Yeah...you missed the non-partisan view of the logic stream. Allow me to show how things played out without the republican or democrat filters. Bush looked at Solyndra and tried to push to invest in it...but the administration ran out of time during a political time sink. Obama's administration took over and continued the efforts of the previous administration to invest. So basically you have the fact that the idea was started by one round of idiots and pushed forward (or at the very least, not stopped) by the next round of idiots and through both rounds of idiots the American people got shafted. Same story as what always happens in politics...with the supporters of idiot circle A blaming idiot circle B for the issue, and idiot circle B supporters blaming idiot circle A...perpetuating the huge ass political circle jerk of finding someone to blame for a problem instead of working on actual solutions and thus letting things continue to spiral out of anyone's control all the while blaming the other guy for not taking responsibility of the control stick and letting the flat spin continue.
Round and Round she goes, where she stops nobody knows. So goes American Roulette
Trying to assert that the internet is like "a series of UPS trucks", as you do, is not in any way an apt analogy, and you know it (or should, at any rate, if you're hanging out on a site like Slashdot).
Actually, that is EXACTLY what the internet is like. And routers are like traffic lights and route signs, switches and hubs are like stop signs, yield signs and round-a-bouts. With both infrastructures the method of transport does not care one bit about what company owns the transporter despite your claims to the contrary. The only way the two infrastructures are different (aside from the obvious of physical cars on asphalt vs. electrical/light impulses over cable) is that Streets, Roadways, Highways, and Interstates are all public infrastructure (with the exception of privately maintained roadways that are few and far between by comparison) while America generally made the piss poor decisions to 1) allow our information infrastructure to be laid out by private carriers that were also our primary content providers at the time, 2) make deals that ensured that a single private carrier per medium type had domain over an area's network and 3) trust these carriers to provide adequate infrastructure at competitive rates while disregarding the fact that these were the same people providing the content and that our line provider and content provider are one and the same.
Both modes of infrastructure have another thing in common: traffic wear. The way municipalities deal with heavy traffic management is introducing more control points into a route (more routers), widening the roadways to accommodate increased traffic flow (more bandwidth), create alternate routes (routing/switching), create new on-ramps to the Interstate (route to a higher tier), and adjust speed limits (throttling). All the same methods that an ISP has to manage their internet traffic.
To put this into perspective of what the ISPs are trying to pull lets look at it this way. Say that instead of municipalities, counties, and states owning the roadways we had Comcast, Cox, and TWC owning the roadways. They all charge people $50 a month for 200 miles worth of 25 mph roadway access with higher prices allowing for more miles and higher speed roadways (ie 450 miles and access to roadways with speed limits of 45 mph or less). These companies also make agreements with courier services to give them a fast lane on their roadway; say Comcast makes an agreement with DHL that allows DHL to travel in a 55 mph lane on a normally 25 mph roadway with no bandwidth restriction to any house on its roadway. All other couriers have to use the regular 25 mph roadway with the 200 mile limit per vehicle... unless they pay a premium to Comcast for better access. Now, I have issues with DHL because there's a funky internal routing loop that they use that adds a week to their package delivery even using the fast lanes, and thus much prefer FedEx...but in this case, since Comcast made an exclusive deal with DHL and won't allow any other courier on the fast lane or increase their bandwidth limits per vehicle, I wind up having to wait a week and a half for the package through FedEx. So now...do I go for artificially faster service through DHL with a horrible customer service system or wait longer for the package but deal with an awesome customer service system. I can and prefer to deal with the latter, but in this day and age...who else would? DHL now has an unfair advantage and FedEx can't be as competitive. This is what we have to look forward to on our internet if we let private companies run it. I won't even get into the nightmare that emergency services could become.
