I would attempt to be President, I'm sure that I would do a good job, but not being a Democrat or a Republican, and the fact that I probably would be assassinated before I was allowed to actually DO anything, kind of puts a damper on that.
To respond to your second statement, you have to give people incentive. There's no reason (besides being put in prison, which is easily better than his life on the street) that the mugger should not mug you. It's an easy way to make a dollar. But imagine if he made $40,000 a year. He would have no reason to mug you. Sure, all crime won't stop, but usually crime is based on fulfilling a need, and when you have a job, a constant worthwhile income, not just some minimum wage slag-off that you can't eat from, your needs are being met (as far as society can help them, at least).
If you can't provide a livable wage for jobs that need to be done, your economy won't last too long. Certain work HAS to be done, there's no sense in only paying what amounts to barely enough to eat and pay rent for it. It's annoying work too, so in essence it's just as hard. Why do you think we have welfare? (Note that I assume you live in the US, but it's the same in the UK and the Dole Queue) Not because certain people don't work, but because there's no way for a lot of people to make enough to live on. You can beat the education and brainpower drums all you want, it doesn't change the fact that the economic standards of an area GREATLY affect the crime rate, and therefore, YOU. You should WANT everyone to be better off, even just for the sake of you not getting mugged when you go to the Opera or whatever you do.
Not everyone can be "remarkable" you know. Some people just don't have the skill or ability. But there are some that do, who just can't get a break, who you dismiss. C'est la vie, but things have to change, or else once the poor get sick of being poor, they will revolt, and I would not want to be at the top then.
Note that I am just trying to get a point across and am in no way attacking you. I do accept your points as the way things are now, but I'm just pointing out they need to be changed.
Hmm, maybe I should have said super duper large amounts of mass. I know that to signifigantly change the gravitational pull of the earth to the Sun would require (by using Netwon's formula (m1*m2*G)/r^2, where m1 = 1.989e30 kg m2 = 5.972e24 kg and r = 1.5e11 m.) The force applied to the earth by the Sun is 3.5e22 N. Even adding a billion kilograms of material the force would not chage noticably. But in all reality, is a billion kilograms all that much? In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't take too long to move 1e24 kg of mass, even if only moving a million kg at a time. Look at how much mass we move everyday in just transporting oil...
... but bringing large amounts of mass onto the Earth WILL change its orbit. Not that I read the article (in typical slashdot fashion), but if they expect to bring a lot of material here, they had better plan on moving a lot of material out there too.
Get DJGPP and run the strings.exe command on winsock32.dll. Pipe the output to a file, then look over the contents. You will see "The Regents of the University of California" in there. It's BSD code, no reason to be so cocky.
Too late. India is way above one billion now.
Check out the CIA World Factbook. If it's to be trusted, Inida is about 200 million people behind China as of January 1, 2003.
So what kind of payload can these things carry? I bet if they beefed up the drive assembly even only slightly, it could carry enough VX poison to kill a specific target.
At $0.05 a call, calling 100 numbers becomes $5.00. You are right, most local plans are non-metered rates, but you still have to pay the for the connection. Then you get to deal with their "Band" trickery where you get into local long distance that costs even more than traditional long distance.
$1,000,000 a year could hire 10 very well paid employees (or to include immense overhead, 9 very well paid employees and some change).
Just wait until the Indians/Chinese figure out that they can outsource officers and make their own spinoffs, then we'll see true globalism. Hopefully that will produce the income leveling that this world needs.
Even us lowly CompUSA techs faced the dreaded HORSEJOB.GIF.
Goddamn, you'd think these people would have the sense to realize that they have some, er, "sensitive material", stowed away and we could EASILY find it. No compression, no passwords, just raw animal porn, right there.
...I don't care about getting a degree any longer. I'm tired of spending money just so that I can lie about myself to maybe have a slight possibility of trying for a chance at a job.
Fuck that shit, I'm gonna be a gravedigger (isn't my dad proud now). At least then I'll have a crooked ass union to back me up.
