Well said. That pretty much sums it up. Clinton's scandal did screw it up for Gore. Without Gore we got stuck with Junior. Kerry was the wrong candidate for the D's. They should have run with Edwards instead. Clark wasn't too bad. Hell even Dean would have been better. Going into this campaign I didn't think Bush's Campaign O Terror/Fear was going to work. Obviously it worked well enough. Our citizens have become a bunch of sheeple. I blame that in part on the fact that we haven't had a decent candidate for President in a long time. I want to see a candidate that everyone will openly vote for, parties be damned. I hope that happens in my lifetime. In the mean time I think I'll move to Canada and wait it out.:-( The next 4 years of Junior in the Oval Office is not something I'm looking forward to.
You and me both, my friend. You and me both. I'm your neighbor to the west. This Kansan would consider you midwestern long before I'd consider Ohio midwestern. I think to most people anything west of Buffalo, NY is considered Midwest. I know the media think that way. Grrr... It was hard for me to believe going into this campaign that Bush's Campaign of Fear/Terror would work. I was probably being naive. It appears to have worked Well Enough(tm). The Democrats lost big time last night. Actually IMHO the Democrats lost big time when they chose Kerry for their presidential candidate. Edwards would have made a much better choice. Dean would have made a better choice (ignoring the media-sensationalized Dean Scream episode). Clark would have been better. No matter how many American voters hated Bush, they still didn't like Kerry enough to vote for him. We needed a likeable candidate and Kerry wasn't it. I think they could have made him appear much more likeable and they didn't. He didn't come off as a man of the people. He came off as an upper-crust career politician and people don't like that. The only win for the Democratic party and America (IMHO) was Barack Obama and his race for the US Senate. That was a very good thing IMHO. In 15-20 years I hope to see him run for president. He's going to have to spend some time in DC first but after a few terms (minimum) he should be able to make a successful race. I'm looking forward to that. Other than that, I need a hug too.
I'm another midwesterner. I'm an actual midwesterner, not from the so-called Midwestern state of Ohio or Michigan (that always pisses me off). I'm from Kansas. Fortunately I'm atypical and don't match the other poster's list. Whew. We should start a support group for people who live in state's where their vote doesn't count. We might as be voting for Nader in these states because we'll never outnumber the people voting strictly down the party line. That has always disgusted me. I can't think of a more irresponsible way to vote than by voting down party lines. Toeing party lines is the ignorant man's game. It's easy for him. He doesn't have to pay attention to what's going on around him. He just has to remember which party he always votes for. People like that don't cherish their right to vote. In my honest opinion they shouldn't have that right if they misuse it. The whole system is screwed up. I don't know what a possible fix would be like but there's got to be some better way of doing things. Uh oh. There's a black hellicopter landing in my front yard; men dressed in black are heading towards my front door. I guess I shouldn't have questioned the status quo....
I too bet on the Democrats, more or less. I bought stocks in a company called StemCells, Inc (Nasdaq: STEM). How's my investment doing you ask? The stock has taken a 20% hit today. The only good news today is that California had a "ballot initiative" to fund stem-cell research at the state level and it passed. Woo hoo! So after the emotion tanks run empty and the stocks return to normal trading my investment should fair well that's to the ballot initiative, even though Bush's political-religious stance will continue to stiffle progress nationally.
Please report back when you know more. I'd love to find out what happened in the end. Post it in your journal or something since it'll probably happen after this article stops accepting submissions.
Don't they realize that they're already getting an immense amount of free advertising? You can't tell me that UCE is negatively impacting Hormel's bottom line. That's laughable at best. They should keep their money and put it towards advertising new products. SPAM will always be around. UCE isn't going to change that one bit. If it ain't broke, don't spend an arm and a leg trying to fix it.
For me all I have to do is watch the value of one of my stocks. Specifically I just have to watch the value of my StemCells, Inc (Nasdaq: STEM) stock. I own 3000 shares of it. If Kerry is doing well then so will my stock. If Kerry isn't doing so well then my stock value will probably go down. Personally I am predicting a record payday for me tomorrow. So are many others apparently. Stay tuned...
