Any angle from the ground in order to hit the pilots eyes had to be shot from a LONG way away you would think. The closer the shooter was, the steeper the angle, making it near impossible to hit the windshield, let alone the pilots eyes. It certainly seems to make more sense that it came from another aircraft, and that in itself is rather alarming.
I am thinking of a few scenarios, all of them suck if that is the case.
1- really lame practical joke gone really bad from a random person in another plane. 2- delibarate terrorist attack by joe "real" terrorist, a proof of concept effort maybe 3-agent provocateur attack by shadow government/rogue faction to induce a reaction to put pressure on reducing lasers in civilian hands, because of their potential self defense against a junta potential perhaps, or for some other reason, such as borking surveillence cameras, or any number of reasons
Of course it still could have come from the ground, but it seems just like an amazingly lucky shot with a pretty powerful laser.(anyone knowledgeable want to comment on probable laser used and how to aim it accurately in this scenario?) Not only to hit, but to see where the hit is to correct the aim. Try it with a simple handheld rifle scope with integral laser(maybe that's what was used, but a model not available readily for civilians), and you can see the wiggle you get and how hard to see it at a relatively close couple hundred yards against a stationary target, against something moving really fast and pretty far away indicates a pretty sophisticated and powerful setup. The news articles (I have read several before slashdot got it) don't really have much in the way of details yet.
Seems like you could build your home network out of used laptops then, with some hubs/switches. A lot of the older ones that are still decent are quiet and low noise and relatively low power consumption. Also very low physical space footprint. And if they are stationary you wouldn't need much beyond having them run through a UPS system to make up for the usually borked (and expensive to replace) batteries that come with most used laptops. Or just have one server stashed away someplace and use the lappys as thin clients, even quieter and less power.
Maybe, don't know, would be interesting to see an all laptop network though.
If something were to happen to Linus, what exactly happens with the kernel? Who makes the decisions then? Is there a legal "progression" of authority, or what?
That's a LOT of programs! I wonder if there's any nerd out there has them all installed on a massive multi boot system? Would make an interesting and stupid nerd cred project in the "just because you can" category.
Your 20 files you might need to keep track of are all inside the app, pretty easy to find. They aren't spread out all over here and yonder like they are now.
Anyway, we'll see. I bet sometime in the future you'll start seeing complete apps, with all their needed files intact. It might start with the smaller apps obviously, but I bet we'll see it. The advantages will become apparent once linux leaves hobbiest/gurus and gets to joe users on widespread desktops.
...or what? Besides someone getting a kickback in vendor HQ (I bet this is the number one reason MS became dominant over the years), of what possible reason is this being done? Who the heck would even want a crippled "training bra" version of any OS? Is it just so they have SOMETHING on the screen running on the demo unit at the store, and they know that the full priced version is so expensive that very few people in these other countries will actually purchase it? Is it because it's becomg increasingly obvious that their US price structure is so far out to lunch nowadays that they have to do something to stem the tide of revolt against them? (I think so)
MS has a few options in the new century, but shipping mega-cripple ware by design is not one of them. They fail it bigtime on this one.
Any vendors installing and shipping this are tards, IMO. This is having inertia determine your market into the ludicrous range. It's laughable.
Here's a thought for MS if they want to maintain, instead of purposelly lowering quality in selected markets, drop your prices everywhere to reflect a top price that is acceptable in the least wealthy country. If they sold XPpro for a *very* reasonable fee, most people would rather just get the official disks, so as to avoid possible trojans whatever that might be on a warez copy. MS is absolutely so freaking greedy they can't even contemplate that. I mean, it's a freeking plastic disk. They can pump them out by the millions for cheap. They have resorted to corporate insanity in the fear they might actually have to compete based on merit. I mean, have they no shame, aren't they even the tiniest bit embarassed over this?
I know they are a multibillion buck comcpany, yada yada, capitalism, yada yada, that's not the point. the point is they got there by questionable tactics and ALSO being there for the explosion of the personal computer, timing is more important than anything else. Well, it's commodity-ware now, home appliance action, toaster, TV, computer. Yard sales have computers, flea markets, discount stores. This ISN'T the 1980s. Personal computers, OS and apps sellers are going to have to recognize that, it's no longer "exotic" or only very rich people or companies who own and use computers, yesterdays pricing modality is going to have to reflect this, and soon. This training bra edition is a big fat JOKE.
Why are the "new and improved" images of sedonia so dismal then? They are crappier than the original ones from 30 something years ago.
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If I am not mistaken (it's quite possible I am, but here goes), I believe this is how mac classic OS works. I know on my macs I can stick an app just about most anywhere and it will work. I can make an alias of the app, stick that icon anyplace, and it will find it and work. I don't know how they do that unless it's by using the method of including all the files needed inside the app. And it's a pretty secure system. There's some beefs with classic, but insecurity is pretty low on that list.
I welcome any clarifications from any knowledgeable person on that.
That can be automated as well. It's linux, everything is a file. The file has a name, it can be found, every place it exists in every app, and replaced. You could still download just the one updated file, and it could be replaced in a dozen places (whatever) where it exists on your system. The only difference is how many places it exists, but as your system is doing the replacing, it could still be one command or click for the user, no different than it is now. One place, twp places-a dozen, it wouldn't matter. It also allows you to isolate problems without knocking out all your apps that might share a file in question now, you could choose to only update the file inside of one "test" app, run it, see that it is acceptable inside your environment before you extend it to all the apps that are using it.. As it is now, if one file messes up or has a critical new flaw, it can mess up all the apps that by necessity link to it. You could isolate various apps using permissions, and still do some of your tasks in a safer environment of your choice.
