I have happily run Ubuntu on my Thinkpad x40 since Warty came out (I used debian before that.)
My only advice: the more complex the setup, the more tweaking you'll have to do. I have an external monitor (attached to my docking station.) I found some docking/undocking scripts that worked well online. Had to customize my xorg.conf file to have my external monitor supported. There is lots of documentation on this kind of stuff, though, online.
I recommend the x series. Ultralight, good battery, sufficiently fast.
feasibility has nothing to do with value. it is cheaper to make and watch movies than to watch plays, should we get rid of plays? In our ADD society no one bothers to really master any sort of art; should we just let everyone be content with the wikipedia version of them?
I don't know a lot about ninjas, but I don't think that just because studying it is not practical that we shouldn't have programs to promote it.
Well I'm glad you believe that. I'm just curious as to what today will be considered to have been "always wrong" 200 years from now. I suspect not providing free health care when able might be on the list. Or premptively attacking countries that had done nothing to you and killing 25000 people in the process. Or considering your own interests to be more valuable than other peoples...
It will be interesting. I hope I am revived for a day 200 years from now so I can see whether we have a Star Trek: The Next Generation type society or a brave new world one.
"While the United States did not supply full-fledged chemical weapons to Iraq, it did approve private business sales of biological weapon precursors to Iraq, according to a 1994 report issued by the US Senate Committee on Banking"
When will people understand that speaking in absolutist good & evil terms are never true and that it just makes people more hateful. We're all culprits to some degree.
The government didn't take the Americans hostage, students did. They defended their takeover by citing our allowing the former Shah to stay in the U.S. and our previous coup d'etat which threw out their Prime Minister. That sounds like an act of war to me...
BTW, Carter did have an attempted air strike/rescue. Our technology didn't hold up to the desert storms.
So it came around to bite us in the ass. We overthrow their government, they fight back.
OKay.. I see what you're saying. But how will people know which releases are which. (meaning laypersons)
Also, I didn't realize that ONLY this release was going to have the extended support. I thought it was from now on they were making releases that would get the longer support. So the in-between, risky, releases will use the breezy support model?
As I understand it, he is saying that this can be a more risky release with more experimentation because people can always say "well, dapper is the stable one. Use that for production systems." Won't that hurt your credibility, if you have different releases of different quality? Wouldn't it be smarter to have a "risk team" playing around for the next release while the current release is being polished so that when the rest of the team starts working on the next release there's already been enough time on it to make sure it is production quality? (You could switch up who gets to be on the risk team if people are complaining that they don't get to have fun.)
I don't know where you're from, but Iran is the size of California, Texas, Arizona and New Mexico put together. It's almost four times the size of Iraq. It's five times the size of Vietnam. And it's mountainous. Even if we managed to cover the ports (though we wouldn't be able to in the caspian sea) we would never be able to stop the land trade routes. We'd never have the troops for a successful land war. It would be WWII scale and intractable, like Vietnam.
Not to mention that air strikes/ whatever may very well have the hostages killed.
Sometimes war just isn't an option. Or do you think we should fight any war, at any time, no matter the consequences, if they commit an "act of war" on us?
a naval blockade -- which very intentionally (if you've studied it) was ordered not to fire on any soviet ships.
it isn't like carter just sat around. he imposed sanctions, froze iranian foreign accounts, etc. I think they're pretty similar (since Iran wasn't moving any troops it would be hard to blockade anything.)
BTW, what would you have done? Gone to war? Then Iran would have gotten Russian assistance -- since they were just next door in Afghanistan. They hated Russia, but they would rather have it become a Russia-U.S. war than let America come into Iran. That's why Carter didn't go in...
Why not? One is specifically related to Iran -- Reagan chose to engage them and empowered another dictator with American arms and legitimacy. Carter could have done that, or gone to war with Iran. That would be even harder to pull off (especially in 1979) than our current war in Iraq.
As for JFK: you argued that Carter should have struck back immediately because it was an act of war. Isn't moving missles within 100 miles of the mainland too? Shouldn't JFK had declared war on the USSR?
I know of them well. But they didn't make the agreement themselves. In fact, they were approaching the situation very contentiously. If you study modern negotiations the Camp David Accords are often used as an early example of modern negotiations. Carter is credited with being an effective mediator, allowing the two parties to realize that they were look at each other's positions from their own perspective and therefore were unable to come to an agreement. Israel wanted security. Egypt felt it would lose respect if it gave away an area that was of historical significance. But Israel saw Egypt's position as one based off of security concerns. Egypt thought Israel just wanted to humiliate them. Without an effective mediator I doubt an integrative solution would ever have come to pass.
You didn't respond to either of my other examples, though. JFK and the cuban missle crisis or Reagan's support of Saddam.
It wasn't reduced due to recession. It was reduced because he created a national energy policy enacted strong environmental legislation.
