Because if you do leave now, then Iraq is going to become a bloodbath in a sectarian war. Again.
It's called "grabbing the tiger by the ears".
This is my follow up to those who claim "the surge worked".
HA! Now what are we going to do? Can't let go. Can't hang on forever. We're screwed and it's only a matter of time. I say we cut our losses and get the hell out of there. The puppet government we're installing is eventually going to be torn down. The only lasting national pride for Iraqis will be when they install their own government of their own volition.
Thank you for the thoughtful reply.
You're right, I would lack the flexibility of updating the OS. But then again, so do the "bad guys" .
I'm currently running XP and I think I've been rooted and so there is the source of my paranoia and desire to boot WORM. Happy to say no more windows for me after this.
I think I'll go with your last statement. Works out nice since I have an 80 GB IDE and 400 GB SATA.
Need to wipe and reload my primary home computer. I've been thinking about permanently booting from CD and then launching virtual OS, OS, OS,... from there.
I like the idea of a read-only OS. Virtual instances are much easier to backup/deploy.
I'm going to take a performance hit. Other than that, what sort of problems am I going to have? Why is this a good/bad idea?
I, for one, am going to miss the Warp Core Breach drink at "Quarks" bar/restaurant after the show/ride.
Dry ice in a drink the size of a fishbowl!
Make it *_hic_*... Make it *_hic_*... Engage.
The Klingon, Ferengi, and Borg actors made for some better than average atmosphere.
[annecdote] friend of mine knew how to speak some "klingon" and got into it with one of those staff actors at the bar. received a head butt and mock beat-down for his trouble.[/annecdote].
Good times.
I know this is borderline OT, but it's something I've wondered about recently.
Why is it that I can "see" when things are upside down, but there is no such audible distinction?
Is it because sight is reception of photons (EM), and hearing is pressure/vibration of air molecules?
Why is it that I can immediately know my book or TV is upside down, but not when my speakers have been turned upside down?
Is it that I can easily "see" in 2 dimensions, but that I only hear in 1 linear dimension?
I'm sure there's a simple answer, but I don't have a clear understanding. Thanks in advance.
You need to watch the PBS Frontline 2-part episode "Bush's War". In that documentary is is obvious Powell was played by Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld. I imagine Powell has learned a hard lesson and would be a great VP to help clean out the neo-conservative cancer that has sent this country down a terrible path.
"If I own copyright on one thing, and copyright inherits through XOR, then I own copyright on everything because everything can be obtained from my one thing by XORing it with the right file."
Very nice but why stop there? Maybe we could copyright all numbers starting with zero through the astronomically large? After all, digital media is just a very large number when you look at it a certain way. So, we could hamstring the entire industry by pro-actively putting a copyright (or copyleft) on any number large enough to represent some media content (song, movie, book, whatever) not already copyrighted by someone else. Think of it as domain squatting or patent trolling, but for digital content.
Jones soda is brand that has recently gone national. They use sugar instead of HFCS to sweeten their beverages. They make soda, juice, tea, an energy drink and a vitamin-enhanced water drink with just a little sugar (24c).
About this time last year, I had some homemade root beer, made with sugar. I was the BEST soda I ever had. Since then, I've found Jones. Never knew what I was missing. I'll never drink HFCS sweetened soda again.
Jones also offer sugar free soda with sucralose (Splenda) instead of aspartame (Nutrasweet). Taste much better than the major brand diet sodas.
I've heard that Hansens offers soda made with sugar, but haven't seen it myself. Try a sugar sweetened soda. I think you'll like it.
If you're prone to conspiracy theories, google Donald Rumsfeld's involvement in the engineering of HFCS and aspartame. Combine that with his comments about "Transformation" along with his "Leo Strauss" world-view and you've got a doozy.
Have the neocons poisoned America? Have they made us fat, lazy, and complacent, so they could take over the country, and then proceed to take over other countries?[/rant]
Sorry about the reply to self.
