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CRONYISM. Study it, discuss it, live it, learn it. We don't hire competent people, we hire OUR FRIENDS and any other greedy lamprey that has attached themselves to us and looks good in a suit.
So remember this folks. If you decide to immigrate here, bring friends and a good looking suit.
Since the last thing you mentioned was keeping up with vulnerability patches, I want to add something here to keep you from turning anyone off from gentoo.
Gentoo has toolkit which includes an app called glsa-check described here:
It's preliminary, but it will report the components of your installation which have security issues and the security issue id's themselves.
There is also an email alert sent out whenever a security alert is announced. So don't let this guys attitude discourage you from at least trying it on for size. Sure, it may not be what you need, but then again, it just might.
I disagree mostly because you refer to evolution as an event instead of a process.
If we observe the process of evolution over few thousand years of documented human history it proves that it is occurring.
Evolution isn't something that happened in the past, it's something happening right now. That's why it's so important to the thinking person - it's relevant to the future. And why it's so important to religion - it marginalizes the declarations of the more dogmatic ones. The world is flat, the people were always people, dinosaur fossils were created by a devil to trick us, all nonsense....
Well because if you follow the philosopy of science and its principle that an idea needs to be tested and retested to become a cornerstone of future thinking, gods, the legend of Jesus Christ and prophets and other religious "truths" are weeded out almost immediately. If you can't prove that a god exists, then it's plausible to operate as if it doesn't.
That flies immediately and abruptly in the face of the idea of spirituality of faith - I can't prove it, but I know in my heart it's right.
It's a division in ways of thinking. They don't converge. Nobody likes to be told their wrong about something their dogmatic about - I'm firmly in the camp of science because before you go to someone and say "here's what is going on", you have been frank with yourself that your idea may very well be wrong. You start off saying "here's what I think is going on", then you throw rocks at it and see if it holds up.
But after a couple of MILLION rocks, society ought to consider an idea very differently from a competing idea that has only a few rocks thrown at it, but several people jump out in front of the idea and block the rocks and disctract the issue by complaining that the million rocks weren't really thrown correctly.
So now all they have to do is separate it into two chemical subcomponents which can be used in a dispenser like the existing epoxy syringe and we'll actually be able to use it. At least until a nano-tech replacement 10 times stronger is found...
Okay, so your "half a sphere from the bottom up"... is it protecting all of the vehicle or just half of it. That's my point. A quarter of a sphere protects half of the vehicle, not a hemisphere. The text contradicts itself.
I agree somewhat - they're describing a phalanx CIWS for a tank. They'll only be in the clear when they burst a plasma sphere around the vehicle at the moment the projectile intersects with the sphere's location. Till then, they're just matching incoming fire. Maybe we can call this type of system something different, such as a Matched Incoming Line of Fire, or MILF.
Is it "half of the vehicle" or a "hemisphere of protection"? If it's a hemisphere, I don't expect that they run the protection throught the ground, and if so, that would give full coverable of the vehicle. If it's half, then it's not a hemisphere, because only a quarter of a sphere will protect half of it.
Maybe this is why people don't like hanging out with me.
And in the United States, the governments and companies are one in the same. It's no small surprise that hazardous components are not illegal.
There is a really interesting electronics recycling warehouse near me in Marietta, GA that dis-assembles and crushes computers and what-not. They pack the chum, or whatever you want to call the bite sized pieces of plastic and metal left after they shred the systems, into cargo containers and send them back overseas to be recycled into more consumer electronics.
Just outside of the warehouse is a second hand ebayer that resells any decommissioned computer electronics that aren't actually broken. A lot of what goes into that warehouse is stuff that some company decided was at its end-of-life, not stuff that broke.
I've always wondered how well the scrap was dealt with on the other side of the shipping lane.
Just found another one of these at Office Depot - they are on clearance right now for $75. It's a Samsonite SA-940088. This case is big enough for a 17" widescreen notebook and sturdy enough to take the occasional wall or desk corner.
