But the problem the airlines are in is a middle area where it is important enough to drastically impact our day to day lives, but not drastic enough to ensure self-correction.
Sounds to me that if that really proves to be the case then the market will have judged airlines to be of less value then alternative uses of the wealth. I don't see why the Gov needs to mess with that outcome. Infact we could cut huge federal expenditures in that area without an airline industry.
Maybe only international air travel will be offered. Get you ass to NYC or LA by train/auto and then you fly over the ocean. That would be plenty practical. Air travel by and large is wasteful! It takes lots of fuel to move a little load. A train makes much more sense, given the rising cost of energy. Air travel was only selected by the market in the first place because the cost of the extra fule was less then the cost of building/maintaining all the extra railroad infrustucture that would be needed to serve the customer with trains. Airlines and interstate trucking all but killed rail because fule was cheap and plenty. Now that fule is expensive it might make more sense to build out railroad and if the airlines go the way of the doddo that could happen more quickly. Their is nothing wrong with these transitions its how a market is supposed to work. I don't know why our public officials refuse to understand that.
The buggy whip industry died with Ford, the canal industry died by the rail, the rail industry nearly died by the Ford and air freighter/liners. Rail cold come back and kill both and why not. It does not need to be your great grand pappy's railroad either we can run modern high speed trains with great fuel efficency as well if we replace our 120 year old track.
I wish the ag lobby and the leftist waykos that like to use enviro-psudo science to grab power would just give up this stuid bio-fule farce already.
Bio-fule is far less green then petrol. Firs off petrol is a bio-fule, its bio-fule that sat around for a few geologic ages.
To replace or dependence on focile fules with bio-fules we would have to put so much land under cultivation we would change the worlds surface in what would probably be a more profound way then man kind has cumulatively done to date. It would also have to be productive cultivation the sort we really only know how to make work using nitogen fertilizers that we make out of the oil we are supposed to be trying to get away from.
That is not really a solution for most. I suppose its great if you want to hide some criminal activity like you bookie operation you are running, but most people like me the only thing we do want to protect are old tax records, other financials, a personal journal, you get the idea. Are you saying I should produce an entire set of convincing mock financial information just through ppl off the trail. Who has time for that. What would be much more interesting is a good stenography system. I would love to be able to stash that stuff in a 4 hour video of my family reunion or something.
A terminal server serving up rich applications, is a much much better user experience then anything being done in current web applications. It addresses all the problems you mention. Infact it addresses some of them better, as you can give your destop users little wise terms at some point then you no longer have to worry about upgrading destops nearly as often. Sure once in a great while maybe 6 or 8 years you are going to want to replace those terminals, but I doubt more often certain not the 18 months to three years desktops usually are being cycled. Oh and your out of data center maintenace goes to zero. Generally its not much harder to maintain your terminal server farm them the application servers you would have on the back end anyway running either your web applicaion or supporting your fat client.
The web app is good for simple things, IT IS NOT A GOOD SOLUTION FOR HALF OF THE STUFF PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO DO. I don't know many organizations that ask uses to use OWA at their desks, OWA is at least with exchange 2007 about a nice as web apps can get at least when used on IE. Still most people run the Outlook client at least when they have their own PC and are in the office. There is a reason for doing that, the fat client is a better experience.
This is interesting though if you can just turn around and rebuild your C/C++ fat app whith this tool chain and launch it from a browser this might be really good. Somehow you have to get outa the sandbox in a safe way though. If you can't hock into the native libraries and do IPC with other apps then its just going to be another JAVA it won't look nice, it won't integrate well with whats already running and won't be used.
I am sorry but you are just not being honest... All of what you say might be true for a two year old PC but any kinda laptop or server hardware is a nightmare whithout the OEM CD.
First you are going to need storage drivers. You can't put these on a thumbdrive because the Windows installer only supports loading these from floppy. In most cases the BIOS emulation on the system will let you use USB-floppy(hope you have one) or a second cdrom, drive. Still this is a pain and not trivial for the typical user.
