As I write, parent is moderated a troll. Hopefully this will not hold. Parent is most definitely NOT a troll. Insightful is more like it. The wording is a bit hard to parse. I suggest you replace the comma by a period or semicolon to understand what he is saying. If one prefers a corruptocracy with megacorporations in an entrenched alliance with politicians; if one prefers that to some other form of tyranny, the matter is subject to discussion, but please don't label someone who sees exactly what is wrong with the U.S. a troll.
To say the ruling class owns the politicians is a circular statement. I believe it is more descriptive to call the U.S. a self perpetuating corruptocracy composed of an unassailable alliance of convenience between the megacorporations and the politicians.
MM is not million. M (mega) is million. MM is not even million in roman numerals, God help us. MM in roman numerals is 2000. I know this usage is common in business related writing, but it exasperates the literate.
Sheesh. If compliant, hoodwinked people like you are a fair cross section of the voters, it's easy to see how this two-bit tyrant acquired and retains the power which he cannot bear to live without.
Well, God help us. Can't have any of that there "instability," eh? Gotta have it all nice and stable and nailed down. Yeah. That's what tyrannies thrive on.
Here's a clue, Li, baby. The people don't exist to serve the state in the manner which the state, in its infinite wisdom, decides. It's supposed to be the converse. A true, thriving society is not about "stability."
Could China's government be worse? Yes, it could be a lot worse, and it HAS BEEN a lot worse, in recent memory. But it's still an ugly denial of human dignity and liberty, and acceptance of that ugliness is a participation in an evil.
Horse feathers. Two-stroke engines have few moving parts; no valves or oil pump. As a class, and other factors being equal, they are inherently much more reliable than 4-stroke engines. There have been many cheap 2-stroke engines with miserable reliability, but for $86,000 I will bet this one is flight rated, and a different story. Cargo ship builders and operators do not seem to think that 2-stroke diesels are unreliable. The preponderance of both bet their business on them.
This particular engine (FTFA) is rated at 100 hours TBO. As long as you overhaul it every 100 hours (that's around 200-600 flights), it is supposed to remain reliable.
An internal combustion engine is highly unlikely to lose most of its power within a couple of seconds with no advance warning. There is a finite chance it could throw a rod or something and jerk almost instantly to a stop, but it's quite a remote chance.
Yes, because voluntary compliance works so well in the U.S.
Well, the income tax levy is a hugely successful exercise in voluntary compliance, if a sad one. No bills are mailed out. The victims are merely told to work it out for themselves and ante up. The Constitutional Amendment (16th) authorizing it did not even properly pass. The issue was just swept under the rug and so the lie began.
The Tesla S has been designed with the capability of swapping the battery pack in 5 minutes, as well as a 45 minute quick charge at a suitable charging facility (fits pretty well with the idea of having lunch or shopping while the battery is charged).
Ha. This is a pet peeve of mine. Useless and false precision. I am surprised they didn't say 9144.0 m (30,000 ft). Mind you, it will never make it to 9144.01 m.
When we do kill ourselves, let's strap a sign around our necks saying "Lenovo drove me to this." Maybe that will get their attention. Oh wait... how will that help me...
This is the ONE thing about the otherwise wonderful X301 keyboard that drives me INSANE! Ten bucks via PayPal to the first guy who can tell me an acceptable way to swap Fn and Ctrl on this keyboard GLOBALLY in linux. It has to work in every version of linux that I use, and it has to work in every context, including both text mode and X.
Or if somebody can do the job with soldering equipment and a jeweler's loupe, and has access to new replacement X301 keyboards at reasonable cost so I don't have to lose the service of my notebook for an extended period, maybe we can work something out on those lines.
Grandparent probably doesn't have a clue about C programming. He's just a twit who wants everyone in the world to be reduced to the least common denominator. If he doesn't want to use the Caps Lock key, he can just not push it, but if we NEED the Caps Lock key and it's not there, we're SOL. See? I used the Caps Lock key twice in that one ordinary sentence.
