If I were a nation or organization fighting the US (Asymetric Warfare or 4th Generation Warfare) I would use the cheap EMP mutions in theatre. When US forces attack, start exploding these things over the battlefield to negate the US hi-tech advantage and disrupt C4I.
The US forces depend very much up electronic superiority. So, I would train my forces in small unit, dispersed light infrantry tactics, and use the EMP muntions to throw off the US advanatage. I would use shoulder Launched weopons (RPG and similiar) and heavy machine gun (man portable) to go after Helicopters and other CAS aircraft. Maybe lurk in probable CAS approach lanes. Use lots of land mines and ambushes to cause casualties against agressive US forces. Also I would go for rear eschalon logistics type stuff (people, stores, vehicles, etc.)
Of course, I would set loose 10-500 urban snipers and/or terrorist in the US itself to cause mayhem and confusion. Have the snipers taget people randomly. Haved the terrorist target malls and high school football games and other group activities. Maybe especially concentrate around military bases so as to disrupt the families of those solders/airmen/marines/sailors deployed. Thsi will tie up dommestic INtelligence aganecies, the press, and distract decision makers.
Somebody will do this. It is only a matter of time. Most likely sooner rather then later.
Meanwhile, the Homeland Security Director has developed a pretty colored coded alert board.
Customs Service Coast Guard Secret Service Postal Inspectors Border Patrol INS Marshal's Service IRS (special agents)
Many of these will be under the Homeland Security Department. But they will not be unified. They will just be shufffled under a new Cabinet Secretary and a "Homeland Security COuncil" (which is mostly a copy of the National Security Coucil (most of the same people, same staff needs).
The Wisconsin Line Item Veto has been around for awhile.
The proposals for Federal line item vetoes are unlike Wisconsin.
Also, keep in mind, for all of the power of the Wisconsin Line Item Veto, it did not stop the budget from balooning to massive size. It did not save the state from facing its current major fiscal mess.
Truth in Advertising-> I support a Federal Presidential Line Item Veto that would allow the President to reduce individual dollar amounts. The fiasco in Wisconsin is sure discouraging though.
An LLC does not have a board of directors or stock. AN LLC has a membership agreement (it is like a partnership agreement). And if it is a one person, or Sole Propieto LLC, you don't need a membship agreement eigther. Your state may or may not make it real easy to create and LLC. My state (Wisconsin) lets you set up one on-line easily and cheaply.
Good point. I believe that goes to 100% for 2003 and beyond.
Think 1200 to 1600 hours X Billing Rate for Revenue
Think the following for expenses:
-Lawyer -Accountant -Health Insurance -Disability Insurance (as important as health insurance) -Life Insurance (if you are married or have dependents only) -Business Liability Insurance -E&O Insurance (maybe) -Cell Phone -Voice Mail/Fax (second line or something like onebox.com) -DNS hosting, shell account, email (think easydns.com and something like imhosted.com or threeh.com) -internet connection (DSL or Cable Modem, pro rated for non business use) -marketing goodies (maybe some pens, mugs, or shirts for yourself or others) -Logo Design/ Identity (think www.1800mylogo.com) -Education costs (your yearly Usenix or whatever conference) -Professional Group Membership -Reference materials, magazines and books -American Express Card yearly fee -Hardware and software costs -biz checking account and business checks
You pay a self-employment tax of 15.3%
You can put 15% of you Net into a SEP-IRA (think Vanguard or TIAA-CREF low exepense, no-load mutual funds)
If a Sole Proprietor or Sole Proprietor LLC you basically pay personal income tax on: (revenue - expenses - SEPIRA).
You need to make quarterly estimated tax payments.
Get an Accountant to help you with a system. You will want a notebook for a startup expense log, an asset log, and expense/revenue notebook. If you don't understand things like depreciation, you will need to find that out. Most states have some free legal programs for small startups.
Also, you accountant can help with travel re-imbursement, home office deductions, etc.
Note: Everything is more complicated then I have mentioned.
