And Windows 8 is so terrible between the Ribbon and the Windows 8 interface this has happened:
- All the secretaries, etc, need to be retrained. Yes they may be "more productive" after the retrain, but they must be retrained. The Ribbon has been accepted by now, but the new Win8 UI is a horrorshow.
- For the computer mavens, gurus and hobbyists and IT guys - I really think the latest crop of Windows garbage is like another windows ME. Lets ignore it, maybe it will go away. I think Windows 7 GUI + Office 2010 is just about the final version that works. Office 2013 is crap, horrible GUI, horrible look, and Windows 8 is so bad that everyone I know who is using it has at least Start8 installed and paid for. Its laughable.
As for me, I'm tired. Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, FreeBSD, Solaris, Windows XP, 7, OS X. Whatever. Its a mess that keeps getting messier and crappier mostly. Boring. People reinventing the wheel, resolving old solved problems, etc. Stupid. The industry is kind of in a bad state. Nobody has the discipline to stop changing stuff and hone in on stability anymore. Rugs have to been ripped out from underneath with ever increasing frequency. Things feel horribly unarchitected.
My current favorite OS is actually android. Take the bazaar and productize it. Not bad. Getting better by the day.
Im in SiVal in a new startup. I've been at 5 so far. I love working for the next big thing. I hate how the rats and scum from Shanghai and New York have showed up, skyrocketed the cost of living and totally stifled innovation by making it impossible to run a middle class existence due to idiotic zoning rules, bad pub trans and ridiculous home prices.
Yes, the core team, the founders and the smart people are needed for cool startups, but you also need a bunch of regular people who can maintain regular lives.
SiVal is SillyConScammy now. Pockets of the good stuff, but a burned out husk with landed gentry and wealthy rats roaming around contributing nothing to innovation.
Banks used to be local and the underwriters used to get to know you. Banks that were local and acted badly were competed against by another local friendlier bank. Now days we have too big to fail megabanks that are faceless bureaucratic nightmares in a police state designed to insulate them from the people they screw.
The cost of living here is outrageous. The city, county and state are bankrupt. THe middle class is shrinking, schools stink, and the situation is dire.
Let's get Effie Trinket to drape lights all over the bridges and say oo and aaaah.
Matt Taibbi produces rather excellent stuff. Too bad the average moron reading Rolling Stone reads his stuff, huffs and puffs for about 10 seconds, then goes back to the matrix.
The level to which people are brain washed is astonishing and I have no trouble understanding how relatively smart sensible germany became what it became during WW2.
People need to believe the junk they do every day, like reporting to work/wage slavery, being in mountains of debt and receiving federal reserve notes for their hard work is all normal productive good and will lead to prosperity.
People cannot handle politics are a sham, a kabuki theatre, the money is joke and a sham, most of the work being done these days is paper pushing and bureaucratic bull and our jobs for the most part are slowly being farmed out to the lowest bidder.
So they read this stuff and think about it for 10 seconds and realize that spouting a slogan or platitude or pulling a lever in some rigged election (rigged in the sense that neither choice affects change) is going to make one iota of a difference they go back to sleep.
Laugh at Colbert, read Rolling Stone, check the WSJ for whatever BS stock is randomly going up or down today, listen to Cramer and Mad Money or some such, or Squawk Box, and believe there is more to this sham scam than the pink elephant in the room.
Your standard of living is going down. The relative cost of living is going up. Your kids are going to have it much, much worse than you.
Because sitting around on the internet doing fun things on/. with copious spare time being slightly overweight on relatively inexpensive food and having a bunch of nerdy gear and nerdy education and nerdy exposure to nerdy ideas is only possibly when the banking elites are not allowed to completely destroy and devastate the middle class.
China is the most dangerous country in the world today. And the information about how horrible the Chinese, despite them getting MUCH worse given the economic situation, the information flow has been nearly shut down since 2007 timeframe. There were big 60 minutes type exposes in 2007 but since then the Police State has seen that information regarding our forced consumption of Chinese Walmart Plastic with Federal Reserve Notes remains in place.
The organizing committee of Beijingâ(TM)s Olympic games has promised to investigate charges that official merchandise is being manufactured using child labor.
Given modern industrial process and productivity, I don't even see how using Chinese slave labor saves that much in the face of having to crate up and ship the goods from china to consuming markets.
The bean counters saved maybe 10% at best making product, and now with the price of shipping goods going up due to petrol, they are probably paying more to have it made in China.
