> the limited functionality that is iTunes. No ogg vorbis support out of the box, etc.
Is it really that much extra effort for you to download a codec and just drop it in your '/Library/QuickTime/' folder??? I've more than half a dozen *other* codecs in there, as well, that also were not supported "out of the box". Adding them was no trying experience for me. It's simplicity itself, so far as I'm concerned.
BONUS: when you do this, said codecs are available throughout ALL of QuickTime, not just with iTunes (Which is just a fancy front-end to QT anyway, albiet with a nifty database thrown in.)
Personally, I'm still not at all convinced that vorbis, or even AAC, is all that superior to plain old MP3 anyway. Or, if they are, no set of speakers I own is good enough for me to be able to tell. I can, however, tell the difference between MP3/AAC/vorbis and Apple Lossless or the uncompressed CD; too bad I don't have a terabyte RAID handy.;-)
I dunno about you. But while I don't particularly give a damn about Martha *o* the Jonses; I still don't want to live in some hick town way out in the middle of godforsaken nowhere.
Of all the places I've lived, the one I think I miss the most was my old one-room studio apartment. It couldn't have been an inch over 300 ft^2, and I "furnished" with more-or-less the cheapest Ikea crap that could be had. But it was a two-minute walk up the hill from the Mission District, with all the fun and life that entailed. Well... two minutes to walk *down* the hill, more like five or ten to get back up depending on my own state of sobriety or the lack thereof; but that did give me the added advantage of random *other* drunk people not staggering up to my doorstep!
> I get it. Computers are new and frightening. People get almost a mental block > when trying to use them because they're so different. If anything, I would > think that would mean they would be more careful, not more careless.
The this is, though, computers are *NOT* new or different anymore. And they damn well should not be frightening! I'm a lot closer to thirty than twenty, myself; so I'm pretty well into the "obsolete and over the hill" box, technology-wise. But aside from temporary housing with most of our stuff in storage while we looked for a long-term place when moving, I have no memory of a time when there was not a computer in the house for me to use.
For years before I had my own of course, it was my Dad's computer. But I was encouraged to play, use, and learn on it whenever I cared to. And his idea of teaching me how to use the thing wasn't to mollycoddle me; it was to show me where he kept the manuals, and have me figure it out myself. Granted, he was an old-school ham radio guy before he got into the computer thing; so I had a few years head start with our Apple ][ before everyone else in the world were issued their C64s. But those few cannot make THAT much of a difference, when compared to the last THIRTY!
At some point, when everyone was still riding around in horse-drawn buggys, the automobile was a newfangled, different, and scary thing. But at some point you really do have to tell people to just suck it up, accept that new things are invented and the world changes, and to get with the times.
My application to JET is at Japan's US embassy, and I've just received my SASE, verifying that they have it, everything's in order, and they're considering advancing me to the interview phase,
Osaka prefecture is my #2 choice in placement, assuming they give any weight at all to my preferences, Though I've been led to believe that the Ramen museum in Yokohama is superior to the one in Osaka.
I have a stack of instant "Yakisoba" noodle trays sitting in my room, imported from Japan, the primary ingredient of which is listed as buckwheat, and taste very much like actual soba noodles to me.
I will, of course, happily admit that maybe I missed some detail of Japanese cuisine that allows soba to refer, in some instances, to wheat noodles instead of buckwheat, just like yaki refers to fried or baked sometimes instead of grilled. Despite my efforts, it's not like it's an easy language to grasp all the nuances of, after all.
I still maintain, however, that actual buckwheat soba noodles p0wn ramen noodles. Every time I have occasion to pop down to San Jose, Mitsuwa is near the top of my list of places to stop by, mostly for their bomb-ass soba noodle soups!
(Not that I don't love ramen, udon, and even semolina noodles, but soba is the bomb!)
> For those who want to experiment with "real" ramen, look for "Yakisoba Noodles" > in the deli case if you can't find the fresh ramen kits that some Japanese companies make.
Soba noodles are an indigenous Japanese dish made from buckwheat. Ramen noodles are a dish they copied from the Chinese, and are made from regular wheat. They are quite different kinds of noodles, and the names are not equivalent or interchangeable. Actually, I like soba better than ramen. It's a bit harder to cook properly, though, and not quite as cheap.