It does NOT have to be this way. The 13" ultrathin X301 is highly mobile, yet has a wonderful keyboard with a great layout. On my desk I plug in a 21" 1600x1200 monitor and a wireless mouse, but I use its own keyboard.
Oh, it's also the only ultrathin that comes with an actual DVD writer built in - it's a special thinner than normal design. And it has a matte high brightness LED backlit display.
It blows the Macbook air the fuck out of the water.
I own a 12" X61 with 1050 horizontal lines. Nowadays, it's WXGA with less than 800 lines in everything up to 14.1"
Wrong, I'm glad to say - at least it hasn't quite happened yet. The X301 has 1440x900 in a 13" screen, and it is a proper matte screen. The keyboard is a proper layout too. When this model is replaced, and mine finally dies, if they don't have a proper replacement, I may just kill myself.
Dude, it's 2038 for 32 bit Unix/linux, not 2032. 64 bit is good until some time after the Sun's end of life.
The guys who designed in the 2038 limit not long after 1970 made a solution that would last 68 years. I call that pretty good. Long enough to be damn sure to be retired or dead before trouble hits.
Postulating military action by the US against the Chinese is woefully blind to reality, and in fact fills me with mirth. The US can barely sustain action against whatever fraction of 28 million Afghanis, living in medieval conditions, is actually hostile. The US talked big about 24 million well armed but economically devastated North Koreans, perhaps with a small handful of crude nuclear weapons, but when it came to action, demurred repeatedly. As for 1.3 billion Chinese, armed with plenty of nuclear weapons, and with a huge industrial and economic engine, I believe the appropriate response is HA!
To the extent they reject the insane and evil concept of so-called intellectual property (which I do not believe is a very great extent), I CELEBRATE the Chinese! Sorry about that.
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As I write, parent is moderated a troll. Hopefully this will not hold. Parent is most definitely NOT a troll. Insightful is more like it. The wording is a bit hard to parse. I suggest you replace the comma by a period or semicolon to understand what he is saying. If one prefers a corruptocracy with megacorporations in an entrenched alliance with politicians; if one prefers that to some other form of tyranny, the matter is subject to discussion, but please don't label someone who sees exactly what is wrong with the U.S. a troll.
To say the ruling class owns the politicians is a circular statement. I believe it is more descriptive to call the U.S. a self perpetuating corruptocracy composed of an unassailable alliance of convenience between the megacorporations and the politicians.
MM is not million. M (mega) is million. MM is not even million in roman numerals, God help us. MM in roman numerals is 2000. I know this usage is common in business related writing, but it exasperates the literate.
Sheesh. If compliant, hoodwinked people like you are a fair cross section of the voters, it's easy to see how this two-bit tyrant acquired and retains the power which he cannot bear to live without.
We will overlook it just this once, because your post is just about the most concisely insightful one in this whole article.
Well, God help us. Can't have any of that there "instability," eh? Gotta have it all nice and stable and nailed down. Yeah. That's what tyrannies thrive on.
Here's a clue, Li, baby. The people don't exist to serve the state in the manner which the state, in its infinite wisdom, decides. It's supposed to be the converse. A true, thriving society is not about "stability."
Could China's government be worse? Yes, it could be a lot worse, and it HAS BEEN a lot worse, in recent memory. But it's still an ugly denial of human dignity and liberty, and acceptance of that ugliness is a participation in an evil.
Horse feathers. Two-stroke engines have few moving parts; no valves or oil pump. As a class, and other factors being equal, they are inherently much more reliable than 4-stroke engines. There have been many cheap 2-stroke engines with miserable reliability, but for $86,000 I will bet this one is flight rated, and a different story. Cargo ship builders and operators do not seem to think that 2-stroke diesels are unreliable. The preponderance of both bet their business on them.
This particular engine (FTFA) is rated at 100 hours TBO. As long as you overhaul it every 100 hours (that's around 200-600 flights), it is supposed to remain reliable.
