<SirDibos> nakeee: relax, it's just the build system.
Just the build system? Are they that clueless? My field is configuration management. It always annoys me when people think of the build system as annoying and unimportant. A build system can easily make or break a project. Done badly, and you end up with developers committing untested code because it's too much of a hassle for them to do their own test build. Done badly, and you don't know if a problem is in the code or in the build process. Done properly, it makes the developer's job easier.
We need to teach our children the responsibility needed to become adults. Included in those teaching are basic Rights. We don't raise our children in a Constitutional vaccuum until they are 18 when *poof* "Here are your rights, too bad you don't have a clue as to their meaning."
I'm teaching my daughter to not just question authority, but to also (when necessary) confront it.
This week is "Red Ribbon Week". Their annual all out propoganda blitz against "evil drugs." The problem is they have taken this to ridiculous extremes. On Monday, she needed some asprin. I had to drive to the school to give them to her because the school won't. She's not allowed to keep asprin (or Midol) in her purse because of the zero tolerance stupidity. In the school office (filled with other kids her age) I handed the two asprins to her and said rather loudly, "remember, zero tolerance also means zero common sense." One of the school office workers gave me a rather dirty look. Tough shit.
They handed out little ribbons that said, "Reach for the stars, avoid drugs". My daughter modified hers to say "Reach for the drugs" and has been wearing it all week. I thought that was pretty damn funny.
Yes, I'm raising a libertarian.
Or a little tyrant. We'll know how she turns out in a few more years.
It trains our kids to be used to the idea of having their every move monitored. When they become adults they will so trained to it that they won't put up a fight when the government decides everyone needs a tracking device.
If my daughter's public school ever decided to do this, I will be the first parent to refuse to allow my daughter to carry the device.
An important reminder: the Consitution is not suspended just because you are in school. It still applies, despite what some control freaks would have you believe.
The engine should allow a person to play a monster/creature. The type of monster you play should be completely random. This way a person won't choose the ancient red dragon for his friend to easily kill.
Some safety controls need to be implemented. For example, two players get together, one plays the monster and allows himself to get killed, thus allowing the other player some easy experience. That's not good. Perhaps what is needed is to limit how often you can create a monster, e.g. once a day. This would severely limit the free experience of letting your buddy kill your monster.
There needs to be some sort of payoff for playing a monster. Perhaps you get something of value each time you do it, e.g. (play) money you can give to a character of your choosing.
Another feature to implement is some sort of bonus for cooperating with other players. The more people (to some reasonable limit) banded together for a common cause, the bigger the experience bonus. Be sure to adjust treasure finds for bigger parties, too. It sucks when you get together with a group of people only to have one person grab the one or two items worth keeping and skipping out (as happens all too often in diablo 2).
Not "could", I guarantee it WILL be a major virus entry point, especially since they are adding email functionality into Office. Imagine the fun! Virus laden Word document is emailed to everyone. Office is nice enough to accept the email (bypassing any virus scanner), probably launch it (MS never learns), then destroy the evidence. We should call this Auto-fuck.
You've just convinced me to not allow this crap on my computer. Not that I needed any convincing, OpenOffice works quite nicely for me.
Yah, the term "linux specialist" is just too damn broad. The field needs to be broken down into many different fields - some overlapping, e.g. system admin, security expert, app development, kernel hacker, etc. Personally, I'm a pretty good linux admin, do rather well with scripting, perl, php, mysql, and so on, but I struggle with c/c++ coding (I can do it, but I'm not an expert). I compile my own kernels, but would be dangerous to let lose actually making kernel code changes. So what do they actually want?
I'd have to agree with you. The concept of indymedia seemed like a good idea, but in practice it ends up being the Weekly World News and the Aryan Brotherhood Newsletter (or whatever it's called) combined.
I'm going to assume you are trying to compare Guantanamo with Saddam's torture chamber. If that's the case, then you made an incredibly stupid comparison.
The last time I checked the UK was not part of the US.
