Iraq, however, is enjoying the lowest level of violence since March 2004. Considering that allowing the Iraqis to govern and police themselves with minimal intervention is our goal, and we're getting closer to that end I would say that you're under-informed.
Sure. More than when the military was being down-sized and recruitment was being narrowed to fill the gap with the best from the available field of applicants.
There are many reformed miscreants in the military that turned out to be damn fine NC0s, SNCOs, and possibly O's.
It's part of having a citizen military. Your implication is specious and infantile.
Not really... because they still need rank and file.
"A General is at the mercy of his Privates."--me
Also, there are plenty of whack-ass former military guys to like to imagine what it would take to capture a National Guard Armory. With the right plan and small arms it certainly could be done. Locally, two chain link fences and 4 armed guards separate us from 15 TOW armed HUMMVs, bust through 1/2 steel plate door and you get 200 M-16's and about 20,000 rounds. Last I got a chance to take a look, there were only 2 M-249 SAWs and 4 M-203's with an unknown number of grenades.
Occasionally there are a few tanks, some water/diesel buffalo, and probably 6 5-ton cargo trucks.
It's a start. Never underestimate the power of the populace, once you piss them off.
"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them." George Mason, Co-author of the Second Amendment, during Virginia's Convention to Ratify the Constitution, 1788
"And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the Press, or the rights of Conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms; æ", Samuel Adams quoted in the Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, August 20, 1789, "Propositions submitted to the Convention of this State"
Historical context clears up the 'unclear' intention rather nicely. The framers of the Constitution and the primary proponents of the Second Amendment (George Mason) knew exactly what they were doing.
Justice John Paul Stevens should be subjected to whatever punitive processes that could be applied for the below, taken from TFA:
In a dissent he summarized from the bench, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote that the majority "would have us believe that over 200 years ago, the Framers made a choice to limit the tools available to elected officials wishing to regulate civilian uses of weapons."
He said such evidence "is nowhere to be found."
I'm sorry but that is one of the rights that are not relegated to the state or the fed... That right is firmly seated with the individual.
Ummm... Yeah. Complete frickin' disaster. I bought my little brother a laptop with Fister (Vista) on it and paid to have it upgraded to XP soon thereafter.
Good luck with those delusions. The make meds for that.
The measuring tool that you are referring to is called a caliper. A little practice and you can be as accurate as a displacement test +-2%.
You have to do multi-site testing to be accurate, but you could do the umbilical, inguinal, and tricep sites without asking someone to disrobe. You could easily train phlebotomists to do this sort of sampling.
That's interesting. I work for one of the "big" oil companies and guess what? We've investment in alternative fuel sources as well as nuclear power.
We are an energy company.
Use the carbon negative energy source to power industrial processes and use the mineral crude to power cars and you'd have a huge net carbon output reduction without an artificial scarcity problem.
I would disagree. Compared to NT4, 2K had a lot of features that did not seem to detract from the stability of the host (overly much). 2K seemed like a logical progression in the family line.
However, XP seemed like the STD laden but garrulous and affable epileptic nephew of NT.
Actually I remember using SCO (on Intel) (yikes)and Solaris X Windows installations at the time, and amazing my green geek friends with multiple apps and windows that didn't kill the system.
However, most of my work at the time included getting WFW3.11 working with NDIS drivers on a Banyan network.
I dunno dude. I'm making (relatively*) more money and have a higher quality of life than I did in 2000. Everything for me has trended upward, just my return on investment might be a little less this year than last, but it's still more money.
Anyone who hasn't moved up**, has only inertia and the lack of will to overcome it to thank for it.
*Given a Cost of Living Adjustment for moving to a cheaper part of the country
**Given that you are able bodied and of sound mind.
Not really in hardware... However in the fringe software configurations, yes.
I currently had 40 or so 42xx IPS/IDS, 12 pairs of ASA, and 4 MARS. We also have 250 ISR routers in our CSM deployment.
Problems? Every problem I've had was over software. Configurations that they didn't think we would use or something of that nature. Except with the MARS, the first gen MARS (Protego acquisition) was complete crap.
I don't think the liability was McD's but I think the decent thing to do would have been to pay her bills. Although, that may have set a dangerous precedent on McD's part. IANAL so I can't speak to what issues may arise out of such a payment, but implied liability might come up.
However, shareholders don't favor money used doing "decent" things.
