So are you saying prison should be a pleasant experience? Of course it should be unpleasant. It is prison. It needs to be a deterrent to not do crime. What deterrent is there to getting hot meals, medical treatment, satellite tv, playstations, and fully equiped gyms? Make people plow fields or bust rocks like they used to so people actually don't want to go to prison. Criminals have more rights now than the victims, and it is ludicris. Prisoners should have NO rights as far as i am concerned, and torture is quite suitable in many cases in my mind. Definitely not satellite tv.
It seems that most of the revolutionary technology was first developed by the military and then released to the private sector to benefit mankind. Look at nuclear power, computer systems, the Internet, and GPS as just some examples at the top of my head. Although the military will initially benefit, the entire world will benefit in the end from this. The military may develop some cool new technology such as a new propulsion system or a new satellite technology, and that technology will eventually trickle down for others to use as well for non-military uses.
I have noticed that Microsoft has started putting many more PDF files on their own website for some technical documents. What i really find odd is that the pdf files are compressed in some self extracting zip file executable. I dont know why they insist on making it two extra steps and more confusing to read their documentation. Letting me download the pdf file by itself would seem simple enough...
You are right. microsoft is a big cuddly corporation who always does what is best for everybody and makes secure, bug free software. They would never even think about repeadly abusing their power to squash the competition or to prevent anyone with a superior product from entering the market. That is unthinkable!
If you use the allofmp3 explorer software you can tell it exactly how you want the title and id3 information. The software even works just fine under WINE.
There is way too much partisanship in the US now, and people are making stupid laws or saying totally incorrect 'facts' just to spite the other party. It is like high school drama on a much larger level. Being so far on either side that one automatically assumes the other side is wrong and dismissses their ideas without listening to them is just counter-productive. Neither the exterme left or the extreme right side is the way to go, and the solution lies in the middle somewhere. I wish the political people would realize that it is not an 'us vs. them' situation and we are all on the same team despite differences in opinion. Hopefully the leaders in the future will realize everybody needs to work together, and will put the petty differences aside to make real progress.
Yes I do think the kids should be removed from the parents custody, and moved into foster care or the state's custody, or perhaps another relative who will love and care for the children. That is always a touchy subject, and is always hard emotionally on the kids, and people do not want to separate kids from their parents. It will also provide more work for department of children's services workers, who are already severly overworked. It is also hard on the kids to know that their parents do not love them, and they would rather smoke crack than provide dinner, and these kids do deserve a better loving home. The parents who abuse the system should first be given drug rehab to try to get them off the drugs (not cash to pay for rehab... I had a cousin who got a check every month to provide treatment for being an alcoholic, he went to free AA meetings and pocketed the cash to buy booze...) and an effort should be made to try and make them better people. If they still misuse the benefits and show no signs of trying to do better, than the kids definitely need placed in a different environment, and the idiot parents should get very little if any cash every month. Perhaps jail time for some more serious cases is certainly deserved as well. Maybe food delivered to their house instead of cash would solve some problems. While food stamps can be traded for drugs, and cash will always be abused, it would be very hard to barter a loaf of bread and some cheese for crack. I make no claims to have the perfect answer, but I do kow something major needs to be changed. There is far too much abuse of the welfare system now.
Breakfast is also served at school for free. I have also seen bag lunches go home with some kids for the weekends. I know it is a rough life, but the school meals are the only decent meals many kids get because of their stupid parents that misuse the money. The bottom line is that checks should be made on the kids' parents that are on welfare to make sure the kids are getting what they should, and the money is not being misused. Welfare is needed lots of times, but you must admit that it is commonly abused. If there was random drug screening and a periodic check to make sure the money is actually going to the kids accountability for the parents' actions, i think welfare would be abused much less. I know that there are very good people who do not abuse the system, and those people are what the welfare is for. The drug users and people who leave their kids home by themselves while mommy goes out to the club everynight need the government money cut off, or at least benefits majorly decreased. We just cannot go on rewarding this behavior by issuing checks for people not deserving and not using the money properly.
The welfare is used to buy more beer, and the foodstamps are traded for $.50 on the $1 for drugs. The kids still are ignored by the parents and their only food is public school lunches which keeps them from starving. Some people actually do care about their kids, and use the welfare money for its intended purpose, but more often than not, it is used for beer or drug money. I think everyone on welfare should be tested for drug and alcohol abuse. If they show abuse, than welfare should be cut off because it is obvious the money is going elsewhere. The kids will not starve because of the free lunches at school but the deadbeat parents will suffer for their own refusal to help their family. As far as the union of concerned scientists go, there is no way they will give an unbiased opinion. They most certainly a political group under the guise of scientists. Moveon.org would probably give me less biased opinions than these crackpot 'concerned scientists'. Also weren't these 'concerned scientists' the group that said all the hurricanes in Florida were George Bush's fault because of the global warming that supposedly occurred under his administration How do you argue with such nonsense? I cant believe people are so gullible to actually believe such.
