Well, US intelligence is enamored of high tech
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Our New Pearl Harbor
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and not as interested in low tech, face to face survelliance. Somewhat like a certain web page, the US intelligence community believes there is a high tech solution to every problem.
When your biggest enemy is Russia, almost as technically advanced as you, this may make sense.
When your biggest enemy is a terrorist living in the mountains of Asia, and plotting an attach face to face over Coleman lantern light, the best spy satellites in the world won't help you, you need someone on site.
Iran was overthrown becuase we had no agents in the Ayatollah's movement, and this may be a similar situation.
I think we Americans should consider buying this book and moving to FreeBSD, because most of the FreeBSD developers are Americans. Nothing against the Finns, UKians, Russians and Germans that make up the bulk of the Linux developers, but I'm not so sure I'd want my OS of choice to be dependent on a bunch of foreigners. Sure, we're mostly friends now, but it was only a few decades ago that some of those folk were our mortal enemy. I'd feel better knowing that in a national crisis, I'd have a bunch of Californians keeping my OS developing.
Really tim, you thought pets.com was clever? Apparently, you're not a guardian of an animal. When they run out of food, they don't want 2 day express shipping, or overnight if you order by 5 pm, they want new cat or dog food within hours.
Oh yeah, let's order a $3.99 20 pound bag of cat litter, the shipping will only be $10.
Online pet supplies is one of the dumbest dotcom ideas out there.
to paraphrase Boswell, "It's amazing enough that science fiction tries to be funny, let alone does it well." Though, they are very funny books. I may have to hunt through my attic for my copies of them tomorrow.
I much prefer the dead tree editions. My screen real eastate (even with a 17 inch monitor) is scarce enough, that when I'm deep into a 5 meg PostScript file, I don't want to interrupt my focus by bringin up Acrobat.
At home, I like to curl up with a paper back book, like the Camel book.
Was my last employer and they can do some of this.
BCC Software has Mail Manager 2010, a mail merge software. When I worked for them 6 years ago, they were probably the fastest mail merge software in existence. They work with flat databases, and can import many types of files. They print to many sorts of printers, and also print all the assorted USPS forms that you need. I think they would give you a demo.
Rilly, he authorized the bombing of countries that we weren't even at war at, caused countless civilian casualties and turned the Plain of Jars into the Plain of Craters.
At least this disproves the truism that history is written by the winning side. Kissinger is an acclaimed statesman, and the Rape of Nanking was consensual.
I guess the Italian sounding name should have clued me in.
This is just a NASA smokescreen
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Space Blimps
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covering up their real interest in inflatables in space.
I can't say much more (NDA, you know), but think about normal, red blooded American men in space for 3 1/2 years on the round trip to Mars, and the cost to get one of these into orbit (at $10,000 a pound) for each astronaut.
and not having the government set a cell phone standard by fiat. It's just part of our national character to try to let the free market do things instead of the government. It may seem more chaotic and inefficient in the short term, but in the long term you'd be foolish to underestimate people motivated by self interest.
IIRC, there was a German in Nazi Germany who had planned an electronic computer, and maybe even built it. There was Aksoff (sp) at the University of Iowa. But like most good geek debates, it's not complete until we get some whinging from some dowdy over the hill Kingdom trying to redeem their self respect by claiming inventions invented several generations ago.
Perhaps a crop that is known to suck down a lot of C02 in a few months. I suggest hemp, particularly Skunk-Northern Lights hybrids, grown exclusively female.
To get the elite of America (who else could afford it), into their clutches for several weeks of insidious commie brainwashing.
To gain an insight into such a communist mindset, I would recommend looking for an obscure, often suppressed documentary (with Frank Sinatra re-enacting the lead role) called The Manchurian Candidate. It clearly shows the odious depths the malevolent commies will stoop to in order to destroy this great nation of ours.
If the CIA can't stop this, I would hope the INS would isolate returning Americans for several weeks to deprogram them from this insidious communist plot.
Thanks,
A concerned American who must post AC for my own safety.
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and not as interested in low tech, face to face survelliance. Somewhat like a certain web page, the US intelligence community believes there is a high tech solution to every problem.
When your biggest enemy is Russia, almost as technically advanced as you, this may make sense.
