"Our solution integrate state of the art wi-fi mesh network, landmines and a very nice, very modern LCD board with blue Leds. The Led Board has been designed by Stark to be both very lisible and at the same time integrate itself seamlessy in most urban and rural combat grounds. The Wi-Fi network allows the mines to communicate and evolve their positioning to offer maximum area protectection whithin 5 pre-defined modes and as always the possibility to evolve your own mining plan. The Wi-Fi can also be used by soldiers to browse e-mail and check their auction on ebay."
Yes, maybe I shoud have added 'girlfriend friendly" in my needs 8p
I do have a linux box, already LAMPised, a PS-2 port IR receptor that came with one HP4000 Laserjet that might be an emitter too and enough PS-2 cable to put it from the computer room("where old hardware comes to die") to the living room ("where brand new, shiny very expensive top of the line hardware never came").
And I think I can get the missup to accept one more cable running the corners.
So your solution has already be given some consideration
But I am looking for a less "nerd-ghetto-project" solution...for now
Even more when it can be more easily solved by just a 10 meters RS-MMC format IR emitter...which I didn't find anywhere....
Maybe that's where the soldering iron comes in play 8)
And the Guts needed to insert your newbie made pile of electronic into your brand new N770...
Oh, the burns ! 8p
On another hand, there are some nifty IR repeaters that can do what I want without problem. they just cost another 300-400eu.
Still not the "All in One - ready made - Ultimate Remote" I'm looking for 8(...
When I first saw the 770, I was thinking how great it would be as a "One Stop Ultimate Full Home Remote with web capability"
Wireless and all is top, but what I really wanted was a 10 meters IR in addition to the wifi and ethernet.
A nice homy tablet, allowing me to indulge in a "potato-couch" lifestyle. I could manage my VCD/DVD/TV/Video Projector, possibly some home automation tools, etc + web browsing, possibly some mail, etc.
Some remotes offer such capabilities, strong IR, web access : Phillips Pronto, around 600-800 bucks.
Now give me a Nokia 770, add a 10-15 meters IR receptor/emitter with a nice learning soft and it could become the standard gadget in most geeks houses.
Of course, stable applications, possibly a tool to automatically compile what I want (Hello Gentoo emerge !) or even better a full apt-like system, and it's golden.
Now, I didn't find a strong RS-MMC IR addon that fits the 770, so I'm nicely waiting for the "771" to be more "home centric". (yes, I know it is a "digital lyfestyle, outdoor tool", but hell, it's a GEEK tool, and we mostly spend our time indoors).
Also, give me a "waterproof" model (100% humidity, not a 2 meters deep case) with a good and intelligent media player (or something that can grab frames already decompressed by the powerfull home server and just put them on the screen from wifi) and stream MP3/ogg/Flac in addition to web-browsing and you'll have the perfect jacuzzi/hot tub companion for nerds.
Hello Mr Nokia. My consultant fee starts @ 1000$/day, and I'll be happy to cater to your needs.
What, you want to resign your comission as a scientific officer doing top-secret research for the national Biological/Nuclear/Alien warfare bureau and become a second class again ?
Well, TFA clearly shows something interesting : lots of graphic cards marked HDCP ready aren't. So there is something fishy, very possibly illegal, that must be covered by a consumer protection law.
Outright lying by a corporation is punishable, as far as I am concerned.
So I propose instead we return all the Graphic Cards marked HDCP compliant directly to Nvidia/ATI, and ask for a free working replacement + inordinate amounts of money...
Any Lawyer wanting to mount a case ? I hereby patent the idea and claim 10% of the class action trial reward money.
And 2*Nvidia 7800 GTS@512Mb as a memorandum of our fight and victory 8)
Using a "modern" cpu makes software overhead not that much of a problem, in my opinion - except when rebuilding the parity on the array after a fault.
When that happen, I hope my 2Ghz+ cpu will be more efficient than the dedicated cpu.
OTOH I intend to have the fileserver do more than just serving files, so a dedicated hardware for managing the drives can be a good idea when compiling/encoding/capturing/whatever.
