Not to nitpick, but we are over 310 million, not 210 million.
And now to nitpick: The "greedy ass American model" isn't exclusive to America, nor do we own a patent on it. I know it's hip to think that all Americans are greedy fucks, but really, we aren't as one dimensional as you make us out to be. Plenty are, but most Americans are more concerned about family time than making more money. I'm not one of them, but most are that way.
And "greed constrained" is problematic, in that the people who are in charge of "constraining" are typically politicians, who ARE the greediest fuckers in America. Proverbial "fox guarding the hen house", who would make it too easy for billionaire friends to get waivers, on the backs of small business. Like our tax system. I'm glad if that works in your country of 4.5 million, but in one of 310 million and a multi-trillion dollar budget, politicians can't be trusted. Enough so that while I'm against the death penalty in general, I'm in favor of keeping it if it is limited to being used on corrupted elected officials.
How do you measure the impairment of a person after you've stopped them?
By their actions before you stop them. Crossing the yellow line multiple times, failure to maintain a constant speed, not noticing that the cop put his lights on until a minute later when he finally hits the siren. Breathalyzer or blood test if the impairment is alcohol or drugs. Those kinds of things.
Just as you can generalize and say that someone with a blood alcohol content of.10 or.08 is "impaired" in the eyes of the law, texting while driving is also impaired at any level, and simply talking on a cell phone has been shown to be just as dangerous (4x) as driving drunk, so it is easy to conclude texting is worse.
With the availability of hands-free options, there is no excuse to talk while holding the phone anyway. Or pull over. More importantly, there is never a justification for texting while driving. I'm a Libertarian at heart, but that goes beyond personal freedom and enters into the "acts that affects others", and needs a heavy fine, to discourage those activities.
Yet he did this in a capitalistic system, he just chose to not capitalize on his "invention". And not to rag on any other country, but the greedy ass American model is surely not perfect, but not sure if New Zealand is leading the industry in new life saving drugs.
I don't think that the system works best if EVERYONE was either socialist or capitalist, but good old fashioned greed is a useful tool to get people to invest in something that is a long shot. Greed is often a very useful tool, even if ugly.
There are some critical differences in supercharging and turbo charging, which is why turbos are common and blowers are rare at the OEM level. More importantly, they don't turbo charge a light duty but highly efficient engine so it has pulling power when you need it. Instead, they are turbo charging a monster engine, solely for the purpose of giving you higher RPM passing power when you need it.
With or without the turbo, the engines are huge and not making anything near 50mpg. It is a completely different application. Obviously, there is a huge different in transmissions as well, but even if we stick with gas engines, the main bearings, cranks, rods, etc. are very different on a HD application engine and an engine designed for a passenger car, even if they have the same HP rating. For example, I use my truck to pull small stumps, which is hard on the engine and trans (rocking back and forth, jerking, etc.). No way I would do that with a modern car engine that had the same HP, regardless of the frame type. The parts themselves are not not as beefy.
You only prove my point. A "generic" drug, by definition, is one that has been patented, exclusive, and profitable enough to fund research on other drugs. In a socialist system, no drug would ever by "generic" because no drug would be "exclusive". In other words, there would be no financial incentive for any company to invest in new drugs, only the govt. and currently, the majority of countries can't even pay the bills they have now, no less invest in new drugs.
Seriously, do YOU want politicians deciding how much to invest in drugs? The same dumbfucks that can't agree on anything except to spend more money in their own districts? No thanks, compared to them, the drug companies look like angels.
Superchargers are not the answer for heavy duty equipment, or else heavy duty trucks would have them, and literally NONE do. They have more basic, heavy duty engines that focus more on durability than technology. My 2005 2500HD has a Gen III 6.0L (gas), for example, even though Gen IV engines were already out. Heavy duty use tends to break "sophisticated" systems, and beg for more simplicity, which is why diesel is really the best solution.
Heavy duty trucks need engines that develop high torque at very low RPMs, and gears to push the RPMs up at lower speeds, which is also why my truck runs out of RPMs before it could hit 100MPH. Superchargers (or turbo chargers) are a great idea for lighter loads where overall HP is more important than durability and low RPM torque.
My new Hyundai Sonata has a 2.0L turbo engine, for example, that pushes 274HP when fully tapped, and gets 33-35MPG on the Hwy if you keep your foot out of it. That is not the same application as I use my truck, which only has 26 more HP. Towing a 10k-12k trailer would destroy my car, but my truck shrugs it off like it is no big deal. Different application, different technology.
