And my point is, who cares if you are apologizing for them? Is your point any less valid because of it? Having fear of being targeted as radical and making stupid comments like that is self-censorship. And more to the point, to call me idiot just for pointing that out, just truly shows what an Anonymous COWARD you truly are.
Besides, if anything, the US govt should apologize because after all they DID use the rocket to send a satellite into orbit. That kind of mission takes years of planning. Sure, North Korea is not hip or gingham, and their economy is a reflection of centralized planning, but as a whole, very few countries in the world can manage to pull stuff like this. So in my mind, those Koreans, either from the South or the North, are kick-ass. Best Warcraft and Starcraft players, extremely good capitalists in the south and extremely devoted communists in the north.
To be honest, I'm sick and tired of all the bullshit and finger pointing other countries. The US should take care of its internal issues first and forget about being the freaking world police. That only favors people from the military-industrial complex.
My Ford Ranger truck has a dual gasoline/natural gas system with the tank in the trunk. I can recharge natural gas for free in select stations but then again I don't live in the US and even regular gas is extremely cheap here.
I live in Venezuela, and while we might be portrayed in the media as "delusional communists", that land issue was largely solved by government take over of improductive lands. Everybody that had land, either urban or rural got so scared that they got their stuff together and either sold what they weren't going to use or started making the ranches productive as hell. Same deal with urban land that was just there waiting to collect a big check when an area developed. I personally have relatives that were doing just that and after the National Guard started asking around who the owners of those plots were, they now have a nice car wash, a very small shopping center, a burger place and they are planning to build some homes in the remaining area.
Call me a convert, because after watching all of this happen in less than 5 years, especially in a Latin American country, I really have to ask myself about the supposedly sacred value of private property.
You probably make a living out of installing ERPs, but hear me out on this. When we were being trained in Systems Engineering, you are taught that you have to watch what is being done, select the right tool to help improve their situation and optimize operations in general. That the tool can be a stack of paper and folders or the most sophisticated computer system is irrelevant. What I consider very wrong from what you are saying is that the enterprise should adapt to the software and not the other way around. If I'm going to spend $1 billion dollars I'd rather take the Industrial Light & Magic approach and build my own tools to do what I need them to do.
I think with the amount of components nowadays, the task of creating custom systems is more of a problem of creating proper support afterwards than creating the software itself. So if a system like this is so crucial to the company, they should just have a larger MIS department in my opinion.
But to be honest, I have only seen this level of overspending with defense contracts time and time again. I lived in DC, and even while I was student we would get asked by a big shot with a security clearance to do websites or other code for them. So they would pay us, say $1000, then they charge the DoD $3000-$4500 over the exact same thing you could get in the regular market for like $2000.
Seriously, if you want to make easy money in America, just get a security clearance and set up shop around the beltway. Even if you don't make it in the US, you can get related contracts in Afghanistan, etc. Hell, I even have a friend who is an engineer who was always having to do the trash projects nobody wanted to do, then he decided to do stuff in Afghanistan, and there are so many opportunities, that even doing land surveying can give you way a lot of cash.
Then by all means we deserve to be overrun by China. The US govt has been long been a tool of these corporate fools. I don't see an issue with what China is doing, it's only logical that they want to take advantage of every opportunity they can. The main problems is neither the White House or Congress are willing to do what it takes because they would just have fight many enterprises in the process.
I take it you have never been in China? The only risk right now is not doing business in China. The western world is broke, these guys are a manufacturing powerhouse, cheap labor, cheap housing. Don't be a fear monger if you don't know what you are talking about please. Expanding into Asia is a great way to improve your business, no matter what you are producing.
By renewable they are also including hydroelectric dams. If you want to send a postcard to someone, make sure you write it in Spanish though, because it is Spain who is an even bigger player than Germany when it comes to solar power. Just between 2010 and 2011 they opened six solar 100-150 MW power stations. Even the US is doing a good job in the Mojave desert, with its 354 MW plant.
