How do we Americans manage to retain any hope for any sort of positive change when people who are paid to identify beneficial reforms get fired for upsetting special interests? Doesn't your case prove that it's impossible to effect reform through the system? Do you belive that Democracy in America still exists, and if so, why?
Hasn't that generally been the case for a few decades now, for lots and lots of things?
Yes, but that doesn't mean we should stop complaining about it. No, it means that we should complain louder than ever. There's no reason, besides greed, that these things are not repairable.
The doctrine of prosecutorial immunity puts Ortiz above the law. There are simply too many immunities. Prosecutorial, legislative, judicial, qualified, and sovereign immunities all prevent the justice system from actually providing justice. We can't touch Ortiz for her abuse of power. We can't touch Ashcroft for violating the 4th amendment. We can't touch legislators for passing blatantly unconstitutional laws. We have no power to defend ourselves against the most dangerous criminal organization in the world, the US government.
It will be interesting to see the outcome, but whatever the verdict is, I have no doubts that it will be completely dishonest and someone will have bribed or cajoled their way into it.
I dunno, I have a lot of old computers. I find I spend more time on the ones I didn't have back in the day, because there's more to discover. I was an NES/Genesis/PC kid. These days I play more Atari/C64/Amiga than anything else. I do play a lot of PC games, but that's largely motivated by trying out hardware I never had back then. e.g. Voodoo 2 SLI or wavetable synthesizers or fancy joysticks. Speaking of which, Descent with all three of those is still one of the finest gaming experiences available.
I am also not sure why you also think that a country that was actually attacked by terrorists only two years previously was going to be particularly skeptical about fear mongering either.
Because after a crisis is when people are most susceptible to fear mongering. Is this not obvious? Look at what happened after Sandy Hook, a shit load of fear mongering over guns, people crying "something must be done!", when violent crime is at historical lows.
Politicians use crises as cover for power grabs. That is how fear mongering works. Whenever there is a national tragedy, you will find politicians celebrating the opportunity to ram through bad laws and bad policy. It happens every time, so there's no excuse for being ignorant.
I knew from the moment I saw the planes hit the towers on 9/11/2001 that our overreaction would hurt us far more than the attack did, and I was right. I don't see how anyone could possibly expect anything else. If the way this has played out wasn't obvious from day one, you simply have no clue how the world works.
And being right or wrong in the absence of your own ability to verify makes you ignorant, but it doesn't make you culpable.
If you distort evidence to bolster your reasoning, that absolutely makes you culpable. Being honestly wrong is OK. But the Bush administration was never honest in the run up to Iraq, it was blatantly dishonest, and that was obvious to anyone who paid attention at the time.
Open the layer dialog and click on the empty space to the right of the layer thumbnail. You will see a small chain. Layers with that chain are linked, so if you rotate one they all rotate the same. Link all layers, and you can use Layer->Rotate to rotate the entire image.
At what cost? Over the past 10 years we lost about 3000 people in Afghanistan. In the 10 years before that, we lost about 3000 people in terrorist attacks. This is a draw at best. And that's if and only if you expect a 9/11 attack every 10 years, which is not historically the case.
That's actually a pretty ridiculous assertion. The administration is going to say what they are going to say, and if they lie to us, precisely what intelligence assets to we have to prove them wrong?
Were you paying attention in 2003? It was clear then that most of their intelligence was fabricated. Opposition to the Iraq war produced some of the largest protests ever. Lots of people figured out that they were being lied to.
In the end, we only found out that there were intelligence problems because we went there and had a look around ourselves, which is to say, the army did and they found nothing. We wouldn't have gotten that sort of information any other way.
Bullshit. We could have waited for Hans Blix to finish. But Bush&Co knew that he wouldn't find anything that would support an invasion. Therefore he couldn't be allowed to finish.
Let's remember, the fact that Saddam did not have WMDs would actually have been less surprising if we didn't already know he had them at one point and used them on the Iranians and the Kurds.
The fact that Saddam did not have WMDs was not surprising at all.
In retrospect, I don't see why you think it would have been obvious to the American public that Saddam wouldn't have had weapons that he clearly demonstrated possessing and using in the past
Because there was no physical evidence, only fear mongering.
The fact that he did not have them is something that would not have been immediately apparent to the man on the street.
The man on the street should be able to recognize fear mongering when he sees it. When you hear things like "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud", you KNOW you are being manipulated. It was blatantly obvious in 2003.
