Actually, if you look beyond simple propaganda, you'll notice that his country, while a "shit hole" by Western standards was widely envied by all of its neighbors for being prosperous, free and democratic. Now, with the civil war going on, it's more pitied with its vast wealth and functional infrastructure all but destroyed.
I'm not kidding. Look it up. Most of the power in the country wasn't even in Gaddafi's hands - it was in the hands of tribal councils who were largely autonomous down to the point of having their own laws and armies. Gaddafi's first rule was that you can call yourself whatever you want in Libya - so long as you're Libyan to the outsiders and you only go through Gaddafi's government for foreign contacts.
The despotic part primarily concerned tribes that had longstanding feuds with tribes that were close to Gaddafi. After the civil war, it's highly unlikely to change - the only thing that will likely change is direction of despotism, where formerly oppressed will now become oppressors. What most people do not seem to realize is that Libya as a country is not uniform - it consists of ethnically localized and largely autonomous tribes that tend to have feuds with each other dating back centuries.
I solved much of that problem when I put swap file on a separate hard drive, program files folder on another separate drive, and windows on yet another separate drive. Did it after resmon clearly showed my disk being utterly raped on boot-up by W7's caching.
But god forbid you boot, have swap file and installed software on same hard drive. You'll be told you're "loading junk", "don't maintain your computer" and a number of other utterly stupid assumptions by slashdot's clueless know-it-alls.
We can draw a direct example from history from one of the biggest proponents of copyright in 19th century: Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain).
To avoid copyright expiration he would often create various things that added to value of his work, such as sequels, and then sell the package once original works' copyright expired. Back then, short and weak copyright did exactly what it was designed to do - give author incentive to create more work.
I obviously do not know who "your client" is so I cannot address the issue, but for a knowledgeable home user maintaining his own and his family/friends machines, it certainly does.
You forgot the most important part, Playboy playmate talking about how sure she is that the two are linked while waving her boobs at the camera.
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You're making an argument AGAINST strong copyright. Strong copyright diminishes incentive to produce new work, and increases pressure on new writers due to retarded "you copied me" issues. Art has traditionally influenced other art, and one fundamental part of locking down copyright is to charge for anything that has been significantly influenced by your art.
This, ten times over. When I swapped from XP to 7, first thing I noticed how fast it went from pressing the power button to seeing the desktop. Second was to notice that said desktop was completely useless for several minutes after becoming visible, and about 30 seconds after all applications have started. 7's caching is utterly retarded in this regard.
XP was slower to boot to desktop, much faster to get desktop functional and applications started, and most importantly it was HONEST about it. It didn't pretend that everything is started, and then utterly rape my hard drive rendering entire system useless while it caches stuff.
You're very wrong. Gaddafi's Libya used militia system, with very weak and useless central army and very powerful and well equipped militias under direct command of each tribal authority.
They were so efficient that they were able to almost win a war even under massive bombardment from NATO, and it took several months of severe bombardment and very disadvantageous terrain (it's impossible to hide heavy weaponry from air power in the desert) for NATO bombing campaign and NATO still needed special forces on the ground before these militias started to lose the war.
The amount of money spent on militias, vs total spent by NATO and NTC and relative success of militias in the early stages of the war shows just how cost-efficient militias really are.
You have a good point. I made it a habit to quickly check some important statuses of drives through gsmartcontrol, usually parts like reallocated sector counts and other pre-failure marked parts every couple of months. Essentially parts that show that drive is starting to really suffer from wear and tear, and I should pay more attention to backing it up and probably replacing it sometime soon.
I tend to do that long before it trips the threshold set on the drive because I know that those are artificially high.
The issue is that there's almost 1.5 billion of them. About 1/6 of entire planet's population. If they adapt a more sociologically efficient totalitarian system, they will outcompete us (as in West), significantly increasing the risk of us eventually switching to totalitarian system ourselves to be able to compete better.
Why do you worry about 3.000 in China tens of years ago, but not millions dying in Africa so that West and China get their cheap oil and other natural resources? By your admission, all men are brothers, so surely the millions CURRENTLY dying would warrant thousands of times more attention at the very least?
It's worth noting that "article 55" is true for Finland and Switzerland. Two countries that you could argue to be far more "free" and "democratic" then US. We have universal conscription, and it's largely viewed as an honor to serve your country. Of course we have a history of having to defend our sovereignty with armed forces rather then using army to project interests of our country outside our borders.
