It's amazing how people can talk about Palin's lack of experience when voting for a PRESIDENT with absolutely no experience running anything, ever. He never even did anything in the senate; he just immediately started running for president.
As Edwards pointed out in the Democrat debates, how could you vote for Obama when he doesn't even vote yes or no in senate votes?
>>There's a lot wrong with the left and the right-wing in this country.
Agreed. If you spend any time at all around people involved in the political machine, it gets very depressing. (I'm voting for Bob Barr this year, myself.)
However, at least the right-wing hasn't yet conceded "the moral high ground to Osama Bin Laden", a statement which would find to be hilarious if the poster wasn't (ostensibly) so serious.
I mean, yeah, while I was sshed into my home computer (and marvelling that they could possibly be so stupid as to allow a default-port ssh connect when trying to build a restrictive firewall), a policeman came in and started checking on people.
It sounds weird to American ears (because policemen are expensive here), but in China, labor is dirt cheap. I once saw a policeman posted full time guarding a "park" which was about 30'x30'.
>>If we study the "bloodbaths" of Rwanda and Cambodia, they are a terrific argument for non-interference by the US. They happened, we ignored them, no problem. (No, I'm not kidding or trolling.)
I really wish you were trolling. Putting cutsey little "air quotes" around bloodbath when talking about the 1 to 4 million people killed by the Khmer Rouge means you're either hideously delusional (in a Chomsky sort of way), or a sociopath.
The Khmer Rouge was one of the most evil regimes our planet has ever seen, and because the US was too pussified to intervene to support the non-mass murdering regime after we got out of Vietnam, we let the murders happen. Cambodia is the poster child for intervention.
I'm sorry if this contradicts your shroom-filled notion that Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge was a happy pixy land where the children swam in chocolate rivers...
Excellent post. We forget that Bush's "Obama's wanted Dead or Alive" speech came at the height of his popularity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:George_W_Bush_approval_ratings.svg), and that by and large people approved of this sentiment.
>>they abused their POWs and committed perfidy
While the Japanese treatment of POWs was legendary, I don't think we can really complain about perfidy too much in WWII, given how many freighters we ran under civilian flags. For example, the Halifax explosion killed 2,000 Canadians when a munitions transport flying civilian flags caught on fire, and therefore people didn't know how dangerous it was. It blew with about a quarter of the force of a nuclear weapon.
When I was using the internet in various cafes in Beijing, I didn't notice any blocks from sites I wanted to visit. I could update my livejournal, and ssh to my computer in America, so I'm not really sure what the great firewall really could accomplish. I mean, I could feasibly tunnel all of my connection through the ssh link, after all.
That said, while I was ssh-ed into my home computer, a Beijing police officer came in and started walking around looking at people's computers...
"while a lot of the John McCain ads are frankly embarrassing"
They *ought* to be embarassing to Obama, but the media gives him a free pass on it, pooh-poohing his association with people who say a lot about his character, instead saying shame on McCain for daring to smear the messiah. McCain was the guy calling for reform for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, but he has been labeled "part of the Bush administration" by the O-camp, and the media lets it pass. Obama has gotten by far and away the most money per year from Fannie Mae, and the second highest overall in the past 25 years, and the media lets it slide.
Obama has run successfully a Seinfeld campaign - say nothing of substance, try to keep it positive and upbeat. He knows that when he actually talks substance, he comes across as a raving lunatic, so he just talks about positive change and the audacity of hope, etc., while the press lets it slide. On the contrary, when Couric asked Palin what McCain had done about the housing crisis, and Palin said (correctly) McCain had called for reform back in 2004, Couric said, "Yes, well, besides that," pressing for ever-more details while the question was actually answered correctly, because she knows that Palin gets flustered easily and can't talk off the cuff very well. If the media pressed Obama just as hard for details, Obama's rating would be in single digits.
