Wow, is Microsoft's volume manager really so retarded that it just always tries to boot from drive #1 instead of trying to boot from whichever drive is still working? On a "server" operating system!?
Well actually HP/UX's volume manager isn't any different. You can create bootable mirrors but if one disk goes bad you have to reboot the system, get to the prompt, stop the boot and then tell the system to boot off of the other drive in the mirror.
If I lose a drive on a server then I don't want the box to boot to whatever drive is still available, I want to take a look at what is going on.
Plutonium emits nice high energy particles that will kill you. Caffeine don't.Poison is not the question here.
No, actually it doesn't. Plutonium is an alpha emitter. Before the core was placed in the Fat Man bomb tested at Alamogordo people were passing the plutonium core around. It was about the size of a grapefruit and warm to the touch. Plutonium-239 doesn't emit a lot of radioactivity, that's why it has a 250,000 year half life. Now, if you want something that emits high energy particles that will kill you grab a hold of a chunk of cobalt-60 or strontium-90. Plenty of nice high energy gamma there for you, which is why these isotopes have relatively short half lives. The longer the half life, the less dangerous the isotope.
The danger of plutonium lies in the fact that it is a chemically toxic heavy metal that, when absorbed into the human body, ends up in your skeleton or your liver. This is very bad because even though alpha particles won't penetrate your skin they will fuck up your bone marrow and destroy your liver, so you can end up with a variety of unpleasant cancers. And since your entire blood supply is filtered through your liver those cancers will metastasize.
But as far as the "one pound of plutonium would kill everyone on Earth" myth goes it's bullshit. We've already dumped hundreds of pounds of plutonium into the atmosphere through nuclear testing, and last time I checked we weren't all dead. Unless of course this is heaven, in which case I am pissed because I can't get decent bandwidth in my neighborhood and you would think that God would take care of that.
Let's look at some urban myths here. One, the plans were not destroyed in a fire. You can look this up on urbanlegends.com. We also have two full sized Saturn V stacks that were designed for the Apollo 18 and 19 missions, and which were allowed to rust away to uselessness that we could take apart to see how these were built.
As far as the brilliant minds who were involved in the design being dead, well, yeah, that's true. On the other hand it's a bit of a stretch to assume that no one as bright as Wernher Von Braun is around to take their place.
Now, the big issue is that the Saturn V tooling is lost. This is criminal, but the Saturn V would be a good design starting point. The US designed these things in the early 1960s and managed to land 12 men on the moon with them and do a bunch of other cool stuff. This is not a bad place to start from.
A successor to the Saturn V (the Saturn 6, the Neptune? The Uranus?) could start off from the Saturn V design and incorporate 40 years of improvements in materials, design and avionics. This would be much better than hacking away on the shuttle which was a horrid kludge from day 1 and which has never met any of its goals.
Along with the heavy booster replcement a space plane based on X-15 based technology should be built. We were going to build one of these 40 years ago, it was the unfortunately named "Dyna-Soar" project (who the fuck came up with that name anyways? What were they thinking?). Dyna-Soar got whacked by Bob McNamara so that we could spend more money on our Southeast Asian Weapons Testing Project, also known as the Vietnam War.
It is depressing to me that we were closer to space at the time of my birth 37 years ago in 1965 than we are today.
What part of "Euro Banknotes" didn't you understand? This has nothing to do with the land of the (supposedly) free, but with the union where we have mandatory ID cards, strict weapon laws and people who see black boxes in cars as a/good/ thing and don't distrust the government like the mostly paranoid americans.
Yeah, and why is it that you Euro types are such fucking sheep when it comes to trusting the government? You would think that after having three of the worst ideas in government tried out in your neighborhood in the last century, I refer to nazism, fascism and communism, that you guys might be a little more skeptical. Instead you're hellbent on building an infrastructure that would have made the German SS or the East German Stasi spooge a huge load in their tight leather trousers.
Perhaps you guys need to learn from history, or look at the big picture, or something. Bad ideas such as this, if successfully implemented, spread. I'm sure that our racist AG, John Ashcroft, would love to have something like this. Not that it would be used to track down Al Qaeda cells or the Russian Mob, no, it would be used to harass people who disagree with the Bush regime.
What if we make a game where the object is to shoot the chief of police in the head. Can we sell it to kids in Washington? OK, what if the chief of police that we're trying to whack is David Brame, the wife beating former chief of police of Tacoma, Washington, who shot his wife Crystal Brame, mortally wounding her and then turned the gun on himself, in front of their two children.
