The problem is, Hydrogen bombs contain pressurized Tritium gas, a hydrogen isotope. It has a half-life of 7 years, so those weapons need to be regularly cycled through a depot for refurbishment. They don't have a very long shelf life, unlike conventional explosives. And this refurb process ain't cheap.
All nuclear devices require constant maintenance. It's the price you pay for being in the game. That's not an issue, if you need them and can afford them. Unfortunately, a lot of people have fooled themselves into thinking we don't need them (given our conventional force reductions, we most certainly do) so the real question is can we continue to afford them. The answer there is: not unless we get off our asses and rebuild our industrial base.
On the other hand, folks who read something a little substantial would probably care. A lot.
Thereby providing a rationale for further monetization: well, if you don't want ads you need to pay for the privilege, because, you know, you're costing us money by not directing your gray matter to absorb our advertising. This on top of whatever you paid for this "book" in the first place. Greed knows no bounds, and book publishers are among the most vampiric operations in our society.
It always amazes me how the business mind works. Like the phone company charging you for the service of not listing your phone number. Eventually, it becomes income to which they feel entitled.
DOWNLOADING OR SHARING COPYRIGHTED CONTENT WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION IS ILLEGAL.
I'm betting on the judge. Downloading isn't the illegal part, it's the distribution. Whoever is making those files available is the one who is liable, which is why the RIAA has been going after file sharers not, as is popularly described, file downloaders.
The advantage of P2P's like Limewire was that it did not share crappy_commercial_music.mp3 while you were downloading crappy_commercial_music.mp3, and as such you could not be fingered for the crime of distributing crappy_commercial_music.mp3 since you were in fact not distributing it.
Uhhh...yeah, and clearly your "logic" with "one-way" downloading of illegal content somehow saved them from a legal injunction...
You're confused. The GP wasn't talking about why Limewire got screwed by the courts, that was an entirely different matter. He is, in fact, talking about the Limewire user base, and there he is correct, at least for those users with a functioning cerebral cortex. The bulk of RIAA lawsuits were for people that stupidly didn't turn off file sharing on their various Gnutella clients (Limewire being only one of many) and "helpful" clients that automatically shared everything they downloaded, thereby making targets out of their users. Downloading isn't where the illegality came it: it was the illegal distribution of copyright materials.
Actually correct. Check out Ray Beckerman's blog if you want some more information on that subject. If you're using a Gnutella-style network and you turn off sharing you aren't distributing anything. So far as I've been able to tell, all of the 30,000-odd RIAA lawsuits have been about illegal distribution, not downloading.
They appear to be at the beginning states of an economic war with us, and we just don't realize it.
I tend to agree, only I think we're very much aware of it, we just don't seem to be willing to take the steps necessary to avert it (or win it.) In fact, we're doing everything possible to help China win it.
What's going on there, I don't know. But I'm not entirely convinced that all of our government is exactly on our side. Not anymore.
**replying to myself. just ran speedtest.net and got 15 mbit down, and 2.6mbit up. I am on the standard internet plan.
30-40kbit, comeon...lets try to be somewhat accurate on this website please.
I can also attest to pulling torrents down at similar speeds, so I do find SpeedTest.net to be an accurate indicator of bandwidth.
I am being accurate. And I ran any number of bandwidth checks, even ran them periodically and logged them so I could try to reason with their tech support people. They wouldn't believe me, claiming it was my problem. Not that it mattered: it was like trying to argue semantics with chimpanzees, but it cost them a good customer when U-Verse rolled around (oh, they screwed with me in other areas as well.) I once asked a tech if I was some kind of a test case to see just how much a customer could or would tolerate. He just shrugged. Actually, their on-site guys were pretty sharp, and always tried to give me what I was paying for. It was the phone support and provisioning people that gave me the most grief.
I like to bash Comcast as much as the next guy, but 30-40 kbit/sec....exactly when did you switch??
I've had Comcast for over 8 years in 2 different cities and have always maintained faster upload rates than that. By a number of multiples!!
Not where I am. This was a few years ago. Then U-Verse moved in, and now I understand that Comcast has improved considerably. This was during the height of their anti-torrent "network management" madness too. Not only was I getting hit with fake RSTs, but they cut the backchannel too, presumably for the same purpose (slowing down torrents.)
I briefly had ADSL and it was crap compared to cable modem. People forget the ASYMMETRIC part of DSL. In my usage I really felt this when using the net. Lots of lags etc. I switched to a cable modem and it was night and day better in my usage.
Granted this was many years ago so perhaps it's better now?
Interesting. You'll find that most gamers MUCH prefer DSL over cable, since you're heading into a central hub and get right on to the fiber, rather than sharing a typically oversubscribed local node.