I almost bought a second one, just because. The only complaint I have is the strap - it didn't last long. But the case itself makes me confident enough to tote my main system around in.
I guess I just need to take a picture of the $100 jobbie I was talking about. It's stamped aluminum, not the pieced together garbage you can find for $30. It fits my 17" notebook, and I have carried it back and forth to client's offices for years with great success.
And I get the same effect you mentioned when breaking it out. Nobody will let me leave it in their meeting room and step out for fear of it exploding or something.
This isn't nickels and dimes you literary bed bug. This is almost a 3x1 ratio on the same product line where both cases are well built! But now I know what fool will by a lifetime warranty on a $100 briefcase for 280 bucks when the comparable item is MADE OF ALUMINUM and padded as well. It isn't aluminum foil - get a warranty on the computer instead.
But as long as your criticizing me by endowing what I typed with egotystical emotion (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060213/1558206 .shtml), I'd like to congratulate you for your wonderfully rich braggings about being a traveling photographer. Let's hope your photos are better than your retorts.
Yet you still haven't provided an example where a $100 steal of a case let your father or second cousin's girlfriend's old dog skippy's circus bound littermate with 6 legs down in the past. If you're going to tell me how stupid I am, might I suggest telling a story about a counter example to what I said, not a re-affirmation of how fantaboliciously accurate the article's reviews were.
Finally, mmmmmmyyyyyyyyyyy daddy used to repair US embassies outside of the Europea and was impressed by my purchase - oh, and my computer still works. So go cover Iraq - I'll send you a t-shirt to wear.
To anyone reading this who hasn't lost their sense of logic what I'm suggesting in simple - if you're even glancing at the price of a product, be diligent, find a great deal and save the money for more important things - like a logic book for your friend the photographer.
yields the following: 27 parked by DomainMonster 30 go to NetNames 28 to some unknown with the phrase "dominio parcheggiato" in it....
at 57,700 sites thus far, and an estimate 30 sites per registrars, it works out to about 1900 registrars as he suggests. Thats in line with the ~1200 he mentions in the article.
So google seems to agree with his article if the results are indicative of the true averages.
That's a shame. Hey Europe, welcome to the new.com!
Personally, I bought a case similiar to the haliburton from Office Depot for $100 then packed the other $282.50 around the computer for protection and $.50 coffees.
I subscribe to two financial rules: 1)Don't spend the seed money. 2) It's all seed money.
Buy a cheaper case, find a simple padding solution and go save an entire african family for a year with the rest of the money.
Are you bored right now, but harbouring a good sense of humor? Here's a joke in time for April 1st:
I called a service dealer around the corner from my house and asked if they carry Snappers, and so can you! They do, they're listed on the snapper site. So make a store clerk's day interesting. Give them a call and ask if they have Snappers too.
EAST COBB LAWN MOWER SERVICE 2995 JOHNSON FERRY ROAD MARIETTA, GA, 30062 (770) 587-3955
And if you aren't from the US, ask in your native tongue while you're at it.
c-level execs are like lawyers - deny unless they can prove it. This quote has been around since I was in high school and when it wasn't such an absurd idea.
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New in the country? Looking for a good tutorial on how our government works, but not enough days to burn walking around the capital and digging up the dirt? Here's a quick guide to the underpinnings of our system:
http://www.time.com/time/press_releases/article/0
CRONYISM. Study it, discuss it, live it, learn it. We don't hire competent people, we hire OUR FRIENDS and any other greedy lamprey that has attached themselves to us and looks good in a suit.
So remember this folks. If you decide to immigrate here, bring friends and a good looking suit.
Since the last thing you mentioned was keeping up with vulnerability patches, I want to add something here to keep you from turning anyone off from gentoo.
n dbook.xml?part=1&chap=14
Gentoo has toolkit which includes an app called glsa-check described here:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/security/security-ha
It's preliminary, but it will report the components of your installation which have security issues and the security issue id's themselves.
