You know, some people actually read and use the displayed results from Excel for important purposes, rather than merely feeding them into further calculations, graphs, etc.
Yeah, we use it here at the lab to calculate the maximum amount of uranium hexfloride we can have in
You should check out the book The Golden Spruce, by John Vaillant, which has a nice history of logging in the Northwest and a lot about the Haida. Good story.
And of course, they could have landed and switched out. Hopefully the procedure is to totally inspect the missiles now that they're "found". This is probably just a shill story though, to "test the waters" of America for nuclear awareness.
Sounds like caffineosis.. You might want to cut out coffee and start taking a vitamin and going for long walks in the evenings before bed. Keep yourself from ripping through things by taking mandatory breaks. And stop worrying so much.
That's because the incursion was authorized. It's a lot cheaper to have China make our missiles for us, since labor is way cheaper over there. I also heard they are outsourcing Congress to India in an effort to save money.
I ask you, what are you doing that merits total anonymity? Forgive my cynicism, but could it be something illegal?
The problem is they keep changing WHAT is illegal, you fucking dolt. So they can make looking up nuclear reactor designs illegal on Tuesday, they go back and list all the people who looked on Monday, even though it wasn't illegal then. I don't need anyone protecting me. And I sure as hell don't want anyone monitoring me so when they make it illegal they have a list of people to harass. Read up on Nazi Germany. We, the people should not exist to the government. They work for us. We should be viewed as one GROUP, not as individuals. We seriously need to stop playing the terrorism card on every front the government bureaucrats and politicians want to expand their power on. Guess what you idiots: YOU CAN'T STOP TERRORISM. The ONLY solution is to accept it, and try to understand it WITHOUT resorting to rhetoric.
The war on drugs is the same fucking concept to the government. LET'S LISTEN TO EVERYONE'S PHONE CALLS, ARREST ANYONE WHO EVEN TALKS ABOUT DRUGS, AND ? Guess what happens? You throw hundreds of thousands of innocent victims in jail, while driving up the prices of drugs that INCREASES the incentives for the drug lords (who donate thousands to presidential compaigns) and expand their power. Why? SO THE GOVERNMENT CAN IN TURN EXPAND THEIRS. They know what the fuck they are doing.
You fucking ignorant faggots who think this is about protecting you, poor little you, probably sitting around in some small shithole in Texas where no terrorist would be caught DEAD, shitting bricks every time you see someone brown because they might blow up your insignificant ass. IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. THIS IS ABOUT INCREASING POWER. This is about spending money in industry, to make security systems, to buy bullets and tanks and BURN THEM UP HOPEFULLY, because then they will have a reason to make a few more, thank god, and keep your brother-in-law at the plant working 2 shifts for shit, while the boss rakes in a hefty bonus for signing another contract with the Pentagon.
Oh, by the way, that money they're paying your brother-in-law at the plant, the money that came from the government contract. THEY'RE PRINTING IT. Us normal people, we have to fucking work and slave away to make money, but they just print it. What, you say? No, it's impossible. WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK A DEFICIT IS? That means they PRINTED THE MONEY. And every dollar they print devalues your dollars in your bank account a little more. Of course, at the same time they suck all the money out of the system, by turning everything into untradeable derivatives (such as in the mortgage crisis). So there's no money for you, AND what money you did have is worth less. BUT AT LEAST YOU'RE FUCKING SECURE FROM THE RAGHEADS.
Hey, guess what idiot. That 9/11 thing? They weren't attacking AMERICA, they were attacking the heart of the American Jewish communiuty, New York City. Over 30% Jewish, they only place with more Jewish people than Israel. GUESS WHAT? ARAB MUSLIMS HATE JEWS! Because since 1948 when the British gave the Jews their own country (called Israel), there's been terrorism. It's not our "better way of life" or our ANYTHING. It's our support of Israel, and the attack on the WTC was a perfect symbol of that. Because no state, and no city in the WORLD sends more money to Israel than New York City. I'm not going to get into the history of Palestine/Israel since it's well documented elsewhere, but needless to say, Extremist Muslim Terrorists don't give a fuck about your white christian ass.
