You are mistaken if you believe the Indians have sovereignty. They have a legal fiction called sovereignty, which isn't real sovereignty. Like I said, talk to somebody who knows.
Soverignty is not being permitted by your masters to run a casino here and there. Sovereignty is deciding you want to run a casino, and not needing permission. Sovereignty is not having to pay tribute to your lords. Ask an Indian friend who he pays taxes to.
The Native American tribes are forbidden to make treaties with any foreign powers. Does that sound like sovereignty? They are forbidden to declare war against the US. Does that sound like sovereignty? They are forced to seek redress of grievence in the courts of an occupying military power.
They did freak out. You just weren't old enough to notice. They used to make DJ's talk over the beginning and end of songs to prevent people from taping them off-air -- despite the fact that it has been ruled legal.
It's interesting that you are so certain that where *I* live isn't "the Real World". A neat little way of discounting everyone's experiences but your own, isn't it? "Oh, you don't live in the Real World (TM). Only I live in the real world!"
News flash, bub. Most people don't live in small towns or the ruburbs, anymore. I'm not particularly thrilled about it, but most people live in cities and the suburbs. Personally, I live in the city of Pittsburgh (PA). Hardly a rich suburb. Maybe I'm just lucky.
This article was not targetted at "you option holders". It was a technical article in a finance journal, and even so, I found it completely comprehensible. I'm not an economist, but I do own a copy of the pocket MBA guide to finance.
Ok, so you're a bit ignorant. That happens, and it can be fixed easily enough, so there's no shame in it. But no, instead you choose to rant and rave at the authors for not dumbing down their article to your reading level. That's arrogance, and that's unforgiveable.
Or a bad broker, or both. Did you do your own taxes? That $4/share difference is a loss on your short-sale, and should have been deducted from your gains.
Tech startups were giving out options for *decades* before Microsoft. Microsoft got bigger, but I wouldn't say they were in the forefront. There were several big tech waves before Microsoft got big.
Not that it's entirely your fault you're wrong, mind you -- if you didn't live through it, it would be pretty hard to learn about it, given the way the mass media seem to ignore anything that happened more than three years or three time zones away.
are why nobody listens to you. There's no effing reason that your friend had to be a pig and try to save the difference between 20% (the cap gains rate) and 36% (his AMT rate) on what, 3 MILLION DOLLARS? Really, if you've got more than 80% of your net worth in one stock, you've gotten very lucky.
He was looking at earnings of three million, and was trying to nickle-and-dime the tax man. The problem is, he didn't know that he had just entered a new financial plane, where $400K is chump change, and he didn't have the common sense to pay somebody for advice, and his ego was too overblown to listen to it anyway.
Oh well. As my daddy used to say -- "A fool and his money don't deserve each other."
Once you've got the reactor, why would you want to mess things up by adding a steam turbine? Just power the truck with the steam! Steam is a great power source, and was used for the first automobiles, until the explosive properties of refined petroleum could be exploited. Most of the water is NOT anywhere near the radioctive bits, it runs through a heat exchanger. No, the radioactive bits can be pretty small and well-contained. Lots of universities have little reactors.
Still does turn out to be a pretty heavy unit, though, and even your fat ass isn't masive enough to justify that kind of power. Now, heavy rail, on the other hand...
A modern nuke-powered train could be practical, with a little work.
I suggest you get a half-dozen like minded guys together, and come some warm July day, wear skirts.
Then, if your management tries to up the ante, you may have yourself grounds for a nice lawsuit. In my experience, they've backed down at this point, but you might get lucky.
CPUs cycles are getting cheaper than I/O and memory bandwidth, but this kind of thing makes it hard to do DMA.
Random access to files is not particularly helped by using the "latest compression techniques", it's more a matter of how you design the filesystem.
You pretty much have to do compression if you're going to do encryption, since uncompressed data will have lots of cribs and repeated series of known data which will make cryptanalysis easier.
Most files are not accessed randomly, and of those that are, most of the file is eventually accessed even if it is done non-sequentially.
