Selling stock when it is sudden worth ten times as much (who wouldn't?) isn't evidence of pump and dump
Not in and of itself, but when insiders all of a sudden sell a boatload of shares when they'd sold nothing the over the previous year things start looking rather iffy, particularly when the timing of events that led to the stock price increase were directly controllable by management and just happened to coincide with planned sales.
I guess other people really can't hear when the TV is left on.
I can. It's the flyback transformer in your set making that noise - a very loud 15.75 KHz tone. I'm almost 40 years old and haven't taken real good care of my hearing, and it still bugs the hell out of me. One solution to the noise problem is to get a non-CRT television set (plasma, LCD, DLP, etc.).
Only once? I fail to see why the FCC should be involved with anything that doesn't directly involve technical or legal aspects of RF spectrum licensing/enforcement, and they should not be involved *at all* when it comes to content.
You can thank the Marshall Space Flight Center for a lot of that. Huntsville is also kind of interesting in that occasionally you'll come across a Ph.D that wears denim bib overalls and lives on a small farm.:-)
I believe one has a civic duty to help those that cannot help themselves. However, I don't believe society has any obligation to those who are merely unwilling to do so.
If someone doesn't have the backbone to stand up for themselves, how exactly does it become my duty to do it for them?
Why is it that all the oppobrium against "Political Correctness" is never accompanied by any attempt to understand the frustration and outright abuses that brought it about in the first place?
Perhaps it's because hypocrisy is often at the root of being PC. The whole concept of "tolerance" is an example. Tolerance is supposedly an ideal to be respected in the PC world, but apparently only as it applies to "acceptable" ideas. Respect and understanding of ideas they don't agree with and those that hold them is something one generally doesn't find within the realm of political correctness, and it's not something that seems to be encouraged in the least. Your last comment about "the Ten Fucking Commandments" illustrates my point well.
PC is all about elitism and "correct thought", and I find such concepts to be reprehensible. Those that are PC don't have the market cornered on enlightenment, as much as its supporters may believe otherwise.
How was the parent post racist? Race wasn't mentioned, Nigeria was. Most of the 419 scams I've seen did in fact originate in Nigeria ("419" refers to the Nigerian penal code, remember?) and if their government/society can't or isn't willing to do more to curb these scammers, then they deserve the ridicule they get.
A new Harvard freshman was lost and looking for the library. He approached what obviously was an upperclassman, and asked "Excuse me, could you please tell me where the library is at?" The upperclassman looked down his nose at the freshman, and replied, "My good sir, here at Harvard we do *not* end our sentences with a preposition." The freshman is a bit taken aback, and rephrases his question: "Okay, could you please tell me where the library is at, asshole?"
There aren't too many grammar jokes out there, so I guess you have to take them as you can get them.
You can have your own machine gun or other NFA Class III weapon, but you'd have to buy a $200 federal tax stamp for it, it can't have been made after May 19, 1986, and you'll have to deal with whatever other restrictions your state imposes. The ridiculous limit on the date of manufacture is why you now will end up paying $15,000 for the privilege of plinking at the range with a full-auto MP5 when the gun should really cost about a tenth of that.
Plenty of Class III permits are still issued, and it's really not that difficult to get one if you don't have a criminal history and are willing to deal with the extra government involvement in your life that it entails. It's the cost of the weapons themselves that keep them from being more common, and that you can pin on the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986. FOPA rescinded a lot of the onerous provisions of the Gun Control Act of 1968, but introduced a few of its own.
IIRC, a bazooka would also fall under NFA, and not only would you need a permit for the bazooka, but also a permit for every rocket at $200/pop, subject to your local laws regarding "destructive devices".
In any case, there is no scenario where the Executive Branch has the authority to stop or delay an election in the United States.
I agree with this statement. However, finding ways to skirt or outright disregard the law has become a hallmark of the current administration, and I'm not seeing much fortitude from Congress and the local authorities that might serve to put the brakes on such behavior.
I actually go to Subway as well, but I don't get a drink; I drink water. If I want chips, I buy my own chips in bulk at the supermarket instead.
