You have to start somewhere, and lowering dependence on fossil and nuclear fuels is the goal.
So why not take a hint from Germany and have the govt back solar panels for the roof of every home thru guaranteed low rate bank loans?
Additionally, as we move more to solar and wind, storage technology will no doubt improve, and in turn, use of storage technologies on vehicles will improve, allowing for all electric vehicles and greatly eliminated the need for fossil fuel.
Solar power plants have and do exist all over the world, as do wind power plants. What Carter wanted was absolutely possible, it was the next Administration and Congress that scuttled the real chances of its success.
Nuclear creates waste during its powering process, solar and wind only create waste during initial construction and panel replacement. Nuclear is not green at all, in fact, the pollution from it is so concentrated it makes the locations where spent rods are disposed of uninhabitable.
Supplementing existing sources of energy is an absolute must to counter the increasing needs of such an 'electrically' connected society. This two year 'study' is just more stalling to put the onus on another Administration and Congress instead of actually getting something done. That and likely its the energy companies linked with the Administration don't want to switch off their massive profit spigot until we the people force it.
"New timetable for a Regular morning and evening shuttle" "Starting from 31 March 2008, for one month, a new timetable for a regular morning and evening shuttle serving LHC Points 2 and 5 will be put in place."
Are these guys trying to poke fun at Half-Life or is this for real?
It was somewhat a tongue in cheek reply on my part. Where do you think his $5 million will go? I bet it goes a quarter to the private ventures costs, the rest to a select group of capital investors who will keep it entrenched in capital gains markets. As a result, the taxable footprint that would've mitigated additional costs for public services or money towards employee wages (not even including stock options) is greatly reduced, and the idea that the money will move on down the line towards lower income people seems unlikely.
Pretend that any significant amount of that money could somehow make it down the line to others, every step of the way, every piece of equipment or fuel that is paid for with it, has amounts of money siphoned off into investment havens. It only takes a good 3 or 4 minutes of consideration to realize just how little Serg's trip into space matters in the scheme of things.
Its kinda depressing if you think too much about it, but I'll be getting up in the morning and going to work anyway.
I could give a shit either way. Do you know how many people you could HELP with $5 million, like real bonified food on the table for dinner kind of help?
His little toy trip into space is not going to benefit mankind, unless he is explicitly going to perform dangerous experiments that could put his life at risk other than just riding along or pressing a few buttons at the direction of an astronaut, in which case perhaps I could feel a need to encourage him.
Or on a more greedily humorous note, he could just give it to me and I'd provide for my wife and kids, get a house, open a business, buy a vacation home in Costa Rica, and happily contribute to the economies of both the US and Costa Rica. Oh and probably buy some food for some of the poor people that I would force to work for me. Then eventually when I make untold riches in real estate and government bonds, buy my own trip to space, point and laugh at all the rest of the poor people still on earth. When in Rome, eh?;)
I hope to christ that if I ever DO get that much money, I'll still be mentally competent and human enough to actually spend a good chunk of it helping others, and not subtly justify helping myself under the guise of helping others. I'm of course referring to Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation, with the MS linked school technology 'donations'.
I'm right there with you. My more in-tune-with-yuppiedom friends spoke feverishly about how they 'buy carbon offsets', yet I noted they still drive 10-15mpg vehicles and have poor insulation with all the glamorous wall sized windows to maximize the view of the lake outside their place.
Paying a 'non profit' to plant a tree will not reduce the amount of energy they consume. Level of consumption is the problem, not just additional trees.
You've clearly not had to manage an IT budget for a medium sized corporation that wants to trim IT licensing costs to remain competitive. Not only is it a licensing cost, you need a separate set of knowledge to effectively manage BES on top of Exchange, so more hours spent training inhouse or more money spent directly on outside consultants.
I've managed both for serious lengths of time, at several different clients.
You are using an Inspiron, the 'value' (read: CHEAP) end of Dell's laptop offerings and complaining about it? You get what you pay for, sir. Spend a little bit more for a Latitude D630 and you will have a much more reliable laptop with higher quality hardware and a more consistent standard of hardware for the overall model line.
If you want a laptop that allows a custom video card, you need to spec the stuff you want BEFORE YOU BUY, and keep a cognizant eye of what gotchas may be involved. Basically, do some research, and not just reviewing halfassed slashdot comments like ours.
After 15 years of experiencing all sorts of good, bad, magical, unreliable, and just plain retarded computer manufacturers, I must opine that you are out of your mind if you think Asus anything better than Dell. They both are cutthroat businesses looking to save a buck where noone might notice, and whenever possible you avoid the lowest end laptops/etc, such as Inspiron.