For one with such a low ID you should remember the days of dial-up. Yes it wasn't perfect since we were essentially having to pay twice for Internet service: Once for the line use and once for the actual ISP, but there was actual competition between the ISPs of the time. When I lived in a metropolitan area, there were
I am 35 and completely agree with your assessment. I regularly interact with my wife's cousin's fiancee who is in her early 20's and I have to say that I am completely baffled by her naivete and gullibility. I look back to my own time at that age and I just can't understand it. I don't remember 20 somethings of the late 90's and early 2k's as being nearly as damaged as she, her friends, and others that I've seen seem to be, and be able to make it through life.
Let me clarify that a bit. Yes, I've seen plenty of ditzes back then, but they never really made anything of themselves and nor were they expected to. They usually wound up getting out of high school and becoming the trophy wife riding on the curtails of a successful arm to hang from... and that was if they looked decent. God help them if they didn't fit the mold of what society deemed even mildly attractive. The majority of women who did have the intelligence would go on to college and invest in learning something that would give them a good career that they could live off of without having to rely on a man to keep them afloat.
Fast forward to the girls I see today and there are few that live up to the expectations of what I saw from my time...and they are usually in school for Law or on course for a Doctorate. It's a far greater majority that I see that are more like the Trophy wife bound type of my day in mentality...but without fitting into the what was then required mold of attractiveness. This is the group that I see going for nursing and advanced nursing degrees and other career paths that the intelligent ones were going for in my day. I keep seeing this and I try to relate it. Would we have done the same stupid mistake these girls are repeatedly making without learning? without thinking? Was it as difficult for us to keep out of trouble as it seems to be for these girls? Why did we have the concept of spend for living first, then for your wants...but the average girl I see this day don't seem to have this basic concept? I'm not saying we always made the perfect decision, but it just seems that life was a whole lot easier for us than it is for the current generation to live day to day, and I just can't understand why.
Is it "No child left behind" that we have to thank for this because that's the generation we're starting to see hit their 20's now. I observe this generation coming into their own, both in the specific anecdotes that are part of my day to day interactions as well general observations of behaviors of people from all walks of life while I'm out and about and traveling and I can't help but wonder; In leaving no child left behind and bringing everyone down to the same level of mediocrity, have we left our entire nation behind?
Go through the scripts you need and delete the 'ba' if it shebangs #!/bin/bash. Delete the scripts you don't need. Your problem is solved providing that your shell isn't set to bash. With software freedom comes software responsibility. If you want to run an operating system where you don't have a support contract for someone else to fix things for you, you need to learn to fix things yourself. It's like with cars: Cars give you freedom, but you're responsible for their upkeep and responsible operation to ensure they keep giving you that freedom.
bash: warning: x: ignoring function definition attempt
bash: error importing function definition for `x' This is a test
or just
This is a test
then your server is patched successfully. Whether or not the error message displays depends on bash configuration. I have three CentOS 6.5 servers that I manage in my house and one in the cloud. On the 3 64-bit machines which were original installs it generates the error message after patching. On the 1 32-bit machine which was upgraded from a previous version of CentOS I just get the "This is a test" message with no error after patching.
The idjit part of the statement is running CGI scripting on an exposed web server. It was also done mostly tongue in cheek, hence the deliberate misspelling of idiot. The reason for this statement is that it can be easily inferred that since he's (presuming male from the 'Lord' in his handle) directly able to administer a router, either this server is production for a business, or he's at home.
If it's the former, all sympathy goes out the window as well as the tongue in cheek intent since he's getting paid to administer these systems and keep them secure; which also means that he should know how to patch bash even if his distro provider hasn't put the patch in their upstream. A production server is that important.
On the other hand, if it's the latter, a greater deal of leeway can be given, and we can safely assume he's a hobbyist. In this case, it would be prudent for him to turn this into a learning situation. First, yes, take down port 80. Second, if your distro doesn't have the patch in the upstream yet, this would be a good opportunity to learn how to patch by hand. The tarball can be downloaded from the gnu.org site (not giving a direct link since the point of a hobbyist server is to perform your own research). Read the documentation to learn how to manually install the patch. Once your system is patched and you pass the test, you can open up port 80 again. Finally, you'll want to learn other options to processing your forms or dynamic pages than relying on CGI scripting. It's an old methodology that leaves your machine open to a host of problems, as is evident by this shellshock vulnerability.