I should have gone on to say, instead of burning the book, toss it into a black hole.
Similar to burning it, there is information about the book and it's transformation that could, in theory, be used to reconstruct the book. A staggering amount of information, yes, but the information is there. We just don't have the ability to collect it (not the point). The point is, the information is not gone from our universe. The information cannot be destroyed. By extension, we can trust our memories and feel confident that "cause and effect" is real.
Not that kind of information.
Conservation of matter and energy. An earlier poster equated burning a book to a loss of information, but in the strictest sense, you could reverse the process by collecting all the heat, smoke, ash, and every other atom/molecule involved and by recombining all that matter and energy in just the right way, produce the same exact book in the same exact condition. You'd need a lot of information to do it. Too much information to make it a realistic thing to do with our abilities. But, the point is, the book went through a transformation. Information about every atom/molecule and every bit of energy involved in the combustion is there and in theory could be used to reconstruct the book. This is the nature of the information that can't be lost to black holes. Not the information in the book, but the information of the book.
IANAP - but from what I understand, the fact that information cannot be destroyed is very significant. If it were possible to destroy information, then we can't take our memories for granted. Nothing can be taken for granted. Everything would need to be called into question.
It's got something to do with the small, but non-zero, probability that everything just popped into existence this very moment. If this is the case, past history and memories is just an illusion, a result of the precise configuration of atoms when so-called reality came to be.
The laws of physics would then be untrustworthy. The progress of science (standing on the shoulders, and all that), would be meaningless. Everything would be meaningless since its all the result of an arbitrary arrangement of atoms in your head and elsewhere.
It is important that information cannot be destroyed. It what allows us to make progress. It allows us to trust the results of our experiments. It is the footings upon which science is placed. Take that away, and you pull the rug out from under everything.
In the first few chapters of Roger Penrose's "The Road To Reality", he convincingly puts forth the argument that mathematics have been discovered by human intellect. More so, mathematical discoveries have been explored long before their physical manifestations were understood, such as hyperbolic geometry, imaginary numbers and the complex plane.
It's more than a line from the movie "Pi", it's the plain truth; "Mathematics is the language of nature".
Too bad we remain collectively illiterate.
No, but it once scratched a teenager who then developed the rude behavior of sticking his ass in your face while you were sleeping. He soon became aloof and brought dead things to his aunt and uncle's porch. When he discovered an ability to lick himself all over he was never seen or heard from again.
You're the perfect example why there is no such thing as a fist fight anymore. Your cowardice is precisely the same as that of the inner city kid. You have a lot more in common with the sideways-cap-wearing 14 y/o than you realize. It's just that the kid doesn't have the option of moving to your neck of the woods.
Apparently, you'd rather risk death by pulling a gun than defend yourself with non-lethal tactics.
I've lived in a densely populated part of a city my whole life (Boston). Sure, my car has been broken into, but I've never had any trouble that couldn't be solved with manual self defense.
Disclaimer: I am not in favor of gun control laws. IMO it will do nothing to prevent crime and only inconvenience law-abiding gun owners.
You are a coward, a sniveling little coward frighened by every little bump in the night. A quote from the movie "Stripes" seems appropriate here: "Settle down Francis".
I think this is wrong and is the essence of the point the GP was making.
The distance doesn't change. Space itself is distorted, and therefore everything in it, imperceptibly from our frame of reference.
It won't matter which arm, nor how intense. The effect should not be detectable if the GW is warping space. The distance always remains the same unless you can separate LIGO from the space.
If "x" was a unit of LIGO arm length within "y" units of space (Higgs ocean?), then any compression wave distorting space itself maintains the ratio x/y. The GW doesn't change an object in space's density nor distance, nor the ammount of "space" that object occupies.
Seriously, I'd like to see the GP's question answered a little more satisfactorily.
avoid 'compilation CDs that could only exist in the dreams of a music fan'
Why aren't these compilations legally available?