Next you are going to need video drivers. You are going need these pretty much right away. The generic svga drive will only do 640x480 or 800x600 on many chips. Modern Windows is almost impossible to use this way, hell the welcome application does not even display right. You are not getting these in 10min of downloading either, they probably weigh in around 160M, yep 160M for a video driver....well that and all sorts of useless OEM widgets that come with it. Note even if you have a fast connection the manufactures FTP site will be painfully slow.
Now you need network drivers These might be easy to hunt down if you are on a popular chipset platform or have a popular discrete controller. They might be near impossible to figure out the right one or how to downlaod if you happen to have one Intel's more exotic devices, or some off brand. It may even take a couple tries to get the right driver. Mind you the wrong one will probably install and just not work.
Sound drivers, if you need those See network drivers...
You have to look at cultural background before you judge someone for child labor or killing a woman, right?
No I don't have to look at cultural background to say the subjecting children to dangerous and long working conditions or killing women who are not killers themsevles, or perhaps fighting in war, is wrong. I am not a moral relativist. When it comes to right an wrong there ARE some absolutes.
And how are we going to move bardges along these canals?
Do you expect we go the traditional route and use draft animals along a tow path beside the canal? Not exactly as fast as truck.
Do we put engines in the boats? Back to the same carbon producing problem as the trucks, still much much slower.
The best idea I can think of is string overhead power lines over your canal, and use electic motors on the canal boats. Sorta like a trolly car on water. Still there are lots of problems. The canals will be difficult to keep free of ice in winder. There is no way canal boats are going to run as fast as trucks, which means they wont satisfy our food transportation needs well, and this is a big part of trucking. You still have to generate the electric power to run, which will probably produce carbon emmissions ( I remain unconviced this is actaully a problem, but the price of petrol certainly is so replaceing trucks would be good ). The canals will have to be two lans wide so traffic can move in both directions. You are also going to need sides, just like with rail roads, so lower priority slower traffic ( bigger bardges ) can lay over and allow others to pass. Dealing with the overhead power might be trick there. I think you going to have to do a lot of land grabs to get these built and going useful places which means the NIMBY crowd will be working hard to kill it. All and all I like the idea, boats on still water can be very efficent. Electric or animal power could be cheap compared to petrol. Implementation seems a bit out of reach though.
Americans do care about fule economy now. Over the course of the last year its become just about all anyone in the news talks about. Domestic auto sales are down too, some of the is due to the credit crunch but lots of it is due to fule prices.
If you really could get 9mpg more out of a new Malibu with a $2 GM SURE AS HELL would do it. They faceing bankrupcy because their lines have been to bias toward big gas guzzlers; people no longer want. That extra 9mpg would put a Malibu in the area of Prius milage. GM would love nothing more then to sell the heck out of something like that. They would too, I would be at the dealer ship. I am planning on a new car soon anyway and If a Malibu was getting greater then 40mpg it would be an easy sell at the current MSRP. A Malibu is a much more comfortable and more usefull vehicle in terms of what you could put in then the tiny forigen hybrids.
Be carefull about moving the radiator portion of the fidge outside. A heat pump has to work harder the more against the gradient the tempature differential you are tring to create is. The compressor system in your fridge is designed to run lots of short cycles, where as the AC unit on your house is designed for few longer cycles.
If you fridge can't pump much heat because its trying to exhaust the heat into an 90F+ world and its going to be running constantly. It might not last long in that configuration.
Our administration has already stated Iran will NOT be allowed to blocade the Straits of Hormuz even if they are provoked by say an attack from the Israiles. I suspect it could get very bloody. Iran would have to be beaten back hard and fast. I suspect it would be a "total war" nothing like what we did in Iraq. We would bomb them back to the stonage, and as pump prices rise the people will support it.
Yes, but in all likelyhood the Soviet Union's collaps would have been delyed. The delay might have had consequences for US in the lower 48 states, it may not have. Certainly large geographic areas would have been subject to tyrany years longer then they were.
