These threats are a good thing for the community. Eventually Mr. McBride and friends will have to testify in court, and that means taking an oath.
Correct me if I am wrong, but a court canot accept sworn testimony from someone that does not have the capacity to take the oath because off incapacity or mental defect. It seems to me that threatening to take the computers of geeks that have access to nuclear materials is prime evidence of premium, high grade, enriched looniness.
So, do we have a lunatic thats chewing on the biggest dog in the junkyard? I don't know. I'm off to try to install Debian on one of my machines. It's my second distro, after fiddling with Knoppix for awhile. How's that for evidence?
Yeah yeah, I know. The nuke geeks have good characters and won't become vindictive. But it does make me wonder why a guy with the name McBride would risk federal time. Time to start hitting the McWeights and start taking McShiv lessons.
that Mr. Ashcroft and the FCC doesn't have jurisdiction over inner planetary space just yet. The UFO could get in trouble for showing it's WMD in public.
My acoustics book said that if you put a person with normal hearing into a sound isolated anechoic chamber, and give them awhile to adjust, they will actually hear the blood flowing in their ear.
Point being is that it would be completely pointless for them to be any more sensitive. Quite amazing really.
Really, these new springy wires are small. If you are planning to build a condom with one of these things, give up. You're going to neeed a lot more than Robo-Rubber to thrill her.
400GB will store over 33 hours of DV quality footage. This is a good thing. Time spent on managing and planning disk space is time not spent on editing or various time wasters.
However on hte low end, my home, this won't happen for awhile. What I want to know is when and if these drives will force the price of 200GB drives down? I mroe space, dangit! Truly high end systems won't touch this drive, but a lot of work gets done on less than first line equipment. This could be useful in a few years to uss low class FCP flunkies.
The thing is, old RAID cards will be useless with these monsters. The cheapest card, for a G4 anyway, that will handle simple RAID for these large disks costs about $100. Not a small cost to be neglected.
Just about any knucklehead can repair repair sheetrock on 2x4 construction, and probably has the tools on hand. Not everyone has hammer drills and water cooled saws.
Wealthy types certainly won't go for a bare concrete shell in most places, but this type of construction might lend itself to holding up dressed stone veneers, and that is insanely expensive. Perfect for the person that has money to burn. Or not burn if you are talking about houses in the hills above Oakland, CA.
One of my old bosses had a thing against cheap stick built houses and held forth at length about some Swedish building codes that more or less required concrete shell construction. I wonder if this new crap-a-home technique will be bigger over there than in the land of the cheap.
But you're so right. repair and remodeling is gonna be a pain with these things. I want one anyway.
this could completely change the way things are done. As I see it this machine could build a dog house for (a totally wild guess) $50,000, or a big honking ranch style house for $65,000. The expense is still going to be in site preparation and getting the equipment in place. No surprise, right?
I think that once designers get a handle on what this machine can do that they will come up with ways to build houses that will seriously cut down on finish work and systems installation. What about cast in place air ducting, and cast in place conduits? Finish work would be a snap. Believe me, when you hire an experienced stucco crew you'd better be ready for them because you go to lunch and they'll have the job done before you get back. That stuff can be done a lot faster than the vapor barrier-rigid insulation, siding, paint system.
And as far as insulation goes, what' stopping them from extruding that also? Air entrained concrete with those little expanded poly beads is great insulation! If you want to go farther, it wouldn't be hard to cast in little notches to hang interior sheating and then pump insulation behind that.
I spent a summer with a fist full of rebar ties in one hand and a tool in the other, and it wasn't a lot of fun. If you can trade a lot of little hand labor, for a couple of days of guys with heavy equipment, it might be worth it. Who knows.
One thing's for sure, building houses this way isn't going to be done by ma & pop construction outfits.
My experience with concrete is very small, but this could be big, if it isn't a scam and we can get the building codes people to buy it.
I think that we are talking about one of the very few fundamental shifts in the way people live.
If you go to archeology for answers. people tended to live in small clusters surrounded by large areas of nothing. Take your average medieval ox driver, for an example. He probably lived in a single story hutclose to or with his animals. His neighbors were probably whithin shouting distance, if not close enough to hear when Joe Oxdriver was getting it on with his woman.
