...that they would get a contempt of court citation, but they deserve it.
None of this corporate nonsense will end, and it will continue to get worse and worse, until the law is readjusted to reflect that only named individual human beings have personal rights. Corporations avoid a lot of "guilt" by hiding behind the artificial person legal construct. It's beyond loony, was insane when it was aquired, now it's out of control and has lead to defacto fascism, let's call it what it is.
And I blame the law/justice/court system just as much in this mess as the corporations.
"Microsoft" should have never gone to trial, it should have been named humans, completely responsible for their decisions.
Here's a thought, a mass protest by millions of people having a nationwide "incorporation day", flood the system with incorporation papers and lawsuits, a tidal wave of paperwork shuffling, patent applications, copyright registrations, and so on and so forth. Get every human to be part of their own friends and family corporation, watch the system grind to a halt, THEN maybe we'll get some change. Take every single tax break corporations get, fill out the paperwork. Why should they get all the tax break perks, and avoid personal responsibility? Sue the pants off of every large existing corporation out there, find little picyaune laws you can use. Patent everything possible, no matter how obscure. Challenge "no warranty" EULAS in small claims court all over. Serve every PHB out there with papers detailing your employment status, make them sign off to you on every single decision. They balk, sue em. Hand your own puchase contract to every shopkeeper out there when you go to buy something, demand they sign it for the sale.
They want stupid, inane, ridiculous, society choking crap busywork and laws I say give it to 'em!
Completely drown them in their own corporate/governmental/so called "legal system" paperwork BS.....
...into the mysterious and scary and obviously expensive future!
I read the whole thread. I am tempted to start a "real men back in the day" subthread, because real men back in the day used army surplus stuff! Both ways, to and from!
and we LIK3D it!
For real, army surplus, check it out you young geeks! I am amazed not one mention! Is this a lost art? What happened???? (don't say it, I know what you are thinking wisenheimerzzz....)
The US grunt forces have a container made from heavy duty cloth with handles and straps for ANYTHING in the world that could conceivably be man portable. ANYTHING. And you NEVER have to sweat the color!
Instructions: goto nearest mil surplus store, seek out large pile of pack/web gear looking stuff, usually inside old wooden crates or on back dusty shelves. This will take awhile as you have to DIG. You will find TREASURES buried in there, just gotta look. Now, peruse the offerings, you WILL find several that are most intriguing in configuration and style and will be close to what you want. You will also see some that will make you go YES, this will fit my.....whatever, you weren't even thinking about. Pick out bag or bags of choice, drop a FEW DOLLARS max. Also pick up a few of the cheapest pieces of crap they have just for more material and extra straps and buckles and do dads like that. You are set now.
Now,go home, aquire your heavy duty waxed thread and large curved upholstery needle from your gear stash (you DO have this,correct?) and MOD the bag to fit YOUR personal gear exactly the way YOU want it.
there's a well known but not much publicised or admitted-to option Israel has, and that is to take down all the capitals in europe and the US with nukes if it looks like they will be over-run in another general war. The obvious reference is from Samson taking down the pillars and collapsing the temple on himself, but getting all his foes as well.
I don't agree with it, and I think it was a boneheaded move to re establish that state there artifically, but thems the facts and realities now-they got hundreds of nukes, enough to pulverise all the middle eastern capitals and also europe and some of the US if push comes to genocidal shove for them. Basically blackmail, and it sucketh. I personally don't consider their political state as being frinedly to the US, nor any of the other middle eastern states, it's just relationships of convenience more than anything else right now. They've never signed the nuclear non proliferation treaty, and as such should be under embargo from the US by our general law, but they are specifically excluded and ignored on that point. Some say it's because of the Samson option, but to back that up-and this is speculation as well but well founded-they have so many US lawmakers in their pockets from potential blackmail threats and from bribery that they get what they want almost all the time, and will continue to do so.
I see almost zero chance of any peace in the middle east, and almost a 100% chance of a major war being fought there eventually, including all forms of WMD. It might happen within this decade, too, for that matter.
--I've gotten a few grannies and grandpas (my baby boomer age demographic) to switch, just from talking to them online and hearing them comment on the MS bug du juor and unusability of IE, so I dropped links to moz and open office, etc. It CAN happen if folks try to be constructive about it. Switching all the way to linux though is a harder sell, I will admit. Too hard to do over the internet hand holding and installation. This won't happen, any big universal switch, until anyone can just as easily get a linux install as a MS install at most any shop they walk into. People run the OS that comes on their machines, that's about it. About the only reason-well, two reasons, I ever even tried linux myself is from being a geek and having spare junker machines. If I only owned one machine I doubt I would have experimented with it, the idea there is "better the devil you know".
...actually including any third party alternatives with a windows install? Are they including firefox, open office, various security tools that are freeware, when they could? I really don't know, but I hope so.
Are any of the big vendors shipping a factory installed dual boot system for joe home and business desktop? Now THAT would be interesting! Side by side stock comparison for folks, in a semi no brainer format for them, as the vendors have control of the hardware, so you know it will all work when you get it home or to the office and plug it in.
--just about all of these concepts are variations on the "lean burn" ideal. The biggest drawback isn't necessarily pulling that off, it's materials science, as lean burn makes a LOT of heat in most cases. You can lean out an engine to a ridiculous level and get a lot more mileage, but it'll waste your engine quickly. It's a tradeoff, that and havng to design an engine that has to be used a a wide range of conditions, start and stop, high speed, low speed, etc. Tradeoffs. Then it gets into gearing, overall weight of the vehicle, all sorts of stuff.