Don't try to cut corners and save some bucks then complain when you made a glaringly bad decision. (Ubuntu preinstalled on a Dell? Did you do NO research prior to grabbing the first Ubuntu mania inspired laptop you could find?)
Blackberry is just a middleman to suck licensing $$ out of Exchange users. Exchange's RPC over HTTPs negates the need for a blackberry enterprise server in a microsoft centric shop.
I agree, once I started playing Real Life (TM), suddenly I was getting paid real money to work and do repetitive actions for hours at a time, and with that money I could afford women and drink, and I went forth and drank and hath women.
But watch out how fast you level, now I'm married with a kid + 1 on the way, and I suddenly find myself needing to work exponentially more hours to have any of the glorious monies, and have started thinking about paying money to play games again cuz its cheaper than drinking.;)
The real problem is that the guy is 'too busy' to browse at a book store in the first place. He's lazy and he wants everyone to do the browsing and vetting of potential books for him.
You were not in the Army to take part in the traditional pillaging and raping fun, you were stuck in teh Navy and had to contend with vying for a bukakke session one of the 3 ladies onboard or cuddling with your fellow seamen.
Copyright, Copy Right. Implies a right to copy. The 14 year term was just fine, and allowed us the right to copy after that term was up, all for the sake of the promotion of arts and sciences, NOT for the sake of economic enrichment (profit).
"Intellectual property", the idea that the thoughts you have come up with are yours alone, is a Corporate lobbyist scam. I'd tend to agree the the very concept is disgusting and is the antithesis to a free society that promotes free thought and expression. Everything you see, hear, touch, taste, and experience affects what you think, the only intellectual 'property' you really have are private thoughts in your head, once you speak or write, you have affected anyone that can hear you or see what you wrote.
Applying a concept of 'property' to 'thought' does not compute if you look at it logically. Everything you see, hear, and experience affects what you think and how your perceive. The very concept of property is a mental construct. My point is, the essence of the argument is beyond simple 'its the law' or 'get paid for your work' ideas of our society, especially with the half-assed example you provided about trees. Its a very philosophical argument, and just putting your hands over your ears and going 'LALALALALALA' does not address the real 'WHY' we need the system like we currently have it.
That said, I'll jump into grownup, working man shoes now and take a stab at it from a more conventional, socially 'acceptable' argument. Copyright is about the right to copy a work, its original purpose been hijacked to become copylimit, a 14 year term, after which copying IS allowed, is a WORLD apart from Lifetime of author + extensions that we are facing. Perhaps its the overextended rights of a Corporation to act as a single entity with control of so many legal tools, such as copyright, that has ultimately tangled up the whole system in the first place.
I'd bullshit more, but I have to go back to working on copyrighted server software to copy a clients copyrighted propriety application to additional machines running copyrighted OSes.
By the way, if you claim you don't come to slashdot any more because reddit and digg have more mature comments, you are out of your fucking mind. The comments on slashdot are about the only reason I come here these days to have any remotely relevant and intellectually enjoyable discourse. Reddit is/b/ without the nsfw pics, and Digg has always been all troll all the time. The problem I have is the cynical yet hilarious comments on reddit that I take part in tend to creep over to my/. comments.
You've obviously never worked with semi-competent, technical IT consultants. I don't disagree that incompetence tends to be a hallmark of your average IT group. The point is this is in no way a an 'average' scope of IT incompetency, every NEW excuse they provide as to why the data is gone takes the possibility of typical incompetence and turns it on its head, this is like the superbowl of incompetence. But I suspect its NOT incompetence, I suspect its malice and criminal conspiracy by higher ups that can use the appearance of incompetence by the low level It guys. We are not talking about the money thats is thrown on a fire for huge undertakings like the FBI's massive and advanced investigation data management systems, we are talking about a fucking EMAIL SERVER (or group of servers), probably exchange 2000 or 2003. This is not rocket science, even the average fairly incompetent IT guy could accidentally set it up with some kinda of email data retention.
I guess part of the point is that you have to get the underlings in order to move up the food chain in a real criminal prosecution. You get the guys that don't get paid enough to lie to out the big boys handing down their orders and sop.
If Journaling was on, there should not have been anyone 'manually copying to PST', it should have been automatic based on filters, it makes no sense.
Additionally, if someone WAS manually copying these things, lets subpoena those fuckers and get to the bottom of it, and determine just what they saw in the emails they had to manually archive to pst.
From Microsoft's site: Standard journaling Standard journaling enables the Journaling agent in Exchange 2007 to journal all messages that are sent to and from recipients and senders that are located on a specific mailbox database on a computer running the Mailbox server role. You must configure journaling individually on each mailbox database in your organization if you want to journal all messages to and from all recipients and senders.
