Is anyone really surprised that the French, Germans, Koreans, and Japanese are beating us at downloading copious amounts of porn? Different countries have different priorities. Once the British and French outdid us in useless foreign military adventures, now we have them handily beat in that arena.
Partisan discussion about American politics! Shocking!! Next you'll tell me there's fornication in whorehouses!!!
: )
William Novak, who is himself a deeply partisan journalist, leaked the information about Plame. Richard Armitage was plainly one of his sources. Being one of his sources did not make him the only source. There was a clear propoganda effort, through both the President's and the Vice President's offices, to discredit Ambassador Wilson, for strictly political purposes.
Libby was a clear leader in this propaganda effort. Conveniently, all of his misremembrances were self-serving. The evidence clearly showed to a jury of his peers that he lied to investigators to cover up his propoganda activities. Whether he did so to cover up criminal activities, or merely politically embarassing facts are immaterial. He shamelessly lied in a criminal fashion regarding a matter of national security.
His behaviour is part of a larger pattern of Executive misbehaviour under the current administration. All other avenues of reining in the President's abuses of power have been ineffective, therefore impeachment remains the only remaining option.
As I look at it now, my old IBM keyboard, which hasn't been washed in years, has some weird grime patterns on it. J, Z and Y are the filthiest keys. The function keys are the cleanest, probably becaiuse since I never use them. The commonly used keys, like the vowel keys, are pretty clean, probably because they are rubbed so often, except they all have a thick layer of grime right at the very top.
I wonder if there is some expert out there who can decipher a person's personality from their keyboard grime.
I really should clean this thing, not out of paranoia, just because it is really dirty.
People really need to RTFA before commenting. These restrictions would apply to countries whose citizens can alreadyenter the country without a visa, and would still be able to enter without a visa with the new requirements. So the new requirement would require that they tell us they are planning on coming into the country before they do. Still a lot less hassle than getting a travel visa.
Don't you call ahead when you are visiting friends in another country? That's all this requirement essentially says: Call us before you come by.
One thing I haven't quite understood is why the Linux community hasn't gotten excited that the PS3 runs on Linux. The PS3 may eventually be the biggest distibution out there, might not the PS3's success aid in the proliferation and acceptance of Linux as a consumer platform base?
Compared to Win '95, OS/2 wasn't much. But OS/2 2.0 came out in 1992, so even with a three-year head start over Win '95, OS/2 was never able to gain market share over the far inferior Windows 3.1 .
It would be nice to see Apple steal Microsoft's thunder with a good dual boot, but OS/2 is not a promising precedent, even with a big head start over the next version of Microsoft Windows. The computer market has changed a lot over more than ten years, and I happen to think that the dual-boot will help Apple, but I gotta call 'em as I see 'em, and this particular case argues against Apple.
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Regarding OS/2, it does not offer an optimistic precedent for OS X.
OS/2 ran an excellent version of DOS (virtually , if I recall , with an option to dual boot) and could run Windows by easily bydual boot. OS/2 was an operating system that far exceeded Windows 3.1 by just about every criteria, but even with the ease of running OS/2 alongside Win 3.1, OS/2 was never successful in gaining critical desktop market share.
Those FILTHYBELGIANS better watch their step. I say we go to WAR. Kill their menfolk and enslave their women and eat their sausages and drink their beer.
I demand the FBI spend MORE resources on this scourge to decency. I want daily updates on the Pursuit of Pornographic Pee-Pee.
Can you imagine the poor guys assigned to this detail:
"Hello, this is FBI Agent Dick Bladder. I'm investigating pictures of pictures of Poo-Poo, Pee-Pee, and Donkey-Fucking. Oh, you only have pictures of very fat women humping old men. Well, I guess that's okay. I trained at the Academy for two years before I could do this gig."
IANAL, but this is not such an open and shut case. These ignoramuses at CSUSA don't know what real criticism is, so I am going to show them.
These are CHARTER schools, which means that they perform an essential public service, education, with a special dispensation from the government. Their role is not strictly private. They are taking over a service that would normally be publically administered, and therefore open to the same type of broad criticism that public figures and institutions may be subject to. As such their openness to criticism is much greater than your average private business.