Anecdotaly, the best I have done is to apply mild racing level engineering to an engine, but not trying to force more horsepower out by widely altering the cam or greatly increasing compression ratio. I just weanted a better daily driver, more reliable and smoother, so that's what I got. Took a regular carbureted 4 cylinder motor in an old fiat I had (a 1969 rear engine spyder). Exchanged the stock pistons for very good quality very slightly oversized aluminum forged pistons, then balanced them myself by gradually reducing weight along the bottom of the skirt so that they all matched within a couple of grams. Did the same to better quality connecting rods. This is called balancing. Then they were shot peened for better hardness and strength. Nowadays as pointed out you can get them cyro treated as well, sometimes useful, sometimes not. The cylinders in the block were rebored to fit the new pistons individually, pistons 1,2,3,4, marked. Had that done at a shop that specialises in it. The head had was recut slightly and really made flat to seat better, had the chambers cleaned well, valves got special treatment, really nice cuts and lapping. could have got better quality valaves but didn't afford it at the time. Went to carbon pushrods (told ya it was an old engine). The crankshaft was re lapped and polished and the entire assembly was done correctly to fit the correct size bearings. That baby was TIGHT, took dragging it around in gear to get the new hard chrome rings to seat properly, the stock starter wouldn't hardly turn the thing. But once broken in that way,coupla tows around the block is all it took, man, varoom! Got lots mo powah,_plus_ better mileage, redline went to ridiculous if I wanted to push it,and it was *quiet* at idle and very very smooth running as I retained al the stock timing, etc. it was a very smallengine in a very small car, but it got between 50-60 MPG, and would do highway speeds, although that was it, around 70 tops. It wasn't even a one liter motor, I think it went to around 960 CCs total displacement after the work done on it.
There's a lot of other tricks too, racing guys already know them, they just don't design daily driver cars. They machine to better tolerances, use better materials, etc, but then design for maximum power, frequently they don't care if the engine only lasts for the duration of one race. If you take the same philosophy in engineering, but only design the engine parameters for normal street use, you get the best of both worlds then, plus your engine would last longer. It just costs more, that's all, and people can't see it, they want flashy stuff and car entertainment systems and paint jobs, etc. And with todays multiple computerised fuel delivery and ignition systems, I don't see any quickee bolt on gizmo really helping out or being easy to install. If I was to attempt to do this and try out some of those exotic designs as mentioned in the patents, etc, I think it would be prudent to start with an older really simple non computerised non electronic hardly nuthin engine and car.
Anyway, the net is slap fulla interesting projects like that if you want to look for them, my favorite was smokey yunicks adiabatic engine designs, his actually worked and were tested out, you can find some pages on them with google..
--if the fee or tax is mandated under law, then it's a governmental mandate,exactly what it is, little different froma direct tax to government. What has occurred is that the third party is now a quasi arm of government, it is no longer independent or private, so it shouldn't really be called that, IMO.
Gets down to semantics, but if it's required by law, it's part of government. if it's purely voluntary and contractural, then it's private business.
Public broadcasting should exist by support of the viewers, if there's no support, then, well, too bad. Perhaps a different model for content would be better. I don't like the slippery slope of forcing the public to fund some private efforts. It's the "force" part that is wrong.
laws are only for those not in power. Rs and Ds control the guys with guns, and also appoint most of the judges. there are so many obvious contradictions, exceptions and special priveleges given to Rs and Ds it ain't funny.
My only question is, why do people who constantly vote in Rs and Ds wonder why it's never any different? What do they expect? I've been directly hearting "don't waste your vote" since the 64 election. Near as I can see, all those R and D votes have been "wasted", people thinking they will ever get honest government or anything like constructive change. It's like charlie brown and lucy with the football, just "one more time" he's going to trust her. Nuts.
Point is moot now, they have most everyone buffaloed that computerised voting is a swell idea. Welcome to the one party state, Amerika, the criminal gang is just smart enough to call it two parties.
We have the finest in technofeudalism that money can buy.
I think it's the nature of high IQ nerdom. You tend to think the "other guy" is an idiot, because a lot of times they are. Makes you pretty egocentric I guess, even when the other guy is SMARTER than you or has pulled off something impressive.. Hecktapay when you got a large room fulla them...in meat space or cyberspace.......had a sales job once, selling a new and improved technical product. Doesn't matter what it was now, what I noticed though was when I was selling to joe blow, it was normal,questions answers, sold some, sometimes didn't, but it was a normal deal. When I tried to sell to engineers they argued constantly about it, said they could do it cheaper/better/faster and yada yada yada. It was an automatic reaction they had, just the way their minds worked. Didn't matter to them, it is hard coded DNA or something. I would ask them why they didn't do it then (zero of them had ever made anything like it), and why did they bother making an appointment, especially when they knew the ballpark figures up front. they would just sputter then, pretty funny. Serious PITA sometimes. Ya, it was bad salesmanship on my part, didn't care, I made enough sales and was raking in the dough at the time. It was argumentive debate sport for me with them guys, nerd to nerd...
No, I don't like sales.. don't do it anymore....I did sell a few units to engineers, but I studiously avoided them after the first few times.
..Perot WAS at the debates and he had never been elected to anything. When he pulled a huge number of votes because finally there was some media coverage for a third party candidate,it terrified the R&D coalition of the crooked, and they changed the rules and laws on the whole thing. Even the leagueof women voters got fed up with them. And they make sure there's little press for any third parties, yet they cover medium ridiculous crapola like michael jackson and kobe bryant endlessly just about.
The fix is in, we live in a low key but increasingly dictatorial police state junta run by two cooperating for-profit private criminal cartels who have hijacked legitimate government and run it as a jobs program and as a way to be in a position to accept bribes for favors. Obvious as all get out.
"(Show me any private party or business affair you know of where this level of government intervention is present?)"
Major league and large college sporting events come to mind readily. They block roads and hinder private persons on public property just to serve a private interest, in most cases, just so they can make some profits.
I used to work tradeshows in atlanta, can't tell you how many times I got hindered trying to go to work at the GCC right next door or getting raped in the wallet by boosted parking fees because of private for profit football games at the georgia dome. Large for-profit concerts are similar.
Tell you another funny one I saw before. In georgia you can hire a cop to work as an off duty security guard, and they can wear their uniforms. I once saw on a road at lunch time two competiting cops, private security guards, working at two different restaurants as traffic cops, letting the patrons go in and out and stopping traffic to everyone while they did that. And they wouldn't even coordinate with each other although the restaurants were next door to each other. One would be waving traffic forwardas his customer came or went, while the other would put his hand up and stop traffic. It was nuts, but they got away with it.
sucks. Joe private eatery can impede everyone else driving by, as much in a hurry as any of the eatery patrons, just so they can slide a few extra people in and out at lunch time, using force of law and basically armed mercenaries for the purpose.
I had a situation where I just lost it at the same place, the georgia convention center. Across the street from the ballroom entrance is the MARTA entryway, I had taken MARTA that day. This was way back, bush one was vice president. they had some meeting where he was speaking, secret service all over. I am working hard all day long at the other end of the halls, comes quitting time, trudge towards the marta station lugging a toolbag fulla heavy tools. Get right to the door, can see the station, some secretive service bozo blocks me, says I can't walk across the street down to the station, he tells me to WALK AROUND the entire congress center, take a back street and get to the station another way, but I "can't cross".
