There's a fallacy: somehow deaths can be prevented.
Welcome to the goals of big government liberalism. "If it can save just one life..."
Well, lets ban: Guns (already in progress) Cars Planes Bathtubs Stairs Electricity The wheel Mathematics (led to Hiroshima)
Ahh, but you'll say "but for this list, the good vastly outways the potential for death." How about big govt liberals stop meddling in our lives, and remove the roadblocks to our safety.
Here's new stories that will horrify and anger you (if the husband only had a gun...).
Why are people in a hurry? Because they're not having fun. Why? Because they're told how fast (slow) to drive. Ever try actually going the speed limit? I do now that I've gotten a number of speeding tickets. I drive 25 in a 25, and I end up with a looong line of cars behind me. But... I'm at the speed *LIMIT*!
So you're driving along, all normal, you look down and low and behold you're going quite a bit over the limit. You didn't feel out of control, but father government says its not safe.
Now you must slow down to a speed that is uncomfortably slow. You may do as I do, rubberneck (because you're mind is going numb watching things crawl by).
I've never thought velocity the cause of any accident (or it is the cause of EVERY accident b/c you wouldn't have gotten in an accident of you were going 0mph).
Or just do as I do, smoke a bowl... then you don't care if you're doing 45mph in the fast lane.
This is just nitpicking, but from my understanding a rootkit consists of tools implemented _once the system is comprimised_ to maintain root status and hide the comprimisation.
I always thought the means to gain access through vulnerabilities were called 'exploits.'
Sorry, hate to be a downer here, but a 4 cent subsidy from people who opt-in, isn't going to save small farms in VT. For example, my dad is calling it quits after a life of small dairy farming.
Energy subsidy won't raise milk prices, increase production, or cut the price of diesel. Running a 3-Phase variable speed milk vacuum pump will go a lot further on the bottom line.
I owned 100 shares of AMD (bought at 7, 14, 24) and sold at 40. Look at http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=AMD&t=3m and tell me you feel bullish. They may rebound... or head back down in the teens where they were.
With the money I made from AMD, I turned around and bought intel. AMD has made gains over the past few years, but I see the tide changing again. I bought INTC at $20, and so far its been down, but I'm in it for the (semi) long haul.
"My friend just got back from a 10 day business trip in China, and he had one piece of advice: Learn to speak chinese, because these people are going to take over the world!"
I wouldn't bet on the US being toppled anytime soon.
Re:The Myth of the 80 Hour Week
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On Point On Slacking
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"I have not met a single soul outside of the medical and legal profession whose actual and typical workload could not be accomplished in 30-40 hours of real honest work."
I'm a slacker, but my dad is not. He's a farmer. His work schedule is as follows:
3:00am - Get up to milk cows (no breakfast yet) 9:00 - breakfast 12:00 lunch 6:00pm - dinner / done for day, half of the year 8:00pm - done for day, other half of year.
I don't want to hear anyone complain about how much they have to work.
Why not use the credit card for all purchases then pay in full each month?
You get to collect the interest on money that isn't yours. Not to mention you haven't technically paid for it, so its possible to dispute charges. Credit cards sometimes increase waranties and have other protections [free too..].
I pay for everything with my credit cards. I have three cards that I pay off each month. I'm 24 and have little credit so far [its perfect, but small], so this will help me build credit. I keep a few thousand in a savings account and the interest I collect from this little system I have pays for a few meals. Plus I rack up the rewards points.
This all assumes excellent financial responsibility [definitely not a given these days]. Overspend and the system backfires.
This guy is right, the base is the weakest part. The farm I grew up on was on somewhat of a plateau and had a cell tower at its highest point. One day a microburst [rapidly falling air] took down the tower and it snapped one of the the threaded rods the bolted into.
Normally, a tower doesn't have much stress. Throw some decent wind at it, and this guys tower will more than likely topple, unless he poured a proper foundation.
You ever think about how you accelerate or brake? I do. Sometimes i brake at a linear rate (second deriv = 0). Sometimes I brake at a progressive rate (second deriv != 0). Its all in whether you're going for a certain deceleration rate or if you're responding to the situation (or neither).
