD, and is used up to the present day for the purpose it was bought initially: producing 40+ pages/workday of legal documents.
BTW, I bought it together with a HP500C printer which is still active today, too, and that prints the mentioned workload, and that never ever gave any glitch. I only buy HP cartridges for it, if it matters.
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I did not Get It. What Kopete has to do with AIM? Can you elaborate, please?
No, I meant aliens that think we're just savage monkeys and that don't want us to go out there and crap all over the place.
Yes, I agree. I could never see that coming. But, fact is: NASA sold out to the real-life equivalent of Vulcans, yes.
There are a lot of 13yo prostitutes in LA too, don't you?
Wave a plan near congress and they're sure to kill it before breakfast.
Sure they will. The aliens don't want our crap in outer space at least until we can handle our problems like adult persons instead of reacting emotionally to every single difference between us. So, what's better than keep tabs in the govment of the only country that can fund such stuff?
And in Portuguese, Farmácia is written with F. :-)
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After all, the market's already shown it's willing to pay ten bucks, right?
Partially right. Part of the market is already paying ten bucks. But a large part of the market is paying three for a crack stone when they could get stoned (hehe) with your industrial coke. If it's not illegal -- and if it does not require a trip to the favela's dope-selling-point, a lot of people would try it, too. Today, you can be incarcerated for sniffing some white, eating some candy or smoking some pot. If this restriction falls, a lot of people will want to try them.
And some poor cancer/aids/glaucoma patients would have their THC in pills to alleviate their simptoms.
Apart from preparation, and the economic thing, there is not one good reason for maintaing the "War on *".
... that the government stop trying to aprehend and prosecute hard drug users/dealers?
.5 grams of highly-cut (ie. lots of chalk, flour, smashed glass (**) and other garbage) white costs about US$ 10. The cocaine content is probably under 100mg. The pure cost of production of one kilo of coke is around US$ 100, and would fall under US$ 50 if automated.
YES. YES. YES. The day you can buy 100mg of pure-brand, made by a certified lab, coke in the farmacy, it will cost a nickel instead of ten bucks (*), it will cause less ill effects, and after a brief explosion in the demand, things will stabilize again.
(*) in my town,
(**) yes, smashed glass: it cuts the interior of the nostils, making yet another passage for the coke into the bloodstream.
BUT... exists a reason (non-political) for not ending the "War On *" things: the economic depression that will follow. The problem is, today you have some goods that are sold with enourmous profits to compensate for the offer/demand imbalance. This money goes to the hands of the big dealers -- and their servants, and the supplier of the "normal" goods they all buy (cars, houses, dinners, clothes, etc). When you yank this enourmous profit margin from the economy, you'll slow down a lot the production of these "normal" goods... This, and the fact that your health system would have to absorb the impact of treating those addicts, and the fact that you'll put all those guys in the DEA and the drug precincts out of their jobs, etc, etc, etc...
only in those insane parts of the world. Like the US of A. Down here, "computer programs" are ABSOLUTELY NOT patentable.
180degrees and the thing will hit you 2hours later, in your next orbital round. You want to jettison it 90degrees, ie, in the direction of the center of the Earth. It will describe a nice long spiral (angular speed of 20000 and centripetal of 200, plot a graph) and burn in the atmosphere.
I was breast-fed 17 days. My younger brother was breast-fed 2 years. Altough we live in Brasil (more butt-lovers than tit-) I give a really higher value to breasts than my brother. Quod erat demonstratum.
A neighbour of mine had a Chevette 84 (originally 1.4 gasoline 70cv) retrofitted with a turbo 4.2 GM engine with 350cv or so. Obviously he changed a lot of other stuff as well, like brakes, transmission, suspension, etc, but the point is that the engine fit under the hood (with some effort -- he had to make a larger air intake in the front and he also had to put the battery and some other stuff in the trunk), so he put it there. And it worked like a charm.
This is the best idea. EVER. No lawyer fees. No frills. Just secretly hang the goatse and/or tubgirl in front of this. Hilarity ensues. You are a genius, jo42. one megakudos for you.
Is that the guy will be re-elected.
1. at the present time, we all have a choice. If necessary, we can recycle a lot of oldies for a lot of time for a lot of purposes. Showcase #1: I work for the State House in my state, and we have a lot of 6-8 yo servers.
