The problem is that there is far too much factual info in there and well the fictional/scifi elements get drowned out.
Saying the Bible is based on history because some of the towns are named after real ones is like saying Harry Potter is a real person because he lived in a suburb of London.
As far as I know, everything in the Bible that takes place more than a generation or so before the Babylonian captivity has to be taken with a grain (or in some cases a cellar) of salt. But then the most historically accurate books (Esther, Judith, 1&2 Maccabees) aren't considered "inspired" by Jews or Christians.
Probably not even if the monarchy were to be abolished -- any British government which saw fit to abolish the monarchy would likely retain its privileges for the state.
Seems likely, since it survived Cromwell's attempt at ending the Crown.
It says "not more than one-half", not "at a minimum one-half". So why would you be turned away for not being a member of a (any|one of those) part(y|ies)? Your presence would not push either party over the halfway mark.
Actually, it's not that insane. But it would take a fairly large force to make a real statement. And the participants should make sure they dress in Colonial-era clothing, to help stress the point that they're acting in the spirit of the Founding Fathers (I'd suggest painted like Indians like the original Tea Party participants, but that's likely to be misunderstood).
And the point isn't to get a given candidate elected (or it shouldn't be, anyway); it should be to draw attention to the problems with electronic voting. I'm not entirely sold on whether this is the best way to go about it, but am at least intrigued by the idea.
Well, it already happened once in 2000, and again in 2004. How many times does the popular candidate have to "mysteriously" lose before people wise up?
It's happened 17 times in our nations history, and 2004 wasn't one of them. There's nothing mysterious about it, the popular vote is completely meaningless in an election. The only thing that matters is the electoral college. That's the way the Constitution was written, and there has not yet been an Amendment to change that.
Although if the local government owns the power utility, they might make up their money there. I have no idea if this is the case in Iowa, of course, but it may very well be.
And keep in mind that data center techs typically make anywhere from $20 to $30 per hour; that's a pretty good wage in Iowa.
On a related note, you should not use Fedora in a production environment anyway. That's what RHEL is for. Fedora = Testing. RHEL = Stable. At least in theory.
I thought it was, RHEL == RedHat Support, Fedora == Community Support. Fedora might have some bleeding edge stuff in it, if you upgrade often, but it seems about as stable as the corresponding RHEL release. The difference is the support you can count on.
The controls the green movement wants to put in place, ostensibly to get rid of SUVs, would have the additional result of stifling development in Africa. So that millions of people would be consigned to use dung to light their cooking fires, and die of painful lung diseases long forgotten in the developed world by the age of 35.
It's not about the SUVs, it's about the starving Africans. Come up with a solution that doesn't throw several billion people under the bus so that you can feel better about yourself while you sip your chai latte, and I'll be willing to listen to what you've got to say.
Linux has kernel modules that allow for keepalive signals to be passed, and for automatic elevation of slaves to master in case of fail over. OpenMOSIX is one, and I believe there's a RedHat sponsored project for it, though its name escapes me at the moment. I don't know of any for UNIX, though.
What about throughput? What kind of speeds can you get with a mainframe, compared to a Linux server or cluster?
Tell that to the millions of Africans who will die if we don't allow their nations to develop beyond where they are now.
You think this is just about money for wealthy nations; you could not be more wrong. This is about life and death for people living on the knife's edge. And socialists like you don't care about them. You're willing to give up SUVs and think that makes you noble, and completely ignore the very real deprivation that exists in most of the world thanks to socialist policies. You might think I'm a "miserable human being", but I find you a disgusting imitation of one.
None of the business needs you described sound like something that couldn't be done by just about any UNIX-like OS with appropriate applications (Oracle Financials, JD Edwards OneWorld, SAP). Even the hardware failures you mentioned can be handled with clustering and having cold, warm, and hot spares on hand. And just about any enterprise SAN or NAS has a phone-home feature.
