What constructive actions can be taken, and how can the people be encouraged to support these actions?
As far as I can see, there are only two viable approaches.
1) replace the voting system. Plurality voting will always lead to the mess we have now. The only contribution towards politics I've made in years was to fund Approval Voting video. It's the best compromise for a replacement system. Work to get it allowed at your Town or City level, then we can take it higher.
2) Since you're a tech nerd, think about the things that people want government to do and build replacement systems for them. Make them better than the government systems. The problem is power, and the more people ask of the government, the more power they have. If a government were strictly limited, the abuses would not be so common and severe. But as they say, people get the government they deserve.
Everybody of significance involved in planning 9/11 is dead, at least those listed by the non-redacted portion of the 9/11 Commission Report.
What's going on now is not that. Maybe we should be asking what it is, exactly?
According to some, it's a hunt for every person in the world who may not in the future submit to the will of the US Government. War without End, in other words.
I've gotten some good quality stuff from China, but also some really abysmal stuff.
We got a John Deere lawnmower yesterday. The ticket says it was assembled stateside. I know that means the parts came from China (we got a low-end one) but I'm comforted knowing that somebody under a US QA system saw the parts before bolting them in. I'd like to think that any with serious metal voids or poor machining went into the rejects bin. If the finished goods came from China, then those things could be hidden inside the machine.
with Microsoft is because he was lucky enough to have known Bill Gates and Paul Allen
Right, and the board must feel that if they get rid of the 'original team' facet, the stock price will suffer. It's incredibly short sighted - in the long run the founders are dead, so they have to do it sometime unless they're planning to have Bill Gates's head in a jar run the company. But public companies rarely do 'long-term'.
and never have to worry about contaminating half of your country and storing the waste for half a million years.
That waste already exists, they don't get the option of not worrying about it. It's the environuts in Japan who have been blocking the cleanup of that waste for a decade.
if the government guarantees to backstop disaster liability
yeah, and their meddling in the insurance market is what keeps 1950's light water reactors so prevalent today, despite their obsolescence.
Otherwise private investors would never touch them.
Private investors all over are interested in the safer fast breeder reactors (e.g. IFR) for both power and waste cleanup and the thorium reactors, because they're both much more affordable and much safer. In the US the Feds ban these administratively. Private investors interested in investing in US nuclear have only the choice of light water reactors. Some of the private operators seem to do a really bad job at it too.
Oh, but we could never repeal a bad market interference law and let the insurance industry clean up the more dangerous aspects of the nuclear power industry. Congress has to micromanage it all, because they're such experts.
People are annoyed because RPi failed to live up to its hype or promises.
The h.264 decoder is buggy and locks the hardware. The USB controller is buggy and stuff doesn't work right. See the infamous LKML post ripping it. The SD controller is buggy and regularly corrupts SD cards.
From what I can tell, I should've bought Beaglebone Blacks instead. For some reason RPi still gets lots of attention. If it worked right, people would just complain that it was underpowered, but, eh, it's cheap. But promising and not delivering gets peoples' hackles up.
I wonder why the IDF is doing this? Are they completely tone-deaf to public opinion?
Just the opposite, I'd figure. Let's see what public sentiment for a new war with Syria or Iran is like before and after this war-glorifying propaganda. I'll bet it goes up. People are like that all over.
I don't hold any high hopes that they completely changed their core philosophy and priorities in the past 5 years
I don't like 'em (my folks do) but to be fair, they were sold to Ford and then to China during that time period, so who knows what philosophy might be at play.
I'm rather assuming that the Chinese owner will want to use Volvo as a flagship quality demonstrator, so they might actually get better.
If the keys aren't worn (metal keys, for instance), blow a bit of corn starch or other fine powder on them. The finger oil residue will cause it to stick.
dammit, spazed the 'Submit'..... but an even better option is to subscribe to the iCal feed for your Facebook account and you'll see events without having to log in. You'll still need to follow the link in the event to RSVP.
Only if they have direct evidence that there is something in that safe.
So, if the safe door is open and they see a bricks of coke in there, and then you shut it, a judge can order you to open it for them.
If they just want to see what's in your safe, to see if there's anything in there that they can use to charge you because "you're probably a bad guy", then no, a judge cannot issue such a warrant.
