Nope. It can be demanded by your workplace. It can be demanded by the train conductor. It can be demanded by the crooked cop who sees you walking and wearing less than fresh clothes.
If you do not have one, say you are a second child, you cannot go to school. You cannot have a job. You cannot get government benefits.
Is is not the same unified national ID card as western countries.
It's fairly obvious the author has only played three or maybe four MMPORGs. He certainly appears to be in no position write an article about them, let along have it referenced on/..
This is a fairly simple operation. Before you begin, you need to ask yourself: How important is your data?
Let's start with the wiring. Generally, you're going to find that if you are in a VERY small office, like it sounds you might be, longer patch cables will be all you need to hook up PCs to the switches. If you need to maintain some formality, with external conduit and the like, you can still do this with longer patch cables. If it is a larger office, you must buy a box of cable and run it. I would suggest paying someone to do this. If you've not done it before, it can be annoying hard work. If you insist on doing it, do it right. Terminate at a punchdown block and at female RJ-45 adapters at the far end. Always run at least two CAT-5e cables to each drop. It would be better to run four, but that can get expensive. Remember to keep the wire as much like rope as possible, and leave yourself a 3 foot whip in the ceiling on each end.
Get yourself a cheap 24 port switch. You'll be glad you did when you find yourself adding more servers or VOIP stuff.
VOIP might be the easiest way to do telephones. You can manage it yourself, and if you get a system like Shoretel or NEC, you can pretty easily manage it yourself. Getting a third party to help install this is a must do.
Avoid anything with the word Cisco on it.
If your data is important, invest in a medium end server. Get a RAID controller and make it RAID 5. If the data is extremely important, pay the extra 100 dollars for a hot spare. You will also need to have a SCSI controller for your tape drive. You will want to buy two weeks worth of tape, plus tapes to be stored offsite for disaster recovery purposes. You will also want a fire-proof safe if the data is important.
If you can, buy identical PCs and make your builds with Norton Ghost. It saves a great deal of work. Always save the image to the local disk, as well as a cheap backup PC for your images (20 gig disk will be plenty for what you need), or to a PC on the network with a large disk (for both the OS and the back ups).
Always buy MS Office Pro. You may find cheap accounting software (this is VERY common) that uses Access for its functions. Different versions of Office can use it, but only if they have Access. Your co-workers will hate you if the do not have Power Point and they feel they need it.
If you need to protect e-mails, skip Exchange, and just backup the.pst files to the server, or leave them there. Floating profiles are nice with this.
Firewall is a must have. Also keep your PCs and server patched. It's annoying work, but should be done.
I find that talking about super heroes without talking about their origins kind of invalidates the conversation. How much do these comics owe to myths and legends, earlier stories like The Three Musketeers and Gulliver's Travels, or even Thomas Cochrane, Horatio Nelson and the various stories modeled after their lives? Can a valid conversation take place about super heroes without reference to these earlier incarnations?
Fear. Many smart people defend stupid ideas out of fear to the damage it will do to their reputation, or salary, or self worth.
How many people have said, "We must believe in God, for if we do, and he does not exist, nothing happens. But if we do not believe in him, and he does exist, then we are doomed." But, it's fairly clear he does not exist.
Or the people who back bad government, simply because they are afraid of the consequences? Or their own past statements before they learned more facts?
These people do not do these things out of pride, or ego. Rather, they are motivated to tell lies solely out of fear.
California cannot get a bill legalizing ferrets through the legislator that Schwarzenegger will sign, but they'll put this anti-constitutional crap on the front burner.
When the revolution comes, it will consist of me breaking various people's noses for them.
Unfortunately, the airlines do not have issues with flying, and hire lobbyists who control most of the US Congress. After 9/11, a crisis that the airlines knew could happen, and should have been planning for, the government came and gave them a 5 billion dollar bailout. But that's still not enough. The government still gives billions of dollars worth of subsidies to the airlines every year.
But what about railroads? Amtrak you say. Starvation funding has not done that company any good. Nor has the byzantine rules Congress forced the company to follow, such as keeping a certain tongage of coal on hand for it's locomotives.
Even if cross country train travel is no longer relevant, the local trains, particularly high speed trains, can and should compete with airlines. Chicago to St. Louis or Milwaukee or Duluth. Cincinnati to Lexington. Kansas City to Oklahoma City. Houston - Dallas. LA - SanFran. New York - pretty much everywhere in New England.
