The only option which makes sense, which lends any weight to his position, is to refuse to vote and so refuse to endorse the system.
Whether you vote or not, you should provide feedback to your local representatives via mail, fax, rallies, etc. To not vote AND not provide feeback...well, go chill out in the arctic or get your own island because clearly you don't want to participate in this particular multiplayer game (not "you" the parent poster, just "anyone who does that").
I'm pretty sure that most conspiracy theorists, and many who are not, agree that certain folk in power have been looking for a "war" like this for a long time. As the posts below demonstrate, war generates money for certain people (and for those who still think that war is good for the economy because of WW II, you are wrong).
The "War on Terror" is such a war -- it has no victory situation, it can be fought forever. As long as people dislike us, which we can forever propagate by being imperialists like in Iraq, then we'll always have an enemy. Arms manufacturers will always have someone to sell to, there will always need to be construction, etc.
There's a lot to gain from the loss of human life.
Here at the University, our department has a few clusters and a few standalone processing machines with a bit of disk attached. We were using ROCKS on the clusters and Slackware on the standalones, but then ROCKS went south in terms of hardware recognition, installation ease, and reconfiguration ease (so says my cluster admin). Now we use Slackware on everything.
However, when I asked him if he would like to try to use something with dependency checking, he suggested, not Debian, but Ubuntu...as he felt the server version of Ubuntu was essentially Debian anyway. Ubuntu's nice, but for us it all comes down to how easy it is to change, install our non-standard apps, and how often it requires updates.
Remember the joys of setting up your hardware in every single game? Running GAMECONFIG.EXE to say yes, my SoundBlaster is on IRQ 7, my display can handle 1024x769 in 256 colours, and no, I don't have an AdLib card.
Youngster. I wish we had GAMECONFIG.EXE. In my day we had boot into DOS because WinDOS wasn't good enough. Then we had to edit the autoexec.bat and config.sys and enable HIMEM for our games to run. Those were the days...
Well, not all slaves were "beaten into submission". He was referring to the Roman slaves which, varying, could simply be people who did what they were told to do -- fed, boarded, but not allowed personal freedom to earn money, etc.
Even the American slave wasn't always toiling endlessly in the fields until the slavemasters came out to whip them in for their gruel. Some of them had great report with their masters and were included on the decisions of the day -- were they free? Certainly not. But neither were they treated like dogs (some were, just not all).
Anyway, I do think it's funny the GP doesn't recognize his comparison of authors with songwriters. Book money, as music money, deserves to go mostly to the creator of the books or musics -- the talent. But the marketing of that talent is what makes the large sums of money, and fair share should be given to the companies that allow the authors to profit. FAIR share, not the near-slavery the RIAA can inflict on middling stars (and so we've come full circle).
Let's actively try to move away from the stereotypes. When people play MMOs they want escapism...these days, they want to escape from the real world shackles as well as the typical MMO trappings. Sure, let us shoot people and create wonderful items. But let us TRIP someone for god's sake and make a run for it instead of standing toe-to-toe, 6-on-1, swinging our sabers into empty air while some giant creature makes "Ow!" sounds.
All this technology...I can't even tackle someone properly, or swing from a rope across a giant air shaft carrying a cute if not stunning princess.
Funny, I think we're using two different definitions of standards. The other reply to my post was using mine (standards = implementations everyone has agreed on) and does a fair job explaining Apple's quote. The version of standard you use is more like "quality": We're raising the standards! or some such. So, I was joking, but my point of Apple saying we're building to *standards* that don't exist yet...well, by my definition that's not possible.
All engineered to standards that don't even exist yet.
Is that even possible? That's like giving directions and using landmarks that haven't been built yet. "Do a gravity-assisted left turn as you approach over Moon Base Alpha...Stay on course until you see the Asteroid Collection Colony...go through the Ceres tunnel...and then it's basically a straight shot to Jupiter Red Spot Resort and Spa."
Sure, right now it might be fine to be descended from apes, but who knows who'll take office in 10 years! Maybe Tom Cruise and then where will you monkey-derived, xenuphobic people be? Guantanamo Bay. That's right.
Access Google Apps for document processing. Access the internet in a normal fashion (non-WAP) Check email Calendaring PDFs Hook up to data projectors using the component cable adapter Play music on my home stereo/computer/car And honestly, looking at that keyboard on this sub-sub-notebook, the iPhone's input is likely better (I'm one of the lucky people who LOVES the iPhone keyboard) SSH using a new app I bought (sorry...I did buy it) RDP using a free app (not as good as the SSH app, but it does let me control my office webcam) Play games Make lightsaber sounds
Seriously...this sub-sub-notebook doesn't offer anything I don't have and that the iPhone (and likely other phones) don't already do better.
There's waste every time you put a bunch of people in one place, and a university is no different. $100,000 is about two people's salary's (staff members) and the idea is to allow the real work to be done on campus -- it's painful for researchers to download GB-sized data sets for their models in the first place, never mind having their throughput clogged by the latest WoW patch or Hollywood "blockbuster" download.
