I've gotten 2 spam mails since i switched to gmail a few years ago. The summary is so negative, spam is pretty much gone, gates wasn't far off the mark at all.
If spam isn't an issue anymore, then you won't mind publicly posting your email address.
Actually, you're free to not live in those areas. There's nothing stopping you from buying a lower cost house in the country on a couple acres of land and you can do what you want with it.
I live in Florida. We've had several storms hit us that would knock out power for people for months at a time. I lived in Fort Lauderdale a couple years back and we had a category 3 take out all but 1 traffic light in the entire county.
I'd say the state is probably one of the better prepared one for disasters. When the cat 3 took out Fort Lauderdale, the local Publix was open the next day selling groceries.
For myself, I very much make sure to keep around enough food and water for myself for at least a week. You can buy freeze dried food in large cans that will last 30 years or more. I buy Mountain House food and it's useful for camping too: http://beprepared.com/
Buy a radio of some sort you can wind up. Having a reliable radio around in a disaster is 100% needed. It'll be your source of information and it'll keep you from getting bored. Some of these radios also have lights on them, which again is nice to have. A light that doesn't use batteries.
When I think a storm is going to hit, I stock up on snacks. Candies and other goodies are a big comfort. Have around non electric means of staying entertained, like books, etc.
I also have a water purifier, but I bought that mostly for camping/kayaking and not for survival since hurricanes aren't sudden and you can stock up on water before they hit.
But basically, figure out your basics, and keep stocked up on those. Canned foods. Dry foods. Sterno or a camp stove to boil water. Stored water or a way to purify water.
Then don't ignore the comforts. Just surviving is really boring. Snacks, books, a radio that isn't tied to batteries, etc etc are all really important.
If you're thinking really long term survival... learn to hunt and fish. You can buy a 22 rifle and a milk jug full of ammo for dirt cheap. You won't be taking down any deer with it, but squirrels are everywhere and they taste just fine.
What's the advantage to building them in the U.S.?
From the military's standpoint, building them in the US means that that part of their war supply infrastructure isn't in another country.
You could pretty much build a plant that only sells to the military because the prices are too high, but makes all the batteries based on specs setup by the military. It'd probably be pretty profitable.
There will be some companies that want a degree. They're usually the very big, old, traditional companies or types of companies that do government work.
But the majority of the market prefers job experience or computer certifications over college degrees. Personally I don't think the 4 years and 50k+ spent on a college degree is anywhere worth it.
Maybe 10 years ago, but the price of college has fair outstripped inflation and the time and money spent on it can be used much more effectively to self train and get your foot in the door via the desktop support route.
Because a virus can come from there as well. Along with web access, usenet access, ftp access.... might just as well unplug the network cable just to be safe.
Or they could install an OS that wasn't insecure by design.
99.999% of the people deploying Linux servers don't need kernel or package fixes outside of what's provided from the mainline repositories.
Most people aren't using Oracle, directories services and such on Linux either. The vast majority of installs are mysql/postgres, apache, rails, tomcat, etc etc which you pretty much just need a well supported, solid, current base distribution for. Which Ubuntu excels at being.
Really it's just a Debian that's more up to date. Easier to install, more likely to have the driver support you need, not quite as rock solid reliable as Debian stable, but good enough. It also helps that it has a good desktop install, since people get familiar with it there first.
I'd say that meets 95% of the Linux server needs out there and it's why Ubuntu is being seen on the server side more and more.
Well, I bought one because it was(arguably still is) the best smart phone on the market.
But that doesn't mean I like Apple and the iPhone OS. It's stupid silly how they have it locked down and I'm tired of the iTunes tie in.
I'll be trading my iPhone out for a G1 soon probably, but I don't at all regret having bought the iPhone back in January. It was the best device around at the time and it's served me well over the last year.
Actually I don't really like the G1 all that much either. I think the hardware isn't as nice as the iPhone hardware. I'm really hoping for an iPhone ripoff with the Android software on it.
But like the iPhone was over the last year, the G1 is probably the best device for me at the current time. So I'll buy one and when something better comes out, I'll move to that.