I currently have VDSL, fiber to the VRAD, and it's the best I've ever had for gaming. That kinda surprises me, actually.
The post your replying to never indicated they were the same thing other than they both used 4 pairs. Are you a bully or can't you read?
I dunno, I thought Starteck81 was making a reasonable point. And it's worse than that, even... in older installations you can be lucky if you have Cat 3.
We still have to bend over, take it, and say thank you to our local (well, heck... AT&T) phone companies for the PRIVILEGE of having 8megabit/s downstream....
Competition anyone? or are we just such mindless sheep that "it's good enough, 'cause my granddaddy only had the pony express"
Argh....
I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. I have both Comcast (blecch!), U-Verse and SBC DSL in my area. Consequently (having tried the others and suffered) I have U-Verse running at 12-mbit/sec for $45/month. I could add a few bucks and go back up to the 18 mbit tier, but this is sufficient for my needs (the occasional torrent and a girlfriend who loves streaming movies.)
So yeah, I certainly agree with you. Competition is good. I used to use that when I had Comcast: when dealing with their (ahem!) "customer service" I would bring up the dreaded "A" or "S" words in order to get a better level of support. Just threaten to switch and you get escalated fast, I found. Not that, at the time, I could actually get SBC DSL or U-Verse, but I figured what they didn't know might actually get me what I was paying for. They still managed to jerk me around on a number of different levels anyway. So far I've no complaints about U-Verse. I admit though, if I were in a U-Verse-only area I might be singing a different tune. But that's all the more reason to let these outfits slug it out for our money.
Me.
I've just had vsdl service installed, which utilizes QWest's FTTN(Fiber To The Node) service. The DSLAM is about 2 blocks away from my house. I'm getting 20mbit down/5 mbit up.
It's awesome. I see it as the future of DSL, simply bridging the last mile problem from fiber nodes.
I'm on U-Verse, and have been very pleased with it. U-Verse is also VDSL, and while it's no gigabit connection it works very well. Somewhat ironically (well, irritatingly) there's an AT&T VRAD right across the street from my house, not fifty feet away. But I'm not connected to it: I'm running from a box down on the main drag, maybe a mile away. I'm currently on the 12 mbit/sec plan (saved a few bucks) but I get about 15 which is fine for me, and when I first got it I was rated at 18 mbit/sec, and was getting a solid 22. Not bad for phone wiring. Plus which AT&T gives me a 2 mbit/sec backchannel, which I find very useful (compared to the 30 or 40 kbit/sec up I got from Comcast, when I was on their 20 mbit/sec plan!) And it's consistent, usable bandwidth in both directions.
Or you may end up like Putin, sitting on a large pile of nuclear rust some day.
Better that than swimming in a lake of molten glass. And, if you Google our force reductions, you'll see that we realized a long time ago that we didn't need the Cold War buildup, after the Soviet Empire collapsed. We've reduced both our nuclear and conventional forces considerably since then. That may ultimately prove to be a mistake, time will tell. But we no longer possess the same nuclear capability we once had.
In 2008, Gates fired the Secretary of the Air Force and its chief of staff after a series of incidents suggested to Gates that the service wasn't taking its nuclear duties seriously enough. At one point, a B-52 bomber flew across the continental U.S. without realizing that its nuclear weapons were "hot."
Ya know, if you boys can't learn to take care of your toys, maybe you should have them taken away!
When Clinton took office they had 5 bombs that individually each one could destroy the planet. He had 3 of them dismantled and had the other 2 on orders to be dismantled. Bush came into office and stopped that silliness instead ordering 9 more to be built. Thus we can assume right now that the US has at least 11 bombs that if they work according to theory would completely destroy this planet.
YAY
This isn't a troll, mods... ought to get a +5 Funny. You must go through a lot of Reynolds Wrap.
that's why Steve create Apple-Script and all sort of applications have exposed hooks so that users can script things that just ain't gonna happen in the other camp.
Steve created Apple-Script? Yeah, right. I'd like to know how many lines Steve contributed to OSX, actually. I suspect not very many.
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The problem is, Hydrogen bombs contain pressurized Tritium gas, a hydrogen isotope. It has a half-life of 7 years, so those weapons need to be regularly cycled through a depot for refurbishment. They don't have a very long shelf life, unlike conventional explosives. And this refurb process ain't cheap.
All nuclear devices require constant maintenance. It's the price you pay for being in the game. That's not an issue, if you need them and can afford them. Unfortunately, a lot of people have fooled themselves into thinking we don't need them (given our conventional force reductions, we most certainly do) so the real question is can we continue to afford them. The answer there is: not unless we get off our asses and rebuild our industrial base.
