You're the problem, you see. Paranoid people who have lost touch with the real need to be reasonable when evaluating risks. Put differently: I can carry significant quantities of flammables on planes. I can carry heavy objects that would be useful as a club. My shoes could knock you unconscious without much effort, with the solid wooden heel structure. A fucking insulin needle can't do jack in comparison to these. You're being ridiculous if you think this is a useful rule.
Moreover, who the fuck are they to demand I carry papers for a medical condition? Obviously they don't want the business. I hope some cop harasses you tonight or tomorrow and you see how lameass it is when you are doing nothing wrong - and couldn't even plausibly be doing something wrong.
The safety society will be its own downfall. Watch as you cause it.
(On a side note, I've seen what I'd consider much more aggressive tactics given much less provocation every time I pass through the airport.)
Hence why I don't fly unless I absolutely positively have to.
Great things this new age is doing for the airline industry, their service was already going down the tubes without the Gestapo at the gate. I have to admit the TSA people are a lot more professional now than the private security companies, but when I get shit about my insulin supplies and can't carry them unless I have a written prescription on me...fuck them. Like i'm going to hijack an airplane with a 3/4" needle that is thin enough most people can't even feel it go in. Oooo, scary weapon.
The whole industry can go bankrupt for all I care. I vote with my wallet. Ass holes.
Oh come on, you're just upset because your sacred cow, the 'united scientists' with their 'consensus' had their balloon punctured and were proven wrong. You can't really be serious that you buy this alarmist propaganda they peddle.
SDI has knocked down at least two more missiles than your 'scientists' have. Moreover, the supposed 'rigging' of the test is a matter of perspective - making contact with an item traveling at 10k mph is difficult enough. Altering the parameters to fit technological limitations I can deal with.
In regards ignorance, I read the book back at the time (in the 80's) and its basic premise was as follows:
The state of current technology (in 1984) is insufficient to provide adequate space-based (or land-based, assumption in the text being ABMs were dead) antimissile weapons that are immune from countermeasures.
Defense is always ultimately trumped by offense: therefore, nations will just build more missiles to swamp said defenses, or more actively use technologies such as MIRV or decoy warheads.
While both of the above points are correct in some sense, they are inapplicable to either the situation then or the situation today. The first was begging the question, "Well, if it isn't possible today, research and development are necessary, no?". Duh. These 'scientists' decided to try to gainsay it EVER being possible, which is a silly thing to do with technology.
The second point is true enough but a poor argument: a similar argument could be made about other weapons systems. Take a tank: well, armor piercing rounds from antitank weaponry can always be made to pierce any thickness of armor, through various technologies such as hollow charges and sabot rounds, or just making the gun bigger. Should armor be dispensed with, then?
The answer is resoundingly no, because an armorless tank is prey to small arms fire and perhaps even prosaic things like Molotov cocktails. A balance is struck between armor thickness and desired survivability and transportability. This is instructive, because the purpose of SDI was never to kill every incoming missile, and the current National Missile Defense program is not geared towards that either.
The purpose of SDI was to create a situation where a 'ragged' first strike would result. Ragged in the sense that not every missile would hit the target. This would increase the risk of said first strike, therefore strengthening deterrence. I agree with the aforementioned book inasmuch as that this would have provoked a new arms race when the system became operational. That was the point. This arms race would bankrupt the Soviet Union, which was already teetering on the edge of same. Victory in the Cold War was very much as a result of the _threat_ of SDI.
The current NMD program is intended to provide defense against a 'Scud' situation ala Saddam in 1991, or a North Korean ICBM. It is intended to knock down a small number of missiles. It would have no effect on a French or Russian or Chinese nuclear attack, except inasmuch as it would cause, once again, a 'ragged' first strike that would not assure the launching nation of achieving the expected results, thereby once again strengthening deterrence. It will not be immune to countermeasures and it can be spoofed. Who cares. It raises the barrier of entry to successfully launch a nuclear strike on the US. It wasn't intended to be a perfect shield. Moreover, the NMD is small enough that it's unlikely to provoke an arms race, as the Russians or Chinese can still flood the system with RVs that would make the quantity of destroyed vehicles immaterial.
Perhaps these 'concerned scientists' should invent a rubber band gun to fire copies of "The Fallacy of Star Wars: Why Space Weapons Can't Protect Us" at incoming ICBMs. I'm sure with all their collective smarts they'll have it working in no time, unlike the idiots in the military who think NMD or SDI had some promise. Right?
