Service is not military exclusive. You can be a janitor in a school and be a citizen.
As for everything working, and the armor kicking ass, sure I agree. Did you pay any attention to the number of units lost in an assault even with all that stuff they used to try to protect the troopers until they were down? It's not like they pressed a button to attack and then had tea while everything went swimmingly along fine.
Most authors who served in WWII, Korea, or Nam all say the same kinds of things when they are pointing out how it really is as opposed to the commercials they show on TV. Look at Harry Harrison's writing and you can see it all over the place.
I remember early HP netservers that had "Hot Swap" HDD bays. A sales guy came into the tech area and yanked one out to show how it worked and it promptly fried out the entire SCSI subsystem. From that point forward we concluded that to HP "Hot Swap" meant the drive was still warm when you took it out.
I was thinking though, Doku was training Grevious (sp) in the ways, Perhaps trying to have his own apprentice to help him defeat Palpatine and be the new master.
Maybe they just only operate in pairs because of the likely hood of backstabbery?
Cerainly, but Theo is known for his quality of work, while I (not a programmer) and other random/. posters are not.
Heck, I am not really picking with him direcly, just with the fanaticas who are posting here about how right he is and how "Evil Linus sad bad things about Good Theo who said nothing bad about Linux" about Linus using the word "dificult" to describe Theo. Frankly from what I know (mostly the FreeBSD thing) he does seem like a dificult person to work with, but thats not saying he is impossible to work with.
"The first one, science has given an answer to. The conflict arises because it contradicts an established belief that religion(s) have already created to answer that question - take a look at the issue of the religious view of sun circling the earth, and the scientific discovery it was the other way around. Eventually, enough scientific proof was offered that it became generally accepted, but it took time. Currently, the question of "Where did we come from?" is on the docket, literally in some school districs, as science and religion square off over evolution. I will note that various religions also are in conflict over thier answer to that same question... The other part of the problem is that anything that detracts from a religion also detracts from the power of its leaders, and also the fact that no one likes to be proven wrong."
Maybe we could build some kind of super computer to give us "The Answer". Until then both sides will go at it tooth and nail and make a boatload of cash off of both sides.
The reason they keep mentioning the UN is because of U.N.I.T. from previous Dr. Who series and eaths seeming only line of defense (that still got it's ass handed to it). U.N.I.T. stood for United Nations Intelligence Taskforce. I do not know if the New U.N.I.T. we see in the 2 parter about the Slitheen is the same as the old one.
"Even over-the-air television networks (in the United States) are copy protected as they travel from the network to the satellite, and back to the station for transmission to you."
Thats odd. I know people that use the big dishes and they seem to have no problem getting the same feeds you local station uses (watch the newscasters after the commercial cut away). Are you sure it's encrypted. I know various things like HBO are, but not regular over the air stuff coming from the major networks.
Things may be changing when analog goes away but I have my doubts.
Whats worse it trying to get a submission accepted. I've just given up, as no matter how much I try they never see the light of day. Shame really as I try to not post dupes or popular things released in fifty other websites.
I'd really enjoy a discussion of the film version of A Scanner Darkly, from the technical aspect of filming (it's rather different IMO) to the story of the book. But thats apparently verboten here.
Tho there are worse things, at least this isn't a corrupt hole of crime like E-Bay.
It occurs to me that if Theo and others have so much free time as to evaluate all the code in Linux and offer such pronouncements from on high, they could spend a little of it contributing to the projects instead of wasting the time trashing the work of others.
"I would never use Linux for a firewall - iptables is awful - poorly documented and has a terrible syntax that means you have to dive into random HOWTO docs on the internet to get anything done. "
"Someone who asks a question answered by the FAQ, will be politely redirected to the FAQ."
According to squadboy (in the post that started this subthread) your supposed to flame them. Now he has admitted that he is nothing more then an elitist asshole, but he is a example counter to your high praise for the community.
" Asking a FAQ on a mailing list should get you flamed any where."
Wow, WOW!. This is such good community work, someone who is lost askas a FAQ and you flame them, Brilliant!.
Asking a FAQ on a mailing list should result in someone pointing out that it is a FAQ and answered in th e following document or URL. It's simple, directs the lost person to the resource that helps them.
I shal mak a point to avoid open BSD if you are an example of what one will encounter. I lioke the qualifier that questions asked must be intelligent. From whose standpoint? It may seem like a intelligent question to the asker. On top of that you claim all you are askiing iss people do "homework". No you plainly said they should be flamed. Has it ever occured to you that maybe they might not know of all the resorces available to them? Thats where the proper response of directing them to the resorces that can help them comes in instead of elitist flaming. It's mindbogglingly stupid attitudes like yours that cause so much strife in IRC, Mailing Lists and other support forums.