Most random accesses occur on pagesize boundaries. Even if you are accessing one single byte in the middle of the page, modern VM-integrated buffer caches will fetch the whole page to do it. So what you need is not the ability to seek to any random point in the middle of the file, but just to any page boundary. Much simpler. You can store tables of these things.
If you write to the middle of the file and blow the compressibility of the data, then you punch out the page and relocate it on the disk. Sequential contiguity suffers, but heck, you weren't accessing this file sequentially anyway, so why are you complaining?
For almost ten years I worked on networked filesystems, and the US government prevented us from adding any kind of "hooks" on the basis that they might be used by furriners to add prohibited crypto.
Now the US Defense Department is paying a bunch of Russians (oh, the irony, the irony) to do exactly this!
And the Bush administrations is paying Osama bin Laden 40 mil for his valiant efforts on behalf of the War on (some) Drugs?
What's next? An invitation for Fidel Castro to spend the night at the White House and drop E with President Junior? Saturday Night Live quits doing White House satires because "we just can't keep up"?
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It's not "just because you use different ISPs". It's because your ISPs just don't have enough traffic in your town to justify peering with each other locally. Believe me, if there were a significant amount of local traffic, they'd just as soon avoid forwarding halfway across the country.
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re your 1. In an ideal world, charging for different classes of service (and volume) would mean that I could run ca. 1989 Internet services practically free of charge: text-only email and a few dozen text newsgroups. Not time-dependent, delay it as much as you like, bury it in your off-peak times. Alas, my pessimism assures me that the marketroids will utterly screw this up as well.
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They've already done it. Not every protocol in use on the Internet is "TCP-friendly". I won't name names, since, um, I was one of the offenders.
In a similar vein, there once was a little project to build a graphical hypertext browser, and they didn't like TCP's slow-start algorithm, so they made it open multiple simultaneous connections to the file server to bypass slow-start. They called that thing Netscape, IIRC.
The interesting thing was that there was very little difference in the lap times - the bike hit higher top speeds on the straights but the car had to slow down much less for the corners.
No surprises here -- four wide tires gives you a LOT more rubber on the road, and it's a lot easier to recover from a four-wheel drift in a car than from a two-wheel drift on a bike.
It's not because you look like you can afford more. It's because their retail division pitched a shit fit when they realized that the web site was likely to undercut their bricks'n'mortar stores. So they make sure that you can't get a better price by using the web than you would get at the nearest strip mall.
When clipper was first floated, the official line was that it would be purely voluntary, perhaps with some financial incentives, but the feds expected it to take off because it was simply superior.
The "paranoid fringe" quickly realized that a voluntary Clipper would be worthless, and predicted that it would be made mandatory, which the government vociferously denied.
Now, these documents show that the government intended Clipper to be mandatory after all. My question is, does anyone remember when they stopped lying about it? I suspect that these documents don't go far enough back to show us what they were privately saying during Clipper I.
but only about stuff that is either (a) not prohibited content or (b) not hosted locally. Preferably the former. C'mon, you can completely trash this farce, with just a little effort! The censors have to investigate everything. The more time they spend investigating bogus complaints, the less time they'll have to find anything real. Get those statistics up to ~3000 complaints, ~100 of which are prohibited content and 3are hosted locally, and then maybe you'll see some action.
I'm just waiting for them to find the face of the Virgin Mary. My neighbor's window does a pretty good Jesus in the wintertime, though at other times it looks like Satan.
Heck, if those Greek dudes could decide that those five stars look like a crab, and these seven look like a bear, then who knows what they would find on Mars?
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You are mistaken if you believe the Indians have sovereignty. They have a legal fiction called sovereignty, which isn't real sovereignty. Like I said, talk to somebody who knows.
Soverignty is not being permitted by your masters to run a casino here and there.
Sovereignty is deciding you want to run a casino, and not needing permission.
Sovereignty is not having to pay tribute to your lords. Ask an Indian friend who he pays taxes to.
