U.S. signs make alot more sense then their european equivelent. I can't even count how many signs ive seen europe that were comprised of seemingly random symbol. For example Instead of a black car and a red car meaning two way traffic we have an arrow pointing up and an arrow pointing down followed by the label "two way traffic". Besides that you adapt to driving in the U.S. fairly quickly because you really have no choice, and you learn to do it well for the same reason. You would be surprised how well we handle our pickups.
I see no legitimate complaint or impairment of functionality
I have used photoshop on pictures of currency before while not trying to counterfeit and i'm sure many others have as well. Do you understand the meaning of impairment of functionality?
You know every Mars mission has to traverse millions of mile of space which have high levels of radiation. Plus mars is a huge planet so if something did go wrong and radioactive material did disintigrate in the atmosphere nobody would even be able to notice it, and it certainly wouldn't impact other missions. That said, it's always good to hear from the lunatic fringe;-)
2. Using slave labour on that land.
This went on in parts of the country for a little more than half our existence and did not have that much of an impact on the country as a whole economically.
The Southern United States was built on slave labor. If thats not much of an impact I don't know what is. Perhaps you where taught that slaves were a small and fairly unimportant part of American history in school, but in the South we know this not to be the case. Afterall, in the South there is no our in labor:-)
Wal-Mart employees have to live off of food stamps and state funded medical programs.
As a former K-Mart emplyee I must inform you that nobody I knew who worked there was on food stamps. The saleries aren't large by any standard but they do allow for a fairly comfortable standard of living, provided you don't try to have kids you can't afford, which is a bad idea at any pay scale. So calm down. The world is not collapsing around you.
I guess we will have to agree to disagree. I get your point that as fictitious entities made possible by the state, companies have a responsibility to it. I believe, however that that responsibility is fulfilled with the payment of taxes and fulfillment of legal obligations. I do not believe that American companies have a responsibility to only employ Americans. I also do not believe that what we are seeing is an outsourcing revolution, but rather the logical extension of what has been happening since America lost the vast majority of its textile jobs to foreign labor. My original post made refrence to the concept of "what goes around comes around" and that is what I base my opinion on. My American car was made from parts created all over the world. My American clothes were made with foreign labor and materials. The Compaq laptop I am writing this on contains a Toshiba cd-rom drive, presumably not made in America. We are constantly reaping the benefits of outsourcing, even as it places pressure on our wages and job opportunities. This is the status quo, the result of 200+ years of representative democracy. It is what we have chosen as a nation, and a reality of the world. If you want to change all that though, more power to you:-)
Last I checked Companies and People subsidize the Government, not 'tother way around. Sure there are exceptions like agriculture and a few others but tech is not one of them. I don't remember advocating that U.S. companies should move cash offshore to dodge taxes. In any case, for the record, I think dodging taxes is wrong. I hope that clears things up a little.
As for your comments on the downside of outsourcing I can only say that they are legitimate concerns for companies. It should be up to the companies themselves to decide whether they should outsource. Companies have a right to make the wrong choice and to pay the consequences just as they have a right to make the right choice and reap the benefits.
If you don't understand capitalism, you fail to understand the fundamental concepts of business and trade.
Just about everything you buy today was made by somebody who pays "$50.00 a month for rent, $1.14 for a full dinner at a restaurant, $2.78 for a pair of jeans". As a (hopeful) future programmer I have to say that while it sucks that I have to compete with people with such a low cost of living, thems the breaks. We pay less money for goods produced abroad, so we are going to have to deal with the possibility that jobs we want may be moved offshore as well. What goes around comes around.
Nowhere is the concept of "What goes around comes around" demonstrated better than the sensitive subject of immigration. Sure it drives down wages but ask yourself where you would be if it weren't for immigration. Certainly not in America since at some point in the last 300 years you or your family came to this country as immigrants. The children of immigrants complaining about immigration is as ridiculous as people who shop at Wal-Mart complaining about outsourcing.
$16 billion == $87 billion / 5.4375
How can you even compare infrastructure to military expenditures and say that military expenditures benefit more people for the money?
Maybe we could have some stealth bombers drop some million dollar bombs on the big dig so everyone could win.
Many people do choose communications for the exact reason he laid out. I don't think he said anything about it being a gimme-degree or waste of time. It takes someone who can get offended at a factual statement to say something like this. An attitude like that doesn't say much about one's ability to work well with people of different backgrounds.
