You are right, but I'd like to add that a newbie should not be doing any ab routines AT ALL. Ab exercises are for people who already have muscle, not newbies who have nothing.
Ok, yes, you can't just eat what you want. However, it's not as simple as just "more calories".
Correct.
Protein builds muscle, and muscle burns more calories than fat.
Almost--protein is used to build muscle, yes, but you can only build muscles by lifting weights or other strenuous physical activity.
To the OP: the REAL solution to your problem is to find another job. 15 hours per day at work or on the road? That is ROUGH. It's not tough to fit a workout routine in there, but the real problem is getting enough sleep. (I'll get to that in a minute.) If finding another job is not an option, here's what you MUST do if you want to improve your physical condition. Even if you can't do this 100% due to your schedule, do as much of it as possible, especially changing your diet, because that alone will make a big difference.
Exercise: If you want to lose fat and look better, you need to build muscle. More muscle means a higher metabolism, because it takes a lot of energy to maintain, and thus you will enjoy much greater/easier fat loss. The only way you are going to build muscle is by lifting weights. It only takes 30-45 minutes in the gym to get a good day's workout if you don't dick around and waste time. You can easily do this on your lunch break instead of eating lunch. (Read down below to see what to do about food.) You only need to work out 3-4 days per week. Every other day is an excellent, easy schedule that can't fail. More is generally NOT better because your goal is to stimulate your muscles to grow, not destroy them beyond your body's ability to repair them between workouts.
A workout routine is hard at first, not only because you have no muscle to speak of, but because you don't yet know a damn thing about effective workout routines. (Don't feel bad; most people I see at the gym don't either.) You can learn a lot on the net (and I certainly suggest you read up as much as possible) but it will still take you at least 6 months of working out to really "learn" your body and see what it responds to. It really is a continuous learning process, but with some basic research you can be seeing results in as little as 2 weeks, and it only gets better from there. I would suggest reading tmuscle.com. Here's a couple great articles to get you started:
Here's the main thing to keep in mind: as a newbie, you need to concentrate on doing compound exercises, that is, exercises which target a number of muscles instead of just one. This means DO NOT use machines, use free weights and cables only. Again, this will be difficult because there are hundreds of muscles on your body that need a lot of work, but stick with it and you'll be glad you did. You don't have to become a professional body builder or anything. Just build a decent amount of muscle; not only will you lose fat but you will just plain all around look and feel much better.
Sleep: Your muscles don't grow when you're exercising, they grow while you're asleep. You need to get a FULL night's rest every night. If you can't wake up on your own without an alarm clock when it's time to get up, then you are not getting enough sleep. I hope you're one of those people who feels fully rested after 6 hours of sleep, because if you're like me and you require 9-10 hours of sleep, then you're pretty much screwed since you just don't have enough time.
Diet: This is THE most important part of staying in shape. You should eat a small meal every 2-3 hours, instead of a few large meals through the day. By small, I mean something as simple as a pint of chocolate milk makes an exc
What average desktop PC really needs anywhere near 3 GB of ram? 1 GB is just fine for most purposes on XP, or even 512 MB really, and plenty for Linux. It would be ridiculous and stupid for Microsoft to exclusively support a 64-bit version when 64-bit computers are still a LONG way from becoming the majority. 32 bit systems are going to be around for a LONG time to come, because in 98% of cases 64-bit does not benefit at all, and it breaks many applications to boot.
No, I want states to tax based on where the fact that the product is shipped to a consumer in that state.
Well, I can see a problem with this approach. What if I live in Alaska (no state sales tax) and I buy a gift to ship to my cousin in California (highest state tax)--will I have to pay California sales tax on that item?
What if I am running a business that drop ships items to customers. Say a customer walks into my store and places an order. Since I am making an intrastate sale he has to pay tax on that item. But if I am placing the order (and drop shipping it to his address) then I will have to pay the sales tax as well. The net effect is the customer has to pay the sales tax twice because I acted as an agent for him to order an item from out of state. Is that fair?
I don't know why property taxes should pay for any of those, as opposed to say, an income tax. Again, people who don't own property in a city but commute there for jobs/shopping/nightlife act as freeloaders, profiting off the largess of condo dwellers.
