Big difference between this project and the Hoover is the number of people negatively affected by its initial construction. The Hoover is largely out in the middle of nowhere, so in terms of peoples displaced (or archeological sites destroyed) it is relatively mild. The TVA projects and their decendants forced hundreds of thousands from their homes and farmland in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama (possibly some more in GA and NC, not familiar with that end of the TN basin). The kicker is they didn't install hydro-electric facilities at all of the dams, so basically they just provide boating facilities and flood control. My church graveyard has a section in the back of about 200 graves with small numbered markers that are logged in the county courthouse from where they exhumed old family and church graveyards that were covered by the Nolin dam project.
On the plus side, at least there are records of those people for geneologists, as opposed to the hundreds of small homestead graveyards that no one has been able to track since Uncle Sam started mucking around my birthplace in the 1930's. They still haven't found the "Negro Baptist Church" on the north side of the Green River, abandoned in the early 1870's, there are plenty of references to it in wills and family bibles, but the mule trail to it has long since overgrown.
Someone check my math
60 tons = 54,546 kilograms each tank
60 MPH is unreasonable for the tank, the M1A1 tops out at 45MPH
45MPH = 20 meters/second
18kg * km/h of impulse
not knowing the elasticity of the depleted uranium armor, drag coefficent of the tank in reverse, or friction of the surface, all you can say is that is could to be one very loud bang and then two tanks reversing (Newton's 2nd)
The/. cabal only regards two languages as relevant C and Perl, they deny or try to bury other interesting and/or useful languages, like PHP, Java, Ruby, or Smalltalk. I wonder if a properly tuned php/apache combo could keep up with/code's perl/mod_perl/apache cluster setup. Admitedly/code has served them mostly well for 250,000 users with some hiccups here and there, but there are plenty of other CMS+Blog engines out there written in php or perl. Scoop, php-Nuke, and postNuke are some of the big ones.
IANAL (/code needs a macro for this) but my understanding is that the 4.4BSD-lite release is completely clean and can not be sued as part of the UCalifornia Board of Regents vs. AT&T settlement. ATT got to keep all of the nifty 4BSD networking code (Bind, TCP/IP stack, real low level stuff all the way through telnet and gopher clients) without displaying the BSD advert clause in return. This split happened after the creation of Minix (and Linux), and should have absolutely no bearing on this case, with the obvious reality of modern *BSD's/OSX/Darwin (all derived from 4.4-lite) being completely free of fear of SCO on Unix IP infringement claims.
Ever watch Patton, he wanted to arm every able bodied German in 6/45 to go kill as many Russians as they could. Ike, and the civilian leadership wanted no such thing and so we had the Cold War.
There were plenty of factions that wanted to kill every last commie on the planet in 1945, but Ike listened to the communists/socialists that FDR had installed during his reign of terror. They are the reason that Eastern Europe and the people of Red China, Vietnam, and Cuba have had to suffer communist dictators.
"Threatened" is defined by the opinion of 12 people who couldn't get out of jury duty. In my community, that means retirees and ex-military types who belive in performing their civic duty (and me), both of those groups are more than willing to concede that someone forcibly entering your home is enough of a threat to send them to their maker.
Maybe in your pansy state/community, but where I come from, 12 of my peers would have no problem with me putting a slug or 11 through an intruder (more than 11 as soon as this stupid brady bill gets sunseted).
Some people believe that the intarweb only contains kiddie pr0n and that Anarchist Cookbook thing Tim McVeigh read to build a truck bomb, so they might legitimately complain about being sent "erotic materials"
Polybagging is a hell of a lot cheaper than it used to be, its not too cost prohibitive on a large scale (Summer job at one of the worlds largest magazine plants, check my profile). If AOL was making a proffit by sending the little buggers out, they wouldn't.
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A suspect on PCP will make any cop look like a bad cop...
My alma mater is bound and determined to set enrollment records every year, but the morons don't realize that the tuition paid is chump change compared to grants, fellowships, patents, and gov't contracts that come from cranking out a well educated student body, as opposed to ever larger (and dumber) classes.