Yep. It's sad and very unfortunate. The more popular computers become and the more popular the digital medium becomes the more Mr and Mrs John Public will rely on their hard drives. It used to be that computers in the hands of average users contained their email (which wasn't essential to those types of users), some misc documents which they'll never remember anyhow, and maybe some Quicken data. The single biggest loss to the user was their bookmarks, of all things. Now with the prolifercation of things like digital cameras and digital camcorders our whole lives are stored on our hard drives. Not only do I have my basic bank account information on my computer but I'm now paying my bills from my computer. I'm buying and selling stocks from my computer. I'm tracking my IRA and cash investment accounts from my computer. I'm buying and installing software for which I have no physical installation medium, only a downloaded file. I'm buying books, music, even copies of my favorite movies on the Internet and downloading them to my hard drive. A hard drive failure now is an incredibly damning thing to any user. To an average user 8 years ago it was no biggie and they'd quickly forget about it.
A few years ago I could backup my hard drives with identical drives in a hot-swap chassis. It was actually quite economical. Now I'd have to have well over a dozen drives to pull off the same thing. An Exabyte, AIT or DDS autoloader for 1 coupe TBs is worth 4 or 5 times what my computer is worth and a dozen times what my car is worth. I sure hope something fills this niche soon (and that I buy their stock early) because we'll surely need it.
Well put. Would you by chance have an links or references to books that would give a good historical view of Europe's fight with oppressive religion? I'd love to read up on it. Thanks
The sad part is that there aren't any inexpensive and massive backup systems. I can buy 1TB of HD space for about $500. How much does a TB of a backup medium run plus the drive to handle it? $3000? That's the worst part about it. That makes people like me rely on RAID5 more than backups. The economics of a good backup system just don't exist.
I don't know what brand of cards you're used to using but all the decent hardware controllers I've used are many times faster. LSI's Megaraid, all the 3Ware controllers. Hell they were all faster. The only "hardware" RAID controllers I've ever seen run slower are the POS software/hardware controllers that Promise and High-Point make. Those are worse than Windows software RAID, infinitely slower than Linux software RAID. Offlaoing the RAID5 process to a decent hardware controller is always faster in my experience.
If you're running a production system with important data on a 10-year old array that has a single point of failure than you are reckless and irresponsible. Any sysadm worth his salt would have an identical controller and drives on standby. They would also replace that ancient system long before its MTBF was reached and age became a factor. Can they replace a 10-yr old controller? Who cares? It shouldn't ever come to that.
Would you like to buy one? I bought a brand new 3Ware 8506-12 back in February and never put it into service. I haven't been able to find a case suitable for the massive array I want to build and the drive cages I want to use. The 3Ware box is still in its shrinkwrap. I have a 7506-4LP and a 7000-2 and love them. These things kick ass. I'll have to buy another 3Ware card if I ever find the right double-wide case but that's ok; I'd rather have the money back in the mean time. The lowest price Froogle has that card for now is $690. I'd part with it for $575. UPS shipping can't be too much. Are you interested? I'll probably put it up on eBay before long if no one I know wants to buy it. BTW, don't put Western Digital "special edition" drives on a RAID controller unless you talk WD out of the RAID firmware for their drives. I have 8 WD1200JB drives (8MB cache!) and they don't perform well in a RAID setup. However I have a number of Maxtor 7Y250P0 (and M0) and 6Y200P0 (and M0) drives that kick ass. Excellent buy if you're looking for good SATA drives. Are you interested in the controller? Post here if you are and we'll work something out.
I was going to say that the massive attack on civil liberties probably wouldn't be mentioned but the more I think about it the less I think that will be true. That will be one of the most written about topics someday in the future when our government folds in on itself. We'll eventually be the laughing stock of the world and some other country with be the super power. We'll be the example of what not to do, what not to stand for, what not to let our government get away with. They'll ask, "Why didn't the Americans stand up for their rights when they were so obviously being stolen?" That, my friend will be a very interesting question. At some point everything will be written about. Everything is an injustice to somebody.
Why are there only 19 people folding@home for slashdot?
That's a good question. I'm on the HardOCP team and am #45 of many thousand (I'm not sure what it's up to now). HardOCP appears to have gotten started sooner though (team number 33 as compared to 11326). I wish more people would contribute. This is a much more useful use of CPU cycles that distributed.net IMHO.