And you can also run multiple instances of the same app, using different versions if you want, again, useful for big updates in a production environment.
I understand what you are saying on the issues here, but I see the advantages outweighing the disadvantages, and it could lead to the truly customizable OS of choice. And I am saying this with the thought of the future, as hard drive sizes get larger, more ram gets faster and is installed in a larger quantity, processors get faster, "persistant" ram gets better and more common, etc and so forth. You could even take the concept further into the future, every app is so complete it comes with it's own microkernel system.
Just thinking years down the road, that's all. I don't think you are in any danger of it happening tomorrow, although I'd like to see a distro that was designed that way now just for testing purposes.
I certainly wouldn't deny it was a factor. I think though, the main reasons where the overlap with the still very recent at the time civil rights movement, and the phenomenon of an extremely large and undeclared war being waged primarily by young and mostly poor or lower middle class draftees who weren't even allowed to vote yet. That was very contentious, and class warfare was involved as well, people who could get a 2S deferrment by being able to afford college (any college, basketweaving courses, etc) got out, a lot of poorer kids had to go. This was before they tried that draft "lottery" scheme.
I think there are too many factors to pick any one of them as being paramount. It's just the way the times were then, similar eras in our history, like right before the civil war, and very little "drug" action then outside of booze and doped snakeoil medicine was even available. It makes for an interesting documentary perhaps, but from what I remember, it really was more issues oriented. People righteously saw it as a war for profit, a war at a conveninet time when the domestic economy was reeling, and noticing the political process to have been hijacked by the military industrial complex as Eisenhower termed it. I think we were correct then, and it's the same now, just "more hijacked" than before.
In most of that sense I agree. if it was me, I'd start with eliminating the department of education at the federal level. Many billions a year to do nothing but running a redundant bureaucracy, monies that could be retained by the individual taxpayer and the respective states in total, to use for education as they see fit.
The other part is basic societal "worth", we don't reward brains as much as we should. I mean, look at this site - "news for nerds". We all know how society feels about nerds, don't we? Our society rewards "populars" who become managers, they merely tolerate nerds because they know nothing will get done if they don't. As such, kids have little incentive to learn, it's more desirable for them to "go into business" or like become "stars" or something. Plus, it's just harder, it's harder to constantly apply yourself, it's easier to "manage" others who apply themselves, you get a cut of all their effort.
Mistaken address (I believe although they never admitted it) drug raid. When no drugs were found (there weren't any), they grabbed some oregano cooking spice action and vitamins out of the house and held them up in court (a baggie of leafy looking stuff and pill looking things) and claimed they were drugs after "careful analysis at the police lab", etc.
jaw dropping to be sure....after being held all night and them claiming there were drugs, when you knew there weren't any, then to see THAT as the "evidence".
spooky crap. I eventually got out of it but it took me a long time and eventually had to do all the lawyer work myself. That taught me a lesson as well, lawyers are court officers, clients may come and go, but they go in front of the same few judges and DAs all the time, so they learn to get along with them, especially if they get paid regardless of outcome. Eventually they (the court/state) agreed to drop any charges, so no other court appearance beyond initial arraignment. I think after a few conversations the judge realised that the cops were being a tad squirrely and loose with the information. I told him to just go look at the evidence himself up close. Maybe that helped, I don't know, but I think he did because shortly thereafter they dropped charges, etc. Because of the alleged "quantity" initially they were shooting for a dealer rap as well, with potential 20 years plus sentence. I was a kid then, that sorta looked like life to me almost. Man I was steamed. I was joe boy sprout then in most things, at most I drank a little beer once in a great while. Makes ya real smart real quick facing something like that, your brane hits the turbo button. Also makes you sympathetic when you hear other horror stories. People who have never gone through anything like that don't have a frame of reference, it's theoretical, they usually can't "believe" anything like that can happen. Since then what I have learned is that it's *quite* common. You can even occasionaly get cops off the record to admit to planting evidence as a routine thing, they call it flaking. They also act as agent provacateurs at demonstrations, initiating violence to get the "official" police to "react to the dangerous..whatevers...".
ahh, gets complex. Nowadays and for a long time, my default position is, if government is saying something is "so" and it sounds weird, most likely it is,so check for the lie first, you usally aren't disappointed.
I would say "crime" went up in the areas of organized large scale criminality, the rise of very wealthy and powerful gangs or syndicates. It also increased the level of official corruption throughout government, and helped start the federal government in particular on the path they are still on now, seizing all control based on artifically constructed boggie-man premises. I'd call those sorts of crimes more important and even more devastating to society in general, with the caveat that "normal" crime is bad obviously.
...in the proliferation of various distros, it appears that eventually what will evolve will be a state where every user has their own OS, custom designed by them, for their particular purposes. It's the ultimate anti vendor lock-in scheme.
And with the size of hard drives now and what's coming ahead, eventually app devs will stop using dynamically linked libraries and offer stand alone, install anywhere with any (kernel compatable) OS apps, truly opening up the personalised customization scene right to joe newbie user.
I know purists amd old timey gurus might hate it, but it's starting to make sense what with hard drive capacity and dvd sizes.
...subscriber preview again? 15 minutes? Seems like they would have to bump that up some to give any interested folks a chance to make a torrent or get a coral link going. I mean, if folks pay for a page, they want to go read the articles primarily, not remake a website for someone else. And even then, who knows some folks at websites may be totally against anyone taking their stuff and cacheing it, even if they get slashdotted.