This is the same David Brame who also is accused of raping a woman in 1988. Of course nothing happened to David Brame. And the Pierce County sheriff's department did nothing about Crystal Brame's complaints because her husband was the chief of police.
Perhaps we can make the object of the game to shoot Tacoma cops, who are corrupt and Pierce County Sheriff's deputies, who are stupid and corrupt. Oh, and you could add Pat Frantz to the list. He's the head of the police union in Tacoma who has been threatening journalists and blaming the media for David Brame's actions.
Yeah, I think that having a game where you waste these useless and corrupt cocksuckers would be a good thing, I think that having kids play this game would be even better.
Suitably updated where necessary and with an eye towards reusability if feasible. The Saturn V kicked ass and shows what a kludge the shuttle is, we're talking about a booster that could put a Mack truck in orbit around the moon. The Shuttle was a huge step backwards in every area except for reusability.
Or motorcyclists, or bicyclists. Jesus Christ, it's bad enough that most drivers are blithering fucking idiots who don't pay attention to what is going on around them, and as someone who got to spend two months in the hospital and have part of his leg amputated after his motorcycle was T-boned, I know of what I speak. But now we're going to have home entertainment systems in cars. Great, just fucking great, Mommy turns around to backhand little Dick and Jane who are fighting over the remote and while distracted plows into someone on a bike.
Fuck you. Put the crack pipe down and step away from it. Yeah sure, adding that extra 'e' and 's' to/usr to make it/users is going to make carpal tunnel that much worse. Oh, and what the fuck is it with/etc? Originally this stood for et cetera, and was used to store things that didn't fit into/usr/bin/lib et cetera. Now it's a fucking jumble of shit that varies from distribution to distribution. Startup scripts. Might be in/etc, might be in/sbin, might be somewhere else. Config files, might be in/etc, might be in/usr/lib/, might be somewhere else. If there is any part of the UNIX filesystem that deserves to die a painful and unlamented death it is/etc. I think that most of the resistance to gobolinux has to do with the fact that it's different, not on any merits or faults of these differences. There are a whole bunch of UNIX geeks out there, especially in the university environment, who would lose their jobs if UNIX were easier to use and more intuitive. Just because you're semi-autistic and can manage to hack out UNIX commands and use the CLI doesn't mean that you're smart, or elite or anything else other than that you have a memory for arcane trivia.
With Jughead and Mr. Weatherbee? I used to think that people who wrote slash were pathetic losers, now I think that they're pathetic losers who should be killed and eaten by wild dogs, both to end their miserable lives and also to improve the aesthetic quotient of modern society.
Actually if you made them infinitely lighter wouldn't they have zero rest mass? If this were the case you would have flying cars that travelled at the speed of light. I need one of these.
Since the anti-monitor destroyed it in Crisis on Infinite Earths #11 in November of 1985. The fact that people are still speculating about this shows that most physicists probably read such Marvel or Romance comics.
Interesting to say the least but a few of the effects looked a little plastic. It should be a good 2 hour ride though. I'm still wondering which shot "will be so expensive that no one will every copy it."
It's either the lesbian sex scenes featuring Carrie Anne Moss or the scene where the Wachowski brothers shoot Keanu Reeves in the head with a real gun to keep him from starring in another movie like Johnny Mnemonic.
will be elected in 2008 and that her first presidential act will be to order the permanent incarceration of all Republicans under the powers of the new PATRIOT act. It will be no less than these bastards deserve for passing legislation such as PATRIOT and for mindlessly backing Bush after 9/11.
Our cars are cleaner every year. Hell, even our sport utility vehicles get 18-25 mpg. The main reason we buy THOSE is because the CARB emission rules killed the full size car.
Whuuuuuhhhh? "CARB emission rules killed the full size (sic) car". Where did this happen? Does the category of full sized cars not include the following:
Mercedes Benz E series sedans
Mercedes Benz S series sedans
Mercury Grand Marquis
Audi A-8 sedan
Lincoln Town Car
Ford Crown Victoria
Acura RL
BMW 5 series sedans
BMW 7 series sedans
Volvo S series sedans
The claim that the CAFE rules killed larger, safer cars is crap, there are plenty of large cars out there that will haul a family around as well as any SUV. Now I will admit that SUVs are convenient, for example they're a lot easier to get into if you've recently had part of your leg cut off (and I speak from experience here) but statistics show that SUVs are actually less safe than most cars. Why? Well firstly because many of the people who drive SUVs are idiots who think that four wheel drive means four wheel stop, wrong. But aside from the moron factor there is also the fact that most SUVs are nothing more than pickup trucks with a back seat and extended canopy, they are built like trucks and they handle like trucks, that is to say not very well.