On a final note: I guess I'm just old now, but way back when I was using Redhat 5, whenever I needed to patch something on my box that I'd dial in on I wouldn't normally wait on the Distro's upstream, but instead install the source project myself. Not only did this keep my systems current, but it also helped me with my understanding of that system and every way that it operated. There's just a whole lot of understanding that seems to get lost when you're not dealing with levels low enough.
I've done my stint as a "Staffing Coordinator" for a temp agency, and I learned the most about how to apply for jobs at that position. What mythosaz said is absolutely correct. For the longest time I was doing it wrong. Worked in a Toy Store and as a data entry clerk for a medical office while I was going for my computer science degree before I transitioned over to a Networking Specialist degree and got a job in a computer shop. I made the mistake of focusing mostly on my employment in my resume and not enough on what I actually knew.
This is the mistake most people make. So many applications came across my desk where the resume had the same employment history information as the application, with possibly a couple more bullet points for additional irrelevant details, and that was it. When you fill out your application for what you hope will be your career, you need to bring three things:
1) A cover letter custom written for the company and position you're applying for that, if possible, is addressed to a specific person such as a department director, manager, or someone else specific to the position you're trying for. NOT THE HIRING MANAGER or anyone else in HR, unless you're going for an HR position! Yes this person may never get it or read it until the interview, but this shows that you've done your research into the company and know who you will ultimately be answering to.
2) Your resume focusing primarily and specifically on your skills of what you know how to work with; let your application handle your work history and general duties. Again, tailor this to the position you're applying for. If you know your way around a Mainframe and the job you're applying for is a Mainframe Programmer, you better make sure that EVERYTHING you know about Mainframe work is in that resume.
3) A list of contact information for all people that have agreed to be your reference. If you've done independent computer work, make sure the clients who have sung your praises to your face are on this list. Also, if anyone provided you with letters of reference or recommendation, you will want to turn that in as part of your application bundle.
Finally, when you do get called for an interview or interview series make sure you have several copies of each item above with you that you can hand out to everyone who will be conducting the interview. My last interview series I went through, I kept 10 copies of each. I wound up with one to spare after everything was done.
Try these techniques and at the very least you should get more interest and call backs. If you go into the interview with everything prepared and in order with confidence in your posture and tone, not only will you be getting the interest, but it will also help improve your standing in the salary negotiations.
Video showing various armaments being used on an F-22. The bombs are dropped from the missile bay closer to the end of the vid. A-G was always an armament option on the plane and it was touted by Lockheed from the very beginning as a multiple role fighter/bomber.
I've had both the Maraska and Jelinek brands (only two I've been able to find anywhere in GA, and I grew up on Maraska in CT) and I've found that the Maraska tends to go down a bit smoother while leaving the internal temp feeling like you're parked next to a nuke reactor.
Ok... Just for Hypothetical plausibility: They don't. The photons restrained by force fields create the matter from "nothing". Unrestrained photons that bounce off the restrained ones are what make it to someone's eye to give the person the vision of the environment simulated around them. Again, not saying this is the official explanation... just a plausible one.
You may have a BS in Comp Sci, but I'll tell you one thing: I'd really hate having to read your Implementation Docs or code comments if they look anything like the post you just made.
Your post also brings into question exactly how good of a programmer you really are as well. You see, English, much like programming, has a structure and a syntax. While you may have syntax, there is no structure. You may not have to compete for a job with someone who doesn't have a BS in CS, but you will most certainly have your cover letter compared to another person with a BS in CS who actually puts structure into his correspondence.
