(Note to self: nuanced sardonic wit is wasted on the/. reader.)
In addition to the increasing dollar cost being evidence of inflation, you can simply take a look at various loan or bank interest rates. These also have a relationship with inflation. So its not just the government cooking the books.
Since when does private banks set interest rates independent of the Federal Reserve? Since they don't, that falsehood doesn't support your contention that banks cook the books. (Not that I would disagree with that conclusion; although its pretty irrelevant to the discussion here.) Good thing you're not a bank director. As a reporter, you would be one sorry assed yellow journalist, but apparently you'd fit in well.
To summarize: Minimal inflation does not mean falling dollar amounts to purchase stuff. That would be deflation. So you will always see stuff increasing in dollar amounts as long as we have any sort of inflation, even minimal.
Gee pal, thanks. Like I've never heard of deflation. Why am I supposed to believe the gov't, when they are saying "there is no signficant inflation", and my cost of living jumps 10% above what they claim is the inflation rate? (This is well before the fuel crunches this year.) I didn't fall off the turnip truck, unlike you.
(Note that I'm NOT disagreeing that the goverment can and sometimes does cook the books. I'm just disagreeing that they are doing it in the case of our inflation rate).
Then why is the Fed about to do this? Do you even understand the significance?
And did you notice the inflation was creeping up for the past four years, even before the fuel crisis caused by Katrina?
Friend, let me creep out out some more. Look at what the Fed is about to do: M3 report discontinuation
I consider 116 homicides in NYC relatively good news in a city with 8 million residents, that triples in population during a workday. 116 homicides in Pahrump, NV on the other hand... So what size city are we talking about?
The problem is that government keeps a lot of data.
While I thought the "grammar" nazi was being an OCD dork, I must take exception to your argument construction. (Call me a communication or context nazi.) What is the "problem" with the gov't keeping a lot of data? It was because of the data collection that a discrepancy in reporting was caught between the police and the hospitals. Are you suggesting if the gov't collected less data, the problem with statistics cooking will go away? Are you suggesting all problems can be solved by keeping oneself in blissful ignorance? Or is the fact that the police brass was "caught" with a discrepancy in calculating crime the actual problem?
Interesting factoid, and I don't think you meant it the way I'm portraying it. BUT what you actually wrote is how it can be interpreted.
Gee, for the past five years the gov't has been telling us that inflation has been minimal. It must be, computer hardware keeps getting cheaper and more capable every year. Yet some reason, food, gas, housing, and electricity doesn't keep dropping in price. Too bad I can't eat silicon chips. But it MUST be true, because the gov't wouldn't lie to the public.
Statistical accuracy is inversely proportional to the cooking. There has been a big drive to manipulate crime statistics across the country, particularly in sophisticated law enforcement environments like NYC. I don't sleep believing violent crime is going down, or the prices of critical staples are not rising.
As for juvenile violent crime, speculation on the drop can be as simple as less kids implies more eyes to watch them, and after the shooting sprees in places like Columbine, parents are finally being a little more careful with their firearms. Who knows, maybe doping kids with Ritalin at a preschool age produces a brain damaged, docile adolescent.
New Orleans has more locations on the National Historic Registry than any other city in the US.
And all those old, historic locations get the big kiss goodbye. NHR is a taxpayer parasite.
Maybe those folks should move to someplace safer; they must be nuts to live in such an obviously dangerous place.
As the rest of the US mutters "duh..."
If Congress can't commit to a Category 5 flood control system for South LA, then they should stop funding all flood control efforts and cut off aid for repopulating New Orleans now.
Wow, I'm pissed off that they are spending any money to repopulate NO. Its untenable with the gov't crappy, laizze-faire "plan" with the clown school FEMA in charge. Then again, they've also cut housing funding to the NO refugees. Now you guys in the red states are stuck with all those poverty stricken, future criminal, Democrat voting, (non-european) refugees. Serves the Repugs right.
We rebuilt Europe and Japan after WWII.
That was back when the US was on top economically, and didn't incur ridiculous federal deficits.
We spend billions year after year on aid to other nations.
