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Before anyone starts harping about admissibility of certain information it must be noted that this event can be considered an act of war. The rules for war are vastly different from those that apply in court.
I.e. You mearly want to know who did it. If that information is obtained illegally doesn't matter. It only needs to be accurate.
In fact you don't even need to be precise. I.e. you can narrow it down to a government and go flatten that country. Like I said war has different rules.
By extension if it's an individual that's responsible rather than a government, you can simply send an assassin after him rather than go for a trial.
I can for instance tell you what the Feds hope to discover. They want it to be Ben Laden acting on contract for Sadam. That way they can send in a full military strike and give the American people (through CNN) an adequate supply of revenge.
For the record however this isn't an American tragedy. Trinidad had an Embassy in the towers and There are several Jamaicans working in that complex. Perhaps over a hundred. Chances are some of us died too. Believe me we are every bit as pissed as you are.
KDE was likely the most crusial choice. Even moreso than Linux. For the stuf office workers do all day KDE is realy the best Unix based solution (Not counting MAc OS X which I havn't seen myself but have herd good things about).
I am all for being nice to "the other side" on these things but what I see is people strugling to use Gnome for ideological reasons and other people getting work done with KDE for financial reasons.
You know Finacial reasons like "Less money spent on Asperin", "fewer monitors shot at" and best of all you can fix the problems that do come up for less than it costs to fix the stuff you pay a grand more per seat for.
I am willing to bet that they have more customers with compromised servers than they have customers who care about running an actual website from the desktop.
Either group will be ofended enogh to change providers if they take action. Busness dictates that you shold chase 2 guys who complain about smoke to keap the 10 goys who pass around fat cigars all the time.
Games are about playing for enjoyment. SMB3 is the hands down winner in this category. It has a level of complexity and changing terain that I havn't seen anywhere else. It has ways of changing your characters capabilities and more importantly it has so manny diferent vilans as to drive you mad.
I have sat down and played throgh the whole thing the long way (world by world without the jump zones) then upon completion start over again with 30 "P-Wings" in my stash.
There simply isn't another game that can wast 6 straight hours of my time.
The FDA also has broad powers to regulate stuff that goes directly into the body. They are also the people who regulate medical equiptment, including stethescopes, siringes and bot plugs.
In fact I read somewhere ( link please?) that they had rejected a dildo because it had a tendency to short out and cause burns:).
How manny of those "Hotrod" controlers can you put in a a single motherboard? I ask because It looks like a Cool idea to have the controlers do hardwear raid and present the OS with a single drive 180GB or 300GB drive each. (Using 60GB or 100GB drives).
The OS could then be asked to make a software RAID of those. I.e. with 5 controlers you could have 1.2 TB at a sane cost.
Jamaica hasn't seen unemployment that low as far as I can remember. Right now we are floating somewhere around 35% and have never been in single digits. At least not in the last 40 years.
Worse yet they have a screwed up way of measuring unemployment. If you work even 1 hour out of every 3 months you are called employed. Nobody wants to count the way I suggest. I.e. If you earn minimum wage or above you are considered employed.
They are afraid to reveal that more than 1/2 the population is unemployed or at least not earning a living. At my company we have gotten applications from people who graduated university in 1998 and have never had a job.
So next time a valley worker gets laid off just stop whining jump in the car you don't actually own anymore. Draw out all the cash in your account. Dump your most expensive toys in the trunk and start driving. Stop and look for work at every town you come to. Ask about rent and other expenses too. If you find a place where you can hold $1000 per month after paying the basic expenses (Light, Rent, DSL) just settle down.
New York is paying $50,000 per year for veteran schoolteachers. Find out if you can get the government to foot the bill on a teaching degree so you can go get the $35,000 or thereabouts for an entry level classroom victim.
Money isn't everything but when the glamor goes a little of it is all you need. Better yet servicing printing equipment for a small town newspaper or going door to door for a utility company will leave you enough time to write a book, talk to people, perhaps even have sex.
OK. That last one may be wishful thinking.
I guess what I am trying to say is that for an educated man to suffer he must be forced to stay in a place with limited upertunities (like Jamaica with can get only so many visas availeble to our citezens) or he must give up and surender to his circomstances.