Isn't that how it should be? Why shouldn't the relatively rich (property owners) carry a larger burden of keeping the civilization running than the relatively poor (non property owners)? A "fair" tax system where each person pays his "fair share" of the taxes leads to societies with rich people, poor people, and little in between. A poor person may not be able to afford to pay his fair share, so we need to cut him a break and give him a fighting chance to elevate himself into a stronger financial position. $20 ain't much to a rich guy but to a poor person that can mean the difference between eating this week and starving.
If a person is rich, that is largely because he lives in a relatively free, capitalist country that gave him (or his family) the opportunity to become rich. It is only fair that he give extra back to support the system that keeps his quality of living high. It is in the rich man's best interest to support the poor and middle class. If a poor guy can scrape by thanks to a bunch of rich guys each helping out a little bit with his tax burden, then that's one less person homeless on the streets. That's one less person dependent on welfare and other social benefits. This is a net positive for EVERYONE.
And my infrastructure pays for parks I enjoy, roads I use, schools which educate the people around me so that they don't all turn to street crime, police to deal with the ones who do, etc. Taxes buy me civilization. I'd rather not pocket a few more bucks in returning for living a life that is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
So if I'm already living a great life right now, then I don't need this Internet sales tax to keep me from living a "brutish and short" life, do I?
This is just something the politicians want cause they smell money. Well I hate to break it to you assholes, but you're not getting a dime of my money in sales taxes unless the business is in the same state. Only the Feds have the power to regulate interstate commerce.
In no other industry would this sort of business model be legitimized...
Well, not quite. There are hundreds of perfectly legitimate Chinese manufacturing companies out there who regularly rip off competitors' products and manufacture clones for pennies on the dollar. Does this hurt the "real" legitimate businesses who spend years and lots of money developing products only to have them ripped off and copied within a month of release? Possibly, probably, but the point is this type of behavior is accepted and not against Chinese law at all.
Be careful in labelling a business practice as "illegitimate" before considering that acceptable behavior varies greatly between different regions and cultures. Hell, just consider that in the U.S. alone there is a sizeable number of people who don't see anything wrong with copyright infringement. Some even call for copyrights to be abolished altogether, or at least heavily limited. The fact is when you have a law that is being violated on a regular basis by a sizeable percentage of the population, the law is simply wrong and should be modified or struck down altogether. I don't think anyone can really stand on a moral high ground and point fingers at TPB for being "illegitimate" when the law is doing more harm to people than copyright infringers are.
Ok, no one is entitled to an ability to raise cattle for sale to the public profitably.
What the fuck? Is this Soviet Russia, or the U.S., supposed home of the free? It's getting harder and harder to tell the difference these days with people like you running your mouth. You're god damn right every man has the right to raise cattle (or operate any other reasonable, commonplace enterprise) without being strangled out of business by ridiculous regulations.
Their is no inherent value to society in the continued existence of unsafe farms just because they are smaller.
Ridiculous. There is nothing about small farms that makes them "unsafe." If anything, it's the ridiculously huge mega farms that are often causing unsafe conditions by cutting corners to squeeze every dime out of the farm. This legislation is feel good bullshit that won't do a damn thing to actually improve safety. One thing it will do for sure is drive nails in the coffins of poor farmers that are already struggling to get by.
The little farms are not really competition, what is 10 head compared to 1,000 head really?
Well for every mega-farm with a thousand cattle, there's a thousand smaller farms with ten (or more) cattle. 94% of the nation's farms are small farms, those grossing less than $250k per year.
Besides, the point of these tags is... to minimize the potential spread of all sorts of infection between cattle as well as between cattle and humans. One of the more problematic infections that crops up periodically is Hoof and Mouth... Any farm with a confirmed case of Hoof and mouth is immediately quaranteened and depopulated with the Government buying all of the animals at well below market value.
If it's that dangerous, then how are the RFID tags going to solve anything? Are you going to risk only culling 10% of the herd when one comes up with hoof and mouth, just because your magic RFID reader says that "should" be all that is needed? This is a false sense of security. What happens when a neglectful farmer (or other individual involved with reading RFID tags) fucks up or slacks off on his job, or worse yet, fudges numbers to make it appear that the infection is limited when in fact it's widespread? So they cull part of the herd and unknowingly send other infected cattle off to the slaughterhouse. The only way to be SURE is to test each of the cattle--or to simply kill them all off, which is cheaper and easier in the end anyway.
In short, once again: this legislation will do NOTHING to improve safety, while at the same time tacking on a bunch of unnecessary bullshit red tape to what ought to be a simple profession, thus driving half the small farm owners out of business. Great move, assholes!