Naming conventions conventions also gives us a clue. Many, many medieval types grew up with given name only, for practical purposes. If you wanted to identify Joe Oxdriver to a stranger, you might say "Tell Joe, son of Jim-Bob, of Horseappleville to plow my field before Easter or he's dead." Any person living living in Horseappleville probably knew exactly who that was. They probably called him Joe (nickname.) The point is people were identified by place and family, not by First, Middle, Last, Mother's maiden name, SSN, DLN, and what ever else.
What does this tell us? People use naming conventions because they work. I grew up in a town of maybe 2000 people and they were spread out. I knew maybe 1/2 by name, and a few more were familiar. Any group larger than that will need more rigid naming conventions because people just won't know which family Joe belongs to and I guarantee they won't know where Laurelwood is, and who lives in it. I could locate almost any person in NYC given a proper name and maybe an address, SSN, or other piece of information. I don't need to know anything about the person or their group. Spell the name wrong and it's probably a lost cause. To a medieval, a simple mis-spelling of his Joe Oxdriver's name wouldn't matter, even if they could spell or read. Obviously there are large cities and exceptions, but I believe my generalisation is sound.
Let's say that people lived in small clusters, and that there were only a few tens of millions in Europe. That leaves a lot of extra space, right? Records support that notion. I remember reading a translation of a report from a guy that walked from central Europe to Rome. He said that he walked for weeks without seeing the sun because of the dense forest. Any village or manor was probably surrounded by a lot of empty nothing. The small groups were surrounded by even more nothingness.
When Joe Oxdriver went out to work, he probably only had to commute a couple of miles at most. All he would have heard was the wind, his beasts, and his assistant Oxpicker complaining about how it sucks that they have to look at an ox's butt for 14 hours a day. He would have been able to hear the cathedral's bell from miles away.
Those bells weren't just decorations and pretty sound makers back then. They were the only real way most people marked the hours and seasons. They were a kind of universal pager. This simply wouldn't be practical in today's world where a person commutes 20 miles to work, works in the middle of the constant bedlam of thousands of cars, hundreds of other people and just the generic frenzy of city life. No one would hear or likely care about a cathedral bell, and would probably be pissed that they kept waking the whole neighborhood up at Matins. (3 am prayers?)
Even your nomadic types tended to move about in small, rightly packed groups.
The larger point is that the last few centuries are an abberation, and that headphones offer an way to get us back into a little bubble of the world that we have evolved to live in.
I think that the constant din and crowdedness is a major source of psychological issues today. Joe Oxdriver lived a very quiet, rhythmic life that we just don't have today. The seasons and the prescribed activities in those seasons just didn't change much. Ox farts, harness noises, and occasional shouted directions to the beasts aside, the only noises were natural and rhythmic, and somewhat random. The wind blowing, the insect/frog/bird background would have melded into a very calming mix. Then Joe went home to a
Will GLASERS penetrate an interior wall... ?
In a straight on shot at unsupported sheetrock, any projectile will penetrate. Sheetrock isn't much of a barrier. However, in most home defense situations, the bullet strikes the wall at an angle. In most cases hitting a stud or door jam. Typically the bullet will start to
fragment entering the opposite room as much less lethal pieces. This is why the Glaser Safety Slug is so highly thought of for use in apartment complexes, mobile homes and residential areas.
The price for 6 pistol type Glaser round is between 10 and 12 dollars, and hardball is widely variable but maybe 10% of that amount.
I've seen post mortem pics of people shot with Glaser rounds and it's scary. Several of them looked like they had just a small cut, the entrance wound, but x-rays showed massive damage. Another photo showed 2 inch wide cone of flesh blasted out of the mark's neck, but article said that somebody standing behind them would have been just pissed off, not dead. Truly amazing. I personally don't know about that, but it makes sense.
As far as getting rounds that don't bounce around in one's hose, I think the key is to draw, then fire.
BTW... If you want to get to know the most anal-retentive, cheap geeks around, start hanging out with reloaders. Their attention to detail is amazing. And there's nothing like going out and blasting the hell out of old cars & cans.
I have a question for the above poster, and business smart people here in general. Why is anyone less than 40 years old, and someone with less than a couple hundred grand of earned savings doing in an MBA track?
I think that an masters degree for technical fields makes sense for those getting started. The depth and complexity of field theory is such that the extra years are really necessary. A person really couldn't function without the theoretical background.
