You can legally own those weapons, which are perfectly good for well-trained infantry. Given that I don't expect a popular rebellion to have troops who fit that standard, I guess it's a good thing that it's also legal to own kits to convert that semi-auto AK into a full-auto model.
Add in some mortars (not hard to make, and whilethe ammo is tougher, you can steal it), maybe some light artillery if you can steal it, and plenty of transport, and you have the makings of decent light infantry.
Fact of the matter is that Michael Moore aside, that donation never happened. $43 million was given to aid organizations to be spent in Afganistan, and we can assume that some of that made its way into the pockets of the Taliban, but the Bush administration actually put a good bit of effort into trying to get it to the people of Afganistan.
Mr. Moore lies a lot, really. There's an article on Salon about that one, you can check SNOPES for a couple other cases of him continueing to make claims that were specious to begin with, and which he had been notified were false.
Why do you need a 2ghz machine on your offroad racing truck? It's way more than you'd need for mp3 playing or any other non-human-interaction use I can think of offhand, and for gaming/graphics/most processor-intensive tasks... Well, keep your eyes on the lack of a road, although since you seem to be surviving for the moment I suspect you know that.
I would recommend that you simply get a steel case, pack it with fans (4-5 minimum), put heavy filters on it, and find some way to deal with the power supply. Depending on the case design, further protection is probably necessary, so put it somewhere nothing is going to hit it or fall on it.
You do realize that Planned Parenthood is a generally 'liberal' pro-abortion group? And that they on almost every part of the RNC platform on which they have an opinion, the two groups disagree?
Because it's a newspaper. Send all the boilerplate you want to your senator, or the President, or a company. They care. But a reader of a letters page doesn't want to know what Planned Parenthood or the RNC think, if they did they'd just go read the articles about those organizations.
They are the best moves because Kasparov can immediately discard 95% of the possible moves and then go on to evaluate only those moves and sequences of moves that are valuable. So once you start talking about three or four-move sequences, Kasparov is spending CPU cycles and memory only on the most promising 0.01%, while his opponent is applying (vastly greater) computing power to all possible moves.
In other words, Kasparov has little RAM, and a slow CPU, but he has this amazing fuzzy-logic coprocessor which allows him to apply those resources much more efficiently.
Because it gets you exposure. Which in turn translates into money. Concert revenues go to the artists, under many contracts. Same for t-shirts and hoodies and all that crap. Those things make a lot of money. You didn't think it really cost 20-50 dollars to put on a concert? Or 30 to make and print a shitty t-shirt? I could make you that shirt for $10. The rest is for the vendor and the band.
Read the fscking question. It's not crippled or limited. It's just a little old, and has a small storage space. Like the 486 downstairs isn't actually a p4 that the RIAA haxored. It's just not as good.
That said, it may be possible to add in another flash card. A lot of mp3 player will let you. It sounds like from the size you quoted (64 megs) your player uses flash memory of some sort. If it doesn't have a slot for more memory, you may be able to find out what sort it does use, open it up, and put in a bigger one. If they don't sell them, see if you can dig up a broken later model (as similar as possible, only with larger memory) and try swapping in the memory unit from that one.
You do realize that in the event of a search warrant or subpoena that privacy policy no longer applies, right? Of course, they can't turn over anything they no longer have, but if they have it the government will too. On a side note, the libraries in my city (seattle) have a very explicit privacy policy that states that they do not ever save information about books a patron has read and returned. The only things on the books are currently checked-out items, for exactly this reason.
Actually, it's even more demeaning, because the government DIDN'T USE Linux. They merely listed it as an option. If you read on, it was an option which was not used.
Actually, if you read on in the article, they state that Linux dd COULD have been used, that NIST had tested it and found it acceptable, but if you read the procedures used to the four HDDs, they actually used the other methods listed exclusively.
Hmm... That's actually a pretty good measurement of the ability to act like a human, physically. Sounded aweful silly when I read the headline, but any robot that could meet the standards of flexibility and balance I'd want if it was gonna be doing something I cared about could probably do tai chi as well...
