Time Warner Cable is already offering Digital Phone (VOIP), Cable, Internet Acess, and rumored cell phone access supporting multi-media content. Thus, seeing that the telcos feeling the pressure of competition it is only natural to see two different network providers compete in the same arena of utility service and entertainment.
Give if 4 years. Soon you won't notice the difference between TWC, COX Cable, and the Telcos. They will all be wrapped up in the same industry with the exception of the technology they use behind the scenes.
Will never happen. Slashdot is full of liberal hive-mind people. They mod anything that bashes the US or Bush. WTF were you thinking!!!??? DDUuuuuhhhhhhhhhh. It so obvious that Slashdot is now degenerated into nothing more then a political flamwar front.
The French?? What??? They will be rebuilding the Concord that flys at Mach 10? You don't say eh..... hmmmm
Maybe they will call it the "Phoenix".
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He does not have a SNR problem. The signal is weak, but clean. Also, the higher your frequency the more problems you will have it going through solid objects. So for range, B and G is better. What he might want to try is changing the channel on his wireless.
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So? Just string it across the street. Just be sure to patch it up once every few hours due to auto traffic;-p
Uhhh... that comment about "Red States" was totally condescending, arrogant, and incorrect. Basicaly, pure fallacy.
Second, you've never worked in customer service have you? I've met many many dumb people, and I mean really stupid people! Honestly, I would say that intellegence has no correlation to political leanings. If anything, politics is motivated by feelings and pride of social association. It's all about taking sides in any dichotomy as a "them vs they" mindset.
Would be evil to sell a product to someone that is stupid? Shouldn't the problem rest on personal responsibility? If your smart enough to earn money in a free market, then surely your smart enough to spend it wisely.
FORMER HEAD OF CIA'S OSAMA BIN LADEN UNIT SAYS THE QAEDA LEADER HAS SECURED RELIGIOUS APPROVAL TO USE A NUCLEAR BOMB AGAINST AMERICANS Fri Nov 12 2004 12:02:34 ET
Osama bin Laden now has religious approval to use a nuclear device against Americans, says the former head of the CIA unit charged with tracking down the Saudi terrorist. The former agent, Michael Scheuer, speaks to Steve Kroft in his first television interview without disguise to be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday, Nov. 14 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
Scheuer was until recently known as the "anonymous" author of two books critical of the West's response to bin Laden and al Qaeda, the most recent of which is titled Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror. No one in the West knows more about the Qaeda leader than Scheuer, who has tracked him since the mid-1980s. The CIA allowed him to write the books provided he remain anonymous, but now is allowing him to reveal himself for the first time on Sunday's broadcast; he formally leaves the Agency today (12).
Even if bin Laden had a nuclear weapon, he probably wouldn't have used it for a lack of proper religious authority - authority he has now. "[Bin Laden] secured from a Saudi sheik...a rather long treatise on the possibility of using nuclear weapons against the Americans," says Scheuer. "[The treatise] found that he was perfectly within his rights to use them. Muslims argue that the United States is responsible for millions of dead Muslims around the world, so reciprocity would mean you could kill millions of Americans," Scheuer tells Kroft.
Scheuer says bin Laden was criticized by some Muslims for the 9/11 attack because he killed so many people without enough warning and before offering to help convert them to Islam. But now bin Laden has addressed the American people and given fair warning. "They're intention is to end the war as soon as they can and to ratchet up the pain for the Americans until we get out of their region....If they acquire the weapon, they will use it, whether it's chemical, biological or some sort of nuclear weapon," says Scheuer.
As the head of the CIA unit charged with tracking bin Laden from 1996 to 1999, Scheuer says he never had enough people to do the job right. He blames former CIA Director George Tenet. "One of the questions that should have been asked of Mr. Tenet was why were there always enough people for the public relations office, for the academic outreach office, for the diversity and multi-cultural office? All those things are admirable and necessary but none of them are protecting the American people from a foreign threat," says Scheuer.
And the threat posed by bin Laden is also underestimated, says Scheuer. "I think our leaders over the last decade have done the American people a disservice...continuing to characterize Osama bin Laden as a thug, as a gangster," he says. "Until we respect him, sir, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary, yes. He's a very, very talented man and a very worthy opponent," he tells Kroft.