When your biggest enemy is a terrorist living in the mountains of Asia, and plotting an attach face to face over Coleman lantern light, the best spy satellites in the world won't help you, you need someone on site.
Iran was overthrown becuase we had no agents in the Ayatollah's movement, and this may be a similar situation.
Everything can be remotely administered, why, just SSH into,
Ahh, nevermind.
I think we Americans should consider buying this book and moving to FreeBSD, because most of the FreeBSD developers are Americans. Nothing against the Finns, UKians, Russians and Germans that make up the bulk of the Linux developers, but I'm not so sure I'd want my OS of choice to be dependent on a bunch of foreigners. Sure, we're mostly friends now, but it was only a few decades ago that some of those folk were our mortal enemy. I'd feel better knowing that in a national crisis, I'd have a bunch of Californians keeping my OS developing.
Oh yeah, let's order a $3.99 20 pound bag of cat litter, the shipping will only be $10.
Online pet supplies is one of the dumbest dotcom ideas out there.
to paraphrase Boswell, "It's amazing enough that science fiction tries to be funny, let alone does it well." Though, they are very funny books. I may have to hunt through my attic for my copies of them tomorrow.
The PostScript Language Reference Manual is a big honking PDF.
At home, I like to curl up with a paper back book, like the Camel book.
We'll see if it scales. Gnutella hasn't seemed to scale well.
There's still a few hundred movies I haven't downloaded yet before it gets overwhelmed by the masses!
I had to shingle my refrigerator box with AOL diskettes, I would have gnawed off my right arm for a sewer to sleep in.
cf Krut Vonnegut
BCC Software has Mail Manager 2010, a mail merge software. When I worked for them 6 years ago, they were probably the fastest mail merge software in existence. They work with flat databases, and can import many types of files. They print to many sorts of printers, and also print all the assorted USPS forms that you need. I think they would give you a demo.
Is that a Linux distro for country folk?
Maybe we were more civilized, or maybe the Swedes were white, and not Asian.
What is it about us anglo saxons that attempt to exterminate everything that won't keep us warm, fat or drunk?
The Aussies exterminated half of their continents mammals, and made a dang good inroad on the abo's, too.
We Americans exterminated the passneger pigeon, nearly the bison, and wiped out countless Indian tribes.
There's no predator bigger than a fox in England, and no game bigger than a scrawny red deer.
Why?
to shoot the students, like we do in the [Kent} States?
At least this disproves the truism that history is written by the winning side. Kissinger is an acclaimed statesman, and the Rape of Nanking was consensual.
I know if I see someone walking around in public with a laser on thier head, pointing into their eye, I don't think Nomad, I think No Date.
On the cutting edge alternative news site, Geekizoid, by the charming Shoeboy.
Parts of it were posted in Troll Talk, originally.
I guess the Italian sounding name should have clued me in.
covering up their real interest in inflatables in space.
I can't say much more (NDA, you know), but think about normal, red blooded American men in space for 3 1/2 years on the round trip to Mars, and the cost to get one of these into orbit (at $10,000 a pound) for each astronaut.
Yes, inflatables are the answer.
and not having the government set a cell phone standard by fiat. It's just part of our national character to try to let the free market do things instead of the government. It may seem more chaotic and inefficient in the short term, but in the long term you'd be foolish to underestimate people motivated by self interest.
IIRC, there was a German in Nazi Germany who had planned an electronic computer, and maybe even built it. There was Aksoff (sp) at the University of Iowa. But like most good geek debates, it's not complete until we get some whinging from some dowdy over the hill Kingdom trying to redeem their self respect by claiming inventions invented several generations ago.
Perhaps a crop that is known to suck down a lot of C02 in a few months. I suggest hemp, particularly Skunk-Northern Lights hybrids, grown exclusively female.
To get the elite of America (who else could afford it), into their clutches for several weeks of insidious commie brainwashing.
To gain an insight into such a communist mindset, I would recommend looking for an obscure, often suppressed documentary (with Frank Sinatra re-enacting the lead role) called The Manchurian Candidate. It clearly shows the odious depths the malevolent commies will stoop to in order to destroy this great nation of ours.
If the CIA can't stop this, I would hope the INS would isolate returning Americans for several weeks to deprogram them from this insidious communist plot.
Thanks,
A concerned American who must post AC for my own safety.