The idea is this: cut taxes AND cut spending. More often than not, however, the spending doesn't get cut. In many situations, spending is planned to be slashed, but emergencies arise (as has happened now.) Now, a real effective manager would still work within the budget and cut non essentials while spending more on the emergency situation. This is also what's happening right now.
From what I gather on/., many would rather see the ISS dropped into the ocean like Mir because of claimed uselessness. Maybe these people are seeing their wishes come true. Maybe they're now being hypocrites and want the ISS to be funded. Who knows?
You're free to implement that as you wish. But it doesn't affect anyone else. I don't assign a +/- score to any mail due to SPF yet, because it isn't very widely implemented. I do, however, like the fact that it eliminates forged emails from my domains, as any forged email gets dropped before hitting the queue. And that is ALL SPF is meant to do. Nothing more, nothing less, and it does it perfectly.
I've been using SPF tags on my domains for months now. The only spam I see is forged to look like it came from one of my domains, as I've whitelisted them. I haven't taken the time to enable postfix to drop SPF failed messages. As soon as I do get that configuration change done, I will receive zero spam, and that's the way it should be. SPF is just one additional tool that fills an existing gap. Use it if it will benefit you. Otherwise, don't complain as it's not in anyway being forced on you.
SPF records are checked by the MTA before message acceptance and either rejects illegitimate email (by silently dropping or with a 550(? not able to look up exact error code right now)) or accepting the message into the queue. Only if the message is accepted will it then be processed by spam filters, and the only way the message will be dropped is if it fails an SPF check (ie the message was forged.) Spam filters won't need to care if it was rejected due to failing an SPF check because that check has already been done, and any messages failing an SPF check would never get to the queue.
if (spf(message) = valid)
queue(message);
else reject; procmail(message); quit;
A quick guess would be that you had your computer and stereo on different circuits, introducing a ground loop causing interference. Not much to go on, though. Try plugging your receiver into the same power strip your pc is on and see if the interference still exists.
A Peacekeeping force by their own definition is not meant to fight a war but to prevent the outbreak of one. For example by keeping two factions apart. They are not intended to fight a war or "repel" isurgence from another country. If this is true, why are UN peacekeeping forces ever deployed? They're meant to keep waring factions from destroying the civilian populace, otherwise they have absolutely no need to be on the ground in a warzone. They did not do anything to protect the civilian populace, as you point out in your citations. Therefore, they're a waste of time and money.
For some reason, I was confusing the Sierra Leone incident with the Rwandan one and forgot all about the Tutsi/Hutu problem. My mistake.
However, we will never, ever agree on PMCs being legitimate. Agree to disagree and move on?
And like I said, the actions of Bill Clinton and his administration on the Rwandan issue are shameful. Mogadishu happened because of Bill Clinton's insistance on not allowing light armor to be used. An LAV escort for the convoy and a Spectre gunship overhead for suppression would have meant that the deathtoll would have been 3 instead of 17. As far as I'm concerned, the deaths of those 17 Rangers are squarely on Clinton's shoulders and I hope he has nightmares about it DAILY for the rest of his life.
If Clinton wouldn't have made that huge mistake, he would have had the political clout to end the shitstorm in Rwanda. Sending in troops who have the ability to stop the bloodshed (unlike UN peacekeepers) would be the morally correct thing to do, and I have a suspicion that the UN would have supported it whole-heartedly. That is if the organization truly cares about the people of the world instead of their own political stature, of course.
Point is: A UN Lead force will most likely not be linked to atrocities (though they are known to look the other way), with private contractors you could never be sure what they are doing. Because in the end they are only loyal to their paycheck. The fact that the UN peacekeepers on the ground stood around while civilians were being slaughtered is an atrocity to me. I could be wrong, though. That situation wouldn't happen with an organization that is responsible to someone. As you mention, the UN is not responsible to anyone because it is just a meeting place where nothing can ever be resolved, the organization has no need to actually do anything regarding stopping genocide.
And as far as the US owing the UN money? For what? Not paying dues until Clinton changed that? No where in the Constitution is the federal government permitted to pay dues to an international government. I have never seen the UN do any projects in the US, but they do train peacekepers here. (If I see another blue hat invade my borders...) I think we also provide their headquarters tax free. That's a couple million annually in property taxes to NYC lost for the last 50 years or so.