When you study commmunications in school you aren't realy picking a career path since there are many possibilities when you graduate. An engineeringn student has picked his career and is following it already. There is a difference, and pointing it out is not a sign of intollerance, but of awareness.
Once at my neighborhood Albertson I bought Weekly World News magezine on impulse, just to see what was in it. They charged m 10c over the cover price. So I went to the service desk and they gave me my money back. So the next week I figured I would buy another one since the first one had been free. To my pleasent surprise they charged me the wrong price again. For the next few months I methodically go went every week, bought a Weekly World News and get my money refunded. Then one day they fixed the problem and I lost my subscription. I must have gotten nearly a years worth of magezinges by that point. If you ever see something that is mismarked and would like to do something about it then just buy it every day and get your money refunded. If you can find a few items even better. Of course this only works at certain stores but you can bet that they will either fix their mistakes, or give you a bunch of free groceries.
Its not just the far right or left that wants to control everything. It is about more than ideology. Its about control. It's the mindset that the solution to man's problems is more laws. This mindset is present on both ends of the ideological spectrum. The war on drugs wouldn't be possible without the complicity of the "I need government to tell me what to do" left. Of course it wouldn't be such a massive human rights abuse without the "negros are corrupting our children" right. So you see both sides (that have money and power) can work together to opress the masses.
When was the last time you met a politically correct, whiney, sniveling, 'everything offends me' stoner? My point is that stoners for the most part have a live and let live attitude about the world. They have been the target of constant harassment, intimidation, opression, and imprisonment since they discovered that illegal != wrong. Stoners don't like telling other people how to live their lives or what to call their hard drive settings because they know what it is like to be told how to live theirs.
No stoner would hassle you about what you call your hard drive settings. The types of people who get upset at hard drive setting names are the type of people who get upset about harmless drugs like pot. Since when can smoking pot make someone a fascist?
The video is 1 minute and 18 seconds long. The file is sizes are:
12 FPS 240x180 with standard quality sound (2.32 megabytes) - small size
15 FPS 720x480 with high quality sound (139,918.96 megabytes) - inappropriately large size
30 FPS 720x480 with high quality sound (297,950.89 megabytes) - video connisure size
Extremely nice 30 FPS 720x480 with premium quality sound (423,545.4 megabytes - can be choppy on slow computers) - 400+ MB for one minute of video is just plain wrong.
No wonder the server is slashdotted.
This is for those who do not have the reasoning ability to see Parent is on topic, but who have to moderator privelages to classiffy it as offtopic. Parent post is about the impropper use of adjectives to describe a situation, In this case spammers getting desperate. The reference to the similar appraisal of the situation in Iraq is a demostration of the widespread use of these inaccurate adjectives, as well as an example of what getting desperate really means, namely, getting more sophisticated, which often translates to more effective. The President talks about desperate acts by Iraqi resistance as the resistance gains momentum and becomes more sophisticated and effective. Likewise, the topic describes the hijacking of large amounts of computers as desperate, when a more appropriate word would be sophisticated or dangerous. If this is offtopic than 98% of what is posted on Slashdot is offtopic. Sometimes good moderation is about knowing when not to moderate.
They must really be getting desperate.
This reminds me of the President claiming the increased rate of attacks in Iraq was a sign of progress. Since when does increasing sophistication demonstrate desperation?
I actually do most of my upgrading while high. and a fair bit of programming too. Yes I am a geek/stoner. In my opinion it's a winning combination.
I am not writing this to brag about my 1337 5t0n3r 5ki115. Just representin' for my peeps who smoke the ganja and still take care of business. You probably won't notice us since we don't sleep on the sidewalk, and try to keep a low profile, but were there. Peace.
If the United States wanted to conquer the world why haven't they done so already?
The United States can not conquer the world. It remains to be seen if the United States can even conquer Iraq. It has been demonstrated that the United States can not conquer Vietnam.
The rest of your post just baffles me. Did you just copy random phrases from Fox "News" Channel?
The Game Cube is now under $100. It has a fairly fast processor, Ethernet capabilities, and a very small case. Put these together, and you have a serious option for cluster nodes.
Gaming consoles are never a serious option for a cluster. Game consoles have chips and architecture meant for features a cluster doesn't use. Unless what you want is a cluster of gaming consoles (a good thing in its own right) you can get better capabilities for cheaper with off the shelf parts.
