Maxtor was horrible. About the only manufacture that could have possibly been worse was Conner. Last I worked at TWC, all the Scientific Atlanta 8300 DVR boxes that have been through multiple drives through their history, Maxtor was the biggie. In fact. Our TSR department called them "Crapstor".
I have to agree. I love F1 R&D, but drag racing what amounts to a fighter jet without wings makes me yawn. **yawn**. Now, if it was a piston based IC engine, now you've got my attention!
Adam Smith was brilliant man. And no, he's not a dirty commie. He simply talking about the natural behavior of man. But when creating a societal system of efficiency, the free market knows best. Think of it as a human social construct of the Ant Colony Optimization in action. But what happens when the referee (government) becomes corrupted by it? You now have introduced a level of molestation to the system that can no longer be trusted as optimal. Government's role is to groom the system, encourage proper behavior, and yes provide education to those not generally wealthy to obtain it. But it MUST be stressed, it's *not* free. As long as most of society is ok with it, I don't see much of a problem. But when you try and bamboozle people out of the meaning of what is and isn't free. Well sir, I do have a problem with that. Accountability must be know.
Look, it doesn't matter if SOMEONE had to pay for it, what makes it FREE is that I did not have to pay for it. You can't just redefine what the word "free" means for ideological purposes.
But your wrong. You are paying for it through taxation. And that's a problem because you as an individual cannot quantify whether or not you're worthy to be a recipient of it. In fact, you could be the one getting ripped off. Are you ok with that? That's a question you should be asking yourself and if you're ok with that. I know I wouldn't be.
Second, your projecting on the subject. I'm not the one being ideological here, you are. I'm simply looking at it with a vulcan mind of logic, objectivity and the truth of the matter.
The free market makes no moral judgments.
My God, man, you get it!!!:) That's the whole point! Both the far left and the far right have inflicted so much moral judgments against people that it has destroyed this nation. All you bastards. Don't tell me how much I can earn, spend, or when to fuck, how often and with whom. It's none of your business.
Look up Adam Smith and his references to the Invisible Hand. Essentially, the bad qualities of man (greed, competition, materialism) are turned on its head to be exploited for the greater good of mankind. Free market principles do need some lawful guide rails to prevent corruption and collusion. The game needs a referee. Even I know that pure anarchy and libertarianism doesn't work. The problem occurs when the referee (government) becomes corrupted by the very game it's supposed to keep in check. But corruption occurs in all forms of Government (which is why our founding fathers created the three branches). But at least with capitalism, society has an honest-to-god metric to go by. And it's those numbers that tell the rust of us where we can improve our individual situations in life for the betterment of society and prosperity.
You invested in the time to earn an education. But SOMEONE had to pay for the resources to provide yourselves the tools and accreditation to earn your certificate of education (diploma, degree, whatever).
If you paid for your own education with your own money, the effort you put into was free. But when you rely on education being paid with other money in the form of taxation, it's simply *not* free. It's not free because you're tapping into units of work performed by others. And you have no metrics to judge whether or not you're worthy of such expenditure. Socialistic systems obfuscate the numbers -by design- so as to prevent class-warfare and other (fabricated or otherwise) "injustices".
Sorry but that wont cut it. Metric are only backed up with meaningful numbers. A monetary system (currency) provides just that. Not political capitol (your words and words of others).
And last I checked, Jesus and Buddha didn't care about materialism and other worldly possessions. Unfortunately, that's the world we live in. The flesh-and-blood.
Words mean things! You're obviously not READING carefully. Let me repeat what I said.
Those are all things that we personally never had any investment in, yet reap the rewards for their existence.
Those are things that came into being prior to the Human species being created. We don't need to sacrifice to the Sun god, and the Universe and things that came into being requires no up-keep on our part. By definition and construct, those things ARE FREE!
It only becomes a cost to society when we re-package those resources for others and not ourselves. At which point, the concept of a unit of work comes into play. Once we start talking about the worth of work, resources are no longer free, but subjected to market forces and/or the rule of law (Government).