A free AirSeat. Anyone out there like me and install aftermarket struts you felt were too stiff? I did when I put my KYB GR-2's in my Subaru Legacy. Gave me headaches I suspect were micro concussions.
So I built this. It takes the following (free) things to build: - Air envelope (from mail order packaging) - two plastic liquor bottles - Duct tape - Yellow Pages
Procedure: 1) Duct tape the bottles together 2) Duct tape the air envelope to the top of the bottles 3) shove the thing under your seat 4 - optional if needed) slide yellow pages underneath for correct height.
I think I had finished off the liquor bottles when I got the idea. Works perfectly, no headaches anymore (cept hangover).
This is akin to opening up closed source software. IMHO, special tools? Pfft. The world of people outside of the mfg'ing car company do a pretty good job of "reverse engingeering" what car mfg's try to make proprietary.
How do you think there's non-oem parts?
Freediag is an obd2 scan/monitoring program. It requires an interface to connect to the serial port. I got mine from here. Although I haven't actually gotten it to working (no response from ecu).
With such a scanner, one can read trouble codes or constantly monitor almost every piece of data the ecu sees.
"Your DeWalt drill doesn't cause problems for other people if it breaks."
You apparently haven't worked on an production assembly line.
"Windows installations missing security patches become zombies very quickly, adding to the spread of viruses, spam, etc."
A stretch. Thats akin to blaming a car owner for crimes committed with their stolen car.
"..Dewalt..be pretty lenient about making sure the drill was purchased through authorized channels."
I used to work in inventory control. Usually, each serial number is recorded in warehouse inventories, and when no buyer is shown for that product, they'll know. Unless it was stolen from a store (or transit). In that case the retailer will still have a record of supposedly having it. It would be catorgorized as stolen or missing.
3) This is ignoring the pitfalls falls of todays production techniques whereby they pump growth hormones into the cows so they produce milk far longer than they are normally capable of. [sic]
This is your single valid point, and it is only valid for milk from a regular dairy.
I wouldn't use the term 'valid'. As the son of a farmer, I know our farm never used rBST (growth hormone) and all the other farms that sold to our coop pledged not to use it either. *If* they found you were using rBST, the very minimum that would happen is this: The farmer that used the rBST would have to buy all the milk in the milk silo their milk was put into. We're talking millions of gallons of milk. Enough to bankrupt most any farm. I won't even go into the legal implications.
Losing a million dollar business is quite a disincentive to use something that'll squeeze a couple more gallons out of the cows.
You're not fooling anyone with this. Your logic is that this is bad legislation and we should blame Bush/Repubs for this, since they're the ones who appointed them. This is backwards.
The Dems are the ones who say no litmus test (abortion). So thus we don't know how judges will vote on singular issues. We only know their record and can estimate their ideology.
Now clearly more conservative judges dissented from this ruling. I have yet to hear any conservatives praising this. Turn on your radio, or visit the conservative websites if you don't believe me.
Conservatism != Corporatism. I am a conservative and I own no business, hold no high paying job, and think fairness is spelled out by freedom, not liberals version of wealth redistribution.
And I think your "regular people" who you say "don't have resources or organization" are the fabric of this society and make this world work by their great work.
What do you call capturing one persons money for another? Theft? I'd have a conscience too if I did that.
Re:One, two, three, four, I declare a flame-war!
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Assault Weapons Ban
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No,no,no,no, well.. close.
Why do I own a gun? I value my life. I kind of like living.
When faced with an aggressor who will kill you, what do you do? Don't say it won't happen to me. The people who died as victims of crimes would say otherwise. They might ask: Where were the police? Not near them, that's for sure. But, what could be nearby? Protection.
The 1994 Ban banned only guns with more than two "evil" features. These scary options included a threaded muzzle (flash suppressor, silencer),
[As a side note, don't you libs give me s-- about "not needing a silencer." If you've ever shot an M4, you'd know why you'd want one (giant sound pressure levels).]
detachable magazine (gun's worth s- without one), pistol grip, folding stock, and bayonet lug.
