Importing power from France is like importing it from one US State to another. The distances are short, Germany can be nuke-free, and can purchase electricity without building expensive infrastructure it doesn't need.
Germany may as well pay France as dump billions into constructing and maintaining reactors.
Mega-dittos. Buy good ones and use them generously. It's worth it. Also, when tying to something, I usually don't cinch the first tie (around the object the cable is to be secured to). I thread a second tie through it and wrap that around the cables, then lightly cinch the first tie.
"Is that the victims were generally NOT the people who allowed botnets to run on their computers."
Of course. There is no evolutionary pressure in the ecosystem to detoxify exploited computers. Bubba and Laqueefa don't give a fuck about internet security and WHY SHOULD THEY when there are negligible negative consequences?
I don't advocate any nonsense like government regulation to (not!) solve the problem.
It would be better done with destructive malware that disconnects infected PCs from the internet and does enough system damage to coerce a reinstall. No need to make personal files unreadable or data unrecoverable, just trash the OS.
There is NO ethical way to solve this problem, and there is no way to solve this problem without causing collateral damage.
Joe Dumbshit gets his porn appliance disconnected enough and gets tired of paying for reloads, and he will in some cases take action. Even if he replaces his PC with something more modern and, it is to be hoped, more secure, that's progress.
Obama didn't just gorge on corporate cock, he also sold out the civil rights movement. Grover Norquist was correct years ago when he said that Obama couldn't govern as a Democrat, but no one expected it would be because of his indifference to his "old" base.
Even Black intellectuals like Cornel West get it. Obama sold out the civil rights movement thoroughly and well.
Both Parties are puppets of the same master. Too bad Flight 93 didn't augur into Congress and send those shiteaters to a flaming demise.
(I don't support ragheads, but Congress has done far more damage to the US than Al Qaeda and the Taliban. It would be amusing if one took out the other.)
"All you bleeding heart liberals are too stupid to realize there is nothing to differentiate this man from George W. Bush."
Bush never promised to help LGBT people in the first place. Obama did then threw them under the bus so fast they didn't have time to scream. If it would help him get re-elected Obammy would shape-shift into Jim DeMint.
So much for the Corporate Lawn Jockey in the White House.
Not that all the OTHER politicians aren't welded at the lips to the collective corporate sphincter, but it's well worth reminding anyone who thinks ANY candidate from either Party will be different how they roll after they get you vote.
"and good job MS, you cant even settle on a standard UI anymore, you have classic, ribbion and now metro all fighting for our mouseclicks, how the hell does that help anyone when every freaking window has a gd new U I!?!?"
And they say that Windows developers learned nothing from Linux! (runs)
There is a renewable resource for the people who need simple and cheap structures. It's called "wood".
One can grow it to suit (for example the many "tree farms" in the US), and it doesn't require cement kilns and all the other expensive equipment required throughout the concrete production chain.
"So, once again we're going to end up having to replace a metric shit ton of applications because of an OS change."
Who is this "we" of which you speak? I didn't buy a fucking WinCE tablet and I'm not buying a fucking Windows 8 tablet either. A tablet is a notebook which is missing vital pieces, not a productive enterprise tool.
"We are at the end of the age of cheap oil and cheap energy."
Bullshit. We are at the beginning of the age of DIFFERENT energy. Don't mistake "teething pains" for the Apocalypse.
"The robots will go away once it becomes cheaper to hire humans than it is to make and power robots. It's really that simple."
That's absurdly stupid. Robots, because they are EFFICIENT, often use LESS energy for a given repetitive task than machines run by humans. That's why (for example) automated machining centers have replaced most manual machining centers. Your lathe/mill/whatever will still be running, but with robotics it will also be PRODUCING more product.
Most people never reflash a BIOS, and even after years of working on PCs I do so rarely. I suspect the removal of BIOS-protection jumpers is mere cost-cutting. No pins, no jumper, no extra work on the production line to install the jumper.
Put effort into inventing recreational chemicals that are benign and fun instead of producing those which turn people into hyperactive annoying fucktards.
Also, if the chems are new enough not to be illegal, it's a less prisony endeavor!
"If Ubuntu can finish its LSD trip in time for the Windows 8 release and go back to being a solid desktop distro"
That really ought to be modded "+5 Funny". The Ubuntoid designers are at least as in love with tablets and at least as bored with "usability over fashion" as MSFT. "Solid" is boring.
It's just further vindication of the Debian Way. Distros come, distros go, and Debian thrives on in the background. Ubuntu will not solve its problems because management don't define them as problems.
Mandrake used to be popular too. They did great things for Linux adoption. What Mandrake was to Red Hat, Ubuntu is to Debian.
Neither Red Hat or Debian particularly NEED such distros, which rise and fall because their teams and management fuck up.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-20/french-power-exports-to-germany-rise-amid-record-low-dam-output.html
Importing power from France is like importing it from one US State to another. The distances are short, Germany can be nuke-free, and can purchase electricity without building expensive infrastructure it doesn't need.
Germany may as well pay France as dump billions into constructing and maintaining reactors.
Mega-dittos. Buy good ones and use them generously. It's worth it.
Also, when tying to something, I usually don't cinch the first tie (around the object the cable is to be secured to). I thread a second tie through it and wrap that around the cables, then lightly cinch the first tie.
Less pinchy.
"Is that the victims were generally NOT the people who allowed botnets to run on their computers."
Of course. There is no evolutionary pressure in the ecosystem to detoxify exploited computers. Bubba and Laqueefa don't give a fuck about internet security and WHY SHOULD THEY when there are negligible negative consequences?