I adsmit it, I lost it. I THREW my tool bag at his feet, told him to look inside, asked him if he wanted to lug that a mile just to get 150 feet away. I was ready for anything, just didn't care at that point, was tired and worn out and no way was I gonna do what they said. I ranted at him, told him to check the bag, feel the weight, see if that was a reasonable thing to require someone. He went to snatch it up off the floor and grunted. Peeked inside, said "OK, go ahead". I was ready to be arrested at that point, just didn't care. Nowadays I wouldn't do that, you'd get shot or tasered immediately, not to mention a heavy bag full of tools would probably result in arrest for carrying "terrorist weapons"..
Back then I still thought there were a few rights left and some common sense. Apparently there was or I lucked out or both probably. I wouldn't do that today. Of course, I rarely venture into any large urban area either, it's gotten too weird. Won't fly either, not on any commercial airplane.
..but here's some relevant inmformation again about this particular case in arizona:
http://lp.org/lpnews/0411/arizona-debate.html
Arizona LP files suit to stop state funding of presidential debate
Arizona Libertarians have filed a lawsuit that could stop Arizona State University from sponsoring the third presidential debate between George Bush and Sen. John Kerry, scheduled for Oct. 13. The lawsuit maintains that by spending up to $2 million to sponsor the event in Tempe, the university is making an illegal campaign contribution to the Republican and Democratic parties.
"It's a clear case of misusing state funds," said David Euchner, attorney for the Arizona Libertarian Party (AZLP).
"Arizona recognizes three political parties," Euchner continued. "A debate which included all three of those parties would be a legitimate expenditure on education and public information. A debate including only two of the three candidates is a partisan campaign commercial -- and an illegal donation to partisan political associations."
AZLP Vice Chair Barry Hess agreed: "It is so outrageous because the Republicans and the Democrats clearly violate their own Finance Reform Act, which in this case operates against all parties except the Republicans and the Democrats."
The AZLP and its treasurer, Warren Severin, are listed as plaintiffs in the suit, which seeks an injunction or restraining order against the use of state funds for the debate.
"Additionally, this use of these particular funds is in clear violation of the Arizona Constitution," Hess added.
The Arizona Constitution prohibits making grants or donations to any individual, association, or corporation.
Libertarians also claim that if special privileges are granted to Bush and Kerry, Arizona Libertarians will have been denied their 14th Amendment equal protection guarantee. The university and the Commission for Presidential Debates were named as defendants in the suit.
Representatives of the AZLP and of Libertarian Michael Badnarik's presidential campaign conducted a joint press conference after filing the complaint with the Maricopa County Superior Court.
"They have absolutely no right to use our tax dollars for what is effectively a very expensive television commercial for Bush and Kerry," Hess told reporters.
--which is what it was, an expensive televison commercial for the Democratic and Republican parties, partially paid for with public monies at a public venue, not all "private" money at a "private" venue. They seem to have a pretty good case,at least under AZ law, and obviously they are being stalled until after the election.
...they live in washington DC, which if you think on it, is THE most "welfare" run city in the world. Virtually every penny that gets spent and respent there has been forceably TAKEN from someone else originally. And I say "welfare" because they don't produce anything, the politicians and bureaucrats just take it! So of course they think weirdly about things. It's artifically an expensive city to live in, but, the people making the decision don't have to sweat a roof or meals or a limo ride, it's all free stuff, and when they aren't getting it by the bucket load from the public trough, bigco,inc. is lining up to give them more! Thou$ands just to go speak at some luncheon? Huh? That's employment, but I wouldn't call it "work". They lose touch with what things cost, what it really means to be joe average. To them, 20 buck CDs are chump change, they wouldn't stoop to grab a jackson if it fell out of their wallets and was blowing away in the wind. A ten dollar movie? eh, less than what they tip for a few drinks. And the big hollywood and music guys are the same way, they just don't get it on predatory pricing and how much they are charging for in essence a dimes worth of copy. Or, maybe they do and just want to keep it that way.
THEY want everything that modern advanced technology can bring THEM, they just don't want you or me to have the same deal. That's the real bottom line in this thing, monopolization of technology,the good stuff only for the "elites", none or very limited for the proles and serfs.
..that I was listening to a radio show the other day, and this was the topic. Turns out that *most* (not all but most) of the high level opposition to "blood diamonds" comes from the debeers monopoly itself, they started it as a disinformation campaign, and have used a lot of mercenaries to instigate violence against a lot of poor people just trying to dig up a buck or two. turned them into rebels and terrorists and such like. Various folks ran with this disinformation and now it's carved in stone "fact". Reality is diamonds are more common than some other precious stones, they just keep a higher market value from the dearth of competition and a lot of industry collusion.
anyway, that's what was on the show....
hey! searching google to look for some data to backup what I just remembered anecdotally found me this gem!.
users pay for content so far by seeing the ads, that's where google gets it's money. so far, the text based ads are a good idea, non obtrusive, and I doubt many people block them, as opposed to generic blinking banner ads, which are annoying and increasingly being blocked by people.
If google wants to restrict the service, the ball is in their court to decide if they want to be part of the open internet, or require pay per view content. half way measures don't cut it. If you put your web page up for people to see, let them see it! Why else do you want a web page up? And why would you want to restrict their use? If they want to offer their version of searchable book reviews,but still "protect" the entire book, there's an easy solution, just only put up a few pages total.
OR..... google could work out a deal with the book sellers, and offer a monthly or yearly pay per view scheme, so you could register, pay, log in, and read what you want, print it out, etc. Just like the music and movie people can do, and are in some situations, the smart ones anyway. Digital content is a lot cheaper than plastic or dead trees versions, just charge a *reasonable* non gouging fee and get back to business of producing content. Seems the most common sensicable method yet devised.
Half assed is always half assed, they need to just make up their minds what they want.
Might take a bit of time, but seems like you could use tech like via voice to retranscribe the blocked to copy text. Read it out loud, have the machine rewrite it in another program?
...from customers when they are new computer shopping? Are they adding primarily new boxes to what they are already running, or are they upgrading what they have? If it's upgrading, why are they upgrading?
I'm asking the latter because it seems like computers got "good enough" for most business purposes already. But I don't *know* that, it just seems so. Is it really just because of the way business taxes are structured?