And what the hell is wrong with FTP? It's a very fast, convenient, widely supported, relatively reliable way to transfer files from one place to another.
Please give up now. This is the second time you have tried and failed to properly interpret the GP's well reasoned and sound argument. The second time around you now quote him and modify it so that it does not mean anything like what the GP said. The GP is absolutely correct, but I have a question. If the pitot tubes were frozen and the computer thought the plane was going much slower than it actually was, could the computers have thought it was about to stall and automatically increased engine power to compensate?
If so, I can easily see where this could have resulted in an aircraft overspeed condition. Computers are great, but they are not infallible. Just like on an automobile if the O2 sensor dies. It might fail and read full lean, causing the engine computer to add a ton of fuel and making it run pig rich, or vice versa. When you allow them to make decisions based on sensor readings then you better damn sure build in redundancy, because when the sensor fails the computer is going to make some crazy decisions. I would assume that the Airbus does have double or triple redundancy for the airspeed sensors, but who knows, they could have ALL frozen up in the storm.
Everything seems to be misreading the quote. What he is saying is, if in the event that some rogue admins stage a coup and seize control of the system at the expense of the users, then he wants to ensure that a normal user can still regain control of the system. To that end his 'su' utility does not prevent anyone from using it based on their group membership (or lack thereof.) If a user has file permissions to execute the program--i.e. a normal user--then they also have permission to su to root, provided they know the password. Stallman's thinking is that the password most likely wont remain a complete secret, and that it may be leaked by someone sympathetic to the users, thus enabling them to regain control.
What I fail to understand is why a user couldn't simply log in as root directly from the login prompt, bypassing su completely. Or the admins could get around it completely by creating a new group and ensuring only users in that group have file permissions to access su. Maybe that's why the man page for su no longer has any reference to this quote.
I reject the premise that the world is broken to the point that we need to leave it.
Nobody is making that claim. The point of establishing off-world colonies is so that all of our eggs are not in one basket if some huge unforeseen natural (or man made) disaster were to occur. Obviously just because we put 10 people on Mars won't mean that we've done our job and the race is saved from disaster, but that is only a first step towards have millions of off worlders with enough resources and self sufficiency to make it if Earth blinked out of existence one day.
Your argument is essentially correct, but you are blaming the wrong thing. The Islamic Republic of Iran, Cuba, Afghanistan, Iraq, and others are how they are today (fucked up) because of American intervention, yes. That doesn't mean that American intervention is inherently wrong, it just means that the short sighted idiots in power are going about it the wrong way.
Afghanistan and Iraq are both replete with examples of everything going smoothly until the U.S. makes catastrophically bad errors in judgment that fuck everything up, over and over and over again. Actually that mainly applies to Iraq as there was only one really big error in judgment that fucked Afghanistan over, and that was the decision to cut back forces and funding in Afghanistan and send it all to Iraq. We could have been over and done with Afghanistan by now. The Taliban were gone, out of power, defeated. Now they're back and they have been getting stronger every year. Places that were once safe for a Westerner to walk around in public are now Taliban strongholds. Provinces that have ALWAYS been secure since the outset are now being overrun by Taliban. An Afghan populace that was almost unanimously supportive of us is now growing more and more resentful of the corrupt government/military/police we have put in place, and the civilians being killed by poor intelligence and/or poorly planned attacks--or just plain bad luck.
Thankfully, we can still win. This is not Iraq, and everything is different here. Obama is doubling the size of U.S. forces, starting with marines and special forces, and that will help tremendously. One of the main problems in Afghanistan has simply been lack of funding and resources. While troops in Iraq were living in apartment buildings, troops on the largest, nicest bases in Afghanistan were in cramped plywood huts and tents. Outlying bases in dangerous areas simply don't have enough troops or manpower to accomplish their missions. The country has been neglected for years despite commanders' pleas for more funding and resources. Now we're paying the price, and you can thank the Bush administration for this situation.
If better decisions had been made, Afghanistan would be a stable, peaceful Democratic country today, and Iraq probably would be as well. American intervention can work, but intervening in a country is a big thing. You had better get your cards in order before you play in this game. We didn't and we're still paying for the price for it and cleaning up the fallout from the mistakes we made back in the 70s and 80s.
