There are projects to provide unified process space and inter-node IPC like Mosix, bproc, etc. Generally, these aren't used much in HPC. Having a "bunch of individual machines networked together" works pretty well when you also consider that the network might be 20Gb 4x DDR InfiniBand sending frames from point to point at ~2us. I'm just saying...
Chances are, the GP built an HPC cluster and used a typical SPMD approach with something like MPI or PVM for communications and a centralized job manager/scheduler for executing his jobs and those of others he was working with. Im also not sure what you mean by "useful software view". There are lots of tools like Ganglia or even Nagios with PNP that are good for keeping track of utilization, memory usage, etc. over a large number of machines. In HPC, there is very little need for seeing a cluster of machines as one coherent machine except to introduce further overhead in coordinating actual threads between a huge cluster of machines. A simple (yet sophisticated) job scheduler handles this just fine, with a light-weight daemon spawning tasks on your compute nodes when they get the call from a central scheduler. They monitor some performance attributes and aggregate them back to the central scheduler. This keeps things simple and the overhead low so that CPUs can be put to work crunching numbers and not handling mundane OS tasks.
I don't see universal health care and medical marijuana laws as being at all similar. I mean, in one, you are criminalizing, at the federal level, some substance. In the other, you are collecting tax to guarantee rights to an acceptable level of a public service (medicine). This is akin to military spending, IMHO. Honestly, I think that states should be required to implement universal health care programs along the lines of single payer. This, of course, occurs after the elimination of personal and corporate income taxes (at the federal level) in favor of a vat/fairtax-ish system to pay for federal and state services... none of which appears likely to ever happen.
1. A National health care program which eliminates insurance companies and the positive feedback loop they create with prices. All hospitals and health care workers would be brought into the public sector but all suppliers for medications, medical equipment, and other health care commodities would be kept private through competitive bidding and foreign trade. I would propose a medical bill of rights that establishes complete health care as a right and creates a "Value Towards Rights" scheme for pharmaceutical patents. Essentially, this would say that technologies or intellectual properties that are very important towards maintaining and promoting the rights of the people will have very limited patents. This would cause pharmaceutical patents to default to a 5 year term. NIH and NSF grants will be available to subsidize research by private pharmaceutical firms given approval by committee.
2. A complete end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Troops would be recalled and some would be sent to the border to bolster Border Patrol efforts in a non-military capacity. All other overseas military bases would be sold off to the host nation for whatever we can get for them and evacuated. All military exercises will be limited to areas near the United States. Displays of military power such as sending carrier battle groups to the coasts of foreign nation for the purposes of intimidating foreign governments will be expressly forbidden. This will be established by a proposed new Constitutional amendment which clarifies, in no uncertain terms, appropriate uses for the military. This would result in a radical reduction in military expenditures, eliminating nearly 90% of the Pentagon budget. I would propose legislation that would radically reduce and within 10 years eliminate our nuclear arsenal, conditional upon cooperation from other nuclear powers.
3. The Federal Reserve board will come under direct review of the congress and a panel of economists as appointed by the states in order to establish a transparent monetary policy. All available monetary and economic data will be made public and open use. All shareholder information of the Federal Reserve Bank will be made public.
4. I would propose a radical restructuring of the tax code, eliminating the income tax entirely for the bottom 85% of tax payers while implementing a progressive tax scheme for all tax payers above the 85% bracket. This would be supplemented by a limited federal sales tax of at least 5% which works to create downward pressure on consumption while encouraging savings and investment. This is a hybrid of the current progressive income tax and the proposed fair tax. The size of the IRS can be reduced in accordance with the fewer number of people that will actually need to file a return. Corporate income taxes will also be reduced significantly in order to attract domestic industry back into the country. Import tariffs will be used to help mediate trade imbalances and add to government revenues. A pay-as-you-go scheme will be mandated and a pay-as-you-go-plus-principle will be applied until the national debt falls to within 2-3% of GDP.
5. I would propose a Universal College education program which provides federal assistance (in place of loans) to fund public universities to take on under-privileged students non-gratis and without the need to constantly apply for grants and costly student loans to supplement their living expenses. Students will be required to meet and maintain certain academic standards, but all students who meet these standards will have an opportunity to go to college. Private college loans will be limited to a 5% maximum interest rate which would not be assessed until after completion of an undergraduate degree or termination of student status at an accredited institution.
