Just as it is true that global warming is caused by the sun, so my body generates most of the heat that keeps me warm. Nonetheless, if I wear too many sweaters, I will get too hot. Taking them off will cool me down, despite the fact that the heat is all coming from my own body. The same principle applies to the atmosphere. The earth's temperature is determined by a radiative balance. We can't change the sun, but we can change the atmosphere (our sweater), and that can cause the earth's temperature to change.
Let's play the devil's advocate for a moment. Let's also ignore the very small number of lifeforms (including humans) who covert energy from geothermic heat. What are we left with? Lifeforms converting energy from the sun. We (or a plant we eat) will store this energy in our bodies for later use. When we run a mile in heavy clothing, some of this stored energy is coverted into heat (damn Thermodynamics!), and trapped by our clothing. The heat builds up and makes us uncomfortable.
I don't think it's too much of a stretch (remember the role you were supposed to be playing) to see how global warming, and the "human overwarming problem" can be easily solved by unplugging the sun.
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace Where Hydrogen is built into Helium At a temperature of millions of degrees
The sun is hot, the sun is not A place where we could live But here on Earth there'd be no life Without the light it gives
We need its light, we need its heat The sun light that we seek The sun light comes from our own sun's Atomic energy
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas A gigantic nuclear furnace Where Hydrogen is built into Helium At a temperature of millions of degrees
...just like in the real world, those scattered groups of "primitives" will have a few pieces of modern technology at hand, surrounded by whatever they could make themselves.
It's a much more plausible idea than you may realize.
So riddle me this:
How did these "primitives" get off of earth in the first place, if they don't have advanced technology? Did they just all wear helium balloon belts and jump at the same time?
Now, granted, there could be some interesting plot points... perhaps they were forcibly removed, and dumped on some backwater by "the man." But unless that's explained, I find it very difficult to suspend my disbelief.
Let's not forget that most of the headlines on CNN.com are sensationalized. And half of those are just watered down versions of what you might've seen on HardCopy. Ignoring Google for the moment, BBC News (especially the text-based version) is a great way for Americans to get their daily news.
Whether it's fake or real, you can escape reality through almost any medium.
Death works pretty well, I hear. And second to this is getting as close as possible... skydiving, etc make it very, very difficult to think about a crummy life while you're (for example) hurtling towards the earth at terminal velocity.
Just imagine a life without some means to escape from it...
At least as of Win2K, so many things break when you try to run as non-administrator, it's just not worth it for most people.
Such as? I've been running as a standard user on my own personal laptop (W2K) for nearly two years and have had no major problems. The problems I did have were due to so-called "Windows 2000 Compatible" apps that were not. Simply finding the files which I needed write access to was usually enough to fix things -- use SysInternals' FileMon for this.
I've heard you argument many times, though... how difficult it is to run things as a regular user. There are some arguments that can be made, but without specifics, it's just FUD.
I'm not arguing that you SHOULD behave one way or another. That's your decision to make. But you still have to follow the rules of wherever you live, unless you're willing to be an outlaw - if you can get away with it, more power to you.
I agree with that statement. You seemed to be arguing that a "self-centered" mentality was "bad" -- I though you were arguing it was associated (only?) with Republicans -- and that if I didn't help people I was "bad." It appears that my initial understanding of your argument was incorrect. An interesting discussion, though, and thanks for clearing things up.
The fact of the matter is that people are animals, are born bad
I would argue people are born self-interested, and will behave in a manner which they believe benefits them. Thus the need for "control" of others through government (laws and force) or religion (laws and force timeshifted to eternity), because you'll have conflicts of individual's self-interests.
Your post, though, seems to support my argument and my understanding of how I "should" behave in society. I should be calculating, cold, and heartless in nature, because otherwise I will become emotionally attached to/involved with my fellow Americans and will not be able to make objective decisions.
Could you also explain why Western society (in general) feels they "owe" something to the downtrodden? Is it because of the West's religious background (Catholicism)?
I'm not suggesting that there should be a closing of all social programs, but apparently if I work my butt of and manage to do pretty well, now suddenly I'm supposed to feel guilty and give "X" to people who either don't work their butt off, or cannot do so.
I honestly don't understand this, and if you can explain, or correct me, I would appreciate it.
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Line item veto is not your answer. Completely disallowing any sort of "rider" bills is the answer. Either propose good legislation, or just vote on what lands on your desk... adding your own pork barrel legislation is driving this country into the ground. If you can't write a good law on the first try, try again. Nothing says you have to push laws through the first time.
I am proud to be an American, and I love this country very much, but I can't stand the rediculousness of the "rider" bills.
I have two Fujitsu 10K RPM SCA drives in my Sun, and I'm curious if they're affected by this rash of failures. I would hope that the enterprise drives are made to more exacting standards...