If they recognize it is in the "dreams" of their customers, why not give the people what they want?
I used to DJ as a hobby and am proud to say my mixtapes were a big hit among friends. These compilations were fun to make, fun to listen to, and got people exposed to some music they otherwise would've missed or ignored.
The recording industry, the labels, the RIAA, even many of today's "artists" are completely out of touch with their fans and customers. It is stunning and sad.
Try the BR game by Westwood Studios.
Graphics are dated by today's standards, but so are the movie's graphics.
It is an adventure-style game.
You can analyze pictures you find at crime scenes and the effects you mimick are recreated very nicely. Example, you can drag out a rectangle on a photo and as you say, machine goes "beep beep beep k'ch k'ch k'ch". You'll note the beeps come first;). There are special areas on the photos, and when selected properly allow you to drill into the picture detail in unexpected ways.
Oh yeah!! You get to adminster voight-kampff tests!.
The scenery and sound effects are very well done. Some scenes are striking in their similarity to the movie. Just one word of warning though, the game can be very tedious at times.
For the record, I prefer the director's cut. IMO the voice overs detract from the atmosphere. In the book, while having very different plot details from the movie, Dick paints a thick, gritty atmosphere (kibble, etc.) and the DC does a better job with this aspect of the story. I will be ordering a copy of the Final Cut ASAP.
An idea, thought, or piece of information cannot be "property". If it isn't tangible, it isn't property.
To demonstrate, tell me something about yourself. How about first name and place of birth?
OK, got it. Thanks Wally from Walla Walla.
I now have some new IP.
Hey Wally, have you forgotten your name or place of birth? No. Of course you haven't.
Therein lies the problem with IP. It can be freely copied and is limitless in supply. You can't maintain a marketplace or sustain an economy without the basic principle of supply vs. demand, at least not one we're familar with. Throw out every economics book you've ever read. These artifical restrictions on supply are a joke. You think China or the 3rd world gives a damn about our IP, copyright, trademark, or patent laws?
Will Firefly's "Chinglish" be good enough to communicate with our new landlords?
I almost got in trouble with a similar approach. You need to be careful in this day and age. Others might not agree with your choice of parenting techniques and may wish to punish you for them.
[annecdote]
Recently, at the playground I saw my toddler was about to push an empty swing. I knew what was about to happen, but I also realized she wasn't strong or agile enough to give it a real good push. So, sure enough, she pushes the swing, it comes back and knocks her on her little butt - harmless but of course she starts crying. Another parent witnessed the event and rightfully accused me of letting it happen. I collected my little girl and told this other parent I was aware of the consequences and decided to let my little one give herself a "physics lesson". Heh, that was the term I used, "physics lesson". This infuriated the other parent who then accused me of child abuse and proceeded to call the police. In the end nothing came of it. So no harm done.
[/annecdote]
I support the idea of letting kids make their own mistakes at an early age to help them understand cause and effect, to understand the consequences of their actions. It is important at an early age to help them think because later in life the consequences could be much more severe. However the way things are going, my actions above might someday be illegal and I might've had to answer to social services or worse.
Isn't it entirely possible this outcome was deliberate? Perpetual warfare adds credence to the neoconservative agenda. They need a boogey man with which to scare us into support and submission.
Consider the fact that a strict timetable was issued for going into war. A Presidentail address gave Saddam 48 hours to cough up the WMDs, or else. Now, contrast this with the president's stance against timetables for withdrawal of troops. He won't stand for it. Rush to get into war, and refuse to pull out. Perpetual warfare, or at least keep us there for just as long as he can manage.
You may call it a mess, and I would agree with you. However, for the neoconservative agenda it simply couldn't have worked out any better.
You can blame the president all you want. It's like blaming a rapist for aggravated rape. Not an issue. What needs to happen is the perpetrator must be made responsible for his actions.
