I only hope that other governments don't get infected by ALD (American Lawmaking Desease) and decide to follow lead and that the U.S. procceed on their path quickly enough to create a certain degree of isolation
That is the sad part. If they don't follow the U.S. willing down the path of lawyers to "Heck", the U.S. forces them. I am saying this as a citizen of the U.S.:(
California's electric deregulation was passed by a Republican state congress. Don't go blaming Democrats for something that ain't their fault.
I heard the vote was unanimous which would mean both Democrats and Republicans were to blame.
BTW, it doesn't take innovation to produce electricity, just capital. As such, consumers get the best deal from government-owned municipal utilities. Don't even try to argue, it's a fact. Did L.A. have blackouts? No. Is L.A. served by for-profit utilities? No. Are L.A. ratepayers getting squeezed? No.
I think people are just annoyed with California's populace (as a whole) complaining about higher rates when those rates are in line with the rest of the country.
I have been noticing that my toast has been coming out extra crispy with an especially black little fork burnt into it. Hmmm, I better keep an eye on it.:)
Actually, the U.S. did sign it. Very few countries have ratified it.
However, it is proven that CO2 emissions are not a good thing. Don't give me any crap about that because it's TRUE Ask the vast majority of scientists, and they'll tell you that CO2 emissions are bad.
A vast majority of scientist thought the world was flat at one time. Majority does not make it true. There is proof that the climate started warming up before we started burning fossil fuels. It is looking like a cylical event.
That said I a trying to do my part by buying a fuel-cell car or at least a hybrid for my next car. I refuse to buy a gas hog (SUV).
So it makes sense to ratify it! Unless you're being payed off by people totally self-interested (which is usually big buisness in this case)...
If you disagree, you must be evil? Sorry, but that does not have to be the case. You do realize the Kyoto treaty has exemptions for "developing" countries like China, India, and Mexico. The pollution production would have just shifted from the U.S. to some other country. If people truly want a treaty against pollution, they should draft it to cover everyone.
Flaws in a treay do not mean you must throw it away. You fix the flaws. The Bushies haven't come up with an alternative, have they? And the other 100+ countries involved did sign it. Are they all idiots?
From what I have heard (I have not read this), the Kyoto Treaty was especially cruel to the U.S. in terms of penalties and would cost many jobs. Other countries would not face the same consequences if they broke the rules. This is why almost the entire Senate voted against it. It never came close to President Bush.
BTW, the other countries were not idiots. They could benefit financially whenever the U.S. broke the rules. Who would pay? We, the citizens, would pay.
Everything else is still relatively cheap for the likes of SBC or Prodigy. Harddrives are not all that expensive.
Now as to your comments about legalities. That is the only place I see expenses at high prices. $36,000/year compared to $1,000,000+ is a drastic difference.
Can you blame somebody for not risking millions of dollars in liabilities to support something that, again, is used by a tiny handful of customers?
OTOH, they will have to pay the liability insurance no matter what. If they cannot be a common carrier for USENET, how long before a lawyer gets them on WWW or e-mail? Same risk no matter what they carry. USENET might be a higher risk, but lawyers don't care if the risk was 0.0000000001%. They smell money.
Non-Sequitor had a few good prints many moons ago about a time traveler lost in the 21st Century in the time of lawyers.
It has always been part of the payment they receive. I hope they drop the price on the Internet access since their costs will drop.
2) Stop providing Usenet access at all.
Same thought as above.
3) Drop alt.binaries in whole or in part, so that the rest of Usenet can be kept for a reasonable retention period at a reasonable cost.
How much space do the rest of the Usenet groups consume? Maybe they should just provide priority to the text-based newsgroups over the binaries. They probably do that already.
... the alt.binaries newsgroups alone require something like two T1s worth of bandwidth alone to provide.
That is much cheaper than I thought. Assuming $3000/month, a large ISP would not even blink an eye.
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otherwise you end up with the joke that NVidia pulled with the Utah-GLX driver support.
Since BSD is not dying, your comment is the comment of a troll.
With quotes like... my Lord it [FreeBSD] was slow and... fighting with FreeBSD, it sure looks like a troll. If it acts, looks, and smells like a troll, it probably is.
BTW, I can take criticism. Saying something is really slow without any proof is not criticism. As a person who uses both Linux and FreeBSD at work, I have seen little if any difference between the two in speed.
Linux, on the other hand, is vital and alive with people fixing and improving it.
Then that corporation would have a nice little monopoly on the stem cell lines, since they could most likely be protected as property of some fashion or another (patent or intellectual or other nonsense). Thank you Mr. Bush for quietly looking out for the coporate interest again.
Since they will probably get the patents using our money anyway, I am happy Mr. Bush forced these large corporations to spend their own money to get the patents. I am glad he is looking out for the little guy.
