Oil wasn't really the primary reason for the invasion.
No, it was the only reason for the invasion.
It's got to do with the fact that the UN is toothless and allows issues to escalate because it's full of crooks and liars.
Putting aside the fact that one reason the UN is toothless is the obstruction of the US, what issues? That he was a dictator that was killing his own people? The US knew that when Rumsfeld was selling him West Nile virus and sending CIA agents to help him calibrate the effects of nerve gas on Iranians. The mass graves in Iraq all date from the period when the US was helping him most. That's not an issue that would make the US care, any more than it is in Zimbabwe or China today.
Wolfowitz, Chaney, Rumbsfeld, Rice, and Bush are all obsessed with oil and have been for decades. They have written about how important it is to control the oil supply. Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld even SAID that an excuse to invade Iraq should be found as soon as possible, in order to secure the oil supply. Yet you actually think that the invasion was to do with...in fact, what are you saying it was to do with, exactly? Democracy? Give me a break. Jealousy of the tiny amount of oil France and Germany were getting from Iraq? (and I do mean tiny, the right-wing American Heritage Foundation claimed that France had made a whole 3 billion in 7 years out of the various deals - a whole 420 million per year. Nice if you can get it, but hardly a big deal in national terms). What are you claiming was the US's "issue" with Iraq?
Iraq would not have happened if the UN had taken action when Sadam had first kicked out the inspectors.
Yes, and it wouldn't have happened if America hadn't hired Saddam to assassinate the previous leader in Iraq. And Iran would not be happening today if America and Britain had not replaced its democratically elected leader with a Nazi simply because the former leader nationalised the oil industry.
US foreign policy for the last 90 years has been about economics (which isn't actually unusual) and since it has historically been very inefficient at conserving oil, that means it has tended to revolve around ensuring that the oil flows. Whether it's in Afghanistan where the big pipeline is, or Saudi and Iraq where the big deposits are, or Venezuela where there's big deposits AND a leader who wants to move the oil markets onto the Euro, which would kick a huge whole in the US's foreign exchange balance.
Funny thing is, Iraq did exactly that shortly before it was invaded (after which it was put firmly back onto dollars). So has Iran and North Korea. Now there's a list that has a familiar ring to it.
As the USA is now on the SI system, please update your nomenclature to the currently correct "Metric Fuck Ton".
You are clearly unaware that the Standard Metric Fuck Ton(ne), which is stored in Paris, France has recently be found to be shrinking at a rate of "Shit-all Squared" per year.
The current US administration has jumpped on this as a pretext to move to the new "God-damned Freedom Ton" which is defined to be exactly equal to 1 original Metric Fuck Tonne, except it is not in any way connected with France. It is stored in a freezer in Austin Texas. Beside the meat.
Like Windows, I simply selected the printer from a list (or provide drivers), and enabled sharing.
I have clients and partners who've had a lot of trouble with Cannon inkjets. Very frustrating. Printing always is when it goes awry
I will confess that I hated the way Linux/CUPS worked too so I wrote my own software which is usually the first thing onto my computers once the system is installed. Likewise with the SMTP/POP servers. The standard ones are too hard to configure. But I like the control I have. I probably, almost certainly, could port my software to the Mac now but that's because of the *nix backend, not because of anything Apple have brought to the table.
Tell me, if I'm following the FAQs to the letter, how the hell can one distro get it right the first time, and another distro with similar components leave me completely puzzled?
I've not had that sort of problem in a long time. I do tend to stick to Gentoo, though, rather than swapping distros very often. But I do think things have generally improved in this area lately. One possibility that springs to mind is that the Debian was perhaps using XFree and Mandrake Xorg?
What's wrong with Spotlight?
Ask a client with two 250GB+ external USB drives! I really thought she was going to kick her G5 off the desk one day. Spotlight seems to scale badly into the hundreds of thousands of files, and the USB connection keeps coming back to life after we tell it not to bother with those drives.
Is it Brother's fault for making such a boneheaded design decicion, or is it Apple's fault for allowing them to do it? Good question.
Thanks, I'm glad I asked it now. No, wait! I didn't!
