That is what it seems to imply, isn't it? I'm slightly shocked that/. made the mistake of running this; saying that "BIC-TCP 6,000 Times Quicker Than DSL" is pretty much like saying that, um, Interstate 101 can carry 6,000 times more vehicles than a moped"
Or that "Hoover dam generates 6000 times more electricity than my coffeemaker"
As long as going around corners is not an issue, ANY car can be hopped up. Example: setting, Centralia, IL 1978. Car: 1974 vega wagon. Engine: Ford 289ci, Weber750 I helped work on this car, it's whole purpose in life was to be a street racer and seperate idiots from their money. had nice little twists like purposefully mismatched glaspak mufflers and manual spark advance to make it sound like it was barely running. Until the "frame" twisted, it was pretty much unbeatable.
Were you even replying to what I wrote? or did you hit reply at some odd point in the thread? I just can't put together what you are talking about with what I said.
The actual oath goes like this: "I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."
I was really drunk at the time, so I had to look it up, but it sounds familiar. So, basically, if the Prez orders you to attack canada, and you believe this is a violation of the constitution and that canada is not an enemy, you have sworn not to do it. You will end up in jail, though.
Without taxes, the government has no money. (People, as a rule, aren't
going to give money to the government if they don't have to) Thus, no real
power. Since the gov. doesn't have money, no police. With no police, no laws.
Income Tax is a relatively recent invention, instituted in 1913 by the 16th
amendment. it was originally supposed to support itself by regulating trade,
tariffs, licensing fees, etc. There is some discrepancies in the way the 16th
amendment was added, but the supreme court let it stand, so we are stuck with
it.
Of course, the people can put together a militia, but then who pays them?
Do you force people to serve? Or do they only protect those willing to pay?
Pretty soon you have rival militias wandering around enforcing thier own laws;
in a word, anarchy.
according to U.S. code,
every male U.S. Citizen between the ages of 17 and 45 are already part of the
unorganized militia of the U.S.. It was set up that way because there was not
supposed to be a standing army, just militias, unless there was an actual war.
States were supposed to maintain things you couldn't expect a lone person to be
able to afford such has artillery, but it pretty much was your expected duty to
maintain and pay for your own personal firearm. pretty much the entire country
had militia call up 1-2 days a month to make sure people knew where to meet
and who was who until the 1903 Militia act was passed, which formed the National
Guard structure.
I can provide, easily, references that were authored during the whole
history of the country. However, most of the aforementioned is considered
politically incorrect, so I'm sure others can quote recently written
works to prove me wrong.
Sort of harder to do these days; the gov has been installing a massively complete electronic monitoring system along most of the canadian border for the last year. However, the mexican border still seems to be wide open...
I don't know, the parent had some logic in that statement. With a all volunteer force, you don't have "slavery"; you have people who made the decision to be part of the foreign policy of the U.S. BEING part of the foreign policy of the U.S.; with a drafted force, you have hordes of parents and military members calling attention to and protesting everything and anything they disagree with about what they are being forced to do. Interesting concept.
Well, yeah. Thats the Air Force. I guess I should have specified a little better: I doubt, seriously, if the Air force, Navy or Coast Guard will be in need of a draft to maintain staffing; In the event that the Draft does start up, I imagine people will be lining up to join those services to avoid being drafted into the Army or Marines. But I was only really writing about the Army. Sorry about that.
If you'll take a look at fine sites like
this
one, this one
or possibly this one, you will
see that there is little doubt that should Bush get re-elected, we will have, at
least, a limited draft instated by early 2005. If you don't follow the other
links, I suggest this
one. especially if you have a 17-18 year old son OR daughter.
As to the obvious reason that this is going to happen, well you might start
looking here; even
though the military is basically not letting ANYONE out these days, time up or
not, they aren't in my opinion going to be able to meet the numbers due to
missed targets.
My word of advice (and I volunteered, was in Gulf War lite, so screw anyone
who says I'm not a patriot) is that if you have a boy or girl who are in high
school, and they do NOT fully support the policies of the current
administration, have them drop out if Bush gets reelected; the current system
doesn't take people without high school diplomas, and it'll take them awhile to
change the rules.
Speaking as a Disabled Veteran, bullshit. it's not cowardice, it's a lacking of the courage to fight for your convictions, whether they be to fight the enemies of the government, or to fight your enemies IN the government. But it's not a black & white issue. Some people just don't have what it takes.
I put the magic number at 500GB; thats what you would need to hit 1TB with RAID5. I would HAVE to get a DS3 connection; right now I could barely fill a 10GB drive with Pr0n! Would be great for Freenet, though.