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Because if you do leave now, then Iraq is going to become a bloodbath in a sectarian war. Again.
It's called "grabbing the tiger by the ears". This is my follow up to those who claim "the surge worked". HA! Now what are we going to do? Can't let go. Can't hang on forever. We're screwed and it's only a matter of time. I say we cut our losses and get the hell out of there. The puppet government we're installing is eventually going to be torn down. The only lasting national pride for Iraqis will be when they install their own government of their own volition.
Thank you for the thoughtful reply. You're right, I would lack the flexibility of updating the OS. But then again, so do the "bad guys" . I'm currently running XP and I think I've been rooted and so there is the source of my paranoia and desire to boot WORM. Happy to say no more windows for me after this. I think I'll go with your last statement. Works out nice since I have an 80 GB IDE and 400 GB SATA.
Need to wipe and reload my primary home computer. I've been thinking about permanently booting from CD and then launching virtual OS, OS, OS,... from there. I like the idea of a read-only OS. Virtual instances are much easier to backup/deploy.
I'm going to take a performance hit. Other than that, what sort of problems am I going to have? Why is this a good/bad idea?
Thanks, SB
holy god, even taking the bullshit ap and ui they needlessly tacked on how could it have gotten that bloated
Dated expiration of ink cartridges perhaps? In addition to the bloatware you mentioned.
It's amusing that there are 404 comments right now
Not anymore there aren't you insensitive clod.
I, for one, am going to miss the Warp Core Breach drink at "Quarks" bar/restaurant after the show/ride.
Dry ice in a drink the size of a fishbowl! Make it *_hic_*... Make it *_hic_*... Engage.
The Klingon, Ferengi, and Borg actors made for some better than average atmosphere.
[annecdote] friend of mine knew how to speak some "klingon" and got into it with one of those staff actors at the bar. received a head butt and mock beat-down for his trouble.[/annecdote].
Good times.
I know this is borderline OT, but it's something I've wondered about recently.
Why is it that I can "see" when things are upside down, but there is no such audible distinction?
Is it because sight is reception of photons (EM), and hearing is pressure/vibration of air molecules?
Why is it that I can immediately know my book or TV is upside down, but not when my speakers have been turned upside down?
Is it that I can easily "see" in 2 dimensions, but that I only hear in 1 linear dimension?
I'm sure there's a simple answer, but I don't have a clear understanding. Thanks in advance.
You need to watch the PBS Frontline 2-part episode "Bush's War".
In that documentary is is obvious Powell was played by Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld. I imagine Powell has learned a hard lesson and would be a great VP to help clean out the neo-conservative cancer that has sent this country down a terrible path.
"If I own copyright on one thing, and copyright inherits through XOR, then I own copyright on everything because everything can be obtained from my one thing by XORing it with the right file."
Very nice but why stop there? Maybe we could copyright all numbers starting with zero through the astronomically large? After all, digital media is just a very large number when you look at it a certain way. So, we could hamstring the entire industry by pro-actively putting a copyright (or copyleft) on any number large enough to represent some media content (song, movie, book, whatever) not already copyrighted by someone else. Think of it as domain squatting or patent trolling, but for digital content.
[Oblig. Simpsons]
"WooHoo! Look at that blubber fly!"
About this time last year, I had some homemade root beer, made with sugar. I was the BEST soda I ever had. Since then, I've found Jones. Never knew what I was missing. I'll never drink HFCS sweetened soda again.
Jones also offer sugar free soda with sucralose (Splenda) instead of aspartame (Nutrasweet). Taste much better than the major brand diet sodas.
I've heard that Hansens offers soda made with sugar, but haven't seen it myself. Try a sugar sweetened soda. I think you'll like it.
If you're prone to conspiracy theories, google Donald Rumsfeld's involvement in the engineering of HFCS and aspartame. Combine that with his comments about "Transformation" along with his "Leo Strauss" world-view and you've got a doozy.