This is interesting. Similar concept to the Pogue and Yunick designs, pre heating of the fuel, getting a lot of vapor, etc. How you get the increases is from getting the liquid fuel down to single molecule size, normally the vapor contains a lot of macromolecules (fuel molecules still in clumps) that only partially burn. That's why they use catalytic converters now, to try and burn the inducted fuel/air vapor one more time before it's exhausted. Pity it can't be done inside the cylinders better. The best they have now is timed fuel injection, even there they waste some, that and just what engines are made out of, no matter what you will get waste heat. This ogle design seeks to reduce the waste part near as I can see.
There was a twist to this "vapor induction" method that is still in use around farms all over (some), although it's fairly outdated now with just normal diesel powered equipment. There used to be a lot of tractors that were designed to be started on gasoline, then once reaching operating temp, the fuel was switched to kerosene. The kerosene was dripped onto an extension of the intake manifold, where it vaporized from the heat of the engine, and the vapors would get sucked in and then burn in a normal fairly low compression gasoline engine. They were used extensively in ww2 to free up gasoline for the war effort. The ford n series tractors come to mind there, still quite a few around. Probably googleable as well.
I have a single cylinder old engine (cast iron B&S on an antique but still quite functional walk behind bushhog)that can be adapted for this kerosene burning as well,it's right in my manual for it actually, but I don't have the adapter yet.
Saw it on a PBS show. They just make the hydrogen right there on demand in an addition built onto a regular gas station. You pull up, you can get either hydrogen, gasoline or diesel, your choice. The gasoline tanks *could* be liquid ethanol, the diesel *could* be biodiesel, and the hydrogen is what it is, and the grid supplied electricity could come from a windfarm say, or solar, or whatever. The grid delivery is cleaner than having fleets of transport trucks for that matter, (cleaner in that pollution isn't concentrated like it is now) especially into and near large cities, and the electricity to do this is already there at the existing gas stations, along with the piped in water. It was quite a nifty rig they had, not very large, able to pump out a lot of hydroigen quickly, negating the need for a lot of large and costly compressed hydrogen tanks.
And I agree, rooftops all over should have solar panels on them, anyplace where they can get at least medium good sun. Every little bit helps, and the energy "solution" is here already, it's the combination of existing alternative sources and techniques taken in total. Now all we need is more people to take advantage of them. We went through the 60s to y2k waiting for the next century to arrive, and shazzam, it got here on schedule all that stuff got developed, you can get it, it's at the retail level now, same as universal personal computers, video game consoles, large screen TVS, in dash DVD players, Personal Digital Assistants, cellphones, jetskis, hybrid vehicles, and that marvelous foyer that yuppies seem to need in their homes in order to feel "complete". all of that and more, we got technology up the wazoo avaialble to anyone with a mind to get it. Just depends on where anyone wants to drop their loot, but for everyones sake, I sincerely hope a lot more people realise that this energy deal is something we all have to deal with, we can't just rely on this "they" guy to do it for us, it just ain't gonna work that way for much longer, IMO, and I think the "snooze ya lose" principle will come into play shortly.
Old saying we used to have,just generally speaking:
"you are part of the problem, or part of the solution", everyone gets to pick one, there are no neutrals.
I can think of several common ones immediately. Our gasoline taxes go to highways, that's a fee or license of sorts, as you need both a license for you and a license (registration and insurance) for your vehicle, and pay a fee for them, plus the day to day gasoline. If you hunt or fish here (very popular and not limited to private land"lords" and rich people), a large part of your license fees go for conservation issues, wildlife management, stocking programs, keeping land in the public commons and in good shape, etc,etc. Our postal system is still the best in the world, no where else can you ship letters so far for so cheap, and it does go through, despite some glitches, and it's supported from the stamps, still cheap, a license fee of sorts. The US is a LARGE country, and everyone pays the same fee for the postal service, whether heavy urban close distances or someone living back in the bush someplace.
There's room for improvement, but I wouldn't say it's totally bad or there's no equivalent type generic public good that is fee or license supported.
I'm the first one to rank on my government when it does bad,do it all the time, but when it does good, it stands for itself, you (we here inside the US) can see it.
...and I don't know if it really worked, but there used to be a local tornado predictor "they" said worked fairly well. This is when folks had analog rotary dial tuners and black and white TV sets. You would set the TV to channel 2, adjust brightness to almost pure dark. If a tornado got close to you, a white static band of some size would appear vertically in the screen, and you would know to head to *serious* shelter if at all possible, or take any other precautions or last ditch provisions, such as... well, use your imagination of what you might find amusing at that time. Allegedly it worked, I used to do it, but never saw the white band, also never had a tornado that close either when I was doing that. It was pushed in the media at the time though.
I'd have to check to be 100% accurate, but if you don't mind just a general statistical point from memory, roughly the US voting public is in thirds, R, D, Independent. The voting age population in general only half votes. That means the R and D parties really only represent 1/6th a piece.
The Libs have a point on this issue, technically and in my POV, anyone who is legally on the ballot in enough states to theoretically pull an electoral win should be in all the debates, so if anyone on that currently short list is excluded it shouldn't be done with public monies or at public-owned venues. It also appears to seriously violate the law the way it is now.
If any private persons and venues wish to sponsor an exclusive debate, that would be acceptable-although regrettable. Freedom of association and whatnot.
So, I hope they win this suit, and that the press covers it, just to show how dismal the state of politics really is in this nation with the R&D juntaists. Who can take seriously any candidate or party who are too scared to actually have an open debate?
..., please no acronyms, use the R.eal N.ame O.f S.omething with appropriate periods to *indicate* the acronym,or Italics or Bold for the first letter, AND if you are _obscure new and improved_ distro, please have all relevant answers about how to get online INCLUDED in the documents section of your distribution. Thank you very much and stuff.
It is beyond annoying to boot up with new and shiny,and THEN encounter a glitch where you need better and more complete information, and the F.requently A.sked Q.uestions gives you a WEBSITE ADDRESS to go get this information. Please assume that new users, non coders and non gurus might be using your distribution or (application as it were), and that just perhaps your new shiny whatever might have a bug or three.
And no, these things called "man" pages are not a total solution. They frequently give you just enough obscure and arcane information to not only fail to fix your problem, but to actually compound it (along with confounding it).
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...that they would get a contempt of court citation, but they deserve it.