Apple seems, in my mind, to go out of their way to sell devices that are extremely limited.
Then you can make them do only the things in the bulleted brochure. Might explain why I haven't owned anything Apple brand since the 90s. On the other hand, wish I would have bought their stock back then, because of the other fools that bought their products.
I'm betting that trucks won't make that cut, so their prices will reflect a penalty/tax in them, and people (including myself) will pay the tax rather than have an under-powered truck. I only put about 5k miles on my truck (compared to 35k on my car) per year, but a 50MPG truck won't pull a trailer. Ever.
So if they have so many tunnels, are you saying they can install sensors to track drivers in tunnels? When it comes to collecting taxes, (or tracking citizens) never underestimate the Government. Any government.
Considering the freefall of the USD against many currencies
Complete bullshit. The dollar has been slowly weakening vs. the Euro (on average) for a decade. We import weekly, we've been watching it. What stops a freefall is the fact that most of the economies in Western Europe are even more fucked up than the US economy. Here in the US, we are freaking out on 9-10% unemployment, something that is par for the course for much of Europe. That is why Germany is so pissed, being one of the few productive economies in a sea of overspending govts.
And the effective yield isn't -20% to -40%, more complete bullshit. The dollar would be worth less than zero in a just a few years for that scenario to be accurate. Considering inflation and depreciation, plus tax advantages, bonds basically preserve the purchasing power of money, they don't grow it, nor radically reduce it.
Yes, but at some point, you want actual boots on the ground. If the goals of space travel do not include eventually getting humans off this rock, well, then not only is the interest in it going to be near zero, but the point as well.
Unmanned craft can do some of the best science, including helping us figure out where to land the boots.
Would the BSA start a lawsuit based on a purely anonymous tip? I would think not. Starting lawsuits isn't free, and likely not done unless they have something more than just an anonymous tip.
I had a disgruntled former employee call BSA on me and a client (now, employer). They sent a threatening letter to me and the client, which I threw in the trash. I didn't have any pirated software, and the only pirated software on the clients network was Office 97... installed by the former employee and stolen from me by him. I know because he left the CD at the client, with MY serials written on the disk in his handwriting with a Sharpie. Nothing ever came out of it.
As a precaution now, we run Windows on the desktops because we have to, and one proprietary program for accounting, but the servers are 100% GNU, we use Open Office (haven't switched yet) and our Windows utilities are all GNU. The BSA has succeeded in making sure that we don't use their clients software except where we have no choice. It really isn't about price for us, it is about control and simplicity. That, and I make the decisions and they simply pissed me off.
I said: "King James just translated it." Just like my boss can say he installed several new servers, and anyone that isn't being pedantic would understand that he hired someone to do the work but it was at his direction, that he paid to have it done.
You already have the employees on the payroll. You can't say it cost more than their salaries if the time they spent setting it up is trivial.
And as for your shitty accounting software, that isn't comparable to a web server. In general, web servers use two port that are well documented, not 40 that are not well documented. Setting up the firewall for database is also very easy. I'm literally talking about a few minutes in Linux, just a few lines for exceptions in iptables.
I get that in some instances it might be difficult, but a web server with some database access is pretty simple. And no IT person worth 2 cents would disable and leave disabled, a firewall system for a multibillion dollar company, unless told to by a boss.
You can't copyright/patent/trademark facts. Why did they even bother asking?
You can't really quote American law when you are talking about other countries. They may have very different laws. Likely, they just had very different reasons, possibly financial in nature.
I don't buy it. Patching Apache doesn't cost money, is extremely easy to do, is usually quite safe. Adding a firewall can cost as little as zero. Windows and Linux operating systems all come with reasonable firewalls that might not be as robust as a dedicated solution, but are certainly better than nothing, and are trivial to setup. The only cost for those two "fixes" was perhaps a few thousand dollars worth of IT guy time, at most, and likely it would have cost zero, as you simply do it at install time. Firewalls don't need updating.
It just doesn't add up that they would go out of their way to NOT have a firewall when virtually every OS will DEFAULT to having one ON at install. You literally have to ask it to turn it off. Even to turn it off to configure the server and turn on at least a BASIC firewall at their routers just isn't hard.