Business is all about people and how to work and work with them. That is so blindingly complex and difficult that book knowledge doesn't get it. That's what I think anyway, the whole thing scares me.
Why would anybody be interested in hiring someone that has two extra years of school, but no proven ability to function in the business world? I really don't get it. Now sending a proven mid-level executive back to school makes good sense to me. I don't see any advantage in an MBA degree to a rookie that an intense accounting & law semester wouldn't provide. This is where you probably should tell me that I'm ignorant and should go away, but this is what I've seen.
Maybe what people are buying when they hire a shiny brand new MBA are some class distinctions, a proven ability to study books, and a little guaranteed avarice. This could be helpful to business, I'd really like to know.
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My parents would have laughted their heads off if I had asked for this stuff. Back in my day, the toy store was up hill both ways, and we liked it, damn it!
No seriously, this stuff is a joke! My first toy was a set of wood sticks notched so I could make log cabins & stuff. That and a piece of cheap astroturf & I had a farm! Naturallyt he farm required animals so my father swiped a couple of drones from the bee hive. If you pull their wings off they make perfectly acceptable "cows," "horses," or "mules."
My next toy was a little broken down wagon my dad got from the dump. A little sledgehammer action on the axle & some paint and it was good to go. Of course it took about 30 seconds for us to go to the nearest hilla nd go for a ride. My devil worshiping brother helped me go a bit faster than I liked, usually. I've been thrown at speed and straddled a small tree at speed when rides went wrong, which could account for my present baldness.
Surely somebody else bombarded Destro & Snake from "space" with pellet guns & firecrackers?
Kids these days are getting the shaft. Childhood was a lot more fun before safety and responsible parenting were necessities. The fake vomit from Ned might get a few screams from mothers still. I want that now.
I had a person look over my shoulder and later steal my debit card. The thief took me for a little over $400. It was over a week before I discovered the theft. Luckily for me, 99% of my charges were in maybe 10 stores in one town, and the thief decided to take the card to Weed, California. Weed is a bit under 100 miles away.
The sudden disturbance in the pattern was pretty easy for the investigator to see. I have no idea what would have happened if the person had stayed in town. There would have been no way to prove the charges weren't made by me. Clerks just don't check the cards these days. Or ever.
I got all but $50 of my cash back and living in Weed is punishment enough, but I'd still like to kick the cretin's kneecaps off.
The parent post said they don't ask you to work extra hours. Not at my old shop!
A company Sykes had a contract with paid for butts-in-seats, not calls taken so the rampant absenteeism was killing the eend of year totals for the account. Guess who had to do overtime to make it up?
A person who hasn't done this job before would say great, but that extra hour per day isn't worth it when you're almost homicidal at the end of the day on a normal schedule.
And yes, at one time I could recite the entire fdisk menu and the restore sequence from memory. Damn e-machiens.
Who knows, the guy could be right. Aren't we all good people here? Shouldn't we forgive ourselves, give ourselves permission to be happy and to celebrate our geeky qualities?
The nobles of old kept jesters & the village idiot, we have Enderle. Power on, vroom! vroom!
I'm not sure the military would be greatly interested in the drugs mentioned in the above linked article. Killing on a large scale is a bit different now than in Shaka's day.
Up until a few hundred years ago, war was mostly large groups of men pushing, shoving, chopping and trying to shish-kebab eachother. if you were rich you could also run their arses over with your horse. There are two major groups of reasons why these drugs could be seriously helpful.
Killing someone with hand tools has got to be a lot of hard work. An armored knight of any era was an awesome thing, yet he still had to kill one at a time, maybe two or three at time with luck. A modern tanker could reasonably expect to off four or five people at a time, more depending on a target, with no more effort than shooting one person. An archer is pretty much the same. One arrow might equal one dead person if they are up close and about ready to kill you. Otherwise it is just getting lucky (or unlucky if you get shot). A modern artillery guy has to be working pretty hard to hump all those shells around, I don't think it is the same thing. My point is that a drug that could give short bursts of strength would be good for an old school warrior, and not as good and maybe not worth the downside to a modern guy.
