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If they want those domains back, they'll simply take them. Country TLDs can do whatever they want subject to the laws of that country.
And I won't be shedding any tears over it either. This is similar to the rape of poor countries for raw materials and natural resources that the locals are not developed enough to exploit themselves. Once the country is ready to take over, they usually just nationalize that industry. The foreigners who made a killing (no pun intended) off local labor and land whine, and sometimes the rich country will step in with coercion.
For an example, google for United Fruit and Guatemala. It's that sort of shit that caused 9/11 and continues to cause widespread hatred of America.
Interesting article, but he brushes over the problem of getting actual internet access. Sure you can get an SDSL connection to somewhere, but unless that place has internet access, you've gotten nowhere.
I have an old VCR that, after it finishes a scheduled recording, goes back through and marks all the commercials. Then when you watch it will fast forward through them. Not quite as good as instantly skipping them or better yet not recording them at all, but much more convenient than DIY.
Of course these are only the default settings, and you can make it show you the commercials if you really want.
Nope. The Nazis (who didn't gain power until 1933) did not keep good centralized records. (They did keep thorough records in specific agencies, which is for example why we have such good figures on how many people died in specific concentration camps.) The Nazis also never had coups. Sure they had purges, but Hitler was in control until the day he died.
Look, as much as I think the Bush administration is a threat to civil liberties and is terrible in all sorts of other ways, to compare them generally to Nazis is an insult to all the sacrifices billions of people made in the war that destroyed German fascism. We may not have a perfect (or even good) government, but to suggest it's a goverment that will make genocide a household word or start a war that will leave upwards of 50 million people dead is a bit of a stretch, don't you think?
Of course terrorists are not going to succeed in hijacking planes and flying them into buildings again. The public doesn't really care. They just want to "feel safe". Meanwhile the US isn't doing much about things like Palestinian-style suicide bombers, which ultimately would be impossible to stop in a country with civil rights remotely approaching the degraded level we enjoy now. But that of course isn't a comforting thought, so no one talks about it. Easier to make people show easy-to-fake photo IDs at the airport.
1) Is there anything illegal about doing what you describe?
2) They're not subsidizing anyone. They make money on every traveller. It's just that they can squeeze even more money out of the business travellers, and there's implicit price-fixing among the airlines to keep it that way.
You're very right that doing this naively will result in just what you describe. PHP will parse all those files to an internal opcode format, then execute that. What you want is for it to cache the opcode so it doesn't have to re-read/parse/compile the.php files until they change on disk. The best way to do this is with the Zend Optimizer, which is written by the same people who write the PHP engine. It's free as in beer and comes only as a binary. If you want free as in speech as well, search for "php accelerator", "phpa", "mmcache", and I'm sure there are more. (I will warn you that I've had a bad experience with one of the non-Zend caches where it failed unpredictably when the server handled multiple requests simultaneously. Because that almost never happened on our testing server, we didn't notice until it was on the production server and causing havoc. Test thoroughly.:)) All of these caches require minimal setup (though you will need root) and work automagically. With a functioning cache, most requests will actually be much faster if you include all your libraries from base.inc or whatnot, since all the opcodes were cached after the first request. HTH
It is this kindler and gentler America that has drawn tens of millions of immigrants to this country.
I doubt this. Most immigrants in the past century have come because they could get a higher standard of living in America, or because they were seeking asylum from some sort of persecution. Compared to Western Europe, America is hardly kind and gentle. There are relatively few laws on employment here, which keeps minimum wage, job security, and workers' rights low. If you come to America for economic reasons, it's usually for the money, not for the work conditions.
And why should they employ people to do a job they can get out of a machine more cost-effectively? Maybe we should stop using machines in car factories and restore lost manufacturing jobs?
Do you know why you have a grocery store just up the road from you that's stocked with plenty of good food of different varieties at all times of year? Do you know why the average working adult in your town can afford an automobile? Do you know why you have a computer with which to post on/.?
It's because we have an economy that's not afraid to put people out of work to improve efficiency. People can find new jobs. They might have to move or learn new skills, but that's life in the industrialized world. If you don't like it, there are some pre-industrialized countries you can go to where you'll earn a steady, miniscule pay for the same job all your life.
Take the example of the United States. Since the end of the depression, unemployment and inflation have remained relatively stable and low. But the standard of living has increased tremendously for the average white male. (It's increased even more dramatically for other people, but that's also partly because they learned to fight for their civil rights.) Yes, the short-term unemployment people experience can be very painful. That's why we have (or should have) unemployment benefits and other forms of a social welfare system to help the unemployed find new jobs.
So don't complain about automated checkout counters putting people out of work. When they do find their next jobs, they'll be able to spend less of their income on food.
I also hate the way they ask me for a receipt as I walk out the store. My response is always "I've bought this merchandise, so you have no right to stop or search me." More than once they've threatened to call security/police/whatever. To this I point out that if they so much as attempt to restrain me from leaving without good cause, they'll be liable for civil and criminal charges. Just keep walking out and drive away. So long as you have indeed purchased the items you're taking with you, the worst they can legally do to you is ask you not to return.
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No, we just patented all the possible ways of making, preserving, and using fire.
If they want those domains back, they'll simply take them. Country TLDs can do whatever they want subject to the laws of that country.
And I won't be shedding any tears over it either. This is similar to the rape of poor countries for raw materials and natural resources that the locals are not developed enough to exploit themselves. Once the country is ready to take over, they usually just nationalize that industry. The foreigners who made a killing (no pun intended) off local labor and land whine, and sometimes the rich country will step in with coercion.
