That's a traditional area clearing method in the workcenter and military vehicles, but we didn't usually communicate using it. "MRE Ham Slice + black coffee" can empty an office quite smartly!
The companies should run thin clients with locking covers over the USB ports (to allow the keyboard and mouse) and they should epoxy shut any extra ports.
Want security? Take away user choice, give them orders, and punish disobedience. "Don't like it? Tough shit!" methods work well when applied.
This is great news for the people who will grab these netbooks after the original buyers tire of them or quit their contracts. I'll be watching Craigslist and flea markets.
"What does it matter you bigoted, hateful bastards?"
There is every reason for one who is not a Muslim to oppose Islam, just as they would oppose a toxic secular ideology like Communism. Why should a toxic belief system get a free pass because it is a superstition? Religions may be opposed for perfectly logical reasons such as the societies they produce, their inherent demand for theocracy, etc. Islam does not offer me more personal freedom, does impose social restrictions to which I object, and in practice insists on theocracy where there are sufficient Muslims to tip the balance in their favor.
"but they act like it is an affront to civilization to be able to do this with laptops?"
It would be an affront to profitability through planned obsolescence. The ideal consumer electronic item would die at purchase, be too expensive to repair, and immediately be replaced with something newer. Laptops are very often beyond economical repair unless you have an organ donor machine.
It's also no accident that Dell desktops don't have standard form factors, and no accident that most automobiles and light trucks have a wide variety of transmission bell housings...
"Have you told them what a great time you had, and you strongly recommend it?" I would have to present my whole experience,noting that some choices may have bad outcomes, and suggest how to get the most out of your youth if you are inclined to the pursuit of pleasure.
I cannot recommend illegal chemical recreation today due to the consequences imposed by a fearful society (for example, if the police find an ounce of weed in your car they aren't going to dump it on the ground and leave it at that), but partying and casual sex (with protection) I would recommend if they are of a mind to try it. "Be smart, have fun, don't get busted and don't make unplanned babies."
"I really wish you were trolling. Putting cutsey little "air quotes" around bloodbath when talking about the 1 to 4 million people killed by the Khmer Rouge means you're either hideously delusional (in a Chomsky sort of way), or a sociopath."
I meant consequences for the US and Europe of course. I do not care about the people in the examples I listed. Those who do are free to join Doctors Without Borders or become a mercenary. I'm not a sociopath, because I care about MY society of which the Rwandans and Khmers are not a part. It is hardly "pathological" to have priorities where one cares more about own-side groups before all others.
When one considers the set of ideals that drives well-intentioned meddling ("intervention") it is inevitable that they cause operations (like the disaster in Mogadishu) that end badly for those who AssUme it should be the White Man's Burden to intervene. I'd rather calculate the results of actions in terms of national and cultural benefit instead of some vague obligation to send our people to die for the ideals of other people (who are spectating from the Do-Gooder Interventionist peanut gallery back home).
"Cambodia is the poster child for intervention."
There is no interventionist gambit that could not easily be countered:
UN sends Blue Helmets to fight the Khmer Rouge, who employ classic partisan methods the UN cannot defeat to tie it down and bleed it dry. Mao, resenting the Colonialist invasion and seeing both danger and opportunity, supplies (more) arms and logistic support to the KR. The UN, seeing that it has the choice between fighting for decades or leaving, tucks tail between legs and bolts. Because the UN doesn't have its own armed forces, the way to defeat it is to defeat important national units so their governments withdraw them. It would be obvious to divide and conquer, given the unmatched Maoist understanding of partisan war.
Interesting anecdote:
Detente works in mysterious ways. The US _and_ Maoist China supported the Khmer Rouge during the 1980s as a counter to Russian influence in the region. Such practical arrangements are arguably a reason that the major victors of the Cold War were the US and China. After the squabble over Viet Nam (the least important pieces in which were the Vietnamese theselves), they were able to enter into a mutually fruitful relationship.
Quote from Obama's foreign policy advisor (who BTW helped beat the Soviets):
"I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot.... Pol Pot was an abomination. We could never support him, but China could."