I'm all for switching to a European style system where getting accepted to a college or university is merit based with very high performance requirements for entry. If you blow your SAT out of the water, we'll take care of funding your education, if drop a sub 1000 SAT, good luck getting in anywhere but the local community college
Neither political party seriously suggests, say, a return to monarchy, or massive redistribution of wealth Have you looked at how much they are taking out of your paycheck, right at 22% for me for stright taxes/Social Security, plus sales tax (6%) and gas tax (34 cents/gallon federal), and my smokes and alcohol are taxed. I don't feel as if I'm getting a good return on my investment, but one party keeps wanting to take more.
BTW, the new prohibition is coming, its tobacco, and I'm not real happy with that, but that is another rant (and a jail term for me in the near future).
To each his own, but I see a vast difference between the liberals and conservatives controlling the US, yeah, the real fringes (Communist revolution or Libertarian state types) are shut down by the main parties, but Ralph Nader was able to sneak out 0.3% of the vote in 2000 and Perot pulled 15% in '92 and everyone knows what they stand for. I think the system is allowing every voice to be heard, it just so happens that the majority like things pretty much how they are now, with a few issues that decide which way they lean.
I didn't realize that the systems had become that accurate, the last time we were working with auto-sorters it was about 25-30% kick rate, helpful, but you still needed a lot of human eyes.
The unions had a purpose back in the day, now they are pyramid schemes for taking money from the workers for decreased benefits and political contributions, ie the American Airlines labor situation a couple of weeks ago, where the union was all set to take a garbage contract that kept their funds flowing. Unions destroyed the factory that my Mother and Grandmother worked in, all becuase they wouldn't join up, they earned my wrath, and until they demonstrate a desire to correct their behavior, I'll oppose them.
That's one thing I have never figured out, other than a few libertarians (who never get any press coverage anyways) and Mr. Vidal and his cronies (Who can be found 24/7 on one of the news shows), most people agree that there are two distinct political agenda's thrown to the masses at each election, let's review
Abortion
Universal Health Care
Food Stamps/welfare/AFDC/Job Corps/Head Start (Johnson's Great Society)
Social Security (and FDR's new deal remnants)
Military budget
Gun Control
Education (School vouchers, sex ed, drug ed, low pay, violence)
Strong vs Weak central gov't
Those issues above will decide a large portion of how people vote in national elections, locals are screwed up ie, few southern Democrats are pro-choice/anti-second ammendment, as demonstrated in '80, '84, '94, and 2000, but New England conservatives want a larger gov't than most other Republican's. The fringe elements tug both sides, if Mr. Vidal is so inclined, why not attempt to restructure the Democratic party much as it was done from within the DLC or the Republicans with Reagan, pulling it toward the fringes. Let the people know that Daschle and Gephardt are scumbags and not to be trusted, much the same way that many conservative dislike McCain for building that pointless (and IMHO Unconstitutional) campaign finance law.
The only postal workers I've run into are A) the morons working the counters at every post office in the US B) USPS logistics drivers, the lowest form of trucker on the planet, and C) Postal inspectors, say no more, and D) My rural route carrier who does a fantastic job BTW.
I've worked in high volume mail processing (check my resume, RR Donnelley and Son's Kentucky Magazine division), yeah its shitty work, but someone has to route your issue of Maxim or mother's day card. Pay is reasonable at the local mail sort facility, in line with the pay scale at the local factories for someone with a GED or High School diploma with the exception of the Corvette plant (UAW takes care of their people)
A couple of questions
At the first Earth Day, were the hippies screaming about global warming or global cooling?
What changed their mind during the 80's, could it have been that their kooky scare tactics were proven wrong? I'm being serious here and every time I bring it up to a watermellon (green outside, red inside) harrassing me I get a STFU.
Get millions of users to install apache and and an ftpd on their windows box, share all their media (mp3,.oog,.mpg) and build a search engine for all of those peer's and you have a P2P network. The fastrack based systems (kazza, Kazza-Lite, old morpheus) actually are using a http (I think 1.0, might be 1.1) server on a non-standard port (1214) with some hacked in headers, nothing special.
Spam and Periodicals actually use more efficent methods to deliver mail, those fancy bar codes make their mail easily routable, your scriblings on the envelope require human eyes to sort to the correct address, human's cost money...and postal workers are some of the most expensive, the added inefficency of union workers and gov't workers makes for very little work.