There is also an email alert sent out whenever a security alert is announced. So don't let this guys attitude discourage you from at least trying it on for size. Sure, it may not be what you need, but then again, it just might.
And the laws of thermodynamics?
read the whole post: mutation + natural selection = evolution.
I disagree mostly because you refer to evolution as an event instead of a process.
....
If we observe the process of evolution over few thousand years of documented human history it proves that it is occurring.
Evolution isn't something that happened in the past, it's something happening right now. That's why it's so important to the thinking person - it's relevant to the future. And why it's so important to religion - it marginalizes the declarations of the more dogmatic ones. The world is flat, the people were always people, dinosaur fossils were created by a devil to trick us, all nonsense
Well because if you follow the philosopy of science and its principle that an idea needs to be tested and retested to become a cornerstone of future thinking, gods, the legend of Jesus Christ and prophets and other religious "truths" are weeded out almost immediately. If you can't prove that a god exists, then it's plausible to operate as if it doesn't.
That flies immediately and abruptly in the face of the idea of spirituality of faith - I can't prove it, but I know in my heart it's right.
It's a division in ways of thinking. They don't converge. Nobody likes to be told their wrong about something their dogmatic about - I'm firmly in the camp of science because before you go to someone and say "here's what is going on", you have been frank with yourself that your idea may very well be wrong. You start off saying "here's what I think is going on", then you throw rocks at it and see if it holds up.
But after a couple of MILLION rocks, society ought to consider an idea very differently from a competing idea that has only a few rocks thrown at it, but several people jump out in front of the idea and block the rocks and disctract the issue by complaining that the million rocks weren't really thrown correctly.
So now all they have to do is separate it into two chemical subcomponents which can be used in a dispenser like the existing epoxy syringe and we'll actually be able to use it. At least until a nano-tech replacement 10 times stronger is found...
Okay, so your "half a sphere from the bottom up"... is it protecting all of the vehicle or just half of it. That's my point. A quarter of a sphere protects half of the vehicle, not a hemisphere. The text contradicts itself.
I agree somewhat - they're describing a phalanx CIWS for a tank. They'll only be in the clear when they burst a plasma sphere around the vehicle at the moment the projectile intersects with the sphere's location. Till then, they're just matching incoming fire. Maybe we can call this type of system something different, such as a Matched Incoming Line of Fire, or MILF.
Personally, I'd like to have a MILF in my car.
Is it "half of the vehicle" or a "hemisphere of protection"? If it's a hemisphere, I don't expect that they run the protection throught the ground, and if so, that would give full coverable of the vehicle. If it's half, then it's not a hemisphere, because only a quarter of a sphere will protect half of it.
Maybe this is why people don't like hanging out with me.
The focal point is on the target, not on the optics. But if the focal point was on the system's mirror, then yes, it would probably destroy it.
And in the United States, the governments and companies are one in the same. It's no small surprise that hazardous components are not illegal.
There is a really interesting electronics recycling warehouse near me in Marietta, GA that dis-assembles and crushes computers and what-not. They pack the chum, or whatever you want to call the bite sized pieces of plastic and metal left after they shred the systems, into cargo containers and send them back overseas to be recycled into more consumer electronics.
Just outside of the warehouse is a second hand ebayer that resells any decommissioned computer electronics that aren't actually broken. A lot of what goes into that warehouse is stuff that some company decided was at its end-of-life, not stuff that broke.
I've always wondered how well the scrap was dealt with on the other side of the shipping lane.
Just found another one of these at Office Depot - they are on clearance right now for $75. It's a Samsonite SA-940088. This case is big enough for a 17" widescreen notebook and sturdy enough to take the occasional wall or desk corner.
I almost bought a second one, just because. The only complaint I have is the strap - it didn't last long. But the case itself makes me confident enough to tote my main system around in.
