The whole problem all along is that Bush is to "executive"...
US policy is eliminate Saddam. Clinton instutited that policy, Bush merely carried it out. Saddam tried to have his dad assasinated. Would you take out Saddam if he tried to do in your dad? I would have used tactical nukes. Bush has to be executive, he is the chief executive. If he had to go to war, he had to go to war. Should he stick with it, or quit when the press says "things are going bad"? So far we've lost 800 people, still less than 1/3'd of 9/11. Over all the Iraqi people love us... The vast majority of the others were Saddam's followers. Just because some people liked Hitler, does not mean we were wrong to take him out. Sometimes you gotta stomp the pip-squeak trouble makers, read this in "The Art of War". Terrorism levels are below 1969 levels, something must be working. Bush took the war on terror to Iraq. Iran (the largest sponsor of terror) is scared, that's why the amount of terror is practically zero.
Kerry admitted to commiting war crimes. We've already sent bad Soldiers to jail for not reporting seeing lesser crimes than Kerry confessed to. The leopard does not change his spots. Kerry has commited crimes aginst humanity in the past, and there is no reason to believe he will do differently in the future.
The worst thing you can say about Bush is that he was a brawling frat boy. Well, in a scrap, I'd rather have a brawling frat boy on my side than a murdering slimey weasel.
Which potential presidential candidate admitted to committing war crimes during the Viet Nam war? I'll give you a hint... Only one of the candidates was there.
If Bush gets re-elected, I expect this will happen sooner, rather than later.
As I see the last election... There were two candidates. One whose wife's favorite charity is keeping her children out of jail, and the other whose wife's favorite charity is censoring music. But that's just me.
Remember that power and cooling requirements per rack slot will double every eighteen months.
That means that when you replace the out dated equipment, the new servers will require more power and cooling than the older equipment. Follow Moore's law (double X every 18 months) and you can't go wrong.
(desert means 20 inches rainfall per year), in some parts of the upper Sonoran desert, cutting down a single oak tree can net you a fine ranging up to US$50,000 (portions of Sacramento and Placer counties). I guess environmentalism causes pollution again.
With all the hype over electrics and hybrid vehicles, I suppose very few/.ers know the dangers of Lithium batteries. Go lookup the MSDS (material safety data sheets).
Lithium metal:A highly reactive alkali metal. May burn in moist air. Reacts violently with water, alcohol, acids and other oxidants. May spontaneously ignite in moist air.
Thionyl Chloride:An inroganic liquid which fumes to form hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid and sulfur dioxide gas - all highly acidic and corrosive fumes. Reacts violently with water.
Pretty much just about the most dangerous stuff you could ever put into a car.
and I find it hard to believe that legislators would burden businesses with legislation that would actually hamper the implementation
That my friend would indicate you don't have very much experience working with legislation.
This effect is known as "The law of un-intended consequenses". And is the main reason I do not approve of government programs to solve any problem with the exception of Policing the streets, and Defending the borders. I think the main problem with "un-intended consequenses", is that the implementors don't pay for them, hence there is no learning. Sometimes I think Legislators use "un-intended consequenses" to provide continuance in their sucessful campaign aginst invisible dragon du-jour. For instance, Pistol Packing Diane Feinstein (US Senator from California) wants to install gun control on the plebesite. So she authors legislation which (she and any lawyer knows) is un-constutional. She and her pals bask in the glory of success. Later the Supreme Court of the US strikes down some minor provision in the bill. Now she has a reason to publicly admit defeat, and a continued fight aginst firearm ownership by the plebes. Start round II.
Cow hair and blood go into chicken feed as high protein suppliments. Often chicken feather meal goes into cow suppliments.
In the span of time appropriate for a reference to evolution, it's true to say we evolved with plants. Evidence indicates that humans evolved eating mostly plants
When we humans discovered husbandry, is about the time that we developed language, construction, civilization.
but it's still true that an acre of crops can feed more people than the same acre could feed if routed through a cow
The important fact here is that an acre of land too arid, rocky, steep, or otherwise too poor to farm feeds that cow. In reality, it's economics that determines the source of food for the cow. When cattle prices are up, and feed prices are up, that acre of ground can make two to five tons of hay (US $80 per ton) with very little input. That same land could make one ton of wheat (US $125 per ton), or one of maize. But those are dependant on the climate. However for the farmer, the wheat or maize probably has to be sold to a grain buyer, and they are notorious for doing their best to buy low and re-sell high. That is their business. If the farmer grew five tons of hay, he could sell that to a horseman, a cowman, store it, or feed it to owned livestock. A $80 ton of hay makes about 400 lb of $0.32 per lb cull cows, or $120. If fed to calves, it makes 400 lb of $1.00 feeders, or 400 lb of $0.60 fed cattle (ready for slaughter as finished cattle). If however the farmer turned livestock out on the grass, he saves $40 per ton on the processing of grass to hay (costs $2 to mow, rake, bale, harrow, stack each 100lb bale of hay). Of course you know there are 20 100 lb bales per ton. That was my experience when I was involved in agriculture. But it really comes down to economics. Many people complain about the subsidies to ag industry, but the players look at them as tax refunds. I look at them as vote buying, and believe there is vote buying in every district, every industry, every office.
