And yet, France counts its founding from the beginning of the 5th Republic in 1958.
Just because the current government considers itself to have a continuous nationhood and it's commonly accepted does not mean it's so - it's based on ignorance of a great deal of history and does nothing but legitimize the tyrannical actions of the Northern federal government.
Before the Civil War, the US was a constitutional republic. After, it was a federal democracy which had denigrated the constitution to a mere side node through its actions.
That's probably a much better approach, because that's actually how the individual states were initially formed - separate but 'equal', in the same way that Greece wasn't considered a singular country/state when the Spartans and Athens ruled, they were considered a peoples composed of many different states, a unified culture.
Today, the US is anything but a unified culture, but we're legally a single entity. Kinda backwards. People used to have more freedom of self association than today, to be sure.
When a corporate body composed of 13 members has 6 of those members decide they no longer want to be participatory, and leave... and those 7 say "no, you can't leave" and decide to perform a hostile takeover of the assets/whatever of the 6... you have not only one structural/independence reorganization but two between the previous corporation of 13 and the newly conquered and whole corporation of 13.
You should read a bit more about the Civil War and what happened afterwards with the laws and treatment of the South during Reconstruction. And no, I'm not from the South, I'm just informed.
Did you assess the US based on the beginning of the Civil War, or today's current date? Because legally, it was a different country - a different government rulers, different governmental rules, and with different laws - enforced upon the losers of the war by those who won.
Oakland, at least, doesn't smell like shit and urine 3/4ths of the year. It's also not frigidly wet for an overlapping 1/2 the year. And it's a lot cheaper. You can get from Oakland to SF in as much time as you can get anywhere with SF. So what does living in SF have over Oakland?
Oakland is a central East Bay/SF/Berkeley hub. It's quick and easy to get to most places in the Bay Area on public transit. And Oakland as a whole has seen a lot of "gorilla gentrification" in the past several years.
Seriously. The better question is, "Are pointless, expensive marketing booth conventions which provide middle management a convenient excuse to get shitfaced and hook up out of town going away?"
And yet, it's still not a standard feature to be able to tether and talk on iPhones. You've got to root your phone for that. Unlike on Android, that means you lose other functionality in the process...
See, I've worked with most of my friends at one point or another. Some I've met through work and later became friends; some I've become friends with through work, and with others, we've intentionally tried to work together because, well, we work well together - and not all in IT, I might add, though that is a proclivity we all share.
Well, programmers have even shorter generations than genealogical generations. A generation can refer to any time increment, sort of like 'epoch'. Programming generations are much shorter - maybe 3-5 years, ie how long a programmer really 'lasts' without a skill refresh, how long they stay in a job on average, etc.
But they have messed up VirtualBox: 4.0 was basically 'out the door' when Oracle bought them (it came out something like a month or two later, a rushed release IIRC), and VirtualBox hasn't seen any marked improvements since. It's basically in a 'maintenance' freeze, from what I can see, and long-run bugs which have been around for quite a while are still there. What's more, more seem to be getting introduced (more instability lately, I think).
I've stumbled upon what (might have been) child porn - it was almost certainly illegal (of a minor) though it may have been one of those things which was circumstantially legal based on jurisdiction due to the person's age - or the person could've just been a very young looking adult. It happened a couple times (eg. browsing someone's open-to-the-world but "personal" private web server that they thought they'd only shared with friends or something - nothing illegal, just poorly 'hidden').
I also slept with "girls" when I was kid who were, well... they had no problem getting into bars without an ID.
The word "telegraph" will likely have the same meaning as it, and words like 'telephone' have today - roughly, more or less nothing, except for the objects they directly referred to.
The Internet is, after all, a telegraph of sorts. It isn't The Telegraph System, but the literal meaning of the word is consistent. And we don't use telephones anymore, either - we mostly use a digitally switched network and pigeonholed handsets, which have data encapsulated from the calls in IP.
In short, I doubt much will change; streets named after people who then pass away do not have their names changed; companies often keep their name after their original meaning is no longer meaningful (eg. local companies expanding but retaining the original location's name as part of their own).