The Germans are like the land of the engineers. If anybody can pull this it would be them. But somehow I still fail to realize how this approach is going to be better than what France is doing, which is staying focused on nuclear power. And of course, because of that the French have a large surplus also.
Just the fact that the military as a whole gets around 26% of the Federal Budget proves the point of fast turtle. And you can check any of the federal budget pie charts available online. Try not to choke in the process when you see what Nasa and science gets.
But one thing that is for certain is that the US as a whole uses way too much energy. I have been to many countries and during different seasons and can tell you that when you get back you start questioning a couple of things. The most notable offender for me would be office buildings that are cooled or heated as a whole, in some extreme cases even during at night or weekends when people are not there.
If you smell that has more to do with bacteria buildup than sweat itself. If you take a bath regularly and don't have any kind of health issues you shouldn't smell. In hot and humid places just taking a shower early in the morning and when you get home at 5 or so, it's more than enough.
You also have the right and more than that, the duty to look up what you are being fed as news. GreatFire is a website with zero-accountability. They don't even say who they are so you really shouldn't trust them as a news source, unless you are able to verify what they are saying. For all I care, we have been seeing a lot of anti-China propaganda which is very convenient to one player only: the Pentagon and its ungodly amount of funding from the Federal Budget. Just wait and see how the Global War on Terror gets slowly replaced by Big Bad Red China.
On the other hand, if you consider what the US is doing wasting 25% of its budget on "defense" (more like offense), then you would see that the US is following the Soviet Union footsteps a lot more, while China seems to be a lot more rational.
I disagree. VirtualBox is not unstable. In fact, I think it is perfect for a beginner. It is free and if you grab Gentoo Linux, you would be learning a lot of just about everything. After you are done with VirtualBox you should really get into kernel hypervisors. That's about it. No vmware needed, or paying for software in the learning process.
I have been a fan of Razer too, but lately they have become too successful for their own good. I first met them when I replaced an Apple's mighty mouse with a Razer Pro Solution 1.6. That was when they were still getting started. I equipped my computers with Razer mice from that moment on. I have a Razer Orochi on my laptop. So as far as what the article said, I actually thought the whole deal with syncing profiles over the net was pretty cool, and I haven't really encountered any issues with it if I'm offline.
The reason why I wanted to tell you all this is because I recently built a gaming rig and mostly because of looks and a keyboard feature, I ended up getting a Thermaltake Azurues mouse. I know the Orochi is 3500 dpi, the Naga also has ungodly resolutions, but when I tried the Azurues with its "crappy" 1600 dpi, I was like, hmm this mouse is kind of cool. After playing Battlefield 3 and Starcraft 2 with that mouse quite a bit, I can honestly tell you, don't waste your money with expensive Razer mice. The Azurues is ambidextrous and I just checked in Newegg, they are being sold for $33. It is a regular mouse in the sense of buttons, so don't expect a gazillion of options there, but I never liked the extra buttons even on my Razer mice.
I think a lot of the US military might has to do with two very basic facts and that's hardly related to military secrets or so called cutting-edge stuff. First of all, the US still has the largest economy in the world by far, and spends 25% of the Federal Budget in the military. With so much money poured into the industry, it is only expected that you would have all sorts of military gadgets, aircraft and vehicles. Pretty much like the Soviets did and ended up destroying their economy in the process.
Second, and this is highly related to the first one. The U.S. has always enjoyed air supremacy after World War 2 and that is a fundamental part of the overall war strategy. Vietnam was only "lost" because of political reasons. The rules of engagement didn't allow the U.S. to invade and take control of North Vietnam out of fears of creating a larger conflict with China.
That being said, all militaries are secretive. I think the US is way more open than a lot of other countries so it is easy for military personnel to forget they are still bound by these ages-old traditions.
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And my point is, who cares if you are apologizing for them? Is your point any less valid because of it? Having fear of being targeted as radical and making stupid comments like that is self-censorship. And more to the point, to call me idiot just for pointing that out, just truly shows what an Anonymous COWARD you truly are.
That was autocorrection, lol. It was supposed to be Gangnam.