I don't advocate any nonsense like government regulation to (not!) solve the problem.
It would be better done with destructive malware that disconnects infected PCs from the internet and does enough system damage to coerce a reinstall. No need to make personal files unreadable or data unrecoverable, just trash the OS.
There is NO ethical way to solve this problem, and there is no way to solve this problem without causing collateral damage.
Joe Dumbshit gets his porn appliance disconnected enough and gets tired of paying for reloads, and he will in some cases take action. Even if he replaces his PC with something more modern and, it is to be hoped, more secure, that's progress.
Obama didn't just gorge on corporate cock, he also sold out the civil rights movement. Grover Norquist was correct years ago when he said that Obama couldn't govern as a Democrat, but no one expected it would be because of his indifference to his "old" base.
Even Black intellectuals like Cornel West get it. Obama sold out the civil rights movement thoroughly and well.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_obama_deception_why_cornel_west_went_ballistic_20110516/
CORPORATE music is dangerous. REJECT it.
Both Parties are puppets of the same master. Too bad Flight 93 didn't augur into Congress and send those shiteaters to a flaming demise.
(I don't support ragheads, but Congress has done far more damage to the US than Al Qaeda and the Taliban. It would be amusing if one took out the other.)
"All you bleeding heart liberals are too stupid to realize there is nothing to differentiate this man from George W. Bush."
Bush never promised to help LGBT people in the first place. Obama did then threw them under the bus so fast they didn't have time to scream. If it would help him get re-elected Obammy would shape-shift into Jim DeMint.
I like the idea that people should be punished for wanting mass-market culture.
The sad thing is not that people are being sued for downloading Stupid Shit, but that they crave it in the first place.
You should HATE what Hollywood and the RIAA feed you, and if you don't understand why you need to pull your head out of your arse.
So much for the Corporate Lawn Jockey in the White House.
Not that all the OTHER politicians aren't welded at the lips to the collective corporate sphincter, but it's well worth reminding anyone who thinks ANY candidate from either Party will be different how they roll after they get you vote.
"and good job MS, you cant even settle on a standard UI anymore, you have classic, ribbion and now metro all fighting for our mouseclicks, how the hell does that help anyone when every freaking window has a gd new U I!?!?"
And they say that Windows developers learned nothing from Linux!
(runs)
"The other 65% of the money, or of the shoe-tying kids? =P"
They are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
There is a renewable resource for the people who need simple and cheap structures. It's called "wood".
One can grow it to suit (for example the many "tree farms" in the US), and it doesn't require cement kilns and all the other expensive equipment required throughout the concrete production chain.
"So, once again we're going to end up having to replace a metric shit ton of applications because of an OS change."
Who is this "we" of which you speak? I didn't buy a fucking WinCE tablet and I'm not buying a fucking Windows 8 tablet either. A tablet is a notebook which is missing vital pieces, not a productive enterprise tool.
I, for one, welcome our new Antipodean barrister overlords!
"We are at the end of the age of cheap oil and cheap energy."
Bullshit. We are at the beginning of the age of DIFFERENT energy. Don't mistake "teething pains" for the Apocalypse.
"The robots will go away once it becomes cheaper to hire humans than it is to make and power robots. It's really that simple."
That's absurdly stupid. Robots, because they are EFFICIENT, often use LESS energy for a given repetitive task than machines run by humans. That's why (for example) automated machining centers have replaced most manual machining centers. Your lathe/mill/whatever will still be running, but with robotics it will also be PRODUCING more product.
More Edlin humor:
http://writeonlymemory.net/winedlin.html
Superstition IS a virus!
No modern man runs that code or respects the ideas behind it.
Most people never reflash a BIOS, and even after years of working on PCs I do so rarely.
I suspect the removal of BIOS-protection jumpers is mere cost-cutting. No pins, no jumper, no extra work on the production line to install the jumper.
"hire more workers and build more factories"
That made sense when you needed more workers and more factories, both of which are COST centers.
Remember the great "smokestack" industries, like "Big Steel"?
We use vastly more steel nowadays, made with far fewer steelworkers.
Nose candy is SO 1970s.
Put effort into inventing recreational chemicals that are benign and fun instead of producing those which turn people into hyperactive annoying fucktards.
Also, if the chems are new enough not to be illegal, it's a less prisony endeavor!
"no more cheating the lie detector with a tac in the foot or flexing your sphincter......."
Damn, I'll have to find another excuse for doing those things.
"That's about as likely as a dyke at a Tea Party meeting."
"Latent" dyke or "out" dyke?
The opposite of love isn't hate, but indifference!
8-P
These attention whores now have the internet. Before, they were easier to ignore and being ignored is what they deserve.
When paranoid bullshit made the rounds on mimeographed newsletters it was slower to spread.
"If Ubuntu can finish its LSD trip in time for the Windows 8 release and go back to being a solid desktop distro"
That really ought to be modded "+5 Funny". The Ubuntoid designers are at least as in love with tablets and at least as bored with "usability over fashion" as MSFT. "Solid" is boring.
It's just further vindication of the Debian Way. Distros come, distros go, and Debian thrives on in the background. Ubuntu will not solve its problems because management don't define them as problems.
Mandrake used to be popular too. They did great things for Linux adoption. What Mandrake was to Red Hat, Ubuntu is to Debian.
Neither Red Hat or Debian particularly NEED such distros, which rise and fall because their teams and management fuck up.
Lived in the South for decades, visited WV.
The words "poor white trash" have specific meaning, and PWT look and act the same in both places.