It's time to bring the true interurban railroads back. We can make them fast and reliable. They are cheaper to operate in terms of fuel than airplanes. And they are much more comfortable.
First, I've not sold any drugs to anyone. I'm not guilty of anything except perhaps over-simplification. (Though not nearly as much as the article description is.)
Yes, surely the East India Company and the British government that supported it was guilty. But also as surely, if the Chinese did not sell opium to the Chinese, it would not have been sold. It was not the bad British that did most of the dirty work. The pushers, and the pimps, and thugs, those were all Chinese. (But not the thuggees. Those were Indian. HA HA HA HA)
This is revisionist history. Revisionist history has been necessary in some cases, but let's not pretend like smallpox in blankets was everywhere, or even anything but a single isolated incident.
Instead, think about how the British allied with the Sikhs against the French. Or the French with the Hurons against the British Colonists (French and Indian War). Or Nelson attacking the French with help from local native Central Americans. Or Cortes taking advantage of the cruelty of the Aztecs to create a series of alliances with the local natives. Or the British allying with the Egyptians and using Indian troops against Muslim holymen in the Sudan. Or T.E. Lawrence with the Bedouin fighting the Turks.
No, that has been the pattern of history. Despite what modern day opponents of Colonial History may say, the West has historically used ambitious natives in their money making schemes. Africans enslaved Africans, not Europeans. Chinese sold Opium to Chinese, not the British. Indians fought against the Afghans under British leadership.
Quite frankly, this sort of history as being presented in the article is erroneous to the point of being deliberate. Is there an agenda here, or is this just some deluded fool?
Nonsense. Most of the fraud committed at banks occurs because of duress. Namely, the husband or boyfriend threatens a teller or personal banker and says "Steal money, or I'll hurt and kill you, or the kids, or the dog." (Yes, you would be surprised how often it is the dog.)
In that case, most computer users are idiots as well. When you go to a bank to get a mortgage, you need to know about APR, Interest Rates, Identity Theft, PMI, Adjustable Rate Mortgages, basic percentage mathematics, credit scores, and buying down points. When you use a computer, you should know how to update Windows, how not to click on the link to install spyware, and how not to open suspicious e-mails. It's not more difficult, it just takes a little bit of awareness of the environment around you. There is no excuse for the average user not knowing these things.
Depends if it is for personal use, or if it is for business. History will teach you to write intelligently, and to think with a broader scope. A second language will prepare you for what could prove to be a more interesting career. An MBA will make you more hireable.
Personally, if you have unlimited time and funds, I recommend a law degree. Fight the good fight against the SCO. What's more, there will be a deluge of criminal computer cases over the next decade. You would be in a perfect situation to take advantage of this.
I'm not sure this is the entire point. An album should be more than a collection of songs, or even the two sides of KeithMoon. Instead, an album should be a place where music can form itself around the confines of the album, and establish discipline.
Listen to Aqualung, and then listen to a modern pop album. Or compare Tommy to something by Pearl Jam. David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust to Marilyn Manson.
The point of the album should not be a storage medium for music. A I-Pod, a piece of plastic, or even sheet music will accomplish all more or less equally. Instead, the album should be about establishing more layers to the music, giving the music more discipline, making the music more sublime. Only once this starts happening will the album reaffirm itself.
I just came back from China. Internet sucks, particularly outside of Beijing and Shanghai. Daily access to life, such as going where you want to go is not bad, until you run into government officials. The communists will make your life hell. Simple things, like sending knives through the mail, are impossible to do. If they come to your house, even though you legally bought it, that butcher knife you use to cut your meat is illegal.
Basically, if they want to get you, they will find something to get you. Behave yourself. Not for your sake, but for that of your friends and any relatives you may have. If you are ABC (and you know what that means if you are), this goes double. What they might not do to whites, they will do to ABC.
Be prepared to stand in line for any government business. Also, any privacy you think you might be entitled to at a bank is non-existent. If you are white, you may complain about hospitality and get a little bit of space. If you are ABC, fugetabotit.
You'll lose 25 pounds in two weeks. Be prepared for that. You'll probably also catch a cold your first week there.
Speaking of cold, everyone wears a jacket all the time. It's a cold winter over there right now. Expect to be cold most of the time. Thick blue jeans from Walmart or Farm & Fleet are a good idea. So is long underwear. It sounds stupid. It's not. I wished I had brought some, and I spend my winters outside working without any.
Fly straight through. Immigration is a pain, and two hundred dollars for tickets on United as opposed to China Eastern with a stop over is worth it. It'll be some of the best money you'll ever spend. Also, your luggage will probably break sometime between leaving home and getting back home.