Oh, and something about white christians you probably already know since you probably are one. Evangenical Christians believe in something called "the Rapture", which is basically when Jesus or God or something takes all the Christians off the Earth in a "poof" of magic smoke to "save them" from the "Apocalypse" which is "phophetcized" to be started when the Jews and Arab Muslims fight and d
These words--liberal and conservative--they have been distorted so much they are pretty much unusable in any ordinary conversation. Pointless, they do not live up to their definition any more than Republican and Democrat. There IS an "us" and "them". We the people and they, the politicians confusing us. We have more in common with each other, we Christians and Muslims, we blacks and whites, we men and women, than they do with us. They are alien to our world of hard work and suffering. I'm not a communist, however. I think to a certain extent the free market economy causes the best to rise to power. The problem is that the forefathers intended that power to be balanced and not run away and expand. Both "republicans" and "democrats" have proven time and time again that they will increase their own power (politicians) at the expense of the people.
I refer to the story of Why Geeks are Libertarians. We like to control things, and we tend to have a deep understanding of complex systems. To us, it doesn't make sense to give these people the ability to create laws that allow them to give themselves (and their peers) more power. To the everyday joe, they just want to see low gas prices, feed their family and have unlimited whisky, porn and Jesus any time they want. And all the worthless shit they can lay their hands on, such as raised trucks, boats, and more toys like big screen TV's and shit. Big business has turned "freedom" into "owning things" while the real freedom this country was founded upon has mostly disappeared. There are those that believe it never existed in the first place, but that's a different rant for a different place and time.
In order to _use_ a computer, I shouldn't have to learn how to do all of that.
In order to live in life, you have to learn how to lock your doors, drive safely, not talk to strangers as a kid, look both ways before crossing the street, etc. Computers are a huge and encompassing part of life, and you should know how to keep your computer safe and secure. We just happen to be at a point in history where there are a lot of people who weren't raised learning about computers trying to operate them. This too shall pass. You have the opportunity to be ahead of your time, an everyday joe that knows something most people don't. Or you can just say "I shouldn't have to do that" "I shouldn't have to pay bills" "I shouldn't have to work the rest of my life". Sorry, life sucks, get a helmet. You SHOULDN'T expect anything from anyone else, and if you haven't learned that yet, I hope someday you will.
Yeah, that link is just to an eggdrop-based bot. It connects to the irc channel and probably lets the next layer of the botnet know it's alive. This is one of many tools they use to fully exploit an open box. The bot probably has the ability to remote run commands. That script in the GP looked a lot like a human was doing the typing though, due to spelling errors, etc.
As far as xhost, You can get a free account too:). Storm is pretty scary, and there's bad people out there wanting to use your computing resources illegally.
Make sure you run logwatch and logrotate and md5 the logs when they rotate (and rotate frequently, like every minute). Then store the checksum somewhere innocent after rotating. Have logwatch automatically check the checksums on all existing logs and report on that also. hosts.deny everything but your own personal IP address (in hosts.allow) on all ports except those you need to do business. SSH ONLY, don't use telnet or other unencrypted connections. Don't allow root to connect from SSH. Don't allow su from ssh (if possible). Compile your own stuff (including your compiler), never run binaries. Use shadow passwords. Put all of your binaries on a read-only mounted partition, with/var/tmp on a read/write (this is pretty good to do if you have a stable setup, such as a web server). If you can't do that, break your services into virtualized boxes using Xen or VMware or something so you can quickly recover from a saved image if something does happen. Regularly nmap, nessus and satan your box for holes. Put a passive hardware sniffer between your box and the 'net to look for suspicious packets. Etc.
Most of this is duh stuff and easy to do, and you should have it written in your procedures for building a new box. I believe the NSA has some guidelines also.
And I think (Arab) Muslims look at Christians in their neck of the woods much like Amercian Christians view them. They've been the subject of many massacres over time, some of them supported by Israel. It's a mess. However, I think this country is Islamophobic now or something, and there's no reason. The only way we can find solutions is to have intelligent dialog.
In the comic, the commentary is multifarious. For one, they are commenting on the religion-a-day "spiritual journeyman" common in some circles of educated America. We all know some college chick who decided to become "Bhuddist". It's a pure innocent exploration of other religions. This country was founded because religion was being forced down the throats of some people. That's how we got the critical mass of people needed to succeed from England. (After that, it was taxes with out representation that pushed us over the edge..)