Thankfully, the information age changes everything. Politicians are now exposed and held accountable for their actions. It's a lot harder to hide your covert actions in a country when some local takes video of it and puts it up on Youtube. We've also learned a lot from our prior fuckups and I'd like to think our government is making better decisions today when it comes to this sort of thing, especially since we outed the old fuckups from office and put much more promising leaders in. We are only seeing the beginning of the huge improvements the information age is bringing to the world.
English signs are very common in the middle east, especially in any place where foreigners are likely to visit (or in this case, see.) In Afghanistan for example many businesses have their name and logo printed in both Dari and English. I have seen hundreds of pics from Tehran over the past week, and in those pics I've seen many business signs in the background printed in English. 80% of the protest signs I've seen are either in Farsi and English or English alone. These are not doctored or hand picked images, these are large collections being shared amongst protestors in Iran and posted directly to the Internet.
Talking about yourself is usually bad. Never discus medical conditions. This is horrid.
No. Talking about yourself is the only way you're going to get laid. If all you do is ask questions about her and never talk about yourself or your accomplishments then you are boring and she is not going to fuck you, sorry. Of course you don't want to spend the entire conversation talking about yourself, but you DO need to talk about yourself, your positive attributes, and any interesting stories (ones which are actually interesting to other people, anyway) about things you've done or seen. If you have no interesting stories to tell or positive qualities to share, you are just another guy and there is nothing to set you apart from anyone else.
You owe the lady across from you nothing, save your gentlemanly behavior.
Gentlemanly behavior is certainly a positive trait. The problem is most nerds take it too far. Being a gentleman doesn't mean kissing your date's ass. A true gentleman simply a man with full confidence in himself and courteous ways towards others (not just women, but others such as old people, the disabled, etc.)
There is a massive amount of oil still left. Whenever we start to get close to running out of oil we will find alternative energy sources.
Yes, there is a lot of oil still left. The problem is, we burning through it at a crazy rate. We've passed peak oil, and the price is only going to continue to climb higher and higher from here on. The time to be looking for solution is NOW, not 20 years from now when the situation gets critical. As JFK said, "the time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."
To date, there is no energy source that is cheaper, more efficient and profitable other than oil.
Oil is used for a ton of different purposes, not just producing gasoline. There is no single substitute that will do everything oil does. What we need to be doing is developing sound alternatives in specific areas. Instead what we're doing is pissing money and resources away with bad ideas such as ethanol fuel, instead of investing in real solutions like building nuclear power plants, growing massive fields of hemp and using its oil for diesel fuel, etc.
I can back this up. Showering is a good way to distract your conscious mind and let your subconscious work through a problem. Another thing that works well for me is pacing.
Well, you should probably play the Linux version before passing judgment. On my Ubuntu system, I installed it from the package manager, then jumped in and started playing. I did not have any of the problems you described. I guess the OS X port just sucks.
I have played Nexuiz quite a bit. I found it in Ubuntu's applications catalog while browsing through looking for interesting games. It really is a fun game. The game is freakin FREE, and pretty decently done, so who gives a shit if it doesn't have some big fancy storyline or the latest in state of the art graphics? You can just jump right into it with no effort and start blasting. When you're tired of it you can just quit and start back from the same place later. It doesn't require any thought to play and have fun, and you know what? Sometimes that's 100% fine.
Casual gamers, unlike hardcore FPS gamers, don't really give a shit about a game having the 100% latest state of the art graphics, or following storylines, or that type of thing. They just want to play a fun game that they don't have to put much thought into, then when they get tired, jump up and do something else.
Now let me ask you this. If Nexuiz were bundled with Windows Vista, what percentage of people would rather play that instead of freakin Minesweeper, Hearts, etc? I bet tons of people would rather play that game. These people are casual gamers. So you see what Ubuntu is doing, by including such games in their catalog, is adding value to their product by satisfying a desire. That is just one more reason which might help persuade an average Joe to say "Sure, I'll give Linux a try." It also helps to grow the Linux "gamer" market, which also helps to make said market more attractive to other software developers, both big and small.
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You are right, but I'd like to add that a newbie should not be doing any ab routines AT ALL. Ab exercises are for people who already have muscle, not newbies who have nothing.
Ok, yes, you can't just eat what you want. However, it's not as simple as just "more calories".
Correct.
Protein builds muscle, and muscle burns more calories than fat.
Almost--protein is used to build muscle, yes, but you can only build muscles by lifting weights or other strenuous physical activity.