This was the same group that said SDI wouldn't work back in '83-'84.
After a few successful tests, i'd suggest that they were full of it then, and continue to be full of it now. Talk about a group with an axe to grind. They might as well have called themselves 'Union of Progressive Scientists'. Truth in advertising.
Bad luck usually is an indicator of a poor match of expectations or skills with the environment.
Consider a change in career direction. There are jobs out there, you just have to be willing to take them. We can't dictate what we are going to do in life, at least if you want to get paid well.
In terms of resume holes, I suggest you figure out ways to close them up, and embellish as much as you can without being an outright liar. Longterm out of work people are assumed to have a problem. See if you have someone who can cover for you somehow. I have asked that favor of people over time.
Try to look as good as you can, and use the economy excuse for what you can. Don't get depressed - depressed people aren't good hires.
Well, at least one misinformed and silly person will be going to prison when they make Freenet usage illegal because of the child porn.
You know that it will be...it's only a matter of time for it to show on the radar screen of the governments of the world. Freedom doesn't mean 'free to do or say anything you want'. Freedom means 'freedom to do and say things until they start hurting others'.
Needless to say only the most backward of nations is going to tolerate an online repository of child pornography within its borders. I suspect even the Dutch would have a problem with this.
Poindexter was a pawn in a massive power grab by a Congress that couldn't get a Democrat elected President. Some reference first, the Iran-Contra affair.
Simply put, the heavily Democrat Congress wanted to dictate foreign policy to Ronald Reagan, specifically how to deal with Communist Nicaragua. This was traditionally an executive power, though not constitutionally delimited as such, except inasmuch as Executive branch officials and military personnel are under the President's orders, not Congress'.
Whitewater had more meat to it than Iran-Contra, at least someone did something plausibly illegal there. What was done was ugly and distasteful, but not illegal. If anything was illegal, the Boland amendment was. The Congress had no Constitutional power to regulate the Executive branch in this way. The unwillingness of the higher officials in the Executive branch to admit that they were responsible for the actions (Shultz, Reagan) was what provoked the investigation and maddened the Dems into organizing a witch hunt. And it was a witch hunt.
Ollie North and Eliott Abrams (I believe this is a sic, his name is Eliot, but we'll go with the wiki here) were convicted on some pretty pathetic charges of 'lying to Congress' and 'accepting gratuities' (Abrams was browbeaten into it by 5 years of investigations that bankrupted him, read his book "Undue Process" for more details). Ollie North we know about, and his stupid security fence that he got convicted over.
Poindexter's part in this was to act as the fall guy. Apparently his conviction and taking of the majority of the blame for this was considered more acceptable than the political backlash of admitting what was done to the public.
Overall, an ugly incident but considering the relative merit of both sides - consider that the uber-slime and since disgraced Dan Rostenkowski and Robert Torricelli were two of the cheerleaders on the Democrat side, it just shows how really ugly politics is. Your vehement hatred of Poindexter is misguided in this light.
Everybody thinks Kerry is going to get the nomination and that's why he probably will. Not saying he's any better or worse than any of the other guys, but he's played his media cards well.
If that means sandbagging Dean with that stupid cheer sequence in Iowa, courtesy of Kerry's media connections, then yeah, you're right.
If you hear the original tape you can't even hear Dean.
I had a feeling an attempt like this would be made by the Democrat Old Guard. I'm surprised that it worked, is all. I once again underestimated the stupidity of the general public.
I'm not a Dean supporter at all, i'm a Republican, but this is disturbing nonetheless. Dean had some serious support that completely eroded away due to a single sound bite.
There are no adequate compromises when you consider it the taking of a human life.
On another note, a lot of women regret them later and have bad dreams, suicidal thoughts, etc.
The whole issue is terrible considering that judicious use of condoms in combination with one other form of birth control would obviate the entire issue. Ergo, it's just pathetic human laziness and lack of consideration for the consequences of our actions that causes the issue in the first place.
The original code was written on RISC and as recently as 3.5 it ran on the DEC Alpha.
Umm, NT 4 ran on 4 architectures as late as SP2 I believe (PPC, MIPS, Alpha and x86), then they discontinued MIPS and PPC - Alpha later bit the dust as well.
They were doing RISC Service Packs as late as 1998, to my memory.
Hey buddy, the term is "target audience" and sorry, but you're not in it.
The point of the parent article is that very few people appear to be in that target audience. Therefore, the retailers aren't trying hard enough, and that seems quite obvious, now, doesn't it, given the grandfather post's issues.