Why did E completely loose forward motion? Why are only a couple of people working on it? What's up with the lack of developer community? To me, this does not bode well for its future. How the hell can VA justify spending money on E when they have corporate survival to think about?
Just one question: are you the "*BSD is dying" troll?;)
Why is it that political or foreign-relations stories get all the responses with Bush-bashing and America-bashing?
It is just another form of spam. I personally did not like Clinton as President, but I did not post on/. every chance I got to bash him. Losers or spammers. They go by both.
I would like a filtering system on/.. Maybe a way to filter out comments about Bush (or whatever) from Anonymous Cowards. Or at the least get rid of the Anonymous Cowards. Most mailing lists require subscription before a person blabbers. Why not here?
"Giving birth prematurely" was death to the child at that time. It's not like they could stick a premature birth on an incubator or anything.
This is not necessarily true. If she was close to nine months, the child had a fair chance to survive without an incubator.
Sounds like a euphemism for miscarrige to me. I don't know how it reads in the original yiddish, that would be more accurate. Hence the problem using the Bible to argue any point.
I guess it all depends on which Bible you use.
I will have to talk with my uncle about it. Besides knowing Latin, I believe he keeps up with more accurate translations. He has lots of books on the subject of Bible translation.
In March 2000, a National Academy committee reported that Triana had "the potential to make unique scientific contributions," even though the mission had "higher than usual risks."
What are the risks they are talking about?
Item 2:
Craig Tooley, the deputy project manager, said that when Triana was first proposed, there were enough flights and cargo space for it to fit into the space shuttle schedule.
But now, the shuttle is limited to six flights a year and is heavily loaded with higher priority missions.
The International Space Station has higher priority. This is no surprise.
This quote confuses me:
instruments on Triana would have a unique perspective for studying the Earth's atmosphere, climate and seasonal changes.
I thought there were some weather satellites. What functionality does this satellite possess over the others?
Perhaps all those claiming that the Bible states that abortion is murder, should sit down and read it sometime.
Maybe you should read it. That quote looks like it is talking about the child and the mother not just the mother. Why else would it mention the woman was pregnant?
But if there is serious injury,...
This probably represents the child as well as the mother.
Ok. Who is the moron who marked this message flamebait?!? I only told the truth. One of those companys' CEO's publically said they were against software patents. Obviously, the truth MUST be flamebait.
Maybe we should have a test before allowing someone to become a moderator.
The point is that with PPPoE and DHCP you are at the mercy of the lease.
They advertise that it is a static IP. In the AUL you are allowed to run anything but commercial servers. DHCP is only the means, at least for me, to notify the gateway--Telocity has a different type of modem--that my computer is up. I need to test more. I have heard others just using DHCP to initialize the gateway the first time. They then set up their computer to only use the static IP.
Six months isn't bad but there is nothing preventing them from setting a month/day/hour lease in the future if they decide they need to conserve IPs.
They probably already made sure they had enough IP's before deciding to only offer static IP's.
From looking up TELOCITY-1, TELOCITY-2, TELOCITY-3 and TELOCITY-4, I find they have 851968 addresses currently. Of course most everyone will be tight on IP's until we need to switch to IPv6.
Do you really trust companies like SBC?
This is why I went with DirecTVDSL. I only use SBC for the circuit.
I am using DirecTVDSL (previously Telocity) over a SBC line. They only offer static IP. I still need to use DHCP to get the gateway to recognize that my computer is up, but the IP never changes. They even brag about it on their homepage.
On the downside, they offer only one IP total. You cannot get an additional static IP or even dynamic. Their "Connect and Protect" is not what it seems. It does not give additional routable IP's; it acts as a gateway for multiple machines as opposed to just a modem. A Linksys or Netgear router would do the trick. Personally, I use a FreeBSD box with a hub behind it. Firewall, mail server, web server, etc.
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Having over a 100% increase in rates, that's alot.
An increase is not the same as a rate. The rate in California increased to approximately the same rate as the rest of the country.
I only hope that other governments don't get infected by ALD (American Lawmaking Desease) and decide to follow lead and that the U.S. procceed on their path quickly enough to create a certain degree of isolation
:(
That is the sad part. If they don't follow the U.S. willing down the path of lawyers to "Heck", the U.S. forces them. I am saying this as a citizen of the U.S.
California's electric deregulation was passed by a Republican state congress. Don't go blaming Democrats for something that ain't their fault.
I heard the vote was unanimous which would mean both Democrats and Republicans were to blame.
BTW, it doesn't take innovation to produce electricity, just capital. As such, consumers get the best deal from government-owned municipal utilities. Don't even try to argue, it's a fact. Did L.A. have blackouts? No. Is L.A. served by for-profit utilities? No. Are L.A. ratepayers getting squeezed? No.