I take that one step further - I almost always bring my lunch to work. The combination of a sandwich, chips, a soda, and a piece of fruit works out to be around a dollar or so.
the scientific payload of the lander, which when you get right down to it is the sole purpose for the rest of the stuff existing, was 91 kg
That's kind of a misleading statement - the payload within the lander was 91 kg, but that's totally discounting the scientific value of the orbiter, and while obviously the lander existed only as a platform for the science, I wouldn't have considered it "disposable" in the same sense that the launch vehicle was. On the other hand, without the orbiters we probably would never have heard the name "Richard Hoagland" either, so I guess there's balance in all things.
Practically, boosting 3500+ kg to escape velocity and successfully sending it a distance of over 200 million miles in 10 months using a grand total of less than 381K kg isn't inefficient by any existing earth-bound measurement. To drive the same distance in a car would require 30 million pounds in fuel alone, and that assumes the car is getting better gas mileage than most.
Finally, the launch vehicle itself accounted for a very small portion of the total cost of the Viking program, and was nowhere near a "multi-billion dollar" expenditure. Even today, the heaviest variant of the Atlas V (961K kg, and *much* more powerful than the Titan III-Centaur that took the Vikings up) costs about $130 million per launch. Hell, even the Shuttle is substantially less than a billion per launch. The only launch vehicle that I can think of that remotely qualifies on that level of cost is the Saturn V, but that's an entirely different beast altogether, and was very expensive mostly because of the very small number of vehicles that were built. That wasn't the case with the Titan III.
And the performance of VMWare is excellent for everything except graphical UI's.
VMware Server is a bit pokey (though certainly still usable) for UI work owing to the VNC-like interface, but Workstation is *very* snappy and gives you some other goodies at the expense of built-in remote access. Of course you can still set your VMs up with SSH, RDC, VNC, etc. if you need to get to them remotely, so I didn't find Workstation's lack of integrated remote access to be a problem. Workstation offered me enough above the free Server product that I felt it was worth the expense.
If I'd had experience with VMware prior to doing my Xen install, I might have gone with it instead for the servers, but Xen has served me very well there and I don't think I'd get enough out of VMware to justify the pain of moving the Xen box to it.
Xen smokes both VMWARE and Virtual PC in terms of performance.
This often is true, but it really depends on what you need to do. Unless you're running Xen on a CPU that has VT support on-chip, you're not running any VMs at all unless the guest OS has a kernel specifically modified to run with it.
I use Xen at home to run five Debian servers on a single box (and had to recompile the kernels for the domU and dom0 VMs). It runs wonderfully, and hasn't given me a moment's trouble. However, I'd never be able to run a Windows guest on it, even if I wanted to. For everyday use, I have a Windows box that has several Linux VMs running under VMware Workstation (saves me *tons* of time for the kind of development work I do), and I've had no problems at all with performance. Just for giggles I tried BeOS 5 under VMware, and the BeOS OpenGL teapot demo still can manage 40 frames/second.
I don't think there's any one VM solution that you could say is "the best" - your needs are going to determine which is best for you.
In this case you're using Tylenol as an Anti-Inflamitory.... not as a pain killer
That's backwards - acetaminophen is fact an analgesic (pain-killer) but not an anti-inflammatory like aspirin or ibuprofen. It's also not particularly good for your liver.
I used to write code at a company that produced laser marking/engraving machines, and I *much* preferred working with the older DOS-based equipment. It's very responsive and actually easier to code for, since the machine does what you command *right then*, and you don't have to worry about the OS swapping memory to disk or something else that may cause you to unpredictably lose interrupts for an extended period of time ("extended" meaning 100 microseconds or more). Delays are a big deal when you're beam-steering a pair of 50 watt CO2 lasers that can burn holes in some materials in less than 10 microseconds if you don't keep the beam moving.
I have a DOS 6.22/WFW 3.11 VM running under VMware, and the only apparent glitch that I've run into thus far is the need to replace the VGA driver if you want to use higher resolutions in Windows, since the stock driver can't deal with the virtualized video card in anything other than 640x480.
I'm running Xen for my servers, but VMware for desktop use, and I continue to be impressed with just how good VMware is.
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the point is always to make sure *all of us* know the truth
After the patent application has been filed, that is....
Thank you, Mr. Farnsworth. :-)
Selling stock when it is sudden worth ten times as much (who wouldn't?) isn't evidence of pump and dump
Not in and of itself, but when insiders all of a sudden sell a boatload of shares when they'd sold nothing the over the previous year things start looking rather iffy, particularly when the timing of events that led to the stock price increase were directly controllable by management and just happened to coincide with planned sales.
