All well and true, but remember if you wear any clothing, drive any car, or for that matter buy any product made by any number of US companies, DuPont and Dow pop to mind, you are supporting companies that got their start with slave labor before the Civil War or had founders who were slave owners. But that was just how it was done then. That's makes it all better. The USA is much more civilised now what with Walmart's selling products manufactured by sweated foreign labor to the poorer part of the US population. The irony is so sexy.
PS. Buying stuff at Walmart does not equate to being a part of the "poorer part of the US population." It can also mean that you are a cheap fuck who doesn't mind terribly made crap.
I have a t68 world and a t28 world. the t68 is for my cingular wireless here in the states. Every third sms croaks with this service, while my Slovenia phone co, Mobitel, can get every sms to me when I cut on my t28 in the States, or anywhere for that matter. I think it really has to do with the provider and the importance that they put on sms. Cingular charges 3 bucks for 100 sms's a month, while Mobitel charges nothing and only 1 tolar a minute for phone calls within SLO and 55 tolars a minute for international roaming for my Cingular phone. Cingular charges 400 tolars a minute (2 bucks, roughly) for a minute to my Mobitel phone. US GSM and mobile phone plans in general are a ripoff. How can Slovenia, while pretty prosperous for a former Yugoslav republic, keep rates so cheap? It can just be 90 percent market penetration alone!
Unfortunately, that's a map. I'll revise my statement to say that it is "next" to another station. Transportation maps underwent a revolution in representation when unnecessary information about how points and relationships between them such as distance and elevation were eliminated. As a matter of fact, old NYC subway maps were unusable because they were too representative. All you need to know is that the E meets the 6 at at Lexington Ave.
No accounting for assholes. A map is any representation of the nature of relations among points in space. It the case of subway maps, the representation gives no accurate indication of the time and distance between stops, only that such-and-such station is near another station.
"In order to better understand the location of these stations on today's network, you may wish to download a copy of the world famous underground map (well, technically it's a diagram not a map)"
Um. Take a trained geographer's word, that's a map. I guess Polynesian wave and star charts are not maps because they don't show geomorphological features in an easily discernible way to Westerners... We are part of the landscape. Get over it.
... And one that is hard to argue with because it seems to make so much sense is post hoc, ergo propter hoc. For something to be a valid proposition, it must meet two conditions, neccessity and sufficiency. When someone pulls a "It happened after that happened" trick to pin blame, they are meeting the necessary condition with the apparent causal relation of actions. This is the stronger condition intuitively for people. But, under the sufficient condition, where we must show that there is evidence to support the causal relationship. Supporting a claim is counterintuitive. Just ask any foreign policy maker in the US...
Of course, the schwimwagen would only go 70kph max. Now if you packed a 2331cc, dual Dellorto carb monster motor with Chevy rods, aluminum pop-up pistons, a hot cam and nice crank, I'll bet you can ski behind one. But the whole idea of just saying "fuck bridges" is too cool to dismiss the schwim simply because the wet feet.
KaZaa is the biggest piece of shite ever. It shouldn't even warrant this fluff post on/. . Spyware. DNS hijacking. It completely fucked up our DynDNS system with CommonName.
"Cape Town, along w/ Bloemfontein, is a city @ a climatic extreme in Southern Africa."
FFFFFFFFFFFFF!
Not only is the statement odd in the first place, it is horrendous English. Why? 'w/' is not a word. It is a very informal shorthand for 'with.' You do not use informal shorthand in academic papers. '@' only means 'at' in bill.gates@microsoft.com. It is indefensible in this context. Whatever the weak case can be made for evolution of a language, etc., you must be able to communicate clearly in any language according to a set of understood rules/grammar/usage. Anything else is just registered dialect. You can write that way in a chatroom, but not in my classroom.
'Discourse in not life. It's time is not yours.' -- Michel Foucault
AHHHHHHHHH! Read my reply. This is not the point. Of course hog feed is cooked now in States and Canada and primarily made of grain (and hormones and animal byproducts). It is cooked for various reasons. When you HAD to cook pig food ( slopping ) it was done so to prevent disease. This isn't a GRE reading comprehension test.