As for taking 10 years, blame the UN. Those nutless wonders didn't have the balls to finally take that tyrant out. Bush was the first national leader (of any country) to have the guts to finally say "enough is enough". If we kept to the U.N. plan, we'd probably be passing the 30th resolution stating "Stop! Or we'll say 'Stop!' again".
We don't actually need Iraq's oil. Supplies from other sources are moving along just fine. However, I will not completely discount oil as a reason.
If we can turn Iraq into a friend (and I hope we do), we suddenly have access to vast oil resources. No, I don't mean we take it. We buy it from Iraq at a fair price. They need the money. If we get Iraqi oil, we can tell Saudi Arabia to go fuck themselves. Now there's a country I'd like to see us invade. The Saudi Royal Family is the #1 supporter of terrorist organizations in the entire world. But we don't need to invade them. If we stop buying their oil, we can bankrupt their sorry asses. We just have to make sure the French don't to try to interfere (as is typical of them).
The U.S. didn't support Saddam. One time, a long time ago, the U.S. provided some intelligence regarding Iran. This was done because Iran just happened to be holding a few Americans as hostages.
If you look at who actually did supply most of Saddam's weapons, it suddenly becomes very clear (not in any order): France, Germany, Russia, China.
Then perhaps we should push to clean up a few other hell holes in the world.
Of course, The U.S. will be denounced if we do that. We'll be denounced if we don't do it. For a lot of people in the world, the U.S. can do no right. Unfortunately, if we left it to the U.N., nothing will get done.
Saddam put children as young as 5 years old in prison for the crime of their parents not being loyal enough.
If a 'minor' was in gutanamo, I'll bet they were 16 or 17 years old and has murderous and hardcore as any innercity gang 'youth'. Second, prisoners of war don't get justice. They get a bed, medicine, clothing, and meals. Which is a hell of a lot more than any of the people of Iraq or Afghanistan every got from their so called "leaders". The UN has sent inspectors to guatanamo and verified the prisoners are well treated, so don't even fucking try to compare it to Saddam's pits of torture.
My, you are naive, aren't you? France was against going after Saddam because their major oil company (ElfOil or some stupid name like that) had made a sweetheart deal for oil. The deal was so good that oil industry experts called in unbelievable. France was in it for the money. They were in it for the oil.
It's a good thing fucktard's like you aren't deciding important issues. Now the people of Iraq are free and things are improving every day (despite what the news media says). Medicine is getting to people who need it. Schools are opening. Newspapers (dozens of them) have sprung up overnight and now print whatever the hell they want (good and bad) without worrying about their families getting fed into a chipper.
Yeah, defend that, asshole. Defend torture. Defend a political prison for children. Defend 40 years of misery caused my a total madman.
I bet you get all your news from indymedia. Figures.
I don't believe civil disobediance would ever work against a group that has no problems with wiping out an entire race of people. Against the Nazis, it would have certainly failed. Holding hands and singing koombaya while the bastards gassed your entire village would make even the most devoted person turn and run. Ghandi may have had the devotion to stay to the end, but very few people in the world are that devoted to any cause. Would you be able to continue if the enemy lined up children in front of a machine gun? I know I couldn't.
So let's just get rid of our entire military. Scrap every tank, plane, missle, and gun. Return all the personal to the private sector. What happens next?
Some meglomaniac with a funny hat decides that the United States should be part of his country and he invades. He encounters little or no resistance and Washington DC falls in the first day. He'll have more trouble as his army moves inland, but hunting rifles are no match for military grade weapons. Certainly those "gun toting NRA lunatics" will account for a few enemy kills, but they won't stand a chance against artillary and bombers.
After a month, all organized resistance will have ceased. Americans with their sporting weapons will be reduced to the occassional pot-shot. If the enemy leader is a real bastard, he'll do what the Nazis did and execute a few dozen civilians each time one of "our boys" takes out one of his soldiers. This will end most support for the remaining citizen/soliders - no town would want to risk the retalitory executions.