As to the middle east well what would it have been like after the collaps had it become primarily a soviet controlled region. It probably would have fractured into a bunch of tiny warring groups like the Balkins did. It most likely would have been a bigger bloodier and even more complex(in terms of the number of players) mess then it is in today.
I am sure eventally for humanitarian reasons we would have needed to get envolved just like we needed to in the Balkins, where we are still keeping the peace even if things are mostly quiet! We would have been without our years of cheap reliable oil exports and thefore less able to help as well. Pushing the soviets out of there when we did was a good thing. There was no other way we could do it either. Had we sent our own troops it it could have turned our cold war into a hot one. That would have been bad for the entire world. Charlie Wilson IS AN AMERICAN HERO.
I don't know about federal, but I think the mens rea, for recipt of stolen property varies state to state. IANAL but my guess is that it would be negligently in most places. That is you are guilty if you failed to take usually precautions or ignored obvious signs something was wrong.
If you bought the computer from sold out of the trunk of someones car, who insisted on cash and gave no recipt, you are in trouble.
If it was more carefully fenced and you purchased it at shop, got recipt etc etc, you have done nothing wrong although you are still not going to get to keep it and are not likely to be compensated. Even if the mens rea is lower someplace I doubt very much in that situation any local prosecutor is going to come after you even if the poilice investigating filed a complaint. People would be pretty uncomfortable trying to punish you for something most people do everyday buy things in stores...
What happens if you get AIDS while trying to help someone who is injured? Unprotected sex is NOT the only way to get HIV infections. If it was I would agree with your stance; but it is not. Just because its the most common vector does not mean its the only one.
I would really hate if I or someone I care about who was smart enough to know something about who their sleeping with and use protection ended up contracting HIV some other way and could not get treatment. Especially if the treatment is never developed because some fools like you assumed that unprotected sex was the only way to get it and it will never mutate to become more infectious through other vectors.
Well, I am no AIDS expert but from what I understand is HIV does not really kill anybody. AIDS the resulting condition of HIV, is Auto Immune Difficency Sydrome. Basically you immune system stops working and all the other little virus out there take over start to take over all your other cells and with nothing to stop them; that kills you.
So if you screw-up someones immune system in the name of HIV proofing and that causes it to not work then they will have AIDS anyway even if you do manage to kill off the HIV infection. So yea if it turns out these things are "important" you might destroy the immune system faster then HIV would have.
All its going to do is encourage P2P developers to try (and they will likely succeed) to make P2P traffic look more like other traffic. Want your bittorent to look more like encrypted telnet? Easy send tons of tiny packets and take a short break every few seconds. All this is going to do is increase the packet overhead the ISPs see. That same overhead will also hurt P2P end users but unless its more then the throttle does they will do it anyone. Its a loose loose situation really. They ISPs should realize they gain nothing going down this path.
Stop frightening the non-slackers, screen is in the disto slashdoters.
1.Insert dvd or download slackpack from ftp.slackware.com (Hey you could even use your browser!) 2.cd/{directory containing package} 3.installpkg screen-X.X.X-i386-1.tgz (replace X as required: hint match the file name.)
A bit easier then the above I think, and no you won't get any uber-leet-performance by doing your own build.
The trouble is eventually it will get to the point where you can't use the network for downloading you r latest porno at all. I am a network admin at a mid sized business. We use VOIP and its great it solves all kinds of bisness problems that would be either difficult, kludgy, or very expensive with more traditional PBX equipment, or carrier services.
That being said in order to make VOIP work we had to turn on QOS everywhere. Now some of our smaller offices on slower leased lines are damn near impossible to get any bulk traffic on. The QOS polices and the shaper polices on top of those we have work well for very specific use, calls and www. Suppose an engineer is visting one of those sales offices though.. He will be lucky if he can keep an ftp transfer from timeing out once a few calls get lit up. This is trouble if they want to downlaod a product service manual or something that is big.
In our case from a business prespective good call quality for sales, staff are much more import then bulk transfer speeds to the internet for others. Those people have other options availible to them, like their unlimited data plans on cellular cards, or god help them a little planning. Gee I am being sent to work out of office Y for a few days to assist a customer with X. Possibly I should take the documentation for X and related software etc etc, with me... duh.