Except that the 30 degrees in question are actually recommended by most carafe manufacturers as the preferred temp to store the coffee before enjoying.
It is implied that the coffee will be decanted and cooled to taste before enjoying.
I prefer a extra-hot Americano, which nears 200 degrees. I take very small sips from the surface of the coffee until it cools at which time I increase the consumption rate as long as it is not harming me...
To imply that one should not have responsibility to treat a beverage that is made and served at high temperatures with care is ludicrous.
The coffee was 170 degrees. A very common serving temperature.
Thanks for playing "Exageration". Incidentally, 180 degrees is the preferred temperature of the coffee whilst it is in the carafe, to allow the coffee a little time to cool while in your cup to achieve optimal flavor temp 140-170 degrees.
The case was hugely exaggerated, as I remember it the coffee was somewhere between 120 and 180 degrees Fahrenheit. The optimal serving temperature for coffee is usually above 150 degrees Fahrenheit and sometimes suggested to be above 180.
Please use google to find several references to that fact via coffee carafe dealers throughout the world. Please refer to the link below in the section regarding temperature of coffee brewing and serving.
Unfortunately, the lawyers won over the ignorant masses in this case, and now we reap the consequences. When the case went to trial, the first question I asked was, "What temp was the coffee?". When I heard 170degrees, I choffed. I had worked at a few coffee shops in the past and knew that coffee is served around this temperature at most places. It allows the coffee to be hot even to stay warm until it is finished, including adding milk, sugar, and possibly some drive time to it's destination.
Not selfish at all. If I were selfish, I would demand that you pay for me and my family, several of which are below poverty line.
Instead, I am asking you to keep your hand out of my pocket and I will do the responsible thing and take care of my family members who are not able to care for themselves. This keeps my hands and their hands out of _your_ pocket.Magnanimous of me isn't it?
Even as an atheist I contribute time and money to faith-based organizations that feed and clothe the impoverished. My wife and I host Boys and Girls club events once a month were we take them to a museum or sporting event culminating in a cook-out at our home. Sounds selfish doesn't it?
I have no problem with any number of privately held organization providing social services. In fact, I really think people should look at trying to get a system of Credit Union style organizations for health-care going. What I do have a problem with is taxation and benefits from the state. When the state provides benefits then they have more control over what you can do. They can refuse to treat you if you happen to eat a lot of bacon, or smoke a pack a day, or if you choose to spend some of your overly taxed income on a treatment that is outside of the gov't regulated formulary.
You say universal healthcare, to me it sounds like the masters taking good care of their serfs.
Or even running cable under the floor (through the ceiling) and the drilling, and fishing the cable out so you can mount a female connector to a wallplate.
Instead, I set up a wireless network with WPA and iptables on every host... Time to set up new wireless cards, 2hours for 4 machines (My SGI Fuel has no wireless). Not getting insulation in unmentionable places? Priceless.
On 2 August 1946, some Americans, brutalized by their county government, used armed force to overturn it. These Americans wanted honest, open elections. For years they had asked for state or Federal election monitors to prevent vote fraud -- forged ballots, secret ballot counts, and intimidation by armed sheriff's deputies -- by the local political boss. They got no help.
You see, the local gov't should be afraid of it's citizens and the Feds should be afraid of the states. That is the only thing I regret about the Civil War, the Fed asserted itself as a controlling body rather than a forum of regulation.
It has only gotten worse, to the point that the 10th Amendment is nullified by pandering SCOTUS.
I've said it before. Like every other Amendment, the 10th is vitally important even if it doesn't support your goals like making pot illegal, universal health care, or making abortion legal/illegal.
Each of those issues are clearly outside of the domain of the Fed, but we've had enough justices that assert power that should not be within the gov't to establish their puissance and preeminence in the DC scene.
1. Have zero support for a cluster. Maybe duplicate controller cards in the same chassis, but not clustered.
2. Are financially infeasible to cluster.
3. Are of such a high dollar per minute value that management is willing to run the risk of inserting code while operating live (provided it has been tested in another system in a mock-up lab) and having a catastrophic failure or a singing success.
I never tried to imply that everyone should eat the way that I do. What I was concerned about was that vegetarian propaganda would be promulgated yet again without a counterpoint.
Vegetarians often obfuscate benefits of a high protein diet while also overstating the risks by making extreme extrapolations from studies with a very specific application.
