In recent years "privatization" has become an economic theology in Latin America, driven by a set of commandments written by the U.S., and the U.S.-dominated lenders, the Wold Bank and International Monetary Fund. The commandments are simple. Thou shalt sell your public enterprises to private corporations and investors, almost always from abroad. Thou shalt allow those new owners to do what they will with prices, wages and products. In exchange, supposedly, those businesses will receive a fresh transfusion of foreign capital (and the IMF and World Bank won't cut off your international loans). Bolivia's most recent governments have been very obedient to these foreign commandments, selling off everything from the national airline to the electricity system.
But then there was water. Last year the Bolivian government sold off Cochabamba's public water system to a pool of British-led investors who promised to pour millions of new dollars into expansion and improvement. Last month the owners raised up their new signs ("Aguas de Tunari") on all their facilities and also raised up something else: water prices, in many cases by more than double. Our own water bill, for example, leapt from $12 per month in December to nearly $30 in January.
The moment the US stops trying to act like a global dictator the sooner crazy lunatics will stop flying planes into US buildings. Dude the IMF is not the United States Government, the IMF does what is in the best interest of the IMF, and its investors, some are very rich multi-national banks, not what is in your country's best interest. The IMF does it this way so that their loans will get paid even if you die of thrist to do it. The IMF is the leander of last resort, you call them when you have a gun to your head but don't have the guts to pull the trigger.
The company the really fucked you guys over is British anyways and we americans once had a war with the Brits over taxes. Never sell your infrasturcture.
Maybe it's because I'm an old fart and remmeber thing like a chicken in every pot, atomic energy, electricity too cheap to meter, the end of the cold war ect., but it'll be a case of new day, different shit. Humanity is just too psycologicaly addicted to scarcity economics to really grasp abundance economics; look at open source vs. closed source software for some it's a no-brain but most otherwise smart people just can't get their heads arround it.
your fresh water contains waaay more than 0.001% salt (as well as other minerals) First rain water is esentialy distilled water so it washes out the salt accumilation in the soil; where irrigation is the only source it will build chlorides. What the Mesopotamian's called irrigated crop lands, the Iraqis call salt marshes
Just dump it in the sea, just not too much in one spot, the water we use will eventualy wash down the river or rain out of the sky returning things to its normal tonicity. Right now we digging out a shit pile of salt from the ground deposited by prehistoric ocean evaperation, switching to desalination salt should help us achieve natrium-neutrality and make the eco-whackoes happy.
with a sweet female voice saying "Hi Ambsoien Levoiitra VALlUqqM fzbrom ojwnly $hz1,2xp1 Xutanax Sorqma Meridpaia VlAdiGRA frmhom orpnly $vw3,3zx3 CzslALlS frlaom onlwly $xw3,7ww5 Prykozac" You'll need an answering machine with flailing arms that says "Danger Will Robinson, Danger, messaage may be grabbled without a CSS2 compliant user agent, Danger Will Robinson, Danger."
what they want to do is connect the dots better, let's say we have blogs, and we're reading each other's blogs and commenting on them about mom, america and apple pie and sushi. Eventualy I get finger as a mole for the shammmu liberation front, an eco-terrorist group dedicated to eliminating fishing. They'll know most of my "freinds" are really fish eaters, but a couple somewhere will be eco-terrorists like me, another cell will be the same, if they are lucky some of my freinds will also be friends of the other cell; the dots connect; they've found the go-betweens.
Chief among ARDA's aims is to make sense of the massive amounts of data the NSA collects - some of its sources grow by around 4 million gigabytes a month. That'll be one hell of a "Permanant Record" in twenty years; especialy when people start "search-engine spamming" the NSA!