None of this corporate nonsense will end, and it will continue to get worse and worse, until the law is readjusted to reflect that only named individual human beings have personal rights. Corporations avoid a lot of "guilt" by hiding behind the artificial person legal construct. It's beyond loony, was insane when it was aquired, now it's out of control and has lead to defacto fascism, let's call it what it is.
And I blame the law/justice/court system just as much in this mess as the corporations.
"Microsoft" should have never gone to trial, it should have been named humans, completely responsible for their decisions.
Here's a thought, a mass protest by millions of people having a nationwide "incorporation day", flood the system with incorporation papers and lawsuits, a tidal wave of paperwork shuffling, patent applications, copyright registrations, and so on and so forth. Get every human to be part of their own friends and family corporation, watch the system grind to a halt, THEN maybe we'll get some change. Take every single tax break corporations get, fill out the paperwork. Why should they get all the tax break perks, and avoid personal responsibility? Sue the pants off of every large existing corporation out there, find little picyaune laws you can use. Patent everything possible, no matter how obscure. Challenge "no warranty" EULAS in small claims court all over. Serve every PHB out there with papers detailing your employment status, make them sign off to you on every single decision. They balk, sue em. Hand your own puchase contract to every shopkeeper out there when you go to buy something, demand they sign it for the sale.
They want stupid, inane, ridiculous, society choking crap busywork and laws I say give it to 'em!
Completely drown them in their own corporate/governmental/so called "legal system" paperwork BS.....
...your own personal name? Might be a solution there.
...into the mysterious and scary and obviously expensive future!
I read the whole thread. I am tempted to start a "real men back in the day" subthread, because real men back in the day used army surplus stuff! Both ways, to and from!
and we LIK3D it!
For real, army surplus, check it out you young geeks! I am amazed not one mention! Is this a lost art? What happened???? (don't say it, I know what you are thinking wisenheimerzzz....)
The US grunt forces have a container made from heavy duty cloth with handles and straps for ANYTHING in the world that could conceivably be man portable. ANYTHING. And you NEVER have to sweat the color!
Instructions: goto nearest mil surplus store, seek out large pile of pack/web gear looking stuff, usually inside old wooden crates or on back dusty shelves. This will take awhile as you have to DIG. You will find TREASURES buried in there, just gotta look. Now, peruse the offerings, you WILL find several that are most intriguing in configuration and style and will be close to what you want. You will also see some that will make you go YES, this will fit my.....whatever, you weren't even thinking about. Pick out bag or bags of choice, drop a FEW DOLLARS max. Also pick up a few of the cheapest pieces of crap they have just for more material and extra straps and buckles and do dads like that. You are set now.
Now,go home, aquire your heavy duty waxed thread and large curved upholstery needle from your gear stash (you DO have this,correct?) and MOD the bag to fit YOUR personal gear exactly the way YOU want it.
MUCH mo coolah than yupster bags!
there's a well known but not much publicised or admitted-to option Israel has, and that is to take down all the capitals in europe and the US with nukes if it looks like they will be over-run in another general war. The obvious reference is from Samson taking down the pillars and collapsing the temple on himself, but getting all his foes as well.
I don't agree with it, and I think it was a boneheaded move to re establish that state there artifically, but thems the facts and realities now-they got hundreds of nukes, enough to pulverise all the middle eastern capitals and also europe and some of the US if push comes to genocidal shove for them. Basically blackmail, and it sucketh. I personally don't consider their political state as being frinedly to the US, nor any of the other middle eastern states, it's just relationships of convenience more than anything else right now. They've never signed the nuclear non proliferation treaty, and as such should be under embargo from the US by our general law, but they are specifically excluded and ignored on that point. Some say it's because of the Samson option, but to back that up-and this is speculation as well but well founded-they have so many US lawmakers in their pockets from potential blackmail threats and from bribery that they get what they want almost all the time, and will continue to do so.
I see almost zero chance of any peace in the middle east, and almost a 100% chance of a major war being fought there eventually, including all forms of WMD. It might happen within this decade, too, for that matter.
Armageddon if you will.
--I've gotten a few grannies and grandpas (my baby boomer age demographic) to switch, just from talking to them online and hearing them comment on the MS bug du juor and unusability of IE, so I dropped links to moz and open office, etc. It CAN happen if folks try to be constructive about it. Switching all the way to linux though is a harder sell, I will admit. Too hard to do over the internet hand holding and installation. This won't happen, any big universal switch, until anyone can just as easily get a linux install as a MS install at most any shop they walk into. People run the OS that comes on their machines, that's about it. About the only reason-well, two reasons, I ever even tried linux myself is from being a geek and having spare junker machines. If I only owned one machine I doubt I would have experimented with it, the idea there is "better the devil you know".
...actually including any third party alternatives with a windows install? Are they including firefox, open office, various security tools that are freeware, when they could? I really don't know, but I hope so.
Are any of the big vendors shipping a factory installed dual boot system for joe home and business desktop? Now THAT would be interesting! Side by side stock comparison for folks, in a semi no brainer format for them, as the vendors have control of the hardware, so you know it will all work when you get it home or to the office and plug it in.
--just about all of these concepts are variations on the "lean burn" ideal. The biggest drawback isn't necessarily pulling that off, it's materials science, as lean burn makes a LOT of heat in most cases. You can lean out an engine to a ridiculous level and get a lot more mileage, but it'll waste your engine quickly. It's a tradeoff, that and havng to design an engine that has to be used a a wide range of conditions, start and stop, high speed, low speed, etc. Tradeoffs.
Then it gets into gearing, overall weight of the vehicle, all sorts of stuff.
Anecdotaly, the best I have done is to apply mild racing level engineering to an engine, but not trying to force more horsepower out by widely altering the cam or greatly increasing compression ratio. I just weanted a better daily driver, more reliable and smoother, so that's what I got. Took a regular carbureted 4 cylinder motor in an old fiat I had (a 1969 rear engine spyder). Exchanged the stock pistons for very good quality very slightly oversized aluminum forged pistons, then balanced them myself by gradually reducing weight along the bottom of the skirt so that they all matched within a couple of grams. Did the same to better quality connecting rods. This is called balancing. Then they were shot peened for better hardness and strength. Nowadays as pointed out you can get them cyro treated as well, sometimes useful, sometimes not. The cylinders in the block were rebored to fit the new pistons individually, pistons 1,2,3,4, marked. Had that done at a shop that specialises in it. The head had was recut slightly and really made flat to seat better, had the chambers cleaned well, valves got special treatment, really nice cuts and lapping. could have got better quality valaves but didn't afford it at the time. Went to carbon pushrods (told ya it was an old engine). The crankshaft was re lapped and polished and the entire assembly was done correctly to fit the correct size bearings. That baby was TIGHT, took dragging it around in gear to get the new hard chrome rings to seat properly, the stock starter wouldn't hardly turn the thing. But once broken in that way,coupla tows around the block is all it took, man, varoom! Got lots mo powah,_plus_ better mileage, redline went to ridiculous if I wanted to push it,and it was *quiet* at idle and very very smooth running as I retained al the stock timing, etc. it was a very smallengine in a very small car, but it got between 50-60 MPG, and would do highway speeds, although that was it, around 70 tops. It wasn't even a one liter motor, I think it went to around 960 CCs total displacement after the work done on it.