The reason the auto industry is pushing SUVs is because of the high profit margins these vehicles make, they are exempted from the CAFE requirements, which means that they don't have to have as much anti-pollution gear and they are cheap to build since they are nothing more than pickup trucks with leather seats. So the fiction, pushed by conservatives that people are buying SUVs because there are no safe automobiles out there is a lie, look at the Ford Explorer, that piece of crap was hardly an advertisement for automotive safety, how many people would want to ride in one of those with Firestone tires?
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OK, and someone tell me why you stupid bastards on dealmac would be interested. Let's see, you're interested because
a) You're stupid and should be sterilized before you can spread your inferior genes into our already stressed gene pool (assuming you ever breed that is)
b) You can't do basic math, i.e, you aren't smart enough to look around and see that you can get an eMac for $700.
c) You've got some sort of anti-establishment bug up your ass and it adds meaning to your pathetic life to "stick it to the man" by purchasing one of these POS.
d) You need another box to rest empty bags of Cheetos and bottles of Mountain Dew on in your parent's basement.
e) You post on slashdot under Anonymous Coward because they don't have an "ignorant dipshit" ID for anonymous postings.
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this hacked together POS FrankenMac when I can go to outpost.com and purchase a refurbished eMac for $700. Oh, and for an extra $150 I can get AppleCare.
Cool. I'll have to try that. The problem is which gun to choose. I could use the.44 revolver or carbine, the.308 or my 10mm. At my old job we used to take the drives apart, cut the platters into four pieces with a bandsaw and then heat them until they were red hot with a blow torch, shooting them would have been much more fun.
That being said, exactly how could we obtain enough solar energy to power the world??
Assume that we have cheap solar cells that are 20 percent efficient. Assume that if we place these in fixed arrays with no pointing mechanisms in a southern area that we can get 6 hours of insolation a day, so we get the equivalent of 25 percent efficiency of each cell. The solar constant is approximately 1kW/m^2. With an efficiency of 5 percent we need 20 square meters to generate 1 kW of electricity. Take 10,000 km^2 of desert, we have plenty of the stuff down in the southwest, cover it with solar cells. The solar cells generate 50 megawatts per square kilometer. We have just covered 10,000 square kilometers with solar cells so we are generating 500,000 megawatts of electricity which is the equivalent of 250 large nuclear plants. Repeat as necessary. Use gas turbines or hydro electric or hydrogen storage to produce energy at night or on cloudy days.
If solar cells get cheap enough you just stick the damned things everywhere, on roofs, on the south sides of buildings, anywhere where you get a lot of sunlight. All we have to do is make cheap solar cells, and I would be willing to bet that we could probably get there if we took the $100 billion that is going to be used for the war in Iraq and dumped it into researching alternate sources of energy including efficient production of solar cells.
Oregon does not have sales tax. Which means that the state doesn't have much money. Therefore, Oregon has some of the worst roads I have ever been on. North of the Rio Grande, that is. Now people in Oregon are unlikely to want to give up their right to not pay sales tax, because Oregon is mainly populated by both types of the Libertarian genus (Hippie and Mountain Man). The only way that Oregon could get people to pay for the roads is by direct tax, and this GPS system seems lerss enviromentally intrusive than setting up toll booth all over the state (another important Oregon consideration).
This is a noisome load of shit. Oregon does not have a sales tax, however Oregon does have a personal income tax, property taxes and gasoline taxes. As someone who lives in Washington and drives down to Oregon fairly frequently I'd have to say that Oregon's roads aren't any worse than Washington state's roads IMHO.
Washington state doesn't have an income tax but does have a sales tax. Now, the interesting thing that is going on in both states is that both governments are running serious deficits. In Washington state the politicians and Bill Gates daddy want to impose an income tax to make up for the deficit, in Oregon the politicians want to impose a sales tax.
Of course in both states the concept of looking at what the government does and perhaps reducing its scope is completely off the table.