The barracuda's work great! I have one filtering mail here and would definitely recommend them. We have had one for about a year. Last month ours went down because of a memory failure i think, and everyone noticed the tremendous increase in spam that they got. The Barracuda service was superior and they had a replacement unit to us first thing the next day with no hassle at all! They have a dummy one set up that you can play with on the internet so you can see the menus and such. It is the best new device we got last year for the company, and it benefits all and keeps our email pretty much spam free and entirely clean of viruses.
Totally OT, but PCP is nasty stuff. Dont mess with it. My cousin was hooked on it. He was driving down the road and somehow got the idea a filling in his tooth was bugged by the government. He grabbed a pair of pliers out of the dash and pulled his tooth out while he was driving. He didnt even know what happened until the next day. He is dead now; he thought he could dodge bullets while on the stuff.
You missed my whole point. Fox was NOT the first to call the election for Bush. In fact it called it for Gore first. CNN and CBS retracted and called it for Bush 4 hours before Fox did. How was there a conspiricy at Fox when they first called it for Gore and retracted 4 hours after two other networks? This is a fact that, among many others, is completely ignored by crackpot Moore to distort reality. And he accuses people of trying to rewrite history in an Orwellian manner when he is the worst offender. What a hypocrite! Take off your tin-foil hat and check out reality.
Actually... If you look at how history really happened and not how it was distorted by asshole Michael Moore, Fox called Bush winning in Flordia after first giving it to Gore. CBS was the first to retract their call, and Fox called it for Bush over 4 hours later. If anything, the networks who called the results for Gore before the polls closed took away Bush votes in the primarly Republican panhandle.
Does anyone know of a way to salvage deleted files on a Linux filesystem? This would be a really great feature, and is probably the only thing keping me from implementing a linux file server. One of the things I just love about Netware as a fileserver is how it uses the entire disk space to keep old files and overwrites them as needed for disk space. Need a deleted file back? No problem at all. A user wants a file from 2 hours and 3 versions of the same file earlier in the same day and you have no tape backup? Too easy. Want to know who deleted the file? It is part of the attributes of the deleted file now. Microsoft has tried copying this feature with the Shadow Copy service on Windows Server 2003, but their implementation is not near as slick or useful as Netware's, and i find it about useless in comparison. I really hope Novell implements this feature into Linux now that they have a large interest in Linux.
Mythbusters also said that spinning a CD-ROM too fast will not cause it to explode, which i have had personaly happen to me. They are using perfect specemins of CD roms with no damage to them to test. This is not a real world situation where some CDs are damaged or are so cheap the easily break. As far as the cell phone causing an explosion, they are using a brand new perfect cell phone also. What about the cell phones that use aftermarket batteries or have been dropped or have other damage. I had a cell phone i dropped in beer once that never quite worked right again. It may have had a short in it that could cause a spark to ignite a fire. I have seen a couple of the mythbusters, but no longer watch them because they ignore such things like the fact all cell phones are not 100% in perfect operating condition and things occur in real world situations that are not accounted for on their show. I know there are a lot of urban myths that are totally false, but i think there is some creedence to the cell phone sparking a fire. I know for a fact that the mythbusters showing it is impossible for a cd to explode by spinning too fast is just plain BS. I have seen it happen. That makes them lose all credibility with me. Im sure if you ask the guy whose cell phone rang and caused a fire he will say the same thing about them.
The US actually has two guys who work for the NIST whose job is to promote the metric system on the american public. Unfortunately, one had to do some quick mental arithmetic when he was asked how much he weighed in kilograms.
This works well for me. I have been using the same two for one special coupon for over two years now and probably got 50 free pizzas from the same non-expiring coupon. I usually split one with my neighbor and we both save lots of cash.
Funny, mine runs fine without the software at all. I've only had problems from them when i DO install their software. I bet I could not install it anyway since all of my computers run linux now. My comcast service works like a champ. I have it NAT'd with an old cisco 1605 router to run 5 computers in my house, sometimes twice that many. Never had as much as a glitch. I always warn people who are new Comcast customers to not install their software. It works much better without it.
i installed 9.1 last night and the nforce2 net drivers work great. I was also amazed that it picked up my usb flash disk reader without any extra configuration at all. It works like a champ from i can tell so far
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it should be easy enough... Just have the BT client check for the evil bit.
So are you saying prison should be a pleasant experience? Of course it should be unpleasant. It is prison. It needs to be a deterrent to not do crime. What deterrent is there to getting hot meals, medical treatment, satellite tv, playstations, and fully equiped gyms? Make people plow fields or bust rocks like they used to so people actually don't want to go to prison. Criminals have more rights now than the victims, and it is ludicris. Prisoners should have NO rights as far as i am concerned, and torture is quite suitable in many cases in my mind. Definitely not satellite tv.
