Hey there, it was great working with you. We haven't spoke much in the last 10 years because life has become busy, but it was great to have worked with you in the early days, getting Slashcode 1.0 and then 2.0 released, trying to find ways to cache before memcached, removing the variable "$shit" from the code-- those were the days. I know it must be incredibly hard to come to a close for something you created. Good luck with whatever you do!
I'm part owner of a wireless broadband provider. We use Alvarion equipment to deliver high speed internet from a local mountain top in southern New Hampshire. Much better than satellite because the distance the signal has to travel is only 6 miles vs. 30k from a satellite, which has bad latency.
If you can get a leased line, look at splitting up the costs by then being a small community broadband provider, as one of my partners did prior to us merging with his company.
The Varnashram-Dharma system was originally meant to be by propensity, not by birth-right. By qualification. But this is Khali-yuga, and just as everything good has been perverted, so to has this system, into an abusive system that is used to exploit. What a shame, because one of the foundations of the great Vedic Culture is lost. Outsiders and opponents of this system are arguing against what it is now, a false image of Varna. Furthermore, it is perpetuated in its current form by those who hide behind the cloak of calling it, as it is now, Vedic Culture, which it is not.
Also, foolish, so-called academics (mudhas) with western prejudices concoct a false history that light-skinned "Arayans" invaded India and forced this system upon dark-skinned Dravidians. They propose that the inhabitants of the subcontinent could have never come up with any system on their own.
In closing, the argument against those who think Varna is by birth could be that some people say "I am Brahmin because I was born into a Brahmin family". If I was born into a family where my father was a doctor or astronaut, does that make me either? Avidya.
My original point is that people should do what they are good at, whether it's a rocket scientist or plumber, and each role is just as important to society.
Big surprise. Tell everyone they need to go to college to become engineers, scientists, lawyers, et al, not enough jobs to support that scheme. Too many Brahmins; maybe you need to balance that out with Sudras, Vaishyas, Kshatriyas as well. The body of society can't just be composed of heads. It needs feet, legs, arms, stomach, back, hands, etc, to function properly.
Maybe just maybe, having people learn trades isn't such a bad thing after all. Not everyone needs to be, or can be, white collar. Then maybe we don't have to import labor (aka Illegal Aliens) into the US.
The term 'Arayan' means people who came from the Northern part of India, those who practiced the Vedic society (Sanatana Dharma) not blonde Europeans (who in Vedic scripture were refered to as Mlechas - barbarians).
Hitler, who also hijacked the Swastika (inverted/perverted from it's real direction) as the symbol of National Socialism, was a Vedic symbol of good luck, prosperity. Just as with the Swastika, he also hijacked the term 'Arayan'. Interestingly enough, Vedic culture for the most part were vegetarians, which Hitler also was.
He probably read a bit about India and Vedic Culture, and incorporated perverted misconceptions of these ideas he fancied into his whole sick, concocted philosophy.
For the outsourcing some companies have been doing. You let some Ukrainian company design software for integral parts of your organisation's business and later get screwed by some thugs blackmailing you, well, this is one of those cases where maybe you should have paid a little more to hire domestic programmers who come from a less thugocratic society.
So, no personal transportation vehicles, but if you want to be a public nuisance, pissy-smelling-drug-addicted bum, then that's OK, and even encouraged (the city is a real bum-opolis if you've never been there - cities like Tucson give their bums free bus tickets to cities like SF, LA, and San Diego). Beautiful place in many ways, but also quite topsy turvey in many respects.
ah, but Maine is such a beautiful state, both states;) I live in the Monadnock area of NH, and find the Maine coast to be another one of those places to live. What do you do there? I know Belfast has HNB or whatever (the credit company) Sounds like your beyond even Acadia?
Don't feel bad - I can't get any sort of high speed access here. We have a local phone company who says I'm too far from a switch to get DSL, and the cable company says my road isn't up to cable. I tried DirecPC, but it was unuasable because of the latency. But, I suppose this comes with living in a nice remote place... Plus, These New England town townies can be kinda fuddy duddy. At least the local ISP doesn't care if I'm on line for a million hours, and it only costs $19 a month. A northern maple syrup coated version of Mayberry, right?;)
there's tons of jobs in Merrimack Valley - did you try Fidelity? I would even check in Hanover (Dartmouth) with the University. Also, consider down in Mass - Westford, Andover, Burlington, Acton, Marlborough, etc... All are within a 30-60 minute commute.