At the moment Oregon is actually worse off fiscally than Washington state, this is amusing because for years and years the big government types who want to impose an income tax to fund all of their neato programs have been telling us in Washington that an income tax is more resistant to economic downturns than is a sales tax, of course Oregon is proving that this theory is a load of crap. The fact that politicians in both states went on huge spending sprees in the late 90's and have, at least in Washington, destroyed their credibility by using tax dollars to build new stadiums for Microsoft millionaires and are trying to build a useless light rail system, has only reduced the chances that the government in either state is going to get more money. At this point taxpayers in both states feel as if giving more money to their state governments is about as smart as calling their brokers and telling them to buy WorldCom and Enron.
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This is such crap. John F. Kennedy, who served in the Pacific Theatre, made remarks to the effect that the farther away you were from the war the more likely you were to have reservations about using the bomb. Paul Nitze and John Kenneth Galbraith spent WWII in the safe confines of Washington D.C. I would suggest that you speak to some people who had been in the Pacific theatre and ask them how they felt about dropping the bomb. My grandfather, who served in the Army in the Pacific on New Guinea thought the bomb was great, my step-grandfather, who spent four years in a submarine in the Pacific was also in favor of the bomb.
In his article Thank God for the Atom Bomb Paul Fussell points out that casualties in the Pacific theatre were around 7,000 a day. Had the war lasted for one month beyond the August 16th surrender of Japan that is 210,000 casualties, had it gone into October, lasting two months, 420,000 casualties. Most of these casualties would not have been the Harvard classmates of Nitze or even the University of California classmates of Galbraith, rather they would have been working class Americans serving in the armed forces.
Harry S. Truman, who spent World War I in in France as a captain of artillery understood how brutal war was in a way that Galbraith, Nitze, Alperowitz and others who never served never could. Truman made a decision to end a brutal and bloody war on the best terms for the United States, he made the decision as Commander in Chief that the lives of American and Allied soldiers, marines, sailors and airmen were more important than those of Japanese civilians who had spent the last fourteen years since the invasion of Manchuria supporting a war that was designed to build an Asian empire for Japan.
After the war the Japanese managed to play the victim card for all that it was worth. Atrocities such as the Rape of Nanking or the biological experiments that the Japanese carried out against the Chinese were downplayed or covered up. Since most of Japan's atrocities took place in China, which even then was in the process of being taken over by the Communist Chinese, there was no way for anyone to find out exactly how bad the Japanese were. Only now, with revelations about Korean women being kidnapped for Japanese brothels and excellent historical studies such as Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking are we finding out how bad Japan was.
As for the argument that the United States dropped the bomb to show the Soviets what we could do, if it is true, so what. Remember if you will that the Soviet dictator at the time was none other than Josef Stalin, the architect
of the Moscow show trials of the 30s, the Ukrainian starvation and the signer of a non-aggression pact with Adolf Hitler. Stalin was every bit as evil as Hitler and if the bomb only served to deter him it would still be justified. Ask the Japanese if they would have rather had Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuked or not had them nuked and had the home islands divided in two as North Korea and South Korea or East and West Germany.
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Well actually HP/UX's volume manager isn't any different. You can create bootable mirrors but if one disk goes bad you have to reboot the system, get to the prompt, stop the boot and then tell the system to boot off of the other drive in the mirror.
If I lose a drive on a server then I don't want the box to boot to whatever drive is still available, I want to take a look at what is going on.
No, actually it doesn't. Plutonium is an alpha emitter. Before the core was placed in the Fat Man bomb tested at Alamogordo people were passing the plutonium core around. It was about the size of a grapefruit and warm to the touch. Plutonium-239 doesn't emit a lot of radioactivity, that's why it has a 250,000 year half life. Now, if you want something that emits high energy particles that will kill you grab a hold of a chunk of cobalt-60 or strontium-90. Plenty of nice high energy gamma there for you, which is why these isotopes have relatively short half lives. The longer the half life, the less dangerous the isotope.
The danger of plutonium lies in the fact that it is a chemically toxic heavy metal that, when absorbed into the human body, ends up in your skeleton or your liver. This is very bad because even though alpha particles won't penetrate your skin they will fuck up your bone marrow and destroy your liver, so you can end up with a variety of unpleasant cancers. And since your entire blood supply is filtered through your liver those cancers will metastasize.