Most of the billions are sent to Israel to subsidize its military. (And now a wall...) Gov't spending to foreign gov't is a pittance. You must be lumping in private donations.
Yet we can't commit to rebuilding a city of our own?
Nope. It has to go to paying the Iraq Invasion 2003 (and the Iraq Occupation in 2004, 2005, 2006...). Of course, some money could be recovered by putting on a windfall profits tax on oil companies and harrassing Halliburton & Co into providing construction services to NO in lieu of their war profiteering in Iraq, where they took the money and reneged on delivery. Oh wait, somebody voted GWB for president; the warmongering, oil industry, Halliburton & Co. friend. You really think GWB is going to help New Orleans recover?
NO should be rebuilt, but not so that taxpayers pay billions to make it the first underwater city. You guys have to abandon most of where you're located and move out of the basin.
Don't think for one minute prostitution being illegal is because of protecting women's rights.
What's really sad is that heavy, yet proper gov't regulation of the sex industry would eliminate abusive pimps, eliminate coerced introduction into drugs, cut down the spread of fatal STDs, and near eliminate the use of minors as prostitutes.
I always felt people who support anti-prostitution laws are really in favor of statutory rape; they're just too stupid to see it.
It was a good move. L3 is a much more elegant microkernel than Mach. To not do so, would have been to try to build on top of an obsolete, significantly flawed microkernel. An analogous incident was when Netscape chucked its next generation browser version work, and rebuild off of the gecko project now known as Mozilla. It was a hideous, suicidal decision from a business point of view, but we enjoy the fruits of that decision today.
Note I do not claim we will see the completion of a usable HURD OS in the near (or far) future.
Try this. They found at least one of the seven biowar trucks that Powell presented to the UN all nice and scrubbed to a level not seen elsewhere.
The link goes to an CIA archival page. The Duelfer report (and the last word on the matter) specifically points out that the trucks found were not mobile biowarfare labs. (Its the last paragraph before the section titled "Evolution of the Bio Warfare Program".) Someone with a brain might realize there might be a problem with the accuracy, if not veracity of the information, when the former Secretary of State hints that his biggest regret was his presentation of it at the UN.
That doesn't mean that we're responsible when the other side straps explosives to a Down's syndrome kid and points him down the street, hopefully to explode with lots of other casualties.
We are responsible if we create the conditions that allows these scumbags to operate. Bushco has created these conditions by lying to the American people that Iraq presented an imminent threat to our national security. Then after invading, he disregards the JCS's recommendations on troop strengths, leading to a situation where there aren't enough footsoldiers to secure major population centers from insurgent attacks, and interdict support from Iran. He plows a ton of money to Halliburton and friends, who do not proceed to use the funds to rebuild the Iraqi infrastructure. Two years later, and some egregious conduct at Abu Graib, the Iraqi people can't kid themselves that the US is leaving, OR walk down the street without worrying about getting blown up.
Here is the bottom line. Presuming Bushco has learned from its mistakes, it must now have a strategy to correct the errors and leave. How is he going to fix the fact that Iraq consists of three ethnic groups that are each others throats? How is he going to fix the fact that Iran is basically preparing Iraq to be the next Islamic state, and he doesn't have the boots in Iraq to stop it? How is he going to secure the oil infrastructure, transportation arteries, and rebuild the economy when the US military cannot eradicate the insurgent movements? How is Iraq supposed to rebuild its police and military when insurgents keep slaughtering the recruits (because we don't have the boots on the ground to protect them), and it may be the case the insurgents are using the recruitment programs to build its infrastructure?
The military has given up counting the war crimes these guys in Al Queda and the Sunni groups do. They think nobody cares. I care. You should to.
Pithy neocon rhetoric doesn't change the fact that American patriots are dying and being maimed in Iraq over a lie, and piss poor execution after the invasion. I care about them. If Bushco can't correct its fuckups, then they should take our troops out of there.
Is it sliming when I say the U.S. president lied about WMD
When did he lie about WMD?
This is a reasonably comprehensive recap of the statements made by Bush and his administration concerning WMD in Iraq.