In war done by hand, might made right. In single combat or when things have opened up, and most other things being equal, the most vicious, fearless guy is gonna win. Look at the beserkers. Getting nekked and charging a bunch of guys with sharp sticks isn't my idea of a good time! Yet those guys were a threat. I think that they may have been liquored & drugged up, and that the nudity may have had some religious signifigance. Just the way we use the word "beserk" today is a testament to what one guy that is amped up and thinks he is invincible can do. I'm mostly guessing here, but a tanker or an machine gunner that strips and thinks he is gonna kill them all is just going to die faster. I'm not a vet, and history is kinda thin here, so help me out!
Basically, in old school war, getting hopped up and thinking your are invincible matter, modern war, maybe not so much.
In anybody's book, having the guy next to you puss out and run is bad, right? It opens up a hole that the enemy can go thru and then tear stuff up. That has not changed. The difference is in the old way the guy next to you was right next to you. In some cases you would have been touching and maybe your shield was covering the right half of his body. The effectiveness of your unit largely depended on how tight were and how much they moved as one body.
Look at King Leonidas & Friends vs. The Persians at Thermopylae, for an example. Three hundred were able to hold up tens of thousands because they got in a tight line and didn't puss out.
Ok, so the Spartans were barely literate killers that had done nothing but train for war and had to steal to get their food as kids. It's also important to notice how they were equipped.
A hoplite typically had shin guards, a big round shield & a helmet, sometimes some smaller pieces of armor here and there. The main weapons were a spear and a short sword.
Notice how all the armor is up front? To get an easy kill one one of these guys you are gonna have to stick him in they eye holes of his helmet, knock him over and then stab him, or sneak under a bunch of spears and start hacking away. Doing these things to a supurb athlete that doesn't want you to isn't going to be easy.
In contrast, a hoplite was almost completely bare in the back. Even a group of witless peasants could win if a group of hoplites turned or if they were flanked. When fighting as a group, facing forward and not stepping out of line were maybe the most important things. Almost any drug that gave a person the nerve to do this would be worth giving up a little dexterity & judgement.
I haven't heard a lot of evidence to indicate that the Greeks were big on hallucinogens and pain killers while i
will it play in it's own sand box and not access any parts of the disk without asking? Can I throttle it's connection down when I need to? That kind of thing.
I'm sympathetic to Freenet's idea, as I understand it, but still a little hesitant. I have two questions.
First, is it relatively safe? Does it do what the directions say it does and no more? Is especially vile content a big problem and will I feel guilty once I get into it?
Second, Is it being run efficiently? I really don't know what it would take. One programmer plus a herd of volunteers sounds good, but please do let me know.
Thanks. I have a new bunch of parts coming in and will soon have more than 500MB of disk space to spare, so this isn't an entirely idle bunch of questions.
Sure, I agree. We should leave them alone and let them live and die without the law mucking things up.
The only thing is, it isn't fair to use patent and copyright laws to prop them up and have no laws to punish misbehavior. Wipe out all the anti-trust penalties and all the copyright laws and Microsoft will be gone in a few years.
If they are still around, they might actually have to think about serving their customers, not screwing them at will. Who knows.
Who cares about the rats! I'm 30 and thought I had outgrown getting stuffed in a locker or getting those horrible atomic wedgies.
Now those highschool punks will be big enough to beat on me again! Maybe it is time to stock up on RPGs. As in -7s. Maybe one of those new thermobaric jobs from Bazalt.
Yep, it could be a great way of powering anything, including a hopper.
Maybe a James Bond style hopper. It looks like it might be possible to build something that is not thermodynamically efficient, but has an insane thrust to weight ratio. If fuel is easy to come by, who cares about efficiency?
While I lack any real idea of how to build a spacecraft, maybe a small rig couldn't afford the overhead of a system that could refine H202 into something more potent. Would catalytic decomposition be enough? Would it be possible using the stuff on Europa?
According to our wiki friends, H202 can be some nasty stuff, which makes it fit right in on Europa!
In my opinion going to Europa would be a waste of resources. If we have X available to do space exploration, we can do a lot better than going to some hell hole in a bad neighborhood.
Ha! That's nothing. I found a computer at a charity drop off point that has an intact OS, programs & everything. I fired up its copy of Word and it said the programs registered to some financial institute. Futher poking around revealed names, SSNs draft wills, and other goodness.
Morons! At least your doctor had "encryption."