But ya, it's a problem, what I do is make an executive decision if I want to chance the link or not, because I want to read the article. If it's a big site, like a commercial web page, I usually click on it because it's their lookout to have a server that can serve some decent number hits, if it's joe hobbiest personal site or obvious small and obscure site,based on what the URL looks like, I'll wait a day or at least a few hours.
one terrabyte, huh? Hmm, whopper home library on one disk. I'd like that, thousands of books on one disk, cool beans. Maybe use it to record your own movies or stills all on one disk in the camera (if it was fast enough to do it real time). How about a terrabyte of "live" linux versions, REALLY get a "try em all" disk?
I wonder what the entire source forge or freshmeat library of apps would take?
Hey, how big is the ole intarweb right now? How many 1 TB disks would it take to hold what's on the net at any given time lately? That's an interesting stat to know, I guess google might have a clue or lexis nexus.
What do you do as the "swift law n order" guy when you as a prosecutor or jury turn out to have convicted the wrong guy? We see articles about it all the time now, some poor schmoo in prison for years, turns out the prosecutors surpressed evidence or their main witness recants and admits they were lying, or new DNA evidence clears someone, etc. What then? Are you prepared to take their place in the criminal justice enforcement provisions, and take jail time or execution or castration for making a drastic mistake? Or is saying "whoops, sorry 'bout that" enough? What amount of "sorry" cash will bring someone back from the beyond, or restore your nads? How do you give back the time taken from someone who's spent years in jail?
The problem with extremely "swift justice" is that in a lot of cases it leaves out the "justice" part and concentrates on the "swift" part. And in our society now it all boils down to cash, the more you got, the more you can get away with, and the least likely you may even be charged. The less you got, the more likely it is you WILL esperience capital S swift and not really get any small j justice.
You ever been in a courtroom for something serious where the prosecutor and cop get on the stand and lie to the judge about events they claim transpired, with you as who they want to prosecute, and you know they are lying, and that you are 100% innocent? I have, and I tell you, it is about one of the most depressing and dismal and hopless scenes you can imagine, you just get devastated. It's in my top ten list for being such an anti corrupt government agitator, been there, done that, it HAPPENS to people, either individually, or in the case of big crimes like illegal wars, it happens to everyone. Justice? Where is it, not seeing it much, I see a prison/lawyer/government 3 million laws on the books and climbing racket, but not seeing much in the way of "justice". Isee a system where eventually you won't ever be innocent, because they could find something you are guilty of. I bet it's there now for the bulk of the population.
"Justice" to me is-say, one example-a potential rape victim HASN'T been disarmed in advance by society, and when a rape is attempted, the raper gets popped by the rapee. When joe sixpack has some burglar break into his house, the same, bang, end of story, obvious evidence, burglar on floor in living room. That's "justice". Anything else is a convulted melodrama conducted in a foreign language most people don't speak with the winners usually determined by who has the most cash or the most "power" in the situation. Not in all cases, but in most of them.
What we have now is the criminal justice "system" which is more of a perpetual jobs racket for some folks then anything else. Do we have crime? Sure! There's still a lot of legit crime, theft, murder, etc, but a LOT of what we have now is artificially produced pseudo crime, introduced by the state and legislators who's only job is to write more laws, never to REMOVE laws that have been proven to be a disaster. A lot of the so-called "crimes" on the books are merely a way for the state to seize command and control and to take property. I would say almost all asset forfeiture laws are scams, most drug laws are a waste of time (alcohol prohibition proved that) and so on. The tax codes are criminal in nature from top to bottom, not a dang thing about them is even close to being lawful, either by design or by implementation.
In addition, our society *rewards* extremely high level criminals, calls them CEOs and distinguished politicians, it's really in most cases petty ante crime that gets prosecuted. Joe haliburton can "lose" a million here or there and not much happens, joe six pack can "lose" a few thousand on taxes and get his life devastated. The big cases make headlines, but that's only.00001% (whatever, some small number) of the cases out there, the rest are too random in their details to really classify easily, because the system is so broken now. But it's not "justice", it's something else, but not that word, not anymore.
I most always write in the current vernacular slang of the times. When I write I am talking, not just slopping letters on the screen. Some folks like it, some don't. Oh well...When I write professionally (very occassionaly now) under contract I write "proper". Even use a spell checker. Heh. And meh. It depends on the situation, topic, and various other circumstances. For casual forum/bbs posting, I use vernacular most of the time, just suits my nature better. If I used more HTML the inflections would be better. There's one inflection that there's a lack of code for, there needs to be a casual emphasis that's not exactly SHOUTING IN ALL CAPS or bold or italicised, something where you are trying to induce a "sound" as in changing your voice to a dialect. Although it's not proper code, sometimes I will use *double asterix* or a _double underscore_ depending on the situation. In your example of mine where I used a double negative, I am reproducing a casual "guy on the street" voice, the closest I can come without the missing-doesn't-exist code, using the sentence structure and wording. If you could hear me speak it you would have heard the change right in the middle of the sentence, but I can't really reproduce it using current code structure.
Sometimes here and on other forums you'll see a similar problem, where some will go (insert character voice) then go on and use the words from that character. Example "obligatory simpsons quote", then a simpsons characters voice is noted and referenced or changed to suit the situation. See? I'd like to do it without the reference, just using code, but (uh oh, *gonna* do it again!) it *ain't* there!
So, see, it's not really being a wanker, it's just being more free form and pushing the artistic boundaries with the current limitations of writing! It's not a bug, it's a feature! Akk, and if writers didn't do that, we'd still be "forsoothing" around.
No, I guess I don't understand the reference. If you have a source url for where this guy got his 5 billion figure,that explains the difference between research and "research", I'll be glad to read it. I got nothing against verifiable data, that's how all this works. You can't make informed opinion without data, and no ones head ever 'sploded from cramming too much info in there..