Besides, if anything, the US govt should apologize because after all they DID use the rocket to send a satellite into orbit. That kind of mission takes years of planning. Sure, North Korea is not hip or gingham, and their economy is a reflection of centralized planning, but as a whole, very few countries in the world can manage to pull stuff like this. So in my mind, those Koreans, either from the South or the North, are kick-ass. Best Warcraft and Starcraft players, extremely good capitalists in the south and extremely devoted communists in the north.
To be honest, I'm sick and tired of all the bullshit and finger pointing other countries. The US should take care of its internal issues first and forget about being the freaking world police. That only favors people from the military-industrial complex.
"not that I condone NK's actions or think they're particularly smart."
This isn't the gestapo, you are free here to think whatever you want. So don't self-censor yourself.
My Ford Ranger truck has a dual gasoline/natural gas system with the tank in the trunk. I can recharge natural gas for free in select stations but then again I don't live in the US and even regular gas is extremely cheap here.
I live in Venezuela, and while we might be portrayed in the media as "delusional communists", that land issue was largely solved by government take over of improductive lands. Everybody that had land, either urban or rural got so scared that they got their stuff together and either sold what they weren't going to use or started making the ranches productive as hell. Same deal with urban land that was just there waiting to collect a big check when an area developed. I personally have relatives that were doing just that and after the National Guard started asking around who the owners of those plots were, they now have a nice car wash, a very small shopping center, a burger place and they are planning to build some homes in the remaining area.
Call me a convert, because after watching all of this happen in less than 5 years, especially in a Latin American country, I really have to ask myself about the supposedly sacred value of private property.
Hey, it already works in the US :)
You probably make a living out of installing ERPs, but hear me out on this. When we were being trained in Systems Engineering, you are taught that you have to watch what is being done, select the right tool to help improve their situation and optimize operations in general. That the tool can be a stack of paper and folders or the most sophisticated computer system is irrelevant. What I consider very wrong from what you are saying is that the enterprise should adapt to the software and not the other way around. If I'm going to spend $1 billion dollars I'd rather take the Industrial Light & Magic approach and build my own tools to do what I need them to do.
I think with the amount of components nowadays, the task of creating custom systems is more of a problem of creating proper support afterwards than creating the software itself. So if a system like this is so crucial to the company, they should just have a larger MIS department in my opinion.
But to be honest, I have only seen this level of overspending with defense contracts time and time again. I lived in DC, and even while I was student we would get asked by a big shot with a security clearance to do websites or other code for them. So they would pay us, say $1000, then they charge the DoD $3000-$4500 over the exact same thing you could get in the regular market for like $2000.
Seriously, if you want to make easy money in America, just get a security clearance and set up shop around the beltway. Even if you don't make it in the US, you can get related contracts in Afghanistan, etc. Hell, I even have a friend who is an engineer who was always having to do the trash projects nobody wanted to do, then he decided to do stuff in Afghanistan, and there are so many opportunities, that even doing land surveying can give you way a lot of cash.
Then by all means we deserve to be overrun by China. The US govt has been long been a tool of these corporate fools. I don't see an issue with what China is doing, it's only logical that they want to take advantage of every opportunity they can. The main problems is neither the White House or Congress are willing to do what it takes because they would just have fight many enterprises in the process.
I take it you have never been in China? The only risk right now is not doing business in China. The western world is broke, these guys are a manufacturing powerhouse, cheap labor, cheap housing. Don't be a fear monger if you don't know what you are talking about please. Expanding into Asia is a great way to improve your business, no matter what you are producing.
So according to you, everybody that doesn't hate the Chinese govt is a paid tool of that government. Jesus.
Isn't this what the US govt did to Huawei and ZTE? Oh wait, you actually believe they are a threat to national security. My bad.
By renewable they are also including hydroelectric dams. If you want to send a postcard to someone, make sure you write it in Spanish though, because it is Spain who is an even bigger player than Germany when it comes to solar power. Just between 2010 and 2011 they opened six solar 100-150 MW power stations. Even the US is doing a good job in the Mojave desert, with its 354 MW plant.