You forgot about bone meal, blood meal, hair meal (for your chickens), insulin for the diabetic friends, plus head and guts to feed your pets.
For those who can step back and look at reality. We evolved with cows. If cows were not the most efficient animal for a symbiotic relationship, we would have evolved with a different animal. Apparently PETA people don't believe in evolution.
Those of us who sit in front of a computer usually don't have to worry about where dinner is going to come from. But the history of humanity includes many die-offs from starvation. The grain crop fluxuates about 100% year to year. In big grain years, more cows get the surplus. In short grain years, more cows hit the slaughter house. Politics aside, we currently have a self-balancing system. All we need for a real disaster, is for people not in food production to start directing how food production will be managed.
When posting on "/.", one must remember most of the readers have no sense of humor. Any humor used is likely to be lost unless you use an excessive number of smiley faces and sarcasm hints. I'm sorry to be the one to inform you of this deficiency, but that is the local culture, or lack there-of.
In predatorial animal language baring the teeth is the same as brandshing a gun. I have a weapon, so you'd best not act agressive towards me.
In humans, smileing or laughing at a dangerous situation, or an accident is the same, it is baring the teeth as a fear response.
In prey animals (cattle) they don't bare the teeth, they face the danger, or try to stare it down. Perhaps while attemtping to gain some distance or allow herd members to gain some distance before fleeing.
Once again, politicians believe government controls and regulations will overcome the laws of nature. Perhaps they really do think that the laws of man will prevent trees from falling on power lines.
Does anyone on/. think that adding a few more Facilitators, Coordinators, Regulators, and Lawyers are going to keep the lights on more reliably?
Centralized control IMHO was the leading cause of the economic failure of the Soviet Union.
It is... and in some countries it is 50hz. The switching power supply has four really big transistors and they switch at about 60-80kHz. Each time the transistors switch on or off, they don't care where in the cycle of input power they are. They turn on for just a few micro seconds, then turn off. The power supply gets what ever power it gets in this time frame. The "chopper" which is the heart and soul of the power supply has that "on" interval constantly changing to keep the power level constant. If you really want to know about these things search for "lm3524" that is one of the very basic switching regulator chips. National Semiconductor has good application notes. I used to have an equipment "babysitting" job, and browsed application notes all day.
Switching mode power supplies take the very large raw input voltage, and draw directly from that input for only a very short time (micro seconds), but several thousand times a second (80Khz). The switch adjusts it draw time to collect the amount of power needed to support the output. If the input voltage drops, the switch adjusts to accept power for a slightly longer time. Really good switching power supplies (not like your PC) will operate on input ranging from DC to several hundred hertz.
I have found that the subordinates of soft and easy managers get trashed in the ranking process. While the subordinates of hard nosed managers have the upper hand.
With my manager, we call it a "love hate relationship". He is pretty tough, and we hate him 364 days a year, but on the 365'th day (the day reviews come out) we worship the water he walks on.
I think this is a good process, mostly becuase I've always had tough managers that fight for me in ranking. Exectuives must remember to score the managers on the average of their subordinates scores. Those with poorer ranking subrodinates either are not managing the subordinates, the workload, or are not scoring/supporting the subordinates correctly. After all, individuals classified by work groups should be equals in performance.
Can anyone honestly explain to me how I, as a programmer and prospective business owner, can defend myself in court with little or no money to spend on lawyers?
Sucks don't it...
I think it was G. G. Liddy that said "The most expensive thing you could every buy is a cheap Lawyer".
I hacked up some lambs and packed parts into my smoker. };=8) the cow is smiling that the sheep hit the smoker this time.
BTW, any good hacks for a water smoker, the ashes build up in the bottom bowl, and cool down. I don't know weather to add a raised screen to the fire bowl, or drill holes in install an ash tray below the fire bowl (to prevent ugly deck fires).