6. We will turn back all imports from any nation that does not conform to basic tenants of worker rights and fair wages. As the world's largest consumer, we'll be in a good position to create positive change in this re
+5, Insightful? You must be joking. I've mod points, but I'd rather reply to this. What does his not having tested Debian Etch have to do with his "knowledge of Linux systems" (what does that even mean, exactly?) except that he's probably not familiar with Debian Etch? And so you run a couple of VMs and a couple various boxes... Does this prove anything about your "knowledge of Linux systems" other than the fact that you can install Debian to a VM and to bare-metal?
I've never run Debian in any meaningful way (i.e. in a production environment or day-to-day workstation) and quite frankly I have no interest in doing so. I've been a happy RedHat/CentOS/Fedora user for a number of years and I've found no distro, including the aforementioned Ubuntu, that satisfies my demands in an operating system (I must emphasize my because YMMV). Does this limit my "knowledge of Linux systems" in any way? The 200 servers that I manage using various not-so-off-the-shelf tools on CentOS and Solaris 10 tend to indicate "maybe not".
But I digress. Pissing contests are not my forte these days. Running gobs Linux servers is.
Posted from a C2D Macbook running Leopard, ssh'ed into said beowulf cluster.
Yawn... Another sucker I suppose. And you take this on what, nonsensical and vague statements given by the same people that lied us into the war we're currently in? I have beachfront property in... meh, never mind.
Weapon involved? Tasers are good in this case. Unfortunately, tasers are not used in that manner exclusively. They are also used to "calm people down", saving the cop from having to communicate with the individual. This is unacceptable. Pulling your arm away from a cop who is trying to grab you is not immediate justification to tase (see "don't tase me, bro!") since it might very well be considered a natural reaction. And "don't let a few bad apples spoil the whole bunch" has been considered. When 80 year old, wheelchair-bound schizophrenic women are being tased (and subsequently, end up dead) because the cops are too scared to handle the situation as they were trained, then tasers are obviously too much responsibility for them to handle.
Its not "unfair", you are exploiting the ignorance of another for your own gain. Ergo, you are exploiting someone for your own advantage. That we do not seem to find fault with this seems rather peculiar and speaks volumes as to problems that arise from capitalist-based ethics. I think its morally abhorrent to exploit the station owner's mistake or ignorance (in much the same way a robber would enter your home and steal things because the door was left unlocked -- maybe he saw it as an invitation). But to each his own, I suppose.
Free-Market-Capitalism? Sounds more like Greedy-Fucktard-Opportunism. One man's easy opportunity to drive off with $0.12/gallon gas is another man's at-gunpoint opportunity to run off with your wallet. In one case, you are exploiting the ignorance of the gas station owener as to the current state of their dispensing equipment. In the latter case, you are exploiting the weakness of another individual by utilizing a temporary and unfair advantage. In both cases, you are using another human being as a means to an end. I happen to like Kant's Categorical Imperative in a lot of cases (it obviously has its flaws) and I'd like to think it's applicable here.
You were "hoping for a free tank of gas". Your intentions were selfish. Not only did you luck out in getting $0.12 gasoline, but you also wished to further your fortune, believing that if you informed the gas station attendant or manager of the error, that you'd get a free tank. Well, the gas station owner would probably fire any attendant that gave away free gas (esp. for this reason). Margins on gasoline are already pretty abysmal for service stations so its not unreasonable that he made you pay full price. Who knows how many people drove off with $0.12 gasoline before you and basically robbed this guy blind. It would have been nice had he eaten any additional ATM fees (because it was not your fault his system was broken so you shouldn't have been penalized). Ultimately, I believe you got what you deserved: gasoline at a market set price.
What the fuck are you still going on about? Would it help if I further elaborate my point? Are you just not getting it? I was accusing the initiator of this particular thread of over-simplifying complex behavioral patterns and attributing everything to mere choice. My example was over-the-top and obviously absurd, which was my intention. It was carrying his reasoning to a place he probably didn't want to go. You obviously don't read much, do you? Through his over-simplification, he appeared to deny any possibility that people getting fat or making bad decisions such as smoking, blowing away money, or being perpetually intoxicated, might be indicative of other circumstances aside from an individual's choice. It might be helpful for the individual with a problem to think in such a way, but when you are looking at systemic patterns of behavior among groups of people, consigning everything to the free-will bin is intellectually lazy and will certainly not help you in achieving any goals to correct such problems on a wide scale. Correlations abound and to attribute an individual's will to everything he or she does, I think, is to deny or simply misunderstand many years of scientific research.