Actually, I think its more like China's Freedom 7. Launched on a Redstone 5 on 5/05/61, Alan Shepard was sent in to space too late to be first, and too low to be best. After the Russians had already put a man in orbit, the United States only managed a suborbital flight, but they had succeeded. From that humble beginning America's manned space flight program reached the moon in 8 years, 2 months and 16 days. Go China.
Having been to Amsterdam during both the summer and the winter I can tell you that the
Dutch smoke their fair share of cannabis. Obviously not all Dutch people smoke, and during the summer you mostly see tourists smoking. But if you go during the winter, when its too cold for all but the most hardened junkies, and most tourists seek warmer climates you get to see Amsterdam in its natural state. Coffeeshops are not empty during the winter, and in fact seem to do fairly brisk business. During the winter, the most spoken language inside coffeeshops is actually Dutch.
Actually, the most recent study I read showed that pot use does retard learning
Most studies done on the subject are heavily biased. The goal is not to determine whether or not marijuana does or doesn't cause a certain ailment. It is to prove that it does by any means necessary to find fodder for the war-on-drugs bullshit launcher. Did you know that a heavily publicised study links marijuana to unwanted pregnancies? I'm not saying that pot smokers don't get knocked up every once in a while, but jesus christ! Any regular pot smoker will tell you (and common sense will confirm) this is complete bullshit. If anything, marijuana reduces your desire to have sex. Of course that doesnt stop the man from basing a commercial on that bullshit study.
drugabuse.gov : from the people who linked marijuana to rape an murder.
Other Health Effects
Some of marijuana's adverse health effects may occur because THC impairs the immune system's ability to fight off infectious diseases and cancer. In laboratory experiments that exposed animal and human cells to THC or other marijuana ingredients, the normal disease-preventing reactions of many of the key types of immune cells were inhibited(16). In other studies, mice exposed to THC or related substances were more likely than unexposed mice to develop bacterial infections and tumors(17,18).
I like animal studies. Inject a mouse with a huge amount of any substance and of course it will get messed up. Interesting how marijuana studies performed on mice are quoted so often to demonstrate its "harm" while other substances such as caffine cause more harm when injected in the same quantity.
This is standard war on drugs propaganda. No more. No less.
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U.S. signs make alot more sense then their european equivelent. I can't even count how many signs ive seen europe that were comprised of seemingly random symbol. For example Instead of a black car and a red car meaning two way traffic we have an arrow pointing up and an arrow pointing down followed by the label "two way traffic". Besides that you adapt to driving in the U.S. fairly quickly because you really have no choice, and you learn to do it well for the same reason. You would be surprised how well we handle our pickups.
I see no legitimate complaint or impairment of functionality
I have used photoshop on pictures of currency before while not trying to counterfeit and i'm sure many others have as well. Do you understand the meaning of impairment of functionality?
You know every Mars mission has to traverse millions of mile of space which have high levels of radiation. Plus mars is a huge planet so if something did go wrong and radioactive material did disintigrate in the atmosphere nobody would even be able to notice it, and it certainly wouldn't impact other missions. That said, it's always good to hear from the lunatic fringe ;-)
2. Using slave labour on that land.
:-)
This went on in parts of the country for a little more than half our existence and did not have that much of an impact on the country as a whole economically.
The Southern United States was built on slave labor. If thats not much of an impact I don't know what is. Perhaps you where taught that slaves were a small and fairly unimportant part of American history in school, but in the South we know this not to be the case. Afterall, in the South there is no our in labor
Wal-Mart employees have to live off of food stamps and state funded medical programs.
As a former K-Mart emplyee I must inform you that nobody I knew who worked there was on food stamps. The saleries aren't large by any standard but they do allow for a fairly comfortable standard of living, provided you don't try to have kids you can't afford, which is a bad idea at any pay scale. So calm down. The world is not collapsing around you.
I guess we will have to agree to disagree. I get your point that as fictitious entities made possible by the state, companies have a responsibility to it. I believe, however that that responsibility is fulfilled with the payment of taxes and fulfillment of legal obligations. I do not believe that American companies have a responsibility to only employ Americans. I also do not believe that what we are seeing is an outsourcing revolution, but rather the logical extension of what has been happening since America lost the vast majority of its textile jobs to foreign labor. My original post made refrence to the concept of "what goes around comes around" and that is what I base my opinion on. My American car was made from parts created all over the world. My American clothes were made with foreign labor and materials. The Compaq laptop I am writing this on contains a Toshiba cd-rom drive, presumably not made in America. We are constantly reaping the benefits of outsourcing, even as it places pressure on our wages and job opportunities. This is the status quo, the result of 200+ years of representative democracy. It is what we have chosen as a nation, and a reality of the world. If you want to change all that though, more power to you :-)
Last I checked Companies and People subsidize the Government, not 'tother way around. Sure there are exceptions like agriculture and a few others but tech is not one of them. I don't remember advocating that U.S. companies should move cash offshore to dodge taxes. In any case, for the record, I think dodging taxes is wrong. I hope that clears things up a little.