Those days were intense. Really really intense. We came close to really changing things for the better. In some ways we did, in others, no, we didn't, but at least there was a lot of effort by millions of perople, and it was relentless. I think if we had had the internet then, and cell phones, and all the modern tech we have now, it could have been better, we might have cracked this globalist command and control structure and scattered it to the ash heap of history. I remember just getting out articles I wrote, it was tedious and expensive, you had to dead trees everything, hand pass them out, or get them in the few "underground" pubs of the time. What we have now is so much better, instant news, unlimited audience, communications around the globe.
We might still again, but it won't be from concentrating on entertainments and sports and games, no it won't......
I really enjoy both of these, some good inspiration (and a lot of perspiration), both are heavy into DIY.....
You got to see some of the home made inventions, just too cool. You can see what having an itch to scratch, a pile of junk and a welder will bring you. A lot of it results in some practical applications, some decent inventions have been showcased. I get the dead trees version, every page I am going NEAT! I want one! etc...
This one is for alternative power, a very good site, Home Power magazine, chock fulla alternative energy products, examples, troubleshooting, resources, etc.
The 68 election was one of the best ones ever! At least it had some spuink to it, some hormones, some energy! Exciting! The country was teetering on the brink of a 4 or 5 way civil war, and don't let no one tell you no different. It extended a few more years like that, fairly tense times, but 67-69 were by far the most intense. The budget was outta control, guns AND butter was too expensive, it couldn't be done. We had 4 clearly defined and clearly different candidates, who all got total news coverage. *Nothing* like it is now, not even close. The incumbent president refused to run again. (gee, wonder why with the nation falling apart around him?) The most likely Dem candidate got wasted by what looks to this day as a brainwashed sleeper agent, some kinda zombie..an inside job perhaps.. A populist ethnic minority leader got wasted, that appears to have been with the collusion of certain federal agencies and personnel.... A third party populist candidate pulled 5 states ELECTORAL vote. We had high level intrigues, there were political assassinations, even of candidates, massive protests, riots going on, cities ablaze, a popular war for some, highly unpopular for others, a quagmire that had been going on for some years, a cultural revolution, old paradignms smashed, new ones created overnight just to be discarded the next day, everything from music to economics to politics to lifestyles to...everything was in constant flux, constant change. It wasn't all good, it wasn't all bad, but it certainly WAS, it really WAS.
Nowadays, elections are almost boring. What do we have, let's peek:
skull and bones yale elitist, millionaire globalist
skull and bones yale elitist, millioniare globalist
a few other guys who never even get in the newspapers, except for very occasionaly, and all they get asked is why they are making people "waste" their vote, don't they know they will hurt the skull and bones millionaires chances, letting the skull and bones candidate win? How dare they even try!
a war that is popular in some quarters, very unpopular in others (finally,a match)
No comparison, 2004 fails it! The globalist goons got controlling the herds down to a science, even the protests lead to nothing! The news media don't even jump on juicy stuff anymore, they IGNORE it in favor of planned controlled distractions, such as minutiae like forged nat guard documents when the entire 9-11 commission report got enough holes for a dozen golf courses. And something as simple and basic as "we have a ballot box, you can verify the count with your eyes,anyone who can count, or "trust" some anonymous corporate structure and their dubious track record and alleged honest programming....." Hmm..lemme think....why ain't there riots over this abomination again?
The vote is a scam, the election is already over, it's predetermined, the NWO globalist profits at any cost including blood party wins again! Huu-rah for..our side?
BTW, you getting a -1 troll mod is wrong, you spoke the truth. It may be unpopular, but you are correct, there would have been very little difference in 2000. I twas a dog and pony show to keep the herds riled up and rooting for one of the two heads of the same demon..
Is this dude talking out his nether regions, using his "exalted" CEO royal intellectual poohbah position going up against a lowly journalist, just to buffalo him? Or d'ya think he believes his 5 billion figure?
Maybe it's a good idea he's being forced to retire..... Or maybe something terrible happened between 2002 and now, just don't know, but 5 billion just seemed incredibly low ball. I mean, that seems the buidget for maybe just one firm, like IBM perhaps. Or is this apples/oranges? What is considered "hard" science research?
And his views on outsourcing and what it means job wise for US middle class folks... popuh leeze, here's a guy talking about his multiple homes, his 12,000 acre + sized "ranch", his private corporate airline, etc, and he's qualified to *relate* to joe worker, even if joe worker is an engineer?
Sounds like these millionaire politicians who "feel your pain" when they are talking it up at some diner for the TV cameras. Just "regular guys", aw shucks and stuff...
Joe sixpack white collar with a calculator and a PC loses his job to some guy who has to come up with 35$ (whatever, low ball for example) a month rent. Uh huh, he's supposed to "compete" wage wise with that inside the US. uh huh. Yep, that's gonna be just *spiffy* for the economy.
We got rid of buggywhip jobs when most folks switched from carriages and horses. What we are getting rid of now are *not* buggywhip jobs. That's the big difference between what happened with the industrial revolution and this scam they push called "globalization". I certainly didn't see Mr. Barret outsourcing HIS job for 1/2 price or less so his corporation could save money and make profits for the investors. And funny, I don't see any news reports of any other CEOs doing that either. Why is that? Oh ya, THEY like THEIR jobs, don't they?
Big famous rich dudes talking up globalization is an example of "do as we say, not as we do".
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Any angle from the ground in order to hit the pilots eyes had to be shot from a LONG way away you would think. The closer the shooter was, the steeper the angle, making it near impossible to hit the windshield, let alone the pilots eyes. It certainly seems to make more sense that it came from another aircraft, and that in itself is rather alarming.
