Waves in the ocean. That sure came out of left field. How could we have predicted that? We have the best experts money can buy making our plans, but how can we succeed when all this weird unpredictable stuff happens to us?/sarc
I like and respect thinking, and I like and respect trying to solve intractable problems. However...
The suggestion in your signature fails to recognize the way things are structured. The Vice President has no power whatsoever; in fact no FUNCTION whatever save to attend state funerals and dinners, break exact ties in the Senate, and wait for something to happen to the President. There is close to a 100% guarantee that a sitting Vice President will never be elected President.
The only thing that tapping some clown for Vice President accomplishes is a pretty damn good "bodyguard" for the President, unless he is an even worse clown.
This may be seen as quibbling, but I really don't believe there is any substance in attributing motivations and aspirations to masses of people or some statistical "average person" - except insofar as a mass of people may be organized to an agenda. Different people want different things to different degrees. Statistically you can posit that there is critical mass for certain changes and not for others. National elections are a good example of statistical conclusions, even warped as they are by undue sinister influencing agents and by corrupt tabulation and perhaps intimidation.
As an illustration, whether the proportion of citizens who are net takers in the economy is 47% or 53%, and the proportion of net producers is the mirror figure - either way there are just about as many takers as producers. There are an awful lot of both. There is little reason to believe that feelings about (perhaps "devotion to" is a better term) liberty and privacy are much different.
Be that as it may... I submit a specific alternate to your postulate that a leader willing to put large forces under arms in harm's way is the only method to effect fundamental change. The alternate is a new Gandhi. The general principle worked well enough for Martin Luther King, Jr. This is not say we won't get our hair mussed a bit, but it doesn't necessarily have to be a 1775 style revolution with cannons mowing down rows of sons and would-be masters.
Are any of those more than one pixel thick? Because if they aren't, it doesn't address the problem. And why should I have to fuck with styles when all I want is a thicker border?
How is this any more than a revisiting of the ancient discredited NERVA/ROVER program which began in 1956 and dragged on to a miserable failed end in 1973?
This shares the fundamental flaw of all rocket technology: the fact that any rocket has to carry and throw away a vast load of reaction mass. The Saturn V employed a total mass of 2970 tonnes to lift a mere 118 tonnes to LEO. But the actual raw energy needed to lift 118 tonnes to 200 km is E=mgh = 118,000 times 9.81 times 200,000 = 232 GJ, which is the quantity of energy contained in just 5.47 tonnes of gasoline. So the efficiency of the Saturn V was 0.184%, not because it was a "bad" rocket, but because it was a rocket.
No other mode of transportation has to carry its own reaction mass and throw it away. Not bicycles, cars, trains, ships, submarines, or airplanes.
Yeah, that is why Java is dead. NOT. Oracle may be destroying it to the best of their ability, but they have been so far unsuccessful. OpenJDK and Google Android are there.
And that is why ZFS is dead. NOT. Oracle has killed off OpenSolaris, severely cutting back on people using ZFS on Oracle products, and seems to have essentially halted all further development of ZFS features, but OpenZFS is flourishing in the form of ZFSonLinux (the real first class kernel driver, not just the FUSE toy), FreeBSD, PC-BSD, FreeNAS, NAS4Free, Illumos, et al. Significant improvements continue to be pursued with OpenZFS.
Once a project has been open sourced, even if further development is then closed by some asshole (I'm looking at you, One Real Asshole Called Larry Ellison), the genie is out of the bottle. You can't put it back in.
So there is a free version of VMware (not on all platforms) that is dumbed down and by your own words not satisfactory for professional users and for some non-professional users, and the "real" VMware product is not free. Contrast with KVM, where the whole kit and kaboodle is free. Seems to me saying VMware is "not free" is roughly just as true as saying it "is free".
consumer grade SATA disk which isn't going to be as reliable as the Enterprise SATA/SAS disk we would use
In your fantasy there is a difference besides a hideously higher price and a somewhat longer warranty period. In real life, commodity SATA is much more cost effective. Everybody who is serious reognizes this (Google, Backblaze, Amazon).
We observe that the same objectives cannot be reached with RAID level 6 organizations
Well, duh. RAID6 is not a serious level of redundancy. ZFS RAIDZ-3 (triple parity) FTW. And you can build in as many hot spares as you want. Dinosaurs who have still not adopted ZFS need to get a clue.
