Logic Bomb writes: "Mach 5 -- 5 times the speed of sound, or 5000 mph -- is a speed that so far has eluded jet-powered aircraft (the existing record for a production craft is about mach 2.1).
Umm, while the Blackbird (SR-71)'s top speed is classified, most knowledgeable folk put it between Mach 3.1 and Mach 3.3.
Also, there are always those fun tales off liquid hydrogen tanks at Lockheed, and C5's loading strnagely shaped waveriders.
While the companies involved may be making big profits (HP, IBM), who's to say that these big profits are derived from Open Source?
I'd say most of IBM's profits are from selling and servicing their AS/400's and 390's, they're probably making very little from selling Linux on a mainframe.
If Open Source was making such big profits for IBM and HP, don't you think VA Linux and RedHAt would be doing better?
Anyhow, if this goes much further, don't you think companies considerate of there bottom line are going to flee from Open Source? If you could lose all your patents in unrelated fields becuase you dabbled in Open Source, who's going to risk it?
for giving Americans such a sex obsessed and sex ashamed society.
I wonder what the results of this survey in a more sexually enlightened country like Denmark or Sweden would show? There would probably be less sexual traffic, but more people admitting to it.
Sex, like drugs and voilence, is partly so attractive because it is forbidden, and yet marketed so extremely. It becomes a vice to grab Joe Sixpack into a cycle on consumption, dissatisfaction, and consumption.
"1999 was the year the Indian nuclear satellite went out of control. No one knew where it might land. It soared above the ozone layer like a lethal bird of prey. The whole world was alarmed. Claire couldn't care less."
Yes, but one of the major activities done by your elected representatives is to get funding (aka pork) for projects in their districts.
When I was in Raleigh in 1990, they were building up the expressways to Durham and Chapel Hill. Do those expressways help my quality of life in upstate New York? Not very much, so I would have no trouble with my elected reps voting against them.
You need an effective geographic elected representative to help your community get their fare share of their tax dollars back, and to help lobby the Federal government on your behalf (how much would your taxes go up if tobacco was taxed at Canadian levels and the demand dropped?).
No, really, there is a beer made in Austria or Czechoslovakia named Budweiser.
I'm pretty sure they got sued, I mean, they've only had that name for centuries.
And if you're near Czechoslovakia, I'd go for a Pillsner Urquell.
In the end, Infantry rules the battlefield
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How does the bullet resistance matter when only one side isn't allowed bombs?;)
Typical geek response, it sort of worked in a flat desert (Iraq), it's failing in Kosovo, and failed miserably in Vietnam.
In the end, it's the lowly infantryman with his or her rifle who controls the battlefield. You can bomb a country back to the stone age, but until you're willing to commit men to go into the rubble, you don't control the ground.
There's trouble in the middle East, oil prices rise.
All of sudden, there's a demand for more domestic oil, people don't like spending an extra buck to fill their cars. Who'se gonna fill that demand, and make more profits? Oil Companies
What if you encouraged conservation and public transit, who would lose money? Oil Companies
Now, which presidential candidates were banked by oil companies, to the extent of being hired by them for millions a year (Halliburton)? Bush and Cheney
Now, explain to me how drilling for oil is going to help California generate more electricity, when the power plants use coal, natural gas, nuclear or hydro.
It's more like energy crisis - economy sucking
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It's not a combination, it's roughly a cause and effect.
As energy prices go up, their burden on the economy increases, and the economy tanks.
Remember the gas crunch of the early 70's, followed by 70's stagflation?
Remember the Iraqi's taking over Kuwait and the mini-recession of 1990-1991?
Of course, all the SUV's on the road are not helping things.
And a President and Vice-President with serious ties to oil and energy companies have far too much of a vested interest in raising oil prices. The companies that are going to do well in this recession are the oil companies.
Finally, wanna guess how much oil is used to generate California electricity? Very little, it's mostly natural gas, some nuclear, some hydro and some wind. California energy consumption is about where it normally is, the utilities are just scamming you all by taking power plants offline.
I got question for all you knowledgeable FreeBSD folk.
Would FreeBSD make a better DSL web server than Linux?
My situation: I just got DSL, and it rocks. I only have 10 megs of homepage space with my ISP, and I want more. I figure I could jsut set up a web server at home, and live with the 128k upload speed (I need something to bypass my corp. filter, and a little cgi-perl should do the trick).
So, Linux or FreeBSD for the server? I'm thinking FreeBSD because it's less likely to get script kiddied.
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the SR-71 was announced by LBJ, was flying in the 70's, and is not hypersonic.
Logic Bomb writes: "Mach 5 -- 5 times the speed of sound, or 5000 mph -- is a speed that so far has eluded jet-powered aircraft (the existing record for a production craft is about mach 2.1).
Umm, while the Blackbird (SR-71)'s top speed is classified, most knowledgeable folk put it between Mach 3.1 and Mach 3.3.
Also, there are always those fun tales off liquid hydrogen tanks at Lockheed, and C5's loading strnagely shaped waveriders.
Due to some strange time/space wormhole, the above post was obviously written about 2 years ago and just showed up now, as it's obviously not news.
The way he talkes, it sounds like he's on IRC all the time.
if I'm losing money, but not losing as much as I thought I was, and do plan to make more eventually, I must tbe wearing a RedHat
Open Source
While the companies involved may be making big profits (HP, IBM), who's to say that these big profits are derived from Open Source?
