You know what happened when we had NO regulation in the late 1800s?
We went through inflationary booms and deflationary crashes about every ten years. Corporate excess, greed, and misbehavior spiraled so far out of control that a large number of people decided that socialism/communism were a preferable alternative.
It is a proven fact that banks and industry are incapable of regulating themselves in a manner that society deems acceptable (see late 1800s) which is why we have external government regulation.
Last summer, I hurt one of my shoulders bad. It was somehow dislocated before it slipped back into place. I'm well aware that this does a good job fucking up the joint. For the first week, it was a dull ache that got acute when I moved my right side at all. I couldn't swing my arm backwards past straight out, to say nothing of doing any pushups. It's been about 4 months now and I can finally just about lay down on my back arms-straight-up without any nagging pain.
We can't afford health insurance so I never even considered seeing a doctor. Why risk getting raped for half a semester's tuition just so they can either say "you'll get better" or recommend more things we can't afford?
Now go ahead, tell me it's my fault for not working hard enough to have insurance or that I'd have to wait in line in England. At least there someone will eventually take a look at it.
It's manifestly obvious that transferring gigabytes and gigabytes of data in a manner which uses 5 or 10x more bandwidth than just sending from A to B is a bad idea unless your thought process before starting consisted of "Dur... Hey, it's anon-e-moos! There couldn't be any tradeoff for that!" Either way, if you do it you are a jackass and deserve to be called out as such.
Courtesy-in-kind: If you try to be nice, I'll be nice back. If you're a self-centered shithead who's intentionally hurting everyone else using TOR and you post about it, don't expect candy and flowers.
Oh goddamnit, the one motherfucking time I enthusiastically click "submit" and there's a typo. Yeah, Murphy? You and your law can both go fuck yourselves.
The Streisand Effect isn't so much that one fucks up on the Internet (people do that all the time), but that one fucks with the Internet. Which then proceeds to try a hundred times harder at doing whatever you didn't want it to do.
Increased light concentration means increased efficiency, though it levels off past a certain point. Whenever you see those "most efficient solar cell yet" stories, that was the cell's performance under about 1000x the light level of the sun.
So you'll actually get a bit more power by concentrating, but there's a flip side - the heat. Solar cells are semiconductors, and semiconductors hate high temperatures.
This is the thing so many people don't get about the bailouts/stimulus...
Yes, it's sucks. It sucks that things have gotten so bad we even contemplated it. It sucks worse that the first one wasn't so much a rescue as BushCo handing out half a trillion dollars to the rich and making sure there was no paperwork to trace it. I hate that we're going to have to continue bailing these goddamn myopic fucks out because of their own inexcusably bad decisions. But I don't hate it so much that I'll cut my face off to smite them by sending the entire world economy into a death spiral.
Now come help me try to wardial their offices and taunt them into jumping...
But Tux3 is starting much smaller than its peers, and already has a pretty good range of "big filesystem" features.
Let us count the number of fast, slim projects have been sucked down this way...
Programmer: "This shit is bloated. I'm starting a new project that will be slim and fast" <type type type>
<build build make>
User 1: "This is really nice and fast, but I need feature X" <add add add>
Users 2 & 3: "I'd use it, but I really love $OTHER_PROGRAM's Y"
Programmer: "Grrr..." <add add add>
User 4: "I've heard that Z is doing $SPIFFY, why doesn't this do that?" <type type add add add add build>
User 5: "This is all big and slow and bloated... I'm going with N instead..."
Programmer: "Fuck you! Fuck you all motherfuckers!"
Not to say that Tux3 will go or is going this way. Indeed, as long as people stick around who remember the guiding principle of keeping it small it shouldn't. Best of luck!
/ext2fs fanatic //I can shredses the files... yes I can, and I know it will workses...
Wait for any anyone who's going to patch to patch. Any remaining hosts are theoretically easier targets and as a result you have a more stable botnet (no initial surge & dieoff as people patch/repair).
<30 seconds of Google queries>
<5 minutes of sorting out the most egregious and obvious examples>
Named the senior lobbyist of the National Association of Manufacturers to head the CPSC
Named the former CEO of Goldman Sachs to head the treasury
Recess-appointed coal mine executive Richard Stickler to be mine safety czar
First energy secretary Spencer Abraham once called for the end of the Dept. of Energy
Among dozens of others chosen straight out of lobbying or industry positions to regulate the very things they lobbied for, or who wanted to destroy the agencies they were tasked with running, or who had no qualifications to be there outside of having business or sexual relations with other Bush cabinet members. Seeing as this is all a matter of public record, I'll let you do your own 30 seconds of Googling.
Pierre de Fermat is impressed by the enormity of your unsubstantiated assertion.
Do you have some shred of evidence that a significant fraction (to say nothing of "almost all, if not all") of the eight thousand appointments and nominations he's made are corrupt and ineffectual? I'm guessing not, because unless they all live six feet underground it's impossible to make any meaningful determinations after three whole weeks.
