Hahaha... You are the typical ignorant "activist" aren't you? Why don't you go pass out some PETA leaflets?
Do you have any idea how much radioactive material is released from coal burners? The number I have seen quoted is that an older coal plant releases over 500x more radioactivty than 3-mile island...
"Chemical waste is alot easy [sic] to dispose of."
That that to the EPA and NYS DEC... GE dumped several million tons of PCB waste in the Hudson River a few years back, leaving all marine life in the river contaminated and unsafe to eat. It is estimated that if it ever gets cleaned up, it will cost between $800 million and $5 billion to complete, and whether or not the river can be cleaned is open to debate.
Also, all power plants by their nature take time to cool down... Steam turbines require steam, which is hot and pressurized and requires time to cool safely. About 20 sailors were killed aboard a US warship during the Gulf War when an oil-fired steam turbine exploded while they tried to shut it down.
Thirty years ago, GE Power Systems graciously offered rural towns in Upstate NY waste oil for free! They even transported it to the local highway department at no charge...
In those days, most county and some state roads were paved by pouring oil and tar on the roadbed, then dumping gravel on it and brushing off the excess gravel.
GE failed to mention that this oil was saturated with PCB and other cancer-causing material. People who were employees of the highway dept had increased rates of lung cancer, as did many people whose homes were less than 20 feet from the road. (Very common on farms)
Although he wasn't a techie, my dad just retired from his job and is really enjoying himself.
He teaches english at a local community college, which he really enjoys (finally put that masters to use!) and does alot of odd things (farming, substitute teaching) to keep busy when my mom is working.
As a bonus, the teaching continues to continue contributing to his pension!
You need to find something that you enjoy and just do it. Whether you restore a car or start building stuff in a woodshop or whatever, enjoy! You worked all your life, now work to have fun!
Systems never work. Casinos have been around for a long time and have seen it all. The rules of the game are set up to nullify the affect of 'systems'.
If you want to win at roulette, bring $300 that you are prepared to lose.
Bet 1-5 chips on numbers; 15 chips per spin. If you lose three times in a row, get up and grab a drink. If you are lucky, you'll win alot of cash. I actually paid for a year of college by doing this (winning about $3k) and then having an incredible streak in craps ($12k)
It's all about luck and having fun. "Systems" are for losers.
There are alot of bad admins because the truly talented ones move on to bigger and better things.
In most organizations the system administrators are treated like plumbers -- nobody knows your there until the shit backs up.
I found SA work to become boring after a year or two. Once you start getting a clue, things become less challenging intellectually. In order to be doing really interesting work, you need to be a consultant or work for a really fast-growing company with lots of cash.
Now I'm a developer/dba/firefighter and have a wide variety of things to keep me occupied.
The whole idea is that basing your view of a country on the actions of individuals and/or governments in the past is not a worthwhile pursuit. Holding a 'pissing contest' of what nations is 'purest' or 'nicest' is a total waste of time that many people engage in constantly.
Your argument does not hold any water because there is no correlation between the word "Illustrator" and vector drawing, except for the fact that Adobe has spent money creating the Illustrator product. Whomever developed KIllustrator called it KIllustrator because it is similar to the Adobe product, which is unfair to Abobe.
CAD is somewhat different since CAD is a technical term decsribing the functionality of the program. "Office" is somewhat different, because it describes a bundle of Office applications.
The only problem with it is that IDE performance on Sun boxes continues to blow goats. The other annoying thing is that Sun flashes their own microcode describing disk geometry over the hard disks, making upgrading to a non-sun drive a pain in the ass.
On the positive side, the Blade 100 is SILENT and machine overall is put together with excellent build quality.
Other than that, the Blade is essentially the same as the Ultra-5 that it replaces.
Because renting a decent car for a day costs as much as owning it for months.
If you own a home, SUV's rock. You can fit tons and tons of shit from the the lumberyard into it without having to deal with the hassles of pickup trucks.
Do you long for the good old days when men were men, and used sharpened rocks as tools?
The point of freedom is that you are free to do what you will. If you choose to fulfill yourself with buying cars and gadgets, while putting yourself in debt, so be it.
You suggest that it is more 'pure' to be a peasant of a long-past age. Do you do this? How?
How do you acquire 'family land' without a loan?
How do you purchase seed with which to farm your land without credit?
How do you hedge against a poor growing season without access to financial markets?
How do you purchase equipment?
People like you ARE the problem. You see the evils of modern society, but choose to retreat to an earlier time instead of making things better.
Self-centered and short-sighted libertarians fail to realize that the world changes. You criticize the evils of our economic system without even thinking about the benefits.
Technology is fueled by capital, which our system generates en masse. The advancement you so despise has made our lives wonderful is so many ways, but your eyes are glued only on the problems.
When you harp back to the good old days, try to think about the bad stuff too. Life as a subsistence farmer is a drab and dreary existance. (Maybe that's why people preferred factory work over towing a plow with an ox)
Nobody will be standing on the roofs, because nobody gives a shit.