I'm rather happy with my old AMPS phone. It's a 3 watt bag phone that sits in my car. When I call someone, they think I'm using a land line, due to the clarity. I can make calls from the remote rural areas that the new digital cels won't reach. I've never been tempted to take it into a restaurant. It's not plugged in, and the battery is dead, so it's not going to ring. But it's there if I want to call someone. So what if some peeping tom is listening to me ask my wife if I should bring anything on my way home.
My SMTP server gets email from joeblow@123.com. I finger joeblow@123.com. If 123.com says joeblow is a real user I then accept the email, other wise I can it.
No-Way, the spammer forged in my email address into the "From" line. You should see what happens when he then sets the auto reply when message is read flag. Actually only about five people opened the message, and caused an auto reply.
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The testimony of John Kerry is here.
US policy is eliminate Saddam. Clinton instutited that policy, Bush merely carried it out. Saddam tried to have his dad assasinated. Would you take out Saddam if he tried to do in your dad? I would have used tactical nukes. Bush has to be executive, he is the chief executive. If he had to go to war, he had to go to war. Should he stick with it, or quit when the press says "things are going bad"? So far we've lost 800 people, still less than 1/3'd of 9/11. Over all the Iraqi people love us... The vast majority of the others were Saddam's followers. Just because some people liked Hitler, does not mean we were wrong to take him out. Sometimes you gotta stomp the pip-squeak trouble makers, read this in "The Art of War". Terrorism levels are below 1969 levels, something must be working. Bush took the war on terror to Iraq. Iran (the largest sponsor of terror) is scared, that's why the amount of terror is practically zero.
Kerry admitted to commiting war crimes. We've already sent bad Soldiers to jail for not reporting seeing lesser crimes than Kerry confessed to. The leopard does not change his spots. Kerry has commited crimes aginst humanity in the past, and there is no reason to believe he will do differently in the future.
The worst thing you can say about Bush is that he was a brawling frat boy. Well, in a scrap, I'd rather have a brawling frat boy on my side than a murdering slimey weasel.
Which potential presidential candidate admitted to committing war crimes during the Viet Nam war? I'll give you a hint... Only one of the candidates was there.
As I see the last election... There were two candidates. One whose wife's favorite charity is keeping her children out of jail, and the other whose wife's favorite charity is censoring music. But that's just me.
That means that when you replace the out dated equipment, the new servers will require more power and cooling than the older equipment. Follow Moore's law (double X every 18 months) and you can't go wrong.
I only know this, as it what happened to us.
P.S. The weight will increase too.
(desert means 20 inches rainfall per year), in some parts of the upper Sonoran desert, cutting down a single oak tree can net you a fine ranging up to US$50,000 (portions of Sacramento and Placer counties). I guess environmentalism causes pollution again.
Perhaps this is why cel phones have been blowing up.
Lithium metal :A highly reactive alkali metal. May burn in moist air. Reacts violently with water, alcohol, acids and other oxidants. May spontaneously ignite in moist air.
Thionyl Chloride
Pretty much just about the most dangerous stuff you could ever put into a car.
That my friend would indicate you don't have very much experience working with legislation.
This effect is known as "The law of un-intended consequenses". And is the main reason I do not approve of government programs to solve any problem with the exception of Policing the streets, and Defending the borders. I think the main problem with "un-intended consequenses", is that the implementors don't pay for them, hence there is no learning. Sometimes I think Legislators use "un-intended consequenses" to provide continuance in their sucessful campaign aginst invisible dragon du-jour. For instance, Pistol Packing Diane Feinstein (US Senator from California) wants to install gun control on the plebesite. So she authors legislation which (she and any lawyer knows) is un-constutional. She and her pals bask in the glory of success. Later the Supreme Court of the US strikes down some minor provision in the bill. Now she has a reason to publicly admit defeat, and a continued fight aginst firearm ownership by the plebes. Start round II.
Cow hair and blood go into chicken feed as high protein suppliments. Often chicken feather meal goes into cow suppliments.
In the span of time appropriate for a reference to evolution, it's true to say we evolved with plants. Evidence indicates that humans evolved eating mostly plants
When we humans discovered husbandry, is about the time that we developed language, construction, civilization.
