Which drugs? Plenty of drugs taken in moderation can be sustained throughout a natural lifespan without damage. Very few drugs, especially those used longer than the last few generations, "burn out neurons" or cause any neuropathy of any kind, at active doses that aren't toxic. Alcohol is an exception. But heroin is not. All drugs temporarily "lower the potential" of neurons or raise them: otherwise they'd have no effect whatsoever. But so does eating too much food (or not enough), or habitual running, or having sex.
Blanket statements about drugs are rarely meaningful enough to take as useful advice.
No, it's not possible. I was told by operations that pagers wouldn't work. When I asked some executives why my pager worked, they didn't know why, and wished I hadn't asked. There was no paging equipment installed. At least not officially, since part of their official security regime was that the only telecom allowed people inside the bunker was through their managed firewalls, including the NorTel landlines installed for that purpose. And if it was installed unofficially, they have a different kind of security problem that is a more real risk than not being nuke proof.
Since you're going to be both sarcastic and wrong, I'll say that it's not like I'm a highly skilled telecom professional who was alarmed by the pager working, and prone to asking questions when things don't work.
Sarcasm aside, it's like you automatically trust the big telecom company and nuke war industry to do the right thing, despite the evidence available to an adequately astute IT pro.
CapitalOne is the bank that's been advertising for new business for years with TV ads featuring a gang of pillaging barbarians demanding to know "What's in your wallet?" while wrecking everything they touch. CapitalOne was of course central to destroying the global economy, like every other large US bank.
Why wouldn't CapitalOne do stupid, selfserving banking practices, in secret? They've only made $BILLIONS by doing that for years, and nobody's stopping them. And with the new Republican House of Representatives, there's only going to be lots more barbarism in banking.
I worked in a similar setup outside Toronto in the 1990s. It was a nuke bunker built for NorTel, which supposedly was designed and built in the 1960s to withstand a direct hydrogen bomb hit on Toronto. It housed NorTel and Bell Canada switching equipment and servers, but also rented out cabinets to anyone paying for a contract. Nevermind the ease with which I could have left a big box of explosives wired up to a detonator triggered over its Internet connection. But even though I had to pass through a half dozen checkpoints between the surface entrance and the datacenter underground, my pager used to go off quite reliably when people paged me. Regular radio waves penetrated this "nuke proof" bunker. I expect an actual nuke would have fried everything inside it, regardless of how much the Canadian government paid some contractor to protect it.
But NorTel and our other government clients believed it was nuke proof. Even though their pagers went off inside it, too. I have no faith that this Swiss bunker is any different. After all, if a nuke did hit it, who was going to sue the builders for failing to honor the contract?
The Defense Department is the biggest. And you're probably right on your principle - the DoD is probably also the most corrupt. And none of it started with Bush.
But that doesn't change the unprecedented and unsustainable depths of corruption demonstrated in the Interior Department - and in the Defense Department. Though perhaps all that differed was that Bush's administration was incompetent to keep it looking so bad. Probably because they knew they'd get away with it. Except perhaps for Abramoff and the relatively lower level gang he got busted, though Abramoff's out already.
All of Utah's territory was taken from the nations who lived there before, largely by the Federal government. So Utahans' claim to the land isn't really compelling.
Besides, that Federal land is given to Utah corporations for free or cheap ranching and mining/drilling, without paying taxes on owning it.
Corrupt is in the eye of the one paying the bill. Since I pay for Utah to get back 7% more than it pays (and as much as 45% more, in 1987) from Federal spending in the state, as my state loses 21% net, I can see where the real corruption lands.
I've tried a few times to start up a project that inserts a MySQL engine between Linux filesystem calls and the storage subsystem, so the filesystem has a SQL API, but the teams quickly fell apart.
Maybe with that UMI book and your plugin book I might find a better approach that would produce a result this time.
It would be useful if there were a way to use all kinds of existing Apache plugins to deliver their functions to MySQL. Auth plugins are an obvious win; other functions not so obvious could still make code reuse deliver real productivity and wider functionality.
Indeed, an interesting MySQL plugin would be an Apache httpd that could run regular Apache plugins. Or MySQL packaged as an Apache plugin, for inline SQL embedded in Apache server side scripting.
