In today's market where everyone uses IM speak - a four year degree from a traditional university is an enormous asset. All those term papers and endless hammering on language fundamentals will help separate you from the herd.
Wow! If thats not a reason to switch to Firefox, I don't know what is.
The problem with freedom is - you don't know what people are going to do with it. You know, like colaborate together and develop a kick ass open source browser and give it away or something...
If cable TV had existed in 1886, everyone in the U.S. might have been whipped into a hurricane panic. A record seven hurricanes made landfall that year, including a Category 4 storm that hit Texas and would have had on-the-spot cable newscasters dramatically fighting the wind to deliver their reports. All during the 1890s, reporters could have done the same along the Atlantic seaboard, as it was hammered by more powerful hurricanes than it would be in any decade except the 1950s.
Hurricane Katrina, which slammed the Gulf Coast and got eyewall-to-eyewall media coverage, is sure to increase the sense that there is an epidemic of hurricanes (along, of course, with an epidemic of shark attacks and missing blond girls). Which inevitably raises the question: "What can we do about it?" For some scientists and activists -- working on the assumption that anything they don't like must be caused by industrial emissions -- the answer is stop global warming.
There is hardly an undesirable natural event, from wildfires to hurricanes, that former Vice President Al Gore hasn't blamed on global warming. As if it weren't for fossil-fuel emissions, the weather would always be predictable and pleasant. An outfit called Scientists and Engineers for Change put up a billboard in Florida before last year's presidential election stating it starkly: "Global warming = Worse hurricanes. George Bush just doesn't get it." Ah, yes: Why are Bush and the neocons focused on the war in Iraq, when there is a very real threat to the U.S. they should be addressing in the waters of the Atlantic?
Has global warming increased the frequency of hurricanes? One of the nation's foremost hurricane experts, William Gray, points out that if global warming is at work, cyclones should be increasing not just in the Atlantic but elsewhere, in the West Pacific, East Pacific, and the Indian Ocean. They aren't. The number of cyclones per year worldwide fluctuates pretty steadily between 80 and 100. There's actually been a small overall decline in tropical cyclones since 1995, and Atlantic hurricanes declined from 1970 to 1994, even as the globe was heating up.
It seems that Atlantic hurricanes come in spurts, or as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration puts it in more technical language, "a quasi-cyclic multi-decade regime that alternates between active and quiet phases." The late 1920s through the 1960s were active; the 1970s to early 1990s quiet; and since 1995 -- as anyone living in Florida or Gulfport, Miss., can tell you -- seems to be another active phase.
But if hurricanes aren't more frequent, are they more powerful? Warm water fuels hurricanes, so the theory is that as the ocean's surface heats up, hurricanes will pack more punch. An article in Nature -- after questionable jiggering with the historical wind data -- argues that hurricanes have doubled in strength because of global warming. Climatologist Patrick Michaels counters that if hurricanes had doubled in their power it would be obvious to everyone and there would be no need to write controversial papers about it.
Indeed, if you adjust for population growth and skyrocketing property values, hurricanes don't appear to be any more destructive today. According to the work of Roger Pielke of the University of Colorado, of the top five most destructive storms this century, only one occurred after 1950 -- Hurricane Andrew in 1992. An NOAA analysis says there have been fewer Category 4 storms throughout the past 35 years than would have been expected given 20th-century averages.
None of this data matters particularly, since proponents of global warming will continue to link warming with hurricanes. It generates headlines in a way that debates about tiny increments of warming don't. And it feeds a conceit that is oddly comforting: that whatever is wrong with the world is caused by us and fixable by us. Alas, it's not so. Mother Nature can be a cruel and unpredictable mistress, and sometimes all we can do is head for the high ground.
Due to the nature of bittorrent - where everyone uploads a little here and a little there - are they going to name everyone (by IP address)in one massive slap suit?
Unless they can nail (and prove) who the initial seeder is, they would have to go after EVERYONE who participated in the torrent - no?
Of course, lawyers are total pond scum and can come up with something for sure - but I dont get how they can nail me for uploading segment 3415, 1298 and 8129 out of 8902 of any particular file
using PGP for encrypting email? Am I then twarting the police by using this? Do I go to jail?
The problem with freedom is... you don't know what people are actually going to do with it... like encrypt their private fucking email - so the fucking cops can't read it!!!!!
If this isn't vapor - just imagine how you could use it for the pure anonymity of it all.
Imagine the p2p possiblities!!!
also
I wonder if they would serve up private or public ip addresses? Imagine the number of public numbers they would need - are there that many left to have?
You're correct - the term "communist agitprop" should be replaced with "enviromentalist agitprop bullshit" - sorry
How did you know I had an SUV? God you're clever! Its a big one too - a real pig - it flattens small pussy cars without me even noticing it. You probably have a small pussy car right?
Anyway - get back to me when you figured that replace oil with something magical problem...
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ummmm - you might have missed my point
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Understood -
However, I was trying to make a larger point. Have the right to bear arms is a critical bullwork against an oppressive government
Btw - a 50 Caliber rifle can make a serious hole in an apache attack helicopter
So suppose I setup my political blog server here http://www.sealandgov.com/
Now whats the FEC gonna do to me?
... this is why we have a second admendment
You are aware that WE THE PEOPLE have guns, right?
Will somebody please explain how the analog hole works to the RIAA .... oh never mind
In today's market where everyone uses IM speak - a four year degree from a traditional university is an enormous asset. All those term papers and endless hammering on language fundamentals will help separate you from the herd.
Thank you - I mean this is an extremely grainular hole in an otherwise rock solid piece of software.
That headline really scared the crap out of me at first.
.... oh never mind
.... will it run Lotus 1-2-3?
Wow! If thats not a reason to switch to Firefox, I don't know what is.
