A guy I know through some relations of mine purchased a car, and police started following him around and booking him for the slightest traffic infraction. This guy is a better driver than most, but pretty soon he'd lost his license. Then his wife started being hassled after she started driving the vehicle. They sold the car and the problems stopped. This was not a sporty vehicle or a rust bucket, and they aren't sure to this day what the problem was. I'm sure if the police wanted to pin a "dangerous driving" charge to him they would have found an excuse and put him away.
You can't blame the civilian masses for failing in their duty. The worldwide protests certainly sent a strong democratic signal. I don't think the parent post is blaming the military either. The military MUST follow the chain of command - anything else is anarchy and/or military dictatorship. You're right in that the politicians are to blame. In addition the civilians have been coddled/shielded from the reality of war which is not healthy in a democratic society IMHO. Politicians like having the military option easily available however, so an informed public would never do. The parent post pointed to a systemic problem which I think is a pretty fair assessment.
BTW, he did not say anything about "casual murderers". That's a bit strawmanish don't you think?;)
Actually, most sea floor is pretty new, being only a few hundreds of thousands of years old. Not surprising if you understand plate tectonics... new sea floor is being created at plate boundaries and gets pushed towards the continents.
Or, to put it another way the entrepreneurial spirit is liberal, whilst the conservative spirit waits in safety for its copy of Who Moved my Cheese. Future success comes from a certain tolerance of failure. If you insist on either destroying risk takers on their first attempt, or forcing them into depressing themselves into unnatural (for them) behavior you'll get what's coming. I'm sure the Chinese mandarins of old were all doing the sensible conservative thing whilst driving their empire into stasis and irrelevance.
Weeds are "any plant other than the one you're growing", and roundup ready canola has already become a difficult weed particularly because its seeds can be dominant for many years. I know here in Australia ryegrass has supposedly "adapted" to roundup, but at least the way it was reported, examples of this plant became instantly and completely resistant. This hasn't been the pattern with any other weed I've heard of ie. gradual resistance over generations. I'm not sure what the genetic mechanism for "roundup readiness" is, but this does sound suspicious.
SOGo + Thunderbird/w calendar plugin. If you want a slow migration, or if you actually prefer Outlook as a client you can get native Exchange compatibility if you plug SOGo into Samba4+OpenChange.
I know a technical writer who took up Open Office (and now continues using Libre Office) for exactly the same reason, so I guess she had the opposite experience. Unfortunately I can't remember the technicalities, but she was certainly passionate about expressing her relief that OO/LO worked much better for her. I'm an I.T guy and either is overkill for me, but Libre Office's price is right.;)
This is "common sense", but it isn't true. Perhaps a greater proportion of the public purse would need to be devoted to pharma development, but with commercial influence the science often gets fundamentally broken - stay with me on this. There is not an incentive to publish negative results - why help your competitors avoid dead ends? What proportion of scientifically useful R&D doesn't get published for this reason? I have no idea but surely it has got to be upwards of 90%. Also, and this is HUGE - the logical foundation of science is DISproof. Take a moment to digest this, and consider it in the context of commercially funded medical reseach.
Unfortunately that's just the tip to the iceberg regarding inefficiency. For example, most other developed nations have banned the advertising of prescription medications. Why allow fact-light emotional pitches be made to patients? Doctors should be making the decisions about prescription meds. How much research could be funded with the money saved on patient-pitched advertising alone? Then there's insurance. So much shameful waste.
Stressing a population with poverty gets you larger family sizes... that's a well established demographic fact - just sayin. If you're suggesting "social darwinism", great. There are plenty of places with starving masses who will knife you for your lunch. Send me a postcard. I'd suggest though they'll still outbreed you in any case.
You're sidestepping the actual issue with your "right tool for the right job" argument, but I'd argue that it's his decision as the companies representative (for better or worse), and I can easily think of scenarios where it would be the right tool (eg. jobs involving lots of cut/pasting... mouse pasting is just better, writing documents with a longer lifetime - MS Office is famously terrible at opening old documents). If he wants to install Linux/*BSD/ReactOS/Android then anything that gets in his way is anticompetative and by definition immoral and worthy of some kind of fight... which is the whole reason for this thread.
X2Go works well for me via SSH (though I haven't tried it internationally), and it allows file sharing, proxying RDP, local printing and a number of other useful features.
>I would still maintain that the scientists had to import more code, per my original guess, in more subdued fashion, into the genome - if not, then a copy-paste of a function alongside a copy of itself would not increase the size of a source file.
This kind of mutation and the mechanisms involved have been understood for 25 years or so. Multiple copies of a DNA sequence can expand a genome in this way.