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These threats are a good thing for the community. Eventually Mr. McBride and friends will have to testify in court, and that means taking an oath.
Correct me if I am wrong, but a court canot accept sworn testimony from someone that does not have the capacity to take the oath because off incapacity or mental defect. It seems to me that threatening to take the computers of geeks that have access to nuclear materials is prime evidence of premium, high grade, enriched looniness.
So, do we have a lunatic thats chewing on the biggest dog in the junkyard? I don't know. I'm off to try to install Debian on one of my machines. It's my second distro, after fiddling with Knoppix for awhile. How's that for evidence?
Yeah yeah, I know. The nuke geeks have good characters and won't become vindictive. But it does make me wonder why a guy with the name McBride would risk federal time. Time to start hitting the McWeights and start taking McShiv lessons.
that Mr. Ashcroft and the FCC doesn't have jurisdiction over inner planetary space just yet. The UFO could get in trouble for showing it's WMD in public.
Maybe it was a cloaking malfunction. {/juvenile}
Do they still make it or is the stuff that repels rats standard in cable pulling lube these days?
My acoustics book said that if you put a person with normal hearing into a sound isolated anechoic chamber, and give them awhile to adjust, they will actually hear the blood flowing in their ear.
Point being is that it would be completely pointless for them to be any more sensitive. Quite amazing really.
Really, these new springy wires are small. If you are planning to build a condom with one of these things, give up. You're going to neeed a lot more than Robo-Rubber to thrill her.
400GB will store over 33 hours of DV quality footage. This is a good thing. Time spent on managing and planning disk space is time not spent on editing or various time wasters.
However on hte low end, my home, this won't happen for awhile. What I want to know is when and if these drives will force the price of 200GB drives down? I mroe space, dangit! Truly high end systems won't touch this drive, but a lot of work gets done on less than first line equipment. This could be useful in a few years to uss low class FCP flunkies.
The thing is, old RAID cards will be useless with these monsters. The cheapest card, for a G4 anyway, that will handle simple RAID for these large disks costs about $100. Not a small cost to be neglected.
Just about any knucklehead can repair repair sheetrock on 2x4 construction, and probably has the tools on hand. Not everyone has hammer drills and water cooled saws.
Wealthy types certainly won't go for a bare concrete shell in most places, but this type of construction might lend itself to holding up dressed stone veneers, and that is insanely expensive. Perfect for the person that has money to burn. Or not burn if you are talking about houses in the hills above Oakland, CA.
One of my old bosses had a thing against cheap stick built houses and held forth at length about some Swedish building codes that more or less required concrete shell construction. I wonder if this new crap-a-home technique will be bigger over there than in the land of the cheap.
But you're so right. repair and remodeling is gonna be a pain with these things. I want one anyway.
this could completely change the way things are done. As I see it this machine could build a dog house for (a totally wild guess) $50,000, or a big honking ranch style house for $65,000. The expense is still going to be in site preparation and getting the equipment in place. No surprise, right?
I think that once designers get a handle on what this machine can do that they will come up with ways to build houses that will seriously cut down on finish work and systems installation. What about cast in place air ducting, and cast in place conduits? Finish work would be a snap. Believe me, when you hire an experienced stucco crew you'd better be ready for them because you go to lunch and they'll have the job done before you get back. That stuff can be done a lot faster than the vapor barrier-rigid insulation, siding, paint system.
And as far as insulation goes, what' stopping them from extruding that also? Air entrained concrete with those little expanded poly beads is great insulation! If you want to go farther, it wouldn't be hard to cast in little notches to hang interior sheating and then pump insulation behind that.
I spent a summer with a fist full of rebar ties in one hand and a tool in the other, and it wasn't a lot of fun. If you can trade a lot of little hand labor, for a couple of days of guys with heavy equipment, it might be worth it. Who knows.
One thing's for sure, building houses this way isn't going to be done by ma & pop construction outfits.
My experience with concrete is very small, but this could be big, if it isn't a scam and we can get the building codes people to buy it.
Uh, isn't it more of a room temperature thing?
I think that we are talking about one of the very few fundamental shifts in the way people live.
If you go to archeology for answers. people tended to live in small clusters surrounded by large areas of nothing. Take your average medieval ox driver, for an example. He probably lived in a single story hutclose to or with his animals. His neighbors were probably whithin shouting distance, if not close enough to hear when Joe Oxdriver was getting it on with his woman.