Until today (12), Scheuer was a senior official in the CIA's counter terrorism unit and a special advisor to the head of the agency's bin Laden unit.
Honestly, I don't think so. With planned economies, they are doomed to fail or be locked in with governmental control and power. The Soviet Union was a prime example of what it historically intended to be, but rather turned sour with corruption.
Obviously capitalist societies are not perfect (far from it), but it's the best system we have yet that I know of.
This is exactly what I've been saying for some time. Untill the world reaches an ecconomic equilibrium, western civilization will be at a lull untill 3rd world catches up to our standard of living...or untill we drop down to meet theirs at some halfway point.
I don't have any answers to this issue. As much as I would like to rant and rave about how parts of this world has gone hell in a handbasket, there is nothing I can do about what happens in Africa or Asia. But one thing is for sure, I'm starting to think a simple life is a better life. Maybe...just maybe I should just drop all this high-tech industry stuff and just be a local farmer. I would be piss poor. But then again, what the use of money if I will end up spending it again on medical bills from all my long years of stress i've accumulated in my lifetime.
Irronic isn't it? At first we fought slavery. Now, we are fighting slavery put forth on our selves.
85 hour work weeks?! To hell with that. I respect any programmer that works those kinda hours, because I sure as hell would never do it. And if you do it's because of
A. You have debt and family. B. Passion for your line of work.
I sure hope it's B. If programming is that stressfull, I would look into another line of work. I can't see much in quality of life in this.
As far as Communism is concerned, it merely underwent some transformations and is alive and well, last time seen spending lavishly in China while sipping Martinis.
I dunno what your smoking, but I want some of it. Now before you go about praising China to be some great utopia, maybe you should do some reading. It's OK, just a *little*. Here, let me help you help yourself with a provided link.
http://www.freedomhouse.org/research/freeworld/200 4/countryratings/china.htm
Why not just melt and infuse the waste as a solution into leaded glass rods? That way, no matter how many times they crack, the lead will absorb the radiation from the near by atoms.
I agree 100% that we need to conserve energy. But in the mean time, we had better find ways to replace the vast amounts of energy we currently get from oil. It's more realistic to start looking for energy solutions then to tell people "Sorry, your going to have to make due with less". Then again, if we don't conserve energy now I fear with it be forced apon us.
Be it Wind, Ethanol, Solar, or Nuclear; we had better get our act togeather now. Though I'm a Bush supporter, he better start seeing the handwriting on the wall. Oil WILL run out, so we better start setting into motion the infrastructure to support alternative energy sources at the local state level.
It's my personal theory that no matter how much scientific evidence is thrown in their face, the right wingers will continue to shut their eyes, plug their ears, and pretend that they can consume as many resources as they want, indefinitely, with no consequences.
This mindset is not just of "right winger" ideology, but rather most if not all of the modern western world. In fact, I would love to see you interview just "liberals" and ask them how they can live their life without hot water, TV, computer, a transporation, prepaired food, air conditioning, cheap shelter, pharmaceuticals, and a place to defecate. I'm willing to bet they are all talk talk talk. But when pushed to the lifestyle prior to the 1800s in which days you had to work 14 hours just to farm, cook, and cloth youselves....you will be hearing people scream bloody murder at the greenies for such worthless way of life compaired to what they are used to now.
The fact is, never in human history have we lived such an opulent lifestyle thanks in part to cheap energy. Without it, we will be doing all the work up close and personal rather then relying machinery and robotics to do it for us.
...to start the revolution. One such as myself would argue that Humanity is natures next step in evolution for the entire planet. Just as Oxygen once was the poison of the planet, it is now the life giver. And just as humanity is putting stress on this planet, all other lifeforms that can adapt...will.
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Time Warner Cable is already offering Digital Phone (VOIP), Cable, Internet Acess, and rumored cell phone access supporting multi-media content. Thus, seeing that the telcos feeling the pressure of competition it is only natural to see two different network providers compete in the same arena of utility service and entertainment.
Give if 4 years. Soon you won't notice the difference between TWC, COX Cable, and the Telcos. They will all be wrapped up in the same industry with the exception of the technology they use behind the scenes.
Why yes, I do work for TWC.
Will never happen. Slashdot is full of liberal hive-mind people. They mod anything that bashes the US or Bush. WTF were you thinking!!!??? DDUuuuuhhhhhhhhhh. It so obvious that Slashdot is now degenerated into nothing more then a political flamwar front.