There was a social experiment done by GSU a while back that went on youtube, A Meditation on the Speed Limit, that did a rolling roadblock through Atlanta traffic during rush hour and recorded it. If you can get past the BS commentary from the students you can see that it actually created a dangerous situation where traffic volume increased exponentially for several miles behind the block. More cars in close proximity traveling the speed limit is a much higher danger than breaking the speed limit in a lower density situation, particularly when you have human emotions heavily involved. Not to mention said roadblocks are highly illegal, especially now that Georgia passed the "slowpoke law" that will slap $1K fines for obstructing the left hand lane.
Boot into your Linux Partition, of course. Wait... you mean to tell me that you're cruising/. and don't dual boot or at least have a LiveCD rolling around? What kind of tech are you into again?
Shortly after I started riding about 3 years ago, one of the members of my Rider Group (national group so while I've chatted with him online, we hadn't had the opportunity to meet yet) went over the bars in a wreck while wearing a 3/4 helmet; slamming face first into the pavement. I've seen pictures of his face since the wreck. I wish I hadn't. Especially not right after the dinner I had that night. I was glad, and still am glad, I had decided to go with the full face helmet despite the Georgia heat and humidity. I'm on my second helmet after my first developed a crack in the foam. The only downside that I'm trying to come up with a solution for is increasing the airflow in the helmet while I'm sitting behind the windshield of my full dresser (Yamaha Venture Royale). There's the vented windshield option, but I'm thinking of something that increases the effectiveness of the fairing vents as they are.
A well-built car can last 20+ years at the cost of ~$10-20K (maintenance and fuel included, your mileage may vary) and facilitates a larger area with which to look and keep employment, with the option of displaying a sense of style for paying a bit more. In other words, a car can actually reinforce a higher standard of living and often is an optional expense. A long term prescription is often a matter of life and death that is extorted into a forced money sink that you must either pay or die that also brings with it a stigma that there is something quite literally wrong with you...that can also drain your bank of about $10-20K+ over the same 20 year period.
So why do the paperback versions of a $15 hardback book generally cost $7 - $8? Paperbacks as well as Hardbacks still need all of the above support personnel you speak of. At $9.99 Amazon is STILL coming in above the paperback price of most books.
I'm sorry, but the arguments that Scalzi puts forth above are absolute shit, and you have the hint of schill about you. There is no reason that the electric format should cost anywhere near the cost of a hardback. Hell, IMHO the electronic format should really be below the paperback price because of the lack of dead leaf being used for its production... but I can understand the industry's desire to hold on to their model and I feel, much as Amazon seems to, that $10 is a reasonable compromise.
If they REALLY want to milk the consumer they should use a similar model for E-books that they use for paperbacks; as in, release the first edition hardback at $15, wait a month for sales to start becoming stale, then release the paperback and E-book at the same time at the reduced rate.
Hell, at the retail outlet I used to work at, manager made a blanket policy that if the POS returned a request for an Auth code we just outright declined the transaction, handed the customer an Experian business card and asked if they had another form of payment. If the customer asked if he could call his bank to get an Auth code (Red Flag) we would say that our business system did not allow for manual authorizations (which was true. The system the manager put in place didn't allow for ManAuths, even if the POS did).
Ok, insomuch as that, yes, I was wrong and they can extend into the combustion chamber. They still, however, do not provide spark for ignition and other methods can be used to preheat the engine which was the main point.
The glow plug is not even close to similar to a spark plug as it does not go inside the compression chamber and it is not absolutely required for the facilitation of ignition; even on a stone cold engine in Canada in the depths of winter (provided there's at least a block warmer of some kind). It's a wire that preheats the fuel in the injector to ensure that it's of a temperature that when it is injected into the cylinder that the pressure and heat within the compression chamber will cause the ignition. Once an engine is to operating temp, the glow plug isn't needed any longer as the engine itself is generating the heat necessary. Before glow plugs, engines were warmed up by building a fire underneath them to bake them to a point where the internal temperature would be at a level to self ignite. The only thing glow plugs did was to give the process more efficiency and even modern cars with Diesel engines can still be warmed up by baking... provided their bodies are designed to allow for the open flame underneath them without burning parts critical to the other operations of the vehicle.
