From the linked article: And Iran — which has enjoyed record oil profits over the past five years but is faced with a dwindling number of oil customers — relies on the Hormuz Strait as the departure gate for its biggest client: China.
“We would be committing economical suicide by closing off the Hormuz Strait,” said an Iranian Oil Ministry official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject. “Oil money is our only income, so we would be spectacularly shooting ourselves in the foot by doing that.”
Ahmad Bakhshayesh Ardestani, a political scientist running for parliament from the camp of hard-line clerics and commanders opposing Ahmadinejad, said it is “good politics” for Iran to respond to U.S. threats with threats of its own.
“But our threat will not be realized,” Ardestani said. “We are just responding to the U.S., nothing more.”
I bought an unlocked Galaxy S not too long after they came out. I love it, but the GPS is broken*. I don't believe any software update will ever fix it. So now I'm just waiting for a phone that I consider to be a suitable replacement at a decent price point. I like the Galaxy S II - and the new Nexus. I figure at some point next year I will think about pulling the trigger.
*It takes forever to settle on a location and when it finally does get it one it is with an accuracy of +/- half a kilometer or more. This makes it essentially useless for navigation.
I agree - but my point is, if you are holding it in your hand, using it to turn screws, the odds of your breaking it are rather small. Which is probably rather obvious to most, but I remember the day I figured it out and how it struck me as really funny. The mention of it being possible to interchange screw drivers and chisels just caused a bunch of neurons to fire off in my brain and I couldn't help sharing.
Usually it is the other way around, but I think the comparison is unfair here. Drupal is more of a platform than a CMS. It's all a matter of how far you want to be on the continuum between coding it yourself and having something to build on.
It wont work for everybody, nothing does, but I think it would work for a lot more people if they looked at it.
It's funny, it's practically impossible to break a screw driver by using it properly. When you see a broken screw driver, usually somebody tried to use it rather than the proper tool. (That has nothing to do with the current discussion, your comment just brought it to mind.)
I spent a lot of time as a youngster at the public library. Fortunately my mom was a big reader and took me there often (it was too far from our house for me to ride my bike or walk.) In grade school I'd already figured out that Science Fiction and Fantasy were my favorites. I don't remember what year it was exactly but it doesn't seem like it took me too long to read through everything interesting in the kids section and I moved over to the regular Sci-Fi/Fantasy shelves.
I do remember clearly pulling the White Dragon off the shelf one day and there on the cover was a guy, sitting on a dragon, with little dragons around them both. Well, that was it. I grabbed it and I tore through it.
I still chuckle because my parents were rather conservative and some of the content in that book would have made them flip out. I just loved every bit of it, and then went back to the library to actually read through the series in order. The Pern books became lifelong friends, from that introduction as an adolescent, to bringing Masterharper of Pern with me on my honeymoon (read it on the flight) and today I still am reading the books. Not too many authors have that kind of long term impact.
I spent the last couple hours trying to get first post on stories so I could make comments with the subject of "Duh" and a joke about a uav helicopter landing on a truck. And you wonder? Really?
the upside is if you can't afford your own truck landing robot helicopter, it shouldn't be too hard to steal one. access to truck landing robot helicopters should be an inalienable right.
I'm a simple guy - it's all I could do to keep the helicopter thread going. And I knew the political commentary would probably be the end of my ride on the Funny train. But I'd believe that my comedic genius will not be silenced by the fascist down mods that are surely on the way. And it's a first post - it shouldn't be that good anyway.
they can't land the robot helicopter on your truck, unless they know it's you. this is all so obvious.
the important thing is that sooner or later that little group of old, rich guys that run everything, they'll be able to do so at a much more personal level and without having to trust so many other people. that hellfire about to slide up your tailpipe? that wasn't cheap to make and you should be flattered.
Here's a short description of how the Canadians do it. I worked on a CVN myself, so I've never been personally involved in recovering helos on a small deck. I did spend a couple weeks on an FFG and looked over the equipment but we never used it while I was aboard.
The article says they will test with a frigate. That means lots of movement - they are much, much smaller than a CV. But I don't doubt it is doable. They just need to get in close enough to get hooked into the winch that can take it in and hold it down.
It's funny you bring that up. I work for a non-profit so I think we need to be extra careful with how we spend money. Nothing blows my mind like walking by the desk of someone who has switched to Mac because they were tired of fighting with Windows, to see them working in parallels. They bought a Mac then they always end up buying office in both platforms and spending a huge percentage of their time working in the OS they claimed they needed to escape. I guess Microsoft likes it, they get to sell 2 copies of office.
