The drug war is one of the most inhumane, counterproductive, unethical, and mostly illegal uses of government power in the course of human history. It kills, injures, and incarcerates millions of people worldwide, strips people of their hard-won rights, and provides money to illicit/secret government programs.
May this be the start of the end of this horrible chapter in human history.
Supernatural phenomena are no less explainable by science than any other phenomena. Non-visible electromagnetic waves were considered supernatural at one point. You could not see them, and yet, they could affect the physical world.
Supernatural is just another word for "unexplained." If there is a god, and that god interferes with our observations, then that interference can be categorized, measured, and documented. It becomes part of the new theory.
The problem with religion is that its central tenet is: do not attempt to honestly categorize, measure, or document supernatural interference with the observed world.
This one's easy. Split the bill into two portions: transmission, and generation.
Line usage gets billed per day, and generation, per kWh. The line usage fees cover the maintenance of the power lines and are charged whether or not you use (or contribute) any power. The generation fees can range from negative (if you offer a net surplus) to positive (if you use more than you contribute).
It is well documented that incidence of rape, and violence in general, dropped dramatically with the popularization of porn.
Let's assume the filter does its job (which most of us agree is unlikely). Has anyone considered that reducing access to child porn may actually increase the incidence of child rape?
Maybe the sex drive works differently in these people, but if it doesn't, is it not reasonable to assume there is a significant risk associated with removing their "outlet?"
As a Canadian, I can only say: thanks! We may yet emerge from this dark 10 year period of government. It does seem like the winds are finally changing.:)
I am a Canadian and will support and vote for the pirate party. While I'm neither here nor there regarding copyright law, I am strongly in favor of iron-strength privacy protection, patent reform, and throttling the newfound arrogance our government has displayed recently.
And, hey, if they throw in a little telco reform, they've got a lifetime member here.
Directory synchronization over several protocols, brilliant include/exclude syntax, failure protection & rollback, rsync style 1-way or 2-way block synchronization and intelligent file change detection, Unix and Windows support, open source... It's what you need.
Yeah, people watching TV while driving is a problem, but there are far more prevalent problems that'll cause just as many accidents: people doing 100Mph+
I'm sorry, but I'm calling you out on this one.
Explain to me how "driving 101mph on a motorway" is more dangerous than watching TV while you drive.
What I don't understand is why anyone would want to ban sex related sites in the absence of religion.
You would think that of all nations, China would be encouraging as much private sexual release as possible given their male:female ratio and large population. Honestly; I am baffled.
No debate on the ethics of patents or patenting a potentially life-saving idea... but, there is a very interesting possibility here.
LIPO/LIION batteries, if fully discharged, cannot be recharged (at least not safely, by an end-user). All modern electronics electronics that use rechargeable lithium include charge controllers which protect the battery from deep discharge, and overcharge. The discharge protection could be disabled in the case of a 911 call, and provide a significant amount of battery life (perhaps 5-10%) at the expense of the battery. The user could be briefly warned on-screen while placing the call that it could destroy the battery, but in a life or death situation, what's $50?
Except, maybe.. that the prosecutor(s) should be fired, forced to wear yellow, and barred from working with or for the American government for the next 20 years.
How far America has fallen from the beautiful ideal of the land of the free.:(
When I was growing up in the late 80s/early 90s I always dreamed of becoming an S/390 admin. I loved the concept of VMs and physical hardware abstraction. It just seemed so... perfect and elegant.
Throughout my career as a *nix admin (over the last 15 years) I've always pushed more and more VM isolation into my datacenters. It started with chroot() containers, then VMware 1.x instances for small lightweight systems, then user-mode-linux, and now ESX and VirtualBox. My clusters are as you describe - a fabric onto which I set hosts that my users need for whatever purpose. Slowly but surely I am becoming a mainframe admin, even if it isn't quite as I could have imagined 20 years ago.
I struggled for hours playing with mtrr's, video drivers, and KDE (thinking it might be a bad QT build or something, since I updated to KDE4 at the same time this the 2.7 series intel driver went in).
I never would have suspected the kernel until I went through about a dozen bug reports, and decided to give 2.6.30-rc8 a shot. Solved all my issues as well.
Users (PMs, middle management, and even developers) tend to value their own time significantly more than yours. Some (not all) often skip the step of putting thought and consideration into a request before submitting it. As you know this causes great stress on your part, but in the end stress on theirs as well.
You need a ticketing system. Spend an afternoon installing an open source one (though we use TeamTrack), and, over the course of a month or two, phase it in as the only way to provoke a reaction from you, except in cases of emergency. Be very clear about what an emergency is, and what kind of SLA you're willing to offer.
The benefit of this system is simple: it requires them to think before calling you to action. It requires a tiny but significant effort on their part. Roughly the same amount of effort as say... googling the answer, writing something down, or installing the software themselves.