What I was trying to demonstrate through the use of specific populations was that the human has a very high tolerance for high protein diets. A few of those populations are younger than 10,000 years which was recently theorized to be the minimum time to acquire a new digestive adapation (e.g. lactose tolerance).
B12 deficiencies, EFA deficiencies, phytic acid overdoses, and gastric distress caused by indigestible proteins and carbohydrates contained in the vegetarian diet are all consequences that one must account for. The B12 deficiency is especially problematic since supplementation with cyanocobalamin has been shown to be ineffective in treating this deficiency.
I am on the carnivorous side of an omnivore diet but I still eat a lot of leafy greens and good amount of nuts/seeds.
For the record I'm not a professional athlete, I'm professionally a network security geek. I did contemplate getting out of the geek biz for a while... but the gym/training biz was too risky for me as my tolerance for people who don't work hard is very low. My intolerance limited my customer population to a niche market, one in which I wouldn't be able to make near as much as I do now for several years, if at all.
At the end of the day, everyone should pay attention to how particular foods make them feel. My mother had a low tolerance for beef. All of her protein requirements were met through fish, chicken, and vegetables. She ate that way for a long time maintaining a very low bodyfat (she competed at bodybuilding) and very good level of health.
I would never recommend that someone go to a completely carnivorous diet (even the Maasai eat some tubers, and fruit) because I haven't the foggiest idea how to maintain that diet in a Western civilization. However, I would recommend against over use of grains and legumes through strange pseudo-foods like Tofurkey, soymilk, and some wheat based substitute for meat that I ate once. That stuff can't be good for you.[;-)
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Actually, even a moment of silence has been shown to be against school policy and state law in some cases.
Many schools will not allow student organizations such as Fellowship of Christian Athletes congregate on campus.
I'm an atheist, but I don't think that the Christians harm anyone by being visible and praying in front of the school.
Tulsa, OK. And yes, yes there is.
NASA's stats point that out.
Also:
http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/january-2008-4-sources-say-globally-cooler-in-the-past-12-months/
Another editorial breaking down some stats for you by Steve Goddard.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/05/goddard_nasa_thermometer/
Lost? I agree you are lost.
Iraq, however, is enjoying the lowest level of violence since March 2004. Considering that allowing the Iraqis to govern and police themselves with minimal intervention is our goal, and we're getting closer to that end I would say that you're under-informed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/21/world/middleeast/21security.html?_r=1&ref=worldspecial&oref=slogin
Sure. More than when the military was being down-sized and recruitment was being narrowed to fill the gap with the best from the available field of applicants.
There are many reformed miscreants in the military that turned out to be damn fine NC0s, SNCOs, and possibly O's.
It's part of having a citizen military. Your implication is specious and infantile.
Not really... because they still need rank and file.
"A General is at the mercy of his Privates."--me
Also, there are plenty of whack-ass former military guys to like to imagine what it would take to capture a National Guard Armory. With the right plan and small arms it certainly could be done. Locally, two chain link fences and 4 armed guards separate us from 15 TOW armed HUMMVs, bust through 1/2 steel plate door and you get 200 M-16's and about 20,000 rounds. Last I got a chance to take a look, there were only 2 M-249 SAWs and 4 M-203's with an unknown number of grenades.
Occasionally there are a few tanks, some water/diesel buffalo, and probably 6 5-ton cargo trucks.
It's a start. Never underestimate the power of the populace, once you piss them off.
"And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the Press, or the rights of Conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms; æ", Samuel Adams quoted in the Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, August 20, 1789, "Propositions submitted to the Convention of this State"
Historical context clears up the 'unclear' intention rather nicely. The framers of the Constitution and the primary proponents of the Second Amendment (George Mason) knew exactly what they were doing.Justice John Paul Stevens should be subjected to whatever punitive processes that could be applied for the below, taken from TFA:
In a dissent he summarized from the bench, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote that the majority "would have us believe that over 200 years ago, the Framers made a choice to limit the tools available to elected officials wishing to regulate civilian uses of weapons."He said such evidence "is nowhere to be found."
I'm sorry but that is one of the rights that are not relegated to the state or the fed... That right is firmly seated with the individual.Ummm... Yeah. Complete frickin' disaster. I bought my little brother a laptop with Fister (Vista) on it and paid to have it upgraded to XP soon thereafter.
Good luck with those delusions. The make meds for that.
The measuring tool that you are referring to is called a caliper. A little practice and you can be as accurate as a displacement test +-2%.