I have an issue with Afghanistan. More coalition troops have died in Afghanistan than died in 9/11. And what have we got for it? A dead bin Laden? Even if he would have been able to pull off another 9/11(unlikely), we're losing more lives than we're saving.
I hope this guy is not good, he deserves to be caught. As much as I despise the Bush administrations, they are out of power, and this just looks like personal correspondence. If evidence of wrongdoing is uncovered, this might be justified. But until then, this is just juvenile.
What's wrong with it being in the userspace? At least if it crashes, it doesn't bring the whole kernel down. The process is relaunched by the kernel, and off you go.
In the 80s, there was no such thing as an IBM incompatible PC. The term "PC" was invented by IBM to refer to their brand of computers. A C64 is also a computer that is not a mainframe. The editors of BYTE would certainly not have referred to it as a PC.
The idea is to replace a kernel functionality with few features and several crucial limitations
But those few features are crucial.
The need for this arose primarily with the introduction of kernel mode setting etc.
And what happens when KMS fails? What happens when all you have are VGA text modes?
Will the user space console work in every instance where the current console works? If so, great. If we give up any of the reliability we've grown to rely upon, no thanks. I'd rather have a "lame console" I know will be there, than a full featured console I have to troubleshoot.
For instance where arbitrary rotation was no problem in 2.6 all of a sudden only discrete steps are allowed in 2.8
Use Layer->Transform not Image->Transform. I was able to rotate an image by 0.01 degree. I had to create a 5000x5000 image to be able to see such a slight rotation, but it still rotated almost immediately on my old 2.6ghz C2D.
Get a keyboard with unlabeled keycaps. I use a Das Keyboard with cherry blue switches that is completely blank. If you can't look at the keyboard as a crutch, you're forced to rely on muscle memory, which strengthens very quickly.
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How do we Americans manage to retain any hope for any sort of positive change when people who are paid to identify beneficial reforms get fired for upsetting special interests? Doesn't your case prove that it's impossible to effect reform through the system? Do you belive that Democracy in America still exists, and if so, why?
Hasn't that generally been the case for a few decades now, for lots and lots of things?
Yes, but that doesn't mean we should stop complaining about it. No, it means that we should complain louder than ever. There's no reason, besides greed, that these things are not repairable.
Anything will run fast if you throw gobs of hardware at it.
The doctrine of prosecutorial immunity puts Ortiz above the law. There are simply too many immunities. Prosecutorial, legislative, judicial, qualified, and sovereign immunities all prevent the justice system from actually providing justice. We can't touch Ortiz for her abuse of power. We can't touch Ashcroft for violating the 4th amendment. We can't touch legislators for passing blatantly unconstitutional laws. We have no power to defend ourselves against the most dangerous criminal organization in the world, the US government.
Not everyone who is in to Metal is empty headed.
True, many smart people have bad taste.
How do you do any work when you're interrupted every 5 minutes?
A typical example is copying a file : many APIs provide a way to do it easily but no way to stop it once it is started.
I can stop a copy immediately with 'kill -9'. Why can't your program do what kill does?
Social animals that socialize don't take drugs.
Explain hippies.
It will be interesting to see the outcome, but whatever the verdict is, I have no doubts that it will be completely dishonest and someone will have bribed or cajoled their way into it.
In other words, it's just like the US?
A complete 486 will go for over $100 on eBay. With max ram and a VLB video card, $150 easy.
I dunno, I have a lot of old computers. I find I spend more time on the ones I didn't have back in the day, because there's more to discover. I was an NES/Genesis/PC kid. These days I play more Atari/C64/Amiga than anything else. I do play a lot of PC games, but that's largely motivated by trying out hardware I never had back then. e.g. Voodoo 2 SLI or wavetable synthesizers or fancy joysticks. Speaking of which, Descent with all three of those is still one of the finest gaming experiences available.
Profit seeking capitlists have taken a cut of most of the good that has been done in this world. But the actual good is done by labor.
I am also not sure why you also think that a country that was actually attacked by terrorists only two years previously was going to be particularly skeptical about fear mongering either.
Because after a crisis is when people are most susceptible to fear mongering. Is this not obvious? Look at what happened after Sandy Hook, a shit load of fear mongering over guns, people crying "something must be done!", when violent crime is at historical lows.
Politicians use crises as cover for power grabs. That is how fear mongering works. Whenever there is a national tragedy, you will find politicians celebrating the opportunity to ram through bad laws and bad policy. It happens every time, so there's no excuse for being ignorant.
