Reagan's unprecedented arms escalation was the final straw - but he was far from the guy who defeated the USSR - he just happened to be in office when they self destructed (sort of like what the US is doing right now).
Uhh... actually Bush Senior was in office when this happened, not Reagan. Secondly, Reagans escalation, drove the country into bankruptcy. Most sources agree that this strategy was key in the destruction of the USSR. But sure... I guess we can take your word for it.
In 1977 Jimmy Carter set us on the road to energy independence - and if we had followed his lead we wouldn't need to import oil.
Carter's policies would have crushed an already waning economy. His proposals called for more government regulation and taxation. Correct me if I am wrong, but is there anything that the government steps in to try to fix, that they don't screw up? (education, health care, welfare... nope).
So, today we have $4+/gal gasoline, no unions left with any power and the average family hasn't seen an increase in real purchasing power since 1980.
Oh cry me a river, $4 / gal while the rest of the world (with the exception of countries that actually exploit there oil) is pay $5-7 and have been for years.
i love how people quote the founding fathers and only quote Jefferson. Brilliant. I guess, Jefferson was the only father... forget those other pesky signers of the declaration of independance and framers of our constitution like George Washington: "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports." -Farewell Address
or John Adams: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." --October 11, 1798
The first amendment was avoid what was going on in England at that time with the Church running the county. Let's not forget the basic laws that our country had early on about working on Sundays, mandatory church attendance... requirement of Christian profession to hold office etc... doesn't sound like the separation of church and state that I hear from your interpretation of Jefferson.
The purpose of insurance is to transfer risk for a price. The way this is done is by the insurer taking full advantage of the statistics and spreading the risk (of paying out) across a larger sample.
The insured is transferring the risk of something bad happening to them to the insurer for a premium. Risk of something bad happening is ALWAYS taken into consideration. For example: You have 10 speeding tickets, you pay more for auto insurance. You have diabetes, you pay a higher health premium.
The only difference to this equation in the United States is Group insurance where the employer distributes that risk across it's employment population. That being said in a smaller company, one guy has a heart attach and everyones premiums go through the roof.
Goal of the insured: pay as little as possible while transferring as much risk as possible to the insurer.
Goal of the insurer: get as much premium as possible, while limiting the amount of risk you take on, while distributing risk across large groups of people to stay competitive.
If you want security fork out the bucks for wired systems.
As if a "wired" system is secure. There is no such thing as a secure network, the goal is to make it easier to go next door. It's like protecting your house. A crook, if they really want to, will get in no matter how much money you throw at it. A determined person will either break in or get caught trying. By layering WEP with Radius Authentication and MAC address filtering on a "Closed" AP network you make it alot more trouble than it is really worth.
I had lunch with a valinux rep. last week. The
reason they are struggling is rather ironic.
They built alot of new equiptment for "dot com"
companies that never came through so they were
stuck with all this extra inventory. To make
matters worse, 6 month old equiptment from other
dot commers is flooding ebay for a fraction of
the cost. VA Linux is stuck competing against
their own equiptment for sales. It is hard to
compete against yourself at a reduced rate.
I'm using slackware-current mirrored once a week:) and keepin' all those packages nice and
fresh. I have two machines still running the last 4.x disto. With uptimes of 270+ days.
Thanks Patrick!!!
Why is it that when a person even hints at things like Creation,God,Faith he is immediately labled as troll. And this guy can get away with
"God and the Bible" are a crutch for small minded people that can't handle the truth.
I hate bible totin' cultists like you.
But if you tried using your sub-highschool education you'd realize...
Generally I try to be very objective. I understand that two people can look at an incedent and obtain two completely different accounts based on the facts of the situation. Does that discount either of the account. Does it necessarily mean that either account is correct or incorrect?
outwit scientists (or anyone else that is not apart of their cult)
Come on, get a clue... someone is just trying to explain what they believe. To be honest this is really disturbing. What your saying is that just because someone thinks differently than you, and doesn't hold to the same philosophy as you than they are inferior. What next are you going to load them all into a big furnace?