An internal combustion engine is highly unlikely to lose most of its power within a couple of seconds with no advance warning. There is a finite chance it could throw a rod or something and jerk almost instantly to a stop, but it's quite a remote chance.
Bullshit. You just itemize the bill:
CD-ROM $0.05
Copying service $0.95
Labor $999,999.00
Most successful economy on the planet? How's the crack you're smoking on that cloud up there?
That is very fitting, because this hideously appalling criminal waste of protoplasm isn't a real person.
Well, the income tax levy is a hugely successful exercise in voluntary compliance, if a sad one. No bills are mailed out. The victims are merely told to work it out for themselves and ante up. The Constitutional Amendment (16th) authorizing it did not even properly pass. The issue was just swept under the rug and so the lie began.
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin.
If you replace "liberty" with "dignity", it fits perfectly.
The Tesla S has been designed with the capability of swapping the battery pack in 5 minutes, as well as a 45 minute quick charge at a suitable charging facility (fits pretty well with the idea of having lunch or shopping while the battery is charged).
Ha. This is a pet peeve of mine. Useless and false precision. I am surprised they didn't say 9144.0 m (30,000 ft). Mind you, it will never make it to 9144.01 m.
When we do kill ourselves, let's strap a sign around our necks saying "Lenovo drove me to this." Maybe that will get their attention. Oh wait ... how will that help me ...
No significant space related compromise was made on the keyboard of the 13" X301. It is wonderful.
This is the ONE thing about the otherwise wonderful X301 keyboard that drives me INSANE! Ten bucks via PayPal to the first guy who can tell me an acceptable way to swap Fn and Ctrl on this keyboard GLOBALLY in linux. It has to work in every version of linux that I use, and it has to work in every context, including both text mode and X.
Or if somebody can do the job with soldering equipment and a jeweler's loupe, and has access to new replacement X301 keyboards at reasonable cost so I don't have to lose the service of my notebook for an extended period, maybe we can work something out on those lines.
Grandparent probably doesn't have a clue about C programming. He's just a twit who wants everyone in the world to be reduced to the least common denominator. If he doesn't want to use the Caps Lock key, he can just not push it, but if we NEED the Caps Lock key and it's not there, we're SOL. See? I used the Caps Lock key twice in that one ordinary sentence.
It does NOT have to be this way. The 13" ultrathin X301 is highly mobile, yet has a wonderful keyboard with a great layout. On my desk I plug in a 21" 1600x1200 monitor and a wireless mouse, but I use its own keyboard.
Oh, it's also the only ultrathin that comes with an actual DVD writer built in - it's a special thinner than normal design. And it has a matte high brightness LED backlit display.
It blows the Macbook air the fuck out of the water.
Wrong, I'm glad to say - at least it hasn't quite happened yet. The X301 has 1440x900 in a 13" screen, and it is a proper matte screen. The keyboard is a proper layout too. When this model is replaced, and mine finally dies, if they don't have a proper replacement, I may just kill myself.
I know.
Dude, it's 2038 for 32 bit Unix/linux, not 2032. 64 bit is good until some time after the Sun's end of life.
The guys who designed in the 2038 limit not long after 1970 made a solution that would last 68 years. I call that pretty good. Long enough to be damn sure to be retired or dead before trouble hits.
You spelled it wrong.
Postulating military action by the US against the Chinese is woefully blind to reality, and in fact fills me with mirth. The US can barely sustain action against whatever fraction of 28 million Afghanis, living in medieval conditions, is actually hostile. The US talked big about 24 million well armed but economically devastated North Koreans, perhaps with a small handful of crude nuclear weapons, but when it came to action, demurred repeatedly. As for 1.3 billion Chinese, armed with plenty of nuclear weapons, and with a huge industrial and economic engine, I believe the appropriate response is HA!
To the extent they reject the insane and evil concept of so-called intellectual property (which I do not believe is a very great extent), I CELEBRATE the Chinese! Sorry about that.