As you can tell, I'm not a fan of the UN at all. If I could make the organization disappear tomorrow, I would. You and I will probably never agree on any of this, so lets just agree to disagree.
In Sierra Leone, the legitimate government was the one who contracted EO as their military could not prevent the insurgency from commiting genocide. What I'm saying should happen HAS BEEN DONE BEFORE. It won't work in all situations, such as when a government doesn't exist or who is the aggressor, but it does work in some situations. The UN peacekeeping force was 100% ineffective in dealing with the insurgency in Sierra Leone, whereas EO was 100% effective.
First of all Military Contractors are NOT governed by the same laws / rules as the armys of nations. Just because they are not currently bound by those laws doesn't mean they can't be. PMCs have to exist under the authority of some nation which abides by international law (Ie NPMI is a PMC here in the US which is bound by their corporate charter issued by the government to abide by all laws that the US is bound by. Granted, you can't control whether they will actually follow the law, but if you could, we wouldn't have courts or prisons to lock up criminals.)
And IIRC, in Rwanda, the party commiting the genocide was not the legitimate government, but an insurgency that toppled the legitimate government that had attempted to contract EO at the same time officials at the UN decided to bow to pressure to force Sierra Leone to pull the contract from EO. If the UN had not stuck its nose in to a situation that was 100% under control by the government of Sierra Leone (the RUF had signed a cease-fire agreement with the government), thousands more would not have been killed when the UN peacekeeping force came in, and watched as the RUF broke their agreement and started slaughtering again. The fact that the UN had sent its ineffective by design peacekeeping force in without a mandate to keep the peace by engaging the RUF, then watching thousands die is sad. It makes me shameful of my government for allowing genocide to take place by putting pressure on the UN because of some twisted sense that an international body can do better than 300 men on the ground...
Easy solution: don't have the UN have anything to do with a peacekeeping force. It's totally unnecessary. Make the damn governments of small nations protect their own citizens (as Sierra Leone DID with the help of EO until the UN, under pressure from Clinton and EU heads-of-state, forced Sierra Leone to cancel their contract.)
In the case of the Balkans, a multi-national force not under some stupid blue flag could work just fine. There's no reason the legitimate governments couldn't plead for help from any other nation, and in fact, many would be happy to help as long as the goal is sound. Or they can hire PMCs to help out for a fraction of the costs of national assistance.
International law to oversee PMCs is what the UN should be responsible for. That's not hard. You can only control so much, and forcing PMCs to abide by the same laws pertaining to military action as nations should is easily done.
No kidding, man. My brother is an active duty Marine stationed at Camp Lejeune who was assaulted in a Wal*Mart parking lot by two illegal alien Mexicans last weekend. He ended up breaking both of their noses and generally fucking them up before they were deported. Tip for illegal Mexicans wanting to stay living here: DO NOT FUCK WITH MARINES, esp. when they have month old babies in the car. You will come within an inch of your life and be deported REAL FUCKING QUICK.
The UN has been irrelevant since they basically allowed the genocide of thousands (millions possibly) in Sierra Leone, Rwanda and the Balkans. Their "peacekeeping" force is COMPLETELY WORTHLESS. If the UN wasn't completely worthless, they would have let Executive Outcomes complete their operation in Sierra Leone, start the contract in Rwanda and another PMC could have easily worked in the Balkans.
Instead of the UN wasting billions of dollars on their ineffective peacekeeping force, EO could have stopped the genocide in Rwanda for $100 million with 1500 operatives. They stopped the RUF in Sierra Leone with 300 men, against a force of 17,500, for fucks sake. The peacekeepers that came in to Sierra Leone after EO was forced to leave allowed another period of genocide during their presence. The UN is completely worthless.
You're lucky, whatever retailer you got it from slipped up on that sale. Great camera though.
I just checked, the 633 is the only camera shipping/shipped with an OLED. All the other new cameras are using the FANTASTIC 1.8" or 2.2" LCD (quick comparison from the consumer website).
Not all of them, but some of the new ones. The LS 633 was the first to ship with an OLED. Sadly Kodak didn't sell it in the US. I've played with the 633 though, the screen is awesome. (I'm a camera tech at their US repair depot.)
