Of course, it would be easy to find large groups of people to blow up. The psychological effect is far less than blowing up an airplane, however. People are already afraid of flying, they don't want to add the fear that a bomb might go off in the air. ETA's bomb in Madrid isn't going to stop people from parking in garages; a bomb on a plane would make a lot of people change flight plans.
...you probably don't need this book. IPCop is super easy to to set up & configure if you're even the slightest bit geeky. I really like it, but then I'm the slightest bit geeky.
I can't see the difference between your suggestion and a tax on high rise buildings - not saying that it's a bad idea, but why should only building owners be forced to pay for uneconomical energy sources? You could already afford to cover your roof with panels, the problem is that the cost far outweighs the return as opposed to just buying from the grid, same as for large building owners. If you want to promote uneconomic energy supplies in order to give them an initial boost I think that's a great idea, but don't kid yourself that just because someone else is having to pay for it that it makes financial sense at this point. Tax credits are probably the fairest way to do this right now.
I commute on Colesville Road, what do you ride? I'll look out for you. I know too many people who have been rear ended on their bikes to applaud your tactic, however. It's going to hurt you a lot more than the car driver if anything happens. That stretch of Colesville is lethal enough as is. Ride safe!
The cost of gas isn't so great as to make it painful to have a slightly more powerful engine, so a lot of people do. Your post implies that Belgians are concerned with the environment and squashed pedestrians, but I would say that the taxes on larger engined vehicles probably have more to do with it. As an example, when we lived in the UK I had a 1.2l Ford Fiesta. When we moved here, we bought a 1973 Cadillac convertible with a 8l engine. I worked out the numbers, and it the cost of running the two vehicles (per mile) was the same (that was when gas was about $1/gal). I can tell you that the Cadillac was a lot more fun to drive;) As the UK has become more affluent, I see more and more large vehicles on the road there too - it's natural to want a bit more room, a bit more power, if you can afford it. You also need to consider the size of your respective countries. Belgium is about the size of the state I live in, Maryland; unlike most Beligians, however, I go out of state daily. It's easy to go quite long distances - I drive with my family to Florida most years, which is an 850+ mile trip each way, 90% on just one road. It costs about $170 in gas, which is way less than flying four people, we have our vehicle when we get there, and we don't have to deal with idiotic restrictions like making toddlers take off their shoes and walk alone through a metal detector. It's nice to have a larger engine (and cruise control) on a long highway trip like that, and we go on numerous shorter trips each year. Most Europeans don't do long drives like that, it's a cultural difference. Believe me, I would like to see minimum mpg requirements tightened up here, I think that and higher gas prices are the only way to seriously reduce consumption. I just don't think that the issue is quite as clear cut as some Europeans would like to think.
Honestly, the only reason to prefer radioactive substances to poison someone is because it plays right into the OMG RADIATION!!1! attitude
Which, of course, is probably why it was used - the KGB could have killed the guy in any number of discreet ways; they chose to off him in a way guaranteed to cause him to suffer & to be plastered all over the news for weeks. A very nice warning to others.
I also looked at a bunch of synthetic diamonds a while back; it seemed that they were about 20% less than natural diamonds, which meant that they were still more than I wanted to spend. When they're 50% or less, then I'd consider it, but right now I'll stick with a decent cubic zirconium when I'm buying bling. You do have to get used to the marketing bs, because most of the cubic zirconium stuff you see advertised tries really hard to make you think it's synthetic diamond. Right now, if it isn't almost as much as natural, it ain't diamond.
This is quite a misleading table, since it doesn't take into account tax deductions etc. Your tax burden in the US, for state & local taxes, is likely to be closer to 16% (10% state & local + 6% Federal): http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/TaxFacts/overview/f amily_rates.cfm http://www.retirementliving.com/RLtaxburdens.html I just looked at my tax returns from a couple of years ago - my effective tax rates were 5% & 4% rather than 10% & 6%, because I deduct mortgage interest, have kids, etc. If you add property taxes my total tax burden would be around 11%. Sales tax here is 5%, compared to 15%+ in most of Europe I believe. I have lived in the UK & I can tell you that the taxes are a lot lighter in the US, despite what the top marginal rates are. From my experience, from a financial perspective, I would want to be earning almost the same in pounds as I do in dollars to have about the same purchasing power, despite the pound being worth $1.87 today. Now, from a quality of life perspective, there are plenty of arguments in favor of living in Europe, but taxes aren't one of them;)
Yep, I didn't vote for him, but this is a case where he's right. I don't mind the machines, they do make things easy in a lot of cases (multiple languages, complicated ballots) but there needs to be a paper trail. Just add a printer! It's not hard, and there's your safeguard. No paper, no trust. Or go back to paper ballots until printers can be added.