Oh. For a minute there I thought you meant real evil. You know, the kind where there is not just collateral damage and politicians finding out thast you hate them, but targeted murder of completely innocent civilians. So, fight evil with evil? No, I'm not for that, but no reason to completely lose one's perspective.
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In what universe do you live... You ensure that what you downloaded is what you meant to download by using the signify utility as mentioned on the page and verify that the package you download was signed by the OpenSSL devs.
LibreSSL files signed using OpenSSL's private key? In what universe do YOU live?
If there was a Razer Taipan that wasn't wired, I might attach some credibility to your recommendation. Wired mice SUCK. It will be a cold day in hell that I ever again lower myself to dragging that goddam weight around on the end of a mouse.
"nanoamperes a second" is a completely nonsense measure. An ampere is already a time rate of transfer of charge. One ampere equals one coulomb per second.
Delphi XE7 doesn't look to me like it even comes close to supporting "every" platform. I see no support listed for linux/gtk, linux/qt, linux/others, free/open/netBSD/gtk, free/open/netBSD/qt, free/open/netBSD/others, solaris & free offshoots, etc. I realize it would be pretty ridiculously far-fetched for any commercial entity to support all those, but open source does. All of those have vi, emacs, gcc, Java, etc. I'm pretty sure Eclipse works on all of them.
Radar does NOT "only detect movement". It can detect stationary objects just fine. If the particular equipment being used by police only detects movement, that says nothing about what radar can and cannot do.
Thank you. It seemed like nobody realized that someone vegging out in a chair, or lying quietly in a bed won't be picked up by this shit. Or, on the other hand, there is SOMETHING radar reflective moving inside. Could be a dog or a robot.
So it really doesn't tell them anything useful whatsoever.
Having the government collect and spend more money is an empowerment. It can empower good, and it can empower evil. You might want to consider that the problem is not the government itself. The government is made up of people. That is like saying the problem is people.
There are problems only the government can address, and you won't make any progress with those problems by strangling the government.
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The hook is there; at least some packages do this when updated - but I wouldn't be too confident that they all do.
Waves in the ocean. That sure came out of left field. How could we have predicted that? We have the best experts money can buy making our plans, but how can we succeed when all this weird unpredictable stuff happens to us? /sarc
I like and respect thinking, and I like and respect trying to solve intractable problems. However ...
The suggestion in your signature fails to recognize the way things are structured. The Vice President has no power whatsoever; in fact no FUNCTION whatever save to attend state funerals and dinners, break exact ties in the Senate, and wait for something to happen to the President. There is close to a 100% guarantee that a sitting Vice President will never be elected President.
The only thing that tapping some clown for Vice President accomplishes is a pretty damn good "bodyguard" for the President, unless he is an even worse clown.
This may be seen as quibbling, but I really don't believe there is any substance in attributing motivations and aspirations to masses of people or some statistical "average person" - except insofar as a mass of people may be organized to an agenda. Different people want different things to different degrees. Statistically you can posit that there is critical mass for certain changes and not for others. National elections are a good example of statistical conclusions, even warped as they are by undue sinister influencing agents and by corrupt tabulation and perhaps intimidation.
As an illustration, whether the proportion of citizens who are net takers in the economy is 47% or 53%, and the proportion of net producers is the mirror figure - either way there are just about as many takers as producers. There are an awful lot of both. There is little reason to believe that feelings about (perhaps "devotion to" is a better term) liberty and privacy are much different.
Be that as it may ... I submit a specific alternate to your postulate that a leader willing to put large forces under arms in harm's way is the only method to effect fundamental change. The alternate is a new Gandhi. The general principle worked well enough for Martin Luther King, Jr. This is not say we won't get our hair mussed a bit, but it doesn't necessarily have to be a 1775 style revolution with cannons mowing down rows of sons and would-be masters.
Are any of those more than one pixel thick? Because if they aren't, it doesn't address the problem. And why should I have to fuck with styles when all I want is a thicker border?
Bloody moron.
Listen up, dope. It's not an argument. It's FACTS. Deal with them. Buy some intelligence. Oh wait. You can't fix stupid.
How is this any more than a revisiting of the ancient discredited NERVA/ROVER program which began in 1956 and dragged on to a miserable failed end in 1973?
