That is a really nice rose coloured view you have there, but for some more details of how Walmart actively suppresses unions, try something like http://www.upworthy.com/6-cree...
You have such a nice opinion of how things work here. They actually know the silt will reach the reefs about 20% of the time, Holbourne island is only 8kms from the dumping site and has coral reefs and a turtle breeding ground.
And when they dump the 300 million tonnes of silt, a lot of it will float through the water. I believe they have stated that on any day there will be 20% chance that the particles will reach the coral dumping silt on it, all to save money on treating the toxic sludge on land (yes too toxic to be allowed to dump on land without processing.)
Doesn't matter, the independants can vote anyway they want and the greens are against it. Senator Conroy's nasty little plans are dead in the water thanks to the last election.
As a visitor, you missed a small part of the Australain psyche. We tried your approach back in the 1960's. Any Aboriginal family that looked even slightly disfunctional and "whoosh" the children were removed to be saved from their situation. About 15 years later as those children started to grow up we finally realised we weren't doing them any favours. They grew up displaced, confused and entirely disfunctional, whereas the ones that stayed behind sometimes went bad and sometimes turned into great people. We don't do it anymore unless the child is truely at risk as your best chance in life is to grow up amongst your family and peers, not be hauled off to an alien lifestyle and strangers (no matter how well meaning they are.)
I don't think the police are going to walk into your house while you are out and put a wep key on your wireless router for you. They will just point out to the unwashed masses that they aren't qualified to run a wireless network (which is probably true.)
I have 13 year old recordable cd's in my collection (I can date them based on the birth of my daughter) and dvds that aren't that much younger. The article doesn't specify where is got that time scale from so I have to put it down to they made it up.
Yep, if they can't even quote the basic statistics behind the study then it's obvious BS. I joined facebook recently, does that mean my grade rate will plummet ? That's a bit difficult when I've already graduated with honours.
Let's do a thought experiment here, imagine everyone began paying their full amount of tax. Would the government a) reduce taxes by the amount of extra money raised or b) raise their spending by said amount?
You aren't paying extra, at best it's you're getting fewer services, at worst government officials aren't enjoying as many perks as they could.
I can remember back in the late 1970's such a story running around about copper running out in 20 years etc. Of cause what they didn't mention was that they were only looking at economically recoverable & known reserves. They ignored the fact that new reserves would be found and that more could be recovered as the price went up.
I still love Rutger Hauer's quote in Blade Runner "Aren't you supposed to be the good guy?" It applies more and more to the behaviour of Western Governments these days. (Yes I know a lot of the other's are misbehaving, but that doesn't mean they should become the norm that we strive for.)
Can you expand on this ? I.e. given that ZFS has copy on write, the intent log and checksums everything, what can AdvFS do to give it better data integrity ?
This whole thing is based on the fact that most people only read the headlines. IBM want people to think they saved a squid load of money by running Linux (and need IBM services to do so) rather than the mundane replace lots of old servers with a few new ones (which HP, DELL, Sun etc will do for you as well.)
That is of course what is really wrong with the whole situation, big companies all holding their defence patent portfolios, small companies trembling in fear and individual developers with no protection at all. This is definately not going to encourage inovation (ie read countries that ignore software patents will forge ahead.)
I run Mac OSX on my laptop with Windows XP running under parrallels for any Windows software I have to run. Why would I fork out 100's of dollars for a non Unix based operating system (read really proprietry os) ? Give me Linux, Solaris or Mac OSX any day (where I can see the source code.) Windows XP is adequate for any other requirements.
This is all so transparent as to be ridiculous. Patent every idea they have ever thought of, then cross patent with everyone. Guess who they really want to sue. If the patent system was in any way effective then this would all be a waste of time, but if "one click shopping" patents can pass then we are all doomed.
Well, I had my head bitten off a few weeks ago by slashdotter's who insisted that children should be exposed to extreme violence as quickly as possible (I had suggested on holding off with getting them to play Halo etc until they were more mature) as apparently bears would eat them if they didn't (you thing I'm kidding, but look through the archives!)
Personally of couse I say hold off with both Sex and violence as long as possible, they have a whole lifetime to follow up on those topics but the innocence of childhood is but once.
| Yes, but baby animals are not just sheltered. They play fight with each other and with their parents, sometimes extremely roughly.
Yes, but the don't go and fight in the real world. Children don't need accurate violent simulations to start off with, rather they should be sheltered until the are ready.
Mobile OS X:
Sigh,they had the Newton OS, a mobile OS designed from the ground up and they dumped it, now they follow the Microsoft lead of squeezing their main OS into a matchbox. I hope this one doesn't pan out.
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That is a really nice rose coloured view you have there, but for some more details of how Walmart actively suppresses unions, try something like http://www.upworthy.com/6-cree...