Diesel locos are electric trains, they just differ in where the electricity is produced. They act just as a hybird car does with regenerative braking and the like. Any smoke belching is due to improper maintenance.
Diesel locos are basically power plants on wheels, which is very useful for vast stretches of land that they need to cover. It'd be almost useless to run electric lines across the US to power trains, as the transmission losses would be huge.
I wish it was mandatory to dial the area code. I haven't dialed a 7 digit number (US, I have no clue about foreign numbering structure for phones) in years. Mandatory area code dialing would eliminate being interrupted by the idiots we both despise.:)
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But I sincerely fear that all this work might get "embrace and extend and sell" by a company - like what happened for the BSD TCP/IP stacks (ok, do an nmap -O on your favourite MS box).
The BSD folks look at this differently than you do. As long as Microsoft complies with the license for the BSD tools they use in Windows (tcp/ip stack, ftp.exe, etc.), and they have, everything is just peachy. BSD folks just love to see their code used (superiority complex?), and generally don't care as long as the copyright remains; even if every penguin-worshipping-codemonkey's most hated evil empire uses it.
Why would you waste good ammo (anything more expensive than.22LR/Mag or.17HMR) on a dog? A double tap on the trigger from my Ruger.22 would drop a dog at 100 yards unless it was some huge St. Bernard. A triple tap would work then.
Total cost: $0.15
I don't condone taking dogs out though. But if it needs to be done, save the expensive ammo for deer season. Or that damn cat that won't STFU in the middle of the night.:)
You're correct in the dollar flow sense, but ownership implies control. If the government owned corporations, they'd be able to control them moreso than necessary regulation. That would be socialist and therefore retarded. Being that in the US, the people ARE the government, we should be able to use the legal entities we allow to exist to our benefit. The biggest benefit we can get from corporations is to rid the individual of the burden of taxation. Granted, taxation still exists indirectly through price inflation, but it is much less of a burden.
I think its about time in the development of our economy to push to create a government that is selfsustaining using existing entities.
But as bondholders, as long as the project is successful (and the risk on this is low), NV will get the investment back, plus interest, saving taxpayers money in the long run (ignoring inflation and larger budgets).
Governments SHOULD do this type of investing. If they did it correctly, we wouldn't have to pay taxes anymore. My dream is to build the federal treasury to a point where it operates off an annuity with no more income from the people. Granted, this will take a lot of upfront investment by the people, but it's a damn good thing.
Houses in the US also have 220V, most clothes dryers run on them unless they're natural gas. If I owned a house, and one of these cars, I'd definitely have the 220 option.
I still use Office '97. I refuse to pay for another version of Office, as any new features are not useful to me. If I ever need to upgrade my office suite, I'll install OOo.
If integrating Konqueror into KDE is a good thing, why does everyone bitch that IE is integrated into Windows? Hypocrisy.
You haven't spent a lot of time within Windows. The two "explorers" are linked together. Both of them will do the exact same tasks. Open a URL in Windows Explorer, it'll change most of the UI elements to be those of IE. IE doesn't change as many UI elements when browsing the local disk, but it works just as well as a Windows Explorer window without the drive tree on the left. Hell, you can bring up the drive treein IE if you want.
XP will show you the same info about image files, also.
Because I like Greg Graffin, he's a wonderful thinker. I don't happen to agree with some things he talks about, but I do own all of BR's albums, and I listen to 4 of them on a daily basis. The sig quote is one thing I absolutely agree with him on, namely that religion is a waste that humans have put up with for too fuckin long. In my "cheesedick liberal" line, I'm referring to the almost absolute stance on the abolishment of firearms by the liberal line, which is 100% foolish and is a cause of the situation in which we are in today. We're battling to raise the oppressed out of their plight because they have been trampled by religion and have no means to fight back against the dictators who take their arms. In this respect, Saddam == Hitler.
As you can see, I don't toe any party line, and can stand behind whatever side is correct.
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The idea is this: cut taxes AND cut spending. More often than not, however, the spending doesn't get cut. In many situations, spending is planned to be slashed, but emergencies arise (as has happened now.) Now, a real effective manager would still work within the budget and cut non essentials while spending more on the emergency situation. This is also what's happening right now.