Am I being clear enough? Subtlety must indeed be a lost art... lost on some.
With the 12x QDR InfiniBand spec, 96Gb (after factoring the protocol's overhead) is already on the table and at much lower latencies. This is more helpful for parallel applications (though it really depends on the properties of your application). I've not even worked with 12x nor any applications that would benefit from it. We currently run a 4x SDR setup (which will soon be upgraded to DDR) and it is ample for most of our needs. A cheap 40Gb ethernet solution would be killer for consolidating node management and a storage pathway onto one network. Our current storage solution over 10Gb leaves us with a 25:1 oversubscription ratio which will work quite well for our current crop of applications and how they are used, but it could become a bottleneck in the future.
I think having 40Gb will be really nice once pNFS implementations start to take off. Imagine a pNFS cluster of 32 fully loaded x4500's with 40Gb links between hosts and a 100Gb copper uplink to feed an army processing nodes. Getting close to 1PB of really really fast storage... over NFS and with today's capacities, no less.
Got your head blown off? You should have been more careful about where you were. How 'bout a little personal responsibility? You did, in fact, "choose" to be in the very place where the gunman fired his rounds, yes? Oh, but that's a more "clear-cut" case of "victim of circumstance"... I guess when the circumstances aren't clear, someone needs to be blamed rather than circumstances being researched and understood. That's some real high-order thinking there, Chief.
It hasn't been mentioned because it is nonsense. HFCS contains the same two molecules that sucrose contains (mostly, in similar proportions, except for HFCS 90). As one poster said above, once it hits your tongue, its damn near indistinguishable from regular sugar or sucrose. You would be correct, though, if you said that fructose leaves out the "fattening" effect (i suppose you meant to say filling or bloated).
I agree with much of what you said, except that a persistent and pervasive pattern of shyness that keeps you away from social situations and badly affects how you live your life (one recognizable symptom of this can be a lack of a sex life) is probably more than just plain shyness. I'm not saying that therapy will definitely help, only that its worth it to talk with someone. If you show up for your first session and they write you an Rx that day, obviously, you'd be best served by seeing someone else. Its worth some investment to see if it will do something for you.
instead of paying hundreds of dollars to someone so they could listen to your talk, you would do just as well
I think this statement speaks to an overall misunderstanding and ignorance of how the process works. I'm not a mental health worker, but I am someone that has seen some great benefits from work with a therapist. I have also seen people that have gone to therapists who should have just talked to some friends. Sometimes it can be hard to draw a line to distinguish what constitutes a pattern of behavior that requires treatment and one that can be overcome by getting a little help from one's friends. If a problem has been affecting one for much of their life or is the result of serious trauma, its probably not something a friend will talk you out of. I think the GGP's description of his problem reflects something more similar to this though I could be wrong.
Perhaps you've had a sour experience with one "shrink". Thats no basis for knocking the entire profession. You also present many traits of one with a closed mind (towards the process), a great degree of cynicism, and a general distrust of other individuals. You already have it out for the guy because you think he's trying to exploit you for money so he can drive a BMW. You need to tell him this. Something tells me, also, that the court is not going to hold you liable for $7.5 Million dollars for court-appointed treatment. Thats just absurd. Many therapists negotiate their rates for their patient's financial situation.
How does this refute the GP's point, that sometimes newer is not better? The sound of jets buzzing over your head must be positively deafening if you cannot even read (or most likely, employ basic logic).
The main point you think you made sucks and everyone knows it. Its time to abandon it and move on.
In, say, Sweden, the individual is culpable for their own actions
Its really easy to be "culpable" for one's own actions when the state exists to pick up the tab for their stupidity. People can indeed "behave entirely ethically" if your framework of ethics fully considers the realities of human nature. Since we have yet to formulate a logical account of human behavior, it is unlikely a system of ethics, derived from logic, will map completely to the full scope of human activities. There will be aberrations since any conception of ethics will fail to account for every fact. This does not represent a flaw with logic, but a flaw with our understanding and knowledge of humans.
Please explain why you find it disgraceful for an individual to "leave easy access to pornography on their computer". I'm curious.