To the OP: the REAL solution to your problem is to find another job. 15 hours per day at work or on the road? That is ROUGH. It's not tough to fit a workout routine in there, but the real problem is getting enough sleep. (I'll get to that in a minute.) If finding another job is not an option, here's what you MUST do if you want to improve your physical condition. Even if you can't do this 100% due to your schedule, do as much of it as possible, especially changing your diet, because that alone will make a big difference.
Exercise: If you want to lose fat and look better, you need to build muscle. More muscle means a higher metabolism, because it takes a lot of energy to maintain, and thus you will enjoy much greater/easier fat loss. The only way you are going to build muscle is by lifting weights. It only takes 30-45 minutes in the gym to get a good day's workout if you don't dick around and waste time. You can easily do this on your lunch break instead of eating lunch. (Read down below to see what to do about food.) You only need to work out 3-4 days per week. Every other day is an excellent, easy schedule that can't fail. More is generally NOT better because your goal is to stimulate your muscles to grow, not destroy them beyond your body's ability to repair them between workouts.
A workout routine is hard at first, not only because you have no muscle to speak of, but because you don't yet know a damn thing about effective workout routines. (Don't feel bad; most people I see at the gym don't either.) You can learn a lot on the net (and I certainly suggest you read up as much as possible) but it will still take you at least 6 months of working out to really "learn" your body and see what it responds to. It really is a continuous learning process, but with some basic research you can be seeing results in as little as 2 weeks, and it only gets better from there. I would suggest reading tmuscle.com. Here's a couple great articles to get you started:
http://www.tmuscle.com/free_online_article/sports_body_training_performance/training_for_newbies_part_1
http://www.tmuscle.com/free_online_article/sports_body_training_performance/training_for_newbies_part_2
Here's the main thing to keep in mind: as a newbie, you need to concentrate on doing compound exercises, that is, exercises which target a number of muscles instead of just one. This means DO NOT use machines, use free weights and cables only. Again, this will be difficult because there are hundreds of muscles on your body that need a lot of work, but stick with it and you'll be glad you did. You don't have to become a professional body builder or anything. Just build a decent amount of muscle; not only will you lose fat but you will just plain all around look and feel much better.
Sleep: Your muscles don't grow when you're exercising, they grow while you're asleep. You need to get a FULL night's rest every night. If you can't wake up on your own without an alarm clock when it's time to get up, then you are not getting enough sleep. I hope you're one of those people who feels fully rested after 6 hours of sleep, because if you're like me and you require 9-10 hours of sleep, then you're pretty much screwed since you just don't have enough time.
Diet: This is THE most important part of staying in shape. You should eat a small meal every 2-3 hours, instead of a few large meals through the day. By small, I mean something as simple as a pint of chocolate milk makes an exc
What average desktop PC really needs anywhere near 3 GB of ram? 1 GB is just fine for most purposes on XP, or even 512 MB really, and plenty for Linux. It would be ridiculous and stupid for Microsoft to exclusively support a 64-bit version when 64-bit computers are still a LONG way from becoming the majority. 32 bit systems are going to be around for a LONG time to come, because in 98% of cases 64-bit does not benefit at all, and it breaks many applications to boot.
No, I want states to tax based on where the fact that the product is shipped to a consumer in that state.
Well, I can see a problem with this approach. What if I live in Alaska (no state sales tax) and I buy a gift to ship to my cousin in California (highest state tax)--will I have to pay California sales tax on that item?
What if I am running a business that drop ships items to customers. Say a customer walks into my store and places an order. Since I am making an intrastate sale he has to pay tax on that item. But if I am placing the order (and drop shipping it to his address) then I will have to pay the sales tax as well. The net effect is the customer has to pay the sales tax twice because I acted as an agent for him to order an item from out of state. Is that fair?
I don't know why property taxes should pay for any of those, as opposed to say, an income tax. Again, people who don't own property in a city but commute there for jobs/shopping/nightlife act as freeloaders, profiting off the largess of condo dwellers.
Isn't that how it should be? Why shouldn't the relatively rich (property owners) carry a larger burden of keeping the civilization running than the relatively poor (non property owners)? A "fair" tax system where each person pays his "fair share" of the taxes leads to societies with rich people, poor people, and little in between. A poor person may not be able to afford to pay his fair share, so we need to cut him a break and give him a fighting chance to elevate himself into a stronger financial position. $20 ain't much to a rich guy but to a poor person that can mean the difference between eating this week and starving.
