No. Part of the contract I signed was that if I fulfilled my part of the contract I'd be eligible for certain benefits later, including health care. For conditions that aren't service connected, I receive care and/or treatment only after any veterans who need the facilities for a service-connected condition. (However, as I do have a minor service-connected condition, I take priority over those with don't.)
I'm sorry you had a bad experience with the VA, and I hope things get better for you. I've been getting my health care from them for decades and my experience is that it's much better now than it was twenty years ago. Almost everybody I interact with there understands that if it weren't for people like me, most of them wouldn't have jobs and that their income depends on how well they take care of us. And, mind you, most of what I use the VA isn't even service connected.
it would appear you have more of a "religious (dis)interest" in the facts of the case at hand.
Actually, no. I have friends who use Windows. I don't try to "convert" them, because if that's what they like or are used to, there's no reason for them to change. It is, however, nice to know that Microsoft actually does make this tool available, and that anybody using XP who wants to avoid this issue has a good, free way of doing it.
Ever heard of their Malicious software removal tool?
As a matter of fact, no. I run a Linux only household and as long as Microsoft has 90%+ market share, such things have only a minor academic interest for me.
If Microsoft has a way of detecting the rootkit, they should make it available separately so that people can test their machines before they try to update them. Of course, this is Microsoft we're talking about, so you know they're not interested in what's right unless it's also profitable.
The Apollo moon missions launched us into the 1970s, not exactly the boom years of the American economy or culture. There was Watergate, Vietnam, stagflation, Arab Oil embargo, and 55MPH freeways.
This, of course, is nothing but a straw-man argument because there's no demonstrable connection between the moon missions and any of the problems you list. In fact, the last of them is a direct consequence of the one preceding it in your list.
Now, now, let's not make fun of the Vikings. It's been said that they'd have gotten their longships to the Moon if they thought there'd be anything there to rape, loot or fight when they got there.
Of course that was until I wanted to use my webcam with Ubuntu.
I recently bought a new laptop and installed Fedora 12 on it. I was quite pleased to see that Anaconda had detected my webcam and installed cheese, and the first time I ran it, It Just Worked. Considering that Fedora's a bleeding-edge test-bed for RedHat, I'd expect Ubuntu to have the procedure down pat. Did you add the webcam after installation?
[X] If someone says "There's an app for that" one more time I'll throw a chair at them!
Is there an app now that throws chairs for you?
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unless you've updated the video card drivers, the window manager, the x server, or any other complex part of the system
The video card drivers generally get updated at the same time as the kernel. As far as the window manager or X server, logging out and back in is sufficient; no need for a complete reboot.
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Plus I've had the update manager tell me to restart after updating, so I don't get the idea that I'd never have to reboot Ubuntu after doing updates, that's just not true.
Well, yes, there are occasional updates that require a reboot, such as the kernel. It's just that most programs don't need you to reboot the computer to complete the update as they often do in Windows.
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She doesn't have to know how to test if her IP Address is good. She doesn't have to update drivers.
My sister runs Ubuntu. She neither knows how to do either of those tasks nor ever has had to. She gets a good IP address at boot by DHCP from our router, just as she would if she were running Windows. As far as updating drivers, the only driver she has to worry about is the proprietary nVidia driver for her graphics card, and Ubuntu takes care of that for her whenever there's a kernel update. It Just Works.
Me, I prefer Fedora. I also an nVidia card, but with Fedora, I use kmod-nvidia (and the akmod as well) meaning that I never have to worry about updating drivers either. Nice try, but your FUD fell flat.
AIUI, once you know where an element fits into the Periodic Table, you have a good idea as to what its properties are based on the other elements in its group. In fact, that's one of the table's most valuable properties.
You don't need to read out the data yourself to claim it's wrong. If it says you pressed the wrong pedal and you don't want to admit it, of course you're going to claim it's wrong.
but it's based on the same sensors and software that's supposedly at fault...
And who is it that's claiming the sensors and software are at fault? The people who were involved in the incidents, that's who. Of course they're claiming that; it's either make that claim or admit they screwed the pooch.
The question is really is advertising a public location for a given piece of content "publishing" that content
If so, every newspaper that contains a listing of what movies are showing in what theater is "publishing" the movies in question and TV Guide is publishing an awful lot of television content, week in and week out.
They also don't know anything about the history of computing. COBOL was doing exactly that back at the end of 1960, which is one of the big reasons it became popular.
Isn't it funny how the only doom-and-gloom scenario that is actually ever made in this discussion is "you will wreak our economy".
Isn't it funny how good you are at ignoring all of the claims that AGW/Climate Change (depending on who you ask and when) will cause massive coastal flooding and make large parts of the Earth "too hot for agriculture" unless you're making them yourself?
You're making the assumption that most people know what BCC is. In my experience, people don't use it because they don't understand what it does. What's weird is, they have no problem installing programs they find on random websites even though they've no idea what, if anything, they do.
The problem, as I see it, is that most of the doom-and-gloom mongers insist on assuming that the worst-case scenarios are inevitable even though nobody's done any studies of how likely they are, then demand expensive measures that they claim are the only way to avoid them. To me, at least, spending relatively small amounts of money finding out what's actually happening is a more rational response.