Not exactly where I live, but there are a ton of tech positions available in Nashville; you are in the COUNTRY after a 30 minute drive in almost any direction from downtown. Just keep in mind that it IS the bible belt, and many facets of life are different than they are in The North. I would probably suggest tek systems to get ones foot in the door. avoid the dell plant. Feel free to e-mail me for further details.
Ahh. So that explains why the 120 year old house I grew up in seemed so flimsy and shoddy next to those hive-development houses.
And your right, around here almost all the labor speaks american, not english.
Building cookie cutter houses decreases cost, time to build, AND quality. (for those keeping track, I was in the architecture/civil engineering track from 1979-1987)
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If you pack a bunch of adult humans in a really small cage, and give them all swiss army USB devices...
Same principle on the guns/city thing; while I don't think it's correct - morally or legally - to infringe someones right to bear arms, if you pack them in like sardines they are going to start cutting / blowing holes in each other.
Of course, thats why I live someplace where I can open the door a few feet away from me and fire off a clip from my SKS and nobody is going to think twice about it, unless it's midnight.
We have, in general very intelligent, polite criminals in rural tennessee; the dumb ones got shot / eaten / gruesomely dispatched a long time ago and didn't reproduce.
I wasn't really concerned with people using it legally. I was more concerned with Evil Empires(tm), who wouldn't be real concerned about legal issues (when you have an army of lawyers, or the NSA, you pretty much do things when you want to). If I had perfected the patent, the code & concept would have become available to the public.
Somehow, I have ended up being the answer guy for a small army of wandering wanna-be computer geeks who eke out a living doing basic shit for stoopid people in the backwoods of kentucky and tennessee. it just sort of happened. the only thing I can do now is wait for the phone calls. Because customers kids will have this AIM'd or IRC'd to them, they will do it to their parents computers, and a few of my wanna-be geeks will decide it's a great way to give a highly profitable "upgrade". hmm. Vacation time.
You don't have to let your kid go to school! you can home school, you can send your kid to private school, you can CHOOSE to break the law and not send your kid to school. but it's your CHOICE, and your responsibility to make the choice, as a parent.
You don't have to let your kid go to the mall. it is your CHOICE to let your kid go to the mall, so you can't legitimately complain about that they see there.
You don't have to let your kid go to the friends house. it is your CHOICE to let your kid go to the friends house, so you can't legitimately complain about that they see there.
It is no ones JOB to raise a kid except the people who claim to be the parent.
As a MCSE I have to say.... yup. Even if you take the "intensive" courses, they don't tell you much about the cmd prompt. Which leads to me having heard, quite often, "oh shit, now what?, "you can't do that!", and "what did you just do?". Luckily, I learned all the truly neat stuff before win 3.1 came out.
I'm probably insane, but... Every computer I build for friends and family (or me) I first create a fat 1.9gb directory and install either dos 6.22 or Win98SE if possible, then Norton Utilities 8 with Ndos. Then they get the Win2k on the rest of the drive(s). (or NT4ws on older machines; I have about 50 licenses from a failed business) Having a cmd prompt that will access Ndos makes life VERY simple. Nobodies asked for Linux yet, but they each have a mandrake CD in a sleeve taped to the side of the computer, just in case.
Dude. or dudette. or whatever. a parent is 100% responsible for his kids. when the kids move out, the kids are 100% responsible for themselves. "they can't watch their kids when they are not at home", well, that is true. as a parent, since you are 100% responsible, if you let them go somewhere that they will see something you don't approve of, thats your fault, you shouldn't have let them go. Or, you could do what I do, and take into account that you can't control anything outside your house, and try to prepare your kids for the things you KNOW they will encounter, even if you hope they won't. simple economics takes care of the stuff on TV; if people don't want their kids to watch it, they won't, if they don't watch it, the advertisements don't work, if the advertisements don't work, the companies stop paying for ads, if there is no ad income, the programming changes until there is. Why, yes, I AM a Pagan Libertarian.
Thats so obvious I bet nobody thought of it. Fantastic idea, though. The mechanism for pulling the strip off would be sort of a pain, but considering that you are talking very minimal force, you can probably set up a bi-metalcoil wench, a couple of gears, a pully, a pully guide, and some thin wire. as soon as the solar collectors fall below a certain point of efficiency, the coil would be mechanically engaged (simple), and every day/night cycle it would advance a tooth on the gear, slooooowly pulling the protective strip off. when power gets to peak, it would automatically dis-engage, allowing for bad weather effects, and prolonging the life of the collector by leaving a percentage of it protected. Damn. they would probably screw up and try to make it digital.
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That is what it seems to imply, isn't it? /. made the mistake of running this; saying that "BIC-TCP 6,000 Times Quicker Than DSL" is pretty much like saying that, um, Interstate 101 can carry 6,000 times more vehicles than a moped"
I'm slightly shocked that
Or that "Hoover dam generates 6000 times more electricity than my coffeemaker"
Hey, thats kinda fun.
