Because with public transportation you go where they tell you, when they allow you, and to get from A to B you have to make 20+ stops between A and Q, to get to the Q-B bus, if it hasn't stopped running for the day.
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"Highest in 500,000 years" is not "There has never been a greater amount of CO2 in the enviroment than right at this point of time." Even the second part of the paragraph doesn't support your statement. "Highest rate of increase of CO2" is still not the same.
It was Apollo 12 that brought back bits of one of the Surveyor soft-landers. They brought back a piece of insulation, and when they examined it back on earth they found either a spore or a bacterium deep in the middle. So, it wasn't exactly exposed to all the conditions of space, except for the heat, cold and hard radiation.
And of course, there's also the bacterium that withstands high doses of radiation, Deinococcus radiodurans. NASA's been looking at it, apparently:
It's more a matter of what gets recieved in US airspace. The sole purpose originally, and one of their very anal efforts still, is preventing interference between radio stations in the US. From this has lead to the idea that the FCC is the best agency to be in charge of all aspects of communication technology used by and affecting US citizens. That would include broadcasts from cell phones, radio stations, cordless phones, wireless LANs, and satellite tranceivers. Of course, realistically there are international concerns, so that they really only have control over a subset of those things, including satellite. But, like all bureaucracies, mission creep has given them control over content, which really doesn't impact their prime purpose.
Well, I've never been in the anti-nuclear camp, maybe my age and some school trips to Oak Ridge has something to do with it. For a long time I've said that, just because we call it nuclear "waste" now, it doesn't mean that some time in the future someone won't find a useful benefit from some of it. Coal tar was basically a waste product until they found acetaminophen in it. It would be very ironic if in 20 years someone finds an AIDS cure in irradiated latex gloves, which we've been burying in lead vaults out of sheer terror of "radioactive waste."
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There has never been a greater amount of CO2 in the enviroment than right at this point of time.
I call bullshirt on this. Link a document that proves this outrageous statement.
Finally, for those who say that we should just cut back on luxuries and use less energy, that's a hard sell. And it's wrong-headed. We can make just as much power that doesn't completely wreck either the environment or the economy. It's not an either-or choice. But the knee-jerk protectors of coal and the knee-jerk defenders of solar/wind/microhydro, and the knee-jerk anti-nuclear need to come to grips with the actual numbers. Least environmental damage (that can do the job!!!)? Nuclear. Least number of deaths per megawatt (once again, for technologies that can do the job)? Nuclear.
Maybe we should set up knee-jerk based power plants!:-)
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Once the USA loses manned spaceflight capacity, it's not obvious the money will actually be found to replace it.
Nor is there any guarantee that there would still be experienced engineers to build it, even if there was money. There is a lot of hard-learned experience inside engineers' heads that is being lost daily, things that never make it into textbooks. Having to re-learn that knowledge is even more expensive as time goes on.
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in other words, learning to do it the best and most efficient way, with the best and most efficient designs for the jobs at hand requires that we actually go out there and learn 1) The best methods for 2) the job at hand. Not what we THINK the job will be, but what we discover it really is when we go and try to work in this environment.
Exactly. This is why, despite the advances in simulators and modelling, it still takes a human test pilot to try out the new designs for aircraft, and to fly them over and over in different situations. Sure, building prototypes and flying them is more expensive than producing a line of aircraft, and it can be expensive in lives lost, but there really is no other way to see if you're doing it right.
My 20 years of experience have covered a lot of areas, as well, from Fortran to Smalltalk and AI, but after a while it seems I'm still solving the same damn problems, using broken tools, maintaining broken code.
And putting up with the constant "We don't want it right, we want it now" management attitude that demands I write and ship code that hasn't been designed, that skimps on error checking because it takes time to figure out beforehand what might break, and writing/testing the code to handle it, and that I haven't had sufficient time to test in the environment they specify.
Not to mention not being told of all the user's requirements (or being told an incorrect interpretation of the requirements) which leads to "bugs" that have to be fixed by ripping out large chunks of the code and quickly slamming in new untested functions NOW because "we promised to have it fixed tomorrow."
When I first started I had so much fun you couldn't keep me away from work, I even stupidly worked incredible hours for low salary. Now, I'm independent, and if you're going to make me work those hours due to your mismanagement, you're going to pay.