How did you go about researching your figures? Who was involved? How many people companies or vendors did you ask? What statistics did you track?
In short how did you come up with your figures. We could ask about the other figures too but since you didn't publish those someone else may have to answer that.
All they have said is that for each person who actual has CTS there are 2 people who just think they have it. This stuff actualy hapens.
I remember once the condum broke and a few months latter my girlfriend started having what looked like morning sikness. She gained 20 pounds, mostly in the abdomen and brests.
This went on for over a month ontil We tried the home pregnancy test and it came up positive on 1 out of 3 attempts. We waited another cople of weeks before seeing a doctor. she reported that my girlfriend has never been pregnant before (can they actualy tell that much?). the sintums then vanished except for her bust being a size larger.
A more sevare case however was someone who lost around 100 LBs and was obviusly on the virge of death ontil he was told at the hospital that he did not have AIDS. He is now back to a comforteble 260 pounds.
These cases don't say anything about the AIDS epidemic or the propegation of our specie. It's just that not everyone with sintum has the same condition.
Add a little publicity and you have an epidemic.
BTW: 10% means that most offices would have a few people with RSI. The real ilness.
While your at it you should consider kdevelop which I think is the best and most integrated of the Free IDEs.
Kylix is also excellent in it's own way and perhaps forms the best transition tool fr a Visual Basic developer. I.e. Burland has competed for years with Visual Basic on Windows so they know how to design IDEs.
Am I the only Slashdoter here who knows that KWord has been using XML as it's native format since the beginning? Honestly, you can try this yourself.
1. Create a file.kwd in KWord. Make it complex and add pictures and stuff.
2. Rename it to file.tgz
3. Uncompressed and untar it and viola, you have an XML document and a bunch of picture files etc...
The rest of KOffice works this way. Negotiations are still on to get all the Free office suites on Linux to unite on a single file format. I like the KOffice scheam because it inherently produces small files (already compressed). Others have favorites.
As for filters. I think we should have a separate program for importing the dreaded *.doc files and have all the office suites call this program for that task. Why should they all waste time redoing the same function that we would prefer not be needed at all? (I.e. MSWord not so cumbersome and convoluted in it's document formats)
The choice of venue could be the whole case here. You see the Us and Australia has vastly different legal positions on what constitutes libel. They also go about awarding damages in different ways.
Specifically in the commonwealth (of which Australia is still mostly a part) defamation means simply publishing lies about me. That means if you write an article claiming I had a 12" dick which would stay up for hours at a time I could sue. In the US you would have to also make a negative inaccurate comment with malicious intent. In other words an American judge would tell me to laugh off the 12"... comment.
Also in the US the comment must be not only false and damaging but also believable. In other words you would need to say I have a 5" dick and am impotent. I would then need to show that this has something to do with our disagreement over some other matter, or your hatred of me.
In other words, depending on the facts in the case this herring might be all you need to tell the outcome. By contrast if the newspaper in question was in new Zealand this hearing might not take place since either side would be content to fight on the other guy's turf.
Worse yet Commonwealth courts tend to award costs as a separate payment from damages. I.e. If you beat me I pay your lawyer and you travel costs too. It may be called unfair but it dose cut down on the number of merit lesscases brought before our courts.
Around here you have studios sprouting like mushrooms. Any DJ with a moderately successful single can build one and many do. We have the same IP laws as the US but vary rarely bother to enforce them.
This isn't about Napster and pear to peer either. It's about dance mixes. Essentially you have a cassette produced by taping the output at a party or nightclub. This is marketed as a mix by selector Bar or sound system Foo. The actual artists are not mentioned and most people can't keep track of who is involved. I.e. It's not uncommon to have parts of 20 songs on the same rhythm played in a 6 minute period. that's just a few seconds each.
How dose this affect artistes? They do not make 1% of what the major hit makers do in the US. In dead they make far more than 1%. At 2.7 Million Jamaica has 1% of America's population (pending the census which starts this summer). BTW: "jedi as religion" probably won't work in a country with less than 1% Atheist and Agnostic combined.