Check out these 2 books:
Working for Yourself: Law and Taxes for Independent Contractors, Freelancers & Consultants by Stephen Fishman
Keeping the Books: Basic Recordkeeping and Accounting for the Successful Small Business by Linda Pinson
Join the IEEE. After two years of membership, you can join their group health insurance pool. Use Corba based health in between. So, stay at you current place at least 6 more months. That will also give you time to set up your solo structure (think Sole Proprietor LLC).
Can you give us any news on a Possible Star Trek 5 Director's Cut DVD, with perhaps extra footage, re-done or improved special effects, and commentary?
The hints file is just that: hints. When a DNS server starts up, it looks to the hints file to find a possible root server IP address. It then contact the root DNS server to get a list of the current root servers. There really isn't a need to rush around up date all of these hints file. It is not a big deal.
The correct analogy to use here is not "it was an open window" or "a door that wasn't locked".
The correct analogy is the free information handout kiosk. Somebody put somthing at the Kiosk sooner then they meant to, but behind a different handout.
He did not say the "Savages of Europe". You are putting words into his mouth. This is a deflection technique. You are are miss-stateing his arguement, and then attacking this miss-statement as if it was his.
I got a call from I place I used to work, about a year after I left.
An enginnering information management program on VMS had delivered the error message "Danger, Danger, Will Robinson". The wanted to know if I could help them figure out where it came from.
Sadly, I new that a young programmer (me) was prone to that type of humor).
I had them pull the code.
The comment I had before the message was: "This case can never occur".
This does not bode well for the future of Solaris on Intel. First, Soalris 9 isn't released for Intel. And now this? Solaris on x86is dead.
This should be a clear signal to corps runnimg Solaris on Intel, tha it is time to start migrating to Linux (machines, sysadmin processes, backups, etc.).
WOUldn't it make more sense to instead of spending money building something like incidents.org, to fund incidents.org partially with grant money from the feds, so that it can beef up somewhat, and create a Federal liason team? They would spend less and get their goal quicker.
Yes, the Unix "|" is definetly better then anything in the DCL wolrd. I much prefer the DCL logic controls to that of sh. Of course, today I wrap perl around commands a instead of sh.
Yep, Hawaii was not one of our better moments. Howver, it was certainly not threatening toward Japan.
I don't have a problem with the US taking the Philpeans from the spanish as party of the Spanish American war of 1898. The US mangled things badly afterwards and ended up in a nasty counter-inssurgency war. Not a great moment eigther. Yes innocents were killed. Alot of Civilian fighters were killed. Anyways, the situation was handled poorly by the us. They were mostly thinking about imperial possessions unfortunetly.
Japanese agression in Pacific really starts with the Russian/Japanese war around 1902. Japan had been building up and modernizing it forces for 30+ years by then. They beat the Russian Navy (a surprise attack, without a declaration of war). The land battles didn't go quite as well. The US negotiated the Armistice. In WWI Japan declared war on Germany and grabbed all of its possessions in the Pacific area. The Japanese continued and sucked up large part of CHinese territory (there really wasn't a chinease government then).
You are wrong to suggest that FDR new about the attack on Perl Harbour. That has been well documented elsewhere as untrue. It is true that the US expected that there may be an attack by the Japanese somewhere, but it was assumed it would Singapore or perhaps Manila - there was not any time. We had broke the Jap diplomatic code, but the military didn't use that code. There is plenty a blame to go around though on poor US defensive preparations. Anyways, FDR really saw Germany as the real enemy. He really wasn't focused on the east. Nor where most US policy makers.
As far as the article you mention, that is refewring to a Japanse Midget Submarine that was sunk the morning of the attack as it tried to slip into the harbour. It was not in the open seas minding its own business (like that Japanese ship rammed by a US sub a while back).
I do believe that US forces occasionaly tangled with Japanese sponsered forces in China. The USA had A Marine Regiment in Shanghai. Occasionaly I think there were Army troops also with them. I believe they were pulled out 11/41 because the Japanse aggression was too much (the US didn't want to risk open war) and were sent to the Philepeens.