You haven't worked with Diesel, have you? You know, the engines where ignition is facilitated solely by compression instead of compression and a spark plug? You know... like this?
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Yeah...you missed the non-partisan view of the logic stream. Allow me to show how things played out without the republican or democrat filters. Bush looked at Solyndra and tried to push to invest in it...but the administration ran out of time during a political time sink. Obama's administration took over and continued the efforts of the previous administration to invest. So basically you have the fact that the idea was started by one round of idiots and pushed forward (or at the very least, not stopped) by the next round of idiots and through both rounds of idiots the American people got shafted. Same story as what always happens in politics...with the supporters of idiot circle A blaming idiot circle B for the issue, and idiot circle B supporters blaming idiot circle A...perpetuating the huge ass political circle jerk of finding someone to blame for a problem instead of working on actual solutions and thus letting things continue to spiral out of anyone's control all the while blaming the other guy for not taking responsibility of the control stick and letting the flat spin continue.
Round and Round she goes, where she stops nobody knows. So goes American Roulette
Trying to assert that the internet is like "a series of UPS trucks", as you do, is not in any way an apt analogy, and you know it (or should, at any rate, if you're hanging out on a site like Slashdot).
Actually, that is EXACTLY what the internet is like. And routers are like traffic lights and route signs, switches and hubs are like stop signs, yield signs and round-a-bouts. With both infrastructures the method of transport does not care one bit about what company owns the transporter despite your claims to the contrary. The only way the two infrastructures are different (aside from the obvious of physical cars on asphalt vs. electrical/light impulses over cable) is that Streets, Roadways, Highways, and Interstates are all public infrastructure (with the exception of privately maintained roadways that are few and far between by comparison) while America generally made the piss poor decisions to 1) allow our information infrastructure to be laid out by private carriers that were also our primary content providers at the time, 2) make deals that ensured that a single private carrier per medium type had domain over an area's network and 3) trust these carriers to provide adequate infrastructure at competitive rates while disregarding the fact that these were the same people providing the content and that our line provider and content provider are one and the same.
Both modes of infrastructure have another thing in common: traffic wear. The way municipalities deal with heavy traffic management is introducing more control points into a route (more routers), widening the roadways to accommodate increased traffic flow (more bandwidth), create alternate routes (routing/switching), create new on-ramps to the Interstate (route to a higher tier), and adjust speed limits (throttling). All the same methods that an ISP has to manage their internet traffic.
To put this into perspective of what the ISPs are trying to pull lets look at it this way. Say that instead of municipalities, counties, and states owning the roadways we had Comcast, Cox, and TWC owning the roadways. They all charge people $50 a month for 200 miles worth of 25 mph roadway access with higher prices allowing for more miles and higher speed roadways (ie 450 miles and access to roadways with speed limits of 45 mph or less). These companies also make agreements with courier services to give them a fast lane on their roadway; say Comcast makes an agreement with DHL that allows DHL to travel in a 55 mph lane on a normally 25 mph roadway with no bandwidth restriction to any house on its roadway. All other couriers have to use the regular 25 mph roadway with the 200 mile limit per vehicle... unless they pay a premium to Comcast for better access. Now, I have issues with DHL because there's a funky internal routing loop that they use that adds a week to their package delivery even using the fast lanes, and thus much prefer FedEx...but in this case, since Comcast made an exclusive deal with DHL and won't allow any other courier on the fast lane or increase their bandwidth limits per vehicle, I wind up having to wait a week and a half for the package through FedEx. So now...do I go for artificially faster service through DHL with a horrible customer service system or wait longer for the package but deal with an awesome customer service system. I can and prefer to deal with the latter, but in this day and age...who else would? DHL now has an unfair advantage and FedEx can't be as competitive. This is what we have to look forward to on our internet if we let private companies run it. I won't even get into the nightmare that emergency services could become.