Right now I'm using 3 hdds with no parity, no raid, no jbod, no security, but the server is also the Torrent downloader, web machine,...(Ubuntu, Duron 1.3 ghz, 512 Mo RAM and a Nvidia TNT2 Ultra for that extra fps on Quake linux 8p, cannot do much less in hardware power)
Next machine will be a real fileserver, possibly based on the Dual PIII 1Ghz I have sleeping all the time... I just need an additional 1.5 gig ram (120eu), 8*500gig hdds (2500eu?), a 3ware card (600eu) and a new 600W psu (100eu)...Gosh, I gonna be broke 8)
Well, lets see. Lets take the enemy point of view (korean in this case):
The guy running is a medic. He has an american uniform, insigna, gear. and a puny white arm-band with a red cross to distinguish him from the other troopers, promoting his so called 'immunity'
HE STILL IS THE ENEMY !
I mean, he's not here to help save my fellow korean fighters too, no, he's here to help "the invader" accomplish it's bastardly deeds.
=> Guilty of "Aiding and Abetting".
Red Cross docs should be wearing a specific, non-combattant gear, and should help BOTH SIDES wounded. I mean, they're NEUTRAL, yes ?
Which means that at the start of the korean war, Red Cross should have sent medics to the Koreans to help them with their wounded, even fighting korean military men.
I don't know if this happened at the time, red cross helping and saving korean field fighters on the same basis as american ones, but if you're just here to save American Lives on the combat field, you're just another of the enemy troopers, a fair target.
"in Jan 1951, I enlisted in the US Army for a three year hitch", "After Basic Training at Fort Ord I was a Medic during the Korean War"
"I started sprint down the slight incline to give him help, all decked out in my brightly colored arm band and helmet with their distinctive Red Cross to signify first aid"
Well, hello Mr Leon Thomas. You just confirmed my point. You were not a Red Cross Envoy, on a neutral mission of Peace and Goodhealth. You're just part of the American Army Logistic Chain, here to help alleviate its loss and help in its mission.
Fair Game !
You were all decked out in a brightly colored uniform ? Good for you. They shot at you during an attack ? Hey man, this IS war, you know. If you didn't want to get shot at, you should have stayed home.
Red Crosses on a Combat ground should be for Red Cross Docs only.
Military docs should evolve another set of insigna, and stop confusing combattants about who is whom.
Red Cross for wounded ppl, no matter where they come from. Military uniforms are for the combattants. You don't fight ? you don't wear a military uniform. And NO, wearing an arm-band and a helmet with a red cross doesn't alleviate your appartenance to the US military, aka the ENEMY./cynicism
I agree with you. People speaking of the "civilized warfare" either never put a foot on an actual combat ground, or did it 25 years ago and only have a glorified memory of it. They just forgot the sweat, blood, horror and general de-humanizing of War.
War brings out the best and the worst out of human beings. War is awful. Except for the ones mandating it...
"Following the incredible reversal in the "Google vs DoJ" case, the Supreme court confirmed that kids watching porn is all right as long as it is kids porn.
Sesame Street is the first to react with the DVD (thought lost) title "Frogs'n Sow - Peggy Gets It !"
On other news, the pope died of a heart attack while watching what he thought were Sesame Streets Re-run, and GW Bush commited seppuku with a preztel on seeing the show.
Now the Dow-Jones, with the barrel @ 199$, the Emirates decided to buy the US of A..."
Do I really need to put a "/laugh, it's funny" marker ? 8p
"Dem Frohlichen Zecher Den Vollen Becher" "The Merry Memories of the full Pot (of beer)" it's quite nice in german, in the funny/puny variety
My sig could translate as : "Friendly Study Group of Beer and Spirits Varieties"
It's the name given to the group of friends I was belonging to when I worked in Germany. Nice Party friends actually, nice memories too 8) everyone could have "his/her" personnal pint/mug. good ambiance...
"I guess it's easier to solve the problems of the world than it is to solve your own"
Well yes, it's the same everywhere...
Empires comes and go.
With luck this one will be "good" and prevail, or keep being "bad" and will fail. Business as usual on planet earth.
I've been to America quite a few times, and I must say I love the place, and even the original spirit.
The problem I have is more of the image I get from medias and from historical studies. Medias show me a "nice" view of America, Historical/political study a quite dark face...
Think Scarface also doing charities... And the original spirit more a dream that never fully came to existence
It's just I was raised in a Cold war system, with the Good and the Evil, and as I'm growing, I'm asking myself if both will not end the same...
The problem is the same in my country : Constitution gives you "Inalterable Rights", and common law cancels quite a lot of them, mostly for political/economical reasons...
The problem is not how to live, but where to live free within reasonable limits.