As for Iran -- He did pull off the Camp David Accords, you know. He could have let a war start between Israel and Egypt, which would have pulled in a lot of other countries, but he managed to use diplomacy and negotiations to find a solution. Iran was another attempt at such diplomacy.
Knee-jerk responses are rarely smart. JFK didn't go to war with the USSR during the cuban missle crisis. Thank goodness.
Would you rather have had him use our Reagan-era strategy? Give Iraq modern weapons, including chemical weapons, to fight the Iranians for us? Look how well thought-out that was...
"Microsoft has identified reducing piracy as a key way for the company to grow its sales of Windows and to promote alternative operating systems, such as GNU/Linux and Mac OS.
You forget one more point -- Americans have left the cities for the suburbs (and now the "ex"urbs) over the past 50 years. American's are big on property and personal space. I grew up in China and got very used to always been within a couple of feet of someone. When I came to America in '99 I was chastised regularly for walking or standing too close to someone.
I also noticed the envy people had with large yards -- something you can only get far away from cities (for affordable prices.) I think some of this is the "keeping up with the jones'" effect -- everyone in america feels they are middle class, and so no one accepts that they can't afford a house with a yard. so they find a place where they can.
That and people here like bargains. They are happy to drive 20+ minutes to go to the discount shops.
And T.V. I can't remember what the exact numbers are, but the average household has the T.V. on for something like 8 hours. But when you live in the sub/ex-urbs... what else is there to do? You can play in parks, I guess. But you can't really walk anywhere else.
It seems for a long time that Japan has been developing the really bleeding-edge, twenty-first century, products and services. Why is America's economy still considered the premier economy of the world? Is it because so many international companies are based on the U.S.? Is it because we have the political clout to set up advantageous-to-us trade deals/relationships?
Can you please provide a link to this webcalendar software's webpage? It seems there are a few webcalendar (without a space between the words) programs. Neither of the two I researched seemed to do what I listed.
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I have happily run Ubuntu on my Thinkpad x40 since Warty came out (I used debian before that.)
My only advice: the more complex the setup, the more tweaking you'll have to do. I have an external monitor (attached to my docking station.) I found some docking/undocking scripts that worked well online. Had to customize my xorg.conf file to have my external monitor supported. There is lots of documentation on this kind of stuff, though, online.
I recommend the x series. Ultralight, good battery, sufficiently fast.
feasibility has nothing to do with value. it is cheaper to make and watch movies than to watch plays, should we get rid of plays? In our ADD society no one bothers to really master any sort of art; should we just let everyone be content with the wikipedia version of them?
I don't know a lot about ninjas, but I don't think that just because studying it is not practical that we shouldn't have programs to promote it.
I think the coolest car out there today is the SMART car -- http://www.smartcar-usa.com/
I look forward to testing them out once they come to the U.S. market. Apparently they are remarkably safe, too. 60 MPG if I remember correctly.
Well I'm glad you believe that. I'm just curious as to what today will be considered to have been "always wrong" 200 years from now. I suspect not providing free health care when able might be on the list. Or premptively attacking countries that had done nothing to you and killing 25000 people in the process. Or considering your own interests to be more valuable than other peoples...
It will be interesting. I hope I am revived for a day 200 years from now so I can see whether we have a Star Trek: The Next Generation type society or a brave new world one.
To quote the wikipedia article the GP linked to:
"While the United States did not supply full-fledged chemical weapons to Iraq, it did approve private business sales of biological weapon precursors to Iraq, according to a 1994 report issued by the US Senate Committee on Banking"
When will people understand that speaking in absolutist good & evil terms are never true and that it just makes people more hateful. We're all culprits to some degree.
Yes... but lookup the details of the situation.
The government didn't take the Americans hostage, students did. They defended their takeover by citing our allowing the former Shah to stay in the U.S. and our previous coup d'etat which threw out their Prime Minister. That sounds like an act of war to me...
BTW, Carter did have an attempted air strike/rescue. Our technology didn't hold up to the desert storms.
So it came around to bite us in the ass. We overthrow their government, they fight back.
OKay.. I see what you're saying. But how will people know which releases are which. (meaning laypersons)
Also, I didn't realize that ONLY this release was going to have the extended support. I thought it was from now on they were making releases that would get the longer support. So the in-between, risky, releases will use the breezy support model?
As I understand it, he is saying that this can be a more risky release with more experimentation because people can always say "well, dapper is the stable one. Use that for production systems." Won't that hurt your credibility, if you have different releases of different quality? Wouldn't it be smarter to have a "risk team" playing around for the next release while the current release is being polished so that when the rest of the team starts working on the next release there's already been enough time on it to make sure it is production quality? (You could switch up who gets to be on the risk team if people are complaining that they don't get to have fun.)
It isn't a binary choice between war and capitulation.
Just look at Carter's eventual result. There was no war, a plus. The hostages were released, a plus. It took too much time, a minus.
Is our pride worth unlimited number of deaths?
