Rice is great, in that you can eat it for days, and it's relatively clean as long as you're reasonable while shoveling it in.
¾ cup of long grain rice 1 clove of garlic, diced 1 14oz can chicken broth 4 oz. tomato sauce 2 tbsp butter 1 anaheim or poblano chile - fried in butter or oil, peeled, and diced ¼ cup diced red bell peppers 1/3 cup white onions, chopped ½ teaspoon salt 1 tsp chicken base
Fry the chile and dice. Fry the peppers. Soak rice in a medium pot in VERY hot water for 10 minutes. Rinse in cold water, let excess water drain off.
In a blender, combine garlic, tomato sauce, ½ can chicken broth, chicken base.
Lightly brown the rice in the butter over medium heat. When the rice is golden brown, add the diced chiles, peppers and onions, and continue cooking until onions are translucent. Stir often and do not let stick.
Add broth mixture from blender and continue to cook for 7 minutes, stirring often.
Add remaining broth and salt. As soon as rice comes to a full boil, turn heat to low and cover for 20 minutes.
Though I think it would be ridiculous, I could imagine such a problem.
I know that it's illegal to put aviation gasoline in your car because no road tax was paid on it. I suspect there could be some variation of that problem in this case as well.
We use Snort on several boxes as sensors, reporting to a central database server. It's a sweet setup that's tedious, but not difficult to maintain. The database (ACID) is easy to use, and works as a PHB pacifier.
Obviously we didn't get the whole thing up and going in a day, and we still spend time updating/tweaking signatures; but it wasn't rocket science.
Somebody mod the parent of this post up. There are no rights without some limit. In fact, limits are used to guarantee the very rights you value. We have not come far enough as people to allow total and unconditional freedom for everybody. We're too selfish, predatory, and violent to allow society to exist without any limits at all.
Ideals are great; but not many of them can be applied successfully in the world without chipping away at them first.
Why not fax them blank pieces of paper. They can re-use the paper, so the cost is reduced to virtually nothing other than the cost of the time on the phone line.
Still probably illegal; but I doubt you'd suffer any real consequences even if they prosecuted.
This is precisely why I'm currently switching to DSL. Locally, Cox just severed from RoadRunner and became the sole supplier of cable-modem access in town. They immediately shrunk my service from 3 addresses to 1, and blocked about a dozen ports.
Now, I'm not running streaming video over my web server; and I'm not hosting a warez site. I just want a few handy php utilities that I can use remotely. I'd be perfectly happy with a bandwidth cap. But instead, they chose port blocking as the solution. And in addition to reduced services, I also have to deal with being on an 8000 host subnet, so every time their router hiccups, potentially 8000 people lose their routes to the net. I don't know about everybody else's network; but my experience is that routing is the fragile part of the equation. It causes more problems than anything else.
So I'm switching. My DSL equipment should arrive early next week.
So our involvement in the Cold War was not only responsible for our lack of a great rail system; but is also responsible for the erosion of our personal liberties, overtaxation, and terrorism?
Please.
There are a lot of things wrong with our government. I wouldn't presume to argue otherwise; and I'll agree that I've seen some distasteful stuff going on since 9-11. But let's not put the tinfoil hats on yet. There have been a number of base closings since the end of the Cold War, and I'd be interested to see what the percentages of the national budget have been for defense over the last 10 years. It's easy to say that defense spending is up; because you can almost certainly find some way of making the numbers add up to meet that.
Certainly there's been some ridiculous crap (the Osprey, the B-1 yard-dart, more B-2's than we could possibly need, etc.); but it's hard to argue now that the defense spending of the last 10 years should have been less. Different, perhaps; but I don't think less.
And if we really want to talk seriously about it, we should understand that we didn't fight the Cold War by choice. We had to do it. It really was that big of a deal. If the Soviet version of Communism had been allowed to spread across the globe, it would have been a disaster to everybody, for more reasons than I could possibly relate in a slashdot post.
As for your high taxes, I agree; but I don't think it has anything to do with the Cold War. It has more to do with Congress, and their pet projects. Research grants for groups in their home states, projects funded and located in their districts by making deals with other congressmen to return the favor someday, etc. It also has to do with the rest of us paying for the tax shelters that others utilize. A flat tax would be the best. No corporate welfare, no deductions for my kids, my mortgage, my stock market losses, etc. Everybody (and I mean everybody) pays the same. We might be surprised at how well that works out.
My understanding is that they've decided that Mohammed Atta actually went to the WTC ahead of time with a hand-held GPS. Once there he just captured his location as a user-defined waypoint, then passed on the coordinates to the terrorists assigned to the second plane.
Although I wouldn't want to minimize the impact of problems at our radar control facilities, it should be noted that there are procedures for dealing with this sort of thing.