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Big difference between this project and the Hoover is the number of people negatively affected by its initial construction. The Hoover is largely out in the middle of nowhere, so in terms of peoples displaced (or archeological sites destroyed) it is relatively mild. The TVA projects and their decendants forced hundreds of thousands from their homes and farmland in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama (possibly some more in GA and NC, not familiar with that end of the TN basin). The kicker is they didn't install hydro-electric facilities at all of the dams, so basically they just provide boating facilities and flood control. My church graveyard has a section in the back of about 200 graves with small numbered markers that are logged in the county courthouse from where they exhumed old family and church graveyards that were covered by the Nolin dam project.
On the plus side, at least there are records of those people for geneologists, as opposed to the hundreds of small homestead graveyards that no one has been able to track since Uncle Sam started mucking around my birthplace in the 1930's. They still haven't found the "Negro Baptist Church" on the north side of the Green River, abandoned in the early 1870's, there are plenty of references to it in wills and family bibles, but the mule trail to it has long since overgrown.
Someone check my math
60 tons = 54,546 kilograms each tank
60 MPH is unreasonable for the tank, the M1A1 tops out at 45MPH
45MPH = 20 meters/second
18kg * km/h of impulse not knowing the elasticity of the depleted uranium armor, drag coefficent of the tank in reverse, or friction of the surface, all you can say is that is could to be one very loud bang and then two tanks reversing (Newton's 2nd)
The /. cabal only regards two languages as relevant C and Perl, they deny or try to bury other interesting and/or useful languages, like PHP, Java, Ruby, or Smalltalk. I wonder if a properly tuned php/apache combo could keep up with /code's perl/mod_perl/apache cluster setup. Admitedly /code has served them mostly well for 250,000 users with some hiccups here and there, but there are plenty of other CMS+Blog engines out there written in php or perl. Scoop, php-Nuke, and postNuke are some of the big ones.
IANAL (/code needs a macro for this) but my understanding is that the 4.4BSD-lite release is completely clean and can not be sued as part of the UCalifornia Board of Regents vs. AT&T settlement. ATT got to keep all of the nifty 4BSD networking code (Bind, TCP/IP stack, real low level stuff all the way through telnet and gopher clients) without displaying the BSD advert clause in return. This split happened after the creation of Minix (and Linux), and should have absolutely no bearing on this case, with the obvious reality of modern *BSD's/OSX/Darwin (all derived from 4.4-lite) being completely free of fear of SCO on Unix IP infringement claims.
Ever watch Patton, he wanted to arm every able bodied German in 6/45 to go kill as many Russians as they could. Ike, and the civilian leadership wanted no such thing and so we had the Cold War.
There were plenty of factions that wanted to kill every last commie on the planet in 1945, but Ike listened to the communists/socialists that FDR had installed during his reign of terror. They are the reason that Eastern Europe and the people of Red China, Vietnam, and Cuba have had to suffer communist dictators.
That projectionist making 5.25/hr in the booth would be where I would start...
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"Threatened" is defined by the opinion of 12 people who couldn't get out of jury duty. In my community, that means retirees and ex-military types who belive in performing their civic duty (and me), both of those groups are more than willing to concede that someone forcibly entering your home is enough of a threat to send them to their maker.
Maybe in your pansy state/community, but where I come from, 12 of my peers would have no problem with me putting a slug or 11 through an intruder (more than 11 as soon as this stupid brady bill gets sunseted).
Some people believe that the intarweb only contains kiddie pr0n and that Anarchist Cookbook thing Tim McVeigh read to build a truck bomb, so they might legitimately complain about being sent "erotic materials"
Polybagging is a hell of a lot cheaper than it used to be, its not too cost prohibitive on a large scale (Summer job at one of the worlds largest magazine plants, check my profile). If AOL was making a proffit by sending the little buggers out, they wouldn't.
A suspect on PCP will make any cop look like a bad cop...
Thank you for making this point.
My alma mater is bound and determined to set enrollment records every year, but the morons don't realize that the tuition paid is chump change compared to grants, fellowships, patents, and gov't contracts that come from cranking out a well educated student body, as opposed to ever larger (and dumber) classes.