There's nothing wrong with it. I'm in the same boat with the author, in that I want the card, but not the membership. I don't especially disagree with them (well, actually I believe a creator has the right to decide what to do with their work, but if they GPL it that's great), but I don't feel passionately enough about it to feel right about calling myself a member.
More accurately, according to YOUR interpretation of the signers' intent, they didn't mean that. On the other hand, a lot of people think they meant that the people had the right to revolt against the government if it failed to serve them. After all, the Declaration of Independence says so...
So while I agree with much of what you say, be careful not to confuse your beliefs, even closely held ones, with solid facts. Even if you're right, you can't prove it.
On the other hand, you can make a pretty good guess by looking at the University budget. It may not tell you the contract terms, but since you know basically the amount of Windows etc a university uses, and you know how much they're spending on it, it allows you to make a pretty good estimation of the kind of deal they have. At the very least, how it compares with other colleges. That's why there's a very complex apparatus in m\place to make sure that only specially-chosen Congressmen get to see CIA/NSA/NRO budgets.
I think Oracle better fits your sig, really... But as to your case... You might try building it in two parts: The stuff that needs to be physically in the dashboard, and the stuff that doesn't. Bring the latter inside with you. It should generate enough heat to stay warm once it's going, so if it starts out warm, it ought to be okay. The only other problem would be maybe LCD screens cracking, depending on where you live...
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GO. And READ. The ARTICLE. NOW. Mr. Brin, being the man his is, states his enjoyment of the works and his enormous respect for Tolkien severa times. He also says that he is very happy to keep these ideas in the realm of fiction, where they are delightful and can even provide role models, rather than in he realm of reality, where they result in you and me being forced to weed Aragorn's garden all day.
Mod +1 seeing the obvious... That makes total sense. Both parts, that is. I would guess that people with public keys are statistically enough poorer a market for typical span products (Nigerian money, larger penises, pr0n...) that it wouldn't be profitable, but that doesn't mean no one will try it...
Never heard of them doing so... And I think that given the amount of hardware it already takes to send out millions of messages a day, they wouldn't think it was worth it to get many times more in order to do the (computationally trivial these days, but still far more so than just sending some spam) calculations to encrypt it.
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As far as I'm concerned, assuming you are reasonably suspicious of the information, this is no different than asking around, as Mr. Cohen says. If all the government does is google for me, well, I still don't think the whole statism deal is a good idea, in a perfect world, but in this one I'm willing to live with that. On the other hand, intercepting my email is inappropriate for a government, and intercepting your date's email... Well, do I need to say it?
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I agree that this sort of thing is bullshit. But if you squint a little, you can make it better... Think of it this way: Each of us has a part of us that likes to make stuff for geeky reasons. And each of us has a part that likes the benjamins. You might call those in whom one drive or the other is dominant a "geek" or a "suit." Certainly almost all of us want to do both of those things, as well as many others. Any description of this sort can only hope to describe aspects of each of us.
I didn't mean that as some sort of economic prediction about the feasibility of taking gold to space. I was just using it to point out the insane cost, mostly in fuel, of lifting shit to orbit. Which is why, even though they aren't as re-usable, old-school rockets are often cheaper.
In other words, I stipulate that there are potential conditions under which shipping gold to space would make sense. I also stipulate that right now, lifting anything to space is really, really, really expensive, and so anything at all you can to do reduce that weight (such as not sending astronauts on delivery missions, using the smallest possible vehicle, etc) is important.
Actually, the majority of both US and international launches are by totem-pole style rockets. And it's not just because the patriarchy loves phallic symbols. Every time the Shuttle goes up it has to lift who knows how many tons of shuttle and astronaut and life-support. If all you need to do is drop a (relatively light) satelliete into its orbit, it doesn't make sense to lift all that. Remember how much it costs to lift a pound into orbit... I don't have my books here, but I worked it out once, and if you had a source of gold on Earth, for free, and all you had to do was lift it to orbit to sell it, you would lose money on fuel and non-replaceble parts. The Shuttle, by the way, costs a huge amount more per pound lifted, than say and Ariane. Its true use is not payload lifts, but orbital repair/science work/passenger runs.
