I've "known" all of the same information for awhile now, but I haven't actually been able to verify that there was a QT suit and settlement. Do you have a link for that
I'd agree that holding all of the US would be a tactical challenge. I wouldn't imagine that anyone would try; but rather China, in the context of Korea, could well have threatened our Pacific islands, possibly coasts, as well as Japan.
And in that vein, we wouldn't have found it easy to take and hold China, invading from Korea. Did Macarthur have a plan of attack, or was he just trolling? I dunno. I'd expect that he had real goals in mind, and would be interested to learn how good his prospects were from someone who knows the history of the period better than I.
E.g., I remember going to a few shops in '99 to get an MP3 player. (Yeah, one of those "back in my day" tales;) There was the iPod or there were some things that qualified as one or more of:
Not in 1999, you didn't. The iPod didn't come out until 10/2001.
Ever since Truman refused the MacArthur request to attack China during the Korea war, the US has had this doctrine of limited wars, fighting proxy armies as if the power behind them did not exist. A very expensive way to obtain limited results.
It also limits the risk to us. You know, we could very well be beaten by the wrong move: if we'd invaded China, you know, they could well have invaded us in response. There are times when risking escalation is necessary, and times when it is not.
How man times when you go "all in" do you actually come out the winner?
On the other hand, we could of avoided much of it if it wasn't for politicians running the war.
Politicians always run wars, particularly in modern times. The application of force is a function of politics, not the other way around, and therefore will always be constrained by political considerations.
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Thanks so much for illuminating my sad life. I certainly couldn't have come up with a list of things to do besides watch TV on my own.
I was going to reply to the story with a comment much like yours, but you've captured it so very nicely that I'll only add that I agree.
My wife and I have watched every episode, but every episode we say "this is going to be the last one". And then they pull just enough out to keep us mildly interested for just one more show. There wasn't anything else on on Wednesdays, anyways. We were actually both relieved by the cancelation.
This is a really really bad show, with an interesting premise that the writers, almost, but not quite entirely, ignored.
What's more interesting to us is that we thought we were alone in thinking it, but some other friends confirmed the same sentiment--really really bad but they still find themselves watching it.
I can tell you I won't be sending nuts to anyone. God I hope this stunt fails.
I would, personally, bomb civilians were the US to be invaded by an occupying force. Of course there are some scenarios in which suicide bombing of civilians is warranted, if you can't think of any it means you're not imaginative enough.
I also think the bombing of Hiroshima was warranted, having read lots of opposing opinions about it. Guess what? There were civilians there. And I guarantee that if the US had lost that war, the US would be regarded as the worst terrorists of all time.
Yeah, I had fun driving a cab too. Too bad it made me an addict, and eventually I had to quit when I got 11 speeding tickets and they pulled my license. Ah, good times.
Work in a retail environment, preferably on commission. In about 6 months you'll either learn how to sell ice to eskimos, or starve.
Seriously, this was the best exposure I had to the non-technical user, and I've utilized the learned salesmanship in later interviews and technical presentations. I recommend spending some time selling something to everyone.
We had that, it was called Firefly. It was canceled.
Basically the SciFi channel should show anything that has a space ship in it. It didn't show FF, and it didn't even want to pick up the contract after Fox canceled it.
The best current SciFi is itself a sequel--BattleStar Galactica--although it doesn't have much to do with the originating series.
Where I work, employee laptops are required to make use of File Vault on the Mac, and I believe that the entire HD is encrypted if you chose a windows laptop instead. I'm not sure of the Linux option, but I believe that there is one.
In light of that, why isn't that kind of policy used everywhere? Doesn't it just make good sense?
The TSA shouldn't even be able to claim that this was a legacy laptop, as frankly their agency hasn't been around that long. I don't get it.
And responsible adults don't lightly pull out guns, especially if they have had good training.
Are you willing to let me determine if you're both a) responsible and b) well-trained before I let you carry a weapon? What if I merely require that you're "well regulated", as the 2nd Amendment does?
Seems to me that we've had all attempts at those three requirements resisted out of hand by pro-gun lobbyists.
You're right. Although I'm drunk 1/3 of the time, if only I'd been armed so I could defend myself against guys like this. Or shoot wildly, anyways.
Here's my point: if guys like you didn't oppose reasonable measures to ensure that only responsible citizens could bear arms, a lot more folks would be entrusted to carry weapons. Yes, there is a value judgement in there that has to be made by the government. We do the same thing for the right to drive, too.
However, since you want to extend the right to every slinging dick that has $150 for a Sat Night Special, we prefer to ban everything.