BTW, I was yanking their crank. It never fails, someone else dis's the editor and they get +5000 Funny. I do it and get -USNationalDebt Troll. I guess I just need more practice.
LOL. Yeah, I knew the acting bit. I've seen many of his movies. I know a bit about the background behind those presidents but my political history is fuzzy before Big Papa Bush. I've been working on it but it's been slow going. I need to find a class or two that can help me along I guess.
That's impressive. I don't have much of a grasp on government from that era unfortunately. I was in pre-school, I think. I wonder what his exit polls were like. I do remember that he and Nancy were awfully fond of the Whitehouse staff and visa versa.
It wasn't meant to be funny at all. I was as serious as I usually am. They posted 7 (7!!) links to the same website, verifiedvoting.org. 7! 2 links to voteprotect.org. And 1 to electionprotection2004.org. That's a helluva lot of links. That's begging for a slashdotting. I wish they'd post that many links to SCO's various websites when they post a SCOX article. You would think that PETC would step in here. (People for the Ethical Treatment of Computers);-) Sometimes I kill me.:-) Click away, gents
Well put. Every person should educate themselves on the candidates and their stances on the issues that are important to that person and then they should vote. IMHO if you don't know jack about any of the candidates or their stances then you shouldn't have the right to vote. You also shouldn't have the right to bitch about the elected person unless you voted (for or against, doesn't matter). Democracy is not a spectator's sport. Democacry is not a free ride. You have to do your part to be part of a democracy. Frankly I think we have too many free-loaders.
Get out and vote, people. Edcuate yourself on the candidates and their stances. Then push you chair away from the computer, get off your ass and VOTE!! Do something for a change instead of bitching about it after the fact.
(Not referring to you timster, just any lazy Slashdot reader that hasn't voted yet)
I agree. When was the last time we had a candidate that the majority of the people actually liked? It sure as hell wasn't Bush or Gore. I voted for Kerry, although I'm not a fan of his (I hate Junior). I didn't like everything that Clinton did (can you say AWB?) but I think he did a fair job. Going into it I didn't really love him though. I strongly disliked Big Papa Bush. That's about the limit of my presidential memory. Did the people like Reagan when he ran?
We need a good candidate to vote for. We should have to vote for the lesser of 2 evils. No, I don't consider the 3rd-party candidates a viable option either because they won't get a majority vote, at least not right now. Right now we need someone who can beat out Junior. The only viable option is Kerry but again he's the lesser of two evils. Not that Kerry is evil, especially when compared to Junior, but he's still not someone I would pick for president if I was given the choice. Simply put, we need a good candidate to run for office.
I voted by absentee ballot over a week ago. I think this is going to be election by lawyers, even more so than last time. This is so sad. And I do hope for an enormous voter turnout because that bodes well for my candidate.
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Well said. That pretty much sums it up. Clinton's scandal did screw it up for Gore. Without Gore we got stuck with Junior. Kerry was the wrong candidate for the D's. They should have run with Edwards instead. Clark wasn't too bad. Hell even Dean would have been better. Going into this campaign I didn't think Bush's Campaign O Terror/Fear was going to work. Obviously it worked well enough. Our citizens have become a bunch of sheeple. I blame that in part on the fact that we haven't had a decent candidate for President in a long time. I want to see a candidate that everyone will openly vote for, parties be damned. I hope that happens in my lifetime. In the mean time I think I'll move to Canada and wait it out. :-( The next 4 years of Junior in the Oval Office is not something I'm looking forward to.
You and me both, my friend. You and me both. I'm your neighbor to the west. This Kansan would consider you midwestern long before I'd consider Ohio midwestern. I think to most people anything west of Buffalo, NY is considered Midwest. I know the media think that way. Grrr... It was hard for me to believe going into this campaign that Bush's Campaign of Fear/Terror would work. I was probably being naive. It appears to have worked Well Enough(tm). The Democrats lost big time last night. Actually IMHO the Democrats lost big time when they chose Kerry for their presidential candidate. Edwards would have made a much better choice. Dean would have made a better choice (ignoring the media-sensationalized Dean Scream episode). Clark would have been better. No matter how many American voters hated Bush, they still didn't like Kerry enough to vote for him. We needed a likeable candidate and Kerry wasn't it. I think they could have made him appear much more likeable and they didn't. He didn't come off as a man of the people. He came off as an upper-crust career politician and people don't like that. The only win for the Democratic party and America (IMHO) was Barack Obama and his race for the US Senate. That was a very good thing IMHO. In 15-20 years I hope to see him run for president. He's going to have to spend some time in DC first but after a few terms (minimum) he should be able to make a successful race. I'm looking forward to that. Other than that, I need a hug too.