Naming conventions conventions also gives us a clue. Many, many medieval types grew up with given name only, for practical purposes. If you wanted to identify Joe Oxdriver to a stranger, you might say "Tell Joe, son of Jim-Bob, of Horseappleville to plow my field before Easter or he's dead." Any person living living in Horseappleville probably knew exactly who that was. They probably called him Joe (nickname.) The point is people were identified by place and family, not by First, Middle, Last, Mother's maiden name, SSN, DLN, and what ever else.
What does this tell us? People use naming conventions because they work. I grew up in a town of maybe 2000 people and they were spread out. I knew maybe 1/2 by name, and a few more were familiar. Any group larger than that will need more rigid naming conventions because people just won't know which family Joe belongs to and I guarantee they won't know where Laurelwood is, and who lives in it. I could locate almost any person in NYC given a proper name and maybe an address, SSN, or other piece of information. I don't need to know anything about the person or their group. Spell the name wrong and it's probably a lost cause. To a medieval, a simple mis-spelling of his Joe Oxdriver's name wouldn't matter, even if they could spell or read. Obviously there are large cities and exceptions, but I believe my generalisation is sound.
Let's say that people lived in small clusters, and that there were only a few tens of millions in Europe. That leaves a lot of extra space, right? Records support that notion. I remember reading a translation of a report from a guy that walked from central Europe to Rome. He said that he walked for weeks without seeing the sun because of the dense forest. Any village or manor was probably surrounded by a lot of empty nothing. The small groups were surrounded by even more nothingness.
When Joe Oxdriver went out to work, he probably only had to commute a couple of miles at most. All he would have heard was the wind, his beasts, and his assistant Oxpicker complaining about how it sucks that they have to look at an ox's butt for 14 hours a day. He would have been able to hear the cathedral's bell from miles away.
Those bells weren't just decorations and pretty sound makers back then. They were the only real way most people marked the hours and seasons. They were a kind of universal pager. This simply wouldn't be practical in today's world where a person commutes 20 miles to work, works in the middle of the constant bedlam of thousands of cars, hundreds of other people and just the generic frenzy of city life. No one would hear or likely care about a cathedral bell, and would probably be pissed that they kept waking the whole neighborhood up at Matins. (3 am prayers?)
Even your nomadic types tended to move about in small, rightly packed groups.
The larger point is that the last few centuries are an abberation, and that headphones offer an way to get us back into a little bubble of the world that we have evolved to live in.
I think that the constant din and crowdedness is a major source of psychological issues today. Joe Oxdriver lived a very quiet, rhythmic life that we just don't have today. The seasons and the prescribed activities in those seasons just didn't change much. Ox farts, harness noises, and occasional shouted directions to the beasts aside, the only noises were natural and rhythmic, and somewhat random. The wind blowing, the insect/frog/bird background would have melded into a very calming mix. Then Joe went home to a
Here's a URL for Glaser rounds.
From the site,
The price for 6 pistol type Glaser round is between 10 and 12 dollars, and hardball is widely variable but maybe 10% of that amount.
I've seen post mortem pics of people shot with Glaser rounds and it's scary. Several of them looked like they had just a small cut, the entrance wound, but x-rays showed massive damage. Another photo showed 2 inch wide cone of flesh blasted out of the mark's neck, but article said that somebody standing behind them would have been just pissed off, not dead. Truly amazing. I personally don't know about that, but it makes sense.
As far as getting rounds that don't bounce around in one's hose, I think the key is to draw, then fire.
BTW... If you want to get to know the most anal-retentive, cheap geeks around, start hanging out with reloaders. Their attention to detail is amazing. And there's nothing like going out and blasting the hell out of old cars & cans.
I have a question for the above poster, and business smart people here in general. Why is anyone less than 40 years old, and someone with less than a couple hundred grand of earned savings doing in an MBA track?
I think that an masters degree for technical fields makes sense for those getting started. The depth and complexity of field theory is such that the extra years are really necessary. A person really couldn't function without the theoretical background.
Business is all about people and how to work and work with them. That is so blindingly complex and difficult that book knowledge doesn't get it. That's what I think anyway, the whole thing scares me.