"Yaki", is Japanese for grilled... hence its inclusion in the names of takoyaki (grilled, baked, or fried octopus balls), yakitori (grilled chicken on a stick), and teppanyaki (meat and vegetables grilled at your dining table).
You can find them still at camping/outdoor type stores. Since they need no electricity, you can use them to make coffee on a portable gas stove or, in a pinch, over a campfire. And they're sturdier than a french press, which is almost always made of glass, and has other fairly delicate parts.
I can't recall the last time I saw a percolator in a Starbucks, Peet's, or any other mainstream coffee shop though. Certainly, it's not what they use behind the counter.
And I'll skip the guiding principles,mission statement, calling everyone "partners", and the other marketing foo-foo. How about this:
Work twenty hours a week, and you get full benefits... medical, dental, vision, stock option grants, 401k, the works (I can't remember the rest of the list.); for you, your spouse, any kids, or your partner if you're gay.
Starbucks saved my ass (Well... kept me from going into some hardcore debt.) at a time in my life when I needed health coverage and had no other reasonable way to get it. The benefits package is actually better than anything I had during the dot-com era, and is only beaten by $bigEvilDefenseContractor I worked for at one point. For what is essentially a fast food job, they treat their people damn well.
(Heh.. I just love throwing the above in the face of anybody who tries defending walmart's, mcdonalds', or the like's poor treatment of their employees. Trust me. SBUX is *NOT* suffering in the ledger book or on the NASDAQ for treating their people right.)
It was maybe a bit unfair of the GP to direct his vitriol at ALL unions. But there are definitely some major flaws in the union "system", as it stands today; and there some serious miscreants among your ranks who need to be expunged.
When, for example, was the last time you've seen a teachers' or police union, in the news, doing anything but shielding the incompetent or abusive, among their ranks, from punishment and termination? Or what about the antics of professional athletes unions over the last decade or so? Someone who gets paid millions of dollars a year, and makes tens of millions more in endorsements, to play a children's game is an exploited underclass that needs a union to go on strike? And the teamsters... those thugs are so notorious as a front for organized crime that it's almost cliche to remind people of the fact.
> More than anything, kids today need to learn respect for authority. > This doesn't mean that authority is always right or infallible, just > that kids should be taught to respect
My own parents always taught me that respect is NEVER something that is just *given* as a matter of course. Respect must be EARNED. And it's a two-way street; respect must also be RETURNED. And yes, I respect my parents; in part, for lessons like that.
Yeah, but there would be a certain poetic justice to trying him in New York, and locking him up there just like all the other common criminals.... preferably on Rikers Island.... in a cell with a view of The City.
> And I'm sure the space "shuttle traveling nearly 18 times the > speed of light" banner on CNN back in 2003 was some part > of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy and/or Liberal Media.
Just how much of a nerd am I that my first thought there, without even having to do any math, was: "Oh, that's about warp 2.5." ???
> But if, for example, Linus Torvalds or Joss Wheedon turned up destitute > on my doorstep, I'd help them out (even though in both cases them > ending up destitute would indicate some very poor life decisions),
THAT'S what's bugging me here. I know it sounds horribly insensitive. But the man *was* a bestselling author for many, many years... there's hardly anyone I know who doesn't have at least a handful of his books in his collection. That's the sort of career success that leads to quite a large bit of wealth. And the cynic in me has to ask what sort of horrible life decisions did RAW make that led him to piss away all that money? And why should I subsidize that sort of irresponsibility?
Not that the above rules out my chipping in. The article says he's ill, and in the US, that certainly bleed even a reasonably wealthy family dry. But I think the question does have to be asked.
Plus there're also the questions of WHO exactly are Douglas Rushkoff, Dennis Berry, and Futique Trust; what is their relationship to RAW, where is the transparency and how do I know any money I might chip in actually makes it to RAW; and, for that matter, how do we know RAW's even in need? All we have to go on, is the word of some blog.
.... to see Honda and Toyota on that list. Those two, in particular, seem to be taking the initiative in flooding us with nice little fuel-efficent compacts. Good on them, I say.
Every third or fourth Toyota I see, it seems these days, is a Prius. I walk past two on the way to the bus stop every morning for work. Half of what's left are Scions of one flavor or an other; not exactly slouches mileage-wise themselves. And last I heard, they were putting the Prius' hybrid system into a Camrey and licensing it out to Nissan, and Subaru! Honda hasn't been quite so sucessful on the hybrid front as Toyota, but they're absolutely burying us in Civics... you can't walk half a block without tripping over a dozen of the things.