And the way he second-takes her commentary on the position of women in Islam, and how it's a benefit to men (because women are considered sub-standard by the extremists or "radical islamists"). And he takes great care to say the words "radical islamists" which are a fringe group of people. Islam is the second largest religion in the world, behind christianity. And it's not very far behind christianity in terms of numbers. Islam, therefore, is a legitimate religion. "Radical" islamists, however, deserve to be made fun of, just like radical christians. These people are CRAZY and blur the lines between reality and the stories they so literally interpret as the word of God/Allah/whatever.
Religion parallels psychological disorders in that something is only a disorder when it starts harming your personal existentence. Likewise a religion is only radical when it starts performing violent acts, be it bombing soldiers in Iraq or abortion clinics in the states. These people are BOTH nuts, yet we're letting one half of them RUN OUR FUCKING COUNTRY. That's why the papers didn't show the comic. They are afraid of the backlash from RADICAL CHRISTIANS who will see the word "radical islamist" and throw a fit without reading or comprehending the humor of the situation. And perhaps they are also afraid of the backlash from radical islamists also.
At any rate, my point is radicalism of any type is to be made fun of. These are young people with clearly no ability to think on their own and bad leadership telling them to do things they shouldn't (or they're coming up with it themselves). I think we in this country should really try to remember that freedom of speech is only a useful right IF YOU USE IT. So you should. Always.
More scary is the fact that a lot of these compounds aren't removed completely by the water treatment process, and since most water is in some way reclaimed and reused they could be ending up in our drinking water. See this story, among many others. Especially long-lived include SSRIs and other anti-depressants.
Packet Clearing House has a list of all (most?) of the peering points also. A lot of those will have multiple 10GB ganged switching between the peers. Considering the cost of 10GB equipment, it would take many millions to upgrade every IXP. Luckly, they monitor their networks and when more bandwidth/switching/peering is needed they just add it. The big ISPs like Sprint and Verizon have a lot of traffic between each other so they probably have numerous private IXPs that are undocumented. The original IXPs were funded by the National Science Foundation but we've come a long way since then. I reckon the next big upgrade cycle that will affect everyone across the board is when Microsoft releases their next OS, since Vista is their last desktop OS shipping with IPv4 enabled, from what I understand. All of this hardware (most of it is upgradeable) needs to be converted to IPv6 and it will trickle down to the customers by the ISPs. I'm sure there will be early adopters who will use IPv6 as a selling point. I reckon also that IPv6 will make obsolete things like RIP in favor of better things.
Well, it's just their own desire for self-preservation. The world's leaders all got together after WWII and decided that there was to be a permanent and lasting peace, what with the looming threat of atomic weapons and all. Unfortunately, the 60's happened and there was a communications revolution and people saw through the fairly thin veil covering the "power elite", "big business", "the military industrial complex", etc. So they realized that the only way they could keep increasing or at least maintaining their own power over the masses (versus us thinking for ourselves, god help us) there needed to be a permanent state of "war" on something.
Because war is against an "enemy" surely we need to "secure ourselves" from this enemy. It's Country 101, something any old Dad would do for his family, and perfectly natural. Obviously this isn't going to work in the long run for population control and resource division, but we're past due for a major war, as far as history is concerned, and I think the energy crisis will probably do it for us.
At any rate, the truth of your statement, and some of the others I've read really resonates. I mean, we caused 9/11 ourselves. We caused the middle east. By We I mean They. After WWII, they created Israel, right in the middle of the junction of the European, Asian and African worlds. And they shipped most of the Jews from Europe there, and gave them guns. This was the British, by the way, look up "Palestine Mandate" if you have any further questions about this. They took land from not only the sizable Muslim population (Arabs, Jordanian, Syrian, Iraqi, etc.) but also the sizable Christian population as well.
And Evangelical Christians (such as George W. Bush) believe that it's prophecized that in order to bring about "the rapture" (the second coming of Jesus), the Muslims and Jews must destroy each other in Palestine (Israel). So all of this conflict is generally welcomed. It's not just profit. It's power. It's fairly obvious that these people get together and talk to each other. It's fairly obvious they know what's going on because it's their JOB to know what's going on. We just have to start accepting the fact that we are the little people.