You have such a nice opinion of how things work here. They actually know the silt will reach the reefs about 20% of the time, Holbourne island is only 8kms from the dumping site and has coral reefs and a turtle breeding ground.
Sorry, my typo, 3 million tonnes,
And when they dump the 300 million tonnes of silt, a lot of it will float through the water. I believe they have stated that on any day there will be 20% chance that the particles will reach the coral dumping silt on it, all to save money on treating the toxic sludge on land (yes too toxic to be allowed to dump on land without processing.)
Nope, has to be Burt Hinkler as they named the road at the end of my street after him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Hinkler
Doesn't matter, the independants can vote anyway they want and the greens are against it. Senator Conroy's nasty little plans are dead in the water thanks to the last election.
As a visitor, you missed a small part of the Australain psyche. We tried your approach back in the 1960's. Any Aboriginal family that looked even slightly disfunctional and "whoosh" the children were removed to be saved from their situation. About 15 years later as those children started to grow up we finally realised we weren't doing them any favours. They grew up displaced, confused and entirely disfunctional, whereas the ones that stayed behind sometimes went bad and sometimes turned into great people. We don't do it anymore unless the child is truely at risk as your best chance in life is to grow up amongst your family and peers, not be hauled off to an alien lifestyle and strangers (no matter how well meaning they are.)
I don't think the police are going to walk into your house while you are out and put a wep key on your wireless router for you. They will just point out to the unwashed masses that they aren't qualified to run a wireless network (which is probably true.)
I have 13 year old recordable cd's in my collection (I can date them based on the birth of my daughter) and dvds that aren't that much younger. The article doesn't specify where is got that time scale from so I have to put it down to they made it up.
Yep, if they can't even quote the basic statistics behind the study then it's obvious BS. I joined facebook recently, does that mean my grade rate will plummet ? That's a bit difficult when I've already graduated with honours.
You aren't paying extra, at best it's you're getting fewer services, at worst government officials aren't enjoying as many perks as they could.
I can remember back in the late 1970's such a story running around about copper running out in 20 years etc. Of cause what they didn't mention was that they were only looking at economically recoverable & known reserves. They ignored the fact that new reserves would be found and that more could be recovered as the price went up.
I still love Rutger Hauer's quote in Blade Runner "Aren't you supposed to be the good guy?" It applies more and more to the behaviour of Western Governments these days. (Yes I know a lot of the other's are misbehaving, but that doesn't mean they should become the norm that we strive for.)
Can you expand on this ? I.e. given that ZFS has copy on write, the intent log and checksums everything, what can AdvFS do to give it better data integrity ?
Hate to burst your bubble, but I get the same thing with my male and female co workers. It's called team work.
I would rather be born from a scientific experiment than not born at all (unless it caused some horrible deformity, and therein lies the problem.)
or OpenWindows, NFS, Glassfish etc. That would mean they had a history of Open Sourcing dating back more than ten years.
This whole thing is based on the fact that most people only read the headlines. IBM want people to think they saved a squid load of money by running Linux (and need IBM services to do so) rather than the mundane replace lots of old servers with a few new ones (which HP, DELL, Sun etc will do for you as well.)
That is of course what is really wrong with the whole situation, big companies all holding their defence patent portfolios, small companies trembling in fear and individual developers with no protection at all. This is definately not going to encourage inovation (ie read countries that ignore software patents will forge ahead.)
I run Mac OSX on my laptop with Windows XP running under parrallels for any Windows software I have to run. Why would I fork out 100's of dollars for a non Unix based operating system (read really proprietry os) ? Give me Linux, Solaris or Mac OSX any day (where I can see the source code.) Windows XP is adequate for any other requirements.
This is all so transparent as to be ridiculous. Patent every idea they have ever thought of, then cross patent with everyone. Guess who they really want to sue. If the patent system was in any way effective then this would all be a waste of time, but if "one click shopping" patents can pass then we are all doomed.
Actually, as a Sydney resident I'm looking forward to hearing him speak, I need a good laugh these days (John Howard's gotten a bit repetitive.)
How,
Well, I had my head bitten off a few weeks ago by slashdotter's who insisted that children should be exposed to extreme violence as quickly as possible (I had suggested on holding off with getting them to play Halo etc until they were more mature) as apparently bears would eat them if they didn't (you thing I'm kidding, but look through the archives!)
Personally of couse I say hold off with both Sex and violence as long as possible, they have a whole lifetime to follow up on those topics but the innocence of childhood is but once.
Regards
John G
| Yes, but baby animals are not just sheltered. They play fight with each other and with their parents, sometimes extremely roughly.
Yes, but the don't go and fight in the real world. Children don't need accurate violent simulations to start off with, rather they should be sheltered until the are ready.
Mobile OS X: Sigh,they had the Newton OS, a mobile OS designed from the ground up and they dumped it, now they follow the Microsoft lead of squeezing their main OS into a matchbox. I hope this one doesn't pan out.