I also work on a local SAR team (Marin County, Northern CA) and in our county the data would be so overwhelming to be as to be useless. Trailside interviews would provide lots more info.
My employer (a medium size insurance company) Is currently being sued by the claims analysts, saying they are not exempt employees and should be paid on an hourly basis (including overtime).
Depending on how this case works out, it could have a ripple effect throughout the country.
Or you can just send them all copies of your code, with the accompanying hardware in the fastest possible means. (the warheads being armed, are of course a mere courtesy detail)
Oakland Harbour started to have an unusual high rate of accidents (thnakfully no one hurt, but big cargo boxes dropped from cranes tend to have financial implications). Management decides to implement the policy that if any accident happens while in violation of the safety rules, then the disciplinary action could include days off without pay or even termination.
The dockworkers union decides to follow the safety rules strictly. All breaks were taken on the hour, no one worked any overtime, forklifts were not driven over 5mph, you get the idea.
cargo gets backed up - ships are waiting out in the bay cause the cargo can't be unloaded at the same speed it was before, everyone getting angry etc (but no more accidents).
Management locks out dockworkers union - the press calls it a strike, cargo is left rotting on ships, farmers can't send their crops to their customers, etc
finally Pres Bush calls in the Taft act and breaks the lockout but without resolution 5 weeks before xmas so walmart (and others) can get their chinese made junk on the shelves in time (I'm over-dramatizing, but you get the idea).
policy about accidents while in violation of safety code is still in place to this day.
just yesterday I was stopped for less than 5 minutes because my change purse and my GPS gave an 'unusual x-ray' signature.
Bear in mind this was right after the airport (Rapid City) had been closed for 24 hours during a blizzard and the security guards were probably very bored (there was no-one else in line at all)
before the days of the internet there was a massive BBS called "The Well" (hundreds of phone lines), it once ran an ad for a sysadmin that included "located on the marina in Sausalito, can kayak to work from San Francisco".
I agree with all your points except one - I do beleive that people with wheelchairs whould be able to drive SUV's - in fact one of the main proponents of legalizing vehicle access to CA's lost coast is doing it in the name of the ADA becauase his electric wheel chair will not handle the 10 miles of dirt roads that most other people can walk.
and while I have seen people pull wheelchairs out of the backseat of Datsun Z80's while still sitting in the front seat, it's not easy and a large van is a lot more practical. If that large van has a chair lift and 4wd then more power to them.
not to nitpick - but if you head to a 4wd park, or the Rubicon, or Moab you will not see "Factory standard wheels & tires" anywhere. You will see 4 to 6 inch lifts with tires large enough climb medium rocks.
Of course I'm not even going talking about 'monster truck' show trucks that are so high you could get a miata driver to change your oil on the freeway.
I had a Toyota Prius for while before I was laid off and had to move to a cheaper car.
The pickup was decent (better than my old 82 Honda). I loved the gas engine shutting off while waiting at stoplights and drivethroughs (and slow parking lot stalking) - the only complaint I've heard about that is it's too quiet - kids tend to run out in front of you.
I averaged about 400 miles on 10 gallons.
It was just too expensive for me at the time - between payment and insurance it was about $550 / month. a gas guzzling Cherokee was about $300 / month and there's no way I burned $250 / month in gas. (besides the prius wouldn't go off road, well not in a way that would come back)
so assuming we can work out the super-conductor issues - we will still be dependent on the middle east for our power - i.e. who has large deserted areas with lots of sunshine days / year?
When I worked for a mail order company for songbooks, we rented a list of all the youth groups and churches in the U.S. for a one time mailing. Those who responded got put on our real list and we threw away the rest.
O.k. I'll bite...This won't work for me and I think it won't work for a lot of people.
I have two accounts, one is yahoo DSL and the other is a hosting company for my email and web page (interland.com). Both require pop-before-smtp before allowing outgoing email. Exim is not easy to setup to do outgoing pop-before-smtp (o.k. I spent a whole weekend unsuccesfully working on it, no one on the exim-support mailing list had figured it out (or if they had they weren't saying)). My only solution was to send mail out directly (which exim does very well.) If SBC/yahoo decides to block outgoing port 25 connection then I am screwed for e-mail.