This crap about the American military being the source of all evil
Strawman... I never said nor implied this. Unfortunately, the American military is used as a tool to project poor policy and poor thinking and hence, it is viewed by many as evil. It is not evil, no more than a hammer or screwdriver is evil.
and constantly instill fear into the public through continuous predictions of the apocalypse
Another Strawman... I said things will get bad. I never said that the country would collapse, that there would be an apocalypse or any other such nonsense. And I also meant to say that the bad times would be temporary, in any case. Economic depressions have been known to happen and though we've devised some clever ways to stave off such possibilities, there is no guarantee they will always work.
In fact, I see that most of the problems with America are coming from these two parties.
I can agree with this, on some level. If you throw in a complicit media who often denies the very existence of other viable, third-party candidates by not reporting on them, then we have a winner.
I suggest you read up on hyperinflation and the value of the mark in post-war Germany or perhaps Argentina a few years back or Zimbabwe right now.
I do not deny that my comparison was indeed meant to induce a bit of shock, but we have infact been left with a significantly devalued dollar. I am very well aware of hyperinflation and how much worse things can get. I suggest you not assume ignorance where none has been betrayed.
If the American dollar was worth that little, I doubt any other nation on this planet would be worth fleeing to.
Is this some of that American arrogance that I despise so much? The implication that without us, the world economy is doomed? I laugh at such statements for every day that goes by the American role in the global economy is becoming more and more marginalized. Every day, the world needs less and less from us while we demand more and more from them. It is very likely that this country will have to drastically rethink the way it does business. But with an attitude like yours, which is very prevalent in this country, we'll simply point fingers at everyone else and make our situation significantly worse than it ever needs to be.
Is your life REALLY that bad, or are you just pissed that there are so many stupid people out there (and if you think THAT is a trait limited to America, you're in for a surprise)?
No, it is not nor did I ever imply that my life was "REALLY that bad" (what's with all of these strawmen? You must be a "righty"). I'm not mad at the "stupid people", I'm upset at the fact that I surrender over 1/4 of my pay to a government that does very little to put an end to this ignorance but instead uses that money to build bombs and wage war. Living in this country leaves me at an ethical impass. How can I continue to live a successful life when my success contributes to activities that I wholly disagree with? I would easily settle for a lower standard of living in order to have that responsibility lifted from my shoulders.
You make me laugh. Is it that I've rejected the notion of "Fatherland", as Rousseau once put it? Is it that I view the country as it truly is and not how our propagandists wish us to see it; I'm not optimistic enough, I don't see the big pie in the sky?
Its fools such as yourself that make me want to leave. This country seems to be brimming with the likes of you and hence it is reflective in the overall vote and sentiment. And I'll be more than happy to give you what you want... I will leave. It pains me though, that you'll be left with a 1/2 trillion dollar a year military with which to project your ignorance globally... (thought, contrary to popular belief, its actually a good thing most of it is getting siphoned off by defense contractors and their shareholders... imagine the devastation of an efficient and well-funded American war machine)
The only thing the founding fathers did not take into account when formulating the Republic was the gutting of our education, the establishment of an entertainment-based press, and the ensuing ignorance of the entire American lot. We'll tell you who the next American Idol is, whether or not Brittney is in rehab, and the conditions of Paris' jail cell (btw, did she ever go? I'm curious), but we'll be God damned if we can point to even one country we are currently bombing on a fucking map... even if the damned names are printed! Knowledge like that really helps to put important issues into perspective, eh? Really helps to formulate an educated and well-reasoned vote, right?
Of course, if your handlers, which you seem so apt to congratulate for their overall prowess (or obvious lack thereof), had not helped to lower our standard of living to such an extreme in the last seven years, effectively indebting us, pilfering our savings, and turning our currency, essentially, into toilet paper, I'd probably have the funds, right now, to relocate. They've certainly done a heckuva job, AC.
Who said i was going to Europe? Who said I'm looking at things with rose-tinted glasses? Seriously...:) I'm very well aware of the reality that there is no perfect country. I'd like to go to Canada, actually. Not because its a perfect utopia or that its everything America isn't, but it suits me better than this mess down here. I don't trust the political system here (they treat us like children) and I get the feeling that times will be bad in the states in the near future because of it.
oooh! As if I didn't see that coming... the typical retort of a ninny. And who is this "we"? I doubt anyone but you really cares.
Besides, when I take my skills with me, 50 illegal, unskilled laborers will take my place. At least you have that to look forward to.