So again, what's so special about mainframes? You guys talk about the bandwidth, what kind of throughput do you get? How many megs per second? Let's put this in raw numbers, I'm honestly curious about why those systems are supposed to be so special.
Couple the debate about anthropogenic climate change with the fact that it appears the climate is cooling, and it becomes apparent we don't know what the heck's going on. Until climatologists can come up with a model that'll accurately predict weather for a given region during a given month, at least six months out, or hell at least come up with a model that when run with past data points yields the same observed weather, then I'm going to continue ignoring the lot of them as little boys yelling "wolf". There might indeed be a wolf there this time, but the danger in believing him and being wrong is greater than the alternative.
Still, remember that the Gore stance is roughly (yeah, it's exaggerated, but roughly) in line with the science.
Is that the science that predicts half of Manhattan underwater? That's like saying your bank account is roughly in line with the bank's accounting when you're overdrawn by $1000.
2008 may be the coldest year of the 21st century, but every other 21st century year sits at the top of the list of warmest years on record.
Seriously? The list you linked to starts in the late 19th centure, at the tail end of a freakin' ice age. Is it any wonder there would be warmer years after that?
We're talking about a bunch of geeks at a LAN party. I think your cunning plan would fall apart at step 2 as everyone would be too focused on the game to pay attention to naked women.
St. Paul wrote that "faith is the evidence of things unseen." Which, when it comes to the core goodness and decency of humanity, is entirely appropriate.
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The problem is that there is far too much factual info in there and well the fictional/scifi elements get drowned out.
Saying the Bible is based on history because some of the towns are named after real ones is like saying Harry Potter is a real person because he lived in a suburb of London.
As far as I know, everything in the Bible that takes place more than a generation or so before the Babylonian captivity has to be taken with a grain (or in some cases a cellar) of salt. But then the most historically accurate books (Esther, Judith, 1&2 Maccabees) aren't considered "inspired" by Jews or Christians.
Well, "we" (as in mankind as a whole) clearly are amazingly superstitious.
There's nothing amazing about it, it's how God made us.
What?
Probably not even if the monarchy were to be abolished -- any British government which saw fit to abolish the monarchy would likely retain its privileges for the state.
Seems likely, since it survived Cromwell's attempt at ending the Crown.
It says "not more than one-half", not "at a minimum one-half". So why would you be turned away for not being a member of a (any|one of those) part(y|ies)? Your presence would not push either party over the halfway mark.
The reality of this insane suggestion...
Actually, it's not that insane. But it would take a fairly large force to make a real statement. And the participants should make sure they dress in Colonial-era clothing, to help stress the point that they're acting in the spirit of the Founding Fathers (I'd suggest painted like Indians like the original Tea Party participants, but that's likely to be misunderstood).
And the point isn't to get a given candidate elected (or it shouldn't be, anyway); it should be to draw attention to the problems with electronic voting. I'm not entirely sold on whether this is the best way to go about it, but am at least intrigued by the idea.
That's easy, it would be:
&*($#_$#&*($#Q_$#_Q_$#Q&*($#Q&*($#()_$#Q&*($#Q$#Q++
(It's been a while since I've used Perl at work, so there might be a minor bug or two in there.)
Well, it already happened once in 2000, and again in 2004. How many times does the popular candidate have to "mysteriously" lose before people wise up?
It's happened 17 times in our nations history, and 2004 wasn't one of them. There's nothing mysterious about it, the popular vote is completely meaningless in an election. The only thing that matters is the electoral college. That's the way the Constitution was written, and there has not yet been an Amendment to change that.
Although if the local government owns the power utility, they might make up their money there. I have no idea if this is the case in Iowa, of course, but it may very well be.
And keep in mind that data center techs typically make anywhere from $20 to $30 per hour; that's a pretty good wage in Iowa.
On a related note, you should not use Fedora in a production environment anyway. That's what RHEL is for. Fedora = Testing. RHEL = Stable. At least in theory.
