We already have a bureaucracy which thinks in terms of perpetuating their own cozy welfare forever, and our actual government, no matter which party comes into power, is helpless to do anything to control this runaway engine.
I'm curious; where did you get the idea that solar and wind power generators last "pretty much forever?" The capital plant for both actually actually does not last any longer than a coal, gas, or nuclear power plant, and in fact appears rather shorter.
Shake head, have a coffee, and try to keep up. The assertion was "communism produced neither [reliable nor cheap goods]. All I have to show to disprove the assertion is that they produced EITHER reliable OR cheap. Check. Nice try, though.
As for your silly idea that Soyuz was designed and manufactured by "slave" labor (in 1960s through 1980s Soviet Union)... guess what? Capitalism milks the fruits of the labor of wage slaves shackled to corporations.
As long as we're trading anecdotes, the USPS has NEVER lost a single check I mailed over a period of about 50 years, nor have I EVER failed to receive a bill I was due for. I think that's pretty remarkable. Also, nothing I have ordered for delivery via USPS has ever been stolen. I know some postal systems are infamous for loss and theft, but this is just my experience with the U.S. system.
I order a lot of things. Packages delivered by the USPS generally arrive pretty mangled when compared to UPS or Fedex, but I can only think of a single case where the goods were damaged, and that was glass headlights very poorly packed and sent from overseas.
I doubt there are many NATO tanks in Afghanistan. Actually the U.S. sent its first tanks into Afghanistan only late in 2010, after nine years of war. It sounds like an attempt to shock the Taliban. Certainly the Taliban has no tanks for our tanks to fight. And there is very little "tank country" in Afghanistan.
And as you imply, how much infrared imaging equipment do you suppose the Taliban has?
Nope, actually solid state coolers are just like any other coolers, minus the mechanical activity. I'm assuming you mean thermoelectric junctions, but it doesn't matter what the technology is. All coolers are just heat engines. The only way they can cool an object is by carrying the heat somewhere else and dissipating it there. And yes, they do generate heat themselves. No cooler is 100% efficient, and thermoelectric junction coolers are actually a lot less efficient than freon refrigerators. They add a lot of fresh heat to the heat they carry off.
Dude, within a couple of meters or so most of the impulse of the exhaust leaving the tailpipe is spent, and it starts to diffuse generally into the surrounding atmosphere. If the vehicle is moving, there is even more turbulent mixing. In short, yes, in the big picture it does "spew exhaust all over the place." After a short jet of really hot exhaust, you have a much larger, more diffuse region where the air is generally heated. It would be pretty easy to conclude that this heat is not natural.
Just look at the smoke boiling up out of the stack on an older diesel truck. Does it just jet straight up indefinitely? Nope.
Look at your car. Does it "spew exhaust all over the place"? No, it is directed...
I depend on (1) the drawer, (2) mini commander, (3) the weather applet, (4) the system monitor, (5) sensors, (6) CPU scaling.
I know some have counterparts that are vaguely similar, but in several instances not good enough. I could LIVE without mini commander (most Gnome distros do; they simply don't include it). I was able to fashion a side bar with app starters that was enough like the drawer to get the job done, though not as well. I couldn't find anything remotely similar to the others, though. I want a simple numerical weather temperature readout that expands into a compact but full featured readout WITH RADAR DISPLAY when you click on it. I want a simple numerical CPU temperature and fan RPM readout. I want a simple numerical CPU GHz readout. I want these on a top bar, dammit, separate from the taskbar on the bottom. Putting the stuff on the desktop is a non-starter. The first thing I have to do on a new KDE4 desktop is turn of that awful plasma desktop and change it to a simple desktop with shortcuts just like Gnome2.
I'm pretty hard to please. If I had the ambition and the talent, I would cram the stuff into the KDE codebase. I have a Fedora15 KDE4 desktop, not on my main PC, and am trying to get used to some compromise that is "good enough" (though I don't think I should have to). OK, I can run "watch sensors" on a Konsole tab, even though that is not nearly as good as having them constantly visible on a top bar. I know about Alt-F2 and it is probably good enough, but not as convenient as having mini commander right there on the top bar all the time. I haven't found anything even remotely comparable to Gnome weather. The KDE sensors applet I found was just awful. And so it goes.