This shares the fundamental flaw of all rocket technology: the fact that any rocket has to carry and throw away a vast load of reaction mass. The Saturn V employed a total mass of 2970 tonnes to lift a mere 118 tonnes to LEO. But the actual raw energy needed to lift 118 tonnes to 200 km is E=mgh = 118,000 times 9.81 times 200,000 = 232 GJ, which is the quantity of energy contained in just 5.47 tonnes of gasoline. So the efficiency of the Saturn V was 0.184%, not because it was a "bad" rocket, but because it was a rocket.
No other mode of transportation has to carry its own reaction mass and throw it away. Not bicycles, cars, trains, ships, submarines, or airplanes.
NOBODY should be given a chance to rape the FIRST TIME! Castrate everybody at birth!
Yeah, that is why Java is dead. NOT. Oracle may be destroying it to the best of their ability, but they have been so far unsuccessful. OpenJDK and Google Android are there.
And that is why ZFS is dead. NOT. Oracle has killed off OpenSolaris, severely cutting back on people using ZFS on Oracle products, and seems to have essentially halted all further development of ZFS features, but OpenZFS is flourishing in the form of ZFSonLinux (the real first class kernel driver, not just the FUSE toy), FreeBSD, PC-BSD, FreeNAS, NAS4Free, Illumos, et al. Significant improvements continue to be pursued with OpenZFS.
Once a project has been open sourced, even if further development is then closed by some asshole (I'm looking at you, One Real Asshole Called Larry Ellison), the genie is out of the bottle. You can't put it back in.
So there is a free version of VMware (not on all platforms) that is dumbed down and by your own words not satisfactory for professional users and for some non-professional users, and the "real" VMware product is not free. Contrast with KVM, where the whole kit and kaboodle is free. Seems to me saying VMware is "not free" is roughly just as true as saying it "is free".
What specifically is difficult about it? Virt-manager seems as simple as anything to me, and other tools exist for more complicated tasks.
2^2? Are you sure you don't mean 2? Math challenged?
In your fantasy there is a difference besides a hideously higher price and a somewhat longer warranty period. In real life, commodity SATA is much more cost effective. Everybody who is serious reognizes this (Google, Backblaze, Amazon).
Well, duh. RAID6 is not a serious level of redundancy. ZFS RAIDZ-3 (triple parity) FTW. And you can build in as many hot spares as you want. Dinosaurs who have still not adopted ZFS need to get a clue.
Oh. For a minute there I thought you meant real evil. You know, the kind where there is not just collateral damage and politicians finding out thast you hate them, but targeted murder of completely innocent civilians. So, fight evil with evil? No, I'm not for that, but no reason to completely lose one's perspective.
LibreSSL files signed using OpenSSL's private key? In what universe do YOU live?
If there was a Razer Taipan that wasn't wired, I might attach some credibility to your recommendation. Wired mice SUCK. It will be a cold day in hell that I ever again lower myself to dragging that goddam weight around on the end of a mouse.
Click mode or not, a scroll wheel is NOT A BUTTON. It is a shitty make-do.
It's not just difficult or takes effort; it's IMPOSSIBLE. And I think your a liar if you say you can.
"nanoamperes a second" is a completely nonsense measure. An ampere is already a time rate of transfer of charge. One ampere equals one coulomb per second.
Delphi XE7 doesn't look to me like it even comes close to supporting "every" platform. I see no support listed for linux/gtk, linux/qt, linux/others, free/open/netBSD/gtk, free/open/netBSD/qt, free/open/netBSD/others, solaris & free offshoots, etc. I realize it would be pretty ridiculously far-fetched for any commercial entity to support all those, but open source does. All of those have vi, emacs, gcc, Java, etc. I'm pretty sure Eclipse works on all of them.
Radar does NOT "only detect movement". It can detect stationary objects just fine. If the particular equipment being used by police only detects movement, that says nothing about what radar can and cannot do.
Thank you. It seemed like nobody realized that someone vegging out in a chair, or lying quietly in a bed won't be picked up by this shit. Or, on the other hand, there is SOMETHING radar reflective moving inside. Could be a dog or a robot.
So it really doesn't tell them anything useful whatsoever.
Having the government collect and spend more money is an empowerment. It can empower good, and it can empower evil. You might want to consider that the problem is not the government itself. The government is made up of people. That is like saying the problem is people.
There are problems only the government can address, and you won't make any progress with those problems by strangling the government.