Pacifists can exist because brave men and women are willing to put their life on the line to protect them.
How I lost my data. I spent several months trying to get a Traven tape drive to work in Linux so I could back up my server. I never did get a backup to work. So a few weeks ago the power supply blew and took out both hard drives with all my precious data.
Screw Seagate for saying the Traven had native support in Linux. And screw the hard drive makers for making drives that were killed so easily.
Oh, and screw myself for not giving up on the tape drive and coming up with a backup policy that worked.
1. The pledge invokes god. 2. The pledge is basically an oath to the U.S.
The two words "under god" where not part of the pledge until 1954 (I might be slightly off on the year). Personally, I would prefer they revert back to the original pledge without those two words. They have no place in the pledge, and they especially have no place in a public school.
The second point, as an oath to the country, isn't really a big point, EXCEPT when the student in question is not a citizen. My daughter is not a citizen of the U.S. (not yet). Why should she be forced to basically swear an oath? For her, it's not so serious since she'll be a citizen within a year and she considers herself an American (except with better grades). However, there are many people here in this country who are only temporary (parents with H1-B visas are but one example). This oath can be a problem for them.
Don't tell me it's voluntary. In all too many cases it is not. I have heard of cases where teachers demanded the students perform the pledge. You must also take into account peer pressure. Peer pressure can be a force of good or bad, depending on the situation. Either way, peer pressure is simply a group appying pressure, psychological or otherwise, to get someone to do something they may not wish to do. Peer pressure is a very powerful force. It can also be violent. There have been cases of kids getting beat up by other students for their refusal to participate in some activity (class prayers in the not so distant past is one nasty example).
So remove "under god", and make sure the teachers remind the classroom that participation is completely voluntary. If the teacher suspects any sort of coercision, deal with it. If the teacher is guilty of coercion, he/she should be fired.
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FYI, Handgun Control, Inc. IS the Brady Campaign. They are one and the same.
Just remember to back up that big honkin' server with a reliable medium. Don't trust that steaming pile of shit from Seagate called Traven.
I coldn't help myself, I had to make this my new sig!
After reading the entire tread, I'd say Harlod is showing an incredible amount of restraint with that statement.
We need to teach our children the responsibility needed to become adults. Included in those teaching are basic Rights. We don't raise our children in a Constitutional vaccuum until they are 18 when *poof* "Here are your rights, too bad you don't have a clue as to their meaning."
I'm teaching my daughter to not just question authority, but to also (when necessary) confront it.
This week is "Red Ribbon Week". Their annual all out propoganda blitz against "evil drugs." The problem is they have taken this to ridiculous extremes. On Monday, she needed some asprin. I had to drive to the school to give them to her because the school won't. She's not allowed to keep asprin (or Midol) in her purse because of the zero tolerance stupidity. In the school office (filled with other kids her age) I handed the two asprins to her and said rather loudly, "remember, zero tolerance also means zero common sense." One of the school office workers gave me a rather dirty look. Tough shit.
They handed out little ribbons that said, "Reach for the stars, avoid drugs". My daughter modified hers to say "Reach for the drugs" and has been wearing it all week. I thought that was pretty damn funny.
Yes, I'm raising a libertarian.
Or a little tyrant. We'll know how she turns out in a few more years.
Damn, and I thought I needed more foil in my hat. I'm afraid you did a far better job of seeing the danger than I did. Scary.
It trains our kids to be used to the idea of having their every move monitored. When they become adults they will so trained to it that they won't put up a fight when the government decides everyone needs a tracking device.
If my daughter's public school ever decided to do this, I will be the first parent to refuse to allow my daughter to carry the device.
An important reminder: the Consitution is not suspended just because you are in school. It still applies, despite what some control freaks would have you believe.
The engine should allow a person to play a monster/creature. The type of monster you play should be completely random. This way a person won't choose the ancient red dragon for his friend to easily kill.
