Huffington Post. NYTimes. LA Times, SF Chronical, MSNBC, CBS, PBS, NPR (closer to balanced)...
I could go on. But when everything you watch is left wing, everything else seems right wing. Mind you, I'm Libertarian, and the only show I really enjoy in John Stossle on Fox.
"and there is no legitimate criticism of a relatively democratically elected government, that requires someone to threaten the life of the president (or anyone really)."
I remember Alec Baldwin's rant on a late night talk show.
Funny how the left is all for free speech with it works for them, but not so much when it works against them. Same can be said of the right, but they get called on it by the leftwing press, so they don't get away with it nearly as often.
Who's the Sentators for CA and where did they come from? Who is the Gov of CA and where did he come from? Who has a majority in both California Legislative Houses and for how long have they had power?
The only bat shit insane person is you and your ilk, because you obviously don't know reality from fantasy. Keep smoking that Medical Pot, it doesn't show at all.
You speak as if there are no crazy leftwing in the US. All one has to do is look to San Francisco to show that there is nobody quite as crazy as the left.
Um, this was the OBAMA Justice Department. If this were Bush's Justice Department, I'm sure Darth Cheney or Halliburton would have been blamed. So, where is the outrage from the "left" here?
The left are just useful idiots and the right are just idiots.
Of that list, I think the only one I'd consider watching is True Grit, and perhaps Black Swan. In fact, they should combine the two movies, for a perfect/. Meme movie.. "Natalie Portman in Hot (True) Grits.
First: ALL Marketing is misleading. That is what marketing does. Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative. So complaining about that is just idiotic.
Second: You could have a couple dozen Backblaze units, pay for a tech to monitor them 24/7/365 and replace all the drives twice over for what Amazon charges for the same thing. Sure that doesn't included cost for premises, and HighSpeed Internet to multiple locations. But still, that is aggregated with all the other clients.
Third: what are you paying for in the "cloud", I mean besides ethereal concepts. Does Amazon tell you how they do things? You probably know less about Amazon (and the others) setup so you're comparing something you know something about (not everything) verses something you know almost nothing about, and the complain that they aren't doing it in a comparable way. You don't know.
Fourth: Your basic assumption is that Backblaze has no contigency for drive replacement, which is false. Since these are "new" drives there might be insufficient data about failure rates and therefore the actual cost of replacement (never mind warranties) or having drives in both Hot and Cold Spare setups. I'm sure that Backblaze in their $5/MO service figures what it costs to store data, have spares, keep the Datacenter running and profitable. Even if they double the cost to $10, it still puts the others to shame.
Have you compared the data loss rates for the last three years between Amazon and Backblaze? Can you even compare or is that data held secret (see point 1b). My point here, is that you're pulling shit out of your ass and thinking it doesn't stink. Even if it isn't directly comparable, it is at least in the realm of consideration, EVEN if everything you said is true. And at 10 times less in cost, that can buy a lot of redundancy. It is just a matter of perspective.
Who said it would be better? Not the article. The article said you'd have to do it yourself, and if you're THAT good, you might make something better. If you don't want to do it yourself (FreeNAS) you can opt for their software to manage it, which GASP HORROR, they charge for.
Challenge laid down Open Source Community, make your own Management software and create a new FS that doesn't have the limitations of the EXT4 has without using LVN to get around those limitations, that is better than what these people offer.
Complainers, like most of the ones here, just complain and say what is "wrong", but never offer up a solution and work to create an alternative that is better. It is much easier to "complain" about shit than to actually do it.
Necessity is the mother of all invention. Hard work is the unsung father. Accidents (that is odd) are the crazy uncle everyone loves, but nobody wants around.
Well, if you recall, or perhaps this was your entire point, it was the ONE Battlestar that didn't have all the computers networked and in the process of being mothballed for being too old, that wasn't blown to bits by them "toasters".