Have the neocons poisoned America? Have they made us fat, lazy, and complacent, so they could take over the country, and then proceed to take over other countries?[/rant]
I should have gone on to say, instead of burning the book, toss it into a black hole.
Similar to burning it, there is information about the book and it's transformation that could, in theory, be used to reconstruct the book. A staggering amount of information, yes, but the information is there. We just don't have the ability to collect it (not the point). The point is, the information is not gone from our universe. The information cannot be destroyed. By extension, we can trust our memories and feel confident that "cause and effect" is real.
Not that kind of information. Conservation of matter and energy. An earlier poster equated burning a book to a loss of information, but in the strictest sense, you could reverse the process by collecting all the heat, smoke, ash, and every other atom/molecule involved and by recombining all that matter and energy in just the right way, produce the same exact book in the same exact condition. You'd need a lot of information to do it. Too much information to make it a realistic thing to do with our abilities. But, the point is, the book went through a transformation. Information about every atom/molecule and every bit of energy involved in the combustion is there and in theory could be used to reconstruct the book. This is the nature of the information that can't be lost to black holes. Not the information in the book, but the information of the book.
It's got something to do with the small, but non-zero, probability that everything just popped into existence this very moment. If this is the case, past history and memories is just an illusion, a result of the precise configuration of atoms when so-called reality came to be.
The laws of physics would then be untrustworthy. The progress of science (standing on the shoulders, and all that), would be meaningless. Everything would be meaningless since its all the result of an arbitrary arrangement of atoms in your head and elsewhere.
It is important that information cannot be destroyed. It what allows us to make progress. It allows us to trust the results of our experiments. It is the footings upon which science is placed. Take that away, and you pull the rug out from under everything.
Corrections welcomed.
It's more than a line from the movie "Pi", it's the plain truth; "Mathematics is the language of nature". Too bad we remain collectively illiterate.
Did the cat have any superpowers?
No, but it once scratched a teenager who then developed the rude behavior of sticking his ass in your face while you were sleeping. He soon became aloof and brought dead things to his aunt and uncle's porch. When he discovered an ability to lick himself all over he was never seen or heard from again.
You really are a coward jmorris. Here's why.
You're the perfect example why there is no such thing as a fist fight anymore. Your cowardice is precisely the same as that of the inner city kid. You have a lot more in common with the sideways-cap-wearing 14 y/o than you realize. It's just that the kid doesn't have the option of moving to your neck of the woods.
Apparently, you'd rather risk death by pulling a gun than defend yourself with non-lethal tactics.
I've lived in a densely populated part of a city my whole life (Boston). Sure, my car has been broken into, but I've never had any trouble that couldn't be solved with manual self defense.
Disclaimer: I am not in favor of gun control laws. IMO it will do nothing to prevent crime and only inconvenience law-abiding gun owners.
You are a coward, a sniveling little coward frighened by every little bump in the night. A quote from the movie "Stripes" seems appropriate here: "Settle down Francis".
Since the distance between the two ends is less
I think this is wrong and is the essence of the point the GP was making.
The distance doesn't change. Space itself is distorted, and therefore everything in it, imperceptibly from our frame of reference.
It won't matter which arm, nor how intense. The effect should not be detectable if the GW is warping space. The distance always remains the same unless you can separate LIGO from the space.
If "x" was a unit of LIGO arm length within "y" units of space (Higgs ocean?), then any compression wave distorting space itself maintains the ratio x/y. The GW doesn't change an object in space's density nor distance, nor the ammount of "space" that object occupies.
Seriously, I'd like to see the GP's question answered a little more satisfactorily.
From TFS:
avoid 'compilation CDs that could only exist in the dreams of a music fan'
Why aren't these compilations legally available?
If they recognize it is in the "dreams" of their customers, why not give the people what they want?