Why would anybody be interested in hiring someone that has two extra years of school, but no proven ability to function in the business world? I really don't get it. Now sending a proven mid-level executive back to school makes good sense to me. I don't see any advantage in an MBA degree to a rookie that an intense accounting & law semester wouldn't provide. This is where you probably should tell me that I'm ignorant and should go away, but this is what I've seen.
Maybe what people are buying when they hire a shiny brand new MBA are some class distinctions, a proven ability to study books, and a little guaranteed avarice. This could be helpful to business, I'd really like to know.
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I know,,. OT and Redundant, but I had to. Sorry.
And that is that criminals, and demi-criminal crackers are lazy. Most of them anyway. I take this as axiomatic.
So yeah, patching probably does stir things up. But this guy has to be smoking something.
My parents would have laughted their heads off if I had asked for this stuff. Back in my day, the toy store was up hill both ways, and we liked it, damn it!
No seriously, this stuff is a joke! My first toy was a set of wood sticks notched so I could make log cabins & stuff. That and a piece of cheap astroturf & I had a farm! Naturallyt he farm required animals so my father swiped a couple of drones from the bee hive. If you pull their wings off they make perfectly acceptable "cows," "horses," or "mules."
My next toy was a little broken down wagon my dad got from the dump. A little sledgehammer action on the axle & some paint and it was good to go. Of course it took about 30 seconds for us to go to the nearest hilla nd go for a ride. My devil worshiping brother helped me go a bit faster than I liked, usually. I've been thrown at speed and straddled a small tree at speed when rides went wrong, which could account for my present baldness.
Surely somebody else bombarded Destro & Snake from "space" with pellet guns & firecrackers?
Kids these days are getting the shaft. Childhood was a lot more fun before safety and responsible parenting were necessities. The fake vomit from Ned might get a few screams from mothers still. I want that now.
I had a person look over my shoulder and later steal my debit card. The thief took me for a little over $400. It was over a week before I discovered the theft. Luckily for me, 99% of my charges were in maybe 10 stores in one town, and the thief decided to take the card to Weed, California. Weed is a bit under 100 miles away.
The sudden disturbance in the pattern was pretty easy for the investigator to see. I have no idea what would have happened if the person had stayed in town. There would have been no way to prove the charges weren't made by me. Clerks just don't check the cards these days. Or ever.
I got all but $50 of my cash back and living in Weed is punishment enough, but I'd still like to kick the cretin's kneecaps off.
The parent post said they don't ask you to work extra hours. Not at my old shop!
A company Sykes had a contract with paid for butts-in-seats, not calls taken so the rampant absenteeism was killing the eend of year totals for the account. Guess who had to do overtime to make it up?
A person who hasn't done this job before would say great, but that extra hour per day isn't worth it when you're almost homicidal at the end of the day on a normal schedule.
And yes, at one time I could recite the entire fdisk menu and the restore sequence from memory. Damn e-machiens.
I think we should keep him around.
Who knows, the guy could be right. Aren't we all good people here? Shouldn't we forgive ourselves, give ourselves permission to be happy and to celebrate our geeky qualities?
The nobles of old kept jesters & the village idiot, we have Enderle. Power on, vroom! vroom!
Yes, I did acidentally watch Dr. Phil.
I'm not sure the military would be greatly interested in the drugs mentioned in the above linked article. Killing on a large scale is a bit different now than in Shaka's day.
Up until a few hundred years ago, war was mostly large groups of men pushing, shoving, chopping and trying to shish-kebab eachother. if you were rich you could also run their arses over with your horse. There are two major groups of reasons why these drugs could be seriously helpful.
Killing someone with hand tools has got to be a lot of hard work. An armored knight of any era was an awesome thing, yet he still had to kill one at a time, maybe two or three at time with luck. A modern tanker could reasonably expect to off four or five people at a time, more depending on a target, with no more effort than shooting one person. An archer is pretty much the same. One arrow might equal one dead person if they are up close and about ready to kill you. Otherwise it is just getting lucky (or unlucky if you get shot). A modern artillery guy has to be working pretty hard to hump all those shells around, I don't think it is the same thing. My point is that a drug that could give short bursts of strength would be good for an old school warrior, and not as good and maybe not worth the downside to a modern guy.