The thing is you can't preplan on your ISP useage. You don't know what you want to downlaod until you see it probably more often then not. Sure you can script wget to grab you latest gun/Linux ISO overnight when most of your neighbors will be off the phone.
The thing is you should not need to do that. You are paying your ISP for a line, you should have a right to expect some service on it. Just because you want to use the service to download porn and I want to use it to make phone calls does not me I should get the right of way at your expense. We should both get service, or the ISP should charge more so they can provide it, or advertise less. If my phone call really IS more important then your porn I should pay. I should order a faster connection and then I should have what I payed for provided by my ISP who I am paying, you should get what YOU pay for, NOT LESS then what YOU payed for because someone made a judgent about my traffic being more important.
ISPs see all this shaping and service class control as a way to increase their oversold ratio and continue without having to purchase more infrastructure. They are just trying to hold cost down. I do the same thing on the network I run. I am not however marketing internet access to my users, I am makeing sure they have a certain level and type of connectivity they need for some very specific business useage, and if other stuff like web raidio won't work oh darn thats not why the company leases T-carriers.
Think about this, support you are a heavy multi-media user and you order a 12meg service offering and pay $90 for it. Support I am not a heavy use but I do VOIP an I get a 1.5meg offering and pay $20 for it. Now suppose the ISP is way oversold such that anytime I light up a call for me to get my QOS needs fill your connect drops by that amount. Normally you would not notice but then my other neighbor does the same thing, and so do other people on the street. Now somebody is on the phone almost all the time. That 12meg line you have is effectively 11meg or less, but you are paying the same is that fair?
No we call it the LAWs of Gravity; because time study has show the gravity model to be sound even more so then the rigger we subject something we apply the word theory to.
I get really sick of your types trying to confuse the ethics in the debate. You know perfectly well that questions where illness, injury, and severe but natural birth defects like the twinning you mentioned are envolved pose a different set of ethical questions. Its not needed or even rational to try and address those in the same fasion we do healthy mothers with healy embros/fetuses.
Try these ethics questions out to get my point: 1. Your are resuce worker you see a person who has slipped an fallen. They are unconscience and not breathing, they won't survive unless you help them, and might not survie if you do. You are trainned in CPR. Should attempt to help this person? --->Of course you would, there is no delima here.
2. Your are resuce worker you see a person who has slipped an fallen while trying to escape a buring building. They are unconscience and not breathing, they won't survive unless you help them, and might not survie if you do. You are trainned in CPR. You also recongize the situation is still very dangerous and entering would put you at risk. Should attempt to help this person? --->Much more complication here, Before we answer we need to look at some things not unlike your mom might not survive carring the child question, and your birth defects question.
How dangerous is it really for you? How likely is that you could save the person?
The right thing as to wether or not you attempt a rescue is going to revolve around those questions. Its a different problem then the first.
pretty much what people defined a living being to be back before hospitals
People have had all sorts of ideas of what is alive and what is not long before hospitals. Are you going to suggest no parents ever cried over a misscariage, even a very early one, prior to hospitals?
Ok, but gun crime IS lower per capita in nations with HIGHER per capita gun ownership then ours. Consider that as a criminal getting injured as is likely in a gun fight is an instant prison sentence. You are going to need a hospital, where after being treated you are sure to be arrested and virtually certain to be convicted. Its must risky to attempt to rob someone who you think has a gun then someone you think does not. Personally I think concealed carry is bad for that reason. I would very much like to walk down the street or through the mall with a gun on my hip in plain site.
I would like to see other law abiding citizens do same. I don't think concealed carry should be prohibited but guns should be encouraged to be displayed. The more visible they are the less likely anyone is to pull one!
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Meta-mods plz avenge me! My comment might not have been good enough to deserve +1 Funny but in what universe could it be considered "troll".
They could call it, Googzai Buddy!