Sure, none of the above is quite as good as pure electrics or hydrogen, but they're a far cry from the ford executioner or the gm suburban-soccer-mom-from-the-depths-of-hades-mobil e.
Who knows WHO came up with the idea of the "don't try this at home" disclaimer. But I know one thing: I'd bet good money that even if it WASN'T Jamie and Adam's idea, some lawyer with Discovery would have insisted on it before the show would ever be allowed to air.
You can work well with someone, and have a lot of respect for them as a colleague, but still not run in the same social circles after hours. In fact, I'd guess to say that that's more the rule than the exception. Likewise, some of my best friends would drive me crazy if I actually had to work with them.
I think I read in a bio of them somewhere that they'd worked together at some point a few years before the show. So that's probably where Jamie got the idea. If anything, it shows more intelligence and integrity on his part. He recognized a weakness in himself, as applied to a problem, and sought outside help, which solved said problem just about perfectly.
> I do find it interesting that Mac fans always point to Dell as their preferred > price comparision. I mean....Dell? Is that really the space Apple is competing?
In addition to being the #1 PC seller, Dell is run my a loud-mouthed blowhard who once threatened a hostile takeover of Apple, so that he could "shut it all down, liquidate the assets, and refund it back to the shareholders".
Between the two, I'm sure that *someone* at Apple just LOVES rubbing michael dell's nose in it whenever Apple scores any small victory.
They just used NIS and NFS, and the net effect was pretty much exactly what you describe... Sit down at any machine, log in, and your environment loads exactly the way you left it on the last machine, everything's safely backed up at the server end, and the client machines are pretty much disposable and interchangeable, and so on. Only difference if you're not farting around with virtual machines... ie. you're not quite as "cutting edge" but on the desktops themselves, don't you want a more proven system? So why wouldn't you just do the same thing, and use said proven, if something of a pain to administer, system?
As an alternative to NIS, Netinfo does much the same thing, only it wasn't designed by people quite so sadistic as NIS. You'd still be using NFS though...
> I seriously believe Osama and every other terrorist organization would leave > us alone if we stopped screwing around in world affairs. We stick our nose > where it doesn't belong, and THAT is what breeds terrorism.
I'm not about to mindlessly repeat the tired old "they hate us because of our freedom" mantra. But there's got to be a whole lot more to it than just our fucked up foreign policy.
Look at Latin America. The United States has been royally screwing pretty much all of Latin America for pretty much all of our history, To put it crudely; we were fucking them over harder than we ever fucked anyone in the middle east for a good CENTURY before anyone in this country, other than bible scholars, took notice that the middle east was even there! If foreign policy that amounts to detrimental screwing around in other peoples' affairs were what causes terrorism, than by all rights, we ought to see a hundred terrorists pouring up from Mexico for every ONE middle easterner who gets a stick up his ass about "American Imperialism" and other such claptrap. (Hell, something like a third of the continental US used to BE Mexico!!! That's more land, by several orders of magnitude, than the Israelis "stole" from the "palestinians". But Mexicans aren't crossing our border with dynamite belts to murder us. They're crossing our border with tool belts to WORK for us and to make a better life for themselves and their families!)
The fact that we DON'T see Latin Americans in general, and Mexicans, Cubans, and Colombians in particular, swarming north, en masse, to blow up our buildings, suicide bomb our nightclubs and pizza parlors, launch rockets at our cities, nerve gas our subways, and kidnap and murder our citizens; when they have FAR more reason to do so than any middle easterner does or ever did; say to me that terrorism is NOT a reaction to out influence in foreign affairs. It's a war between cultures, west vs. middle east. Maybe they don't hate us because of our "freedom", but they definitely hate us because of our culture and our values and the fact that we don't worship allah.
Compare the number, placement, and obtrusiveness (ESPECIALLY when they serve up these fscking annoying flash-based ones!!!) of the ads on IGN, add in the ads-disguised-as-content links to ebay, amazon, pricegrabber, and such; and compare all that to the ads on, for example.... Google.
It may be a bit of an exaggeration to describe IGN as a full-out spam site. But the AC does have a point.