Watch your wallet, especially in the train station. I was there for not too long, and I had four people try to pick my pocket. Also, Beijing and Shanghai are not China. If you are going some place like Dailong, or Kaifung, life will be different.
Take amoxillician. The Chinese are very proud of Chinese herbal medicine. Proud to the point of insisting on feeding it to you until you require immediate hospitization.
Be safe while over there. Pocket knives are a good idea. If you bring US dollars, right now, you can live like a king on a beer budget. But that is not going to last longer than the year. China's going to be changing the way it pegs the RMB soon.
Have fun and good luck. If you need more, check out my journal or leave me a note there. China can get depressing, so keep a smile on your face. That'll cure most ills.
The Chinese are still convinced they are the center of the earth. The problem in China is people like you, people who are opposed to changing any aspect of the misogynistic, xenophobic, class-ist, oppressive culture. You poison your children's minds and beat them when they do not agree with you. You kill protesters who disagree with you. You hate those who prove themselves capable or friendly. You would rather blame others for your misfortune than work to fix it, and you will not let those "under you" work to get out of their misfortune. You despise people like restaurant owners, because you believe they do not have a skill. But you believe police officers are near the pinnacle of society, simply because they have a government position and authority over others. You want to conqueror Taiwan and murder your "brothers", because to let 23 million Chinese live in peace and democracy proves you wrong. You believe your wife should remain in the kitchen, caring for your child, while you cavort with mistresses. You hate people like taxi drivers, because you believe they have no skills, but might go an extra kilometer to charge you more. You love watching white people as buffoons on television; it makes you feel better about yourself. You believe the American media and the American people are obsessed with China. You hate fellow Chinese who tell you to reform because you believe your culture is the center of everything; it is ageless and perfect. You despise American born Chinese; they act proud like Americans, but look just like you. You ignore advice from men like Deng Xiaoping even though he made your country strong, and try to follow the ancient teachings of Confucius even though it made your country weak. Eventually, you will reap as you sow. You have been warned. There are Chinese who know they must reform. In the PRC they are killed, but there are 23 million of them less than two hundred kilometers in a different country just off the coast who are for the moment beyond your clutches. Listen to them, and better yourself.
As for those who wish to know The Truth about China, here it is. There is potential in 1.3 billion people. Whether it is potential for good or evil is entirely up to them.
As a North American who has lived in China, I KNOW Chinese media is biased, as is Chinese culture. The Chinese are still convinced that they are the center of the earth. Anyone who says otherwise is wrong. Any criticism of Chinese culture is wrong. Bo Yang spent a decade in jail because of people with your attitude, and that was in freer Taiwan. In the mainland, they simply would have killed him.
The only thing that is culturally fashionable about the American attitude to China is not to care. The Chinese are obsessed with the Americans. Not the other way around. That the Western media reports (more or less) the truth about China may disturb your sensibilities, but that's the way a free media works.
Furthermore, if there is a bias in the American media, it is a pro-China bias. The stuff that the PRC gets away with is unbelievable. The level of suffering that the Communist government has created is unbelievable to someone who has not spent time with the poor people in China.
It is fact. People in China do undergo force abortions. Women are punished for being raped and having a second child. Families and individuals suffer for generations when they decide out of love, religion or necessity to have a second child.
As for propaganda, spend some time in central China. You want to know progaganda, check it out yourself. Every time you turn on the television you are deluged with lies about the Korean War, the current administration, the China space program, Tsunamis in the south Pacific and China's grand effort to save millions of people, and Taiwan. Or try living in China, a country where owning a 4 inch knife is illegal. You know nothing about propaganda.
It depends on your ethnic group, what province you live in, and what your occupation is. Since mostly it is Han that live in cities and live with an industrialized lifestyle, SirTalon is essentially correct.
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If you do not have one, say you are a second child, you cannot go to school. You cannot have a job. You cannot get government benefits.
Is is not the same unified national ID card as western countries.
Not hard to achieve, but you need some pretty big batteries for the PoE switches.
Playing Sea Wolf on the Apple II+, at the age of 4. That ugly orange controller and the two buttons.
It's fairly obvious the author has only played three or maybe four MMPORGs. He certainly appears to be in no position write an article about them, let along have it referenced on /..
Yeah. It's changing into Maoists murdering school children in Nepal. Oh wait, that's just run of the mill Communism. Nevermind.