But the problem the airlines are in is a middle area where it is important enough to drastically impact our day to day lives, but not drastic enough to ensure self-correction.
Sounds to me that if that really proves to be the case then the market will have judged airlines to be of less value then alternative uses of the wealth. I don't see why the Gov needs to mess with that outcome. Infact we could cut huge federal expenditures in that area without an airline industry.
Maybe only international air travel will be offered. Get you ass to NYC or LA by train/auto and then you fly over the ocean. That would be plenty practical. Air travel by and large is wasteful! It takes lots of fuel to move a little load. A train makes much more sense, given the rising cost of energy. Air travel was only selected by the market in the first place because the cost of the extra fule was less then the cost of building/maintaining all the extra railroad infrustucture that would be needed to serve the customer with trains. Airlines and interstate trucking all but killed rail because fule was cheap and plenty. Now that fule is expensive it might make more sense to build out railroad and if the airlines go the way of the doddo that could happen more quickly. Their is nothing wrong with these transitions its how a market is supposed to work. I don't know why our public officials refuse to understand that.
The buggy whip industry died with Ford, the canal industry died by the rail, the rail industry nearly died by the Ford and air freighter/liners. Rail cold come back and kill both and why not. It does not need to be your great grand pappy's railroad either we can run modern high speed trains with great fuel efficency as well if we replace our 120 year old track.
I wish the ag lobby and the leftist waykos that like to use enviro-psudo science to grab power would just give up this stuid bio-fule farce already.
Bio-fule is far less green then petrol. Firs off petrol is a bio-fule, its bio-fule that sat around for a few geologic ages.
To replace or dependence on focile fules with bio-fules we would have to put so much land under cultivation we would change the worlds surface in what would probably be a more profound way then man kind has cumulatively done to date. It would also have to be productive cultivation the sort we really only know how to make work using nitogen fertilizers that we make out of the oil we are supposed to be trying to get away from.
Yes, I have already looked over the code and made some modifications, most to the comments. Its now 1^9999 times faster then googles original honest.
That is not really a solution for most. I suppose its great if you want to hide some criminal activity like you bookie operation you are running, but most people like me the only thing we do want to protect are old tax records, other financials, a personal journal, you get the idea. Are you saying I should produce an entire set of convincing mock financial information just through ppl off the trail. Who has time for that. What would be much more interesting is a good stenography system. I would love to be able to stash that stuff in a 4 hour video of my family reunion or something.
A terminal server serving up rich applications, is a much much better user experience then anything being done in current web applications. It addresses all the problems you mention. Infact it addresses some of them better, as you can give your destop users little wise terms at some point then you no longer have to worry about upgrading destops nearly as often. Sure once in a great while maybe 6 or 8 years you are going to want to replace those terminals, but I doubt more often certain not the 18 months to three years desktops usually are being cycled. Oh and your out of data center maintenace goes to zero. Generally its not much harder to maintain your terminal server farm them the application servers you would have on the back end anyway running either your web applicaion or supporting your fat client.
The web app is good for simple things, IT IS NOT A GOOD SOLUTION FOR HALF OF THE STUFF PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO DO. I don't know many organizations that ask uses to use OWA at their desks, OWA is at least with exchange 2007 about a nice as web apps can get at least when used on IE. Still most people run the Outlook client at least when they have their own PC and are in the office. There is a reason for doing that, the fat client is a better experience.
This is interesting though if you can just turn around and rebuild your C/C++ fat app whith this tool chain and launch it from a browser this might be really good. Somehow you have to get outa the sandbox in a safe way though. If you can't hock into the native libraries and do IPC with other apps then its just going to be another JAVA it won't look nice, it won't integrate well with whats already running and won't be used.
I am sorry but you are just not being honest...
All of what you say might be true for a two year old PC but any kinda laptop or server hardware is a nightmare whithout the OEM CD.
First you are going to need storage drivers. You can't put these on a thumbdrive because the Windows installer only supports loading these from floppy. In most cases the BIOS emulation on the system will let you use USB-floppy(hope you have one) or a second cdrom, drive. Still this is a pain and not trivial for the typical user.