1) Stay the fuck off the sidewalk when you're on your bike. It's there for pedestrians, not vehicles of ANY kind...
and...
2) STOP at the intersections, and stay STOPPED and OUT OF THE CROSSWALK when you have the red light and the pedestrians have the little green walking guy in *their* signal. You know... keep your car where it's supposed to be when it's supposed to be there, and respect and follow those pesky little things like right-of-way and traffic laws...... you would have those "problems".
You must not have been paying attention then. Shit... the last time I was out of the US, I was called both a yankee and a gringo within half an hour of walking across the border; before (so I thought) I even had the CHANCE to offend anyone, boorish behavior or otherwise.
Of course, my travels in years before that were more positive experiences. I caught a bit of the "stupid tourist" flack that's common pretty much everywhere tourists go. But I found that if you're polite and respectful and at least ATTEMPT to learn and use the local language, it's no worse than being a tourist anywhere in the US.
> If we criminalize planning to commit a crime, the next step will be
> thinking about a crime. Or being the kind of person that might
> think about committing a crime.
It's become quite en vogue for schools to have their disciplinary codes include "having knowledge of" as a violation for many offenses. here's an excerpt* from my old college's student handbook, for example, listing some of the offenses for which they consider just KNOWING about something taking place "constitutes equal responsibility and involvement" as those actually doing the wrong.
I was never aware of that particular bit being tested or enforced. But that's right... According to the letter of the policy, even if you decide you want nothing to do with what's going on, you don't take part in any way, and even if you get yourself the hell out of there; you're still considered just as guilty!
(*Caution, it's a rather nastily formatted "view as html" page generated from the original PDF. Just search for "knowledge" and you'll quickly get to the relevant parts.)
He puts on such an insanely great live show, and his fans are so... well... fanatic, that when he does go on tour, people crawl over each other to get tickets. I've never seen a show of his that wasn't sold out.
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> the limited functionality that is iTunes. No ogg vorbis support out of the box, etc.
;-)
Is it really that much extra effort for you to download a codec and just drop it in your '/Library/QuickTime/' folder??? I've more than half a dozen *other* codecs in there, as well, that also were not supported "out of the box". Adding them was no trying experience for me. It's simplicity itself, so far as I'm concerned.
BONUS: when you do this, said codecs are available throughout ALL of QuickTime, not just with iTunes (Which is just a fancy front-end to QT anyway, albiet with a nifty database thrown in.)
Personally, I'm still not at all convinced that vorbis, or even AAC, is all that superior to plain old MP3 anyway. Or, if they are, no set of speakers I own is good enough for me to be able to tell. I can, however, tell the difference between MP3/AAC/vorbis and Apple Lossless or the uncompressed CD; too bad I don't have a terabyte RAID handy.
cya,
john
I dunno about you. But while I don't particularly give a damn about Martha *o* the Jonses; I still don't want to live in some hick town way out in the middle of godforsaken nowhere.
Of all the places I've lived, the one I think I miss the most was my old one-room studio apartment. It couldn't have been an inch over 300 ft^2, and I "furnished" with more-or-less the cheapest Ikea crap that could be had. But it was a two-minute walk up the hill from the Mission District, with all the fun and life that entailed. Well... two minutes to walk *down* the hill, more like five or ten to get back up depending on my own state of sobriety or the lack thereof; but that did give me the added advantage of random *other* drunk people not staggering up to my doorstep!
cya,
john
> I get it. Computers are new and frightening. People get almost a mental block
> when trying to use them because they're so different. If anything, I would
> think that would mean they would be more careful, not more careless.
The this is, though, computers are *NOT* new or different anymore. And they damn well should not be frightening! I'm a lot closer to thirty than twenty, myself; so I'm pretty well into the "obsolete and over the hill" box, technology-wise. But aside from temporary housing with most of our stuff in storage while we looked for a long-term place when moving, I have no memory of a time when there was not a computer in the house for me to use.
For years before I had my own of course, it was my Dad's computer. But I was encouraged to play, use, and learn on it whenever I cared to. And his idea of teaching me how to use the thing wasn't to mollycoddle me; it was to show me where he kept the manuals, and have me figure it out myself. Granted, he was an old-school ham radio guy before he got into the computer thing; so I had a few years head start with our Apple ][ before everyone else in the world were issued their C64s. But those few cannot make THAT much of a difference, when compared to the last THIRTY!