I think people are just annoyed with California's populace (as a whole) complaining about higher rates when those rates are in line with the rest of the country.
I have been noticing that my toast has been coming out extra crispy with an especially black little fork burnt into it. Hmmm, I better keep an eye on it. :)
it's usually right-wingers who spout this crap
I am independent.
100+ countries signed Kyoto. The US did not.
Actually, the U.S. did sign it. Very few countries have ratified it.
However, it is proven that CO2 emissions are not a good thing. Don't give me any crap about that because it's TRUE Ask the vast majority of scientists, and they'll tell you that CO2 emissions are bad.
A vast majority of scientist thought the world was flat at one time. Majority does not make it true. There is proof that the climate started warming up before we started burning fossil fuels. It is looking like a cylical event.
That said I a trying to do my part by buying a fuel-cell car or at least a hybrid for my next car. I refuse to buy a gas hog (SUV).
So it makes sense to ratify it! Unless you're being payed off by people totally self-interested (which is usually big buisness in this case)...
If you disagree, you must be evil? Sorry, but that does not have to be the case. You do realize the Kyoto treaty has exemptions for "developing" countries like China, India, and Mexico. The pollution production would have just shifted from the U.S. to some other country. If people truly want a treaty against pollution, they should draft it to cover everyone.
Flaws in a treay do not mean you must throw it away. You fix the flaws. The Bushies haven't come up with an alternative, have they? And the other 100+ countries involved did sign it. Are they all idiots?
From what I have heard (I have not read this), the Kyoto Treaty was especially cruel to the U.S. in terms of penalties and would cost many jobs. Other countries would not face the same consequences if they broke the rules. This is why almost the entire Senate voted against it. It never came close to President Bush.
BTW, the other countries were not idiots. They could benefit financially whenever the U.S. broke the rules. Who would pay? We, the citizens, would pay.
...the current legal climate,...
Everything else is still relatively cheap for the likes of SBC or Prodigy. Harddrives are not all that expensive.
Now as to your comments about legalities. That is the only place I see expenses at high prices. $36,000/year compared to $1,000,000+ is a drastic difference.
Can you blame somebody for not risking millions of dollars in liabilities to support something that, again, is used by a tiny handful of customers?
OTOH, they will have to pay the liability insurance no matter what. If they cannot be a common carrier for USENET, how long before a lawyer gets them on WWW or e-mail? Same risk no matter what they carry. USENET might be a higher risk, but lawyers don't care if the risk was 0.0000000001%. They smell money.
Non-Sequitor had a few good prints many moons ago about a time traveler lost in the 21st Century in the time of lawyers.
1) Start charging for Usenet access.
... the alt.binaries newsgroups alone require something like two T1s worth of bandwidth alone to provide.
It has always been part of the payment they receive. I hope they drop the price on the Internet access since their costs will drop.
2) Stop providing Usenet access at all.
Same thought as above.
3) Drop alt.binaries in whole or in part, so that the rest of Usenet can be kept for a reasonable retention period at a reasonable cost.
How much space do the rest of the Usenet groups consume? Maybe they should just provide priority to the text-based newsgroups over the binaries. They probably do that already.
That is much cheaper than I thought. Assuming $3000/month, a large ISP would not even blink an eye.
otherwise you end up with the joke that NVidia pulled with the Utah-GLX driver support.
What "joke"? I am curious.
Typical - and people wonder why BSD is dying.
... my Lord it [FreeBSD] was slow and ... fighting with FreeBSD, it sure looks like a troll. If it acts, looks, and smells like a troll, it probably is.
Since BSD is not dying, your comment is the comment of a troll.
With quotes like
BTW, I can take criticism. Saying something is really slow without any proof is not criticism. As a person who uses both Linux and FreeBSD at work, I have seen little if any difference between the two in speed.
Linux, on the other hand, is vital and alive with people fixing and improving it.
The same with FreeBSD and the other BSD's.
Porting FreeBSD to dozens of architecture may not be -- I thought NetBSD was the one group that was supposed to focus on portability?
I believe the mandate was to port FreeBSD to the most popular architectures (for ISP's?).
Flamebait for responding to a troll?!? Moderators really need to read the guidelines better. Or at least ease up a little.
*BSD is dying
;)
Ah, my favorite troll. It took you awhile to post. Were you grounded from using the computer?
Then that corporation would have a nice little monopoly on the stem cell lines, since they could most likely be protected as property of some fashion or another (patent or intellectual or other nonsense). Thank you Mr. Bush for quietly looking out for the coporate interest again.
Since they will probably get the patents using our money anyway, I am happy Mr. Bush forced these large corporations to spend their own money to get the patents. I am glad he is looking out for the little guy.
