While I agree mostly agree with you, I think more blogs is actually a good idea. This is the free market taken to the extreme. Everybody gets a shot at it for almost no cost, but only the cream will float to the top and the crud will get tossed (eventually).
When the web first started to get popular, my home page said "99% of the internet is crap, but that 99% is different for each person." I believe this is still true and is easily applied to blogs. My own blog, The Moderate Fringe is crap to 99% of the online population, but 1% actually likes what I have to say...
Ok. ok. It's crap to 99.99% of them, but that 0.001% really, really likes it!
Would you settle for 0.0000001% can tolerate it?
One guy in Des Moines who only gets slightly nauseated?
I'm using exim + exiscan-acl + spamassassin + clamav. My server rarely lets spam get past, and I the last time a virus slipped through was because it beat the database update by about 30 minutes.
Ok, I phrased it badly. The point I was trying to make was that doing nothing but playing computer games was not going to help you become a game developer. Of course you need to play _some_ games, just don't let it take all the time better spent studying the various academic fields that will help you create a well rounded, robust, and exciting game.
Having worked in the computer game industry I can safely say, "playing a bunch of computer games in no way prepares you for a job in creating games."
You heard me right. Book learning is much more useful. Math and science are useful for doing technical stuff like optimizing the display and creating realistic physics. Other non-computer fields are useful, too. Sociology, geography, statistics, etc. The list goes on.
Spending all your time playing computer games means you are only familiar with WHAT HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE.
For a while I was a trail guide on the weekends. I would spend 8 hours in the saddle taking out tourists in a very beautiful forest (Kids, don't try this at home! I'm a trained professional!).
I didn't do it for the money. In fact, I normally gave my tips to the other trail guides since my regular tech job paid extremely well while the income for the full time trail guides was rather meager. I did it to get away from computers, get some saddle time, and for the exercise (yes, horseback riding is good exercise).
Unfortunately, I've since moved too far from the trails to go there regularly and I can no longer afford to lease a horse due to the tech crash (I was laid off). So now my saddle sits in the living room gathering dust (all serious riders own their own saddles).:(
You are so busy trying to come up with lame insults that you overlooked the simple facts. I'll try to use short words so as to not confuse you...
Most broadband ISPs issue "persistent" dynamic ip addresses. That means you generally get the same ip address day after day, even though you shutdown/reboot your computer regularly. For them to assign these persistent dynamic ip addresses, they need to have enough of them for all their customers. In other words, there has to be enough ip address to go around. All they need to do is properly assign label a block as static for the small percentage of people who need them.
So I should tolerate spam from dynamic IP addresses because a few legitimate people don't want to bother with getting a decent ISP that will issue a proper static? I block mail from all dynamic IP addresses. I don't try to play whack-a-mole with bad ones.
If you are on a dynamic smarthost through your ISP -- and if you can't figure out how to do that, you have no business running a mail server.
I agree with everything you say except for the part about the power of the teacher union. Here in California, the teacher's union is one of the most powerful lobbying groups in the state.
That's what they kept saying about the schools in California. More money! More money!. So we tossed huge amounts of money into our schools. Scores went down. The problem isn't funding. The problem is a powerful teacher's union that refuses to allow any type of teacher standards to be implemented.
Yeah, let's have the Federal government take over all local schools. That way they can also achieve the high standards of the Washington D.C. school district.
I'm a libertarian, but Badnarik is a bit of a loon. The libertarian party needs to present more respectable candidates if they ever want to gain any popularity.
socialism lets you get maximum buying power and save money
I don't want to be insulting, but... Are you a complete idiot?
In practice, socialism guarantees a broken implementation of whatever you are doing, with a massive cost far above what commericial interests would do it for. Since socialism does not have to justify the expensive and make a profit, there is absolutely zero incentive to keep costs at a reasonable level. After all, you can always steal^H^H^H^H^H tax the people to cover the waste.
In San Francisco, this is even more so. The entrenched socialistic system is so wasteful that even when the city is WAY beyond being broke, they want to add yet another "freebie". Since I can do basic math, I know it isn't free and I know who actually pays for it. I'm so glad I chose not to live in The City.
I found everything I needed to create a streaming jukebox-like server in the open source world. I use Apache + mod_musicindex to provide an acceptable user interface. The music is streamed via Icecast. For ripping on the Windows side I prefer Audiograbber because it will rip directly to ogg. It's not opensource, but it is freeware.