"In the states about 20% of the population is covered, by the largest overhead among any other countries (although we have been told that private companies are the most efficient) and 80% of personal bankruptcies in the US happen after receiving a large medical bill."
And here is why: Hospitals give some kind of crazy ass discount to HMO insurance plans, but a regular non insured person gets their life fucked over by the same supposed caring professionals.
Gall Bladder removal for one person comes in at about thirteen thousand dollars (if you don't have it done a gallstone will kill you EOL). If you have HMO coverage, you pay whatever it took to get in the door (copy for emergency room for instance) and the insurance pays about three grand over that for the procedure.
Now remember how I said it was a thirteen thousand dollar operation? Where did the nearly ten thousand dollars go that is still owed to them? A line item on the invoice reads: insurance company discount 10,000.00
This is unacceptably fucked up beyond all belief. IF I didn't have insurance I would magically cost ten thousand dollars more to treat?
That s the screwing and injustice of our world. The poor cant afford health care because the people who can afford health care are the ones getting insane discounts.
How can these so called doctors and health care professionals do this with any soul? Is chaotic evil the new American way?
I can only guess the next step will be to stop servicing the uninsured at all because it costs too much, maybe make the bill for above operation 10000000 dollars with a 9999999 discount for having insurance coverage.
Sorry for the rant but this just pisses me off to no end, because if for some reason I end up not being able to continue affording health coverage, I don't want to choose between food and medical bills.
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I can just see the theme song to "Dark Town", apologies to Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young.
Our town is a very,very, dark town.
We're dead things in the dark.
Life used to be so hard.
But now everything is easy.
Cthulhu.
Crud, I wrote that thinking "dark Town" was a example of a bad name that might be used, then looked and found it was a bad film.
Because for a long time I thought "Horse with no Name" was a Neil Young song.
"why do you hate America?"
Because for years I thought "Horse with no Name" was a Neil Young song.
Please re-read the book.
Service is not military exclusive. You can be a janitor in a school and be a citizen.
As for everything working, and the armor kicking ass, sure I agree. Did you pay any attention to the number of units lost in an assault even with all that stuff they used to try to protect the troopers until they were down? It's not like they pressed a button to attack and then had tea while everything went swimmingly along fine.
Most authors who served in WWII, Korea, or Nam all say the same kinds of things when they are pointing out how it really is as opposed to the commercials they show on TV. Look at Harry Harrison's writing and you can see it all over the place.
I remember early HP netservers that had "Hot Swap" HDD bays. A sales guy came into the tech area and yanked one out to show how it worked and it promptly fried out the entire SCSI subsystem. From that point forward we concluded that to HP "Hot Swap" meant the drive was still warm when you took it out.
"It was also great as a Vietnam commentary, and a response to Starship Troopers and other pro-military work."
Maybe my mind is getting foggy but I dont remember Starship Troopers (the book) being all the pro-military.
Some people live in caves on wheels that they dont go anywhere in.
" There are some liabilities that you can't disclaim. "
Tell that to the people who write EULA text.
I was thinking though, Doku was training Grevious (sp) in the ways, Perhaps trying to have his own apprentice to help him defeat Palpatine and be the new master.
Maybe they just only operate in pairs because of the likely hood of backstabbery?
Cerainly, but Theo is known for his quality of work, while I (not a programmer) and other random /. posters are not.
Heck, I am not really picking with him direcly, just with the fanaticas who are posting here about how right he is and how "Evil Linus sad bad things about Good Theo who said nothing bad about Linux" about Linus using the word "dificult" to describe Theo. Frankly from what I know (mostly the FreeBSD thing) he does seem like a dificult person to work with, but thats not saying he is impossible to work with.
"The first one, science has given an answer to. The conflict arises because it contradicts an established belief that religion(s) have already created to answer that question - take a look at the issue of the religious view of sun circling the earth, and the scientific discovery it was the other way around. Eventually, enough scientific proof was offered that it became generally accepted, but it took time. Currently, the question of "Where did we come from?" is on the docket, literally in some school districs, as science and religion square off over evolution. I will note that various religions also are in conflict over thier answer to that same question... The other part of the problem is that anything that detracts from a religion also detracts from the power of its leaders, and also the fact that no one likes to be proven wrong."
Maybe we could build some kind of super computer to give us "The Answer". Until then both sides will go at it tooth and nail and make a boatload of cash off of both sides.
The Phantom Edit improves it to a level of suckage that is more tolerable then it's raw form.