People in China don't question what their power elite does. And somehow they manage to survive and grow as a country. In America, the great experiment was what would happen if we (as a people) could talk as much shit as we want about our country. And the 60's broke that.
So what, we're still a young country. We don't really know what the future holds. We're only about 250 years old, you know, which isn't long in the great scheme of things. We need to learn to think bigger. It's more than just America anymore! Your and my existence is fairly meaningless in the great scheme of things. Our central bank has been fleecing the entire world for a half-century and you didn't think eventually we would have to back up our loans with something? What do we have to give? Protection, that's about it. Haven't you heard Russia started flying bombers again? If you think this is about a few stupid terrorists, think again.
This is about the New World Order. And I'm not talking about conspiracy shite. There are competing philosophies chomping at the bit to make a play for world leadership, not limited to the EU, China, India, Russia, the Middle East (consolidating into one or two larger countries or economic systems). On September 11, 1990, George H. W. Bush gave a speech called "Toward a New World Order", in which he states:
A new partnership of nations has begun, and we stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment. The crisis in the Persian Gulf, as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective--a new world order--can emerge: A new era--freer from the threat
Of course, peaceful protest is illegal everywhere now, except in designated "free speech zones". You can write your congressperson but likely they won't do anything, especially if it's an election year.
I think we could work the problem out if we established mandatory term limits on all elected officals. Something like 4 years or something like that. And established that congress should be made of ordinary people.
But the major thing they hate is our support for dictators in the Middle East that block their efforts towards establishing new theocratic states, either by democratic vote or by coup.
Us and Them And after all we're only ordinary men Me, and you God only knows it's not what we would choose to do Forward he cried from the rear and the front rank died And the General sat, as the lines on the map moved from side to side Black and Blue And who knows which is which and who is who Up and Down And in the end it's only round and round and round Haven't you heard it's a battle of words the poster bearer cried Listen son, said the man with the gun There's room for you inside Down and Out It can't be helped but there's a lot of it about With, without And who'll deny that's what the fightings all about Get out of the way, it's a busy day And I've got things on my mind For want of the price of tea and a slice The old man died
Actually, they are hiring 100 sales managers and sales reps for every programmer, hardware tech or other technical position. They don't want experienced programmers because they are more expensive and are tough to brainwash. Not to say they aren't doing well with what they have. But the model is to build a large computer out of commodity parts and do stuff with it. That's about it. And of course grow and multiply like a virus, just asking cheap techs for more hardware when it needs it. They've basically managed to program themselves a growing business. And as long as there's a web, we'll need it. The problem is the web growth is slowing in the US. India and China and the rest of Asia is still growing rapidly. Google is not very present there but Yahoo has made it a priority almost since day one. Probably due to the fact that one of the founders is Asian. So Yahoo wins as far as services growth. Yahoo knows they can keep up with the indexing by just having a lot of humans sorting their index, and using some of the tech they might have reverse engineered from Google. And Yahoo has a society built around it. I rather like it. Although I use Google for technical searches.
Get a Google T-Shirt made. Walk in with your Google clipboard and tell them you're going door to door on the whole city to make Google Local Search better and ask them if they've been reviewed yet by another Google rep. No, well, let me just get some basic information about you for our servers. Hours, is this the correct phone number? Do you take credit cards? Do you have a web site? Email address? Google adwords account? Ok I'm going to follow up with you in a few days so you can go online and make sure the information we entered is correct and verified. Yes, you'll be able to correct any information after the fact. Yes, businesses that are listed typically are easier to find online. No, it's free. I know, phone book ads are several hundred dollars a month. Sure, I'll call you in a few days. Thanks a lot. Bye bye.
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You know, some people actually read and use the displayed results from Excel for important purposes, rather than merely feeding them into further calculations, graphs, etc.
Yeah, we use it here at the lab to calculate the maximum amount of uranium hexfloride we can have in
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They did it to save fuel. Think about it, the average person would carry at least 1/2 gallon of water x 200 people = 800 pounds of extra weight.
You should check out the book The Golden Spruce, by John Vaillant, which has a nice history of logging in the Northwest and a lot about the Haida. Good story.