Yeah, as I said, I have nightly backups to another internal drive and to an external 1TB USB drive (which mirrors the whole RAID0 drive). Mainly, I use RAID0 since it makes a very noticeable difference in boot times and load times in games. It might die, but I shouldn't lose any data.
Hmm, how do you rotate in drives in a RAID0 configuration? I know how to do it in a RAID1 or RAID5 setup, but I don't see how to do it in RAID0 without doing something like cloning the drives.
>>RAID 0 is only redundancy, and doesn't do anything to protect data in any way beyond what the file system might do.
??
RAID0 is striping. It's not only not redundant, but it lowers your MTBF on your aggregate drive.
>>If someone steals the SAN, we have a backup and an insurance agent. Fortunately, it's not AIG.
Yeah, theft is really my biggest worry. With two drives getting backups (one inside the machine, one external), a thief coming in and stealing the lot is my worst case scenario. I can't automatically backup to the FTP, so I have to manually remember to do it from time to time, and I'm pretty lazy about that kind of stuff.
>>Seriously, you're kidding yourself if you think RAID is protecting you.
It's a question of what type of faults you care about. Right now, I have a 500GB RAID0 setup to boot and play games off of, an internal 250GB hard drive that mirrors my important folders every night, an external drive that both mirrors my important documents and is used when I shuttle between my two home offices, and an FTP server in a different city that I back up most of my small and important files to (I ain't sending my Snoop Dogg discography over my DSL line). Each has a different failure mode and risk factor. The RAID0 is most vulnerable to hard drive death (though it's been running since '04 without any problems, and my HD health monitors show it in good shape), the second internal drive (which would have been a RAID5 drive, except RAID5 sucks ass on my controller) is vulnerable to theft (steal the RAID0, steal the extra drive too), the USB drive is also vulnerable to theft, though perhaps a different kind of thief (it can be stolen from my car, for example), and the FTP server is slow as shit, but relatively secure.
I'm relatively lazy about doing backups, but having automated stuff to handle all of it makes it not much of a hassle.
>>What if Wikipedia is a symptom of a much larger problem in our culture?
Amen to that. I've found factual errors in wikipedia which are pretty easily disprovable, but because some retard on the internet has a web page that 10 people read supporting it, it's "verifiable". When trying to remove it, if there's any people who agree with the fake fact for political reasons, they will do everything they can to keep it in the article, or even make it the "consensus" view on the subject, even if it's demonstrably false.
What we're looking at is a mutated version of Marx's theory of truth, which is that there's the less-important "factual truth" and the more-important "greater truth", which conveys the point we're trying to get across... and who cares if it's factually accurate or not? For example, suppose that there's pretty much incontrovertible evidence that Julius Rosenberg was guilty. This is the factual truth. The greater truth is that America is evil and hates jews/communists/take your pick, and that we should not let mere facts get in the way with the story we're trying to convey.
In other words, as opposed to the most common historical view of truth (truth is what is in reality), this new Marxist view of truth states that truth is whatever best serves our purposes.
Yeah, I mean, didn't the same summary say that they volunteered to release it?
My guess is that they'll conclusively find that the astronaut had DNA which ensured she'd be an astronaut. It's amazing how powerful your results are when you have a sample size of 1.
Ours is a real Bill of Rights, so to speak, as it is not a law (which can be overturned easily with another law) but a series of constitutional amendments. There's also a fundamental difference in that ours is a set of negative rights for the government instead of enumerating positive rights for the people.
>>Unfortunately, a couple of incidents is enough to put the lie to that statement.
There's incidents, and then there's incidents. Nuclear incidents sound scary, but pale in comparison to the tens of thousands of people that die every year from the side effects of coal power, including mining disasters, pollution, and possibly radiation. Since these deaths aren't scary like nuclear "incidents" are, we assign them a much lower value, even though its inarguable that nuclear power is safer.
>>The sad thing is that people make what should be serious economic arguments based on urban myths.
Right, like nuclear reactors being dangerous.:p
I'd much rather live next to a nuclear plant than a coal one.