I consider myself a fairly sophisticated user, all my home network points to my debian router for outgoing (and incoming) mail. I don't think I'm at risk for email viruses (but then again, nobody does).
I put an X-10 plug on the TV and the firecracker thingie from Radio Shack on my linux router. a cron job shuts the TV off every school night at 9:00 and won't turn it back on until the next morning. The kids know where the remote is and can turn it back on if a mistake was made (holiday - no school tomorrow) but normally they get the hint and go to bed. (or sometimes finish up homework they told me was done before the TV got turned on).
The flight simulator x-plane allows to try various different atmospheres and gravities including mars and piloting the space shuttle in orbit around earth.
flying around mars is actually fairly easy - if you learn to take your turns a little slower - the problem is landing. No air pressure means air brakes, parachutes etc don't work. and low gravity means no traction for tires (no weight but lots of mass). 4 mile long runways may be the norm in the future, but most people nowadays would get bored taxiing for half an hour or so to slow down, so all the airports that have been 'built' on mars all have arresting cables.
Can this be worked around by setting your netmask to something like 0.0.0.0 (i.e. local subnet include whole internet).
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I was in a very similar position myself - the company I worked was owned by SAIC. We made patient tracking systems for hospitals (expensive but very detailed tracking systems). We got the contract to do the entire California Kaiser system, tie them all together with a huge data center. We were a very liberal company, no dress code, sandals and shorts were a common sight. Over half the company was gay (male and female) or bi, we felt like we were doing something to benefit not only mankind, but individual people. Needless to say there was a lot of resentment for this military machine who wanted a slice of the huge Kaiser contract, so they bought us out and mismanaged us to the point where we lost the Kaiser contract to IBM, then they dumped us.
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That's funny, I used to work for SAIC when my whole division was canned. Now I work in a much more secure job in the private sector. (Insurance Industry)
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I also work on a local SAR team (Marin County, Northern CA) and in our county the data would be so overwhelming to be as to be useless. Trailside interviews would provide lots more info.
My employer (a medium size insurance company)
Is currently being sued by the claims analysts, saying they are not exempt employees and should be paid on an hourly basis (including overtime).
Depending on how this case works out, it could have a ripple effect throughout the country.
Or you can just send them all copies of your code, with the accompanying hardware in the fastest possible means. (the warheads being armed, are of course a mere courtesy detail)
I'll glady help out if I get my own test system!
An example of this taken to extreme
Oakland Harbour started to have an unusual high rate of accidents (thnakfully no one hurt, but big cargo boxes dropped from cranes tend to have financial implications). Management decides to implement the policy that if any accident happens while in violation of the safety rules, then the disciplinary action could include days off without pay or even termination.
The dockworkers union decides to follow the safety rules strictly. All breaks were taken on the hour, no one worked any overtime, forklifts were not driven over 5mph, you get the idea.
cargo gets backed up - ships are waiting out in the bay cause the cargo can't be unloaded at the same speed it was before, everyone getting angry etc (but no more accidents).
Management locks out dockworkers union - the press calls it a strike, cargo is left rotting on ships, farmers can't send their crops to their customers, etc
finally Pres Bush calls in the Taft act and breaks the lockout but without resolution 5 weeks before xmas so walmart (and others) can get their chinese made junk on the shelves in time (I'm over-dramatizing, but you get the idea).
policy about accidents while in violation of safety code is still in place to this day.
Bear in mind this was right after the airport (Rapid City) had been closed for 24 hours during a blizzard and the security guards were probably very bored (there was no-one else in line at all)
has to follow Ford Coppola in everything he does eh?
That's kind of like saying "it's o.k. to kidnap kids whose parents aren't watching to teach parents to watch their kids" or anything like that.
