"Actually, you want fanatics to be your warriors."
Actually, no you don't. Fanatics sometimes do things for very VERY obscure reasons, contravening orders, military discipline, etc.
You want warriors who follow orders, pay attention, and can think creatively in hostile situations. In that order exactly. Like the three laws of robotics.
To paraphrase Patton. It's not about dying for your country. It's about making that other dumb bastard die for his.
Of course, coming from the Army, rather than the Air Force, this COULD just be a difference in outlook.
The whole "kills lots of birds" things came about because of some very early, very dense wind farms that weren't planned out very well and had smaller, very high-speed blade systems.
Newer wind turbine systems are larger, slower, better-designed, and more care is usually given to layout of a wind farm so that, while SOME birds are occasionally killed, the numbers are greatly reduced.
Do some Google searches for "altamont pass" and "wind turbines kill birds".
"I don't know anyone who actually treats coffee like that. Nobody treats coffee with their "full undivided attention", they walk around with un-covered cups all the time chatting with co-workers and what not and basically try not to run into anyone"
Yeah. People drink and drive, cell and drive, etc too.
Doesn't mean it's smart.
"But based on what you are saying, the (pulling a number out of thin air) hundreds of thousands of people who drink coffee every day while commuting are knowingly putting themselves at risk of third degree burns and painful skin grafts."
Not to put too fine a point on it? YEAH! Simply because they defy the odds and don't get hurt (or don't get hurt seriously) doesn't mean the risk is less real.
"Or, perhaps more plausibly, nobody actually considers a normal cup of coffee to be that serious of a threat, and everyone's "coffee==hot" equation does not apply for such high values of "hot"."
It may be plausible to you. IMNSHO, it's just wishful thinking.
"Do you seriously walk around holding your coffee cup in two hands, blowing off anyone who attempts to engage you in conversation or otherwise distract your full attention from the danger in front of you?"
I don't drink coffee. However, I've consumed very hot beverages beverages before. And yes, I either set them down, or use both hands until they cool down appreciably.
"She still would have received third degree burns almost immediately."
Maybe, but not to the extent she did. And, again, she sat in it for over a minute.
Moreover, with a less severe level of burning, she may not have required skin grafts.
"I don't know any who have been scarred as a result even if they spilled it on their pants"
Most of the mouth-breathers who work for the government (especially the fogeys in the upper echelons) count themselves lucky if they know how to breath and spread bullshit at the same time.
You give hot liquids your full, undivided attention or you should NOT be handling them. If this means pulling the damn car over and walking in to get your caffiene fix DO IT!
There's also the "spilled it into clothing which holds it against your skin and continues to burn you" hot too. It's not like you get a peltier effect by dropping hot coffee on yourself.
And FTR, she sat in a pool of hot coffee for over a minute and a half (not three).
You mean to tell me that over the last 30 years, with MILLIONS of kids and adults playing violent video games, with the number of deaths truly attributable back to influence of video games (not just violent video games, ALL video games) countable in two digits and they're as dangerous as cancer?
And how long have these figures been cooked? They're a bit overdone.
The guy who'd merchandise his own mother, not for a buck. It's gotta be at least $100. All he understands is "you have to give me money". Economics? That's for lesser beings! (Ace? Paul? Peter? You wanna deal with economics?)
Note: I'm not saying that the man making a buck (or even a lot of bucks) is bad. I'm just saying his understanding of reality beyond "Gene Make Money!" is somewhat skewed...at best.
Honestly, the music industry killed the music industry.
What? It had lots of help? Sure!
Arbitron and other market studies that lead them into decade-long stretches of canned acts because of "trends". The recording industry for narrowing down opinions of music that "matters" to what some suit-monkey with a big desk thinks (and I use the term most loosely) might sell (and we're back to Arbitron). Not to mention the fact that their IDEAL model of how things SHOULD be would have you paying every single time you heard the song (not just every time you wanted to hear it).
There are some people who've paid for the same content up to SEVEN TIMES (Record, 8-Track, cassette, CD, DVD, digital audio in expiring format #1, digital audio in expiring format #2). And that's for old stuff.
What about the new stuff? Crap, crap, and more formulaic crap with smidgens of decent content few and far between, but you practically have to buy an artist/group's entire fucking catalog just to get what matters!
Fuck, the movie industry learned a long time ago that 2-3 sequels is about all a franchise can handle.
What makes the music industry think that "Oops I Did It Yet Again For The Umpteenth Time, Series 12, Installmment 5, Printing 2 (Sanitized by censors for censors)" is going to sell?