You have to do multi-site testing to be accurate, but you could do the umbilical, inguinal, and tricep sites without asking someone to disrobe. You could easily train phlebotomists to do this sort of sampling.
Nah, NCLB is just a new system with the same outcome. Bureaucracy breeds stagnation, stagnation begets corruption.
The last time I looked the US ranked in the top five for spending per student, but in the bottom 5 for math and science (among 30 nations compared).
That's bureaucracy, stagnation, and corruption at it's finest.
That's interesting. I work for one of the "big" oil companies and guess what? We've investment in alternative fuel sources as well as nuclear power.
We are an energy company.
Use the carbon negative energy source to power industrial processes and use the mineral crude to power cars and you'd have a huge net carbon output reduction without an artificial scarcity problem.
I would disagree. Compared to NT4, 2K had a lot of features that did not seem to detract from the stability of the host (overly much). 2K seemed like a logical progression in the family line.
However, XP seemed like the STD laden but garrulous and affable epileptic nephew of NT.
Actually I remember using SCO (on Intel) (yikes)and Solaris X Windows installations at the time, and amazing my green geek friends with multiple apps and windows that didn't kill the system.
However, most of my work at the time included getting WFW3.11 working with NDIS drivers on a Banyan network.
I dunno dude. I'm making (relatively*) more money and have a higher quality of life than I did in 2000. Everything for me has trended upward, just my return on investment might be a little less this year than last, but it's still more money.
Anyone who hasn't moved up**, has only inertia and the lack of will to overcome it to thank for it.
*Given a Cost of Living Adjustment for moving to a cheaper part of the country
**Given that you are able bodied and of sound mind.
Not really in hardware... However in the fringe software configurations, yes.
I currently had 40 or so 42xx IPS/IDS, 12 pairs of ASA, and 4 MARS. We also have 250 ISR routers in our CSM deployment.
Problems? Every problem I've had was over software. Configurations that they didn't think we would use or something of that nature. Except with the MARS, the first gen MARS (Protego acquisition) was complete crap.
I don't think the liability was McD's but I think the decent thing to do would have been to pay her bills. Although, that may have set a dangerous precedent on McD's part. IANAL so I can't speak to what issues may arise out of such a payment, but implied liability might come up.
However, shareholders don't favor money used doing "decent" things.
Except that the 30 degrees in question are actually recommended by most carafe manufacturers as the preferred temp to store the coffee before enjoying.
It is implied that the coffee will be decanted and cooled to taste before enjoying.
I prefer a extra-hot Americano, which nears 200 degrees. I take very small sips from the surface of the coffee until it cools at which time I increase the consumption rate as long as it is not harming me...
To imply that one should not have responsibility to treat a beverage that is made and served at high temperatures with care is ludicrous.
The coffee was 170 degrees. A very common serving temperature.
Thanks for playing "Exageration". Incidentally, 180 degrees is the preferred temperature of the coffee whilst it is in the carafe, to allow the coffee a little time to cool while in your cup to achieve optimal flavor temp 140-170 degrees.
They were, but at what rate?
The case was hugely exaggerated, as I remember it the coffee was somewhere between 120 and 180 degrees Fahrenheit. The optimal serving temperature for coffee is usually above 150 degrees Fahrenheit and sometimes suggested to be above 180.
Please use google to find several references to that fact via coffee carafe dealers throughout the world. Please refer to the link below in the section regarding temperature of coffee brewing and serving.
http://www.ncausa.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=71
For a detailed review of the case and more links disputing your "urban legend" classification of this case:
http://www.overlawyered.com/2005/10/urban-legends-and-stella-liebe.html
Unfortunately, the lawyers won over the ignorant masses in this case, and now we reap the consequences. When the case went to trial, the first question I asked was, "What temp was the coffee?". When I heard 170degrees, I choffed. I had worked at a few coffee shops in the past and knew that coffee is served around this temperature at most places. It allows the coffee to be hot even to stay warm until it is finished, including adding milk, sugar, and possibly some drive time to it's destination.
Not selfish at all. If I were selfish, I would demand that you pay for me and my family, several of which are below poverty line.
Instead, I am asking you to keep your hand out of my pocket and I will do the responsible thing and take care of my family members who are not able to care for themselves. This keeps my hands and their hands out of _your_ pocket.Magnanimous of me isn't it?