SpaceX foundation disagrees. Set a goal, and people will rise to meet it. Make it a competition, and people will race to win. Government CAN do this too, as the Apollo missions proved. But that had a goal, and wasn't pure research for the sake of research. Give man a goal and tools, he will likely surprise you in his ingenuity.
What is needed is proper focus.
However, and none of the replies, including yours, addresses the point of "lost cause" funding, something government can never really grasp long enough to rid itself of such things. I just read about a tax used for "supporting Civil War Vets" that still exists. It is now being used to support the former home of those vets as some sort of "historic" park, except the buildings and structures from that period are not there.While only tangential to research it shows the problem of ridding programs that have gone beyond scope, or outlived their usefulness.
Private enterprise has no such illusions (delusions) and is merciless to things that don't make sense. Which is why the left hates it so much.
Only successful research drives new markets. For every successful research product there are dozens of failures. And this is why Government should never sponsor research, and why it should give it to private industry.
Government doesn't ever realize a black hole of research because the researcher will always say "A break through is immanent", just to get the next grant for the next ten years, until he can retire. Private enterprise, as much as the left wing hates it, knows when and how to cut research that is a dead end.
We ALL need to buckup and tighten our belts and get the government out of wars, and out of socialism that is unsustainable. Some people, perhaps a great number, will not be happy. But the current path, NOBODY will be happy.
I don't quite see it that way. Defense is okay, if it is part of an overall strategy. However, what Facebook is doing is called "Prevent Defense" which doesn't prevent anything.
I've never dropped my phone, lost my phone, left it behind or anything like that. My phone is important to me, and not just an expensive toy. I'm simply amazed at the number of applications for finding a lost phone, having it ring you when you send a txt, email you with its GPS location when lost etc.
Chances are, all these people are the same ones texting while driving.
Exactly what I mean. You can't make being an Asshole illegal. The only thing you can do is kick the shit out of them when you have to. That is the only thing assholes understand.
Yup. Marines rock. Bad Ass to the core. (Corps). Kill the other branches of the military and call it good. You got my vote. Army, Navy and Air Force are for people who can't be Marines!
Actually, I was talking about AGW and left wing driven environmentalism. I couldn't care less if people teach evolution or creationism. I think it is silly to teach "evolution" to 4th graders because they don't have the basics enough to comprehend the theory. You don't teach Calculus to them, because they barely can do fractions, same principle.
And for that matter, evolution/creation debates are just pissing matches that do nothing to educate kids on math and science. Our kids are functioning illiterates these days. Let us get back to reading, writing and math and stop with the social engineering, because it isn't working.
Look, it isn't that hard to come up with a passphrase that you turn into a password.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times
becomes
1wtb0t1wtw0t!
Then, you find a creative phrase that nobody else will figure out based on nothing about yourself and bam, you have a password. The longer the phrase, the more keystrokes to enter, and that is a good thing.
But still, there is the one person I know who's password is PI, to the 27th decimal, Most PW systems don't let you have that many, and when they don't, she uses something ridiculously easy, "because it already isn't secured". Takes her, and I'm not kidding, about 7 seconds to tap it out on a keypad.
Actually the $500 hammer might just be a $5 hammer, on a PO that has a limit of $500, used to purchase the $2500 tool that was deeply discounted to... $500 along with 4 other items each costing $500 for something that normally would be $5.
This is because in order to procure the normally $2500 item, it would take walking a maze of stupid regulations and take two months.
Regulations are designed to stop assholes, but don't nor can they.
I call it the law of assholes. Assholes exist, and will always dance on and around the edge of "legal". They can because there is no law against it, and that is where they live.
Slashdot Mirror
Huffington Post. NYTimes. LA Times, SF Chronical, MSNBC, CBS, PBS, NPR (closer to balanced) ...
I could go on. But when everything you watch is left wing, everything else seems right wing. Mind you, I'm Libertarian, and the only show I really enjoy in John Stossle on Fox.