I knew from the moment I saw the planes hit the towers on 9/11/2001 that our overreaction would hurt us far more than the attack did, and I was right. I don't see how anyone could possibly expect anything else. If the way this has played out wasn't obvious from day one, you simply have no clue how the world works.
And being right or wrong in the absence of your own ability to verify makes you ignorant, but it doesn't make you culpable.
If you distort evidence to bolster your reasoning, that absolutely makes you culpable. Being honestly wrong is OK. But the Bush administration was never honest in the run up to Iraq, it was blatantly dishonest, and that was obvious to anyone who paid attention at the time.
We certainly could have went in with WWII style annihilation and occupied what was left of the country afterwards
And kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people, rather than just thousands of them? And this is a mistake in your eyes?
Open the layer dialog and click on the empty space to the right of the layer thumbnail. You will see a small chain. Layers with that chain are linked, so if you rotate one they all rotate the same. Link all layers, and you can use Layer->Rotate to rotate the entire image.
At what cost? Over the past 10 years we lost about 3000 people in Afghanistan. In the 10 years before that, we lost about 3000 people in terrorist attacks. This is a draw at best. And that's if and only if you expect a 9/11 attack every 10 years, which is not historically the case.
That's actually a pretty ridiculous assertion. The administration is going to say what they are going to say, and if they lie to us, precisely what intelligence assets to we have to prove them wrong?
Were you paying attention in 2003? It was clear then that most of their intelligence was fabricated. Opposition to the Iraq war produced some of the largest protests ever. Lots of people figured out that they were being lied to.
In the end, we only found out that there were intelligence problems because we went there and had a look around ourselves, which is to say, the army did and they found nothing. We wouldn't have gotten that sort of information any other way.
Bullshit. We could have waited for Hans Blix to finish. But Bush&Co knew that he wouldn't find anything that would support an invasion. Therefore he couldn't be allowed to finish.
Let's remember, the fact that Saddam did not have WMDs would actually have been less surprising if we didn't already know he had them at one point and used them on the Iranians and the Kurds.
The fact that Saddam did not have WMDs was not surprising at all.
In retrospect, I don't see why you think it would have been obvious to the American public that Saddam wouldn't have had weapons that he clearly demonstrated possessing and using in the past
Because there was no physical evidence, only fear mongering.
The fact that he did not have them is something that would not have been immediately apparent to the man on the street.
The man on the street should be able to recognize fear mongering when he sees it. When you hear things like "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud", you KNOW you are being manipulated. It was blatantly obvious in 2003.
No one has issue with Afghanistan.
I have an issue with Afghanistan. More coalition troops have died in Afghanistan than died in 9/11. And what have we got for it? A dead bin Laden? Even if he would have been able to pull off another 9/11(unlikely), we're losing more lives than we're saving.
It's better if those few crucial features are in a process that can be restarted without having to reboot the kernel after a panic!
You're rebooting after a panic no matter what.
If a console server process fails, it simply gets restarted and that's it. You get your consoles back.
I've never had a console fail. I have had userspace fail though.
I hope this guy is not good, he deserves to be caught. As much as I despise the Bush administrations, they are out of power, and this just looks like personal correspondence. If evidence of wrongdoing is uncovered, this might be justified. But until then, this is just juvenile.
What's wrong with it being in the userspace? At least if it crashes, it doesn't bring the whole kernel down. The process is relaunched by the kernel, and off you go.
Suppose you never make it to user space?
In the 80s, there was no such thing as an IBM incompatible PC. The term "PC" was invented by IBM to refer to their brand of computers. A C64 is also a computer that is not a mainframe. The editors of BYTE would certainly not have referred to it as a PC.
The idea is to replace a kernel functionality with few features and several crucial limitations
But those few features are crucial.
The need for this arose primarily with the introduction of kernel mode setting etc.
And what happens when KMS fails? What happens when all you have are VGA text modes?
Will the user space console work in every instance where the current console works? If so, great. If we give up any of the reliability we've grown to rely upon, no thanks. I'd rather have a "lame console" I know will be there, than a full featured console I have to troubleshoot.
For instance where arbitrary rotation was no problem in 2.6 all of a sudden only discrete steps are allowed in 2.8
Use Layer->Transform not Image->Transform. I was able to rotate an image by 0.01 degree. I had to create a 5000x5000 image to be able to see such a slight rotation, but it still rotated almost immediately on my old 2.6ghz C2D.
Get a keyboard with unlabeled keycaps. I use a Das Keyboard with cherry blue switches that is completely blank. If you can't look at the keyboard as a crutch, you're forced to rely on muscle memory, which strengthens very quickly.