I think Spain is one of the leaders when it comes to renewable energy. At least as far as solar panels are concerned.
The Germans are like the land of the engineers. If anybody can pull this it would be them. But somehow I still fail to realize how this approach is going to be better than what France is doing, which is staying focused on nuclear power. And of course, because of that the French have a large surplus also.
Just the fact that the military as a whole gets around 26% of the Federal Budget proves the point of fast turtle. And you can check any of the federal budget pie charts available online. Try not to choke in the process when you see what Nasa and science gets.
But one thing that is for certain is that the US as a whole uses way too much energy. I have been to many countries and during different seasons and can tell you that when you get back you start questioning a couple of things. The most notable offender for me would be office buildings that are cooled or heated as a whole, in some extreme cases even during at night or weekends when people are not there.
If you smell that has more to do with bacteria buildup than sweat itself. If you take a bath regularly and don't have any kind of health issues you shouldn't smell. In hot and humid places just taking a shower early in the morning and when you get home at 5 or so, it's more than enough.
You also have the right and more than that, the duty to look up what you are being fed as news. GreatFire is a website with zero-accountability. They don't even say who they are so you really shouldn't trust them as a news source, unless you are able to verify what they are saying. For all I care, we have been seeing a lot of anti-China propaganda which is very convenient to one player only: the Pentagon and its ungodly amount of funding from the Federal Budget. Just wait and see how the Global War on Terror gets slowly replaced by Big Bad Red China.
On the other hand, if you consider what the US is doing wasting 25% of its budget on "defense" (more like offense), then you would see that the US is following the Soviet Union footsteps a lot more, while China seems to be a lot more rational.
I disagree. VirtualBox is not unstable. In fact, I think it is perfect for a beginner. It is free and if you grab Gentoo Linux, you would be learning a lot of just about everything. After you are done with VirtualBox you should really get into kernel hypervisors. That's about it. No vmware needed, or paying for software in the learning process.
I have been a fan of Razer too, but lately they have become too successful for their own good. I first met them when I replaced an Apple's mighty mouse with a Razer Pro Solution 1.6. That was when they were still getting started. I equipped my computers with Razer mice from that moment on. I have a Razer Orochi on my laptop. So as far as what the article said, I actually thought the whole deal with syncing profiles over the net was pretty cool, and I haven't really encountered any issues with it if I'm offline.
The reason why I wanted to tell you all this is because I recently built a gaming rig and mostly because of looks and a keyboard feature, I ended up getting a Thermaltake Azurues mouse. I know the Orochi is 3500 dpi, the Naga also has ungodly resolutions, but when I tried the Azurues with its "crappy" 1600 dpi, I was like, hmm this mouse is kind of cool. After playing Battlefield 3 and Starcraft 2 with that mouse quite a bit, I can honestly tell you, don't waste your money with expensive Razer mice. The Azurues is ambidextrous and I just checked in Newegg, they are being sold for $33. It is a regular mouse in the sense of buttons, so don't expect a gazillion of options there, but I never liked the extra buttons even on my Razer mice.
I think a lot of the US military might has to do with two very basic facts and that's hardly related to military secrets or so called cutting-edge stuff. First of all, the US still has the largest economy in the world by far, and spends 25% of the Federal Budget in the military. With so much money poured into the industry, it is only expected that you would have all sorts of military gadgets, aircraft and vehicles. Pretty much like the Soviets did and ended up destroying their economy in the process.
Second, and this is highly related to the first one. The U.S. has always enjoyed air supremacy after World War 2 and that is a fundamental part of the overall war strategy. Vietnam was only "lost" because of political reasons. The rules of engagement didn't allow the U.S. to invade and take control of North Vietnam out of fears of creating a larger conflict with China.
That being said, all militaries are secretive. I think the US is way more open than a lot of other countries so it is easy for military personnel to forget they are still bound by these ages-old traditions.
Can you imagine what would happen to North Koreans if they allowed access to YouTube? Everybody would like to be like Psy.>)