Next you are going to need video drivers. You are going need these pretty much right away. The generic svga drive will only do 640x480 or 800x600 on many chips. Modern Windows is almost impossible to use this way, hell the welcome application does not even display right. You are not getting these in 10min of downloading either, they probably weigh in around 160M, yep 160M for a video driver....well that and all sorts of useless OEM widgets that come with it. Note even if you have a fast connection the manufactures FTP site will be painfully slow.
Now you need network drivers These might be easy to hunt down if you are on a popular chipset platform or have a popular discrete controller. They might be near impossible to figure out the right one or how to downlaod if you happen to have one Intel's more exotic devices, or some off brand. It may even take a couple tries to get the right driver. Mind you the wrong one will probably install and just not work.
Sound drivers, if you need those See network drivers...
You have to look at cultural background before you judge someone for child labor or killing a woman, right?
No I don't have to look at cultural background to say the subjecting children to dangerous and long working conditions or killing women who are not killers themsevles, or perhaps fighting in war, is wrong. I am not a moral relativist. When it comes to right an wrong there ARE some absolutes.
just build canals
And how are we going to move bardges along these canals?
Do you expect we go the traditional route and use draft animals along a tow path beside the canal? Not exactly as fast as truck.
Do we put engines in the boats? Back to the same carbon producing problem as the trucks, still much much slower.
The best idea I can think of is string overhead power lines over your canal, and use electic motors on the canal boats. Sorta like a trolly car on water. Still there are lots of problems. The canals will be difficult to keep free of ice in winder. There is no way canal boats are going to run as fast as trucks, which means they wont satisfy our food transportation needs well, and this is a big part of trucking. You still have to generate the electric power to run, which will probably produce carbon emmissions ( I remain unconviced this is actaully a problem, but the price of petrol certainly is so replaceing trucks would be good ). The canals will have to be two lans wide so traffic can move in both directions. You are also going to need sides, just like with rail roads, so lower priority slower traffic ( bigger bardges ) can lay over and allow others to pass. Dealing with the overhead power might be trick there. I think you going to have to do a lot of land grabs to get these built and going useful places which means the NIMBY crowd will be working hard to kill it. All and all I like the idea, boats on still water can be very efficent. Electric or animal power could be cheap compared to petrol. Implementation seems a bit out of reach though.
Americans do care about fule economy now. Over the course of the last year its become just about all anyone in the news talks about. Domestic auto sales are down too, some of the is due to the credit crunch but lots of it is due to fule prices.
If you really could get 9mpg more out of a new Malibu with a $2 GM SURE AS HELL would do it. They faceing bankrupcy because their lines have been to bias toward big gas guzzlers; people no longer want. That extra 9mpg would put a Malibu in the area of Prius milage. GM would love nothing more then to sell the heck out of something like that. They would too, I would be at the dealer ship. I am planning on a new car soon anyway and If a Malibu was getting greater then 40mpg it would be an easy sell at the current MSRP.
A Malibu is a much more comfortable and more usefull vehicle in terms of what you could put in then the tiny forigen hybrids.
Be carefull about moving the radiator portion of the fidge outside. A heat pump has to work harder the more against the gradient the tempature differential you are tring to create is. The compressor system in your fridge is designed to run lots of short cycles, where as the AC unit on your house is designed for few longer cycles.
If you fridge can't pump much heat because its trying to exhaust the heat into an 90F+ world and its going to be running constantly. It might not last long in that configuration.
Our administration has already stated Iran will NOT be allowed to blocade the Straits of Hormuz even if they are provoked by say an attack from the Israiles. I suspect it could get very bloody. Iran would have to be beaten back hard and fast. I suspect it would be a "total war" nothing like what we did in Iraq. We would bomb them back to the stonage, and as pump prices rise the people will support it.
Yes, but in all likelyhood the Soviet Union's collaps would have been delyed. The delay might have had consequences for US in the lower 48 states, it may not have. Certainly large geographic areas would have been subject to tyrany years longer then they were.