The public has an essential and compelling interest in promoting good education. This forum promotes that interest by fostering said discussion, a compelling and essential service. The interest of the corporation in protecting its image is far outweighed by the overwhelming interest of the public to have an open forum to discuss the public service the school provides. This charter school, it should also be noted is publically funded. Their CEO is a political pal of Jeb Bush. The President of the United States uses this organisation as a stage for his attacks on the public school system. CSUSA stinks of sacrificing childrens' futures in the name of political expediency. Like a diseased, filth-ridden sexual deviant, CSUSA sacrifices children in its perverse worship of Mammon. The Chairman and CEO, Jonathan K. Hage, is worse than John Wayne Gacy. (That last remark may be over the top, not in its accuracy, but merely in rhetorical appropriateness.)
The bottom line is that they are using strong-arm tactics to quell legitimate criticism and dissent. It stinks to high heaven and underscores an essential misunderstanding by their management to their public mission. They should have their charter pulled for this kind of legal thuggery.
It is my considered opinion that CSUSA is a rotten organisation with no business educating children. Their operation and their thuggish legal tactics are an affront to all civic-minded people.
This is pretty strong criticism and I stand by it. I find it hard that there was anything worse on the board in question. I can't stand bullies.
I've been using drupal on citizenchris.org, which I administer for a friend (blatant plug).
I've been happy with the results. It has a clean design and good documentation for a free software project.
I've been too lazy/busy to tinker much with it, but the leqrning curve should be simple enough for most administrator types, though not necessarily for the layman.
There was another story on slashdot a week or so ago regarding insurance.
Apparently, many home or renter's insurance policies will allow you to add insurance for computer equipment at a very low cost.
But I think the lessons from the posts on this story are that it is the 3rd party warranty vendors that are the problem. They just don't serve you very well.
Buying an extended warranty from the manufacturer, while relatively expensive, is usually not worth it for desktop systems, which are easy to service and don't get knocked around a lot.
For laptops it is another story. One big factor is how much the laptop is actually moved around. If you travel with it even occasionally, some protection is probalby prudent.
First check with your home insurance company.
It might still be worth it to get Apple's extended warranty, if for no other reason than the added tech support.
I've been using hostforweb.com after bouncing around various other hosting services.
I like them. The prices are not the cheapest but generally fair.
Most importantly, they are very responsive to any support issues. Their servers tend to stay up.
The service isn't anything fancy, with most things accessed with the cpanel front end.
I tried a few other companies beforehand, and ended up leaving when I found service and system reliability to be poor.
One advantage to hostforweb is that they are a real company that owns its own servers and you can actually talk to someone on the phone if you need to.
This is a key requirement. Even if email or online chat is your preferred method of communication, you still want to be able to talk to a real person on occasion.
Most hosting companies are only reselling services from someone else. You want a company that has full control of its servers. Ask them if they do.
Hostforweb also has no content restrictions (other than the obvious stuff like irc relays or illegal stuff like kiddie porn). It's important to go with a host that you don't have to worry about offending someone's sensibilities. This does not just apply to porn, but to fine art and medical information, etc., etc.. You want a host that isn't playing nanny.
Hostforweb is geared towards those who don't need handholding. If your basic knowledge is low, have someone else administer the site, no matter where you decide to host. No compnay can make money hand holding a neophyte.
The original post doesn't give any examples of his work, so it's hard to judge what he would be good at. It's understandable to remain anonymous if you are worried about trouble at work.
I would say DataDragon needs to float his resume out there. Definitely consider leaving Silicon Valley, as it is a hyper competitive enviroment.
I'm assuming that your resume is pretty strong. Consider going in for government or academic work, Which tends to be stable, if not so lucrative in the short run.
You might even consider hiring the services of a headhunter or related type person: let someone else do the searching for you.
The reason veggie burgers are more expensive is not too much demand from those yuppies, but just not enough supply from producers. There isn't a big supply because there isn't a big demand at any price. Most people prefer real meat.
To get the economies of scale needed to provide cheap veggie burgers, a lot more people would need to want to eat veggie burgers.
As to your Grandpa getting cheap "organic" food, my guess is that relative to his income, his "organic" food was more expensive than your organic food is relative to your income. Food prices have declined sharply over the last century.
I'm looking to migrate my mail and settings from the Mozilla suite to Thunderbird
Looking through the help files online and googling doesn't give me a straight answer. They all refer to an import utility, but that utility only allows for importing from communicator 4.X.