It wasn't the agreement that increased the risk, it was the behavior of one of the parties. Still no reason for me to lambast the EV1 CEO for acting in good faith in making the agreement.
But then, I'm not a Linux Or Death Zealot like some who are posting here.
You should want to do business with a hosting company that sticks with sustainable business practices and keeps their customers happy. And EV1Servers has failed to do that here.
If they had announced they were being sued by SCO, and that they were going to fight to the end, I would have bailed ASAP, since that would have meant they intended to spend money for lawyers that I would rather they spend on system maintenance, the service I'm paying them for.
If a vocal minority of zealots leave, they can make that business up later. If by some chance a judge rules against EV1, they go belly-up and close, then who wins? And what do I do for my customers I'm hosting on those machines?
I love how free some people are with other people's money.
So you blame the victims of protection rackets, then? Nice.
The only support I expect from EV1 is that which is outlined in the contract. They provide the server, the basic software package, and they keep the server powered up and connected to the net. I don't look to them to be some kind of noble software knights flying the OSS banner to their deaths. Just keep the machines on and connected.
I'm staying with my EV1 accounts. I think the CEO made a smart decision, since he wants to keep his company going, and I don't want to have to pay higher and higher fees to pay for a lawsuit, even if EV1 eventually wins it, since I wouldn't see a penny of it back if SCO loses.
All EV1 is really saying is that they don't trust judges to make an intelligent decision, and I can't say I blame them.
The "guilty parties" in office aren't the ones who created the outsourcing "problem" by the way. Its been underway for 40 years. Remember, we used to make steel here? We used to make electronics here? Nobody "kicked any guilty parties out of office" because of it then, and they won't now.
Not to mention the fact that we still do make steel here, and we still do make electronics here, we just don't do as much. And look at the automotive industry. Driven a Camry recently? They're almost all made in Georgetown Kentucky. And what made BMW decide to build a major auto manufacturing plant in the US?
There will always be software-related jobs in the US, they'll be harder to come by, and you'll have to be damn good (or damn well connected) to get one, but they'll be here.
Presuming it's the small ISP with the/24 that's hosting the spammer. But if the spammer is not in the small ISP's space, but at another small ISP in the same/16, then what?
Yeah, I know, "do more research", "tough titty", "collateral damage", "it's for the greater good", etc. etc. Heard it all before.
Exactly! What I recommend to anybody is, whereever possible, do business with smaller entities rather than larger entities - you will be a larger percentage of their business and will therefor be more likely to command a degree of respect from them.
And what happens when they block the/16 or/12 where your small ISP resides, what do you do?
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Because with public transportation you go where they tell you, when they allow you, and to get from A to B you have to make 20+ stops between A and Q, to get to the Q-B bus, if it hasn't stopped running for the day.
"Highest in 500,000 years" is not "There has never been a greater amount of CO2 in the enviroment than right at this point of time." Even the second part of the paragraph doesn't support your statement. "Highest rate of increase of CO2" is still not the same.
Sounds like the ideal software developer, from a management perspective.
It was Apollo 12 that brought back bits of one of the Surveyor soft-landers. They brought back a piece of insulation, and when they examined it back on earth they found either a spore or a bacterium deep in the middle. So, it wasn't exactly exposed to all the conditions of space, except for the heat, cold and hard radiation.
And of course, there's also the bacterium that withstands high doses of radiation, Deinococcus radiodurans. NASA's been looking at it, apparently:
"Meet Conan the Bacterium"
It's more a matter of what gets recieved in US airspace. The sole purpose originally, and one of their very anal efforts still, is preventing interference between radio stations in the US. From this has lead to the idea that the FCC is the best agency to be in charge of all aspects of communication technology used by and affecting US citizens. That would include broadcasts from cell phones, radio stations, cordless phones, wireless LANs, and satellite tranceivers. Of course, realistically there are international concerns, so that they really only have control over a subset of those things, including satellite. But, like all bureaucracies, mission creep has given them control over content, which really doesn't impact their prime purpose.
Well, I've never been in the anti-nuclear camp, maybe my age and some school trips to Oak Ridge has something to do with it. For a long time I've said that, just because we call it nuclear "waste" now, it doesn't mean that some time in the future someone won't find a useful benefit from some of it. Coal tar was basically a waste product until they found acetaminophen in it. It would be very ironic if in 20 years someone finds an AIDS cure in irradiated latex gloves, which we've been burying in lead vaults out of sheer terror of "radioactive waste."