One word: schools. Around me (DC area) the suburbs generally have good schools, DC has crap ones. (The crime rate in the suburbs is also a lot lower, despite your assertion.) If you can't afford private school here, you leave the city. If you can't afford to move, you're stuck sending your kids to a dysfunctional system, and crossing your fingers that you get into a charter school.
You know what? My kids are great, but I expect that when they're 16 I won't trust them to always make good decisions. I sure as hell didn't at 16. So, before letting them out into a situation where they will have the power to kill themselves or others as a result of a momentary lapse of judgement, I'm going to do whatever I can to minimise the risks. That means teaching them how to drive well, and may well include some kind of technology like this. I "trust" that my kids are nice & well meaning, but I don't "trust" them to fly an airplane or drive an 18-wheeler. Setting sensible restrictions on a kid doesn't mean you don't trust them, they're just not ready for certain responsibilities.
That's not really an SBS problem, that's a stupidity problem;) I used to do consulting & clients make stupid decisions all the time, but that's not the fault of the OS. If you say, "you have a server, it shouldn't run this app, I can add a W2K server to the network for $xxx, shall we do it?" and they say "no, stick it on the domain server", that's their fault.
I've been running SBS 2000 as an Exchange/file server for over 3 years now, and I have to say it's really not bad for a small business. It saved us about $5000 in licensing compared to W2K Server/Exchange, and it gets restarted for patches, that's it. Properly set up, on decent hardware, it's certainly not "flakey". I looked into all the open source alternatives at the time, and I still feel that SBS & Exchange was the right choice, even with the ridiculous 16gb db limit. In fact, I still don't feel that there is an acceptable alternative today, which I find amazing. Mail is fine, but calendar features are very important here & there's just nothing to beat Outlook & Exchange. I run open source as much as I can, but I'm also a pragmatist.
buy.com has a 5 port Netgear 10/100/1000 switch for $31.99 after $10 rebate with free shipping. If you have multiple computers with gigabit ethernet that should be affordable. Gigabit switches have been pretty cheap for a while now.
A further problem in many former colonies is that the existing infrastructure was geared towards exports to and imports from the colonial power. That means everything leading to the ports, with very little connecting interior areas to one another to foster internal development. Their infrastructure is geared towards exporting commodities & importing finished goods, not towards a rounded economy.
Well, as for the first problem, that's why I check the logs; if anyone is connecting too long I'll keep their MAC address. (BTW, there is free municipal wireless about a 1/4 mile from me, which would probably be more interesting for this sort of activity, unless you assume that home networks are less likely to grab your MAC.) For the second, they'd have to password crack my shared folders, & there's nothing of much interest there anyway, and I do regular backups. So, yes there are risks, but I accept them for the upside which is easy access for my friends/potential random friends-of-neighbors. Everything is a tradeoff, and I'm not super paranoid. If I lived in a higher density area I might worry more, but as it is there are not that many people within range, most of whom I have known for a number of years, and none of whom are inclined to leech. If some guy parks up the street & downloads something illegal, well, I do have the logs & I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.
Why would you do this? Most home routers seem to block admin access through the WAN port by default, so only "local" users (ie in close proximity, not Russia) could gain access. If they do, what harm can they really do besides (as you did) screw with the users of the router? Most router security flaws that I've read about amount to DoS attacks (where at least it would be obvious that something was wrong), not things which affect the net at large. Were you trying to save them from a possible future DoS by your partial one? Or punish them for being ignorant of networking devices, and not going into every configuration after the device worked for their purpose? I really don't understand your thought process here.
Yeah, that's what I do too. My neighbors also have open access points mostly. I check the logs every so often, but I've never seen anyone but me having connected. Still, if someone wants to check their email, it's there. I don't have a problem using open points to check mail while I'm travelling, might as well return the favor. I'd lock it down if someone were leeching 24/7, but I don't see any of my neighbors doing that.
I've never had a problem with lines at the polling stations, it's never taken more than a couple of minutes for me. Like so many things in the US, your experience may be very different depending on where you are. Around here, there are plenty of polling places & volunteers to man them. The lines are shorter than the grocery store;o)
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Well, looking through the forum, it looks like the volume keys for 30+ have been cracked already, so probably yes.