"Feed" in the developed world sense is commercially bought cooked kibbles. "Feed" in the rest of the world (and in not-so-long-ago America) is slop. Slop is not homogeneous and is often includes meats, feces, dirt, plant matter, etc. It is cooked to prevent disease. Just becuase someone doesn't have a computer doesn't mean they can't cope. Often the inverse is true.
In order to stop trichinosis from passing from host to host, you have to cook the food either fed to the host or the cook the food made from the host to stop the trichnosis. So if you eat a hog that has trichnosis because it was fed uncooked slop, and you get trichnosis. Subsequently, if you get eaten by something that doesn't cook you then that something will get trichnosis.
Bears in the Southeast US eat the occasional feral hog. People in the Southeast hunt bear and occasionally eat the bear. Poorly cooked bear meat is a well-known vector of trichnosis.
Hog feed has little to do with it. Cooking the hog feed does. Societies where hogs are fed uncooked slop experience higher rates of trichinosis, while those that boil hog slop do not see trichinosis at all. Break a link in the parasite's path to a host and incidence of the parasite diminishes. Pretty simple and exactly what cooking the pork to at least 137F does.
e-Commerce sites use ASP because they are developed by DBAs who are usually not programmers, but drag-and-droppers who understand control structures. It has nothing to do with the "intensity" of the work. Perl and Oracle are just as fast if you know what you are doing. Spank you very much, Trolly Trollerton.
and help pay Rasmus for his PHP, which is pretty cool. He gave a great tutorial at our university and parked PHP development all over the place. I love Perl like Madonna loves dick, but PHP is a good tool to have in the carpenter's box for many one-off projects and tasks that simply don't require Perl.
And since you are your own boss, you should be cool to yourself.
I am a graduate student in cultural geogaphy, which means that my advisors and classmates care two shits about my work. If I complain that school is interfering with my job, I get stony looks from the professors and told to quit. Luckily, since I work in IT at the University where I study, I can just pop out of the office for class and seminars. How can I do this? My boss is cool enough to allow it. If you can find a situation that will allow such an arrangement, then go for it. My boss is allowing me the whole summer off (w/o pay, of course) to do my fieldwork overseas. I do consider myself lucky? Yes. But then again, you make your luck. Being good at what I do helps.
With regard to your situation, since you are your own boss, cut yourself some breaks. You have the unique luxury to do so.
The leading theory on what caused the explosion of the Kursk [cnn.com] is the H2O2 propellant in a torpedo (NOT a warhead!)
It is much more than a theory: it is simply awaiting Putin's signoff. A quick lexis-nexis search (i love google but when you've got this for free... ain't interesting that Russian papers have a whole section called "Security"):
Copyright 2002 Agency WPS DEFENSE AND SECURITY
July 5, 2002, Friday
SECTION: SECURITY
LENGTH: 679 words
HEADLINE: "THE TORPEDO HYPOTHESIS" AWAITING PUTIN'S SIGNATURE
SOURCE: Izvestia, July 3, 2002, p. 2
BYLINE: Konstantin Getmansky
HIGHLIGHT: THE KURSK TRAGEDY: INVESTIGATION IS OFFICIALLY OVER.
BODY: All I's have been dotted and T's crossed in official investigation of one of the worst underwater catastrophes of the 20th century, death of the nuclear submarine Kursk. Vice Admiral Valery Dorogin, Duma Deputy and commission member, revealed some details of the protocol on the cause of the catastrophe signed last Friday.
"Explosion of components of fuel of a 65-76 torpedo" is to be blamed. Commission chairman Ilya Klebanov announced that the explosion in its turn had been caused by a leak of hydrogen peroxide, a component of torpedo fuel. Klebanov had announced that the commission "agrees with a single hypothesis only, explosion of a "fat" 650 mm torpedo" after the previous meeting of the governmental commission in St. Petersburg on June 19. The official protocol the commission signed last Friday indicates that the submarine Kursk was killed by explosion of components of 65-76 torpedo fuel. The explosion caused a fire and high pressure in the first compartment, and the rest of the ordnance detonated. The commission is of the opinion that the first explosion killed all servicemen in the first compartment and some in the second. The rest got concussions. The second explosion killed the submarine.