Article 54 on the other hand is present in pretty much any modern state. It's the law against treason, which in most Western states still carries very heavy penalties. Wording may be different, but meaning is exactly the same.
While not "okay", it's still worlds "better" then China. Your comparison is akin to comparison between Jack the Ripper and a truck driver who fell asleep behind the wheel killing a prostitute standing on the curb as a result.
What makes you think that energy costs will go up? It's very country-dependent and at least where I live, electricity is far more likely to go down in price as next nuclear power plant is built in a couple of years.
For the record, seagate's 7200.11 was the only instance of buggy controller in that line of drives. I have two of 7200.7 drives that clocked over 50.000 hours uptime in raid0 as OS drive pair with no issues (and hilariously, one raid controller failure), and I have several 7200.12 drives (including the warranty replacement drive for 7200.11 that had a controller bug mentioned on the TH.com). No problems.
Problem with OCZ is that they do not have a proper solution for their clients' woes, and they don't send you a fixed drive if you ask for warranty replacement on ones that BSOD. That alone is a huge negative that stops me from getting SSD from them, in spite of really wanting one for an OS drive.
In vast majority of cases, modern hard drive's SMART will start screaming its mechanical lungs out at you long before failure comes. Even if you ignore that, physical errors with the drive will often cause noise that will lead you to suspect that drive is failing. The "holy shit, it just died" failures are in minority.
On the other hand, SSD dies like that in vast majority of times. Add to that unreliability of the new controllers (not the drive itself which is what you were talking about), and you get a perfect storm where SSD is easily an order of magnitude less reliable when it comes to not losing data. Personally, I really want a 60ish GB SSD for my OS and most used software, but I just can't justify a purchase with severe reliability issues that everyone seems to be having with both controllers and drives at the moment.
It's worth noting that if you desperately need more speed, you should look at Revo line of OCZ's drives. Those are SSDs mounted in a cluster of four separate drives linked to a single raid 0 controller all on the same PCI-E card.
The reason why I'm not touching that is that raid controller doesn't let TRIM commands through, so after a year or so, drive will slow down significantly. That said, at raid 0 and PCI-E interface, it will still smoke any and all SATA solutions.
EU is a legal party participating in the process. If EU adapts the ACTA as a directive, all memeber states are required to harmonize their laws to be in compliance with it within reasonable time frame.
As a result, EU as a negotiating party on matters of law is fairly similar to a sovereign country.
Why is it suspect? I show that natural flow of capitalism, when uninterrupted by revolutionary level of resistance always leads to the same end. In US, anti-trust legislation of 1920s was absolutely revolutionary in its own right, being the first true attempt to limit power of corporations though non-discriminatory (on personal level) legal means rather then direct application of force (example: pogroms) and extended by legislation that came after great depression.
It's worth noting that repealing parts of said legislation package has led to severe banking crisis and significant growth of corporate power in US. It's certainly not where South-Korea and Japan are today in terms of fascist influences, but it's most definitely on the same road, heading in the same direction. The main limiter is the culture, which supports West individualism over East-Asian style collectivism, severely limiting the speed at which capitalism can reach end game unresisted.
There is nothing MORE capitalist then a exclusive monopoly. The entire concept of capitalism is that CAPITAL is in control. Therefore capital should buy all other capital to get even more power (aka exclusive monopoly).
US ended with huge trusts in 1890s and early 1900s as a result of this, who bled the economy dry. In the end, they got so bad that antitrust legislation had to be enacted to avoid what would have essentially amounted to full blown and very inefficient fascism. Lucrative exclusive contracts were in the vogue back then, earning massive returns on capital but these returns came at cost of general system efficiency.
Indeed. It's already been said that quick solution is to simply put a copyrighted watermark somewhere in the video. Voila, it's exempt from the ruling.
Neither does OS, as linux showed us. But the kind of success you will gain from such fame in book world isn't likely to let you write stuff for a living, allowing you to focus on it.
Few individuals can do it. Contrasting this is a lot of smaller writers who can write for a living under publisher's wing.
Notably, this usually requires someone at the publisher to know about the author. It's a bit like looking for a job, quite often someone who doesn't have a proper degree will get a job regardless, usually either because someone in the company knows/owes him, or the person in question was extremely proactive and convinced someone important in the company ladder that it's worth it to give him a trial run.
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Actually, if you look beyond simple propaganda, you'll notice that his country, while a "shit hole" by Western standards was widely envied by all of its neighbors for being prosperous, free and democratic. Now, with the civil war going on, it's more pitied with its vast wealth and functional infrastructure all but destroyed.