What's the chance of the concealed carry guy stopping a shooting vs the chance he flips out and caps some people after the voices tell him to, or after he has an argument with his girlfriend? The numbers don't favour you friend - you're FOUR TIMES more likely to be murdered in the USA than the UK or Australia.
For some reason the US only counts aggrevated assault (ie. using a deadly weapon) in its numbers vs counting all assaults in UK, Australia etc... - apples to oranges.
Wikipedia (citing various national bureaus of statistics) states that you're four times more likely to be murdered in the USA than the UK or Australia and about 2.5 times more likely than in Canada. In addition the violent crime rate in the UK is listed as being much lower than the numbers you cite. Regarding the comparison with Australian numbers (and perhaps those of the UK) the US only records aggrevated assaults so it's apples to oranges.
For some analysis and conclusions in much more depth take a look here and here.
I really do not like how different these figures are though. They speak of spin somewhere. I tried for a third hopefully impartial source using Wolfram Alpha, but perhaps I don't know the magic keywords to pull up the crime statistics let alone graph them.
At least in my country (Australia) the public wrote him off, but now have come around even though our prime minister has denounced him. Even for those against him Wikileaks is an excellent talking point when discussing transparency because they leaked responsibly and used traditional media to filter what came out. Even when the UK Guardian leaked the encryption key and EVERYTHING was out there the sky didn't fall. It's sadly ironic that a politically motivated malicious leak which actually put lives in danger (Valierie Plame) has no chance of being prosecuted while a case is being prepared against Assange in the US. The public is much more likely to keep operatives safe through responsible transparency than politicians playing toy soldiers behind the curtain.
*sigh* Let me tell you a secret my friend - humans can be absolute scum, and can also be the most wonderful creatures.
Churchill let himself be "used by the Kremlin" during WWII, was a notorious racist who wanted to see Ghandi dead, backstabbed a french fleet in harbour, was a drunkard etc... etc... etc... Nelson Mandela was a terrorist before his change of heart, and even Mother Teresa supported harmful Catholic doctrines (eg. no condom use etc...) while presiding over not-particulary-effective care of the sick and dying, all the while secretly having lost her faith.
Assange is a self righteous annoying prick who treats women like hand towels BUT there are plenty on both the right and left who are pretty damn sure he doesn't deserve extradition. In addition he is frankly the only real and effective voice worldwide on open government and protection of whistleblowers. Take a moment to understand how hugely important that is to us all. If you don't like him, place your butt in that sling and see if you can do better because right now there's noone else.
ie. you don't want to mess with a complex setup like that. Besides Samba4 will have to spend many years in the field to earn enough of a reputation for anyone to want to base the backbone of a Linux/LDAP infrastructure on it.
Actually there's a problem for Linux shops - if you've got an OpenLDAP based infrastructure already, perhaps with a nice GUI like FusionDirectory or GOsa or Suse's or Redhats etc... you must either wait until Samba4 eventually gets an OpenLDAP backend (1yr, 2yrs, Xyrs???) or wait for someone to develop some kind of sync between OpenLDAP and Samba4's internal LDAP. Before anyone suggests moving to Samba4 LDAP, an OpenLDAP infrastructure can support just about everything eg. email/groupware (SOGo, Kolab, whatever), Squid, Kerberos, Asterisk, DHCP, deployment of clients (via OPSI, FAI, puppet et al.) and much much more.
In recent history US nationalism has been killing a lot more people... just sayin'. Europe has been suffering the bulk of the refugee load. If you're arguing with us about social policy you're arguing with the wrong people - you should be convincing your countrymen. Still, from the outside the USA looks lost... like a nation of painted smiles which is trying to medicate a deep unhappiness with conspicuous consumption, blame-the-other extremist views and crazy religious ideology. Perhaps you're right, and USAians can afford an extra ensuite, and latte and cake twice a week more, but an American I knew a couple of years back was amazed my city was as clean as it was. I've never heard that from a Dane or a Brit or a Canadian. Does any other modern western democracy have such visible poverty and associated problems? Honest question because I don't know.
X2Go is more efficient than X, it can allow control of a remote desktop, a single application or even proxy Windows Remote Desktop. It also allows sharing of files and printers,and it's all tunnelled over ssh so there is no need to open up another port. There are valid reasons why you'd want to do this eg. you want to run your favourite Linux GUI app on your work Windows/Mac desktop.
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Ummm, you DO know that this is a Spanish distro don't you?