I used to use KDE3 as a preference to Gnome, and I didn't have a lot of those applets then. But after becoming used to "the perfect tweaked Gnome2," it's not easy accepting less.
P.S. - I have always used Konsole and Kate even under Gnome2. They have always been light years ahead of their Gnome counterparts.
I don't have anything much against KDE4 as shipped (tweaked the way I like it of course), other than it being pretty fat, which is not a show stopper. It's completely missing any viable counterparts to a number of Gnome2 panel applets that I happen to like a great deal. It's definitely night and day orders of magnitude better than the ghastly Gnome3. It's just that I prefer Gnome2 on balance. If I just keep using RHEL6 (actually I use a clone of RHEL6), I won't have to decide what to do in a world without Gnome2 until at least 2017.
Actually, before Explorer it wasn't anything besides the integrated window manager. It definitely wasn't Progman. When you started up, you got your full display without running Progman at all, and Progman wasn't in the task list. If cmd.exe was in your autostart list, you could then run apps from the command line and they worked fine.
It's no more progress for those of us running REAL computers (not those handheld toys), than Gnome3 (ugh!) was progress compared to Gnome2. So, actually, there are signs that the heart of linux-desktop does not "get it" either.
It's been a long time since I used Windows (and my sense of well being is a lot better for it), but to the best of my knowledge Explorer never had anything to do with displaying general application windows. In NT 3.1 and 3.51 (the best-designed versions of Windows IMHO), there wasn't even any Explorer at all, and the general application windows displayed and were managed just fine. I'm pretty sure that even in NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and XP, during shutdown I have observed Windows that were started in a context other than currently-logged-in user remaining open for longer than Explorer.
In any version of Windows I had any experience with, up through XP, you could definitely run an alternate shell to Explorer and start applications, for example from the command line, and graphical apps would display fine. OK, maybe I didn't actually try it in XP, but I definitely did in 4.0.
All Marvell shit is pretty much junk. It's just plain sad that almost all motherboard vendors stick you with crappy Marvell gigabit, for example. That reason alone was enough to make me choose an Intel brand motherboard for my last build.
Individual actions which maximize the profit to society as a whole are emphatically not, in general, those which maximize profit to a given organization or individual. That is elementary sociology. Understand the distinction, and the consequences. Marx, Hitler, Mao, Castro, the theocratic leadership of Iran, and pretty much everyone else who wants to fundamentally change society understand this and take measures to control the organizations and individuals. You can't just tell people to think globally and act locally, without a heavy duty campaign to enforce compliance. Short of that, there will be a comparatively small proportion of us who think globally and act locally just because we dig it; because we figure that out for ourselves.
Jamming GPS and satellite phones, sure; of course. The antennas are not directional; the satellites are not geosync. TV and internet, sorry, I don't think so. They may want to make you THINK they can jam it, but the idea doesn't stand up on elementary inspection. Those antennas are HIGHLY directional, the satellites are geosync, and in low latitudes they will be pointing pretty high up in the sky. Unless you fly overhead continuously, how do you propose to jam that? Maybe they don't have geosync satellites holding station almost directly in the longitude of the countries mentioned (Pakistan, Libya - yeah, I know Libya is an obsolete problem now), but they certainly could be placed there if someone wanted to do so, and there isn't a goddam think those picayune flyspec countries could do about it.
Maybe by using INCREDIBLY high power, you could jam a specific antenna, or a very limited geographical area. Otherwise, I'm inclined to disbelieve.
Let me get this straight. You propose penalizing the retired/resigned CEO when because some slimeball moves in after him, takes his success, and runs it into the ground?
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We already have a bureaucracy which thinks in terms of perpetuating their own cozy welfare forever, and our actual government, no matter which party comes into power, is helpless to do anything to control this runaway engine.
I'm curious; where did you get the idea that solar and wind power generators last "pretty much forever?" The capital plant for both actually actually does not last any longer than a coal, gas, or nuclear power plant, and in fact appears rather shorter.