The New Testament is written in Greek, and Jews/Christians don't believe the holy scriptures are written by God, only inspired by him.
Not the old testament (which is common for jews and christians), and I would strongly disagree about "written by" and "inspired by", as MANY christians will flatly tell you it IS the word of god and man was just writting it down for him. MANY.
I don't see how this is any different than any other live CD though.
As someone else pointed out, this is an "approved" method, meaning they have vetted the distro and believe it to be secure. This actually makes sense, and is much better than telling your soldiers "go download some live linux cd and make sure it is secure".
One of the major benefits of Linux is the ability to make your own distro for special applications like this. And since it is available freely for download (not required but they did it anyway) and the source is available, that makes it even better.
Too small a budget. I just picked up several Dell boxes, i5-2400, 8gb ram (added 4 aftermarket), decent ati graphics (4650 i think, 1gb), 500gb hd, and a 23" monitor, for under 900 bucks. Was on sale, limited to 5, so I just made 2 orders in 2 days to get all 10. For most people, this will get them 5 years+ for all but hard core gaming. Trying to buy in the 500 range typically means built in graphics, modest ram and a lesser monitor. And the i5/2400 is impossible to beat when it comes to price/performance right now, for very little more than average.
Of course, this is for work, where I like to get many systems the same, so if one or two dies in a few years, I can steal parts from other dead systems, as I need. I get your point about people not wanting to spend the money, but a system like I'm talking about is way cheaper in the long run.
Part of my point was that going from 4 to 8 is cheap, and extends the period before you have to upgrade or replace the system. Most computers will outlive their performance usefulness before they break, and upping them to 8gb is the cheapest way to make sure you never have to crack the case to upgrade, for what, an extra $30 bucks?
My opinion is NOT based on what you need TODAY, it is based on what you will need in 2+ years, and history shows you will need it. In particular, an emailer type machine should get 5 to 6 years if you choose good value components, and I will be damned if you won't need 8gb in 4 years.
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Not to nitpick, but we are over 310 million, not 210 million.
And now to nitpick: The "greedy ass American model" isn't exclusive to America, nor do we own a patent on it. I know it's hip to think that all Americans are greedy fucks, but really, we aren't as one dimensional as you make us out to be. Plenty are, but most Americans are more concerned about family time than making more money. I'm not one of them, but most are that way.
And "greed constrained" is problematic, in that the people who are in charge of "constraining" are typically politicians, who ARE the greediest fuckers in America. Proverbial "fox guarding the hen house", who would make it too easy for billionaire friends to get waivers, on the backs of small business. Like our tax system. I'm glad if that works in your country of 4.5 million, but in one of 310 million and a multi-trillion dollar budget, politicians can't be trusted. Enough so that while I'm against the death penalty in general, I'm in favor of keeping it if it is limited to being used on corrupted elected officials.
How do you measure the impairment of a person after you've stopped them?
By their actions before you stop them. Crossing the yellow line multiple times, failure to maintain a constant speed, not noticing that the cop put his lights on until a minute later when he finally hits the siren. Breathalyzer or blood test if the impairment is alcohol or drugs. Those kinds of things.
Just as you can generalize and say that someone with a blood alcohol content of .10 or .08 is "impaired" in the eyes of the law, texting while driving is also impaired at any level, and simply talking on a cell phone has been shown to be just as dangerous (4x) as driving drunk, so it is easy to conclude texting is worse.
With the availability of hands-free options, there is no excuse to talk while holding the phone anyway. Or pull over. More importantly, there is never a justification for texting while driving. I'm a Libertarian at heart, but that goes beyond personal freedom and enters into the "acts that affects others", and needs a heavy fine, to discourage those activities.
Yet he did this in a capitalistic system, he just chose to not capitalize on his "invention". And not to rag on any other country, but the greedy ass American model is surely not perfect, but not sure if New Zealand is leading the industry in new life saving drugs.
I don't think that the system works best if EVERYONE was either socialist or capitalist, but good old fashioned greed is a useful tool to get people to invest in something that is a long shot. Greed is often a very useful tool, even if ugly.
There are some critical differences in supercharging and turbo charging, which is why turbos are common and blowers are rare at the OEM level. More importantly, they don't turbo charge a light duty but highly efficient engine so it has pulling power when you need it. Instead, they are turbo charging a monster engine, solely for the purpose of giving you higher RPM passing power when you need it.