A guy I know through some relations of mine purchased a car, and police started following him around and booking him for the slightest traffic infraction. This guy is a better driver than most, but pretty soon he'd lost his license. Then his wife started being hassled after she started driving the vehicle. They sold the car and the problems stopped. This was not a sporty vehicle or a rust bucket, and they aren't sure to this day what the problem was. I'm sure if the police wanted to pin a "dangerous driving" charge to him they would have found an excuse and put him away.
You can't blame the civilian masses for failing in their duty. The worldwide protests certainly sent a strong democratic signal. I don't think the parent post is blaming the military either. The military MUST follow the chain of command - anything else is anarchy and/or military dictatorship. You're right in that the politicians are to blame. In addition the civilians have been coddled/shielded from the reality of war which is not healthy in a democratic society IMHO. Politicians like having the military option easily available however, so an informed public would never do. The parent post pointed to a systemic problem which I think is a pretty fair assessment.
BTW, he did not say anything about "casual murderers". That's a bit strawmanish don't you think? ;)
Actually, most sea floor is pretty new, being only a few hundreds of thousands of years old. Not surprising if you understand plate tectonics... new sea floor is being created at plate boundaries and gets pushed towards the continents.
Or, to put it another way the entrepreneurial spirit is liberal, whilst the conservative spirit waits in safety for its copy of Who Moved my Cheese. Future success comes from a certain tolerance of failure. If you insist on either destroying risk takers on their first attempt, or forcing them into depressing themselves into unnatural (for them) behavior you'll get what's coming. I'm sure the Chinese mandarins of old were all doing the sensible conservative thing whilst driving their empire into stasis and irrelevance.
Weeds are "any plant other than the one you're growing", and roundup ready canola has already become a difficult weed particularly because its seeds can be dominant for many years. I know here in Australia ryegrass has supposedly "adapted" to roundup, but at least the way it was reported, examples of this plant became instantly and completely resistant. This hasn't been the pattern with any other weed I've heard of ie. gradual resistance over generations. I'm not sure what the genetic mechanism for "roundup readiness" is, but this does sound suspicious.
SOGo + Thunderbird /w calendar plugin. If you want a slow migration, or if you actually prefer Outlook as a client you can get native Exchange compatibility if you plug SOGo into Samba4+OpenChange.
I know a technical writer who took up Open Office (and now continues using Libre Office) for exactly the same reason, so I guess she had the opposite experience. Unfortunately I can't remember the technicalities, but she was certainly passionate about expressing her relief that OO/LO worked much better for her. I'm an I.T guy and either is overkill for me, but Libre Office's price is right. ;)
That would be a certain species of box jellyfish, which also is arguably the most poisonous animal in the world.
I'm Australian. :P
Cite? Wikipedia at least doesn't seem to back up what you're saying.
This is "common sense", but it isn't true. Perhaps a greater proportion of the public purse would need to be devoted to pharma development, but with commercial influence the science often gets fundamentally broken - stay with me on this. There is not an incentive to publish negative results - why help your competitors avoid dead ends? What proportion of scientifically useful R&D doesn't get published for this reason? I have no idea but surely it has got to be upwards of 90%. Also, and this is HUGE - the logical foundation of science is DISproof. Take a moment to digest this, and consider it in the context of commercially funded medical reseach.
Unfortunately that's just the tip to the iceberg regarding inefficiency. For example, most other developed nations have banned the advertising of prescription medications. Why allow fact-light emotional pitches be made to patients? Doctors should be making the decisions about prescription meds. How much research could be funded with the money saved on patient-pitched advertising alone? Then there's insurance. So much shameful waste.
Stressing a population with poverty gets you larger family sizes... that's a well established demographic fact - just sayin. If you're suggesting "social darwinism", great. There are plenty of places with starving masses who will knife you for your lunch. Send me a postcard. I'd suggest though they'll still outbreed you in any case.
You're sidestepping the actual issue with your "right tool for the right job" argument, but I'd argue that it's his decision as the companies representative (for better or worse), and I can easily think of scenarios where it would be the right tool (eg. jobs involving lots of cut/pasting... mouse pasting is just better, writing documents with a longer lifetime - MS Office is famously terrible at opening old documents). If he wants to install Linux/*BSD/ReactOS/Android then anything that gets in his way is anticompetative and by definition immoral and worthy of some kind of fight... which is the whole reason for this thread.
X2Go works well for me via SSH (though I haven't tried it internationally), and it allows file sharing, proxying RDP, local printing and a number of other useful features.
>I would still maintain that the scientists had to import more code, per my original guess, in more subdued fashion, into the genome - if not, then a copy-paste of a function alongside a copy of itself would not increase the size of a source file.