Even as an atheist I contribute time and money to faith-based organizations that feed and clothe the impoverished. My wife and I host Boys and Girls club events once a month were we take them to a museum or sporting event culminating in a cook-out at our home. Sounds selfish doesn't it?
I have no problem with any number of privately held organization providing social services. In fact, I really think people should look at trying to get a system of Credit Union style organizations for health-care going. What I do have a problem with is taxation and benefits from the state. When the state provides benefits then they have more control over what you can do. They can refuse to treat you if you happen to eat a lot of bacon, or smoke a pack a day, or if you choose to spend some of your overly taxed income on a treatment that is outside of the gov't regulated formulary.
You say universal healthcare, to me it sounds like the masters taking good care of their serfs.
Or even running cable under the floor (through the ceiling) and the drilling, and fishing the cable out so you can mount a female connector to a wallplate.
Instead, I set up a wireless network with WPA and iptables on every host... Time to set up new wireless cards, 2hours for 4 machines (My SGI Fuel has no wireless). Not getting insulation in unmentionable places? Priceless.
Sure. I stopped using Trillian when I rolled out a scad of Jabber servers for an international helpdesk group.
They also stopped using Trillian and switched to GAIM (at the time).
Myself, and 250ish users == more than you
On 2 August 1946, some Americans, brutalized by their county government, used armed force to overturn it. These Americans wanted honest, open elections. For years they had asked for state or Federal election monitors to prevent vote fraud -- forged ballots, secret ballot counts, and intimidation by armed sheriff's deputies -- by the local political boss. They got no help.
http://www.constitution.org/mil/tn/batathen.htm
You see, the local gov't should be afraid of it's citizens and the Feds should be afraid of the states. That is the only thing I regret about the Civil War, the Fed asserted itself as a controlling body rather than a forum of regulation.
It has only gotten worse, to the point that the 10th Amendment is nullified by pandering SCOTUS.
I've said it before. Like every other Amendment, the 10th is vitally important even if it doesn't support your goals like making pot illegal, universal health care, or making abortion legal/illegal.
Each of those issues are clearly outside of the domain of the Fed, but we've had enough justices that assert power that should not be within the gov't to establish their puissance and preeminence in the DC scene.
For you.
There are some systems that:
1. Have zero support for a cluster. Maybe duplicate controller cards in the same chassis, but not clustered.
2. Are financially infeasible to cluster.
3. Are of such a high dollar per minute value that management is willing to run the risk of inserting code while operating live (provided it has been tested in another system in a mock-up lab) and having a catastrophic failure or a singing success.
Fair enough.
I never tried to imply that everyone should eat the way that I do. What I was concerned about was that vegetarian propaganda would be promulgated yet again without a counterpoint.
Vegetarians often obfuscate benefits of a high protein diet while also overstating the risks by making extreme extrapolations from studies with a very specific application.
What I was trying to demonstrate through the use of specific populations was that the human has a very high tolerance for high protein diets. A few of those populations are younger than 10,000 years which was recently theorized to be the minimum time to acquire a new digestive adapation (e.g. lactose tolerance).
B12 deficiencies, EFA deficiencies, phytic acid overdoses, and gastric distress caused by indigestible proteins and carbohydrates contained in the vegetarian diet are all consequences that one must account for. The B12 deficiency is especially problematic since supplementation with cyanocobalamin has been shown to be ineffective in treating this deficiency.
I am on the carnivorous side of an omnivore diet but I still eat a lot of leafy greens and good amount of nuts/seeds.
For the record I'm not a professional athlete, I'm professionally a network security geek. I did contemplate getting out of the geek biz for a while... but the gym/training biz was too risky for me as my tolerance for people who don't work hard is very low. My intolerance limited my customer population to a niche market, one in which I wouldn't be able to make near as much as I do now for several years, if at all.
At the end of the day, everyone should pay attention to how particular foods make them feel. My mother had a low tolerance for beef. All of her protein requirements were met through fish, chicken, and vegetables. She ate that way for a long time maintaining a very low bodyfat (she competed at bodybuilding) and very good level of health.
I would never recommend that someone go to a completely carnivorous diet (even the Maasai eat some tubers, and fruit) because I haven't the foggiest idea how to maintain that diet in a Western civilization. However, I would recommend against over use of grains and legumes through strange pseudo-foods like Tofurkey, soymilk, and some wheat based substitute for meat that I ate once. That stuff can't be good for you.[;-)