I purchased, sometime in '99, an AR-15 16" shorty M4. Standard on every AR-15 is a detachable magazine, and I don't think ar-15's without pistol grips exist. So, every AR-15 sold after 1994 had to have a muzzle supressor permanantly welded to the muzzle so as to not be able to unthread it. Also done to my upper was a cutting job badly done, removing the bayonet lug and permanantly depreciating the aethetics. The 1994 bill caused my gun to be hacked up and worth less. Is it functioning any differently? no.
Also banned at that time were magazines over 10 rounds. I obtained ten 30rd magazines during the ban (prebans). These magazines are old GI issue and basically suck.
I personally don't trust LEO's with more advanced weaponry than I'm allowed to own. I don't need to be protected from myself by disarmament. What does every tyranical government do? What better way for a force to defeat a base than to take away means of protection.
These liberals in congress who want guns banned do so because they think the average citizen is too stupid to know how a gun is used. They don't trust the laws they have on the books about murder and they think that if people were given machine guns every Joe would bust out their full-auto M4 to settle traffic arguments. When the truth is the only murder ever in the US with a full auto weapon was by a cop.
I ask not why certain weapons should be banned, but why is a man reelected to the senate when his objective is to reduce the freedom his constituents have.
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Intel
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486 sx25/sx33 w/o math coprocessor
486 dx25/dx33/dx2-66/dx4-75/dx4-100
Did the dx4 use a 3x multiplyer? Didn't someone make a pentium upgrade chip for 486 boards (evergreen)?
Pentium 60/66
Pentium 75/90
Pentium 100/133
Pentium 166/200/233 w/mmx
Does anyone know the bus speeds? Seems like they used 60/66 in most of the Pentiums, and 25/33 in the 486s.
I'm glad this was moderated troll. Anything else and I'd be disappointed by Al-Slashdot
There's a fallacy: somehow deaths can be prevented.
Welcome to the goals of big government liberalism. "If it can save just one life..."
Well, lets ban:
Guns (already in progress)
Cars
Planes
Bathtubs
Stairs
Electricity
The wheel
Mathematics (led to Hiroshima)
Ahh, but you'll say "but for this list, the good vastly outways the potential for death." How about big govt liberals stop meddling in our lives, and remove the roadblocks to our safety.
Here's new stories that will horrify and anger you (if the husband only had a gun...).
Husband made to witness wife shot in head
How can you blame the SUV driver? Did he put a rock under the brake pedal of the little car? Did he have a magnet that sucked the car close?
My boss just walked in and caught me on slashdot. I blame you for this. I would have hit close on my browser if I hadn't read your comment.
Why are people in a hurry? Because they're not having fun. Why? Because they're told how fast (slow) to drive. Ever try actually going the speed limit? I do now that I've gotten a number of speeding tickets. I drive 25 in a 25, and I end up with a looong line of cars behind me. But... I'm at the speed *LIMIT*!
So you're driving along, all normal, you look down and low and behold you're going quite a bit over the limit. You didn't feel out of control, but father government says its not safe.
Now you must slow down to a speed that is uncomfortably slow. You may do as I do, rubberneck (because you're mind is going numb watching things crawl by).
I've never thought velocity the cause of any accident (or it is the cause of EVERY accident b/c you wouldn't have gotten in an accident of you were going 0mph).
Or just do as I do, smoke a bowl... then you don't care if you're doing 45mph in the fast lane.
This is just nitpicking, but from my understanding a rootkit consists of tools implemented _once the system is comprimised_ to maintain root status and hide the comprimisation.
I always thought the means to gain access through vulnerabilities were called 'exploits.'
rgravina makes an excellent point. Proof is in this question: Would China ever attack its biggest customer?
Sorry, hate to be a downer here, but a 4 cent subsidy from people who opt-in, isn't going to save small farms in VT. For example, my dad is calling it quits after a life of small dairy farming.