Free Speech laws are to protect the kinds of speech that idiots like Jackson-Lee would deem "offensive", including racist, hate filled, or otherwise.
I've never seen the race card played as much as the left wing does since Obama was elected. Budget talks, must be racism ....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRyqOg709fw
"and there is no legitimate criticism of a relatively democratically elected government, that requires someone to threaten the life of the president (or anyone really)."
I remember Alec Baldwin's rant on a late night talk show.
Funny how the left is all for free speech with it works for them, but not so much when it works against them. Same can be said of the right, but they get called on it by the leftwing press, so they don't get away with it nearly as often.
Yeah, because there has never been a case of centrists skewing the vote left (Perot etc). /SARCASM
The left always acts like shit only happens to them.
Who's the Sentators for CA and where did they come from?
Who is the Gov of CA and where did he come from?
Who has a majority in both California Legislative Houses and for how long have they had power?
The only bat shit insane person is you and your ilk, because you obviously don't know reality from fantasy. Keep smoking that Medical Pot, it doesn't show at all.
You speak as if there are no crazy leftwing in the US. All one has to do is look to San Francisco to show that there is nobody quite as crazy as the left.
Um, this was the OBAMA Justice Department. If this were Bush's Justice Department, I'm sure Darth Cheney or Halliburton would have been blamed. So, where is the outrage from the "left" here?
The left are just useful idiots and the right are just idiots.
Corporate Death Penalty and Billion Dollars in Penalties, arresting all senior officers and the Board of Directors. The Buck stops THERE.
Of that list, I think the only one I'd consider watching is True Grit, and perhaps Black Swan. In fact, they should combine the two movies, for a perfect /. Meme movie .. "Natalie Portman in Hot (True) Grits.
First: ALL Marketing is misleading. That is what marketing does. Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative. So complaining about that is just idiotic.
Second: You could have a couple dozen Backblaze units, pay for a tech to monitor them 24/7/365 and replace all the drives twice over for what Amazon charges for the same thing. Sure that doesn't included cost for premises, and HighSpeed Internet to multiple locations. But still, that is aggregated with all the other clients.
Third: what are you paying for in the "cloud", I mean besides ethereal concepts. Does Amazon tell you how they do things? You probably know less about Amazon (and the others) setup so you're comparing something you know something about (not everything) verses something you know almost nothing about, and the complain that they aren't doing it in a comparable way. You don't know.
Fourth: Your basic assumption is that Backblaze has no contigency for drive replacement, which is false. Since these are "new" drives there might be insufficient data about failure rates and therefore the actual cost of replacement (never mind warranties) or having drives in both Hot and Cold Spare setups. I'm sure that Backblaze in their $5/MO service figures what it costs to store data, have spares, keep the Datacenter running and profitable. Even if they double the cost to $10, it still puts the others to shame.
Have you compared the data loss rates for the last three years between Amazon and Backblaze? Can you even compare or is that data held secret (see point 1b). My point here, is that you're pulling shit out of your ass and thinking it doesn't stink. Even if it isn't directly comparable, it is at least in the realm of consideration, EVEN if everything you said is true. And at 10 times less in cost, that can buy a lot of redundancy. It is just a matter of perspective.
Who said it would be better? Not the article. The article said you'd have to do it yourself, and if you're THAT good, you might make something better. If you don't want to do it yourself (FreeNAS) you can opt for their software to manage it, which GASP HORROR, they charge for.
Challenge laid down Open Source Community, make your own Management software and create a new FS that doesn't have the limitations of the EXT4 has without using LVN to get around those limitations, that is better than what these people offer.
Complainers, like most of the ones here, just complain and say what is "wrong", but never offer up a solution and work to create an alternative that is better. It is much easier to "complain" about shit than to actually do it.
Quite trying to quarterback from the sidelines.
You are looking at the sword wrong. It is just a lump of steel, just like any other.
Necessity is the mother of all invention.
Hard work is the unsung father.
Accidents (that is odd) are the crazy uncle everyone loves, but nobody wants around.