Yes yes, that sounds all nice and everything including looking at it through a moral and ethical view point. But (and this is very important), you still haven't quantified your "worth" to society by any measurable amount with metrics. A socialist/communist society is unable to do so. Without proper metrics tied to a free market (and a laws that foster a market free), the very system that was built to prevent injustice is the very system that creates it! And that's the problem. Just take a look at the Unions up north. Those folks have been working for a goal that was entirely based on unreasonable expectations (based on free market supply/demand principles). Now that everyone is broke, the chickens have come home to roost.
You see, I am not a pathetic leach. I have something to contribute to society
Prove it! By whom and what standard/s? How would you quantify that?
You see Spun, that's what a capitalism does. It's a dynamic system put into motion and maintained by your fellow man freely. When you go through the Government, you're circumventing this process by forcing money out of one man an into the hands of another. Now, we can debate the moral implications of that. But don't think your special because you now have access to other peoples money through the rule of law.
Let me educate you, for you fail to do it yourself. Here are a few list of "Free" things in life.
1. The Universe 2. The Sun 3. The Earth 4. Light 5. Gravity
Those are all things that we personally never had any investment in, yet reap the rewards for their existence. The concept of "Free" is rarely to be found in the purest form of its intended meaning.
Most like what *really* happened was that a default or weak password was left in place. That, and the servers weren't patched with security updates. By claiming "Spectacular", it makes it sound like their IT group wasn't so incompetent and that it could have happened to anyone. Ya well, well just have to see as the story continues to unfold, if at all.
There's no such thing as a free education to the true sense of the word. Either you end up directly paying for it, or indirectly through taxation. But don't delude yourself thinking education is "free" and the professors are donating their time 24/7 without a paycheck.
Reminds me of Time Machine by H.G. Wells in which technology has become so advanced as to be autonomous surrogate mothers for all of mankind (forget the whole splitting of the race in the story, just providing a basic idea here) thus rendering all of us with idle hands and too much free time. Our current economic model isn't wired for such as paradigm shift. I suspect that's why where having the trouble that were seeing as we are shifting in that direction with technology.
Petrochemicals. Oil isn't just about energy, it provides the raw building blocks for modern industrial goods. You can't replace them with nuclear energy.
If Saudi Arabia falls, yes that very well could fracture the 50 state union.
Among other things, China too once that major real-estate bubble pops in Shanghai. Supposedly, it more than twice as bad as it was here in the US. Once that shoe drops, there will be a domino effect that may start a civil war between civilians, members of the CCP, and PLA. As for Russa, who the hell knows. Can't be pretty for them either.
Fucking Mayans, why did their calendar have to be right?
Yes. Twitter, facebook and other social media sources have their role here.
Did. They DID have their role. Now the situation has been elevated to a whole new level that involves fighting for servival from warfare. Twittering your way to a ceasefire is not likely to happen.
For the money, I highly recommend you get HP ProCurve line. If all you need is a simple un-managed 24-port gigabit switch, check out the V1410-24G. It has a lifetime warranty with next business day replacement. Currently, CDW's going price is $302.99
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914224. In short, stop two services. Windows Update and Background Intelligent Transfer. Next, delete the entire folder called "SoftwareDistribution" located under the root of C:\Windows. Restart both services and try again.
BTW, that folder you deleted will regenerate after starting these services. Don't worry about it.
Look, no system is ideal or perfect. But as long as everyone's lives are improving regardless of acceleration rate based on wealth, that should be the most important. Unfortunately, people being people like to constantly compare what they have with others. I can guarantee you that the poorest in Africa would be abso-fucking-lutely rich living among America's "poor". It's all relative in the eyes of each individual.
I don't know how to solve this problem of disproportional income and whatnot. Part of it is simply supply and demand while another is blind luck and gaming the system. But I do know that we should be careful about throwing out the baby with the bath water. If we as individuals are fueled with so much hate and rage, we could ALL lose everything. And by that time, it's too late to regret what we've already done. And that's my point.