I don't like the idea of tracking myself, but at least if it's there can we please use it to track and execute all the spammers...Thank you
http://www.tapr.org
but it definately got your attention:
before the days of the internet there was a
massive BBS called "The Well" (hundreds of phone lines), it once ran an ad for a sysadmin that included
"located on the marina in Sausalito, can kayak to work from San Francisco".
we mostly run AIX here where I work. We were considering redhat for non-production servers, but if SCO will pay us to stick with IBM...
and while I have seen people pull wheelchairs out of the backseat of Datsun Z80's while still sitting in the front seat, it's not easy and a large van is a lot more practical. If that large van has a chair lift and 4wd then more power to them.
Of course I'm not even going talking about 'monster truck' show trucks that are so high you could get a miata driver to change your oil on the freeway.
The pickup was decent (better than my old 82 Honda). I loved the gas engine shutting off while waiting at stoplights and drivethroughs (and slow parking lot stalking) - the only complaint I've heard about that is it's too quiet - kids tend to run out in front of you.
I averaged about 400 miles on 10 gallons.
It was just too expensive for me at the time - between payment and insurance it was about $550 / month. a gas guzzling Cherokee was about $300 / month and there's no way I burned $250 / month in gas. (besides the prius wouldn't go off road, well not in a way that would come back)
so assuming we can work out the super-conductor issues - we will still be dependent on the middle east for our power - i.e. who has large deserted areas with lots of sunshine days / year?
When I worked for a mail order company for songbooks, we rented a list of all the youth groups and churches in the U.S. for a one time mailing. Those who responded got put on our real list and we threw away the rest.
how about a linux wine hike in the beautiful Napa Valley? (o.k. I live in Sonoma - close enough)
"I told you they would listen to reason"
I have two accounts, one is yahoo DSL and the other is a hosting company for my email and web page (interland.com). Both require pop-before-smtp before allowing outgoing email. Exim is not easy to setup to do outgoing pop-before-smtp (o.k. I spent a whole weekend unsuccesfully working on it, no one on the exim-support mailing list had figured it out (or if they had they weren't saying)). My only solution was to send mail out directly (which exim does very well.) If SBC/yahoo decides to block outgoing port 25 connection then I am screwed for e-mail.
I consider myself a fairly sophisticated user, all my home network points to my debian router for outgoing (and incoming) mail. I don't think I'm at risk for email viruses (but then again, nobody does).
I put an X-10 plug on the TV and the firecracker
thingie from Radio Shack on my linux router. a cron job shuts the TV off every school night at 9:00 and won't turn it back on until the next morning. The kids know where the remote is and can turn it back on if a mistake was made (holiday - no school tomorrow) but normally they get the hint and go to bed. (or sometimes finish up homework they told me was done before the TV got turned on).
The flight simulator x-plane allows to try various different atmospheres and gravities including mars and piloting the space shuttle in orbit around earth.
flying around mars is actually fairly easy - if you learn to take your turns a little slower - the problem is landing. No air pressure means air brakes, parachutes etc don't work. and low gravity means no traction for tires (no weight but lots of mass). 4 mile long runways may be the norm in the future, but most people nowadays would get bored taxiing for half an hour or so to slow down, so all the airports that have been 'built' on mars all have arresting cables.
Can this be worked around by setting your netmask to something like 0.0.0.0 (i.e. local subnet include whole internet).
I was in a very similar position myself - the company I worked was owned by SAIC. We made patient tracking systems for hospitals (expensive but very detailed tracking systems). We got the contract to do the entire California Kaiser system, tie them all together with a huge data center. We were a very liberal company, no dress code, sandals and shorts were a common sight. Over half the company was gay (male and female) or bi, we felt like we were doing something to benefit not only mankind, but individual people. Needless to say there was a lot of resentment for this military machine who wanted a slice of the huge Kaiser contract, so they bought us out and mismanaged us to the point where we lost the Kaiser contract to IBM, then they dumped us.
That's funny, I used to work for SAIC when my whole division was canned. Now I work in a much more secure job in the private sector. (Insurance Industry)