Extreme(Extending far beyond the norm) nationalism characterized especially (to a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common) by a belligerent (Inclined or eager to fight; hostile or aggressive) foreign policy; chauvinistic (Prejudiced belief in the superiority of one's own gender, group, or kind, [French chauvinisme, after Nicolas Chauvin, a legendary French soldier famous for his devotion to Napoleon.]) patriotism. Sorry I just don't see it applying
Actualy BASIC started out as a learning language to ease scientists into Fortran. That 16K machine was a DEC something or an other, that emulated an IBM 1130 running batch based OS called DOS360 and had compilers for RPG II, Fortran and Cobol, punch cards chain printers and disk drives as big as washing machines. Most of what basic is today is because it was used on PC's and programming in 8080 or its decendants assembly language was a real mind-freak
Firstly most of the bones baby Bush throws to the radical bible thumpers under goes spontanious combustion in a week or so anyways. Personaly I'd be happier with better choices than Johnson/Nixon, Nixon/Humphrey, Bush/Clinton, Bush/Gore and I think it would do a lot to sepparate the mainsteam "we're religious but distrust big-religion and much as big-government and big-business" types from the Loud-mouthed minority of "religion as an industry" types. Secondly blind war driven patriotism isn't but war driven by blind patiotism is.
maybe he doesn't have to add a distributed database; adding a database server to host the autherization system tables on one machine, maybe another to serve the read-mostly tables, and if they need it a third for the Read Write workhourse tables like orders and inventory. That way he could even pick and choose the database servers individualy on their particular strengths and weaknesses. There have been times when I've done that by accident which makes bug-bashing interesting.
Maybe the real question should have been, our site's database is dragging ass, how do I find out which database queries are sucking canal water so I can optimse them or move them to a dedicated server?
why not just use some javascript and only submit changed values. That means a max if 5 key/value pairs per page; at least for most user who don't use lynx or w3m.
I talked it over with my black, indian and orientals friends at the athiest support group meeting being held at the local gay bar and we decided you really need a hug. Basing your views of the country based on beltway politics is limiting and the pentagon is really a pretty bizzaro place, where else does people used to being responsible for 500 people and millions of dollars in equipment fetch coffee in the military? Seriously get some friends outside your comfort zones, our country is a lot more tollerant and diverse than anyone's subset of the real world leads them to believe and if you think that a restriction on being able to say shit fuck and God Damn every third word in public is the same as a restriction on the substance of your speech, I'd suggest take a class in rhetoric or public speaking.
OBTW the context you used jingoist doesn't seem to fit with it's definition or anything brought up in this subthread; care to elaborate?
If you ever programmed on a machine with 16K of magnetic core memory, you'd have learned that GOTOs were essential to getting a program to fit in the machine along with the operating system. GOTO really do amplify bad programming, but they are not the cause. Even when computers grew to 64K we really had to used a GOTO every once in a while. Now with computers hitting 1G of memory and languages the have luxurious flow control statements like while, do... until, and switch/case the GOTO is about as usefull as a hand crank to start an auto engine, but still every once in a while a mechanic has to hand crank an engine to get it timed just right.
My Dad was in the Army, I was in the Army, my son and his wife is in the army but I'm not sure what massive rights any of us gave up. Hell we even keep the right to self-defense, and the USG put some pretty impressive weapons system in our hands to enforce that right. As far as intelligence goes, do you really think that telling ten people armed with rifles, machine guns, hand grenades and anti-tank misslies to do things that could very easily imperil their life or limb to be a career path where a stupid person is likely to suceed?
Fired, hell I wouldn't fire him for that, I'd make sure he got a lenghty debriefing by some people in cheap suits and sun glasses in the basement of some government agency he wasn't sure of the location of. Then every coworkers, friend and family member of his would get interviewed about the incidence and used for survailence training for some FBI canidates. After that I'd just send him back to work like nothing happened and just survail the shit out of him. It would do wonders for security once the stories got passed around the water-cooler.
It just seems curious that all these laptops are stolen when they have tons of personal data on them; there have been serveral cases in the private sector as well. It's almost enough to make one think that the "thieves" are getting too lucky here; wouldn't surprise me at all to find out in at least some of these cases either the subject was identified and followed in advanced by the thief or an inside accomplice fingered them when they had the desired data on the laptop or backup tapes.
What these theives really got was personal data the could easily be used to put 2.2 million people with security clearances in a compromised position, these people in government need to get paranoid, very paranoid.
GOTO's don't kill programs, programmer's do! Seriously any good programmer can write trash code in any language out there, and a good programmer can write good code in anything as well. Just because a language doesn't enforce something that lets a newbie or a hurried expect hack together some horrendous pile of stinking speghetti, doesn't make the language bad. Hell I liked RPG II better than COBOL and FORTRAN better than BASIC; one of these days I'm going to learn Lisp.