This may be just the media we needed for Duke Nukem Forever to fit on and be released!
It seems that most of the revolutionary technology was first developed by the military and then released to the private sector to benefit mankind. Look at nuclear power, computer systems, the Internet, and GPS as just some examples at the top of my head. Although the military will initially benefit, the entire world will benefit in the end from this. The military may develop some cool new technology such as a new propulsion system or a new satellite technology, and that technology will eventually trickle down for others to use as well for non-military uses.
I have noticed that Microsoft has started putting many more PDF files on their own website for some technical documents. What i really find odd is that the pdf files are compressed in some self extracting zip file executable. I dont know why they insist on making it two extra steps and more confusing to read their documentation. Letting me download the pdf file by itself would seem simple enough...
actually a gentoo is a type of small quick penguin. check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo_Penguin They only wear the red hats for formal nights.
You are right. microsoft is a big cuddly corporation who always does what is best for everybody and makes secure, bug free software. They would never even think about repeadly abusing their power to squash the competition or to prevent anyone with a superior product from entering the market. That is unthinkable!
Another problem I have is the SIS chipset they used. SIS=Satan In System. SIS+ECS=POS
If you use the allofmp3 explorer software you can tell it exactly how you want the title and id3 information. The software even works just fine under WINE.
There is way too much partisanship in the US now, and people are making stupid laws or saying totally incorrect 'facts' just to spite the other party. It is like high school drama on a much larger level. Being so far on either side that one automatically assumes the other side is wrong and dismissses their ideas without listening to them is just counter-productive. Neither the exterme left or the extreme right side is the way to go, and the solution lies in the middle somewhere. I wish the political people would realize that it is not an 'us vs. them' situation and we are all on the same team despite differences in opinion. Hopefully the leaders in the future will realize everybody needs to work together, and will put the petty differences aside to make real progress.
Yes I do think the kids should be removed from the parents custody, and moved into foster care or the state's custody, or perhaps another relative who will love and care for the children. That is always a touchy subject, and is always hard emotionally on the kids, and people do not want to separate kids from their parents. It will also provide more work for department of children's services workers, who are already severly overworked. It is also hard on the kids to know that their parents do not love them, and they would rather smoke crack than provide dinner, and these kids do deserve a better loving home. The parents who abuse the system should first be given drug rehab to try to get them off the drugs (not cash to pay for rehab... I had a cousin who got a check every month to provide treatment for being an alcoholic, he went to free AA meetings and pocketed the cash to buy booze...) and an effort should be made to try and make them better people. If they still misuse the benefits and show no signs of trying to do better, than the kids definitely need placed in a different environment, and the idiot parents should get very little if any cash every month. Perhaps jail time for some more serious cases is certainly deserved as well. Maybe food delivered to their house instead of cash would solve some problems. While food stamps can be traded for drugs, and cash will always be abused, it would be very hard to barter a loaf of bread and some cheese for crack. I make no claims to have the perfect answer, but I do kow something major needs to be changed. There is far too much abuse of the welfare system now.
Breakfast is also served at school for free. I have also seen bag lunches go home with some kids for the weekends. I know it is a rough life, but the school meals are the only decent meals many kids get because of their stupid parents that misuse the money. The bottom line is that checks should be made on the kids' parents that are on welfare to make sure the kids are getting what they should, and the money is not being misused. Welfare is needed lots of times, but you must admit that it is commonly abused. If there was random drug screening and a periodic check to make sure the money is actually going to the kids accountability for the parents' actions, i think welfare would be abused much less. I know that there are very good people who do not abuse the system, and those people are what the welfare is for. The drug users and people who leave their kids home by themselves while mommy goes out to the club everynight need the government money cut off, or at least benefits majorly decreased. We just cannot go on rewarding this behavior by issuing checks for people not deserving and not using the money properly.
The welfare is used to buy more beer, and the foodstamps are traded for $.50 on the $1 for drugs. The kids still are ignored by the parents and their only food is public school lunches which keeps them from starving. Some people actually do care about their kids, and use the welfare money for its intended purpose, but more often than not, it is used for beer or drug money. I think everyone on welfare should be tested for drug and alcohol abuse. If they show abuse, than welfare should be cut off because it is obvious the money is going elsewhere. The kids will not starve because of the free lunches at school but the deadbeat parents will suffer for their own refusal to help their family. As far as the union of concerned scientists go, there is no way they will give an unbiased opinion. They most certainly a political group under the guise of scientists. Moveon.org would probably give me less biased opinions than these crackpot 'concerned scientists'. Also weren't these 'concerned scientists' the group that said all the hurricanes in Florida were George Bush's fault because of the global warming that supposedly occurred under his administration How do you argue with such nonsense? I cant believe people are so gullible to actually believe such.