Ok, I stop the gloomy introspection. White and Black don't exist as moral values. Alas, Grey looks much more messy 8)
"To live Happy, live Hidden" (Chateaubriand - Memoires d'outre-tombe) is confirming itself all the time, how cynical...
I always prefered : "Men build too many walls, and not enough bridges" (Albert Einstein)
I added you to my friends list also, too happy to meet a seemingly sane human being 8p
I didn't really want to start a flame war, and got 1 insighful and 2 Trolls for my post... Well, mods be mods 8)
I agree on a lot of what you say, and I think you are 100% right on the One Planet.
There are a few things I don't like in the USA, politically... The biggest one is "Our Mission : America to Save the World"
Nice, really... The problem is that we hear and see "It's for your own Good, do what daddy says", and it always end "do what I say, not what I do".
We do have the same political bias in Europe, everyone is there to grab some power and money to go with it. We just don't seem to export misery as well as the USA do.
Europe had a long history of invasions, political coups, etc, we just don't do it so much anymore.
The USA has the very same history, only it's much more recent, and seems to be going on forever in that bloody path (don't get me started on that one, that the stuff of Flame Wars !).
The USA have the habit of "looking forward" historicaly, which is good only when you use the past to reflect on future actions.
The "one God, One country" might be on the microscopic scale of things, it's just that it is reminiscent of the Nazis and ultra-left communists. Any Means for the End !
I'm not crazy enough to ask for morality in politics. I'm just growing a bit bored of the "it's for your own good" part.
Maybe we do need a global menace to unite the world. "How to serve Man" is a very good one, for it would force us to unite as humans agains aliens, and not against other humans as happens now. Maybe it's the best that could happen if we don't want to live "1984".
"Yes, we just put out a new contract that allows our web-directory to be accessed faster on your network, for the benefit of your customers...
The entry fee is just 1 million dollars, and then just 10 cents for each connection and 1 cents per minute after that.
You have to take a contract for one year minimum, cannot cancel it unless ready to spend a fortune in telephone time and possibly an attorney, and we put you on a reconduction by default mode with a 18 month pre-cancel delay...
Ah yes, and Johnny, the one who was working as a contract lawyer with you for the last 10 years, remember him ? Yes ! Well, he just joined us... He says "Hi !"
We just don't trust the American Government... you know, the one promoting the 'One Planet, One God, One Country, and the Holy Dollar to bind them all'
iron, better than almost anything else
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With exception of copper.
Which is what is used in the best french restaurants in France.
The main problems with copper is the "maintenance" : it's hard to clean, and has to be polished quite often. But it has the best conduction for cooking, with a nice even diffusion.
Also you cannot as yet use them on induction stoves (as far as I know...I'm not that much a cookware geek)
Induction is top for a few application : boiling water under 30 seconds, changing temperature of your pan really fast...
Induction IS top hardware when you have no gas, because your alternative is the bland electrical stove
But then I learned to cook on a gas stove, and grandma showed me how to cook with copper hardware, so I'm not willing to change until I have to move to a flat with no gas pipe.
And I'm using "Tefal" Teflon coated iron pans, because I don't want to spend one hour dishwashing every night.
But I still think copper and gas are the best combination.
I seem to remember a human being has a "limiter" in his cortex, that stops him to use 100% strengh at all time...
Remember the stories of a mother lifting a car because her offspring was under it ? Remember that barrier you jumped after being frightened by a snake ?
It all happened because your body pumped large doses of adrenaline in your body...
Which is also one of the things oriental martial arts study tech you to bypass...
Hard studies in Kung Fu (and Yin techniques) allow you to do just that...put more adrenaline in your system at will.
The problem is twofold : you only have so much adrenaline available for immediate use, and you r body isn't engeenered to support long period of intensive "Boost Mode" for long periods...
Onca again, training can help...
Redesigning the rib cage would mean quite feat...and you first have to find a better design...
I quite like the versatility of our actual bodies... It's just the necessary "maintenance" (training) that is a bit hard on me...
I still remember losing a day and a night, and going through 3 Dell techs checking the server because of bad ram...
Yes, we tested the ram of the server many times, they even changed it twice.
It was only after 20+hours of checking that someone had the marvelous idea of checking the ram ON THE RAID CONTROLLER. And yes, it was faulty...
Guess what...there were no tools allowing you to test it directly on the controller, you have to reseat it on a computer and then run memtest or whatever....