At some point, when everyone was still riding around in horse-drawn buggys, the automobile was a newfangled, different, and scary thing. But at some point you really do have to tell people to just suck it up, accept that new things are invented and the world changes, and to get with the times.
cya,
john
The two articles were posted, and commented upon, by two different editors.
No reason to disparage Zonk, just because taco turned out to be a clueless twit.
cya,
john
My application to JET is at Japan's US embassy, and I've just received my SASE, verifying that they have it, everything's in order, and they're considering advancing me to the interview phase,
Osaka prefecture is my #2 choice in placement, assuming they give any weight at all to my preferences, Though I've been led to believe that the Ramen museum in Yokohama is superior to the one in Osaka.
cya,
john
I have a stack of instant "Yakisoba" noodle trays sitting in my room, imported from Japan, the primary ingredient of which is listed as buckwheat, and taste very much like actual soba noodles to me.
I will, of course, happily admit that maybe I missed some detail of Japanese cuisine that allows soba to refer, in some instances, to wheat noodles instead of buckwheat, just like yaki refers to fried or baked sometimes instead of grilled. Despite my efforts, it's not like it's an easy language to grasp all the nuances of, after all.
I still maintain, however, that actual buckwheat soba noodles p0wn ramen noodles. Every time I have occasion to pop down to San Jose, Mitsuwa is near the top of my list of places to stop by, mostly for their bomb-ass soba noodle soups!
(Not that I don't love ramen, udon, and even semolina noodles, but soba is the bomb!)
cya,
john
> For those who want to experiment with "real" ramen, look for "Yakisoba Noodles"
> in the deli case if you can't find the fresh ramen kits that some Japanese companies make.
Soba noodles are an indigenous Japanese dish made from buckwheat. Ramen noodles are a dish they copied from the Chinese, and are made from regular wheat. They are quite different kinds of noodles, and the names are not equivalent or interchangeable. Actually, I like soba better than ramen. It's a bit harder to cook properly, though, and not quite as cheap.
"Yaki", is Japanese for grilled... hence its inclusion in the names of takoyaki (grilled, baked, or fried octopus balls), yakitori (grilled chicken on a stick), and teppanyaki (meat and vegetables grilled at your dining table).
cya,
john
You can find them still at camping/outdoor type stores. Since they need no electricity, you can use them to make coffee on a portable gas stove or, in a pinch, over a campfire. And they're sturdier than a french press, which is almost always made of glass, and has other fairly delicate parts.
I can't recall the last time I saw a percolator in a Starbucks, Peet's, or any other mainstream coffee shop though. Certainly, it's not what they use behind the counter.
cya,
john
I've put in my time at SBUX too...
And I'll skip the guiding principles,mission statement, calling everyone "partners", and the other marketing foo-foo. How about this:
Work twenty hours a week, and you get full benefits... medical, dental, vision, stock option grants, 401k, the works (I can't remember the rest of the list.); for you, your spouse, any kids, or your partner if you're gay.
Starbucks saved my ass (Well... kept me from going into some hardcore debt.) at a time in my life when I needed health coverage and had no other reasonable way to get it. The benefits package is actually better than anything I had during the dot-com era, and is only beaten by $bigEvilDefenseContractor I worked for at one point. For what is essentially a fast food job, they treat their people damn well.
(Heh.. I just love throwing the above in the face of anybody who tries defending walmart's, mcdonalds', or the like's poor treatment of their employees. Trust me. SBUX is *NOT* suffering in the ledger book or on the NASDAQ for treating their people right.)
cya,
john
It was maybe a bit unfair of the GP to direct his vitriol at ALL unions. But there are definitely some major flaws in the union "system", as it stands today; and there some serious miscreants among your ranks who need to be expunged.
When, for example, was the last time you've seen a teachers' or police union, in the news, doing anything but shielding the incompetent or abusive, among their ranks, from punishment and termination? Or what about the antics of professional athletes unions over the last decade or so? Someone who gets paid millions of dollars a year, and makes tens of millions more in endorsements, to play a children's game is an exploited underclass that needs a union to go on strike? And the teamsters... those thugs are so notorious as a front for organized crime that it's almost cliche to remind people of the fact.
cya,
john
> More than anything, kids today need to learn respect for authority.