You'll see a "Welcome to Django" page, in pleasant, light-blue pastel. It worked!
Is this the line you're talking about?
Pft, as if there's anything under $100 in the entire store anyway. What are you going to get with it? A power cord? $89.95
And of course, they could have landed and switched out. Hopefully the procedure is to totally inspect the missiles now that they're "found". This is probably just a shill story though, to "test the waters" of America for nuclear awareness.
Sounds like caffineosis.. You might want to cut out coffee and start taking a vitamin and going for long walks in the evenings before bed. Keep yourself from ripping through things by taking mandatory breaks. And stop worrying so much.
That's because the incursion was authorized. It's a lot cheaper to have China make our missiles for us, since labor is way cheaper over there. I also heard they are outsourcing Congress to India in an effort to save money.
So you're saying you feel DIRECTLY THREATENED by radical islamism?
I ask you, what are you doing that merits total anonymity? Forgive my cynicism, but could it be something illegal?
The problem is they keep changing WHAT is illegal, you fucking dolt. So they can make looking up nuclear reactor designs illegal on Tuesday, they go back and list all the people who looked on Monday, even though it wasn't illegal then. I don't need anyone protecting me. And I sure as hell don't want anyone monitoring me so when they make it illegal they have a list of people to harass. Read up on Nazi Germany. We, the people should not exist to the government. They work for us. We should be viewed as one GROUP, not as individuals. We seriously need to stop playing the terrorism card on every front the government bureaucrats and politicians want to expand their power on. Guess what you idiots: YOU CAN'T STOP TERRORISM. The ONLY solution is to accept it, and try to understand it WITHOUT resorting to rhetoric.
The war on drugs is the same fucking concept to the government. LET'S LISTEN TO EVERYONE'S PHONE CALLS, ARREST ANYONE WHO EVEN TALKS ABOUT DRUGS, AND ? Guess what happens? You throw hundreds of thousands of innocent victims in jail, while driving up the prices of drugs that INCREASES the incentives for the drug lords (who donate thousands to presidential compaigns) and expand their power. Why? SO THE GOVERNMENT CAN IN TURN EXPAND THEIRS. They know what the fuck they are doing.
You fucking ignorant faggots who think this is about protecting you, poor little you, probably sitting around in some small shithole in Texas where no terrorist would be caught DEAD, shitting bricks every time you see someone brown because they might blow up your insignificant ass. IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. THIS IS ABOUT INCREASING POWER. This is about spending money in industry, to make security systems, to buy bullets and tanks and BURN THEM UP HOPEFULLY, because then they will have a reason to make a few more, thank god, and keep your brother-in-law at the plant working 2 shifts for shit, while the boss rakes in a hefty bonus for signing another contract with the Pentagon.
Oh, by the way, that money they're paying your brother-in-law at the plant, the money that came from the government contract. THEY'RE PRINTING IT. Us normal people, we have to fucking work and slave away to make money, but they just print it. What, you say? No, it's impossible. WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK A DEFICIT IS? That means they PRINTED THE MONEY. And every dollar they print devalues your dollars in your bank account a little more. Of course, at the same time they suck all the money out of the system, by turning everything into untradeable derivatives (such as in the mortgage crisis). So there's no money for you, AND what money you did have is worth less. BUT AT LEAST YOU'RE FUCKING SECURE FROM THE RAGHEADS.
Hey, guess what idiot. That 9/11 thing? They weren't attacking AMERICA, they were attacking the heart of the American Jewish communiuty, New York City. Over 30% Jewish, they only place with more Jewish people than Israel. GUESS WHAT? ARAB MUSLIMS HATE JEWS! Because since 1948 when the British gave the Jews their own country (called Israel), there's been terrorism. It's not our "better way of life" or our ANYTHING. It's our support of Israel, and the attack on the WTC was a perfect symbol of that. Because no state, and no city in the WORLD sends more money to Israel than New York City. I'm not going to get into the history of Palestine/Israel since it's well documented elsewhere, but needless to say, Extremist Muslim Terrorists don't give a fuck about your white christian ass.