Happy Shopping! Save your money!
I guess I just need to take a picture of the $100 jobbie I was talking about. It's stamped aluminum, not the pieced together garbage you can find for $30. It fits my 17" notebook, and I have carried it back and forth to client's offices for years with great success.
And I get the same effect you mentioned when breaking it out. Nobody will let me leave it in their meeting room and step out for fear of it exploding or something.
This isn't nickels and dimes you literary bed bug. This is almost a 3x1 ratio on the same product line where both cases are well built! But now I know what fool will by a lifetime warranty on a $100 briefcase for 280 bucks when the comparable item is MADE OF ALUMINUM and padded as well. It isn't aluminum foil - get a warranty on the computer instead.
6 .shtml), I'd like to congratulate you for your wonderfully rich braggings about being a traveling photographer. Let's hope your photos are better than your retorts.
But as long as your criticizing me by endowing what I typed with egotystical emotion (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060213/155820
Yet you still haven't provided an example where a $100 steal of a case let your father or second cousin's girlfriend's old dog skippy's circus bound littermate with 6 legs down in the past. If you're going to tell me how stupid I am, might I suggest telling a story about a counter example to what I said, not a re-affirmation of how fantaboliciously accurate the article's reviews were.
Finally, mmmmmmyyyyyyyyyyy daddy used to repair US embassies outside of the Europea and was impressed by my purchase - oh, and my computer still works. So go cover Iraq - I'll send you a t-shirt to wear.
To anyone reading this who hasn't lost their sense of logic what I'm suggesting in simple - if you're even glancing at the price of a product, be diligent, find a great deal and save the money for more important things - like a logic book for your friend the photographer.
A quick google search on
site:.eu
yields the following:
27 parked by DomainMonster
30 go to NetNames
28 to some unknown with the phrase "dominio parcheggiato" in it.
at 57,700 sites thus far, and an estimate 30 sites per registrars, it works out to about 1900 registrars as he suggests. Thats in line with the ~1200 he mentions in the article.
So google seems to agree with his article if the results are indicative of the true averages.
That's a shame. Hey Europe, welcome to the new
so, welcome to the
Personally, I bought a case similiar to the haliburton from Office Depot for $100 then packed the other $282.50 around the computer for protection and $.50 coffees.
I subscribe to two financial rules: 1)Don't spend the seed money. 2) It's all seed money.
Buy a cheaper case, find a simple padding solution and go save an entire african family for a year with the rest of the money.
Are you bored right now, but harbouring a good sense of humor? Here's a joke in time for April 1st:
I called a service dealer around the corner from my house and asked if they carry Snappers, and so can you! They do, they're listed on the snapper site. So make a store clerk's day interesting. Give them a call and ask if they have Snappers too.
EAST COBB LAWN MOWER SERVICE
2995 JOHNSON FERRY ROAD
MARIETTA, GA, 30062
(770) 587-3955
And if you aren't from the US, ask in your native tongue while you're at it.
This important study just released.
The real life of an average citizen is boring. News at Eleven.
If life were more engaging, if television wasn't full of garbage spewed out by unimaginative conglomerates these statistics would say something else.
But for now it just says games are better than nothing.
I predict that there will be a run on these little babies:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/755e/
I'll be turning off the displays every chance I get.
By mac address? Then just infect future systems with software which will try multiple mac addresses as well to get around the blocks.
Clearly this won't work, because I clicked on both of your example links and got nothing.
http://abcxyzwww./
http://conhugecoabcxyzwww./
c-level execs are like lawyers - deny unless they can prove it. This quote has been around since I was in high school and when it wasn't such an absurd idea.
"I want the people responsible for those features in my office early next week"
The features with security issues? Isn't he risking a fire hazard by doing this? I thought buildings had maximum occupancy ratings?
*ducks*
Correction, he denies it because an overt confirmation could not be made
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates