Perhaps, but speciality software can easily cause lots of problems. I only administered UNIX backup, and that was a few years back. As a UNIX zealot, I managed to avoid the Microsoft systems. The Microsoft admins while friends in the same department, did not use what I considered a smart approach (probably includes some management decisions). They often spent a day rebuilding their one-off web and database servers.
On the scientific user side (where I am now) testing CPUs, UNIX is vastly superior to microsoft. I can easily pipe a large output to a perl one liner, and make a quick analysis of my data. We have very large test pattern sets (walk every I/O pin on the host bus through a reset sequence, then do something), that a MS PC can't begin to edit. My friends on the maintence side have lots of issues when the PC controlled testers receive a "down the pipe" PC upgrade. This often trashes the tester software (DLL upgrades). But I suppose that's mostly a lib management issue.
It's not the first server that is cheaper, it's the N'th server that's cheaper. To drive a mouse around on one MicroSoft server is easy, little training required. The second is only a little more expensive.
The real economy is when you have big numbers of servers. When using cron to drive your admin scripting and SCP to change that scripting. That's when UNIX varieties really shine.
An army of admins are needed to admin a bank of Microsoft servers, one or two smart admins can easily handle several banks of UNIX servers, and have time to contribute to/. too.
In the US, any small town, or even a Public Utility (i.e. Transit Authority) may have their own independent police force. The officers are usually trained by POST (Police Officer Standards Training), which is a California State run agency. Each California University has their own Police force. That way, the University gets the police attention they want, not what the City or County Police Chief wants to deliver.
This appears to me to be another project looking for a problem to solve. This is way too common in IT. Application cruft on the PC occupying memory, and generally bogging things down. Then the users complain that the network is too slow. Then you have to buy new hardware, and the new hardware needs new cruft... Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
Of course, this could also be a "Review Fodder" project with the goal of adding a new line to your self-assessment paper to the boss. In that case, carry on and add some good cruft!
basically nobody had time to even read the bill since it was so huge
Basically nobody reads any bills, because they're all so huge. That applies to most bills, especially the late session bills. Well someone had to read them, most likely the staffers and Lobbyists who wrote (cut-n-past) them. I think all bills should be hand written by the actual elected members, and while in session. That would cut down on the cruft. We have reached a point, where congress passes many usless laws for the point of pleasing special interests. How many laws do you need to make murder a felony? As a Conservative Republican, I'm rather pleased that one house goes to the other party. This way the well oiled "Stamp-Stamp-Stamp" of one party rule is disrupted. Nancy Pelosi will at least be entertaining. For our Aussie, British and Canadian friends, the "Labor Party" has taken back the House of Commons.
There wouldn't be certain loss of life from famine if we stopped mass-producing livestock, since you can grow much more grain than meat on a piece of land.
Actually there would be a significant loss of life if we drastically changed our agriculture away from livestock.
Only the loss of life would not happen in the wealthy countries.
It is safe to say that we have evolved with livestock as a major part of our agricultire program.
You might have a more intelligent design. But for me, I'll stick to the proven results of evolution.
Is this geek really paying 2.2 cents per KWH? Jeeze, where is this? I'm paying 10.5 cents for baseline (the first 800KWH), and it goes up from there. I have paid up to ~35 (PG&E in California).
You forgot the part where Bill Clinton gave the "Elk Hills Oil Reserve" (a.k.a "Naval Oil Reserve") in California to Al Gore's little known oil company "Occidental Petroleum" at a huge discount. Of course this was approved by a bi-partisan majority in congress, and we know that bi-partisan is the best thing.
The amount of benefit we recieve from the animals themselves is quite large too. 90% of them live on semi-arid range land that is not suitable for other farming (too rocky, arid, steep). Cattle eat stuff we cannot use otherwise, not just large amounts of maize, which we can grow very cheaply, but cannot get some vitimans without converting the maize to masa (corn tortilla flour). Cattle eat lots of agricultural by-products, such as orange peels, bakery waste, spent beer grain, etc. Cattle and sheep eat grasses that are the only viable crop where we raise them. Now some folks will complain that we should not raise animals for slaughter, but the reality is that we evolved with a symbiotic relationship with these animals. So I contend that if someone has a better "intelligent design" than a symbiotic relationship with livestock. Then use the scientific method, not just say "we can just...". As an aside, most folks with an aversion to livestock are not food producers, which I have been. With the global economy, any time a wealthy country reduces the amount of food they produce, the shortage causes prices to rise in a poor country, and someone there starves.
Basic "Art of war". The worst thing is to beseige their cities (block their clients)... The master stratagist uses his enemies to fight his enemies, and everyone capitulates.
How is it that the "possibility of a sub-plot they don't know about" merits a highest-level "this means an attack is imminent" alert? Especially as they've arrested 21 people and no terrorist in his right mind would try to put his "sub-plot" into action with the headlines full of this news.
That would be the perfect cover for secondary or parallel plots.
In a good attack plan, there is "Plan A", "Plan B", "Plan C". Team 1's orders are ABC, team 2's orders are BCA, team 3's orders are CAB... Complete coverage. Perhaps only one team has been discovered.
The people most likely to be on his tapes are his friends, family & associates.
So in choosing to protect his friends from being prosecuted for the crime of arson over choosing to protect the rest of us from being victims of an arson fire makes for a better civilization?
Back to the origional question: Who benefits from the fear of terrorism?
It appears to me, that the press benefit the most from fear of terrorism.
Three things sell eyeball time (viewer attention). Fear, Sex, and Novelty. That what US TV news has degraded down to, fear, sex, novelty... And info-mercials (oh look, a new IKEA store is opening).
Actually I think your number of people that have died in car accidents is much higher than 100k, its about 45k per year, so 100k was probably true in September 2003, but is likely closer to 250k today (8/2006).
I would guess that 3,000 US citizens died in automobile accidents in all of September 2001.
Actually, it's the other way around. Pollution is much harder on simple creatures that don't have well developed livers, kidneys, and other such filters.
Granted a spritz of alcohol might make me buzz, it makes bees dead.
1% salt makes meat toxic to most bacteria, yet flavorful to me.
This is merely survival of the fittest, one of the basic tenets of evolution. When something gets kicked out of their niche, this means evolution works as designed.
If the species that got kicked out of it's niche is one you loved more than the victor, oh well, my advise is... adapt or die.
I use the old three watt bag phone, gets great reception, costs US$19 per month, never rings unless I plug it in, which I never do. Clear as a bell, even if I'm out in the woods. Reception not too good in some canyons.
There's a lot wrong with raising the minimum wage... Basically inflation.
When the minimum wage goes up, every minimum wage laborer gets the raise, no problem. All the expenses go up a little, not quite as much as the percentage of minimim wage, so the minimum wage earners do a little better.
The problem is that every union worker, all the way up to the long-shoremen (currently earning ~$100k), get the raise too. Every teacher, cop, firemen, civil servant, defense contract employee, carpenter, electrician... the list is huge. Of course this causes inflation to rise, as every consumer item now costs more, and of course taxes go up to pay the salaries of the government workers who received the bulk of the increase.
Now the losers (those who see little or no income increase) are the elderly, living on a fixed income from their savings.
I sincerely hope, we've put that demon to bed for good.
P.S. I want to say, in closing that in the short term, I would benefit the most from an increase. I have a good job with Intel, and my wife has a good state job. We would get raises, while our house payment stays the same. The long term down side, is that when I want to retire in 15 years (age 60), I won't be able, as the value of my saved dollars is now reduced. So us geeks won't get to retire until we are much older than our parents.
Hungry Lawyers are the only ones to profit here... All in three easy steps
Step 1) go to law school Step 2a) buy a politician, oop's they're already bought Step 2a) join a law firm owned by politicians Step 2b) find a target to sue Step 3) Profit!
Hillary Rodham-Clinton's brother earned US $1B from sueing tobacco companies.
I employ the "Child Proof Gate" idea. I have a shared cube called a "Bull Pen". My cow-orker and I share the doorway, and we get to sit facing the front. For the gate, we hang coat hooks in each side of the doorway, and keep bulky jackets there.
less managers will probably allow their employees to actually get some work done
In some cases, that's right. My last manager practiced the BDOS attack (Boss Denial of Service). Where every 15 minutes, he would ask me the status of project [X, Y, Z]. This occured when I was using the debugger and stepping through my foobar PERL program. I had all the variables and contexts loaded in my head, and PHB would jump in for the next round of BDOS attack... Needless to say, my brain does not do cache hits very well. Massive core dump, my face probably had the expression of a SPED (special ed) for a few minutes. I'd have to re-group to even think about what projects were in work. Then I could look up the log files, and check on the progress. Needless to say, I then re-started the debugging from the beginning again. After 15 minutes, PHB started up the next round of BDOS, again ElectricRook does the core-dump.
I always made great progress when I'd order a pizza, and stay late debugging.
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Perhaps, but speciality software can easily cause lots of problems. I only administered UNIX backup, and that was a few years back. As a UNIX zealot, I managed to avoid the Microsoft systems. The Microsoft admins while friends in the same department, did not use what I considered a smart approach (probably includes some management decisions). They often spent a day rebuilding their one-off web and database servers.
On the scientific user side (where I am now) testing CPUs, UNIX is vastly superior to microsoft. I can easily pipe a large output to a perl one liner, and make a quick analysis of my data. We have very large test pattern sets (walk every I/O pin on the host bus through a reset sequence, then do something), that a MS PC can't begin to edit. My friends on the maintence side have lots of issues when the PC controlled testers receive a "down the pipe" PC upgrade. This often trashes the tester software (DLL upgrades). But I suppose that's mostly a lib management issue.
It's not the first server that is cheaper, it's the N'th server that's cheaper. To drive a mouse around on one MicroSoft server is easy, little training required. The second is only a little more expensive.
The real economy is when you have big numbers of servers. When using cron to drive your admin scripting and SCP to change that scripting. That's when UNIX varieties really shine.
An army of admins are needed to admin a bank of Microsoft servers, one or two smart admins can easily handle several banks of UNIX servers, and have time to contribute to /. too.
especially at upgrade time.
In the US, any small town, or even a Public Utility (i.e. Transit Authority) may have their own independent police force. The officers are usually trained by POST (Police Officer Standards Training), which is a California State run agency. Each California University has their own Police force. That way, the University gets the police attention they want, not what the City or County Police Chief wants to deliver.
What problem are you trying to solve?
This appears to me to be another project looking for a problem to solve. This is way too common in IT. Application cruft on the PC occupying memory, and generally bogging things down. Then the users complain that the network is too slow. Then you have to buy new hardware, and the new hardware needs new cruft... Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
Of course, this could also be a "Review Fodder" project with the goal of adding a new line to your self-assessment paper to the boss. In that case, carry on and add some good cruft!
But then how confident can we be in their assertion that Peak Oil is 24 years off?
Well, in the 1970s, PEAK OIL predicted we would be out of oil by the mid 1980s.
History... repetition... You do the math.
basically nobody had time to even read the bill since it was so huge
Basically nobody reads any bills, because they're all so huge.
That applies to most bills, especially the late session bills. Well someone had to read them, most likely the staffers and Lobbyists who wrote (cut-n-past) them.
I think all bills should be hand written by the actual elected members, and while in session. That would cut down on the cruft.
We have reached a point, where congress passes many usless laws for the point of pleasing special interests. How many laws do you need to make murder a felony?
As a Conservative Republican, I'm rather pleased that one house goes to the other party. This way the well oiled "Stamp-Stamp-Stamp" of one party rule is disrupted.
Nancy Pelosi will at least be entertaining.
For our Aussie, British and Canadian friends, the "Labor Party" has taken back the House of Commons.
Actually there would be a significant loss of life if we drastically changed our agriculture away from livestock.
Only the loss of life would not happen in the wealthy countries.
It is safe to say that we have evolved with livestock as a major part of our agricultire program.
You might have a more intelligent design. But for me, I'll stick to the proven results of evolution.
Is this geek really paying 2.2 cents per KWH? Jeeze, where is this? I'm paying 10.5 cents for baseline (the first 800KWH), and it goes up from there. I have paid up to ~35 (PG&E in California).
JFK gave us the Viet Nam war, and "set-up" the anti-Communists who tried to over-throw Cuba.
You forgot the part where Bill Clinton gave the "Elk Hills Oil Reserve" (a.k.a "Naval Oil Reserve") in California to Al Gore's little known oil company "Occidental Petroleum" at a huge discount. Of course this was approved by a bi-partisan majority in congress, and we know that bi-partisan is the best thing.
The amount of benefit we recieve from the animals themselves is quite large too. 90% of them live on semi-arid range land that is not suitable for other farming (too rocky, arid, steep). Cattle eat stuff we cannot use otherwise, not just large amounts of maize, which we can grow very cheaply, but cannot get some vitimans without converting the maize to masa (corn tortilla flour). Cattle eat lots of agricultural by-products, such as orange peels, bakery waste, spent beer grain, etc. Cattle and sheep eat grasses that are the only viable crop where we raise them. Now some folks will complain that we should not raise animals for slaughter, but the reality is that we evolved with a symbiotic relationship with these animals. So I contend that if someone has a better "intelligent design" than a symbiotic relationship with livestock. Then use the scientific method, not just say "we can just...". As an aside, most folks with an aversion to livestock are not food producers, which I have been. With the global economy, any time a wealthy country reduces the amount of food they produce, the shortage causes prices to rise in a poor country, and someone there starves.
Your sig struck at tone...
This is a move to contain lower cost apple PCs...
Basic "Art of war". The worst thing is to beseige their cities (block their clients)...
The master stratagist uses his enemies to fight his enemies, and everyone capitulates.
How is it that the "possibility of a sub-plot they don't know about" merits a highest-level "this means an attack is imminent" alert? Especially as they've arrested 21 people and no terrorist in his right mind would try to put his "sub-plot" into action with the headlines full of this news.
That would be the perfect cover for secondary or parallel plots.
In a good attack plan, there is "Plan A", "Plan B", "Plan C". Team 1's orders are ABC, team 2's orders are BCA, team 3's orders are CAB... Complete coverage. Perhaps only one team has been discovered.
All your base are belong to us.
The people most likely to be on his tapes are his friends, family & associates.
So in choosing to protect his friends from being prosecuted for the crime of arson over choosing to protect the rest of us from being victims of an arson fire makes for a better civilization?
What an enlightened attitude.
Back to the origional question: Who benefits from the fear of terrorism?
It appears to me, that the press benefit the most from fear of terrorism.
Three things sell eyeball time (viewer attention). Fear, Sex, and Novelty. That what US TV news has degraded down to, fear, sex, novelty... And info-mercials (oh look, a new IKEA store is opening).
Actually I think your number of people that have died in car accidents is much higher than 100k, its about 45k per year, so 100k was probably true in September 2003, but is likely closer to 250k today (8/2006).
I would guess that 3,000 US citizens died in automobile accidents in all of September 2001.
Goes to show us that TR (Teddy Roosevelt) was right, when he said
"We have more to fear from fear itself".
Osamma wanted to destroy America, and he only knocked down two buildings, and killed three thousand people.
We have taken the ball from there, and began to destroy America.
This goes to follow something my father said once, I think its a famous quote... We (America) will not be destroyed from without, but from within.
Granted a spritz of alcohol might make me buzz, it makes bees dead.
1% salt makes meat toxic to most bacteria, yet flavorful to me.
5% alcohol makes beer toxic to most organisms.
Does DEET kill you?
This is merely survival of the fittest, one of the basic tenets of evolution. When something gets kicked out of their niche, this means evolution works as designed.
If the species that got kicked out of it's niche is one you loved more than the victor, oh well, my advise is ... adapt or die.
Evolution is what it is...
Sorry, I don't know where to find them, ebay? I've kept my old service.
There is a wiki about analog service probably going to stay, as On-Star uses analog cel service.
I moved to a remote area in 97, and kept the old phone for that reason.
An old analog service is not a panacea, I pay dearly for the minutes I use, and have a roaming charge.
I think I pay $1 per minute over 20 or so a month, and $1 per minute for long distance.
My wife's service is $15.99 per month. So we pay $35 a month for two phones with tax, etc.
I use the old three watt bag phone, gets great reception, costs US$19 per month, never rings unless I plug it in, which I never do. Clear as a bell, even if I'm out in the woods. Reception not too good in some canyons.
There's a lot wrong with raising the minimum wage... Basically inflation.
When the minimum wage goes up, every minimum wage laborer gets the raise, no problem. All the expenses go up a little, not quite as much as the percentage of minimim wage, so the minimum wage earners do a little better.
The problem is that every union worker, all the way up to the long-shoremen (currently earning ~$100k), get the raise too. Every teacher, cop, firemen, civil servant, defense contract employee, carpenter, electrician... the list is huge. Of course this causes inflation to rise, as every consumer item now costs more, and of course taxes go up to pay the salaries of the government workers who received the bulk of the increase.
Now the losers (those who see little or no income increase) are the elderly, living on a fixed income from their savings.
I sincerely hope, we've put that demon to bed for good.
P.S. I want to say, in closing that in the short term, I would benefit the most from an increase. I have a good job with Intel, and my wife has a good state job. We would get raises, while our house payment stays the same. The long term down side, is that when I want to retire in 15 years (age 60), I won't be able, as the value of my saved dollars is now reduced. So us geeks won't get to retire until we are much older than our parents.
Mind if I take a short nap in your safety net?
Just til I can get on my feet again.
Want a beer too?
Have you met my wife? She needs a nap too.
My kids need a nap too, they have issues.
Someone answer the door, I ordered a pizza... Does anyone have any money for the pizza?
Why yes, I support only socially concious politicians that believe in a strong social safety net, not those greedy capitalists.
Yes, we should have a more socialist government, I need my fair share too!
YOU GREEDY CAPITALIST PIG!!! How can you claim the safety net is being used as a hammock? You're just plain mean!
Hungry Lawyers are the only ones to profit here... All in three easy steps
Step 1) go to law school
Step 2a) buy a politician, oop's they're already bought
Step 2a) join a law firm owned by politicians
Step 2b) find a target to sue
Step 3) Profit!
Hillary Rodham-Clinton's brother earned US $1B from sueing tobacco companies.
I employ the "Child Proof Gate" idea. I have a shared cube called a "Bull Pen". My cow-orker and I share the doorway, and we get to sit facing the front. For the gate, we hang coat hooks in each side of the doorway, and keep bulky jackets there.
In some cases, that's right. My last manager practiced the BDOS attack (Boss Denial of Service). Where every 15 minutes, he would ask me the status of project [X, Y, Z]. This occured when I was using the debugger and stepping through my foobar PERL program. I had all the variables and contexts loaded in my head, and PHB would jump in for the next round of BDOS attack... Needless to say, my brain does not do cache hits very well. Massive core dump, my face probably had the expression of a SPED (special ed) for a few minutes. I'd have to re-group to even think about what projects were in work. Then I could look up the log files, and check on the progress. Needless to say, I then re-started the debugging from the beginning again. After 15 minutes, PHB started up the next round of BDOS, again ElectricRook does the core-dump.
I always made great progress when I'd order a pizza, and stay late debugging.
Yes, I work for Intel.