UI is one of those things where there is no right answer. There are certainly answers that will piss off a vast majority but familiarity, not intuitiveness, plays a much bigger part than most designers, or Max zealots, will admit. I'm always hitting function keys to go to a new desktop when I want to quickly pull up some program without hunting through all the open windows on the current one. Swearing ensues on Windows and OSX but I'd never give up the facility just because it's not someone else's idea of a useful function. As I said, I like having the choices of window manager that Linux gives me, as well as the other things like the enormous number of programming and writting tools that are standard.
The inner rim of the bowl was probably measured instead.
Yeah, because that's the easy way to do it. I mean, imagine going to all the hassle of slinging a bit of string around the bowl and then measuring that compared to getting glue and sticking the string around the inside of the rim and then peeling it off and measuring it. Much better.
And the Bible does suggest the Sun goes around the Earth, and that the Earth is flat, although personally I'm happy to let that last one go as a metaphor that theologians (not the smartest people in the world) just didn't understand.
Regardless, the bible definitely does suggest the existence of a creator god, a life both before and after death, and that Jesus was a god and not just a nice jewish guy, as well many other pieces of obvious hokum much sillier than pi=3 or the Sun going around the Earth.
If you believe any of that crap you have much bigger problems than what the diametre of your pot is.
On the other hand, OSX is ugly, slow, and crap. IMHO, of course.
I hate OSX's front end with a passion and would just about rather use Windows for work. Sometimes I have to work in Macs, but fortunately I mostly use Linux so I get to choose the desktop system I like instead of having ghastly shit like Spotlight foisted on me, or frigging menu bars that are ten miles across the screen from where I'm working, or a file layout that appears to have been designed by some process that involved dice. To say nothing of the nightmare of getting printers to work properly.
USABLILITY of OS X
I'm sorry, you're confusing "familiarity and muddling through the arbitary whims of half-mad designers" with the word "usability".
What's that got to do with the fact that the US invaded Iraq for its resources, which you said was something it would never have to do?
The US economy is a hollow shell now, with almost 40000 dollars owed to the rest of the world for every single person in the country. Borrowing more every time you hit your overdraft limit is not "reactive and resiliant", it's stupid.
Seriously, how can pushing bits onto a cable EVER compare to the millions of calculations a modern GPU performs a second?
That is irrelevant. The original post claimed that OEM's had better programmers and therefore we should want them to be the only people writing drivers. The example of the network drivers was simply to say that we know that OEMs do not always have the best programmers, or at least that they don't get the most of of what they do have. There is no reason to suppose that this is any different for video OEMs.
This is why you'd want the video drivers written by the OEMs.
Not true. I want OEMs to write the drivers because they have the specs in front of them. Networking drivers have shown many times that releasing the spec to OS programmers often results in better drivers than the OEMs. There's no reason to assume the same can't happen with video drivers.
Water vapour is an important magnifier but it is the rise in CO2 which triggers more evaporation, which increases h2O. The two are part of a vicious circle. As long as CO2, and other "minor" greenhouse gasses are pumped into the atmosphere there is no chance that the water vapour levels will stabilise.
The whole H2O thing is just a distraction being pushed by big multi-nationals to try and confuse the issue and prevent them being reined.
Problem is, in most EULA, there is NO way for them to break the contract since they promise nothing and have no responsaibilites.
That's partly my point, because in the UK at least such a "contract" can not be binding by its very nature. A contract must be bind both parties, ASAIK IANAL etc.
I paid for this. I own it. I can do what I like with it unless that breaks copyright law.
If you want more then I want a signed document from you stating what I get out of the contract. If you want it to be a licence then I want to know:
When does the license expire.
How do I cancel the contract early.
If you break the license, how do i get my money back
And finally: by asking me to accept an EULA, you agree that your product is free of defects and if any are found you will either refund my money or correct those defects within six months of their discovery.
Hypocritical would have been using the patent system for his own financial gain
Er, which is what he did. He took 20K to keep his mouth shut about a miscarriage of justice involving the patent system.
business is amoral to begin with
Only because it's run by immoral people who try to pass off their immorality by claiming that because they are in business they should be allowed to act like shits and not be run out of town on a rail. The simple answer to which is: "shut the fuck up and get on the rail before we beat you brains out with it instead."