And the UN helped. Now before I get modded, PLEASE read this.
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http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/middle
The French?? What??? They will be rebuilding the Concord that flys at Mach 10? You don't say eh..... hmmmm
Maybe they will call it the "Phoenix".
He does not have a SNR problem. The signal is weak, but clean. Also, the higher your frequency the more problems you will have it going through solid objects. So for range, B and G is better. What he might want to try is changing the channel on his wireless.
So? Just string it across the street. Just be sure to patch it up once every few hours due to auto traffic ;-p
Uhhh... that comment about "Red States" was totally condescending, arrogant, and incorrect. Basicaly, pure fallacy.
Second, you've never worked in customer service have you? I've met many many dumb people, and I mean really stupid people! Honestly, I would say that intellegence has no correlation to political leanings. If anything, politics is motivated by feelings and pride of social association. It's all about taking sides in any dichotomy as a "them vs they" mindset.
He cut water for irrigation and thus caused massive enviromental distruction.
Second: We dont bomb farmland. We drop bombs with the precision to go through an open window of a building.
Repeat after me. "We do not use WW2 tactics and technology"
I'll play devils advocate...
Would be evil to sell a product to someone that is stupid? Shouldn't the problem rest on personal responsibility? If your smart enough to earn money in a free market, then surely your smart enough to spend it wisely.
Fight Club man....we need to take notes from that movie.
Burn that data warehouse. Yaaahhh!!
From the drudge report. (cut/paste)
FORMER HEAD OF CIA'S OSAMA BIN LADEN UNIT SAYS THE QAEDA LEADER HAS SECURED RELIGIOUS APPROVAL TO USE A NUCLEAR BOMB AGAINST AMERICANS
Fri Nov 12 2004 12:02:34 ET
Osama bin Laden now has religious approval to use a nuclear device against Americans, says the former head of the CIA unit charged with tracking down the Saudi terrorist. The former agent, Michael Scheuer, speaks to Steve Kroft in his first television interview without disguise to be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday, Nov. 14 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
Scheuer was until recently known as the "anonymous" author of two books critical of the West's response to bin Laden and al Qaeda, the most recent of which is titled Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror. No one in the West knows more about the Qaeda leader than Scheuer, who has tracked him since the mid-1980s. The CIA allowed him to write the books provided he remain anonymous, but now is allowing him to reveal himself for the first time on Sunday's broadcast; he formally leaves the Agency today (12).
Even if bin Laden had a nuclear weapon, he probably wouldn't have used it for a lack of proper religious authority - authority he has now. "[Bin Laden] secured from a Saudi sheik...a rather long treatise on the possibility of using nuclear weapons against the Americans," says Scheuer. "[The treatise] found that he was perfectly within his rights to use them. Muslims argue that the United States is responsible for millions of dead Muslims around the world, so reciprocity would mean you could kill millions of Americans," Scheuer tells Kroft.
Scheuer says bin Laden was criticized by some Muslims for the 9/11 attack because he killed so many people without enough warning and before offering to help convert them to Islam. But now bin Laden has addressed the American people and given fair warning. "They're intention is to end the war as soon as they can and to ratchet up the pain for the Americans until we get out of their region....If they acquire the weapon, they will use it, whether it's chemical, biological or some sort of nuclear weapon," says Scheuer.
As the head of the CIA unit charged with tracking bin Laden from 1996 to 1999, Scheuer says he never had enough people to do the job right. He blames former CIA Director George Tenet. "One of the questions that should have been asked of Mr. Tenet was why were there always enough people for the public relations office, for the academic outreach office, for the diversity and multi-cultural office? All those things are admirable and necessary but none of them are protecting the American people from a foreign threat," says Scheuer.
And the threat posed by bin Laden is also underestimated, says Scheuer. "I think our leaders over the last decade have done the American people a disservice...continuing to characterize Osama bin Laden as a thug, as a gangster," he says. "Until we respect him, sir, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary, yes. He's a very, very talented man and a very worthy opponent," he tells Kroft.
Until today (12), Scheuer was a senior official in the CIA's counter terrorism unit and a special advisor to the head of the agency's bin Laden unit.
Developing...