Zbigniew Brzezinski
"The Baby Boomers, who simultaneously led the way for greater freedoms for youth and acted like spoiled children, had children. "
Only a relative few of the Boomers were serious party monsters, some were sympathetic, and most didn't do shit. The rest were destined to become the standard fearful conformist and this is not a surprise.
"I worked with a woman who was pregnant, and one time she confessed to me that she was having a real ethical crisis. She had partied - hard - in her youth. Coke, meth, sex, whatever. And she enjoyed it, and didn't have any negative consequences. So how was she supposed to tell her little darling not to do the things she did, when she has no regrets?"
MANY Boomers didn't have negative or severe negative consequences and had a delightful time. When you don't have negative consequence from chemical recreation and fucking, there is every reason to remember those times with happy nostalgia, so we do.
"But if whenever the US leaves, there will be a sectarian bloodbath, it may as well be now."
Sensible enough. The locals can work out their problems their way. If we study the "bloodbaths" of Rwanda and Cambodia, they are a terrific argument for non-interference by the US. They happened, we ignored them, no problem. (No, I'm not kidding or trolling.)
"A Senator in the Fed Pen? he's going to come face to face with a whole new series of tubes!"
Club Fed? Big deal. He'll get three hots and a cot and live under military regimentation. The only traffic his ass will get is a cavity search, and at his age that may be a thrill.
"Hell, how are you supposed to do something as simple as crank out out when you have to worry about catching it all or it may jam an instrument panel?"
Stealth fapping tech is inevitable. A cross between a Fleshlight and a milking machine should do the job.
Amber: What is the best free/cheap code reader that will work with my custom turbocharged Honda? It needs to be able to scan codes, and and adjust mixture, boost, and timing.
"Because if you have to install Windows and do a whole bunch of other stuff before you can do a quick and easy Windows install, why not stick with your first Windows install? "
Because Windows degrades over time, and a custom install is an easy method to prepare for the inevitable reinstall in a way that will reflect acquired user preferences and install Windows updates without being connected to the internet. A custom slipstreamed install disc can be booted and left pretty much to itself, then followed by a DVD of updates made with the Heise utility. Follow that with a custom applications disc and reinstalls are a breeze.
""I am a music producer who uses Sonar/Ableton Live/Cubase/ProTools/Gigasampler/take your pick of pro audio software."
For which he surely paid well, which begs the question of why he is asking for a FREE recommendation instead of one for professional AV software. After all, he has his livelihood riding on the performance of his systems.
"Posts like this lead to another, very important point. "
Fixing the problems of an operating system sold by a bitter opponent of Open and Free software is not a wise choice for a proponent of Open or Free software.
Capturing market share for applications like Firefox helps grab mindshare, and developing alternate operating systems gives that mindshare somewhere to go post-Windows.
Doing for Redmond what Redmond does not do for itself while not getting paid is arguably stupid.
"I'm not sure, I only use Flashblock, but on Youtube, Flashblock is great. You click a video and it starts loading.
You click back and forward, the video doesn't reload. The flash is blocked."
I use Flashblock and Videodownloader. I download anything I want to watch (if I want to watch it I may want to keep a copy) and play the.flv file using vlc.
Works great on both Windows and Linux, and for those who are bandwidth-challenged at one location it also works fine from a USB stick.
Slashdot Mirror
"but we can't all be petty dictators."
I'M a petty dictator, you insensitive clod!
I'm beginning to understand how the GEICO caveman feels. (weeps)
"It isn't easy being green."
Evidently not!
http://www.sadkermit.com/
"Or modulated farting, for that matter."
That's a traditional area clearing method in the workcenter and military vehicles, but we didn't usually communicate using it. "MRE Ham Slice + black coffee" can empty an office quite smartly!
The companies should run thin clients with locking covers over the USB ports (to allow the keyboard and mouse) and they should epoxy shut any extra ports.
Want security? Take away user choice, give them orders, and punish disobedience.
"Don't like it? Tough shit!" methods work well when applied.
"He embeds them in gel and he suspends them with elastic."
"Kinky!"
It puts the gel on its casing or it gets the hose again!