If a person is rich, that is largely because he lives in a relatively free, capitalist country that gave him (or his family) the opportunity to become rich. It is only fair that he give extra back to support the system that keeps his quality of living high. It is in the rich man's best interest to support the poor and middle class. If a poor guy can scrape by thanks to a bunch of rich guys each helping out a little bit with his tax burden, then that's one less person homeless on the streets. That's one less person dependent on welfare and other social benefits. This is a net positive for EVERYONE.
And my infrastructure pays for parks I enjoy, roads I use, schools which educate the people around me so that they don't all turn to street crime, police to deal with the ones who do, etc. Taxes buy me civilization. I'd rather not pocket a few more bucks in returning for living a life that is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
So if I'm already living a great life right now, then I don't need this Internet sales tax to keep me from living a "brutish and short" life, do I?
This is just something the politicians want cause they smell money. Well I hate to break it to you assholes, but you're not getting a dime of my money in sales taxes unless the business is in the same state. Only the Feds have the power to regulate interstate commerce.
In no other industry would this sort of business model be legitimized ...
Well, not quite. There are hundreds of perfectly legitimate Chinese manufacturing companies out there who regularly rip off competitors' products and manufacture clones for pennies on the dollar. Does this hurt the "real" legitimate businesses who spend years and lots of money developing products only to have them ripped off and copied within a month of release? Possibly, probably, but the point is this type of behavior is accepted and not against Chinese law at all.
Be careful in labelling a business practice as "illegitimate" before considering that acceptable behavior varies greatly between different regions and cultures. Hell, just consider that in the U.S. alone there is a sizeable number of people who don't see anything wrong with copyright infringement. Some even call for copyrights to be abolished altogether, or at least heavily limited. The fact is when you have a law that is being violated on a regular basis by a sizeable percentage of the population, the law is simply wrong and should be modified or struck down altogether. I don't think anyone can really stand on a moral high ground and point fingers at TPB for being "illegitimate" when the law is doing more harm to people than copyright infringers are.
Ok, no one is entitled to an ability to raise cattle for sale to the public profitably.
What the fuck? Is this Soviet Russia, or the U.S., supposed home of the free? It's getting harder and harder to tell the difference these days with people like you running your mouth. You're god damn right every man has the right to raise cattle (or operate any other reasonable, commonplace enterprise) without being strangled out of business by ridiculous regulations.
Their is no inherent value to society in the continued existence of unsafe farms just because they are smaller.
Ridiculous. There is nothing about small farms that makes them "unsafe." If anything, it's the ridiculously huge mega farms that are often causing unsafe conditions by cutting corners to squeeze every dime out of the farm. This legislation is feel good bullshit that won't do a damn thing to actually improve safety. One thing it will do for sure is drive nails in the coffins of poor farmers that are already struggling to get by.
The little farms are not really competition, what is 10 head compared to 1,000 head really?
Well for every mega-farm with a thousand cattle, there's a thousand smaller farms with ten (or more) cattle. 94% of the nation's farms are small farms, those grossing less than $250k per year.
Besides, the point of these tags is ... to minimize the potential spread of all sorts of infection between cattle as well as between cattle and humans. One of the more problematic infections that crops up periodically is Hoof and Mouth ... Any farm with a confirmed case of Hoof and mouth is immediately quaranteened and depopulated with the Government buying all of the animals at well below market value.
If it's that dangerous, then how are the RFID tags going to solve anything? Are you going to risk only culling 10% of the herd when one comes up with hoof and mouth, just because your magic RFID reader says that "should" be all that is needed? This is a false sense of security. What happens when a neglectful farmer (or other individual involved with reading RFID tags) fucks up or slacks off on his job, or worse yet, fudges numbers to make it appear that the infection is limited when in fact it's widespread? So they cull part of the herd and unknowingly send other infected cattle off to the slaughterhouse. The only way to be SURE is to test each of the cattle--or to simply kill them all off, which is cheaper and easier in the end anyway.
In short, once again: this legislation will do NOTHING to improve safety, while at the same time tacking on a bunch of unnecessary bullshit red tape to what ought to be a simple profession, thus driving half the small farm owners out of business. Great move, assholes!
