Your definition of "hero" is very arbitrary and subjective. One of the things I like about Colbert, as a person, not the tv personality, is that he is very, very good. Not just the comedy, not the act, but as a responsible person living in the wacky US today.
You call people voting for him a tragedy, but I just can't see it that way. I believe that when it comes down to actually voting your candidate on the ballot, people take a bit more serious stance and wouldn't vote for him simply because he's funny.
Colbert has a great personality, is instantly likeable, and has great insight into not just politics, but people. Combine that with the fact that he is eloquent and can probably use the term "verbiage" correctly. As much as a decision maker and a mover/doer, the presidency is about maintaining relations. What we need now is a people person, as well as someone that can focus and make the hard choices.
I would've voted for him because he fits all the qualities that I am looking for in a president. I would not have voted for him because he's funny.
By your definition of hero, Colbert would be a hero to fight tooth and nail the injustive of the executive commitee's decision, and begin a grassroots movement to revise the election laws and practices to bring elections back to the people and not the political elite. The Framers wanted a system where anyone could stand a chance of being elected regardless of officiation.
Man, the irony is that so many people would've voted for him. Regardless of the fact that he's a comedian and actor, he has an amazing sense of people and character, exactly what a good politician should have, as well as charisma aplenty. Add in the fact that he's quite brilliant at just about anything he does, and you have yourself a good candidate. They simply voted him off because of the stigma of being a "joke".
I find it amazing that this board has the power to eliminate him from the primaries so arbitrarily.
If I were Colbert, I'd be seeking justice from the courts on this one. Show them just how serious a candidate he is.
The US government has price controls on agriculture which include 1) paying farmers NOT to farm and 2) buy excess produce and shipping it off or disposing of it. It doesn't take all that much thought to consider the idea of reducing government price controls on corn, allowing farmers to produce biomass products for ethanol production, and re-enabling competition in the market.
As a previous poster pointed out, ethanol blended in gasoline is to replace MTBE. Of course there's not going to be a statistically different amount of gases produced...that's the point...Why the study did not include a pure ethanol fuel gas emission test, I don't understand.
Does it matter so much at the moment that (and the study stating this fact is very, very old) the amount of energy used to produce ethanol fuels is greater than the return, if ethanol is still cheaper than gasoline at the moment? As ethanol fuel becomes more readily available, then the production costs will more than likely improve.
Hilarious....heck, I grew up in Missoula, MT and currently live in Bozeman, and even I had to look at google maps to figure out where the heck Noxon, MT was.
You do realize that Montana produces a fair chunk of the wheat, cattle and sheep used in the United States? We have our own sources of oil and our own refineries. We have large scale mining for various ores, our own processing plants. We generate a significant portion of the electricity used on the West Coast. Of all the states in the Union that could be considered self sufficient, Montana ranks right up there.
As someone mentioned, Montana is one of the most heavily armed states per capita. Heck, I myself own 3 rifles, 2 shotguns, and 5 handguns of various calibers. My father has significantly more:) This is not uncommon.
Actually, if anything, it's quite understated. The amount of devastation caused by an eruption of a super volcano would be felt globally. Weather patterns and global climate would be shot to hell. You wouldn't see the sun for a long....very long....time. Add to that the sheer violence of the eruption would wipe out a could chunk of everything living in the mountain states. (Yes yes, good thing not many people live here...but as I live in Bozeman, MT, I'm a bit concerned...)
good point. A co-worker and I were just talking about the already existing "garbage collecting" mechanisms in Objective-C regardless of this latest update, and I was simply hitting a wall about why the pseudo garbage collection existed, because I couldn't imagine such poor memory management to begin with, or a program design that would allow for this poor memory management. Like you said, if you were brought up in programming doing things cleanly and efficiently, than you don't need it, but for those who's first taste of "real" (and I use this loosely) programming was java or similar languages, than they missed out on the keep it lean, keep it clean paradigms.
Well, let me be the first to enter the, "Guess I'm not using Objective-C" camp.
Adding garbage collecting to this language is just a continuation of the "throw more resources at it and it'll all work just fine" mentality that exists in modern application design. Yes, the ease of use of garbage collecting has it's uses for the quick fire and forget projects and one time use apps. But other than that, bah I say!
Oh, so you mean no one wants to move to the midwest as well?:) Just because people can get cheap internet access in the big cities doesn't mean that it exists everywhere in the US.
MP3 is still quite good. A vbr mp3 encoded with lame, using some of the good presets, are quite tasty. Ogg is definately better, but just not supported. WMA simply sucks. Only MS drones toute WMA.
Now, if I could just convined the world to provide music in FLAC format, I'd be happy.
Most distributions would work, I'd suggest grabbing something with your prefered journaling filesystem support. Some OS's don't support XFS natively, some don't support JFS, some don't do ReiserFS....so, whatever you feel comfortable using, make sure your distro does it. Other than that, I'm a fan of LVM, so perhaps a look at distros that support that as well.