I was wondering if they would have him say "I dont't believe it!" just before he started to change.
The reason they keep mentioning the UN is because of U.N.I.T. from previous Dr. Who series and eaths seeming only line of defense (that still got it's ass handed to it). U.N.I.T. stood for United Nations Intelligence Taskforce. I do not know if the New U.N.I.T. we see in the 2 parter about the Slitheen is the same as the old one.
What does that make companies like Macrovision? The people who make the DRM used by the assholes to help the dicks fuck the pussies
"Even over-the-air television networks (in the United States) are copy protected as they travel from the network to the satellite, and back to the station for transmission to you."
Thats odd. I know people that use the big dishes and they seem to have no problem getting the same feeds you local station uses (watch the newscasters after the commercial cut away). Are you sure it's encrypted. I know various things like HBO are, but not regular over the air stuff coming from the major networks.
Things may be changing when analog goes away but I have my doubts.
Real pirates, the ones selling bottleggs of CDs, are using commercial pressing machines and no amount of "copy protection" can stop that.
Whats worse it trying to get a submission accepted.
I've just given up, as no matter how much I try they never see the light of day. Shame really as I try to not post dupes or popular things released in fifty other websites.
I'd really enjoy a discussion of the film version of A Scanner Darkly, from the technical aspect of filming (it's rather different IMO) to the story of the book. But thats apparently verboten here.
Tho there are worse things, at least this isn't a corrupt hole of crime like E-Bay.
It occurs to me that if Theo and others have so much free time as to evaluate all the code in Linux and offer such pronouncements from on high, they could spend a little of it contributing to the projects instead of wasting the time trashing the work of others.
"I would never use Linux for a firewall - iptables is awful - poorly documented and has a terrible syntax that means you have to dive into random HOWTO docs on the internet to get anything done. "
Have you tried something like IPCOP?
"Someone who asks a question answered by the FAQ, will be politely redirected to the FAQ."
According to squadboy (in the post that started this subthread) your supposed to flame them. Now he has admitted that he is nothing more then an elitist asshole, but he is a example counter to your high praise for the community.
" Asking a FAQ on a mailing list should get you flamed any where."
Wow, WOW!.
This is such good community work, someone who is lost askas a FAQ and you flame them, Brilliant!.
Asking a FAQ on a mailing list should result in someone pointing out that it is a FAQ and answered in th e following document or URL. It's simple, directs the lost person to the resource that helps them.
I shal mak a point to avoid open BSD if you are an example of what one will encounter. I lioke the qualifier that questions asked must be intelligent. From whose standpoint? It may seem like a intelligent question to the asker. On top of that you claim all you are askiing iss people do "homework". No you plainly said they should be flamed. Has it ever occured to you that maybe they might not know of all the resorces available to them? Thats where the proper response of directing them to the resorces that can help them comes in instead of elitist flaming. It's mindbogglingly stupid attitudes like yours that cause so much strife in IRC, Mailing Lists and other support forums.
Maybe it's like that corpse god from the cthulhu mythos, eternally dieing. I forget it's name as it's been a while since I picked up Eternal Darkness.
To me it seems (just from reading the article here and on the register) all they did was add PAR style parity to Bittorrent.
"In the states about 20% of the population is covered, by the largest overhead among any other countries (although we have been told that private companies are the most efficient) and 80% of personal bankruptcies in the US happen after receiving a large medical bill."
And here is why:
Hospitals give some kind of crazy ass discount to HMO insurance plans, but a regular non insured person gets their life fucked over by the same supposed caring professionals.
Gall Bladder removal for one person comes in at about thirteen thousand dollars (if you don't have it done a gallstone will kill you EOL). If you have HMO coverage, you pay whatever it took to get in the door (copy for emergency room for instance) and the insurance pays about three grand over that for the procedure.
Now remember how I said it was a thirteen thousand dollar operation? Where did the nearly ten thousand dollars go that is still owed to them? A line item on the invoice reads: insurance company discount 10,000.00
This is unacceptably fucked up beyond all belief.
IF I didn't have insurance I would magically cost ten thousand dollars more to treat?
That s the screwing and injustice of our world. The poor cant afford health care because the people who can afford health care are the ones getting insane discounts.
How can these so called doctors and health care professionals do this with any soul? Is chaotic evil the new American way?
I can only guess the next step will be to stop servicing the uninsured at all because it costs too much, maybe make the bill for above operation 10000000 dollars with a 9999999 discount for having insurance coverage.
Sorry for the rant but this just pisses me off to no end, because if for some reason I end up not being able to continue affording health coverage, I don't want to choose between food and medical bills.