At our University the dorms are on a different VLAN and it's just throttled to save room for other people. Our internet connection is maxed out every day all day.
The movie The Sixth Sense had me freaked out for about 6 months. The scene where the boy is going to the bathroom at night and there's a light down the hall in the kitchen. Tension, fear...he goes down the hall, the woman he thinks is his mother (it isn't) turns around to reveal an angry, burned face. The boy races back to his room at the other end of the hall...and here's the scary part:
He dives into his "safe spot" tent and as he's zipping up the door, you see the woman silhouetted against the light from the kitchen. He finishes zipping and just sits there, and neither you nor him knows if she's coming down the hall or not.
For example, because email is being disclosed to a third party, such as Google, it could affect the dates of disclosure (publication) of information and could, thus
Third party can be redefined through contract. Our University doesn't "share personal information with third parties" but defines third parties as those it doesn't have a business affiliation with.
So it won't give your SSN to a non-affiliated health agency, but it'll sign a contract with a W2-processing company and give them your W2 statements to disseminate to you electronically with opt-out (unless, of course, you nearly cause a riot after learning about this, and they have the company delete all records and start with an opt-in package instead of opt-out).
And me without mod points. Even RIAA execs have said they lost an entire generation of buyers because they didn't have a pay-to-download strategy soon enough. If they'd had *something* worthwhile, kids (now young adults) wouldn't think the best way to get your music is through BitTorrent.
This will come as a blow to owners of enthusiast memory, such as Corsair's 2.133MHz DDR3 Dominator RAM, which needs 2V to run at its full speed with 9-9-9-24 timings."
I'll just stick to the mathematics of quantum field theory. Kids these days and their crazy machines!
When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said "The what of a what?" which didn't help us as much as we had hoped...
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The only option which makes sense, which lends any weight to his position, is to refuse to vote and so refuse to endorse the system.
Whether you vote or not, you should provide feedback to your local representatives via mail, fax, rallies, etc. To not vote AND not provide feeback...well, go chill out in the arctic or get your own island because clearly you don't want to participate in this particular multiplayer game (not "you" the parent poster, just "anyone who does that").
Having relieved yourself of your anonymity, I gather you feel better about your path in life?
we have altered the policy. Pray we do not alter it any further.
I'm pretty sure that most conspiracy theorists, and many who are not, agree that certain folk in power have been looking for a "war" like this for a long time. As the posts below demonstrate, war generates money for certain people (and for those who still think that war is good for the economy because of WW II, you are wrong).
The "War on Terror" is such a war -- it has no victory situation, it can be fought forever. As long as people dislike us, which we can forever propagate by being imperialists like in Iraq, then we'll always have an enemy. Arms manufacturers will always have someone to sell to, there will always need to be construction, etc.
There's a lot to gain from the loss of human life.
Here at the University, our department has a few clusters and a few standalone processing machines with a bit of disk attached. We were using ROCKS on the clusters and Slackware on the standalones, but then ROCKS went south in terms of hardware recognition, installation ease, and reconfiguration ease (so says my cluster admin). Now we use Slackware on everything.
However, when I asked him if he would like to try to use something with dependency checking, he suggested, not Debian, but Ubuntu...as he felt the server version of Ubuntu was essentially Debian anyway. Ubuntu's nice, but for us it all comes down to how easy it is to change, install our non-standard apps, and how often it requires updates.
Thoughts from the /. community?
Remember the joys of setting up your hardware in every single game? Running GAMECONFIG.EXE to say yes, my SoundBlaster is on IRQ 7, my display can handle 1024x769 in 256 colours, and no, I don't have an AdLib card.
Youngster. I wish we had GAMECONFIG.EXE. In my day we had boot into DOS because WinDOS wasn't good enough. Then we had to edit the autoexec.bat and config.sys and enable HIMEM for our games to run. Those were the days...
Well, not all slaves were "beaten into submission". He was referring to the Roman slaves which, varying, could simply be people who did what they were told to do -- fed, boarded, but not allowed personal freedom to earn money, etc.
Even the American slave wasn't always toiling endlessly in the fields until the slavemasters came out to whip them in for their gruel. Some of them had great report with their masters and were included on the decisions of the day -- were they free? Certainly not. But neither were they treated like dogs (some were, just not all).
Anyway, I do think it's funny the GP doesn't recognize his comparison of authors with songwriters. Book money, as music money, deserves to go mostly to the creator of the books or musics -- the talent. But the marketing of that talent is what makes the large sums of money, and fair share should be given to the companies that allow the authors to profit. FAIR share, not the near-slavery the RIAA can inflict on middling stars (and so we've come full circle).
I'm a musician and the RIAA takes 98%! I'm so learning...uh...what language does the iPhone use?
Also, I'm not a musician. Can't sing. Color blind too. However, 10 fingers, 10 toes.