When a credible organization in Iraq can present nuclear weapon quantities of uranium, or working uranium enrichment facilities, or chemical weapon stocks, I'll retract the accusation Bush lied about WMD.
responsible for all the civilians being slaughtered there
So Bush is responsible for loading people up with explosive and having them walking into restaurants and then blowing themselves up?
Given that the execution of the Iraq occupation was botched, and generated the conditions to allow the insurgency to operate so effectively in Iraq, yes, I think the coalition invaders are culpable for civilian casualties caused by the insurgents. If there were enough troops to counteract insurgent guerillas and interdict support from Iran, if there was a credible plan to withdraw from Iraq, if the Bush administration could stick to one administering one election to determine the civilian gov't, and let the elected sovereign nation determine its constitution, this site could not talk about the 27,000+ noncombatants estimated to have died in Iraq, so far. If one limits the accusations to what the US military has done to civilians, it drops to only 9,000 civilians. But that wouldn't count the Iraqis people who died of starvation, dehydration, heat stroke, or disease.
Or that Americans are no better than the Sunnis that ran Abu Graib?
well except for the US arrested thoses that did anything of that nature,
Ahh, but what about the military commanders that were responsible for supervising their subordinates? Please cite one commissioned officer who has been courtmartialed the way the enlistees have been convicted.
and even what they did was not close to standard practive when the sadam ran the place.
Well, people do seem to think child molesters aren't as bad as murderers. I can see your rationale. (Its amusing how the Dittoheads leap to support my arguments.)
One last thought, 50 years ago Turkey was 50% Muslim, today it is over 95% Muslim.
Don't you even bother to evaluate "factoids" before throwing them out to "support" your arguments?
Do you really believe fifty years ago that half of Turkey's inhabitants were atheists? When did the great Secular Turkish migration/exodus occur? Do you believe fifty years ago that America's population was only 50% Christian?
It's rather interesting that Muslim youth over here aren't rioting -- even though we are the ones "at war" with certain followers of that faith.
Perhaps its because we live in an enlightened nation which will declare the kid an enemy non-combatant, then ship him to Eastern Europe to be tortured, or to Iraq to be homosexually raped.
Perhaps that's because we have better religious freedom?
Too much freedom when they insist on degrading science education on behalf of their religion. And murdering medical doctors for a legal medical procedure. Or blowing up people at an sports event. Or putting people in the ICU because they look gay. (They never "mean" to murder them...)
Everyone in NYC knows exactly why those punks in France are rioting. Its called Dinkins law enforcement procedures. Incompetence should not be mistaken as "justified" violent protest against Jews, or generations of societal discrimination in France.
As a sidenote: I don't ever want to hear people slime the United States again.
Is it sliming when I say the U.S. president lied about WMD as a pretext to invade a Muslim nation, and the people who support his lies are responsible for all the civilians being slaughtered there? Or that Americans are no better than the Sunnis that ran Abu Graib?
Skyrock deletes roughly 6,500 articles and shuts down 10 blogs every day that violate its policy prohibiting racist, obscene or violent content, the company said in a statement.
And they leave out the most unforgivable crime: posting a page written exclusively non-French. But they let Roman Polanski, a convicted child rapist, to run around their enlightened nation.
Or he is bright enough to realize that competing head on with redhat and indirectly with Sun is a mistake?
How is that a mistake? Novell has something no other distribution has. A front seat to NDS. In fact, I'm pretty sure their whole original reason for their buying SuSE was to have a solid OS platform to run NDS off of. They probably were not even running against Redhat or Sun. It could be a Hail Mary comeback for network services management on Microsoft shops. Even if they're only partially sucessful, it salvages their original intellectual property (NDS). Also, initially, there might have been some hope of getting bought out by Sun. (Back many quarters ago, Sun had cash and was looking to acquire properties.)
At the last job, I was coding on Redhat. I was loving Suse until the gnome/kde announcement.