By now I guess you've gathered that there will not be an arguement here that I not heard before.
yes but ODF is really a bunch of directories and text XML files so the problem of version control is actually slightly more than trivial, but not much, a couple lines of perl or python or php or bash or DOS batch ect would easily solve it.
anyways I allways thought that spreadsheets were more for playing what-if games with data than for real accounting
Truman world War II, Kenedy/johnson Viet Nam, Clinton Balkins and Sudan, can't remember a war for Carter but there must of been one and the Iranian Hostage crisis must count for something.
FDR was a democrat, he correctly applied Keynesian economics to the great depression. By having the government spending borrowed debt he cause budget surpluses which resulted in inflation and ended the deflationary depression. Jimmy Carter another democrat incorrectly applied Keynesian economics to fix a inflationary recession with disasterous results, double digit inflation.
It's hard to figure out what's a violation and what isn't; in a 12 mile radius of me there are 7 people with the same first and last name as me, 3 of those people have the same middle initial. Obviously the release of my name wouldn't really be personally identifying, however if my name was qvidis.... it would.
This HIPPA stuff is affecting patient care right now. 3 weeks ago I burnt my hand at work, so the boss drives me to the Port Huron Hospital ER (newly remodeled for increased HIPPA compliance); there is no triage any more because that's HIPPA sensative data. My pain on their scale of 1 to 10 is about 18, I've got about a square inch of skin just flapping in the breeze, my knees are starting to buckle and the info clerk is explaining to another person how to get to the third floor! Eventually I get to be seen in the ER proper, they start an IV push some morphine into it which takes my pain from 18 to 9, cover my burn with gauze and sterile saline and ask me when I had my last tetanus shot. My personal doctor's office has all of the admin stuff done by Mercy hospital, the records are supposed to be available 24-7, so I get a tetanus booster I don't need in the other arm and they call an ambulance to transfer me to the burn center at Detroit Receiving Hospital. I get to DRH's ER give them all of my data which is inputed into their New computer system, get taken up to the burn center only to not be in the computer system, and have the burns deroofed and debrided ( the definition of pain is yet again expanded for me) and sent down to a bed on a med-surg unit. I remember looking at the clock after I burned my hand and it was 6:05 PM thurs., it's now 3:45 am on friday and I'm not in the new computer system, I guess they can't release personal data that can't be found!
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The moment the US stops trying to act like a global dictator the sooner crazy lunatics will stop flying planes into US buildings.
Dude the IMF is not the United States Government, the IMF does what is in the best interest of the IMF, and its investors, some are very rich multi-national banks, not what is in your country's best interest. The IMF does it this way so that their loans will get paid even if you die of thrist to do it. The IMF is the leander of last resort, you call them when you have a gun to your head but don't have the guts to pull the trigger.
The company the really fucked you guys over is British anyways and we americans once had a war with the Brits over taxes. Never sell your infrasturcture.
Maybe it's because I'm an old fart and remmeber thing like a chicken in every pot, atomic energy, electricity too cheap to meter, the end of the cold war ect., but it'll be a case of new day, different shit. Humanity is just too psycologicaly addicted to scarcity economics to really grasp abundance economics; look at open source vs. closed source software for some it's a no-brain but most otherwise smart people just can't get their heads arround it.
your fresh water contains waaay more than 0.001% salt (as well as other minerals)
First rain water is esentialy distilled water so it washes out the salt accumilation in the soil; where irrigation is the only source it will build chlorides. What the Mesopotamian's called irrigated crop lands, the Iraqis call salt marshes
Just dump it in the sea, just not too much in one spot, the water we use will eventualy wash down the river or rain out of the sky returning things to its normal tonicity. Right now we digging out a shit pile of salt from the ground deposited by prehistoric ocean evaperation, switching to desalination salt should help us achieve natrium-neutrality and make the eco-whackoes happy.