The Japanese home defense plans have been well documented in recent years. It clearly shows that they had much capability remainigthen we thought. Furthermore, even after 2 atomic bombs,large parts of the Japanese Leadership wanted to keepfighting.
Some "evil" acts are due to insanity (maybe not in clinical terms, but in generally accepted people terms).
Other times it is just a matter of World View.
In the case of Muslims who are engaged in an Asymmetric war against US (and Israel, and to a lesser extent the rest of the Western World), The world view of their civilization is 180 degrees from our. So, when they act strongly according to belief system they are not acting crazy. They are acting according to precipts of their belief system. The values of our Civilaztion (Western Liberal Demoracy) are encapulated in documents like like the US Declaration of Independence, Roosevelt's Four Freedoms speech, the US Bill of RIghts, the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. These ideas of free choice and free thoughts, equality of oppratunity etc, to mix will with a religous fundementalism that is characterizing Islamic Society.
Notice I say we are fighting an Asymmetric (Fourth Generation) war against Islamic Society. We are not fighting "terrorist". Terrorism is just a tactic.
I don't mind if we belittle them; I am just afraid that we will end up belittling them instead of understanding them. A lot us US Citizens may die until we undertsand what we are fighting.
I guess I am calling it wrong or evil in the sense of my prefered civilization focus, that of Western Liberal Democracy. I do not have a problem with other Civiizations that do not try to expand and whom do not threaten Democracy. Western Liberal Democracy, for all its faults, still gives me, my familiy and friends the best chances to live in peace, say and think what will, and it provides the oppratunity for prosperity and fullfillmet.
Jeez, I am sounding like a politician. I have got to watch out for that.
Morally equivalizing US actions at the end off WWII with Teerorist Actions of Islamic Civilization is absurd.
The US war in the Pacific was a war in reaction against an expansive aggressor nation that killed non combatants across the Asia/Pacific realm. The Japanese Pacific War did not start in 1941, only the US participation did. The war was was fought by and was fully supported by the Japanese public. US use of Atomic weapons helped negate the need for an invasion of the Japanese home islands and for a massive land campeigns in China against the large Japanese Army there. This saved hundreds of thousands of US and Allied lives (I am not concerned with how many of the then-enemy's lives were saved). Thus ended a horrific war started by the Japanese.
The US does not support the Israel because it is in the "holy land". The US supports Israel becuase it is a Western Liberal Democracy smacj in the middle of a geographic area surrounded by totalitarian nations. It is in the US national interest to promote Democracy (especially the Western Liberal style) throughout the world.
In fact, the only reason that US isn't stronger, is that the US gets much of its oil from those same middle eastern totalitarian nations.
If the US Government is thinking correctly they should be doing this
SHORT-TERM balancing oil needs with support with israel being low-key (keep the oil flowing, don't let israel be overrun
LONG-TERM Promote democratic movements in totalitarian middle east countries
21st Century Containmenet policy against Arab/Islamic Civilization.
Reduce Energy dependency on middle east: 1) fund oil exploration and production from Russia/Indonesia/Alaska; 2) reduce home petrol consumption (greater auto fuel efficiency, liability limits for cars using synthtuic, lower weight material); 3) Double Federal Gas Tax (force people to make economic choice against petrol consumption); 4) Tax credits for home and business use of Solar Energy; 5) Tax Credits for high energy effieciency equipment (LED for stoplights and exits signs, etc) 6) Explore Sci-fi dream of Orbital Solar Power satelites setr national goal for deployment of first operational satelite by 2015.
Slashdot Mirror
If I were a nation or organization fighting the US (Asymetric Warfare or 4th Generation Warfare) I would use the cheap EMP mutions in theatre. When US forces attack, start exploding these things over the battlefield to negate the US hi-tech advantage and disrupt C4I.