Of the more than eight thousand appointments to government positions that Obama has made, a grand total of somewhere around fifteen to twenty have approached or passed the no lobbyist line he drew and two or three had tax issues*. So do enlighten me as to where making the strictest promise to fight lobbyist influence in history and then keeping it 99.75% (with another.2% not technically falling afoul) made the near-discontinuous jump into the idea that he's intentionally appointing foxes to guard henhouses the same way Bush did?
* Though I do find it most out of character that "no-drama Obama" missed that shit
You can't trust anything those damned elitist "Experts" and heathen "Scientists" do! You need to escape all their fendish plots to force liberal propaganda into your mind so you can resist.
Too bad everything more advanced than picking fruit out of jungle trees is the result of scientific thinking at one level or another... Have fun, Tarzan.
This has nothing to do with politics. What is it with some people being incapable of seeing the world except through the lens of their political false dichotomy?
The problem is that a whole lot of people with no fucking lives have decided to make policing Wikipedia their life's devotion. To say it's biased is an understatement, but Encyclopedia Dramatica's "bureaucratic fuck" article makes some points. The rules work until you get Rules Nazis. Then you end up in a neverending arms race to define exactly what the Rules Nazis can and cannot do while they tirelessly work to be bureaucratic fucks, which destroys the entire spirit of what was supposed to be going on.
Speaking up too loudly about FISA right now would burn political capital he needs for more immediate plans (sadly).
I can almost imagine a conversation like this in the Bush whitehouse...
Bush: "But what about the next president? Can't he come after us for this?"
Rove: "Not if he's too busy trying to stop the next Great Depression!"
[Lightbulb illuminates]
Wolfie: "I'll go tell Madoff's daughter to start banging the SEC's chief regulator."
Cheney: "I'll start having my congressional lackeys introduce deregulation bills to gut enforcement."
Paulson: "I'll instruct the Fed chief to start handing out free money."
All chant: "One Ring to rule them all, and in Darkness bind them..."
Slashdot Mirror
No one is right... Everyone is wrong.
You know what happened when we had NO regulation in the late 1800s?
We went through inflationary booms and deflationary crashes about every ten years. Corporate excess, greed, and misbehavior spiraled so far out of control that a large number of people decided that socialism/communism were a preferable alternative.
It is a proven fact that banks and industry are incapable of regulating themselves in a manner that society deems acceptable (see late 1800s) which is why we have external government regulation.
I figure I might as well throw in my two cents:
Last summer, I hurt one of my shoulders bad. It was somehow dislocated before it slipped back into place. I'm well aware that this does a good job fucking up the joint. For the first week, it was a dull ache that got acute when I moved my right side at all. I couldn't swing my arm backwards past straight out, to say nothing of doing any pushups. It's been about 4 months now and I can finally just about lay down on my back arms-straight-up without any nagging pain.
We can't afford health insurance so I never even considered seeing a doctor. Why risk getting raped for half a semester's tuition just so they can either say "you'll get better" or recommend more things we can't afford?
Now go ahead, tell me it's my fault for not working hard enough to have insurance or that I'd have to wait in line in England. At least there someone will eventually take a look at it.
It's manifestly obvious that transferring gigabytes and gigabytes of data in a manner which uses 5 or 10x more bandwidth than just sending from A to B is a bad idea unless your thought process before starting consisted of "Dur... Hey, it's anon-e-moos! There couldn't be any tradeoff for that!" Either way, if you do it you are a jackass and deserve to be called out as such.
Courtesy-in-kind: If you try to be nice, I'll be nice back. If you're a self-centered shithead who's intentionally hurting everyone else using TOR and you post about it, don't expect candy and flowers.
Oh goddamnit, the one motherfucking time I enthusiastically click "submit" and there's a typo. Yeah, Murphy? You and your law can both go fuck yourselves.
*ahem* anyway... President Madagascar!
President Madagascar!
The Streisand Effect isn't so much that one fucks up on the Internet (people do that all the time), but that one fucks with the Internet. Which then proceeds to try a hundred times harder at doing whatever you didn't want it to do.
Do not taunt happy fun Internet.
This idea sucks. It'd be cheaper to just rent MegaMaid for a day instead.
Increased light concentration means increased efficiency, though it levels off past a certain point. Whenever you see those "most efficient solar cell yet" stories, that was the cell's performance under about 1000x the light level of the sun.
So you'll actually get a bit more power by concentrating, but there's a flip side - the heat. Solar cells are semiconductors, and semiconductors hate high temperatures.
This is the thing so many people don't get about the bailouts/stimulus...
