Germany formally declared war on the US on 11 Dec 1941, even though the terms of the Tripartite Pact (Germany, Italy, Japan) did not require it to do so.
Prior to this, there was already an undeclared war in the Atlantic (see: the sinking of the Reuben James).
Other than the experience points, I can't see why you'd make your own tubes. Would you make your own transistors?
I've hand-wound guitar pickups and made a ribbon microphone from scratch. Fun stuff, but I could never approach the quality of a stock Fender pickup or Royer ribbon mic.
You're wrong. You're so wrong that your statement "everyone here are liberals" is akin to a Platonic ideal of wrongness.
I'm on my phone, so your UID is not visible, but if you've been here as long as I have you'll know that Slashdot's users represent a myriad schools of political thought. If anything, libertarianism is over-represented. Remember when Ron Paul ran for president?
I had a circa-1986 Mac 512K running in my recording studio up until the early 2000s. It ran Opcode MidiMac (sequencing) and SoundDesigner II (sampling, front-end for an Ensoniq Mirage). Never crashed, reliable as hell, and very quiet since there was no fan or hard drive. Load the OS and software from a 400K floppy and it would run until the heat death of the universe.
Most everyone involved in music production (EDM excepted) has an affinity for vintage equipment, whether it's an old RCA ribbon mic, an EMT plate reverb, a pre-CBS Fender guitar, or anything with vacuum tubes. It's the one field where "vintage drum machine" is not an oxymoron.
I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe... Iranian cerntrifuges on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Ford River Rouge Assembly Plant. All those... moments... will be lost in time, like tears... in... rain.
The administrative remedy process was seemingly designed by Franz Kafka to be an exercise in bureaucratic futility.
You have 15 days to file a BP-8, which you must get from your counselor. If he only visits the SHU every three weeks, you're SOL. If you do manage to file, it goes to your case manager and unit manager, who will veto it. Then you have a limited amount of time to file a BP-9, which theoretically goes to the warden. In practice, it stops at an assistant warden's desk. Denied. So you try to file a BP-10 to the regional office. You need to attach all supporting documents, including the original incident report. Good luck getting those from your counselor or case mangler. If you do manage to file it, it will come back in 4 months with a dot-matrix printed page of boilerplate reasons why your grievance is denied. Last but not least is the BP-11, which goes to BOP Headquarters in DC. By this time you're either dead or on the bus to the halfway house.
Only when the process is completed can you petition a court for action under 18 USC 1983.
It's like a bad high school production of Terry Gilliam's "Brazil".
I just did five years in Federal prison and did two stretches in the SHU (basically solitary), totaling about two months. First time was for drawing on a paper food service hat. Second time was for being a smartass to the prison shrink.
Me, I didn't mind it so much. Peace and quiet (though occasionally you get a screamer on the range). Got some reading done. Meditated.
But you only get to make one call every thirty days. No coffee, no commissary. The cops keep the place cold like a meat locker. Lights never go off.
It's not for violent criminals. You get sucker punched or stomped and you go to the SHU for 30 days for an "investigation". You file a grievence against a staff member and you go in for a 90-day "investigation". You get the flu or scabies and you're in there for two weeks: quarantine.
The really violent people end up on a USP or AD-Max in Florence, CO.
I didn't mind the SHU because I enjoy a bit of solitude now and then. But in California, there are guys who've spent decades in the hole. That totally fucks you up.
Seconded. We had spray painted stencils on anything larger than 12". For mics and cables we used colored duct tape and wrote on that with a Sharpie. Every gig ended with a "dummy check" at the end of the night: even if you think everything is in the truck, it never hurts to make one last check (onstage, backstage, etc.). You'd be surprised how many times something turned up in a dummy check.
Designate one person as the gear wrangler. Teach him the Roadie's Creed:
If it's wet, drink it. If it's dry, smoke it. If it moves, fuck it. If it doesn't move, PUT IT IN THE TRUCK.
Most of my small business clients lived and died on those small purple Linksys boxes. About half of those small purple boxes would fail for some reason, choking on a packet and hanging or just failing completely. I'd convince them that a small investment (under $250) in better networking gear would pay off in the long run, avoiding field service calls at $75/hr.