Some safety controls need to be implemented. For example, two players get together, one plays the monster and allows himself to get killed, thus allowing the other player some easy experience. That's not good. Perhaps what is needed is to limit how often you can create a monster, e.g. once a day. This would severely limit the free experience of letting your buddy kill your monster.
There needs to be some sort of payoff for playing a monster. Perhaps you get something of value each time you do it, e.g. (play) money you can give to a character of your choosing.
Another feature to implement is some sort of bonus for cooperating with other players. The more people (to some reasonable limit) banded together for a common cause, the bigger the experience bonus. Be sure to adjust treasure finds for bigger parties, too. It sucks when you get together with a group of people only to have one person grab the one or two items worth keeping and skipping out (as happens all too often in diablo 2).
Not "could", I guarantee it WILL be a major virus entry point, especially since they are adding email functionality into Office. Imagine the fun! Virus laden Word document is emailed to everyone. Office is nice enough to accept the email (bypassing any virus scanner), probably launch it (MS never learns), then destroy the evidence. We should call this Auto-fuck.
You've just convinced me to not allow this crap on my computer. Not that I needed any convincing, OpenOffice works quite nicely for me.
Yah, the term "linux specialist" is just too damn broad. The field needs to be broken down into many different fields - some overlapping, e.g. system admin, security expert, app development, kernel hacker, etc. Personally, I'm a pretty good linux admin, do rather well with scripting, perl, php, mysql, and so on, but I struggle with c/c++ coding (I can do it, but I'm not an expert). I compile my own kernels, but would be dangerous to let lose actually making kernel code changes. So what do they actually want?
I'd have to agree with you. The concept of indymedia seemed like a good idea, but in practice it ends up being the Weekly World News and the Aryan Brotherhood Newsletter (or whatever it's called) combined.
I'm going to assume you are trying to compare Guantanamo with Saddam's torture chamber. If that's the case, then you made an incredibly stupid comparison.
The last time I checked the UK was not part of the US.
As for taking 10 years, blame the UN. Those nutless wonders didn't have the balls to finally take that tyrant out. Bush was the first national leader (of any country) to have the guts to finally say "enough is enough". If we kept to the U.N. plan, we'd probably be passing the 30th resolution stating "Stop! Or we'll say 'Stop!' again".
We don't actually need Iraq's oil. Supplies from other sources are moving along just fine. However, I will not completely discount oil as a reason.
If we can turn Iraq into a friend (and I hope we do), we suddenly have access to vast oil resources. No, I don't mean we take it. We buy it from Iraq at a fair price. They need the money. If we get Iraqi oil, we can tell Saudi Arabia to go fuck themselves. Now there's a country I'd like to see us invade. The Saudi Royal Family is the #1 supporter of terrorist organizations in the entire world. But we don't need to invade them. If we stop buying their oil, we can bankrupt their sorry asses. We just have to make sure the French don't to try to interfere (as is typical of them).
The U.S. didn't support Saddam. One time, a long time ago, the U.S. provided some intelligence regarding Iran. This was done because Iran just happened to be holding a few Americans as hostages.
If you look at who actually did supply most of Saddam's weapons, it suddenly becomes very clear (not in any order): France, Germany, Russia, China.
Then perhaps we should push to clean up a few other hell holes in the world.
Of course, The U.S. will be denounced if we do that. We'll be denounced if we don't do it. For a lot of people in the world, the U.S. can do no right. Unfortunately, if we left it to the U.N., nothing will get done.
Bullshit.
Saddam put children as young as 5 years old in prison for the crime of their parents not being loyal enough.
If a 'minor' was in gutanamo, I'll bet they were 16 or 17 years old and has murderous and hardcore as any innercity gang 'youth'. Second, prisoners of war don't get justice. They get a bed, medicine, clothing, and meals. Which is a hell of a lot more than any of the people of Iraq or Afghanistan every got from their so called "leaders". The UN has sent inspectors to guatanamo and verified the prisoners are well treated, so don't even fucking try to compare it to Saddam's pits of torture.