What's going on there, I don't know. But I'm not entirely convinced that all of our government is exactly on our side. Not anymore.
Where have you been?? Ever since Comrade Obama took over, I've been convinced that NONE of our government is on our side anymore...
Yes, well, I was feeling generous. There have to be a few honest public officials left in Washington. Doesn't there?
On the other hand, folks who read something a little substantial would probably care. A lot.
Thereby providing a rationale for further monetization: well, if you don't want ads you need to pay for the privilege, because, you know, you're costing us money by not directing your gray matter to absorb our advertising. This on top of whatever you paid for this "book" in the first place. Greed knows no bounds, and book publishers are among the most vampiric operations in our society.
It always amazes me how the business mind works. Like the phone company charging you for the service of not listing your phone number. Eventually, it becomes income to which they feel entitled.
FIOS... 30/30 :)
Join us....
Would if I could. But for now, I'll live with my 12/2.
What's a backchannel?
Data going the other way, i.e. when you upload.
It's the end of the lime for them alright, and it's sad to see such a historic piece of software going out on a such a sour note.
Sorry man, no mod points left.
Either I am ignorant, or the judge is.
DOWNLOADING OR SHARING COPYRIGHTED CONTENT WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION IS ILLEGAL.
I'm betting on the judge. Downloading isn't the illegal part, it's the distribution. Whoever is making those files available is the one who is liable, which is why the RIAA has been going after file sharers not, as is popularly described, file downloaders.
im surprised how few people have heard of frostwire, its been around for a while
Dude, the first rule of Frostwire is ...
Phex works well also.
The advantage of P2P's like Limewire was that it did not share crappy_commercial_music.mp3 while you were downloading crappy_commercial_music.mp3, and as such you could not be fingered for the crime of distributing crappy_commercial_music.mp3 since you were in fact not distributing it.
Uhhh...yeah, and clearly your "logic" with "one-way" downloading of illegal content somehow saved them from a legal injunction...
You're confused. The GP wasn't talking about why Limewire got screwed by the courts, that was an entirely different matter. He is, in fact, talking about the Limewire user base, and there he is correct, at least for those users with a functioning cerebral cortex. The bulk of RIAA lawsuits were for people that stupidly didn't turn off file sharing on their various Gnutella clients (Limewire being only one of many) and "helpful" clients that automatically shared everything they downloaded, thereby making targets out of their users. Downloading isn't where the illegality came it: it was the illegal distribution of copyright materials.
That is patently false.
Actually correct. Check out Ray Beckerman's blog if you want some more information on that subject. If you're using a Gnutella-style network and you turn off sharing you aren't distributing anything. So far as I've been able to tell, all of the 30,000-odd RIAA lawsuits have been about illegal distribution, not downloading.
So, is the idea to turn novels, anthologies and reference works into magazines?
Brilliant!
They appear to be at the beginning states of an economic war with us, and we just don't realize it.
I tend to agree, only I think we're very much aware of it, we just don't seem to be willing to take the steps necessary to avert it (or win it.) In fact, we're doing everything possible to help China win it.
What's going on there, I don't know. But I'm not entirely convinced that all of our government is exactly on our side. Not anymore.
**replying to myself. just ran speedtest.net and got 15 mbit down, and 2.6mbit up. I am on the standard internet plan. 30-40kbit, comeon...lets try to be somewhat accurate on this website please. I can also attest to pulling torrents down at similar speeds, so I do find SpeedTest.net to be an accurate indicator of bandwidth.
I am being accurate. And I ran any number of bandwidth checks, even ran them periodically and logged them so I could try to reason with their tech support people. They wouldn't believe me, claiming it was my problem. Not that it mattered: it was like trying to argue semantics with chimpanzees, but it cost them a good customer when U-Verse rolled around (oh, they screwed with me in other areas as well.) I once asked a tech if I was some kind of a test case to see just how much a customer could or would tolerate. He just shrugged. Actually, their on-site guys were pretty sharp, and always tried to give me what I was paying for. It was the phone support and provisioning people that gave me the most grief.
I like to bash Comcast as much as the next guy, but 30-40 kbit/sec....exactly when did you switch?? I've had Comcast for over 8 years in 2 different cities and have always maintained faster upload rates than that. By a number of multiples!!
Not where I am. This was a few years ago. Then U-Verse moved in, and now I understand that Comcast has improved considerably. This was during the height of their anti-torrent "network management" madness too. Not only was I getting hit with fake RSTs, but they cut the backchannel too, presumably for the same purpose (slowing down torrents.)
I briefly had ADSL and it was crap compared to cable modem. People forget the ASYMMETRIC part of DSL. In my usage I really felt this when using the net. Lots of lags etc. I switched to a cable modem and it was night and day better in my usage. Granted this was many years ago so perhaps it's better now?