Not that I have anything against Linksys per se: I'm currently using a DSL router (RV082) that bears both the Linksys and Cisco Systems logos. It's been solid as a rock and serves as a capable VPN endpoint. It's just those small purple boxes that they sell at Best Buy and Staples that vex me.
Seven years ago, when I needed to share my DSL connection with more than one computer, Linksys was there for me. But after a while, it was time to move on to more mature and robust equipment.
I don't disagree with your points; consider the part of my post that refers to "the value of a comprehensive and professionally done resume".
But resumes, like some job applicants, lie. Were we to accept job applicants on the basis of a resume without an interview and a reference check, we'd be fucked.
I can embellish my resume from here to Timbuktu. Bullshitting my way through an interview and getting references to lie for me is an exponentially harder problem.
I've been on both sides of the desk with regards to IT staffing and interviews. The resume and cover letter were the least important factors. For me, the interview was most important, followed by professional references. This is not meant to belittle the value of a comprehensive and professionally done resume. I'm of the opinion that you should place more emphasis on the interview(s).
If I were the interviewer, I'd want to know that you can solve problems without creating more problems. That you know when you don't know an answer. That you know how to find the solution. That you're presentably dressed and groomed. That you are at least competent when it comes to communication and interpersonal relations. To me, these factors are more important than a list of operating systems you've administered. The "IT" part of "IT professional" is relatively easy, a solved problem at the very least. It's the "professional" part that eludes some people.
I've heard of people popping the keycaps and washing those in a dishwasher, but not the whole keyboard as a unit. As mentioned elsewhere, the soap is conductive, and I have no doubt that even if you didn't add soap you'd still have some soapy residue in the dishwasher. Not to mention that the minerals in tap water are conductive, too.
I've also resurrected electronic equipment that was involved in a flood. We had to immerse the gear (MIDI keyboards and guitar pedals) in distilled water and then dry them off with hair dryers. At best, we had a 50% revival rate.
Pop the keytops and run them through a dishwasher. Better yet, pop the keys and wipe them with Windex Wipes. Blow out the keyboard with compressed air. It's how I've kept the IBM Model M I'm typing on clean and working well since 1993.
If anyone tells you otherwise theZ1058sg d gh$$%*@&Yg s96#(HA)G*DS HJ
As of yet, there is not a unified government of Earth that writes and enforces laws.
Well, yes and no.
Countries sign treaties and conventions. They make bilateral and multilateral agreements. One example is the Berne Convention which, from 1886 to 1979, has unified the laws of signatory countries with regards to copyright law.
International laws concerning patents and trademarks are a bit more fragmented, but they do exist.
I found an economic analysis from the World Bank that tries to explain the ubiquity of the AK47 in worldwide conflict:
The AK-47's ubiquity could alternatively be explained as a result of a path dependent process. Economic historians recognize that an inferior product may persist when a small but early advantage becomes large over time and builds up a legacy that makes switching costly (David 1975). In the case of the AK-47 that early advantage may be that as a Soviet invention it was not subject to patent and so could be freely copied. Furthermore, large caches of these weapons were freely distributed to regimes and rebels sympathetic to the Soviet Union - more freely, that is, than weapons were distributed by the US - thereby giving the AK-47 a foothold advantage in the emerging post-World War II market for small arms.
From what I understand, Mikhail Kalashnikov based parts of the AK-47 design on various other weapons. The trigger group and bolt resemble those of the M1 Garand, and the pistol grip and gas assembly resemble those of the German StG44 (widely considered to be the first true assault rifle). [Source: AK47, Duncan Long, Paladin Press 1988] How much original content must a design have before it can be patentable?
During the Cold War, at least a dozen Warsaw Pact and non-aligned countries produced copies and variants of the AK47, with the Soviet Union's tacit, if not overt, blessing. Even now, new AKs are being built by blacksmiths in Pakistan and US gunsmiths (the latter do this to comply with ATF regulations that prohibit import of receivers and assembled rifles).
Now that the Cold War is over, Russia wants to get paid? I'd think that with all their oil and gas income, licensing fees would be a pittence by comparison.
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China's Smartest Students Are Being Recruited To Check Slashdot For Dupes.
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Sotheby's had to be in on it.
- Works up for auction are inspected beforehand, primarily to authenticate. A frame with a shredder mechanism should have been noticed.
- Auctions usually place works on an easel or stand. This was the only one hung on a wall.