Well, if you recall, or perhaps this was your entire point, it was the ONE Battlestar that didn't have all the computers networked and in the process of being mothballed for being too old, that wasn't blown to bits by them "toasters".
SpaceX foundation disagrees. Set a goal, and people will rise to meet it. Make it a competition, and people will race to win. Government CAN do this too, as the Apollo missions proved. But that had a goal, and wasn't pure research for the sake of research. Give man a goal and tools, he will likely surprise you in his ingenuity.
What is needed is proper focus.
However, and none of the replies, including yours, addresses the point of "lost cause" funding, something government can never really grasp long enough to rid itself of such things. I just read about a tax used for "supporting Civil War Vets" that still exists. It is now being used to support the former home of those vets as some sort of "historic" park, except the buildings and structures from that period are not there.While only tangential to research it shows the problem of ridding programs that have gone beyond scope, or outlived their usefulness.
Private enterprise has no such illusions (delusions) and is merciless to things that don't make sense. Which is why the left hates it so much.
Only successful research drives new markets. For every successful research product there are dozens of failures. And this is why Government should never sponsor research, and why it should give it to private industry.
Government doesn't ever realize a black hole of research because the researcher will always say "A break through is immanent", just to get the next grant for the next ten years, until he can retire. Private enterprise, as much as the left wing hates it, knows when and how to cut research that is a dead end.
We ALL need to buckup and tighten our belts and get the government out of wars, and out of socialism that is unsustainable. Some people, perhaps a great number, will not be happy. But the current path, NOBODY will be happy.
I don't quite see it that way. Defense is okay, if it is part of an overall strategy. However, what Facebook is doing is called "Prevent Defense" which doesn't prevent anything.
Thanks,
I got the screenshot and posted it to my G+
I've never dropped my phone, lost my phone, left it behind or anything like that. My phone is important to me, and not just an expensive toy. I'm simply amazed at the number of applications for finding a lost phone, having it ring you when you send a txt, email you with its GPS location when lost etc.
Chances are, all these people are the same ones texting while driving.
Exactly what I mean. You can't make being an Asshole illegal. The only thing you can do is kick the shit out of them when you have to. That is the only thing assholes understand.
Yup. Marines rock. Bad Ass to the core. (Corps). Kill the other branches of the military and call it good. You got my vote. Army, Navy and Air Force are for people who can't be Marines!
Actually, I was talking about AGW and left wing driven environmentalism. I couldn't care less if people teach evolution or creationism. I think it is silly to teach "evolution" to 4th graders because they don't have the basics enough to comprehend the theory. You don't teach Calculus to them, because they barely can do fractions, same principle.
And for that matter, evolution/creation debates are just pissing matches that do nothing to educate kids on math and science. Our kids are functioning illiterates these days. Let us get back to reading, writing and math and stop with the social engineering, because it isn't working.
Look, it isn't that hard to come up with a passphrase that you turn into a password.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times
becomes
1wtb0t1wtw0t!
Then, you find a creative phrase that nobody else will figure out based on nothing about yourself and bam, you have a password. The longer the phrase, the more keystrokes to enter, and that is a good thing.
But still, there is the one person I know who's password is PI, to the 27th decimal, Most PW systems don't let you have that many, and when they don't, she uses something ridiculously easy, "because it already isn't secured". Takes her, and I'm not kidding, about 7 seconds to tap it out on a keypad.
Actually the $500 hammer might just be a $5 hammer, on a PO that has a limit of $500, used to purchase the $2500 tool that was deeply discounted to ... $500 along with 4 other items each costing $500 for something that normally would be $5.
This is because in order to procure the normally $2500 item, it would take walking a maze of stupid regulations and take two months.
Regulations are designed to stop assholes, but don't nor can they.
I call it the law of assholes. Assholes exist, and will always dance on and around the edge of "legal". They can because there is no law against it, and that is where they live.
That is the way of the Asshole.