As for your comments on the downside of outsourcing I can only say that they are legitimate concerns for companies. It should be up to the companies themselves to decide whether they should outsource. Companies have a right to make the wrong choice and to pay the consequences just as they have a right to make the right choice and reap the benefits.
If you don't understand capitalism, you fail to understand the fundamental concepts of business and trade.
Just about everything you buy today was made by somebody who pays "$50.00 a month for rent, $1.14 for a full dinner at a restaurant, $2.78 for a pair of jeans". As a (hopeful) future programmer I have to say that while it sucks that I have to compete with people with such a low cost of living, thems the breaks. We pay less money for goods produced abroad, so we are going to have to deal with the possibility that jobs we want may be moved offshore as well. What goes around comes around.
Nowhere is the concept of "What goes around comes around" demonstrated better than the sensitive subject of immigration. Sure it drives down wages but ask yourself where you would be if it weren't for immigration. Certainly not in America since at some point in the last 300 years you or your family came to this country as immigrants. The children of immigrants complaining about immigration is as ridiculous as people who shop at Wal-Mart complaining about outsourcing.
$16 billion == $87 billion / 5.4375
How can you even compare infrastructure to military expenditures and say that military expenditures benefit more people for the money? Maybe we could have some stealth bombers drop some million dollar bombs on the big dig so everyone could win.
Many people do choose communications for the exact reason he laid out. I don't think he said anything about it being a gimme-degree or waste of time. It takes someone who can get offended at a factual statement to say something like this.
An attitude like that doesn't say much about one's ability to work well with people of different backgrounds.
When you study commmunications in school you aren't realy picking a career path since there are many possibilities when you graduate. An engineeringn student has picked his career and is following it already. There is a difference, and pointing it out is not a sign of intollerance, but of awareness.
Once at my neighborhood Albertson I bought Weekly World News magezine on impulse, just to see what was in it. They charged m 10c over the cover price. So I went to the service desk and they gave me my money back. So the next week I figured I would buy another one since the first one had been free. To my pleasent surprise they charged me the wrong price again. For the next few months I methodically go went every week, bought a Weekly World News and get my money refunded. Then one day they fixed the problem and I lost my subscription. I must have gotten nearly a years worth of magezinges by that point. If you ever see something that is mismarked and would like to do something about it then just buy it every day and get your money refunded. If you can find a few items even better. Of course this only works at certain stores but you can bet that they will either fix their mistakes, or give you a bunch of free groceries.
Its not just the far right or left that wants to control everything. It is about more than ideology. Its about control. It's the mindset that the solution to man's problems is more laws. This mindset is present on both ends of the ideological spectrum. The war on drugs wouldn't be possible without the complicity of the "I need government to tell me what to do" left. Of course it wouldn't be such a massive human rights abuse without the "negros are corrupting our children" right. So you see both sides (that have money and power) can work together to opress the masses.
When was the last time you met a politically correct, whiney, sniveling, 'everything offends me' stoner? My point is that stoners for the most part have a live and let live attitude about the world. They have been the target of constant harassment, intimidation, opression, and imprisonment since they discovered that illegal != wrong. Stoners don't like telling other people how to live their lives or what to call their hard drive settings because they know what it is like to be told how to live theirs.
No stoner would hassle you about what you call your hard drive settings. The types of people who get upset at hard drive setting names are the type of people who get upset about harmless drugs like pot. Since when can smoking pot make someone a fascist?
The video is 1 minute and 18 seconds long. The file is sizes are:
12 FPS 240x180 with standard quality sound (2.32 megabytes) - small size
15 FPS 720x480 with high quality sound (139,918.96 megabytes) - inappropriately large size
30 FPS 720x480 with high quality sound (297,950.89 megabytes) - video connisure size
Extremely nice 30 FPS 720x480 with premium quality sound (423,545.4 megabytes - can be choppy on slow computers) - 400+ MB for one minute of video is just plain wrong.