But as far as the "one pound of plutonium would kill everyone on Earth" myth goes it's bullshit. We've already dumped hundreds of pounds of plutonium into the atmosphere through nuclear testing, and last time I checked we weren't all dead. Unless of course this is heaven, in which case I am pissed because I can't get decent bandwidth in my neighborhood and you would think that God would take care of that.
urbanlegends.com. We also have two full sized Saturn V stacks that were designed for the Apollo 18 and 19 missions, and which were allowed to rust away to uselessness that we could take apart to see how these were built.
As far as the brilliant minds who were involved in the design being dead, well, yeah, that's true. On the other hand it's a bit of a stretch to assume that no one as bright as Wernher Von Braun is around to take their place.
Now, the big issue is that the Saturn V tooling is lost. This is criminal, but the Saturn V would be a good design starting point. The US designed these things in the early 1960s and managed to land 12 men on the moon with them and do a bunch of other cool stuff. This is not a bad place to start from.
A successor to the Saturn V (the Saturn 6, the Neptune? The Uranus?) could start off from the Saturn V design and incorporate 40 years of improvements in materials, design and avionics. This would be much better than hacking away on the shuttle which was a horrid kludge from day 1 and which has never met any of its goals.
Along with the heavy booster replcement a space plane based on X-15 based technology should be built. We were going to build one of these 40 years ago, it was the unfortunately named "Dyna-Soar" project (who the fuck came up with that name anyways? What were they thinking?). Dyna-Soar got whacked by Bob McNamara so that we could spend more money on our Southeast Asian Weapons Testing Project, also known as the Vietnam War.
It is depressing to me that we were closer to space at the time of my birth 37 years ago in 1965 than we are today.
Yeah, and why is it that you Euro types are such fucking sheep when it comes to trusting the government? You would think that after having three of the worst ideas in government tried out in your neighborhood in the last century, I refer to nazism, fascism and communism, that you guys might be a little more skeptical. Instead you're hellbent on building an infrastructure that would have made the German SS or the East German Stasi spooge a huge load in their tight leather trousers.
Perhaps you guys need to learn from history, or look at the big picture, or something. Bad ideas such as this, if successfully implemented, spread. I'm sure that our racist AG, John Ashcroft, would love to have something like this. Not that it would be used to track down Al Qaeda cells or the Russian Mob, no, it would be used to harass people who disagree with the Bush regime.
This is the same David Brame who also is accused of raping a woman in 1988. Of course nothing happened to David Brame. And the Pierce County sheriff's department did nothing about Crystal Brame's complaints because her husband was the chief of police.
Perhaps we can make the object of the game to shoot Tacoma cops, who are corrupt and Pierce County Sheriff's deputies, who are stupid and corrupt. Oh, and you could add Pat Frantz to the list. He's the head of the police union in Tacoma who has been threatening journalists and blaming the media for David Brame's actions.
Yeah, I think that having a game where you waste these useless and corrupt cocksuckers would be a good thing, I think that having kids play this game would be even better.
Suitably updated where necessary and with an eye towards reusability if feasible. The Saturn V kicked ass and shows what a kludge the shuttle is, we're talking about a booster that could put a Mack truck in orbit around the moon. The Shuttle was a huge step backwards in every area except for reusability.
the "young Elvis" twenty dollar bill.
Or motorcyclists, or bicyclists. Jesus Christ, it's bad enough that most drivers are blithering fucking idiots who don't pay attention to what is going on around them, and as someone who got to spend two months in the hospital and have part of his leg amputated after his motorcycle was T-boned, I know of what I speak. But now we're going to have home entertainment systems in cars. Great, just fucking great, Mommy turns around to backhand little Dick and Jane who are fighting over the remote and while distracted plows into someone on a bike.
Fuck you. Put the crack pipe down and step away from it. Yeah sure, adding that extra 'e' and 's' to /usr to make it /users is going to make carpal tunnel that much worse. Oh, and what the fuck is it with /etc? Originally this stood for et cetera, and was used to store things that didn't fit into /usr /bin /lib et cetera. Now it's a fucking jumble of shit that varies from distribution to distribution. Startup scripts. Might be in /etc, might be in /sbin, might be somewhere else. Config files, might be in /etc, might be in /usr/lib/, might be somewhere else. If there is any part of the UNIX filesystem that deserves to die a painful and unlamented death it is /etc.