The only real reason it may never come back to the US is a host of states (NY, CA) and The Fedzilla / US government that have a long list of anti-business laws making a return to the US difficult.
You want Made in the USA? Tell state and federal congress to stop doing everything to drive up the cost of business compared to China and India (the only two competitors that matter); stop buying Chinese crap where possible.
Slave Labor rented at a PREMIUM with low quality results is still apparently cheaper than coming back her
They seem to think DNA is viable in the samples from Russia are good for more than 400,000 years.
I think that biological material will be reconstructable and this 521 years thing is a made up number. It has to do with the initial conditions and how the sample is preserved.
In 2005 Haak et al. sequenced the DNA of 7500yo farmers from a grave in Derenburg, Germany.
Here is a bunch of "rights" for you, fresh from the 1936 USSR constitution.
CHAPTER X
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF CITIZENS
ARTICLE 118. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to work, that is, are guaranteed the right to employment and payment for their work in accordance With its quantity and quality.
The right to work is ensured by the socialist organization of the national economy, the steady growth of the productive forces of Soviet society, the elimination of the possibility of economic crises, and the abolition of unemployment.
ARTICLE 119. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to rest and leisure. The right to rest and leisure is ensured by the reduction of the working day to seven hours for the overwhelming majority of the workers, the institution of annual vacations with full pay for workers and employees and the provision of a wide network of sanatoria, rest homes and clubs for the accommodation of the working people.
ARTICLE 120. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to maintenance in old age and also in case of sickness or loss of capacity to work. This right is ensured by the extensive development of social insurance of workers and employees at state expense, free medical service for the working people and the provision of a wide network of health resorts for the use of the working people.
ARTICLE 121. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to education. This right is ensured by universal, compulsory elementary education; by education, including higher education, being free of charge; by the system of state stipends for the overwhelming majority of students in the universities and colleges; by instruction in schools being conducted in the native Ianguage, and by the organization in the factories, state farms, machine and tractor stations and collective farms of free vocational, technical and agronomic training for the working people.
ARTICLE 122. Women in the U.S.S.R. are accorded equal rights with men in all spheres of economic, state, cultural, social and political life. The possibility of exercising these rights is ensured to women by granting them an equal right with men to work, payment for work, rest and leisure, social insurance and education, and by state protection of the interests of mother and child, prematernity and maternity leave with full pay, and the provision of a wide network of maternity homes, nurseries and kindergartens.
ARTICLE 123. Equality of rights of citizens of the U.S.S.R., irrespective of their nationality or race, in all spheres of economic, state, cultural, social and political life, is an indefeasible law. Any direct or indirect restriction of the rights of, or, conversely, any establishment of direct or indirect privileges for, citizens on account of their race or nationality, as well as any advocacy of racial or national exclusiveness or hatred and contempt, is punishable by law.
ARTICLE 124. In order to ensure to citizens freedom of conscience, the church in the U.S.S.R. is separated from the state, and the school from the church. Freedom of religious worship and freedom of antireligious propaganda is recognized for all citizens.
ARTICLE 125. In conformity with the interests of the working people, and in order to strengthen the socialist system, the citizens of the U.S.S.R. are guaranteed by law:
freedom of speech;
freedom of the press;
freedom of assembly, including the holding of mass meetings;
reedom of street processions and demonstrations.
These civil rights are ensured by placing at the disposal of the working people and their organizations printing presses, stocks of paper, public buildings, the streets, communications facilities and other material requisites for the exercise of these rights.
ARTICLE 126. In conformity with the interests of the working people, and in order to develop the organizational initiative and political acti
Except now the police state mind prison knows what you are reading and crafts minority report style ads to push third-world-slave-made junk on you based on what you read and everything you do.
This sounds like a worse-than-1984 mind prison police state where freedom isn't even a consideration.
That useless skin actually contains about the same number of nerve endings than what remains. Genital mutilation to attract mates seems a bit on a steep side.
Find a job where you can dig yourself in, prune the bushes and keep things working without breaking your neck. Branch our and secretly start consulting. I use an SSH tunnel to port 443 and do tons of outside work at work. What I find is that in order to have the ability to move to where you want to be it helps to be in 2 places at once, or more. I gave this advice to a developer and he worked at a hotel chain doing programming and IT and worked at Oracle at the same time. Its easier to have more than one job if you have one main and then consult. But its possible to have two jobs. Be careful of background checks when getting the new job.