Business is in reality a social activity and as such is deeply connected with what is and is not judged to be moral by society, ie by the people who live in that society. This is called "democracy". Business deciding what is moral is called "plutocracy". There is no actual reason to believe that business people should be held to any less accountability than everyone else.
If I pour oil into your drinking water for fun it's no different from doing the exact same action because I don't want to spend the money to dispose of it somewhere else, is it?
So, don't give me this business is "amoral" crap when you actually mean "this particular business is immoral but I don't care".
Making it easier to administer your computer, or making sure that Bill Gates' products have an advantage over the ones that only try to compete on quality? Think about it.
Why should these people have articles dedicated to them in an encyclopedia?
Much as I dislike defending the pile of shit that is Wikipedia, the only reason articles about things do not get into print encyclopedias is that each page contributes to the cost and weight of the final product. The ideal encyclopedia would, in fact, have an entry for everything, as well as a perfect index which allows you to find the exact item you want and cross-index it with all relevent material without duplicating it. Never going to happen under a Wiki system (or any other for that matter), but if you don't fall short then you're not aiming high enough.
This stuff, just like region encoding, is about price-fixing. That's why the security is crap: its only purpose is to prevent the 99.99% of consumers who will never crack even a trivial encryption from recording a TV programme instead of going out and buying the HDDVD of the series later in the year. That keeps the price of those DVD's up and that's all this is about.
It used to be called "a cartel" and it used to be illegal.
Oracle servers where the DBA needs to log but doesn't need root access.
I don't know about SVN but Oracle has applications which allow remote DB admin without granting shell access to the actual server.
No user should get a prompt on your server if you can avoid it. If you can't then obviously you'll have to give them a login account, but it's much better to not have users accessing the server directly if you can manage it.
and there are all kinds of server admin tasks you might need to do, that don't need to involve becoming root. Database administration, for example.
All normal database admin can be done with various programs that access the server remotely (by which I don't mean ssh!). Abnormal admin that requires actually logging into the server pretty well always requires root. The same goes for everything else.
It is true that the daemons should not RUN as root but by and large every one of them needs root to do anything drastic to their configuration or rescue data in the case of a crapped-out drive. For everything else there's SWAT, CUPS, phpadmin, even good old Webmin & co. All these use HTTP in one way or another and reduce the day-to-day need to login to zero.
There's just no need to be on your server unless you are root.
The only reason to log into a server is to do admin work, which will require root. If there's something you are doing on the server that doesn't need root then you probably shouldn't be using the server for that.
I generally only have one user on servers and that's root. Everyone else can access it via nfs/samba/ftp/whatever, but only root gets login.
1...based on computer predictions... Let us see his mathematical logic.
A completely fair point.
If it is true that the cereal crops will decline then it could also be true that the increased temperature would result in longer growing seasons and could be more favorable to the growing of fruits and vegetables.
Except that the increased temperatures do not come with any guarantee that increased rainfall is part of the deal. Even if it is, it may well be in the form of hurricanes - which feed on heat - which destroy crops.
How about our buddies in Brazil, India, and China who also refused to destroy their economies by signing the Kyoto treaty?
Increasing the efficency of your economy hardly equates to destroying it.
Why attempt to heap all the guilt on us?
Because the US's technological superiority, combined with its gross level of wastage, made it the country most able to actually pull it off. By refusing what was in fact just a request that they stop wasting huge amounts of energy, the US sent out a signal to countries like Brazil, India, and China that short-term business gains would be supported by them over the question of long-term destruction of civilisation. Which is what we will be facing if the sea levels rise 100 feet (which is less than half the potential if we lose the ice caps). That hundred feet would flood most of the world's agricultural land in salt-water.
I'm exaggerating of course. Much less than 100' would be needed to wreck America and most everyone else's economies and bring an end to the type of civilisation you and I are used to.
Are these people living in places such as those African nations where slaughter of their own population is commonplace
No, only some. Australia is one of the most at-risk countries, for example. Israel is another. Pheonix in Arizona is another place in deep shit, as is most of the Florida coast - although probably not from starvation, I'll grant you. Anywhere people live where fresh water is imported or used heavily in agriculture is in danger of crop-loss from global warming.
