More generally, there are plenty of areas the US has shown slipping towards a more authoritarian state, just as much as the UK.
First part, I agree, second part, I disagree. We are slipping into fascism. Be it in the name of "the children" or "terrorists" or "drugs" or whatever. I don't think we've quite hit the level of the UK yet, but we'll catch up I'm sure, if things keep going this way.
Furthermore, fake child porn was originally declared illegal, and it was the Supreme Court which overturned it, based on the First Amendment.
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Guns were no help whatsoever.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government.
So yeah, I'd call these things more akin to "light and transient causes", so far at least. But it's important the populace remain armed if it comes down to the worst case scenario. We had to do it once, and we'll do it again if it comes to it.
The brits let them ban guns and kitchen knives... What did they think was going to be next? Fascism doesn't stop after a step or two, it just keeps going.
That's cool. 2 meters might be a little constraining, but anything's better than paying $250 every 3 months for a new external SCSI cable, because they mysteriously just start acting up.
Are you from Fox news? Not every issue has two sides. Sometimes there's this thing called "reality" that you really can't have two opposing opinions on, at least not anyone sane.
And the reality is that one of the largest software companies in the world with thousands of of highly paid programmers wants us to believe it can't compete with a tiny european company or a bunch of volunteers, implementing a 10 year old standard. Either they are grossly inept, or don't want to comply.
I haven't replaced SATA drives any more than SCSI. We have about 40 of them in RAID service and none of us remembers ever replacing any of them.
PATA is another story, we have some PATA RAIDs in the past and those did see higher drive failure rates. It still wasn't terrible, maybe 2 disks a year out of 50.
As for mission critical, if the choice is between a single SCSI RAID, and triple redundant mirrors with SATA for the same price, I'll take the triple redundant SATA in a heartbeat. I guess if you work for the government or something so you are wasting other people's money, it doesn't matter if you spend $200,000 on what you could get for $15,000.
You need to ask the hard disk makers why they aren't making higher spindle speed SATA. The truth is so they can extract more money for the exact same product, but good luck getting them to admit that.
there hasn't been a worth wile SATA disk on the market long enough to prove the reliability of them above sc
What? I've got some pretty old SATA disks in some of our ACNC RAIDs. No failures out of 32 disks. Seagate 7200.7, Date code 04-167, 167th day of 2004 I guess. That's over 2 years old.
The great part about SATA is that since they aren't a complete rip-off like SCSI, you can replace them every 3-4 years instead of running them until they fail and are stupidly small compared to modern disks.
this is why for large amounts of storage via SATA to data centers you will see the SATA drives in a box that is then connected to the servers via iSCSI and fiber chanel.
Yes this is a fine idea. I have no problem using iSCSI or fiber channel or even old SCSI for RAID->Computer interfaces. SATA doesn't have any sort of standardized external cabling standard for that use.
But for the disks themselces, it's stupid to buy SCSI or SAS disks and pay 3 times more just for a name.
It can't. You may not understand what "protected free speech" is, and maybe congress doesn't either, but you can't just pass a new law to re-ban something that has been ruled unconstitutional.
those bits are a photograph of a young child who had no choice in the matter. What gives you the right?
I've never heard of an infant give consent to pictures being taken in the hospital. You better start hunting down all the people with evil baby pictures.
What about mainstream child actors? Isn't that even more exploitative? Most of those people turn out pretty fucked up too.
You have to admit there's a ton of hypocrisy and overreaction when it comes to this. It goes way deeper than dealing with the social harm caused by these acts.
SCSI is basically dead. It's just a scam to get more money out of people that are stuck in 1992. Just ignore it and go with modern technology like SATA.
Probably the same reason rape often gets the same or more jail time than murder. Even though the first only involves a temporary loss of freedom and some unwanted intrusions that are over in a few minutes, and the other leave you *dead*.
It was no more a reactor than saying the radon gas in your basement decaying is a nuclear reactor. He just amassed some various radioactive things, and was messy about it, and the government and media blew the story way out of proportion.
You can order plenty of radioactive things to do demonstrations and experiments with from united nuclear.
There are a few major party candidates that are OK too, but that's pretty rare.
I agree that candidates should be looked at individually.
determined to leave issues like evolution vs creationism, abortion and embryonic stem cell research "as are"
Yes, those are bullshit issues the major parties use to distract people from the real issues that matter. The democrats and the republicans love religious whack-jobs, because they yell loudly about issues that are very very irrelevant in the big picture.
Depends. If you are in a UCITA state you have the pleasure of having terms of a sale applied retroactively to items you bought. Of course, only two states passed the UCITA, Virginia and one other.
It's no joke. If you are over 18 and in the US you can fix it. Vote. And don't vote for a Democrat or a Republican. Those were the people that overwhelmingly approved this crap.
I hope you don't design surge supressors for a living. You really fucked up that math.
Once the plasma path is established it's very low resistance. The surge is several hundred thousand to million amps. It's more like 10-200 megawatts. A big strike might be a gigawatt.
Yeah and this is nothing new. I got one about a year ago with crap from "The Master Key" in it, got interested in the book, found it in gutenberg and read it.
So really it's a valuable book previewing service.:P
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More generally, there are plenty of areas the US has shown slipping towards a more authoritarian state, just as much as the UK.
First part, I agree, second part, I disagree. We are slipping into fascism. Be it in the name of "the children" or "terrorists" or "drugs" or whatever. I don't think we've quite hit the level of the UK yet, but we'll catch up I'm sure, if things keep going this way.