You don't understand transistors, they can produce analog signals, the same as a vacuum tube. Also, why do you think vacuum tubes were used in the first computers? All a NAND gate is, is a tiny ass amplifier. And once you build a NAND gate, the rest of the computer follows...
There comes a point where you can't just force something to happen any longer, you have to just give in to overwhelming forces. That's what is happening to the music and movie industry. They need to adapt or die, it's really quite simple. If it forces people to stop making music or making movies, then that's the way the cookie crumbles. I, however, highly doubt that creativity will be obliterated when the pricing/distribution scheme for movies and music changes. In fact, I forsee less crap, because any music/movies that would be made solely for profits' sake, would not be made.
As brash as this is, it's true, although for some reason it doesn't give you FULL admin rights, just enough to fuck the box if necessary. There's some subtle stuff missing, I think it has to do with making changes that would affect the entire system, but I'm unsure, 'cause I don't give a shit.
Dude, the Ford EEC-IV has fuzzy logic in it, and it's a generation behind now. It isn't too easy to just "replicate". Cars aren't as simple as a lot of elitist techs tend to believe. Those automotive engineers are smart people, there's a lot of stuff going under the hood that most people take for granted.
Try collaborating a mass air sensor, intake air temp sensor, throttle position sensor, tachometer, two oxygen sensors, coolant temp sensor, and barometric pressure sensor. Those are the main sensors my car has, not to mention all the other subsystems that take input from the ECM (emissions and ignition especially). Now note that my car was manufactured in 1990. Now a days there are many more sensors (camshaft position, crankshaft position, etc) and far more intricate subsystems.
Furthermore, you usually can't just put a computer from one car into the harness of another car. I can't take an EEC-V (Ford OBD-II) and put it into my EEC-IV (Ford OBD-I), and that's the same manufacturer! I don't have the sensors to do so, nor would all of the existing parts handle input from the advanced computer.
It's annoying that these people (nutty, short-sighted animal rights activists) exist, and give the impression that all people who don't enjoy killing animals in any fashion are mentally unbalanced, non-thinking zealots.
I'm against killing animals for no particular reason than to get off in some fashion, but I accept that people do that and let them be on their way. Of course, I take offense when someone says that all vegetarians are unrealistic psychos, that's like saying all carniverous people are blood thirsty monsters.
Right now I'm trying my best to avoid products that cause needless harm to be created, but you just can't win in this society. Leather car seats, leather shoes (almost every shoe that is any good is made of leather, and as I always say, never skimp on shoes and mattresses), leather belts, all the aminal product they secretly put into food (like the pie I ate a week ago used lard for the shell, yuck), the list just goes on and on. I just have to be at peace with knowing I do my best, and that I can't be perfect while still maintaining some semblence of functionality in this society.
NIU taught me COBOL. And S/390 Assembler. IBM bought them off so I could be a code maintainer. I must say that MVS, JCL and VSAM are my worst enemies. ESPECIALLY JCL. I also believe the school had bad mainframe administrators, because the boxes that processed our jobs would get so damn slow the night before a big due date, and I know that a 16-way S/390 should be able to handle 400 students submitting simple JCL jobs that run small COBOL programs. The stupid part about all of that is the mainframe used "virtual punchcards". You'd figure they could figure out a better way. Also, starting in col 8 was very tedious. And don't even get me started on the way it converted ASCII to EBCDIC. Let's just say the tab character was referred to with many derogatory names.
The worst part was walking by the server room during my first year and smelling the gear lube from the punchcard assemblies. I was like, oh shit, I smell punch cards...
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I would attempt to be President, I'm sure that I would do a good job, but not being a Democrat or a Republican, and the fact that I probably would be assassinated before I was allowed to actually DO anything, kind of puts a damper on that.