"If it's good enough for Nazis, it's good enough for me. Hey everyone: let's all be like Nazis! Make Hitler proud!"
Be careful what you ask for. They gassed retards instead of modding them down.
This is great news for the people who will grab these netbooks after the original buyers tire of them or quit their contracts. I'll be watching Craigslist and flea markets.
"when we can truly have separation of church and state."
Church demands control of state because Deity must rule man (conveniently enough, through his human representatives).
"What does it matter you bigoted, hateful bastards?"
There is every reason for one who is not a Muslim to oppose Islam, just as they would oppose a toxic secular ideology like Communism. Why should a toxic belief system get a free pass because it is a superstition? Religions may be opposed for perfectly logical reasons such as the societies they produce, their inherent demand for theocracy, etc. Islam does not offer me more personal freedom, does impose social restrictions to which I object, and in practice insists on theocracy where there are sufficient Muslims to tip the balance in their favor.
"but they act like it is an affront to civilization to be able to do this with laptops?"
It would be an affront to profitability through planned obsolescence. The ideal consumer electronic item would die at purchase, be too expensive to repair, and immediately be replaced with something newer. Laptops are very often beyond economical repair unless you have an organ donor machine.
It's also no accident that Dell desktops don't have standard form factors, and no accident that most automobiles and light trucks have a wide variety of transmission bell housings...
There are plenty of "cube" server cases which would fit your needs. That sort of PC has been a popular build for many years.
"But do you have kids?"
No.
"Have you told them what a great time you had, and you strongly recommend it?"
I would have to present my whole experience,noting that some choices may have bad outcomes, and suggest how to get the most out of your youth if you are inclined to the pursuit of pleasure.
I cannot recommend illegal chemical recreation today due to the consequences imposed by a fearful society (for example, if the police find an ounce of weed in your car they aren't going to dump it on the ground and leave it at that), but partying and casual sex (with protection) I would recommend if they are of a mind to try it.
"Be smart, have fun, don't get busted and don't make unplanned babies."
"I really wish you were trolling. Putting cutsey little "air quotes" around bloodbath when talking about the 1 to 4 million people killed by the Khmer Rouge means you're either hideously delusional (in a Chomsky sort of way), or a sociopath."
I meant consequences for the US and Europe of course.
I do not care about the people in the examples I listed. Those who do are free to join Doctors Without Borders or become a mercenary. I'm not a sociopath, because I care about MY society of which the Rwandans and Khmers are not a part. It is hardly "pathological" to have priorities where one cares more about own-side groups before all others.
When one considers the set of ideals that drives well-intentioned meddling ("intervention") it is inevitable that they cause operations (like the disaster in Mogadishu) that end badly for those who AssUme it should be the White Man's Burden to intervene. I'd rather calculate the results of actions in terms of national and cultural benefit instead of some vague obligation to send our people to die for the ideals of other people (who are spectating from the Do-Gooder Interventionist peanut gallery back home).
"Cambodia is the poster child for intervention."
There is no interventionist gambit that could not easily be countered:
UN sends Blue Helmets to fight the Khmer Rouge, who employ classic partisan methods the UN cannot defeat to tie it down and bleed it dry. Mao, resenting the Colonialist invasion and seeing both danger and opportunity, supplies (more) arms and logistic support to the KR. The UN, seeing that it has the choice between fighting for decades or leaving, tucks tail between legs and bolts. Because the UN doesn't have its own armed forces, the way to defeat it is to defeat important national units so their governments withdraw them. It would be obvious to divide and conquer, given the unmatched Maoist understanding of partisan war.
Interesting anecdote:
Detente works in mysterious ways. The US _and_ Maoist China supported the Khmer Rouge during the 1980s as a counter to Russian influence in the region. Such practical arrangements are arguably a reason that the major victors of the Cold War were the US and China. After the squabble over Viet Nam (the least important pieces in which were the Vietnamese theselves), they were able to enter into a mutually fruitful relationship.
Quote from Obama's foreign policy advisor (who BTW helped beat the Soviets):
"I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot.... Pol Pot was an abomination. We could never support him, but China could."