/., many would rather see the ISS dropped into the ocean like Mir because of claimed uselessness. Maybe these people are seeing their wishes come true. Maybe they're now being hypocrites and want the ISS to be funded. Who knows?
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You're free to implement that as you wish. But it doesn't affect anyone else. I don't assign a +/- score to any mail due to SPF yet, because it isn't very widely implemented. I do, however, like the fact that it eliminates forged emails from my domains, as any forged email gets dropped before hitting the queue. And that is ALL SPF is meant to do. Nothing more, nothing less, and it does it perfectly.
I've been using SPF tags on my domains for months now. The only spam I see is forged to look like it came from one of my domains, as I've whitelisted them. I haven't taken the time to enable postfix to drop SPF failed messages. As soon as I do get that configuration change done, I will receive zero spam, and that's the way it should be. SPF is just one additional tool that fills an existing gap. Use it if it will benefit you. Otherwise, don't complain as it's not in anyway being forced on you.
SPF records are checked by the MTA before message acceptance and either rejects illegitimate email (by silently dropping or with a 550(? not able to look up exact error code right now)) or accepting the message into the queue. Only if the message is accepted will it then be processed by spam filters, and the only way the message will be dropped is if it fails an SPF check (ie the message was forged.) Spam filters won't need to care if it was rejected due to failing an SPF check because that check has already been done, and any messages failing an SPF check would never get to the queue.
if (spf(message) = valid)
queue(message);
else reject;
procmail(message);
quit;
A quick guess would be that you had your computer and stereo on different circuits, introducing a ground loop causing interference. Not much to go on, though. Try plugging your receiver into the same power strip your pc is on and see if the interference still exists.
A Peacekeeping force by their own definition is not meant to fight a war but to prevent the outbreak of one. For example by keeping two factions apart. They are not intended to fight a war or "repel" isurgence from another country.
If this is true, why are UN peacekeeping forces ever deployed? They're meant to keep waring factions from destroying the civilian populace, otherwise they have absolutely no need to be on the ground in a warzone. They did not do anything to protect the civilian populace, as you point out in your citations. Therefore, they're a waste of time and money.
For some reason, I was confusing the Sierra Leone incident with the Rwandan one and forgot all about the Tutsi/Hutu problem. My mistake.
However, we will never, ever agree on PMCs being legitimate. Agree to disagree and move on?
And like I said, the actions of Bill Clinton and his administration on the Rwandan issue are shameful. Mogadishu happened because of Bill Clinton's insistance on not allowing light armor to be used. An LAV escort for the convoy and a Spectre gunship overhead for suppression would have meant that the deathtoll would have been 3 instead of 17. As far as I'm concerned, the deaths of those 17 Rangers are squarely on Clinton's shoulders and I hope he has nightmares about it DAILY for the rest of his life.
If Clinton wouldn't have made that huge mistake, he would have had the political clout to end the shitstorm in Rwanda. Sending in troops who have the ability to stop the bloodshed (unlike UN peacekeepers) would be the morally correct thing to do, and I have a suspicion that the UN would have supported it whole-heartedly. That is if the organization truly cares about the people of the world instead of their own political stature, of course.
Point is: A UN Lead force will most likely not be linked to atrocities (though they are known to look the other way), with private contractors you could never be sure what they are doing. Because in the end they are only loyal to their paycheck. The fact that the UN peacekeepers on the ground stood around while civilians were being slaughtered is an atrocity to me. I could be wrong, though. That situation wouldn't happen with an organization that is responsible to someone. As you mention, the UN is not responsible to anyone because it is just a meeting place where nothing can ever be resolved, the organization has no need to actually do anything regarding stopping genocide.
And as far as the US owing the UN money? For what? Not paying dues until Clinton changed that? No where in the Constitution is the federal government permitted to pay dues to an international government. I have never seen the UN do any projects in the US, but they do train peacekepers here. (If I see another blue hat invade my borders...) I think we also provide their headquarters tax free. That's a couple million annually in property taxes to NYC lost for the last 50 years or so.
As you can tell, I'm not a fan of the UN at all. If I could make the organization disappear tomorrow, I would. You and I will probably never agree on any of this, so lets just agree to disagree.
BTW, you KNOW you wanna hear Yanni in your video games. Right now you're thinking of how to create a USB device to Yanni-fy any game on the market.