Oh, and something about white christians you probably already know since you probably are one. Evangenical Christians believe in something called "the Rapture", which is basically when Jesus or God or something takes all the Christians off the Earth in a "poof" of magic smoke to "save them" from the "Apocalypse" which is "phophetcized" to be started when the Jews and Arab Muslims fight and d
It's actually liberally conservative.
These words--liberal and conservative--they have been distorted so much they are pretty much unusable in any ordinary conversation. Pointless, they do not live up to their definition any more than Republican and Democrat. There IS an "us" and "them". We the people and they, the politicians confusing us. We have more in common with each other, we Christians and Muslims, we blacks and whites, we men and women, than they do with us. They are alien to our world of hard work and suffering. I'm not a communist, however. I think to a certain extent the free market economy causes the best to rise to power. The problem is that the forefathers intended that power to be balanced and not run away and expand. Both "republicans" and "democrats" have proven time and time again that they will increase their own power (politicians) at the expense of the people.
I refer to the story of Why Geeks are Libertarians. We like to control things, and we tend to have a deep understanding of complex systems. To us, it doesn't make sense to give these people the ability to create laws that allow them to give themselves (and their peers) more power. To the everyday joe, they just want to see low gas prices, feed their family and have unlimited whisky, porn and Jesus any time they want. And all the worthless shit they can lay their hands on, such as raised trucks, boats, and more toys like big screen TV's and shit. Big business has turned "freedom" into "owning things" while the real freedom this country was founded upon has mostly disappeared. There are those that believe it never existed in the first place, but that's a different rant for a different place and time.
Everyone knows they are using this capability to label anti-war protesters and prevent anti-war protests.
Til he gets the 1099-MISC showing $30000 in "Misc Compensation" and the feds want him to pay 10 Gs in taxes..
In order to _use_ a computer, I shouldn't have to learn how to do all of that.
In order to live in life, you have to learn how to lock your doors, drive safely, not talk to strangers as a kid, look both ways before crossing the street, etc. Computers are a huge and encompassing part of life, and you should know how to keep your computer safe and secure. We just happen to be at a point in history where there are a lot of people who weren't raised learning about computers trying to operate them. This too shall pass. You have the opportunity to be ahead of your time, an everyday joe that knows something most people don't. Or you can just say "I shouldn't have to do that" "I shouldn't have to pay bills" "I shouldn't have to work the rest of my life". Sorry, life sucks, get a helmet. You SHOULDN'T expect anything from anyone else, and if you haven't learned that yet, I hope someday you will.
Yeah, that link is just to an eggdrop-based bot. It connects to the irc channel and probably lets the next layer of the botnet know it's alive. This is one of many tools they use to fully exploit an open box. The bot probably has the ability to remote run commands. That script in the GP looked a lot like a human was doing the typing though, due to spelling errors, etc.
:). Storm is pretty scary, and there's bad people out there wanting to use your computing resources illegally.
/var /tmp on a read/write (this is pretty good to do if you have a stable setup, such as a web server). If you can't do that, break your services into virtualized boxes using Xen or VMware or something so you can quickly recover from a saved image if something does happen. Regularly nmap, nessus and satan your box for holes. Put a passive hardware sniffer between your box and the 'net to look for suspicious packets. Etc.
As far as xhost, You can get a free account too
Make sure you run logwatch and logrotate and md5 the logs when they rotate (and rotate frequently, like every minute). Then store the checksum somewhere innocent after rotating. Have logwatch automatically check the checksums on all existing logs and report on that also. hosts.deny everything but your own personal IP address (in hosts.allow) on all ports except those you need to do business. SSH ONLY, don't use telnet or other unencrypted connections. Don't allow root to connect from SSH. Don't allow su from ssh (if possible). Compile your own stuff (including your compiler), never run binaries. Use shadow passwords. Put all of your binaries on a read-only mounted partition, with
Most of this is duh stuff and easy to do, and you should have it written in your procedures for building a new box. I believe the NSA has some guidelines also.
And I think (Arab) Muslims look at Christians in their neck of the woods much like Amercian Christians view them. They've been the subject of many massacres over time, some of them supported by Israel. It's a mess. However, I think this country is Islamophobic now or something, and there's no reason. The only way we can find solutions is to have intelligent dialog.