I don't begrudge anyone the right to make a ridiculously good living. But if you're selling fertilizer, I'm not a farmer. So don't expect me to buy.
And no, you're NOT going to sue me into buying your crap. If I'm not going to download it from a file sharing network, I'm not going to buy it either.
IF they set up "some hardware", then "everybody" will switch over.
Yep. Everyone will automatically switch over to an unproven provider, right off the bat.
ARE YOU NUCKING FUTS?
If they want to do this, they need to start small, prove they can be stable, take on more responsibility, then eventually, when they prove they can handle their portion of the load, assume authority over PORTIONS of it.
What you're suggesting is akin to some kid on a cablemodem setting up a Linux box and then telling everyone they should move off Akamai and on to his "uber boxen".
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Seriously, there's a boundary around here somewhere?
Whoops! My 30 second "take a breath" moment is up. Back to the grind! Only another 30 years of this and I can have a whole minute of time to myself!
"Actually, you want fanatics to be your warriors."
Actually, no you don't. Fanatics sometimes do things for very VERY obscure reasons, contravening orders, military discipline, etc.
You want warriors who follow orders, pay attention, and can think creatively in hostile situations. In that order exactly. Like the three laws of robotics.
To paraphrase Patton. It's not about dying for your country. It's about making that other dumb bastard die for his.
Of course, coming from the Army, rather than the Air Force, this COULD just be a difference in outlook.
Sure there is! Lots of them!
Greed.
Avarice.
Stupidity.
Need I go on?
The whole "kills lots of birds" things came about because of some very early, very dense wind farms that weren't planned out very well and had smaller, very high-speed blade systems.
Newer wind turbine systems are larger, slower, better-designed, and more care is usually given to layout of a wind farm so that, while SOME birds are occasionally killed, the numbers are greatly reduced.
Do some Google searches for "altamont pass" and "wind turbines kill birds".
Go Vista...
Because lack of necessity shouldn't stop you.
Because you need a reason to buy a new computer.
A better reason to jump to Mac/Linux/etc.
Because Microsoft needs to make a couple more millionaires.
Because Windows XP makes baby Jesus cry!
OR ELSE!
welcome our new "You steal my song, I steal your computer(s)" copyright-protecting overlords.
Fuck us over some more! We love it! Whip us! Beat us! Make us write bad checks!
Again, with dozens (or hundreds) of pieces of equipment during a surgery, that's not always feasible.
And people can mis-count.
Remember, these are the guys who had an newborn "lifted" from their post-partum unit back in 2000.
"I don't know anyone who actually treats coffee like that. Nobody treats coffee with their "full undivided attention", they walk around with un-covered cups all the time chatting with co-workers and what not and basically try not to run into anyone"
Yeah. People drink and drive, cell and drive, etc too.
Doesn't mean it's smart.
"But based on what you are saying, the (pulling a number out of thin air) hundreds of thousands of people who drink coffee every day while commuting are knowingly putting themselves at risk of third degree burns and painful skin grafts."
Not to put too fine a point on it? YEAH! Simply because they defy the odds and don't get hurt (or don't get hurt seriously) doesn't mean the risk is less real.
"Or, perhaps more plausibly, nobody actually considers a normal cup of coffee to be that serious of a threat, and everyone's "coffee==hot" equation does not apply for such high values of "hot"."
It may be plausible to you. IMNSHO, it's just wishful thinking.
"Do you seriously walk around holding your coffee cup in two hands, blowing off anyone who attempts to engage you in conversation or otherwise distract your full attention from the danger in front of you?"
I don't drink coffee. However, I've consumed very hot beverages beverages before. And yes, I either set them down, or use both hands until they cool down appreciably.
"She still would have received third degree burns almost immediately."
Maybe, but not to the extent she did. And, again, she sat in it for over a minute.
Moreover, with a less severe level of burning, she may not have required skin grafts.
"I don't know any who have been scarred as a result even if they spilled it on their pants"
So you have an anecdotal lack of evidence.
Lack of evidence is not evidence of lack.
Ooh! FIOS! WHEE! FIOS!
Can I get FIOS?
Due to regulations, business agreements, etc, the answer is FUCK NO.
FIOS, while probably great, just does NOT have the availability that Comcast's cable internet does.
Comcast coverage in my area is pretty much UNIVERSAL now.
Maybe, some day, FIOS will be a real option for more people.
But until it's actually available in the same way cable internet is, the dinosaur ain't dead yet...
Government
Official
Most of the mouth-breathers who work for the government (especially the fogeys in the upper echelons) count themselves lucky if they know how to breath and spread bullshit at the same time.