/Yanni fan :)
You're damn right. I'm thinking Optimystique would be a great soundtrack to a RPG. "Magus" would be a GREAT end-boss theme.
Where are my USB interface specs...
In Sierra Leone, the legitimate government was the one who contracted EO as their military could not prevent the insurgency from commiting genocide. What I'm saying should happen HAS BEEN DONE BEFORE. It won't work in all situations, such as when a government doesn't exist or who is the aggressor, but it does work in some situations. The UN peacekeeping force was 100% ineffective in dealing with the insurgency in Sierra Leone, whereas EO was 100% effective.
First of all Military Contractors are NOT governed by the same laws / rules as the armys of nations.
Just because they are not currently bound by those laws doesn't mean they can't be. PMCs have to exist under the authority of some nation which abides by international law (Ie NPMI is a PMC here in the US which is bound by their corporate charter issued by the government to abide by all laws that the US is bound by. Granted, you can't control whether they will actually follow the law, but if you could, we wouldn't have courts or prisons to lock up criminals.)
And IIRC, in Rwanda, the party commiting the genocide was not the legitimate government, but an insurgency that toppled the legitimate government that had attempted to contract EO at the same time officials at the UN decided to bow to pressure to force Sierra Leone to pull the contract from EO. If the UN had not stuck its nose in to a situation that was 100% under control by the government of Sierra Leone (the RUF had signed a cease-fire agreement with the government), thousands more would not have been killed when the UN peacekeeping force came in, and watched as the RUF broke their agreement and started slaughtering again. The fact that the UN had sent its ineffective by design peacekeeping force in without a mandate to keep the peace by engaging the RUF, then watching thousands die is sad. It makes me shameful of my government for allowing genocide to take place by putting pressure on the UN because of some twisted sense that an international body can do better than 300 men on the ground...
Easy solution: don't have the UN have anything to do with a peacekeeping force. It's totally unnecessary. Make the damn governments of small nations protect their own citizens (as Sierra Leone DID with the help of EO until the UN, under pressure from Clinton and EU heads-of-state, forced Sierra Leone to cancel their contract.)
In the case of the Balkans, a multi-national force not under some stupid blue flag could work just fine. There's no reason the legitimate governments couldn't plead for help from any other nation, and in fact, many would be happy to help as long as the goal is sound. Or they can hire PMCs to help out for a fraction of the costs of national assistance.
International law to oversee PMCs is what the UN should be responsible for. That's not hard. You can only control so much, and forcing PMCs to abide by the same laws pertaining to military action as nations should is easily done.
No kidding, man. My brother is an active duty Marine stationed at Camp Lejeune who was assaulted in a Wal*Mart parking lot by two illegal alien Mexicans last weekend. He ended up breaking both of their noses and generally fucking them up before they were deported. Tip for illegal Mexicans wanting to stay living here: DO NOT FUCK WITH MARINES, esp. when they have month old babies in the car. You will come within an inch of your life and be deported REAL FUCKING QUICK.
The UN has been irrelevant since they basically allowed the genocide of thousands (millions possibly) in Sierra Leone, Rwanda and the Balkans. Their "peacekeeping" force is COMPLETELY WORTHLESS. If the UN wasn't completely worthless, they would have let Executive Outcomes complete their operation in Sierra Leone, start the contract in Rwanda and another PMC could have easily worked in the Balkans.
Instead of the UN wasting billions of dollars on their ineffective peacekeeping force, EO could have stopped the genocide in Rwanda for $100 million with 1500 operatives. They stopped the RUF in Sierra Leone with 300 men, against a force of 17,500, for fucks sake. The peacekeepers that came in to Sierra Leone after EO was forced to leave allowed another period of genocide during their presence. The UN is completely worthless.
So maybe I'll get some mod points for this (makes up for maybe losing my job on Monday. :)
DX7630 specs
DX6490 specs
Note the descriptions on the specs page, no where does it mention OLED, but LCD is everywhere.
The DX6490 uses the 2.2" LCD (I just took mine apart to verify... stupid backlight cable.)
You're lucky, whatever retailer you got it from slipped up on that sale. Great camera though.