Uh, as a matter of fact, the guy who submitted this article was the one who said 'intimidation tactics', not slashdot itself, or any of the authors at slashdot.
"We also wish to reach believers who truly love the Lord Jesus Christ and were derailed by the great deception which is taking place today. Many are unwittingly caught up in the ecumenical "unity in diversity" movement which originated with Pope John Paul II. With the event of Vatican II in 1962, the Popes began efforts to reconcile Islam, Buddhists, Hindus, Mormons and any and all religions."
So, anyone that's not of your belief is in a cult, hugh? I dunno, but that kind of close-mindedness pegs my cult-o-meter more than anything else.
There is a lot of anti LDS ranting in the comments - this is nothing other than a community that has some laws reflecting the local community. Rockport Mass is a dry town. 80% of Mass is Catholic, and used to have blue laws on the books. This is hardly falling into "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion". Parts of Arkansas are dry, but then they have drive through liquor stores right over the border in Texas. Utah simply happens to be pretty much a dry state. I wouldn't expect Nevada to close down the Moonlight Bunny Ranch because I'm offended by sex workers any more than I'd expect Utah to have a bunch of cheesy liquor stores. Hmmm, I think I might like that better than living in Paramus NJ. Tech workers aren't alchies anyways.
You know, the LDS church is quite tolerant - they helped provide some funding to build an ISKCON (Hare Krishna) temple in Provo!!!! BYU students and others even helped in the construction of the temple and visit there quite often in interfaith meetings. No kidding.
So think before you get into the typical anti-religious rant. The same people who are so sensitive to other forms of bashing - gay bashing and race bashing, seem to find it ok to bash on traditional values followers.
Be consistant for crying out loud!
By the way, I follow the Gita, and am not a Mormon or other Judeo Christian follower.
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Hey there, it was great working with you. We haven't spoke much in the last 10 years because life has become busy, but it was great to have worked with you in the early days, getting Slashcode 1.0 and then 2.0 released, trying to find ways to cache before memcached, removing the variable "$shit" from the code-- those were the days. I know it must be incredibly hard to come to a close for something you created. Good luck with whatever you do!
I could use some Yerba Mate. Writing books is exhausting, and I will soon be done. I will be able to sleep. Hooray!
I'm glad to have triggered some discussion here. I just want to improve MySQL, that's all.
I'm part owner of a wireless broadband provider. We use Alvarion equipment to deliver high speed internet from a local mountain top in southern New Hampshire. Much better than satellite because the distance the signal has to travel is only 6 miles vs. 30k from a satellite, which has bad latency.
If you can get a leased line, look at splitting up the costs by then being a small community broadband provider, as one of my partners did prior to us merging with his company.
The Varnashram-Dharma system was originally meant to be by propensity, not by birth-right. By qualification. But this is Khali-yuga, and just as everything good has been perverted, so to has this system, into an abusive system that is used to exploit. What a shame, because one of the foundations of the great Vedic Culture is lost. Outsiders and opponents of this system are arguing against what it is now, a false image of Varna. Furthermore, it is perpetuated in its current form by those who hide behind the cloak of calling it, as it is now, Vedic Culture, which it is not.
Also, foolish, so-called academics (mudhas) with western prejudices concoct a false history that light-skinned "Arayans" invaded India and forced this system upon dark-skinned Dravidians. They propose that the inhabitants of the subcontinent could have never come up with any system on their own.
In closing, the argument against those who think Varna is by birth could be that some people say "I am Brahmin because I was born into a Brahmin family". If I was born into a family where my father was a doctor or astronaut, does that make me either? Avidya.
My original point is that people should do what they are good at, whether it's a rocket scientist or plumber, and each role is just as important to society.
Big surprise. Tell everyone they need to go to college to become engineers, scientists, lawyers, et al, not enough jobs to support that scheme. Too many Brahmins; maybe you need to balance that out with Sudras, Vaishyas, Kshatriyas as well. The body of society can't just be composed of heads. It needs feet, legs, arms, stomach, back, hands, etc, to function properly.
Maybe just maybe, having people learn trades isn't such a bad thing after all. Not everyone needs to be, or can be, white collar. Then maybe we don't have to import labor (aka Illegal Aliens) into the US.
The term 'Arayan' means people who came from the Northern part of India, those who practiced the Vedic society (Sanatana Dharma) not blonde Europeans (who in Vedic scripture were refered to as Mlechas - barbarians).