There's a lot of other tricks too, racing guys already know them, they just don't design daily driver cars. They machine to better tolerances, use better materials, etc, but then design for maximum power, frequently they don't care if the engine only lasts for the duration of one race. If you take the same philosophy in engineering, but only design the engine parameters for normal street use, you get the best of both worlds then, plus your engine would last longer. It just costs more, that's all, and people can't see it, they want flashy stuff and car entertainment systems and paint jobs, etc. And with todays multiple computerised fuel delivery and ignition systems, I don't see any quickee bolt on gizmo really helping out or being easy to install. If I was to attempt to do this and try out some of those exotic designs as mentioned in the patents, etc, I think it would be prudent to start with an older really simple non computerised non electronic hardly nuthin engine and car.
Anyway, the net is slap fulla interesting projects like that if you want to look for them, my favorite was smokey yunicks adiabatic engine designs, his actually worked and were tested out, you can find some pages on them with google..
--if the fee or tax is mandated under law, then it's a governmental mandate,exactly what it is, little different froma direct tax to government. What has occurred is that the third party is now a quasi arm of government, it is no longer independent or private, so it shouldn't really be called that, IMO.
Gets down to semantics, but if it's required by law, it's part of government. if it's purely voluntary and contractural, then it's private business.
Public broadcasting should exist by support of the viewers, if there's no support, then, well, too bad. Perhaps a different model for content would be better. I don't like the slippery slope of forcing the public to fund some private efforts. It's the "force" part that is wrong.
laws are only for those not in power. Rs and Ds control the guys with guns, and also appoint most of the judges. there are so many obvious contradictions, exceptions and special priveleges given to Rs and Ds it ain't funny.
My only question is, why do people who constantly vote in Rs and Ds wonder why it's never any different? What do they expect? I've been directly hearting "don't waste your vote" since the 64 election. Near as I can see, all those R and D votes have been "wasted", people thinking they will ever get honest government or anything like constructive change. It's like charlie brown and lucy with the football, just "one more time" he's going to trust her. Nuts.
Point is moot now, they have most everyone buffaloed that computerised voting is a swell idea. Welcome to the one party state, Amerika, the criminal gang is just smart enough to call it two parties.
We have the finest in technofeudalism that money can buy.
I think it's the nature of high IQ nerdom. You tend to think the "other guy" is an idiot, because a lot of times they are. Makes you pretty egocentric I guess, even when the other guy is SMARTER than you or has pulled off something impressive.. Hecktapay when you got a large room fulla them...in meat space or cyberspace... ....had a sales job once, selling a new and improved technical product. Doesn't matter what it was now, what I noticed though was when I was selling to joe blow, it was normal,questions answers, sold some, sometimes didn't, but it was a normal deal. When I tried to sell to engineers they argued constantly about it, said they could do it cheaper/better/faster and yada yada yada. It was an automatic reaction they had, just the way their minds worked. Didn't matter to them, it is hard coded DNA or something. I would ask them why they didn't do it then (zero of them had ever made anything like it), and why did they bother making an appointment, especially when they knew the ballpark figures up front. they would just sputter then, pretty funny. Serious PITA sometimes. Ya, it was bad salesmanship on my part, didn't care, I made enough sales and was raking in the dough at the time. It was argumentive debate sport for me with them guys, nerd to nerd...
No, I don't like sales.. don't do it anymore....I did sell a few units to engineers, but I studiously avoided them after the first few times.
..Perot WAS at the debates and he had never been elected to anything. When he pulled a huge number of votes because finally there was some media coverage for a third party candidate,it terrified the R&D coalition of the crooked, and they changed the rules and laws on the whole thing. Even the leagueof women voters got fed up with them. And they make sure there's little press for any third parties, yet they cover medium ridiculous crapola like michael jackson and kobe bryant endlessly just about.
The fix is in, we live in a low key but increasingly dictatorial police state junta run by two cooperating for-profit private criminal cartels who have hijacked legitimate government and run it as a jobs program and as a way to be in a position to accept bribes for favors. Obvious as all get out.
"(Show me any private party or business affair you know of where this level of government intervention is present?)"
Major league and large college sporting events come to mind readily. They block roads and hinder private persons on public property just to serve a private interest, in most cases, just so they can make some profits.
I used to work tradeshows in atlanta, can't tell you how many times I got hindered trying to go to work at the GCC right next door or getting raped in the wallet by boosted parking fees because of private for profit football games at the georgia dome. Large for-profit concerts are similar.
Tell you another funny one I saw before. In georgia you can hire a cop to work as an off duty security guard, and they can wear their uniforms. I once saw on a road at lunch time two competiting cops, private security guards, working at two different restaurants as traffic cops, letting the patrons go in and out and stopping traffic to everyone while they did that. And they wouldn't even coordinate with each other although the restaurants were next door to each other. One would be waving traffic forwardas his customer came or went, while the other would put his hand up and stop traffic. It was nuts, but they got away with it.
sucks. Joe private eatery can impede everyone else driving by, as much in a hurry as any of the eatery patrons, just so they can slide a few extra people in and out at lunch time, using force of law and basically armed mercenaries for the purpose.
I had a situation where I just lost it at the same place, the georgia convention center. Across the street from the ballroom entrance is the MARTA entryway, I had taken MARTA that day. This was way back, bush one was vice president. they had some meeting where he was speaking, secret service all over. I am working hard all day long at the other end of the halls, comes quitting time, trudge towards the marta station lugging a toolbag fulla heavy tools. Get right to the door, can see the station, some secretive service bozo blocks me, says I can't walk across the street down to the station, he tells me to WALK AROUND the entire congress center, take a back street and get to the station another way, but I "can't cross".