The Native American tribes are forbidden to make treaties with any foreign powers. Does that sound like sovereignty?
They are forbidden to declare war against the US. Does that sound like sovereignty?
They are forced to seek redress of grievence in the courts of an occupying military power.
Sovereignty? I don't think so.
They did freak out. You just weren't old enough to notice. They used to make DJ's talk over the beginning and end of songs to prevent people from taping them off-air -- despite the fact that it has been ruled legal.
All power comes from the barrel of a gun.
If you can't keep your sovereignty, you ain't got it.
Just ask the Native Americans.
It's interesting that you are so certain that where *I* live isn't "the Real World". A neat little way of discounting everyone's experiences but your own, isn't it? "Oh, you don't live in the Real World (TM). Only I live in the real world!"
News flash, bub. Most people don't live in small towns or the ruburbs, anymore. I'm not particularly thrilled about it, but most people live in cities and the suburbs. Personally, I live in the city of Pittsburgh (PA). Hardly a rich suburb. Maybe I'm just lucky.
You know, he's only spending a year dead for tax purposes. I'm sure that he'll maintain creative control.
This article was not targetted at "you option holders". It was a technical article in a finance journal, and even so, I found it completely comprehensible. I'm not an economist, but I do own a copy of the pocket MBA guide to finance.
Ok, so you're a bit ignorant. That happens, and it can be fixed easily enough, so there's no shame in it. But no, instead you choose to rant and rave at the authors for not dumbing down their article to your reading level. That's arrogance, and that's unforgiveable.
Or a bad broker, or both. Did you do your own taxes? That $4/share difference is a loss on your short-sale, and should have been deducted from your gains.
Tech startups were giving out options for *decades* before Microsoft. Microsoft got bigger, but I wouldn't say they were in the forefront. There were several big tech waves before Microsoft got big.
Not that it's entirely your fault you're wrong, mind you -- if you didn't live through it, it would be pretty hard to learn about it, given the way the mass media seem to ignore anything that happened more than three years or three time zones away.
are why nobody listens to you.
There's no effing reason that your friend had to be a pig and try to save the difference between 20% (the cap gains rate) and 36% (his AMT rate) on what, 3 MILLION DOLLARS? Really, if you've got more than 80% of your net worth in one stock, you've gotten very lucky.
He was looking at earnings of three million, and was trying to nickle-and-dime the tax man. The problem is, he didn't know that he had just entered a new financial plane, where $400K is chump change, and he didn't have the common sense to pay somebody for advice, and his ego was too overblown to listen to it anyway.
Oh well. As my daddy used to say -- "A fool and his money don't deserve each other."
Once you've got the reactor, why would you want to mess things up by adding a steam turbine? Just power the truck with the steam! Steam is a great power source, and was used for the first automobiles, until the explosive properties of refined petroleum could be exploited. Most of the water is NOT anywhere near the radioctive bits, it runs through a heat exchanger. No, the radioactive bits can be pretty small and well-contained. Lots of universities have little reactors.
Still does turn out to be a pretty heavy unit, though, and even your fat ass isn't masive enough to justify that kind of power. Now, heavy rail, on the other hand...
A modern nuke-powered train could be practical, with a little work.
GSM only encrypts the air-link. This phone encrypts end-to-end.
It doesn't matter whether grandmothers can use it, as long as the average 8-year-old can figure it out.
I suggest you get a half-dozen like minded guys together, and come some warm July day, wear skirts.
Then, if your management tries to up the ante, you may have yourself grounds for a nice lawsuit. In my experience, they've backed down at this point, but you might get lucky.
A few more thoughts:
CPUs cycles are getting cheaper than I/O and memory bandwidth, but this kind of thing makes it hard to do DMA.
Random access to files is not particularly helped by using the "latest compression techniques", it's more a matter of how you design the filesystem.
You pretty much have to do compression if you're going to do encryption, since uncompressed data will have lots of cribs and repeated series of known data which will make cryptanalysis easier.