With or without the turbo, the engines are huge and not making anything near 50mpg. It is a completely different application. Obviously, there is a huge different in transmissions as well, but even if we stick with gas engines, the main bearings, cranks, rods, etc. are very different on a HD application engine and an engine designed for a passenger car, even if they have the same HP rating. For example, I use my truck to pull small stumps, which is hard on the engine and trans (rocking back and forth, jerking, etc.). No way I would do that with a modern car engine that had the same HP, regardless of the frame type. The parts themselves are not not as beefy.
You only prove my point. A "generic" drug, by definition, is one that has been patented, exclusive, and profitable enough to fund research on other drugs. In a socialist system, no drug would ever by "generic" because no drug would be "exclusive". In other words, there would be no financial incentive for any company to invest in new drugs, only the govt. and currently, the majority of countries can't even pay the bills they have now, no less invest in new drugs.
Seriously, do YOU want politicians deciding how much to invest in drugs? The same dumbfucks that can't agree on anything except to spend more money in their own districts? No thanks, compared to them, the drug companies look like angels.
Superchargers are not the answer for heavy duty equipment, or else heavy duty trucks would have them, and literally NONE do. They have more basic, heavy duty engines that focus more on durability than technology. My 2005 2500HD has a Gen III 6.0L (gas), for example, even though Gen IV engines were already out. Heavy duty use tends to break "sophisticated" systems, and beg for more simplicity, which is why diesel is really the best solution.
Heavy duty trucks need engines that develop high torque at very low RPMs, and gears to push the RPMs up at lower speeds, which is also why my truck runs out of RPMs before it could hit 100MPH. Superchargers (or turbo chargers) are a great idea for lighter loads where overall HP is more important than durability and low RPM torque.
My new Hyundai Sonata has a 2.0L turbo engine, for example, that pushes 274HP when fully tapped, and gets 33-35MPG on the Hwy if you keep your foot out of it. That is not the same application as I use my truck, which only has 26 more HP. Towing a 10k-12k trailer would destroy my car, but my truck shrugs it off like it is no big deal. Different application, different technology.
Apple seems, in my mind, to go out of their way to sell devices that are extremely limited.
Then you can make them do only the things in the bulleted brochure. Might explain why I haven't owned anything Apple brand since the 90s. On the other hand, wish I would have bought their stock back then, because of the other fools that bought their products.
I'm betting that trucks won't make that cut, so their prices will reflect a penalty/tax in them, and people (including myself) will pay the tax rather than have an under-powered truck. I only put about 5k miles on my truck (compared to 35k on my car) per year, but a 50MPG truck won't pull a trailer. Ever.
Socialism?
Name an example of where that is actually working with the pharm industry....still waiting....
Like Capitalism, Socialism is not the answer to every question.
So if they have so many tunnels, are you saying they can install sensors to track drivers in tunnels? When it comes to collecting taxes, (or tracking citizens) never underestimate the Government. Any government.
Considering the freefall of the USD against many currencies
Complete bullshit. The dollar has been slowly weakening vs. the Euro (on average) for a decade. We import weekly, we've been watching it. What stops a freefall is the fact that most of the economies in Western Europe are even more fucked up than the US economy. Here in the US, we are freaking out on 9-10% unemployment, something that is par for the course for much of Europe. That is why Germany is so pissed, being one of the few productive economies in a sea of overspending govts.
And the effective yield isn't -20% to -40%, more complete bullshit. The dollar would be worth less than zero in a just a few years for that scenario to be accurate. Considering inflation and depreciation, plus tax advantages, bonds basically preserve the purchasing power of money, they don't grow it, nor radically reduce it.
I would suggest a different topic to opine on.
Yes, but at some point, you want actual boots on the ground. If the goals of space travel do not include eventually getting humans off this rock, well, then not only is the interest in it going to be near zero, but the point as well.
Unmanned craft can do some of the best science, including helping us figure out where to land the boots.
Depends. Did they replace all 900,000 in one day? No? Didn't think so.
Would the BSA start a lawsuit based on a purely anonymous tip? I would think not. Starting lawsuits isn't free, and likely not done unless they have something more than just an anonymous tip.
I had a disgruntled former employee call BSA on me and a client (now, employer). They sent a threatening letter to me and the client, which I threw in the trash. I didn't have any pirated software, and the only pirated software on the clients network was Office 97... installed by the former employee and stolen from me by him. I know because he left the CD at the client, with MY serials written on the disk in his handwriting with a Sharpie. Nothing ever came out of it.