...
The problem with freedom is - you don't know what people are going to do with it. You know, like colaborate together and develop a kick ass open source browser and give it away or something
To quote Rich Lowrey @NRO
If cable TV had existed in 1886, everyone in the U.S. might have been whipped into a hurricane panic. A record seven hurricanes made landfall that year, including a Category 4 storm that hit Texas and would have had on-the-spot cable newscasters dramatically fighting the wind to deliver their reports. All during the 1890s, reporters could have done the same along the Atlantic seaboard, as it was hammered by more powerful hurricanes than it would be in any decade except the 1950s.
Hurricane Katrina, which slammed the Gulf Coast and got eyewall-to-eyewall media coverage, is sure to increase the sense that there is an epidemic of hurricanes (along, of course, with an epidemic of shark attacks and missing blond girls). Which inevitably raises the question: "What can we do about it?" For some scientists and activists -- working on the assumption that anything they don't like must be caused by industrial emissions -- the answer is stop global warming.
There is hardly an undesirable natural event, from wildfires to hurricanes, that former Vice President Al Gore hasn't blamed on global warming. As if it weren't for fossil-fuel emissions, the weather would always be predictable and pleasant. An outfit called Scientists and Engineers for Change put up a billboard in Florida before last year's presidential election stating it starkly: "Global warming = Worse hurricanes. George Bush just doesn't get it." Ah, yes: Why are Bush and the neocons focused on the war in Iraq, when there is a very real threat to the U.S. they should be addressing in the waters of the Atlantic?
Has global warming increased the frequency of hurricanes? One of the nation's foremost hurricane experts, William Gray, points out that if global warming is at work, cyclones should be increasing not just in the Atlantic but elsewhere, in the West Pacific, East Pacific, and the Indian Ocean. They aren't. The number of cyclones per year worldwide fluctuates pretty steadily between 80 and 100. There's actually been a small overall decline in tropical cyclones since 1995, and Atlantic hurricanes declined from 1970 to 1994, even as the globe was heating up.
It seems that Atlantic hurricanes come in spurts, or as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration puts it in more technical language, "a quasi-cyclic multi-decade regime that alternates between active and quiet phases." The late 1920s through the 1960s were active; the 1970s to early 1990s quiet; and since 1995 -- as anyone living in Florida or Gulfport, Miss., can tell you -- seems to be another active phase.
But if hurricanes aren't more frequent, are they more powerful? Warm water fuels hurricanes, so the theory is that as the ocean's surface heats up, hurricanes will pack more punch. An article in Nature -- after questionable jiggering with the historical wind data -- argues that hurricanes have doubled in strength because of global warming. Climatologist Patrick Michaels counters that if hurricanes had doubled in their power it would be obvious to everyone and there would be no need to write controversial papers about it.
Indeed, if you adjust for population growth and skyrocketing property values, hurricanes don't appear to be any more destructive today. According to the work of Roger Pielke of the University of Colorado, of the top five most destructive storms this century, only one occurred after 1950 -- Hurricane Andrew in 1992. An NOAA analysis says there have been fewer Category 4 storms throughout the past 35 years than would have been expected given 20th-century averages.
None of this data matters particularly, since proponents of global warming will continue to link warming with hurricanes. It generates headlines in a way that debates about tiny increments of warming don't. And it feeds a conceit that is oddly comforting: that whatever is wrong with the world is caused by us and fixable by us. Alas, it's not so. Mother Nature can be a cruel and unpredictable mistress, and sometimes all we can do is head for the high ground.
a hangover already knows this about coffee!
You need to hit the "6" key before you can use it..
Wow -
When I got my B.S. in Computer Science from Northern Illinois University in 1989, that was ALL I knew.
OS/390, Cobol, BAL, CICS, IMS, JCL, Panvalet
That career lasted about 4 years until I decided that a career change would be needed (Network Engineering) to stay alive!
Now I'm thinking - Maybe I should go BACK to that career! As the really old guys start retiring, maybe I can name my price!
Now what can they do with the logs?
Due to the nature of bittorrent - where everyone uploads a little here and a little there - are they going to name everyone (by IP address)in one massive slap suit?
Unless they can nail (and prove) who the initial seeder is, they would have to go after EVERYONE who participated in the torrent - no?
Of course, lawyers are total pond scum and can come up with something for sure - but I dont get how they can nail me for uploading segment 3415, 1298 and 8129 out of 8902 of any particular file
using PGP for encrypting email? Am I then twarting the police by using this? Do I go to jail?
... you don't know what people are actually going to do with it ... like encrypt their private fucking email - so the fucking cops can't read it!!!!!
The problem with freedom is
Will it run Lotus 1-2-3?
Think of the boom in eyeglass salses - all those kids retina's trashed from video games AND homework.
If this isn't vapor - just imagine how you could use it for the pure anonymity of it all.
Imagine the p2p possiblities!!!
also
I wonder if they would serve up private or public ip addresses? Imagine the number of public numbers they would need - are there that many left to have?
Thats the first time i've seen the internet storm center at "yellow" ... yikes!
alright enough ...
...
i'm just bored at the job today
peace out
*sob* *sob*
Please don't scare me mister scary NYC man - Us Chicago boys don't know how do deal with scary envrionmentalists like you! Please don't hurt me!
*yawn*
Anonymous Coward ... nuff said
Will it run Lotus 1-2-3?
(I served in gulf war 1 ... but not to quibble)
...
You're correct - the term "communist agitprop" should be replaced with "enviromentalist agitprop bullshit" - sorry
How did you know I had an SUV? God you're clever! Its a big one too - a real pig - it flattens small pussy cars without me even noticing it. You probably have a small pussy car right?
Anyway - get back to me when you figured that replace oil with something magical problem