As to the middle east well what would it have been like after the collaps had it become primarily a soviet controlled region. It probably would have fractured into a bunch of tiny warring groups like the Balkins did. It most likely would have been a bigger bloodier and even more complex(in terms of the number of players) mess then it is in today.
I am sure eventally for humanitarian reasons we would have needed to get envolved just like we needed to in the Balkins, where we are still keeping the peace even if things are mostly quiet! We would have been without our years of cheap reliable oil exports and thefore less able to help as well. Pushing the soviets out of there when we did was a good thing. There was no other way we could do it either. Had we sent our own troops it it could have turned our cold war into a hot one. That would have been bad for the entire world. Charlie Wilson IS AN AMERICAN HERO.
I don't know about federal, but I think the mens rea, for recipt of stolen property varies state to state. IANAL but my guess is that it would be negligently in most places. That is you are guilty if you failed to take usually precautions or ignored obvious signs something was wrong.
If you bought the computer from sold out of the trunk of someones car, who insisted on cash and gave no recipt, you are in trouble.
If it was more carefully fenced and you purchased it at shop, got recipt etc etc, you have done nothing wrong although you are still not going to get to keep it and are not likely to be compensated. Even if the mens rea is lower someplace I doubt very much in that situation any local prosecutor is going to come after you even if the poilice investigating filed a complaint. People would be pretty uncomfortable trying to punish you for something most people do everyday buy things in stores...
What happens if you get AIDS while trying to help someone who is injured? Unprotected sex is NOT the only way to get HIV infections. If it was I would agree with your stance; but it is not. Just because its the most common vector does not mean its the only one.
I would really hate if I or someone I care about who was smart enough to know something about who their sleeping with and use protection ended up contracting HIV some other way and could not get treatment. Especially if the treatment is never developed because some fools like you assumed that unprotected sex was the only way to get it and it will never mutate to become more infectious through other vectors.
Well, I am no AIDS expert but from what I understand is HIV does not really kill anybody. AIDS the resulting condition of HIV, is Auto Immune Difficency Sydrome. Basically you immune system stops working and all the other little virus out there take over start to take over all your other cells and with nothing to stop them; that kills you.
So if you screw-up someones immune system in the name of HIV proofing and that causes it to not work then they will have AIDS anyway even if you do manage to kill off the HIV infection. So yea if it turns out these things are "important" you might destroy the immune system faster then HIV would have.
All its going to do is encourage P2P developers to try (and they will likely succeed) to make P2P traffic look more like other traffic. Want your bittorent to look more like encrypted telnet? Easy send tons of tiny packets and take a short break every few seconds. All this is going to do is increase the packet overhead the ISPs see. That same overhead will also hurt P2P end users but unless its more then the throttle does they will do it anyone. Its a loose loose situation really. They ISPs should realize they gain nothing going down this path.
Stop frightening the non-slackers, screen is in the disto slashdoters.
1.Insert dvd or download slackpack from ftp.slackware.com (Hey you could even use your browser!) /{directory containing package}
2.cd
3.installpkg screen-X.X.X-i386-1.tgz (replace X as required: hint match the file name.)
A bit easier then the above I think, and no you won't get any uber-leet-performance by doing your own build.
The trouble is eventually it will get to the point where you can't use the network for downloading you r latest porno at all. I am a network admin at a mid sized business. We use VOIP and its great it solves all kinds of bisness problems that would be either difficult, kludgy, or very expensive with more traditional PBX equipment, or carrier services.
That being said in order to make VOIP work we had to turn on QOS everywhere. Now some of our smaller offices on slower leased lines are damn near impossible to get any bulk traffic on. The QOS polices and the shaper polices on top of those we have work well for very specific use, calls and www. Suppose an engineer is visting one of those sales offices though.. He will be lucky if he can keep an ftp transfer from timeing out once a few calls get lit up. This is trouble if they want to downlaod a product service manual or something that is big.
