Re:Those stats don't really mean much though
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I'd point out that it's never been proven that Iraq actually violated the terms of the cease fire- only that Saddam wanted to.
In the cease-fire agreement, UN Security Council Resolution 687, Iraq agreed to provide a list of all chemical and biological weapons (8.a), and all ballistic weapons with a range of greater than 150km (8.b), to the Secretary-General within 15 days (9.a), and to turn the chemical and biological weapons over to the UN for desctuction (9.b.ii). Years later Iraq was still supplementing the list it was required to submit within 15 days, and then rather than turn some of the chemical and biological weapons which it declared over, it claimed that it destroyed them. Would you care to explain how that was not a violation of the terms of the cease-fire? Yes, Iraq may have destroyed the weapons, but it may also have hidden them - how much easier would it have been to bury tanker trucks deeply enough that the sand hasn't blown off yet than it was to bury aircraft - or shipped them elsewhere?
Right or left, Republican or Democrat -- those filibusters are an outrage and they damn well should be gotten rid of.
Yes, to hell with the Constitution and the founding fathers.
Can you point out where in the Constitution that allows either House to end debate on any issue? On the other hand, can you cite any significant filibusters prior to the 1840s, by which time the "founding fathers" had left the scene?
To hell with over two centuries of legislative procedure.
"Cloture" was introduced in the Senate in 1917, less than a century ago. For over a century before that, a single Senator could prevent a vote. Why aren't you calling for a return to that? At the same time, the percentage of votes needed for cloture has been reduced before, from the original 66% to the current 60% in 1975. So, which "legislative procedure" should be followed - the one in place for 130 years, the one in place for 60 years, or the one in place for 30 years?
And of meetings on intelligence, which ones do you think the work gets done in? The public ones? No.
Agreed, but Pat Roberts the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has suggested that Kerry's attendance record for the closed hearings could be released if Kerry asked him and the vice chairman to do so. Kerry has not made such a request. Why isn't Kerry letting that dog bark?
It wasn't impossible for Kerry to be in Cambodia when he said he was.
Kerry claimed to have been in Cambodia on Christmas Day, 1968, and heard that President Nixon was denying that American troops were in Cambodia. Richard Nixon didn't take office until January 20, 1969. How is that possible?
Anyhow, Navy records, first-hand accounts from credible sources, Snopes and FactCheck.org combine to put the lie to this bullshit pretty effectively. Just because you don't *like* the facts doesn't mean you get to ignore them.
Agreed - and the fact is that on August 11 the Kerry campaign admitted that Kerry was not in Cambodia on December 25, 1968. http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20040812-090512-6 687r.htm
Due to inflation:What cost $675 in 1961 would cost $4541.11 in 2003.
And how many millions of dollars did you pay for your last computer? Direct inflation comparisons are useful for things that don't have major changes in how they are manufactured, like milk, but when you're talking about the original release price of a product? between the arrival of competition, and advancements in technology, the 1971 price for a better typewriter was almost certainly less than the 1961 price, without even adjusting for inflation.
The Libertarian Party is the only political party that seems to not be afraid to give straight answers.
They talk out of both sides of their mouth, just like any other party. For example, they go on at length about how important contracts, including labor contracts, are, then declare that military personnel should be able to ignore their enlistment contracts.
I used typewriters that had keys for things like 1/2 and 1/4, so I wouldn't be surprised if a typewriter marketed for office use would have keys for date superscripts.
They may be providing the G4 demo with every request, because I selected two vehicles, and it listed the G4 DVD twice, with the second occurrence supressed as a duplicate.
There are already Point Of Sale systems for Linux, and with the announcement of the IBM Retail Environment for SuSE Linux, that will give retailers more assurance that it's safe to use Linux.
They were more interested in telling me what I was concerned about, and shoving Al Gore down my throat, than actually trying to find out what concerns I did have, when I looked at them four years ago.
So, why don't I add more memory? I can't - this notebook (an IBM ThinkPad A21p) only accepts a pair of 256MB SODIMMS. Why don't I get a newer system? The CPU is plenty powerful for my needs, I can upgrade storage as needed with the expansion bay, and purchasing a newer notebook with an equivalent for the 15" 1600x1200 display would run more than I'm willing to spend just to have more RAM, so why should I buy a newer system?
If the best advice you can give those people is to move to India, then they have my leave to whine a little.
No one has the right to have the jobs they want available where they want to live. What happened when textile jobs moved from New England to the South? People either a) followed the jobs, b) found different jobs, or c) created their own jobs. Well, those still the choices today. If you want to be employed by someone else in a specific profession, you may have to move to where those jobs are. If you want to be employed by someone else in a specific area, you may need to learn new skills. If you want to work in a specific area in a specific profession, you may need to be your own employer.
So add the prop department to the list of guilty parties.:) The point was, if they didn't want Superman to be ducking out of the way of the thrown gun, the production team shouldn't have been tossing real guns at George Reeves.
Just because you didn't hear about it, didn't mean that the concerns weren't raised. In fact, the CERT advisory contains the following statement:
II. Impact
The potential exists for an intruder to have inserted back doors, Trojan horses, or other malicious code into the source code distributions of software housed on the compromised system.
III. Solution
We encourage sites using the GNU software obtained from the compromised system to verify the integrity of their distribution.
Sites that mirror the source code are encouraged to verify the integrity of their sources. We also encourage users to inspect any and all other software that may have been downloaded from the compromised site. Note that it is not always sufficient to rely on the timestamps or file sizes when trying to determine whether or not a copy of the file has been modified.