The US forces depend very much up electronic superiority. So, I would train my forces in small unit, dispersed light infrantry tactics, and use the EMP muntions to throw off the US advanatage. I would use shoulder Launched weopons (RPG and similiar) and heavy machine gun (man portable) to go after Helicopters and other CAS aircraft. Maybe lurk in probable CAS approach lanes. Use lots of land mines and ambushes to cause casualties against agressive US forces. Also I would go for rear eschalon logistics type stuff (people, stores, vehicles, etc.)
Of course, I would set loose 10-500 urban snipers and/or terrorist in the US itself to cause mayhem and confusion. Have the snipers taget people randomly. Haved the terrorist target malls and high school football games and other group activities. Maybe especially concentrate around military bases so as to disrupt the families of those solders/airmen/marines/sailors deployed. Thsi will tie up dommestic INtelligence aganecies, the press, and distract decision makers.
Somebody will do this. It is only a matter of time. Most likely sooner rather then later.
Meanwhile, the Homeland Security Director has developed a pretty colored coded alert board.
Here are some of those others:
Customs Service
Coast Guard
Secret Service
Postal Inspectors
Border Patrol
INS
Marshal's Service
IRS (special agents)
Many of these will be under the Homeland Security Department. But they will not be unified. They will just be shufffled under a new Cabinet Secretary and a "Homeland Security COuncil" (which is mostly a copy of the National Security Coucil (most of the same people, same staff needs).
The Wisconsin Line Item Veto has been around for awhile.
The proposals for Federal line item vetoes are unlike Wisconsin.
Also, keep in mind, for all of the power of the Wisconsin Line Item Veto, it did not stop the budget from balooning to massive size. It did not save the state from facing its current major fiscal mess.
Truth in Advertising-> I support a Federal Presidential Line Item Veto that would allow the President to reduce individual dollar amounts. The fiasco in Wisconsin is sure discouraging though.
An LLC does not have a board of directors or stock. AN LLC has a membership agreement (it is like a partnership agreement). And if it is a one person, or Sole Propieto LLC, you don't need a membship agreement eigther. Your state may or may not make it real easy to create and LLC. My state (Wisconsin) lets you set up one on-line easily and cheaply.
Good point. I believe that goes to 100% for 2003 and beyond.
Think 1200 to 1600 hours X Billing Rate for Revenue
Think the following for expenses:
-Lawyer
-Accountant
-Health Insurance
-Disability Insurance (as important as health insurance)
-Life Insurance (if you are married or have dependents only)
-Business Liability Insurance
-E&O Insurance (maybe)
-Cell Phone
-Voice Mail/Fax (second line or something like onebox.com)
-DNS hosting, shell account, email (think easydns.com and something like imhosted.com or threeh.com)
-internet connection (DSL or Cable Modem, pro rated for non business use)
-marketing goodies (maybe some pens, mugs, or shirts for yourself or others)
-Logo Design/ Identity (think www.1800mylogo.com)
-Education costs (your yearly Usenix or whatever conference)
-Professional Group Membership
-Reference materials, magazines and books
-American Express Card yearly fee
-Hardware and software costs
-biz checking account and business checks
You pay a self-employment tax of 15.3%
You can put 15% of you Net into a SEP-IRA (think Vanguard or TIAA-CREF low exepense, no-load mutual funds)
If a Sole Proprietor or Sole Proprietor LLC you basically pay personal income tax on: (revenue - expenses - SEPIRA).
You need to make quarterly estimated tax payments.
Get an Accountant to help you with a system. You will want a notebook for a startup expense log, an asset log, and expense/revenue notebook. If you don't understand things like depreciation, you will need to find that out. Most states have some free legal programs for small startups.
Also, you accountant can help with travel re-imbursement, home office deductions, etc.
Note: Everything is more complicated then I have mentioned.
Check out these 2 books:
Working for Yourself: Law and Taxes for Independent Contractors, Freelancers & Consultants by Stephen Fishman
Keeping the Books: Basic Recordkeeping and Accounting for the Successful Small Business by Linda Pinson
Join the IEEE. After two years of membership, you can join their group health insurance pool. Use Corba based health in between. So, stay at you current place at least 6 more months. That will also give you time to set up your solo structure (think Sole Proprietor LLC).