Also, your video card do have RAM... Any tool to check that RAM ?....
Like a nice audioblog with nice mp3s of the aforementioned teacher droning on...
If he's as bad as advertised, that should be enough...
Only next time, make it personnal, with names, quotes, unfounded rumors, incriminating pictures of the teacher cleaning his nose with dental apparatus...
Just remember : Keep it anonymous, Add a nice "This Blog is under protection of the first Amendment", and an EULA explicitly mentionning that anyone suing you because of it agrees to lose the judgement, pay 10 times your attorney fees and let you have an option on both their souls and their teeth. Also, they agree to only consult with you for all dental problems they might encounter, and you agree to treat them only with the best medieval techniques...
Even if you somehow lose, you can still have sweet revenge...
Damn, he says he can do it again and prove himself ?
Give the man a lab, the original cell strains, and a month to prove himself under supervision.
If he can do it, he gets the Nobel, Fame and excuses from the community. If he can't, he has to build shoes or licence plates in a prison until he reimbursed the experiment and paid his time. And he presents excuses to the community.
Problem solved. Next Case, quick, I don't have all day...
Slashdot Mirror
Lets See...
"Our solution integrate state of the art wi-fi mesh network, landmines and a very nice, very modern LCD board with blue Leds. The Led Board has been designed by Stark to be both very lisible and at the same time integrate itself seamlessy in most urban and rural combat grounds. The Wi-Fi network allows the mines to communicate and evolve their positioning to offer maximum area protectection whithin 5 pre-defined modes and as always the possibility to evolve your own mining plan. The Wi-Fi can also be used by soldiers to browse e-mail and check their auction on ebay."
etc, ad nauseatum.
Now lets see about the takeover bid for Maria's As*
Sorry, I know, it was too easy 8p
Well, you give them a shot, or shoot them...
When all you intend to use is a 12 gauge rifle, every problem looks like a rabid dog 8p
and fun. thank you for the laugh 8)
Yes, maybe I shoud have added 'girlfriend friendly" in my needs 8p
I do have a linux box, already LAMPised, a PS-2 port IR receptor that came with one HP4000 Laserjet that might be an emitter too and enough PS-2 cable to put it from the computer room("where old hardware comes to die") to the living room ("where brand new, shiny very expensive top of the line hardware never came").
And I think I can get the missup to accept one more cable running the corners.
So your solution has already be given some consideration
But I am looking for a less "nerd-ghetto-project" solution...for now
Even more when it can be more easily solved by just a 10 meters RS-MMC format IR emitter...which I didn't find anywhere....
Maybe that's where the soldering iron comes in play 8)
And the Guts needed to insert your newbie made pile of electronic into your brand new N770...
Oh, the burns ! 8p
On another hand, there are some nifty IR repeaters that can do what I want without problem. they just cost another 300-400eu.
Still not the "All in One - ready made - Ultimate Remote" I'm looking for 8(...
When I first saw the 770, I was thinking how great it would be as a "One Stop Ultimate Full Home Remote with web capability"
Wireless and all is top, but what I really wanted was a 10 meters IR in addition to the wifi and ethernet.
A nice homy tablet, allowing me to indulge in a "potato-couch" lifestyle. I could manage my VCD/DVD/TV/Video Projector, possibly some home automation tools, etc + web browsing, possibly some mail, etc.
Some remotes offer such capabilities, strong IR, web access : Phillips Pronto, around 600-800 bucks.
Now give me a Nokia 770, add a 10-15 meters IR receptor/emitter with a nice learning soft and it could become the standard gadget in most geeks houses.
Of course, stable applications, possibly a tool to automatically compile what I want (Hello Gentoo emerge !) or even better a full apt-like system, and it's golden.
Now, I didn't find a strong RS-MMC IR addon that fits the 770, so I'm nicely waiting for the "771" to be more "home centric". (yes, I know it is a "digital lyfestyle, outdoor tool", but hell, it's a GEEK tool, and we mostly spend our time indoors).
Also, give me a "waterproof" model (100% humidity, not a 2 meters deep case) with a good and intelligent media player (or something that can grab frames already decompressed by the powerfull home server and just put them on the screen from wifi) and stream MP3/ogg/Flac in addition to web-browsing and you'll have the perfect jacuzzi/hot tub companion for nerds.
Hello Mr Nokia. My consultant fee starts @ 1000$/day, and I'll be happy to cater to your needs.