Yeah, I'm sure the owners of those planes would love that idea. FYI: these aircraft still contain parts that can be used, which is the sole purpose of keeping them around. A majority of aircraft however is just mothballed until better times come around. There are times it's not economical to operate them but that doesn't make them worthless. Even if they'd give away the fuselage, who would pay for (a)removing all sellable parts (b)transportation (c)the swivel system (d)the interior??
You're exactly right -- and not only that, but the planes are actually owned by somebody. What a concept. They're not junk, they're just excess supply.
My mother does work in equipment leasing, and the bank she works for has quite a few airplanes in use, but they also have quite a few sitting in these mothball fleets, waiting for airlines to expand again. It is actually quite expensive to keep the planes there, as they aren't junk, but must be sealed, etc, and then checked and maintained regularly. In fact, if the banks could collect the insurance money (say, if the whole mothball fleet was destroyed), they'd be much happier. While the idea of using these planes is worth considering, I'll bet that to acquire the planes for use as shelters you're going to have the pay a lot more than $300,000 -- the bank will try to recover it's costs. And stripping the valuble parts out is going to be expensive too...
The day will come when a competitor of Cisco develops a router that is easily configured by a Sysadmin who isn't a CCIE that knows the Cisco IOS terminal-driven interface like the back of their hand.
Chief Technology Officer Bill Patterson of Ford Motor Company, "Windows allows us to leverage our most valuable assets, people, into a world-class synergy to delight customers all over the globe."...to which the interviewer replied, "What? I didn't understand that last sentence."...to which Patterson replied, "Here, have a cookie, that will explain everything."
We'd spent 35 years of hard civil liberties work to keep the words "national security" from being carte blanche for the abuse of our civil rights. Now we've got to regain that progress all over again. We _will_ regain it, even if it takes another 35 years to relearn the lessons.
Isn't that the exact problem our educational system is supposed to help us avoid? In 35 years, we'll have a new generation of politicians and voters. If they can't learn the lesson now, by the time they learn it they'll be dead or out of office.
the people that when you ask a legitimate question get the reply "rtfm"
Here's a thread I was following on Ars Technica (loosely paraphrased):
Newbie: How do I write a master boot record to my C: drive? I can boot from my DOS boot disk.
Elitist: "fdisk/mbr" -- RTFM! [note, "read the **fucking** manual" was implied here, this could only be interpereted as derrogatory]
Arsian: The/mbr switch is an undocumented feature.
It couldn't have been a more perfect example of how many computer geeks treat others. And like I said, I have been guilty of this myself, but in my defense I am trying to not do this, while at the same time trying to force the users to learn a bit too -- no freebies here.
Shouldn't much of this be common sense to the average individual.
That's the problem... you're putting geeks into the wrong group. Geeks aren't "normal" they're (well, usually) "above average" so you need to think differently to understand them. No that was not an Apple plug. When you get people with above average intelligence, who may have been abused by those whom they consider "lower" than themselves, you get egotistical bastards. Elitists. Assholes. Call them whatever you want, and I don't claim that I am immune from this name-calling.
Just think about it... if you think you're smart and your work is important, why wouldn't someone else think the same? Wouldn't you get pissed off and revert to more "childish" methods of communication and getting your way?
Now, assuming you've followed me so far, toss in a bit of under-developed social skills and you've got a system administrator waiting to happen! Before you flame me, I'm just kidding -- but keep in mind that many of the intelligent people in this world have advanced as far as they have by sacrificing other daily aspects of life, such as social skills (and perhaps hygene).
Just imagine what happens when a "regular Joe" thinks he is the smartest guy on Earth...
Ok did the 3 Service Packs statement rub anyone else the wrong way?
Yes.
It's really only one service pack. There's no need to apply SP1 and SP2 prior to SP3.
Is the article's poster suggesting that Linux/MacOS/etc never needs an update? We must still be at kernel version 1.0. In fact, the poster must still be using DOS, since that could be considered networking-secure.
I guess it's just easier to tow the Slashdot party line (or what people think is the Slashdot party line), rather than actually think for yourself and do a bit of research.
It is highly unlike[ly] that Apple will go with a heat producing, energy wasting x86 Intel chip.
...because PPC chips completely disobey the laws of physics, producing neither heat, nor "waste energy" (perhaps through the production of heat?). Yes, it is PPC, miracle of modern technology, standing up for the common man against the perils of Thermodynamics!
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Let's play the devil's advocate for a moment. Let's also ignore the very small number of lifeforms (including humans) who covert energy from geothermic heat. What are we left with? Lifeforms converting energy from the sun. We (or a plant we eat) will store this energy in our bodies for later use. When we run a mile in heavy clothing, some of this stored energy is coverted into heat (damn Thermodynamics!), and trapped by our clothing. The heat builds up and makes us uncomfortable.