Of course, when the SWAT team has just shot your dogs and has a HK MP5 to your head and orders you to open the safe, the presence of a per se justice system is only relevant to the very brave and possibly foolish.
FWIW, last time I tried to set this up, a FB rep asked for an admin login to my Wordpress to 'verify the setup' (you have to apply for an 'app' to do the link). I just ignored it, not being worth the tradeoff to me and moved on.
Then a few weeks ago, my blog posts started showing up on my Timeline. Which is fine - since I kicked the habit a while ago, I'm very rarely on there anymore. But I was surprised they approved the app.
BTW, if there are any religious facebookers here: try quitting for a week and see how much happier you are. If you have a real life too, it'll be much more rewarding.
CODIS uses a different genetic marker called a short tandem repeat... they only use 13 markers consistently.
Ah, well that is very different then - thanks for the update. It would be nice to see a validation protocol that ensures that labs dispose of all the rest of the markers, and that they're audited to ensure that's happening.
The solution is, then, for them to run SIP trunks to a router they manage, and you run your SIP trunks to that router as well. That way it's on them to get it going, and their management infrastructure will monitor what's up.
Yeah, that's basically how it is. It's that "you run your SIP trunks to that router as well" part is used to blame any call quality or stability problems. The pcaps show the call falling apart on their side, but they always first blame the in-house wiring, the VLAN's, the QoS, etc. on the network from their router to the PBX which are always fine.
This also shows me that they have no internal metrics to measure their quality to the company's premises (I think they're more incompetent than malicious).
A great number of genetically-linked diseases are expected to be measurable in SNP's. Many haven't yet been identified. It's nearly a given that some of the currently collected DNA SNP's will be linked to diseases in the future.
Somehow I doubt HIPAA PHI rules violation consequences will be imposed on Barney Fife.
BTW, this argument about fingerprinting is being made in reverse on this thread - the DNA situation highlights why the fingerprints decision was wrong, however long ago that was made. Let's try to be logically consistent here.
This argument is of course, only in theory. In reality, the masters will do whatever they want to their slaves.
You'll want as big a membership as you can get and there are at least as many linux enthusiasts in your community as there are on campus. Find them and invite them. Ask them to help run it - they'll be here after you graduate. You'll learn from each other and the campus has good facilities. LUG folks don't discriminate at all based on age; it's a real meritocracy.
You need to have a regularly scheduled meeting. Have a speaker for each one but do not cancel if you have no speaker - have a show-and-tell instead. A regular meeting is essential for every group.
Don't get too hung up on officers or titles - have a go-to person and if you can delegate facilities, refreshments, sponsorships, etc. do that.
Schedule speakers in advance. 1-4 months is ideal. You should announce your next meeting's topic at the present meeting, so get your people lined up. It's the same work now or later so do it now.
Advertise on bulletin boards (the real ones) and any electronic outlets you have. Make a logo with Tux in it. Don't stop advertising. Register a.org site (or your relevant local.tld) and keep it updated. Delegate maintenance of the website.
Set up two mailmans - one for discussion and one for announcements. Some people want both but many do not.
Make a succession plan. You'll be graduated, and you need to identify your successor well before then and train him so the group keeps running well. Tell him to do the same. If you've been graduated, call him six months later out of the blue and check in.
Source: I started a university-based LUG in 2004 and handed over the reigns two years ago. I'm going to the next meeting this Thursday.
I work with a company that is switching back from carrier VOIP to T1. The pricing isn't very different and they've had a dozen incidents over the past few years where VOIP traffic would have problems, the carrier would point their finger at the company's internal network, and then after much tracing and wiresharking, we'd send them a pcap saying, "no, look, it's your fault." They'd get it fixed a few hours later.
Never does this come up with T1. It works or it's their problem. For this company that's more than worth the small difference in price. If there's a VOIP company with a similar SLA they might get a shot at the contract, but so far they're not apparent in this area.
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What constructive actions can be taken, and how can the people be encouraged to support these actions?
As far as I can see, there are only two viable approaches.
1) replace the voting system. Plurality voting will always lead to the mess we have now. The only contribution towards politics I've made in years was to fund Approval Voting video. It's the best compromise for a replacement system. Work to get it allowed at your Town or City level, then we can take it higher.
2) Since you're a tech nerd, think about the things that people want government to do and build replacement systems for them. Make them better than the government systems. The problem is power, and the more people ask of the government, the more power they have. If a government were strictly limited, the abuses would not be so common and severe. But as they say, people get the government they deserve.
