Why start so low? Don't they know the sale price on this valueble technological artifact will just zoom up and up so that the starting bid will be lost in the distance?
I mean seriusly if I was rooling in money I would buy HAL for as much as....
OK, I give up. I honestly only understood/enjoyed that movie when I smoked some herb 1st.
HP. (You know that little hole in the wall, mom and pop shop) sells a 4 headed linux PC.
The hardware for this box is 100% generic. I.e. A motherboard with 6 USB ports, a PS2 Keyboard and PS2 Mouse. 3 USB Keyboards and 3 USB Mouses. 1 AGP Video card and 3 PCI Video cards (All NVIDIA TNT2. Fast enogh for office work and 2 year old games).
Toss in 1/2 a GB of RAM, a Celeron CPU and 4 15"-17" monitors and you have a bargain system.
But wait. There is more. You can download the software "kit" which installs ontop of Mandrake 9.1 and build it yourself.
Someone else toss in the links for me. My internet access is a bit spoty sean as we had a horicane in Jamaica on Friday. (Ivan, Category 4, passed along the south cost, maybe you herd of it?)
Bot this fits in as "Less expensive than any other laptop that has seriusly tried to pry my Eye from Dell."
Suse 9.1 on my Inspiron 8200 is a joy to use. The Modem didn't work properly when I set it up and I havn't goten around to fixing that (No free landline.)
Everything else is slick. To go the extra step of droping the cost, increasing the RAM and preloading my OSs of choice will make me happy. And I bet the modem on that HP works:)
PS: Not locking up anyone at all is NOT an option. We convicted only 19 people of morder last year. The ease of escaping ponishment for crime commited is as bad as the ponishment of the inocent and the excesive ponishment of the guilty.
The problem under discussion was ONLY filming inside prisons and the broadcasting of that video over the internet.
My point was that Prisoners under constant video surveillance would suffer less physical abuse than those we have incarcerated now. As for the implications to the wider society. I live in Jamaica. I was born here. Trust me when I say we have nastier prisons and suffer the consequences of that.
I.e. The General Penitentiary and the St. Catharine district prison were both built in colonial times by the British. They were designed to hold black prisoners. I.e. People the designers didn't fully consider human. Even so right now these institutions are at around 210% of capacity. In other words prison life is a living hell.
What are the results? Since the start of 2004 we have over 800 murders. This in a population of 2.6 Million. Bring up the statistics on what you think is the most violent city in America and compare it to these figures in order to grasp how staggering the problem has become.
What you get by oppressing convicts, most of whom "have a problem with authority" is chaos, pure and simple. Oppressing workers and students or your own military will lead to revolution but oppressing convicts just leads to a breakdown of order. Any revolution which then occurs would be a mission of mercy to rescue a failed state.
On the broader issue of how many are incarcerated. You have named the WRONG culprit. Locking up people for unpaid traffic tickets only accounts for a tiny portion of those currently incarcerated. Draconian drug control laws are the real problem. The reason it's 1 of 75 American men, but 1 of 12 black men is because the drugs of choice among blacks (Crack & Ganja) attract much stronger penalties than the drugs of choice among white Americans (Cocaine, Alcohol & E).
In Europe by contrast some countries have legalized the recreational use of most narcotics. You can buy a "seasoned spliff" (Marijuana sprinkled with cocaine) in coffee shops in Amsterdam now. The crime rate has been falling steadily.
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Streaming outside means you have to know what cameras cover the place you will be comiting your abuse and disable them in advance without being recorded doing same.
If it's done rigt, disableing the whole network anonimously would be seriusly "none trivial".
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If I was in prison I would WANT jailcam all over the prison and in my cell.
Ordinary security cameras protect you from your fellow prisoners by alerting guards to misconduct. broadcasting this on the web and archiving images on the same site protects you from misconduct by guards. Trust me... No guard wants his mother to see him beating a prisoner to a bloody pulp and then sodomizing him.
of course to work right you need lots of cameras protected from abuse and positioned so you can see who tampers with them. My only loss as a prisoner in such a facility is that I have to be more cautious in my masturbation. Prison is about taking away some freedoms of a person convicted of a crime. I prefer to louse my privacy than my religious or sexual preference. Never mind life and limb.
The logo on my shirt says "Fujitsu", and know this is not a spelling troll. Heaven knows, I am the last person who should be trying that. However Even a Fujitsu employe can tell you that the parent made a solidly founded recomendation.
Any manufacturer can produce bad drives, spreading out your purcheses and installing a 5 disk RAID 5 with a 6th disk as "hot spare" is a good idea.
I I havn't calculated the per MB cost of all the large sizes. someone with more time please do this.