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You can legally own those weapons, which are perfectly good for well-trained infantry. Given that I don't expect a popular rebellion to have troops who fit that standard, I guess it's a good thing that it's also legal to own kits to convert that semi-auto AK into a full-auto model. Add in some mortars (not hard to make, and whilethe ammo is tougher, you can steal it), maybe some light artillery if you can steal it, and plenty of transport, and you have the makings of decent light infantry.
A complete listing of Salon articles on Moore, including the one I referred to above as well as another documenting a case of alleged plaigerism.
Fact of the matter is that Michael Moore aside, that donation never happened. $43 million was given to aid organizations to be spent in Afganistan, and we can assume that some of that made its way into the pockets of the Taliban, but the Bush administration actually put a good bit of effort into trying to get it to the people of Afganistan. Mr. Moore lies a lot, really. There's an article on Salon about that one, you can check SNOPES for a couple other cases of him continueing to make claims that were specious to begin with, and which he had been notified were false.
Why do you need a 2ghz machine on your offroad racing truck? It's way more than you'd need for mp3 playing or any other non-human-interaction use I can think of offhand, and for gaming/graphics/most processor-intensive tasks... Well, keep your eyes on the lack of a road, although since you seem to be surviving for the moment I suspect you know that. I would recommend that you simply get a steel case, pack it with fans (4-5 minimum), put heavy filters on it, and find some way to deal with the power supply. Depending on the case design, further protection is probably necessary, so put it somewhere nothing is going to hit it or fall on it.
You do realize that Planned Parenthood is a generally 'liberal' pro-abortion group? And that they on almost every part of the RNC platform on which they have an opinion, the two groups disagree?
Because it's a newspaper. Send all the boilerplate you want to your senator, or the President, or a company. They care. But a reader of a letters page doesn't want to know what Planned Parenthood or the RNC think, if they did they'd just go read the articles about those organizations.
They are the best moves because Kasparov can immediately discard 95% of the possible moves and then go on to evaluate only those moves and sequences of moves that are valuable. So once you start talking about three or four-move sequences, Kasparov is spending CPU cycles and memory only on the most promising 0.01%, while his opponent is applying (vastly greater) computing power to all possible moves. In other words, Kasparov has little RAM, and a slow CPU, but he has this amazing fuzzy-logic coprocessor which allows him to apply those resources much more efficiently.
Because it gets you exposure. Which in turn translates into money. Concert revenues go to the artists, under many contracts. Same for t-shirts and hoodies and all that crap. Those things make a lot of money. You didn't think it really cost 20-50 dollars to put on a concert? Or 30 to make and print a shitty t-shirt? I could make you that shirt for $10. The rest is for the vendor and the band.
Read the fscking question. It's not crippled or limited. It's just a little old, and has a small storage space. Like the 486 downstairs isn't actually a p4 that the RIAA haxored. It's just not as good. That said, it may be possible to add in another flash card. A lot of mp3 player will let you. It sounds like from the size you quoted (64 megs) your player uses flash memory of some sort. If it doesn't have a slot for more memory, you may be able to find out what sort it does use, open it up, and put in a bigger one. If they don't sell them, see if you can dig up a broken later model (as similar as possible, only with larger memory) and try swapping in the memory unit from that one.
PGP will do this too. In fact, it also has a mode that will wipe all the free space on your drives.
You do realize that in the event of a search warrant or subpoena that privacy policy no longer applies, right? Of course, they can't turn over anything they no longer have, but if they have it the government will too. On a side note, the libraries in my city (seattle) have a very explicit privacy policy that states that they do not ever save information about books a patron has read and returned. The only things on the books are currently checked-out items, for exactly this reason.
Actually, it's even more demeaning, because the government DIDN'T USE Linux. They merely listed it as an option. If you read on, it was an option which was not used.
Actually, if you read on in the article, they state that Linux dd COULD have been used, that NIST had tested it and found it acceptable, but if you read the procedures used to the four HDDs, they actually used the other methods listed exclusively.
Hmm... That's actually a pretty good measurement of the ability to act like a human, physically. Sounded aweful silly when I read the headline, but any robot that could meet the standards of flexibility and balance I'd want if it was gonna be doing something I cared about could probably do tai chi as well...