I'm not kidding. Look it up. Most of the power in the country wasn't even in Gaddafi's hands - it was in the hands of tribal councils who were largely autonomous down to the point of having their own laws and armies. Gaddafi's first rule was that you can call yourself whatever you want in Libya - so long as you're Libyan to the outsiders and you only go through Gaddafi's government for foreign contacts.
The despotic part primarily concerned tribes that had longstanding feuds with tribes that were close to Gaddafi. After the civil war, it's highly unlikely to change - the only thing that will likely change is direction of despotism, where formerly oppressed will now become oppressors. What most people do not seem to realize is that Libya as a country is not uniform - it consists of ethnically localized and largely autonomous tribes that tend to have feuds with each other dating back centuries.
You have an SSD?
I solved much of that problem when I put swap file on a separate hard drive, program files folder on another separate drive, and windows on yet another separate drive. Did it after resmon clearly showed my disk being utterly raped on boot-up by W7's caching.
But god forbid you boot, have swap file and installed software on same hard drive. You'll be told you're "loading junk", "don't maintain your computer" and a number of other utterly stupid assumptions by slashdot's clueless know-it-alls.
We can draw a direct example from history from one of the biggest proponents of copyright in 19th century: Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain).
To avoid copyright expiration he would often create various things that added to value of his work, such as sequels, and then sell the package once original works' copyright expired. Back then, short and weak copyright did exactly what it was designed to do - give author incentive to create more work.
I obviously do not know who "your client" is so I cannot address the issue, but for a knowledgeable home user maintaining his own and his family/friends machines, it certainly does.
You forgot the most important part, Playboy playmate talking about how sure she is that the two are linked while waving her boobs at the camera.
You're making an argument AGAINST strong copyright. Strong copyright diminishes incentive to produce new work, and increases pressure on new writers due to retarded "you copied me" issues. Art has traditionally influenced other art, and one fundamental part of locking down copyright is to charge for anything that has been significantly influenced by your art.
This, ten times over. When I swapped from XP to 7, first thing I noticed how fast it went from pressing the power button to seeing the desktop. Second was to notice that said desktop was completely useless for several minutes after becoming visible, and about 30 seconds after all applications have started. 7's caching is utterly retarded in this regard.
XP was slower to boot to desktop, much faster to get desktop functional and applications started, and most importantly it was HONEST about it. It didn't pretend that everything is started, and then utterly rape my hard drive rendering entire system useless while it caches stuff.
You're very wrong. Gaddafi's Libya used militia system, with very weak and useless central army and very powerful and well equipped militias under direct command of each tribal authority.
They were so efficient that they were able to almost win a war even under massive bombardment from NATO, and it took several months of severe bombardment and very disadvantageous terrain (it's impossible to hide heavy weaponry from air power in the desert) for NATO bombing campaign and NATO still needed special forces on the ground before these militias started to lose the war.
The amount of money spent on militias, vs total spent by NATO and NTC and relative success of militias in the early stages of the war shows just how cost-efficient militias really are.
You have a good point. I made it a habit to quickly check some important statuses of drives through gsmartcontrol, usually parts like reallocated sector counts and other pre-failure marked parts every couple of months. Essentially parts that show that drive is starting to really suffer from wear and tear, and I should pay more attention to backing it up and probably replacing it sometime soon.
I tend to do that long before it trips the threshold set on the drive because I know that those are artificially high.
The issue is that there's almost 1.5 billion of them. About 1/6 of entire planet's population. If they adapt a more sociologically efficient totalitarian system, they will outcompete us (as in West), significantly increasing the risk of us eventually switching to totalitarian system ourselves to be able to compete better.
Why do you worry about 3.000 in China tens of years ago, but not millions dying in Africa so that West and China get their cheap oil and other natural resources? By your admission, all men are brothers, so surely the millions CURRENTLY dying would warrant thousands of times more attention at the very least?
It's worth noting that "article 55" is true for Finland and Switzerland. Two countries that you could argue to be far more "free" and "democratic" then US. We have universal conscription, and it's largely viewed as an honor to serve your country.
Of course we have a history of having to defend our sovereignty with armed forces rather then using army to project interests of our country outside our borders.
Article 54 on the other hand is present in pretty much any modern state. It's the law against treason, which in most Western states still carries very heavy penalties. Wording may be different, but meaning is exactly the same.