My wife and I have a one year old. Our lazy solution is to put a barrier that blocks the part of the room where our computers are.
It's pretty much impossible to get anty work done when he is around, since he takes computer work without his assistance as a personal offense and loudly protests while shaking the barrier. However, the barrier has kept him away from the wires.
To a certain degree it is a lost cause as any barrier is surmountable eventually, but this has worked for us so far.
From a technical point of view, the biggest hurdle that I can think of is the monitor/PC connection. I know of no wireless alternative to the vga or dvi cable. Another possibility is putting everything too high for him to reach, as in putting the case high above the monitor on a shelf or something, but even then he is eventually going to learn to climb up and fiddle witrh things.
Your biggest concern is danger of a physical shock and then him damaging your equipment.
I wish I had an elegant solution, but what we do is just physically bar him from the comoputer area. Having a nanny or grandparent around to get him out of the apartment works wonders as well : )
Another way of tallying would be to have electoral votes selected as congessional votes are: each state has two overall electors that are selected statewide (as each state has two Senators)
And then each Congressional District would have 1 elector (where no candidate has a majority, there would be a runoff between the two top candidates, or simply the candidate with the plurality would win). Of course, basing most of the votes on congressional districts would make redistricting and gerrymandering even more important issues than they are now.
I believe this essentially the system Colorado is considering adopting.
I'm not even sure that Presidential Electors have always been popularly elected, though I may be wrong on this. Senatora have definitely not always been popularly elected.
The whole point of the original Electoral College was to distance the choosing of the President from the population at large.
I haven't done the analysis as to how the changes I proposed would effect past elections
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Is anyone really surprised that the French, Germans, Koreans, and Japanese are beating us at downloading copious amounts of porn? Different countries have different priorities. Once the British and French outdid us in useless foreign military adventures, now we have them handily beat in that arena.
It takes all kinds in this crazy world of ours.
Partisan discussion about American politics! Shocking!! Next you'll tell me there's fornication in whorehouses!!!
: )
William Novak, who is himself a deeply partisan journalist, leaked the information about Plame. Richard Armitage was plainly one of his sources. Being one of his sources did not make him the only source. There was a clear propoganda effort, through both the President's and the Vice President's offices, to discredit Ambassador Wilson, for strictly political purposes.
Libby was a clear leader in this propaganda effort. Conveniently, all of his misremembrances were self-serving. The evidence clearly showed to a jury of his peers that he lied to investigators to cover up his propoganda activities. Whether he did so to cover up criminal activities, or merely politically embarassing facts are immaterial. He shamelessly lied in a criminal fashion regarding a matter of national security.
His behaviour is part of a larger pattern of Executive misbehaviour under the current administration. All other avenues of reining in the President's abuses of power have been ineffective, therefore impeachment remains the only remaining option.
The President should be impeached and here's why.
I'll agree that there is some question of inconvenience, but hardly the apocalyptic implications found so far in this discussion.
As I look at it now, my old IBM keyboard, which hasn't been washed in years, has some weird grime patterns on it. J, Z and Y are the filthiest keys. The function keys are the cleanest, probably becaiuse since I never use them. The commonly used keys, like the vowel keys, are pretty clean, probably because they are rubbed so often, except they all have a thick layer of grime right at the very top.
I wonder if there is some expert out there who can decipher a person's personality from their keyboard grime.
I really should clean this thing, not out of paranoia, just because it is really dirty.
People really need to RTFA before commenting. These restrictions would apply to countries whose citizens can alreadyenter the country without a visa, and would still be able to enter without a visa with the new requirements. So the new requirement would require that they tell us they are planning on coming into the country before they do. Still a lot less hassle than getting a travel visa.
Don't you call ahead when you are visiting friends in another country? That's all this requirement essentially says:
Call us before you come by.
One thing I haven't quite understood is why the Linux community hasn't gotten excited that the PS3 runs on Linux. The PS3 may eventually be the biggest distibution out there, might not the PS3's success aid in the proliferation and acceptance of Linux as a consumer platform base?
Compared to Win '95, OS/2 wasn't much. But OS/2 2.0 came out in 1992, so even with a three-year head start over Win '95, OS/2 was never able to gain market share over the far inferior Windows 3.1 .