I don't play games on the PC a whole lot any more. The one I play most is web based (see my sig - join up -spend money and help me out:) ). So I didn't even think about when I saw this story comes out. But it makes sense. I still laugh when I watch this.
The problem is there are a bunch of options for all the various layers, and if you are just a regular user like me, it's hard to know what's what. Where does Pulse Audio fit in with Alsa? Are they complementary or different options for the same thing? I don't have a clue. What tools do you need? I don't know - I use a mix of stuff, some gui, some cli and a few that are deprecated but they are the only way I know how to get what I want done. There's no clear instruction (that I've found) that says - "Use this exact stack and all will be well."
I don't mind digging in to get my sound to work well, and fix it when it goes wonky - but it's the reason I wouldn't put a friend or relative on Linux. I don't even really get how it all works, is supposed to work, etc. I just am tenacious enough and know just enough to keep hammering away until I get it going. I can't even think about what that would be like to support for someone else.
Programs, or apps as the kids say. There are people I work with that require software that is unavailable on Linux. Or what is available on Linux isn't sufficient.
I use a custom made program for work that only runs on Windows. I use a service that requires what I send them to be in MS Publisher format. (And even if they didn't the closest to Publisher on Linux is Scribus but it lacks mail merge which I require.) And for work I use Skype a lot. The Linux version is old and doesn't support a number of features I use regularly. I'm on my linux machine most of the day so I have Skype running on it for chat and single person voice but when I need to do group stuff, I have to switch over to my Windows machine and run skype there. I don't foresee Microsoft pouring a lot of effort into the Linux Skype client any time in the near future.
I think those 3 things are all that's left. I don't mind it though. I spend 90% of my time on my Linux machines and hop over to Windows as required. It's not a big deal. My normal work day I use 3 machines, two running Fedora and one running Windows 7. I have synergy to share a keyboard/mouse between them and I don't have a hard time doing what I want. When I travel I often only have the Windows machine as it's the smallest and has the best battery life. But I don't do a lot of heavy work on the road either. Mostly presentations, email, etc. If I knew ahead of time I would want to really do a lot of work somewhere else, I'd bring the Linux laptop instead.
Making assumptions and being rude really wont make you right. I'd recommend some deep breaths and thinking if all the things you've assumed about me are true. I'm going to posit that they aren't.
I just went on-line, chose in-state tuition from my home state Arizona and looked up what it costs to attend business school at ASU. Total for a full year, this year is 10k. That means someone who can transfer 2 years in from a community college should be able to finish up in another 2 with 20k or so in debt. This assumes all they do is work to cover their living expenses.
It doesn't take 7.5 years to get a teaching position in the public school system in the US. I'm not sure where you got that number but it can be done with a 4 year degree - student teaching being a part of the program. I am qualified to teach secondary ed. social studies - I know what it takes. You'd have to be a bit crazy to try and do it right now as teaching jobs are crazy hard to come by but spending 7.5 years to do it is doing it wrong.
I'm unaware of any school district that requires new hired teachers to hold a masters. Usually you are required to work towards it after being hired and their are programs to make it affordable and to fit it into your schedule.
I'm doubtful about the 100k on top of a degree to get an HR job. You'll need to give me a source before I'm going to be able to buy that. I've worked in a number of places with HR people that didn't hold any kind of a certification. I don't think they made 40k starting but over 30 for sure with room to move up, make more, etc.
Finally, I'm not angry with anyone. I'm unsure what I said that made you think I'm angry. I just don't understand why people can't do the math. You make it sound like there are no choices but that isn't accurate. There are many choices. Taking on huge amounts of debt with no real prospects to turn that debt into even more profit is never a good idea.
Just because I didn't graduate from college last week doesn't mean I don't understand what's going on. It doesn't mean I don't have experience in dealing with the kind of issues that I think are worth protesting. But I think standing around saying "I took on obligations I can't meet and I blame everyone else" is not a good platform. I can think of others that make more sense.
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Iran unlikely to block oil shipments through Strait of Hormuz, analysts say.
From the linked article: And Iran — which has enjoyed record oil profits over the past five years but is faced with a dwindling number of oil customers — relies on the Hormuz Strait as the departure gate for its biggest client: China.