Women are insanely insecure about their bodies. I've known a lot of great looking women who are perfectly fine and they all have body image issues. Some so bad they're afraid to be seen in public in swim suits or sports bra's.
And by "perfectly fine" I mean body's that are athletic and toned, but aren't that Maxim perfect tone you see in the magazines.
Men are just as insecure, but we care about our penis size and our sexual prowess. Hence all the viagra and penis enlargment spam on the internet.
It's really pretty sad and a huge waste of energy. Men really don't care too much about a woman's body size so long as the girl is in the range of "average". And women could care less about penis size and some silly idea of how awesome a guy is in bed.
I mean, if you're an average guy with a decent job, has his own place, is a stand up dude, honest, caring, and isn't a push over, that's pretty much the dream man.
But we're basically stupid animals so we fret over the dumbest things and worry ourselves into being complete fuck ups.
The fact of the matter is that very few independent programmers make it big.
They really don't have to make it big though. If you made 60k a year at EA, you only really need to make 60-80k a year selling your game. Less if you're working from home and don't have to deal with the expenses of driving into work each day.
I'd third this suggestion. I think the best way to keep healthy is to just have a good diet and stay active.
I skydive, kayak, ride motorcycles, have a rowing machine in my home(which either gets a lot of use or none). But just going out and doing stuff is the easiest/best way to stay fit.
http://meetup.com has a lot of activities to choose from and they don't cost a lot. Hiking, dancing, bike riding, rock climbing, rollerblading, etc. Just pick up a couple activities that requires some muscle power and do them. And on the plus side it keeps you from being a shut in in the apartment and you meet a lot of interesting people.
You can buy a used kayak off of craigslist for 200-500 pretty easily. The $500 ones are good for weekend trips, but for a couple hours on the river the $200 ones are fine.
You can also buy foam roof racks for about 50 bucks.
If this really is sponsored by the FSF, then I guess it's time to cancel my membership with them. I won't support an organization that uses these types of tactics.
I do. Put every sex offender into therapy and only allow them back into society when they're no longer deemed a threat to society.
Make people serve their time, but afterwards, let them get on with their lives.
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There's not many because BASE jumping is a pretty small participant sport as it is, the number of wingsuit BASE jumpers is smaller yet and the number of BASE wingsuit jumpers with access to the sorts of spots you can do proximity flying is smaller yet.
There are a lot of very skilled wingsuit pilots that don't buzz cliffs or do BASE jumping. I routinely flyby other skydivers when they're under canopies and some of the most fun an "average" wingsuit pilot can have is buzzing around clouds or flocking in formations with other wingsuit flyers. I've been on 50 member plus formations that required 3 planes to get in the air where everyone was flying within inches of the people next to them and would consider myself an average flyer. You can build up your skills pretty easily doing that sort of stuff, then take it to flying a few feet from a mountain face if you're into that sort of thing.
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Costs are:
1-2k for training to become a licensed skydiver. 3-5k for your own skydiving gear. Then for a wingsuit, you first need to make 200 normal skydives @ $20-22 each. Then the wingsuit will cost you about 1k.
So, all in all to fly wingsuits you're looking at spending about 10-13k over the course of a couple years and you can get the basic skydiving training at pretty much at any skydiving dropzone. And there's usually a dropzone within an hour of two of most places.
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The birth rate all over the world is going down. Over 60 countries have a birth rate that won't sustain current populations.
So the population problem is taking care of itself too.
I've gotten 2 spam mails since i switched to gmail a few years ago.
The summary is so negative, spam is pretty much gone, gates wasn't far off the mark at all.
If spam isn't an issue anymore, then you won't mind publicly posting your email address.
Actually, you're free to not live in those areas. There's nothing stopping you from buying a lower cost house in the country on a couple acres of land and you can do what you want with it.
I live in Florida. We've had several storms hit us that would knock out power for people for months at a time. I lived in Fort Lauderdale a couple years back and we had a category 3 take out all but 1 traffic light in the entire county.