It would be nice to see Apple steal Microsoft's thunder with a good dual boot, but OS/2 is not a promising precedent, even with a big head start over the next version of Microsoft Windows. The computer market has changed a lot over more than ten years, and I happen to think that the dual-boot will help Apple, but I gotta call 'em as I see 'em, and this particular case argues against Apple.
Regarding OS/2, it does not offer an optimistic precedent for OS X.
OS/2 ran an excellent version of DOS (virtually , if I recall , with an option to dual boot) and could run Windows by easily bydual boot. OS/2 was an operating system that far exceeded Windows 3.1 by just about every criteria, but even with the ease of running OS/2 alongside Win 3.1, OS/2 was never successful in gaining critical desktop market share.
Those FILTHY BELGIANS better watch their step. I say we go to WAR. Kill their menfolk and enslave their women and eat their sausages and drink their beer.
I demand the FBI spend MORE resources on this scourge to decency. I want daily updates on the Pursuit of Pornographic Pee-Pee.
Can you imagine the poor guys assigned to this detail:
"Hello, this is FBI Agent Dick Bladder. I'm investigating pictures of pictures of Poo-Poo, Pee-Pee, and Donkey-Fucking. Oh, you only have pictures of very fat women humping old men. Well, I guess that's okay. I trained at the Academy for two years before I could do this gig."
So is the main difference to FreeBSD is that PC-BSD has an easier install setup and has the availability of installable binaries?
If I play with PC-BSD, will I get a system similar enough to FreeBSD so my knowledge is useful for both?
IANAL, but this is not such an open and shut case. These ignoramuses at CSUSA don't know what real criticism is, so I am going to show them.
These are CHARTER schools, which means that they perform an essential public service, education, with a special dispensation from the government. Their role is not strictly private. They are taking over a service that would normally be publically administered, and therefore open to the same type of broad criticism that public figures and institutions may be subject to. As such their openness to criticism is much greater than your average private business.
The public has an essential and compelling interest in promoting good education. This forum promotes that interest by fostering said discussion, a compelling and essential service. The interest of the corporation in protecting its image is far outweighed by the overwhelming interest of the public to have an open forum to discuss the public service the school provides. This charter school, it should also be noted is publically funded. Their CEO is a political pal of Jeb Bush. The President of the United States uses this organisation as a stage for his attacks on the public school system. CSUSA stinks of sacrificing childrens' futures in the name of political expediency. Like a diseased, filth-ridden sexual deviant, CSUSA sacrifices children in its perverse worship of Mammon. The Chairman and CEO, Jonathan K. Hage, is worse than John Wayne Gacy. (That last remark may be over the top, not in its accuracy, but merely in rhetorical appropriateness.)
The bottom line is that they are using strong-arm tactics to quell legitimate criticism and dissent. It stinks to high heaven and underscores an essential misunderstanding by their management to their public mission. They should have their charter pulled for this kind of legal thuggery.
It is my considered opinion that CSUSA is a rotten organisation with no business educating children. Their operation and their thuggish legal tactics are an affront to all civic-minded people.
This is pretty strong criticism and I stand by it. I find it hard that there was anything worse on the board in question. I can't stand bullies.
I've been using drupal on citizenchris.org, which I administer for a friend (blatant plug).
I've been happy with the results. It has a clean design and good documentation for a free software project.
I've been too lazy/busy to tinker much with it, but the leqrning curve should be simple enough for most administrator types, though not necessarily for the layman.
I put some thoughts on this article on Citizen Chris.
For those to lazy to click, the gist is that capitalism can be as stupid as communism in setting priorities.
There was another story on slashdot a week or so ago regarding insurance.
Apparently, many home or renter's insurance policies will allow you to add insurance for computer equipment at a very low cost.
But I think the lessons from the posts on this story are that it is the 3rd party warranty vendors that are the problem. They just don't serve you very well.
Buying an extended warranty from the manufacturer, while relatively expensive, is usually not worth it for desktop systems, which are easy to service and don't get knocked around a lot.
For laptops it is another story. One big factor is how much the laptop is actually moved around. If you travel with it even occasionally, some protection is probalby prudent.
First check with your home insurance company.
It might still be worth it to get Apple's extended warranty, if for no other reason than the added tech support.
I've been using hostforweb.com after bouncing around various other hosting services.