In a similar vein, JBoss running as a plugin exposing its API to MySQL, or MySQL running managed by JBoss (hard unless MySQL is ported to Java;).
More interop between different app plugin APIs would mean more code sharing, and less code rewrite to integrate one app's functions into another's. Plus possible performance and security/management benefits.
So I take it that there's no option to replace the entire lexical parser code, or perhaps some larger functional block that includes the lexical parser, with a "plugin" (install-time selection, not compile-time) that just rewrites the "=" operator, replacing the default code that executes "=" the conventional way.
For example, could I write a plugin that intercepts the call to the implementation of "=" (eg. in "SELECT cola FROM tableb WHERE colb = colc"), that executes a Stored Function or UDF returning a boolean?
MS SQLServer has a feature which structures a column as a BLOB type, that can be specified to store each record's field in a separate file managed by SQLServer. Those files in that column can have a separate fulltext index supporting matching and proximity operators. Is there a plugin for MySQL that delivers those kinds of features?
How about a plugin that replaces any replaceable default MySQL feature with the execution of a stored procedure that's stored in that MySQL server instance?
If all I wanted to change in MySQL was the function that searched a table index for matching records, how would I go about writing a plugin for just that operation? How about a plugin that only creates/updates an index table (perhaps in a nonstandard format, to be read by my index search plugin)?
Is it feasible to replace just those two feature groups with a plugin, rather than the entire database engine?
The Interior Department was the most corrupt department (that we know of) during the Bush/Cheney administration. It was the main feeding grounds for Jack Abramoff, centered on using Indian tribes to grab casino industry money. It was the Interior Department's MMS office that traded favors to oil corps for coke and hookers, then let BP drill the Gulf despite its obvious contempt for safety, and let it slide through the resulting Macondo Well blowout through this Summer.
"Most corrupt department" was the hardest fought competition this whole decade, and it's clearly continued even after Bush/Cheney left. I am not at all surprised that the Interior Department is in bed with another monopoly disserving the people it's supposed to protect.
Given that ignorance of those contexts the main condition in which people make decisions - overwhelmingly to ignore them - and that choices appear when you can distinguish among them, I'd say that behavior would change for most people. Ignorance and conceding "expertise" to vested interests is the main obstacle to the critical mass of rationality needed to change behavior in those areas.
And note that I selected those examples only because the poster to whom I replied indicated their areas were important, that their minimal math knowledge was sufficient to deal with them. So I pointed out that their indifference to math in even those areas served them poorly.
I agree. But I didn't reply to anything but: "Speaking as someone with a degree in English Literature, I can safely say that I've only used math two times in my life: when learning it in school, when counting my kids at night, and when doing my taxes."
Maybe you need "reading comprehension for engineers".
You look up on the Internet how many miles you drove since you last filled your gas tank, and how much you filled it with? How much your individual loans cost you?
Interest in different races and resolutions on ballots doesn't indicate results. How many people searching the Web will even show up to vote? How many are getting wrong info from the pages they found? How many are aligned with opposition looking for negative info on something on the ballot?
Even turnout can't be predicted, let alone results.
How much do you understand the budgets you pay taxes on, rates of growth in government and private economy, trends in your home value? Do you know how much you pay in interest on your loans, vs paying in full a little later? Have you considered how much you'd save by changing how your home is heated and powered, with an upfront investment? Do you have any idea how your IRA/401k is performing, or how you'd do if you reallocated its investments? Do you know how your gas mileage varies with different driving patterns or gas octanes?
These people are all now poisoned in their nervous systems. How is the market fixing that?
You libertarians all think you're talking about Sim City. You're not. These people are poisoned. It's too late. That's what capitalism does when unchecked by protecting people's rights: it makes a clean getaway.
Passports with IC chips in them can have the chips fried by a microwave oven, but it's hard to figure out how much to fry them without burning the passport itself.
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Which drugs? Plenty of drugs taken in moderation can be sustained throughout a natural lifespan without damage. Very few drugs, especially those used longer than the last few generations, "burn out neurons" or cause any neuropathy of any kind, at active doses that aren't toxic. Alcohol is an exception. But heroin is not. All drugs temporarily "lower the potential" of neurons or raise them: otherwise they'd have no effect whatsoever. But so does eating too much food (or not enough), or habitual running, or having sex.