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Maxtor was horrible. About the only manufacture that could have possibly been worse was Conner. Last I worked at TWC, all the Scientific Atlanta 8300 DVR boxes that have been through multiple drives through their history, Maxtor was the biggie. In fact. Our TSR department called them "Crapstor".
I have to agree. I love F1 R&D, but drag racing what amounts to a fighter jet without wings makes me yawn. **yawn**. Now, if it was a piston based IC engine, now you've got my attention!
Ya, but...how could you possibly get a better flight than what you're already in?
Adam Smith was brilliant man. And no, he's not a dirty commie. He simply talking about the natural behavior of man. But when creating a societal system of efficiency, the free market knows best. Think of it as a human social construct of the Ant Colony Optimization in action. But what happens when the referee (government) becomes corrupted by it? You now have introduced a level of molestation to the system that can no longer be trusted as optimal. Government's role is to groom the system, encourage proper behavior, and yes provide education to those not generally wealthy to obtain it. But it MUST be stressed, it's *not* free. As long as most of society is ok with it, I don't see much of a problem. But when you try and bamboozle people out of the meaning of what is and isn't free. Well sir, I do have a problem with that. Accountability must be know.
But your wrong. You are paying for it through taxation. And that's a problem because you as an individual cannot quantify whether or not you're worthy to be a recipient of it. In fact, you could be the one getting ripped off. Are you ok with that? That's a question you should be asking yourself and if you're ok with that. I know I wouldn't be.
Second, your projecting on the subject. I'm not the one being ideological here, you are. I'm simply looking at it with a vulcan mind of logic, objectivity and the truth of the matter.
My God, man, you get it!!! :) That's the whole point! Both the far left and the far right have inflicted so much moral judgments against people that it has destroyed this nation. All you bastards. Don't tell me how much I can earn, spend, or when to fuck, how often and with whom. It's none of your business.
Look up Adam Smith and his references to the Invisible Hand. Essentially, the bad qualities of man (greed, competition, materialism) are turned on its head to be exploited for the greater good of mankind. Free market principles do need some lawful guide rails to prevent corruption and collusion. The game needs a referee. Even I know that pure anarchy and libertarianism doesn't work. The problem occurs when the referee (government) becomes corrupted by the very game it's supposed to keep in check. But corruption occurs in all forms of Government (which is why our founding fathers created the three branches). But at least with capitalism, society has an honest-to-god metric to go by. And it's those numbers that tell the rust of us where we can improve our individual situations in life for the betterment of society and prosperity.
You invested in the time to earn an education. But SOMEONE had to pay for the resources to provide yourselves the tools and accreditation to earn your certificate of education (diploma, degree, whatever).
If you paid for your own education with your own money, the effort you put into was free. But when you rely on education being paid with other money in the form of taxation, it's simply *not* free. It's not free because you're tapping into units of work performed by others. And you have no metrics to judge whether or not you're worthy of such expenditure. Socialistic systems obfuscate the numbers -by design- so as to prevent class-warfare and other (fabricated or otherwise) "injustices".
Sorry but that wont cut it. Metric are only backed up with meaningful numbers. A monetary system (currency) provides just that. Not political capitol (your words and words of others).
And last I checked, Jesus and Buddha didn't care about materialism and other worldly possessions. Unfortunately, that's the world we live in. The flesh-and-blood.
Words mean things! You're obviously not READING carefully. Let me repeat what I said.
Those are things that came into being prior to the Human species being created. We don't need to sacrifice to the Sun god, and the Universe and things that came into being requires no up-keep on our part. By definition and construct, those things ARE FREE!
It only becomes a cost to society when we re-package those resources for others and not ourselves. At which point, the concept of a unit of work comes into play. Once we start talking about the worth of work, resources are no longer free, but subjected to market forces and/or the rule of law (Government).