You see people even buy large volumes of Vinyl still. We make copies of everything. We pirate music like there was no tomorrow. the end result is that the typical Jamaican spends a whole lot of money in music shops buying original songs.
we also tend to judge music on it's own merit. This way Steven Segal's Reggae album (Yes, The actor) is a monumental flop. We like the guy (despite "Marked for Death") and give him good reason to love coming here but troth be told his singing isn't that good and his songs don't sell.
By contrast Buju Banton had a number one hit before anyone knew or cared who he was. All this without any real marketing.
What's the point? If the Music industry in North America was as deep in the society as it is in Jamaica more people would take the time to randomly listen to vast numbers of new artists. Publishers would be less able to actually make people buy pore songs and little independents who produce good stuff would have a chance.
the problem is Americans (and Canadians too) mostly just buy what the marketing people tell them to buy and when money isn't available they pirate it. here we pirate everything and then buy the stuff we actually like.
#1. Men rarely report being sodomized. It's like how women hide rape except far more common. I.e. I remember an ex con telling how he was raped on his 1st day in the slamer. During his 5 year stay every single new prisoner got the same treatment. It's a tradition in that facility like hazing. Despite that no prisoner from there has ever reported being sodomized.
#2. The media reports things they have good evidence for. Hundreds of men report being beaten half to death by cops. Some even manage to obtain convictions. Only Rodney King had a video camera rolling while he was whipped into submission.
The good thing about the US though is that this sort of thing dose sometimes get pointed and cops have been kicked off the force or imprisoned for violating human rights. That alone makes the incidents less frequent than in Jamaica (my country) where cops kill 140 people each year on average and until Amnesty International made a stink, were almost never prosecuted.
I read the license grant and all it translates to is "If you are as anal retentive as the Church of Scientology and decide that your self incriminating usenet post should no longer be found in our archive or published in our future "best of usenet" miniseries, we will have a leg to stand on.
The key term to look for in there is "none exclusive".
That term essentially means you still own your post and you can sell or give it to anyone else as you see fit. It also says that if someone else builds a competitive service we can't challenge them on the notion that your posts belong to us because the license grant is NONE EXCLUSIVE.
In short Google is not behaving badly and have simply written up the bare minimum document needed to save their asses.
Like the man says. Diesel vehicles pollute more. However when your burning 1 gallon in 78 miles I think the lower volume of fuel goes some way to negate that.
Around here (Jamaica) Diesel pumps are literally everywhere. I.e. Every gas station in the country has 3 kinds of fuel. diesel is one of them.
However diesel cars are still not very popular. the main problem here is that auto purchasing is all about tradeoffs between; cost, performance, apearance/image, comfort and availability/price of spare parts.
In other words this is Toyota land. You can get a replacement engine for your Toyota Corolla for the cost of an overhaul kit for an Audi. Nissans are a close second. The structure is that around 90% of the parts dealers stock Nissan and toyota parts. Around 1/2 of those also stock parts for a 3rd or 4th brand.
Yes. This leaves some cars with a single source for all the parts and to top it off we have a customs maze that makes hoping online to order spare parts a scary proposition.
However a lot of people are quite happy with the Toyota LiteAce, HiAce and TownAce. All come in Diesel versions and all are reliable and maintainable.
PS: The land is still grean but the harbor stinks.
Or his uncle, Chow Yun Fat. Author of the original FAT file syustem.
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RiserFS should fall under export restrictions since technically it's imported from Russia and other places. That's where most of Riser's staff works.
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Before anyone starts harping about admissibility of certain information it must be noted that this event can be considered an act of war. The rules for war are vastly different from those that apply in court.
I.e. You mearly want to know who did it. If that information is obtained illegally doesn't matter. It only needs to be accurate.
In fact you don't even need to be precise. I.e. you can narrow it down to a government and go flatten that country. Like I said war has different rules.
By extension if it's an individual that's responsible rather than a government, you can simply send an assassin after him rather than go for a trial.
I can for instance tell you what the Feds hope to discover. They want it to be Ben Laden acting on contract for Sadam. That way they can send in a full military strike and give the American people (through CNN) an adequate supply of revenge.