I know that/. is generally a place where people can voice their opinion, but this is just disturbing.
I think you have been smoking something. According the the UN the infant mortality rate in the US is one of the lowest in the world
USA 7 1995-2000
Thailand 29 1995-2000
I hardly think that a mortality rate of 29 is less than a mortality rate of 7. The country with the best rate is bermuda with 4 and Japan with 4. The last time I checked Japan was not socialistic. hmmmmm... Next time check your facts before being stupid.
Not to mention the fact that IBM is now
supporting linux on there s390 which is the ultimate in hot-swap capability. Let's see WinXX(SE,CE,ME,FU) run on that architecture.
from freebsd to linux (ffs to ext2) and performance is not so good with large directories
This has less to do with the fs as it does with freebsd having faster file access, unless you are reaching the 1024 file limits of ext2.
As to jfs/xfs give me a break. These are NOT production ready filesystems. reiserfs has only the benefit of faster boot times. As for its file access times they lag dramatically behind ext2 in most cases. ** according to http://www.namesys.com/ **
Here is the real problem
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See your missing the point... They are spending millions of dollars to get linux on to their big iron. Their s390 campain has cost them a fortune... but given great returns. That is the future for many medium to large ASP's. Period.
At least I still have my linux partition to go in and fix the crap that happens in Windows Land. Although I like the command line style (hence the linux) I really think it was something they had to do. Still having to support dos/dos apps make developing a stable system difficult. Constantly checking environments and if/elsing your way through an application sucks!! I am not a MS advocate in fact I hate billy boy with such zeal it can only be matched by Stallman:) But I gotta hand it to MS this is a step in the right direction for them.
Hmmm... I never thought of myself as weakminded! But now that you have pointed it out it must be so. After all I lack the initiative to form an independant thought so I must leech off of yours. I think that is why I cling so heavily to/. oh well I will have to wait until someone else informs me of that opinion. Thank you for the clue! Now go get one yourself.
We all know there are only two reasons a manufacturer will hide the source. 1) They are embarrassed 2) They stole it in the first place (can we say Microsoft?)
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Reagan's unprecedented arms escalation was the final straw - but he was far from the guy who defeated the USSR - he just happened to be in office when they self destructed (sort of like
what the US is doing right now).
Uhh... actually Bush Senior was in office when this happened, not Reagan. Secondly, Reagans escalation, drove the country into bankruptcy. Most sources agree that this strategy was key in the destruction of the USSR. But sure... I guess we can take your word for it.
In 1977 Jimmy Carter set us on the road to energy independence - and if we had followed his lead we wouldn't need to import oil.
Carter's policies would have crushed an already waning economy. His proposals called for more government regulation and taxation. Correct me if I am wrong, but is there anything that the government steps in to try to fix, that they don't screw up? (education, health care, welfare... nope).
So, today we have $4+/gal gasoline, no unions left with any power and the average family hasn't seen an increase in real purchasing power since 1980.
Oh cry me a river, $4 / gal while the rest of the world (with the exception of countries that actually exploit there oil) is pay $5-7 and have been for years.
i love how people quote the founding fathers and only quote Jefferson. Brilliant. I guess, Jefferson was the only father... forget those other pesky signers of the declaration of independance and framers of our constitution like George Washington:
"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports." -Farewell Address
or John Adams:
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." --October 11, 1798
The first amendment was avoid what was going on in England at that time with the Church running the county. Let's not forget the basic laws that our country had early on about working on Sundays, mandatory church attendance... requirement of Christian profession to hold office etc... doesn't sound like the separation of church and state that I hear from your interpretation of Jefferson.
The purpose of insurance is to transfer risk for a price. The way this is done is by the insurer taking full advantage of the statistics and spreading the risk (of paying out) across a larger sample.
The insured is transferring the risk of something bad happening to them to the insurer for a premium. Risk of something bad happening is ALWAYS taken into consideration. For example: You have 10 speeding tickets, you pay more for auto insurance. You have diabetes, you pay a higher health premium.