As a precaution now, we run Windows on the desktops because we have to, and one proprietary program for accounting, but the servers are 100% GNU, we use Open Office (haven't switched yet) and our Windows utilities are all GNU. The BSA has succeeded in making sure that we don't use their clients software except where we have no choice. It really isn't about price for us, it is about control and simplicity. That, and I make the decisions and they simply pissed me off.
I sum it up with my boss this way...
When it comes to network security, there are two kinds of people:
1. Paranoids
2. Idiots
Either you are one, or you are the other.
So you have people who know how to load balance a range of services through multiple systems, but can't configure a firewall?
I said: "King James just translated it." Just like my boss can say he installed several new servers, and anyone that isn't being pedantic would understand that he hired someone to do the work but it was at his direction, that he paid to have it done.
You already have the employees on the payroll. You can't say it cost more than their salaries if the time they spent setting it up is trivial.
And as for your shitty accounting software, that isn't comparable to a web server. In general, web servers use two port that are well documented, not 40 that are not well documented. Setting up the firewall for database is also very easy. I'm literally talking about a few minutes in Linux, just a few lines for exceptions in iptables.
I get that in some instances it might be difficult, but a web server with some database access is pretty simple. And no IT person worth 2 cents would disable and leave disabled, a firewall system for a multibillion dollar company, unless told to by a boss.
You can't copyright/patent/trademark facts. Why did they even bother asking?
You can't really quote American law when you are talking about other countries. They may have very different laws. Likely, they just had very different reasons, possibly financial in nature.
I don't buy it. Patching Apache doesn't cost money, is extremely easy to do, is usually quite safe. Adding a firewall can cost as little as zero. Windows and Linux operating systems all come with reasonable firewalls that might not be as robust as a dedicated solution, but are certainly better than nothing, and are trivial to setup. The only cost for those two "fixes" was perhaps a few thousand dollars worth of IT guy time, at most, and likely it would have cost zero, as you simply do it at install time. Firewalls don't need updating.
It just doesn't add up that they would go out of their way to NOT have a firewall when virtually every OS will DEFAULT to having one ON at install. You literally have to ask it to turn it off. Even to turn it off to configure the server and turn on at least a BASIC firewall at their routers just isn't hard.
The New Testament is written in Greek, and Jews/Christians don't believe the holy scriptures are written by God, only inspired by him.
Not the old testament (which is common for jews and christians), and I would strongly disagree about "written by" and "inspired by", as MANY christians will flatly tell you it IS the word of god and man was just writting it down for him. MANY.
I don't see how this is any different than any other live CD though.
As someone else pointed out, this is an "approved" method, meaning they have vetted the distro and believe it to be secure. This actually makes sense, and is much better than telling your soldiers "go download some live linux cd and make sure it is secure".
One of the major benefits of Linux is the ability to make your own distro for special applications like this. And since it is available freely for download (not required but they did it anyway) and the source is available, that makes it even better.
Too small a budget. I just picked up several Dell boxes, i5-2400, 8gb ram (added 4 aftermarket), decent ati graphics (4650 i think, 1gb), 500gb hd, and a 23" monitor, for under 900 bucks. Was on sale, limited to 5, so I just made 2 orders in 2 days to get all 10. For most people, this will get them 5 years+ for all but hard core gaming. Trying to buy in the 500 range typically means built in graphics, modest ram and a lesser monitor. And the i5/2400 is impossible to beat when it comes to price/performance right now, for very little more than average.
Of course, this is for work, where I like to get many systems the same, so if one or two dies in a few years, I can steal parts from other dead systems, as I need. I get your point about people not wanting to spend the money, but a system like I'm talking about is way cheaper in the long run.
wget -m -p http://*
Just run that in your cron.daily scripts and you are good to go!
Part of my point was that going from 4 to 8 is cheap, and extends the period before you have to upgrade or replace the system. Most computers will outlive their performance usefulness before they break, and upping them to 8gb is the cheapest way to make sure you never have to crack the case to upgrade, for what, an extra $30 bucks?
My opinion is NOT based on what you need TODAY, it is based on what you will need in 2+ years, and history shows you will need it. In particular, an emailer type machine should get 5 to 6 years if you choose good value components, and I will be damned if you won't need 8gb in 4 years.