What will make this perfect is removeble drive kits (They require an external 5.1/4" bay for each 3.1/2" drive. Some even have little activity LEDs) and a server case with 12 external 5.1/4" bays.
March 2001 Classic Dumb Terminal "It's ridiculous claiming that video games influence children. For instance, if Pac-man affected kids born in the 80s, we should by how have a bunch of teenagers who run around in darkened rooms and eat pills while listening to monotonous electronic music."
Finally. Someone knows why Raves and Ecstasy (The drug, not the feeling) are so popular.
In my experience REAL killers tend to threaten your corps. I.e. They may have enough of a conversation to verify that you are the person they mean to assassinate then you are shot without time to beg for mercy, negotiate a better deal or even to say a prayer.
PS: "My experience" was teaching math to lifers.
For those who ask "why bother" In most countries, if you start a life sentence at 19 you will be out a couple of decades before mandatory retirement.
This is the Anty Trust penalty I would have put on MS. Volume based priceing.
I.e. You can sell Windows to an OEM at any price but an OEM who buys/ships more copies MUST get it cheaper or at the same price.
In other words. Dell must have the cheapest OEM price on Windows regardless of what they do other OSs. As long as they ship the most copies of Windows XP Home, they pay the cheapest price for XP Home.
Addvertising subsidies would be regulated in the same way.
MS would hate this but it would solve a lot of the problems.
That's because it dosn't get harder. Once you have achived orbit it's simply a matter more efficent engines and larger volumes of fuel/life suport consumebles.
I.e. With a few years suply of food and enogh fuel for the trib the curent space shutles could make a trip to Mars.
The ocean is diferent. I can go down to 15 feet with no equptment at all. Just a pair of shorts. As you get deaper the requierd equiptment gets more complex. To dive to 200 feet you need 3 air tanks with diferent mixtures.
I hope you get the point. If not... When we can rutenly explore the deapest part of the ocean the rest can then be dealt with in time.
I have passeble gramar and an above average vocabulary. I have for most of my life strugled with speling even the simplest words. Special classes and extensive practise have helped a little but even now my writing is nearly giberish without spellcheck software.
Words like Fare and Fair, Fear or Hair, Hear and Here slip throgh such software. I.e. It's the corect speling of an incorect word.
PS: I have deliberetly submited this without checking the speling so you can see just how bad it is.
most of what Iraq is doing to American troops right now is very similar to what the US (Under general Washington) used to defeat Britain. Hit and run, send 1 goy to shoot up a convoy. Reduce the value of superior firepower.
The American media likes to call such acts terrorism but that just distorts the meaning of the word. As long as you are going after the military and the government it's all warfare (Yes. I endorse assassination as a military tool). Just be careful to define your enemy correctly. I.e. In the original golf war the enemy was Sadam and his ruling elite. It would have made good military and moral sense to assassinate them during that conflict.
The current war is between the US government (I.e. Bush and his cronies) and the people of Iraq. Which is funny since between the Shias, The Curds and Allah knows who else Iraq was never a united nation. Now it is united against a common enemy (The USA for those not paying attention). They are even making friends with Alquida (SP?) which is a novelty for Iraq.
As for the matter of "overwhelming force". War is not like sports. Your goal as a Warlord is to engineer the equivalent of a fistfight between Lenox Lewis and Leonardo Decaprio. The WBA would never approve but who cares. If the little guy caries a switchblade into the ring, hey it wasn't fare to begin with.
The US has the advantage of wealth so it hits you with $3M missiles while Iraq has committed fighters so it uses suicide bombers. Both are "fare". As for striking civilian targets. Iraq is an occupied country. This makes any American in Iraq fare game.
While the original 9/11 tragedy was terrorism in it's pure form, if it was repeated today by Iraqis it would be an act of war just like bombing Hiroshima.
In Muslim culture "party" dosn't mean what it dose in America. I.e. A weding party that goes all night is an all night afair for the entire family.
They don't have "groanup partys" and "kidie partys". Jews are not much diferent on this point. I.e. At passover the children drink WINE just like everybody else. It might be waterd down for the realy small ones but it's still wine.
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Borrow and Spend?
That sounds like Omar Davis and PJ Paterson Economics.
I.e. Jamaica now has debt equivalent to 160% of GDP.
Ever herd of Reaganomics ?
It's the fault of the guy with the hose when your house gets wet. When he runs out of water and your house dries out again is that his fault too?
Why start so low? Don't they know the sale price on this valueble technological artifact will just zoom up and up so that the starting bid will be lost in the distance?
....
I mean seriusly if I was rooling in money I would buy HAL for as much as
OK, I give up. I honestly only understood/enjoyed that movie when I smoked some herb 1st.