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There are projects to provide unified process space and inter-node IPC like Mosix, bproc, etc. Generally, these aren't used much in HPC. Having a "bunch of individual machines networked together" works pretty well when you also consider that the network might be 20Gb 4x DDR InfiniBand sending frames from point to point at ~2us. I'm just saying... Chances are, the GP built an HPC cluster and used a typical SPMD approach with something like MPI or PVM for communications and a centralized job manager/scheduler for executing his jobs and those of others he was working with. Im also not sure what you mean by "useful software view". There are lots of tools like Ganglia or even Nagios with PNP that are good for keeping track of utilization, memory usage, etc. over a large number of machines. In HPC, there is very little need for seeing a cluster of machines as one coherent machine except to introduce further overhead in coordinating actual threads between a huge cluster of machines. A simple (yet sophisticated) job scheduler handles this just fine, with a light-weight daemon spawning tasks on your compute nodes when they get the call from a central scheduler. They monitor some performance attributes and aggregate them back to the central scheduler. This keeps things simple and the overhead low so that CPUs can be put to work crunching numbers and not handling mundane OS tasks.
I don't see universal health care and medical marijuana laws as being at all similar. I mean, in one, you are criminalizing, at the federal level, some substance. In the other, you are collecting tax to guarantee rights to an acceptable level of a public service (medicine). This is akin to military spending, IMHO. Honestly, I think that states should be required to implement universal health care programs along the lines of single payer. This, of course, occurs after the elimination of personal and corporate income taxes (at the federal level) in favor of a vat/fairtax-ish system to pay for federal and state services... none of which appears likely to ever happen.
1. A National health care program which eliminates insurance companies and the positive feedback loop they create with prices. All hospitals and health care workers would be brought into the public sector but all suppliers for medications, medical equipment, and other health care commodities would be kept private through competitive bidding and foreign trade. I would propose a medical bill of rights that establishes complete health care as a right and creates a "Value Towards Rights" scheme for pharmaceutical patents. Essentially, this would say that technologies or intellectual properties that are very important towards maintaining and promoting the rights of the people will have very limited patents. This would cause pharmaceutical patents to default to a 5 year term. NIH and NSF grants will be available to subsidize research by private pharmaceutical firms given approval by committee.
2. A complete end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Troops would be recalled and some would be sent to the border to bolster Border Patrol efforts in a non-military capacity. All other overseas military bases would be sold off to the host nation for whatever we can get for them and evacuated. All military exercises will be limited to areas near the United States. Displays of military power such as sending carrier battle groups to the coasts of foreign nation for the purposes of intimidating foreign governments will be expressly forbidden. This will be established by a proposed new Constitutional amendment which clarifies, in no uncertain terms, appropriate uses for the military. This would result in a radical reduction in military expenditures, eliminating nearly 90% of the Pentagon budget. I would propose legislation that would radically reduce and within 10 years eliminate our nuclear arsenal, conditional upon cooperation from other nuclear powers.
3. The Federal Reserve board will come under direct review of the congress and a panel of economists as appointed by the states in order to establish a transparent monetary policy. All available monetary and economic data will be made public and open use. All shareholder information of the Federal Reserve Bank will be made public.
4. I would propose a radical restructuring of the tax code, eliminating the income tax entirely for the bottom 85% of tax payers while implementing a progressive tax scheme for all tax payers above the 85% bracket. This would be supplemented by a limited federal sales tax of at least 5% which works to create downward pressure on consumption while encouraging savings and investment. This is a hybrid of the current progressive income tax and the proposed fair tax. The size of the IRS can be reduced in accordance with the fewer number of people that will actually need to file a return. Corporate income taxes will also be reduced significantly in order to attract domestic industry back into the country. Import tariffs will be used to help mediate trade imbalances and add to government revenues. A pay-as-you-go scheme will be mandated and a pay-as-you-go-plus-principle will be applied until the national debt falls to within 2-3% of GDP.
5. I would propose a Universal College education program which provides federal assistance (in place of loans) to fund public universities to take on under-privileged students non-gratis and without the need to constantly apply for grants and costly student loans to supplement their living expenses. Students will be required to meet and maintain certain academic standards, but all students who meet these standards will have an opportunity to go to college. Private college loans will be limited to a 5% maximum interest rate which would not be assessed until after completion of an undergraduate degree or termination of student status at an accredited institution.
6. We will turn back all imports from any nation that does not conform to basic tenants of worker rights and fair wages. As the world's largest consumer, we'll be in a good position to create positive change in this re
+5, Insightful? You must be joking. I've mod points, but I'd rather reply to this. What does his not having tested Debian Etch have to do with his "knowledge of Linux systems" (what does that even mean, exactly?) except that he's probably not familiar with Debian Etch? And so you run a couple of VMs and a couple various boxes... Does this prove anything about your "knowledge of Linux systems" other than the fact that you can install Debian to a VM and to bare-metal?