Blanket statements about drugs are rarely meaningful enough to take as useful advice.
In that Republicans are at the forefront of getting Americans ever dumber, it is because of Republicans. Americans are stupid.
No, it's not possible. I was told by operations that pagers wouldn't work. When I asked some executives why my pager worked, they didn't know why, and wished I hadn't asked. There was no paging equipment installed. At least not officially, since part of their official security regime was that the only telecom allowed people inside the bunker was through their managed firewalls, including the NorTel landlines installed for that purpose. And if it was installed unofficially, they have a different kind of security problem that is a more real risk than not being nuke proof.
Since you're going to be both sarcastic and wrong, I'll say that it's not like I'm a highly skilled telecom professional who was alarmed by the pager working, and prone to asking questions when things don't work.
Sarcasm aside, it's like you automatically trust the big telecom company and nuke war industry to do the right thing, despite the evidence available to an adequately astute IT pro.
CapitalOne is the bank that's been advertising for new business for years with TV ads featuring a gang of pillaging barbarians demanding to know "What's in your wallet?" while wrecking everything they touch. CapitalOne was of course central to destroying the global economy, like every other large US bank.
Why wouldn't CapitalOne do stupid, selfserving banking practices, in secret? They've only made $BILLIONS by doing that for years, and nobody's stopping them. And with the new Republican House of Representatives, there's only going to be lots more barbarism in banking.
I worked in a similar setup outside Toronto in the 1990s. It was a nuke bunker built for NorTel, which supposedly was designed and built in the 1960s to withstand a direct hydrogen bomb hit on Toronto. It housed NorTel and Bell Canada switching equipment and servers, but also rented out cabinets to anyone paying for a contract. Nevermind the ease with which I could have left a big box of explosives wired up to a detonator triggered over its Internet connection. But even though I had to pass through a half dozen checkpoints between the surface entrance and the datacenter underground, my pager used to go off quite reliably when people paged me. Regular radio waves penetrated this "nuke proof" bunker. I expect an actual nuke would have fried everything inside it, regardless of how much the Canadian government paid some contractor to protect it.
But NorTel and our other government clients believed it was nuke proof. Even though their pagers went off inside it, too. I have no faith that this Swiss bunker is any different. After all, if a nuke did hit it, who was going to sue the builders for failing to honor the contract?
The Defense Department is the biggest. And you're probably right on your principle - the DoD is probably also the most corrupt. And none of it started with Bush.
But that doesn't change the unprecedented and unsustainable depths of corruption demonstrated in the Interior Department - and in the Defense Department. Though perhaps all that differed was that Bush's administration was incompetent to keep it looking so bad. Probably because they knew they'd get away with it. Except perhaps for Abramoff and the relatively lower level gang he got busted, though Abramoff's out already.
All of Utah's territory was taken from the nations who lived there before, largely by the Federal government. So Utahans' claim to the land isn't really compelling.
Besides, that Federal land is given to Utah corporations for free or cheap ranching and mining/drilling, without paying taxes on owning it.
Corrupt is in the eye of the one paying the bill. Since I pay for Utah to get back 7% more than it pays (and as much as 45% more, in 1987) from Federal spending in the state, as my state loses 21% net, I can see where the real corruption lands.
Thanks for this info.
I've tried a few times to start up a project that inserts a MySQL engine between Linux filesystem calls and the storage subsystem, so the filesystem has a SQL API, but the teams quickly fell apart.
Maybe with that UMI book and your plugin book I might find a better approach that would produce a result this time.
It would be useful if there were a way to use all kinds of existing Apache plugins to deliver their functions to MySQL. Auth plugins are an obvious win; other functions not so obvious could still make code reuse deliver real productivity and wider functionality.
Indeed, an interesting MySQL plugin would be an Apache httpd that could run regular Apache plugins. Or MySQL packaged as an Apache plugin, for inline SQL embedded in Apache server side scripting.
In a similar vein, JBoss running as a plugin exposing its API to MySQL, or MySQL running managed by JBoss (hard unless MySQL is ported to Java ;).