Traffic flow procedures, and FAR's allow for all kinds of flexibility here. Controllers can stack airplanes up in holding patterns while they sort out priorities. Traffic that the primary airports couldn't handle could be sent to reliever airports. Enroute traffic could be sent to alternate airports, etc. In an emergency, the FARs even allow a pilot to deviate from the regs to the extent necessary to safely complete the flight. In other words, if it was an emergency, the Captain could break his flight plan and head for the nearest suitable runway.
The dangerous time is the time between the failure, and the full blown utilization of alternate methods. Even this, however, is helped by separation standards, standard arrival and departure routes, TCAS, etc.
In other words, they won't just fall out of the sky. If I were an airline Captain, and I found myself in a situation where the destination airport's radar was out, and I felt nervous about the safety of that airport's traffic environment, I'd start by asking for an ammended clearance to some alternate destination. If that didn't work, I might just declare an emergency and divert myself.
Contrary to what you see in Die Hard movies, the system is pretty flexible, and the people who use it are intelligent and capable.
Why moderate this down as a troll? He wasn't trolling; but offering an observation that doesn't hit too far from the mark.
"To each his needs. From each his abilities." isn't too far from the philosophy of open source. The difference is that RMS has no real power, as opposed to Lenin, who obviously did.
RMS can't send your family to the gulag for offending him, no matter how much he might wish he could.
I would humbly submit that if petroleum products disappear, so will nuclear power plants. You need all kinds of lubricants for the turbines and generators, plastics for wiring insulation and a million other things, etc.
It's kind of ironic that a nuclear power plant can't be built and run without petroleum products.
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They're dumbing it down for the simple folk. Kind of like I do for my three-year old daughter.
"We're going to Grandma's later."
"How much later?"
"8 Sponge Bobs"
Rice is great, in that you can eat it for days, and it's relatively clean as long as you're reasonable while shoveling it in.
¾ cup of long grain rice
1 clove of garlic, diced
1 14oz can chicken broth
4 oz. tomato sauce
2 tbsp butter
1 anaheim or poblano chile - fried in butter or oil, peeled, and diced
¼ cup diced red bell peppers
1/3 cup white onions, chopped
½ teaspoon salt
1 tsp chicken base
Fry the chile and dice. Fry the peppers. Soak rice in a medium pot in VERY hot water for 10 minutes. Rinse in cold water, let excess water drain off.
In a blender, combine garlic, tomato sauce, ½ can chicken broth, chicken base.
Lightly brown the rice in the butter over medium heat. When the rice is golden brown, add the diced chiles, peppers and onions, and continue cooking until onions are translucent. Stir often and do not let stick.
Add broth mixture from blender and continue to cook for 7 minutes, stirring often.
Add remaining broth and salt. As soon as rice comes to a full boil, turn heat to low and cover for 20 minutes.
Stir, and cook an additional 5 minutes.
It's the P2PreCrimes unit of the RIAA.
They're using a small cadre of hip teens suspended in fluid to determine the likelihood of a particular piece of music being stolen.
Though I think it would be ridiculous, I could imagine such a problem.
I know that it's illegal to put aviation gasoline in your car because no road tax was paid on it. I suspect there could be some variation of that problem in this case as well.
Brainfart. It was Stevie Smith. My bad.
Our Bog is Dood. E.E. Cummings.
We use Snort on several boxes as sensors, reporting to a central database server. It's a sweet setup that's tedious, but not difficult to maintain. The database (ACID) is easy to use, and works as a PHB pacifier.
Obviously we didn't get the whole thing up and going in a day, and we still spend time updating/tweaking signatures; but it wasn't rocket science.
You know, the only reason I don't watch that movie very often is that it's TOO realistic. Watching that movie is like going to work.
Somebody mod the parent of this post up. There are no rights without some limit. In fact, limits are used to guarantee the very rights you value. We have not come far enough as people to allow total and unconditional freedom for everybody. We're too selfish, predatory, and violent to allow society to exist without any limits at all.
Ideals are great; but not many of them can be applied successfully in the world without chipping away at them first.
Why not fax them blank pieces of paper. They can re-use the paper, so the cost is reduced to virtually nothing other than the cost of the time on the phone line.
Still probably illegal; but I doubt you'd suffer any real consequences even if they prosecuted.
This is precisely why I'm currently switching to DSL. Locally, Cox just severed from RoadRunner and became the sole supplier of cable-modem access in town. They immediately shrunk my service from 3 addresses to 1, and blocked about a dozen ports.
Now, I'm not running streaming video over my web server; and I'm not hosting a warez site. I just want a few handy php utilities that I can use remotely. I'd be perfectly happy with a bandwidth cap. But instead, they chose port blocking as the solution. And in addition to reduced services, I also have to deal with being on an 8000 host subnet, so every time their router hiccups, potentially 8000 people lose their routes to the net. I don't know about everybody else's network; but my experience is that routing is the fragile part of the equation. It causes more problems than anything else.
So I'm switching. My DSL equipment should arrive early next week.
CmdrTaco: "Help him. Help him."
CowboyNeal: "Help who?."
