The guild I'm in has a few gay guildies, some of them are very open about, and everybody gets along great. But I wouldn't advertise our guild as "gay-friendly", "black-friendly", "loser-friendly", "small-penis-friendly", "girl-friendly", etc.... because it is just stupid. Any guild that focuses on being "gay-friendly" and advertises that fact has a strange sense of priorities, IMHO.
My wife now gets all our meat from a local kosher butcher. The animals don't get steroids and crazy stuff and they don't eat other cows. It costs a bit more, but not as much as you might think. The hunks of meat (particularly the chicken) are smaller than what we get from our regular grocer, but the taste is as good or better (particularly the chicken, which is more tender).
We're also eating organic fruits and veggies and drinking organic milk. The organic fruits and veggies can be noticably more expensive, though not always. But I find the quality to be better. (Organic grapes... mmm.)
If it were up to me we'd just get regular non-organic (or, as my wife calls it, "toxic") food... but I don't mind paying the small premium. It tastes as good or better and it makes my wife happy.
While I agree with your point, your numbers don't quite add up.
The year with the worst murder rate in DC was 1991, where about 80 of every 100,000 residents was murdered. There are about 110,000 US troops in Iraq but they are getting killed at an annualized rate of about 600 per year. So it is roughly seven times more dangerous to be a US soldier Iraq than to live in DC in 1991.
All in all, though, I agree with you. US troop losses in Iraq have been minimal considering the difficulty of their task.
For comparison, during the Vietnam war, US soldiers were dying at a rate of over 500 a month for almost five years straight. During a couple perilous months the rate was over 2000 a month.
(My numbers are all coming from the "anti-Bush" site lies.com.)
What is it with the term "back door draft" when referring to use of the Ready Reserve? Lets analyze it...
"back door" - A clandestine, unauthorized, or illegal way of operating.
"draft" - Compulsory enrollment in the armed forces; conscription.
So, you are saying that activating portions of the Ready Reserve is a clandestine, unauthorized, or illegal way of compulsory enrollment in the armed forces. Lets analyze that...
"clandestine" - Kept or done in secret, often in order to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.
If you and I know it is going on, it sure isn't a good secret.
"unauthorized" - Without official authorization.
They clearly have the official authority to activate the Ready Reserve, so this one is out.
"illegal" - Prohibited by law.
I haven't heard any allegations about it being illegal. So this holds no weight.
So, the whole "back door" part has been tossed out.
As far as it being "compulsory", as soon as you join the military you sign a certian committment... these soldiers are being held to their committment. Reactivating the Ready Reserve only affects soldiers who have an unfulfilled committment to serve. And none of these soldiers were forced to make this committment... we have an all-volunteer military.
"They are pulling in vets that left the military years ago, some in their 50's using the ready reserve backdoor draft."
Not true. Some soldeirs who have unfufilled committments are being recalled to active duty. These are not retired soldiers or soldiers who have served out their committments. They may or may not be vets (a "vet" is a veteran, anyone who has served on active duty during wartime). Using a portion of the ready reserve is not a backdoor draft.
I have my own domain and I pay a 3rd party, EasyDNS, to handle my DNS. They support SPF... I just type some info into a textbox in the web-based management console and it works! If your DNS provider doesn't support SPF then they probably aren't very tech savvy... and that isn't an attribute I'd like in a DNS provider.
This is an old thread so perhaps nobody will ever see this, but...
You're vastly oversimplifying things. To just add a bit more, lets make a position 4.
4) Poor people tend live in a culture of poverty where education is shunned and others are blamed for their place in life. In the suburbs poor people are a minority so the predominant view (among students) is a more mainstream view. In the inner city there is a poor majority and this culture of poverty is the predominant view. With this culture it is hard for students to succeed because of overwhelming peer pressure and the classroom environment that comes it.
I know. I spent some of my middle school and high school years in an inner city school (in Brooklyn). I know what the peer pressure is like and I know how that affects the classroom.
This isn't something that can be solved with more money. Busing might help, but it would have to be done in such overwhelming numbers (to create a middle-class minority in the inner city) and it would create such controversy that it would be impractical. The most important thing is to change the culture of poverty. I don't know the real answer... I'm no public policy expert.
I fielded calls for Red Hat's installation support for three months back in '99 and it was pretty cool. We had only the most basic of call-scripts and we built our own FAQ database and internal irc-bot for most common questions. (I was the irc-bot admin.)