You can get a long line of IT admins from around the country to testify how big the lies coming from the Administration are, put the white house IT admins on the stand and rip them to shreds, then throw their asses in JAIL when they show gross incompetence in following the law, instead of coming right out with the truth of what happened and who encouraged it to happen. Plausible deniability only succeeds when noone has the balls and patience to search for the truth. This is not some chickenshit run of the mill SOX compliance failure, this is the most important single office in the country requiring the utmost diligence from people working there. (yeah, I guess that last point there really set the stage)
There is no way such incompetence exists, unless they were hiring 18 year old MCSE's just out of high school with no real world IT experience to configure the fucking system. In that case, we have a lot more important people that get a free visit to jail.
No, you have the government regulate who the private organizations can exclude from engagement on a public policy hearing. Especially for a group proclaiming non-partisanship thats called PUBLIC POLICY FORUM.
You obviously don't run a business. Any small business will be explicitly burdened by this requirement. This appears a violation of due process for the government to require this, as it assumes people will have a criminal background, and it does not PROMOTE commerce, it limits commerce above any beyond any traditional regulatory requirement when its required for all businesses. Perhaps this could be 'legal' if only required for international transactions.
You don't seem to understand that the databases in question are law enforcement by their very essence of usage.
If some mafia connected kid comes into a retail store and buys a bag of cement and chains, the retail store is not responsible for the death of guy they make shoes for and drop into a lake. Imagine having to submit to a criminal check every time you go thru the checkout lane at Walmart, thats what this is akin to.
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Just to explain it in a clearer subtext, you desert people are just fucking crazy. ;)
And yes, a desert IS in fact a collapsed ecosystem, its just that some forms of life find a way to live in such harsh environments.
Cheers.
You have to start somewhere, and lowering dependence on fossil and nuclear fuels is the goal.
So why not take a hint from Germany and have the govt back solar panels for the roof of every home thru guaranteed low rate bank loans?
Additionally, as we move more to solar and wind, storage technology will no doubt improve, and in turn, use of storage technologies on vehicles will improve, allowing for all electric vehicles and greatly eliminated the need for fossil fuel.
What power plant are you waiting on to be invented exactly?
There are already
Abandoned Solar Power Plants in the U.S.
Solar power plants have and do exist all over the world, as do wind power plants. What Carter wanted was absolutely possible, it was the next Administration and Congress that scuttled the real chances of its success.
Nuclear creates waste during its powering process, solar and wind only create waste during initial construction and panel replacement. Nuclear is not green at all, in fact, the pollution from it is so concentrated it makes the locations where spent rods are disposed of uninhabitable.
Supplementing existing sources of energy is an absolute must to counter the increasing needs of such an 'electrically' connected society. This two year 'study' is just more stalling to put the onus on another Administration and Congress instead of actually getting something done. That and likely its the energy companies linked with the Administration don't want to switch off their massive profit spigot until we the people force it.
Cheers.
You are right, both parties consist of mostly criminals, but at least the Democrat pols can pretend to give a shit about people beneath them.
Cheers.
Say what you will, but I took 3 seconds to look at CERN's Personnel website...
"New timetable for a Regular morning and evening shuttle"
"Starting from 31 March 2008, for one month, a new timetable for a regular morning and evening shuttle serving LHC Points 2 and 5 will be put in place."
Are these guys trying to poke fun at Half-Life or is this for real?
We are so fucked.
Cheers.
Or 'Hey, watch this'
*cue redneck throwing a firecracker into the path of the particle stream*
Cheers.
It was somewhat a tongue in cheek reply on my part. Where do you think his $5 million will go? I bet it goes a quarter to the private ventures costs, the rest to a select group of capital investors who will keep it entrenched in capital gains markets. As a result, the taxable footprint that would've mitigated additional costs for public services or money towards employee wages (not even including stock options) is greatly reduced, and the idea that the money will move on down the line towards lower income people seems unlikely.
Pretend that any significant amount of that money could somehow make it down the line to others, every step of the way, every piece of equipment or fuel that is paid for with it, has amounts of money siphoned off into investment havens. It only takes a good 3 or 4 minutes of consideration to realize just how little Serg's trip into space matters in the scheme of things.
Its kinda depressing if you think too much about it, but I'll be getting up in the morning and going to work anyway.
Cheers.
I could give a shit either way. Do you know how many people you could HELP with $5 million, like real bonified food on the table for dinner kind of help?