Rememeber, the "people" you believe in:
- Support restriction of free speech in the name of "security"
- Support the eventual elimination of personal weapons (ie Britain)
- Support "three strikes you're out" and other "get tough" policing policies
The fact is, the world and the country is changing. Democracy is out, oligarchy is in. Accept it and find a way to cover the asses of yourself and your associates.
1. 'Mom and Pop' banks fold and are swallowed up on a regular basis. Doing business with a tiny bank or credit union subjects you to far more risk than a large commercial bank. Most of these banks still sell your information anyway.
And before you start moaning "FDIC, FDIC" keep in mind that FDIC claims can take as long as 10 years to settle. FDIC is a good thing, but not something that you WANT to use.
2. Opportunity cost. The amount of time & hassle required to screen all of your business partners is not worth the minimal gain. Thats why the banking lobby lobbied for the present law.
3. Foreign Investment. That's a real crackpot scheme. Non-citizens generally have less protection under the banking laws of most countries. In addition, you suffer in other ways.
- You are now subjected to currency risk, as well as additional bank risk
- In the event of some international crisis, your assets may be frozen or seized
- Few vendors will accept foreign checks
- You are subject to double taxation unless you choose to violate the law.
The system needs to be reformed. Withdrawing from society is a self-serving, fringe philosophy that will only make matters worse in the long run.
"Well, there was quite a long time (up until today, in fact!) that I thought of the Slashdot population as a very open-minded community who preferred to let the world know what the best product was, not the one that best suited their politics. However, my faith has been shaken today."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Slashdot has NEVER been an open-minded forom. Slashdot is a haven for Linux and copyleft fanatics. If you consider Slashbotters open-minded, you must consider the Taliban a haven for free-thought.
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Hahaha... You are the typical ignorant "activist" aren't you? Why don't you go pass out some PETA leaflets?
Do you have any idea how much radioactive material is released from coal burners? The number I have seen quoted is that an older coal plant releases over 500x more radioactivty than 3-mile island...
"Chemical waste is alot easy [sic] to dispose of."
That that to the EPA and NYS DEC... GE dumped several million tons of PCB waste in the Hudson River a few years back, leaving all marine life in the river contaminated and unsafe to eat. It is estimated that if it ever gets cleaned up, it will cost between $800 million and $5 billion to complete, and whether or not the river can be cleaned is open to debate.
Also, all power plants by their nature take time to cool down... Steam turbines require steam, which is hot and pressurized and requires time to cool safely. About 20 sailors were killed aboard a US warship during the Gulf War when an oil-fired steam turbine exploded while they tried to shut it down.
Depends what's in the oil...
Thirty years ago, GE Power Systems graciously offered rural towns in Upstate NY waste oil for free! They even transported it to the local highway department at no charge...
In those days, most county and some state roads were paved by pouring oil and tar on the roadbed, then dumping gravel on it and brushing off the excess gravel.
GE failed to mention that this oil was saturated with PCB and other cancer-causing material. People who were employees of the highway dept had increased rates of lung cancer, as did many people whose homes were less than 20 feet from the road. (Very common on farms)
The Soviet Union (or any communist country for that matter) brings the concept of bureaucratic hostility and apathy to a new level.
Try to navigate the interior of China, that will make an HMO middle manager look like the proprietor of a small-town hardware store.
Many Symbios controllers work on Sun machines.
Also, Sun makes a kickass SCSI/Ethernet combo that sells on ebay for around $200.
Although he wasn't a techie, my dad just retired from his job and is really enjoying himself.
He teaches english at a local community college, which he really enjoys (finally put that masters to use!) and does alot of odd things (farming, substitute teaching) to keep busy when my mom is working.
As a bonus, the teaching continues to continue contributing to his pension!
You need to find something that you enjoy and just do it. Whether you restore a car or start building stuff in a woodshop or whatever, enjoy! You worked all your life, now work to have fun!
If you doubt that, you obviously know nothing about what you are talking about.
The casino tracks all of your bets and determines how much you gamble per hour. You get comps based on this.
Systems never work. Casinos have been around for a long time and have seen it all. The rules of the game are set up to nullify the affect of 'systems'.
If you want to win at roulette, bring $300 that you are prepared to lose.
Bet 1-5 chips on numbers; 15 chips per spin. If you lose three times in a row, get up and grab a drink. If you are lucky, you'll win alot of cash. I actually paid for a year of college by doing this (winning about $3k) and then having an incredible streak in craps ($12k)
It's all about luck and having fun. "Systems" are for losers.
You think everyone makes their mods public?
No.
Who's going to do anything about it? Nobody.
There are alot of bad admins because the truly talented ones move on to bigger and better things.
In most organizations the system administrators are treated like plumbers -- nobody knows your there until the shit backs up.
I found SA work to become boring after a year or two. Once you start getting a clue, things become less challenging intellectually. In order to be doing really interesting work, you need to be a consultant or work for a really fast-growing company with lots of cash.
Now I'm a developer/dba/firefighter and have a wide variety of things to keep me occupied.
You missed my point.
The whole idea is that basing your view of a country on the actions of individuals and/or governments in the past is not a worthwhile pursuit. Holding a 'pissing contest' of what nations is 'purest' or 'nicest' is a total waste of time that many people engage in constantly.