I've never run Debian in any meaningful way (i.e. in a production environment or day-to-day workstation) and quite frankly I have no interest in doing so. I've been a happy RedHat/CentOS/Fedora user for a number of years and I've found no distro, including the aforementioned Ubuntu, that satisfies my demands in an operating system (I must emphasize my because YMMV). Does this limit my "knowledge of Linux systems" in any way? The 200 servers that I manage using various not-so-off-the-shelf tools on CentOS and Solaris 10 tend to indicate "maybe not".
But I digress. Pissing contests are not my forte these days. Running gobs Linux servers is.
Posted from a C2D Macbook running Leopard, ssh'ed into said beowulf cluster.
Yawn... Another sucker I suppose. And you take this on what, nonsensical and vague statements given by the same people that lied us into the war we're currently in? I have beachfront property in... meh, never mind.
Weapon involved? Tasers are good in this case. Unfortunately, tasers are not used in that manner exclusively. They are also used to "calm people down", saving the cop from having to communicate with the individual. This is unacceptable. Pulling your arm away from a cop who is trying to grab you is not immediate justification to tase (see "don't tase me, bro!") since it might very well be considered a natural reaction. And "don't let a few bad apples spoil the whole bunch" has been considered. When 80 year old, wheelchair-bound schizophrenic women are being tased (and subsequently, end up dead) because the cops are too scared to handle the situation as they were trained, then tasers are obviously too much responsibility for them to handle.
Its not "unfair", you are exploiting the ignorance of another for your own gain. Ergo, you are exploiting someone for your own advantage. That we do not seem to find fault with this seems rather peculiar and speaks volumes as to problems that arise from capitalist-based ethics. I think its morally abhorrent to exploit the station owner's mistake or ignorance (in much the same way a robber would enter your home and steal things because the door was left unlocked -- maybe he saw it as an invitation). But to each his own, I suppose.
Free-Market-Capitalism? Sounds more like Greedy-Fucktard-Opportunism. One man's easy opportunity to drive off with $0.12/gallon gas is another man's at-gunpoint opportunity to run off with your wallet. In one case, you are exploiting the ignorance of the gas station owener as to the current state of their dispensing equipment. In the latter case, you are exploiting the weakness of another individual by utilizing a temporary and unfair advantage. In both cases, you are using another human being as a means to an end. I happen to like Kant's Categorical Imperative in a lot of cases (it obviously has its flaws) and I'd like to think it's applicable here.
You were "hoping for a free tank of gas". Your intentions were selfish. Not only did you luck out in getting $0.12 gasoline, but you also wished to further your fortune, believing that if you informed the gas station attendant or manager of the error, that you'd get a free tank. Well, the gas station owner would probably fire any attendant that gave away free gas (esp. for this reason). Margins on gasoline are already pretty abysmal for service stations so its not unreasonable that he made you pay full price. Who knows how many people drove off with $0.12 gasoline before you and basically robbed this guy blind. It would have been nice had he eaten any additional ATM fees (because it was not your fault his system was broken so you shouldn't have been penalized). Ultimately, I believe you got what you deserved: gasoline at a market set price.
What the fuck are you still going on about? Would it help if I further elaborate my point? Are you just not getting it? I was accusing the initiator of this particular thread of over-simplifying complex behavioral patterns and attributing everything to mere choice. My example was over-the-top and obviously absurd, which was my intention. It was carrying his reasoning to a place he probably didn't want to go. You obviously don't read much, do you? Through his over-simplification, he appeared to deny any possibility that people getting fat or making bad decisions such as smoking, blowing away money, or being perpetually intoxicated, might be indicative of other circumstances aside from an individual's choice. It might be helpful for the individual with a problem to think in such a way, but when you are looking at systemic patterns of behavior among groups of people, consigning everything to the free-will bin is intellectually lazy and will certainly not help you in achieving any goals to correct such problems on a wide scale. Correlations abound and to attribute an individual's will to everything he or she does, I think, is to deny or simply misunderstand many years of scientific research.
Am I being clear enough? Subtlety must indeed be a lost art... lost on some.