You are a sad, sad man. I hope you're still a kid. You base SuSE's distribution quality solely on the desktop it decided to consolidate upon. If Novell's entire strategy counted on its KDE users, it would be stillborn. The entire linux market is a zit on corporations' ass. Its total presence is server based. If Novell wants to claw onto the desktop/server market occupied by Microsoft, are they going to do it with a feature filled desktop that has Exchange compatibility, or with a relatively unknown KDE, who they have no pull in terms of guiding its development? Sun is Gnome, and Redhat is Gnome. And that is the environment any Fortune 500 company is going to consolidate upon. Novell wants to cut bodies, not keep KDE users happy. Grow up.
They have a great chance at having a good OS, and their hardware is interesting.
You see, its ignorant statements like this that make me think you're a primadonna poser. No operating system better supports threaded coding, SMP, and user mode applications (on a predominant commercial level) for HIGH RELIABILITY. (There might be something from SGI that could be described as more desirable.) Anything with higher availablity, you're going to have to go to mainframes. (Yeah, go do cutting edge stuff with that.) As for their SPARC hardware, it actually beats out Apple in putting out slow, obsolete, putrid crap.
Name one other large scale computer services company with better technical support (for administrators). HP??? I'd rather deal with Indian subcontinent natives. Granted, if you need something resolved in ten minutes, its not going to happen. But I'm not aware of any technical support service on their scale that fixes it in ten minutes. You start out with the tier 1 losers, and work your way up. If all the components came from Sun or their partners, and you're not running the bleeding edge, you will eventually get someone who can fix your problem.
There's nothing about Solaris 10 that would make me think I'd be better off with 9 or 8. (Then again, I don't work with highly-scaled platforms.) If anything, I'm disturbed at how infrequently I'm seeing patches released for Slowlaris 10.
Now if you're a developer, that's a different story. Crappy development tools, yes. Unless you're running something so esoteric you actually need DTRACE to help figure out the problem. Then there is no substitute. Awww, you have to use a CLI? If you bitch about that, you're not a competent developer. Go back to your windoze box and write graphics games. Its not about the size of the box, its the size of the man.
Can anyone explain the SGI's decision to open source XFS? What did they envision the results, from a marketing point of view? Were they sucessful in their goal?
Its comparing apples with oranges.
XFS has the advantage of design testing and disk throughput for real-time video streaming. I don't really see an advantage from using JFS. If JFS is not outstripping XFS for performance or reliability, there's no reason to dump XFS. If JFS was in the process of outstripping XFS for performance or reliability, it would be in a relatively unstable development state, thus less desirable from a reliability point of view.
Why would one adopt JFS over reiserfs or e3fs, let alone discard the venerable XFS?
but to claim Bush and Kerry had "no appreciable difference" is pure ignorance.
Humor us. What are the appreciable differences?
They were both strongly in favor of invading Iraq. And staying in Iraq. Are you suggesting that Kerry would have done the responsible thing and try to institute the Draft? Would that reknown leader of men convince the Congress to vote for such a measure? If so, why couldn't Kerry ever sponsor and pass a piece of significant legislation?
Are their border control policies different? Would Kerry beef up the border security, increase deportations, institute guest worker visas, and increase convictions of business owners that hire illegal immegrants?
Has Kerry helped push any legislation would show he understands the onerous cost of the federal gov't?
Face it. The boys at the top picked someone who wasn't going to upset the apple cart. And until THOSE losers are booted out of power, no matter what loser the Republicans put up, the Democrats will put up another loser.
And finally, we live in a country of dumbasses who vote, and dumbasses who don't vote. Until you can fix them, they'll be voting for "a Bush" every time.
As much as I loathe petty, exploitation-driven capitalism, I've seen enough NASA stupidity in the past 20 years to give up hope of a constructive, gov't run space program.
But leave it to a chimp to take a defective gov't boondoggle, and evolve it into another defective boondoggle. Kiddies, sending a sucessful manned mission to Mars will be quite a technological and cultural feat, but it won't accomplish jack for humanity or the US. AT BEST, it will be a baby step towards longterm sustainment of man in space, but it will be an expensive gesture. Frankly, I think it is being proposed so that Bush can cannibalize the productive sections of NASA (scientific, and unmanned probes) with little public outcry. Later on, the manned effort will die when the new administration comes in, due to the bills from Iraq. Put away the phasers and spaceship models and stop being childish.