What, you want to resign your comission as a scientific officer doing top-secret research for the national Biological/Nuclear/Alien warfare bureau and become a second class again ?
Damn, that's what I call courage...
Well, TFA clearly shows something interesting : lots of graphic cards marked HDCP ready aren't.
So there is something fishy, very possibly illegal, that must be covered by a consumer protection law.
Outright lying by a corporation is punishable, as far as I am concerned.
So I propose instead we return all the Graphic Cards marked HDCP compliant directly to Nvidia/ATI, and ask for a free working replacement + inordinate amounts of money...
Any Lawyer wanting to mount a case ? I hereby patent the idea and claim 10% of the class action trial reward money.
And 2*Nvidia 7800 GTS@512Mb as a memorandum of our fight and victory 8)
Using a "modern" cpu makes software overhead not that much of a problem, in my opinion - except when rebuilding the parity on the array after a fault.
...(Ubuntu, Duron 1.3 ghz, 512 Mo RAM and a Nvidia TNT2 Ultra for that extra fps on Quake linux 8p, cannot do much less in hardware power)
When that happen, I hope my 2Ghz+ cpu will be more efficient than the dedicated cpu.
OTOH I intend to have the fileserver do more than just serving files, so a dedicated hardware for managing the drives can be a good idea when compiling/encoding/capturing/whatever.
Right now I'm using 3 hdds with no parity, no raid, no jbod, no security, but the server is also the Torrent downloader, web machine,
Next machine will be a real fileserver, possibly based on the Dual PIII 1Ghz I have sleeping all the time... I just need an additional 1.5 gig ram (120eu), 8*500gig hdds (2500eu?), a 3ware card (600eu) and a new 600W psu (100eu)...Gosh, I gonna be broke 8)
I thought of RAID6, but the card doesn't seem to support it natively....
Damn, that guy just got me thinking at my next fileserver 8)
Not a "Super Card", but 3ware is the brand you want to see : http://www.3ware.com/products/index.asp
I think they have a model up to 16 drives, but you should look at the 9550SX-8LP, 8 drive ATA controller.
For SATA : model 8506-8
Up to 8 Serial ATA
0,1,10,5, JBOD
Departmental Servers, Security and Surveillance, Disk-to-Disk Backup...Raid 10 on two arrays looks good to me....
For max size, I think would opt for a RAID5 on 7 disks and keep the 8th drive as a "hot-remplacement" for the soon to be faulty drive...
7*500Gig/RAID5 should give you 3 Tera with (some) data protection and an hot-plug replacement...
Anyone cares to counsel ?
/cynicism
/cynicism
Well, lets see. Lets take the enemy point of view (korean in this case):
The guy running is a medic. He has an american uniform, insigna, gear. and a puny white arm-band with a red cross to distinguish him from the other troopers, promoting his so called 'immunity'
HE STILL IS THE ENEMY !
I mean, he's not here to help save my fellow korean fighters too, no, he's here to help "the invader" accomplish it's bastardly deeds.
=> Guilty of "Aiding and Abetting".
Red Cross docs should be wearing a specific, non-combattant gear, and should help BOTH SIDES wounded. I mean, they're NEUTRAL, yes ?
Which means that at the start of the korean war, Red Cross should have sent medics to the Koreans to help them with their wounded, even fighting korean military men.
I don't know if this happened at the time, red cross helping and saving korean field fighters on the same basis as american ones, but if you're just here to save American Lives on the combat field, you're just another of the enemy troopers, a fair target.
"in Jan 1951, I enlisted in the US Army for a three year hitch", "After Basic Training at Fort Ord I was a Medic during the Korean War"
"I started sprint down the slight incline to give him help, all decked out in my brightly colored arm band and helmet with their distinctive Red Cross to signify first aid"
Well, hello Mr Leon Thomas. You just confirmed my point. You were not a Red Cross Envoy, on a neutral mission of Peace and Goodhealth. You're just part of the American Army Logistic Chain, here to help alleviate its loss and help in its mission.
Fair Game !
You were all decked out in a brightly colored uniform ? Good for you. They shot at you during an attack ? Hey man, this IS war, you know. If you didn't want to get shot at, you should have stayed home.
Red Crosses on a Combat ground should be for Red Cross Docs only.
Military docs should evolve another set of insigna, and stop confusing combattants about who is whom.