I don't know at all if 25% of the folks were armed that there would be an organized resistance to the lone crazed individual. More than likely it'd be a free for all firefight, with lots of friendly fire casualties. Even professional soldiers can't keep from killing friendlies, and they train for such situations.
The article didn't say, but I'm guessing that these were just random USB keys in a bathroom, perhaps with a band label on it. I'm afraid that you wouldn't get me to stick such a thing in my computer, NIN or not. I'm reminded of an old hacker trick:
put floppies (old trick, right?) with the label "Executive Compensation Program" on them, leave them in the public place in a building of the company you're trying to get into.
Who could resist putting that in their machine and taking a look, right?
But whoops! On double-clicking the.xls it doesn't work, must be corrupted. Instead, you just got trojaned, behind the network firewalls and on the intranet.
Maybe I'll take some USB sticks to the next NIN concert. (Better get some black ones, I guess.) And install them with a keylogger and I can get all the MySpace passwords I want.
Not one of these games (and hundres of others) works in OSX (without emulation -- that doesn't count).
Emulation does count. It's rather the point of the article: now that you can run Windows in emulation, you can have the best of both worlds. And then, just perhaps, you'll stop using Windows over time, gradually.
Or, the reverse could also occur: no more native OS X apps, as folks would rather develop one product (for Windows) and expect Mac users to use emulation. But it appears that's not happening, as emulation works well enough, but not great--and folks will choose the application that gives them a great experience vs. one that is just good.
Basically, the ability to emulate (or actually virtualize) Windows on the Mac has removed the fear that a lot of people have about switching, and eventually they're finding that their dependence on Windows is fading away. The threat to Microsoft's ability to lock you in to a platform should not be underestimated.
Even on the mac I would imagine that Entourage connecting to an Exchange server makes up a large portion of the Enterprise mail community.
Not generally. If Macs are allowed at work, it's generally in an environment that has a generic IMAP service set up (or, where I work, we're all webmail based. Really. But it does allow you to use any platform you like that has a web browser). While non-Exchasnge email isn't common, it's not common to have Macs at work either, so there you go. Entourage to Exchange still has big problems, and it's become clear that MIcrosoft does not intend to allow platforms other than Windows to interact with Exchange server. At least, that was before they agreed to release interop specs in the latest round with the EU; I wonder if it will be much easier for a third party to step in and make compatiblity easier.
They'll probably be in a building not much different than those found here in America. Which means that they'll have the same cooling and heating problems as we do. (We have horribly cold Chicago winters, I can assure you that they help cool our servers very little.)
Well, that might be due to poor design. I read an article about a data center built in Minneapolis, which can also be terribly cold. The Data Center made use of "environmental cooling" ie sucking in cold outside air. The DC operator bragged that he didn't need to run his chillers at all for 3 1/2 months of the year; that he used the excess heat to warm the offices, and if those got too warm he warmed the loading dock. In fact, often the incoming air was too cold so it had to be prewarmed first (also from the excess temp of the servers themselves). You might consider making better use of the natural cooling temps to help with your DC, it's the latest thing in DC design.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if DCs in Siberia were going to attempt to do this also, provided that Siberia is truly that cold.
They also failed to pick it up for original episodes when Fox originally canceled it. That confirmed it for me: SciFi channel has little interest in SciFi. I also think they should be deeply embarrassed that Spike carries Star Trek, too.
Essentially, I used to crave the SciFi channel and would have paid extra to have it on my cable lineup. Now, if it wasn't part of the expanded basic package, I wouldn't bother. Esp with bittorrent/iTunes for BSG.
If Dell were to say "sure, we support Linux, just use the binary-only Nvidia driver", that approach isn't going to make a lot of Linux users happy.
But Dell is in the position of selecting the best hardware components based on what their users want; if Dell said to Nvidia "we'd like to use your stuff, but it doesn't work for our Linux customers, who now represent 10% of our customer base, so we're going to offer your competitor as well", I'm going to bet that Nvidia sees the light. They simply wouldn't want to lose that many sales through Dell.
I'd suggest that a fundamental problem with this proposal is that you risk paying Math teachers more, but retaining those 40% that are under-qualified as you still can't get rid of them, and they game the pay system: then you'd have under-qualified teachers making more than their qualified peers in other subjects.
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I've "known" all of the same information for awhile now, but I haven't actually been able to verify that there was a QT suit and settlement. Do you have a link for that
I'd agree that holding all of the US would be a tactical challenge. I wouldn't imagine that anyone would try; but rather China, in the context of Korea, could well have threatened our Pacific islands, possibly coasts, as well as Japan.