I guess other people really can't hear when the TV is left on.
I can. It's the flyback transformer in your set making that noise - a very loud 15.75 KHz tone. I'm almost 40 years old and haven't taken real good care of my hearing, and it still bugs the hell out of me. One solution to the noise problem is to get a non-CRT television set (plasma, LCD, DLP, etc.).
ensigns going off to gallavant around with extradimensional entities
...somehow ending up on Fark.com.
Only once? I fail to see why the FCC should be involved with anything that doesn't directly involve technical or legal aspects of RF spectrum licensing/enforcement, and they should not be involved *at all* when it comes to content.
You can thank the Marshall Space Flight Center for a lot of that. Huntsville is also kind of interesting in that occasionally you'll come across a Ph.D that wears denim bib overalls and lives on a small farm. :-)
I believe one has a civic duty to help those that cannot help themselves. However, I don't believe society has any obligation to those who are merely unwilling to do so.
If someone doesn't have the backbone to stand up for themselves, how exactly does it become my duty to do it for them?
Why is it that all the oppobrium against "Political Correctness" is never accompanied by any attempt to understand the frustration and outright abuses that brought it about in the first place?
Perhaps it's because hypocrisy is often at the root of being PC. The whole concept of "tolerance" is an example. Tolerance is supposedly an ideal to be respected in the PC world, but apparently only as it applies to "acceptable" ideas. Respect and understanding of ideas they don't agree with and those that hold them is something one generally doesn't find within the realm of political correctness, and it's not something that seems to be encouraged in the least. Your last comment about "the Ten Fucking Commandments" illustrates my point well.
PC is all about elitism and "correct thought", and I find such concepts to be reprehensible. Those that are PC don't have the market cornered on enlightenment, as much as its supporters may believe otherwise.
How was the parent post racist? Race wasn't mentioned, Nigeria was. Most of the 419 scams I've seen did in fact originate in Nigeria ("419" refers to the Nigerian penal code, remember?) and if their government/society can't or isn't willing to do more to curb these scammers, then they deserve the ridicule they get.
Bamboo is actually a type of grass. Another edible grass is sugar cane. :-)
That reminds me of a joke I heard years ago:
A new Harvard freshman was lost and looking for the library. He approached what obviously was an upperclassman, and asked "Excuse me, could you please tell me where the library is at?" The upperclassman looked down his nose at the freshman, and replied, "My good sir, here at Harvard we do *not* end our sentences with a preposition." The freshman is a bit taken aback, and rephrases his question: "Okay, could you please tell me where the library is at, asshole?"
There aren't too many grammar jokes out there, so I guess you have to take them as you can get them.
all those holodeck scenes, Troi ordering chocolate, etc.
Hmmm - holodeck, Troi, chocolate.....the combination of those three items is something that gives one pause to ponder.
Um, I'll be back in a little bit.
You can have your own machine gun or other NFA Class III weapon, but you'd have to buy a $200 federal tax stamp for it, it can't have been made after May 19, 1986, and you'll have to deal with whatever other restrictions your state imposes. The ridiculous limit on the date of manufacture is why you now will end up paying $15,000 for the privilege of plinking at the range with a full-auto MP5 when the gun should really cost about a tenth of that.
/not a lawyer
//not legal advice
Plenty of Class III permits are still issued, and it's really not that difficult to get one if you don't have a criminal history and are willing to deal with the extra government involvement in your life that it entails. It's the cost of the weapons themselves that keep them from being more common, and that you can pin on the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986. FOPA rescinded a lot of the onerous provisions of the Gun Control Act of 1968, but introduced a few of its own. IIRC, a bazooka would also fall under NFA, and not only would you need a permit for the bazooka, but also a permit for every rocket at $200/pop, subject to your local laws regarding "destructive devices".
In any case, there is no scenario where the Executive Branch has the authority to stop or delay an election in the United States.
I agree with this statement. However, finding ways to skirt or outright disregard the law has become a hallmark of the current administration, and I'm not seeing much fortitude from Congress and the local authorities that might serve to put the brakes on such behavior.
Oh, geez - how is this "Flamebait" and not "Funny"?
I actually go to Subway as well, but I don't get a drink; I drink water. If I want chips, I buy my own chips in bulk at the supermarket instead.