... and yet, the only reason why anything literary survived in volume from the Roman era through the dark ages is because of Christian monastic efforts to preserve and pass on those works. This was particularly the case in Ireland.
This, at least, can be proven. As for the Christians leading the destruction? Christians were kind of a majority at that point, so any cultural surge would've naturally been "Christian" led - it was as much a political affiliation as it was a religious one. It was horrible what happened but in no way unique.
I think the cultural heritage saved through and since the fall of Rome more than makes up for it; THAT is fairly exceptional in history (as we know it).
I'm sorry, but if Google or Facebook, or even Apple or Microsoft, starts to fail - financially, they're losing money and their stocks are losing value - chances are the entire industry has been in "nose dive" mode for some time prior. We're all pretty well fucked at that point.
Unfortunately, Songbird was/is one of the only good media players on Android that I've come across. As near as I can tell, I'm basically pressed with the options between Songbird, WinAmp, and Google Play (at least for music), and of those, Songbird is by far the best.
Are you serious? Apparently you aren't aware of a couple things, like:
* it was/is cross platform - Mac, Windows, Linux, and yes, Android and iPhone * it could sync media in a manageable way on multiple devices * recent versions had 'cloud' type sync services available
Oh yeah, and it just happened to have one of the better interfaces and functionality, to boot.
Personally, if I didn't have a job, I'd get bored pretty quickly. Why? Because everyone else is working; that's what they do all day. Our jobs provide a significant social outlet. And - chances are - if you work a "9-5" job, that's when most other people are working too. Unless you have a different schedule, friends who are all layabouts, or a massive social network, chances are good you'll be doing a lot of things by yourself. That gets old fast.
This is part of what makes working from home so difficult, IME.
I'm not saying work is the end all, be all - thank God - but I am saying that it provides a meaningful structure to life (which can be gotten elsewhere, but not easily or meaningfully, usually).
Well, it depends on what you're talking about. You can get a "system disk" SSD now for less than comparable rotating disks - we're talking in the 32GB range. If you're buying your storage directly from the hardware vendor, that's another story - Dell/HP/etc. still charge a premium.
I've been overwriting a consumer grade SSD as a ZIL on a daily basis, at home, for the past year and a half (Kingston). I know other people who have been doing the same with no problems. (Though, I have people who have had numerous issues with OCZ. OCZ isn't 'consumer' grade, it's 'gamer' grade, and shitty as a result.)
My 'lab in a box' has never taxed all the cores in the box. I'm out of RAM and disk performance long before that. If you're overclocking for that purpose, maybe you're doinog something wrong.
(Having a Plex or other transcoding VM or two, however, does change things a little.)
Building a desktop system, a media system, or even a gaming system to power a $200 or so display? Great, AMD is good value. It's good enough.
Problem: if I'm building a server, have a power or heat budget, or have something which simply doesn't need the APU/GPU, AMD is the wrong choice. I can get more for less by buying an Intel system - even if it's just a Celeron or i3.
My experience is that each Windows Server version (aside from the SMB shit) has been a fairly significant improvement over the previous. 2012 is a bit of an exception to that, at least from 2000 -> 2008 R2. They really didn't mess that up.
I've heard that 2012 is a bit of a step backwards in some ways, since they've removed a number of the GUI management features which makes Windows as a server preferable, pushing it to PowerShell exclusively... this is scaring some people off because it's making administration work on Windows require scripting knowledge.
Yep. As someone who loves the outdoors and intentionally does not have air conditioning (so the windows will be open, letting in the nearby forest breezes in), I would be very curious to see how it correlates with the local tree-killing pest: pine beetles. That's more of a "western states" problem, since we don't have nearly as many aspen and other deciduous trees here.
1) The ACLU and EFF have shown to be quite ineffective. The ACLU has also supported many of the governments' complicit endorsement of eg. religions. 2) Do you think corporations, the majority funders of politicians, are going to stop doing this? 3) This hasn't had an impact in ears.