I'm another midwesterner. I'm an actual midwesterner, not from the so-called Midwestern state of Ohio or Michigan (that always pisses me off). I'm from Kansas. Fortunately I'm atypical and don't match the other poster's list. Whew. We should start a support group for people who live in state's where their vote doesn't count. We might as be voting for Nader in these states because we'll never outnumber the people voting strictly down the party line. That has always disgusted me. I can't think of a more irresponsible way to vote than by voting down party lines. Toeing party lines is the ignorant man's game. It's easy for him. He doesn't have to pay attention to what's going on around him. He just has to remember which party he always votes for. People like that don't cherish their right to vote. In my honest opinion they shouldn't have that right if they misuse it. The whole system is screwed up. I don't know what a possible fix would be like but there's got to be some better way of doing things. Uh oh. There's a black hellicopter landing in my front yard; men dressed in black are heading towards my front door. I guess I shouldn't have questioned the status quo....
I too bet on the Democrats, more or less. I bought stocks in a company called StemCells, Inc (Nasdaq: STEM). How's my investment doing you ask? The stock has taken a 20% hit today. The only good news today is that California had a "ballot initiative" to fund stem-cell research at the state level and it passed. Woo hoo! So after the emotion tanks run empty and the stocks return to normal trading my investment should fair well that's to the ballot initiative, even though Bush's political-religious stance will continue to stiffle progress nationally.
Please report back when you know more. I'd love to find out what happened in the end. Post it in your journal or something since it'll probably happen after this article stops accepting submissions.
Very true. That's an important point as well. Still I believe it will depend the most on the President Select(tm).
Don't they realize that they're already getting an immense amount of free advertising? You can't tell me that UCE is negatively impacting Hormel's bottom line. That's laughable at best. They should keep their money and put it towards advertising new products. SPAM will always be around. UCE isn't going to change that one bit. If it ain't broke, don't spend an arm and a leg trying to fix it.
We're not talking about TravelZoo here. We're actually talking about a company with a real tangible product.
For me all I have to do is watch the value of one of my stocks. Specifically I just have to watch the value of my StemCells, Inc (Nasdaq: STEM) stock. I own 3000 shares of it. If Kerry is doing well then so will my stock. If Kerry isn't doing so well then my stock value will probably go down. Personally I am predicting a record payday for me tomorrow. So are many others apparently. Stay tuned...
A few years ago I could backup my hard drives with identical drives in a hot-swap chassis. It was actually quite economical. Now I'd have to have well over a dozen drives to pull off the same thing. An Exabyte, AIT or DDS autoloader for 1 coupe TBs is worth 4 or 5 times what my computer is worth and a dozen times what my car is worth. I sure hope something fills this niche soon (and that I buy their stock early) because we'll surely need it.
Well put. Would you by chance have an links or references to books that would give a good historical view of Europe's fight with oppressive religion? I'd love to read up on it. Thanks
Personally I enjoyed Ninja Rabbit. Anyone remember that one?
The sad part is that there aren't any inexpensive and massive backup systems. I can buy 1TB of HD space for about $500. How much does a TB of a backup medium run plus the drive to handle it? $3000? That's the worst part about it. That makes people like me rely on RAID5 more than backups. The economics of a good backup system just don't exist.
I don't know what brand of cards you're used to using but all the decent hardware controllers I've used are many times faster. LSI's Megaraid, all the 3Ware controllers. Hell they were all faster. The only "hardware" RAID controllers I've ever seen run slower are the POS software/hardware controllers that Promise and High-Point make. Those are worse than Windows software RAID, infinitely slower than Linux software RAID. Offlaoing the RAID5 process to a decent hardware controller is always faster in my experience.