To respond to your second statement, you have to give people incentive. There's no reason (besides being put in prison, which is easily better than his life on the street) that the mugger should not mug you. It's an easy way to make a dollar. But imagine if he made $40,000 a year. He would have no reason to mug you. Sure, all crime won't stop, but usually crime is based on fulfilling a need, and when you have a job, a constant worthwhile income, not just some minimum wage slag-off that you can't eat from, your needs are being met (as far as society can help them, at least).
If you can't provide a livable wage for jobs that need to be done, your economy won't last too long. Certain work HAS to be done, there's no sense in only paying what amounts to barely enough to eat and pay rent for it. It's annoying work too, so in essence it's just as hard. Why do you think we have welfare? (Note that I assume you live in the US, but it's the same in the UK and the Dole Queue) Not because certain people don't work, but because there's no way for a lot of people to make enough to live on. You can beat the education and brainpower drums all you want, it doesn't change the fact that the economic standards of an area GREATLY affect the crime rate, and therefore, YOU. You should WANT everyone to be better off, even just for the sake of you not getting mugged when you go to the Opera or whatever you do.
Not everyone can be "remarkable" you know. Some people just don't have the skill or ability. But there are some that do, who just can't get a break, who you dismiss. C'est la vie, but things have to change, or else once the poor get sick of being poor, they will revolt, and I would not want to be at the top then.
Note that I am just trying to get a point across and am in no way attacking you. I do accept your points as the way things are now, but I'm just pointing out they need to be changed.
Notice the author of the post prior to yours. :)
I just meant over an extraordinarily long period of time, we could very easily bring that amount of mass here, and change the orbit of earth.
Hmm, maybe I should have said super duper large amounts of mass. I know that to signifigantly change the gravitational pull of the earth to the Sun would require (by using Netwon's formula (m1*m2*G)/r^2, where m1 = 1.989e30 kg m2 = 5.972e24 kg and r = 1.5e11 m.) The force applied to the earth by the Sun is 3.5e22 N. Even adding a billion kilograms of material the force would not chage noticably. But in all reality, is a billion kilograms all that much? In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't take too long to move 1e24 kg of mass, even if only moving a million kg at a time. Look at how much mass we move everyday in just transporting oil...
... but bringing large amounts of mass onto the Earth WILL change its orbit. Not that I read the article (in typical slashdot fashion), but if they expect to bring a lot of material here, they had better plan on moving a lot of material out there too.
Get DJGPP and run the strings.exe command on winsock32.dll. Pipe the output to a file, then look over the contents. You will see "The Regents of the University of California" in there. It's BSD code, no reason to be so cocky.
Too late. India is way above one billion now. Check out the CIA World Factbook. If it's to be trusted, Inida is about 200 million people behind China as of January 1, 2003.
So what kind of payload can these things carry? I bet if they beefed up the drive assembly even only slightly, it could carry enough VX poison to kill a specific target.
That state finally does something right... I'll be damned. It's about time internet access became a public utility like electricity.
At $0.05 a call, calling 100 numbers becomes $5.00. You are right, most local plans are non-metered rates, but you still have to pay the for the connection. Then you get to deal with their "Band" trickery where you get into local long distance that costs even more than traditional long distance.
$1,000,000 a year could hire 10 very well paid employees (or to include immense overhead, 9 very well paid employees and some change).
Just wait until the Indians/Chinese figure out that they can outsource officers and make their own spinoffs, then we'll see true globalism. Hopefully that will produce the income leveling that this world needs.
Even us lowly CompUSA techs faced the dreaded HORSEJOB.GIF. Goddamn, you'd think these people would have the sense to realize that they have some, er, "sensitive material", stowed away and we could EASILY find it. No compression, no passwords, just raw animal porn, right there.
The only place that's happening is in universities, and even then, I doubt it's to the degree that you want.
...I don't care about getting a degree any longer. I'm tired of spending money just so that I can lie about myself to maybe have a slight possibility of trying for a chance at a job.
Fuck that shit, I'm gonna be a gravedigger (isn't my dad proud now). At least then I'll have a crooked ass union to back me up.