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And yet, France counts its founding from the beginning of the 5th Republic in 1958.
Just because the current government considers itself to have a continuous nationhood and it's commonly accepted does not mean it's so - it's based on ignorance of a great deal of history and does nothing but legitimize the tyrannical actions of the Northern federal government.
Before the Civil War, the US was a constitutional republic. After, it was a federal democracy which had denigrated the constitution to a mere side node through its actions.
That's probably a much better approach, because that's actually how the individual states were initially formed - separate but 'equal', in the same way that Greece wasn't considered a singular country/state when the Spartans and Athens ruled, they were considered a peoples composed of many different states, a unified culture.
Today, the US is anything but a unified culture, but we're legally a single entity. Kinda backwards. People used to have more freedom of self association than today, to be sure.
When a corporate body composed of 13 members has 6 of those members decide they no longer want to be participatory, and leave... and those 7 say "no, you can't leave" and decide to perform a hostile takeover of the assets/whatever of the 6... you have not only one structural/independence reorganization but two between the previous corporation of 13 and the newly conquered and whole corporation of 13.
You should read a bit more about the Civil War and what happened afterwards with the laws and treatment of the South during Reconstruction. And no, I'm not from the South, I'm just informed.
Did you assess the US based on the beginning of the Civil War, or today's current date? Because legally, it was a different country - a different government rulers, different governmental rules, and with different laws - enforced upon the losers of the war by those who won.
Oakland, at least, doesn't smell like shit and urine 3/4ths of the year. It's also not frigidly wet for an overlapping 1/2 the year. And it's a lot cheaper. You can get from Oakland to SF in as much time as you can get anywhere with SF. So what does living in SF have over Oakland?
Oakland is a central East Bay/SF/Berkeley hub. It's quick and easy to get to most places in the Bay Area on public transit. And Oakland as a whole has seen a lot of "gorilla gentrification" in the past several years.
Seriously. The better question is, "Are pointless, expensive marketing booth conventions which provide middle management a convenient excuse to get shitfaced and hook up out of town going away?"
And yet, it's still not a standard feature to be able to tether and talk on iPhones. You've got to root your phone for that. Unlike on Android, that means you lose other functionality in the process...
See, I've worked with most of my friends at one point or another. Some I've met through work and later became friends; some I've become friends with through work, and with others, we've intentionally tried to work together because, well, we work well together - and not all in IT, I might add, though that is a proclivity we all share.
Well, programmers have even shorter generations than genealogical generations. A generation can refer to any time increment, sort of like 'epoch'. Programming generations are much shorter - maybe 3-5 years, ie how long a programmer really 'lasts' without a skill refresh, how long they stay in a job on average, etc.
But they have messed up VirtualBox: 4.0 was basically 'out the door' when Oracle bought them (it came out something like a month or two later, a rushed release IIRC), and VirtualBox hasn't seen any marked improvements since. It's basically in a 'maintenance' freeze, from what I can see, and long-run bugs which have been around for quite a while are still there. What's more, more seem to be getting introduced (more instability lately, I think).
I've stumbled upon what (might have been) child porn - it was almost certainly illegal (of a minor) though it may have been one of those things which was circumstantially legal based on jurisdiction due to the person's age - or the person could've just been a very young looking adult. It happened a couple times (eg. browsing someone's open-to-the-world but "personal" private web server that they thought they'd only shared with friends or something - nothing illegal, just poorly 'hidden').
I also slept with "girls" when I was kid who were, well... they had no problem getting into bars without an ID.
The word "telegraph" will likely have the same meaning as it, and words like 'telephone' have today - roughly, more or less nothing, except for the objects they directly referred to.
The Internet is, after all, a telegraph of sorts. It isn't The Telegraph System, but the literal meaning of the word is consistent. And we don't use telephones anymore, either - we mostly use a digitally switched network and pigeonholed handsets, which have data encapsulated from the calls in IP.
In short, I doubt much will change; streets named after people who then pass away do not have their names changed; companies often keep their name after their original meaning is no longer meaningful (eg. local companies expanding but retaining the original location's name as part of their own).