“We would be committing economical suicide by closing off the Hormuz Strait,” said an Iranian Oil Ministry official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject. “Oil money is our only income, so we would be spectacularly shooting ourselves in the foot by doing that.”
Ahmad Bakhshayesh Ardestani, a political scientist running for parliament from the camp of hard-line clerics and commanders opposing Ahmadinejad, said it is “good politics” for Iran to respond to U.S. threats with threats of its own.
“But our threat will not be realized,” Ardestani said. “We are just responding to the U.S., nothing more.”
down range always - though I live in Europe now so it's all figurative. My guns are locked up back in the U.S.
I bought an unlocked Galaxy S not too long after they came out. I love it, but the GPS is broken*. I don't believe any software update will ever fix it. So now I'm just waiting for a phone that I consider to be a suitable replacement at a decent price point. I like the Galaxy S II - and the new Nexus. I figure at some point next year I will think about pulling the trigger.
*It takes forever to settle on a location and when it finally does get it one it is with an accuracy of +/- half a kilometer or more. This makes it essentially useless for navigation.
why does a story about carrier iq have the android icon on it?
I agree - but my point is, if you are holding it in your hand, using it to turn screws, the odds of your breaking it are rather small. Which is probably rather obvious to most, but I remember the day I figured it out and how it struck me as really funny. The mention of it being possible to interchange screw drivers and chisels just caused a bunch of neurons to fire off in my brain and I couldn't help sharing.
Usually it is the other way around, but I think the comparison is unfair here. Drupal is more of a platform than a CMS. It's all a matter of how far you want to be on the continuum between coding it yourself and having something to build on.
It wont work for everybody, nothing does, but I think it would work for a lot more people if they looked at it.
It's funny, it's practically impossible to break a screw driver by using it properly. When you see a broken screw driver, usually somebody tried to use it rather than the proper tool. (That has nothing to do with the current discussion, your comment just brought it to mind.)
Drupal can be used as a framework
I spent a lot of time as a youngster at the public library. Fortunately my mom was a big reader and took me there often (it was too far from our house for me to ride my bike or walk.) In grade school I'd already figured out that Science Fiction and Fantasy were my favorites. I don't remember what year it was exactly but it doesn't seem like it took me too long to read through everything interesting in the kids section and I moved over to the regular Sci-Fi/Fantasy shelves.
I do remember clearly pulling the White Dragon off the shelf one day and there on the cover was a guy, sitting on a dragon, with little dragons around them both. Well, that was it. I grabbed it and I tore through it.
I still chuckle because my parents were rather conservative and some of the content in that book would have made them flip out. I just loved every bit of it, and then went back to the library to actually read through the series in order. The Pern books became lifelong friends, from that introduction as an adolescent, to bringing Masterharper of Pern with me on my honeymoon (read it on the flight) and today I still am reading the books. Not too many authors have that kind of long term impact.
I love this. It's right up there with the one about eating muppets - I miss that one.
I spent the last couple hours trying to get first post on stories so I could make comments with the subject of "Duh" and a joke about a uav helicopter landing on a truck. And you wonder? Really?
Of course, you are correct.
the upside is if you can't afford your own truck landing robot helicopter, it shouldn't be too hard to steal one. access to truck landing robot helicopters should be an inalienable right.
i bet the password was h2o
I'm a simple guy - it's all I could do to keep the helicopter thread going. And I knew the political commentary would probably be the end of my ride on the Funny train. But I'd believe that my comedic genius will not be silenced by the fascist down mods that are surely on the way. And it's a first post - it shouldn't be that good anyway.
they can't land the robot helicopter on your truck, unless they know it's you. this is all so obvious.
the important thing is that sooner or later that little group of old, rich guys that run everything, they'll be able to do so at a much more personal level and without having to trust so many other people. that hellfire about to slide up your tailpipe? that wasn't cheap to make and you should be flattered.
how do you tell your robot helicopter which truck to land on if you don't have access to the internet?
they can't land the black robot helicopter on your car if they don't know where you are.
Here's a short description of how the Canadians do it. I worked on a CVN myself, so I've never been personally involved in recovering helos on a small deck. I did spend a couple weeks on an FFG and looked over the equipment but we never used it while I was aboard.
why do you say that? What makes it "not as good"?
Do you think it would be significantly more challenging with a bigger vehicle like this Boeing Helo, or is it basically the same problem?
The article says they will test with a frigate. That means lots of movement - they are much, much smaller than a CV. But I don't doubt it is doable. They just need to get in close enough to get hooked into the winch that can take it in and hold it down.