Roman Kolesnikov (ex-submariner and father of Captain Lieutenant Dmitry Kolesnikov of the Kursk): The fact that a fat torpedo went off was known several days after the catastrophe even by wives. They merely analyzed everything they had been told by their husbands who did not want to sail out with the torpedo. According to what information I have compiled, many men knew that the torpedo was problematic. It had been dropped in the process of loading. Torpedoes like that should be ruled out immediately. Unfortunately, the Kursk was being readied for an autonomous sortie. Somebody must have wanted the submarine to be as formidable as possible.
The official act indicates the cause of the catastrophe. According to Klebanov, the explosion took place because of leaks of hydrogen peroxide, a component of torpedo fuel. This nuance kills the collision hypothesis.
A great number of conclusions of the governmental commission are classified. Kolesnikov is confident that it may mean one thing only. The commission must have found out identities of the men who directly or indirectly are to be blamed for the tragedy.
Kolesnikov: So many signatures are to be collected before a submarine sails out! Relatives of the crew asked for participation in the governmental commission. We have never even got a word in reply. We did not intend to send wives to the commission, you understand, we meant professionals who served in nuclear submarines themselves.
According to Kolesnikov, the commission never established the officials to be blamed for the failure to rescue survivors. Officials announced that survivors lasted only 6-8 hours in the crippled submarine.
Kolesnikov: The men, relatives, who visited Severomorsk when the Kursk was lifted to the surface and tugged to the shore, told me there were bodies discovered in absolutely dry compartments. Three-day long bristles were found on some faces...
According to what information the Izvestia has compiled, Supreme Commander-in-Chief and President Vladimir Putin is supposed to endorse the official protocol now. It is in his power to refuse or to accept the conclusions.From our folders:65-76 engines work on the reaction of fuel and concentrated hydrogen peroxide. The first two figures designate torpedo caliber in centimeters, the last two the year of design. The torpedo is almost 9 meters long and weighs almost 2 tons. According to some reports, the warhead weighs 500 kilograms, according to others, almost 700 kilograms. Its velocity is 70 kph. The torpedo is intended for the use against large surface and underwater combatants and powerful coast fortifications like naval bases from a distance of up to 70 kilometers. According to what information is available at this point, the decision to remove torpedoes of this type from the Navy was made two years before the Kursk tragedy.
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All well and true, but remember if you wear any clothing, drive any car, or for that matter buy any product made by any number of US companies, DuPont and Dow pop to mind, you are supporting companies that got their start with slave labor before the Civil War or had founders who were slave owners. But that was just how it was done then. That's makes it all better. The USA is much more civilised now what with Walmart's selling products manufactured by sweated foreign labor to the poorer part of the US population. The irony is so sexy.
PS. Buying stuff at Walmart does not equate to being a part of the "poorer part of the US population." It can also mean that you are a cheap fuck who doesn't mind terribly made crap.
I have a t68 world and a t28 world. the t68 is for my cingular wireless here in the states. Every third sms croaks with this service, while my Slovenia phone co, Mobitel, can get every sms to me when I cut on my t28 in the States, or anywhere for that matter. I think it really has to do with the provider and the importance that they put on sms. Cingular charges 3 bucks for 100 sms's a month, while Mobitel charges nothing and only 1 tolar a minute for phone calls within SLO and 55 tolars a minute for international roaming for my Cingular phone. Cingular charges 400 tolars a minute (2 bucks, roughly) for a minute to my Mobitel phone. US GSM and mobile phone plans in general are a ripoff. How can Slovenia, while pretty prosperous for a former Yugoslav republic, keep rates so cheap? It can just be 90 percent market penetration alone!
So you posted this to the queue, eh? Read the guidelines!
Unfortunately, that's a map. I'll revise my statement to say that it is "next" to another station. Transportation maps underwent a revolution in representation when unnecessary information about how points and relationships between them such as distance and elevation were eliminated. As a matter of fact, old NYC subway maps were unusable because they were too representative. All you need to know is that the E meets the 6 at at Lexington Ave.
No accounting for assholes. A map is any representation of the nature of relations among points in space. It the case of subway maps, the representation gives no accurate indication of the time and distance between stops, only that such-and-such station is near another station.
"In order to better understand the location of these stations on today's network, you may wish to download a copy of the world famous underground map (well, technically it's a diagram not a map)"
Um. Take a trained geographer's word, that's a map. I guess Polynesian wave and star charts are not maps because they don't show geomorphological features in an easily discernible way to Westerners... We are part of the landscape. Get over it.