I'm a quarter mile from a body of water that flows a billion gallons a day, sorry about your luck.
with a sweet female voice saying "Hi Ambsoien Levoiitra VALlUqqM fzbrom ojwnly $hz1,2xp1 Xutanax Sorqma Meridpaia VlAdiGRA frmhom orpnly $vw3,3zx3 CzslALlS frlaom onlwly $xw3,7ww5 Prykozac"
You'll need an answering machine with flailing arms that says "Danger Will Robinson, Danger, messaage may be grabbled without a CSS2 compliant user agent, Danger Will Robinson, Danger."
You say that like nobody at the NSA every takes a couple night courses for their continuing ed requirements!
what they want to do is connect the dots better, let's say we have blogs, and we're reading each other's blogs and commenting on them about mom, america and apple pie and sushi. Eventualy I get finger as a mole for the shammmu liberation front, an eco-terrorist group dedicated to eliminating fishing. They'll know most of my "freinds" are really fish eaters, but a couple somewhere will be eco-terrorists like me, another cell will be the same, if they are lucky some of my freinds will also be friends of the other cell; the dots connect; they've found the go-betweens.
Chief among ARDA's aims is to make sense of the massive amounts of data the NSA collects - some of its sources grow by around 4 million gigabytes a month. That'll be one hell of a "Permanant Record" in twenty years; especialy when people start "search-engine spamming" the NSA!
Extreme(Extending far beyond the norm) nationalism characterized especially (to a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common) by a belligerent (Inclined or eager to fight; hostile or aggressive) foreign policy; chauvinistic (Prejudiced belief in the superiority of one's own gender, group, or kind, [French chauvinisme, after Nicolas Chauvin, a legendary French soldier famous for his devotion to Napoleon.]) patriotism.
Sorry I just don't see it applying
Actualy BASIC started out as a learning language to ease scientists into Fortran. That 16K machine was a DEC something or an other, that emulated an IBM 1130 running batch based OS called DOS360 and had compilers for RPG II, Fortran and Cobol, punch cards chain printers and disk drives as big as washing machines.
Most of what basic is today is because it was used on PC's and programming in 8080 or its decendants assembly language was a real mind-freak
Firstly most of the bones baby Bush throws to the radical bible thumpers under goes spontanious combustion in a week or so anyways.
Personaly I'd be happier with better choices than Johnson/Nixon, Nixon/Humphrey, Bush/Clinton, Bush/Gore and I think it would do a lot to sepparate the mainsteam "we're religious but distrust big-religion and much as big-government and big-business" types from the Loud-mouthed minority of "religion as an industry" types.
Secondly blind war driven patriotism isn't but war driven by blind patiotism is.
maybe he doesn't have to add a distributed database; adding a database server to host the autherization system tables on one machine, maybe another to serve the read-mostly tables, and if they need it a third for the Read Write workhourse tables like orders and inventory. That way he could even pick and choose the database servers individualy on their particular strengths and weaknesses. There have been times when I've done that by accident which makes bug-bashing interesting.
Maybe the real question should have been, our site's database is dragging ass, how do I find out which database queries are sucking canal water so I can optimse them or move them to a dedicated server?
why not just use some javascript and only submit changed values. That means a max if 5 key/value pairs per page; at least for most user who don't use lynx or w3m.
I talked it over with my black, indian and orientals friends at the athiest support group meeting being held at the local gay bar and we decided you really need a hug. Basing your views of the country based on beltway politics is limiting and the pentagon is really a pretty bizzaro place, where else does people used to being responsible for 500 people and millions of dollars in equipment fetch coffee in the military? Seriously get some friends outside your comfort zones, our country is a lot more tollerant and diverse than anyone's subset of the real world leads them to believe and if you think that a restriction on being able to say shit fuck and God Damn every third word in public is the same as a restriction on the substance of your speech, I'd suggest take a class in rhetoric or public speaking.
OBTW the context you used jingoist doesn't seem to fit with it's definition or anything brought up in this subthread; care to elaborate?
If you ever programmed on a machine with 16K of magnetic core memory, you'd have learned that GOTOs were essential to getting a program to fit in the machine along with the operating system. GOTO really do amplify bad programming, but they are not the cause. Even when computers grew to 64K we really had to used a GOTO every once in a while. Now with computers hitting 1G of memory and languages the have luxurious flow control statements like while, do ... until, and switch/case the GOTO is about as usefull as a hand crank to start an auto engine, but still every once in a while a mechanic has to hand crank an engine to get it timed just right.