And in that vein, we wouldn't have found it easy to take and hold China, invading from Korea. Did Macarthur have a plan of attack, or was he just trolling? I dunno. I'd expect that he had real goals in mind, and would be interested to learn how good his prospects were from someone who knows the history of the period better than I.
E.g., I remember going to a few shops in '99 to get an MP3 player. (Yeah, one of those "back in my day" tales;) There was the iPod or there were some things that qualified as one or more of:
Not in 1999, you didn't. The iPod didn't come out until 10/2001.
I'd guess you bike to work? 'Cause you just determined that having radioactive oil is preferable to using a more deliberative approach.
Ever since Truman refused the MacArthur request to attack China during the Korea war, the US has had this doctrine of limited wars, fighting proxy armies as if the power behind them did not exist. A very expensive way to obtain limited results.
It also limits the risk to us. You know, we could very well be beaten by the wrong move: if we'd invaded China, you know, they could well have invaded us in response. There are times when risking escalation is necessary, and times when it is not.
How man times when you go "all in" do you actually come out the winner?
On the other hand, we could of avoided much of it if it wasn't for politicians running the war.
Politicians always run wars, particularly in modern times. The application of force is a function of politics, not the other way around, and therefore will always be constrained by political considerations.
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Thanks so much for illuminating my sad life. I certainly couldn't have come up with a list of things to do besides watch TV on my own.
I was going to reply to the story with a comment much like yours, but you've captured it so very nicely that I'll only add that I agree.
My wife and I have watched every episode, but every episode we say "this is going to be the last one". And then they pull just enough out to keep us mildly interested for just one more show. There wasn't anything else on on Wednesdays, anyways. We were actually both relieved by the cancelation.
This is a really really bad show, with an interesting premise that the writers, almost, but not quite entirely, ignored.
What's more interesting to us is that we thought we were alone in thinking it, but some other friends confirmed the same sentiment--really really bad but they still find themselves watching it.
I can tell you I won't be sending nuts to anyone. God I hope this stunt fails.
I would, personally, bomb civilians were the US to be invaded by an occupying force. Of course there are some scenarios in which suicide bombing of civilians is warranted, if you can't think of any it means you're not imaginative enough.
I also think the bombing of Hiroshima was warranted, having read lots of opposing opinions about it. Guess what? There were civilians there. And I guarantee that if the US had lost that war, the US would be regarded as the worst terrorists of all time.
Yeah, I had fun driving a cab too. Too bad it made me an addict, and eventually I had to quit when I got 11 speeding tickets and they pulled my license. Ah, good times.
Work in a retail environment, preferably on commission. In about 6 months you'll either learn how to sell ice to eskimos, or starve.
Seriously, this was the best exposure I had to the non-technical user, and I've utilized the learned salesmanship in later interviews and technical presentations. I recommend spending some time selling something to everyone.
We had that, it was called Firefly. It was canceled.
Basically the SciFi channel should show anything that has a space ship in it. It didn't show FF, and it didn't even want to pick up the contract after Fox canceled it.
The best current SciFi is itself a sequel--BattleStar Galactica--although it doesn't have much to do with the originating series.
Where I work, employee laptops are required to make use of File Vault on the Mac, and I believe that the entire HD is encrypted if you chose a windows laptop instead. I'm not sure of the Linux option, but I believe that there is one.
In light of that, why isn't that kind of policy used everywhere? Doesn't it just make good sense?
The TSA shouldn't even be able to claim that this was a legacy laptop, as frankly their agency hasn't been around that long. I don't get it.
Now I have to rethink my own support for Obama, if he's palatable to conservatives. Thanks a lot!
Are you willing to let me determine if you're both a) responsible and b) well-trained before I let you carry a weapon? What if I merely require that you're "well regulated", as the 2nd Amendment does?
Seems to me that we've had all attempts at those three requirements resisted out of hand by pro-gun lobbyists.
You're right. Although I'm drunk 1/3 of the time, if only I'd been armed so I could defend myself against guys like this. Or shoot wildly, anyways.
Here's my point: if guys like you didn't oppose reasonable measures to ensure that only responsible citizens could bear arms, a lot more folks would be entrusted to carry weapons. Yes, there is a value judgement in there that has to be made by the government. We do the same thing for the right to drive, too.
However, since you want to extend the right to every slinging dick that has $150 for a Sat Night Special, we prefer to ban everything.