Furthermore, fake child porn was originally declared illegal, and it was the Supreme Court which overturned it, based on the First Amendment.
Correct
Guns were no help whatsoever.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government.
So yeah, I'd call these things more akin to "light and transient causes", so far at least. But it's important the populace remain armed if it comes down to the worst case scenario. We had to do it once, and we'll do it again if it comes to it.
The brits let them ban guns and kitchen knives... What did they think was going to be next? Fascism doesn't stop after a step or two, it just keeps going.
That's cool. 2 meters might be a little constraining, but anything's better than paying $250 every 3 months for a new external SCSI cable, because they mysteriously just start acting up.
Are you from Fox news? Not every issue has two sides. Sometimes there's this thing called "reality" that you really can't have two opposing opinions on, at least not anyone sane.
And the reality is that one of the largest software companies in the world with thousands of of highly paid programmers wants us to believe it can't compete with a tiny european company or a bunch of volunteers, implementing a 10 year old standard. Either they are grossly inept, or don't want to comply.
What manhours?
I haven't replaced SATA drives any more than SCSI. We have about 40 of them in RAID service and none of us remembers ever replacing any of them.
PATA is another story, we have some PATA RAIDs in the past and those did see higher drive failure rates. It still wasn't terrible, maybe 2 disks a year out of 50.
As for mission critical, if the choice is between a single SCSI RAID, and triple redundant mirrors with SATA for the same price, I'll take the triple redundant SATA in a heartbeat. I guess if you work for the government or something so you are wasting other people's money, it doesn't matter if you spend $200,000 on what you could get for $15,000.
You can have your 5 year old SCSI drives that are 1/20th the size of my new SATA drives.
Better get the military up on charges too, they cause the same symptoms in thousands of kids every year.
You need to ask the hard disk makers why they aren't making higher spindle speed SATA. The truth is so they can extract more money for the exact same product, but good luck getting them to admit that.
Keep your SCSI out of my data center.
there hasn't been a worth wile SATA disk on the market long enough to prove the reliability of them above sc
What? I've got some pretty old SATA disks in some of our ACNC RAIDs. No failures out of 32 disks. Seagate 7200.7, Date code 04-167, 167th day of 2004 I guess. That's over 2 years old.
The great part about SATA is that since they aren't a complete rip-off like SCSI, you can replace them every 3-4 years instead of running them until they fail and are stupidly small compared to modern disks.
this is why for large amounts of storage via SATA to data centers you will see the SATA drives in a box that is then connected to the servers via iSCSI and fiber chanel.
Yes this is a fine idea. I have no problem using iSCSI or fiber channel or even old SCSI for RAID->Computer interfaces. SATA doesn't have any sort of standardized external cabling standard for that use.
But for the disks themselces, it's stupid to buy SCSI or SAS disks and pay 3 times more just for a name.
It can't. You may not understand what "protected free speech" is, and maybe congress doesn't either, but you can't just pass a new law to re-ban something that has been ruled unconstitutional.
those bits are a photograph of a young child who had no choice in the matter. What gives you the right?
I've never heard of an infant give consent to pictures being taken in the hospital. You better start hunting down all the people with evil baby pictures.
What about mainstream child actors? Isn't that even more exploitative? Most of those people turn out pretty fucked up too.
You have to admit there's a ton of hypocrisy and overreaction when it comes to this. It goes way deeper than dealing with the social harm caused by these acts.
100% computer generated is protected free speech, and not illegal in the US. (Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition)
SCSI is basically dead. It's just a scam to get more money out of people that are stuck in 1992. Just ignore it and go with modern technology like SATA.
Probably the same reason rape often gets the same or more jail time than murder. Even though the first only involves a temporary loss of freedom and some unwanted intrusions that are over in a few minutes, and the other leave you *dead*.
It was no more a reactor than saying the radon gas in your basement decaying is a nuclear reactor. He just amassed some various radioactive things, and was messy about it, and the government and media blew the story way out of proportion.
You can order plenty of radioactive things to do demonstrations and experiments with from united nuclear.
Yeah, works for me, came through as the HTML character entity for it in the HTML source.
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There are a few major party candidates that are OK too, but that's pretty rare.
I agree that candidates should be looked at individually.
determined to leave issues like evolution vs creationism, abortion and embryonic stem cell research "as are"
Yes, those are bullshit issues the major parties use to distract people from the real issues that matter. The democrats and the republicans love religious whack-jobs, because they yell loudly about issues that are very very irrelevant in the big picture.
Depends. If you are in a UCITA state you have the pleasure of having terms of a sale applied retroactively to items you bought. Of course, only two states passed the UCITA, Virginia and one other.
It's no joke. If you are over 18 and in the US you can fix it. Vote. And don't vote for a Democrat or a Republican. Those were the people that overwhelmingly approved this crap.
Well, it's better than calling it "digital penetration".
Next time try putting them in A tags
I hope you don't design surge supressors for a living. You really fucked up that math.
Once the plasma path is established it's very low resistance. The surge is several hundred thousand to million amps. It's more like 10-200 megawatts. A big strike might be a gigawatt.
Yeah and this is nothing new. I got one about a year ago with crap from "The Master Key" in it, got interested in the book, found it in gutenberg and read it.
:P
So really it's a valuable book previewing service.