But petty, exploitation-driven capitalism will not drive colonization/utilization of space. There has to be enough of a gold-mine to make the effort worthwhile. There's only four things that could drive it.
1) Zero-gravity manufacturing processes could be made profitable. Don't see it as of 2005.
2) There could be something worth mining on the moon to make it profitable. If you stuck U.S. taxpayers with the bill to do basic research (robotics and geological surveys), the capitalists would make sure the final step would be taken (provided its profitable). Given my cynicism, I really am in favor of putting the eggs here.
3) Energy collection from space. Ignoring the feasibility of H3 on the moon, putting up stadium sized solar concentrators and beaming down the energy in microwave form could make the Middle East irrelevant. But this is a case of the (oil) capitalists sabotaging a gov't research effort.
4) Militarization of space. Become militaristic butchers and flag waving assholes, you pointy eared freaks. Because this is the only credible way a manned space program is going to be funded.
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(Note to self: nuanced sardonic wit is wasted on the /. reader.)
Since when does private banks set interest rates independent of the Federal Reserve? Since they don't, that falsehood doesn't support your contention that banks cook the books. (Not that I would disagree with that conclusion; although its pretty irrelevant to the discussion here.) Good thing you're not a bank director. As a reporter, you would be one sorry assed yellow journalist, but apparently you'd fit in well.
Gee pal, thanks. Like I've never heard of deflation. Why am I supposed to believe the gov't, when they are saying "there is no signficant inflation", and my cost of living jumps 10% above what they claim is the inflation rate? (This is well before the fuel crunches this year.) I didn't fall off the turnip truck, unlike you.
Then why is the Fed about to do this? Do you even understand the significance?
And did you notice the inflation was creeping up for the past four years, even before the fuel crisis caused by Katrina?
Friend, let me creep out out some more. Look at what the Fed is about to do: M3 report discontinuation
I consider 116 homicides in NYC relatively good news in a city with 8 million residents, that triples in population during a workday. 116 homicides in Pahrump, NV on the other hand... So what size city are we talking about?
While I thought the "grammar" nazi was being an OCD dork, I must take exception to your argument construction. (Call me a communication or context nazi.) What is the "problem" with the gov't keeping a lot of data? It was because of the data collection that a discrepancy in reporting was caught between the police and the hospitals. Are you suggesting if the gov't collected less data, the problem with statistics cooking will go away? Are you suggesting all problems can be solved by keeping oneself in blissful ignorance? Or is the fact that the police brass was "caught" with a discrepancy in calculating crime the actual problem?
Interesting factoid, and I don't think you meant it the way I'm portraying it. BUT what you actually wrote is how it can be interpreted.
Gee, for the past five years the gov't has been telling us that inflation has been minimal. It must be, computer hardware keeps getting cheaper and more capable every year. Yet some reason, food, gas, housing, and electricity doesn't keep dropping in price. Too bad I can't eat silicon chips. But it MUST be true, because the gov't wouldn't lie to the public.
Statistical accuracy is inversely proportional to the cooking. There has been a big drive to manipulate crime statistics across the country, particularly in sophisticated law enforcement environments like NYC. I don't sleep believing violent crime is going down, or the prices of critical staples are not rising.
As for juvenile violent crime, speculation on the drop can be as simple as less kids implies more eyes to watch them, and after the shooting sprees in places like Columbine, parents are finally being a little more careful with their firearms. Who knows, maybe doping kids with Ritalin at a preschool age produces a brain damaged, docile adolescent.
I would size up the age of the teacher, stare at them, and say "Do you realize in X years, you'll probably be dead?"
What can I say, I was fascinated with mortality at that age. The irony is that it wouldn't bother me one bit if done to me.
You must be kidding. Oklahoma is a red state. Oklahoma and Kansas is the model of the new America. With a Texan pride in its political integrity.
And all those old, historic locations get the big kiss goodbye. NHR is a taxpayer parasite.
As the rest of the US mutters "duh..."
Wow, I'm pissed off that they are spending any money to repopulate NO. Its untenable with the gov't crappy, laizze-faire "plan" with the clown school FEMA in charge. Then again, they've also cut housing funding to the NO refugees. Now you guys in the red states are stuck with all those poverty stricken, future criminal, Democrat voting, (non-european) refugees. Serves the Repugs right.