I just checked, the 633 is the only camera shipping/shipped with an OLED. All the other new cameras are using the FANTASTIC 1.8" or 2.2" LCD (quick comparison from the consumer website).
Not all of them, but some of the new ones. The LS 633 was the first to ship with an OLED. Sadly Kodak didn't sell it in the US. I've played with the 633 though, the screen is awesome. (I'm a camera tech at their US repair depot.)
Diesel locos are electric trains, they just differ in where the electricity is produced. They act just as a hybird car does with regenerative braking and the like. Any smoke belching is due to improper maintenance.
Diesel locos are basically power plants on wheels, which is very useful for vast stretches of land that they need to cover. It'd be almost useless to run electric lines across the US to power trains, as the transmission losses would be huge.
I wish it was mandatory to dial the area code. I haven't dialed a 7 digit number (US, I have no clue about foreign numbering structure for phones) in years. Mandatory area code dialing would eliminate being interrupted by the idiots we both despise. :)
But I sincerely fear that all this work might get "embrace and extend and sell" by a company - like what happened for the BSD TCP/IP stacks (ok, do an nmap -O on your favourite MS box).
The BSD folks look at this differently than you do. As long as Microsoft complies with the license for the BSD tools they use in Windows (tcp/ip stack, ftp.exe, etc.), and they have, everything is just peachy. BSD folks just love to see their code used (superiority complex?), and generally don't care as long as the copyright remains; even if every penguin-worshipping-codemonkey's most hated evil empire uses it.
Why would you waste good ammo (anything more expensive than .22LR/Mag or .17HMR) on a dog? A double tap on the trigger from my Ruger .22 would drop a dog at 100 yards unless it was some huge St. Bernard. A triple tap would work then.
:)
Total cost: $0.15
I don't condone taking dogs out though. But if it needs to be done, save the expensive ammo for deer season. Or that damn cat that won't STFU in the middle of the night.
You're correct in the dollar flow sense, but ownership implies control. If the government owned corporations, they'd be able to control them moreso than necessary regulation. That would be socialist and therefore retarded. Being that in the US, the people ARE the government, we should be able to use the legal entities we allow to exist to our benefit. The biggest benefit we can get from corporations is to rid the individual of the burden of taxation. Granted, taxation still exists indirectly through price inflation, but it is much less of a burden.
I think its about time in the development of our economy to push to create a government that is selfsustaining using existing entities.
But as bondholders, as long as the project is successful (and the risk on this is low), NV will get the investment back, plus interest, saving taxpayers money in the long run (ignoring inflation and larger budgets).
Governments SHOULD do this type of investing. If they did it correctly, we wouldn't have to pay taxes anymore. My dream is to build the federal treasury to a point where it operates off an annuity with no more income from the people. Granted, this will take a lot of upfront investment by the people, but it's a damn good thing.
Now to get elected...
Houses in the US also have 220V, most clothes dryers run on them unless they're natural gas. If I owned a house, and one of these cars, I'd definitely have the 220 option.
I still use Office '97. I refuse to pay for another version of Office, as any new features are not useful to me. If I ever need to upgrade my office suite, I'll install OOo.
If integrating Konqueror into KDE is a good thing, why does everyone bitch that IE is integrated into Windows? Hypocrisy.
You haven't spent a lot of time within Windows. The two "explorers" are linked together. Both of them will do the exact same tasks. Open a URL in Windows Explorer, it'll change most of the UI elements to be those of IE. IE doesn't change as many UI elements when browsing the local disk, but it works just as well as a Windows Explorer window without the drive tree on the left. Hell, you can bring up the drive treein IE if you want.
XP will show you the same info about image files, also.
Because I like Greg Graffin, he's a wonderful thinker. I don't happen to agree with some things he talks about, but I do own all of BR's albums, and I listen to 4 of them on a daily basis. The sig quote is one thing I absolutely agree with him on, namely that religion is a waste that humans have put up with for too fuckin long. In my "cheesedick liberal" line, I'm referring to the almost absolute stance on the abolishment of firearms by the liberal line, which is 100% foolish and is a cause of the situation in which we are in today. We're battling to raise the oppressed out of their plight because they have been trampled by religion and have no means to fight back against the dictators who take their arms. In this respect, Saddam == Hitler.
As you can see, I don't toe any party line, and can stand behind whatever side is correct.