Let's start with the wiring. Generally, you're going to find that if you are in a VERY small office, like it sounds you might be, longer patch cables will be all you need to hook up PCs to the switches. If you need to maintain some formality, with external conduit and the like, you can still do this with longer patch cables. If it is a larger office, you must buy a box of cable and run it. I would suggest paying someone to do this. If you've not done it before, it can be annoying hard work. If you insist on doing it, do it right. Terminate at a punchdown block and at female RJ-45 adapters at the far end. Always run at least two CAT-5e cables to each drop. It would be better to run four, but that can get expensive. Remember to keep the wire as much like rope as possible, and leave yourself a 3 foot whip in the ceiling on each end.
Get yourself a cheap 24 port switch. You'll be glad you did when you find yourself adding more servers or VOIP stuff.
VOIP might be the easiest way to do telephones. You can manage it yourself, and if you get a system like Shoretel or NEC, you can pretty easily manage it yourself. Getting a third party to help install this is a must do.
Avoid anything with the word Cisco on it.
If your data is important, invest in a medium end server. Get a RAID controller and make it RAID 5. If the data is extremely important, pay the extra 100 dollars for a hot spare. You will also need to have a SCSI controller for your tape drive. You will want to buy two weeks worth of tape, plus tapes to be stored offsite for disaster recovery purposes. You will also want a fire-proof safe if the data is important.
If you can, buy identical PCs and make your builds with Norton Ghost. It saves a great deal of work. Always save the image to the local disk, as well as a cheap backup PC for your images (20 gig disk will be plenty for what you need), or to a PC on the network with a large disk (for both the OS and the back ups).
Always buy MS Office Pro. You may find cheap accounting software (this is VERY common) that uses Access for its functions. Different versions of Office can use it, but only if they have Access. Your co-workers will hate you if the do not have Power Point and they feel they need it.
If you need to protect e-mails, skip Exchange, and just backup the .pst files to the server, or leave them there. Floating profiles are nice with this.
Firewall is a must have. Also keep your PCs and server patched. It's annoying work, but should be done.
I find that talking about super heroes without talking about their origins kind of invalidates the conversation. How much do these comics owe to myths and legends, earlier stories like The Three Musketeers and Gulliver's Travels, or even Thomas Cochrane, Horatio Nelson and the various stories modeled after their lives? Can a valid conversation take place about super heroes without reference to these earlier incarnations?
Is the cosmos?
How many people have said, "We must believe in God, for if we do, and he does not exist, nothing happens. But if we do not believe in him, and he does exist, then we are doomed." But, it's fairly clear he does not exist.
Or the people who back bad government, simply because they are afraid of the consequences? Or their own past statements before they learned more facts?
These people do not do these things out of pride, or ego. Rather, they are motivated to tell lies solely out of fear.
When the revolution comes, it will consist of me breaking various people's noses for them.
But what about railroads? Amtrak you say. Starvation funding has not done that company any good. Nor has the byzantine rules Congress forced the company to follow, such as keeping a certain tongage of coal on hand for it's locomotives.
Even if cross country train travel is no longer relevant, the local trains, particularly high speed trains, can and should compete with airlines. Chicago to St. Louis or Milwaukee or Duluth. Cincinnati to Lexington. Kansas City to Oklahoma City. Houston - Dallas. LA - SanFran. New York - pretty much everywhere in New England.
It's time to bring the true interurban railroads back. We can make them fast and reliable. They are cheaper to operate in terms of fuel than airplanes. And they are much more comfortable.
They kind of did. Opium dens run by Chinese were a fairly common site in Victorian Britain.
Yes, surely the East India Company and the British government that supported it was guilty. But also as surely, if the Chinese did not sell opium to the Chinese, it would not have been sold. It was not the bad British that did most of the dirty work. The pushers, and the pimps, and thugs, those were all Chinese. (But not the thuggees. Those were Indian. HA HA HA HA)
Instead, think about how the British allied with the Sikhs against the French. Or the French with the Hurons against the British Colonists (French and Indian War). Or Nelson attacking the French with help from local native Central Americans. Or Cortes taking advantage of the cruelty of the Aztecs to create a series of alliances with the local natives. Or the British allying with the Egyptians and using Indian troops against Muslim holymen in the Sudan. Or T.E. Lawrence with the Bedouin fighting the Turks.
No, that has been the pattern of history. Despite what modern day opponents of Colonial History may say, the West has historically used ambitious natives in their money making schemes. Africans enslaved Africans, not Europeans. Chinese sold Opium to Chinese, not the British. Indians fought against the Afghans under British leadership.