>>What killed nuclear power in the US was decades of low energy prices.
No, it was The China Syndrome, Chernobyl, and decades of amazingly misguided environmental protests. They're still protesting nuclear plants, and doing everything they can to block new ones from being made, which is why Bush gave a guarantee to people wanting to build nuclear plants that the government would cover the cost of dealing with NIMBY lawsuits. We're also still paying a surcharge here in California to decommission our nuclear plants.
>>A nuclear plant that costed as little per kw as a coal fired plant probably would leak radiation -- just not be design. Modern coal fired power plant cost about $1300/kw of capacity, as opposed to over $2000/kw for nuclear plants.
Nuclear is the only energy source which gives comparable cost per KW to coal.
>>With respect to radiation, it's a natural aspect of the environment.
Sure, but we're talking about 490 person-REMs per year for people living nearby a coal plant.
>>2. It is "Nucular." And therefore the NIMBY crowd will kill it with fire.
The sad thing is that these people, by killing nuclear power, have released countless amounts of radioactive pollution into the atmosphere, because coal plants actually emit radiation, but nuclear plants don't.
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It's amazing how people can talk about Palin's lack of experience when voting for a PRESIDENT with absolutely no experience running anything, ever. He never even did anything in the senate; he just immediately started running for president.
As Edwards pointed out in the Democrat debates, how could you vote for Obama when he doesn't even vote yes or no in senate votes?
>>There's a lot wrong with the left and the right-wing in this country.
Agreed. If you spend any time at all around people involved in the political machine, it gets very depressing. (I'm voting for Bob Barr this year, myself.)
However, at least the right-wing hasn't yet conceded "the moral high ground to Osama Bin Laden", a statement which would find to be hilarious if the poster wasn't (ostensibly) so serious.
Joking about what?
I mean, yeah, while I was sshed into my home computer (and marvelling that they could possibly be so stupid as to allow a default-port ssh connect when trying to build a restrictive firewall), a policeman came in and started checking on people.
It sounds weird to American ears (because policemen are expensive here), but in China, labor is dirt cheap. I once saw a policeman posted full time guarding a "park" which was about 30'x30'.
Heh, neat, I used an internet cafe in Zhengzhou. I believe I paid in advance, though the details are kind of hazy now.
>>You mean, like... to get her name because she is totally hot (she is).
Pics or it didn't exist. ;)
Heh, just kidding.
Piao liang de nu ren, gei wo tiao wu...
>>If we study the "bloodbaths" of Rwanda and Cambodia, they are a terrific argument for non-interference by the US. They happened, we ignored them, no problem. (No, I'm not kidding or trolling.)
I really wish you were trolling. Putting cutsey little "air quotes" around bloodbath when talking about the 1 to 4 million people killed by the Khmer Rouge means you're either hideously delusional (in a Chomsky sort of way), or a sociopath.
The Khmer Rouge was one of the most evil regimes our planet has ever seen, and because the US was too pussified to intervene to support the non-mass murdering regime after we got out of Vietnam, we let the murders happen. Cambodia is the poster child for intervention.
I'm sorry if this contradicts your shroom-filled notion that Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge was a happy pixy land where the children swam in chocolate rivers...
Excellent post. We forget that Bush's "Obama's wanted Dead or Alive" speech came at the height of his popularity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:George_W_Bush_approval_ratings.svg), and that by and large people approved of this sentiment.
>>they abused their POWs and committed perfidy
While the Japanese treatment of POWs was legendary, I don't think we can really complain about perfidy too much in WWII, given how many freighters we ran under civilian flags. For example, the Halifax explosion killed 2,000 Canadians when a munitions transport flying civilian flags caught on fire, and therefore people didn't know how dangerous it was. It blew with about a quarter of the force of a nuclear weapon.
>>Moral high ground: Osama bin Laden.
I think this statement right here is what's wrong with the left-wing in America, in a nutshell.