Of course, it would be easy to find large groups of people to blow up. The psychological effect is far less than blowing up an airplane, however. People are already afraid of flying, they don't want to add the fear that a bomb might go off in the air. ETA's bomb in Madrid isn't going to stop people from parking in garages; a bomb on a plane would make a lot of people change flight plans.
...you probably don't need this book. IPCop is super easy to to set up & configure if you're even the slightest bit geeky. I really like it, but then I'm the slightest bit geeky.
I can't see the difference between your suggestion and a tax on high rise buildings - not saying that it's a bad idea, but why should only building owners be forced to pay for uneconomical energy sources? You could already afford to cover your roof with panels, the problem is that the cost far outweighs the return as opposed to just buying from the grid, same as for large building owners. If you want to promote uneconomic energy supplies in order to give them an initial boost I think that's a great idea, but don't kid yourself that just because someone else is having to pay for it that it makes financial sense at this point. Tax credits are probably the fairest way to do this right now.
I commute on Colesville Road, what do you ride? I'll look out for you.
I know too many people who have been rear ended on their bikes to applaud your tactic, however. It's going to hurt you a lot more than the car driver if anything happens. That stretch of Colesville is lethal enough as is.
Ride safe!
The cost of gas isn't so great as to make it painful to have a slightly more powerful engine, so a lot of people do. Your post implies that Belgians are concerned with the environment and squashed pedestrians, but I would say that the taxes on larger engined vehicles probably have more to do with it. As an example, when we lived in the UK I had a 1.2l Ford Fiesta. When we moved here, we bought a 1973 Cadillac convertible with a 8l engine. I worked out the numbers, and it the cost of running the two vehicles (per mile) was the same (that was when gas was about $1/gal). I can tell you that the Cadillac was a lot more fun to drive ;) As the UK has become more affluent, I see more and more large vehicles on the road there too - it's natural to want a bit more room, a bit more power, if you can afford it.
You also need to consider the size of your respective countries. Belgium is about the size of the state I live in, Maryland; unlike most Beligians, however, I go out of state daily. It's easy to go quite long distances - I drive with my family to Florida most years, which is an 850+ mile trip each way, 90% on just one road. It costs about $170 in gas, which is way less than flying four people, we have our vehicle when we get there, and we don't have to deal with idiotic restrictions like making toddlers take off their shoes and walk alone through a metal detector. It's nice to have a larger engine (and cruise control) on a long highway trip like that, and we go on numerous shorter trips each year. Most Europeans don't do long drives like that, it's a cultural difference.
Believe me, I would like to see minimum mpg requirements tightened up here, I think that and higher gas prices are the only way to seriously reduce consumption. I just don't think that the issue is quite as clear cut as some Europeans would like to think.
Honestly, the only reason to prefer radioactive substances to poison someone is because it plays right into the OMG RADIATION!!1! attitude
Which, of course, is probably why it was used - the KGB could have killed the guy in any number of discreet ways; they chose to off him in a way guaranteed to cause him to suffer & to be plastered all over the news for weeks. A very nice warning to others.
Ripping off a blind person is about as low as you can go, IMHO. That's just wrong. And yes, this is long overdue.
Yep, me too. I just couldn't take it anymore.
I also looked at a bunch of synthetic diamonds a while back; it seemed that they were about 20% less than natural diamonds, which meant that they were still more than I wanted to spend. When they're 50% or less, then I'd consider it, but right now I'll stick with a decent cubic zirconium when I'm buying bling. You do have to get used to the marketing bs, because most of the cubic zirconium stuff you see advertised tries really hard to make you think it's synthetic diamond. Right now, if it isn't almost as much as natural, it ain't diamond.
This is quite a misleading table, since it doesn't take into account tax deductions etc. Your tax burden in the US, for state & local taxes, is likely to be closer to 16% (10% state & local + 6% Federal):f amily_rates.cfm ;)
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/TaxFacts/overview/
http://www.retirementliving.com/RLtaxburdens.html
I just looked at my tax returns from a couple of years ago - my effective tax rates were 5% & 4% rather than 10% & 6%, because I deduct mortgage interest, have kids, etc. If you add property taxes my total tax burden would be around 11%. Sales tax here is 5%, compared to 15%+ in most of Europe I believe. I have lived in the UK & I can tell you that the taxes are a lot lighter in the US, despite what the top marginal rates are. From my experience, from a financial perspective, I would want to be earning almost the same in pounds as I do in dollars to have about the same purchasing power, despite the pound being worth $1.87 today. Now, from a quality of life perspective, there are plenty of arguments in favor of living in Europe, but taxes aren't one of them
5) Autism is more likely to be detected in more technologically advanced areas, which also got cable tv first.