The rational response to the possibility of severe consequences like those would be to focus our research on those consequences and on possibilities to adapt to them.
No. The rational response would be to find out what's actually happening instead of wreaking our economy trying to avoid problems we don't even know exist. Just because you can imagine a whole bunch of doom-and-gloom scenarios doesn't mean that they're possible, you know.
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No. Part of the contract I signed was that if I fulfilled my part of the contract I'd be eligible for certain benefits later, including health care. For conditions that aren't service connected, I receive care and/or treatment only after any veterans who need the facilities for a service-connected condition. (However, as I do have a minor service-connected condition, I take priority over those with don't.)
I'm sorry you had a bad experience with the VA, and I hope things get better for you. I've been getting my health care from them for decades and my experience is that it's much better now than it was twenty years ago. Almost everybody I interact with there understands that if it weren't for people like me, most of them wouldn't have jobs and that their income depends on how well they take care of us. And, mind you, most of what I use the VA isn't even service connected.
Actually, no. I have friends who use Windows. I don't try to "convert" them, because if that's what they like or are used to, there's no reason for them to change. It is, however, nice to know that Microsoft actually does make this tool available, and that anybody using XP who wants to avoid this issue has a good, free way of doing it.
As a matter of fact, no. I run a Linux only household and as long as Microsoft has 90%+ market share, such things have only a minor academic interest for me.
If Microsoft has a way of detecting the rootkit, they should make it available separately so that people can test their machines before they try to update them. Of course, this is Microsoft we're talking about, so you know they're not interested in what's right unless it's also profitable.
This, of course, is nothing but a straw-man argument because there's no demonstrable connection between the moon missions and any of the problems you list. In fact, the last of them is a direct consequence of the one preceding it in your list.
Now, now, let's not make fun of the Vikings. It's been said that they'd have gotten their longships to the Moon if they thought there'd be anything there to rape, loot or fight when they got there.
I recently bought a new laptop and installed Fedora 12 on it. I was quite pleased to see that Anaconda had detected my webcam and installed cheese, and the first time I ran it, It Just Worked. Considering that Fedora's a bleeding-edge test-bed for RedHat, I'd expect Ubuntu to have the procedure down pat. Did you add the webcam after installation?
Is there an app now that throws chairs for you?
The video card drivers generally get updated at the same time as the kernel. As far as the window manager or X server, logging out and back in is sufficient; no need for a complete reboot.
Well, yes, there are occasional updates that require a reboot, such as the kernel. It's just that most programs don't need you to reboot the computer to complete the update as they often do in Windows.
My sister runs Ubuntu. She neither knows how to do either of those tasks nor ever has had to. She gets a good IP address at boot by DHCP from our router, just as she would if she were running Windows. As far as updating drivers, the only driver she has to worry about is the proprietary nVidia driver for her graphics card, and Ubuntu takes care of that for her whenever there's a kernel update. It Just Works.
Me, I prefer Fedora. I also an nVidia card, but with Fedora, I use kmod-nvidia (and the akmod as well) meaning that I never have to worry about updating drivers either. Nice try, but your FUD fell flat.
I take it then that friends don't let friends make Friends references?
What makes it interesting is that I studied high school chemistry 44 years ago.
AIUI, once you know where an element fits into the Periodic Table, you have a good idea as to what its properties are based on the other elements in its group. In fact, that's one of the table's most valuable properties.
You don't need to read out the data yourself to claim it's wrong. If it says you pressed the wrong pedal and you don't want to admit it, of course you're going to claim it's wrong.
And who is it that's claiming the sensors and software are at fault? The people who were involved in the incidents, that's who. Of course they're claiming that; it's either make that claim or admit they screwed the pooch.
If so, every newspaper that contains a listing of what movies are showing in what theater is "publishing" the movies in question and TV Guide is publishing an awful lot of television content, week in and week out.
They also don't know anything about the history of computing. COBOL was doing exactly that back at the end of 1960, which is one of the big reasons it became popular.
Well, yes, of course it is. That's why it's called a "normal distribution."
I would have guessed sociology, economics or psychology.
Isn't it funny how good you are at ignoring all of the claims that AGW/Climate Change (depending on who you ask and when) will cause massive coastal flooding and make large parts of the Earth "too hot for agriculture" unless you're making them yourself?
You're making the assumption that most people know what BCC is. In my experience, people don't use it because they don't understand what it does. What's weird is, they have no problem installing programs they find on random websites even though they've no idea what, if anything, they do.
The problem, as I see it, is that most of the doom-and-gloom mongers insist on assuming that the worst-case scenarios are inevitable even though nobody's done any studies of how likely they are, then demand expensive measures that they claim are the only way to avoid them. To me, at least, spending relatively small amounts of money finding out what's actually happening is a more rational response.
No. The rational response would be to find out what's actually happening instead of wreaking our economy trying to avoid problems we don't even know exist. Just because you can imagine a whole bunch of doom-and-gloom scenarios doesn't mean that they're possible, you know.