I'd say the state is probably one of the better prepared one for disasters. When the cat 3 took out Fort Lauderdale, the local Publix was open the next day selling groceries.
For myself, I very much make sure to keep around enough food and water for myself for at least a week. You can buy freeze dried food in large cans that will last 30 years or more. I buy Mountain House food and it's useful for camping too: http://beprepared.com/
Buy a radio of some sort you can wind up. Having a reliable radio around in a disaster is 100% needed. It'll be your source of information and it'll keep you from getting bored. Some of these radios also have lights on them, which again is nice to have. A light that doesn't use batteries.
When I think a storm is going to hit, I stock up on snacks. Candies and other goodies are a big comfort. Have around non electric means of staying entertained, like books, etc.
I also have a water purifier, but I bought that mostly for camping/kayaking and not for survival since hurricanes aren't sudden and you can stock up on water before they hit.
But basically, figure out your basics, and keep stocked up on those. Canned foods. Dry foods. Sterno or a camp stove to boil water. Stored water or a way to purify water.
Then don't ignore the comforts. Just surviving is really boring. Snacks, books, a radio that isn't tied to batteries, etc etc are all really important.
If you're thinking really long term survival... learn to hunt and fish. You can buy a 22 rifle and a milk jug full of ammo for dirt cheap. You won't be taking down any deer with it, but squirrels are everywhere and they taste just fine.
What's the advantage to building them in the U.S.?
From the military's standpoint, building them in the US means that that part of their war supply infrastructure isn't in another country.
You could pretty much build a plant that only sells to the military because the prices are too high, but makes all the batteries based on specs setup by the military. It'd probably be pretty profitable.
Actually open source is very much a free market. There's no barrier to entry, it's open to anyone to get into. It's entirely competition based.
When the X11 project became mis-managed people forked it off and created Xorg instead, which is now the standard X desktop.
That's a free market. A market where supply and demand are unregulated.
There will be some companies that want a degree. They're usually the very big, old, traditional companies or types of companies that do government work.
But the majority of the market prefers job experience or computer certifications over college degrees. Personally I don't think the 4 years and 50k+ spent on a college degree is anywhere worth it.
Maybe 10 years ago, but the price of college has fair outstripped inflation and the time and money spent on it can be used much more effectively to self train and get your foot in the door via the desktop support route.
Nuke them from orbit.
It would've been the only way to be sure.
Because a virus can come from there as well. Along with web access, usenet access, ftp access.... might just as well unplug the network cable just to be safe.
Or they could install an OS that wasn't insecure by design.
And when we visit other countries, we refer to ourselves as Canadians.
I used to have an iPhone and had the same Nagios behavior. Every nagios SMS was a separate conversation.
I have an Android G1 and the conversations are in 1 thread now, a lot easier to manage.
99.999% of the people deploying Linux servers don't need kernel or package fixes outside of what's provided from the mainline repositories.
Most people aren't using Oracle, directories services and such on Linux either. The vast majority of installs are mysql/postgres, apache, rails, tomcat, etc etc which you pretty much just need a well supported, solid, current base distribution for. Which Ubuntu excels at being.
Really it's just a Debian that's more up to date. Easier to install, more likely to have the driver support you need, not quite as rock solid reliable as Debian stable, but good enough. It also helps that it has a good desktop install, since people get familiar with it there first.
I'd say that meets 95% of the Linux server needs out there and it's why Ubuntu is being seen on the server side more and more.
Well, I bought one because it was(arguably still is) the best smart phone on the market.
But that doesn't mean I like Apple and the iPhone OS. It's stupid silly how they have it locked down and I'm tired of the iTunes tie in.
I'll be trading my iPhone out for a G1 soon probably, but I don't at all regret having bought the iPhone back in January. It was the best device around at the time and it's served me well over the last year.
Actually I don't really like the G1 all that much either. I think the hardware isn't as nice as the iPhone hardware. I'm really hoping for an iPhone ripoff with the Android software on it.
But like the iPhone was over the last year, the G1 is probably the best device for me at the current time. So I'll buy one and when something better comes out, I'll move to that.