For one with such a low ID you should remember the days of dial-up. Yes it wasn't perfect since we were essentially having to pay twice for Internet service: Once for the line use and once for the actual ISP, but there was actual competition between the ISPs of the time. When I lived in a metropolitan area, there were
I am 35 and completely agree with your assessment. I regularly interact with my wife's cousin's fiancee who is in her early 20's and I have to say that I am completely baffled by her naivete and gullibility. I look back to my own time at that age and I just can't understand it. I don't remember 20 somethings of the late 90's and early 2k's as being nearly as damaged as she, her friends, and others that I've seen seem to be, and be able to make it through life.
Let me clarify that a bit. Yes, I've seen plenty of ditzes back then, but they never really made anything of themselves and nor were they expected to. They usually wound up getting out of high school and becoming the trophy wife riding on the curtails of a successful arm to hang from... and that was if they looked decent. God help them if they didn't fit the mold of what society deemed even mildly attractive. The majority of women who did have the intelligence would go on to college and invest in learning something that would give them a good career that they could live off of without having to rely on a man to keep them afloat.
Fast forward to the girls I see today and there are few that live up to the expectations of what I saw from my time...and they are usually in school for Law or on course for a Doctorate. It's a far greater majority that I see that are more like the Trophy wife bound type of my day in mentality...but without fitting into the what was then required mold of attractiveness. This is the group that I see going for nursing and advanced nursing degrees and other career paths that the intelligent ones were going for in my day. I keep seeing this and I try to relate it. Would we have done the same stupid mistake these girls are repeatedly making without learning? without thinking? Was it as difficult for us to keep out of trouble as it seems to be for these girls? Why did we have the concept of spend for living first, then for your wants...but the average girl I see this day don't seem to have this basic concept? I'm not saying we always made the perfect decision, but it just seems that life was a whole lot easier for us than it is for the current generation to live day to day, and I just can't understand why.
Is it "No child left behind" that we have to thank for this because that's the generation we're starting to see hit their 20's now. I observe this generation coming into their own, both in the specific anecdotes that are part of my day to day interactions as well general observations of behaviors of people from all walks of life while I'm out and about and traveling and I can't help but wonder; In leaving no child left behind and bringing everyone down to the same level of mediocrity, have we left our entire nation behind?
Go through the scripts you need and delete the 'ba' if it shebangs #!/bin/bash. Delete the scripts you don't need. Your problem is solved providing that your shell isn't set to bash. With software freedom comes software responsibility. If you want to run an operating system where you don't have a support contract for someone else to fix things for you, you need to learn to fix things yourself. It's like with cars: Cars give you freedom, but you're responsible for their upkeep and responsible operation to ensure they keep giving you that freedom.
or just
then your server is patched successfully. Whether or not the error message displays depends on bash configuration. I have three CentOS 6.5 servers that I manage in my house and one in the cloud. On the 3 64-bit machines which were original installs it generates the error message after patching. On the 1 32-bit machine which was upgraded from a previous version of CentOS I just get the "This is a test" message with no error after patching.
The idjit part of the statement is running CGI scripting on an exposed web server. It was also done mostly tongue in cheek, hence the deliberate misspelling of idiot. The reason for this statement is that it can be easily inferred that since he's (presuming male from the 'Lord' in his handle) directly able to administer a router, either this server is production for a business, or he's at home.
If it's the former, all sympathy goes out the window as well as the tongue in cheek intent since he's getting paid to administer these systems and keep them secure; which also means that he should know how to patch bash even if his distro provider hasn't put the patch in their upstream. A production server is that important.