For example "LIFE SPAN: We expect that today’s turbines will have a life span of 20-30 years."
And "Solar panels have an effective lifespan of about 20 to 25 years, and their value and wattage output decrease steadily over time."
Shake head, have a coffee, and try to keep up. The assertion was "communism produced neither [reliable nor cheap goods]. All I have to show to disprove the assertion is that they produced EITHER reliable OR cheap. Check. Nice try, though.
As for your silly idea that Soyuz was designed and manufactured by "slave" labor (in 1960s through 1980s Soviet Union) ... guess what? Capitalism milks the fruits of the labor of wage slaves shackled to corporations.
Dude, please engage rational thought. Communism PRODUCED the Soyuz, which has been phenomenally reliable up to the point of this accident.
As long as we're trading anecdotes, the USPS has NEVER lost a single check I mailed over a period of about 50 years, nor have I EVER failed to receive a bill I was due for. I think that's pretty remarkable. Also, nothing I have ordered for delivery via USPS has ever been stolen. I know some postal systems are infamous for loss and theft, but this is just my experience with the U.S. system.
I order a lot of things. Packages delivered by the USPS generally arrive pretty mangled when compared to UPS or Fedex, but I can only think of a single case where the goods were damaged, and that was glass headlights very poorly packed and sent from overseas.
I doubt there are many NATO tanks in Afghanistan. Actually the U.S. sent its first tanks into Afghanistan only late in 2010, after nine years of war. It sounds like an attempt to shock the Taliban. Certainly the Taliban has no tanks for our tanks to fight. And there is very little "tank country" in Afghanistan.
And as you imply, how much infrared imaging equipment do you suppose the Taliban has?
Nope, actually solid state coolers are just like any other coolers, minus the mechanical activity. I'm assuming you mean thermoelectric junctions, but it doesn't matter what the technology is. All coolers are just heat engines. The only way they can cool an object is by carrying the heat somewhere else and dissipating it there. And yes, they do generate heat themselves. No cooler is 100% efficient, and thermoelectric junction coolers are actually a lot less efficient than freon refrigerators. They add a lot of fresh heat to the heat they carry off.
Dude, within a couple of meters or so most of the impulse of the exhaust leaving the tailpipe is spent, and it starts to diffuse generally into the surrounding atmosphere. If the vehicle is moving, there is even more turbulent mixing. In short, yes, in the big picture it does "spew exhaust all over the place." After a short jet of really hot exhaust, you have a much larger, more diffuse region where the air is generally heated. It would be pretty easy to conclude that this heat is not natural.
Just look at the smoke boiling up out of the stack on an older diesel truck. Does it just jet straight up indefinitely? Nope.
Damn right. Single vendor lockin is never a good idea if avoidable.
Wrong. A bathysphere is lowered on a cable. A bathyscaphe (sp) is free diving and navigable.
I depend on (1) the drawer, (2) mini commander, (3) the weather applet, (4) the system monitor, (5) sensors, (6) CPU scaling.
I know some have counterparts that are vaguely similar, but in several instances not good enough. I could LIVE without mini commander (most Gnome distros do; they simply don't include it). I was able to fashion a side bar with app starters that was enough like the drawer to get the job done, though not as well. I couldn't find anything remotely similar to the others, though. I want a simple numerical weather temperature readout that expands into a compact but full featured readout WITH RADAR DISPLAY when you click on it. I want a simple numerical CPU temperature and fan RPM readout. I want a simple numerical CPU GHz readout. I want these on a top bar, dammit, separate from the taskbar on the bottom. Putting the stuff on the desktop is a non-starter. The first thing I have to do on a new KDE4 desktop is turn of that awful plasma desktop and change it to a simple desktop with shortcuts just like Gnome2.
I'm pretty hard to please. If I had the ambition and the talent, I would cram the stuff into the KDE codebase. I have a Fedora15 KDE4 desktop, not on my main PC, and am trying to get used to some compromise that is "good enough" (though I don't think I should have to). OK, I can run "watch sensors" on a Konsole tab, even though that is not nearly as good as having them constantly visible on a top bar. I know about Alt-F2 and it is probably good enough, but not as convenient as having mini commander right there on the top bar all the time. I haven't found anything even remotely comparable to Gnome weather. The KDE sensors applet I found was just awful. And so it goes.