I don't think it's too much of a stretch (remember the role you were supposed to be playing) to see how global warming, and the "human overwarming problem" can be easily solved by unplugging the sun.
The UN has also already banned the use of weather control as a weapon.
I always knew GIJoe was a documentary. Fear the Weather Dominator!
...just like in the real world, those scattered groups of "primitives" will have a few pieces of modern technology at hand, surrounded by whatever they could make themselves.
It's a much more plausible idea than you may realize.
So riddle me this:
How did these "primitives" get off of earth in the first place, if they don't have advanced technology? Did they just all wear helium balloon belts and jump at the same time?
Now, granted, there could be some interesting plot points... perhaps they were forcibly removed, and dumped on some backwater by "the man." But unless that's explained, I find it very difficult to suspend my disbelief.
Let's not forget that most of the headlines on CNN.com are sensationalized. And half of those are just watered down versions of what you might've seen on HardCopy. Ignoring Google for the moment, BBC News (especially the text-based version) is a great way for Americans to get their daily news.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/world/default.stm
Whether it's fake or real, you can escape reality through almost any medium.
Death works pretty well, I hear. And second to this is getting as close as possible... skydiving, etc make it very, very difficult to think about a crummy life while you're (for example) hurtling towards the earth at terminal velocity.
Just imagine a life without some means to escape from it...
Security-by-lawyer really isn't that good of a network protocol...
I've heard the response times are pretty bad too.
However, MS definitely isn't going to want to lose any market share to the home/student market who have no need for such things.
As a student, I'm a big fan of AbiWord. It's small and fast, and there are no macros! Even OpenOffice was a bit pokey on my 1 Ghz workstation.
At least as of Win2K, so many things break when you try to run as non-administrator, it's just not worth it for most people.
Such as? I've been running as a standard user on my own personal laptop (W2K) for nearly two years and have had no major problems. The problems I did have were due to so-called "Windows 2000 Compatible" apps that were not. Simply finding the files which I needed write access to was usually enough to fix things -- use SysInternals' FileMon for this.
I've heard you argument many times, though... how difficult it is to run things as a regular user. There are some arguments that can be made, but without specifics, it's just FUD.
"Oh no! There go all the royalty checks on my patented tag!" - Marc Andreessen
Luckily for the healthcare industry, despite a royalty-free patent, the <seizure> tag still generates a great deal of revenue.
I'm not arguing that you SHOULD behave one way or another. That's your decision to make. But you still have to follow the rules of wherever you live, unless you're willing to be an outlaw - if you can get away with it, more power to you.
I agree with that statement. You seemed to be arguing that a "self-centered" mentality was "bad" -- I though you were arguing it was associated (only?) with Republicans -- and that if I didn't help people I was "bad." It appears that my initial understanding of your argument was incorrect. An interesting discussion, though, and thanks for clearing things up.
The fact of the matter is that people are animals, are born bad
I would argue people are born self-interested, and will behave in a manner which they believe benefits them. Thus the need for "control" of others through government (laws and force) or religion (laws and force timeshifted to eternity), because you'll have conflicts of individual's self-interests.
Your post, though, seems to support my argument and my understanding of how I "should" behave in society. I should be calculating, cold, and heartless in nature, because otherwise I will become emotionally attached to/involved with my fellow Americans and will not be able to make objective decisions.
calculating, cold, and heartless in nature
Do you mean someone being objective?
Could you also explain why Western society (in general) feels they "owe" something to the downtrodden? Is it because of the West's religious background (Catholicism)?
I'm not suggesting that there should be a closing of all social programs, but apparently if I work my butt of and manage to do pretty well, now suddenly I'm supposed to feel guilty and give "X" to people who either don't work their butt off, or cannot do so.
I honestly don't understand this, and if you can explain, or correct me, I would appreciate it.
Line item veto is not your answer. Completely disallowing any sort of "rider" bills is the answer. Either propose good legislation, or just vote on what lands on your desk... adding your own pork barrel legislation is driving this country into the ground. If you can't write a good law on the first try, try again. Nothing says you have to push laws through the first time.
I am proud to be an American, and I love this country very much, but I can't stand the rediculousness of the "rider" bills.
If you used Mozilla on your Windows box you wouldn't have that problem... I just tried it for myself and no popups or Gator installs.
There is evidence of evolution all around us but there is no concrete evidence that proves or disproves creation.
I am god. Now prove me wrong.
Because you can't, does that make it true?
I have two Fujitsu 10K RPM SCA drives in my Sun, and I'm curious if they're affected by this rash of failures. I would hope that the enterprise drives are made to more exacting standards...