I think that most of the resistance to gobolinux has to do with the fact that it's different, not on any merits or faults of these differences. There are a whole bunch of UNIX geeks out there, especially in the university environment, who would lose their jobs if UNIX were easier to use and more intuitive. Just because you're semi-autistic and can manage to hack out UNIX commands and use the CLI doesn't mean that you're smart, or elite or anything else other than that you have a memory for arcane trivia.
the Microsoft Clippy, Linux Tux and FreeBSD daemon slash fiction. It seems reasonable enough to me.
With Jughead and Mr. Weatherbee? I used to think that people who wrote slash were pathetic losers, now I think that they're pathetic losers who should be killed and eaten by wild dogs, both to end their miserable lives and also to improve the aesthetic quotient of modern society.
Dino DeLaurentis is who Ed Wood would have been with a million dollar budget.
Actually if you made them infinitely lighter wouldn't they have zero rest mass? If this were the case you would have flying cars that travelled at the speed of light. I need one of these.
Since the anti-monitor destroyed it in Crisis on Infinite Earths #11 in November of 1985. The fact that people are still speculating about this shows that most physicists probably read such Marvel or Romance comics.
It's either the lesbian sex scenes featuring Carrie Anne Moss or the scene where the Wachowski brothers shoot Keanu Reeves in the head with a real gun to keep him from starring in another movie like Johnny Mnemonic.
will be elected in 2008 and that her first presidential act will be to order the permanent incarceration of all Republicans under the powers of the new PATRIOT act. It will be no less than these bastards deserve for passing legislation such as PATRIOT and for mindlessly backing Bush after 9/11.
Whuuuuuhhhh? "CARB emission rules killed the full size (sic) car". Where did this happen? Does the category of full sized cars not include the following:
- Mercedes Benz E series sedans
- Mercedes Benz S series sedans
- Mercury Grand Marquis
- Audi A-8 sedan
- Lincoln Town Car
- Ford Crown Victoria
- Acura RL
- BMW 5 series sedans
- BMW 7 series sedans
- Volvo S series sedans
The claim that the CAFE rules killed larger, safer cars is crap, there are plenty of large cars out there that will haul a family around as well as any SUV. Now I will admit that SUVs are convenient, for example they're a lot easier to get into if you've recently had part of your leg cut off (and I speak from experience here) but statistics show that SUVs are actually less safe than most cars. Why? Well firstly because many of the people who drive SUVs are idiots who think that four wheel drive means four wheel stop, wrong. But aside from the moron factor there is also the fact that most SUVs are nothing more than pickup trucks with a back seat and extended canopy, they are built like trucks and they handle like trucks, that is to say not very well.The reason the auto industry is pushing SUVs is because of the high profit margins these vehicles make, they are exempted from the CAFE requirements, which means that they don't have to have as much anti-pollution gear and they are cheap to build since they are nothing more than pickup trucks with leather seats. So the fiction, pushed by conservatives that people are buying SUVs because there are no safe automobiles out there is a lie, look at the Ford Explorer, that piece of crap was hardly an advertisement for automotive safety, how many people would want to ride in one of those with Firestone tires?
If you want to know how and why SUVs conquered the automotive market read Keith Bradsher's High and Mighty: SUVs--The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way but please stop spreading the lie that fuel economy standards killed larger cars.
OK, and someone tell me why you stupid bastards on dealmac would be interested. Let's see, you're interested because
a) You're stupid and should be sterilized before you can spread your inferior genes into our already stressed gene pool (assuming you ever breed that is)
b) You can't do basic math, i.e, you aren't smart enough to look around and see that you can get an eMac for $700.
c) You've got some sort of anti-establishment bug up your ass and it adds meaning to your pathetic life to "stick it to the man" by purchasing one of these POS.
d) You need another box to rest empty bags of Cheetos and bottles of Mountain Dew on in your parent's basement.
e) You post on slashdot under Anonymous Coward because they don't have an "ignorant dipshit" ID for anonymous postings.
this hacked together POS FrankenMac when I can go to outpost.com and purchase a refurbished eMac for $700. Oh, and for an extra $150 I can get AppleCare.
It has something to do with my desire to mate with members of the opposite sex.
Cool. I'll have to try that. The problem is which gun to choose. I could use the .44 revolver or carbine, the .308 or my 10mm. At my old job we used to take the drives apart, cut the platters into four pieces with a bandsaw and then heat them until they were red hot with a blow torch, shooting them would have been much more fun.