Though I left after realizing that I wouldn't have any opportunity to move up because we only had Level 1 support in the city I lived (Rochester, NY). Anything escalated went to the RH main offices.
Perhaps a little China-style capitalism would help things out. But that would only happen if their leaders cared more for the well-being of the citizens than the maintanance of the status quo. The influx of information that would come with capitalism would surely lead to some internal resistance to the communist way of life (which seems inseperable from poverty).
I was just attempting to read an unrelated article on computerworld.com. When the site wasn't responding my first thought was: "they must be getting Slashdotted or something." Sure enough, I check Slashdot and right up there, the first article links to computerworld.com. Annoying Slashdotters!
... you write about how the security is so bad that they're afraid to let a couple of journalists probe it and publish the results. This might even achieve the same effects as actually breaking into the network! (Public awareness, internal pressure to fix issues, heads rolling, etc.)
Are all three of those people's keyboard, mice, and monitors physically plugged into a single system? I didn't know Win TS could do that. I thought they still needed their own (thin/thick/etc) client computer.
I think you're missing his point. The Creative Commons licenses expand others' rights to use your copyrighted material much in the way the GPL does. If the Creative Commons license (or GPL) is not in effect then the default copyright protection comes into play... and that would be more, not less restrictive than the CC license.
He's not kidding about the whole weather sucking thing. I live in Rochester (well, the burbs anyways) and there is currently two inches of snow on the ground and it is still coming down.
I don't know about that one. To me, "over 8 hours" means 8-12 hours and "up to 16 hours" means 10-16 hours. I don't know if I'd try arguing that the DDJB has twice the battery life of the iPod. Longer life, almost definitely... twice, not likely.
Also, Apple has finally figured out that battery replacement should be an option and will do it for $100. (Which isn't cheap, but at least it is an option.) Does anybody know if the DDJB has battery life issues, if the battery is replaceable, and how much replacement costs?
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Oh yeah... because those protesters really don't want the press (and thus, the public) know what they're protesting.
The guild I'm in has a few gay guildies, some of them are very open about, and everybody gets along great. But I wouldn't advertise our guild as "gay-friendly", "black-friendly", "loser-friendly", "small-penis-friendly", "girl-friendly", etc.... because it is just stupid. Any guild that focuses on being "gay-friendly" and advertises that fact has a strange sense of priorities, IMHO.
It would be a civil suit... not a felony. BIG difference.
Noob.
My wife now gets all our meat from a local kosher butcher. The animals don't get steroids and crazy stuff and they don't eat other cows. It costs a bit more, but not as much as you might think. The hunks of meat (particularly the chicken) are smaller than what we get from our regular grocer, but the taste is as good or better (particularly the chicken, which is more tender).
We're also eating organic fruits and veggies and drinking organic milk. The organic fruits and veggies can be noticably more expensive, though not always. But I find the quality to be better. (Organic grapes... mmm.)
If it were up to me we'd just get regular non-organic (or, as my wife calls it, "toxic") food... but I don't mind paying the small premium. It tastes as good or better and it makes my wife happy.
While I agree with your point, your numbers don't quite add up.
The year with the worst murder rate in DC was 1991, where about 80 of every 100,000 residents was murdered. There are about 110,000 US troops in Iraq but they are getting killed at an annualized rate of about 600 per year. So it is roughly seven times more dangerous to be a US soldier Iraq than to live in DC in 1991.
All in all, though, I agree with you. US troop losses in Iraq have been minimal considering the difficulty of their task.
For comparison, during the Vietnam war, US soldiers were dying at a rate of over 500 a month for almost five years straight. During a couple perilous months the rate was over 2000 a month.
(My numbers are all coming from the "anti-Bush" site lies.com.)
Umm... World of Warcraft came out in December of 2004. It kicks ass on my PowerMac dual-1.8 G5 (ATI Radeon 9800 Pro/256).
If RMS had his way there would still be plenty of people out there making a living writing software. Don't buy into that anti-OSS FUD.
Exactly!
I went to the test page and I was like "this is an exploit?" It was weak. With tabbed-browsing, any window/dialog that pops up it is in question.
What is it with the term "back door draft" when referring to use of the Ready Reserve? Lets analyze it...
"back door"
- A clandestine, unauthorized, or illegal way of operating.
"draft"
- Compulsory enrollment in the armed forces; conscription.
So, you are saying that activating portions of the Ready Reserve is a clandestine, unauthorized, or illegal way of compulsory enrollment in the armed forces. Lets analyze that...
"clandestine"
- Kept or done in secret, often in order to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.