I'd say most of IBM's profits are from selling and servicing their AS/400's and 390's, they're probably making very little from selling Linux on a mainframe.
If Open Source was making such big profits for IBM and HP, don't you think VA Linux and RedHAt would be doing better?
Anyhow, if this goes much further, don't you think companies considerate of there bottom line are going to flee from Open Source? If you could lose all your patents in unrelated fields becuase you dabbled in Open Source, who's going to risk it?
And from what I've read, most of the "stoned off their ass" are tourists/refugees from countries heavily involved in the War on Some Drugs.
for giving Americans such a sex obsessed and sex ashamed society.
I wonder what the results of this survey in a more sexually enlightened country like Denmark or Sweden would show? There would probably be less sexual traffic, but more people admitting to it.
Sex, like drugs and voilence, is partly so attractive because it is forbidden, and yet marketed so extremely. It becomes a vice to grab Joe Sixpack into a cycle on consumption, dissatisfaction, and consumption.
crossing for my DSL.
It's all one provider (telephone and DSL), the tech help is knowledgeable enough, and GlobalCrossing is not about to go out of business.
so we can surf to jjj.grrbhyhgk.pbz
oh baby!
try walking around with your neck aching all day long.
no thanks.
"1999 was the year the Indian nuclear satellite went out of control. No one knew where it might land. It soared above the ozone layer like a lethal bird of prey. The whole world was alarmed. Claire couldn't care less."
scary, eh!
Yes, but one of the major activities done by your elected representatives is to get funding (aka pork) for projects in their districts.
When I was in Raleigh in 1990, they were building up the expressways to Durham and Chapel Hill. Do those expressways help my quality of life in upstate New York? Not very much, so I would have no trouble with my elected reps voting against them.
You need an effective geographic elected representative to help your community get their fare share of their tax dollars back, and to help lobby the Federal government on your behalf (how much would your taxes go up if tobacco was taxed at Canadian levels and the demand dropped?).
No, really, there is a beer made in Austria or Czechoslovakia named Budweiser.
I'm pretty sure they got sued, I mean, they've only had that name for centuries.
And if you're near Czechoslovakia, I'd go for a Pillsner Urquell.
How does the bullet resistance matter when only one side isn't allowed bombs? ;)
Typical geek response, it sort of worked in a flat desert (Iraq), it's failing in Kosovo, and failed miserably in Vietnam.
In the end, it's the lowly infantryman with his or her rifle who controls the battlefield. You can bomb a country back to the stone age, but until you're willing to commit men to go into the rubble, you don't control the ground.
Jesus prefers something more compact, like an Uzi or a Tek-9. ;P~
So he'd support the home team, and get an Isreali made weapon.
Galil for field work, an Uzi for urban work.
I don't know if he'd wear a T-shirt that sez
"Kill'em all and let me sort them out"
though.
All of us in NY should buy ThinkGeek shirts with the DeCSS code on it and stand outside the courthouse for a silent protest.
New York is a big state, I'm far upstate, so I'm not driving 6 hours just to protest.
I was referring to the other 95% of the site.
Good luck with your page.
its where guys who can't get chicks hang out on the weekends , playing computer games versus each other.
They also post to Slashdot, whining about how geeks can't get girls.
all that drilling equipment sitting around costs an oil company money, with no chance to recoup their investment, unless it's drilling.
lower prices don't necessarily mean lower profits, they can decrease their profits per barrel as long as they make it up in volume.
Economics goes into great depth at optimal profit price, balancing supply-demand against prices.
I think they just want to keep their oil rigs busy.
Okay, here goes.
There's trouble in the middle East, oil prices rise.
All of sudden, there's a demand for more domestic oil, people don't like spending an extra buck to fill their cars. Who'se gonna fill that demand, and make more profits? Oil Companies
What if you encouraged conservation and public transit, who would lose money? Oil Companies
Now, which presidential candidates were banked by oil companies, to the extent of being hired by them for millions a year (Halliburton)? Bush and Cheney
Now, explain to me how drilling for oil is going to help California generate more electricity, when the power plants use coal, natural gas, nuclear or hydro.
the standard overclocking tool, exactly how?
It's not a combination, it's roughly a cause and effect.
As energy prices go up, their burden on the economy increases, and the economy tanks.
Remember the gas crunch of the early 70's, followed by 70's stagflation?
Remember the Iraqi's taking over Kuwait and the mini-recession of 1990-1991?
Of course, all the SUV's on the road are not helping things.
And a President and Vice-President with serious ties to oil and energy companies have far too much of a vested interest in raising oil prices. The companies that are going to do well in this recession are the oil companies.
Finally, wanna guess how much oil is used to generate California electricity? Very little, it's mostly natural gas, some nuclear, some hydro and some wind. California energy consumption is about where it normally is, the utilities are just scamming you all by taking power plants offline.
so I don't want to be saddled with Slolaris.
Now, if I took an extra Sparc home, it would be different.
I figure Linux is too easy to crack, see the honeypot article.
I got question for all you knowledgeable FreeBSD folk.
Would FreeBSD make a better DSL web server than Linux?
My situation: I just got DSL, and it rocks. I only have 10 megs of homepage space with my ISP, and I want more. I figure I could jsut set up a web server at home, and live with the 128k upload speed (I need something to bypass my corp. filter, and a little cgi-perl should do the trick).
So, Linux or FreeBSD for the server? I'm thinking FreeBSD because it's less likely to get script kiddied.
What do you all think?