Any job which requires 40 hours a week will likely require 80. There is no end to how much blood work can draw from you. Draw the lines, and make sure every hour of your day is productive -
Most people have a lot of fake work. Most work is fake work. Having consulting work and wage work at the same time just makes you more efficient.
Double dip. Keep in mind most corporate masters do nothing but land grabs, politics and territory wars, nothing but Fake Work, so defend yourself by double dipping. Consulting keeps the skills relavent.
Id say HP starting in its garage would be how the Valley was made possible. Or Wozniak and Jobs in the Home Brew Computer club. Bill Hewlett went to Stanford and MIT. Both private schools. David Packard went to Stanford. Wozniak QUIT UC Berkeley. Jobs went to Reed College, a private school and dropped out after learning about Calligraphy and Typesetting.
Anyways, a robber baron, Leland Stanford, has more to do with making SiVal the SiVal than anything else.
Bezos went to Princeton , a private school. And Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Jeff Bezos went to Montessori schools, something I pay for to put my kids through because the state doesn't even bother to teach kids from 2-5, some investment in the future. And kindergarten is half days.
I would say given the state financed universities being on the verge on bankruptcy and the tuition now being where most private schools are they are doomed.
Note that in 1960s california universities were free. Through corruption, unions and pensions they are radically more expensive than they are worth, and many students lament how hard it is to pay off the useless education they got.
While Gates, Jobs, Wozniak and even Larry Ellison are drop outs.
And when when the affiliates move to Texas or some other business friendly state, CA gets destroyed even more than if they were to have left the tax alone.
Alpha particles can be breathed and actually is the most ionizing of all the ionizing radiation.
Alpha particles are extremely dangerous but are not penetrating.
The worst vector is to have an alpha emitter embedded in living tissue.
You must understand radiation exposure is not the same thing as exposure to hot particles or hot particles embedded in vivo.
There is a terrible misunderstanding going on. Sure, you could eat dinner next to a solid block of plutonium if its not critical its just a metal brock that emits some radiation. There used to be uranium paints and glazes used on cookware. Atomized and superheated fission products or fission products in salts and compounds embedded in vivo is a bloody mess. Its porrly understood and you can't use "x-rays, cosmic rays, plane flights" and trash like that to compare. The rays aren't that dangerous. The hot particles are very very dangerous because they can become part of your own biology and emit, even at low levels, inside your body.
So much for your sheet of paper. If that was the cause, Radon wouldn't be remediated and people would just enjoy sniffing alpha particles.
These accidents would be a lot more unlikely if plants had to buy private insurance , the underwriters of insurance would force operators to basically promise that a large scale event was very, very unlikely.
Insurance programs have raised the safety of cars quite a bit, they could do the same thing here.
Oil spills and nuclear explosions are forcibly underwritten by the taxpayers, the operators dont have to pay any insurance premiums and we will pay up to all of our wealth to clean up a worst case disaster.
The caps are 75 million for oil and for nuclear, 12 billion have to be covered and the rest is the taxpayers responsibility.
They get to make all the money, and lose nothing if the bad stuff happens.
Its a CONSTITUTIONAL representative Republic, with a bicameral house, an executive and a judicial branch.
Two wolves and a sheep voting for dinner is democracy.
Sharia is democracy.
Also, the Senate was purposely designed to be obstructionist and to give small states as much power as large states.
Improperly educated people of today, largely devoid of critical thinking skills and the ability to abstract concepts (e.g. banning smoking is a gateway to ALL statutory behavior modification, seems like its serving the greater good but its a gateway to a radical totalitarian authoritarian police state controlled by oligarchical collectivists), gladly subscribed to things that were clearly outlined in book like:
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn We - Yevgeny Zamyatin Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell Brave New World - Aldous Huxley Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury Animal Farm - George Orwell 1984 - George Orwell.
Given IPADs and Kindles, its shocking people aren't reading more of this material.
I have many developers on CentOS 4 and 5, and the last developer on CentOS 3.x retired it due to hardware failure. The bloody OS outlasted the HARDWARE.
People drastically underestimate an OS running for more than a half a decade in security/errata support mode with a totally stable ABI, KABI and API.
At some point it was stated somewhere that the i386 instructions are done such that they favor an i686 instruction mix but are compatible with i386.
Anyone who cares about performance is on x86_64 anyway, and i386 is there for legacy-junk support.