I am thinking of a few scenarios, all of them suck if that is the case.
1- really lame practical joke gone really bad from a random person in another plane.
2- delibarate terrorist attack by joe "real" terrorist, a proof of concept effort maybe
3-agent provocateur attack by shadow government/rogue faction to induce a reaction to put pressure on reducing lasers in civilian hands, because of their potential self defense against a junta potential perhaps, or for some other reason, such as borking surveillence cameras, or any number of reasons
Of course it still could have come from the ground, but it seems just like an amazingly lucky shot with a pretty powerful laser.(anyone knowledgeable want to comment on probable laser used and how to aim it accurately in this scenario?) Not only to hit, but to see where the hit is to correct the aim. Try it with a simple handheld rifle scope with integral laser(maybe that's what was used, but a model not available readily for civilians), and you can see the wiggle you get and how hard to see it at a relatively close couple hundred yards against a stationary target, against something moving really fast and pretty far away indicates a pretty sophisticated and powerful setup. The news articles (I have read several before slashdot got it) don't really have much in the way of details yet.
Seems like you could build your home network out of used laptops then, with some hubs/switches. A lot of the older ones that are still decent are quiet and low noise and relatively low power consumption. Also very low physical space footprint. And if they are stationary you wouldn't need much beyond having them run through a UPS system to make up for the usually borked (and expensive to replace) batteries that come with most used laptops. Or just have one server stashed away someplace and use the lappys as thin clients, even quieter and less power.
Maybe, don't know, would be interesting to see an all laptop network though.
If something were to happen to Linus, what exactly happens with the kernel? Who makes the decisions then? Is there a legal "progression" of authority, or what?
That's a LOT of programs! I wonder if there's any nerd out there has them all installed on a massive multi boot system? Would make an interesting and stupid nerd cred project in the "just because you can" category.
Your 20 files you might need to keep track of are all inside the app, pretty easy to find. They aren't spread out all over here and yonder like they are now.
Anyway, we'll see. I bet sometime in the future you'll start seeing complete apps, with all their needed files intact. It might start with the smaller apps obviously, but I bet we'll see it. The advantages will become apparent once linux leaves hobbiest/gurus and gets to joe users on widespread desktops.
...or what? Besides someone getting a kickback in vendor HQ (I bet this is the number one reason MS became dominant over the years), of what possible reason is this being done? Who the heck would even want a crippled "training bra" version of any OS? Is it just so they have SOMETHING on the screen running on the demo unit at the store, and they know that the full priced version is so expensive that very few people in these other countries will actually purchase it? Is it because it's becomg increasingly obvious that their US price structure is so far out to lunch nowadays that they have to do something to stem the tide of revolt against them? (I think so)
MS has a few options in the new century, but shipping mega-cripple ware by design is not one of them. They fail it bigtime on this one.
Any vendors installing and shipping this are tards, IMO. This is having inertia determine your market into the ludicrous range. It's laughable.
Here's a thought for MS if they want to maintain, instead of purposelly lowering quality in selected markets, drop your prices everywhere to reflect a top price that is acceptable in the least wealthy country. If they sold XPpro for a *very* reasonable fee, most people would rather just get the official disks, so as to avoid possible trojans whatever that might be on a warez copy. MS is absolutely so freaking greedy they can't even contemplate that. I mean, it's a freeking plastic disk. They can pump them out by the millions for cheap. They have resorted to corporate insanity in the fear they might actually have to compete based on merit. I mean, have they no shame, aren't they even the tiniest bit embarassed over this?
I know they are a multibillion buck comcpany, yada yada, capitalism, yada yada, that's not the point. the point is they got there by questionable tactics and ALSO being there for the explosion of the personal computer, timing is more important than anything else. Well, it's commodity-ware now, home appliance action, toaster, TV, computer. Yard sales have computers, flea markets, discount stores. This ISN'T the 1980s. Personal computers, OS and apps sellers are going to have to recognize that, it's no longer "exotic" or only very rich people or companies who own and use computers, yesterdays pricing modality is going to have to reflect this, and soon. This training bra edition is a big fat JOKE.
Why are the "new and improved" images of sedonia so dismal then? They are crappier than the original ones from 30 something years ago.
If I am not mistaken (it's quite possible I am, but here goes), I believe this is how mac classic OS works. I know on my macs I can stick an app just about most anywhere and it will work. I can make an alias of the app, stick that icon anyplace, and it will find it and work. I don't know how they do that unless it's by using the method of including all the files needed inside the app. And it's a pretty secure system. There's some beefs with classic, but insecurity is pretty low on that list.
I welcome any clarifications from any knowledgeable person on that.
That can be automated as well. It's linux, everything is a file. The file has a name, it can be found, every place it exists in every app, and replaced. You could still download just the one updated file, and it could be replaced in a dozen places (whatever) where it exists on your system. The only difference is how many places it exists, but as your system is doing the replacing, it could still be one command or click for the user, no different than it is now. One place, twp places-a dozen, it wouldn't matter. It also allows you to isolate problems without knocking out all your apps that might share a file in question now, you could choose to only update the file inside of one "test" app, run it, see that it is acceptable inside your environment before you extend it to all the apps that are using it.. As it is now, if one file messes up or has a critical new flaw, it can mess up all the apps that by necessity link to it. You could isolate various apps using permissions, and still do some of your tasks in a safer environment of your choice.
And you can also run multiple instances of the same app, using different versions if you want, again, useful for big updates in a production environment.