The interface provided by mod_musicindex could use some improvement, but is friendly enough to use and allows for playing or shuffling everything, by artist, and by album, as well as custom playlists. Since it is opensource, I could always tweak the parts of the interface I dislike, but it's not such a big deal that I have bothered.
I can access my music from any computer with a decent player (e.g. winamp 5 on a Windows box), so I can listen to my entire collection (that I've ripped) from work (yes, I have enough bandwidth). To keep the the RIAA off my back, access from outside my home network requires a username and password.
Unfortunately, this solution isn't possible for someone unfamiliar with Linux and Apache. Plus, Icecast can be a bitch to configure properly.
And you will provide us with a proof of this acccusation right now.
Since you are not intelligent enough to do a simple google, here you are: Oil for Food Scandal.
Typical socialist attitude, "big oil, big tobacco, no proof, but it MUST be true." While major evidence against their pet socialist pussies is denounced.
I guess you missed the extremely obvious fact that we get NO OIL from Iraq. If we wanted oil, there are a lot of cheaper ways to get it than by freeing a country from a bloodthirsty despot.
Big oil and big tobacco? God, you need more foil in your hat.
I see you completely ignored the fact that officials from France, Germany, and Russia were taking massive bribes so that Saddam could get around the U.N. imposed sanctions. Of course they were against the U.S. actually enforcing the U.N. resolutions. It derailed their gravy train.
<RANT> The U.S. tossed out of the U.N.? Fuck that. How about we toss the U.N. out of New York?
Why don't we do exactly what Europe is demanding and stop "interferring" with other countries. That means we yank our troops out of Europe. That means we dump all the subsidies and loans - which measure in tens of billions. That means Europe and the rest of the world have to actually defend their own damn country instead of using the money for failed social programs. Sounds good to me.
There is not a single country in Europe that can field an army sufficient to defend itself (the UK isn't in Europe so our British friends can hold off yelling at me). You castrated your armies because you knew the U.S. would help you if necessary. As thanks, most of Europe stuck a knife in our back.
If I didn't believe most Europeans are basically good and don't hate us, unlike their political leaders, I would wish another European war on them. Those ancient hatreds are still there, just hidden. One day they will errupt like an infected boil. Then you'll want us to drag our asses back over there to fix things again. And you know what? We'll do it. Because despite how you have treated us, we will still do the right thing.
The difference is whether the civilians were purposely targeted or if there was a gross disregard for the safety of civilians. The U.S. military went out of it's way to avoid civilian casualties, more so than any other conflict in the history of the world. Of course there were civilian casualties. Only a fool would expect there not to be. Name a single war where civilians weren't killed.
Terrorists, on the other hand, almost always target civilians. Those Hamas fucks especially like to target women and children. One example, they had a bomb planted in a road (this was in Israel). They waited until a military vehicle passed, which is a legitimate target, and detonated the bomb when a school bus (filled with children) was in position.
Anyone who would call those animals "militants" is an idiot. They are terrorists. They are less than human. They need killing.
Spelling doesn't work. The average computer user either can't spell or can't type and doesn't bother to use a spellchecker in email. I did small study on spell checking as an anti-spam tool and was somewhat disappointed by the results.
I have one of these at home as my server (running Linux, of course). I've never had a single problem with it. My wife has one as her windows workstation at her office (on my recommendation). Finally, I have one of these at my office doubling as a low volume server and a workstation (again, Linux). Even though I use it as my second workstation, it's never stressed.
In all three cases, I had them configured without a floppy drive. USB drives such as my Laks watch are the way to go!
These babies have everything you need for a workstation UNLESS you need high end graphics. There's room inside for a video card different, but I wonder how it would handle the load.
I don't know why people bother buying full height tower systems with tons of expansion space. What exactly are you going to do with 9 pci slots?
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While I agree mostly agree with you, I think more blogs is actually a good idea. This is the free market taken to the extreme. Everybody gets a shot at it for almost no cost, but only the cream will float to the top and the crud will get tossed (eventually).
When the web first started to get popular, my home page said "99% of the internet is crap, but that 99% is different for each person." I believe this is still true and is easily applied to blogs. My own blog, The Moderate Fringe is crap to 99% of the online population, but 1% actually likes what I have to say...
