With their resources, MIT could do the same thing in-house instead of outsourcing.
MIT is a wealthy institution and could afford to free considerable information without being adversarial. The solution isn't "lone rebels freeing the info", but using massive resources to break it loose instead.
"I think they're less enthusiastic about joining than they used to be."
Good. Unless Europeans hate their own culture they have no reason to defile it by admitting Superstitionist countries. It's taken long enough to weaken Superstition in Europe itself.
Anyone who admires Islam should be willing to move to the most Islamic countries. I gently suggest the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. THAT is the sort of society religion builds. Religionists should go wallow in it.
It takes a selectively blind person to WANT religion, but that sort of person is incapable of critical thinking on that specific subject however brillian or stupid they might otherwise be. Hit the sweet spot and they'll be your bitch.
The trouble with the Tea Party is they are Christian RIght Superstitionists (no, the tiny number of secularists and Libertarians don't matter though they rage when that is pointed out).
The GOP elites own them, and they aren't sophisticated enough to get that, either.
If you have something valuable which may be endangered by burning plants nearby, remove the plants and ensure they don't grow back.
I had a number of pines too near my houses. A chainsaw solved that nicely. I don't have flammable brush near my shop. I mow and use total vegetation killer for the hard-to-mow bits.
Find them, toss them into institutions and throw the fucking key away.
The US once did this, but it's expensive (those old Kirkbride-style sanitoriums don't build themselves), so now mental defectives are dumped on the streets (crazies don't take their meds voluntarily) and ignored.
There is no treatment for mental illness which matters. Lock 'em up, medicate them so it's not cruel, and keep them incarcerated and stoned until they run out the clock and die naturally.
The only cure for mental illness is euthanasia, that's a tad questionable morally and legally, but quarantining crazies works just fine.
Location data can be exploited to steal weapons when the owner is elsewhere, and if they are worth stealing even a gun safe is no guarantee they won't get swiped.
BTW, we used leftover steel scrap from an ATM/gun safe manufacturer for torch-cutting practice at the last place I works. A set of small, portable OA cylinders is more than enough to run a cutting torch long enough to cut common gun safes, and it's a quiet process though smoky.
"Noone. It should be destroyed in the fires of Mt. Doom."
That is so CUTE!
Destroy yours. The moral example will not deter me from forging a new one. Ring tech is information, and information not only wants to be free, it IS free.
"Whats worse 100,000 cases of polio or cultural eradication?"
In the case of Islam, cultural eradication would be desirable in terms of human progress, but is impractical, because Superstition is perfectly evolved to resist outside attack.
Superstition must be seen to fail then fall from within. "Dead" Gods failed to deliver and were abandoned, because even superstitious beast-man can generally "get" it when his religious construct fails.
I wouldn't lift a finger to provide medical care to such a culture. Let them ask their Allah for help and see how that works. If you support any level of Superstition, you support evil. Let Superstitionists choke on their chosen consequences.
That said, if anyone can PROVE their Sky Fairie exists, I'll kowtow before it. The burden of proof is on those making the assertion that their Flying Spaghetti Monster is real. No proof? Then they can fuck right off because ideas without evidence to support them merit zero respect as do the people who espouse them. Dogma should not replace skeptical inquiry.
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"Already have a distro that does that. I believe it is called "Debian"."
Odd name. Is it a fork of Ubuntu? (runs)
"A beta of Fedora 18's installer completely wiped my hard drive.'
That's why _BETA_ shit goes on solo expendable hard disks or better yet in virtual machines.
With their resources, MIT could do the same thing in-house instead of outsourcing.
MIT is a wealthy institution and could afford to free considerable information without being adversarial. The solution isn't "lone rebels freeing the info", but using massive resources to break it loose instead.
"I think they're less enthusiastic about joining than they used to be."
Good. Unless Europeans hate their own culture they have no reason to defile it by admitting Superstitionist countries. It's taken long enough to weaken Superstition in Europe itself.
Anyone who admires Islam should be willing to move to the most Islamic countries. I gently suggest the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. THAT is the sort of society religion builds. Religionists should go wallow in it.
If Superstition were truth, Superstitionists could PROVE their Sky Fairie exists and end all debate.
Spiritual experience, emotion, faith and similar bullshit are not PROOF.
Dogma is not compatible with the search for truth.
I spend way more time on the internet than I should, but find the matte WUXGA display on my T61 very comfortable to use.