I used to use KDE3 as a preference to Gnome, and I didn't have a lot of those applets then. But after becoming used to "the perfect tweaked Gnome2," it's not easy accepting less.
P.S. - I have always used Konsole and Kate even under Gnome2. They have always been light years ahead of their Gnome counterparts.
I don't have anything much against KDE4 as shipped (tweaked the way I like it of course), other than it being pretty fat, which is not a show stopper. It's completely missing any viable counterparts to a number of Gnome2 panel applets that I happen to like a great deal. It's definitely night and day orders of magnitude better than the ghastly Gnome3. It's just that I prefer Gnome2 on balance. If I just keep using RHEL6 (actually I use a clone of RHEL6), I won't have to decide what to do in a world without Gnome2 until at least 2017.
Apple can take their redefinition of common dictionary words and go jump in a lake.
Or you could just use Xfce or LXDE, awesome, enlightenment, Fluxbox, IceWM, FVWM, or ...
Too primitive for me, but they're FAST loading.
Actually, before Explorer it wasn't anything besides the integrated window manager. It definitely wasn't Progman. When you started up, you got your full display without running Progman at all, and Progman wasn't in the task list. If cmd.exe was in your autostart list, you could then run apps from the command line and they worked fine.
It's no more progress for those of us running REAL computers (not those handheld toys), than Gnome3 (ugh!) was progress compared to Gnome2. So, actually, there are signs that the heart of linux-desktop does not "get it" either.
It's been a long time since I used Windows (and my sense of well being is a lot better for it), but to the best of my knowledge Explorer never had anything to do with displaying general application windows. In NT 3.1 and 3.51 (the best-designed versions of Windows IMHO), there wasn't even any Explorer at all, and the general application windows displayed and were managed just fine. I'm pretty sure that even in NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and XP, during shutdown I have observed Windows that were started in a context other than currently-logged-in user remaining open for longer than Explorer.
In any version of Windows I had any experience with, up through XP, you could definitely run an alternate shell to Explorer and start applications, for example from the command line, and graphical apps would display fine. OK, maybe I didn't actually try it in XP, but I definitely did in 4.0.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
All Marvell shit is pretty much junk. It's just plain sad that almost all motherboard vendors stick you with crappy Marvell gigabit, for example. That reason alone was enough to make me choose an Intel brand motherboard for my last build.
Individual actions which maximize the profit to society as a whole are emphatically not, in general, those which maximize profit to a given organization or individual. That is elementary sociology. Understand the distinction, and the consequences. Marx, Hitler, Mao, Castro, the theocratic leadership of Iran, and pretty much everyone else who wants to fundamentally change society understand this and take measures to control the organizations and individuals. You can't just tell people to think globally and act locally, without a heavy duty campaign to enforce compliance. Short of that, there will be a comparatively small proportion of us who think globally and act locally just because we dig it; because we figure that out for ourselves.
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GAAAAAAAAAH!
Jamming GPS and satellite phones, sure; of course. The antennas are not directional; the satellites are not geosync. TV and internet, sorry, I don't think so. They may want to make you THINK they can jam it, but the idea doesn't stand up on elementary inspection. Those antennas are HIGHLY directional, the satellites are geosync, and in low latitudes they will be pointing pretty high up in the sky. Unless you fly overhead continuously, how do you propose to jam that? Maybe they don't have geosync satellites holding station almost directly in the longitude of the countries mentioned (Pakistan, Libya - yeah, I know Libya is an obsolete problem now), but they certainly could be placed there if someone wanted to do so, and there isn't a goddam think those picayune flyspec countries could do about it.
Maybe by using INCREDIBLY high power, you could jam a specific antenna, or a very limited geographical area. Otherwise, I'm inclined to disbelieve.
It's not just strange. It's WRONG in any universe. It should say "$1,000,000 Says NO."
Let me get this straight. You propose penalizing the retired/resigned CEO when because some slimeball moves in after him, takes his success, and runs it into the ground?
Incredulous. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.