More interop between different app plugin APIs would mean more code sharing, and less code rewrite to integrate one app's functions into another's. Plus possible performance and security/management benefits.
Is there a MySQL plugin that allows bulk insertion or other simple processing of MS Excel .XLS and .XLSX format files?
So I take it that there's no option to replace the entire lexical parser code, or perhaps some larger functional block that includes the lexical parser, with a "plugin" (install-time selection, not compile-time) that just rewrites the "=" operator, replacing the default code that executes "=" the conventional way.
For example, could I write a plugin that intercepts the call to the implementation of "=" (eg. in "SELECT cola FROM tableb WHERE colb = colc"), that executes a Stored Function or UDF returning a boolean?
MS SQLServer has a feature which structures a column as a BLOB type, that can be specified to store each record's field in a separate file managed by SQLServer. Those files in that column can have a separate fulltext index supporting matching and proximity operators. Is there a plugin for MySQL that delivers those kinds of features?
How about a plugin that replaces any replaceable default MySQL feature with the execution of a stored procedure that's stored in that MySQL server instance?
If all I wanted to change in MySQL was the function that searched a table index for matching records, how would I go about writing a plugin for just that operation? How about a plugin that only creates/updates an index table (perhaps in a nonstandard format, to be read by my index search plugin)?
Is it feasible to replace just those two feature groups with a plugin, rather than the entire database engine?
The Interior Department was the most corrupt department (that we know of) during the Bush/Cheney administration. It was the main feeding grounds for Jack Abramoff, centered on using Indian tribes to grab casino industry money. It was the Interior Department's MMS office that traded favors to oil corps for coke and hookers, then let BP drill the Gulf despite its obvious contempt for safety, and let it slide through the resulting Macondo Well blowout through this Summer.
"Most corrupt department" was the hardest fought competition this whole decade, and it's clearly continued even after Bush/Cheney left. I am not at all surprised that the Interior Department is in bed with another monopoly disserving the people it's supposed to protect.
Given that ignorance of those contexts the main condition in which people make decisions - overwhelmingly to ignore them - and that choices appear when you can distinguish among them, I'd say that behavior would change for most people. Ignorance and conceding "expertise" to vested interests is the main obstacle to the critical mass of rationality needed to change behavior in those areas.
And note that I selected those examples only because the poster to whom I replied indicated their areas were important, that their minimal math knowledge was sufficient to deal with them. So I pointed out that their indifference to math in even those areas served them poorly.
I agree. But I didn't reply to anything but:
"Speaking as someone with a degree in English Literature, I can safely say that I've only used math two times in my life: when learning it in school, when counting my kids at night, and when doing my taxes."
Maybe you need "reading comprehension for engineers".
Getting ripped off at every turn ain't bliss.
You look up on the Internet how many miles you drove since you last filled your gas tank, and how much you filled it with? How much your individual loans cost you?
No you don't. Your degree is in BS.
Interest in different races and resolutions on ballots doesn't indicate results. How many people searching the Web will even show up to vote? How many are getting wrong info from the pages they found? How many are aligned with opposition looking for negative info on something on the ballot?
Even turnout can't be predicted, let alone results.
How much do you understand the budgets you pay taxes on, rates of growth in government and private economy, trends in your home value? Do you know how much you pay in interest on your loans, vs paying in full a little later? Have you considered how much you'd save by changing how your home is heated and powered, with an upfront investment? Do you have any idea how your IRA/401k is performing, or how you'd do if you reallocated its investments? Do you know how your gas mileage varies with different driving patterns or gas octanes?
You would if you used math.
These people are all now poisoned in their nervous systems. How is the market fixing that?
You libertarians all think you're talking about Sim City. You're not. These people are poisoned. It's too late. That's what capitalism does when unchecked by protecting people's rights: it makes a clean getaway.
Passports with IC chips in them can have the chips fried by a microwave oven, but it's hard to figure out how much to fry them without burning the passport itself.
Can induction cooktops do it more precisely?
Why are induction cooktops so expensive (here in NY)? I understand they're sold cheap in Asia. They don't seem to need to be very expensive.
If they were cheap, they'd be worth using for energy efficiency. But they cost more than the energy savings.