No terrorist organization can do a fraction of the damage to a government that it will do to itself in reacting... How many lifetimes worth of hours have the American public lost in increased airport security checks alone? There are no bombs going off on US soil, but you're getting screwed every day to prevent it.
And yet a government cannot do 'nothing' in response to a terrorist act or threat. That would merely invite ever increasing acts, until they HAD to do something. (WTC I, Khobar, USS Cole, Nairobi, WTCII)
Either way the terrorists win a little bit.
Exactly. In this sort of dissimilar warfare, 'winning' by the 'good guys' is extremely difficult, if possible at all. It may take decades or centuries.
How is the word Ubuntu received in the local area where you will be? I know it generally means 'forgiveness' or 'humanity', but local dialects/politics/assholes may have corrupted that.
Not saying you should use that particular distro, but one more thing to watch out for.
What should you bring? The very basics, until you know more. Have whatever you discover you need shipped over. No use hauling around a bunch of crap that you can't use, and needing other stuff.
Riiight. "NASA never asked Paul C. Fisher to produce a pen. When the astronauts began to fly, like the Russians, they used pencils, but the leads sometimes broke and became a hazard by floating in the [capsule's] atmosphere where there was no gravity. They could float into an eye or nose or cause a short in an electrical device. In addition, both the lead and the wood of the pencil could burn rapidly in the pure oxygen atmosphere. Paul Fisher realized the astronauts needed a safer and more dependable writing instrument, so in July 1965 he developed the pressurized ball pen, with its ink enclosed in a sealed, pressurized ink cartridge. Fisher sent the first samples to Dr. Robert Gilruth, Director of the Houston Space Center. The pens were all metal except for the ink, which had a flash point above 200C. The sample Space Pens were thoroughly tested by NASA. They passed all the tests and have been used ever since on all manned space flights, American and Russian. All research and developement costs were paid by Paul Fisher. No development costs have ever been charged to the government. "
so what are the limits? can a 70 year old man... do this?
Ask John Glenn. Granted, he is a special case (former Marine fighter pilot, 1st american in orbit). But it would appear that a person in pretty good shape could do it into their 70's.
Good idea, but the honor system hasn't worked in the real world.
Shareware? ha. If you get 2% of people paying for it, you're doing good. Books? We all saw what a train wreck Stephen King'sThe Plant was, selling it for $1 per chapter online. If HE can't turn a profit after advertising, server costs, etc., how is someone smaller going to do it? That's like Paul McCartney not being able to make it work, but expecting Joe and the Dudes from down the block being able to.
Put on top of that the 'if it's online it's free' post-Napster mentality...and the honor system for buying music falls apart rather quickly.
If I'm going to remit money if I download something, I'm going to download it from iTunes. No questions about quality or availability, two major issues with the current d/l situation.
Consider the consequences if there was some kind of super-duper, highly-targeted phone listing,
If? What do you think happens to all that marketing data that is collected everytime you buy something, or apply for credit?
Personal and in geographic aggregate, you are being bought and sold daily. "I need a list of people (phone numbers) who bought pet food AND aspirin in the last 30 days, female, >2 kids, and live east of the Mississippi" "Ok...no problem. $1.50 per number" "Done"
Collect your WAVs in one folder
Name them 1.wav - n.wav
Point Outlook at 1.WAV for the email notification
Every x minutes, run a script to randomly shuffle the filenames . Said script could exist anywhere, even within Outlook.
Whatever happens to be 1.wav at the time email comes in gets played.
And you completely missed the context of when that floppy nipple was shown. If it had been shown on 90% of the other programming hours, you would have heard nary a peep. But there exists a few channels, at certain times of the day, where you do not show skin. Period. This was one of those channels, and one of those times.
Are you of the opinion that anything goes, anytime of the day or night? Hardcore porn mixed in with kids shows? Full frontal nudity ads during Sesame Street? Sorry..but what a fucked up country.
that without some outside controls, TV content would be dictated solely by the advertisers. And as the advertisers have shown themselves to be such a wonderful, responsible bunch in the quest for ever higher ratings and watercooler talk (read your eyeballs), the only option left to parents would be hardwiring the power switch to the off position. (Not necessarily a bad thing, but probably not what we really want)
Bull. Advertisers care[1] a LOT what you think of their ads. This company does near $100 million a year (mainly in North America), researching exactly that. "Which version of this soap/car/sports drink ad do you like the best?" Their parent company in Paris does 3/4 billion dollars/year worldwide, mainly telling advertisers what YOU think of their ads. You're correct in that it's brand recognition and not 'buy this specific product', but a better ad is...well... better. More likely for you to remember the brand.
Actually, being in BestBuy yesterday: Listened to a GeekSquad dude run the litany off to an (apparently) semiknowledgable older woman.
"If we can figure out and fix the problem within 5 minutes, the fix is free. After that, the standard charge of $75 kicks in." "Can I get that in writing?" "Yes."
Quite a lot of problems ARE fixable in 5 minutes. They're not all idiots or assholes.
That, and the hundreds/thousands of Access/Excel/Word apps/macros/templates that a lot of businesses rely on. Yes, they can be recreated in other platforms, but it will take a significant amount of work to do so.
A) Killing 100,000 to end the war. B) Killing 1,000,000 to end the war. C) Rolling over and letting the agressor have his way, potentially killing many, many millions more in the coming years, and dooming your country's way of life.
There is no D)
As President/Emperor/world leader, those are the choices you might have when you sit in the big chair. Select one.
Is it always wrong to kill another human being? I'd like to say yes, it is. But sometimes...it's either you or them. And I'll do everything in my power to not be me.
One day, the collective human existence will realize that there is no 'us and them', there is only 'us'. We're not there yet.