And some pretty fly blotter as well....
... And one that is hard to argue with because it seems to make so much sense is post hoc, ergo propter hoc. For something to be a valid proposition, it must meet two conditions, neccessity and sufficiency. When someone pulls a "It happened after that happened" trick to pin blame, they are meeting the necessary condition with the apparent causal relation of actions. This is the stronger condition intuitively for people. But, under the sufficient condition, where we must show that there is evidence to support the causal relationship. Supporting a claim is counterintuitive. Just ask any foreign policy maker in the US...
Of course, the schwimwagen would only go 70kph max. Now if you packed a 2331cc, dual Dellorto carb monster motor with Chevy rods, aluminum pop-up pistons, a hot cam and nice crank, I'll bet you can ski behind one. But the whole idea of just saying "fuck bridges" is too cool to dismiss the schwim simply because the wet feet.
It's a shame that JaJa is associated with Tiscali.
KaZaa is the biggest piece of shite ever. It shouldn't even warrant this fluff post on /. . Spyware. DNS hijacking. It completely fucked up our DynDNS system with CommonName.
FFFFFFFFFFFFF!
Not only is the statement odd in the first place, it is horrendous English. Why? 'w/' is not a word. It is a very informal shorthand for 'with.' You do not use informal shorthand in academic papers. '@' only means 'at' in bill.gates@microsoft.com. It is indefensible in this context. Whatever the weak case can be made for evolution of a language, etc., you must be able to communicate clearly in any language according to a set of understood rules/grammar/usage. Anything else is just registered dialect. You can write that way in a chatroom, but not in my classroom.
'Discourse in not life. It's time is not yours.' -- Michel Foucault
Otherwise known as the Philip Morris argument.
AHHHHHHHHH! Read my reply. This is not the point. Of course hog feed is cooked now in States and Canada and primarily made of grain (and hormones and animal byproducts). It is cooked for various reasons. When you HAD to cook pig food ( slopping ) it was done so to prevent disease. This isn't a GRE reading comprehension test.
"Feed" in the developed world sense is commercially bought cooked kibbles. "Feed" in the rest of the world (and in not-so-long-ago America) is slop. Slop is not homogeneous and is often includes meats, feces, dirt, plant matter, etc. It is cooked to prevent disease. Just becuase someone doesn't have a computer doesn't mean they can't cope. Often the inverse is true.
Bears in the Southeast US eat the occasional feral hog. People in the Southeast hunt bear and occasionally eat the bear. Poorly cooked bear meat is a well-known vector of trichnosis.
Hog feed has little to do with it. Cooking the hog feed does. Societies where hogs are fed uncooked slop experience higher rates of trichinosis, while those that boil hog slop do not see trichinosis at all. Break a link in the parasite's path to a host and incidence of the parasite diminishes. Pretty simple and exactly what cooking the pork to at least 137F does.
e-Commerce sites use ASP because they are developed by DBAs who are usually not programmers, but drag-and-droppers who understand control structures. It has nothing to do with the "intensity" of the work. Perl and Oracle are just as fast if you know what you are doing. Spank you very much, Trolly Trollerton.
and help pay Rasmus for his PHP, which is pretty cool. He gave a great tutorial at our university and parked PHP development all over the place. I love Perl like Madonna loves dick, but PHP is a good tool to have in the carpenter's box for many one-off projects and tasks that simply don't require Perl.
And since you are your own boss, you should be cool to yourself.
I am a graduate student in cultural geogaphy, which means that my advisors and classmates care two shits about my work. If I complain that school is interfering with my job, I get stony looks from the professors and told to quit. Luckily, since I work in IT at the University where I study, I can just pop out of the office for class and seminars. How can I do this? My boss is cool enough to allow it. If you can find a situation that will allow such an arrangement, then go for it. My boss is allowing me the whole summer off (w/o pay, of course) to do my fieldwork overseas. I do consider myself lucky? Yes. But then again, you make your luck. Being good at what I do helps.
With regard to your situation, since you are your own boss, cut yourself some breaks. You have the unique luxury to do so.
My boy needs to rip the new Gouryella shite like so cuz they are bogarting it only on white-label vinyl!