When downloading software from online repositories, it is important to consider the possibility that the site has been compromised. One of the threats that users face is that intruders could include malicious code in the software packages distributed by those sites. This code could take the form of Trojan horse programs or backdoors.
In regards to your other concerns:
Take a look at cpan and some of the modules you have on your machine. How many are updated with normalcy? What about the whole sourceforge/freshmeat concept of 'sysadmining', where you find a neat program supported for what... a year? Maybe 2 if you're lucky...
Frankly, that's not significantly different than closed source software - companies release products, then, because of lack of adequate revenue, stop updating it. If you're lucky, the company itself didn't go under, so you might still be able to receive support, perhaps at extortionate pricing. If the company went oot of business, and you came to rely upon the product, you're SOL. With OSS, however, if the original developer[s] are no longer developing the package, and noone else has taken charge, you still have the source. If you have a critical need for a fix or an enhancement, you can always contract with a programmer to perform the work to your specifications, which you would be unable to do with a closed source product.
Sometimes it seems the cool Open Source gets, the more issues come out with it.
You've yet to cite one that doesn't exist with closed source software as well. Source code repositories are compromised, backdoors are inserted, development ceases, and support is withdrawn with closed source software as well. The difference is that with OSS, the end user has access to the code to protect themselves from these risks, while they do not with closed source software.
Considering that it's the PHBs who want the software sooner, cheaper, and with more features, It's hardly IT's fault, but I wouldn't expect the PHBs to admit that.
Re:the devil is in the happy meals
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There may be a sucker born every minute, but I find that rate strikes me as low when watching people snatch up $6 shit-burgers from under a heat lamp at airport food courts.
Leaving aside the quality of fast food, and whether or not it's overpriced in the first place, the food at PIT isn't overpriced compared to outside establishments. Since the new PIT terminal opened in 1992, BAA, the company which operates the Airmall, has required vendors to charge "street prices". And don't thank the government for this - when BAA first proposed this, the Pittsburgh Airport officials wanted to make it street pricing plus 10%, but BAA held firm. The result is that passengers at PIT spent more per-person in 2003 than those at any other airport in the country.
Re:WiFi access at airports
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When I'm looking to travel, even when I'm looking at a particular airline, there's often a choice of routing for comparable price and travel time. When that happens, the quality of the connecting airports does play a role in my decision, and the availability of WiFi does factor into my opinion of the airport, as do other amenities.
You've apparently never travelled on business. There's times that you have to go straight from the airport to the customer site, and you're far more likely to have WiFi available at a hub airport than a spoke airport. As such, it can be quite useful to be able to connect to the corporate VPN and download email with updated status at the customer site in the 15 minutes available at the gate.
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I used typewriters that had keys for things like 1/2 and 1/4, so I wouldn't be surprised if a typewriter marketed for office use would have keys for date superscripts.
IBM introduced a typewriter with proportional spacing in 1944, so I hardly think that it's inconcievable that memos in 1972 were written on one.
OK, is the fact that the Federal Trade Commission is expressing skepticism that the USPTO is properly reviewing patent applications more credible?
I could envision using that in my Garmin iQue 3600. :)
They may be providing the G4 demo with every request, because I selected two vehicles, and it listed the G4 DVD twice, with the second occurrence supressed as a duplicate.
There are already Point Of Sale systems for Linux, and with the announcement of the IBM Retail Environment for SuSE Linux, that will give retailers more assurance that it's safe to use Linux.
They were more interested in telling me what I was concerned about, and shoving Al Gore down my throat, than actually trying to find out what concerns I did have, when I looked at them four years ago.
Your workload appears to be somewhat less than that on my system.
Before VMWare (but with Mozilla, Lotus Notes 6.5.1 with wine, Ethereal, and a Java application):
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 526278656 512335872 13942784 0 73400320 206700544
Swap: 1076051968 78237696 997814272
Note that my swap usage *starts* at approximately 74MB.
VMWare started, no session loaded:
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 526278656 477638656 48640000 0 73273344 200990720
Swap: 1076051968 89071616 986980352
VMWare with Win2K session (128MB RAM) running (not logged in):
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 526278656 519200768 7077888 0 13549568 322199552
Swap: 1076051968 115929088 960122880
So, why don't I add more memory? I can't - this notebook (an IBM ThinkPad A21p) only accepts a pair of 256MB SODIMMS. Why don't I get a newer system? The CPU is plenty powerful for my needs, I can upgrade storage as needed with the expansion bay, and purchasing a newer notebook with an equivalent for the 15" 1600x1200 display would run more than I'm willing to spend just to have more RAM, so why should I buy a newer system?
So add the prop department to the list of guilty parties. :) The point was, if they didn't want Superman to be ducking out of the way of the thrown gun, the production team shouldn't have been tossing real guns at George Reeves.
Chalk it up to poor scripting. The bullets were FX, but the thrown gun was real. :)
Considering that it's the PHBs who want the software sooner, cheaper, and with more features, It's hardly IT's fault, but I wouldn't expect the PHBs to admit that.
When I'm looking to travel, even when I'm looking at a particular airline, there's often a choice of routing for comparable price and travel time. When that happens, the quality of the connecting airports does play a role in my decision, and the availability of WiFi does factor into my opinion of the airport, as do other amenities.
You've apparently never travelled on business. There's times that you have to go straight from the airport to the customer site, and you're far more likely to have WiFi available at a hub airport than a spoke airport. As such, it can be quite useful to be able to connect to the corporate VPN and download email with updated status at the customer site in the 15 minutes available at the gate.