The trick is selling it to them. Because let's face it - if they refuse to use it, you can either do no work at all (and risk termination), or abandon the system.
So sell it like this:
"Look - we're not a startup (anymore?). 60 people isn't an enterprise, but it also isn't a small group of people. You guys need an effective response from me, and frankly we have too many projects for me to keep in my head. It's not fair to you guys when I forget or badly prioritize something, right? (get them to nod). When I get a ticket, it's there in my queue until it's complete. I will not forget to do it. You can see my queue. You can see what's outstanding, and escalate if you need priority. Our projects will be well tracked, so nothing is left to chance."
.. and so on and so forth. Be diplomatic, but firm and confident. You're doing this for the good of the company - not just your own sake. And you really are. Because once you reach a tipping point (in my experience, around 100-150 employees) effective project management and communication become the #1 factor in company failings. More important than product quality. More important than marketing. If your people do not communicate, nothing else matters.
A group of people should dress up in Nazi uniforms, wearing swastikas, and start a bonfire in a safe area. When the media arrives, they should start throwing boxes of violent PC games, literature, and movies, shouting the German equivalent of "our society will be free of the things I hate!"
It's worth getting arrested for. This is important.
If you release your content in an encrypted/restricted format, you lose copyright protection. You're taking matters into your own hands. You're not benefiting society.
If you release your content in native format, you are afforded copyright protection. Your works will enter the public domain (some day), and you are benefiting society.
YouTube could much more easily make money by charging a small fee to UPLOAD video to YouTube. If they charged you $1 per video upload, they'd make a mint and most people would be happy to pay it.
Really, I can't think of a much better way for them to cut their own throat.
Sorry, maybe I misunderstand your comment, so let me make sure: are you seriously comparing the account deletion policy on a social networking site to the Nazis? Please tell me I've misunderstood. Please.
One can compare and contrast many things, regardless of their relative value.
I can compare a penny to a dollar coin. A dollar coin is worth one hundred times more than a penny.
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Exotics are always the best way to finance those hellbore cannons. Will will bring the Ur-Quan to their knee equivalents, yet!
Kudos to Mexicans and their government!
The drug war is one of the most inhumane, counterproductive, unethical, and mostly illegal uses of government power in the course of human history. It kills, injures, and incarcerates millions of people worldwide, strips people of their hard-won rights, and provides money to illicit/secret government programs.
May this be the start of the end of this horrible chapter in human history.
Supernatural phenomena are no less explainable by science than any other phenomena. Non-visible electromagnetic waves were considered supernatural at one point. You could not see them, and yet, they could affect the physical world.
Supernatural is just another word for "unexplained." If there is a god, and that god interferes with our observations, then that interference can be categorized, measured, and documented. It becomes part of the new theory.
The problem with religion is that its central tenet is: do not attempt to honestly categorize, measure, or document supernatural interference with the observed world.
This one's easy. Split the bill into two portions: transmission, and generation.
Line usage gets billed per day, and generation, per kWh. The line usage fees cover the maintenance of the power lines and are charged whether or not you use (or contribute) any power. The generation fees can range from negative (if you offer a net surplus) to positive (if you use more than you contribute).
Might this spell the end of the Israeli lobby?
If you're really interested in the subject, do some googling. It is a well documented phenomena.
It is well documented that incidence of rape, and violence in general, dropped dramatically with the popularization of porn.
Let's assume the filter does its job (which most of us agree is unlikely). Has anyone considered that reducing access to child porn may actually increase the incidence of child rape?
Maybe the sex drive works differently in these people, but if it doesn't, is it not reasonable to assume there is a significant risk associated with removing their "outlet?"
As a Canadian, I can only say: thanks! We may yet emerge from this dark 10 year period of government. It does seem like the winds are finally changing. :)
I am a Canadian and will support and vote for the pirate party. While I'm neither here nor there regarding copyright law, I am strongly in favor of iron-strength privacy protection, patent reform, and throttling the newfound arrogance our government has displayed recently.
And, hey, if they throw in a little telco reform, they've got a lifetime member here.
Go pirates, go!
Check out unison.
Directory synchronization over several protocols, brilliant include/exclude syntax, failure protection & rollback, rsync style 1-way or 2-way block synchronization and intelligent file change detection, Unix and Windows support, open source... It's what you need.
Yeah, people watching TV while driving is a problem, but there are far more prevalent problems that'll cause just as many accidents: people doing 100Mph+
I'm sorry, but I'm calling you out on this one.
Explain to me how "driving 101mph on a motorway" is more dangerous than watching TV while you drive.
What I don't understand is why anyone would want to ban sex related sites in the absence of religion.
You would think that of all nations, China would be encouraging as much private sexual release as possible given their male:female ratio and large population. Honestly; I am baffled.