I understand what you are saying on the issues here, but I see the advantages outweighing the disadvantages, and it could lead to the truly customizable OS of choice. And I am saying this with the thought of the future, as hard drive sizes get larger, more ram gets faster and is installed in a larger quantity, processors get faster, "persistant" ram gets better and more common, etc and so forth. You could even take the concept further into the future, every app is so complete it comes with it's own microkernel system.
Just thinking years down the road, that's all. I don't think you are in any danger of it happening tomorrow, although I'd like to see a distro that was designed that way now just for testing purposes.
I certainly wouldn't deny it was a factor. I think though, the main reasons where the overlap with the still very recent at the time civil rights movement, and the phenomenon of an extremely large and undeclared war being waged primarily by young and mostly poor or lower middle class draftees who weren't even allowed to vote yet. That was very contentious, and class warfare was involved as well, people who could get a 2S deferrment by being able to afford college (any college, basketweaving courses, etc) got out, a lot of poorer kids had to go. This was before they tried that draft "lottery" scheme.
I think there are too many factors to pick any one of them as being paramount. It's just the way the times were then, similar eras in our history, like right before the civil war, and very little "drug" action then outside of booze and doped snakeoil medicine was even available. It makes for an interesting documentary perhaps, but from what I remember, it really was more issues oriented. People righteously saw it as a war for profit, a war at a conveninet time when the domestic economy was reeling, and noticing the political process to have been hijacked by the military industrial complex as Eisenhower termed it. I think we were correct then, and it's the same now, just "more hijacked" than before.
In most of that sense I agree. if it was me, I'd start with eliminating the department of education at the federal level. Many billions a year to do nothing but running a redundant bureaucracy, monies that could be retained by the individual taxpayer and the respective states in total, to use for education as they see fit.
The other part is basic societal "worth", we don't reward brains as much as we should. I mean, look at this site - "news for nerds". We all know how society feels about nerds, don't we? Our society rewards "populars" who become managers, they merely tolerate nerds because they know nothing will get done if they don't. As such, kids have little incentive to learn, it's more desirable for them to "go into business" or like become "stars" or something. Plus, it's just harder, it's harder to constantly apply yourself, it's easier to "manage" others who apply themselves, you get a cut of all their effort.
Yes, I'm cynical.
Mistaken address (I believe although they never admitted it) drug raid. When no drugs were found (there weren't any), they grabbed some oregano cooking spice action and vitamins out of the house and held them up in court (a baggie of leafy looking stuff and pill looking things) and claimed they were drugs after "careful analysis at the police lab", etc.
jaw dropping to be sure....after being held all night and them claiming there were drugs, when you knew there weren't any, then to see THAT as the "evidence".
spooky crap. I eventually got out of it but it took me a long time and eventually had to do all the lawyer work myself. That taught me a lesson as well, lawyers are court officers, clients may come and go, but they go in front of the same few judges and DAs all the time, so they learn to get along with them, especially if they get paid regardless of outcome. Eventually they (the court/state) agreed to drop any charges, so no other court appearance beyond initial arraignment. I think after a few conversations the judge realised that the cops were being a tad squirrely and loose with the information. I told him to just go look at the evidence himself up close. Maybe that helped, I don't know, but I think he did because shortly thereafter they dropped charges, etc. Because of the alleged "quantity" initially they were shooting for a dealer rap as well, with potential 20 years plus sentence. I was a kid then, that sorta looked like life to me almost. Man I was steamed. I was joe boy sprout then in most things, at most I drank a little beer once in a great while. Makes ya real smart real quick facing something like that, your brane hits the turbo button. Also makes you sympathetic when you hear other horror stories. People who have never gone through anything like that don't have a frame of reference, it's theoretical, they usually can't "believe" anything like that can happen. Since then what I have learned is that it's *quite* common. You can even occasionaly get cops off the record to admit to planting evidence as a routine thing, they call it flaking. They also act as agent provacateurs at demonstrations, initiating violence to get the "official" police to "react to the dangerous..whatevers...".
ahh, gets complex. Nowadays and for a long time, my default position is, if government is saying something is "so" and it sounds weird, most likely it is,so check for the lie first, you usally aren't disappointed.
I would say "crime" went up in the areas of organized large scale criminality, the rise of very wealthy and powerful gangs or syndicates. It also increased the level of official corruption throughout government, and helped start the federal government in particular on the path they are still on now, seizing all control based on artifically constructed boggie-man premises. I'd call those sorts of crimes more important and even more devastating to society in general, with the caveat that "normal" crime is bad obviously.
I pretty much agree with that.
...in the proliferation of various distros, it appears that eventually what will evolve will be a state where every user has their own OS, custom designed by them, for their particular purposes. It's the ultimate anti vendor lock-in scheme.
And with the size of hard drives now and what's coming ahead, eventually app devs will stop using dynamically linked libraries and offer stand alone, install anywhere with any (kernel compatable) OS apps, truly opening up the personalised customization scene right to joe newbie user.
I know purists amd old timey gurus might hate it, but it's starting to make sense what with hard drive capacity and dvd sizes.
IMO of course
...subscriber preview again? 15 minutes? Seems like they would have to bump that up some to give any interested folks a chance to make a torrent or get a coral link going. I mean, if folks pay for a page, they want to go read the articles primarily, not remake a website for someone else. And even then, who knows some folks at websites may be totally against anyone taking their stuff and cacheing it, even if they get slashdotted.
But ya, it's a problem, what I do is make an executive decision if I want to chance the link or not, because I want to read the article. If it's a big site, like a commercial web page, I usually click on it because it's their lookout to have a server that can serve some decent number hits, if it's joe hobbiest personal site or obvious small and obscure site,based on what the URL looks like, I'll wait a day or at least a few hours.
