You realize, of course, that we're really only seeing half of the flares. That's because we can only see the ones that happen to be facing us. It's just like with pulsars: there's undoubtedly a lot of them out there that we'll never detect simply because we're not in the path of their output.
I disagree with this end game, and most of his ideology.
So do I. To a large part I think he's lost touch with reality and is busy tilting at windmills that nobody else can see. Yes, I use Linux on my computers because I don't see any reason to pay for an OS, pay for applications and then pay a different company for more applications to keep my computer free of malware, especially when I can get an equally good OS and applications for free. But unlike some people, I'm not a fanatic about it. I'm not going to try to push anybody else into Linux unless they're already interested in it. If asked, I'll tell them that whatever OS does what they want the way they like it is the best one for them. I can't imagine RMS doing that, and that's one of the things I don't like about him.
Having said that, I was saddened to hear that he's sick and I hope that it's nothing serious. 59 is much too young for us to lose him, because even though I don't agree with him, he keeps saying things that need to be said and bringing up ideas that need to be discussed.
Another news flash: there were times in her career when she was distinctly overweight. Or pudgy. Or fat. Or whatever you want to call it. I call it overweight.
Shrug! Things like that happen. But I've heard about girls looking at the Playboy picture and calling her fat!
I'm just sick of cute girls crabbing about a little belly or having real thighs.
I was amazed to learn that a good percentage of teen girls think that when a woman stands with her feet together, her thighs shouldn't touch. Why? because that's what's expected of supermodels. And, even worse, most of them thing Marylin Monroe was fat!
I have two friends who get most of their exercise from walking their dogs. One has a chihuahua that he takes around the block. The other has a siberian husky who considers a two mile walk barely adaquate. Guess which one's fat and which one's in fairly good shape.
Another reason is that Linux distros don't, as a rule, stick to a ridgid once-a-month patch cycle. Most end users have their computers check every week, and that means that urgent security patches don't have to wait until Patch Tuesday to get delivered. Me, I check every day, but then I'm running Fedora, a bleeding edge rolling beta test of a distro.
If there was a real concern about the environment, they would be far more worried about increasing dependence on coal and oil for electrical power.
Well, of course. It's long been known that the Greens are only interested in forcing people to take specific actions (shut down all nuclear plants) but not interested in producing specific results (lowering the amount of radiation released into the atmosphere). The fact that what they're demanding will have exactly the opposite effect from what they claim to be fighting for is completely irrelevant to them.
You do understand, don't you, that the only reason we're finding traces of fallout from Fukushima on the west coast of the USA is because we've gotten very, very good at detecting minute levels of radiation? What we're getting now is far less than the least we could have detected in late 1945, as an example.
There are other ways that encryption can help. Let's say that/bin/laden was warned just before the raid and had to flee for his miserable life. Wouldn't it be better for him if any thumb drives, computers or other media were encrypted? Even if the NSA were able to break whatever cypher he used it would still take them time and the delay might just be long enough for damage control. Thats why field-grade cyphers aren't as tough to crack as higher level ones: they only need to delay decryption long enough for the data to become obsolete.
For every little file move or copying of files, I HAD to get root access and type in a command.
Two mistakes in one sentence. First, opening a terminal doesn't automatically give you root access; you're logged in by default as yourself, not root. (Hint: if you were becoming root, you'd be asked for the root password.) Second, just because you couldn't be arsed to learn how to use your file manager doesn't mean that you can't copy, move, rename or delete files from the GUI, it just means that you couldn't be bothered to learn how to use the tools Ubuntu gave you. Of course, like any other poor workman, you prefer blaming your tools to admitting that you didn't know what you were doing and weren't willing to learn. If my sister, who's barely computer literate, can get along in Ubuntu on a day-to-day basis without help, anybody can except for people like you who aren't willing to admit that using Linux isn't exactly the same as using Windows.
From what I have seen, businesses with as few as one employee actively seek out ways to cheat the tax code.
No, none of them are cheating the tax code no matter how much you'd like it if they were. It's called Tax Avoidance, and SCOTUS made it quite clear, decades ago, that it's not against the law: "The legal right of an individual to decrease the amount of what would otherwise be his taxes or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted."
Why not? They're the UL of medical devices. They're the ones who approved my eye implant. They're the ones who approve pacemakers. They're the ones we cyborgs rely on for safe implants.