;)
His little toy trip into space is not going to benefit mankind, unless he is explicitly going to perform dangerous experiments that could put his life at risk other than just riding along or pressing a few buttons at the direction of an astronaut, in which case perhaps I could feel a need to encourage him.
Or on a more greedily humorous note, he could just give it to me and I'd provide for my wife and kids, get a house, open a business, buy a vacation home in Costa Rica, and happily contribute to the economies of both the US and Costa Rica. Oh and probably buy some food for some of the poor people that I would force to work for me. Then eventually when I make untold riches in real estate and government bonds, buy my own trip to space, point and laugh at all the rest of the poor people still on earth. When in Rome, eh?
I hope to christ that if I ever DO get that much money, I'll still be mentally competent and human enough to actually spend a good chunk of it helping others, and not subtly justify helping myself under the guise of helping others. I'm of course referring to Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation, with the MS linked school technology 'donations'.
Cheers.
^5
I'm right there with you. My more in-tune-with-yuppiedom friends spoke feverishly about how they 'buy carbon offsets', yet I noted they still drive 10-15mpg vehicles and have poor insulation with all the glamorous wall sized windows to maximize the view of the lake outside their place.
Paying a 'non profit' to plant a tree will not reduce the amount of energy they consume. Level of consumption is the problem, not just additional trees.
Right after molesting his sceintologist grandparents and 'rastlin' a gator that snuck into his above ground pool behind his trailer.
Its Florida, it deserves more credit than that.
(Disclaimer: I'm from Florida)
You've clearly not had to manage an IT budget for a medium sized corporation that wants to trim IT licensing costs to remain competitive. Not only is it a licensing cost, you need a separate set of knowledge to effectively manage BES on top of Exchange, so more hours spent training inhouse or more money spent directly on outside consultants.
I've managed both for serious lengths of time, at several different clients.
Cheers.
Don't AC on my parade.
You are using an Inspiron, the 'value' (read: CHEAP) end of Dell's laptop offerings and complaining about it? You get what you pay for, sir. Spend a little bit more for a Latitude D630 and you will have a much more reliable laptop with higher quality hardware and a more consistent standard of hardware for the overall model line.
If you want a laptop that allows a custom video card, you need to spec the stuff you want BEFORE YOU BUY, and keep a cognizant eye of what gotchas may be involved. Basically, do some research, and not just reviewing halfassed slashdot comments like ours.
After 15 years of experiencing all sorts of good, bad, magical, unreliable, and just plain retarded computer manufacturers, I must opine that you are out of your mind if you think Asus anything better than Dell. They both are cutthroat businesses looking to save a buck where noone might notice, and whenever possible you avoid the lowest end laptops/etc, such as Inspiron.
Don't try to cut corners and save some bucks then complain when you made a glaringly bad decision. (Ubuntu preinstalled on a Dell? Did you do NO research prior to grabbing the first Ubuntu mania inspired laptop you could find?)
Cheers.
Blackberry is just a middleman to suck licensing $$ out of Exchange users. Exchange's RPC over HTTPs negates the need for a blackberry enterprise server in a microsoft centric shop.
Cheers.
Every XP license my clients buy thru open license /etc IS A VISTA LICENSE with the XP downgrade option.
I agree, once I started playing Real Life (TM), suddenly I was getting paid real money to work and do repetitive actions for hours at a time, and with that money I could afford women and drink, and I went forth and drank and hath women.
;)
But watch out how fast you level, now I'm married with a kid + 1 on the way, and I suddenly find myself needing to work exponentially more hours to have any of the glorious monies, and have started thinking about paying money to play games again cuz its cheaper than drinking.
Cheers.
The real problem is that the guy is 'too busy' to browse at a book store in the first place. He's lazy and he wants everyone to do the browsing and vetting of potential books for him.
You were not in the Army to take part in the traditional pillaging and raping fun, you were stuck in teh Navy and had to contend with vying for a bukakke session one of the 3 ladies onboard or cuddling with your fellow seamen.
;)
You Navy boys never catch a break.
Sorry I couldn't resist.
Cheers.
Copyright, Copy Right. Implies a right to copy. The 14 year term was just fine, and allowed us the right to copy after that term was up, all for the sake of the promotion of arts and sciences, NOT for the sake of economic enrichment (profit).
"Intellectual property", the idea that the thoughts you have come up with are yours alone, is a Corporate lobbyist scam. I'd tend to agree the the very concept is disgusting and is the antithesis to a free society that promotes free thought and expression. Everything you see, hear, touch, taste, and experience affects what you think, the only intellectual 'property' you really have are private thoughts in your head, once you speak or write, you have affected anyone that can hear you or see what you wrote.
Cheers.