I like them. The prices are not the cheapest but generally fair.
Most importantly, they are very responsive to any support issues. Their servers tend to stay up.
The service isn't anything fancy, with most things accessed with the cpanel front end.
I tried a few other companies beforehand, and ended up leaving when I found service and system reliability to be poor.
One advantage to hostforweb is that they are a real company that owns its own servers and you can actually talk to someone on the phone if you need to.
This is a key requirement. Even if email or online chat is your preferred method of communication, you still want to be able to talk to a real person on occasion.
Most hosting companies are only reselling services from someone else. You want a company that has full control of its servers. Ask them if they do.
Hostforweb also has no content restrictions (other than the obvious stuff like irc relays or illegal stuff like kiddie porn). It's important to go with a host that you don't have to worry about offending someone's sensibilities. This does not just apply to porn, but to fine art and medical information, etc., etc.. You want a host that isn't playing nanny.
Hostforweb is geared towards those who don't need handholding. If your basic knowledge is low, have someone else administer the site, no matter where you decide to host. No compnay can make money hand holding a neophyte.
How do you get this covereage? Is it under your home insurance?
The original post doesn't give any examples of his work, so it's hard to judge what he would be good at. It's understandable to remain anonymous if you are worried about trouble at work.
I would say DataDragon needs to float his resume out there. Definitely consider leaving Silicon Valley, as it is a hyper competitive enviroment.
I'm assuming that your resume is pretty strong. Consider going in for government or academic work, Which tends to be stable, if not so lucrative in the short run.
You might even consider hiring the services of a headhunter or related type person: let someone else do the searching for you.
Suggestion for the new slashdot poll:
"My Body Mass Index (BMI) is:
0-15
15-18
18-20
20-25
25-30
30-35
cowboy neal
For the record, I am a fatso with a BMI of 31.
#Turning Economics Lecture Mode ON#
The reason veggie burgers are more expensive is not too much demand from those yuppies, but just not enough supply from producers. There isn't a big supply because there isn't a big demand at any price. Most people prefer real meat.
To get the economies of scale needed to provide cheap veggie burgers, a lot more people would need to want to eat veggie burgers.
As to your Grandpa getting cheap "organic" food, my guess is that relative to his income, his "organic" food was more expensive than your organic food is relative to your income. Food prices have declined sharply over the last century.
I'm looking to migrate my mail and settings from the Mozilla suite to Thunderbird
Looking through the help files online and googling doesn't give me a straight answer. They all refer to an import utility, but that utility only allows for importing from communicator 4.X.
Any suggestions?
It looks like a well done install procedure, though the hardware support is still lacking, particularly with the video drivers.
My wife and I have a one year old. Our lazy solution is to put a barrier that blocks the part of the room where our computers are.
It's pretty much impossible to get anty work done when he is around, since he takes computer work without his assistance as a personal offense and loudly protests while shaking the barrier. However, the barrier has kept him away from the wires.
To a certain degree it is a lost cause as any barrier is surmountable eventually, but this has worked for us so far.
From a technical point of view, the biggest hurdle that I can think of is the monitor/PC connection. I know of no wireless alternative to the vga or dvi cable. Another possibility is putting everything too high for him to reach, as in putting the case high above the monitor on a shelf or something, but even then he is eventually going to learn to climb up and fiddle witrh things.
Your biggest concern is danger of a physical shock and then him damaging your equipment.
I wish I had an elegant solution, but what we do is just physically bar him from the comoputer area. Having a nanny or grandparent around to get him out of the apartment works wonders as well : )
What are the problems with the latest VIA chipsets for AMD platforms?
Another way of tallying would be to have electoral votes selected as congessional votes are:
each state has two overall electors that are selected statewide (as each state has two Senators)
And then each Congressional District would have 1 elector (where no candidate has a majority, there would be a runoff between the two top candidates, or simply the candidate with the plurality would win). Of course, basing most of the votes on congressional districts would make redistricting and gerrymandering even more important issues than they are now.
I believe this essentially the system Colorado is considering adopting.
I'm not even sure that Presidential Electors have always been popularly elected, though I may be wrong on this. Senatora have definitely not always been popularly elected.
The whole point of the original Electoral College was to distance the choosing of the President from the population at large.
I haven't done the analysis as to how the changes I proposed would effect past elections
Excelsior,
ME