...someone can fork your own brain, and you don't even know it until you read about it on slashdot!
one terrabyte, huh? Hmm, whopper home library on one disk. I'd like that, thousands of books on one disk, cool beans. Maybe use it to record your own movies or stills all on one disk in the camera (if it was fast enough to do it real time). How about a terrabyte of "live" linux versions, REALLY get a "try em all" disk?
I wonder what the entire source forge or freshmeat library of apps would take?
Hey, how big is the ole intarweb right now? How many 1 TB disks would it take to hold what's on the net at any given time lately? That's an interesting stat to know, I guess google might have a clue or lexis nexus.
What do you do as the "swift law n order" guy when you as a prosecutor or jury turn out to have convicted the wrong guy? We see articles about it all the time now, some poor schmoo in prison for years, turns out the prosecutors surpressed evidence or their main witness recants and admits they were lying, or new DNA evidence clears someone, etc. What then? Are you prepared to take their place in the criminal justice enforcement provisions, and take jail time or execution or castration for making a drastic mistake? Or is saying "whoops, sorry 'bout that" enough? What amount of "sorry" cash will bring someone back from the beyond, or restore your nads? How do you give back the time taken from someone who's spent years in jail?
.00001% (whatever, some small number) of the cases out there, the rest are too random in their details to really classify easily, because the system is so broken now. But it's not "justice", it's something else, but not that word, not anymore.
The problem with extremely "swift justice" is that in a lot of cases it leaves out the "justice" part and concentrates on the "swift" part. And in our society now it all boils down to cash, the more you got, the more you can get away with, and the least likely you may even be charged. The less you got, the more likely it is you WILL esperience capital S swift and not really get any small j justice.
You ever been in a courtroom for something serious where the prosecutor and cop get on the stand and lie to the judge about events they claim transpired, with you as who they want to prosecute, and you know they are lying, and that you are 100% innocent? I have, and I tell you, it is about one of the most depressing and dismal and hopless scenes you can imagine, you just get devastated. It's in my top ten list for being such an anti corrupt government agitator, been there, done that, it HAPPENS to people, either individually, or in the case of big crimes like illegal wars, it happens to everyone. Justice? Where is it, not seeing it much, I see a prison/lawyer/government 3 million laws on the books and climbing racket, but not seeing much in the way of "justice". Isee a system where eventually you won't ever be innocent, because they could find something you are guilty of. I bet it's there now for the bulk of the population.
"Justice" to me is-say, one example-a potential rape victim HASN'T been disarmed in advance by society, and when a rape is attempted, the raper gets popped by the rapee. When joe sixpack has some burglar break into his house, the same, bang, end of story, obvious evidence, burglar on floor in living room. That's "justice". Anything else is a convulted melodrama conducted in a foreign language most people don't speak with the winners usually determined by who has the most cash or the most "power" in the situation. Not in all cases, but in most of them.
What we have now is the criminal justice "system" which is more of a perpetual jobs racket for some folks then anything else. Do we have crime? Sure! There's still a lot of legit crime, theft, murder, etc, but a LOT of what we have now is artificially produced pseudo crime, introduced by the state and legislators who's only job is to write more laws, never to REMOVE laws that have been proven to be a disaster. A lot of the so-called "crimes" on the books are merely a way for the state to seize command and control and to take property. I would say almost all asset forfeiture laws are scams, most drug laws are a waste of time (alcohol prohibition proved that) and so on. The tax codes are criminal in nature from top to bottom, not a dang thing about them is even close to being lawful, either by design or by implementation.
In addition, our society *rewards* extremely high level criminals, calls them CEOs and distinguished politicians, it's really in most cases petty ante crime that gets prosecuted. Joe haliburton can "lose" a million here or there and not much happens, joe six pack can "lose" a few thousand on taxes and get his life devastated. The big cases make headlines, but that's only
I most always write in the current vernacular slang of the times. When I write I am talking, not just slopping letters on the screen. Some folks like it, some don't. Oh well...When I write professionally (very occassionaly now) under contract I write "proper". Even use a spell checker. Heh. And meh. It depends on the situation, topic, and various other circumstances. For casual forum/bbs posting, I use vernacular most of the time, just suits my nature better. If I used more HTML the inflections would be better. There's one inflection that there's a lack of code for, there needs to be a casual emphasis that's not exactly SHOUTING IN ALL CAPS or bold or italicised, something where you are trying to induce a "sound" as in changing your voice to a dialect. Although it's not proper code, sometimes I will use *double asterix* or a _double underscore_ depending on the situation. In your example of mine where I used a double negative, I am reproducing a casual "guy on the street" voice, the closest I can come without the missing-doesn't-exist code, using the sentence structure and wording. If you could hear me speak it you would have heard the change right in the middle of the sentence, but I can't really reproduce it using current code structure.
Sometimes here and on other forums you'll see a similar problem, where some will go (insert character voice) then go on and use the words from that character. Example "obligatory simpsons quote", then a simpsons characters voice is noted and referenced or changed to suit the situation. See? I'd like to do it without the reference, just using code, but (uh oh, *gonna* do it again!) it *ain't* there!
So, see, it's not really being a wanker, it's just being more free form and pushing the artistic boundaries with the current limitations of writing! It's not a bug, it's a feature! Akk, and if writers didn't do that, we'd still be "forsoothing" around.
No, I guess I don't understand the reference. If you have a source url for where this guy got his 5 billion figure,that explains the difference between research and "research", I'll be glad to read it. I got nothing against verifiable data, that's how all this works. You can't make informed opinion without data, and no ones head ever 'sploded from cramming too much info in there..
I just teared up man. Thanks for the reminder.