For the record however this isn't an American tragedy. Trinidad had an Embassy in the towers and There are several Jamaicans working in that complex. Perhaps over a hundred. Chances are some of us died too. Believe me we are every bit as pissed as you are.
KDE was likely the most crusial choice. Even moreso than Linux. For the stuf office workers do all day KDE is realy the best Unix based solution (Not counting MAc OS X which I havn't seen myself but have herd good things about).
I am all for being nice to "the other side" on these things but what I see is people strugling to use Gnome for ideological reasons and other people getting work done with KDE for financial reasons.
You know Finacial reasons like "Less money spent on Asperin", "fewer monitors shot at" and best of all you can fix the problems that do come up for less than it costs to fix the stuff you pay a grand more per seat for.
I am willing to bet that they have more customers with compromised servers than they have customers who care about running an actual website from the desktop.
Either group will be ofended enogh to change providers if they take action. Busness dictates that you shold chase 2 guys who complain about smoke to keap the 10 goys who pass around fat cigars all the time.
Super Mario Brothers 3.
Games are about playing for enjoyment. SMB3 is the hands down winner in this category. It has a level of complexity and changing terain that I havn't seen anywhere else. It has ways of changing your characters capabilities and more importantly it has so manny diferent vilans as to drive you mad.
I have sat down and played throgh the whole thing the long way (world by world without the jump zones) then upon completion start over again with 30 "P-Wings" in my stash.
There simply isn't another game that can wast 6 straight hours of my time.
The FDA also has broad powers to regulate stuff that goes directly into the body. They are also the people who regulate medical equiptment, including stethescopes, siringes and bot plugs.
:).
In fact I read somewhere ( link please?) that they had rejected a dildo because it had a tendency to short out and cause burns
How manny of those "Hotrod" controlers can you put in a a single motherboard? I ask because It looks like a Cool idea to have the controlers do hardwear raid and present the OS with a single drive 180GB or 300GB drive each. (Using 60GB or 100GB drives).
The OS could then be asked to make a software RAID of those. I.e. with 5 controlers you could have 1.2 TB at a sane cost.
Perhaps not under $5,000 but still sane.
"Shakespeare" is the 5th most misspelt query.
If that isn't Ironic, nothing is.
What's a Soccer Mom?
I keep seeing references to it from Americans mostly but I don't know what it means. What's the difference between a Soccer mom and a regular Mom?
PS: yes, I know Americans call Football "Soccer". the relation to parenting escapes me. could someone explain?
Or better yet a KVM swith with long cables.
Either way the PC can be as powerfull (and consequently noisy) as you would like without affecting you.
I.e. If 5 fans and 4 hard drives spin in another soundproff room where you can't here it do they make a sound?
Jamaica hasn't seen unemployment that low as far as I can remember. Right now we are floating somewhere around 35% and have never been in single digits. At least not in the last 40 years.
Worse yet they have a screwed up way of measuring unemployment. If you work even 1 hour out of every 3 months you are called employed. Nobody wants to count the way I suggest. I.e. If you earn minimum wage or above you are considered employed.
They are afraid to reveal that more than 1/2 the population is unemployed or at least not earning a living. At my company we have gotten applications from people who graduated university in 1998 and have never had a job.
So next time a valley worker gets laid off just stop whining jump in the car you don't actually own anymore. Draw out all the cash in your account. Dump your most expensive toys in the trunk and start driving. Stop and look for work at every town you come to. Ask about rent and other expenses too. If you find a place where you can hold $1000 per month after paying the basic expenses (Light, Rent, DSL) just settle down.
New York is paying $50,000 per year for veteran schoolteachers. Find out if you can get the government to foot the bill on a teaching degree so you can go get the $35,000 or thereabouts for an entry level classroom victim.
Money isn't everything but when the glamor goes a little of it is all you need. Better yet servicing printing equipment for a small town newspaper or going door to door for a utility company will leave you enough time to write a book, talk to people, perhaps even have sex.
OK. That last one may be wishful thinking.
I guess what I am trying to say is that for an educated man to suffer he must be forced to stay in a place with limited upertunities (like Jamaica with can get only so many visas availeble to our citezens) or he must give up and surender to his circomstances.