Because telling Bin Laden
Everybody of significance involved in planning 9/11 is dead, at least those listed by the non-redacted portion of the 9/11 Commission Report.
What's going on now is not that. Maybe we should be asking what it is, exactly?
According to some, it's a hunt for every person in the world who may not in the future submit to the will of the US Government. War without End, in other words.
Q/C
This is the real value, as far as I can tell.
I've gotten some good quality stuff from China, but also some really abysmal stuff.
We got a John Deere lawnmower yesterday. The ticket says it was assembled stateside. I know that means the parts came from China (we got a low-end one) but I'm comforted knowing that somebody under a US QA system saw the parts before bolting them in. I'd like to think that any with serious metal voids or poor machining went into the rejects bin. If the finished goods came from China, then those things could be hidden inside the machine.
despite the fact that Bush and Obama are really pretty similar
Welcome to Cheney's fourth term.
It appears to have been started in 2006
that's one heckuva scoop by Cringely.
with Microsoft is because he was lucky enough to have known Bill Gates and Paul Allen
Right, and the board must feel that if they get rid of the 'original team' facet, the stock price will suffer. It's incredibly short sighted - in the long run the founders are dead, so they have to do it sometime unless they're planning to have Bill Gates's head in a jar run the company. But public companies rarely do 'long-term'.
In the meantime, get your re-org boots on, Microsofties.
Can a Tsunami diasater at a nuclear plant be stopped?
No, only prevented.
Fukushima Diachi was built downhill of ancient stone markers that say, "never build below this point." IIRC they're over 300 years old.
and never have to worry about contaminating half of your country and storing the waste for half a million years.
That waste already exists, they don't get the option of not worrying about it. It's the environuts in Japan who have been blocking the cleanup of that waste for a decade.
if the government guarantees to backstop disaster liability
yeah, and their meddling in the insurance market is what keeps 1950's light water reactors so prevalent today, despite their obsolescence.
Otherwise private investors would never touch them.
Private investors all over are interested in the safer fast breeder reactors (e.g. IFR) for both power and waste cleanup and the thorium reactors, because they're both much more affordable and much safer. In the US the Feds ban these administratively. Private investors interested in investing in US nuclear have only the choice of light water reactors. Some of the private operators seem to do a really bad job at it too.
Oh, but we could never repeal a bad market interference law and let the insurance industry clean up the more dangerous aspects of the nuclear power industry. Congress has to micromanage it all, because they're such experts.
People are annoyed because RPi failed to live up to its hype or promises.
The h.264 decoder is buggy and locks the hardware.
The USB controller is buggy and stuff doesn't work right. See the infamous LKML post ripping it.
The SD controller is buggy and regularly corrupts SD cards.
From what I can tell, I should've bought Beaglebone Blacks instead. For some reason RPi still gets lots of attention. If it worked right, people would just complain that it was underpowered, but, eh, it's cheap. But promising and not delivering gets peoples' hackles up.
I wonder why the IDF is doing this? Are they completely tone-deaf to public opinion?
Just the opposite, I'd figure. Let's see what public sentiment for a new war with Syria or Iran is like before and after this war-glorifying propaganda. I'll bet it goes up. People are like that all over.
I don't hold any high hopes that they completely changed their core philosophy and priorities in the past 5 years
I don't like 'em (my folks do) but to be fair, they were sold to Ford and then to China during that time period, so who knows what philosophy might be at play.
I'm rather assuming that the Chinese owner will want to use Volvo as a flagship quality demonstrator, so they might actually get better.
If the keys aren't worn (metal keys, for instance), blow a bit of corn starch or other fine powder on them. The finger oil residue will cause it to stick.
dammit, spazed the 'Submit'. .... but an even better option is to subscribe to the iCal feed for your Facebook account and you'll see events without having to log in. You'll still need to follow the link in the event to RSVP.
How am I supposed to continue to have a real life when all the event invites, planning, and communication happen in Facebook?
Checking in once or twice a week for event notifications isn't "religious facebooking".
If you have an effective hiding place that frustrates their search, so be it.
Right, they have the power to search, not a right to succeed.
Can they force you to open a safe?
Only if they have direct evidence that there is something in that safe.