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And yet a government cannot do 'nothing' in response to a terrorist act or threat. That would merely invite ever increasing acts, until they HAD to do something. (WTC I, Khobar, USS Cole, Nairobi, WTCII)
Either way the terrorists win a little bit.
Exactly. In this sort of dissimilar warfare, 'winning' by the 'good guys' is extremely difficult, if possible at all. It may take decades or centuries.
But in the meantime....ignore it at your peril.
Clearly you have not been perusing online porn recently.
Normal sex between two consenting adults? HA.
Rules are there to intimidate the clueful, and to punish the malicious and/or clueless.
The good parts of the girls, yeah.
Not saying you should use that particular distro, but one more thing to watch out for.
What should you bring?
The very basics, until you know more. Have whatever you discover you need shipped over. No use hauling around a bunch of crap that you can't use, and needing other stuff.
Riiight.
"NASA never asked Paul C. Fisher to produce a pen. When the astronauts began to fly, like the Russians, they used pencils, but the leads sometimes broke and became a hazard by floating in the [capsule's] atmosphere where there was no gravity. They could float into an eye or nose or cause a short in an electrical device. In addition, both the lead and the wood of the pencil could burn rapidly in the pure oxygen atmosphere. Paul Fisher realized the astronauts needed a safer and more dependable writing instrument, so in July 1965 he developed the pressurized ball pen, with its ink enclosed in a sealed, pressurized ink cartridge. Fisher sent the first samples to Dr. Robert Gilruth, Director of the Houston Space Center. The pens were all metal except for the ink, which had a flash point above 200C. The sample Space Pens were thoroughly tested by NASA. They passed all the tests and have been used ever since on all manned space flights, American and Russian. All research and developement costs were paid by Paul Fisher. No development costs have ever been charged to the government. "
change that to:
"...tend to delude the writer into thinking he is of supreme intelligence."
Ask John Glenn. Granted, he is a special case (former Marine fighter pilot, 1st american in orbit). But it would appear that a person in pretty good shape could do it into their 70's.
That's because you are a fairy.
So running a weedeater or lawnmower is the same at 2AM as it is at 2PM?
Another reason is to prevent anyone else from doing it. Even if you don't plan to actually use it.
Mine...all mine!
Take off the hat, son. Tin foil does not look good on you.
That's why it was a Top Ten list, rather than a Top Seventeen list.
Shareware? ha. If you get 2% of people paying for it, you're doing good.
Books? We all saw what a train wreck Stephen King's The Plant was, selling it for $1 per chapter online. If HE can't turn a profit after advertising, server costs, etc., how is someone smaller going to do it? That's like Paul McCartney not being able to make it work, but expecting Joe and the Dudes from down the block being able to.
Put on top of that the 'if it's online it's free' post-Napster mentality...and the honor system for buying music falls apart rather quickly.
If I'm going to remit money if I download something, I'm going to download it from iTunes. No questions about quality or availability, two major issues with the current d/l situation.
If?
What do you think happens to all that marketing data that is collected everytime you buy something, or apply for credit?
Personal and in geographic aggregate, you are being bought and sold daily.
"I need a list of people (phone numbers) who bought pet food AND aspirin in the last 30 days, female, >2 kids, and live east of the Mississippi"
"Ok...no problem. $1.50 per number"
"Done"
Name them 1.wav - n.wav
Point Outlook at 1.WAV for the email notification
Every x minutes, run a script to randomly shuffle the filenames . Said script could exist anywhere, even within Outlook.
Whatever happens to be 1.wav at the time email comes in gets played.
Depending on the age, how about neither?
Are you of the opinion that anything goes, anytime of the day or night? Hardcore porn mixed in with kids shows? Full frontal nudity ads during Sesame Street? Sorry..but what a fucked up country.
that without some outside controls, TV content would be dictated solely by the advertisers. And as the advertisers have shown themselves to be such a wonderful, responsible bunch in the quest for ever higher ratings and watercooler talk (read your eyeballs), the only option left to parents would be hardwiring the power switch to the off position. (Not necessarily a bad thing, but probably not what we really want)
Bull. Advertisers care[1] a LOT what you think of their ads. This company does near $100 million a year (mainly in North America), researching exactly that. "Which version of this soap/car/sports drink ad do you like the best?" Their parent company in Paris does 3/4 billion dollars/year worldwide, mainly telling advertisers what YOU think of their ads. You're correct in that it's brand recognition and not 'buy this specific product', but a better ad is...well... better. More likely for you to remember the brand.
[1] In this case, 'care' = good for revenue.
Free + 'doesn't do what I need' = useless. No matter what the platform, tool, or philosophy.
Hey..I was just going by what the GS dude said. I've never had occassion to use their services, nor would I. Neither would I send someone to them.
"If we can figure out and fix the problem within 5 minutes, the fix is free. After that, the standard charge of $75 kicks in."
"Can I get that in writing?"
"Yes."
Quite a lot of problems ARE fixable in 5 minutes. They're not all idiots or assholes.
That, and the hundreds/thousands of Access/Excel/Word apps/macros/templates that a lot of businesses rely on. Yes, they can be recreated in other platforms, but it will take a significant amount of work to do so.
A) Killing 100,000 to end the war.
B) Killing 1,000,000 to end the war.
C) Rolling over and letting the agressor have his way, potentially killing many, many millions more in the coming years, and dooming your country's way of life.
There is no D)
As President/Emperor/world leader, those are the choices you might have when you sit in the big chair. Select one.
Is it always wrong to kill another human being? I'd like to say yes, it is. But sometimes...it's either you or them. And I'll do everything in my power to not be me.
One day, the collective human existence will realize that there is no 'us and them', there is only 'us'. We're not there yet.