How did you go about researching your figures? Who was involved? How many people companies or vendors did you ask? What statistics did you track?
In short how did you come up with your figures. We could ask about the other figures too but since you didn't publish those someone else may have to answer that.
Quit while you are ahead is my policy on this. Next time the belly might stick around :)
All they have said is that for each person who actual has CTS there are 2 people who just think they have it. This stuff actualy hapens.
I remember once the condum broke and a few months latter my girlfriend started having what looked like morning sikness. She gained 20 pounds, mostly in the abdomen and brests.
This went on for over a month ontil We tried the home pregnancy test and it came up positive on 1 out of 3 attempts. We waited another cople of weeks before seeing a doctor. she reported that my girlfriend has never been pregnant before (can they actualy tell that much?). the sintums then vanished except for her bust being a size larger.
A more sevare case however was someone who lost around 100 LBs and was obviusly on the virge of death ontil he was told at the hospital that he did not have AIDS. He is now back to a comforteble 260 pounds.
These cases don't say anything about the AIDS epidemic or the propegation of our specie. It's just that not everyone with sintum has the same condition.
Add a little publicity and you have an epidemic.
BTW: 10% means that most offices would have a few people with RSI. The real ilness.
Actualy I realy HATE the hiding of extensions.
While your at it you should consider kdevelop which I think is the best and most integrated of the Free IDEs.
Kylix is also excellent in it's own way and perhaps forms the best transition tool fr a Visual Basic developer. I.e. Burland has competed for years with Visual Basic on Windows so they know how to design IDEs.
"Intel engineers have designed and manufactured a handful of transistors that are only 20 nanometers, or 0.02 microns, in size."
Which Handful is that ? 5 ( as in the fingers on a hand) or enogh to fill a palm. For something this small you are talking several million.
Am I the only Slashdoter here who knows that KWord has been using XML as it's native format since the beginning? Honestly, you can try this yourself.
1. Create a file.kwd in KWord. Make it complex and add pictures and stuff.
2. Rename it to file.tgz
3. Uncompressed and untar it and viola, you have an XML document and a bunch of picture files etc...
The rest of KOffice works this way. Negotiations are still on to get all the Free office suites on Linux to unite on a single file format. I like the KOffice scheam because it inherently produces small files (already compressed). Others have favorites.
As for filters. I think we should have a separate program for importing the dreaded *.doc files and have all the office suites call this program for that task. Why should they all waste time redoing the same function that we would prefer not be needed at all? (I.e. MSWord not so cumbersome and convoluted in it's document formats)
The choice of venue could be the whole case here. You see the Us and Australia has vastly different legal positions on what constitutes libel. They also go about awarding damages in different ways.
... comment.
Specifically in the commonwealth (of which Australia is still mostly a part) defamation means simply publishing lies about me. That means if you write an article claiming I had a 12" dick which would stay up for hours at a time I could sue. In the US you would have to also make a negative inaccurate comment with malicious intent. In other words an American judge would tell me to laugh off the 12"
Also in the US the comment must be not only false and damaging but also believable. In other words you would need to say I have a 5" dick and am impotent. I would then need to show that this has something to do with our disagreement over some other matter, or your hatred of me.
In other words, depending on the facts in the case this herring might be all you need to tell the outcome. By contrast if the newspaper in question was in new Zealand this hearing might not take place since either side would be content to fight on the other guy's turf.
Worse yet Commonwealth courts tend to award costs as a separate payment from damages. I.e. If you beat me I pay your lawyer and you travel costs too. It may be called unfair but it dose cut down on the number of merit lesscases brought before our courts.
I hate when this hapens. I post a coment hoping for a discusion and instead get moderated to +5 insightful without any replies.
This sucks even more when you remember that the slashed over 200 points off my carma when the limit was created and I havn't been below 46 since.
I.e. Carma means nothing.
Around here you have studios sprouting like mushrooms. Any DJ with a moderately successful single can build one and many do. We have the same IP laws as the US but vary rarely bother to enforce them.