NAS boxes are pretty cheap and easy to build these days, just make sure if you're going to do RAID that you buy a REAL raid controller, with hardware raid support, not that crap that relys on software drivers for raid support. 3ware is wonderful solution as it's been included in the linux kernel for many, many moons.
Basically, there will need to be a shift in email hosting paradigmns. Instead of the concept of recieving email from your hosted server and sending through your local ISP's smtp, you will instead need to send through the hosted server. Most web/mail hosting providers out there allow for outgoing smtp via smtp authentication. And if they don't, well, perhaps they need to start.
given that it's the ISP, or perhaps their upstream provider that owns the rights to those IP blocks, there's little to nothing that you yourself can do, other than complain to your ISP to get things done. As prevoius posters stated, perhaps you should find a more friendly ISP that cares about it's customers.
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If all you are wanting to do is resell wholesale dsl, then there is absolutely no need to become a CLEC. If you want to start offering your own brand of DSL, collocating equipment, buying UNE's form the local LEC, pushing your own signal, by all means, become a CLEC. But I'd suggest a bit of market research into such a task.
First, the FCC is undergoing quite a bit of change of policy right now in regards to forcing ILEC's to provide access to unbundled products, as well as relaxing the need for artifically deflated pricing on products for those with Interconnections.
Second, lets examine a quick price scheme here. I'm not positive what the prices are like down in SBC land, as I'm over in Qwest land, but for me, a standard xDSL capable loop (UNE, not UNE-P) costs around 23 dollars. So, the loop itself costs almost as much as you will probably need to charge for DSL service. Add bandwidth and administrative costs, and you find why dedicated DSL service isn't all that popular. Well, what about shared-line services you ask? IMO, you might as well resell SBC DSL, as it will be more profitable.
CLEC's are dropping like flies. It's actually quite impressive how many go bankrupt every year.
If you are seriously interested in becoming a CLEC, I'd recommend looking into providing more than just DSL. You would have the ability to offer Voice along with the Data. Some even go so far as to do the triple play packages, Voice Video Data.
I'd be a bit careful on your creation of this VPN. Last I checked, Iraq isn't one of the countries that the US allows exportation of high-encryption, and the establishment of a secure (encrypted) vpn connection between the states and iraq will certianly raise a few eyebrows.
You should just get them started on the right foot.
C, all the way. I'd be okay with C++, but keep 'em away form the evils (read banging head on ceiling trying to make it work) of stuff such as Visual Basic, or C#.
Everything that needs to be done, can be done with C. Done.
What I am really alluding to is the concept of saving a dime by lowering the quality of a product. I look specifically to buy from companines that I know will provide competent and understandable support for the market that it was sold in.
Would you pay full price for watered down whiskey? Or would you throw the watery drink the face of the bar keep and go down the street and get a real drink?
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Your definition of "hero" is very arbitrary and subjective. One of the things I like about Colbert, as a person, not the tv personality, is that he is very, very good. Not just the comedy, not the act, but as a responsible person living in the wacky US today.
You call people voting for him a tragedy, but I just can't see it that way. I believe that when it comes down to actually voting your candidate on the ballot, people take a bit more serious stance and wouldn't vote for him simply because he's funny.
Colbert has a great personality, is instantly likeable, and has great insight into not just politics, but people. Combine that with the fact that he is eloquent and can probably use the term "verbiage" correctly. As much as a decision maker and a mover/doer, the presidency is about maintaining relations. What we need now is a people person, as well as someone that can focus and make the hard choices.
I would've voted for him because he fits all the qualities that I am looking for in a president. I would not have voted for him because he's funny.
By your definition of hero, Colbert would be a hero to fight tooth and nail the injustive of the executive commitee's decision, and begin a grassroots movement to revise the election laws and practices to bring elections back to the people and not the political elite. The Framers wanted a system where anyone could stand a chance of being elected regardless of officiation.
Politicians elect politicians....just how it is, and so very sad. If you are not perceived to be a valid politician by your "peers" then that's that.
Too many people get elected because they know to grease the right palms, not because of valid skills or true elections.
Man, the irony is that so many people would've voted for him. Regardless of the fact that he's a comedian and actor, he has an amazing sense of people and character, exactly what a good politician should have, as well as charisma aplenty. Add in the fact that he's quite brilliant at just about anything he does, and you have yourself a good candidate. They simply voted him off because of the stigma of being a "joke".
I find it amazing that this board has the power to eliminate him from the primaries so arbitrarily.
If I were Colbert, I'd be seeking justice from the courts on this one. Show them just how serious a candidate he is.
As a previous poster pointed out, ethanol blended in gasoline is to replace MTBE. Of course there's not going to be a statistically different amount of gases produced...that's the point...Why the study did not include a pure ethanol fuel gas emission test, I don't understand.
Does it matter so much at the moment that (and the study stating this fact is very, very old) the amount of energy used to produce ethanol fuels is greater than the return, if ethanol is still cheaper than gasoline at the moment? As ethanol fuel becomes more readily available, then the production costs will more than likely improve.