My Dad was in the Army, I was in the Army, my son and his wife is in the army but I'm not sure what massive rights any of us gave up. Hell we even keep the right to self-defense, and the USG put some pretty impressive weapons system in our hands to enforce that right. As far as intelligence goes, do you really think that telling ten people armed with rifles, machine guns, hand grenades and anti-tank misslies to do things that could very easily imperil their life or limb to be a career path where a stupid person is likely to suceed?
Fired, hell I wouldn't fire him for that, I'd make sure he got a lenghty debriefing by some people in cheap suits and sun glasses in the basement of some government agency he wasn't sure of the location of. Then every coworkers, friend and family member of his would get interviewed about the incidence and used for survailence training for some FBI canidates. After that I'd just send him back to work like nothing happened and just survail the shit out of him. It would do wonders for security once the stories got passed around the water-cooler.
My son was born with a Cu7 UID stuck to his chest.
It just seems curious that all these laptops are stolen when they have tons of personal data on them; there have been serveral cases in the private sector as well. It's almost enough to make one think that the "thieves" are getting too lucky here; wouldn't surprise me at all to find out in at least some of these cases either the subject was identified and followed in advanced by the thief or an inside accomplice fingered them when they had the desired data on the laptop or backup tapes.
What these theives really got was personal data the could easily be used to put 2.2 million people with security clearances in a compromised position, these people in government need to get paranoid, very paranoid.
GOTO's don't kill programs, programmer's do! Seriously any good programmer can write trash code in any language out there, and a good programmer can write good code in anything as well. Just because a language doesn't enforce something that lets a newbie or a hurried expect hack together some horrendous pile of stinking speghetti, doesn't make the language bad. Hell I liked RPG II better than COBOL and FORTRAN better than BASIC; one of these days I'm going to learn Lisp.
By now I guess you've gathered that there will not be an arguement here that I not heard before.
yes but ODF is really a bunch of directories and text XML files so the problem of version control is actually slightly more than trivial, but not much, a couple lines of perl or python or php or bash or DOS batch ect would easily solve it.
anyways I allways thought that spreadsheets were more for playing what-if games with data than for real accounting
Truman world War II, Kenedy/johnson Viet Nam, Clinton Balkins and Sudan, can't remember a war for Carter but there must of been one and the Iranian Hostage crisis must count for something.
FDR was a democrat, he correctly applied Keynesian economics to the great depression. By having the government spending borrowed debt he cause budget surpluses which resulted in inflation and ended the deflationary depression. Jimmy Carter another democrat incorrectly applied Keynesian economics to fix a inflationary recession with disasterous results, double digit inflation.
It's hard to figure out what's a violation and what isn't; in a 12 mile radius of me there are 7 people with the same first and last name as me, 3 of those people have the same middle initial. Obviously the release of my name wouldn't really be personally identifying, however if my name was qvidis.... it would.
This HIPPA stuff is affecting patient care right now. 3 weeks ago I burnt my hand at work, so the boss drives me to the Port Huron Hospital ER (newly remodeled for increased HIPPA compliance); there is no triage any more because that's HIPPA sensative data. My pain on their scale of 1 to 10 is about 18, I've got about a square inch of skin just flapping in the breeze, my knees are starting to buckle and the info clerk is explaining to another person how to get to the third floor! Eventually I get to be seen in the ER proper, they start an IV push some morphine into it which takes my pain from 18 to 9, cover my burn with gauze and sterile saline and ask me when I had my last tetanus shot. My personal doctor's office has all of the admin stuff done by Mercy hospital, the records are supposed to be available 24-7, so I get a tetanus booster I don't need in the other arm and they call an ambulance to transfer me to the burn center at Detroit Receiving Hospital. I get to DRH's ER give them all of my data which is inputed into their New computer system, get taken up to the burn center only to not be in the computer system, and have the burns deroofed and debrided ( the definition of pain is yet again expanded for me) and sent down to a bed on a med-surg unit. I remember looking at the clock after I burned my hand and it was 6:05 PM thurs., it's now 3:45 am on friday and I'm not in the new computer system, I guess they can't release personal data that can't be found!