That was back when the US was on top economically, and didn't incur ridiculous federal deficits.
Most of the billions are sent to Israel to subsidize its military. (And now a wall...) Gov't spending to foreign gov't is a pittance. You must be lumping in private donations.
Nope. It has to go to paying the Iraq Invasion 2003 (and the Iraq Occupation in 2004, 2005, 2006...). Of course, some money could be recovered by putting on a windfall profits tax on oil companies and harrassing Halliburton & Co into providing construction services to NO in lieu of their war profiteering in Iraq, where they took the money and reneged on delivery. Oh wait, somebody voted GWB for president; the warmongering, oil industry, Halliburton & Co. friend. You really think GWB is going to help New Orleans recover?
NO should be rebuilt, but not so that taxpayers pay billions to make it the first underwater city. You guys have to abandon most of where you're located and move out of the basin.
What's really sad is that heavy, yet proper gov't regulation of the sex industry would eliminate abusive pimps, eliminate coerced introduction into drugs, cut down the spread of fatal STDs, and near eliminate the use of minors as prostitutes.
I always felt people who support anti-prostitution laws are really in favor of statutory rape; they're just too stupid to see it.
It was a good move. L3 is a much more elegant microkernel than Mach. To not do so, would have been to try to build on top of an obsolete, significantly flawed microkernel. An analogous incident was when Netscape chucked its next generation browser version work, and rebuild off of the gecko project now known as Mozilla. It was a hideous, suicidal decision from a business point of view, but we enjoy the fruits of that decision today.
Note I do not claim we will see the completion of a usable HURD OS in the near (or far) future.
The link goes to an CIA archival page. The Duelfer report (and the last word on the matter) specifically points out that the trucks found were not mobile biowarfare labs. (Its the last paragraph before the section titled "Evolution of the Bio Warfare Program".) Someone with a brain might realize there might be a problem with the accuracy, if not veracity of the information, when the former Secretary of State hints that his biggest regret was his presentation of it at the UN.
We are responsible if we create the conditions that allows these scumbags to operate. Bushco has created these conditions by lying to the American people that Iraq presented an imminent threat to our national security. Then after invading, he disregards the JCS's recommendations on troop strengths, leading to a situation where there aren't enough footsoldiers to secure major population centers from insurgent attacks, and interdict support from Iran. He plows a ton of money to Halliburton and friends, who do not proceed to use the funds to rebuild the Iraqi infrastructure. Two years later, and some egregious conduct at Abu Graib, the Iraqi people can't kid themselves that the US is leaving, OR walk down the street without worrying about getting blown up.
Here is the bottom line. Presuming Bushco has learned from its mistakes, it must now have a strategy to correct the errors and leave. How is he going to fix the fact that Iraq consists of three ethnic groups that are each others throats? How is he going to fix the fact that Iran is basically preparing Iraq to be the next Islamic state, and he doesn't have the boots in Iraq to stop it? How is he going to secure the oil infrastructure, transportation arteries, and rebuild the economy when the US military cannot eradicate the insurgent movements? How is Iraq supposed to rebuild its police and military when insurgents keep slaughtering the recruits (because we don't have the boots on the ground to protect them), and it may be the case the insurgents are using the recruitment programs to build its infrastructure?
Pithy neocon rhetoric doesn't change the fact that American patriots are dying and being maimed in Iraq over a lie, and piss poor execution after the invasion. I care about them. If Bushco can't correct its fuckups, then they should take our troops out of there.
This is a reasonably comprehensive recap of the statements made by Bush and his administration concerning WMD in Iraq.
When a credible organization in Iraq can present nuclear weapon quantities of uranium, or working uranium enrichment facilities, or chemical weapon stocks, I'll retract the accusation Bush lied about WMD.