Never underestimate the power of the force.
As long as going around corners is not an issue, ANY car can be hopped up.
Example: setting, Centralia, IL 1978. Car: 1974 vega wagon.
Engine: Ford 289ci, Weber750
I helped work on this car, it's whole purpose in life was to be a street racer and seperate idiots from their money. had nice little twists like purposefully mismatched glaspak mufflers and manual spark advance to make it sound like it was barely running.
Until the "frame" twisted, it was pretty much unbeatable.
Were you even replying to what I wrote? or did you hit reply at some odd point in the thread?
I just can't put together what you are talking about with what I said.
The actual oath goes like this:
"I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."
I was really drunk at the time, so I had to look it up, but it sounds familiar.
So, basically, if the Prez orders you to attack canada, and you believe this is a violation of the constitution and that canada is not an enemy, you have sworn not to do it.
You will end up in jail, though.
Without taxes, the government has no money. (People, as a rule, aren't going to give money to the government if they don't have to) Thus, no real power. Since the gov. doesn't have money, no police. With no police, no laws.
Income Tax is a relatively recent invention, instituted in 1913 by the 16th amendment. it was originally supposed to support itself by regulating trade, tariffs, licensing fees, etc. There is some discrepancies in the way the 16th amendment was added, but the supreme court let it stand, so we are stuck with it.
Of course, the people can put together a militia, but then who pays them? Do you force people to serve? Or do they only protect those willing to pay? Pretty soon you have rival militias wandering around enforcing thier own laws; in a word, anarchy.
according to U.S. code, every male U.S. Citizen between the ages of 17 and 45 are already part of the unorganized militia of the U.S.. It was set up that way because there was not supposed to be a standing army, just militias, unless there was an actual war. States were supposed to maintain things you couldn't expect a lone person to be able to afford such has artillery, but it pretty much was your expected duty to maintain and pay for your own personal firearm. pretty much the entire country had militia call up 1-2 days a month to make sure people knew where to meet and who was who until the 1903 Militia act was passed, which formed the National Guard structure.
I can provide, easily, references that were authored during the whole history of the country. However, most of the aforementioned is considered politically incorrect, so I'm sure others can quote recently written works to prove me wrong.
Sort of harder to do these days; the gov has been installing a massively complete electronic monitoring system along most of the canadian border for the last year.
However, the mexican border still seems to be wide open...
I don't know, the parent had some logic in that statement.
With a all volunteer force, you don't have "slavery"; you have people who made the decision to be part of the foreign policy of the U.S. BEING part of the foreign policy of the U.S.; with a drafted force, you have hordes of parents and military members calling attention to and protesting everything and anything they disagree with about what they are being forced to do.
Interesting concept.
Well, yeah.
Thats the Air Force.
I guess I should have specified a little better: I doubt, seriously, if the Air force, Navy or Coast Guard will be in need of a draft to maintain staffing; In the event that the Draft does start up, I imagine people will be lining up to join those services to avoid being drafted into the Army or Marines.
But I was only really writing about the Army.
Sorry about that.
That's not necessarily true.
If you'll take a look at fine sites like this one, this one or possibly this one, you will see that there is little doubt that should Bush get re-elected, we will have, at least, a limited draft instated by early 2005. If you don't follow the other links, I suggest this one. especially if you have a 17-18 year old son OR daughter.
As to the obvious reason that this is going to happen, well you might start looking here; even though the military is basically not letting ANYONE out these days, time up or not, they aren't in my opinion going to be able to meet the numbers due to missed targets.
My word of advice (and I volunteered, was in Gulf War lite, so screw anyone who says I'm not a patriot) is that if you have a boy or girl who are in high school, and they do NOT fully support the policies of the current administration, have them drop out if Bush gets reelected; the current system doesn't take people without high school diplomas, and it'll take them awhile to change the rules.
Speaking as a Disabled Veteran, bullshit.
it's not cowardice, it's a lacking of the courage to fight for your convictions, whether they be to fight the enemies of the government, or to fight your enemies IN the government. But it's not a black & white issue.
Some people just don't have what it takes.
I put the magic number at 500GB; thats what you would need to hit 1TB with RAID5.
I would HAVE to get a DS3 connection; right now I could barely fill a 10GB drive with Pr0n!
Would be great for Freenet, though.
Not exactly where I live, but there are a ton of tech positions available in Nashville; you are in the COUNTRY after a 30 minute drive in almost any direction from downtown.
Just keep in mind that it IS the bible belt, and many facets of life are different than they are in The North.
I would probably suggest tek systems to get ones foot in the door. avoid the dell plant.
