Signed by George W. Bush as owner of the Texas Rangers, so when they were grilling some baseball executive (I forget who) yesterday asking him why he didn't intercede with Canseco's steroid use I almost puked.
They asked for a "zero tolerance" policy for baseball because steroids are illegal, but they change the House ethics rules so DeLay can stay in power even 'though he's going to be indicted in Texas, and there's certainly now "one strike" rule for getting kicked out of the government for breaking the law.
-dameron
Bush, Steroids and smokescreens
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Bush mentioned baseball and steroids in his State of the Union a couple of years ago. At the time I thought "Huh, thats seems incongruous." but now I'm starting to see why he did it.
This baseball steroid issue is a great smokescreen to distract the media from several much more important stories:
1) Jeff Gannon - gay prostitute/republican media plant gains access to Whitehouse without security clearance, the second gay hooker security controversy in as many Bush administrations
2) Propaganda - Whitehouse pre-packaging new stories for anonymous airing, secretly hiring pundits like Armstrong Williams to advocate policy, coordinating political coverage with Roger Ailes at Fox news
3) Iraqi Corruption - Who walked off with $9,000,000,000 in cash?
4) Political Appointments - Karen Hughes (no experience) at State, Bolton to the U.N., Wolfowitz to the Wold Bank
The whole world is talking about steroids in baseball and it's hardly an important issue. That W. staked out this political cover years ago is a testament to Karl Rove's genius.
So that's what those 0k file size mp3s on the p2p networks are.
-dameron
Temple of Excremental Evil.
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I've enjoyed several Troika games and plan on playing Vampire soon, but the incredibly unfinished Temple of Elemental Evil was a huge black mark on their reputation. Entire levels were only partially furnished. There were parts where you could wander for half an hour opening empty chests in unfurnished empty rooms.
he was webmaster for the Clinton Whitehouse *and* involved in a controversy then. How did she get that job with the Democrats and then survive the Republican takeover of the executive branch?
Easy, she's the only one with the password. They couldn't fire her.
Richard Clarke was main counterterrorism expert in the U.S. government for 4 presidents. One of the criticisms, perhaps justifiable, of Clarke pre-9/11 is that he was too obsessed with cyber terrorism and computer security.
Where "collected" are files copied to the local machine through a series of smb mounts and copied across the network as well as important files on the local system that need backup. And "/collected" and "/hd2" are on different drives.
So every morning I get dated dvd of all my important files and I have them collected on two additional hard drives.
The checks-balances scenario is this: CIA decides to fake it.
I think the Bush administration considers (or considered) much of the intelligence community to be too disloyal to carry out such a smoking gun fraud, and I don't think the CIA has any great affection for the NeoCons.
Of course with his purges Bush will eventually reshape that organization. The intelligence community needs to be "reality based" and has to live in this world for their own safety. The NeoCons don't. It's be interesting to see how that all shakes out.
This is very tangential to the subject, but I'll ask anyway. America fought a two-fronted war very successfully in WWII. How come the "two-fronted war" is so obviously dumb when Germany did it? I think it's as much 20/20 hindsight as anything else.
I'd imagine the lag on these would still be pretty bad, maybe not the full 1000-1800ms of lag I've heard about satellite access, but having 40km added to your round trip time can't help.
Anyone have any stats on latency with these kinds of networks?
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Signed by George W. Bush as owner of the Texas Rangers, so when they were grilling some baseball executive (I forget who) yesterday asking him why he didn't intercede with Canseco's steroid use I almost puked.
They asked for a "zero tolerance" policy for baseball because steroids are illegal, but they change the House ethics rules so DeLay can stay in power even 'though he's going to be indicted in Texas, and there's certainly now "one strike" rule for getting kicked out of the government for breaking the law.
-dameron
Bush mentioned baseball and steroids in his State of the Union a couple of years ago. At the time I thought "Huh, thats seems incongruous." but now I'm starting to see why he did it.
This baseball steroid issue is a great smokescreen to distract the media from several much more important stories:
1) Jeff Gannon - gay prostitute/republican media plant gains access to Whitehouse without security clearance, the second gay hooker security controversy in as many Bush administrations
2) Propaganda - Whitehouse pre-packaging new stories for anonymous airing, secretly hiring pundits like Armstrong Williams to advocate policy, coordinating political coverage with Roger Ailes at Fox news
3) Iraqi Corruption - Who walked off with $9,000,000,000 in cash?