Quite frankly, this sort of history as being presented in the article is erroneous to the point of being deliberate. Is there an agenda here, or is this just some deluded fool?
Nonsense. Most of the fraud committed at banks occurs because of duress. Namely, the husband or boyfriend threatens a teller or personal banker and says "Steal money, or I'll hurt and kill you, or the kids, or the dog." (Yes, you would be surprised how often it is the dog.)
In that case, most computer users are idiots as well. When you go to a bank to get a mortgage, you need to know about APR, Interest Rates, Identity Theft, PMI, Adjustable Rate Mortgages, basic percentage mathematics, credit scores, and buying down points. When you use a computer, you should know how to update Windows, how not to click on the link to install spyware, and how not to open suspicious e-mails. It's not more difficult, it just takes a little bit of awareness of the environment around you. There is no excuse for the average user not knowing these things.
Personally, if you have unlimited time and funds, I recommend a law degree. Fight the good fight against the SCO. What's more, there will be a deluge of criminal computer cases over the next decade. You would be in a perfect situation to take advantage of this.
A .45 and a reputation.
There are some really pathetic mods out there. This is probably the most insightful post that will appear on Slashdot today.
Listen to Aqualung, and then listen to a modern pop album. Or compare Tommy to something by Pearl Jam. David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust to Marilyn Manson.
The point of the album should not be a storage medium for music. A I-Pod, a piece of plastic, or even sheet music will accomplish all more or less equally. Instead, the album should be about establishing more layers to the music, giving the music more discipline, making the music more sublime. Only once this starts happening will the album reaffirm itself.
Basically, if they want to get you, they will find something to get you. Behave yourself. Not for your sake, but for that of your friends and any relatives you may have. If you are ABC (and you know what that means if you are), this goes double. What they might not do to whites, they will do to ABC.
Be prepared to stand in line for any government business. Also, any privacy you think you might be entitled to at a bank is non-existent. If you are white, you may complain about hospitality and get a little bit of space. If you are ABC, fugetabotit.
You'll lose 25 pounds in two weeks. Be prepared for that. You'll probably also catch a cold your first week there.
Speaking of cold, everyone wears a jacket all the time. It's a cold winter over there right now. Expect to be cold most of the time. Thick blue jeans from Walmart or Farm & Fleet are a good idea. So is long underwear. It sounds stupid. It's not. I wished I had brought some, and I spend my winters outside working without any.
Fly straight through. Immigration is a pain, and two hundred dollars for tickets on United as opposed to China Eastern with a stop over is worth it. It'll be some of the best money you'll ever spend. Also, your luggage will probably break sometime between leaving home and getting back home.
Watch your wallet, especially in the train station. I was there for not too long, and I had four people try to pick my pocket. Also, Beijing and Shanghai are not China. If you are going some place like Dailong, or Kaifung, life will be different.
Take amoxillician. The Chinese are very proud of Chinese herbal medicine. Proud to the point of insisting on feeding it to you until you require immediate hospitization.
Be safe while over there. Pocket knives are a good idea. If you bring US dollars, right now, you can live like a king on a beer budget. But that is not going to last longer than the year. China's going to be changing the way it pegs the RMB soon.
Have fun and good luck. If you need more, check out my journal or leave me a note there. China can get depressing, so keep a smile on your face. That'll cure most ills.
As for those who wish to know The Truth about China, here it is. There is potential in 1.3 billion people. Whether it is potential for good or evil is entirely up to them.
The only thing that is culturally fashionable about the American attitude to China is not to care. The Chinese are obsessed with the Americans. Not the other way around. That the Western media reports (more or less) the truth about China may disturb your sensibilities, but that's the way a free media works.
Furthermore, if there is a bias in the American media, it is a pro-China bias. The stuff that the PRC gets away with is unbelievable. The level of suffering that the Communist government has created is unbelievable to someone who has not spent time with the poor people in China.
As for propaganda, spend some time in central China. You want to know progaganda, check it out yourself. Every time you turn on the television you are deluged with lies about the Korean War, the current administration, the China space program, Tsunamis in the south Pacific and China's grand effort to save millions of people, and Taiwan. Or try living in China, a country where owning a 4 inch knife is illegal. You know nothing about propaganda.
It depends on your ethnic group, what province you live in, and what your occupation is. Since mostly it is Han that live in cities and live with an industrialized lifestyle, SirTalon is essentially correct.