The public keeps falling for this. Look at Philadelphia: they voted for a supposed "Maverick" named Michael Nutter (basically the Democrats' John McCain) and expected something different. Nope: the same left-wing Democrat party lines Philadelphia is known for:
- Anti-gun (two new gun control laws, tried to implement unconstitutional handgun ban) - Pro-police state (random police searches on the street) - Pro-tax (cancelled promised tax cuts) - Destroying civic pride and traditions (implementation of outrageous parade fees that almost cancelled the Mummers parade-- blamed on the minor chaos after the Phillies brought the first championship to the city since 1983)
I do love how OFO basically stopped working and causes system crashes on Windows 2000 since Symantec bought Veritas. Irony: a product that is supposed to help protect your data puts it at risk through instability.
Kennedy died in 1963. U.S. combat units weren't sent into Vietnam until 1965 (after the Gulf of Tonkin Incident). and if Kennedy hadn't been assassinated, it's likely that the United States would have withdrawn from Vietnam completely rather than escalate the conflict.
Wrong. Kennedy had 11,300 troops in S. Vietnam in 1963. Of course, he called them "advisers". Their presence involved the USA in the conflict.
the thing is, the USA for the last 8 years has been governed by people who effectively (in the analogy given) owned major shares in companies that profited from the production of horseshit.
If you think this is somehow a curiosity of the Bush administration, you are quite ignorant. The attitude that all our problems are caused by one person or party will not solve any problems. If we allow politicians free reign because they're "our guy", we end up in the same mess.
I love the hyperbole, but if you take your huge numbers and apply them in a ratio to the total population you'd find that no more people are hungry now than 100 years ago. So it's not a crisis, but a continuing problem. The funny thing about your argument is that I can't see how feeding the world is related to global warming. If we follow the requirements of the climate change lobby, we will end up feeding fewer people, not more, for a long time.
So why is it so hard to believe that humans could be raising the average temperature of the planet by a few degrees every year?
It may be possible, but it's not happening right now. The global mean has gone up ONE degree Celsius in the last 50+ years, and 0 degrees in the last ten.
If we continue with business as usual for even a few more decades, she says, those emissions could be enough to create permanent dust-bowl conditions in the U.S. Southwest
I hope this supposed scientist didn't really say "dust-bowl conditions", because that would make her entirely ignorant of the true cause of the dust-bowl: destructive farming techniques and lack of proper irrigation.
Besides, assuming that the warming trend is really due to human factors, it's ridiculous to presume that we can't reverse the trend when there are so many methods demonstrated to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and sequester it. She's just another ignorant alarmist for whom cautious conservation is not enough-- we have to radically change our way of life.
I don't know which philosopher said we all have a right to jobs. I believe the conclusion of the Enlightenment was that everyone has rights to life, liberty, and property. Politicians are the ones who tell us we have a right to a job. You seem to have taken this a step further by claiming that we have a right to the job we want, where we want it. There are jobs in places other than the USA; the world is not dependent on H1B visas for their livelihoods.
Being an Asian with H1B is taking jobs, but being from Europe, it is heritage.
That's a red herring. A European with an H1B is still an H1B. The issue is immigration status, not ethnicity. Most H1Bs tend to be from India, Pakistan, or the far East, so naturally most H1B "victims" tend to be from Asia.
I think the difference between my opinion and that of Slashdot is that I agree that some things like creating domestic jobs and offering good benefits are good moral decisions for businesses to make-- but I don't believe in legislating them. Let public opinion decide whether the immoral corporation survives. I agree with what George Washington said about government not being reason, but force.
This also happens to be similar to my favorite way to greatly reduce illegal immigration: by cracking down on those who employ illegals for sub-minimum wage. Americans will pick lettuce-- they just won't pick lettuce for $4/hour under the table.
I think waiting a few seconds for the TV to come on and maybe a few minutes for an update the channel guide is worth it to fight global warming and bad air.
Bad air? Does your TV run on diesel?
Unfortunately, I can't fence my atmosphere off from your polluting ways, so I support reasonable regulation to protect our common resources.
Career politicians don't have the right to tell people what to do with the power they paid for, as long as I'm not hurting others-- and summarily declaring global warming is real doesn't make it so. Flat global mean temperature now, ten years and counting.
My LG home theater is so dumb, it wastes a few watts of power sitting in "standby" mode, but doesn't even bother to remember to stay in Dolby Pro Logic mode for my AUX input (the non-HD digital cable box). Unless I leave it on full-tilt, I have click about 10 times (through several useless DSP settings) just to get to Pro Logic.
The second hard disk was probably an ST225. I had a real oddity in my old Laser Turbo XT (Vtech): an ST225R. Supposedly it was the 40 MB RLL design, but with fewer platters to yield only 20 MB. The controller was still slow enough to require a 3:1 interleave.
The WD drives I currently have have been great. The only issue I had was with two WD3200AAKS in a mirror. They are designed for desktops and use a ridiculously long duration data recovery mechanism which causes them to be ejected from the mirror periodically. I corrected this with the WDTLER tool that enables the shorter recovery algorithm used on the enterprise class disks. If your customers have been using WD in RAID, this may be the problem.