Energy subsidy won't raise milk prices, increase production, or cut the price of diesel. Running a 3-Phase variable speed milk vacuum pump will go a lot further on the bottom line.
It all sounds good though.
This hypothetical world is not happening.
I owned 100 shares of AMD (bought at 7, 14, 24) and sold at 40. Look at http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=AMD&t=3m and tell me you feel bullish. They may rebound... or head back down in the teens where they were.
With the money I made from AMD, I turned around and bought intel. AMD has made gains over the past few years, but I see the tide changing again. I bought INTC at $20, and so far its been down, but I'm in it for the (semi) long haul.
About as long as his breaks (his house is 60 ft from the farm)
"My friend just got back from a 10 day business trip in China, and he had one piece of advice: Learn to speak chinese, because these people are going to take over the world!"
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That's what was said about Japan, 20 years ago. Most mfg is done in China, yet they're still ~4 trillion behind us in GDP http://www.photius.com/rankings/economy/gdp_2004_
I wouldn't bet on the US being toppled anytime soon.
"I have not met a single soul outside of the medical and legal profession whose actual and typical workload could not be accomplished in 30-40 hours of real honest work."
I'm a slacker, but my dad is not. He's a farmer. His work schedule is as follows:
3:00am - Get up to milk cows (no breakfast yet)
9:00 - breakfast
12:00 lunch
6:00pm - dinner / done for day, half of the year
8:00pm - done for day, other half of year.
I don't want to hear anyone complain about how much they have to work.
This raises a good point. There are many circumstances that exist where "doing the right thing" has potentially negative consequences.
* Picking up a hitchhiker
* Peporting evidence of theft from a company (retaliation, backlash if employee is exanerated)
There's more than my limited mind can produce.
2 Core 2 Duo
Why not use the credit card for all purchases then pay in full each month?
You get to collect the interest on money that isn't yours. Not to mention you haven't technically paid for it, so its possible to dispute charges. Credit cards sometimes increase waranties and have other protections [free too..].
I pay for everything with my credit cards. I have three cards that I pay off each month. I'm 24 and have little credit so far [its perfect, but small], so this will help me build credit. I keep a few thousand in a savings account and the interest I collect from this little system I have pays for a few meals. Plus I rack up the rewards points.
This all assumes excellent financial responsibility [definitely not a given these days]. Overspend and the system backfires.
This guy is right, the base is the weakest part. The farm I grew up on was on somewhat of a plateau and had a cell tower at its highest point. One day a microburst [rapidly falling air] took down the tower and it snapped one of the the threaded rods the bolted into.
Normally, a tower doesn't have much stress. Throw some decent wind at it, and this guys tower will more than likely topple, unless he poured a proper foundation.
Driving.
You ever think about how you accelerate or brake? I do. Sometimes i brake at a linear rate (second deriv = 0). Sometimes I brake at a progressive rate (second deriv != 0). Its all in whether you're going for a certain deceleration rate or if you're responding to the situation (or neither).
A free AirSeat. Anyone out there like me and install aftermarket struts you felt were too stiff? I did when I put my KYB GR-2's in my Subaru Legacy. Gave me headaches I suspect were micro concussions.
So I built this. It takes the following (free) things to build:
- Air envelope (from mail order packaging)
- two plastic liquor bottles
- Duct tape
- Yellow Pages
Procedure:
1) Duct tape the bottles together
2) Duct tape the air envelope to the top of the bottles
3) shove the thing under your seat
4 - optional if needed) slide yellow pages underneath for correct height.
I think I had finished off the liquor bottles when I got the idea. Works perfectly, no headaches anymore (cept hangover).
I take it you have quite a server farm.
Intel sells a lot of crap, so take some of it and use a methane generator to produce power.
How do you think there's non-oem parts?
Freediag is an obd2 scan/monitoring program. It requires an interface to connect to the serial port. I got mine from here. Although I haven't actually gotten it to working (no response from ecu).
With such a scanner, one can read trouble codes or constantly monitor almost every piece of data the ecu sees.
"Your DeWalt drill doesn't cause problems for other people if it breaks."