So much for target audiences. Work on your next theory, this one isn't holding water.
Pretty much all the people you mention should have known better, human nature being what it is, that they were taking a risk. We all have choices in life. Whether the choice is not to fly through New York, or to stop fucking around on our wife (MLK), or to stop hanging around with Commies (Chaplin and others), everyone on the list had a choice. Not every Japanese-American was interned, for instance.
Despite the fact that they were treated incorrectly, I don't think any of them are absolved of blame for their own fate.
Only naive people believe the world is black and white and always obeys laws./. must have a lot of naive people. Laws are enforced by humans with godlike powers at the top, with minions that are pretty low down on the pay scale. The end result is shit like this.
The Constitution is still a pretty effective shield against this sort of thing, but you do make a good point that being an asshole tends to get you in jail.
umm, dude, Microsoft 0wnz the Army and Navy, at least (don't know about USMC and the Air Force).
Weren't you around for the big enterprise agreement that got announced oh, about 8 months back? Hell, right now, they are forcing the Army to do an Active Directory conversion based upon their previously announced sunsetting of support for NT 4.
done much conditional jump work in 8086 or 286 real modes?
'nuff said. x86 assembly is easy for little routines that call interrupts or make system calls of other sorts. It's fine if you want to futz with integers or even if you want to play with the coprocessor. Doing real programming in it was problematic in the days before the 386.
And how exactly do you expect to "make spacecraft on the moon", without "hauling hundreds of tons of stuff up from ground level"? How easy exactly do you think it is to build a spacecraft from rocks with no tools or factories?
We build infrastructure, that is how. No one said this was a day's endeavor or even ten years.
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You're the problem, you see. Paranoid people who have lost touch with the real need to be reasonable when evaluating risks. Put differently: I can carry significant quantities of flammables on planes. I can carry heavy objects that would be useful as a club. My shoes could knock you unconscious without much effort, with the solid wooden heel structure. A fucking insulin needle can't do jack in comparison to these. You're being ridiculous if you think this is a useful rule.
Moreover, who the fuck are they to demand I carry papers for a medical condition? Obviously they don't want the business. I hope some cop harasses you tonight or tomorrow and you see how lameass it is when you are doing nothing wrong - and couldn't even plausibly be doing something wrong.
The safety society will be its own downfall. Watch as you cause it.
(On a side note, I've seen what I'd consider much more aggressive tactics given much less provocation every time I pass through the airport.)
Hence why I don't fly unless I absolutely positively have to.
Great things this new age is doing for the airline industry, their service was already going down the tubes without the Gestapo at the gate. I have to admit the TSA people are a lot more professional now than the private security companies, but when I get shit about my insulin supplies and can't carry them unless I have a written prescription on me...fuck them. Like i'm going to hijack an airplane with a 3/4" needle that is thin enough most people can't even feel it go in. Oooo, scary weapon.
The whole industry can go bankrupt for all I care. I vote with my wallet. Ass holes.
Oh come on, you're just upset because your sacred cow, the 'united scientists' with their 'consensus' had their balloon punctured and were proven wrong. You can't really be serious that you buy this alarmist propaganda they peddle.
SDI has knocked down at least two more missiles than your 'scientists' have. Moreover, the supposed 'rigging' of the test is a matter of perspective - making contact with an item traveling at 10k mph is difficult enough. Altering the parameters to fit technological limitations I can deal with.
In regards ignorance, I read the book back at the time (in the 80's) and its basic premise was as follows:
While both of the above points are correct in some sense, they are inapplicable to either the situation then or the situation today. The first was begging the question, "Well, if it isn't possible today, research and development are necessary, no?". Duh. These 'scientists' decided to try to gainsay it EVER being possible, which is a silly thing to do with technology.
The second point is true enough but a poor argument: a similar argument could be made about other weapons systems. Take a tank: well, armor piercing rounds from antitank weaponry can always be made to pierce any thickness of armor, through various technologies such as hollow charges and sabot rounds, or just making the gun bigger. Should armor be dispensed with, then?
The answer is resoundingly no, because an armorless tank is prey to small arms fire and perhaps even prosaic things like Molotov cocktails. A balance is struck between armor thickness and desired survivability and transportability. This is instructive, because the purpose of SDI was never to kill every incoming missile, and the current National Missile Defense program is not geared towards that either.