That's funny
I had the same thing happen to an Ultra 10, and the 'engineers' were just as clueless about it.
If you want to compare wartime atrocities, the US Army systematically wiped out hundreds of thosands of native people in the 1870's.
Britian subjugated and murdered plenty of Irishmen
France murdered alot of Spanish.
As far as I know, no.
I do know that IBM Global Services & Accenture has been tag-teaming NYS for about 5 years with a program that doesn't work at all and never will.
Your argument does not hold any water because there is no correlation between the word "Illustrator" and vector drawing, except for the fact that Adobe has spent money creating the Illustrator product. Whomever developed KIllustrator called it KIllustrator because it is similar to the Adobe product, which is unfair to Abobe.
CAD is somewhat different since CAD is a technical term decsribing the functionality of the program. "Office" is somewhat different, because it describes a bundle of Office applications.
The only problem with it is that IDE performance on Sun boxes continues to blow goats. The other annoying thing is that Sun flashes their own microcode describing disk geometry over the hard disks, making upgrading to a non-sun drive a pain in the ass.
On the positive side, the Blade 100 is SILENT and machine overall is put together with excellent build quality.
Other than that, the Blade is essentially the same as the Ultra-5 that it replaces.
Because renting a decent car for a day costs as much as owning it for months.
If you own a home, SUV's rock. You can fit tons and tons of shit from the the lumberyard into it without having to deal with the hassles of pickup trucks.
Where does your philosophy stop?
Do you long for the good old days when men were men, and used sharpened rocks as tools?
The point of freedom is that you are free to do what you will. If you choose to fulfill yourself with buying cars and gadgets, while putting yourself in debt, so be it.
You suggest that it is more 'pure' to be a peasant of a long-past age. Do you do this? How?
How do you acquire 'family land' without a loan?
How do you purchase seed with which to farm your land without credit?
How do you hedge against a poor growing season without access to financial markets?
How do you purchase equipment?
People like you ARE the problem. You see the evils of modern society, but choose to retreat to an earlier time instead of making things better.
Self-centered and short-sighted libertarians fail to realize that the world changes. You criticize the evils of our economic system without even thinking about the benefits.
Technology is fueled by capital, which our system generates en masse. The advancement you so despise has made our lives wonderful is so many ways, but your eyes are glued only on the problems.
When you harp back to the good old days, try to think about the bad stuff too. Life as a subsistence farmer is a drab and dreary existance. (Maybe that's why people preferred factory work over towing a plow with an ox)
What do you mean?
Just save $1500 a month for 30 years and buy a house with a suitcase of cash!
There's no reason to ever use accounts for anything. Just buy a horse and grow your own oats.
When did you last donate to a campaign?
Nobody will be standing on the roofs, because nobody gives a shit.
Rememeber, the "people" you believe in:
- Support restriction of free speech in the name of "security"
- Support the eventual elimination of personal weapons (ie Britain)
- Support "three strikes you're out" and other "get tough" policing policies
The fact is, the world and the country is changing. Democracy is out, oligarchy is in. Accept it and find a way to cover the asses of yourself and your associates.
There are a few problems with your argument:
1. 'Mom and Pop' banks fold and are swallowed up on a regular basis. Doing business with a tiny bank or credit union subjects you to far more risk than a large commercial bank. Most of these banks still sell your information anyway.
And before you start moaning "FDIC, FDIC" keep in mind that FDIC claims can take as long as 10 years to settle. FDIC is a good thing, but not something that you WANT to use.
2. Opportunity cost. The amount of time & hassle required to screen all of your business partners is not worth the minimal gain. Thats why the banking lobby lobbied for the present law.
3. Foreign Investment. That's a real crackpot scheme. Non-citizens generally have less protection under the banking laws of most countries. In addition, you suffer in other ways.
- You are now subjected to currency risk, as well as additional bank risk
- In the event of some international crisis, your assets may be frozen or seized
- Few vendors will accept foreign checks
- You are subject to double taxation unless you choose to violate the law.
The system needs to be reformed. Withdrawing from society is a self-serving, fringe philosophy that will only make matters worse in the long run.
"Well, there was quite a long time (up until today, in fact!) that I thought of the Slashdot population as a very open-minded community who preferred to let the world know what the best product was, not the one that best suited their politics. However, my faith has been shaken today."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Slashdot has NEVER been an open-minded forom. Slashdot is a haven for Linux and copyleft fanatics. If you consider Slashbotters open-minded, you must consider the Taliban a haven for free-thought.
Amen brother. AIX rocks.
I wish they would port the AIX LVM. The linux lvm is a load of shit.
What comes next? Ask slashdot from VA Linux management complaining that the lights are being turned off for non-payment?
If you are going to steal someone's content, at least copy the goddamn image.
Hey *asshole*. Putting brand-x computers together is *not* a viable business plan.
PC shipments are *down* 45% this quarter.
VA Linux *never* should have been given *VC* and *IPO* cash.
Why would you buy Slashdot?
It produces nothing but hot air.