I call bullshirt on this. Link a document that proves this outrageous statement.
Maybe we should set up knee-jerk based power plants!
Nor is there any guarantee that there would still be experienced engineers to build it, even if there was money. There is a lot of hard-learned experience inside engineers' heads that is being lost daily, things that never make it into textbooks. Having to re-learn that knowledge is even more expensive as time goes on.
Exactly. This is why, despite the advances in simulators and modelling, it still takes a human test pilot to try out the new designs for aircraft, and to fly them over and over in different situations. Sure, building prototypes and flying them is more expensive than producing a line of aircraft, and it can be expensive in lives lost, but there really is no other way to see if you're doing it right.
And putting up with the constant "We don't want it right, we want it now" management attitude that demands I write and ship code that hasn't been designed, that skimps on error checking because it takes time to figure out beforehand what might break, and writing/testing the code to handle it, and that I haven't had sufficient time to test in the environment they specify.
Not to mention not being told of all the user's requirements (or being told an incorrect interpretation of the requirements) which leads to "bugs" that have to be fixed by ripping out large chunks of the code and quickly slamming in new untested functions NOW because "we promised to have it fixed tomorrow."
When I first started I had so much fun you couldn't keep me away from work, I even stupidly worked incredible hours for low salary. Now, I'm independent, and if you're going to make me work those hours due to your mismanagement, you're going to pay.
Cool. I missed the end of the last draft by being a few months too young to register, now I'll miss the next draft by being too old.
Good, maybe you can block some of the spam from going to my servers!
It wasn't the agreement that increased the risk, it was the behavior of one of the parties. Still no reason for me to lambast the EV1 CEO for acting in good faith in making the agreement.
But then, I'm not a Linux Or Death Zealot like some who are posting here.
If they had announced they were being sued by SCO, and that they were going to fight to the end, I would have bailed ASAP, since that would have meant they intended to spend money for lawyers that I would rather they spend on system maintenance, the service I'm paying them for.
If a vocal minority of zealots leave, they can make that business up later. If by some chance a judge rules against EV1, they go belly-up and close, then who wins? And what do I do for my customers I'm hosting on those machines?
I love how free some people are with other people's money.
So you blame the victims of protection rackets, then? Nice.
The only support I expect from EV1 is that which is outlined in the contract. They provide the server, the basic software package, and they keep the server powered up and connected to the net. I don't look to them to be some kind of noble software knights flying the OSS banner to their deaths. Just keep the machines on and connected.
They obviously felt they would lose too much in lawyers fees defending themselves in a suit that wouldn't be resolved for years or even decades.
You've never been the target of a major lawsuit, apparently.
I'm staying with my EV1 accounts. I think the CEO made a smart decision, since he wants to keep his company going, and I don't want to have to pay higher and higher fees to pay for a lawsuit, even if EV1 eventually wins it, since I wouldn't see a penny of it back if SCO loses.
All EV1 is really saying is that they don't trust judges to make an intelligent decision, and I can't say I blame them.
That means my brain is a black hole...
Oh, no, does that mean there's a Horta around?
If they build it out but only allow 256 Kbit upstream, because any more would "interfere" with the other subscribers, it just won't be worth it.
You post about some dome-looking thing, and completely ignore all the sandworms in the context pictures?
What, are you working for the Fremen?
Not to mention the fact that we still do make steel here, and we still do make electronics here, we just don't do as much. And look at the automotive industry. Driven a Camry recently? They're almost all made in Georgetown Kentucky. And what made BMW decide to build a major auto manufacturing plant in the US?
There will always be software-related jobs in the US, they'll be harder to come by, and you'll have to be damn good (or damn well connected) to get one, but they'll be here.
Presuming it's the small ISP with the /24 that's hosting the spammer. But if the spammer is not in the small ISP's space, but at another small ISP in the same /16, then what?
Yeah, I know, "do more research", "tough titty", "collateral damage", "it's for the greater good", etc. etc. Heard it all before.
And what happens when they block the /16 or /12 where your small ISP resides, what do you do?