This isn't about Napster and pear to peer either. It's about dance mixes. Essentially you have a cassette produced by taping the output at a party or nightclub. This is marketed as a mix by selector Bar or sound system Foo. The actual artists are not mentioned and most people can't keep track of who is involved. I.e. It's not uncommon to have parts of 20 songs on the same rhythm played in a 6 minute period. that's just a few seconds each.
How dose this affect artistes? They do not make 1% of what the major hit makers do in the US. In dead they make far more than 1%. At 2.7 Million Jamaica has 1% of America's population (pending the census which starts this summer). BTW: "jedi as religion" probably won't work in a country with less than 1% Atheist and Agnostic combined.
You see people even buy large volumes of Vinyl still. We make copies of everything. We pirate music like there was no tomorrow. the end result is that the typical Jamaican spends a whole lot of money in music shops buying original songs.
we also tend to judge music on it's own merit. This way Steven Segal's Reggae album (Yes, The actor) is a monumental flop. We like the guy (despite "Marked for Death") and give him good reason to love coming here but troth be told his singing isn't that good and his songs don't sell.
By contrast Buju Banton had a number one hit before anyone knew or cared who he was. All this without any real marketing.
What's the point? If the Music industry in North America was as deep in the society as it is in Jamaica more people would take the time to randomly listen to vast numbers of new artists. Publishers would be less able to actually make people buy pore songs and little independents who produce good stuff would have a chance.
the problem is Americans (and Canadians too) mostly just buy what the marketing people tell them to buy and when money isn't available they pirate it. here we pirate everything and then buy the stuff we actually like.
#1. Men rarely report being sodomized. It's like how women hide rape except far more common. I.e. I remember an ex con telling how he was raped on his 1st day in the slamer. During his 5 year stay every single new prisoner got the same treatment. It's a tradition in that facility like hazing. Despite that no prisoner from there has ever reported being sodomized.
#2. The media reports things they have good evidence for. Hundreds of men report being beaten half to death by cops. Some even manage to obtain convictions. Only Rodney King had a video camera rolling while he was whipped into submission.
The good thing about the US though is that this sort of thing dose sometimes get pointed and cops have been kicked off the force or imprisoned for violating human rights. That alone makes the incidents less frequent than in Jamaica (my country) where cops kill 140 people each year on average and until Amnesty International made a stink, were almost never prosecuted.
I read the license grant and all it translates to is "If you are as anal retentive as the Church of Scientology and decide that your self incriminating usenet post should no longer be found in our archive or published in our future "best of usenet" miniseries, we will have a leg to stand on.
The key term to look for in there is "none exclusive".
That term essentially means you still own your post and you can sell or give it to anyone else as you see fit. It also says that if someone else builds a competitive service we can't challenge them on the notion that your posts belong to us because the license grant is NONE EXCLUSIVE.
In short Google is not behaving badly and have simply written up the bare minimum document needed to save their asses.
Like the man says. Diesel vehicles pollute more. However when your burning 1 gallon in 78 miles I think the lower volume of fuel goes some way to negate that.
Around here (Jamaica) Diesel pumps are literally everywhere. I.e. Every gas station in the country has 3 kinds of fuel. diesel is one of them.
However diesel cars are still not very popular. the main problem here is that auto purchasing is all about tradeoffs between; cost, performance, apearance/image, comfort and availability/price of spare parts.
In other words this is Toyota land. You can get a replacement engine for your Toyota Corolla for the cost of an overhaul kit for an Audi. Nissans are a close second. The structure is that around 90% of the parts dealers stock Nissan and toyota parts. Around 1/2 of those also stock parts for a 3rd or 4th brand.
Yes. This leaves some cars with a single source for all the parts and to top it off we have a customs maze that makes hoping online to order spare parts a scary proposition.
However a lot of people are quite happy with the Toyota LiteAce, HiAce and TownAce. All come in Diesel versions and all are reliable and maintainable.
PS: The land is still grean but the harbor stinks.
Or his uncle, Chow Yun Fat. Author of the original FAT file syustem.
--
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.
RiserFS should fall under export restrictions since technically it's imported from Russia and other places. That's where most of Riser's staff works.
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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.