4) Political Appointments - Karen Hughes (no experience) at State, Bolton to the U.N., Wolfowitz to the Wold Bank
The whole world is talking about steroids in baseball and it's hardly an important issue. That W. staked out this political cover years ago is a testament to Karl Rove's genius.
evil bastard,
-dameron
So that's what those 0k file size mp3s on the p2p networks are.
-dameron
I've enjoyed several Troika games and plan on playing Vampire soon, but the incredibly unfinished Temple of Elemental Evil was a huge black mark on their reputation. Entire levels were only partially furnished. There were parts where you could wander for half an hour opening empty chests in unfurnished empty rooms.
I wish them the best 'though. Good luck guys.
-dameron
Easy, she's the only one with the password. They couldn't fire her.
-dameron
several times the size of a Mac Mini, the SN25P is an entirely different breed of small form factor system
Translation:
"I know she's kinda weird, into Wicca and generates a lot of heat, but she's cute in the face, so I'll compare her to Keira Knightly anyway."
-dameron
Richard Clarke was main counterterrorism expert in the U.S. government for 4 presidents. One of the criticisms, perhaps justifiable, of Clarke pre-9/11 is that he was too obsessed with cyber terrorism and computer security.
I think he knows what he's talking about.
-dameron
This is a total stab in the dark but I'm guessing they're really going to be pushing their OpenExchange solution instead.
-dameron
but the summary has no place on slashdot.
Actually it's fucking shameful. If I wanted to go to fark I'd type it into the URL (Uniform Resource Locator).
-dameron
It seems their server is running tpc via AppleTalk. Long live PhoneNet!
-dameron
I know NASA used some pretty primitive technology to get to the moon, but c'mon, Quicktime?
You think someone with deep pockets would have spotted them a copy of Windows Media encoder or something.
No wonder the footage is so bad and the audio so full of pops and hisses.
-dameorn
-dameron
you can't return it if it's out of the shrinkwrap.
Duh.
-dameron
I'm sure there are better ways, but here's a paraphrase of my backup.sh. Whole thing took about 25 minutes with testing.
/hd2/backups.zip /collected /hd2/backups.zip /hd2/iso /hd2/iso/date* /hd2/image_$today /hd2/iso /hd2/image_$today
today=$(date +%F)
zip -r -u
cp -v -f -u
rm -r -f
mkisofs -r -J -o
cdrecord -v -speed=16 dev=0,0,0 -data
eject cdrom1
Where "collected" are files copied to the local machine through a series of smb mounts and copied across the network as well as important files on the local system that need backup. And "/collected" and "/hd2" are on different drives.
So every morning I get dated dvd of all my important files and I have them collected on two additional hard drives.
-dameron
I think the Bush administration considers (or considered) much of the intelligence community to be too disloyal to carry out such a smoking gun fraud, and I don't think the CIA has any great affection for the NeoCons.
Of course with his purges Bush will eventually reshape that organization. The intelligence community needs to be "reality based" and has to live in this world for their own safety. The NeoCons don't. It's be interesting to see how that all shakes out.
-dameron
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It'll be an even better domain controller, and if a user comes in with an exploited laptop you can be safe knowing that your PDC isn't hosed by it.
I used the line:
You can avoid Active Directory.
That worked.
-dameron
I can see this being an issue with VOIP.
-dameron
from DailyHaiku
Hey, look over there!
Weapons of mass destruction!
Dude, those are just goats.
-dameron
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Two reasons:
1) Atlantic
2) Pacific
-dameron
Back when it was called Tribes or something... :)
-dameron
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I'd imagine the lag on these would still be pretty bad, maybe not the full 1000-1800ms of lag I've heard about satellite access, but having 40km added to your round trip time can't help.
Anyone have any stats on latency with these kinds of networks?
-dameron
is how much less likely than finding out about these "easter eggs" via web search...
Hrmm....
I suppose a slashdot submission is in order...
-dameron
LOL.
Someone thought: "Damn, Eric Cartman's threatening to go over and have unprotected sex with people's mothers, better mod that flamebait."
Kudos to whoever did that, sometimes the moderation on slashdot is more humorous that the posts.
-dameron
Also, book collecting.
-dameron