Red Cross for wounded ppl, no matter where they come from. Military uniforms are for the combattants. You don't fight ? you don't wear a military uniform. And NO, wearing an arm-band and a helmet with a red cross doesn't alleviate your appartenance to the US military, aka the ENEMY.
I agree with you. People speaking of the "civilized warfare" either never put a foot on an actual combat ground, or did it 25 years ago and only have a glorified memory of it. They just forgot the sweat, blood, horror and general de-humanizing of War.
War brings out the best and the worst out of human beings. War is awful. Except for the ones mandating it...
Red Dwarf.
4 main characters (Including "The Cat" and the computer), a few additional ppl showing, maybe 4 sets
And a nice funny story
If you pipe all your heat from the racks, make sure to look for stirling engine.
Converts heat to electricity, which you can then re-use or resell.
In addition huge Vapo/chill could also be used, whith your heat exhaust as a cooling source....
You now have the problem of keeping your exhaust as hot as possible...which is much easier done than keeping it cool at all time.
Best of Luck.
I really loved the humor in Guards Guards and in Pratchett in general
"- And we'll mark the wounds as self inflicted.
- Self inflicted ?
- Well, they tried to abduct a Werewolf...
- Yes, Is see your point."
"Following the incredible reversal in the "Google vs DoJ" case, the Supreme court confirmed that kids watching porn is all right as long as it is kids porn.
Sesame Street is the first to react with the DVD (thought lost) title "Frogs'n Sow - Peggy Gets It !"
On other news, the pope died of a heart attack while watching what he thought were Sesame Streets Re-run, and GW Bush commited seppuku with a preztel on seeing the show.
Now the Dow-Jones, with the barrel @ 199$, the Emirates decided to buy the US of A..."
Do I really need to put a "/laugh, it's funny" marker ? 8p
"Dem Frohlichen Zecher Den Vollen Becher"
"The Merry Memories of the full Pot (of beer)"
it's quite nice in german, in the funny/puny variety
My sig could translate as :
"Friendly Study Group of Beer and Spirits Varieties"
It's the name given to the group of friends I was belonging to when I worked in Germany.
Nice Party friends actually, nice memories too 8) everyone could have "his/her" personnal pint/mug. good ambiance...
"I guess it's easier to solve the problems of the world than it is to solve your own"
Well yes, it's the same everywhere...
Empires comes and go.
With luck this one will be "good" and prevail, or keep being "bad" and will fail. Business as usual on planet earth.
I've been to America quite a few times, and I must say I love the place, and even the original spirit.
The problem I have is more of the image I get from medias and from historical studies.
Medias show me a "nice" view of America, Historical/political study a quite dark face...
Think Scarface also doing charities...
And the original spirit more a dream that never fully came to existence
It's just I was raised in a Cold war system, with the Good and the Evil, and as I'm growing, I'm asking myself if both will not end the same...
The problem is the same in my country : Constitution gives you "Inalterable Rights", and common law cancels quite a lot of them, mostly for political/economical reasons...
The problem is not how to live, but where to live free within reasonable limits.
Ok, I stop the gloomy introspection. White and Black don't exist as moral values. Alas, Grey looks much more messy 8)
"To live Happy, live Hidden" (Chateaubriand - Memoires d'outre-tombe) is confirming itself all the time, how cynical...
I always prefered :
"Men build too many walls, and not enough bridges" (Albert Einstein)
I added you to my friends list also, too happy to meet a seemingly sane human being 8p
Best Regards,
D.
Thanks for the nice answer...
I didn't really want to start a flame war, and got 1 insighful and 2 Trolls for my post...
Well, mods be mods 8)
I agree on a lot of what you say, and I think you are 100% right on the One Planet.
There are a few things I don't like in the USA, politically...
The biggest one is "Our Mission : America to Save the World"
Nice, really... The problem is that we hear and see "It's for your own Good, do what daddy says", and it always end "do what I say, not what I do".
We do have the same political bias in Europe, everyone is there to grab some power and money to go with it. We just don't seem to export misery as well as the USA do.
Europe had a long history of invasions, political coups, etc, we just don't do it so much anymore.
The USA has the very same history, only it's much more recent, and seems to be going on forever in that bloody path (don't get me started on that one, that the stuff of Flame Wars !).
The USA have the habit of "looking forward" historicaly, which is good only when you use the past to reflect on future actions.
The "one God, One country" might be on the microscopic scale of things, it's just that it is reminiscent of the Nazis and ultra-left communists. Any Means for the End !