- It was the last piece to be auctioned that day.
I'm not one to traffic in conspiracy theories, but Bentonville, Arkansas is where Walmart's corporate headquarters are located.
Not that they have an axe to grind with Amazon or anything.
Germany formally declared war on the US on 11 Dec 1941, even though the terms of the Tripartite Pact (Germany, Italy, Japan) did not require it to do so.
Prior to this, there was already an undeclared war in the Atlantic (see: the sinking of the Reuben James).
Learn some fucking history.
Other than the experience points, I can't see why you'd make your own tubes. Would you make your own transistors?
I've hand-wound guitar pickups and made a ribbon microphone from scratch. Fun stuff, but I could never approach the quality of a stock Fender pickup or Royer ribbon mic.
Sovtek still imports Rusdian tubes, right?
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You're wrong. You're so wrong that your statement "everyone here are liberals" is akin to a Platonic ideal of wrongness.
I'm on my phone, so your UID is not visible, but if you've been here as long as I have you'll know that Slashdot's users represent a myriad schools of political thought. If anything, libertarianism is over-represented. Remember when Ron Paul ran for president?
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...where's my continent?
Except Windows is more like condominium ownership. You still pay a maintenance fee and the condo association can change the by-laws at will.
Ducking cancer.
I had a circa-1986 Mac 512K running in my recording studio up until the early 2000s. It ran Opcode MidiMac (sequencing) and SoundDesigner II (sampling, front-end for an Ensoniq Mirage). Never crashed, reliable as hell, and very quiet since there was no fan or hard drive. Load the OS and software from a 400K floppy and it would run until the heat death of the universe.
Most everyone involved in music production (EDM excepted) has an affinity for vintage equipment, whether it's an old RCA ribbon mic, an EMT plate reverb, a pre-CBS Fender guitar, or anything with vacuum tubes. It's the one field where "vintage drum machine" is not an oxymoron.
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I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe... Iranian cerntrifuges on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Ford River Rouge Assembly Plant. All those... moments... will be lost in time, like tears... in... rain.
Time... to die...
The administrative remedy process was seemingly designed by Franz Kafka to be an exercise in bureaucratic futility.
You have 15 days to file a BP-8, which you must get from your counselor. If he only visits the SHU every three weeks, you're SOL. If you do manage to file, it goes to your case manager and unit manager, who will veto it. Then you have a limited amount of time to file a BP-9, which theoretically goes to the warden. In practice, it stops at an assistant warden's desk. Denied. So you try to file a BP-10 to the regional office. You need to attach all supporting documents, including the original incident report. Good luck getting those from your counselor or case mangler. If you do manage to file it, it will come back in 4 months with a dot-matrix printed page of boilerplate reasons why your grievance is denied. Last but not least is the BP-11, which goes to BOP Headquarters in DC. By this time you're either dead or on the bus to the halfway house.
Only when the process is completed can you petition a court for action under 18 USC 1983.
It's like a bad high school production of Terry Gilliam's "Brazil".
-k.
I just did five years in Federal prison and did two stretches in the SHU (basically solitary), totaling about two months. First time was for drawing on a paper food service hat. Second time was for being a smartass to the prison shrink.
Me, I didn't mind it so much. Peace and quiet (though occasionally you get a screamer on the range). Got some reading done. Meditated.
But you only get to make one call every thirty days. No coffee, no commissary. The cops keep the place cold like a meat locker. Lights never go off.
It's not for violent criminals. You get sucker punched or stomped and you go to the SHU for 30 days for an "investigation". You file a grievence against a staff member and you go in for a 90-day "investigation". You get the flu or scabies and you're in there for two weeks: quarantine.
The really violent people end up on a USP or AD-Max in Florence, CO.
I didn't mind the SHU because I enjoy a bit of solitude now and then. But in California, there are guys who've spent decades in the hole. That totally fucks you up.
-k.
Seconded. We had spray painted stencils on anything larger than 12". For mics and cables we used colored duct tape and wrote on that with a Sharpie. Every gig ended with a "dummy check" at the end of the night: even if you think everything is in the truck, it never hurts to make one last check (onstage, backstage, etc.). You'd be surprised how many times something turned up in a dummy check.
Designate one person as the gear wrangler. Teach him the Roadie's Creed:
If it's wet, drink it.