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I don't know where you're from, but Iran is the size of California, Texas, Arizona and New Mexico put together. It's almost four times the size of Iraq. It's five times the size of Vietnam. And it's mountainous. Even if we managed to cover the ports (though we wouldn't be able to in the caspian sea) we would never be able to stop the land trade routes. We'd never have the troops for a successful land war. It would be WWII scale and intractable, like Vietnam.
Not to mention that air strikes/ whatever may very well have the hostages killed.
Sometimes war just isn't an option. Or do you think we should fight any war, at any time, no matter the consequences, if they commit an "act of war" on us?
a naval blockade -- which very intentionally (if you've studied it) was ordered not to fire on any soviet ships.
it isn't like carter just sat around. he imposed sanctions, froze iranian foreign accounts, etc. I think they're pretty similar (since Iran wasn't moving any troops it would be hard to blockade anything.)
BTW, what would you have done? Gone to war? Then Iran would have gotten Russian assistance -- since they were just next door in Afghanistan. They hated Russia, but they would rather have it become a Russia-U.S. war than let America come into Iran. That's why Carter didn't go in...
So, what would you have suggested he do?
I mentioned JFK as an example of when an "act of war" wasn't best responded to with another act of war.
Why not? One is specifically related to Iran -- Reagan chose to engage them and empowered another dictator with American arms and legitimacy. Carter could have done that, or gone to war with Iran. That would be even harder to pull off (especially in 1979) than our current war in Iraq.
As for JFK: you argued that Carter should have struck back immediately because it was an act of war. Isn't moving missles within 100 miles of the mainland too? Shouldn't JFK had declared war on the USSR?
I know of them well. But they didn't make the agreement themselves. In fact, they were approaching the situation very contentiously. If you study modern negotiations the Camp David Accords are often used as an early example of modern negotiations. Carter is credited with being an effective mediator, allowing the two parties to realize that they were look at each other's positions from their own perspective and therefore were unable to come to an agreement. Israel wanted security. Egypt felt it would lose respect if it gave away an area that was of historical significance. But Israel saw Egypt's position as one based off of security concerns. Egypt thought Israel just wanted to humiliate them. Without an effective mediator I doubt an integrative solution would ever have come to pass.
You didn't respond to either of my other examples, though. JFK and the cuban missle crisis or Reagan's support of Saddam.
It wasn't reduced due to recession. It was reduced because he created a national energy policy enacted strong environmental legislation.
As for Iran -- He did pull off the Camp David Accords, you know. He could have let a war start between Israel and Egypt, which would have pulled in a lot of other countries, but he managed to use diplomacy and negotiations to find a solution. Iran was another attempt at such diplomacy.
Knee-jerk responses are rarely smart. JFK didn't go to war with the USSR during the cuban missle crisis. Thank goodness.
Would you rather have had him use our Reagan-era strategy? Give Iraq modern weapons, including chemical weapons, to fight the Iranians for us? Look how well thought-out that was...
facinating. Thanks!
I heard that it was a Anglo goddess named Eastre that took the form of a bunny/hare. Anyone else know anything about that? What about the eggs?
He did cut oil usage by 2/3rds, you know.
People just blame him for the hostages -- as if Reagan had actually done anything to get them released on his first day.
Or how he handled the gas crisis -- could have been done better, agreed.
How else was he a disaster?
Who goes to real.com?
"Microsoft has identified reducing piracy as a key way for the company to grow its sales of Windows and to promote alternative operating systems, such as GNU/Linux and Mac OS.
Interesting strategy...
For those who are wondering about Mac OS X and how it will look -- http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/mac.html
Interesting. I grew up in one of the world's largest cities. Fortunately, it was a city with parks. We played there.
You forget one more point -- Americans have left the cities for the suburbs (and now the "ex"urbs) over the past 50 years. American's are big on property and personal space. I grew up in China and got very used to always been within a couple of feet of someone. When I came to America in '99 I was chastised regularly for walking or standing too close to someone.
I also noticed the envy people had with large yards -- something you can only get far away from cities (for affordable prices.) I think some of this is the "keeping up with the jones'" effect -- everyone in america feels they are middle class, and so no one accepts that they can't afford a house with a yard. so they find a place where they can.
That and people here like bargains. They are happy to drive 20+ minutes to go to the discount shops.
And T.V. I can't remember what the exact numbers are, but the average household has the T.V. on for something like 8 hours. But when you live in the sub/ex-urbs... what else is there to do? You can play in parks, I guess. But you can't really walk anywhere else.
It seems for a long time that Japan has been developing the really bleeding-edge, twenty-first century, products and services. Why is America's economy still considered the premier economy of the world? Is it because so many international companies are based on the U.S.? Is it because we have the political clout to set up advantageous-to-us trade deals/relationships?
Someone let me know. Because I just don't get it.
Can you please provide a link to this webcalendar software's webpage? It seems there are a few webcalendar (without a space between the words) programs. Neither of the two I researched seemed to do what I listed.