Ok. ok. It's crap to 99.99% of them, but that 0.001% really, really likes it!
Would you settle for 0.0000001% can tolerate it?
One guy in Des Moines who only gets slightly nauseated?
I'm using exim + exiscan-acl + spamassassin + clamav. My server rarely lets spam get past, and I the last time a virus slipped through was because it beat the database update by about 30 minutes.
Ok, I phrased it badly. The point I was trying to make was that doing nothing but playing computer games was not going to help you become a game developer. Of course you need to play _some_ games, just don't let it take all the time better spent studying the various academic fields that will help you create a well rounded, robust, and exciting game.
Having worked in the computer game industry I can safely say, "playing a bunch of computer games in no way prepares you for a job in creating games."
You heard me right. Book learning is much more useful. Math and science are useful for doing technical stuff like optimizing the display and creating realistic physics. Other non-computer fields are useful, too. Sociology, geography, statistics, etc. The list goes on.
Spending all your time playing computer games means you are only familiar with WHAT HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE.
For a while I was a trail guide on the weekends. I would spend 8 hours in the saddle taking out tourists in a very beautiful forest (Kids, don't try this at home! I'm a trained professional!).
:(
I didn't do it for the money. In fact, I normally gave my tips to the other trail guides since my regular tech job paid extremely well while the income for the full time trail guides was rather meager. I did it to get away from computers, get some saddle time, and for the exercise (yes, horseback riding is good exercise).
Unfortunately, I've since moved too far from the trails to go there regularly and I can no longer afford to lease a horse due to the tech crash (I was laid off). So now my saddle sits in the living room gathering dust (all serious riders own their own saddles).
You are so busy trying to come up with lame insults that you overlooked the simple facts. I'll try to use short words so as to not confuse you...
Most broadband ISPs issue "persistent" dynamic ip addresses. That means you generally get the same ip address day after day, even though you shutdown/reboot your computer regularly. For them to assign these persistent dynamic ip addresses, they need to have enough of them for all their customers. In other words, there has to be enough ip address to go around. All they need to do is properly assign label a block as static for the small percentage of people who need them.
So I should tolerate spam from dynamic IP addresses because a few legitimate people don't want to bother with getting a decent ISP that will issue a proper static? I block mail from all dynamic IP addresses. I don't try to play whack-a-mole with bad ones.
If you are on a dynamic smarthost through your ISP -- and if you can't figure out how to do that, you have no business running a mail server.
I agree with everything you say except for the part about the power of the teacher union. Here in California, the teacher's union is one of the most powerful lobbying groups in the state.
California spends close to the top per student compared to all states. We placed 49th in overall scores the last time I checked.
That's what they kept saying about the schools in California. More money! More money!. So we tossed huge amounts of money into our schools. Scores went down. The problem isn't funding. The problem is a powerful teacher's union that refuses to allow any type of teacher standards to be implemented.
Yeah, let's have the Federal government take over all local schools. That way they can also achieve the high standards of the Washington D.C. school district.
I'm a libertarian, but Badnarik is a bit of a loon. The libertarian party needs to present more respectable candidates if they ever want to gain any popularity.
Those numbers pretty much mirror the numbers for UN sanctioned operations.
You insult the contributions of our allies by saying they are insignificant.
I consider your interpretation of the "facts" to be insignificant.
Great Britain, Australia, Israel, Poland, Denmark, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Romania, Czech Republic, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Estonia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Slovakia, Ukraine, Singapore, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, South Korea, Nicaragua, Mongolia, and Albania.
You're right. Not counting these 32 nations, there is a total lack of international support.
I don't want to be insulting, but... Are you a complete idiot?
In practice, socialism guarantees a broken implementation of whatever you are doing, with a massive cost far above what commericial interests would do it for. Since socialism does not have to justify the expensive and make a profit, there is absolutely zero incentive to keep costs at a reasonable level. After all, you can always steal^H^H^H^H^H tax the people to cover the waste.
In San Francisco, this is even more so. The entrenched socialistic system is so wasteful that even when the city is WAY beyond being broke, they want to add yet another "freebie". Since I can do basic math, I know it isn't free and I know who actually pays for it. I'm so glad I chose not to live in The City.