There's nothing wrong with it. I'm in the same boat with the author, in that I want the card, but not the membership. I don't especially disagree with them (well, actually I believe a creator has the right to decide what to do with their work, but if they GPL it that's great), but I don't feel passionately enough about it to feel right about calling myself a member.
More accurately, according to YOUR interpretation of the signers' intent, they didn't mean that. On the other hand, a lot of people think they meant that the people had the right to revolt against the government if it failed to serve them. After all, the Declaration of Independence says so... So while I agree with much of what you say, be careful not to confuse your beliefs, even closely held ones, with solid facts. Even if you're right, you can't prove it.
On the other hand, you can make a pretty good guess by looking at the University budget. It may not tell you the contract terms, but since you know basically the amount of Windows etc a university uses, and you know how much they're spending on it, it allows you to make a pretty good estimation of the kind of deal they have. At the very least, how it compares with other colleges. That's why there's a very complex apparatus in m\place to make sure that only specially-chosen Congressmen get to see CIA/NSA/NRO budgets.
I think Oracle better fits your sig, really... But as to your case... You might try building it in two parts: The stuff that needs to be physically in the dashboard, and the stuff that doesn't. Bring the latter inside with you. It should generate enough heat to stay warm once it's going, so if it starts out warm, it ought to be okay. The only other problem would be maybe LCD screens cracking, depending on where you live...
GO. And READ. The ARTICLE. NOW. Mr. Brin, being the man his is, states his enjoyment of the works and his enormous respect for Tolkien severa times. He also says that he is very happy to keep these ideas in the realm of fiction, where they are delightful and can even provide role models, rather than in he realm of reality, where they result in you and me being forced to weed Aragorn's garden all day.
Mod +1 seeing the obvious... That makes total sense. Both parts, that is. I would guess that people with public keys are statistically enough poorer a market for typical span products (Nigerian money, larger penises, pr0n...) that it wouldn't be profitable, but that doesn't mean no one will try it...
Never heard of them doing so... And I think that given the amount of hardware it already takes to send out millions of messages a day, they wouldn't think it was worth it to get many times more in order to do the (computationally trivial these days, but still far more so than just sending some spam) calculations to encrypt it.
As far as I'm concerned, assuming you are reasonably suspicious of the information, this is no different than asking around, as Mr. Cohen says. If all the government does is google for me, well, I still don't think the whole statism deal is a good idea, in a perfect world, but in this one I'm willing to live with that. On the other hand, intercepting my email is inappropriate for a government, and intercepting your date's email... Well, do I need to say it?
I agree that this sort of thing is bullshit. But if you squint a little, you can make it better... Think of it this way: Each of us has a part of us that likes to make stuff for geeky reasons. And each of us has a part that likes the benjamins. You might call those in whom one drive or the other is dominant a "geek" or a "suit." Certainly almost all of us want to do both of those things, as well as many others. Any description of this sort can only hope to describe aspects of each of us.
I didn't mean that as some sort of economic prediction about the feasibility of taking gold to space. I was just using it to point out the insane cost, mostly in fuel, of lifting shit to orbit. Which is why, even though they aren't as re-usable, old-school rockets are often cheaper. In other words, I stipulate that there are potential conditions under which shipping gold to space would make sense. I also stipulate that right now, lifting anything to space is really, really, really expensive, and so anything at all you can to do reduce that weight (such as not sending astronauts on delivery missions, using the smallest possible vehicle, etc) is important.
Actually, the majority of both US and international launches are by totem-pole style rockets. And it's not just because the patriarchy loves phallic symbols. Every time the Shuttle goes up it has to lift who knows how many tons of shuttle and astronaut and life-support. If all you need to do is drop a (relatively light) satelliete into its orbit, it doesn't make sense to lift all that. Remember how much it costs to lift a pound into orbit... I don't have my books here, but I worked it out once, and if you had a source of gold on Earth, for free, and all you had to do was lift it to orbit to sell it, you would lose money on fuel and non-replaceble parts. The Shuttle, by the way, costs a huge amount more per pound lifted, than say and Ariane. Its true use is not payload lifts, but orbital repair/science work/passenger runs.