Applying a concept of 'property' to 'thought' does not compute if you look at it logically. Everything you see, hear, and experience affects what you think and how your perceive. The very concept of property is a mental construct. My point is, the essence of the argument is beyond simple 'its the law' or 'get paid for your work' ideas of our society, especially with the half-assed example you provided about trees. Its a very philosophical argument, and just putting your hands over your ears and going 'LALALALALALA' does not address the real 'WHY' we need the system like we currently have it.
/b/ without the nsfw pics, and Digg has always been all troll all the time. The problem I have is the cynical yet hilarious comments on reddit that I take part in tend to creep over to my /. comments.
That said, I'll jump into grownup, working man shoes now and take a stab at it from a more conventional, socially 'acceptable' argument. Copyright is about the right to copy a work, its original purpose been hijacked to become copylimit, a 14 year term, after which copying IS allowed, is a WORLD apart from Lifetime of author + extensions that we are facing. Perhaps its the overextended rights of a Corporation to act as a single entity with control of so many legal tools, such as copyright, that has ultimately tangled up the whole system in the first place.
I'd bullshit more, but I have to go back to working on copyrighted server software to copy a clients copyrighted propriety application to additional machines running copyrighted OSes.
By the way, if you claim you don't come to slashdot any more because reddit and digg have more mature comments, you are out of your fucking mind. The comments on slashdot are about the only reason I come here these days to have any remotely relevant and intellectually enjoyable discourse. Reddit is
Cheers.
You've obviously never worked with semi-competent, technical IT consultants. I don't disagree that incompetence tends to be a hallmark of your average IT group. The point is this is in no way a an 'average' scope of IT incompetency, every NEW excuse they provide as to why the data is gone takes the possibility of typical incompetence and turns it on its head, this is like the superbowl of incompetence. But I suspect its NOT incompetence, I suspect its malice and criminal conspiracy by higher ups that can use the appearance of incompetence by the low level It guys. We are not talking about the money thats is thrown on a fire for huge undertakings like the FBI's massive and advanced investigation data management systems, we are talking about a fucking EMAIL SERVER (or group of servers), probably exchange 2000 or 2003. This is not rocket science, even the average fairly incompetent IT guy could accidentally set it up with some kinda of email data retention.
Cheers.
I guess part of the point is that you have to get the underlings in order to move up the food chain in a real criminal prosecution. You get the guys that don't get paid enough to lie to out the big boys handing down their orders and sop.
Cheers.
If Journaling was on, there should not have been anyone 'manually copying to PST', it should have been automatic based on filters, it makes no sense.
Additionally, if someone WAS manually copying these things, lets subpoena those fuckers and get to the bottom of it, and determine just what they saw in the emails they had to manually archive to pst.
From Microsoft's site:
Standard journaling Standard journaling enables the Journaling agent in Exchange 2007 to journal all messages that are sent to and from recipients and senders that are located on a specific mailbox database on a computer running the Mailbox server role. You must configure journaling individually on each mailbox database in your organization if you want to journal all messages to and from all recipients and senders.
Cheers.
You sir are on the mark.
You can get a long line of IT admins from around the country to testify how big the lies coming from the Administration are, put the white house IT admins on the stand and rip them to shreds, then throw their asses in JAIL when they show gross incompetence in following the law, instead of coming right out with the truth of what happened and who encouraged it to happen. Plausible deniability only succeeds when noone has the balls and patience to search for the truth. This is not some chickenshit run of the mill SOX compliance failure, this is the most important single office in the country requiring the utmost diligence from people working there. (yeah, I guess that last point there really set the stage)
There is no way such incompetence exists, unless they were hiring 18 year old MCSE's just out of high school with no real world IT experience to configure the fucking system. In that case, we have a lot more important people that get a free visit to jail.
Cheers.
No, you have the government regulate who the private organizations can exclude from engagement on a public policy hearing. Especially for a group proclaiming non-partisanship thats called PUBLIC POLICY FORUM.
Cheers.
You obviously don't run a business. Any small business will be explicitly burdened by this requirement. This appears a violation of due process for the government to require this, as it assumes people will have a criminal background, and it does not PROMOTE commerce, it limits commerce above any beyond any traditional regulatory requirement when its required for all businesses. Perhaps this could be 'legal' if only required for international transactions.
You don't seem to understand that the databases in question are law enforcement by their very essence of usage.
If some mafia connected kid comes into a retail store and buys a bag of cement and chains, the retail store is not responsible for the death of guy they make shoes for and drop into a lake. Imagine having to submit to a criminal check every time you go thru the checkout lane at Walmart, thats what this is akin to.
Cheers.