And what the hell is wrong with FTP? It's a very fast, convenient, widely supported, relatively reliable way to transfer files from one place to another.
Please give up now. This is the second time you have tried and failed to properly interpret the GP's well reasoned and sound argument. The second time around you now quote him and modify it so that it does not mean anything like what the GP said. The GP is absolutely correct, but I have a question. If the pitot tubes were frozen and the computer thought the plane was going much slower than it actually was, could the computers have thought it was about to stall and automatically increased engine power to compensate?
If so, I can easily see where this could have resulted in an aircraft overspeed condition. Computers are great, but they are not infallible. Just like on an automobile if the O2 sensor dies. It might fail and read full lean, causing the engine computer to add a ton of fuel and making it run pig rich, or vice versa. When you allow them to make decisions based on sensor readings then you better damn sure build in redundancy, because when the sensor fails the computer is going to make some crazy decisions. I would assume that the Airbus does have double or triple redundancy for the airspeed sensors, but who knows, they could have ALL frozen up in the storm.
Everything seems to be misreading the quote. What he is saying is, if in the event that some rogue admins stage a coup and seize control of the system at the expense of the users, then he wants to ensure that a normal user can still regain control of the system. To that end his 'su' utility does not prevent anyone from using it based on their group membership (or lack thereof.) If a user has file permissions to execute the program--i.e. a normal user--then they also have permission to su to root, provided they know the password. Stallman's thinking is that the password most likely wont remain a complete secret, and that it may be leaked by someone sympathetic to the users, thus enabling them to regain control.
What I fail to understand is why a user couldn't simply log in as root directly from the login prompt, bypassing su completely. Or the admins could get around it completely by creating a new group and ensuring only users in that group have file permissions to access su. Maybe that's why the man page for su no longer has any reference to this quote.
I reject the premise that the world is broken to the point that we need to leave it.
Nobody is making that claim. The point of establishing off-world colonies is so that all of our eggs are not in one basket if some huge unforeseen natural (or man made) disaster were to occur. Obviously just because we put 10 people on Mars won't mean that we've done our job and the race is saved from disaster, but that is only a first step towards have millions of off worlders with enough resources and self sufficiency to make it if Earth blinked out of existence one day.
Nobody uses one way satellite internet anymore. That is very rare. Most services are bidirectional.
It really does not take a lot of power to hit a satellite, and can be done with standard antenna with a handheld device.
Your argument is essentially correct, but you are blaming the wrong thing. The Islamic Republic of Iran, Cuba, Afghanistan, Iraq, and others are how they are today (fucked up) because of American intervention, yes. That doesn't mean that American intervention is inherently wrong, it just means that the short sighted idiots in power are going about it the wrong way.
Afghanistan and Iraq are both replete with examples of everything going smoothly until the U.S. makes catastrophically bad errors in judgment that fuck everything up, over and over and over again. Actually that mainly applies to Iraq as there was only one really big error in judgment that fucked Afghanistan over, and that was the decision to cut back forces and funding in Afghanistan and send it all to Iraq. We could have been over and done with Afghanistan by now. The Taliban were gone, out of power, defeated. Now they're back and they have been getting stronger every year. Places that were once safe for a Westerner to walk around in public are now Taliban strongholds. Provinces that have ALWAYS been secure since the outset are now being overrun by Taliban. An Afghan populace that was almost unanimously supportive of us is now growing more and more resentful of the corrupt government/military/police we have put in place, and the civilians being killed by poor intelligence and/or poorly planned attacks--or just plain bad luck.
Thankfully, we can still win. This is not Iraq, and everything is different here. Obama is doubling the size of U.S. forces, starting with marines and special forces, and that will help tremendously. One of the main problems in Afghanistan has simply been lack of funding and resources. While troops in Iraq were living in apartment buildings, troops on the largest, nicest bases in Afghanistan were in cramped plywood huts and tents. Outlying bases in dangerous areas simply don't have enough troops or manpower to accomplish their missions. The country has been neglected for years despite commanders' pleas for more funding and resources. Now we're paying the price, and you can thank the Bush administration for this situation.
If better decisions had been made, Afghanistan would be a stable, peaceful Democratic country today, and Iraq probably would be as well. American intervention can work, but intervening in a country is a big thing. You had better get your cards in order before you play in this game. We didn't and we're still paying for the price for it and cleaning up the fallout from the mistakes we made back in the 70s and 80s.