I don't know at all if 25% of the folks were armed that there would be an organized resistance to the lone crazed individual. More than likely it'd be a free for all firefight, with lots of friendly fire casualties. Even professional soldiers can't keep from killing friendlies, and they train for such situations.
The article didn't say, but I'm guessing that these were just random USB keys in a bathroom, perhaps with a band label on it. I'm afraid that you wouldn't get me to stick such a thing in my computer, NIN or not. I'm reminded of an old hacker trick: put floppies (old trick, right?) with the label "Executive Compensation Program" on them, leave them in the public place in a building of the company you're trying to get into. Who could resist putting that in their machine and taking a look, right? But whoops! On double-clicking the .xls it doesn't work, must be corrupted. Instead, you just got trojaned, behind the network firewalls and on the intranet.
Maybe I'll take some USB sticks to the next NIN concert. (Better get some black ones, I guess.) And install them with a keylogger and I can get all the MySpace passwords I want.
Not one of these games (and hundres of others) works in OSX (without emulation -- that doesn't count).
Emulation does count. It's rather the point of the article: now that you can run Windows in emulation, you can have the best of both worlds. And then, just perhaps, you'll stop using Windows over time, gradually.
Or, the reverse could also occur: no more native OS X apps, as folks would rather develop one product (for Windows) and expect Mac users to use emulation. But it appears that's not happening, as emulation works well enough, but not great--and folks will choose the application that gives them a great experience vs. one that is just good.
Basically, the ability to emulate (or actually virtualize) Windows on the Mac has removed the fear that a lot of people have about switching, and eventually they're finding that their dependence on Windows is fading away. The threat to Microsoft's ability to lock you in to a platform should not be underestimated.
Even on the mac I would imagine that Entourage connecting to an Exchange server makes up a large portion of the Enterprise mail community.
Not generally. If Macs are allowed at work, it's generally in an environment that has a generic IMAP service set up (or, where I work, we're all webmail based. Really. But it does allow you to use any platform you like that has a web browser). While non-Exchasnge email isn't common, it's not common to have Macs at work either, so there you go. Entourage to Exchange still has big problems, and it's become clear that MIcrosoft does not intend to allow platforms other than Windows to interact with Exchange server. At least, that was before they agreed to release interop specs in the latest round with the EU; I wonder if it will be much easier for a third party to step in and make compatiblity easier.
They'll probably be in a building not much different than those found here in America. Which means that they'll have the same cooling and heating problems as we do. (We have horribly cold Chicago winters, I can assure you that they help cool our servers very little.)
Well, that might be due to poor design. I read an article about a data center built in Minneapolis, which can also be terribly cold. The Data Center made use of "environmental cooling" ie sucking in cold outside air. The DC operator bragged that he didn't need to run his chillers at all for 3 1/2 months of the year; that he used the excess heat to warm the offices, and if those got too warm he warmed the loading dock. In fact, often the incoming air was too cold so it had to be prewarmed first (also from the excess temp of the servers themselves). You might consider making better use of the natural cooling temps to help with your DC, it's the latest thing in DC design.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if DCs in Siberia were going to attempt to do this also, provided that Siberia is truly that cold.
They also aired Firefly after it was dropped
They also failed to pick it up for original episodes when Fox originally canceled it. That confirmed it for me: SciFi channel has little interest in SciFi. I also think they should be deeply embarrassed that Spike carries Star Trek, too.
Essentially, I used to crave the SciFi channel and would have paid extra to have it on my cable lineup. Now, if it wasn't part of the expanded basic package, I wouldn't bother. Esp with bittorrent/iTunes for BSG.
That's not actually true in the case of haiku, but you could probably guess that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku
"If you spam, you could lose your business".
Seems pretty reasonable to me, provided they were in fact responsible for the My Space spam.
Hopefully that becomes the rule instead of the exception.
If Dell were to say "sure, we support Linux, just use the binary-only Nvidia driver", that approach isn't going to make a lot of Linux users happy.
But Dell is in the position of selecting the best hardware components based on what their users want; if Dell said to Nvidia "we'd like to use your stuff, but it doesn't work for our Linux customers, who now represent 10% of our customer base, so we're going to offer your competitor as well", I'm going to bet that Nvidia sees the light. They simply wouldn't want to lose that many sales through Dell.
I'd suggest that a fundamental problem with this proposal is that you risk paying Math teachers more, but retaining those 40% that are under-qualified as you still can't get rid of them, and they game the pay system: then you'd have under-qualified teachers making more than their qualified peers in other subjects.
Wouldn't that be a problem?