Did you ever want to choke him? Do you consider being a utter boor good advocacy for Perl? If so, Tommy Boy fits the bill.
It is much more than a theory: it is simply awaiting Putin's signoff. A quick lexis-nexis search (i love google but when you've got this for free... ain't interesting that Russian papers have a whole section called "Security"):
Copyright 2002 Agency WPS
DEFENSE AND SECURITY
July 5, 2002, Friday
SECTION: SECURITY
LENGTH: 679 words
HEADLINE: "THE TORPEDO HYPOTHESIS" AWAITING PUTIN'S SIGNATURE
SOURCE: Izvestia, July 3, 2002, p. 2
BYLINE: Konstantin Getmansky
HIGHLIGHT:
THE KURSK TRAGEDY: INVESTIGATION IS OFFICIALLY OVER.
BODY:
All I's have been dotted and T's crossed in official investigation of one of the worst underwater catastrophes of the 20th century, death of the nuclear submarine Kursk. Vice Admiral Valery Dorogin, Duma Deputy and commission member, revealed some details of the protocol on the cause of the catastrophe signed last Friday.
"Explosion of components of fuel of a 65-76 torpedo" is to be blamed. Commission chairman Ilya Klebanov announced that the explosion in its turn had been caused by a leak of hydrogen peroxide, a component of torpedo fuel. Klebanov had announced that the commission "agrees with a single hypothesis only, explosion of a "fat" 650 mm torpedo" after the previous meeting of the governmental commission in St. Petersburg on June 19. The official protocol the commission signed last Friday indicates that the submarine Kursk was killed by explosion of components of 65-76 torpedo fuel. The explosion caused a fire and high pressure in the first compartment, and the rest of the ordnance detonated. The commission is of the opinion that the first explosion killed all servicemen in the first compartment and some in the second. The rest got concussions. The second explosion killed the submarine.
Roman Kolesnikov (ex-submariner and father of Captain Lieutenant Dmitry Kolesnikov of the Kursk): The fact that a fat torpedo went off was known several days after the catastrophe even by wives. They merely analyzed everything they had been told by their husbands who did not want to sail out with the torpedo. According to what information I have compiled, many men knew that the torpedo was problematic. It had been dropped in the process of loading. Torpedoes like that should be ruled out immediately. Unfortunately, the Kursk was being readied for an autonomous sortie. Somebody must have wanted the submarine to be as formidable as possible.
The official act indicates the cause of the catastrophe. According to Klebanov, the explosion took place because of leaks of hydrogen peroxide, a component of torpedo fuel. This nuance kills the collision hypothesis.
A great number of conclusions of the governmental commission are classified. Kolesnikov is confident that it may mean one thing only. The commission must have found out identities of the men who directly or indirectly are to be blamed for the tragedy.
Kolesnikov: So many signatures are to be collected before a submarine sails out! Relatives of the crew asked for participation in the governmental commission. We have never even got a word in reply. We did not intend to send wives to the commission, you understand, we meant professionals who served in nuclear submarines themselves.
According to Kolesnikov, the commission never established the officials to be blamed for the failure to rescue survivors. Officials announced that survivors lasted only 6-8 hours in the crippled submarine.
Kolesnikov: The men, relatives, who visited Severomorsk when the Kursk was lifted to the surface and tugged to the shore, told me there were bodies discovered in absolutely dry compartments. Three-day long bristles were found on some faces...
According to what information the Izvestia has compiled, Supreme Commander-in-Chief and President Vladimir Putin is supposed to endorse the official protocol now. It is in his power to refuse or to accept the conclusions.From our folders:65-76 engines work on the reaction of fuel and concentrated hydrogen peroxide. The first two figures designate torpedo caliber in centimeters, the last two the year of design. The torpedo is almost 9 meters long and weighs almost 2 tons. According to some reports, the warhead weighs 500 kilograms, according to others, almost 700 kilograms. Its velocity is 70 kph. The torpedo is intended for the use against large surface and underwater combatants and powerful coast fortifications like naval bases from a distance of up to 70 kilometers. According to what information is available at this point, the decision to remove torpedoes of this type from the Navy was made two years before the Kursk tragedy.
ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE: RUSSIAN
LOAD-DATE: July 05, 2002
Also, you can filter out Katz's stories.
Mod the above post down!