I'm all for switching to a European style system where getting accepted to a college or university is merit based with very high performance requirements for entry. If you blow your SAT out of the water, we'll take care of funding your education, if drop a sub 1000 SAT, good luck getting in anywhere but the local community college
Neither political party seriously suggests, say, a return to monarchy, or massive redistribution of wealth
Have you looked at how much they are taking out of your paycheck, right at 22% for me for stright taxes/Social Security, plus sales tax (6%) and gas tax (34 cents/gallon federal), and my smokes and alcohol are taxed. I don't feel as if I'm getting a good return on my investment, but one party keeps wanting to take more.
BTW, the new prohibition is coming, its tobacco, and I'm not real happy with that, but that is another rant (and a jail term for me in the near future).
To each his own, but I see a vast difference between the liberals and conservatives controlling the US, yeah, the real fringes (Communist revolution or Libertarian state types) are shut down by the main parties, but Ralph Nader was able to sneak out 0.3% of the vote in 2000 and Perot pulled 15% in '92 and everyone knows what they stand for. I think the system is allowing every voice to be heard, it just so happens that the majority like things pretty much how they are now, with a few issues that decide which way they lean.
That's where the teamsters sent my mother's and grandmother's jobs.
I didn't realize that the systems had become that accurate, the last time we were working with auto-sorters it was about 25-30% kick rate, helpful, but you still needed a lot of human eyes.
The unions had a purpose back in the day, now they are pyramid schemes for taking money from the workers for decreased benefits and political contributions, ie the American Airlines labor situation a couple of weeks ago, where the union was all set to take a garbage contract that kept their funds flowing. Unions destroyed the factory that my Mother and Grandmother worked in, all becuase they wouldn't join up, they earned my wrath, and until they demonstrate a desire to correct their behavior, I'll oppose them.
- Abortion
- Universal Health Care
- Food Stamps/welfare/AFDC/Job Corps/Head Start (Johnson's Great Society)
- Social Security (and FDR's new deal remnants)
- Military budget
- Gun Control
- Education (School vouchers, sex ed, drug ed, low pay, violence)
- Strong vs Weak central gov't
Those issues above will decide a large portion of how people vote in national elections, locals are screwed up ie, few southern Democrats are pro-choice/anti-second ammendment, as demonstrated in '80, '84, '94, and 2000, but New England conservatives want a larger gov't than most other Republican's. The fringe elements tug both sides, if Mr. Vidal is so inclined, why not attempt to restructure the Democratic party much as it was done from within the DLC or the Republicans with Reagan, pulling it toward the fringes. Let the people know that Daschle and Gephardt are scumbags and not to be trusted, much the same way that many conservative dislike McCain for building that pointless (and IMHO Unconstitutional) campaign finance law.mmmmmm....luser roasted over 3-phase, I'm sure there are still a couple asleep in the labs (last week was finals for the local universities).
The only postal workers I've run into are A) the morons working the counters at every post office in the US B) USPS logistics drivers, the lowest form of trucker on the planet, and C) Postal inspectors, say no more, and D) My rural route carrier who does a fantastic job BTW.
I've worked in high volume mail processing (check my resume, RR Donnelley and Son's Kentucky Magazine division), yeah its shitty work, but someone has to route your issue of Maxim or mother's day card. Pay is reasonable at the local mail sort facility, in line with the pay scale at the local factories for someone with a GED or High School diploma with the exception of the Corvette plant (UAW takes care of their people)
you mean the Dem's right, 82% of the RIAA/MPAA's money went to democrats in 2002 election cycle
A couple of questions At the first Earth Day, were the hippies screaming about global warming or global cooling? What changed their mind during the 80's, could it have been that their kooky scare tactics were proven wrong? I'm being serious here and every time I bring it up to a watermellon (green outside, red inside) harrassing me I get a STFU.
Get millions of users to install apache and and an ftpd on their windows box, share all their media (mp3, .oog, .mpg) and build a search engine for all of those peer's and you have a P2P network. The fastrack based systems (kazza, Kazza-Lite, old morpheus) actually are using a http (I think 1.0, might be 1.1) server on a non-standard port (1214) with some hacked in headers, nothing special.
Spam and Periodicals actually use more efficent methods to deliver mail, those fancy bar codes make their mail easily routable, your scriblings on the envelope require human eyes to sort to the correct address, human's cost money...and postal workers are some of the most expensive, the added inefficency of union workers and gov't workers makes for very little work.