On the other hand, if it's the latter, a greater deal of leeway can be given, and we can safely assume he's a hobbyist. In this case, it would be prudent for him to turn this into a learning situation. First, yes, take down port 80. Second, if your distro doesn't have the patch in the upstream yet, this would be a good opportunity to learn how to patch by hand. The tarball can be downloaded from the gnu.org site (not giving a direct link since the point of a hobbyist server is to perform your own research). Read the documentation to learn how to manually install the patch. Once your system is patched and you pass the test, you can open up port 80 again. Finally, you'll want to learn other options to processing your forms or dynamic pages than relying on CGI scripting. It's an old methodology that leaves your machine open to a host of problems, as is evident by this shellshock vulnerability.
On a final note: I guess I'm just old now, but way back when I was using Redhat 5, whenever I needed to patch something on my box that I'd dial in on I wouldn't normally wait on the Distro's upstream, but instead install the source project myself. Not only did this keep my systems current, but it also helped me with my understanding of that system and every way that it operated. There's just a whole lot of understanding that seems to get lost when you're not dealing with levels low enough.
*blink*
Um...please tell me this is Poe's law at work and you're not a complete idjit [sic].
I've done my stint as a "Staffing Coordinator" for a temp agency, and I learned the most about how to apply for jobs at that position. What mythosaz said is absolutely correct. For the longest time I was doing it wrong. Worked in a Toy Store and as a data entry clerk for a medical office while I was going for my computer science degree before I transitioned over to a Networking Specialist degree and got a job in a computer shop. I made the mistake of focusing mostly on my employment in my resume and not enough on what I actually knew.
This is the mistake most people make. So many applications came across my desk where the resume had the same employment history information as the application, with possibly a couple more bullet points for additional irrelevant details, and that was it. When you fill out your application for what you hope will be your career, you need to bring three things:
Finally, when you do get called for an interview or interview series make sure you have several copies of each item above with you that you can hand out to everyone who will be conducting the interview. My last interview series I went through, I kept 10 copies of each. I wound up with one to spare after everything was done.
Try these techniques and at the very least you should get more interest and call backs. If you go into the interview with everything prepared and in order with confidence in your posture and tone, not only will you be getting the interest, but it will also help improve your standing in the salary negotiations.
Video showing various armaments being used on an F-22. The bombs are dropped from the missile bay closer to the end of the vid. A-G was always an armament option on the plane and it was touted by Lockheed from the very beginning as a multiple role fighter/bomber.
I've had both the Maraska and Jelinek brands (only two I've been able to find anywhere in GA, and I grew up on Maraska in CT) and I've found that the Maraska tends to go down a bit smoother while leaving the internal temp feeling like you're parked next to a nuke reactor.
Ok... Just for Hypothetical plausibility: They don't. The photons restrained by force fields create the matter from "nothing". Unrestrained photons that bounce off the restrained ones are what make it to someone's eye to give the person the vision of the environment simulated around them. Again, not saying this is the official explanation... just a plausible one.
You may have a BS in Comp Sci, but I'll tell you one thing: I'd really hate having to read your Implementation Docs or code comments if they look anything like the post you just made.
Your post also brings into question exactly how good of a programmer you really are as well. You see, English, much like programming, has a structure and a syntax. While you may have syntax, there is no structure. You may not have to compete for a job with someone who doesn't have a BS in CS, but you will most certainly have your cover letter compared to another person with a BS in CS who actually puts structure into his correspondence.
And my wife calls ME handsey...
Assuming genuine Shock and Awe at the concept... yes, it is.
Which is still a better value than $50 for a max of 10Mbps.
There was a social experiment done by GSU a while back that went on youtube, A Meditation on the Speed Limit, that did a rolling roadblock through Atlanta traffic during rush hour and recorded it. If you can get past the BS commentary from the students you can see that it actually created a dangerous situation where traffic volume increased exponentially for several miles behind the block. More cars in close proximity traveling the speed limit is a much higher danger than breaking the speed limit in a lower density situation, particularly when you have human emotions heavily involved. Not to mention said roadblocks are highly illegal, especially now that Georgia passed the "slowpoke law" that will slap $1K fines for obstructing the left hand lane.