The purpose of SDI was to create a situation where a 'ragged' first strike would result. Ragged in the sense that not every missile would hit the target. This would increase the risk of said first strike, therefore strengthening deterrence. I agree with the aforementioned book inasmuch as that this would have provoked a new arms race when the system became operational. That was the point. This arms race would bankrupt the Soviet Union, which was already teetering on the edge of same. Victory in the Cold War was very much as a result of the _threat_ of SDI.
The current NMD program is intended to provide defense against a 'Scud' situation ala Saddam in 1991, or a North Korean ICBM. It is intended to knock down a small number of missiles. It would have no effect on a French or Russian or Chinese nuclear attack, except inasmuch as it would cause, once again, a 'ragged' first strike that would not assure the launching nation of achieving the expected results, thereby once again strengthening deterrence. It will not be immune to countermeasures and it can be spoofed. Who cares. It raises the barrier of entry to successfully launch a nuclear strike on the US. It wasn't intended to be a perfect shield. Moreover, the NMD is small enough that it's unlikely to provoke an arms race, as the Russians or Chinese can still flood the system with RVs that would make the quantity of destroyed vehicles immaterial.
Perhaps these 'concerned scientists' should invent a rubber band gun to fire copies of "The Fallacy of Star Wars: Why Space Weapons Can't Protect Us" at incoming ICBMs. I'm sure with all their collective smarts they'll have it working in no time, unlike the idiots in the military who think NMD or SDI had some promise. Right?
This organization, these 'concerne
This was the same group that said SDI wouldn't work back in '83-'84.
After a few successful tests, i'd suggest that they were full of it then, and continue to be full of it now. Talk about a group with an axe to grind. They might as well have called themselves 'Union of Progressive Scientists'. Truth in advertising.
They are on perma-ignore.
Umm, jury awards aren't taxable.
I used to do bodily injury claim settlements so this one is close to my heart. This story does not compute.
Tolerating the existence of it is giving a tacit nod to its production.
Mere possession of same in the US is a crime, and should be. Then again, I have two daughters and I wasn't so militant about the issue before then.
Drug addicts and convicted criminals aren't much to the public's taste, but watch a granny or a 9 year old get sued for $10 million...and lose.
This is a PR nightmare for the recording industry.
Let them get some huge judgements and watch how fast the laws are amended in the public's favor.
Nothing like a few citizens getting their ass reamed to foster change in government.
Bad luck usually is an indicator of a poor match of expectations or skills with the environment.
Consider a change in career direction. There are jobs out there, you just have to be willing to take them. We can't dictate what we are going to do in life, at least if you want to get paid well.
In terms of resume holes, I suggest you figure out ways to close them up, and embellish as much as you can without being an outright liar. Longterm out of work people are assumed to have a problem. See if you have someone who can cover for you somehow. I have asked that favor of people over time.
Try to look as good as you can, and use the economy excuse for what you can. Don't get depressed - depressed people aren't good hires.
Well, at least one misinformed and silly person will be going to prison when they make Freenet usage illegal because of the child porn.
You know that it will be...it's only a matter of time for it to show on the radar screen of the governments of the world. Freedom doesn't mean 'free to do or say anything you want'. Freedom means 'freedom to do and say things until they start hurting others'.
Needless to say only the most backward of nations is going to tolerate an online repository of child pornography within its borders. I suspect even the Dutch would have a problem with this.
Poindexter was a pawn in a massive power grab by a Congress that couldn't get a Democrat elected President. Some reference first, the Iran-Contra affair.
Simply put, the heavily Democrat Congress wanted to dictate foreign policy to Ronald Reagan, specifically how to deal with Communist Nicaragua. This was traditionally an executive power, though not constitutionally delimited as such, except inasmuch as Executive branch officials and military personnel are under the President's orders, not Congress'.
Whitewater had more meat to it than Iran-Contra, at least someone did something plausibly illegal there. What was done was ugly and distasteful, but not illegal. If anything was illegal, the Boland amendment was. The Congress had no Constitutional power to regulate the Executive branch in this way. The unwillingness of the higher officials in the Executive branch to admit that they were responsible for the actions (Shultz, Reagan) was what provoked the investigation and maddened the Dems into organizing a witch hunt. And it was a witch hunt.
Ollie North and Eliott Abrams (I believe this is a sic, his name is Eliot, but we'll go with the wiki here) were convicted on some pretty pathetic charges of 'lying to Congress' and 'accepting gratuities' (Abrams was browbeaten into it by 5 years of investigations that bankrupted him, read his book "Undue Process" for more details). Ollie North we know about, and his stupid security fence that he got convicted over.