>>but then that's socialism so half the population would go run shrieking in terror
If you want to kill the American economy, go socialistic. It's as simple as that.
When I was using the internet in various cafes in Beijing, I didn't notice any blocks from sites I wanted to visit. I could update my livejournal, and ssh to my computer in America, so I'm not really sure what the great firewall really could accomplish. I mean, I could feasibly tunnel all of my connection through the ssh link, after all.
That said, while I was ssh-ed into my home computer, a Beijing police officer came in and started walking around looking at people's computers...
"while a lot of the John McCain ads are frankly embarrassing"
They *ought* to be embarassing to Obama, but the media gives him a free pass on it, pooh-poohing his association with people who say a lot about his character, instead saying shame on McCain for daring to smear the messiah. McCain was the guy calling for reform for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, but he has been labeled "part of the Bush administration" by the O-camp, and the media lets it pass. Obama has gotten by far and away the most money per year from Fannie Mae, and the second highest overall in the past 25 years, and the media lets it slide.
Obama has run successfully a Seinfeld campaign - say nothing of substance, try to keep it positive and upbeat. He knows that when he actually talks substance, he comes across as a raving lunatic, so he just talks about positive change and the audacity of hope, etc., while the press lets it slide. On the contrary, when Couric asked Palin what McCain had done about the housing crisis, and Palin said (correctly) McCain had called for reform back in 2004, Couric said, "Yes, well, besides that," pressing for ever-more details while the question was actually answered correctly, because she knows that Palin gets flustered easily and can't talk off the cuff very well. If the media pressed Obama just as hard for details, Obama's rating would be in single digits.
Warhammer just prints a message across the screen that you killed the dragon, or whatever, with no quest item looting pretty much ever.
Yeah, as I said, I have nightly backups to another internal drive and to an external 1TB USB drive (which mirrors the whole RAID0 drive). Mainly, I use RAID0 since it makes a very noticeable difference in boot times and load times in games. It might die, but I shouldn't lose any data.
Hmm, how do you rotate in drives in a RAID0 configuration? I know how to do it in a RAID1 or RAID5 setup, but I don't see how to do it in RAID0 without doing something like cloning the drives.
>>RAID 0 is only redundancy, and doesn't do anything to protect data in any way beyond what the file system might do.
??
RAID0 is striping. It's not only not redundant, but it lowers your MTBF on your aggregate drive.
>>If someone steals the SAN, we have a backup and an insurance agent. Fortunately, it's not AIG.
Yeah, theft is really my biggest worry. With two drives getting backups (one inside the machine, one external), a thief coming in and stealing the lot is my worst case scenario. I can't automatically backup to the FTP, so I have to manually remember to do it from time to time, and I'm pretty lazy about that kind of stuff.
>>Seriously, you're kidding yourself if you think RAID is protecting you.
It's a question of what type of faults you care about. Right now, I have a 500GB RAID0 setup to boot and play games off of, an internal 250GB hard drive that mirrors my important folders every night, an external drive that both mirrors my important documents and is used when I shuttle between my two home offices, and an FTP server in a different city that I back up most of my small and important files to (I ain't sending my Snoop Dogg discography over my DSL line). Each has a different failure mode and risk factor. The RAID0 is most vulnerable to hard drive death (though it's been running since '04 without any problems, and my HD health monitors show it in good shape), the second internal drive (which would have been a RAID5 drive, except RAID5 sucks ass on my controller) is vulnerable to theft (steal the RAID0, steal the extra drive too), the USB drive is also vulnerable to theft, though perhaps a different kind of thief (it can be stolen from my car, for example), and the FTP server is slow as shit, but relatively secure.
I'm relatively lazy about doing backups, but having automated stuff to handle all of it makes it not much of a hassle.
>>What if Wikipedia is a symptom of a much larger problem in our culture?
