WRT to item C on your list: birth control pills. It would be a completely different world without that medical wonder. Suddenly having hundreds of millions more fertile women in this world would cause lots o' problems.
Hardly. The vast, vast majority of women on this planet (measured in billions) do not use any form of birth control. A few percentage points' worth more would make zero difference.
What you're missing is that they can get that work done for $250 or less. I played around on RAC but I'm not going to compete with people in the Third World who'll work for $5 an hour.
Unless you're willing to work for Third World wages, sites in RAC are a waste of time.
Refuting that wasn't really my point. I was pointing out that people like to act like Capitalism == GOOD and Socialism == BAD, whereas the truth of the matter is somewhat in the middle. The US isn't really a 100% capitalist society.
Good God without gravy, people! The article is about a high school prank and you all are discussing capitalism vs. socialism.
Santa will ignore you Wednesday night. Just like the rest of us are ignoring you now.
If it's like the rest of these idiotic class-action lawsuits:
Consumers will receive a $20-off coupon or a small refund. I don't live a particularly exceptional life but I think I've made $30 or $40 every year for the past 5 years just in class-action lawsuit settlements. To 99% of people, it's just free, meaningless money that shows up in their mailbox.
Lawyers make tens of millions.
Companies pass the costs on to you. Theoretically, they modify their behavior, but since these suits take years to go through the courts, whoever made the original decisions is long gone and the potential lawsuit exposure has been factored into the company's financials for years.
So let's see...cui bono...why, it looks like lawyers.
I use tail -F, which is the same as tail -f, but works on non-existent files. Useful when tailing log files from programs that start a new log file every time it runs. Using tail -F in this case, you can just leave tail running while you start and restart the program overwriting the log file.
What I'd like is "cd -" that keeps going back as long as you keep typing cd -. In other words, it acts like the back button on a browser. Perhaps "cd +" could then go forward.
I just completed a report on this subject for a class that I've posted online. I discuss the specifics of Google's clustering technology.
http://googlepleasehireme.com/
You don't seriously expect Google to hire you based on that "paper" do you? It's 5 pages, of which 3 to 3.5 are consumed with big oversized (and sometimes uncaptioned) pictures and whitespace. The rest reads like a marketing brochure written for people with no technical background.
The concept of "unplanned downtime" seems to originate in the banking world, where something as benign as daylight savings time could force you to take down the mainframe for two hours.
What are you talking about? I take it you've never seen or touched a mainframe.
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Even Linux man pages (more or less all of them) have by now info how does/doesn't particular tool/call conform to POSIX.
As long as Linux insists on shipping tedious GNU info pages instead of normal man pages, I'm NOT interested.
Show me single Linux distro which removed man.
Show me a single Linux distro which has a man page for either bash or grep, two tools you mention. For that matter, show me a single Linux distro that has documentation that is even remotely as good as OpenBSD's. OpenBSD's man pages are truly beautiful.
The "info" weirdo is for GNU tool only. All normal software is pretty happy to live in man pages.
Well, not bash, grep, tr, cut, join, paste, make, cc, bc, awk, gdb, the C library, less/more, m4, ncurses, sed, tar, which, who...yeah, all the "normal" software has man pages.
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Even Linux man pages (more or less all of them) have by now info how does/doesn't particular tool/call conform to POSIX.
As long as Linux insists on shipping tedious GNU info pages instead of normal man pages, I'm NOT interested.
As much as I wanted to try BSDs, unfortunately, most of them (OpenBSD included) remain kind of toy for basement kids who do not know anything better.
Phones = out of pocket expense when they break them.
Barcode scanners = not out of employees pockets.
So then it's either
"Welcome to Bigco. If you want to work here and make $13 an hour on the warehouse floor, please buy a $400 G1 phone out of your own funds before you start." Good luck with that.
"Please be careful with these fancy new phones, like you were with the barcode scanners."
that would purchase them based upon that in and of itself (they use barcode on the manufacturing floor, and have to replace barcode scanners all the time due to shitty equipment / shitty employees sitting on them / losing them).
Because, of course, a cell phone is ruggedized for a warehouse floor.
To make a less vague example: If the US spent the money it has on the War in Iraq/Afghanistan on humanitarian efforts in those exact same countries would there still be such a level of insurgency and resentment or would the common people whose lives would have been vastly improved weeded out the problems themselves? I mean, why are those people turning to extremism? If I didn't have water to drink, food to eat, a hospital for when I was sick I could easily be turned to go "fight the enemy". If I had those things given to me (or access to them in the first place) I can't imagine myself able to be stirred up to that level of rage at all.
Yeah. It's poverty. Couldn't possibly be the culture or religion. I mean, the huge numbers of Australian Aborigine, Appalachian, and South American terrorists clinches the case that it can't possibly be Islam.
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When youre down and out, When youre on the street, When evening falls so hard We will point and laugh...
(With apologies to Simon & Garfunkel.)
Speaking of people who should die painful and horrific deaths...
WRT to item C on your list: birth control pills. It would be a completely different world without that medical wonder. Suddenly having hundreds of millions more fertile women in this world would cause lots o' problems.
Hardly. The vast, vast majority of women on this planet (measured in billions) do not use any form of birth control. A few percentage points' worth more would make zero difference.