Same here. And, of course, they also had to approve my hearing aids, the meter I use every day to monitor my blood sugar and the dialysis equipment a friend of mine needed when his kidneys stopped working. People like to complain about how much it costs to get new drugs, devices and proceedures approved by the FDA, but I bet they'd complain even more if the FDA suddenly went away.
I see: you're taking suppliments, just not in the form of pills. Thank you. Personally, I'm an omnivore and if it weren't for my blood condition I'd be quite comfortable getting my B12 from such things as meat, shellfish and (yum!) liver. As it is, one little capsule each morning with breakfast is all it takes for me to be sure I've got enough. Again, thanx for the info.
I've been vegan for 12 years and I'm a very healthy person and I don't take any supplements.
I have no reason to disbelieve you, but I am quite curious about one thing: how do you get enough B12 in your diet? It's only produced in nature by bacteria, and there's almost none to be found in vegetables. I ask because I need to be more careful than most people to make sure I get enough on a day to day basis. (chronic low platelett count.)
There's ample evidence in the form of temperature records, tree rings and so on that the Earth's average temperature has been rising ever since (at least) 1830 when The Little Ice Age is considered to have ended and before The Industrial Revolution got under way. Nobody except for the most fanatic GW deniers doesn't understand that. However, there's nowhere near enough evidence that this is all man made to satisfy many people, and the numbers who are skeptical about that aspect are growing every day. In fact, the almost hysterical insistance by some of the AGW evangelists on accepting their creed because of a soi disant "consensus," especially when questions in the hard sciences (which climate science claims to be) are decided by the facts, not by counting noses, suggests to me that they're nowhere near as sure of themselves as they want us to think that they are.
Very well written and reasoned. I congratulate you. Californian would most likely have placed herself off to one side, well away from the stern, lowered her own boats and rigged her accomidation ladder if she hadn't set it up already. And, as far as hypothermia goes, that's why I specified that people would only be sent overboard when there was a boat ready to pick them up to minimize their time in the water. Yes, many people would still have died but not, I think anywhere near as many.
If Californian had gotten there in time, they could have used both sets of boats as shuttles, bringing passengers across. Ships generally have an accomedation ladder that can be rigged from the main deck to the water line to allow access to small craft of that sort which would have been a great help in evacuating the ship. And, even if that wasn't possible, Titanic's officers could have controled and organized the passengers, having them jump into the water when, and only when there was a life boat available to pick them up so that nobody would have to be in the freezing water for more than a minute. You'd be surprised how much could have been done if there'd been another ship on the scene to help with the evacuation and act as a holding platform for the passengers while the boats went back for more.
The radio operators on Titanic did their best to get the word out. Maybe if all ships were required to keep a radio watch around the clock the rescue efforts would have been more successful and there would have been less fatalities. Newer, stricter radio requirements pushed the envelope of what was possible in those days and led to improved equipment. Then, when war broke out in August 1914, warships were able to take advantage of the improvements if they hadn't already. And, of course, radio company's R&D departments were already working on increasing both range and sensitivity giving them a flying start on learning how to give their navy what it now needed.
Autocorrect is no substitute for proofreading. Among other things, it can't spot the fact that you spelled the wrong word correctly, such as using "there" where you should have used either "their" or "they're."
...do a grammar and spelling check on your casual entries etc.
You know, that might actually be relevant if the job you're being considered for includes writing things that customers get to see. If you can't be bothered to check the spelling and grammar on your Facebook page, there's a good chance that you'll forget to do it at work. And, of course, if your grammers bad at Facebook, it might just be because you don't know any better, and that would be very important when considering who to hire for such a job.
I'd like to see a law passed that says that if you're running a residential wireless hotspot and don't take reasonable precautions to keep strangers from borrowing it you're automatically responsible for all packets originating from your IP address. No exceptions, no excuses.
Yeah, gopher was fun. I can still remember the first time I connected to a gopher server at a university somewhere in southeast Asia. Cool, man, real cool. Not that I was looking for anything in particular, I was just wandering arond exploring and stumbled across it. Still, the idea that I was communicating with a server roughly half-way around the world was mind boggling in those days. Now, we're so used to it that it doesn't mean a thing. Sometimes I think about it and ask myself where my sense of wonder went and wish that I could get it back. Thanks for reminding me.
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You realize, of course, that we're really only seeing half of the flares. That's because we can only see the ones that happen to be facing us. It's just like with pulsars: there's undoubtedly a lot of them out there that we'll never detect simply because we're not in the path of their output.