So, if the safe door is open and they see a bricks of coke in there, and then you shut it, a judge can order you to open it for them.
If they just want to see what's in your safe, to see if there's anything in there that they can use to charge you because "you're probably a bad guy", then no, a judge cannot issue such a warrant.
Of course, when the SWAT team has just shot your dogs and has a HK MP5 to your head and orders you to open the safe, the presence of a per se justice system is only relevant to the very brave and possibly foolish.
Thank you for naming her. I came here to do the same. She deserves at least that much.
FWIW, last time I tried to set this up, a FB rep asked for an admin login to my Wordpress to 'verify the setup' (you have to apply for an 'app' to do the link). I just ignored it, not being worth the tradeoff to me and moved on.
Then a few weeks ago, my blog posts started showing up on my Timeline. Which is fine - since I kicked the habit a while ago, I'm very rarely on there anymore. But I was surprised they approved the app.
BTW, if there are any religious facebookers here: try quitting for a week and see how much happier you are. If you have a real life too, it'll be much more rewarding.
they should have immediately noticed
yeah, no kidding. High-profit, low-quality service seems to be a winning business model, at least in the short term.
BTW, nice hack.
CODIS uses a different genetic marker called a short tandem repeat ... they only use 13 markers consistently.
Ah, well that is very different then - thanks for the update. It would be nice to see a validation protocol that ensures that labs dispose of all the rest of the markers, and that they're audited to ensure that's happening.
The solution is, then, for them to run SIP trunks to a router they manage, and you run your SIP trunks to that router as well. That way it's on them to get it going, and their management infrastructure will monitor what's up.
Yeah, that's basically how it is. It's that "you run your SIP trunks to that router as well" part is used to blame any call quality or stability problems. The pcaps show the call falling apart on their side, but they always first blame the in-house wiring, the VLAN's, the QoS, etc. on the network from their router to the PBX which are always fine.
This also shows me that they have no internal metrics to measure their quality to the company's premises (I think they're more incompetent than malicious).
A great number of genetically-linked diseases are expected to be measurable in SNP's. Many haven't yet been identified. It's nearly a given that some of the currently collected DNA SNP's will be linked to diseases in the future.
Somehow I doubt HIPAA PHI rules violation consequences will be imposed on Barney Fife.
BTW, this argument about fingerprinting is being made in reverse on this thread - the DNA situation highlights why the fingerprints decision was wrong, however long ago that was made. Let's try to be logically consistent here.
This argument is of course, only in theory. In reality, the masters will do whatever they want to their slaves.
You'll want as big a membership as you can get and there are at least as many linux enthusiasts in your community as there are on campus. Find them and invite them. Ask them to help run it - they'll be here after you graduate. You'll learn from each other and the campus has good facilities. LUG folks don't discriminate at all based on age; it's a real meritocracy.
You need to have a regularly scheduled meeting. Have a speaker for each one but do not cancel if you have no speaker - have a show-and-tell instead. A regular meeting is essential for every group.
Don't get too hung up on officers or titles - have a go-to person and if you can delegate facilities, refreshments, sponsorships, etc. do that.
Schedule speakers in advance. 1-4 months is ideal. You should announce your next meeting's topic at the present meeting, so get your people lined up. It's the same work now or later so do it now.
Advertise on bulletin boards (the real ones) and any electronic outlets you have. Make a logo with Tux in it. Don't stop advertising. Register a .org site (or your relevant local .tld) and keep it updated. Delegate maintenance of the website.
Set up two mailmans - one for discussion and one for announcements. Some people want both but many do not.
Make a succession plan. You'll be graduated, and you need to identify your successor well before then and train him so the group keeps running well. Tell him to do the same. If you've been graduated, call him six months later out of the blue and check in.
Source: I started a university-based LUG in 2004 and handed over the reigns two years ago. I'm going to the next meeting this Thursday.
I work with a company that is switching back from carrier VOIP to T1. The pricing isn't very different and they've had a dozen incidents over the past few years where VOIP traffic would have problems, the carrier would point their finger at the company's internal network, and then after much tracing and wiresharking, we'd send them a pcap saying, "no, look, it's your fault." They'd get it fixed a few hours later.
Never does this come up with T1. It works or it's their problem. For this company that's more than worth the small difference in price. If there's a VOIP company with a similar SLA they might get a shot at the contract, but so far they're not apparent in this area.