Why offtopic? He was the Writer and Director of the film.
Hi,
Can you give us any news on a Possible Star Trek 5 Director's Cut DVD, with perhaps extra footage, re-done or improved special effects, and commentary?
Thanks!
...was coordinated and funded by Al-Quada
The hints file is just that: hints. When a DNS server starts up, it looks to the hints file to find a possible root server IP address. It then contact the root DNS server to get a list of the current root servers. There really isn't a need to rush around up date all of these hints file. It is not a big deal.
The correct analogy to use here is not "it was an open window" or "a door that wasn't locked".
The correct analogy is the free information handout kiosk. Somebody put somthing at the Kiosk sooner then they meant to, but behind a different handout.
He did not say the "Savages of Europe". You are putting words into his mouth. This is a deflection technique. You are are miss-stateing his arguement, and then attacking this miss-statement as if it was his.
I got a call from I place I used to work, about a year after I left.
An enginnering information management program on VMS had delivered the error message "Danger, Danger, Will Robinson". The wanted to know if I could help them figure out where it came from.
Sadly, I new that a young programmer (me) was prone to that type of humor).
I had them pull the code.
The comment I had before the message was: "This case can never occur".
MS Exchange
ONly the first two years of med school are in classrooms.
The second two years are clinical/hands-on, all in the field in mini-internships. How do you do the clinical stuff on-line?
This does not bode well for the future of Solaris on Intel. First, Soalris 9 isn't released for Intel. And now this? Solaris on x86is dead.
This should be a clear signal to corps runnimg Solaris on Intel, tha it is time to start migrating to Linux (machines, sysadmin processes, backups, etc.).
That man can play any part he wants. He is one fine actor with lots of range.
Also, je often has very juicy supporting roles (he doesn't always need to be the star).
But, he may just be producing this.
The DNS operations are a completely different thing from the issuing of SSl certifications. So, there is no fear in that going away.
WOUldn't it make more sense to instead of spending money building something like incidents.org, to fund incidents.org partially with grant money from the feds, so that it can beef up somewhat, and create a Federal liason team? They would spend less and get their goal quicker.
Yes, the Unix "|" is definetly better then anything in the DCL wolrd. I much prefer the DCL logic controls to that of sh. Of course, today I wrap perl around commands a instead of sh.
Yep, Hawaii was not one of our better moments. Howver, it was certainly not threatening toward Japan.
I don't have a problem with the US taking the Philpeans from the spanish as party of the Spanish American war of 1898. The US mangled things badly afterwards and ended up in a nasty counter-inssurgency war. Not a great moment eigther. Yes innocents were killed. Alot of Civilian fighters were killed. Anyways, the situation was handled poorly by the us. They were mostly thinking about imperial possessions unfortunetly.
Japanese agression in Pacific really starts with the Russian/Japanese war around 1902. Japan had been building up and modernizing it forces for 30+ years by then. They beat the Russian Navy (a surprise attack, without a declaration of war). The land battles didn't go quite as well. The US negotiated the Armistice. In WWI Japan declared war on Germany and grabbed all of its possessions in the Pacific area. The Japanese continued and sucked up large part of CHinese territory (there really wasn't a chinease government then).
You are wrong to suggest that FDR new about the attack on Perl Harbour. That has been well documented elsewhere as untrue. It is true that the US expected that there may be an attack by the Japanese somewhere, but it was assumed it would Singapore or perhaps Manila - there was not any time. We had broke the Jap diplomatic code, but the military didn't use that code. There is plenty a blame to go around though on poor US defensive preparations. Anyways, FDR really saw Germany as the real enemy. He really wasn't focused on the east. Nor where most US policy makers.
As far as the article you mention, that is refewring to a Japanse Midget Submarine that was sunk the morning of the attack as it tried to slip into the harbour. It was not in the open seas minding its own business (like that Japanese ship rammed by a US sub a while back).