With the 12x QDR InfiniBand spec, 96Gb (after factoring the protocol's overhead) is already on the table and at much lower latencies. This is more helpful for parallel applications (though it really depends on the properties of your application). I've not even worked with 12x nor any applications that would benefit from it. We currently run a 4x SDR setup (which will soon be upgraded to DDR) and it is ample for most of our needs. A cheap 40Gb ethernet solution would be killer for consolidating node management and a storage pathway onto one network. Our current storage solution over 10Gb leaves us with a 25:1 oversubscription ratio which will work quite well for our current crop of applications and how they are used, but it could become a bottleneck in the future.
I think having 40Gb will be really nice once pNFS implementations start to take off. Imagine a pNFS cluster of 32 fully loaded x4500's with 40Gb links between hosts and a 100Gb copper uplink to feed an army processing nodes. Getting close to 1PB of really really fast storage... over NFS and with today's capacities, no less.
I guess you only read the first sentence. I think you are the blithering dolt here.
Hey, he/she could have really been a chief, you never know... I would have simply been referring to him/her more "formally".
Got your head blown off? You should have been more careful about where you were. How 'bout a little personal responsibility? You did, in fact, "choose" to be in the very place where the gunman fired his rounds, yes? Oh, but that's a more "clear-cut" case of "victim of circumstance"... I guess when the circumstances aren't clear, someone needs to be blamed rather than circumstances being researched and understood. That's some real high-order thinking there, Chief.
It hasn't been mentioned because it is nonsense. HFCS contains the same two molecules that sucrose contains (mostly, in similar proportions, except for HFCS 90). As one poster said above, once it hits your tongue, its damn near indistinguishable from regular sugar or sucrose. You would be correct, though, if you said that fructose leaves out the "fattening" effect (i suppose you meant to say filling or bloated).
I agree with much of what you said, except that a persistent and pervasive pattern of shyness that keeps you away from social situations and badly affects how you live your life (one recognizable symptom of this can be a lack of a sex life) is probably more than just plain shyness. I'm not saying that therapy will definitely help, only that its worth it to talk with someone. If you show up for your first session and they write you an Rx that day, obviously, you'd be best served by seeing someone else. Its worth some investment to see if it will do something for you.
instead of paying hundreds of dollars to someone so they could listen to your talk, you would do just as well
I think this statement speaks to an overall misunderstanding and ignorance of how the process works. I'm not a mental health worker, but I am someone that has seen some great benefits from work with a therapist. I have also seen people that have gone to therapists who should have just talked to some friends. Sometimes it can be hard to draw a line to distinguish what constitutes a pattern of behavior that requires treatment and one that can be overcome by getting a little help from one's friends. If a problem has been affecting one for much of their life or is the result of serious trauma, its probably not something a friend will talk you out of. I think the GGP's description of his problem reflects something more similar to this though I could be wrong.
Perhaps you've had a sour experience with one "shrink". Thats no basis for knocking the entire profession. You also present many traits of one with a closed mind (towards the process), a great degree of cynicism, and a general distrust of other individuals. You already have it out for the guy because you think he's trying to exploit you for money so he can drive a BMW. You need to tell him this. Something tells me, also, that the court is not going to hold you liable for $7.5 Million dollars for court-appointed treatment. Thats just absurd. Many therapists negotiate their rates for their patient's financial situation.
I have never been to a shrink, but I suspect they are BS
What leads you to suspect this?
GP, perhaps you should ignore this person. Therapists can be helpful, if this is truly a problem for you. Though I suspect that WHBT.
How does this refute the GP's point, that sometimes newer is not better? The sound of jets buzzing over your head must be positively deafening if you cannot even read (or most likely, employ basic logic). The main point you think you made sucks and everyone knows it. Its time to abandon it and move on.
In, say, Sweden, the individual is culpable for their own actions Its really easy to be "culpable" for one's own actions when the state exists to pick up the tab for their stupidity. People can indeed "behave entirely ethically" if your framework of ethics fully considers the realities of human nature. Since we have yet to formulate a logical account of human behavior, it is unlikely a system of ethics, derived from logic, will map completely to the full scope of human activities. There will be aberrations since any conception of ethics will fail to account for every fact. This does not represent a flaw with logic, but a flaw with our understanding and knowledge of humans. Please explain why you find it disgraceful for an individual to "leave easy access to pornography on their computer". I'm curious.