Yes, it's sucks. It sucks that things have gotten so bad we even contemplated it. It sucks worse that the first one wasn't so much a rescue as BushCo handing out half a trillion dollars to the rich and making sure there was no paperwork to trace it. I hate that we're going to have to continue bailing these goddamn myopic fucks out because of their own inexcusably bad decisions. But I don't hate it so much that I'll cut my face off to smite them by sending the entire world economy into a death spiral.
Now come help me try to wardial their offices and taunt them into jumping...
encrypt... Absolutely... EVERYTHING!
One of the satellites that got smashed was part of the Iridium network which provides satellite phone service. Specifically, satellite number 33.
Let us count the number of fast, slim projects have been sucked down this way...
/ext2fs fanatic
//I can shredses the files... yes I can, and I know it will workses...
Programmer: "This shit is bloated. I'm starting a new project that will be slim and fast"
<type type type>
<build build make>
User 1: "This is really nice and fast, but I need feature X"
<add add add>
Users 2 & 3: "I'd use it, but I really love $OTHER_PROGRAM's Y"
Programmer: "Grrr..."
<add add add>
User 4: "I've heard that Z is doing $SPIFFY, why doesn't this do that?"
<type type add add add add build>
User 5: "This is all big and slow and bloated... I'm going with N instead..."
Programmer: "Fuck you! Fuck you all motherfuckers!"
Not to say that Tux3 will go or is going this way. Indeed, as long as people stick around who remember the guiding principle of keeping it small it shouldn't. Best of luck!
Interesting adaptation...
Wait for any anyone who's going to patch to patch. Any remaining hosts are theoretically easier targets and as a result you have a more stable botnet (no initial surge & dieoff as people patch/repair).
<30 seconds of Google queries>
<5 minutes of sorting out the most egregious and obvious examples>
Named the senior lobbyist of the National Association of Manufacturers to head the CPSC
Named the former CEO of Goldman Sachs to head the treasury
Recess-appointed coal mine executive Richard Stickler to be mine safety czar
First energy secretary Spencer Abraham once called for the end of the Dept. of Energy
Among dozens of others chosen straight out of lobbying or industry positions to regulate the very things they lobbied for, or who wanted to destroy the agencies they were tasked with running, or who had no qualifications to be there outside of having business or sexual relations with other Bush cabinet members. Seeing as this is all a matter of public record, I'll let you do your own 30 seconds of Googling.
Pierre de Fermat is impressed by the enormity of your unsubstantiated assertion.
Do you have some shred of evidence that a significant fraction (to say nothing of "almost all, if not all") of the eight thousand appointments and nominations he's made are corrupt and ineffectual? I'm guessing not, because unless they all live six feet underground it's impossible to make any meaningful determinations after three whole weeks.
Of the more than eight thousand appointments to government positions that Obama has made, a grand total of somewhere around fifteen to twenty have approached or passed the no lobbyist line he drew and two or three had tax issues*. So do enlighten me as to where making the strictest promise to fight lobbyist influence in history and then keeping it 99.75% (with another .2% not technically falling afoul) made the near-discontinuous jump into the idea that he's intentionally appointing foxes to guard henhouses the same way Bush did?
* Though I do find it most out of character that "no-drama Obama" missed that shit
Yo dawg I herd yo and yo dawg like yo-yos so we put yo dawg on a yo-yo so yo can yo-yo yo dawg while yo dawg yo-yos, yo.
Molten Boron!
I think not shooting up meth and then not going on all-night-long no-condom buttfucking sprees is cheaper, so I'll go with that.
You win at the internets. I am going to have a LOT of fun sending that link to people.
You can't trust anything those damned elitist "Experts" and heathen "Scientists" do! You need to escape all their fendish plots to force liberal propaganda into your mind so you can resist.
Too bad everything more advanced than picking fruit out of jungle trees is the result of scientific thinking at one level or another... Have fun, Tarzan.
This has nothing to do with politics. What is it with some people being incapable of seeing the world except through the lens of their political false dichotomy?
The problem is that a whole lot of people with no fucking lives have decided to make policing Wikipedia their life's devotion. To say it's biased is an understatement, but Encyclopedia Dramatica's "bureaucratic fuck" article makes some points. The rules work until you get Rules Nazis. Then you end up in a neverending arms race to define exactly what the Rules Nazis can and cannot do while they tirelessly work to be bureaucratic fucks, which destroys the entire spirit of what was supposed to be going on.
I can almost imagine a conversation like this in the Bush whitehouse...
Bush: "But what about the next president? Can't he come after us for this?"
Rove: "Not if he's too busy trying to stop the next Great Depression!"
[Lightbulb illuminates]
Wolfie: "I'll go tell Madoff's daughter to start banging the SEC's chief regulator."
Cheney: "I'll start having my congressional lackeys introduce deregulation bills to gut enforcement."
Paulson: "I'll instruct the Fed chief to start handing out free money."
All chant: "One Ring to rule them all, and in Darkness bind them..."