Zbigniew Brzezinski
"The Baby Boomers, who simultaneously led the way for greater freedoms for youth and acted like spoiled children, had children. "
Only a relative few of the Boomers were serious party monsters, some were sympathetic, and most didn't do shit. The rest were destined to become the standard fearful conformist and this is not a surprise.
"I worked with a woman who was pregnant, and one time she confessed to me that she was having a real ethical crisis. She had partied - hard - in her youth. Coke, meth, sex, whatever. And she enjoyed it, and didn't have any negative consequences. So how was she supposed to tell her little darling not to do the things she did, when she has no regrets?"
MANY Boomers didn't have negative or severe negative consequences and had a delightful time. When you don't have negative consequence from chemical recreation and fucking, there is every reason to remember those times with happy nostalgia, so we do.
"Now if only Microsoft & Apple could harness & effectively utilize the power of p2p ... *cough* *cough*"
P2P is highly effective for spreading their wares and chumming the market. :)
"But if whenever the US leaves, there will be a sectarian bloodbath, it may as well be now."
Sensible enough.
The locals can work out their problems their way. If we study the "bloodbaths" of Rwanda and Cambodia, they are a terrific argument for non-interference by the US. They happened, we ignored them, no problem. (No, I'm not kidding or trolling.)
"A Senator in the Fed Pen? he's going to come face to face with a whole new series of tubes!"
Club Fed? Big deal. He'll get three hots and a cot and live under military regimentation.
The only traffic his ass will get is a cavity search, and at his age that may be a thrill.
"Just make it a requirement that only married people can become astronauts.
That way the lack of sex will be normal and expected."
Two words:
Lisa Nowak
"Hell, how are you supposed to do something as simple as crank out out when you have to worry about catching it all or it may jam an instrument panel?"
Stealth fapping tech is inevitable. A cross between a Fleshlight and a milking machine should do the job.
"Amber: Hello?
Mechanic: Hi.
Amber: What is the best free/cheap code reader that will work with my custom turbocharged Honda? It needs to be able to scan codes, and and adjust mixture, boost, and timing.
Mechanic: BWAHAHAHA! Um, sorry.
"Because if you have to install Windows and do a whole bunch of other stuff before you can do a quick and easy Windows install, why not stick with your first Windows install? "
Because Windows degrades over time, and a custom install is an easy method to prepare for the inevitable reinstall in a way that will reflect acquired user preferences and install Windows updates without being connected to the internet. A custom slipstreamed install disc can be booted and left pretty much to itself, then followed by a DVD of updates made with the Heise utility. Follow that with a custom applications disc and reinstalls are a breeze.
ttp://www.heise-online.co.uk/security/Do-it-yourself-Service-Pack--/features/80682
""I am a music producer who uses Sonar/Ableton Live/Cubase/ProTools/Gigasampler/take your pick of pro audio software."
For which he surely paid well, which begs the question of why he is asking for a FREE recommendation instead of one for professional AV software. After all, he has his livelihood riding on the performance of his systems.
"Posts like this lead to another, very important point. "
Fixing the problems of an operating system sold by a bitter opponent of Open and Free software is not a wise choice for a proponent of Open or Free software.
Capturing market share for applications like Firefox helps grab mindshare, and developing alternate operating systems gives that mindshare somewhere to go post-Windows.
Doing for Redmond what Redmond does not do for itself while not getting paid is arguably stupid.
"I'm one step closer to getting my disability check when they identify the gene for humans. It's not laziness, it's a disease."
A disease with a nice ring to it. "I'm Diapausic!"
Combine this with Asperger's and I have a medical excuse for being a lazy asshole.
"I'm not sure, I only use Flashblock, but on Youtube, Flashblock is great. You click a video and it starts loading.
You click back and forward, the video doesn't reload. The flash is blocked."
I use Flashblock and Videodownloader. I download anything I want to watch (if I want to watch it I may want to keep a copy) and play the .flv file using vlc.
Works great on both Windows and Linux, and for those who are bandwidth-challenged at one location it also works fine from a USB stick.