For an example, google for United Fruit and Guatemala. It's that sort of shit that caused 9/11 and continues to cause widespread hatred of America.
Interesting article, but he brushes over the problem of getting actual internet access. Sure you can get an SDSL connection to somewhere, but unless that place has internet access, you've gotten nowhere.
Actually it was Bush Sr. that said that. Not that Bush Jr. is any better, but he wasn't the one that said that.
I have an old VCR that, after it finishes a scheduled recording, goes back through and marks all the commercials. Then when you watch it will fast forward through them. Not quite as good as instantly skipping them or better yet not recording them at all, but much more convenient than DIY.
Of course these are only the default settings, and you can make it show you the commercials if you really want.
It's supposedly slightly faster to write in, but it's certainly a whole lot slower to read!
*ducks*
Well, 2000 of us made it last time anyway. Hey, I call a spot!
Who would have thought that the mass production of lasers would lead to... 12-year old boys giggling in a movie theater and pissing everyone else off?
What about bombs, huh? Just because planes won't be hijacked anymore doesn't mean there aren't other terrorist acts that can target them.
Aaah, interesting. Thanks for making me aware of this. :)
Easier solution: find the article at news.google.com and submit a "partner" link to /.
Nope. The Nazis (who didn't gain power until 1933) did not keep good centralized records. (They did keep thorough records in specific agencies, which is for example why we have such good figures on how many people died in specific concentration camps.) The Nazis also never had coups. Sure they had purges, but Hitler was in control until the day he died.
Look, as much as I think the Bush administration is a threat to civil liberties and is terrible in all sorts of other ways, to compare them generally to Nazis is an insult to all the sacrifices billions of people made in the war that destroyed German fascism. We may not have a perfect (or even good) government, but to suggest it's a goverment that will make genocide a household word or start a war that will leave upwards of 50 million people dead is a bit of a stretch, don't you think?
Do you have any evidence for these allegations or is it all paranoia?
The attitude "it could happen here" is exactly what allows over-reaction.
Come on, is a pithy aphorism all it takes to get modded up these days?
Of course terrorists are not going to succeed in hijacking planes and flying them into buildings again. The public doesn't really care. They just want to "feel safe". Meanwhile the US isn't doing much about things like Palestinian-style suicide bombers, which ultimately would be impossible to stop in a country with civil rights remotely approaching the degraded level we enjoy now. But that of course isn't a comforting thought, so no one talks about it. Easier to make people show easy-to-fake photo IDs at the airport.
True. That doesn't mean all security is useless. If there were no security at airports, the odds of being killed by terrorism would rise sharply.
It's true that most people would do far better to, say, obey speed limits and traffic regulations than worry about terrorists.
1) Is there anything illegal about doing what you describe?
2) They're not subsidizing anyone. They make money on every traveller. It's just that they can squeeze even more money out of the business travellers, and there's implicit price-fixing among the airlines to keep it that way.
You're very right that doing this naively will result in just what you describe. PHP will parse all those files to an internal opcode format, then execute that. What you want is for it to cache the opcode so it doesn't have to re-read/parse/compile the .php files until they change on disk. The best way to do this is with the Zend Optimizer, which is written by the same people who write the PHP engine. It's free as in beer and comes only as a binary. If you want free as in speech as well, search for "php accelerator", "phpa", "mmcache", and I'm sure there are more. (I will warn you that I've had a bad experience with one of the non-Zend caches where it failed unpredictably when the server handled multiple requests simultaneously. Because that almost never happened on our testing server, we didn't notice until it was on the production server and causing havoc. Test thoroughly. :)) All of these caches require minimal setup (though you will need root) and work automagically. With a functioning cache, most requests will actually be much faster if you include all your libraries from base.inc or whatnot, since all the opcodes were cached after the first request. HTH
And why should they employ people to do a job they can get out of a machine more cost-effectively? Maybe we should stop using machines in car factories and restore lost manufacturing jobs?
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Do you know why you have a grocery store just up the road from you that's stocked with plenty of good food of different varieties at all times of year? Do you know why the average working adult in your town can afford an automobile? Do you know why you have a computer with which to post on
It's because we have an economy that's not afraid to put people out of work to improve efficiency. People can find new jobs. They might have to move or learn new skills, but that's life in the industrialized world. If you don't like it, there are some pre-industrialized countries you can go to where you'll earn a steady, miniscule pay for the same job all your life.
Take the example of the United States. Since the end of the depression, unemployment and inflation have remained relatively stable and low. But the standard of living has increased tremendously for the average white male. (It's increased even more dramatically for other people, but that's also partly because they learned to fight for their civil rights.) Yes, the short-term unemployment people experience can be very painful. That's why we have (or should have) unemployment benefits and other forms of a social welfare system to help the unemployed find new jobs.
So don't complain about automated checkout counters putting people out of work. When they do find their next jobs, they'll be able to spend less of their income on food.
I also hate the way they ask me for a receipt as I walk out the store. My response is always "I've bought this merchandise, so you have no right to stop or search me." More than once they've threatened to call security/police/whatever. To this I point out that if they so much as attempt to restrain me from leaving without good cause, they'll be liable for civil and criminal charges. Just keep walking out and drive away. So long as you have indeed purchased the items you're taking with you, the worst they can legally do to you is ask you not to return.