So do I. To a large part I think he's lost touch with reality and is busy tilting at windmills that nobody else can see. Yes, I use Linux on my computers because I don't see any reason to pay for an OS, pay for applications and then pay a different company for more applications to keep my computer free of malware, especially when I can get an equally good OS and applications for free. But unlike some people, I'm not a fanatic about it. I'm not going to try to push anybody else into Linux unless they're already interested in it. If asked, I'll tell them that whatever OS does what they want the way they like it is the best one for them. I can't imagine RMS doing that, and that's one of the things I don't like about him.
Having said that, I was saddened to hear that he's sick and I hope that it's nothing serious. 59 is much too young for us to lose him, because even though I don't agree with him, he keeps saying things that need to be said and bringing up ideas that need to be discussed.
Another news flash: there were times in her career when she was distinctly overweight. Or pudgy. Or fat. Or whatever you want to call it. I call it overweight.
Shrug! Things like that happen. But I've heard about girls looking at the Playboy picture and calling her fat!
I'm just sick of cute girls crabbing about a little belly or having real thighs.
I was amazed to learn that a good percentage of teen girls think that when a woman stands with her feet together, her thighs shouldn't touch. Why? because that's what's expected of supermodels. And, even worse, most of them thing Marylin Monroe was fat!
I have two friends who get most of their exercise from walking their dogs. One has a chihuahua that he takes around the block. The other has a siberian husky who considers a two mile walk barely adaquate. Guess which one's fat and which one's in fairly good shape.
Geeks aren't the only ones with that stereotype. In SF fandom an XL tee shirt is considered to be "fanish medium" with good reason.
Another reason is that Linux distros don't, as a rule, stick to a ridgid once-a-month patch cycle. Most end users have their computers check every week, and that means that urgent security patches don't have to wait until Patch Tuesday to get delivered. Me, I check every day, but then I'm running Fedora, a bleeding edge rolling beta test of a distro.
If there was a real concern about the environment, they would be far more worried about increasing dependence on coal and oil for electrical power.
Well, of course. It's long been known that the Greens are only interested in forcing people to take specific actions (shut down all nuclear plants) but not interested in producing specific results (lowering the amount of radiation released into the atmosphere). The fact that what they're demanding will have exactly the opposite effect from what they claim to be fighting for is completely irrelevant to them.
You do understand, don't you, that the only reason we're finding traces of fallout from Fukushima on the west coast of the USA is because we've gotten very, very good at detecting minute levels of radiation? What we're getting now is far less than the least we could have detected in late 1945, as an example.
There are other ways that encryption can help. Let's say that /bin/laden was warned just before the raid and had to flee for his miserable life. Wouldn't it be better for him if any thumb drives, computers or other media were encrypted? Even if the NSA were able to break whatever cypher he used it would still take them time and the delay might just be long enough for damage control. Thats why field-grade cyphers aren't as tough to crack as higher level ones: they only need to delay decryption long enough for the data to become obsolete.
It all depends. If the server's going to have a name like pr0n.example.com, he might as well kill two birds with one stone.
For every little file move or copying of files, I HAD to get root access and type in a command.
Two mistakes in one sentence. First, opening a terminal doesn't automatically give you root access; you're logged in by default as yourself, not root. (Hint: if you were becoming root, you'd be asked for the root password.) Second, just because you couldn't be arsed to learn how to use your file manager doesn't mean that you can't copy, move, rename or delete files from the GUI, it just means that you couldn't be bothered to learn how to use the tools Ubuntu gave you. Of course, like any other poor workman, you prefer blaming your tools to admitting that you didn't know what you were doing and weren't willing to learn. If my sister, who's barely computer literate, can get along in Ubuntu on a day-to-day basis without help, anybody can except for people like you who aren't willing to admit that using Linux isn't exactly the same as using Windows.
From what I have seen, businesses with as few as one employee actively seek out ways to cheat the tax code.
No, none of them are cheating the tax code no matter how much you'd like it if they were. It's called Tax Avoidance, and SCOTUS made it quite clear, decades ago, that it's not against the law: "The legal right of an individual to decrease the amount of what would otherwise be his taxes or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted."
What is 1?
I thought that everybody knew that: One is the loneliest number that there ever was.