Another use for LISP is AutoCAD programming. I still think LIPS means 'Lost In Stupid Parenthesis'...
The barracuda's work great! I have one filtering mail here and would definitely recommend them. We have had one for about a year. Last month ours went down because of a memory failure i think, and everyone noticed the tremendous increase in spam that they got. The Barracuda service was superior and they had a replacement unit to us first thing the next day with no hassle at all! They have a dummy one set up that you can play with on the internet so you can see the menus and such. It is the best new device we got last year for the company, and it benefits all and keeps our email pretty much spam free and entirely clean of viruses.
Totally OT, but PCP is nasty stuff. Dont mess with it. My cousin was hooked on it. He was driving down the road and somehow got the idea a filling in his tooth was bugged by the government. He grabbed a pair of pliers out of the dash and pulled his tooth out while he was driving. He didnt even know what happened until the next day. He is dead now; he thought he could dodge bullets while on the stuff.
You missed my whole point. Fox was NOT the first to call the election for Bush. In fact it called it for Gore first. CNN and CBS retracted and called it for Bush 4 hours before Fox did. How was there a conspiricy at Fox when they first called it for Gore and retracted 4 hours after two other networks? This is a fact that, among many others, is completely ignored by crackpot Moore to distort reality. And he accuses people of trying to rewrite history in an Orwellian manner when he is the worst offender. What a hypocrite! Take off your tin-foil hat and check out reality.
Actually... If you look at how history really happened and not how it was distorted by asshole Michael Moore, Fox called Bush winning in Flordia after first giving it to Gore. CBS was the first to retract their call, and Fox called it for Bush over 4 hours later. If anything, the networks who called the results for Gore before the polls closed took away Bush votes in the primarly Republican panhandle.
Does anyone know of a way to salvage deleted files on a Linux filesystem? This would be a really great feature, and is probably the only thing keping me from implementing a linux file server. One of the things I just love about Netware as a fileserver is how it uses the entire disk space to keep old files and overwrites them as needed for disk space. Need a deleted file back? No problem at all. A user wants a file from 2 hours and 3 versions of the same file earlier in the same day and you have no tape backup? Too easy. Want to know who deleted the file? It is part of the attributes of the deleted file now. Microsoft has tried copying this feature with the Shadow Copy service on Windows Server 2003, but their implementation is not near as slick or useful as Netware's, and i find it about useless in comparison. I really hope Novell implements this feature into Linux now that they have a large interest in Linux.
...and dont forget that a laser was bounced off the moon as well to measure the distance to the moon very accurately and test Einstein's theory of gravity... How did a laser bounce off the mirror placed on the moon if it the moon landing was hoaxed?
Mythbusters also said that spinning a CD-ROM too fast will not cause it to explode, which i have had personaly happen to me. They are using perfect specemins of CD roms with no damage to them to test. This is not a real world situation where some CDs are damaged or are so cheap the easily break. As far as the cell phone causing an explosion, they are using a brand new perfect cell phone also. What about the cell phones that use aftermarket batteries or have been dropped or have other damage. I had a cell phone i dropped in beer once that never quite worked right again. It may have had a short in it that could cause a spark to ignite a fire. I have seen a couple of the mythbusters, but no longer watch them because they ignore such things like the fact all cell phones are not 100% in perfect operating condition and things occur in real world situations that are not accounted for on their show. I know there are a lot of urban myths that are totally false, but i think there is some creedence to the cell phone sparking a fire. I know for a fact that the mythbusters showing it is impossible for a cd to explode by spinning too fast is just plain BS. I have seen it happen. That makes them lose all credibility with me. Im sure if you ask the guy whose cell phone rang and caused a fire he will say the same thing about them.
The US actually has two guys who work for the NIST whose job is to promote the metric system on the american public. Unfortunately, one had to do some quick mental arithmetic when he was asked how much he weighed in kilograms.
This works well for me. I have been using the same two for one special coupon for over two years now and probably got 50 free pizzas from the same non-expiring coupon. I usually split one with my neighbor and we both save lots of cash.
Funny, mine runs fine without the software at all. I've only had problems from them when i DO install their software. I bet I could not install it anyway since all of my computers run linux now. My comcast service works like a champ. I have it NAT'd with an old cisco 1605 router to run 5 computers in my house, sometimes twice that many. Never had as much as a glitch. I always warn people who are new Comcast customers to not install their software. It works much better without it.
i installed 9.1 last night and the nforce2 net drivers work great. I was also amazed that it picked up my usb flash disk reader without any extra configuration at all. It works like a champ from i can tell so far