This newest attempt to fear the U.S. into destroying it's economy will fail.
It's funny how easy it is to scare Americans into killing people who never did anything to them, and how hard it is to get them to actually live up to responsibilities, even when the evidence is overwhelming that they have to do something, and do it soon.
for the same reason that shitty C++ spaghetti code is Stroustrop's (and, to a lesser extent, ANSI/ISO's) fault.
Oh, yes - tell it like it is, man. Stroustrop must be just about THE worst C++ programmer in the world. The examples in his book are rank, as is the writing in the text parts. But then, his language design skills are not fantastic either.
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No. And there (isn't such a thing)^2 two of them. I can't see the value of this model if it's to be compared to observations.
TWW
No, it was the only reason for the invasion.
It's got to do with the fact that the UN is toothless and allows issues to escalate because it's full of crooks and liars.
Putting aside the fact that one reason the UN is toothless is the obstruction of the US, what issues? That he was a dictator that was killing his own people? The US knew that when Rumsfeld was selling him West Nile virus and sending CIA agents to help him calibrate the effects of nerve gas on Iranians. The mass graves in Iraq all date from the period when the US was helping him most. That's not an issue that would make the US care, any more than it is in Zimbabwe or China today.
Wolfowitz, Chaney, Rumbsfeld, Rice, and Bush are all obsessed with oil and have been for decades. They have written about how important it is to control the oil supply. Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld even SAID that an excuse to invade Iraq should be found as soon as possible, in order to secure the oil supply. Yet you actually think that the invasion was to do with...in fact, what are you saying it was to do with, exactly? Democracy? Give me a break. Jealousy of the tiny amount of oil France and Germany were getting from Iraq? (and I do mean tiny, the right-wing American Heritage Foundation claimed that France had made a whole 3 billion in 7 years out of the various deals - a whole 420 million per year. Nice if you can get it, but hardly a big deal in national terms). What are you claiming was the US's "issue" with Iraq?
Iraq would not have happened if the UN had taken action when Sadam had first kicked out the inspectors.
Yes, and it wouldn't have happened if America hadn't hired Saddam to assassinate the previous leader in Iraq. And Iran would not be happening today if America and Britain had not replaced its democratically elected leader with a Nazi simply because the former leader nationalised the oil industry.
US foreign policy for the last 90 years has been about economics (which isn't actually unusual) and since it has historically been very inefficient at conserving oil, that means it has tended to revolve around ensuring that the oil flows. Whether it's in Afghanistan where the big pipeline is, or Saudi and Iraq where the big deposits are, or Venezuela where there's big deposits AND a leader who wants to move the oil markets onto the Euro, which would kick a huge whole in the US's foreign exchange balance.
Funny thing is, Iraq did exactly that shortly before it was invaded (after which it was put firmly back onto dollars). So has Iran and North Korea. Now there's a list that has a familiar ring to it.
But the invasion wasn't to do with oil. No.
TWW
You are clearly unaware that the Standard Metric Fuck Ton(ne), which is stored in Paris, France has recently be found to be shrinking at a rate of "Shit-all Squared" per year.
The current US administration has jumpped on this as a pretext to move to the new "God-damned Freedom Ton" which is defined to be exactly equal to 1 original Metric Fuck Tonne, except it is not in any way connected with France. It is stored in a freezer in Austin Texas. Beside the meat.
You must not have been on that mailing list.
TWW
I have clients and partners who've had a lot of trouble with Cannon inkjets. Very frustrating. Printing always is when it goes awry
I will confess that I hated the way Linux/CUPS worked too so I wrote my own software which is usually the first thing onto my computers once the system is installed. Likewise with the SMTP/POP servers. The standard ones are too hard to configure. But I like the control I have. I probably, almost certainly, could port my software to the Mac now but that's because of the *nix backend, not because of anything Apple have brought to the table.
Tell me, if I'm following the FAQs to the letter, how the hell can one distro get it right the first time, and another distro with similar components leave me completely puzzled?