Computers? That's like, magic or something...
In short, can you smell the Lud?
"the erection of things like the Great Firewall of China"
;-)
You're saying the GFC is a boner?
Sorry...sorry...couldn't help meself.
Sorry, the "coffee=hot" parable is still correct.
You don't stick hot liquids between your legs.
You don't try to balance hot liquids on your gut.
You give hot liquids your full, undivided attention or you should NOT be handling them. If this means pulling the damn car over and walking in to get your caffiene fix DO IT!
There's also the "spilled it into clothing which holds it against your skin and continues to burn you" hot too. It's not like you get a peltier effect by dropping hot coffee on yourself.
And FTR, she sat in a pool of hot coffee for over a minute and a half (not three).
Well fuck me running!
You mean to tell me that over the last 30 years, with MILLIONS of kids and adults playing violent video games, with the number of deaths truly attributable back to influence of video games (not just violent video games, ALL video games) countable in two digits and they're as dangerous as cancer?
And how long have these figures been cooked? They're a bit overdone.
Lies.
Damn lies.
Statistics.
All it means is that he has to work harder at kicking ass. In the end, ass is still kicked.
I mean that both literally AND metaphorically.
You've never seen some poorly socialized slob trying to pick up a girl have you?
"Scary" only BEGINS to describe it...
"This clown is out of his depth."
Nonono. It is pronounced "ass clown".
But I agree. Heaven forbid there are people out here actually, y'know, PAYING for their own bandwidth.
You may want to add a [HUMOR] tag in there someplace.
The entire car crashes and turns into an elaborate electric chair....
Or the battery liquefies and dissolves the guy...painfully (think "The Blob").
Or better yet! BOTH AT ONCE!
RAID0 = Striping
RAID1 = Mirroring
RAID5 = Striping with parity
RAID0+1 = Mirrored Striping
RAID10 = Striped mirroring
The guy who'd merchandise his own mother, not for a buck. It's gotta be at least $100. All he understands is "you have to give me money". Economics? That's for lesser beings! (Ace? Paul? Peter? You wanna deal with economics?)
Note: I'm not saying that the man making a buck (or even a lot of bucks) is bad. I'm just saying his understanding of reality beyond "Gene Make Money!" is somewhat skewed...at best.
Honestly, the music industry killed the music industry.
What? It had lots of help? Sure!
Arbitron and other market studies that lead them into decade-long stretches of canned acts because of "trends".
The recording industry for narrowing down opinions of music that "matters" to what some suit-monkey with a big desk thinks (and I use the term most loosely) might sell (and we're back to Arbitron). Not to mention the fact that their IDEAL model of how things SHOULD be would have you paying every single time you heard the song (not just every time you wanted to hear it).
There are some people who've paid for the same content up to SEVEN TIMES (Record, 8-Track, cassette, CD, DVD, digital audio in expiring format #1, digital audio in expiring format #2). And that's for old stuff.
What about the new stuff? Crap, crap, and more formulaic crap with smidgens of decent content few and far between, but you practically have to buy an artist/group's entire fucking catalog just to get what matters!
Fuck, the movie industry learned a long time ago that 2-3 sequels is about all a franchise can handle.
What makes the music industry think that "Oops I Did It Yet Again For The Umpteenth Time, Series 12, Installmment 5, Printing 2 (Sanitized by censors for censors)" is going to sell?
I don't begrudge anyone the right to make a ridiculously good living. But if you're selling fertilizer, I'm not a farmer. So don't expect me to buy.
And no, you're NOT going to sue me into buying your crap. If I'm not going to download it from a file sharing network, I'm not going to buy it either.
Was going to say "put Linux on it and repurpose", but you're talking about actual junk equipment that can't be salvaged in that way.
IF they set up "some hardware", then "everybody" will switch over.
Yep. Everyone will automatically switch over to an unproven provider, right off the bat.
ARE YOU NUCKING FUTS?
If they want to do this, they need to start small, prove they can be stable, take on more responsibility, then eventually, when they prove they can handle their portion of the load, assume authority over PORTIONS of it.
What you're suggesting is akin to some kid on a cablemodem setting up a Linux box and then telling everyone they should move off Akamai and on to his "uber boxen".
Look again yourself. They're private institutions. Not government entities.
From what I've seen thus far, all they've done is demand control of systems and services that don't belong to them (but they're given use of).
Unless they're willing to actually, y'know, INVEST in supporting the infrastructure (their own root servers, etc), they need to step off.
It's like some of these nations that get sent food demanding steak instead of the grain.