> This doesn't mean that authority is always right or infallible, just
> that kids should be taught to respect
My own parents always taught me that respect is NEVER something that is just *given* as a matter of course. Respect must be EARNED. And it's a two-way street; respect must also be RETURNED. And yes, I respect my parents; in part, for lessons like that.
cya,
john
Yeah, but there would be a certain poetic justice to trying him in New York, and locking him up there just like all the other common criminals.... preferably on Rikers Island.... in a cell with a view of The City.
cya,
john
> And I'm sure the space "shuttle traveling nearly 18 times the
> speed of light" banner on CNN back in 2003 was some part
> of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy and/or Liberal Media.
Just how much of a nerd am I that my first thought there, without even having to do any math, was: "Oh, that's about warp 2.5." ???
cya,
john
> But if, for example, Linus Torvalds or Joss Wheedon turned up destitute
> on my doorstep, I'd help them out (even though in both cases them
> ending up destitute would indicate some very poor life decisions),
THAT'S what's bugging me here. I know it sounds horribly insensitive. But the man *was* a bestselling author for many, many years... there's hardly anyone I know who doesn't have at least a handful of his books in his collection. That's the sort of career success that leads to quite a large bit of wealth. And the cynic in me has to ask what sort of horrible life decisions did RAW make that led him to piss away all that money? And why should I subsidize that sort of irresponsibility?
Not that the above rules out my chipping in. The article says he's ill, and in the US, that certainly bleed even a reasonably wealthy family dry. But I think the question does have to be asked.
Plus there're also the questions of WHO exactly are Douglas Rushkoff, Dennis Berry, and Futique Trust; what is their relationship to RAW, where is the transparency and how do I know any money I might chip in actually makes it to RAW; and, for that matter, how do we know RAW's even in need? All we have to go on, is the word of some blog.
cya,
john
.... to see Honda and Toyota on that list. Those two, in particular, seem to be taking the initiative in flooding us with nice little fuel-efficent compacts. Good on them, I say.
l e.
Every third or fourth Toyota I see, it seems these days, is a Prius. I walk past two on the way to the bus stop every morning for work. Half of what's left are Scions of one flavor or an other; not exactly slouches mileage-wise themselves. And last I heard, they were putting the Prius' hybrid system into a Camrey and licensing it out to Nissan, and Subaru! Honda hasn't been quite so sucessful on the hybrid front as Toyota, but they're absolutely burying us in Civics... you can't walk half a block without tripping over a dozen of the things.
Sure, none of the above is quite as good as pure electrics or hydrogen, but they're a far cry from the ford executioner or the gm suburban-soccer-mom-from-the-depths-of-hades-mobi
cya,
john
Who knows WHO came up with the idea of the "don't try this at home" disclaimer. But I know one thing: I'd bet good money that even if it WASN'T Jamie and Adam's idea, some lawyer with Discovery would have insisted on it before the show would ever be allowed to air.
cya,
john
You can work well with someone, and have a lot of respect for them as a colleague, but still not run in the same social circles after hours. In fact, I'd guess to say that that's more the rule than the exception. Likewise, some of my best friends would drive me crazy if I actually had to work with them.
I think I read in a bio of them somewhere that they'd worked together at some point a few years before the show. So that's probably where Jamie got the idea. If anything, it shows more intelligence and integrity on his part. He recognized a weakness in himself, as applied to a problem, and sought outside help, which solved said problem just about perfectly.
cya,
john
> I do find it interesting that Mac fans always point to Dell as their preferred
> price comparision. I mean....Dell? Is that really the space Apple is competing?
In addition to being the #1 PC seller, Dell is run my a loud-mouthed blowhard who once threatened a hostile takeover of Apple, so that he could "shut it all down, liquidate the assets, and refund it back to the shareholders".
Between the two, I'm sure that *someone* at Apple just LOVES rubbing michael dell's nose in it whenever Apple scores any small victory.
cya,
john
They just used NIS and NFS, and the net effect was pretty much exactly what you describe... Sit down at any machine, log in, and your environment loads exactly the way you left it on the last machine, everything's safely backed up at the server end, and the client machines are pretty much disposable and interchangeable, and so on. Only difference if you're not farting around with virtual machines... ie. you're not quite as "cutting edge" but on the desktops themselves, don't you want a more proven system? So why wouldn't you just do the same thing, and use said proven, if something of a pain to administer, system?