Baltimore cops acting like jerks? Whatever next!
Yep, I didn't vote for him, but this is a case where he's right. I don't mind the machines, they do make things easy in a lot of cases (multiple languages, complicated ballots) but there needs to be a paper trail. Just add a printer! It's not hard, and there's your safeguard. No paper, no trust. Or go back to paper ballots until printers can be added.
One word: schools. Around me (DC area) the suburbs generally have good schools, DC has crap ones. (The crime rate in the suburbs is also a lot lower, despite your assertion.) If you can't afford private school here, you leave the city. If you can't afford to move, you're stuck sending your kids to a dysfunctional system, and crossing your fingers that you get into a charter school.
You know what? My kids are great, but I expect that when they're 16 I won't trust them to always make good decisions. I sure as hell didn't at 16. So, before letting them out into a situation where they will have the power to kill themselves or others as a result of a momentary lapse of judgement, I'm going to do whatever I can to minimise the risks. That means teaching them how to drive well, and may well include some kind of technology like this. I "trust" that my kids are nice & well meaning, but I don't "trust" them to fly an airplane or drive an 18-wheeler. Setting sensible restrictions on a kid doesn't mean you don't trust them, they're just not ready for certain responsibilities.
That's not really an SBS problem, that's a stupidity problem ;) I used to do consulting & clients make stupid decisions all the time, but that's not the fault of the OS. If you say, "you have a server, it shouldn't run this app, I can add a W2K server to the network for $xxx, shall we do it?" and they say "no, stick it on the domain server", that's their fault.
I've been running SBS 2000 as an Exchange/file server for over 3 years now, and I have to say it's really not bad for a small business. It saved us about $5000 in licensing compared to W2K Server/Exchange, and it gets restarted for patches, that's it. Properly set up, on decent hardware, it's certainly not "flakey". I looked into all the open source alternatives at the time, and I still feel that SBS & Exchange was the right choice, even with the ridiculous 16gb db limit. In fact, I still don't feel that there is an acceptable alternative today, which I find amazing. Mail is fine, but calendar features are very important here & there's just nothing to beat Outlook & Exchange. I run open source as much as I can, but I'm also a pragmatist.
buy.com has a 5 port Netgear 10/100/1000 switch for $31.99 after $10 rebate with free shipping. If you have multiple computers with gigabit ethernet that should be affordable. Gigabit switches have been pretty cheap for a while now.
This is what I would think also. All you'd need is a capture card which ignores Macrovision.
A further problem in many former colonies is that the existing infrastructure was geared towards exports to and imports from the colonial power. That means everything leading to the ports, with very little connecting interior areas to one another to foster internal development. Their infrastructure is geared towards exporting commodities & importing finished goods, not towards a rounded economy.
Well, as for the first problem, that's why I check the logs; if anyone is connecting too long I'll keep their MAC address. (BTW, there is free municipal wireless about a 1/4 mile from me, which would probably be more interesting for this sort of activity, unless you assume that home networks are less likely to grab your MAC.) For the second, they'd have to password crack my shared folders, & there's nothing of much interest there anyway, and I do regular backups. So, yes there are risks, but I accept them for the upside which is easy access for my friends/potential random friends-of-neighbors. Everything is a tradeoff, and I'm not super paranoid. If I lived in a higher density area I might worry more, but as it is there are not that many people within range, most of whom I have known for a number of years, and none of whom are inclined to leech. If some guy parks up the street & downloads something illegal, well, I do have the logs & I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.
Why would you do this? Most home routers seem to block admin access through the WAN port by default, so only "local" users (ie in close proximity, not Russia) could gain access. If they do, what harm can they really do besides (as you did) screw with the users of the router? Most router security flaws that I've read about amount to DoS attacks (where at least it would be obvious that something was wrong), not things which affect the net at large. Were you trying to save them from a possible future DoS by your partial one? Or punish them for being ignorant of networking devices, and not going into every configuration after the device worked for their purpose? I really don't understand your thought process here.
Yeah, that's what I do too. My neighbors also have open access points mostly. I check the logs every so often, but I've never seen anyone but me having connected. Still, if someone wants to check their email, it's there. I don't have a problem using open points to check mail while I'm travelling, might as well return the favor. I'd lock it down if someone were leeching 24/7, but I don't see any of my neighbors doing that.
I've never had a problem with lines at the polling stations, it's never taken more than a couple of minutes for me. Like so many things in the US, your experience may be very different depending on where you are. Around here, there are plenty of polling places & volunteers to man them. The lines are shorter than the grocery store ;o)