I thought it was, RHEL == RedHat Support, Fedora == Community Support. Fedora might have some bleeding edge stuff in it, if you upgrade often, but it seems about as stable as the corresponding RHEL release. The difference is the support you can count on.
The controls the green movement wants to put in place, ostensibly to get rid of SUVs, would have the additional result of stifling development in Africa. So that millions of people would be consigned to use dung to light their cooking fires, and die of painful lung diseases long forgotten in the developed world by the age of 35.
It's not about the SUVs, it's about the starving Africans. Come up with a solution that doesn't throw several billion people under the bus so that you can feel better about yourself while you sip your chai latte, and I'll be willing to listen to what you've got to say.
Linux has kernel modules that allow for keepalive signals to be passed, and for automatic elevation of slaves to master in case of fail over. OpenMOSIX is one, and I believe there's a RedHat sponsored project for it, though its name escapes me at the moment. I don't know of any for UNIX, though.
What about throughput? What kind of speeds can you get with a mainframe, compared to a Linux server or cluster?
Tell that to the millions of Africans who will die if we don't allow their nations to develop beyond where they are now.
You think this is just about money for wealthy nations; you could not be more wrong. This is about life and death for people living on the knife's edge. And socialists like you don't care about them. You're willing to give up SUVs and think that makes you noble, and completely ignore the very real deprivation that exists in most of the world thanks to socialist policies. You might think I'm a "miserable human being", but I find you a disgusting imitation of one.
The last ice age was before the start of the Holocene, over 11,000 years ago. Not, as you claim the "late 19th centure[sic]."
Guess that's what I get for reading Wikipedia.
None of the business needs you described sound like something that couldn't be done by just about any UNIX-like OS with appropriate applications (Oracle Financials, JD Edwards OneWorld, SAP). Even the hardware failures you mentioned can be handled with clustering and having cold, warm, and hot spares on hand. And just about any enterprise SAN or NAS has a phone-home feature.
So again, what's so special about mainframes? You guys talk about the bandwidth, what kind of throughput do you get? How many megs per second? Let's put this in raw numbers, I'm honestly curious about why those systems are supposed to be so special.
I'm almost 40, and several of my sock puppets have 7 digit UIDs.
Ding ding ding! You win a cupie doll!
Couple the debate about anthropogenic climate change with the fact that it appears the climate is cooling, and it becomes apparent we don't know what the heck's going on. Until climatologists can come up with a model that'll accurately predict weather for a given region during a given month, at least six months out, or hell at least come up with a model that when run with past data points yields the same observed weather, then I'm going to continue ignoring the lot of them as little boys yelling "wolf". There might indeed be a wolf there this time, but the danger in believing him and being wrong is greater than the alternative.
As opposed to the historically stable climate that lets us know it'll always rain for 10 minutes on Wednesdays.
Still, remember that the Gore stance is roughly (yeah, it's exaggerated, but roughly) in line with the science.
Is that the science that predicts half of Manhattan underwater? That's like saying your bank account is roughly in line with the bank's accounting when you're overdrawn by $1000.
2008 may be the coldest year of the 21st century, but every other 21st century year sits at the top of the list of warmest years on record.
Seriously? The list you linked to starts in the late 19th centure, at the tail end of a freakin' ice age. Is it any wonder there would be warmer years after that?
When record breaking cold temperatures are touted as evidence of "global warming", what do you think?
And I thought the flat earthers were persistent in their beliefs!
Crying wolf destroys the perception of journalistic integrity for everyone.
There's a site for that.
If your reputation is dependent on a social networking site, you have bigger problems than a vengeful ex.
I have faith that St. Paul wrote it.
We're talking about a bunch of geeks at a LAN party. I think your cunning plan would fall apart at step 2 as everyone would be too focused on the game to pay attention to naked women.
St. Paul wrote that "faith is the evidence of things unseen." Which, when it comes to the core goodness and decency of humanity, is entirely appropriate.