Hilarious....heck, I grew up in Missoula, MT and currently live in Bozeman, and even I had to look at google maps to figure out where the heck Noxon, MT was.
You do realize that Montana produces a fair chunk of the wheat, cattle and sheep used in the United States? We have our own sources of oil and our own refineries. We have large scale mining for various ores, our own processing plants. We generate a significant portion of the electricity used on the West Coast. Of all the states in the Union that could be considered self sufficient, Montana ranks right up there. As someone mentioned, Montana is one of the most heavily armed states per capita. Heck, I myself own 3 rifles, 2 shotguns, and 5 handguns of various calibers. My father has significantly more :) This is not uncommon.
Actually, if anything, it's quite understated. The amount of devastation caused by an eruption of a super volcano would be felt globally. Weather patterns and global climate would be shot to hell. You wouldn't see the sun for a long....very long....time. Add to that the sheer violence of the eruption would wipe out a could chunk of everything living in the mountain states. (Yes yes, good thing not many people live here...but as I live in Bozeman, MT, I'm a bit concerned...)
Hence why its always funny to think about the Grand Tetons (the mountains...)
good point. A co-worker and I were just talking about the already existing "garbage collecting" mechanisms in Objective-C regardless of this latest update, and I was simply hitting a wall about why the pseudo garbage collection existed, because I couldn't imagine such poor memory management to begin with, or a program design that would allow for this poor memory management. Like you said, if you were brought up in programming doing things cleanly and efficiently, than you don't need it, but for those who's first taste of "real" (and I use this loosely) programming was java or similar languages, than they missed out on the keep it lean, keep it clean paradigms.
Well, let me be the first to enter the, "Guess I'm not using Objective-C" camp. Adding garbage collecting to this language is just a continuation of the "throw more resources at it and it'll all work just fine" mentality that exists in modern application design. Yes, the ease of use of garbage collecting has it's uses for the quick fire and forget projects and one time use apps. But other than that, bah I say!
So, um, it has a different screen, different form factor, and also different video chipsets, yes, I see sooooo many similarities here.
I'd host a torrent as I have a few dozen megabits to to waste, but I can't get the stupid thing in the fist place...
Oh, so you mean no one wants to move to the midwest as well? :) Just because people can get cheap internet access in the big cities doesn't mean that it exists everywhere in the US.
Now, if I could just convined the world to provide music in FLAC format, I'd be happy.
NAS boxes are pretty cheap and easy to build these days, just make sure if you're going to do RAID that you buy a REAL raid controller, with hardware raid support, not that crap that relys on software drivers for raid support. 3ware is wonderful solution as it's been included in the linux kernel for many, many moons.
I'm not sure where this "most ISPs" stuff is coming from, since I can't name a single one that block's outgoing port 25. Buy hey, what do I know.
Basically, there will need to be a shift in email hosting paradigmns. Instead of the concept of recieving email from your hosted server and sending through your local ISP's smtp, you will instead need to send through the hosted server. Most web/mail hosting providers out there allow for outgoing smtp via smtp authentication. And if they don't, well, perhaps they need to start.
given that it's the ISP, or perhaps their upstream provider that owns the rights to those IP blocks, there's little to nothing that you yourself can do, other than complain to your ISP to get things done. As prevoius posters stated, perhaps you should find a more friendly ISP that cares about it's customers.
First, the FCC is undergoing quite a bit of change of policy right now in regards to forcing ILEC's to provide access to unbundled products, as well as relaxing the need for artifically deflated pricing on products for those with Interconnections.
Second, lets examine a quick price scheme here. I'm not positive what the prices are like down in SBC land, as I'm over in Qwest land, but for me, a standard xDSL capable loop (UNE, not UNE-P) costs around 23 dollars. So, the loop itself costs almost as much as you will probably need to charge for DSL service. Add bandwidth and administrative costs, and you find why dedicated DSL service isn't all that popular. Well, what about shared-line services you ask? IMO, you might as well resell SBC DSL, as it will be more profitable.
CLEC's are dropping like flies. It's actually quite impressive how many go bankrupt every year.
If you are seriously interested in becoming a CLEC, I'd recommend looking into providing more than just DSL. You would have the ability to offer Voice along with the Data. Some even go so far as to do the triple play packages, Voice Video Data.
and the problem with this is?
I'd be a bit careful on your creation of this VPN. Last I checked, Iraq isn't one of the countries that the US allows exportation of high-encryption, and the establishment of a secure (encrypted) vpn connection between the states and iraq will certianly raise a few eyebrows.
Nice, post about this when there's only 3 days left to submit your scripts...
Everything that needs to be done, can be done with C. Done.
That's why y'all should play Quake3, and you wouldn't have these problems.
What I am really alluding to is the concept of saving a dime by lowering the quality of a product. I look specifically to buy from companines that I know will provide competent and understandable support for the market that it was sold in. Would you pay full price for watered down whiskey? Or would you throw the watery drink the face of the bar keep and go down the street and get a real drink?