2. hardware, without DMCA, cannot lock anyone out. I fully agree with Bruce Schneier's CRYPTO-GRAM on this: if I have the key and the cyphertext, I have the cleartext no matter what you want me to do.
3. this comes to that: if there is one single country producing "unprotected" hardware, a LOT of people -- like me -- will chose them and it will damage or even ruin the "protected" makers. so, yes, there will be alternatives, and I predict exactly the opposite: in 10 years this TrustedComputing thing will be completely forgotten.
4. and it can be made in a lot of places, under a lot of laws and a lot of cultural differences.
Yes, Microsoft is big, but it is not -- yet -- bigger than the entire industry. If they try to lock a lot of people out, they will be locked out too... And you can't forget cases like Brasil and other South American countries that are beginning to see that Microsoft is a drain of money, expertise, and security out of the country in exchange for nothing.
No. The better hope is we try to make Free Software better, better than all alternatives, because than, the market laws will lock THEM out of the money vault.
Yes, the empty string.
OpenOffice.org presentation.
I almost fell. Really, you almost, almost got me. :-)
But the Beijing hiring hackers from Taiwan thing denounced you.
Better luck next time.
How sure are you that your C++ code is 512 bit clean?
By using the right numeric library? 100%.
You have one wrong point (the same of the brother [Smallpond] post) and one right.
1 (wrong). Pointers: Partial Template Specialization enable at compile-time all the optimizations that the lax aliasing rules of C++ normally would disable. Good c++ numeric libraries are full of well-tought, well-defined PTSs that make the hard work for you.
2 (right). Portability: Yes, this is a plus for Fortran. But what I said in my original post is about New Code To Be Written. I really doubt any 21st century engineers need their code to run the the PDP11, so, to write new engineering code, I would surely go with C++ and a good numeric library.
Why? because anything I would write in FORTRAN I can write with equal expressiveness and efficiency in c++.
But YMMV -- that's me.
Notwithstanding the other two irrelevant answers (yes, Brasil is not a continent ... but it's a country of continental dimensions and THAT was the metaphor used for those without the sensibility): They can, and they will. Our people is a pacific and pacifist one, we have crappy crappy crappy armed forces less than 1/10 the size of an invasion US force, and to boot we don't have the real strong anti-american force that Muslim countries have. What do you think it would take to a liberation to occur down here? I will give you the recipe:
* assassination of some head PT figures (Lula, Marta & Eduardo, Dirceu, etc) and maybe some other ones (Aecio, Jereissati, FHC, etc); leave the ones who will "play ball". This would eliminate like 90% of the knowledgeable leaderships and make way for any puppet government.
* air-borne bombing of Praça dos Três Poderes in Brasilia, the palaces in Rio, SP, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba, Salvador, Fortaleza, Porto Alegre. Maybe some bombing of the country's biggest favelas would be possible, picturing them as "the safehaven of drug dealers" -- which would not be false, you know.
* after this, is just put some troops in Brasilia or Rio, establishing a new government, and squashing two or three armed forces "tenentadas".
To "liberate" our country, we are just a coup away, and we can't do jack shit about it.
1. Get Linux 2.6.8.1
2. Get Linux 2.4.0
3. left out as an exercise for the reader
4. Show positive result
5. Don't profit, but have fun.
My wife is a D.A., and uses a 486 Compaq that I bought for her when she (that was my gf at the time) passed the exams for her job TEN YEARS AGO (down here District Attorney jobs are gotten by exams, not vote).
It's one of those "integrated" Presarios, and (remember this is pre-iMac era) altough they were expensive, I tought it would be easier for her to assemble wherever she had to go (DA's are sent to small-town districts before they can apply for a transfer -- even today, 10 years later, my wife is the DA of a sub-100,000-people district -- initially, she was sent to a district 700km (~450miles?) away from our home town)
It has 8Mb of RAM, 270Mb HD, and is used up to the present day for the purpose it was bought initially: producing 40+ pages/workday of legal documents.
BTW, I bought it together with a HP500C printer which is still active today, too, and that prints the mentioned workload, and that never ever gave any glitch. I only buy HP cartridges for it, if it matters.
The great masses may have extra money in your country, but in my country, the great masses are just above starving. No, they don't buy just anything.