While not "okay", it's still worlds "better" then China. Your comparison is akin to comparison between Jack the Ripper and a truck driver who fell asleep behind the wheel killing a prostitute standing on the curb as a result.
What makes you think that energy costs will go up? It's very country-dependent and at least where I live, electricity is far more likely to go down in price as next nuclear power plant is built in a couple of years.
For the record, seagate's 7200.11 was the only instance of buggy controller in that line of drives. I have two of 7200.7 drives that clocked over 50.000 hours uptime in raid0 as OS drive pair with no issues (and hilariously, one raid controller failure), and I have several 7200.12 drives (including the warranty replacement drive for 7200.11 that had a controller bug mentioned on the TH.com). No problems.
Problem with OCZ is that they do not have a proper solution for their clients' woes, and they don't send you a fixed drive if you ask for warranty replacement on ones that BSOD. That alone is a huge negative that stops me from getting SSD from them, in spite of really wanting one for an OS drive.
In vast majority of cases, modern hard drive's SMART will start screaming its mechanical lungs out at you long before failure comes. Even if you ignore that, physical errors with the drive will often cause noise that will lead you to suspect that drive is failing. The "holy shit, it just died" failures are in minority.
On the other hand, SSD dies like that in vast majority of times. Add to that unreliability of the new controllers (not the drive itself which is what you were talking about), and you get a perfect storm where SSD is easily an order of magnitude less reliable when it comes to not losing data.
Personally, I really want a 60ish GB SSD for my OS and most used software, but I just can't justify a purchase with severe reliability issues that everyone seems to be having with both controllers and drives at the moment.
It's worth noting that if you desperately need more speed, you should look at Revo line of OCZ's drives. Those are SSDs mounted in a cluster of four separate drives linked to a single raid 0 controller all on the same PCI-E card.
The reason why I'm not touching that is that raid controller doesn't let TRIM commands through, so after a year or so, drive will slow down significantly. That said, at raid 0 and PCI-E interface, it will still smoke any and all SATA solutions.
EU is a legal party participating in the process. If EU adapts the ACTA as a directive, all memeber states are required to harmonize their laws to be in compliance with it within reasonable time frame.
As a result, EU as a negotiating party on matters of law is fairly similar to a sovereign country.
Why is it suspect? I show that natural flow of capitalism, when uninterrupted by revolutionary level of resistance always leads to the same end. In US, anti-trust legislation of 1920s was absolutely revolutionary in its own right, being the first true attempt to limit power of corporations though non-discriminatory (on personal level) legal means rather then direct application of force (example: pogroms) and extended by legislation that came after great depression.
It's worth noting that repealing parts of said legislation package has led to severe banking crisis and significant growth of corporate power in US. It's certainly not where South-Korea and Japan are today in terms of fascist influences, but it's most definitely on the same road, heading in the same direction. The main limiter is the culture, which supports West individualism over East-Asian style collectivism, severely limiting the speed at which capitalism can reach end game unresisted.
You're arguing that direct, logical and historically proven consequence of capitalism is in fact not a part of capitalism.
I suppose the argument is valid if you want to split hairs on limitations of terminology, but in the process you're reinforcing the original point.
Indeed. English is my third language. I assume your first is german?
There is nothing MORE capitalist then a exclusive monopoly. The entire concept of capitalism is that CAPITAL is in control. Therefore capital should buy all other capital to get even more power (aka exclusive monopoly).
US ended with huge trusts in 1890s and early 1900s as a result of this, who bled the economy dry. In the end, they got so bad that antitrust legislation had to be enacted to avoid what would have essentially amounted to full blown and very inefficient fascism. Lucrative exclusive contracts were in the vogue back then, earning massive returns on capital but these returns came at cost of general system efficiency.
Indeed. It's already been said that quick solution is to simply put a copyrighted watermark somewhere in the video. Voila, it's exempt from the ruling.
Neither does OS, as linux showed us. But the kind of success you will gain from such fame in book world isn't likely to let you write stuff for a living, allowing you to focus on it.
Few individuals can do it. Contrasting this is a lot of smaller writers who can write for a living under publisher's wing.
Notably, this usually requires someone at the publisher to know about the author. It's a bit like looking for a job, quite often someone who doesn't have a proper degree will get a job regardless, usually either because someone in the company knows/owes him, or the person in question was extremely proactive and convinced someone important in the company ladder that it's worth it to give him a trial run.