For performance sensitive stuff, eg, libc and openssl, there are i686 packages available and installed by default. But if i386 people are willing to put up with PAE and its performance hit or a (3GB/1GB split) in non PAE-32-bit, what does it really matter?
Slashdot Mirror
And Windows 8 is so terrible between the Ribbon and the Windows 8 interface this has happened:
- All the secretaries, etc, need to be retrained. Yes they may be "more productive" after the retrain, but they must be retrained. The Ribbon has been accepted by now, but the new Win8 UI is a horrorshow.
- For the computer mavens, gurus and hobbyists and IT guys - I really think the latest crop of Windows garbage is like another windows ME. Lets ignore it, maybe it will go away. I think Windows 7 GUI + Office 2010 is just about the final version that works. Office 2013 is crap, horrible GUI, horrible look, and Windows 8 is so bad that everyone I know who is using it has at least Start8 installed and paid for. Its laughable.
As for me, I'm tired. Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, FreeBSD, Solaris, Windows XP, 7, OS X. Whatever. Its a mess that keeps getting messier and crappier mostly. Boring. People reinventing the wheel, resolving old solved problems, etc. Stupid. The industry is kind of in a bad state. Nobody has the discipline to stop changing stuff and hone in on stability anymore. Rugs have to been ripped out from underneath with ever increasing frequency. Things feel horribly unarchitected.
My current favorite OS is actually android. Take the bazaar and productize it. Not bad. Getting better by the day.
Im in SiVal in a new startup. I've been at 5 so far. I love working for the next big thing. I hate how the rats and scum from Shanghai and New York have showed up, skyrocketed the cost of living and totally stifled innovation by making it impossible to run a middle class existence due to idiotic zoning rules, bad pub trans and ridiculous home prices.
Yes, the core team, the founders and the smart people are needed for cool startups, but you also need a bunch of regular people who can maintain regular lives.
SiVal is SillyConScammy now. Pockets of the good stuff, but a burned out husk with landed gentry and wealthy rats roaming around contributing nothing to innovation.
What about para-hetero-normative?
Banks used to be local and the underwriters used to get to know you. Banks that were local and acted badly were competed against by another local friendlier bank. Now days we have too big to fail megabanks that are faceless bureaucratic nightmares in a police state designed to insulate them from the people they screw.
The cost of living here is outrageous. The city, county and state are bankrupt. THe middle class is shrinking, schools stink, and the situation is dire.
Let's get Effie Trinket to drape lights all over the bridges and say oo and aaaah.
Unreal.
Matt Taibbi produces rather excellent stuff. Too bad the average moron reading Rolling Stone reads his stuff, huffs and puffs for about 10 seconds, then goes back to the matrix.
The level to which people are brain washed is astonishing and I have no trouble understanding how relatively smart sensible germany became what it became during WW2.
People need to believe the junk they do every day, like reporting to work/wage slavery, being in mountains of debt and receiving federal reserve notes for their hard work is all normal productive good and will lead to prosperity.
People cannot handle politics are a sham, a kabuki theatre, the money is joke and a sham, most of the work being done these days is paper pushing and bureaucratic bull and our jobs for the most part are slowly being farmed out to the lowest bidder.
So they read this stuff and think about it for 10 seconds and realize that spouting a slogan or platitude or pulling a lever in some rigged election (rigged in the sense that neither choice affects change) is going to make one iota of a difference they go back to sleep.
Laugh at Colbert, read Rolling Stone, check the WSJ for whatever BS stock is randomly going up or down today, listen to Cramer and Mad Money or some such, or Squawk Box, and believe there is more to this sham scam than the pink elephant in the room.
Your standard of living is going down. The relative cost of living is going up. Your kids are going to have it much, much worse than you.
Because sitting around on the internet doing fun things on /. with copious spare time being slightly overweight on relatively inexpensive food and having a bunch of nerdy gear and nerdy education and nerdy exposure to nerdy ideas is only possibly when the banking elites are not allowed to completely destroy and devastate the middle class.
Of course it will. The banksters, the banking cabal and the banking elite have the best governments money can buy.
China is the most dangerous country in the world today. And the information about how horrible the Chinese, despite them getting MUCH worse given the economic situation, the information flow has been nearly shut down since 2007 timeframe. There were big 60 minutes type exposes in 2007 but since then the Police State has seen that information regarding our forced consumption of Chinese Walmart Plastic with Federal Reserve Notes remains in place.