In our case from a business prespective good call quality for sales, staff are much more import then bulk transfer speeds to the internet for others. Those people have other options availible to them, like their unlimited data plans on cellular cards, or god help them a little planning. Gee I am being sent to work out of office Y for a few days to assist a customer with X. Possibly I should take the documentation for X and related software etc etc, with me... duh.
The thing is you can't preplan on your ISP useage. You don't know what you want to downlaod until you see it probably more often then not. Sure you can script wget to grab you latest gun/Linux ISO overnight when most of your neighbors will be off the phone.
The thing is you should not need to do that. You are paying your ISP for a line, you should have a right to expect some service on it. Just because you want to use the service to download porn and I want to use it to make phone calls does not me I should get the right of way at your expense. We should both get service, or the ISP should charge more so they can provide it, or advertise less. If my phone call really IS more important then your porn I should pay. I should order a faster connection and then I should have what I payed for provided by my ISP who I am paying, you should get what YOU pay for, NOT LESS then what YOU payed for because someone made a judgent about my traffic being more important.
ISPs see all this shaping and service class control as a way to increase their oversold ratio and continue without having to purchase more infrastructure. They are just trying to hold cost down. I do the same thing on the network I run. I am not however marketing internet access to my users, I am makeing sure they have a certain level and type of connectivity they need for some very specific business useage, and if other stuff like web raidio won't work oh darn thats not why the company leases T-carriers.
Think about this, support you are a heavy multi-media user and you order a 12meg service offering and pay $90 for it. Support I am not a heavy use but I do VOIP an I get a 1.5meg offering and pay $20 for it. Now suppose the ISP is way oversold such that anytime I light up a call for me to get my QOS needs fill your connect drops by that amount. Normally you would not notice but then my other neighbor does the same thing, and so do other people on the street. Now somebody is on the phone almost all the time. That 12meg line you have is effectively 11meg or less, but you are paying the same is that fair?
No we call it the LAWs of Gravity; because time study has show the gravity model to be sound even more so then the rigger we subject something we apply the word theory to.
I get really sick of your types trying to confuse the ethics in the debate. You know perfectly well that questions where illness, injury, and severe but natural birth defects like the twinning you mentioned are envolved pose a different set of ethical questions. Its not needed or even rational to try and address those in the same fasion we do healthy mothers with healy embros/fetuses.
Try these ethics questions out to get my point:
1. Your are resuce worker you see a person who has slipped an fallen. They are unconscience and not breathing, they won't survive unless you help them, and might not survie if you do. You are trainned in CPR. Should attempt to help this person?
--->Of course you would, there is no delima here.
2. Your are resuce worker you see a person who has slipped an fallen while trying to escape a buring building. They are unconscience and not breathing, they won't survive unless you help them, and might not survie if you do. You are trainned in CPR. You also recongize the situation is still very dangerous and entering would put you at risk. Should attempt to help this person?
--->Much more complication here, Before we answer we need to look at some things not unlike your mom might not survive carring the child question, and your birth defects question.
How dangerous is it really for you?
How likely is that you could save the person?
The right thing as to wether or not you attempt a rescue is going to revolve around those questions. Its a different problem then the first.
People have had all sorts of ideas of what is alive and what is not long before hospitals. Are you going to suggest no parents ever cried over a misscariage, even a very early one, prior to hospitals?
Well, the Constitution; charges the government with:
Promoting the General Wealfare
Providing for the common defense
Securing the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity
all of which might be inclusive of unborn children at any point which we can recognize them to be alive.
Ok, but gun crime IS lower per capita in nations with HIGHER per capita gun ownership then ours. Consider that as a criminal getting injured as is likely in a gun fight is an instant prison sentence. You are going to need a hospital, where after being treated you are sure to be arrested and virtually certain to be convicted. Its must risky to attempt to rob someone who you think has a gun then someone you think does not. Personally I think concealed carry is bad for that reason. I would very much like to walk down the street or through the mall with a gun on my hip in plain site.
I would like to see other law abiding citizens do same. I don't think concealed carry should be prohibited but guns should be encouraged to be displayed. The more visible they are the less likely anyone is to pull one!