If it's dry, smoke it.
If it moves, fuck it.
If it doesn't move, PUT IT IN THE TRUCK.
-k.
Most of my small business clients lived and died on those small purple Linksys boxes. About half of those small purple boxes would fail for some reason, choking on a packet and hanging or just failing completely. I'd convince them that a small investment (under $250) in better networking gear would pay off in the long run, avoiding field service calls at $75/hr.
Not that I have anything against Linksys per se: I'm currently using a DSL router (RV082) that bears both the Linksys and Cisco Systems logos. It's been solid as a rock and serves as a capable VPN endpoint. It's just those small purple boxes that they sell at Best Buy and Staples that vex me.
Seven years ago, when I needed to share my DSL connection with more than one computer, Linksys was there for me. But after a while, it was time to move on to more mature and robust equipment.
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So, how do you look in a skirt?
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I don't disagree with your points; consider the part of my post that refers to "the value of a comprehensive and professionally done resume".
But resumes, like some job applicants, lie. Were we to accept job applicants on the basis of a resume without an interview and a reference check, we'd be fucked.
I can embellish my resume from here to Timbuktu. Bullshitting my way through an interview and getting references to lie for me is an exponentially harder problem.
k.
I've been on both sides of the desk with regards to IT staffing and interviews. The resume and cover letter were the least important factors. For me, the interview was most important, followed by professional references. This is not meant to belittle the value of a comprehensive and professionally done resume. I'm of the opinion that you should place more emphasis on the interview(s).
If I were the interviewer, I'd want to know that you can solve problems without creating more problems. That you know when you don't know an answer. That you know how to find the solution. That you're presentably dressed and groomed. That you are at least competent when it comes to communication and interpersonal relations. To me, these factors are more important than a list of operating systems you've administered. The "IT" part of "IT professional" is relatively easy, a solved problem at the very least. It's the "professional" part that eludes some people.
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Funny that you should mention Marc Rich, a financier involved in the Iran Contra affair and the BCCI banking scandal. Guess who his lawyer was?
Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
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The downside is that the full version of this simulator will be powered by the electro-chemical activity of six billion human beings.
Whoa.
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I've heard of people popping the keycaps and washing those in a dishwasher, but not the whole keyboard as a unit. As mentioned elsewhere, the soap is conductive, and I have no doubt that even if you didn't add soap you'd still have some soapy residue in the dishwasher. Not to mention that the minerals in tap water are conductive, too.
I've also resurrected electronic equipment that was involved in a flood. We had to immerse the gear (MIDI keyboards and guitar pedals) in distilled water and then dry them off with hair dryers. At best, we had a 50% revival rate.
Pop the keytops and run them through a dishwasher. Better yet, pop the keys and wipe them with Windex Wipes. Blow out the keyboard with compressed air. It's how I've kept the IBM Model M I'm typing on clean and working well since 1993.
If anyone tells you otherwise theZ1058sg d gh$$%*@&Yg s96#(HA)G*DS HJ
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Moderator: Senator, this next question is from YouTube user Daxflame. He asks "Do you think my girlfriend GreenTeaGirlie is really a robot or not?".
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Well, yes and no.
Countries sign treaties and conventions. They make bilateral and multilateral agreements. One example is the Berne Convention which, from 1886 to 1979, has unified the laws of signatory countries with regards to copyright law.
International laws concerning patents and trademarks are a bit more fragmented, but they do exist.
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This was linked from Salon.com last week.
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From what I understand, Mikhail Kalashnikov based parts of the AK-47 design on various other weapons. The trigger group and bolt resemble those of the M1 Garand, and the pistol grip and gas assembly resemble those of the German StG44 (widely considered to be the first true assault rifle). [Source: AK47, Duncan Long, Paladin Press 1988] How much original content must a design have before it can be patentable?
During the Cold War, at least a dozen Warsaw Pact and non-aligned countries produced copies and variants of the AK47, with the Soviet Union's tacit, if not overt, blessing. Even now, new AKs are being built by blacksmiths in Pakistan and US gunsmiths (the latter do this to comply with ATF regulations that prohibit import of receivers and assembled rifles).
Now that the Cold War is over, Russia wants to get paid? I'd think that with all their oil and gas income, licensing fees would be a pittence by comparison.
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