China tires bad:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118278927863547228.html
The organizing committee of Beijingâ(TM)s Olympic games has promised to investigate charges that official merchandise is being manufactured using child labor.
The PRC Chinese poison dog food:
http://www.themoneytimes.com/articles/20070523/chinese_protein_export_scandal-id-104033.html
The PRC Chinese poison toothpaste:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/02/us/02toothpaste.html?ex=1181620800&en=d26dab8b2bd85303&ei=5070
The PRC Chinese poison Children's Toys:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070614/thomas_recall_070614/20070614?hub=CTVNewsAt11
http://blogs.eastbayexpress.com/92510/2007/06/thomas_why_hath_thou_forsaken.php
Chinese Seafood Detained for Safety
http://www.topix.com/forum/food/TFSGN6836LFM2QFV7
Melamine put into milk formula, dog food, etc.
http://www.treehugger.com/green-food/got-melamine-53000-chinese-children-did-in-their-milk.html
- Cow milk so inundated with antibiotics you can not make Yogurt from it.
- Pigs force-fed waste water.
- Lard made from separating fats from sewage.
Made in China: tainted food, fake drugs and dodgy paint
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,2118920,00.html
China Jails 2 Protestant Church Leaders
http://www.nysun.com/foreign/china-jails-two-protestant-leaders/58150/
The PRC Chinese government has murdered countless people:
"DEATH BY GOVERNMENT: GENOCIDE AND MASS MURDER"
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE1.HTM
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.TAB1.GIF
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.FIG1.GIF
Given modern industrial process and productivity, I don't even see how using Chinese slave labor saves that much in the face of having to crate up and ship the goods from china to consuming markets.
The bean counters saved maybe 10% at best making product, and now with the price of shipping goods going up due to petrol, they are probably paying more to have it made in China.
The only real reason it may never come back to the US is a host of states (NY, CA) and The Fedzilla / US government that have a long list of anti-business laws making a return to the US difficult.
You want Made in the USA? Tell state and federal congress to stop doing everything to drive up the cost of business compared to China and India (the only two competitors that matter); stop buying Chinese crap where possible.
Slave Labor rented at a PREMIUM with low quality results is still apparently cheaper than coming back her
521 - a guess.
http://singularityhub.com/2012/03/20/raising-the-mammoth-%E2%80%93-russian-and-korean-scientists-set-out-to-bring-back-the-extinct-giant/
They seem to think DNA is viable in the samples from Russia are good for more than 400,000 years.
I think that biological material will be reconstructable and this 521 years thing is a made up number. It has to do with the initial conditions and how the sample is preserved.
In 2005 Haak et al. sequenced the DNA of 7500yo farmers from a grave in Derenburg, Germany.
So ths 521 thing - not sure what the point is.
Here is a bunch of "rights" for you, fresh from the 1936 USSR constitution.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Road to Serfdom - Friedrich August (F.A.) Hayek
Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
The Creature from Jekyll Island - G. Edward Griffin
Except now the police state mind prison knows what you are reading and crafts minority report style ads to push third-world-slave-made junk on you based on what you read and everything you do.
This sounds like a worse-than-1984 mind prison police state where freedom isn't even a consideration.
That entire block is unemployed
That useless skin actually contains about the same number of nerve endings than what remains. Genital mutilation to attract mates seems a bit on a steep side.
Find a job where you can dig yourself in, prune the bushes and keep things working without breaking your neck. Branch our and secretly start consulting. I use an SSH tunnel to port 443 and do tons of outside work at work. What I find is that in order to have the ability to move to where you want to be it helps to be in 2 places at once, or more. I gave this advice to a developer and he worked at a hotel chain doing programming and IT and worked at Oracle at the same time. Its easier to have more than one job if you have one main and then consult. But its possible to have two jobs. Be careful of background checks when getting the new job.
Any job which requires 40 hours a week will likely require 80. There is no end to how much blood work can draw from you. Draw the lines, and make sure every hour of your day is productive -
Most people have a lot of fake work. Most work is fake work. Having consulting work and wage work at the same time just makes you more efficient.
Double dip. Keep in mind most corporate masters do nothing but land grabs, politics and territory wars, nothing but Fake Work, so defend yourself by double dipping. Consulting keeps the skills relavent.
In other news today, cancers, diseases and viruses remain uncured.