Hitler, who also hijacked the Swastika (inverted/perverted from it's real direction) as the symbol of National Socialism, was a Vedic symbol of good luck, prosperity. Just as with the Swastika, he also hijacked the term 'Arayan'. Interestingly enough, Vedic culture for the most part were vegetarians, which Hitler also was.
He probably read a bit about India and Vedic Culture, and incorporated perverted misconceptions of these ideas he fancied into his whole sick, concocted philosophy.
For the outsourcing some companies have been doing. You let some Ukrainian company design software for integral parts of your organisation's business and later get screwed by some thugs blackmailing you, well, this is one of those cases where maybe you should have paid a little more to hire domestic programmers who come from a less thugocratic society.
Saving a buck has its limits!
So, no personal transportation vehicles, but if you want to be a public nuisance, pissy-smelling-drug-addicted bum, then that's OK, and even encouraged (the city is a real bum-opolis if you've never been there - cities like Tucson give their bums free bus tickets to cities like SF, LA, and San Diego). Beautiful place in many ways, but also quite topsy turvey in many respects.
no difference, really. Legalese is a pain.
ah, but Maine is such a beautiful state, both states ;) I live in the Monadnock area of NH, and find the Maine coast to be another one of those places to live. What do you do there? I know Belfast has HNB or whatever (the credit company) Sounds like your beyond even Acadia?
Don't feel bad - I can't get any sort of high speed access here. We have a local phone company who says I'm too far from a switch to get DSL, and the cable company says my road isn't up to cable. I tried DirecPC, but it was unuasable because of the latency. But, I suppose this comes with living in a nice remote place... Plus, These New England town townies can be kinda fuddy duddy. At least the local ISP doesn't care if I'm on line for a million hours, and it only costs $19 a month. A northern maple syrup coated version of Mayberry, right? ;)
erector sets are what sparked my interest in all that could be deemed as geeky or technical. I have a very warm spot in my heart for erector sets.
you could use the Slash code to run the site ;) It has all the same moderation and filtering mechanisms that slashdot has.
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alot better than the Hunley ;)
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Nova Scotia? New Brunswick? Man, I really want to visit (I'm in NH). It must be really nice there.
there's tons of jobs in Merrimack Valley - did you try Fidelity? I would even check in Hanover (Dartmouth) with the University. Also, consider down in Mass - Westford, Andover, Burlington, Acton, Marlborough, etc... All are within a 30-60 minute commute.
Uh, as a matter of fact, the guy who submitted this article was the one who said 'intimidation tactics', not slashdot itself, or any of the authors at slashdot.
I for one am very conservative, but have great respect for Canada - my wife is canadian too.
Don't forget to mention when the Canadians rescued some of our hostages in Iran (I think that's where it was)
Right wing != "no respect for canadians";
South China Post, a Hong Kong paper (part of PRC btw)
From that whacked web site they state
"We also wish to reach believers who truly love the Lord Jesus Christ and were derailed by the great deception which is taking place today. Many are unwittingly caught up in the ecumenical "unity in diversity" movement which originated with Pope John Paul II. With the event of Vatican II in 1962, the Popes began efforts to reconcile Islam, Buddhists, Hindus, Mormons and any and all religions."
So, anyone that's not of your belief is in a cult, hugh? I dunno, but that kind of close-mindedness pegs my cult-o-meter more than anything else.
Hare Krishna!
no dumbass. Paul Salucci is a Catholic. And it's tax-a-two shits.
There is a lot of anti LDS ranting in the comments - this is nothing other than a community that has some laws reflecting the local community. Rockport Mass is a dry town. 80% of Mass is Catholic, and used to have blue laws on the books. This is hardly falling into "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion". Parts of Arkansas are dry, but then they have drive through liquor stores right over the border in Texas. Utah simply happens to be pretty much a dry state. I wouldn't expect Nevada to close down the Moonlight Bunny Ranch because I'm offended by sex workers any more than I'd expect Utah to have a bunch of cheesy liquor stores. Hmmm, I think I might like that better than living in Paramus NJ. Tech workers aren't alchies anyways.
You know, the LDS church is quite tolerant - they helped provide some funding to build an ISKCON (Hare Krishna) temple in Provo!!!! BYU students and others even helped in the construction of the temple and visit there quite often in interfaith meetings. No kidding.
So think before you get into the typical anti-religious rant. The same people who are so sensitive to other forms of bashing - gay bashing and race bashing, seem to find it ok to bash on traditional values followers.
Be consistant for crying out loud!
By the way, I follow the Gita, and am not a Mormon or other Judeo Christian follower.