Personally, I would rather piss on it. *grin*
Honestly, I don't think so. With planned economies, they are doomed to fail or be locked in with governmental control and power. The Soviet Union was a prime example of what it historically intended to be, but rather turned sour with corruption.
Obviously capitalist societies are not perfect (far from it), but it's the best system we have yet that I know of.
This is exactly what I've been saying for some time. Untill the world reaches an ecconomic equilibrium, western civilization will be at a lull untill 3rd world catches up to our standard of living...or untill we drop down to meet theirs at some halfway point.
I don't have any answers to this issue. As much as I would like to rant and rave about how parts of this world has gone hell in a handbasket, there is nothing I can do about what happens in Africa or Asia. But one thing is for sure, I'm starting to think a simple life is a better life. Maybe...just maybe I should just drop all this high-tech industry stuff and just be a local farmer. I would be piss poor. But then again, what the use of money if I will end up spending it again on medical bills from all my long years of stress i've accumulated in my lifetime.
Irronic isn't it? At first we fought slavery. Now, we are fighting slavery put forth on our selves.
Quick quick!! Someone photoshop the CPU sinking into a bed of quicksand. Make sure you get the camara angle just right for the parody.
Looks like I will be moving to the AMD 64bit platform for my next PC upgrade.
Intel, I loved ya from the very beginning. But AMD is offering greener pastures. Hope you can respond in kind to the market.
Everyone knows you can't go faster then Warp 10. These folks at Nasa have such an imagination! Puhhhlease!!!
85 hour work weeks?! To hell with that. I respect any programmer that works those kinda hours, because I sure as hell would never do it. And if you do it's because of
A. You have debt and family.
B. Passion for your line of work.
I sure hope it's B. If programming is that stressfull, I would look into another line of work. I can't see much in quality of life in this.
As far as Communism is concerned, it merely underwent some transformations and is alive and well, last time seen spending lavishly in China while sipping Martinis.0 4/countryratings/china.htm
I dunno what your smoking, but I want some of it. Now before you go about praising China to be some great utopia, maybe you should do some reading. It's OK, just a *little*. Here, let me help you help yourself with a provided link.
http://www.freedomhouse.org/research/freeworld/20
It's called WAR dumbass! Duh, when the british invaded America, we had the right to kick their ass and claim independence.
Obviously America does not have a clean record. But name me just ONE major country that does?
Hint: trick question, there is no such country.
Why not just melt and infuse the waste as a solution into leaded glass rods? That way, no matter how many times they crack, the lead will absorb the radiation from the near by atoms.
He blocked it? OK, this I have to read for myself. Please post some sources. One would be enough.
I agree 100% that we need to conserve energy. But in the mean time, we had better find ways to replace the vast amounts of energy we currently get from oil. It's more realistic to start looking for energy solutions then to tell people "Sorry, your going to have to make due with less". Then again, if we don't conserve energy now I fear with it be forced apon us.
Be it Wind, Ethanol, Solar, or Nuclear; we had better get our act togeather now. Though I'm a Bush supporter, he better start seeing the handwriting on the wall. Oil WILL run out, so we better start setting into motion the infrastructure to support alternative energy sources at the local state level.
It's my personal theory that no matter how much scientific evidence is thrown in their face, the right wingers will continue to shut their eyes, plug their ears, and pretend that they can consume as many resources as they want, indefinitely, with no consequences.
This mindset is not just of "right winger" ideology, but rather most if not all of the modern western world. In fact, I would love to see you interview just "liberals" and ask them how they can live their life without hot water, TV, computer, a transporation, prepaired food, air conditioning, cheap shelter, pharmaceuticals, and a place to defecate. I'm willing to bet they are all talk talk talk. But when pushed to the lifestyle prior to the 1800s in which days you had to work 14 hours just to farm, cook, and cloth youselves....you will be hearing people scream bloody murder at the greenies for such worthless way of life compaired to what they are used to now.
The fact is, never in human history have we lived such an opulent lifestyle thanks in part to cheap energy. Without it, we will be doing all the work up close and personal rather then relying machinery and robotics to do it for us.
...to start the revolution. One such as myself would argue that Humanity is natures next step in evolution for the entire planet. Just as Oxygen once was the poison of the planet, it is now the life giver. And just as humanity is putting stress on this planet, all other lifeforms that can adapt...will.