What you're missing is that they can get that work done for $250 or less. I played around on RAC but I'm not going to compete with people in the Third World who'll work for $5 an hour. Unless you're willing to work for Third World wages, sites in RAC are a waste of time.
NetHack.
How long ago was OS/2 developed? It's got to be getting close to that 15-year limit...
I ask in complete ignorance - what "15-year limit" are you referring to?
code-named California
Wow, they're clever.
Socialism simply doesn't work. Here is why.
Refuting that wasn't really my point. I was pointing out that people like to act like Capitalism == GOOD and Socialism == BAD, whereas the truth of the matter is somewhat in the middle. The US isn't really a 100% capitalist society.
Good God without gravy, people! The article is about a high school prank and you all are discussing capitalism vs. socialism.
Santa will ignore you Wednesday night. Just like the rest of us are ignoring you now.
Yes, the operant question for me in this story is "did we/the CIA cut the cable, did some other entity do it, or was it an accident?"
If that's what you're focusing on, then the operant question for you should be "is my tin foil thick enough?"
That's funny, I always thought it was a citizen's (of the USA at least) duty to report crimes to the police if you witness them.
That would be funny. Fortunately, it's not true, at least in a legal sense. You are under no obligation to report a crime you witness.
...and how much are we the public going to see?
If it's like the rest of these idiotic class-action lawsuits:
So let's see...cui bono...why, it looks like lawyers.
...is obvious.
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tail and head - tail -f is a lifesaver
I use tail -F, which is the same as tail -f, but works on non-existent files. Useful when tailing log files from programs that start a new log file every time it runs. Using tail -F in this case, you can just leave tail running while you start and restart the program overwriting the log file.
Non-intuitively, tail -f somefile.log | grep something works, too.
Along that line are pushd and popd.
What I'd like is "cd -" that keeps going back as long as you keep typing cd -. In other words, it acts like the back button on a browser. Perhaps "cd +" could then go forward.
This shows all attached block devices (it also errors like crazy, hence the | more) blockdev --report /dev/* | more
In that case, I'd suggest blockdev --report /dev/* 2>/dev/null
Conventional weapons and invasions just slap at the problem. Nuclear weapons solves it.
I just completed a report on this subject for a class that I've posted online. I discuss the specifics of Google's clustering technology. http://googlepleasehireme.com/
You don't seriously expect Google to hire you based on that "paper" do you? It's 5 pages, of which 3 to 3.5 are consumed with big oversized (and sometimes uncaptioned) pictures and whitespace. The rest reads like a marketing brochure written for people with no technical background.
The concept of "unplanned downtime" seems to originate in the banking world, where something as benign as daylight savings time could force you to take down the mainframe for two hours.
What are you talking about? I take it you've never seen or touched a mainframe.
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Even Linux man pages (more or less all of them) have by now info how does/doesn't particular tool/call conform to POSIX.
As long as Linux insists on shipping tedious GNU info pages instead of normal man pages, I'm NOT interested.
Show me single Linux distro which removed man.
Show me a single Linux distro which has a man page for either bash or grep, two tools you mention. For that matter, show me a single Linux distro that has documentation that is even remotely as good as OpenBSD's. OpenBSD's man pages are truly beautiful.
The "info" weirdo is for GNU tool only. All normal software is pretty happy to live in man pages.
Well, not bash, grep, tr, cut, join, paste, make, cc, bc, awk, gdb, the C library, less/more, m4, ncurses, sed, tar, which, who...yeah, all the "normal" software has man pages.
Even Linux man pages (more or less all of them) have by now info how does/doesn't particular tool/call conform to POSIX.
As long as Linux insists on shipping tedious GNU info pages instead of normal man pages, I'm NOT interested.
As much as I wanted to try BSDs, unfortunately, most of them (OpenBSD included) remain kind of toy for basement kids who do not know anything better.
Son, I think you need to read more and talk less.
Our IT deparment must be nuts for running Windows Compute Cluster on their system then.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Or the ex-Nazi's who bombed Piazza Fortana in 1968.
I'm unfamiliar with this attack and Google doesn't show any info on it.
???
And do you really need to kill kids to enjoy a game?
No, I can make do with torturing them.
Phones = out of pocket expense when they break them. Barcode scanners = not out of employees pockets.
So then it's either
I know an ENTIRE company
Whoooaaa! An ENTIRE company? Omigosh!
that would purchase them based upon that in and of itself (they use barcode on the manufacturing floor, and have to replace barcode scanners all the time due to shitty equipment / shitty employees sitting on them / losing them).
Because, of course, a cell phone is ruggedized for a warehouse floor.
To make a less vague example: If the US spent the money it has on the War in Iraq/Afghanistan on humanitarian efforts in those exact same countries would there still be such a level of insurgency and resentment or would the common people whose lives would have been vastly improved weeded out the problems themselves? I mean, why are those people turning to extremism? If I didn't have water to drink, food to eat, a hospital for when I was sick I could easily be turned to go "fight the enemy". If I had those things given to me (or access to them in the first place) I can't imagine myself able to be stirred up to that level of rage at all.
Certainly, if I was a multimillionaire or a university-trained architect or an electrical engineer or a mechanical engineer or a doctor, I would never "turn to extremism".
Yeah. It's poverty. Couldn't possibly be the culture or religion. I mean, the huge numbers of Australian Aborigine, Appalachian, and South American terrorists clinches the case that it can't possibly be Islam.