Given that the execution of the Iraq occupation was botched, and generated the conditions to allow the insurgency to operate so effectively in Iraq, yes, I think the coalition invaders are culpable for civilian casualties caused by the insurgents. If there were enough troops to counteract insurgent guerillas and interdict support from Iran, if there was a credible plan to withdraw from Iraq, if the Bush administration could stick to one administering one election to determine the civilian gov't, and let the elected sovereign nation determine its constitution, this site could not talk about the 27,000+ noncombatants estimated to have died in Iraq, so far. If one limits the accusations to what the US military has done to civilians, it drops to only 9,000 civilians. But that wouldn't count the Iraqis people who died of starvation, dehydration, heat stroke, or disease.
Ahh, but what about the military commanders that were responsible for supervising their subordinates? Please cite one commissioned officer who has been courtmartialed the way the enlistees have been convicted.
Well, people do seem to think child molesters aren't as bad as murderers. I can see your rationale. (Its amusing how the Dittoheads leap to support my arguments.)
Don't you even bother to evaluate "factoids" before throwing them out to "support" your arguments?
Do you really believe fifty years ago that half of Turkey's inhabitants were atheists? When did the great Secular Turkish migration/exodus occur? Do you believe fifty years ago that America's population was only 50% Christian?
Its obviously meant to be "Funny" or "Insightful".
Perhaps its because we live in an enlightened nation which will declare the kid an enemy non-combatant, then ship him to Eastern Europe to be tortured, or to Iraq to be homosexually raped.
Too much freedom when they insist on degrading science education on behalf of their religion. And murdering medical doctors for a legal medical procedure. Or blowing up people at an sports event. Or putting people in the ICU because they look gay. (They never "mean" to murder them...)
Everyone in NYC knows exactly why those punks in France are rioting. Its called Dinkins law enforcement procedures. Incompetence should not be mistaken as "justified" violent protest against Jews, or generations of societal discrimination in France.
Is it sliming when I say the U.S. president lied about WMD as a pretext to invade a Muslim nation, and the people who support his lies are responsible for all the civilians being slaughtered there? Or that Americans are no better than the Sunnis that ran Abu Graib?
And they leave out the most unforgivable crime: posting a page written exclusively non-French. But they let Roman Polanski, a convicted child rapist, to run around their enlightened nation.
How is that a mistake? Novell has something no other distribution has. A front seat to NDS. In fact, I'm pretty sure their whole original reason for their buying SuSE was to have a solid OS platform to run NDS off of. They probably were not even running against Redhat or Sun. It could be a Hail Mary comeback for network services management on Microsoft shops. Even if they're only partially sucessful, it salvages their original intellectual property (NDS). Also, initially, there might have been some hope of getting bought out by Sun. (Back many quarters ago, Sun had cash and was looking to acquire properties.)
You are a sad, sad man. I hope you're still a kid. You base SuSE's distribution quality solely on the desktop it decided to consolidate upon. If Novell's entire strategy counted on its KDE users, it would be stillborn. The entire linux market is a zit on corporations' ass. Its total presence is server based. If Novell wants to claw onto the desktop/server market occupied by Microsoft, are they going to do it with a feature filled desktop that has Exchange compatibility, or with a relatively unknown KDE, who they have no pull in terms of guiding its development? Sun is Gnome, and Redhat is Gnome. And that is the environment any Fortune 500 company is going to consolidate upon. Novell wants to cut bodies, not keep KDE users happy. Grow up.
You see, its ignorant statements like this that make me think you're a primadonna poser. No operating system better supports threaded coding, SMP, and user mode applications (on a predominant commercial level) for HIGH RELIABILITY. (There might be something from SGI that could be described as more desirable.) Anything with higher availablity, you're going to have to go to mainframes. (Yeah, go do cutting edge stuff with that.) As for their SPARC hardware, it actually beats out Apple in putting out slow, obsolete, putrid crap.
Name one other large scale computer services company with better technical support (for administrators). HP??? I'd rather deal with Indian subcontinent natives. Granted, if you need something resolved in ten minutes, its not going to happen. But I'm not aware of any technical support service on their scale that fixes it in ten minutes. You start out with the tier 1 losers, and work your way up. If all the components came from Sun or their partners, and you're not running the bleeding edge, you will eventually get someone who can fix your problem.