You don't understand transistors, they can produce analog signals, the same as a vacuum tube. Also, why do you think vacuum tubes were used in the first computers? All a NAND gate is, is a tiny ass amplifier. And once you build a NAND gate, the rest of the computer follows...
Most stuff also comes out on vinyl, which is more fragile, but always sounds better.
Your phone bill must have looked like the national debt. I once wardialed a block of 100 numbers, for the hell of it, and that alone cost $5.
No, no silly, it was the Majestic 12.
That and you can sometimes fix a drive that's gone totally south by finding the same model and swapping the controller board (drive electronics).
There comes a point where you can't just force something to happen any longer, you have to just give in to overwhelming forces. That's what is happening to the music and movie industry. They need to adapt or die, it's really quite simple. If it forces people to stop making music or making movies, then that's the way the cookie crumbles. I, however, highly doubt that creativity will be obliterated when the pricing/distribution scheme for movies and music changes. In fact, I forsee less crap, because any music/movies that would be made solely for profits' sake, would not be made.
As brash as this is, it's true, although for some reason it doesn't give you FULL admin rights, just enough to fuck the box if necessary. There's some subtle stuff missing, I think it has to do with making changes that would affect the entire system, but I'm unsure, 'cause I don't give a shit.
Dude, the Ford EEC-IV has fuzzy logic in it, and it's a generation behind now. It isn't too easy to just "replicate". Cars aren't as simple as a lot of elitist techs tend to believe. Those automotive engineers are smart people, there's a lot of stuff going under the hood that most people take for granted. Try collaborating a mass air sensor, intake air temp sensor, throttle position sensor, tachometer, two oxygen sensors, coolant temp sensor, and barometric pressure sensor. Those are the main sensors my car has, not to mention all the other subsystems that take input from the ECM (emissions and ignition especially). Now note that my car was manufactured in 1990. Now a days there are many more sensors (camshaft position, crankshaft position, etc) and far more intricate subsystems. Furthermore, you usually can't just put a computer from one car into the harness of another car. I can't take an EEC-V (Ford OBD-II) and put it into my EEC-IV (Ford OBD-I), and that's the same manufacturer! I don't have the sensors to do so, nor would all of the existing parts handle input from the advanced computer.
It's annoying that these people (nutty, short-sighted animal rights activists) exist, and give the impression that all people who don't enjoy killing animals in any fashion are mentally unbalanced, non-thinking zealots.
I'm against killing animals for no particular reason than to get off in some fashion, but I accept that people do that and let them be on their way. Of course, I take offense when someone says that all vegetarians are unrealistic psychos, that's like saying all carniverous people are blood thirsty monsters.
Right now I'm trying my best to avoid products that cause needless harm to be created, but you just can't win in this society. Leather car seats, leather shoes (almost every shoe that is any good is made of leather, and as I always say, never skimp on shoes and mattresses), leather belts, all the aminal product they secretly put into food (like the pie I ate a week ago used lard for the shell, yuck), the list just goes on and on. I just have to be at peace with knowing I do my best, and that I can't be perfect while still maintaining some semblence of functionality in this society.
NIU taught me COBOL. And S/390 Assembler. IBM bought them off so I could be a code maintainer. I must say that MVS, JCL and VSAM are my worst enemies. ESPECIALLY JCL. I also believe the school had bad mainframe administrators, because the boxes that processed our jobs would get so damn slow the night before a big due date, and I know that a 16-way S/390 should be able to handle 400 students submitting simple JCL jobs that run small COBOL programs. The stupid part about all of that is the mainframe used "virtual punchcards". You'd figure they could figure out a better way. Also, starting in col 8 was very tedious. And don't even get me started on the way it converted ASCII to EBCDIC. Let's just say the tab character was referred to with many derogatory names.
The worst part was walking by the server room during my first year and smelling the gear lube from the punchcard assemblies. I was like, oh shit, I smell punch cards...
Aah yes but the millions of years saved by not having to PIC X every damn thing would more than make up for it. :)