I found everything I needed to create a streaming jukebox-like server in the open source world. I use Apache + mod_musicindex to provide an acceptable user interface. The music is streamed via Icecast. For ripping on the Windows side I prefer Audiograbber because it will rip directly to ogg. It's not opensource, but it is freeware.
The interface provided by mod_musicindex could use some improvement, but is friendly enough to use and allows for playing or shuffling everything, by artist, and by album, as well as custom playlists. Since it is opensource, I could always tweak the parts of the interface I dislike, but it's not such a big deal that I have bothered.
I can access my music from any computer with a decent player (e.g. winamp 5 on a Windows box), so I can listen to my entire collection (that I've ripped) from work (yes, I have enough bandwidth). To keep the the RIAA off my back, access from outside my home network requires a username and password.
Unfortunately, this solution isn't possible for someone unfamiliar with Linux and Apache. Plus, Icecast can be a bitch to configure properly.
Since you are not intelligent enough to do a simple google, here you are: Oil for Food Scandal.
Typical socialist attitude, "big oil, big tobacco, no proof, but it MUST be true." While major evidence against their pet socialist pussies is denounced.
I guess you missed the extremely obvious fact that we get NO OIL from Iraq. If we wanted oil, there are a lot of cheaper ways to get it than by freeing a country from a bloodthirsty despot.
Big oil and big tobacco? God, you need more foil in your hat.
I see you completely ignored the fact that officials from France, Germany, and Russia were taking massive bribes so that Saddam could get around the U.N. imposed sanctions. Of course they were against the U.S. actually enforcing the U.N. resolutions. It derailed their gravy train.
<RANT>
The U.S. tossed out of the U.N.? Fuck that. How about we toss the U.N. out of New York?
Why don't we do exactly what Europe is demanding and stop "interferring" with other countries. That means we yank our troops out of Europe. That means we dump all the subsidies and loans - which measure in tens of billions. That means Europe and the rest of the world have to actually defend their own damn country instead of using the money for failed social programs. Sounds good to me.
There is not a single country in Europe that can field an army sufficient to defend itself (the UK isn't in Europe so our British friends can hold off yelling at me). You castrated your armies because you knew the U.S. would help you if necessary. As thanks, most of Europe stuck a knife in our back.
If I didn't believe most Europeans are basically good and don't hate us, unlike their political leaders, I would wish another European war on them. Those ancient hatreds are still there, just hidden. One day they will errupt like an infected boil. Then you'll want us to drag our asses back over there to fix things again. And you know what? We'll do it. Because despite how you have treated us, we will still do the right thing.
You people make me sick.
</RANT>
The difference is whether the civilians were purposely targeted or if there was a gross disregard for the safety of civilians. The U.S. military went out of it's way to avoid civilian casualties, more so than any other conflict in the history of the world. Of course there were civilian casualties. Only a fool would expect there not to be. Name a single war where civilians weren't killed.
Terrorists, on the other hand, almost always target civilians. Those Hamas fucks especially like to target women and children. One example, they had a bomb planted in a road (this was in Israel). They waited until a military vehicle passed, which is a legitimate target, and detonated the bomb when a school bus (filled with children) was in position.
Anyone who would call those animals "militants" is an idiot. They are terrorists. They are less than human. They need killing.
Sugar coating terrorists by calling them "militant groups" doesn't change the fact that they are terrorists.
As for the road map. Arafat killed that by not stopping his terrorists, excuse me, "militant groups", from bombing woman and children.
Spelling doesn't work. The average computer user either can't spell or can't type and doesn't bother to use a spellchecker in email. I did small study on spell checking as an anti-spam tool and was somewhat disappointed by the results.
You should have kept the trolley.
I have one of these at home as my server (running Linux, of course). I've never had a single problem with it. My wife has one as her windows workstation at her office (on my recommendation). Finally, I have one of these at my office doubling as a low volume server and a workstation (again, Linux). Even though I use it as my second workstation, it's never stressed.
In all three cases, I had them configured without a floppy drive. USB drives such as my Laks watch are the way to go!
These babies have everything you need for a workstation UNLESS you need high end graphics. There's room inside for a video card different, but I wonder how it would handle the load.
I don't know why people bother buying full height tower systems with tons of expansion space. What exactly are you going to do with 9 pci slots?