Sun servers running perl you say?
I'd say that has the price:performance ratio of a Rolls Royce. And that's not a good thing. :)
No debate on the ethics of patents or patenting a potentially life-saving idea... but, there is a very interesting possibility here.
LIPO/LIION batteries, if fully discharged, cannot be recharged (at least not safely, by an end-user). All modern electronics electronics that use rechargeable lithium include charge controllers which protect the battery from deep discharge, and overcharge. The discharge protection could be disabled in the case of a 911 call, and provide a significant amount of battery life (perhaps 5-10%) at the expense of the battery. The user could be briefly warned on-screen while placing the call that it could destroy the battery, but in a life or death situation, what's $50?
...when I say: Orrin Hatch can go fuck himself.
Give it time. It took IBM decades to reach this level of control and stability.
Nothing more needs to be said.
Except, maybe.. that the prosecutor(s) should be fired, forced to wear yellow, and barred from working with or for the American government for the next 20 years.
How far America has fallen from the beautiful ideal of the land of the free. :(
Funny how things run in cycles, eh?
When I was growing up in the late 80s/early 90s I always dreamed of becoming an S/390 admin. I loved the concept of VMs and physical hardware abstraction. It just seemed so... perfect and elegant.
Throughout my career as a *nix admin (over the last 15 years) I've always pushed more and more VM isolation into my datacenters. It started with chroot() containers, then VMware 1.x instances for small lightweight systems, then user-mode-linux, and now ESX and VirtualBox. My clusters are as you describe - a fabric onto which I set hosts that my users need for whatever purpose. Slowly but surely I am becoming a mainframe admin, even if it isn't quite as I could have imagined 20 years ago.
I'm not alone! :)
I struggled for hours playing with mtrr's, video drivers, and KDE (thinking it might be a bad QT build or something, since I updated to KDE4 at the same time this the 2.7 series intel driver went in).
I never would have suspected the kernel until I went through about a dozen bug reports, and decided to give 2.6.30-rc8 a shot. Solved all my issues as well.
I have your answer.
Users (PMs, middle management, and even developers) tend to value their own time significantly more than yours. Some (not all) often skip the step of putting thought and consideration into a request before submitting it. As you know this causes great stress on your part, but in the end stress on theirs as well.
You need a ticketing system. Spend an afternoon installing an open source one (though we use TeamTrack), and, over the course of a month or two, phase it in as the only way to provoke a reaction from you, except in cases of emergency. Be very clear about what an emergency is, and what kind of SLA you're willing to offer.
The benefit of this system is simple: it requires them to think before calling you to action. It requires a tiny but significant effort on their part. Roughly the same amount of effort as say... googling the answer, writing something down, or installing the software themselves.
The trick is selling it to them. Because let's face it - if they refuse to use it, you can either do no work at all (and risk termination), or abandon the system.
So sell it like this:
"Look - we're not a startup (anymore?). 60 people isn't an enterprise, but it also isn't a small group of people. You guys need an effective response from me, and frankly we have too many projects for me to keep in my head. It's not fair to you guys when I forget or badly prioritize something, right? (get them to nod). When I get a ticket, it's there in my queue until it's complete. I will not forget to do it. You can see my queue. You can see what's outstanding, and escalate if you need priority. Our projects will be well tracked, so nothing is left to chance."
.. and so on and so forth. Be diplomatic, but firm and confident. You're doing this for the good of the company - not just your own sake. And you really are. Because once you reach a tipping point (in my experience, around 100-150 employees) effective project management and communication become the #1 factor in company failings. More important than product quality. More important than marketing. If your people do not communicate, nothing else matters.
My $0.02.
(and I'm dead serious here)
A group of people should dress up in Nazi uniforms, wearing swastikas, and start a bonfire in a safe area. When the media arrives, they should start throwing boxes of violent PC games, literature, and movies, shouting the German equivalent of "our society will be free of the things I hate!"
It's worth getting arrested for. This is important.
If you release your content in an encrypted/restricted format, you lose copyright protection. You're taking matters into your own hands. You're not benefiting society.
If you release your content in native format, you are afforded copyright protection. Your works will enter the public domain (some day), and you are benefiting society.
Sounds fair to me.
There is no such thing as an "IP right."
YouTube could much more easily make money by charging a small fee to UPLOAD video to YouTube. If they charged you $1 per video upload, they'd make a mint and most people would be happy to pay it.
Really, I can't think of a much better way for them to cut their own throat.
Not much else to say about that one.
Sorry, maybe I misunderstand your comment, so let me make sure: are you seriously comparing the account deletion policy on a social networking site to the Nazis? Please tell me I've misunderstood. Please.
One can compare and contrast many things, regardless of their relative value.
I can compare a penny to a dollar coin. A dollar coin is worth one hundred times more than a penny.
But they are both money.