I adsmit it, I lost it. I THREW my tool bag at his feet, told him to look inside, asked him if he wanted to lug that a mile just to get 150 feet away. I was ready for anything, just didn't care at that point, was tired and worn out and no way was I gonna do what they said. I ranted at him, told him to check the bag, feel the weight, see if that was a reasonable thing to require someone. He went to snatch it up off the floor and grunted. Peeked inside, said "OK, go ahead". I was ready to be arrested at that point, just didn't care. Nowadays I wouldn't do that, you'd get shot or tasered immediately, not to mention a heavy bag full of tools would probably result in arrest for carrying "terrorist weapons"..
Back then I still thought there were a few rights left and some common sense. Apparently there was or I lucked out or both probably. I wouldn't do that today. Of course, I rarely venture into any large urban area either, it's gotten too weird. Won't fly either, not on any commercial airplane.
..but here's some relevant inmformation again about this particular case in arizona:
http://lp.org/lpnews/0411/arizona-debate.html
Arizona LP files suit to stop state funding of presidential debate
Arizona Libertarians have filed a lawsuit that could stop Arizona State University from sponsoring the third presidential debate between George Bush and Sen. John Kerry, scheduled for Oct. 13. The lawsuit maintains that by spending up to $2 million to sponsor the event in Tempe, the university is making an illegal campaign contribution to the Republican and Democratic parties.
"It's a clear case of misusing state funds," said David Euchner, attorney for the Arizona Libertarian Party (AZLP).
"Arizona recognizes three political parties," Euchner continued. "A debate which included all three of those parties would be a legitimate expenditure on education and public information. A debate including only two of the three candidates is a partisan campaign commercial -- and an illegal donation to partisan political associations."
AZLP Vice Chair Barry Hess agreed: "It is so outrageous because the Republicans and the Democrats clearly violate their own Finance Reform Act, which in this case operates against all parties except the Republicans and the Democrats."
The AZLP and its treasurer, Warren Severin, are listed as plaintiffs in the suit, which seeks an injunction or restraining order against the use of state funds for the debate.
"Additionally, this use of these particular funds is in clear violation of the Arizona Constitution," Hess added.
The Arizona Constitution prohibits making grants or donations to any individual, association, or corporation.
Libertarians also claim that if special privileges are granted to Bush and Kerry, Arizona Libertarians will have been denied their 14th Amendment equal protection guarantee. The university and the Commission for Presidential Debates were named as defendants in the suit.
Representatives of the AZLP and of Libertarian Michael Badnarik's presidential campaign conducted a joint press conference after filing the complaint with the Maricopa County Superior Court.
"They have absolutely no right to use our tax dollars for what is effectively a very expensive television commercial for Bush and Kerry," Hess told reporters.
--which is what it was, an expensive televison commercial for the Democratic and Republican parties, partially paid for with public monies at a public venue, not all "private" money at a "private" venue. They seem to have a pretty good case,at least under AZ law, and obviously they are being stalled until after the election.
...they live in washington DC, which if you think on it, is THE most "welfare" run city in the world. Virtually every penny that gets spent and respent there has been forceably TAKEN from someone else originally. And I say "welfare" because they don't produce anything, the politicians and bureaucrats just take it! So of course they think weirdly about things. It's artifically an expensive city to live in, but, the people making the decision don't have to sweat a roof or meals or a limo ride, it's all free stuff, and when they aren't getting it by the bucket load from the public trough, bigco,inc. is lining up to give them more! Thou$ands just to go speak at some luncheon? Huh? That's employment, but I wouldn't call it "work". They lose touch with what things cost, what it really means to be joe average. To them, 20 buck CDs are chump change, they wouldn't stoop to grab a jackson if it fell out of their wallets and was blowing away in the wind. A ten dollar movie? eh, less than what they tip for a few drinks. And the big hollywood and music guys are the same way, they just don't get it on predatory pricing and how much they are charging for in essence a dimes worth of copy. Or, maybe they do and just want to keep it that way.
THEY want everything that modern advanced technology can bring THEM, they just don't want you or me to have the same deal. That's the real bottom line in this thing, monopolization of technology,the good stuff only for the "elites", none or very limited for the proles and serfs.
..that I was listening to a radio show the other day, and this was the topic. Turns out that *most* (not all but most) of the high level opposition to "blood diamonds" comes from the debeers monopoly itself, they started it as a disinformation campaign, and have used a lot of mercenaries to instigate violence against a lot of poor people just trying to dig up a buck or two. turned them into rebels and terrorists and such like. Various folks ran with this disinformation and now it's carved in stone "fact". Reality is diamonds are more common than some other precious stones, they just keep a higher market value from the dearth of competition and a lot of industry collusion.
anyway, that's what was on the show....
hey! searching google to look for some data to backup what I just remembered anecdotally found me this gem!.
users pay for content so far by seeing the ads, that's where google gets it's money. so far, the text based ads are a good idea, non obtrusive, and I doubt many people block them, as opposed to generic blinking banner ads, which are annoying and increasingly being blocked by people.
If google wants to restrict the service, the ball is in their court to decide if they want to be part of the open internet, or require pay per view content. half way measures don't cut it. If you put your web page up for people to see, let them see it! Why else do you want a web page up? And why would you want to restrict their use? If they want to offer their version of searchable book reviews,but still "protect" the entire book, there's an easy solution, just only put up a few pages total.
OR..... google could work out a deal with the book sellers, and offer a monthly or yearly pay per view scheme, so you could register, pay, log in, and read what you want, print it out, etc. Just like the music and movie people can do, and are in some situations, the smart ones anyway. Digital content is a lot cheaper than plastic or dead trees versions, just charge a *reasonable* non gouging fee and get back to business of producing content. Seems the most common sensicable method yet devised.
Half assed is always half assed, they need to just make up their minds what they want.
Might take a bit of time, but seems like you could use tech like via voice to retranscribe the blocked to copy text. Read it out loud, have the machine rewrite it in another program?
...from customers when they are new computer shopping? Are they adding primarily new boxes to what they are already running, or are they upgrading what they have? If it's upgrading, why are they upgrading?
I'm asking the latter because it seems like computers got "good enough" for most business purposes already. But I don't *know* that, it just seems so. Is it really just because of the way business taxes are structured?