Wasn't there already a remake staring Will Smith ?
I.e. Independence Day?
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HP. (You know that little hole in the wall, mom and pop shop) sells a 4 headed linux PC.
The hardware for this box is 100% generic. I.e. A motherboard with 6 USB ports, a PS2 Keyboard and PS2 Mouse. 3 USB Keyboards and 3 USB Mouses. 1 AGP Video card and 3 PCI Video cards (All NVIDIA TNT2. Fast enogh for office work and 2 year old games).
Toss in 1/2 a GB of RAM, a Celeron CPU and 4 15"-17" monitors and you have a bargain system.
But wait. There is more. You can download the software "kit" which installs ontop of Mandrake 9.1 and build it yourself.
Someone else toss in the links for me. My internet access is a bit spoty sean as we had a horicane in Jamaica on Friday. (Ivan, Category 4, passed along the south cost, maybe you herd of it?)
iNTEL did a lot of arm twisting on that point. It knows that soon ALL it's CPUs will be multy core and hyperthreded,
Bot this fits in as "Less expensive than any other laptop that has seriusly tried to pry my Eye from Dell."
:)
Suse 9.1 on my Inspiron 8200 is a joy to use. The Modem didn't work properly when I set it up and I havn't goten around to fixing that (No free landline.)
Everything else is slick. To go the extra step of droping the cost, increasing the RAM and preloading my OSs of choice will make me happy. And I bet the modem on that HP works
PS: Not locking up anyone at all is NOT an option. We convicted only 19 people of morder last year. The ease of escaping ponishment for crime commited is as bad as the ponishment of the inocent and the excesive ponishment of the guilty.
Here we do all three.
Read my message again.
The problem under discussion was ONLY filming inside prisons and the broadcasting of that video over the internet.
My point was that Prisoners under constant video surveillance would suffer less physical abuse than those we have incarcerated now. As for the implications to the wider society. I live in Jamaica. I was born here. Trust me when I say we have nastier prisons and suffer the consequences of that.
I.e. The General Penitentiary and the St. Catharine district prison were both built in colonial times by the British. They were designed to hold black prisoners. I.e. People the designers didn't fully consider human. Even so right now these institutions are at around 210% of capacity. In other words prison life is a living hell.
What are the results? Since the start of 2004 we have over 800 murders. This in a population of 2.6 Million. Bring up the statistics on what you think is the most violent city in America and compare it to these figures in order to grasp how staggering the problem has become.
What you get by oppressing convicts, most of whom "have a problem with authority" is chaos, pure and simple. Oppressing workers and students or your own military will lead to revolution but oppressing convicts just leads to a breakdown of order. Any revolution which then occurs would be a mission of mercy to rescue a failed state.
On the broader issue of how many are incarcerated. You have named the WRONG culprit. Locking up people for unpaid traffic tickets only accounts for a tiny portion of those currently incarcerated. Draconian drug control laws are the real problem. The reason it's 1 of 75 American men, but 1 of 12 black men is because the drugs of choice among blacks (Crack & Ganja) attract much stronger penalties than the drugs of choice among white Americans (Cocaine, Alcohol & E).
In Europe by contrast some countries have legalized the recreational use of most narcotics. You can buy a "seasoned spliff" (Marijuana sprinkled with cocaine) in coffee shops in Amsterdam now. The crime rate has been falling steadily.
Streaming outside means you have to know what cameras cover the place you will be comiting your abuse and disable them in advance without being recorded doing same.
If it's done rigt, disableing the whole network anonimously would be seriusly "none trivial".
If I was in prison I would WANT jailcam all over the prison and in my cell.
Ordinary security cameras protect you from your fellow prisoners by alerting guards to misconduct. broadcasting this on the web and archiving images on the same site protects you from misconduct by guards. Trust me... No guard wants his mother to see him beating a prisoner to a bloody pulp and then sodomizing him.
of course to work right you need lots of cameras protected from abuse and positioned so you can see who tampers with them. My only loss as a prisoner in such a facility is that I have to be more cautious in my masturbation.
Prison is about taking away some freedoms of a person convicted of a crime. I prefer to louse my privacy than my religious or sexual preference. Never mind life and limb.
The logo on my shirt says "Fujitsu", and know this is not a spelling troll. Heaven knows, I am the last person who should be trying that. However Even a Fujitsu employe can tell you that the parent made a solidly founded recomendation.
Any manufacturer can produce bad drives, spreading out your purcheses and installing a 5 disk RAID 5 with a 6th disk as "hot spare" is a good idea.
12 x 3.5 bay" Tower
3 Ware 12 drive RAID card
Drives can be found at PriceWatch
I I havn't calculated the per MB cost of all the large sizes. someone with more time please do this.