In the comic, the commentary is multifarious. For one, they are commenting on the religion-a-day "spiritual journeyman" common in some circles of educated America. We all know some college chick who decided to become "Bhuddist". It's a pure innocent exploration of other religions. This country was founded because religion was being forced down the throats of some people. That's how we got the critical mass of people needed to succeed from England. (After that, it was taxes with out representation that pushed us over the edge..)
And the way he second-takes her commentary on the position of women in Islam, and how it's a benefit to men (because women are considered sub-standard by the extremists or "radical islamists"). And he takes great care to say the words "radical islamists" which are a fringe group of people. Islam is the second largest religion in the world, behind christianity. And it's not very far behind christianity in terms of numbers. Islam, therefore, is a legitimate religion. "Radical" islamists, however, deserve to be made fun of, just like radical christians. These people are CRAZY and blur the lines between reality and the stories they so literally interpret as the word of God/Allah/whatever.
Religion parallels psychological disorders in that something is only a disorder when it starts harming your personal existentence. Likewise a religion is only radical when it starts performing violent acts, be it bombing soldiers in Iraq or abortion clinics in the states. These people are BOTH nuts, yet we're letting one half of them RUN OUR FUCKING COUNTRY. That's why the papers didn't show the comic. They are afraid of the backlash from RADICAL CHRISTIANS who will see the word "radical islamist" and throw a fit without reading or comprehending the humor of the situation. And perhaps they are also afraid of the backlash from radical islamists also.
At any rate, my point is radicalism of any type is to be made fun of. These are young people with clearly no ability to think on their own and bad leadership telling them to do things they shouldn't (or they're coming up with it themselves). I think we in this country should really try to remember that freedom of speech is only a useful right IF YOU USE IT. So you should. Always.
More scary is the fact that a lot of these compounds aren't removed completely by the water treatment process, and since most water is in some way reclaimed and reused they could be ending up in our drinking water. See this story, among many others. Especially long-lived include SSRIs and other anti-depressants.
and an old Pentium 200 would probably be just as fast.
I resent that remark. I'm on a P200 right now and it's not fast at all.
Packet Clearing House has a list of all (most?) of the peering points also. A lot of those will have multiple 10GB ganged switching between the peers. Considering the cost of 10GB equipment, it would take many millions to upgrade every IXP. Luckly, they monitor their networks and when more bandwidth/switching/peering is needed they just add it. The big ISPs like Sprint and Verizon have a lot of traffic between each other so they probably have numerous private IXPs that are undocumented. The original IXPs were funded by the National Science Foundation but we've come a long way since then. I reckon the next big upgrade cycle that will affect everyone across the board is when Microsoft releases their next OS, since Vista is their last desktop OS shipping with IPv4 enabled, from what I understand. All of this hardware (most of it is upgradeable) needs to be converted to IPv6 and it will trickle down to the customers by the ISPs. I'm sure there will be early adopters who will use IPv6 as a selling point. I reckon also that IPv6 will make obsolete things like RIP in favor of better things.
Well, it's just their own desire for self-preservation. The world's leaders all got together after WWII and decided that there was to be a permanent and lasting peace, what with the looming threat of atomic weapons and all. Unfortunately, the 60's happened and there was a communications revolution and people saw through the fairly thin veil covering the "power elite", "big business", "the military industrial complex", etc. So they realized that the only way they could keep increasing or at least maintaining their own power over the masses (versus us thinking for ourselves, god help us) there needed to be a permanent state of "war" on something.
Because war is against an "enemy" surely we need to "secure ourselves" from this enemy. It's Country 101, something any old Dad would do for his family, and perfectly natural. Obviously this isn't going to work in the long run for population control and resource division, but we're past due for a major war, as far as history is concerned, and I think the energy crisis will probably do it for us.
At any rate, the truth of your statement, and some of the others I've read really resonates. I mean, we caused 9/11 ourselves. We caused the middle east. By We I mean They. After WWII, they created Israel, right in the middle of the junction of the European, Asian and African worlds. And they shipped most of the Jews from Europe there, and gave them guns. This was the British, by the way, look up "Palestine Mandate" if you have any further questions about this. They took land from not only the sizable Muslim population (Arabs, Jordanian, Syrian, Iraqi, etc.) but also the sizable Christian population as well.