Poindexter's part in this was to act as the fall guy. Apparently his conviction and taking of the majority of the blame for this was considered more acceptable than the political backlash of admitting what was done to the public.
Overall, an ugly incident but considering the relative merit of both sides - consider that the uber-slime and since disgraced Dan Rostenkowski and Robert Torricelli were two of the cheerleaders on the Democrat side, it just shows how really ugly politics is. Your vehement hatred of Poindexter is misguided in this light.
Very well done.
He wasn't campaigning in Iowa, officially. he had gone the Clinton route and not campaigned in Iowa.
The assumption then, as now, was that the farmer and union votes would determine Iowa and it was fairly likely Gephardt would win there.
Kerry's showing in Iowa was the only surprise.
Campaigns employ press people to influence coverage. Stop being so naive.
Everybody thinks Kerry is going to get the nomination and that's why he probably will. Not saying he's any better or worse than any of the other guys, but he's played his media cards well.
If that means sandbagging Dean with that stupid cheer sequence in Iowa, courtesy of Kerry's media connections, then yeah, you're right.
If you hear the original tape you can't even hear Dean.
I had a feeling an attempt like this would be made by the Democrat Old Guard. I'm surprised that it worked, is all. I once again underestimated the stupidity of the general public.
I'm not a Dean supporter at all, i'm a Republican, but this is disturbing nonetheless. Dean had some serious support that completely eroded away due to a single sound bite.
There are no adequate compromises when you consider it the taking of a human life.
On another note, a lot of women regret them later and have bad dreams, suicidal thoughts, etc.
The whole issue is terrible considering that judicious use of condoms in combination with one other form of birth control would obviate the entire issue. Ergo, it's just pathetic human laziness and lack of consideration for the consequences of our actions that causes the issue in the first place.
The original code was written on RISC and as recently as 3.5 it ran on the DEC Alpha.
Umm, NT 4 ran on 4 architectures as late as SP2 I believe (PPC, MIPS, Alpha and x86), then they discontinued MIPS and PPC - Alpha later bit the dust as well.
They were doing RISC Service Packs as late as 1998, to my memory.
Hey buddy, the term is "target audience" and sorry, but you're not in it.
The point of the parent article is that very few people appear to be in that target audience. Therefore, the retailers aren't trying hard enough, and that seems quite obvious, now, doesn't it, given the grandfather post's issues.
So much for target audiences. Work on your next theory, this one isn't holding water.
Then it should be obvious it isn't a troll, right?
Already got her the 40GB iPod. Time for some fucking!
Pretty much all the people you mention should have known better, human nature being what it is, that they were taking a risk. We all have choices in life. Whether the choice is not to fly through New York, or to stop fucking around on our wife (MLK), or to stop hanging around with Commies (Chaplin and others), everyone on the list had a choice. Not every Japanese-American was interned, for instance.
/. must have a lot of naive people. Laws are enforced by humans with godlike powers at the top, with minions that are pretty low down on the pay scale. The end result is shit like this.
Despite the fact that they were treated incorrectly, I don't think any of them are absolved of blame for their own fate.
Only naive people believe the world is black and white and always obeys laws.
The Constitution is still a pretty effective shield against this sort of thing, but you do make a good point that being an asshole tends to get you in jail.
umm, dude, Microsoft 0wnz the Army and Navy, at least (don't know about USMC and the Air Force).
Weren't you around for the big enterprise agreement that got announced oh, about 8 months back? Hell, right now, they are forcing the Army to do an Active Directory conversion based upon their previously announced sunsetting of support for NT 4.
Note the use of the word 'force'.
done much conditional jump work in 8086 or 286 real modes?
'nuff said. x86 assembly is easy for little routines that call interrupts or make system calls of other sorts. It's fine if you want to futz with integers or even if you want to play with the coprocessor. Doing real programming in it was problematic in the days before the 386.
And how exactly do you expect to "make spacecraft on the moon", without "hauling hundreds of tons of stuff up from ground level"? How easy exactly do you think it is to build a spacecraft from rocks with no tools or factories?
We build infrastructure, that is how. No one said this was a day's endeavor or even ten years.
Apparently reality hurts your feelings, since your invective assumes that I didn't hear what they said, when it should be abundantly clear that I did.
We didn't need AI to tell us that Hussein sucked, we knew that already.
Note how little their droning from 1980 on helped.
Game, set, match.