I do believe that US forces occasionaly tangled with Japanese sponsered forces in China. The USA had A Marine Regiment in Shanghai. Occasionaly I think there were Army troops also with them. I believe they were pulled out 11/41 because the Japanse aggression was too much (the US didn't want to risk open war) and were sent to the Philepeens.
The Japanese home defense plans have been well documented in recent years. It clearly shows that they had much capability remainigthen we thought.
Furthermore, even after 2 atomic bombs,large parts of the Japanese Leadership wanted to keepfighting.
Some "evil" is, but not all "evil is".
Some "evil" acts are due to insanity (maybe not in clinical terms, but in generally accepted people terms).
Other times it is just a matter of World View.
In the case of Muslims who are engaged in an Asymmetric war against US (and Israel, and to a lesser extent the rest of the Western World), The world view of their civilization is 180 degrees from our. So, when they act strongly according to belief system they are not acting crazy. They are acting according to precipts of their belief system. The values of our Civilaztion (Western Liberal Demoracy) are encapulated in documents like like the US Declaration of Independence, Roosevelt's Four Freedoms speech, the US Bill of RIghts, the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. These ideas of free choice and free thoughts, equality of oppratunity etc, to mix will with a religous fundementalism that is characterizing Islamic Society.
Notice I say we are fighting an Asymmetric (Fourth Generation) war against Islamic Society. We are not fighting "terrorist". Terrorism is just a tactic.
I don't mind if we belittle them; I am just afraid that we will end up belittling them instead of understanding them. A lot us US Citizens may die until we undertsand what we are fighting.
I guess I am calling it wrong or evil in the sense of my prefered civilization focus, that of Western Liberal Democracy. I do not have a problem with other Civiizations that do not try to expand and whom do not threaten Democracy. Western Liberal Democracy, for all its faults, still gives me, my familiy and friends the best chances to live in peace, say and think what will, and it provides the oppratunity for prosperity and fullfillmet.
Jeez, I am sounding like a politician. I have got to watch out for that.
--steve
Morally equivalizing US actions at the end off WWII with Teerorist Actions of Islamic Civilization is absurd.
/Pacific realm. The Japanese Pacific War did not start in 1941, only the US participation did. The war was was fought by and was fully supported by the Japanese public. US use of Atomic weapons helped negate the need for an invasion of the Japanese home islands and for a massive land campeigns in China against the large Japanese Army there. This saved hundreds of thousands of US and Allied lives (I am not concerned with how many of the then-enemy's lives were saved). Thus ended a horrific war started by the Japanese.
The US war in the Pacific was a war in reaction against an expansive aggressor nation that killed non combatants across the Asia
The US does not support the Israel because it is in the "holy land". The US supports Israel becuase it is a Western Liberal Democracy smacj in the middle of a geographic area surrounded by totalitarian nations. It is in the US national interest to promote Democracy (especially the Western Liberal style) throughout the world.
In fact, the only reason that US isn't stronger, is that the US gets much of its oil from those same middle eastern totalitarian nations.
If the US Government is thinking correctly they should be doing this
SHORT-TERM
balancing oil needs with support with israel being low-key (keep the oil flowing, don't let israel be overrun
LONG-TERM
Promote democratic movements in totalitarian middle east countries
21st Century Containmenet policy against Arab/Islamic Civilization.
Reduce Energy dependency on middle east: 1) fund oil exploration and production from Russia/Indonesia/Alaska; 2) reduce home petrol consumption (greater auto fuel efficiency, liability limits for cars using synthtuic, lower weight material); 3) Double Federal Gas Tax (force people to make economic choice against petrol consumption); 4) Tax credits for home and business use of Solar Energy; 5) Tax Credits for high energy effieciency equipment (LED for stoplights and exits signs, etc) 6) Explore Sci-fi dream of Orbital Solar Power satelites setr national goal for deployment of first operational satelite by 2015.