This crap about the American military being the source of all evil
Strawman... I never said nor implied this. Unfortunately, the American military is used as a tool to project poor policy and poor thinking and hence, it is viewed by many as evil. It is not evil, no more than a hammer or screwdriver is evil.
and constantly instill fear into the public through continuous predictions of the apocalypse
Another Strawman... I said things will get bad. I never said that the country would collapse, that there would be an apocalypse or any other such nonsense. And I also meant to say that the bad times would be temporary, in any case. Economic depressions have been known to happen and though we've devised some clever ways to stave off such possibilities, there is no guarantee they will always work.
In fact, I see that most of the problems with America are coming from these two parties.
I can agree with this, on some level. If you throw in a complicit media who often denies the very existence of other viable, third-party candidates by not reporting on them, then we have a winner.
I suggest you read up on hyperinflation and the value of the mark in post-war Germany or perhaps Argentina a few years back or Zimbabwe right now.
I do not deny that my comparison was indeed meant to induce a bit of shock, but we have infact been left with a significantly devalued dollar. I am very well aware of hyperinflation and how much worse things can get. I suggest you not assume ignorance where none has been betrayed.
If the American dollar was worth that little, I doubt any other nation on this planet would be worth fleeing to.
Is this some of that American arrogance that I despise so much? The implication that without us, the world economy is doomed? I laugh at such statements for every day that goes by the American role in the global economy is becoming more and more marginalized. Every day, the world needs less and less from us while we demand more and more from them. It is very likely that this country will have to drastically rethink the way it does business. But with an attitude like yours, which is very prevalent in this country, we'll simply point fingers at everyone else and make our situation significantly worse than it ever needs to be.
Is your life REALLY that bad, or are you just pissed that there are so many stupid people out there (and if you think THAT is a trait limited to America, you're in for a surprise)?
No, it is not nor did I ever imply that my life was "REALLY that bad" (what's with all of these strawmen? You must be a "righty"). I'm not mad at the "stupid people", I'm upset at the fact that I surrender over 1/4 of my pay to a government that does very little to put an end to this ignorance but instead uses that money to build bombs and wage war. Living in this country leaves me at an ethical impass. How can I continue to live a successful life when my success contributes to activities that I wholly disagree with? I would easily settle for a lower standard of living in order to have that responsibility lifted from my shoulders.
I'm done fighting strawmen today. Its been real.
I know you are an AC, but I want to vent.
You make me laugh. Is it that I've rejected the notion of "Fatherland", as Rousseau once put it? Is it that I view the country as it truly is and not how our propagandists wish us to see it; I'm not optimistic enough, I don't see the big pie in the sky?
Its fools such as yourself that make me want to leave. This country seems to be brimming with the likes of you and hence it is reflective in the overall vote and sentiment. And I'll be more than happy to give you what you want... I will leave. It pains me though, that you'll be left with a 1/2 trillion dollar a year military with which to project your ignorance globally... (thought, contrary to popular belief, its actually a good thing most of it is getting siphoned off by defense contractors and their shareholders... imagine the devastation of an efficient and well-funded American war machine)
The only thing the founding fathers did not take into account when formulating the Republic was the gutting of our education, the establishment of an entertainment-based press, and the ensuing ignorance of the entire American lot. We'll tell you who the next American Idol is, whether or not Brittney is in rehab, and the conditions of Paris' jail cell (btw, did she ever go? I'm curious), but we'll be God damned if we can point to even one country we are currently bombing on a fucking map... even if the damned names are printed! Knowledge like that really helps to put important issues into perspective, eh? Really helps to formulate an educated and well-reasoned vote, right?
Of course, if your handlers, which you seem so apt to congratulate for their overall prowess (or obvious lack thereof), had not helped to lower our standard of living to such an extreme in the last seven years, effectively indebting us, pilfering our savings, and turning our currency, essentially, into toilet paper, I'd probably have the funds, right now, to relocate. They've certainly done a heckuva job, AC.
Who said i was going to Europe? Who said I'm looking at things with rose-tinted glasses? Seriously... :) I'm very well aware of the reality that there is no perfect country. I'd like to go to Canada, actually. Not because its a perfect utopia or that its everything America isn't, but it suits me better than this mess down here. I don't trust the political system here (they treat us like children) and I get the feeling that times will be bad in the states in the near future because of it.
oooh! As if I didn't see that coming... the typical retort of a ninny. And who is this "we"? I doubt anyone but you really cares. Besides, when I take my skills with me, 50 illegal, unskilled laborers will take my place. At least you have that to look forward to.