Why not? They're the UL of medical devices. They're the ones who approved my eye implant. They're the ones who approve pacemakers. They're the ones we cyborgs rely on for safe implants.
Same here. And, of course, they also had to approve my hearing aids, the meter I use every day to monitor my blood sugar and the dialysis equipment a friend of mine needed when his kidneys stopped working. People like to complain about how much it costs to get new drugs, devices and proceedures approved by the FDA, but I bet they'd complain even more if the FDA suddenly went away.
I see: you're taking suppliments, just not in the form of pills. Thank you. Personally, I'm an omnivore and if it weren't for my blood condition I'd be quite comfortable getting my B12 from such things as meat, shellfish and (yum!) liver. As it is, one little capsule each morning with breakfast is all it takes for me to be sure I've got enough. Again, thanx for the info.
I've been vegan for 12 years and I'm a very healthy person and I don't take any supplements.
I have no reason to disbelieve you, but I am quite curious about one thing: how do you get enough B12 in your diet? It's only produced in nature by bacteria, and there's almost none to be found in vegetables. I ask because I need to be more careful than most people to make sure I get enough on a day to day basis. (chronic low platelett count.)
There's ample evidence in the form of temperature records, tree rings and so on that the Earth's average temperature has been rising ever since (at least) 1830 when The Little Ice Age is considered to have ended and before The Industrial Revolution got under way. Nobody except for the most fanatic GW deniers doesn't understand that. However, there's nowhere near enough evidence that this is all man made to satisfy many people, and the numbers who are skeptical about that aspect are growing every day. In fact, the almost hysterical insistance by some of the AGW evangelists on accepting their creed because of a soi disant "consensus," especially when questions in the hard sciences (which climate science claims to be) are decided by the facts, not by counting noses, suggests to me that they're nowhere near as sure of themselves as they want us to think that they are.
Very well written and reasoned. I congratulate you. Californian would most likely have placed herself off to one side, well away from the stern, lowered her own boats and rigged her accomidation ladder if she hadn't set it up already. And, as far as hypothermia goes, that's why I specified that people would only be sent overboard when there was a boat ready to pick them up to minimize their time in the water. Yes, many people would still have died but not, I think anywhere near as many.
If Californian had gotten there in time, they could have used both sets of boats as shuttles, bringing passengers across. Ships generally have an accomedation ladder that can be rigged from the main deck to the water line to allow access to small craft of that sort which would have been a great help in evacuating the ship. And, even if that wasn't possible, Titanic's officers could have controled and organized the passengers, having them jump into the water when, and only when there was a life boat available to pick them up so that nobody would have to be in the freezing water for more than a minute. You'd be surprised how much could have been done if there'd been another ship on the scene to help with the evacuation and act as a holding platform for the passengers while the boats went back for more.
The radio operators on Titanic did their best to get the word out. Maybe if all ships were required to keep a radio watch around the clock the rescue efforts would have been more successful and there would have been less fatalities. Newer, stricter radio requirements pushed the envelope of what was possible in those days and led to improved equipment. Then, when war broke out in August 1914, warships were able to take advantage of the improvements if they hadn't already. And, of course, radio company's R&D departments were already working on increasing both range and sensitivity giving them a flying start on learning how to give their navy what it now needed.
Autocorrect is no substitute for proofreading. Among other things, it can't spot the fact that you spelled the wrong word correctly, such as using "there" where you should have used either "their" or "they're."
...do a grammar and spelling check on your casual entries etc.
You know, that might actually be relevant if the job you're being considered for includes writing things that customers get to see. If you can't be bothered to check the spelling and grammar on your Facebook page, there's a good chance that you'll forget to do it at work. And, of course, if your grammers bad at Facebook, it might just be because you don't know any better, and that would be very important when considering who to hire for such a job.
I'd like to see a law passed that says that if you're running a residential wireless hotspot and don't take reasonable precautions to keep strangers from borrowing it you're automatically responsible for all packets originating from your IP address. No exceptions, no excuses.
Yeah, gopher was fun. I can still remember the first time I connected to a gopher server at a university somewhere in southeast Asia. Cool, man, real cool. Not that I was looking for anything in particular, I was just wandering arond exploring and stumbled across it. Still, the idea that I was communicating with a server roughly half-way around the world was mind boggling in those days. Now, we're so used to it that it doesn't mean a thing. Sometimes I think about it and ask myself where my sense of wonder went and wish that I could get it back. Thanks for reminding me.