I used to DJ as a hobby and am proud to say my mixtapes were a big hit among friends. These compilations were fun to make, fun to listen to, and got people exposed to some music they otherwise would've missed or ignored.
The recording industry, the labels, the RIAA, even many of today's "artists" are completely out of touch with their fans and customers. It is stunning and sad.
I'd forgotten about the ill tempered sea bass part
How could anyone forget about the ill tempered sea bass? It was the best scene in "Dumb and Dumber".
Try the BR game by Westwood Studios. ;). There are special areas on the photos, and when selected properly allow you to drill into the picture detail in unexpected ways.
Graphics are dated by today's standards, but so are the movie's graphics. It is an adventure-style game. You can analyze pictures you find at crime scenes and the effects you mimick are recreated very nicely. Example, you can drag out a rectangle on a photo and as you say, machine goes "beep beep beep k'ch k'ch k'ch". You'll note the beeps come first
Oh yeah!! You get to adminster voight-kampff tests!.
The scenery and sound effects are very well done. Some scenes are striking in their similarity to the movie. Just one word of warning though, the game can be very tedious at times.
For the record, I prefer the director's cut. IMO the voice overs detract from the atmosphere. In the book, while having very different plot details from the movie, Dick paints a thick, gritty atmosphere (kibble, etc.) and the DC does a better job with this aspect of the story. I will be ordering a copy of the Final Cut ASAP.
... as intellectual property (IP).
An idea, thought, or piece of information cannot be "property". If it isn't tangible, it isn't property.
To demonstrate, tell me something about yourself. How about first name and place of birth?
OK, got it. Thanks Wally from Walla Walla.
I now have some new IP.
Hey Wally, have you forgotten your name or place of birth? No. Of course you haven't.
Therein lies the problem with IP. It can be freely copied and is limitless in supply. You can't maintain a marketplace or sustain an economy without the basic principle of supply vs. demand, at least not one we're familar with. Throw out every economics book you've ever read. These artifical restrictions on supply are a joke. You think China or the 3rd world gives a damn about our IP, copyright, trademark, or patent laws?
Will Firefly's "Chinglish" be good enough to communicate with our new landlords?
Sounds a bit like Waco TX.
I almost got in trouble with a similar approach. You need to be careful in this day and age. Others might not agree with your choice of parenting techniques and may wish to punish you for them.
[annecdote]
Recently, at the playground I saw my toddler was about to push an empty swing. I knew what was about to happen, but I also realized she wasn't strong or agile enough to give it a real good push. So, sure enough, she pushes the swing, it comes back and knocks her on her little butt - harmless but of course she starts crying. Another parent witnessed the event and rightfully accused me of letting it happen. I collected my little girl and told this other parent I was aware of the consequences and decided to let my little one give herself a "physics lesson". Heh, that was the term I used, "physics lesson". This infuriated the other parent who then accused me of child abuse and proceeded to call the police. In the end nothing came of it. So no harm done.
[/annecdote]
I support the idea of letting kids make their own mistakes at an early age to help them understand cause and effect, to understand the consequences of their actions. It is important at an early age to help them think because later in life the consequences could be much more severe. However the way things are going, my actions above might someday be illegal and I might've had to answer to social services or worse.
Blame him?
Isn't it entirely possible this outcome was deliberate? Perpetual warfare adds credence to the neoconservative agenda. They need a boogey man with which to scare us into support and submission.
Consider the fact that a strict timetable was issued for going into war. A Presidentail address gave Saddam 48 hours to cough up the WMDs, or else. Now, contrast this with the president's stance against timetables for withdrawal of troops. He won't stand for it. Rush to get into war, and refuse to pull out. Perpetual warfare, or at least keep us there for just as long as he can manage.
You may call it a mess, and I would agree with you. However, for the neoconservative agenda it simply couldn't have worked out any better.
You can blame the president all you want. It's like blaming a rapist for aggravated rape. Not an issue. What needs to happen is the perpetrator must be made responsible for his actions.