If you and I know it is going on, it sure isn't a good secret.
"unauthorized"
- Without official authorization.
They clearly have the official authority to activate the Ready Reserve, so this one is out.
"illegal"
- Prohibited by law.
I haven't heard any allegations about it being illegal. So this holds no weight.
So, the whole "back door" part has been tossed out.
As far as it being "compulsory", as soon as you join the military you sign a certian committment... these soldiers are being held to their committment. Reactivating the Ready Reserve only affects soldiers who have an unfulfilled committment to serve. And none of these soldiers were forced to make this committment... we have an all-volunteer military.
"They are pulling in vets that left the military years ago, some in their 50's using the ready reserve backdoor draft."
Not true. Some soldeirs who have unfufilled committments are being recalled to active duty. These are not retired soldiers or soldiers who have served out their committments. They may or may not be vets (a "vet" is a veteran, anyone who has served on active duty during wartime). Using a portion of the ready reserve is not a backdoor draft.
Did anybody else have repeated problems with corrupt Quicktime files? Annoying.
I have my own domain and I pay a 3rd party, EasyDNS, to handle my DNS. They support SPF... I just type some info into a textbox in the web-based management console and it works! If your DNS provider doesn't support SPF then they probably aren't very tech savvy... and that isn't an attribute I'd like in a DNS provider.
This is an old thread so perhaps nobody will ever see this, but...
You're vastly oversimplifying things. To just add a bit more, lets make a position 4.
4) Poor people tend live in a culture of poverty where education is shunned and others are blamed for their place in life. In the suburbs poor people are a minority so the predominant view (among students) is a more mainstream view. In the inner city there is a poor majority and this culture of poverty is the predominant view. With this culture it is hard for students to succeed because of overwhelming peer pressure and the classroom environment that comes it.
I know. I spent some of my middle school and high school years in an inner city school (in Brooklyn). I know what the peer pressure is like and I know how that affects the classroom.
This isn't something that can be solved with more money. Busing might help, but it would have to be done in such overwhelming numbers (to create a middle-class minority in the inner city) and it would create such controversy that it would be impractical. The most important thing is to change the culture of poverty. I don't know the real answer... I'm no public policy expert.
I fielded calls for Red Hat's installation support for three months back in '99 and it was pretty cool. We had only the most basic of call-scripts and we built our own FAQ database and internal irc-bot for most common questions. (I was the irc-bot admin.)
Though I left after realizing that I wouldn't have any opportunity to move up because we only had Level 1 support in the city I lived (Rochester, NY). Anything escalated went to the RH main offices.
Perhaps a little China-style capitalism would help things out. But that would only happen if their leaders cared more for the well-being of the citizens than the maintanance of the status quo. The influx of information that would come with capitalism would surely lead to some internal resistance to the communist way of life (which seems inseperable from poverty).
Pfft... three ain't nothin.
I was just attempting to read an unrelated article on computerworld.com. When the site wasn't responding my first thought was: "they must be getting Slashdotted or something." Sure enough, I check Slashdot and right up there, the first article links to computerworld.com. Annoying Slashdotters!
Where is a version for OS X? Oh, wait... we already have iPhoto. Forget it.
... you write about how the security is so bad that they're afraid to let a couple of journalists probe it and publish the results. This might even achieve the same effects as actually breaking into the network! (Public awareness, internal pressure to fix issues, heads rolling, etc.)
Poor college student... $1000 bicycle. Haa ha ha! Thats funny!
Are all three of those people's keyboard, mice, and monitors physically plugged into a single system? I didn't know Win TS could do that. I thought they still needed their own (thin/thick/etc) client computer.
I think you're missing his point. The Creative Commons licenses expand others' rights to use your copyrighted material much in the way the GPL does. If the Creative Commons license (or GPL) is not in effect then the default copyright protection comes into play... and that would be more, not less restrictive than the CC license.
He's not kidding about the whole weather sucking thing. I live in Rochester (well, the burbs anyways) and there is currently two inches of snow on the ground and it is still coming down.
I don't know about that one. To me, "over 8 hours" means 8-12 hours and "up to 16 hours" means 10-16 hours. I don't know if I'd try arguing that the DDJB has twice the battery life of the iPod. Longer life, almost definitely... twice, not likely.
Also, Apple has finally figured out that battery replacement should be an option and will do it for $100. (Which isn't cheap, but at least it is an option.) Does anybody know if the DDJB has battery life issues, if the battery is replaceable, and how much replacement costs?