I've not had that sort of problem in a long time. I do tend to stick to Gentoo, though, rather than swapping distros very often. But I do think things have generally improved in this area lately. One possibility that springs to mind is that the Debian was perhaps using XFree and Mandrake Xorg?
What's wrong with Spotlight?
Ask a client with two 250GB+ external USB drives! I really thought she was going to kick her G5 off the desk one day. Spotlight seems to scale badly into the hundreds of thousands of files, and the USB connection keeps coming back to life after we tell it not to bother with those drives.
Is it Brother's fault for making such a boneheaded design decicion, or is it Apple's fault for allowing them to do it? Good question.
Thanks, I'm glad I asked it now. No, wait! I didn't!
UI is one of those things where there is no right answer. There are certainly answers that will piss off a vast majority but familiarity, not intuitiveness, plays a much bigger part than most designers, or Max zealots, will admit. I'm always hitting function keys to go to a new desktop when I want to quickly pull up some program without hunting through all the open windows on the current one. Swearing ensues on Windows and OSX but I'd never give up the facility just because it's not someone else's idea of a useful function. As I said, I like having the choices of window manager that Linux gives me, as well as the other things like the enormous number of programming and writting tools that are standard.
I know Perl and Bash are in OSX, is TeX?
TWW
Yeah, because that's the easy way to do it. I mean, imagine going to all the hassle of slinging a bit of string around the bowl and then measuring that compared to getting glue and sticking the string around the inside of the rim and then peeling it off and measuring it. Much better.
And the Bible does suggest the Sun goes around the Earth, and that the Earth is flat, although personally I'm happy to let that last one go as a metaphor that theologians (not the smartest people in the world) just didn't understand.
Regardless, the bible definitely does suggest the existence of a creator god, a life both before and after death, and that Jesus was a god and not just a nice jewish guy, as well many other pieces of obvious hokum much sillier than pi=3 or the Sun going around the Earth.
If you believe any of that crap you have much bigger problems than what the diametre of your pot is.
TWW
I hate OSX's front end with a passion and would just about rather use Windows for work. Sometimes I have to work in Macs, but fortunately I mostly use Linux so I get to choose the desktop system I like instead of having ghastly shit like Spotlight foisted on me, or frigging menu bars that are ten miles across the screen from where I'm working, or a file layout that appears to have been designed by some process that involved dice. To say nothing of the nightmare of getting printers to work properly.
USABLILITY of OS X
I'm sorry, you're confusing "familiarity and muddling through the arbitary whims of half-mad designers" with the word "usability".
Just a counter-point.
TWW
The US economy is a hollow shell now, with almost 40000 dollars owed to the rest of the world for every single person in the country. Borrowing more every time you hit your overdraft limit is not "reactive and resiliant", it's stupid.
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TWW
That is irrelevant. The original post claimed that OEM's had better programmers and therefore we should want them to be the only people writing drivers. The example of the network drivers was simply to say that we know that OEMs do not always have the best programmers, or at least that they don't get the most of of what they do have. There is no reason to suppose that this is any different for video OEMs.
TWW
Not true. I want OEMs to write the drivers because they have the specs in front of them. Networking drivers have shown many times that releasing the spec to OS programmers often results in better drivers than the OEMs. There's no reason to assume the same can't happen with video drivers.
TWW
As mixed-metaphors go, that was one of the best.
TWW
Tell that to Iraq.
TWW
The whole H2O thing is just a distraction being pushed by big multi-nationals to try and confuse the issue and prevent them being reined.
TWW
That's partly my point, because in the UK at least such a "contract" can not be binding by its very nature. A contract must be bind both parties, ASAIK IANAL etc.
TWW
If you want more then I want a signed document from you stating what I get out of the contract. If you want it to be a licence then I want to know:
And finally: by asking me to accept an EULA, you agree that your product is free of defects and if any are found you will either refund my money or correct those defects within six months of their discovery.
TWW
What about slavery issues?
TWW
Hypocritical would have been using the patent system for his own financial gain
Er, which is what he did. He took 20K to keep his mouth shut about a miscarriage of justice involving the patent system.
business is amoral to begin with
Only because it's run by immoral people who try to pass off their immorality by claiming that because they are in business they should be allowed to act like shits and not be run out of town on a rail. The simple answer to which is: "shut the fuck up and get on the rail before we beat you brains out with it instead."