This kind of mutation and the mechanisms involved have been understood for 25 years or so. Multiple copies of a DNA sequence can expand a genome in this way.
Wow... an actual "think of the children" argument that's OT. ;)
What's the chance of the concealed carry guy stopping a shooting vs the chance he flips out and caps some people after the voices tell him to, or after he has an argument with his girlfriend? The numbers don't favour you friend - you're FOUR TIMES more likely to be murdered in the USA than the UK or Australia.
For some reason the US only counts aggrevated assault (ie. using a deadly weapon) in its numbers vs counting all assaults in UK, Australia etc... - apples to oranges.
Wikipedia (citing various national bureaus of statistics) states that you're four times more likely to be murdered in the USA than the UK or Australia and about 2.5 times more likely than in Canada. In addition the violent crime rate in the UK is listed as being much lower than the numbers you cite. Regarding the comparison with Australian numbers (and perhaps those of the UK) the US only records aggrevated assaults so it's apples to oranges.
For some analysis and conclusions in much more depth take a look here and here.
I really do not like how different these figures are though. They speak of spin somewhere. I tried for a third hopefully impartial source using Wolfram Alpha, but perhaps I don't know the magic keywords to pull up the crime statistics let alone graph them.
At least in my country (Australia) the public wrote him off, but now have come around even though our prime minister has denounced him. Even for those against him Wikileaks is an excellent talking point when discussing transparency because they leaked responsibly and used traditional media to filter what came out. Even when the UK Guardian leaked the encryption key and EVERYTHING was out there the sky didn't fall. It's sadly ironic that a politically motivated malicious leak which actually put lives in danger (Valierie Plame) has no chance of being prosecuted while a case is being prepared against Assange in the US. The public is much more likely to keep operatives safe through responsible transparency than politicians playing toy soldiers behind the curtain.
*sigh* Let me tell you a secret my friend - humans can be absolute scum, and can also be the most wonderful creatures.
Churchill let himself be "used by the Kremlin" during WWII, was a notorious racist who wanted to see Ghandi dead, backstabbed a french fleet in harbour, was a drunkard etc... etc... etc... Nelson Mandela was a terrorist before his change of heart, and even Mother Teresa supported harmful Catholic doctrines (eg. no condom use etc...) while presiding over not-particulary-effective care of the sick and dying, all the while secretly having lost her faith.
Assange is a self righteous annoying prick who treats women like hand towels BUT there are plenty on both the right and left who are pretty damn sure he doesn't deserve extradition. In addition he is frankly the only real and effective voice worldwide on open government and protection of whistleblowers. Take a moment to understand how hugely important that is to us all. If you don't like him, place your butt in that sling and see if you can do better because right now there's noone else.
ie. you don't want to mess with a complex setup like that. Besides Samba4 will have to spend many years in the field to earn enough of a reputation for anyone to want to base the backbone of a Linux/LDAP infrastructure on it.
Actually there's a problem for Linux shops - if you've got an OpenLDAP based infrastructure already, perhaps with a nice GUI like FusionDirectory or GOsa or Suse's or Redhats etc... you must either wait until Samba4 eventually gets an OpenLDAP backend (1yr, 2yrs, Xyrs???) or wait for someone to develop some kind of sync between OpenLDAP and Samba4's internal LDAP. Before anyone suggests moving to Samba4 LDAP, an OpenLDAP infrastructure can support just about everything eg. email/groupware (SOGo, Kolab, whatever), Squid, Kerberos, Asterisk, DHCP, deployment of clients (via OPSI, FAI, puppet et al.) and much much more.
In recent history US nationalism has been killing a lot more people... just sayin'. Europe has been suffering the bulk of the refugee load. If you're arguing with us about social policy you're arguing with the wrong people - you should be convincing your countrymen. Still, from the outside the USA looks lost... like a nation of painted smiles which is trying to medicate a deep unhappiness with conspicuous consumption, blame-the-other extremist views and crazy religious ideology. Perhaps you're right, and USAians can afford an extra ensuite, and latte and cake twice a week more, but an American I knew a couple of years back was amazed my city was as clean as it was. I've never heard that from a Dane or a Brit or a Canadian. Does any other modern western democracy have such visible poverty and associated problems? Honest question because I don't know.
X2Go is more efficient than X, it can allow control of a remote desktop, a single application or even proxy Windows Remote Desktop. It also allows sharing of files and printers,and it's all tunnelled over ssh so there is no need to open up another port. There are valid reasons why you'd want to do this eg. you want to run your favourite Linux GUI app on your work Windows/Mac desktop.