It worked.
It takes a selectively blind person to WANT religion, but that sort of person is incapable of critical thinking on that specific subject however brillian or stupid they might otherwise be. Hit the sweet spot and they'll be your bitch.
The trouble with the Tea Party is they are Christian RIght Superstitionists (no, the tiny number of secularists and Libertarians don't matter though they rage when that is pointed out).
The GOP elites own them, and they aren't sophisticated enough to get that, either.
If you have something valuable which may be endangered by burning plants nearby, remove the plants and ensure they don't grow back.
I had a number of pines too near my houses. A chainsaw solved that nicely. I don't have flammable brush near my shop. I mow and use total vegetation killer for the hard-to-mow bits.
Find them, toss them into institutions and throw the fucking key away.
The US once did this, but it's expensive (those old Kirkbride-style sanitoriums don't build themselves), so now mental defectives are dumped on the streets (crazies don't take their meds voluntarily) and ignored.
There is no treatment for mental illness which matters. Lock 'em up, medicate them so it's not cruel, and keep them incarcerated and stoned until they run out the clock and die naturally.
The only cure for mental illness is euthanasia, that's a tad questionable morally and legally, but quarantining crazies works just fine.
Much love for Ultrabay goodness, ease of service, etc, but it wouldn't kill Lenovo to offer better displays as options.
My late wife was an amature nature photographer and easily filled most of a terabyte.
Not everyone has an enormous pir8ted scat porn collection.
US companies can build the same tech overseas, for example in Brazil, and locate their spaceport there too. Spaceport gets built either way.
"however there is no whitelist for white listing positive spitters and defecators that I do want to receive spit from."
Thanks to the internet I know such a whitelist would be a valued service in some quarters.
"Alright - that was worth a laugh. I mean, you're not really serious are you!?!?!"
What could be more wholesome than a site with such a CUTE little bear?
Good question.
I keep mine safe in the walled garden of 4chan.
"It is a pain the butt to restore your previous operating system."
Say what? If it really is a hassle, then get ye to the internet for many, many tutorials on doing so including making custom install media.
Installing Windows 7 from a clean .iso then using Daz Loader is very low effort and you don't need that machine to be connected to the internet.
"Will 2013 mark the end of the redundant apostrophe"
Wish for something more likely to happen, such as honest government or world peace.
They DID figure it out. They just don't want to produce it.
Limiting a chipset to 2GB is deliberately crippling the product.
"You can't record a phone call or in-person conversation in non-public places without warning and use it as evidence"
That depends there is a consenting party to that conversation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_recording_laws
Location data can be exploited to steal weapons when the owner is elsewhere, and if they are worth stealing even a gun safe is no guarantee they won't get swiped.
BTW, we used leftover steel scrap from an ATM/gun safe manufacturer for torch-cutting practice at the last place I works. A set of small, portable OA cylinders is more than enough to run a cutting torch long enough to cut common gun safes, and it's a quiet process though smoky.
"Noone. It should be destroyed in the fires of Mt. Doom."
That is so CUTE!
Destroy yours. The moral example will not deter me from forging a new one. Ring tech is information, and information not only wants to be free, it IS free.
We had a lot of former SAC folks in TAC (later ACC) as they crosstrained out of the missle fields due to nuclear arms reductions.
SAC discipline was famous, as was their esprit de corps.
Too bad SAC was eaten by Air Combat Command. The fighter mentality has its place, flying fighters....and I'm a former TAC maintainer.
"Whats worse 100,000 cases of polio or cultural eradication?"
In the case of Islam, cultural eradication would be desirable in terms of human progress, but is impractical, because Superstition is perfectly evolved to resist outside attack.
Superstition must be seen to fail then fall from within. "Dead" Gods failed to deliver and were abandoned, because even superstitious beast-man can generally "get" it when his religious construct fails.
I wouldn't lift a finger to provide medical care to such a culture. Let them ask their Allah for help and see how that works. If you support any level of Superstition, you support evil. Let Superstitionists choke on their chosen consequences.
That said, if anyone can PROVE their Sky Fairie exists, I'll kowtow before it. The burden of proof is on those making the assertion that their Flying Spaghetti Monster is real. No proof? Then they can fuck right off because ideas without evidence to support them merit zero respect as do the people who espouse them. Dogma should not replace skeptical inquiry.