And Evangelical Christians (such as George W. Bush) believe that it's prophecized that in order to bring about "the rapture" (the second coming of Jesus), the Muslims and Jews must destroy each other in Palestine (Israel). So all of this conflict is generally welcomed. It's not just profit. It's power. It's fairly obvious that these people get together and talk to each other. It's fairly obvious they know what's going on because it's their JOB to know what's going on. We just have to start accepting the fact that we are the little people.
People in China don't question what their power elite does. And somehow they manage to survive and grow as a country. In America, the great experiment was what would happen if we (as a people) could talk as much shit as we want about our country. And the 60's broke that.
So what, we're still a young country. We don't really know what the future holds. We're only about 250 years old, you know, which isn't long in the great scheme of things. We need to learn to think bigger. It's more than just America anymore! Your and my existence is fairly meaningless in the great scheme of things. Our central bank has been fleecing the entire world for a half-century and you didn't think eventually we would have to back up our loans with something? What do we have to give? Protection, that's about it. Haven't you heard Russia started flying bombers again? If you think this is about a few stupid terrorists, think again.
This is about the New World Order. And I'm not talking about conspiracy shite. There are competing philosophies chomping at the bit to make a play for world leadership, not limited to the EU, China, India, Russia, the Middle East (consolidating into one or two larger countries or economic systems). On September 11, 1990, George H. W. Bush gave a speech called "Toward a New World Order", in which he states:
A new partnership of nations has begun, and we stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment. The crisis in the Persian Gulf, as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective--a new world order--can emerge: A new era--freer from the threat
Of course, peaceful protest is illegal everywhere now, except in designated "free speech zones". You can write your congressperson but likely they won't do anything, especially if it's an election year.
I think we could work the problem out if we established mandatory term limits on all elected officals. Something like 4 years or something like that. And established that congress should be made of ordinary people.
But the major thing they hate is our support for dictators in the Middle East that block their efforts towards establishing new theocratic states, either by democratic vote or by coup.
Us and Them
And after all we're only ordinary men
Me, and you
God only knows it's not what we would choose to do
Forward he cried from the rear
and the front rank died
And the General sat, as the lines on the map
moved from side to side
Black and Blue
And who knows which is which and who is who
Up and Down
And in the end it's only round and round and round
Haven't you heard it's a battle of words
the poster bearer cried
Listen son, said the man with the gun
There's room for you inside
Down and Out
It can't be helped but there's a lot of it about
With, without
And who'll deny that's what the fightings all about
Get out of the way, it's a busy day
And I've got things on my mind
For want of the price of tea and a slice
The old man died
-Us and Them, Pink Floyd 1974
In short, we're doomed.
Actually, they are hiring 100 sales managers and sales reps for every programmer, hardware tech or other technical position. They don't want experienced programmers because they are more expensive and are tough to brainwash. Not to say they aren't doing well with what they have. But the model is to build a large computer out of commodity parts and do stuff with it. That's about it. And of course grow and multiply like a virus, just asking cheap techs for more hardware when it needs it. They've basically managed to program themselves a growing business. And as long as there's a web, we'll need it. The problem is the web growth is slowing in the US. India and China and the rest of Asia is still growing rapidly. Google is not very present there but Yahoo has made it a priority almost since day one. Probably due to the fact that one of the founders is Asian. So Yahoo wins as far as services growth. Yahoo knows they can keep up with the indexing by just having a lot of humans sorting their index, and using some of the tech they might have reverse engineered from Google. And Yahoo has a society built around it. I rather like it. Although I use Google for technical searches.
Get a Google T-Shirt made. Walk in with your Google clipboard and tell them you're going door to door on the whole city to make Google Local Search better and ask them if they've been reviewed yet by another Google rep. No, well, let me just get some basic information about you for our servers. Hours, is this the correct phone number? Do you take credit cards? Do you have a web site? Email address? Google adwords account? Ok I'm going to follow up with you in a few days so you can go online and make sure the information we entered is correct and verified. Yes, you'll be able to correct any information after the fact. Yes, businesses that are listed typically are easier to find online. No, it's free. I know, phone book ads are several hundred dollars a month. Sure, I'll call you in a few days. Thanks a lot. Bye bye.
Rinse, Repeat.