Nobody has configured for IPv6 because there's been no forced set date to switch over so everyone is still just using IPv4 which is working just fine.
But when the date comes it'll be a long weekend for a lot of admins, but I'm guessing the switch will happen just fine.
I own a PS3 and I still prefer PCs for shooters and gaming. I just like the interface better.
Though maybe that would change if I just forced myself to play them on consoles more.
Women are insanely insecure about their bodies. I've known a lot of great looking women who are perfectly fine and they all have body image issues. Some so bad they're afraid to be seen in public in swim suits or sports bra's.
And by "perfectly fine" I mean body's that are athletic and toned, but aren't that Maxim perfect tone you see in the magazines.
Men are just as insecure, but we care about our penis size and our sexual prowess. Hence all the viagra and penis enlargment spam on the internet.
It's really pretty sad and a huge waste of energy. Men really don't care too much about a woman's body size so long as the girl is in the range of "average". And women could care less about penis size and some silly idea of how awesome a guy is in bed.
I mean, if you're an average guy with a decent job, has his own place, is a stand up dude, honest, caring, and isn't a push over, that's pretty much the dream man.
But we're basically stupid animals so we fret over the dumbest things and worry ourselves into being complete fuck ups.
The fact of the matter is that very few independent programmers make it big.
They really don't have to make it big though. If you made 60k a year at EA, you only really need to make 60-80k a year selling your game. Less if you're working from home and don't have to deal with the expenses of driving into work each day.
I'd third this suggestion. I think the best way to keep healthy is to just have a good diet and stay active.
I skydive, kayak, ride motorcycles, have a rowing machine in my home(which either gets a lot of use or none). But just going out and doing stuff is the easiest/best way to stay fit.
http://meetup.com has a lot of activities to choose from and they don't cost a lot. Hiking, dancing, bike riding, rock climbing, rollerblading, etc. Just pick up a couple activities that requires some muscle power and do them. And on the plus side it keeps you from being a shut in in the apartment and you meet a lot of interesting people.
You can buy a used kayak off of craigslist for 200-500 pretty easily. The $500 ones are good for weekend trips, but for a couple hours on the river the $200 ones are fine.
You can also buy foam roof racks for about 50 bucks.
Both you and me know that macs sell at a premium and part of the reason to pay for that premium is to be able to use their software.
Huh? Amazon lists Windows Vista for $95 while Leopard sells for $110.
If this really is sponsored by the FSF, then I guess it's time to cancel my membership with them. I won't support an organization that uses these types of tactics.
I've been a member since 2002.
It's not bullshit, it'd called reality.
In reality, these people will be coming back into society, so we really better make sure they've been "conditioned" to not repeat their crime.
"I don't have a silver bullet for this problem. "
I do. Put every sex offender into therapy and only allow them back into society when they're no longer deemed a threat to society.
Make people serve their time, but afterwards, let them get on with their lives.
There's not many because BASE jumping is a pretty small participant sport as it is, the number of wingsuit BASE jumpers is smaller yet and the number of BASE wingsuit jumpers with access to the sorts of spots you can do proximity flying is smaller yet.
There are a lot of very skilled wingsuit pilots that don't buzz cliffs or do BASE jumping. I routinely flyby other skydivers when they're under canopies and some of the most fun an "average" wingsuit pilot can have is buzzing around clouds or flocking in formations with other wingsuit flyers. I've been on 50 member plus formations that required 3 planes to get in the air where everyone was flying within inches of the people next to them and would consider myself an average flyer. You can build up your skills pretty easily doing that sort of stuff, then take it to flying a few feet from a mountain face if you're into that sort of thing.
Costs are:
1-2k for training to become a licensed skydiver.
3-5k for your own skydiving gear.
Then for a wingsuit, you first need to make 200 normal skydives @ $20-22 each.
Then the wingsuit will cost you about 1k.
So, all in all to fly wingsuits you're looking at spending about 10-13k over the course of a couple years and you can get the basic skydiving training at pretty much at any skydiving dropzone. And there's usually a dropzone within an hour of two of most places.