My, you are naive, aren't you? France was against going after Saddam because their major oil company (ElfOil or some stupid name like that) had made a sweetheart deal for oil. The deal was so good that oil industry experts called in unbelievable. France was in it for the money. They were in it for the oil.
It's a good thing fucktard's like you aren't deciding important issues. Now the people of Iraq are free and things are improving every day (despite what the news media says). Medicine is getting to people who need it. Schools are opening. Newspapers (dozens of them) have sprung up overnight and now print whatever the hell they want (good and bad) without worrying about their families getting fed into a chipper.
Yeah, defend that, asshole. Defend torture. Defend a political prison for children. Defend 40 years of misery caused my a total madman.
I bet you get all your news from indymedia. Figures.
I don't believe civil disobediance would ever work against a group that has no problems with wiping out an entire race of people. Against the Nazis, it would have certainly failed. Holding hands and singing koombaya while the bastards gassed your entire village would make even the most devoted person turn and run. Ghandi may have had the devotion to stay to the end, but very few people in the world are that devoted to any cause. Would you be able to continue if the enemy lined up children in front of a machine gun? I know I couldn't.
I just told her about this story and suggested we should get Half-Life to help her. Oddly enough, she fell for it.
I should go through the game lists and make up a few phobias for myself.
So let's just get rid of our entire military. Scrap every tank, plane, missle, and gun. Return all the personal to the private sector. What happens next?
Some meglomaniac with a funny hat decides that the United States should be part of his country and he invades. He encounters little or no resistance and Washington DC falls in the first day. He'll have more trouble as his army moves inland, but hunting rifles are no match for military grade weapons. Certainly those "gun toting NRA lunatics" will account for a few enemy kills, but they won't stand a chance against artillary and bombers.
After a month, all organized resistance will have ceased. Americans with their sporting weapons will be reduced to the occassional pot-shot. If the enemy leader is a real bastard, he'll do what the Nazis did and execute a few dozen civilians each time one of "our boys" takes out one of his soldiers. This will end most support for the remaining citizen/soliders - no town would want to risk the retalitory executions.
Pacifists can exist because brave men and women are willing to put their life on the line to protect them.
How I lost my data. I spent several months trying to get a Traven tape drive to work in Linux so I could back up my server. I never did get a backup to work. So a few weeks ago the power supply blew and took out both hard drives with all my precious data.
Screw Seagate for saying the Traven had native support in Linux. And screw the hard drive makers for making drives that were killed so easily.
Oh, and screw myself for not giving up on the tape drive and coming up with a backup policy that worked.
In my mind, there are two issues involved.
1. The pledge invokes god.
2. The pledge is basically an oath to the U.S.
The two words "under god" where not part of the pledge until 1954 (I might be slightly off on the year). Personally, I would prefer they revert back to the original pledge without those two words. They have no place in the pledge, and they especially have no place in a public school.
The second point, as an oath to the country, isn't really a big point, EXCEPT when the student in question is not a citizen. My daughter is not a citizen of the U.S. (not yet). Why should she be forced to basically swear an oath? For her, it's not so serious since she'll be a citizen within a year and she considers herself an American (except with better grades). However, there are many people here in this country who are only temporary (parents with H1-B visas are but one example). This oath can be a problem for them.
Don't tell me it's voluntary. In all too many cases it is not. I have heard of cases where teachers demanded the students perform the pledge. You must also take into account peer pressure. Peer pressure can be a force of good or bad, depending on the situation. Either way, peer pressure is simply a group appying pressure, psychological or otherwise, to get someone to do something they may not wish to do. Peer pressure is a very powerful force. It can also be violent. There have been cases of kids getting beat up by other students for their refusal to participate in some activity (class prayers in the not so distant past is one nasty example).
So remove "under god", and make sure the teachers remind the classroom that participation is completely voluntary. If the teacher suspects any sort of coercision, deal with it. If the teacher is guilty of coercion, he/she should be fired.
Except the 14th Ammendment extends the Constitutional protections/prohibitions to the state level.