As an alternative to NIS, Netinfo does much the same thing, only it wasn't designed by people quite so sadistic as NIS. You'd still be using NFS though...
cya,
john
> I seriously believe Osama and every other terrorist organization would leave
> us alone if we stopped screwing around in world affairs. We stick our nose
> where it doesn't belong, and THAT is what breeds terrorism.
I'm not about to mindlessly repeat the tired old "they hate us because of our freedom" mantra. But there's got to be a whole lot more to it than just our fucked up foreign policy.
Look at Latin America. The United States has been royally screwing pretty much all of Latin America for pretty much all of our history, To put it crudely; we were fucking them over harder than we ever fucked anyone in the middle east for a good CENTURY before anyone in this country, other than bible scholars, took notice that the middle east was even there! If foreign policy that amounts to detrimental screwing around in other peoples' affairs were what causes terrorism, than by all rights, we ought to see a hundred terrorists pouring up from Mexico for every ONE middle easterner who gets a stick up his ass about "American Imperialism" and other such claptrap. (Hell, something like a third of the continental US used to BE Mexico!!! That's more land, by several orders of magnitude, than the Israelis "stole" from the "palestinians". But Mexicans aren't crossing our border with dynamite belts to murder us. They're crossing our border with tool belts to WORK for us and to make a better life for themselves and their families!)
The fact that we DON'T see Latin Americans in general, and Mexicans, Cubans, and Colombians in particular, swarming north, en masse, to blow up our buildings, suicide bomb our nightclubs and pizza parlors, launch rockets at our cities, nerve gas our subways, and kidnap and murder our citizens; when they have FAR more reason to do so than any middle easterner does or ever did; say to me that terrorism is NOT a reaction to out influence in foreign affairs. It's a war between cultures, west vs. middle east. Maybe they don't hate us because of our "freedom", but they definitely hate us because of our culture and our values and the fact that we don't worship allah.
cya,
john
Compare the number, placement, and obtrusiveness (ESPECIALLY when they serve up these fscking annoying flash-based ones!!!) of the ads on IGN, add in the ads-disguised-as-content links to ebay, amazon, pricegrabber, and such; and compare all that to the ads on, for example.... Google.
It may be a bit of an exaggeration to describe IGN as a full-out spam site. But the AC does have a point.
cya,
john
1) Stay the fuck off the sidewalk when you're on your bike. It's there for pedestrians, not vehicles of ANY kind...
... you would have those "problems".
and...
2) STOP at the intersections, and stay STOPPED and OUT OF THE CROSSWALK when you have the red light and the pedestrians have the little green walking guy in *their* signal. You know... keep your car where it's supposed to be when it's supposed to be there, and respect and follow those pesky little things like right-of-way and traffic laws...
cya,
john
You must not have been paying attention then. Shit... the last time I was out of the US, I was called both a yankee and a gringo within half an hour of walking across the border; before (so I thought) I even had the CHANCE to offend anyone, boorish behavior or otherwise.
Of course, my travels in years before that were more positive experiences. I caught a bit of the "stupid tourist" flack that's common pretty much everywhere tourists go. But I found that if you're polite and respectful and at least ATTEMPT to learn and use the local language, it's no worse than being a tourist anywhere in the US.
cya,
john
> thinking about a crime. Or being the kind of person that might
> think about committing a crime.
It's become quite en vogue for schools to have their disciplinary codes include "having knowledge of" as a violation for many offenses. here's an excerpt* from my old college's student handbook, for example, listing some of the offenses for which they consider just KNOWING about something taking place "constitutes equal responsibility and involvement" as those actually doing the wrong.
I was never aware of that particular bit being tested or enforced. But that's right... According to the letter of the policy, even if you decide you want nothing to do with what's going on, you don't take part in any way, and even if you get yourself the hell out of there; you're still considered just as guilty!
(*Caution, it's a rather nastily formatted "view as html" page generated from the original PDF. Just search for "knowledge" and you'll quickly get to the relevant parts.)
cya,
john
..... no really. He should.
He puts on such an insanely great live show, and his fans are so... well... fanatic, that when he does go on tour, people crawl over each other to get tickets. I've never seen a show of his that wasn't sold out.
cya,
john