but it's still true that an acre of crops can feed more people than the same acre could feed if routed through a cow
The important fact here is that an acre of land too arid, rocky, steep, or otherwise too poor to farm feeds that cow. In reality, it's economics that determines the source of food for the cow. When cattle prices are up, and feed prices are up, that acre of ground can make two to five tons of hay (US $80 per ton) with very little input. That same land could make one ton of wheat (US $125 per ton), or one of maize. But those are dependant on the climate. However for the farmer, the wheat or maize probably has to be sold to a grain buyer, and they are notorious for doing their best to buy low and re-sell high. That is their business. If the farmer grew five tons of hay, he could sell that to a horseman, a cowman, store it, or feed it to owned livestock. A $80 ton of hay makes about 400 lb of $0.32 per lb cull cows, or $120. If fed to calves, it makes 400 lb of $1.00 feeders, or 400 lb of $0.60 fed cattle (ready for slaughter as finished cattle). If however the farmer turned livestock out on the grass, he saves $40 per ton on the processing of grass to hay (costs $2 to mow, rake, bale, harrow, stack each 100lb bale of hay). Of course you know there are 20 100 lb bales per ton. That was my experience when I was involved in agriculture. But it really comes down to economics. Many people complain about the subsidies to ag industry, but the players look at them as tax refunds. I look at them as vote buying, and believe there is vote buying in every district, every industry, every office.
For those who can step back and look at reality. We evolved with cows. If cows were not the most efficient animal for a symbiotic relationship, we would have evolved with a different animal. Apparently PETA people don't believe in evolution.
Those of us who sit in front of a computer usually don't have to worry about where dinner is going to come from. But the history of humanity includes many die-offs from starvation. The grain crop fluxuates about 100% year to year. In big grain years, more cows get the surplus. In short grain years, more cows hit the slaughter house. Politics aside, we currently have a self-balancing system. All we need for a real disaster, is for people not in food production to start directing how food production will be managed.
Dear Glonoinha,
When posting on "/.", one must remember most of the readers have no sense of humor. Any humor used is likely to be lost unless you use an excessive number of smiley faces and sarcasm hints. I'm sorry to be the one to inform you of this deficiency, but that is the local culture, or lack there-of.
In humans, smileing or laughing at a dangerous situation, or an accident is the same, it is baring the teeth as a fear response.
In prey animals (cattle) they don't bare the teeth, they face the danger, or try to stare it down. Perhaps while attemtping to gain some distance or allow herd members to gain some distance before fleeing.
Does anyone on /. think that adding a few more Facilitators, Coordinators, Regulators, and Lawyers are going to keep the lights on more reliably?
Centralized control IMHO was the leading cause of the economic failure of the Soviet Union.
It is... and in some countries it is 50hz. The switching power supply has four really big transistors and they switch at about 60-80kHz. Each time the transistors switch on or off, they don't care where in the cycle of input power they are. They turn on for just a few micro seconds, then turn off. The power supply gets what ever power it gets in this time frame. The "chopper" which is the heart and soul of the power supply has that "on" interval constantly changing to keep the power level constant. If you really want to know about these things search for "lm3524" that is one of the very basic switching regulator chips. National Semiconductor has good application notes. I used to have an equipment "babysitting" job, and browsed application notes all day.
Switching mode power supplies take the very large raw input voltage, and draw directly from that input for only a very short time (micro seconds), but several thousand times a second (80Khz). The switch adjusts it draw time to collect the amount of power needed to support the output. If the input voltage drops, the switch adjusts to accept power for a slightly longer time. Really good switching power supplies (not like your PC) will operate on input ranging from DC to several hundred hertz.
With my manager, we call it a "love hate relationship". He is pretty tough, and we hate him 364 days a year, but on the 365'th day (the day reviews come out) we worship the water he walks on.
I think this is a good process, mostly becuase I've always had tough managers that fight for me in ranking. Exectuives must remember to score the managers on the average of their subordinates scores. Those with poorer ranking subrodinates either are not managing the subordinates, the workload, or are not scoring/supporting the subordinates correctly. After all, individuals classified by work groups should be equals in performance.
Half of the managers are below average too.
Sucks don't it...
I think it was G. G. Liddy that said "The most expensive thing you could every buy is a cheap Lawyer".
I imagine he means loans... Is this legal?
I hacked up some lambs and packed parts into my smoker.
};=8) the cow is smiling that the sheep hit the smoker this time.
BTW, any good hacks for a water smoker, the ashes build up in the bottom bowl, and cool down. I don't know weather to add a raised screen to the fire bowl, or drill holes in install an ash tray below the fire bowl (to prevent ugly deck fires).
Anything you meet in space is traveling way too fast.
I've put silicon on the tester with clock @ 125%, temp @ 0C, Vcc @ 110%.
OverCLACKING, is a more accurate term.
};=8)
Digital phones suck.
No-Way, the spammer forged in my email address into the "From" line. You should see what happens when he then sets the auto reply when message is read flag. Actually only about five people opened the message, and caused an auto reply.
Your idea of "pretty good programmer" must be somewhat different than mine. Please don't inflate the egos of the (L)user script kiddies.