Loot. Crafted. Healer. Tank. Nuker.
Let's actively try to move away from the stereotypes. When people play MMOs they want escapism...these days, they want to escape from the real world shackles as well as the typical MMO trappings. Sure, let us shoot people and create wonderful items. But let us TRIP someone for god's sake and make a run for it instead of standing toe-to-toe, 6-on-1, swinging our sabers into empty air while some giant creature makes "Ow!" sounds.
All this technology...I can't even tackle someone properly, or swing from a rope across a giant air shaft carrying a cute if not stunning princess.
If you were a proper wizard, these problems would not apply to you.
Funny, I think we're using two different definitions of standards. The other reply to my post was using mine (standards = implementations everyone has agreed on) and does a fair job explaining Apple's quote. The version of standard you use is more like "quality": We're raising the standards! or some such. So, I was joking, but my point of Apple saying we're building to *standards* that don't exist yet...well, by my definition that's not possible.
Anyway, back to work...
Easy...just have larger squadrons: "We're a go, Red 37..."
All engineered to standards that don't even exist yet.
Is that even possible? That's like giving directions and using landmarks that haven't been built yet. "Do a gravity-assisted left turn as you approach over Moon Base Alpha...Stay on course until you see the Asteroid Collection Colony...go through the Ceres tunnel...and then it's basically a straight shot to Jupiter Red Spot Resort and Spa."
Or that things ran, well, slicker.
I think you can assume this one at least.
Sure, right now it might be fine to be descended from apes, but who knows who'll take office in 10 years! Maybe Tom Cruise and then where will you monkey-derived, xenuphobic people be? Guantanamo Bay. That's right.
So, my iPhone can:
Access Google Apps for document processing.
Access the internet in a normal fashion (non-WAP)
Check email
Calendaring
PDFs
Hook up to data projectors using the component cable adapter
Play music on my home stereo/computer/car
And honestly, looking at that keyboard on this sub-sub-notebook, the iPhone's input is likely better (I'm one of the lucky people who LOVES the iPhone keyboard)
SSH using a new app I bought (sorry...I did buy it)
RDP using a free app (not as good as the SSH app, but it does let me control my office webcam)
Play games
Make lightsaber sounds
Seriously...this sub-sub-notebook doesn't offer anything I don't have and that the iPhone (and likely other phones) don't already do better.
I think I'd rather have the USA's free market, even with its fiscal problems, then what's going on in North Korea....
It's tree bark and it's good for you! And if you don't finish your supper, you'll go straight to your corner of the room without any seawater.
There's waste every time you put a bunch of people in one place, and a university is no different. $100,000 is about two people's salary's (staff members) and the idea is to allow the real work to be done on campus -- it's painful for researchers to download GB-sized data sets for their models in the first place, never mind having their throughput clogged by the latest WoW patch or Hollywood "blockbuster" download.
At our University the dorms are on a different VLAN and it's just throttled to save room for other people. Our internet connection is maxed out every day all day.
landmark site of the tech industry
It's because of things like Disagree Mail (okay, not that in particular but things like it) that makes Slashdot popular.
The movie The Sixth Sense had me freaked out for about 6 months. The scene where the boy is going to the bathroom at night and there's a light down the hall in the kitchen. Tension, fear...he goes down the hall, the woman he thinks is his mother (it isn't) turns around to reveal an angry, burned face. The boy races back to his room at the other end of the hall...and here's the scary part:
He dives into his "safe spot" tent and as he's zipping up the door, you see the woman silhouetted against the light from the kitchen. He finishes zipping and just sits there, and neither you nor him knows if she's coming down the hall or not.
Ugh. Why'd I have to remember that.
One password and authentication repository for all, handled by a single entity. Or, to paraphrase:
"Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
For example, because email is being disclosed to a third party, such as Google, it could affect the dates of disclosure (publication) of information and could, thus
Third party can be redefined through contract. Our University doesn't "share personal information with third parties" but defines third parties as those it doesn't have a business affiliation with.
So it won't give your SSN to a non-affiliated health agency, but it'll sign a contract with a W2-processing company and give them your W2 statements to disseminate to you electronically with opt-out (unless, of course, you nearly cause a riot after learning about this, and they have the company delete all records and start with an opt-in package instead of opt-out).
Can it be removed instantly without solvents and with no damage to the materials bonded together?
Well, there goes my Might Putty reference...
And me without mod points. Even RIAA execs have said they lost an entire generation of buyers because they didn't have a pay-to-download strategy soon enough. If they'd had *something* worthwhile, kids (now young adults) wouldn't think the best way to get your music is through BitTorrent.
This will come as a blow to owners of enthusiast memory, such as Corsair's 2.133MHz DDR3 Dominator RAM, which needs 2V to run at its full speed with 9-9-9-24 timings."
I'll just stick to the mathematics of quantum field theory. Kids these days and their crazy machines!
When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said "The what of a what?" which didn't help us as much as we had hoped...