Yes yes, that sounds all nice and everything including looking at it through a moral and ethical view point. But (and this is very important), you still haven't quantified your "worth" to society by any measurable amount with metrics. A socialist/communist society is unable to do so. Without proper metrics tied to a free market (and a laws that foster a market free), the very system that was built to prevent injustice is the very system that creates it! And that's the problem. Just take a look at the Unions up north. Those folks have been working for a goal that was entirely based on unreasonable expectations (based on free market supply/demand principles). Now that everyone is broke, the chickens have come home to roost.
Prove it! By whom and what standard/s? How would you quantify that?
You see Spun, that's what a capitalism does. It's a dynamic system put into motion and maintained by your fellow man freely. When you go through the Government, you're circumventing this process by forcing money out of one man an into the hands of another. Now, we can debate the moral implications of that. But don't think your special because you now have access to other peoples money through the rule of law.
Let me educate you, for you fail to do it yourself. Here are a few list of "Free" things in life.
1. The Universe
2. The Sun
3. The Earth
4. Light
5. Gravity
Those are all things that we personally never had any investment in, yet reap the rewards for their existence. The concept of "Free" is rarely to be found in the purest form of its intended meaning.
Most like what *really* happened was that a default or weak password was left in place. That, and the servers weren't patched with security updates. By claiming "Spectacular", it makes it sound like their IT group wasn't so incompetent and that it could have happened to anyone. Ya well, well just have to see as the story continues to unfold, if at all.
There's no such thing as a free education to the true sense of the word. Either you end up directly paying for it, or indirectly through taxation. But don't delude yourself thinking education is "free" and the professors are donating their time 24/7 without a paycheck.
Reminds me of Time Machine by H.G. Wells in which technology has become so advanced as to be autonomous surrogate mothers for all of mankind (forget the whole splitting of the race in the story, just providing a basic idea here) thus rendering all of us with idle hands and too much free time. Our current economic model isn't wired for such as paradigm shift. I suspect that's why where having the trouble that were seeing as we are shifting in that direction with technology.
Says the Amish gentleman posting on /.
More like a robotic mannequin with turrets syndrome. Makes me wanna kick its ass. Perhaps they should include features of SlamMan while there at it.
Petrochemicals. Oil isn't just about energy, it provides the raw building blocks for modern industrial goods. You can't replace them with nuclear energy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrochemicals#Petrochemicals_products
If Saudi Arabia falls, yes that very well could fracture the 50 state union.
Among other things, China too once that major real-estate bubble pops in Shanghai. Supposedly, it more than twice as bad as it was here in the US. Once that shoe drops, there will be a domino effect that may start a civil war between civilians, members of the CCP, and PLA. As for Russa, who the hell knows. Can't be pretty for them either.
Fucking Mayans, why did their calendar have to be right?
Did. They DID have their role. Now the situation has been elevated to a whole new level that involves fighting for servival from warfare. Twittering your way to a ceasefire is not likely to happen.
Check out SEAgel. It's lighter than the original Aerogel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoCAxS4vqwQ&feature=related
It's all about the Googlefu. My skill is great, young grasshoppa.
For the money, I highly recommend you get HP ProCurve line. If all you need is a simple un-managed 24-port gigabit switch, check out the V1410-24G. It has a lifetime warranty with next business day replacement. Currently, CDW's going price is $302.99
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914224. In short, stop two services. Windows Update and Background Intelligent Transfer. Next, delete the entire folder called "SoftwareDistribution" located under the root of C:\Windows. Restart both services and try again.
BTW, that folder you deleted will regenerate after starting these services. Don't worry about it.
Look, no system is ideal or perfect. But as long as everyone's lives are improving regardless of acceleration rate based on wealth, that should be the most important. Unfortunately, people being people like to constantly compare what they have with others. I can guarantee you that the poorest in Africa would be abso-fucking-lutely rich living among America's "poor". It's all relative in the eyes of each individual.
I don't know how to solve this problem of disproportional income and whatnot. Part of it is simply supply and demand while another is blind luck and gaming the system. But I do know that we should be careful about throwing out the baby with the bath water. If we as individuals are fueled with so much hate and rage, we could ALL lose everything. And by that time, it's too late to regret what we've already done. And that's my point.