Amen to that. I've found factual errors in wikipedia which are pretty easily disprovable, but because some retard on the internet has a web page that 10 people read supporting it, it's "verifiable". When trying to remove it, if there's any people who agree with the fake fact for political reasons, they will do everything they can to keep it in the article, or even make it the "consensus" view on the subject, even if it's demonstrably false.
What we're looking at is a mutated version of Marx's theory of truth, which is that there's the less-important "factual truth" and the more-important "greater truth", which conveys the point we're trying to get across... and who cares if it's factually accurate or not? For example, suppose that there's pretty much incontrovertible evidence that Julius Rosenberg was guilty. This is the factual truth. The greater truth is that America is evil and hates jews/communists/take your pick, and that we should not let mere facts get in the way with the story we're trying to convey.
In other words, as opposed to the most common historical view of truth (truth is what is in reality), this new Marxist view of truth states that truth is whatever best serves our purposes.
>>Shocking disregard for personal privacy?
Yeah, I mean, didn't the same summary say that they volunteered to release it?
My guess is that they'll conclusively find that the astronaut had DNA which ensured she'd be an astronaut. It's amazing how powerful your results are when you have a sample size of 1.
It's actually a more technical point than that.
Ours is a real Bill of Rights, so to speak, as it is not a law (which can be overturned easily with another law) but a series of constitutional amendments. There's also a fundamental difference in that ours is a set of negative rights for the government instead of enumerating positive rights for the people.
The US has already ruled you can't be forced to give out an encryption key.
It's nice having a Bill of Rights, ain't it?
Laugh at all the British who say such a thing is unnecessary.
Both my aunt and dad play the banjo, and I learned to play it back in the day for a high school project.
Sheesh, have a sense of humor.
>>Unfortunately, a couple of incidents is enough to put the lie to that statement.
There's incidents, and then there's incidents. Nuclear incidents sound scary, but pale in comparison to the tens of thousands of people that die every year from the side effects of coal power, including mining disasters, pollution, and possibly radiation. Since these deaths aren't scary like nuclear "incidents" are, we assign them a much lower value, even though its inarguable that nuclear power is safer.
Q: What's the difference between a banjo and a trampoline?
A: People take off their shoes before jumping on a trampoline.
Q: Ever hear someone say, "Hey, there's that mansion where that famous banjo player lives?"
A: No, and you never will
>>The sad thing is that people make what should be serious economic arguments based on urban myths.
Right, like nuclear reactors being dangerous. :p
I'd much rather live next to a nuclear plant than a coal one.
>>What killed nuclear power in the US was decades of low energy prices.
No, it was The China Syndrome, Chernobyl, and decades of amazingly misguided environmental protests. They're still protesting nuclear plants, and doing everything they can to block new ones from being made, which is why Bush gave a guarantee to people wanting to build nuclear plants that the government would cover the cost of dealing with NIMBY lawsuits. We're also still paying a surcharge here in California to decommission our nuclear plants.
>>A nuclear plant that costed as little per kw as a coal fired plant probably would leak radiation -- just not be design. Modern coal fired power plant cost about $1300/kw of capacity, as opposed to over $2000/kw for nuclear plants.
Nuclear is the only energy source which gives comparable cost per KW to coal.
>>With respect to radiation, it's a natural aspect of the environment.
Sure, but we're talking about 490 person-REMs per year for people living nearby a coal plant.
http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text/colmain.html
>>Bigger concerns includethe waste generated from processing fuel, dealing with spent fuel, and decommissioning the plants
France has solved all of these issues with breeder reactors; all of their waste is held in a single swimming pool.
>>2. It is "Nucular." And therefore the NIMBY crowd will kill it with fire.
The sad thing is that these people, by killing nuclear power, have released countless amounts of radioactive pollution into the atmosphere, because coal plants actually emit radiation, but nuclear plants don't.
Sigh.
I think the fact that it had an 11 hour conversation with an emo teen girl is pretty clear signs it's NOT a human.
Most men have committed suicide by the 4th hour.