There's nothing about Solaris 10 that would make me think I'd be better off with 9 or 8. (Then again, I don't work with highly-scaled platforms.) If anything, I'm disturbed at how infrequently I'm seeing patches released for Slowlaris 10.
Now if you're a developer, that's a different story. Crappy development tools, yes. Unless you're running something so esoteric you actually need DTRACE to help figure out the problem. Then there is no substitute. Awww, you have to use a CLI? If you bitch about that, you're not a competent developer. Go back to your windoze box and write graphics games. Its not about the size of the box, its the size of the man.
Thanks. Funny, I was following up more questions, and then it hit me. Dunno why you posted AC...
Can anyone explain the SGI's decision to open source XFS? What did they envision the results, from a marketing point of view? Were they sucessful in their goal?
Its comparing apples with oranges. XFS has the advantage of design testing and disk throughput for real-time video streaming. I don't really see an advantage from using JFS. If JFS is not outstripping XFS for performance or reliability, there's no reason to dump XFS. If JFS was in the process of outstripping XFS for performance or reliability, it would be in a relatively unstable development state, thus less desirable from a reliability point of view. Why would one adopt JFS over reiserfs or e3fs, let alone discard the venerable XFS?
Vermin like Sun? Pray tell, what horrific things has Sun done to deserve such condemnation? What made SGI an angel by comparison?
Why do you blow $50+/month on cable?
While one certainly is stuck with the dollar value/channel, there must be some nugget of a program that is justifying your $50+/month expenditure.
I don't pay $50+/month for shit. You are the biggest loser.
Humor us. What are the appreciable differences?
They were both strongly in favor of invading Iraq. And staying in Iraq. Are you suggesting that Kerry would have done the responsible thing and try to institute the Draft? Would that reknown leader of men convince the Congress to vote for such a measure? If so, why couldn't Kerry ever sponsor and pass a piece of significant legislation?
Are their border control policies different? Would Kerry beef up the border security, increase deportations, institute guest worker visas, and increase convictions of business owners that hire illegal immegrants?
Has Kerry helped push any legislation would show he understands the onerous cost of the federal gov't?
Face it. The boys at the top picked someone who wasn't going to upset the apple cart. And until THOSE losers are booted out of power, no matter what loser the Republicans put up, the Democrats will put up another loser.
And finally, we live in a country of dumbasses who vote, and dumbasses who don't vote. Until you can fix them, they'll be voting for "a Bush" every time.
You have to do a short story where the space science protagonists are working with these ridiculous measures...
As much as I loathe petty, exploitation-driven capitalism, I've seen enough NASA stupidity in the past 20 years to give up hope of a constructive, gov't run space program.
But leave it to a chimp to take a defective gov't boondoggle, and evolve it into another defective boondoggle. Kiddies, sending a sucessful manned mission to Mars will be quite a technological and cultural feat, but it won't accomplish jack for humanity or the US. AT BEST, it will be a baby step towards longterm sustainment of man in space, but it will be an expensive gesture. Frankly, I think it is being proposed so that Bush can cannibalize the productive sections of NASA (scientific, and unmanned probes) with little public outcry. Later on, the manned effort will die when the new administration comes in, due to the bills from Iraq. Put away the phasers and spaceship models and stop being childish.
But petty, exploitation-driven capitalism will not drive colonization/utilization of space. There has to be enough of a gold-mine to make the effort worthwhile. There's only four things that could drive it.
1) Zero-gravity manufacturing processes could be made profitable. Don't see it as of 2005.
2) There could be something worth mining on the moon to make it profitable. If you stuck U.S. taxpayers with the bill to do basic research (robotics and geological surveys), the capitalists would make sure the final step would be taken (provided its profitable). Given my cynicism, I really am in favor of putting the eggs here.
3) Energy collection from space. Ignoring the feasibility of H3 on the moon, putting up stadium sized solar concentrators and beaming down the energy in microwave form could make the Middle East irrelevant. But this is a case of the (oil) capitalists sabotaging a gov't research effort.
4) Militarization of space. Become militaristic butchers and flag waving assholes, you pointy eared freaks. Because this is the only credible way a manned space program is going to be funded.