It's funny you bring that up. I work for a non-profit so I think we need to be extra careful with how we spend money. Nothing blows my mind like walking by the desk of someone who has switched to Mac because they were tired of fighting with Windows, to see them working in parallels. They bought a Mac then they always end up buying office in both platforms and spending a huge percentage of their time working in the OS they claimed they needed to escape. I guess Microsoft likes it, they get to sell 2 copies of office.
I don't play games on the PC a whole lot any more. The one I play most is web based (see my sig - join up -spend money and help me out :) ). So I didn't even think about when I saw this story comes out. But it makes sense. I still laugh when I watch this.
The problem is there are a bunch of options for all the various layers, and if you are just a regular user like me, it's hard to know what's what. Where does Pulse Audio fit in with Alsa? Are they complementary or different options for the same thing? I don't have a clue. What tools do you need? I don't know - I use a mix of stuff, some gui, some cli and a few that are deprecated but they are the only way I know how to get what I want done. There's no clear instruction (that I've found) that says - "Use this exact stack and all will be well."
I don't mind digging in to get my sound to work well, and fix it when it goes wonky - but it's the reason I wouldn't put a friend or relative on Linux. I don't even really get how it all works, is supposed to work, etc. I just am tenacious enough and know just enough to keep hammering away until I get it going. I can't even think about what that would be like to support for someone else.
Programs, or apps as the kids say. There are people I work with that require software that is unavailable on Linux. Or what is available on Linux isn't sufficient.
I use a custom made program for work that only runs on Windows.
I use a service that requires what I send them to be in MS Publisher format. (And even if they didn't the closest to Publisher on Linux is Scribus but it lacks mail merge which I require.)
And for work I use Skype a lot. The Linux version is old and doesn't support a number of features I use regularly. I'm on my linux machine most of the day so I have Skype running on it for chat and single person voice but when I need to do group stuff, I have to switch over to my Windows machine and run skype there. I don't foresee Microsoft pouring a lot of effort into the Linux Skype client any time in the near future.
I think those 3 things are all that's left. I don't mind it though. I spend 90% of my time on my Linux machines and hop over to Windows as required. It's not a big deal. My normal work day I use 3 machines, two running Fedora and one running Windows 7. I have synergy to share a keyboard/mouse between them and I don't have a hard time doing what I want. When I travel I often only have the Windows machine as it's the smallest and has the best battery life. But I don't do a lot of heavy work on the road either. Mostly presentations, email, etc. If I knew ahead of time I would want to really do a lot of work somewhere else, I'd bring the Linux laptop instead.
Making assumptions and being rude really wont make you right. I'd recommend some deep breaths and thinking if all the things you've assumed about me are true. I'm going to posit that they aren't.
I just went on-line, chose in-state tuition from my home state Arizona and looked up what it costs to attend business school at ASU. Total for a full year, this year is 10k. That means someone who can transfer 2 years in from a community college should be able to finish up in another 2 with 20k or so in debt. This assumes all they do is work to cover their living expenses.
It doesn't take 7.5 years to get a teaching position in the public school system in the US. I'm not sure where you got that number but it can be done with a 4 year degree - student teaching being a part of the program. I am qualified to teach secondary ed. social studies - I know what it takes. You'd have to be a bit crazy to try and do it right now as teaching jobs are crazy hard to come by but spending 7.5 years to do it is doing it wrong.
I'm unaware of any school district that requires new hired teachers to hold a masters. Usually you are required to work towards it after being hired and their are programs to make it affordable and to fit it into your schedule.
I'm doubtful about the 100k on top of a degree to get an HR job. You'll need to give me a source before I'm going to be able to buy that. I've worked in a number of places with HR people that didn't hold any kind of a certification. I don't think they made 40k starting but over 30 for sure with room to move up, make more, etc.
Finally, I'm not angry with anyone. I'm unsure what I said that made you think I'm angry. I just don't understand why people can't do the math. You make it sound like there are no choices but that isn't accurate. There are many choices. Taking on huge amounts of debt with no real prospects to turn that debt into even more profit is never a good idea.
Just because I didn't graduate from college last week doesn't mean I don't understand what's going on. It doesn't mean I don't have experience in dealing with the kind of issues that I think are worth protesting. But I think standing around saying "I took on obligations I can't meet and I blame everyone else" is not a good platform. I can think of others that make more sense.