Thankfully, the information age changes everything. Politicians are now exposed and held accountable for their actions. It's a lot harder to hide your covert actions in a country when some local takes video of it and puts it up on Youtube. We've also learned a lot from our prior fuckups and I'd like to think our government is making better decisions today when it comes to this sort of thing, especially since we outed the old fuckups from office and put much more promising leaders in. We are only seeing the beginning of the huge improvements the information age is bringing to the world.
English signs are very common in the middle east, especially in any place where foreigners are likely to visit (or in this case, see.) In Afghanistan for example many businesses have their name and logo printed in both Dari and English. I have seen hundreds of pics from Tehran over the past week, and in those pics I've seen many business signs in the background printed in English. 80% of the protest signs I've seen are either in Farsi and English or English alone. These are not doctored or hand picked images, these are large collections being shared amongst protestors in Iran and posted directly to the Internet.
If one is a typical geek who's having trouble getting laid, I don't think it's good to be TOO damn picky about one's women.
Talking about yourself is usually bad. Never discus medical conditions. This is horrid.
No. Talking about yourself is the only way you're going to get laid. If all you do is ask questions about her and never talk about yourself or your accomplishments then you are boring and she is not going to fuck you, sorry. Of course you don't want to spend the entire conversation talking about yourself, but you DO need to talk about yourself, your positive attributes, and any interesting stories (ones which are actually interesting to other people, anyway) about things you've done or seen. If you have no interesting stories to tell or positive qualities to share, you are just another guy and there is nothing to set you apart from anyone else.
You owe the lady across from you nothing, save your gentlemanly behavior.
Gentlemanly behavior is certainly a positive trait. The problem is most nerds take it too far. Being a gentleman doesn't mean kissing your date's ass. A true gentleman simply a man with full confidence in himself and courteous ways towards others (not just women, but others such as old people, the disabled, etc.)
Then start lifting weights and eating right
That's not ADD, that's a hearing impairment called CAPD.
There is a massive amount of oil still left. Whenever we start to get close to running out of oil we will find alternative energy sources.
Yes, there is a lot of oil still left. The problem is, we burning through it at a crazy rate. We've passed peak oil, and the price is only going to continue to climb higher and higher from here on. The time to be looking for solution is NOW, not 20 years from now when the situation gets critical. As JFK said, "the time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."
To date, there is no energy source that is cheaper, more efficient and profitable other than oil.
Oil is used for a ton of different purposes, not just producing gasoline. There is no single substitute that will do everything oil does. What we need to be doing is developing sound alternatives in specific areas. Instead what we're doing is pissing money and resources away with bad ideas such as ethanol fuel, instead of investing in real solutions like building nuclear power plants, growing massive fields of hemp and using its oil for diesel fuel, etc.
I can back this up. Showering is a good way to distract your conscious mind and let your subconscious work through a problem. Another thing that works well for me is pacing.
Well, if there is, I sure haven't found it. I think a lot faster than I write, speak, read, or listen.
Well, you should probably play the Linux version before passing judgment. On my Ubuntu system, I installed it from the package manager, then jumped in and started playing. I did not have any of the problems you described. I guess the OS X port just sucks.
Gentoo
That ought to keep them busy for a while
I have played Nexuiz quite a bit. I found it in Ubuntu's applications catalog while browsing through looking for interesting games. It really is a fun game. The game is freakin FREE, and pretty decently done, so who gives a shit if it doesn't have some big fancy storyline or the latest in state of the art graphics? You can just jump right into it with no effort and start blasting. When you're tired of it you can just quit and start back from the same place later. It doesn't require any thought to play and have fun, and you know what? Sometimes that's 100% fine.
Casual gamers, unlike hardcore FPS gamers, don't really give a shit about a game having the 100% latest state of the art graphics, or following storylines, or that type of thing. They just want to play a fun game that they don't have to put much thought into, then when they get tired, jump up and do something else.
Now let me ask you this. If Nexuiz were bundled with Windows Vista, what percentage of people would rather play that instead of freakin Minesweeper, Hearts, etc? I bet tons of people would rather play that game. These people are casual gamers. So you see what Ubuntu is doing, by including such games in their catalog, is adding value to their product by satisfying a desire. That is just one more reason which might help persuade an average Joe to say "Sure, I'll give Linux a try." It also helps to grow the Linux "gamer" market, which also helps to make said market more attractive to other software developers, both big and small.