Id say HP starting in its garage would be how the Valley was made possible. Or Wozniak and Jobs in the Home Brew Computer club. Bill Hewlett went to Stanford and MIT. Both private schools. David Packard went to Stanford. Wozniak QUIT UC Berkeley. Jobs went to Reed College, a private school and dropped out after learning about Calligraphy and Typesetting.
Anyways, a robber baron, Leland Stanford, has more to do with making SiVal the SiVal than anything else.
Bezos went to Princeton , a private school. And Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Jeff Bezos went to Montessori schools, something I pay for to put my kids through because the state doesn't even bother to teach kids from 2-5, some investment in the future. And kindergarten is half days.
I would say given the state financed universities being on the verge on bankruptcy and the tuition now being where most private schools are they are doomed.
Note that in 1960s california universities were free. Through corruption, unions and pensions they are radically more expensive than they are worth, and many students lament how hard it is to pay off the useless education they got.
While Gates, Jobs, Wozniak and even Larry Ellison are drop outs.
And when when the affiliates move to Texas or some other business friendly state, CA gets destroyed even more than if they were to have left the tax alone.
Pathetic, really.
Alpha particles can be breathed and actually is the most ionizing of all the ionizing radiation.
Alpha particles are extremely dangerous but are not penetrating.
The worst vector is to have an alpha emitter embedded in living tissue.
You must understand radiation exposure is not the same thing as exposure to hot particles or hot particles embedded in vivo.
There is a terrible misunderstanding going on. Sure, you could eat dinner next to a solid block of plutonium if its not critical its just a metal brock that emits some radiation. There used to be uranium paints and glazes used on cookware. Atomized and superheated fission products or fission products in salts and compounds embedded in vivo is a bloody mess. Its porrly understood and you can't use "x-rays, cosmic rays, plane flights" and trash like that to compare. The rays aren't that dangerous. The hot particles are very very dangerous because they can become part of your own biology and emit, even at low levels, inside your body.
So much for your sheet of paper. If that was the cause, Radon wouldn't be remediated and people would just enjoy sniffing alpha particles.
This has been a long time coming.
Chinese Professor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTSQozWP-rM
HA HA HA America
http://www.atom.com/funny_videos/haha_america/
Our arrogant decadent hedonistic lazyness will cause American hegemony to end with with a whimper...
Prepare to be strangers in your own land.
These accidents would be a lot more unlikely if plants had to buy private insurance , the underwriters of insurance would force operators to basically promise that a large scale event was very, very unlikely.
Insurance programs have raised the safety of cars quite a bit, they could do the same thing here.
Oil spills and nuclear explosions are forcibly underwritten by the taxpayers, the operators dont have to pay any insurance premiums and we will pay up to all of our wealth to clean up a worst case disaster.
The caps are 75 million for oil and for nuclear, 12 billion have to be covered and the rest is the taxpayers responsibility.
They get to make all the money, and lose nothing if the bad stuff happens.
Thats ok, the second book is more equal than the first one :)
Its a CONSTITUTIONAL representative Republic, with a bicameral house, an executive and a judicial branch.
Two wolves and a sheep voting for dinner is democracy.
Sharia is democracy.
Also, the Senate was purposely designed to be obstructionist and to give small states as much power as large states.
Improperly educated people of today, largely devoid of critical thinking skills and the ability to abstract concepts (e.g. banning smoking is a gateway to ALL statutory behavior modification, seems like its serving the greater good but its a gateway to a radical totalitarian authoritarian police state controlled by oligarchical collectivists), gladly subscribed to things that were clearly outlined in book like:
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Animal Farm - George Orwell
1984 - George Orwell.
Given IPADs and Kindles, its shocking people aren't reading more of this material.
I have many developers on CentOS 4 and 5, and the last developer on CentOS 3.x retired it due to hardware failure. The bloody OS outlasted the HARDWARE.
People drastically underestimate an OS running for more than a half a decade in security/errata support mode with a totally stable ABI, KABI and API.
CentOS and its parent, RHEL, are a godsend.
At some point it was stated somewhere that the i386 instructions are done such that they favor an i686 instruction mix but are compatible with i386.
Anyone who cares about performance is on x86_64 anyway, and i386 is there for legacy-junk support.
For performance sensitive stuff, eg, libc and openssl, there are i686 packages available and installed by default. But if i386 people are willing to put up with PAE and its performance hit or a (3GB/1GB split) in non PAE-32-bit, what does it really matter?