Yeah, I'm sure the owners of those planes would love that idea. FYI: these aircraft still contain parts that can be used, which is the sole purpose of keeping them around. A majority of aircraft however is just mothballed until better times come around. There are times it's not economical to operate them but that doesn't make them worthless. Even if they'd give away the fuselage, who would pay for (a)removing all sellable parts (b)transportation (c)the swivel system (d)the interior??
You're exactly right -- and not only that, but the planes are actually owned by somebody. What a concept. They're not junk, they're just excess supply.
My mother does work in equipment leasing, and the bank she works for has quite a few airplanes in use, but they also have quite a few sitting in these mothball fleets, waiting for airlines to expand again. It is actually quite expensive to keep the planes there, as they aren't junk, but must be sealed, etc, and then checked and maintained regularly. In fact, if the banks could collect the insurance money (say, if the whole mothball fleet was destroyed), they'd be much happier. While the idea of using these planes is worth considering, I'll bet that to acquire the planes for use as shelters you're going to have the pay a lot more than $300,000 -- the bank will try to recover it's costs. And stripping the valuble parts out is going to be expensive too...
The day will come when a competitor of Cisco develops a router that is easily configured by a Sysadmin who isn't a CCIE that knows the Cisco IOS terminal-driven interface like the back of their hand.
You mean, like Linux + IPTables + Webmin?
Chief Technology Officer Bill Patterson of Ford Motor Company, "Windows allows us to leverage our most valuable assets, people, into a world-class synergy to delight customers all over the globe." ...to which the interviewer replied, "What? I didn't understand that last sentence." ...to which Patterson replied, "Here, have a cookie, that will explain everything."
We'd spent 35 years of hard civil liberties work to keep the words "national security" from being carte blanche for the abuse of our civil rights. Now we've got to regain that progress all over again. We _will_ regain it, even if it takes another 35 years to relearn the lessons.
Isn't that the exact problem our educational system is supposed to help us avoid? In 35 years, we'll have a new generation of politicians and voters. If they can't learn the lesson now, by the time they learn it they'll be dead or out of office.
the people that when you ask a legitimate question get the reply "rtfm"
/mbr" -- RTFM! [note, "read the **fucking** manual" was implied here, this could only be interpereted as derrogatory]
/mbr switch is an undocumented feature.
Here's a thread I was following on Ars Technica (loosely paraphrased):
Newbie: How do I write a master boot record to my C: drive? I can boot from my DOS boot disk.
Elitist: "fdisk
Arsian: The
It couldn't have been a more perfect example of how many computer geeks treat others. And like I said, I have been guilty of this myself, but in my defense I am trying to not do this, while at the same time trying to force the users to learn a bit too -- no freebies here.
Shouldn't much of this be common sense to the average individual.
That's the problem... you're putting geeks into the wrong group. Geeks aren't "normal" they're (well, usually) "above average" so you need to think differently to understand them. No that was not an Apple plug. When you get people with above average intelligence, who may have been abused by those whom they consider "lower" than themselves, you get egotistical bastards. Elitists. Assholes. Call them whatever you want, and I don't claim that I am immune from this name-calling.
Just think about it... if you think you're smart and your work is important, why wouldn't someone else think the same? Wouldn't you get pissed off and revert to more "childish" methods of communication and getting your way?
Now, assuming you've followed me so far, toss in a bit of under-developed social skills and you've got a system administrator waiting to happen! Before you flame me, I'm just kidding -- but keep in mind that many of the intelligent people in this world have advanced as far as they have by sacrificing other daily aspects of life, such as social skills (and perhaps hygene).
Just imagine what happens when a "regular Joe" thinks he is the smartest guy on Earth...
Ok did the 3 Service Packs statement rub anyone else the wrong way?
Yes.
It's really only one service pack. There's no need to apply SP1 and SP2 prior to SP3.
Is the article's poster suggesting that Linux/MacOS/etc never needs an update? We must still be at kernel version 1.0. In fact, the poster must still be using DOS, since that could be considered networking-secure.
I guess it's just easier to tow the Slashdot party line (or what people think is the Slashdot party line), rather than actually think for yourself and do a bit of research.
It is highly unlike[ly] that Apple will go with a heat producing, energy wasting x86 Intel chip.
...because PPC chips completely disobey the laws of physics, producing neither heat, nor "waste energy" (perhaps through the production of heat?). Yes, it is PPC, miracle of modern technology, standing up for the common man against the perils of Thermodynamics!
Wait ... so you're saying that this ought to be illegal?
IMO, if you click "yes", you deserve exactly what you get.
For a moment I thought your second statement was "If you agree (that saying this ought to be illegal), click "Yes" to continue reading."