I take that one step further - I almost always bring my lunch to work. The combination of a sandwich, chips, a soda, and a piece of fruit works out to be around a dollar or so.
the scientific payload of the lander, which when you get right down to it is the sole purpose for the rest of the stuff existing, was 91 kg
That's kind of a misleading statement - the payload within the lander was 91 kg, but that's totally discounting the scientific value of the orbiter, and while obviously the lander existed only as a platform for the science, I wouldn't have considered it "disposable" in the same sense that the launch vehicle was. On the other hand, without the orbiters we probably would never have heard the name "Richard Hoagland" either, so I guess there's balance in all things.
Practically, boosting 3500+ kg to escape velocity and successfully sending it a distance of over 200 million miles in 10 months using a grand total of less than 381K kg isn't inefficient by any existing earth-bound measurement. To drive the same distance in a car would require 30 million pounds in fuel alone, and that assumes the car is getting better gas mileage than most.
Finally, the launch vehicle itself accounted for a very small portion of the total cost of the Viking program, and was nowhere near a "multi-billion dollar" expenditure. Even today, the heaviest variant of the Atlas V (961K kg, and *much* more powerful than the Titan III-Centaur that took the Vikings up) costs about $130 million per launch. Hell, even the Shuttle is substantially less than a billion per launch. The only launch vehicle that I can think of that remotely qualifies on that level of cost is the Saturn V, but that's an entirely different beast altogether, and was very expensive mostly because of the very small number of vehicles that were built. That wasn't the case with the Titan III.
And the performance of VMWare is excellent for everything except graphical UI's.
VMware Server is a bit pokey (though certainly still usable) for UI work owing to the VNC-like interface, but Workstation is *very* snappy and gives you some other goodies at the expense of built-in remote access. Of course you can still set your VMs up with SSH, RDC, VNC, etc. if you need to get to them remotely, so I didn't find Workstation's lack of integrated remote access to be a problem. Workstation offered me enough above the free Server product that I felt it was worth the expense.
If I'd had experience with VMware prior to doing my Xen install, I might have gone with it instead for the servers, but Xen has served me very well there and I don't think I'd get enough out of VMware to justify the pain of moving the Xen box to it.
Okay, *GNU/Linux* then. :-)
Xen smokes both VMWARE and Virtual PC in terms of performance.
This often is true, but it really depends on what you need to do. Unless you're running Xen on a CPU that has VT support on-chip, you're not running any VMs at all unless the guest OS has a kernel specifically modified to run with it.
I use Xen at home to run five Debian servers on a single box (and had to recompile the kernels for the domU and dom0 VMs). It runs wonderfully, and hasn't given me a moment's trouble. However, I'd never be able to run a Windows guest on it, even if I wanted to. For everyday use, I have a Windows box that has several Linux VMs running under VMware Workstation (saves me *tons* of time for the kind of development work I do), and I've had no problems at all with performance. Just for giggles I tried BeOS 5 under VMware, and the BeOS OpenGL teapot demo still can manage 40 frames/second.
I don't think there's any one VM solution that you could say is "the best" - your needs are going to determine which is best for you.
Good idea: A hotel that leaves the light on for you.
Bad idea: A hotel that leaves the gas on for you.
In this case you're using Tylenol as an Anti-Inflamitory.... not as a pain killer
That's backwards - acetaminophen is fact an analgesic (pain-killer) but not an anti-inflammatory like aspirin or ibuprofen. It's also not particularly good for your liver.
I used to write code at a company that produced laser marking/engraving machines, and I *much* preferred working with the older DOS-based equipment. It's very responsive and actually easier to code for, since the machine does what you command *right then*, and you don't have to worry about the OS swapping memory to disk or something else that may cause you to unpredictably lose interrupts for an extended period of time ("extended" meaning 100 microseconds or more). Delays are a big deal when you're beam-steering a pair of 50 watt CO2 lasers that can burn holes in some materials in less than 10 microseconds if you don't keep the beam moving.
I have a DOS 6.22/WFW 3.11 VM running under VMware, and the only apparent glitch that I've run into thus far is the need to replace the VGA driver if you want to use higher resolutions in Windows, since the stock driver can't deal with the virtualized video card in anything other than 640x480.
I'm running Xen for my servers, but VMware for desktop use, and I continue to be impressed with just how good VMware is.