Why did E completely loose forward motion? Why are only a couple of people working on it? What's up with the lack of developer community? To me, this does not bode well for its future. How the hell can VA justify spending money on E when they have corporate survival to think about?
;)
Just one question: are you the "*BSD is dying" troll?
I believe some of it is on by default now. For example, I think softupdates is on by default as of 4.3.
/etc/sysctl.conf. Here is mine:
;)
For the rest, I have
# Configure logging.
kern.logsigexit=0 # Do not log fatal signal exits (e.g. sig 11)
# Kernel performance tweaks.
kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=1048576
kern.ipc.somaxconn=4096
kern.maxfiles=65536
# Network performance tweaks.
net.inet.tcp.recvspace=65536
net.inet.tcp.sendspace=65536
# File system performance tweaks.
vfs.vmiodirenable=1
As a developer, I do not need to be reminded (kern.logsigexit) of all my programs crashing.
Why is it that political or foreign-relations stories get all the responses with Bush-bashing and America-bashing?
/. every chance I got to bash him. Losers or spammers. They go by both.
/.. Maybe a way to filter out comments about Bush (or whatever) from Anonymous Cowards. Or at the least get rid of the Anonymous Cowards. Most mailing lists require subscription before a person blabbers. Why not here?
It is just another form of spam. I personally did not like Clinton as President, but I did not post on
I would like a filtering system on
"Giving birth prematurely" was death to the child at that time. It's not like they could stick a premature birth on an incubator or anything.
...and yet no mischief follow...
This is not necessarily true. If she was close to nine months, the child had a fair chance to survive without an incubator.
Sounds like a euphemism for miscarrige to me. I don't know how it reads in the original yiddish, that would be more accurate. Hence the problem using the Bible to argue any point.
I guess it all depends on which Bible you use.
I will have to talk with my uncle about it. Besides knowing Latin, I believe he keeps up with more accurate translations. He has lots of books on the subject of Bible translation.
I wonder what mischief they are talking about.
Item 1:
In March 2000, a National Academy committee reported that Triana had "the potential to make unique scientific contributions," even though the mission had "higher than usual risks."
What are the risks they are talking about?
Item 2:
Craig Tooley, the deputy project manager, said that when Triana was first proposed, there were enough flights and cargo space for it to fit into the space shuttle schedule.
But now, the shuttle is limited to six flights a year and is heavily loaded with higher priority missions.
The International Space Station has higher priority. This is no surprise.
This quote confuses me:
instruments on Triana would have a unique perspective for studying the Earth's atmosphere, climate and seasonal changes.
I thought there were some weather satellites. What functionality does this satellite possess over the others?
Perhaps all those claiming that the Bible states that abortion is murder, should sit down and read it sometime.
...
Maybe you should read it. That quote looks like it is talking about the child and the mother not just the mother. Why else would it mention the woman was pregnant?
But if there is serious injury,
This probably represents the child as well as the mother.
Ok. Who is the moron who marked this message flamebait?!? I only told the truth. One of those companys' CEO's publically said they were against software patents. Obviously, the truth MUST be flamebait.
Maybe we should have a test before allowing someone to become a moderator.
I think the U.S. should sync up with Europe. We should drop software patents to match up with Europe.
Too bad more big corps aren't politicized AGAINST sw patents.
I could have sworn Oracle (or was it Cisco) was against patents. It claimed to only obtain patents for defensive purposes.
The point is that with PPPoE and DHCP you are at the mercy of the lease.
They advertise that it is a static IP. In the AUL you are allowed to run anything but commercial servers. DHCP is only the means, at least for me, to notify the gateway--Telocity has a different type of modem--that my computer is up. I need to test more. I have heard others just using DHCP to initialize the gateway the first time. They then set up their computer to only use the static IP.
Six months isn't bad but there is nothing preventing them from setting a month/day/hour lease in the future if they decide they need to conserve IPs.
They probably already made sure they had enough IP's before deciding to only offer static IP's.
From looking up TELOCITY-1, TELOCITY-2, TELOCITY-3 and TELOCITY-4, I find they have 851968 addresses currently. Of course most everyone will be tight on IP's until we need to switch to IPv6.
Do you really trust companies like SBC?
This is why I went with DirecTVDSL. I only use SBC for the circuit.
I am using DirecTVDSL (previously Telocity) over a SBC line. They only offer static IP. I still need to use DHCP to get the gateway to recognize that my computer is up, but the IP never changes. They even brag about it on their homepage.
On the downside, they offer only one IP total. You cannot get an additional static IP or even dynamic. Their "Connect and Protect" is not what it seems. It does not give additional routable IP's; it acts as a gateway for multiple machines as opposed to just a modem. A Linksys or Netgear router would do the trick. Personally, I use a FreeBSD box with a hub behind it. Firewall, mail server, web server, etc.