The only difference to this equation in the United States is Group insurance where the employer distributes that risk across it's employment population. That being said in a smaller company, one guy has a heart attach and everyones premiums go through the roof.
Goal of the insured: pay as little as possible while transferring as much risk as possible to the insurer.
Goal of the insurer: get as much premium as possible, while limiting the amount of risk you take on, while distributing risk across large groups of people to stay competitive.
Hmm.... I thought the US Constitution only applied to US Citizens inside US borders. There I go being naive again.
If you want security fork out the bucks for wired systems.
As if a "wired" system is secure. There is no such thing as a secure network, the goal is to make it easier to go next door. It's like protecting your house. A crook, if they really want to, will get in no matter how much money you throw at it. A determined person will either break in or get caught trying. By layering WEP with Radius Authentication and MAC address filtering on a "Closed" AP network you make it alot more trouble than it is really worth.
I had lunch with a valinux rep. last week. The
reason they are struggling is rather ironic.
They built alot of new equiptment for "dot com"
companies that never came through so they were
stuck with all this extra inventory. To make
matters worse, 6 month old equiptment from other
dot commers is flooding ebay for a fraction of
the cost. VA Linux is stuck competing against
their own equiptment for sales. It is hard to
compete against yourself at a reduced rate.
I'm using slackware-current mirrored once a :) and keepin' all those packages nice and
week
fresh. I have two machines still running the
last 4.x disto. With uptimes of 270+ days.
Thanks Patrick!!!
Generally I try to be very objective. I understand that two people can look at an incedent and obtain two completely different accounts based on the facts of the situation. Does that discount either of the account. Does it necessarily mean that either account is correct or incorrect?
outwit scientists (or anyone else that is not apart of their cult)
Come on, get a clue... someone is just trying to explain what they believe. To be honest this is really disturbing. What your saying is that just because someone thinks differently than you, and doesn't hold to the same philosophy as you than they are inferior. What next are you going to load them all into a big furnace?
I know that /. is generally a place where people can voice their opinion, but this is just disturbing.
I hardly think that a mortality rate of 29 is less than a mortality rate of 7. The country with the best rate is bermuda with 4 and Japan with 4. The last time I checked Japan was not socialistic. hmmmmm... Next time check your facts before being stupid.
Not to mention the fact that IBM is now
supporting linux on there s390 which is the
ultimate in hot-swap capability. Let's see
WinXX(SE,CE,ME,FU) run on that architecture.
This has less to do with the fs as it does with freebsd having faster file access, unless you are reaching the 1024 file limits of ext2.
As to jfs/xfs give me a break. These are NOT production ready filesystems. reiserfs has only the benefit of faster boot times. As for its file access times they lag dramatically behind ext2 in most cases. ** according to http://www.namesys.com/ **
slack-packs and I will rule the world.
Dependancies? We don't need no stinkin' dependancies
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See your missing the point... They are spending millions of dollars to get linux on to their big iron. Their s390 campain has cost them a fortune... but given great returns. That is the future for many medium to large ASP's. Period.
microkernel == mental masturbation
Microkernel is technically more "correct". Macrokernel WORKS.
At least I still have my linux partition to go in and fix the crap that happens in Windows Land. Although I like the command line style (hence the linux) I really think it was something they had to do. Still having to support dos/dos apps make developing a stable system difficult. Constantly checking environments and if/elsing your way through an application sucks!! I am not a MS advocate in fact I hate billy boy with such zeal it can only be matched by Stallman :) But I gotta hand it to MS this is a step in the right direction for them.
Hmmm... I never thought of myself as weakminded! But now that you have pointed it out it must be so. After all I lack the initiative to form an independant thought so I must leech off of yours. I think that is why I cling so heavily to /. oh well I will have to wait until someone else informs me of that opinion. Thank you for the clue! Now go get one yourself.
We all know there are only two reasons a manufacturer will hide the source. 1) They are embarrassed 2) They stole it in the first place (can we say Microsoft?)