... and yet, the only reason why anything literary survived in volume from the Roman era through the dark ages is because of Christian monastic efforts to preserve and pass on those works. This was particularly the case in Ireland.
This, at least, can be proven. As for the Christians leading the destruction? Christians were kind of a majority at that point, so any cultural surge would've naturally been "Christian" led - it was as much a political affiliation as it was a religious one. It was horrible what happened but in no way unique.
I think the cultural heritage saved through and since the fall of Rome more than makes up for it; THAT is fairly exceptional in history (as we know it).
I'm sorry, but if Google or Facebook, or even Apple or Microsoft, starts to fail - financially, they're losing money and their stocks are losing value - chances are the entire industry has been in "nose dive" mode for some time prior. We're all pretty well fucked at that point.
Unfortunately, Songbird was/is one of the only good media players on Android that I've come across. As near as I can tell, I'm basically pressed with the options between Songbird, WinAmp, and Google Play (at least for music), and of those, Songbird is by far the best.
Are you serious? Apparently you aren't aware of a couple things, like:
* it was/is cross platform - Mac, Windows, Linux, and yes, Android and iPhone
* it could sync media in a manageable way on multiple devices
* recent versions had 'cloud' type sync services available
Oh yeah, and it just happened to have one of the better interfaces and functionality, to boot.
Personally, if I didn't have a job, I'd get bored pretty quickly. Why? Because everyone else is working; that's what they do all day. Our jobs provide a significant social outlet. And - chances are - if you work a "9-5" job, that's when most other people are working too. Unless you have a different schedule, friends who are all layabouts, or a massive social network, chances are good you'll be doing a lot of things by yourself. That gets old fast.
This is part of what makes working from home so difficult, IME.
I'm not saying work is the end all, be all - thank God - but I am saying that it provides a meaningful structure to life (which can be gotten elsewhere, but not easily or meaningfully, usually).
Well, it depends on what you're talking about. You can get a "system disk" SSD now for less than comparable rotating disks - we're talking in the 32GB range. If you're buying your storage directly from the hardware vendor, that's another story - Dell/HP/etc. still charge a premium.
I've been overwriting a consumer grade SSD as a ZIL on a daily basis, at home, for the past year and a half (Kingston). I know other people who have been doing the same with no problems. (Though, I have people who have had numerous issues with OCZ. OCZ isn't 'consumer' grade, it's 'gamer' grade, and shitty as a result.)
My 'lab in a box' has never taxed all the cores in the box. I'm out of RAM and disk performance long before that. If you're overclocking for that purpose, maybe you're doinog something wrong.
(Having a Plex or other transcoding VM or two, however, does change things a little.)
AMD is Good Enough... for some things.
Building a desktop system, a media system, or even a gaming system to power a $200 or so display? Great, AMD is good value. It's good enough.
Problem: if I'm building a server, have a power or heat budget, or have something which simply doesn't need the APU/GPU, AMD is the wrong choice. I can get more for less by buying an Intel system - even if it's just a Celeron or i3.
My experience is that each Windows Server version (aside from the SMB shit) has been a fairly significant improvement over the previous. 2012 is a bit of an exception to that, at least from 2000 -> 2008 R2. They really didn't mess that up.
I've heard that 2012 is a bit of a step backwards in some ways, since they've removed a number of the GUI management features which makes Windows as a server preferable, pushing it to PowerShell exclusively... this is scaring some people off because it's making administration work on Windows require scripting knowledge.
Yep. As someone who loves the outdoors and intentionally does not have air conditioning (so the windows will be open, letting in the nearby forest breezes in), I would be very curious to see how it correlates with the local tree-killing pest: pine beetles. That's more of a "western states" problem, since we don't have nearly as many aspen and other deciduous trees here.
1) The ACLU and EFF have shown to be quite ineffective. The ACLU has also supported many of the governments' complicit endorsement of eg. religions.
2) Do you think corporations, the majority funders of politicians, are going to stop doing this?
3) This hasn't had an impact in ears.