I'm not crazy enough to ask for morality in politics. I'm just growing a bit bored of the "it's for your own good" part.
Maybe we do need a global menace to unite the world. "How to serve Man" is a very good one, for it would force us to unite as humans agains aliens, and not against other humans as happens now. Maybe it's the best that could happen if we don't want to live "1984".
"Yes, we just put out a new contract that allows our web-directory to be accessed faster on your network, for the benefit of your customers...
The entry fee is just 1 million dollars, and then just 10 cents for each connection and 1 cents per minute after that.
You have to take a contract for one year minimum, cannot cancel it unless ready to spend a fortune in telephone time and possibly an attorney, and we put you on a reconduction by default mode with a 18 month pre-cancel delay...
Ah yes, and Johnny, the one who was working as a contract lawyer with you for the last 10 years, remember him ? Yes ! Well, he just joined us... He says "Hi !"
/Sarcasm
/Sarcasm
So we don't hate America but distrust your government is Troll ?
So was the right answer :
"We do hate America, but just can't stop loving your nice, caring government ?"
And a good day to you, Mr Crack Sniffing Mod !
We don't hate America.
We just don't trust the American Government...
you know, the one promoting the 'One Planet, One God, One Country, and the Holy Dollar to bind them all'
With exception of copper.
Which is what is used in the best french restaurants in France.
The main problems with copper is the "maintenance" : it's hard to clean, and has to be polished quite often. But it has the best conduction for cooking, with a nice even diffusion.
Also you cannot as yet use them on induction stoves (as far as I know...I'm not that much a cookware geek)
Induction is top for a few application : boiling water under 30 seconds, changing temperature of your pan really fast...
Induction IS top hardware when you have no gas, because your alternative is the bland electrical stove
But then I learned to cook on a gas stove, and grandma showed me how to cook with copper hardware, so I'm not willing to change until I have to move to a flat with no gas pipe.
And I'm using "Tefal" Teflon coated iron pans, because I don't want to spend one hour dishwashing every night.
But I still think copper and gas are the best combination.
I seem to remember a human being has a "limiter" in his cortex, that stops him to use 100% strengh at all time...
Remember the stories of a mother lifting a car because her offspring was under it ?
Remember that barrier you jumped after being frightened by a snake ?
It all happened because your body pumped large doses of adrenaline in your body...
Which is also one of the things oriental martial arts study tech you to bypass...
Hard studies in Kung Fu (and Yin techniques) allow you to do just that...put more adrenaline in your system at will.
The problem is twofold : you only have so much adrenaline available for immediate use, and you r body isn't engeenered to support long period of intensive "Boost Mode" for long periods...
Onca again, training can help...
Redesigning the rib cage would mean quite feat...and you first have to find a better design...
I quite like the versatility of our actual bodies...
It's just the necessary "maintenance" (training) that is a bit hard on me...
I still remember losing a day and a night, and going through 3 Dell techs checking the server because of bad ram...
....
Yes, we tested the ram of the server many times, they even changed it twice.
It was only after 20+hours of checking that someone had the marvelous idea of checking the ram ON THE RAID CONTROLLER. And yes, it was faulty...
Guess what...there were no tools allowing you to test it directly on the controller, you have to reseat it on a computer and then run memtest or whatever....
Also, your video card do have RAM... Any tool to check that RAM ?
Like a nice audioblog with nice mp3s of the aforementioned teacher droning on...
...
If he's as bad as advertised, that should be enough
Only next time, make it personnal, with names, quotes, unfounded rumors, incriminating pictures of the teacher cleaning his nose with dental apparatus...
Just remember : Keep it anonymous, Add a nice "This Blog is under protection of the first Amendment", and an EULA explicitly mentionning that anyone suing you because of it agrees to lose the judgement, pay 10 times your attorney fees and let you have an option on both their souls and their teeth. Also, they agree to only consult with you for all dental problems they might encounter, and you agree to treat them only with the best medieval techniques...
Even if you somehow lose, you can still have sweet revenge...
Damn, he says he can do it again and prove himself ?
Give the man a lab, the original cell strains, and a month to prove himself under supervision.
If he can do it, he gets the Nobel, Fame and excuses from the community.
If he can't, he has to build shoes or licence plates in a prison until he reimbursed the experiment and paid his time. And he presents excuses to the community.
Problem solved. Next Case, quick, I don't have all day...