What will make this perfect is removeble drive kits (They require an external 5.1/4" bay for each 3.1/2" drive. Some even have little activity LEDs) and a server case with 12 external 5.1/4" bays.
Classic Dumb Terminal
"It's ridiculous claiming that video games influence children. For instance, if Pac-man affected kids born in the 80s, we should by how have a bunch of teenagers who run around in darkened rooms and eat pills while listening to monotonous electronic music."
Finally. Someone knows why Raves and Ecstasy (The drug, not the feeling) are so popular.
In my experience REAL killers tend to threaten your corps. I.e. They may have enough of a conversation to verify that you are the person they mean to assassinate then you are shot without time to beg for mercy, negotiate a better deal or even to say a prayer.
PS: "My experience" was teaching math to lifers.
For those who ask "why bother" In most countries, if you start a life sentence at 19 you will be out a couple of decades before mandatory retirement.
Will the person who moded the parent "off topic" please put down the crack pipe and post a reply explaining why.
Forward Time travel is posible. We do it all the time.
This is the Anty Trust penalty I would have put on MS. Volume based priceing.
I.e. You can sell Windows to an OEM at any price but an OEM who buys/ships more copies MUST get it cheaper or at the same price.
In other words. Dell must have the cheapest OEM price on Windows regardless of what they do other OSs. As long as they ship the most copies of Windows XP Home, they pay the cheapest price for XP Home.
Addvertising subsidies would be regulated in the same way.
MS would hate this but it would solve a lot of the problems.
That's because it dosn't get harder. Once you have achived orbit it's simply a matter more efficent engines and larger volumes of fuel/life suport consumebles.
I.e. With a few years suply of food and enogh fuel for the trib the curent space shutles could make a trip to Mars.
The ocean is diferent. I can go down to 15 feet with no equptment at all. Just a pair of shorts. As you get deaper the requierd equiptment gets more complex. To dive to 200 feet you need 3 air tanks with diferent mixtures.
I hope you get the point. If not... When we can rutenly explore the deapest part of the ocean the rest can then be dealt with in time.
ISO images can be burned by novice users on any OS which suports CDRW drives including Windows ** and MacOS.
Creating a buteble ISO image from a Linux distribution tree on a Windows machine is chalenging.
No we can't.
The floppy drive on new systems is used to make boot flopys for old systems and to transfer DATA betwean the new and the ancient.
At least that's what I use the flopy on my Inspiron 8200 for most often.
Just my particular brand of Dislexia.
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I have passeble gramar and an above average vocabulary. I have for most of my life strugled with speling even the simplest words. Special classes and extensive practise have helped a little but even now my writing is nearly giberish without spellcheck software.
Words like Fare and Fair, Fear or Hair, Hear and Here slip throgh such software. I.e. It's the corect speling of an incorect word.
PS: I have deliberetly submited this without checking the speling so you can see just how bad it is.
PPS: note my
most of what Iraq is doing to American troops right now is very similar to what the US (Under general Washington) used to defeat Britain. Hit and run, send 1 goy to shoot up a convoy. Reduce the value of superior firepower.
The American media likes to call such acts terrorism but that just distorts the meaning of the word. As long as you are going after the military and the government it's all warfare (Yes. I endorse assassination as a military tool). Just be careful to define your enemy correctly. I.e. In the original golf war the enemy was Sadam and his ruling elite. It would have made good military and moral sense to assassinate them during that conflict.
The current war is between the US government (I.e. Bush and his cronies) and the people of Iraq. Which is funny since between the Shias, The Curds and Allah knows who else Iraq was never a united nation. Now it is united against a common enemy (The USA for those not paying attention). They are even making friends with Alquida (SP?) which is a novelty for Iraq.
As for the matter of "overwhelming force". War is not like sports. Your goal as a Warlord is to engineer the equivalent of a fistfight between Lenox Lewis and Leonardo Decaprio. The WBA would never approve but who cares. If the little guy caries a switchblade into the ring, hey it wasn't fare to begin with.
The US has the advantage of wealth so it hits you with $3M missiles while Iraq has committed fighters so it uses suicide bombers. Both are "fare". As for striking civilian targets. Iraq is an occupied country. This makes any American in Iraq fare game.
While the original 9/11 tragedy was terrorism in it's pure form, if it was repeated today by Iraqis it would be an act of war just like bombing Hiroshima.
In Muslim culture "party" dosn't mean what it dose in America. I.e. A weding party that goes all night is an all night afair for the entire family.
They don't have "groanup partys" and "kidie partys". Jews are not much diferent on this point. I.e. At passover the children drink WINE just like everybody else. It might be waterd down for the realy small ones but it's still wine.