Most files are not accessed randomly, and of those that are, most of the file is eventually accessed even if it is done non-sequentially.
Most random accesses occur on pagesize boundaries. Even if you are accessing one single byte in the middle of the page, modern VM-integrated buffer caches will fetch the whole page to do it. So what you need is not the ability to seek to any random point in the middle of the file, but just to any page boundary. Much simpler. You can store tables of these things.
If you write to the middle of the file and blow the compressibility of the data, then you punch out the page and relocate it on the disk. Sequential contiguity suffers, but heck, you weren't accessing this file sequentially anyway, so why are you complaining?
For almost ten years I worked on networked filesystems, and the US government prevented us from adding any kind of "hooks" on the basis that they might be used by furriners to add prohibited crypto.
Now the US Defense Department is paying a bunch of Russians (oh, the irony, the irony) to do exactly this!
And the Bush administrations is paying Osama bin Laden 40 mil for his valiant efforts on behalf of the War on (some) Drugs?
What's next? An invitation for Fidel Castro to spend the night at the White House and drop E with President Junior? Saturday Night Live quits doing White House satires because "we just can't keep up"?
It's not "just because you use different ISPs". It's because your ISPs just don't have enough traffic in your town to justify peering with each other locally. Believe me, if there were a significant amount of local traffic, they'd just as soon avoid forwarding halfway across the country.
re your 1. In an ideal world, charging for different classes of service (and volume) would mean that I could run ca. 1989 Internet services practically free of charge: text-only email and a few dozen text newsgroups. Not time-dependent, delay it as much as you like, bury it in your off-peak times. Alas, my pessimism assures me that the marketroids will utterly screw this up as well.
They've already done it. Not every protocol in use on the Internet is "TCP-friendly". I won't name names, since, um, I was one of the offenders.
In a similar vein, there once was a little project to build a graphical hypertext browser, and they didn't like TCP's slow-start algorithm, so they made it open multiple simultaneous connections to the file server to bypass slow-start. They called that thing Netscape, IIRC.
The interesting thing was that there was very little difference in the lap times - the bike hit higher top speeds on the straights but the car had to slow down much less for the corners.
No surprises here -- four wide tires gives you a LOT more rubber on the road, and it's a lot easier to recover from a four-wheel drift in a car than from a two-wheel drift on a bike.
It's not because you look like you can afford more. It's because their retail division pitched a shit fit when they realized that the web site was likely to undercut their bricks'n'mortar stores. So they make sure that you can't get a better price by using the web than you would get at the nearest strip mall.
politics, politics.
Quakers aren't anabaptist.
When clipper was first floated, the official line was that it would be purely voluntary, perhaps with some financial incentives, but the feds expected it to take off because it was simply superior.
The "paranoid fringe" quickly realized that a voluntary Clipper would be worthless, and predicted that it would be made mandatory, which the government vociferously denied.
Now, these documents show that the government intended Clipper to be mandatory after all.
My question is, does anyone remember when they stopped lying about it? I suspect that these documents don't go far enough back to show us what they were privately saying during Clipper I.
So I browsed on over to read the FAQ with my Javascript-enabled Opera, and what did "Top Coder" [sic] decree? I quote:
...
Navigating this site requires one the following browsers with Javascript enabled:
Netscape Navigator version 4 or later.
Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4 or later.
but only about stuff that is either (a) not prohibited content or (b) not hosted locally. Preferably the former. C'mon, you can completely trash this farce, with just a little effort! The censors have to investigate everything. The more time they spend investigating bogus complaints, the less time they'll have to find anything real. Get those statistics up to ~3000 complaints, ~100 of which are prohibited content and 3are hosted locally, and then maybe you'll see some action.
I'm just waiting for them to find the face of the Virgin Mary. My neighbor's window does a pretty good Jesus in the wintertime, though at other times it looks like Satan.
Heck, if those Greek dudes could decide that those five stars look like a crab, and these seven look like a bear, then who knows what they would find on Mars?