No wonder the server is slashdotted.
This is for those who do not have the reasoning ability to see Parent is on topic, but who have to moderator privelages to classiffy it as offtopic. Parent post is about the impropper use of adjectives to describe a situation, In this case spammers getting desperate. The reference to the similar appraisal of the situation in Iraq is a demostration of the widespread use of these inaccurate adjectives, as well as an example of what getting desperate really means, namely, getting more sophisticated, which often translates to more effective. The President talks about desperate acts by Iraqi resistance as the resistance gains momentum and becomes more sophisticated and effective. Likewise, the topic describes the hijacking of large amounts of computers as desperate, when a more appropriate word would be sophisticated or dangerous. If this is offtopic than 98% of what is posted on Slashdot is offtopic. Sometimes good moderation is about knowing when not to moderate.
They must really be getting desperate.
This reminds me of the President claiming the increased rate of attacks in Iraq was a sign of progress. Since when does increasing sophistication demonstrate desperation?
...on weed?
I actually do most of my upgrading while high. and a fair bit of programming too. Yes I am a geek/stoner. In my opinion it's a winning combination.
I am not writing this to brag about my 1337 5t0n3r 5ki115. Just representin' for my peeps who smoke the ganja and still take care of business. You probably won't notice us since we don't sleep on the sidewalk, and try to keep a low profile, but were there. Peace.
true. I was using conquer as a synonym for control, which it is not.
If the United States wanted to conquer the world why haven't they done so already?
The United States can not conquer the world. It remains to be seen if the United States can even conquer Iraq. It has been demonstrated that the United States can not conquer Vietnam.
The rest of your post just baffles me. Did you just copy random phrases from Fox "News" Channel?
So that's where they implanted the tracking device.
The Game Cube is now under $100. It has a fairly fast processor, Ethernet capabilities, and a very small case. Put these together, and you have a serious option for cluster nodes.
Gaming consoles are never a serious option for a cluster. Game consoles have chips and architecture meant for features a cluster doesn't use. Unless what you want is a cluster of gaming consoles (a good thing in its own right) you can get better capabilities for cheaper with off the shelf parts.
Actually, I think its more like China's Freedom 7. Launched on a Redstone 5 on 5/05/61, Alan Shepard was sent in to space too late to be first, and too low to be best. After the Russians had already put a man in orbit, the United States only managed a suborbital flight, but they had succeeded. From that humble beginning America's manned space flight program reached the moon in 8 years, 2 months and 16 days. Go China.
Having been to Amsterdam during both the summer and the winter I can tell you that the Dutch smoke their fair share of cannabis. Obviously not all Dutch people smoke, and during the summer you mostly see tourists smoking. But if you go during the winter, when its too cold for all but the most hardened junkies, and most tourists seek warmer climates you get to see Amsterdam in its natural state. Coffeeshops are not empty during the winter, and in fact seem to do fairly brisk business. During the winter, the most spoken language inside coffeeshops is actually Dutch.
Actually, the most recent study I read showed that pot use does retard learning
Most studies done on the subject are heavily biased. The goal is not to determine whether or not marijuana does or doesn't cause a certain ailment. It is to prove that it does by any means necessary to find fodder for the war-on-drugs bullshit launcher. Did you know that a heavily publicised study links marijuana to unwanted pregnancies? I'm not saying that pot smokers don't get knocked up every once in a while, but jesus christ! Any regular pot smoker will tell you (and common sense will confirm) this is complete bullshit. If anything, marijuana reduces your desire to have sex. Of course that doesnt stop the man from basing a commercial on that bullshit study.
drugabuse.gov : from the people who linked marijuana to rape an murder.
Other Health Effects Some of marijuana's adverse health effects may occur because THC impairs the immune system's ability to fight off infectious diseases and cancer. In laboratory experiments that exposed animal and human cells to THC or other marijuana ingredients, the normal disease-preventing reactions of many of the key types of immune cells were inhibited(16). In other studies, mice exposed to THC or related substances were more likely than unexposed mice to develop bacterial infections and tumors(17,18).
I like animal studies. Inject a mouse with a huge amount of any substance and of course it will get messed up. Interesting how marijuana studies performed on mice are quoted so often to demonstrate its "harm" while other substances such as caffine cause more harm when injected in the same quantity.
This is standard war on drugs propaganda. No more. No less.