Boot into your Linux Partition, of course. Wait... you mean to tell me that you're cruising /. and don't dual boot or at least have a LiveCD rolling around? What kind of tech are you into again?
More like a $100 helmet with $6-800 worth of gadgets and $799-999 worth of Markup value.
Shortly after I started riding about 3 years ago, one of the members of my Rider Group (national group so while I've chatted with him online, we hadn't had the opportunity to meet yet) went over the bars in a wreck while wearing a 3/4 helmet; slamming face first into the pavement. I've seen pictures of his face since the wreck. I wish I hadn't. Especially not right after the dinner I had that night. I was glad, and still am glad, I had decided to go with the full face helmet despite the Georgia heat and humidity. I'm on my second helmet after my first developed a crack in the foam. The only downside that I'm trying to come up with a solution for is increasing the airflow in the helmet while I'm sitting behind the windshield of my full dresser (Yamaha Venture Royale). There's the vented windshield option, but I'm thinking of something that increases the effectiveness of the fairing vents as they are.
A well-built car can last 20+ years at the cost of ~$10-20K (maintenance and fuel included, your mileage may vary) and facilitates a larger area with which to look and keep employment, with the option of displaying a sense of style for paying a bit more. In other words, a car can actually reinforce a higher standard of living and often is an optional expense. A long term prescription is often a matter of life and death that is extorted into a forced money sink that you must either pay or die that also brings with it a stigma that there is something quite literally wrong with you...that can also drain your bank of about $10-20K+ over the same 20 year period.
So why do the paperback versions of a $15 hardback book generally cost $7 - $8? Paperbacks as well as Hardbacks still need all of the above support personnel you speak of. At $9.99 Amazon is STILL coming in above the paperback price of most books.
I'm sorry, but the arguments that Scalzi puts forth above are absolute shit, and you have the hint of schill about you. There is no reason that the electric format should cost anywhere near the cost of a hardback. Hell, IMHO the electronic format should really be below the paperback price because of the lack of dead leaf being used for its production... but I can understand the industry's desire to hold on to their model and I feel, much as Amazon seems to, that $10 is a reasonable compromise.
If they REALLY want to milk the consumer they should use a similar model for E-books that they use for paperbacks; as in, release the first edition hardback at $15, wait a month for sales to start becoming stale, then release the paperback and E-book at the same time at the reduced rate.
Hell, at the retail outlet I used to work at, manager made a blanket policy that if the POS returned a request for an Auth code we just outright declined the transaction, handed the customer an Experian business card and asked if they had another form of payment. If the customer asked if he could call his bank to get an Auth code (Red Flag) we would say that our business system did not allow for manual authorizations (which was true. The system the manager put in place didn't allow for ManAuths, even if the POS did).
Ok, insomuch as that, yes, I was wrong and they can extend into the combustion chamber. They still, however, do not provide spark for ignition and other methods can be used to preheat the engine which was the main point.
This guy didn't happen to have a Doctorate in IT, did he?
The glow plug is not even close to similar to a spark plug as it does not go inside the compression chamber and it is not absolutely required for the facilitation of ignition; even on a stone cold engine in Canada in the depths of winter (provided there's at least a block warmer of some kind). It's a wire that preheats the fuel in the injector to ensure that it's of a temperature that when it is injected into the cylinder that the pressure and heat within the compression chamber will cause the ignition. Once an engine is to operating temp, the glow plug isn't needed any longer as the engine itself is generating the heat necessary. Before glow plugs, engines were warmed up by building a fire underneath them to bake them to a point where the internal temperature would be at a level to self ignite. The only thing glow plugs did was to give the process more efficiency and even modern cars with Diesel engines can still be warmed up by baking... provided their bodies are designed to allow for the open flame underneath them without burning parts critical to the other operations of the vehicle.
You haven't worked with Diesel, have you? You know, the engines where ignition is facilitated solely by compression instead of compression and a spark plug? You know... like this?