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The public keeps falling for this. Look at Philadelphia: they voted for a supposed "Maverick" named Michael Nutter (basically the Democrats' John McCain) and expected something different. Nope: the same left-wing Democrat party lines Philadelphia is known for:
- Anti-gun (two new gun control laws, tried to implement unconstitutional handgun ban)
- Pro-police state (random police searches on the street)
- Pro-tax (cancelled promised tax cuts)
- Destroying civic pride and traditions (implementation of outrageous parade fees that almost cancelled the Mummers parade-- blamed on the minor chaos after the Phillies brought the first championship to the city since 1983)
I do love how OFO basically stopped working and causes system crashes on Windows 2000 since Symantec bought Veritas. Irony: a product that is supposed to help protect your data puts it at risk through instability.
Excuse me, I belive you mean GNU/Apocalyse.
- RMS
That my comment was mysteriously modded down to 0 with no record of it reveals the deep moral sickness in Slashdot management.
Wrong. Kennedy had 11,300 troops in S. Vietnam in 1963. Of course, he called them "advisers". Their presence involved the USA in the conflict.
That's why Ponzi schemes make for poor retirement plans.
If you think this is somehow a curiosity of the Bush administration, you are quite ignorant. The attitude that all our problems are caused by one person or party will not solve any problems. If we allow politicians free reign because they're "our guy", we end up in the same mess.
I love the hyperbole, but if you take your huge numbers and apply them in a ratio to the total population you'd find that no more people are hungry now than 100 years ago. So it's not a crisis, but a continuing problem. The funny thing about your argument is that I can't see how feeding the world is related to global warming. If we follow the requirements of the climate change lobby, we will end up feeding fewer people, not more, for a long time.
Thanks for your comment, Margaret Sanger.
That you were modded insightful shows the deep moral sickness in Slashdot.
It may be possible, but it's not happening right now. The global mean has gone up ONE degree Celsius in the last 50+ years, and 0 degrees in the last ten.
I hope this supposed scientist didn't really say "dust-bowl conditions", because that would make her entirely ignorant of the true cause of the dust-bowl: destructive farming techniques and lack of proper irrigation.
Besides, assuming that the warming trend is really due to human factors, it's ridiculous to presume that we can't reverse the trend when there are so many methods demonstrated to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and sequester it. She's just another ignorant alarmist for whom cautious conservation is not enough-- we have to radically change our way of life.
I don't know which philosopher said we all have a right to jobs. I believe the conclusion of the Enlightenment was that everyone has rights to life, liberty, and property. Politicians are the ones who tell us we have a right to a job. You seem to have taken this a step further by claiming that we have a right to the job we want, where we want it. There are jobs in places other than the USA; the world is not dependent on H1B visas for their livelihoods.
That's a red herring. A European with an H1B is still an H1B. The issue is immigration status, not ethnicity. Most H1Bs tend to be from India, Pakistan, or the far East, so naturally most H1B "victims" tend to be from Asia.
Slashdot is going to realize Bill Gates has gone Andrew Carnegie one of these days.
I think the difference between my opinion and that of Slashdot is that I agree that some things like creating domestic jobs and offering good benefits are good moral decisions for businesses to make-- but I don't believe in legislating them. Let public opinion decide whether the immoral corporation survives. I agree with what George Washington said about government not being reason, but force.
Basically, when you buy the cheap crap at K-Mart or Wal-Mart, you're shopping around in China, Pakistan, South Korea, and Taiwan.
Ah, the Eric Cartman defense. Almost as good as the "Chewbacca on Endor" defense.
This also happens to be similar to my favorite way to greatly reduce illegal immigration: by cracking down on those who employ illegals for sub-minimum wage. Americans will pick lettuce-- they just won't pick lettuce for $4/hour under the table.
Old Wife Beater is piss. I only shotgun dry-ice cooled pounders of Child Neglect.
It was a 66 to 100 MHz bus speed adjustment, not 100 to 133. 4.5 x 66 to 4.5 x 100.
Bad air? Does your TV run on diesel?
Career politicians don't have the right to tell people what to do with the power they paid for, as long as I'm not hurting others-- and summarily declaring global warming is real doesn't make it so. Flat global mean temperature now, ten years and counting.
Don't worry; I wasn't planning on buying beer for my TV anyway.
I dare say it would power a fluorescent light anywhere. But only about 1700 lumens worth: that does not light a very large area with any expediency.
My LG home theater is so dumb, it wastes a few watts of power sitting in "standby" mode, but doesn't even bother to remember to stay in Dolby Pro Logic mode for my AUX input (the non-HD digital cable box). Unless I leave it on full-tilt, I have click about 10 times (through several useless DSP settings) just to get to Pro Logic.
The second hard disk was probably an ST225. I had a real oddity in my old Laser Turbo XT (Vtech): an ST225R. Supposedly it was the 40 MB RLL design, but with fewer platters to yield only 20 MB. The controller was still slow enough to require a 3:1 interleave.
The WD drives I currently have have been great. The only issue I had was with two WD3200AAKS in a mirror. They are designed for desktops and use a ridiculously long duration data recovery mechanism which causes them to be ejected from the mirror periodically. I corrected this with the WDTLER tool that enables the shorter recovery algorithm used on the enterprise class disks. If your customers have been using WD in RAID, this may be the problem.