This is interesting. Similar concept to the Pogue and Yunick designs, pre heating of the fuel, getting a lot of vapor, etc. How you get the increases is from getting the liquid fuel down to single molecule size, normally the vapor contains a lot of macromolecules (fuel molecules still in clumps) that only partially burn. That's why they use catalytic converters now, to try and burn the inducted fuel/air vapor one more time before it's exhausted. Pity it can't be done inside the cylinders better. The best they have now is timed fuel injection, even there they waste some, that and just what engines are made out of, no matter what you will get waste heat. This ogle design seeks to reduce the waste part near as I can see.
There was a twist to this "vapor induction" method that is still in use around farms all over (some), although it's fairly outdated now with just normal diesel powered equipment. There used to be a lot of tractors that were designed to be started on gasoline, then once reaching operating temp, the fuel was switched to kerosene. The kerosene was dripped onto an extension of the intake manifold, where it vaporized from the heat of the engine, and the vapors would get sucked in and then burn in a normal fairly low compression gasoline engine. They were used extensively in ww2 to free up gasoline for the war effort. The ford n series tractors come to mind there, still quite a few around. Probably googleable as well.
I have a single cylinder old engine (cast iron B&S on an antique but still quite functional walk behind bushhog)that can be adapted for this kerosene burning as well,it's right in my manual for it actually, but I don't have the adapter yet.
Saw it on a PBS show. They just make the hydrogen right there on demand in an addition built onto a regular gas station. You pull up, you can get either hydrogen, gasoline or diesel, your choice. The gasoline tanks *could* be liquid ethanol, the diesel *could* be biodiesel, and the hydrogen is what it is, and the grid supplied electricity could come from a windfarm say, or solar, or whatever. The grid delivery is cleaner than having fleets of transport trucks for that matter, (cleaner in that pollution isn't concentrated like it is now) especially into and near large cities, and the electricity to do this is already there at the existing gas stations, along with the piped in water. It was quite a nifty rig they had, not very large, able to pump out a lot of hydroigen quickly, negating the need for a lot of large and costly compressed hydrogen tanks.
And I agree, rooftops all over should have solar panels on them, anyplace where they can get at least medium good sun. Every little bit helps, and the energy "solution" is here already, it's the combination of existing alternative sources and techniques taken in total. Now all we need is more people to take advantage of them. We went through the 60s to y2k waiting for the next century to arrive, and shazzam, it got here on schedule all that stuff got developed, you can get it, it's at the retail level now, same as universal personal computers, video game consoles, large screen TVS, in dash DVD players, Personal Digital Assistants, cellphones, jetskis, hybrid vehicles, and that marvelous foyer that yuppies seem to need in their homes in order to feel "complete". all of that and more, we got technology up the wazoo avaialble to anyone with a mind to get it. Just depends on where anyone wants to drop their loot, but for everyones sake, I sincerely hope a lot more people realise that this energy deal is something we all have to deal with, we can't just rely on this "they" guy to do it for us, it just ain't gonna work that way for much longer, IMO, and I think the "snooze ya lose" principle will come into play shortly.
Old saying we used to have,just generally speaking:
"you are part of the problem, or part of the solution", everyone gets to pick one, there are no neutrals.
I can think of several common ones immediately. Our gasoline taxes go to highways, that's a fee or license of sorts, as you need both a license for you and a license (registration and insurance) for your vehicle, and pay a fee for them, plus the day to day gasoline. If you hunt or fish here (very popular and not limited to private land"lords" and rich people), a large part of your license fees go for conservation issues, wildlife management, stocking programs, keeping land in the public commons and in good shape, etc,etc. Our postal system is still the best in the world, no where else can you ship letters so far for so cheap, and it does go through, despite some glitches, and it's supported from the stamps, still cheap, a license fee of sorts. The US is a LARGE country, and everyone pays the same fee for the postal service, whether heavy urban close distances or someone living back in the bush someplace.
There's room for improvement, but I wouldn't say it's totally bad or there's no equivalent type generic public good that is fee or license supported.
I'm the first one to rank on my government when it does bad,do it all the time, but when it does good, it stands for itself, you (we here inside the US) can see it.
...and I don't know if it really worked, but there used to be a local tornado predictor "they" said worked fairly well. This is when folks had analog rotary dial tuners and black and white TV sets. You would set the TV to channel 2, adjust brightness to almost pure dark. If a tornado got close to you, a white static band of some size would appear vertically in the screen, and you would know to head to *serious* shelter if at all possible, or take any other precautions or last ditch provisions, such as ... well, use your imagination of what you might find amusing at that time. Allegedly it worked, I used to do it, but never saw the white band, also never had a tornado that close either when I was doing that. It was pushed in the media at the time though.
I'd have to check to be 100% accurate, but if you don't mind just a general statistical point from memory, roughly the US voting public is in thirds, R, D, Independent. The voting age population in general only half votes. That means the R and D parties really only represent 1/6th a piece.
The Libs have a point on this issue, technically and in my POV, anyone who is legally on the ballot in enough states to theoretically pull an electoral win should be in all the debates, so if anyone on that currently short list is excluded it shouldn't be done with public monies or at public-owned venues. It also appears to seriously violate the law the way it is now.
If any private persons and venues wish to sponsor an exclusive debate, that would be acceptable-although regrettable. Freedom of association and whatnot.
So, I hope they win this suit, and that the press covers it, just to show how dismal the state of politics really is in this nation with the R&D juntaists. Who can take seriously any candidate or party who are too scared to actually have an open debate?
.... "PostgreSQL" to me really fast, I'd probably say "Geshundheit"......
..., please no acronyms, use the R.eal N.ame O.f S.omething with appropriate periods to *indicate* the acronym,or Italics or Bold for the first letter, AND if you are _obscure new and improved_ distro, please have all relevant answers about how to get online INCLUDED in the documents section of your distribution. Thank you very much and stuff.
It is beyond annoying to boot up with new and shiny,and THEN encounter a glitch where you need better and more complete information, and the F.requently A.sked Q.uestions gives you a WEBSITE ADDRESS to go get this information. Please assume that new users, non coders and non gurus might be using your distribution or (application as it were), and that just perhaps your new shiny whatever might have a bug or three.
And no, these things called "man" pages are not a total solution. They frequently give you just enough obscure and arcane information to not only fail to fix your problem, but to actually compound it (along with confounding it).
thankyou
(signed) (respectfully)
the 99.999999% of the population who are not Linux and command line gurus