CmdrTaco: "Help the bombadier."
CowboyNeal: "I'm the bombadier."
CmdrTaco: "Then help HIM."
CowboyNeal crawls back to find JonKatz lying injured on the floor. He's dying(or irrelevant) but he doesn't know it yet.
JonKatz: "I'm cold."
CowboyNeal, holding his innards in place: "You're gonna be okay kid."
On the other hand, he's petulant, emotionally detached, and has no qualms about breaking a few laws/rules if it suits his whim.
The problem is that you can say whatever the hell you want. It makes no difference because you have no authority.
Get your boss to agree with you and to kick out a memo, then wield it like a stick against your users.
"Boss say back up to server, or we send family to gulag."
So our involvement in the Cold War was not only responsible for our lack of a great rail system; but is also responsible for the erosion of our personal liberties, overtaxation, and terrorism?
Please.
There are a lot of things wrong with our government. I wouldn't presume to argue otherwise; and I'll agree that I've seen some distasteful stuff going on since 9-11. But let's not put the tinfoil hats on yet. There have been a number of base closings since the end of the Cold War, and I'd be interested to see what the percentages of the national budget have been for defense over the last 10 years. It's easy to say that defense spending is up; because you can almost certainly find some way of making the numbers add up to meet that.
Certainly there's been some ridiculous crap (the Osprey, the B-1 yard-dart, more B-2's than we could possibly need, etc.); but it's hard to argue now that the defense spending of the last 10 years should have been less. Different, perhaps; but I don't think less.
And if we really want to talk seriously about it, we should understand that we didn't fight the Cold War by choice. We had to do it. It really was that big of a deal. If the Soviet version of Communism had been allowed to spread across the globe, it would have been a disaster to everybody, for more reasons than I could possibly relate in a slashdot post.
As for your high taxes, I agree; but I don't think it has anything to do with the Cold War. It has more to do with Congress, and their pet projects. Research grants for groups in their home states, projects funded and located in their districts by making deals with other congressmen to return the favor someday, etc. It also has to do with the rest of us paying for the tax shelters that others utilize. A flat tax would be the best. No corporate welfare, no deductions for my kids, my mortgage, my stock market losses, etc. Everybody (and I mean everybody) pays the same. We might be surprised at how well that works out.
The hell of it is that this will also apply to iso's I want to download.
Maybe if we hadn't spent trillions of dollars on the cold war, we would have a great national train system right now.
Maybe we could ride it to Washington on MayDay to listen to the Premier speak, and watch the Migs fly over.
My understanding is that they've decided that Mohammed Atta actually went to the WTC ahead of time with a hand-held GPS. Once there he just captured his location as a user-defined waypoint, then passed on the coordinates to the terrorists assigned to the second plane.
Although I wouldn't want to minimize the impact of problems at our radar control facilities, it should be noted that there are procedures for dealing with this sort of thing.
Traffic flow procedures, and FAR's allow for all kinds of flexibility here. Controllers can stack airplanes up in holding patterns while they sort out priorities. Traffic that the primary airports couldn't handle could be sent to reliever airports. Enroute traffic could be sent to alternate airports, etc. In an emergency, the FARs even allow a pilot to deviate from the regs to the extent necessary to safely complete the flight. In other words, if it was an emergency, the Captain could break his flight plan and head for the nearest suitable runway.
The dangerous time is the time between the failure, and the full blown utilization of alternate methods. Even this, however, is helped by separation standards, standard arrival and departure routes, TCAS, etc.
In other words, they won't just fall out of the sky. If I were an airline Captain, and I found myself in a situation where the destination airport's radar was out, and I felt nervous about the safety of that airport's traffic environment, I'd start by asking for an ammended clearance to some alternate destination. If that didn't work, I might just declare an emergency and divert myself.
Contrary to what you see in Die Hard movies, the system is pretty flexible, and the people who use it are intelligent and capable.
Why moderate this down as a troll? He wasn't trolling; but offering an observation that doesn't hit too far from the mark.
"To each his needs. From each his abilities." isn't too far from the philosophy of open source. The difference is that RMS has no real power, as opposed to Lenin, who obviously did.
RMS can't send your family to the gulag for offending him, no matter how much he might wish he could.
Along the same lines as the parent. Will IBM be porting anything like SMIT to linux? A leaner overall admin utility is desparately needed IMHO.
I would humbly submit that if petroleum products disappear, so will nuclear power plants. You need all kinds of lubricants for the turbines and generators, plastics for wiring insulation and a million other things, etc.
It's kind of ironic that a nuclear power plant can't be built and run without petroleum products.
Liberals tend to stick to what they believe regardless of what facts show.
That's not limited to liberals, though I agree with the current thread.
I wish I had mod points. What a very down to earth and realistic sentiment. Thank you for a small piece of reason on slashdot. It is truly refreshing.
"Allah Akbar!"
BOING!
"Damn it."
"Badal!"
BOING!
"DAMN IT!"
etc...