Those days were intense. Really really intense. We came close to really changing things for the better. In some ways we did, in others, no, we didn't, but at least there was a lot of effort by millions of perople, and it was relentless. I think if we had had the internet then, and cell phones, and all the modern tech we have now, it could have been better, we might have cracked this globalist command and control structure and scattered it to the ash heap of history. I remember just getting out articles I wrote, it was tedious and expensive, you had to dead trees everything, hand pass them out, or get them in the few "underground" pubs of the time. What we have now is so much better, instant news, unlimited audience, communications around the globe.
We might still again, but it won't be from concentrating on entertainments and sports and games, no it won't......
I really enjoy both of these, some good inspiration (and a lot of perspiration), both are heavy into DIY.....
You got to see some of the home made inventions, just too cool. You can see what having an itch to scratch, a pile of junk and a welder will bring you. A lot of it results in some practical applications, some decent inventions have been showcased. I get the dead trees version, every page I am going NEAT! I want one! etc...
Farmshow magazine
This one is for alternative power, a very good site, Home Power magazine, chock fulla alternative energy products, examples, troubleshooting, resources, etc.
The 68 election was one of the best ones ever! At least it had some spuink to it, some hormones, some energy! Exciting! The country was teetering on the brink of a 4 or 5 way civil war, and don't let no one tell you no different. It extended a few more years like that, fairly tense times, but 67-69 were by far the most intense. The budget was outta control, guns AND butter was too expensive, it couldn't be done. We had 4 clearly defined and clearly different candidates, who all got total news coverage. *Nothing* like it is now, not even close. The incumbent president refused to run again. (gee, wonder why with the nation falling apart around him?) The most likely Dem candidate got wasted by what looks to this day as a brainwashed sleeper agent, some kinda zombie..an inside job perhaps.. A populist ethnic minority leader got wasted, that appears to have been with the collusion of certain federal agencies and personnel.... A third party populist candidate pulled 5 states ELECTORAL vote. We had high level intrigues, there were political assassinations, even of candidates, massive protests, riots going on, cities ablaze, a popular war for some, highly unpopular for others, a quagmire that had been going on for some years, a cultural revolution, old paradignms smashed, new ones created overnight just to be discarded the next day, everything from music to economics to politics to lifestyles to...everything was in constant flux, constant change. It wasn't all good, it wasn't all bad, but it certainly WAS, it really WAS.
..our side?
Nowadays, elections are almost boring. What do we have, let's peek:
skull and bones yale elitist, millionaire globalist
skull and bones yale elitist, millioniare globalist
a few other guys who never even get in the newspapers, except for very occasionaly, and all they get asked is why they are making people "waste" their vote, don't they know they will hurt the skull and bones millionaires chances, letting the skull and bones candidate win? How dare they even try!
a war that is popular in some quarters, very unpopular in others (finally,a match)
No comparison, 2004 fails it! The globalist goons got controlling the herds down to a science, even the protests lead to nothing! The news media don't even jump on juicy stuff anymore, they IGNORE it in favor of planned controlled distractions, such as minutiae like forged nat guard documents when the entire 9-11 commission report got enough holes for a dozen golf courses. And something as simple and basic as "we have a ballot box, you can verify the count with your eyes,anyone who can count, or "trust" some anonymous corporate structure and their dubious track record and alleged honest programming....." Hmm..lemme think....why ain't there riots over this abomination again?
The vote is a scam, the election is already over, it's predetermined, the NWO globalist profits at any cost including blood party wins again! Huu-rah for
BTW, you getting a -1 troll mod is wrong, you spoke the truth. It may be unpopular, but you are correct, there would have been very little difference in 2000. I twas a dog and pony show to keep the herds riled up and rooting for one of the two heads of the same demon..
I encountered this jaw-dropper from the interview:
"How much does the United States invest annually in basic R&D in physical sciences? About $5 billion."
Huh? Anyone know any different? Or is this A-1 confirmable fact? I call shenanigans, so I will go look...
google found me this reference back to 2002, where the figure is stated to be 100 billion.
Is this dude talking out his nether regions, using his "exalted" CEO royal intellectual poohbah position going up against a lowly journalist, just to buffalo him? Or d'ya think he believes his 5 billion figure?
Maybe it's a good idea he's being forced to retire..... Or maybe something terrible happened between 2002 and now, just don't know, but 5 billion just seemed incredibly low ball. I mean, that seems the buidget for maybe just one firm, like IBM perhaps. Or is this apples/oranges? What is considered "hard" science research?
And his views on outsourcing and what it means job wise for US middle class folks... popuh leeze, here's a guy talking about his multiple homes, his 12,000 acre + sized "ranch", his private corporate airline, etc, and he's qualified to *relate* to joe worker, even if joe worker is an engineer?
Sounds like these millionaire politicians who "feel your pain" when they are talking it up at some diner for the TV cameras. Just "regular guys", aw shucks and stuff...
Joe sixpack white collar with a calculator and a PC loses his job to some guy who has to come up with 35$ (whatever, low ball for example) a month rent. Uh huh, he's supposed to "compete" wage wise with that inside the US. uh huh. Yep, that's gonna be just *spiffy* for the economy.
We got rid of buggywhip jobs when most folks switched from carriages and horses. What we are getting rid of now are *not* buggywhip jobs. That's the big difference between what happened with the industrial revolution and this scam they push called "globalization". I certainly didn't see Mr. Barret outsourcing HIS job for 1/2 price or less so his corporation could save money and make profits for the investors. And funny, I don't see any news reports of any other CEOs doing that either. Why is that? Oh ya, THEY like THEIR jobs, don't they?
Big famous rich dudes talking up globalization is an example of "do as we say, not as we do".
Hypocrites