You apparently haven't worked on an production assembly line.
"Windows installations missing security patches become zombies very quickly, adding to the spread of viruses, spam, etc."
A stretch. Thats akin to blaming a car owner for crimes committed with their stolen car.
"..Dewalt ..be pretty lenient about making sure the drill was purchased through authorized channels."
I used to work in inventory control. Usually, each serial number is recorded in warehouse inventories, and when no buyer is shown for that product, they'll know. Unless it was stolen from a store (or transit). In that case the retailer will still have a record of supposedly having it. It would be catorgorized as stolen or missing.
3) This is ignoring the pitfalls falls of todays production techniques whereby they pump growth hormones into the cows so they produce milk far longer than they are normally capable of. [sic]
This is your single valid point, and it is only valid for milk from a regular dairy.
I wouldn't use the term 'valid'. As the son of a farmer, I know our farm never used rBST (growth hormone) and all the other farms that sold to our coop pledged not to use it either. *If* they found you were using rBST, the very minimum that would happen is this: The farmer that used the rBST would have to buy all the milk in the milk silo their milk was put into. We're talking millions of gallons of milk. Enough to bankrupt most any farm. I won't even go into the legal implications.
Losing a million dollar business is quite a disincentive to use something that'll squeeze a couple more gallons out of the cows.
You're not fooling anyone with this. Your logic is that this is bad legislation and we should blame Bush/Repubs for this, since they're the ones who appointed them. This is backwards.
The Dems are the ones who say no litmus test (abortion). So thus we don't know how judges will vote on singular issues. We only know their record and can estimate their ideology.
Now clearly more conservative judges dissented from this ruling. I have yet to hear any conservatives praising this. Turn on your radio, or visit the conservative websites if you don't believe me.
Conservatism != Corporatism. I am a conservative and I own no business, hold no high paying job, and think fairness is spelled out by freedom, not liberals version of wealth redistribution.
And I think your "regular people" who you say "don't have resources or organization" are the fabric of this society and make this world work by their great work.
What do you call capturing one persons money for another? Theft? I'd have a conscience too if I did that.
No,no,no,no, well.. close.
Why do I own a gun? I value my life. I kind of like living.
When faced with an aggressor who will kill you, what do you do? Don't say it won't happen to me. The people who died as victims of crimes would say otherwise. They might ask: Where were the police? Not near them, that's for sure. But, what could be nearby? Protection.
The 1994 Ban banned only guns with more than two "evil" features. These scary options included a threaded muzzle (flash suppressor, silencer),
[As a side note, don't you libs give me s-- about "not needing a silencer." If you've ever shot an M4, you'd know why you'd want one (giant sound pressure levels).]
detachable magazine (gun's worth s- without one), pistol grip, folding stock, and bayonet lug.
I purchased, sometime in '99, an AR-15 16" shorty M4. Standard on every AR-15 is a detachable magazine, and I don't think ar-15's without pistol grips exist. So, every AR-15 sold after 1994 had to have a muzzle supressor permanantly welded to the muzzle so as to not be able to unthread it. Also done to my upper was a cutting job badly done, removing the bayonet lug and permanantly depreciating the aethetics. The 1994 bill caused my gun to be hacked up and worth less. Is it functioning any differently? no.
Also banned at that time were magazines over 10 rounds. I obtained ten 30rd magazines during the ban (prebans). These magazines are old GI issue and basically suck.
I personally don't trust LEO's with more advanced weaponry than I'm allowed to own. I don't need to be protected from myself by disarmament. What does every tyranical government do? What better way for a force to defeat a base than to take away means of protection.
These liberals in congress who want guns banned do so because they think the average citizen is too stupid to know how a gun is used. They don't trust the laws they have on the books about murder and they think that if people were given machine guns every Joe would bust out their full-auto M4 to settle traffic arguments. When the truth is the only murder ever in the US with a full auto weapon was by a cop.
I ask not why certain weapons should be banned, but why is a man reelected to the senate when his objective is to reduce the freedom his constituents have.