Assume that we have cheap solar cells that are 20 percent efficient. Assume that if we place these in fixed arrays with no pointing mechanisms in a southern area that we can get 6 hours of insolation a day, so we get the equivalent of 25 percent efficiency of each cell. The solar constant is approximately 1kW/m^2. With an efficiency of 5 percent we need 20 square meters to generate 1 kW of electricity. Take 10,000 km^2 of desert, we have plenty of the stuff down in the southwest, cover it with solar cells. The solar cells generate 50 megawatts per square kilometer. We have just covered 10,000 square kilometers with solar cells so we are generating 500,000 megawatts of electricity which is the equivalent of 250 large nuclear plants. Repeat as necessary. Use gas turbines or hydro electric or hydrogen storage to produce energy at night or on cloudy days.
If solar cells get cheap enough you just stick the damned things everywhere, on roofs, on the south sides of buildings, anywhere where you get a lot of sunlight. All we have to do is make cheap solar cells, and I would be willing to bet that we could probably get there if we took the $100 billion that is going to be used for the war in Iraq and dumped it into researching alternate sources of energy including efficient production of solar cells.
This is a noisome load of shit. Oregon does not have a sales tax, however Oregon does have a personal income tax, property taxes and gasoline taxes. As someone who lives in Washington and drives down to Oregon fairly frequently I'd have to say that Oregon's roads aren't any worse than Washington state's roads IMHO.
Washington state doesn't have an income tax but does have a sales tax. Now, the interesting thing that is going on in both states is that both governments are running serious deficits. In Washington state the politicians and Bill Gates daddy want to impose an income tax to make up for the deficit, in Oregon the politicians want to impose a sales tax. Of course in both states the concept of looking at what the government does and perhaps reducing its scope is completely off the table.
At the moment Oregon is actually worse off fiscally than Washington state, this is amusing because for years and years the big government types who want to impose an income tax to fund all of their neato programs have been telling us in Washington that an income tax is more resistant to economic downturns than is a sales tax, of course Oregon is proving that this theory is a load of crap. The fact that politicians in both states went on huge spending sprees in the late 90's and have, at least in Washington, destroyed their credibility by using tax dollars to build new stadiums for Microsoft millionaires and are trying to build a useless light rail system, has only reduced the chances that the government in either state is going to get more money. At this point taxpayers in both states feel as if giving more money to their state governments is about as smart as calling their brokers and telling them to buy WorldCom and Enron.
anything like double special probation?
In his article Thank God for the Atom Bomb Paul Fussell points out that casualties in the Pacific theatre were around 7,000 a day. Had the war lasted for one month beyond the August 16th surrender of Japan that is 210,000 casualties, had it gone into October, lasting two months, 420,000 casualties. Most of these casualties would not have been the Harvard classmates of Nitze or even the University of California classmates of Galbraith, rather they would have been working class Americans serving in the armed forces.
Harry S. Truman, who spent World War I in in France as a captain of artillery understood how brutal war was in a way that Galbraith, Nitze, Alperowitz and others who never served never could. Truman made a decision to end a brutal and bloody war on the best terms for the United States, he made the decision as Commander in Chief that the lives of American and Allied soldiers, marines, sailors and airmen were more important than those of Japanese civilians who had spent the last fourteen years since the invasion of Manchuria supporting a war that was designed to build an Asian empire for Japan.
After the war the Japanese managed to play the victim card for all that it was worth. Atrocities such as the Rape of Nanking or the biological experiments that the Japanese carried out against the Chinese were downplayed or covered up. Since most of Japan's atrocities took place in China, which even then was in the process of being taken over by the Communist Chinese, there was no way for anyone to find out exactly how bad the Japanese were. Only now, with revelations about Korean women being kidnapped for Japanese brothels and excellent historical studies such as Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking are we finding out how bad Japan was.
As for the argument that the United States dropped the bomb to show the Soviets what we could do, if it is true, so what. Remember if you will that the Soviet dictator at the time was none other than Josef Stalin, the architect of the Moscow show trials of the 30s, the Ukrainian starvation and the signer of a non-aggression pact with Adolf Hitler. Stalin was every bit as evil as Hitler and if the bomb only served to deter him it would still be justified. Ask the Japanese if they would have rather had Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuked or not had them nuked and had the home islands divided in two as North Korea and South Korea or East and West Germany.