If you're running a production system with important data on a 10-year old array that has a single point of failure than you are reckless and irresponsible. Any sysadm worth his salt would have an identical controller and drives on standby. They would also replace that ancient system long before its MTBF was reached and age became a factor. Can they replace a 10-yr old controller? Who cares? It shouldn't ever come to that.
Would you like to buy one? I bought a brand new 3Ware 8506-12 back in February and never put it into service. I haven't been able to find a case suitable for the massive array I want to build and the drive cages I want to use. The 3Ware box is still in its shrinkwrap. I have a 7506-4LP and a 7000-2 and love them. These things kick ass. I'll have to buy another 3Ware card if I ever find the right double-wide case but that's ok; I'd rather have the money back in the mean time. The lowest price Froogle has that card for now is $690. I'd part with it for $575. UPS shipping can't be too much. Are you interested? I'll probably put it up on eBay before long if no one I know wants to buy it. BTW, don't put Western Digital "special edition" drives on a RAID controller unless you talk WD out of the RAID firmware for their drives. I have 8 WD1200JB drives (8MB cache!) and they don't perform well in a RAID setup. However I have a number of Maxtor 7Y250P0 (and M0) and 6Y200P0 (and M0) drives that kick ass. Excellent buy if you're looking for good SATA drives. Are you interested in the controller? Post here if you are and we'll work something out.
Global. I'll have to see if I can locate a couple to test out. They sound interesting. Thanks for the pointer.
I was going to say that the massive attack on civil liberties probably wouldn't be mentioned but the more I think about it the less I think that will be true. That will be one of the most written about topics someday in the future when our government folds in on itself. We'll eventually be the laughing stock of the world and some other country with be the super power. We'll be the example of what not to do, what not to stand for, what not to let our government get away with. They'll ask, "Why didn't the Americans stand up for their rights when they were so obviously being stolen?" That, my friend will be a very interesting question. At some point everything will be written about. Everything is an injustice to somebody.
That's a good question. I'm on the HardOCP team and am #45 of many thousand (I'm not sure what it's up to now). HardOCP appears to have gotten started sooner though (team number 33 as compared to 11326). I wish more people would contribute. This is a much more useful use of CPU cycles that distributed.net IMHO.
BTW, I was yanking their crank. It never fails, someone else dis's the editor and they get +5000 Funny. I do it and get -USNationalDebt Troll. I guess I just need more practice.
LOL. Yeah, I knew the acting bit. I've seen many of his movies. I know a bit about the background behind those presidents but my political history is fuzzy before Big Papa Bush. I've been working on it but it's been slow going. I need to find a class or two that can help me along I guess.
That's impressive. I don't have much of a grasp on government from that era unfortunately. I was in pre-school, I think. I wonder what his exit polls were like. I do remember that he and Nancy were awfully fond of the Whitehouse staff and visa versa.
It wasn't meant to be funny at all. I was as serious as I usually am. They posted 7 ( 7!! ) links to the same website, verifiedvoting.org. 7! 2 links to voteprotect.org. And 1 to electionprotection2004.org. That's a helluva lot of links. That's begging for a slashdotting. I wish they'd post that many links to SCO's various websites when they post a SCOX article. You would think that PETC would step in here. (People for the Ethical Treatment of Computers) ;-) Sometimes I kill me. :-) Click away, gents
Get out and vote, people. Edcuate yourself on the candidates and their stances. Then push you chair away from the computer, get off your ass and VOTE!! Do something for a change instead of bitching about it after the fact.
(Not referring to you timster, just any lazy Slashdot reader that hasn't voted yet)
We need a good candidate to vote for. We should have to vote for the lesser of 2 evils. No, I don't consider the 3rd-party candidates a viable option either because they won't get a majority vote, at least not right now. Right now we need someone who can beat out Junior. The only viable option is Kerry but again he's the lesser of two evils. Not that Kerry is evil, especially when compared to Junior, but he's still not someone I would pick for president if I was given the choice. Simply put, we need a good candidate to run for office.
I voted by absentee ballot over a week ago. I think this is going to be election by lawyers, even more so than last time. This is so sad. And I do hope for an enormous voter turnout because that bodes well for my candidate.