Business is in reality a social activity and as such is deeply connected with what is and is not judged to be moral by society, ie by the people who live in that society. This is called "democracy". Business deciding what is moral is called "plutocracy". There is no actual reason to believe that business people should be held to any less accountability than everyone else.
If I pour oil into your drinking water for fun it's no different from doing the exact same action because I don't want to spend the money to dispose of it somewhere else, is it?
So, don't give me this business is "amoral" crap when you actually mean "this particular business is immoral but I don't care".
TWW
TWW
Much as I dislike defending the pile of shit that is Wikipedia, the only reason articles about things do not get into print encyclopedias is that each page contributes to the cost and weight of the final product. The ideal encyclopedia would, in fact, have an entry for everything, as well as a perfect index which allows you to find the exact item you want and cross-index it with all relevent material without duplicating it. Never going to happen under a Wiki system (or any other for that matter), but if you don't fall short then you're not aiming high enough.
TWW
It used to be called "a cartel" and it used to be illegal.
TWW
I don't know about SVN but Oracle has applications which allow remote DB admin without granting shell access to the actual server.
No user should get a prompt on your server if you can avoid it. If you can't then obviously you'll have to give them a login account, but it's much better to not have users accessing the server directly if you can manage it.
TWW
All normal database admin can be done with various programs that access the server remotely (by which I don't mean ssh!). Abnormal admin that requires actually logging into the server pretty well always requires root. The same goes for everything else.
It is true that the daemons should not RUN as root but by and large every one of them needs root to do anything drastic to their configuration or rescue data in the case of a crapped-out drive. For everything else there's SWAT, CUPS, phpadmin, even good old Webmin & co. All these use HTTP in one way or another and reduce the day-to-day need to login to zero.
There's just no need to be on your server unless you are root.
TWWW
I generally only have one user on servers and that's root. Everyone else can access it via nfs/samba/ftp/whatever, but only root gets login.
TWW
A completely fair point.
If it is true that the cereal crops will decline then it could also be true that the increased temperature would result in longer growing seasons and could be more favorable to the growing of fruits and vegetables.
Except that the increased temperatures do not come with any guarantee that increased rainfall is part of the deal. Even if it is, it may well be in the form of hurricanes - which feed on heat - which destroy crops.
How about our buddies in Brazil, India, and China who also refused to destroy their economies by signing the Kyoto treaty?
Increasing the efficency of your economy hardly equates to destroying it.
Why attempt to heap all the guilt on us?
Because the US's technological superiority, combined with its gross level of wastage, made it the country most able to actually pull it off. By refusing what was in fact just a request that they stop wasting huge amounts of energy, the US sent out a signal to countries like Brazil, India, and China that short-term business gains would be supported by them over the question of long-term destruction of civilisation. Which is what we will be facing if the sea levels rise 100 feet (which is less than half the potential if we lose the ice caps). That hundred feet would flood most of the world's agricultural land in salt-water.
I'm exaggerating of course. Much less than 100' would be needed to wreck America and most everyone else's economies and bring an end to the type of civilisation you and I are used to.
Are these people living in places such as those African nations where slaughter of their own population is commonplace
No, only some. Australia is one of the most at-risk countries, for example. Israel is another. Pheonix in Arizona is another place in deep shit, as is most of the Florida coast - although probably not from starvation, I'll grant you. Anywhere people live where fresh water is imported or used heavily in agriculture is in danger of crop-loss from global warming.
This newest attempt to fear the U.S. into destroying it's economy will fail.
It's funny how easy it is to scare Americans into killing people who never did anything to them, and how hard it is to get them to actually live up to responsibilities, even when the evidence is overwhelming that they have to do something, and do it soon.
Sell crazy someplace else. We're all stocked up.
How true.
TWW
Oh, yes - tell it like it is, man. Stroustrop must be just about THE worst C++ programmer in the world. The examples in his book are rank, as is the writing in the text parts. But then, his language design skills are not fantastic either.
TWW