Interesting. You'll find that most gamers MUCH prefer DSL over cable, since you're heading into a central hub and get right on to the fiber, rather than sharing a typically oversubscribed local node.
I currently have VDSL, fiber to the VRAD, and it's the best I've ever had for gaming. That kinda surprises me, actually.
825Mbs @ 400m ... I'd rather not live INSIDE the CO, thanks....
Well, the heat coming off the racks of DSLAMs and other equipment will save on your winter heating bill.
The post your replying to never indicated they were the same thing other than they both used 4 pairs. Are you a bully or can't you read?
I dunno, I thought Starteck81 was making a reasonable point. And it's worse than that, even ... in older installations you can be lucky if you have Cat 3.
We still have to bend over, take it, and say thank you to our local (well, heck... AT&T) phone companies for the PRIVILEGE of having 8megabit/s downstream.... Competition anyone? or are we just such mindless sheep that "it's good enough, 'cause my granddaddy only had the pony express"
Argh....
I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. I have both Comcast (blecch!), U-Verse and SBC DSL in my area. Consequently (having tried the others and suffered) I have U-Verse running at 12-mbit/sec for $45/month. I could add a few bucks and go back up to the 18 mbit tier, but this is sufficient for my needs (the occasional torrent and a girlfriend who loves streaming movies.)
So yeah, I certainly agree with you. Competition is good. I used to use that when I had Comcast: when dealing with their (ahem!) "customer service" I would bring up the dreaded "A" or "S" words in order to get a better level of support. Just threaten to switch and you get escalated fast, I found. Not that, at the time, I could actually get SBC DSL or U-Verse, but I figured what they didn't know might actually get me what I was paying for. They still managed to jerk me around on a number of different levels anyway. So far I've no complaints about U-Verse. I admit though, if I were in a U-Verse-only area I might be singing a different tune. But that's all the more reason to let these outfits slug it out for our money.
Me. I've just had vsdl service installed, which utilizes QWest's FTTN(Fiber To The Node) service. The DSLAM is about 2 blocks away from my house. I'm getting 20mbit down/5 mbit up. It's awesome. I see it as the future of DSL, simply bridging the last mile problem from fiber nodes.
I'm on U-Verse, and have been very pleased with it. U-Verse is also VDSL, and while it's no gigabit connection it works very well. Somewhat ironically (well, irritatingly) there's an AT&T VRAD right across the street from my house, not fifty feet away. But I'm not connected to it: I'm running from a box down on the main drag, maybe a mile away. I'm currently on the 12 mbit/sec plan (saved a few bucks) but I get about 15 which is fine for me, and when I first got it I was rated at 18 mbit/sec, and was getting a solid 22. Not bad for phone wiring. Plus which AT&T gives me a 2 mbit/sec backchannel, which I find very useful (compared to the 30 or 40 kbit/sec up I got from Comcast, when I was on their 20 mbit/sec plan!) And it's consistent, usable bandwidth in both directions.
Or you may end up like Putin, sitting on a large pile of nuclear rust some day.
Better that than swimming in a lake of molten glass. And, if you Google our force reductions, you'll see that we realized a long time ago that we didn't need the Cold War buildup, after the Soviet Empire collapsed. We've reduced both our nuclear and conventional forces considerably since then. That may ultimately prove to be a mistake, time will tell. But we no longer possess the same nuclear capability we once had.
Do the nukes each have an ip address? what happens if I do a port scan? (besides having several 3 letter agencies show up and get a room at Gitmo?
A room at Gitmo isn't enough? What, you want to actually launch something? Greedy bastard.
In 2008, Gates fired the Secretary of the Air Force and its chief of staff after a series of incidents suggested to Gates that the service wasn't taking its nuclear duties seriously enough. At one point, a B-52 bomber flew across the continental U.S. without realizing that its nuclear weapons were "hot."
Ya know, if you boys can't learn to take care of your toys, maybe you should have them taken away!
Who's going to do it?
When Clinton took office they had 5 bombs that individually each one could destroy the planet. He had 3 of them dismantled and had the other 2 on orders to be dismantled. Bush came into office and stopped that silliness instead ordering 9 more to be built. Thus we can assume right now that the US has at least 11 bombs that if they work according to theory would completely destroy this planet. YAY
This isn't a troll, mods ... ought to get a +5 Funny. You must go through a lot of Reynolds Wrap.
that's why Steve create Apple-Script and all sort of applications have exposed hooks so that users can script things that just ain't gonna happen in the other camp.
Steve created Apple-Script? Yeah, right. I'd like to know how many lines Steve contributed to OSX, actually. I suspect not very many.