Feel free to e-mail me for further details.
Ahh. So that explains why the 120 year old house I grew up in seemed so flimsy and shoddy next to those hive-development houses.
And your right, around here almost all the labor speaks american, not english.
Building cookie cutter houses decreases cost, time to build, AND quality.
(for those keeping track, I was in the architecture/civil engineering track from 1979-1987)
If you pack a bunch of adult humans in a really small cage, and give them all swiss army USB devices...
Same principle on the guns/city thing; while I don't think it's correct - morally or legally - to infringe someones right to bear arms, if you pack them in like sardines they are going to start cutting / blowing holes in each other.
Of course, thats why I live someplace where I can open the door a few feet away from me and fire off a clip from my SKS and nobody is going to think twice about it, unless it's midnight.
We have, in general very intelligent, polite criminals in rural tennessee; the dumb ones got shot / eaten / gruesomely dispatched a long time ago and didn't reproduce.
Wow!
I got 2 (two) offtopics for that!
I must be improving.
I wasn't really concerned with people using it legally.
I was more concerned with Evil Empires(tm), who wouldn't be real concerned about legal issues (when you have an army of lawyers, or the NSA, you pretty much do things when you want to).
If I had perfected the patent, the code & concept would have become available to the public.
The exact reason I stopped my pending patent on this very thing back in '02.
I was really hoping nobody would come up with it.
Somehow, I have ended up being the answer guy for a small army of wandering wanna-be computer geeks who eke out a living doing basic shit for stoopid people in the backwoods of kentucky and tennessee. it just sort of happened.
the only thing I can do now is wait for the phone calls. Because customers kids will have this AIM'd or IRC'd to them, they will do it to their parents computers, and a few of my wanna-be geeks will decide it's a great way to give a highly profitable "upgrade".
hmm.
Vacation time.
You don't have to let your kid go to school! you can home school, you can send your kid to private school, you can CHOOSE to break the law and not send your kid to school. but it's your CHOICE, and your responsibility to make the choice, as a parent.
You don't have to let your kid go to the mall. it is your CHOICE to let your kid go to the mall, so you can't legitimately complain about that they see there.
You don't have to let your kid go to the friends house. it is your CHOICE to let your kid go to the friends house, so you can't legitimately complain about that they see there.
It is no ones JOB to raise a kid except the people who claim to be the parent.
it's called responsibility.
Really?
Ok, I'll but 1,000,000 pennies from you for $9,000.
DOn't worry, you can make it up on volume.
As a MCSE I have to say....
yup.
Even if you take the "intensive" courses, they don't tell you much about the cmd prompt.
Which leads to me having heard, quite often, "oh shit, now what?, "you can't do that!", and "what did you just do?".
Luckily, I learned all the truly neat stuff before win 3.1 came out.
I'm probably insane, but...
Every computer I build for friends and family (or me) I first create a fat 1.9gb directory and install either dos 6.22 or Win98SE if possible, then Norton Utilities 8 with Ndos.
Then they get the Win2k on the rest of the drive(s). (or NT4ws on older machines; I have about 50 licenses from a failed business)
Having a cmd prompt that will access Ndos makes life VERY simple.
Nobodies asked for Linux yet, but they each have a mandrake CD in a sleeve taped to the side of the computer, just in case.
I actually read the article, and THAT ROCKS.
The porn applications alone are mind-boggling.
Dude. or dudette. or whatever.
a parent is 100% responsible for his kids. when the kids move out, the kids are 100% responsible for themselves.
"they can't watch their kids when they are not at home", well, that is true. as a parent, since you are 100% responsible, if you let them go somewhere that they will see something you don't approve of, thats your fault, you shouldn't have let them go.
Or, you could do what I do, and take into account that you can't control anything outside your house, and try to prepare your kids for the things you KNOW they will encounter, even if you hope they won't.
simple economics takes care of the stuff on TV; if people don't want their kids to watch it, they won't, if they don't watch it, the advertisements don't work, if the advertisements don't work, the companies stop paying for ads, if there is no ad income, the programming changes until there is.
Why, yes, I AM a Pagan Libertarian.
Thats so obvious I bet nobody thought of it.
Fantastic idea, though.
The mechanism for pulling the strip off would be sort of a pain, but considering that you are talking very minimal force, you can probably set up a bi-metalcoil wench, a couple of gears, a pully, a pully guide, and some thin wire.
as soon as the solar collectors fall below a certain point of efficiency, the coil would be mechanically engaged (simple), and every day/night cycle it would advance a tooth on the gear, slooooowly pulling the protective strip off. when power gets to peak, it would automatically dis-engage, allowing for bad weather effects, and prolonging the life of the collector by leaving a percentage of it protected.
Damn. they would probably screw up and try to make it digital.