In war done by hand, might made right. In single combat or when things have opened up, and most other things being equal, the most vicious, fearless guy is gonna win. Look at the beserkers. Getting nekked and charging a bunch of guys with sharp sticks isn't my idea of a good time! Yet those guys were a threat. I think that they may have been liquored & drugged up, and that the nudity may have had some religious signifigance. Just the way we use the word "beserk" today is a testament to what one guy that is amped up and thinks he is invincible can do. I'm mostly guessing here, but a tanker or an machine gunner that strips and thinks he is gonna kill them all is just going to die faster. I'm not a vet, and history is kinda thin here, so help me out!
Basically, in old school war, getting hopped up and thinking your are invincible matter, modern war, maybe not so much.
In anybody's book, having the guy next to you puss out and run is bad, right? It opens up a hole that the enemy can go thru and then tear stuff up. That has not changed. The difference is in the old way the guy next to you was right next to you. In some cases you would have been touching and maybe your shield was covering the right half of his body. The effectiveness of your unit largely depended on how tight were and how much they moved as one body.
Look at King Leonidas & Friends vs. The Persians at Thermopylae, for an example. Three hundred were able to hold up tens of thousands because they got in a tight line and didn't puss out.
Ok, so the Spartans were barely literate killers that had done nothing but train for war and had to steal to get their food as kids. It's also important to notice how they were equipped.
A hoplite typically had shin guards, a big round shield & a helmet, sometimes some smaller pieces of armor here and there. The main weapons were a spear and a short sword.
Notice how all the armor is up front? To get an easy kill one one of these guys you are gonna have to stick him in they eye holes of his helmet, knock him over and then stab him, or sneak under a bunch of spears and start hacking away. Doing these things to a supurb athlete that doesn't want you to isn't going to be easy.
In contrast, a hoplite was almost completely bare in the back. Even a group of witless peasants could win if a group of hoplites turned or if they were flanked. When fighting as a group, facing forward and not stepping out of line were maybe the most important things. Almost any drug that gave a person the nerve to do this would be worth giving up a little dexterity & judgement.
I haven't heard a lot of evidence to indicate that the Greeks were big on hallucinogens and pain killers while i
will it play in it's own sand box and not access any parts of the disk without asking? Can I throttle it's connection down when I need to? That kind of thing.
I'm sympathetic to Freenet's idea, as I understand it, but still a little hesitant. I have two questions.
First, is it relatively safe? Does it do what the directions say it does and no more? Is especially vile content a big problem and will I feel guilty once I get into it?
Second, Is it being run efficiently? I really don't know what it would take. One programmer plus a herd of volunteers sounds good, but please do let me know.
Thanks. I have a new bunch of parts coming in and will soon have more than 500MB of disk space to spare, so this isn't an entirely idle bunch of questions.
Sure, I agree. We should leave them alone and let them live and die without the law mucking things up.
The only thing is, it isn't fair to use patent and copyright laws to prop them up and have no laws to punish misbehavior. Wipe out all the anti-trust penalties and all the copyright laws and Microsoft will be gone in a few years.
If they are still around, they might actually have to think about serving their customers, not screwing them at will. Who knows.
Who cares about the rats! I'm 30 and thought I had outgrown getting stuffed in a locker or getting those horrible atomic wedgies.
Now those highschool punks will be big enough to beat on me again! Maybe it is time to stock up on RPGs. As in -7s. Maybe one of those new thermobaric jobs from Bazalt.
Yep, it could be a great way of powering anything, including a hopper.
Maybe a James Bond style hopper. It looks like it might be possible to build something that is not thermodynamically efficient, but has an insane thrust to weight ratio. If fuel is easy to come by, who cares about efficiency?
While I lack any real idea of how to build a spacecraft, maybe a small rig couldn't afford the overhead of a system that could refine H202 into something more potent. Would catalytic decomposition be enough? Would it be possible using the stuff on Europa?
According to our wiki friends, H202 can be some nasty stuff, which makes it fit right in on Europa!
In my opinion going to Europa would be a waste of resources. If we have X available to do space exploration, we can do a lot better than going to some hell hole in a bad neighborhood.
Ha! That's nothing. I found a computer at a charity drop off point that has an intact OS, programs & everything. I fired up its copy of Word and it said the programs registered to some financial institute. Futher poking around revealed names, SSNs draft wills, and other goodness. Morons! At least your doctor had "encryption."