"religious people are stupid cause if there was a god, there'd be no evil"
The Futurama episode Godfellas is an interesting take on the supernatural.
God: "Bender, being God isn't easy. If you do too much, people get dependent on you. And if you do nothing, they lose hope. You have to use a light touch, like a safecracker or a pickpocket." Bender: "Or a guy who burns down a bar for the insurance money!" God: "Yes, if you make it look like an electrical thing. When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."
exhausted it's entire supply of tungsten to produce the two semi-functional weapons
the chemistry of the high explosives used in the US's most early designed implosion fission bombs has never been declassified
The triggering mechanism used in our (US) ICBM arsenal is a micro-mechanical marvel with tolerances which could rival that of even the world's best watchmakers
I'm sure that everything you say is true, and DPRK, Pakistan, Iran, etc trying to pack a bomb into an IRBM would have a difficult time.
But if Iran sticks a uranium gun device into a shipping container, and Hamas drives it into the middle of Tel Aviv, or gets Al Qadea to stick it on a ship bound for the Port of Houston, you don't need all that fancy stuff. Just a few guys to load the HE at the last minute, push the button, and start screwing virgins...
you thought our freedoms have already been eroded, compromised, or plain out negated to an uncomfortable degree after 9/11
Like what? You can (if you can afford it) travel just about anywhere you could on 9/10 with government approval, scream vituperation at the W, Cheney, write books and movies about assassinating him, gays got the ability to marry in MA in 2004, women in NY can still go topless, etc, etc, etc ad nauseum.
Better - show that they would be able to access other customers data and shout "Data Protection Act" as often as possible during demonstration. They'll understand...
But then they'll ask you why (or worse, silently assume that) you aren't compentent to secure the system from attack.
GNOME is the beginner mode and KDE is the expert mode.
I would say that GNOME is the get-out-of-my-way mode, and KDE is the who the "fsck needs 85,000 options" mode.
I'm sure I would have liked KDE were I a teenager (pimp my ride, and all that crap), but now I just want to use the computer (whether it be for fun/games or programming or wasting time). IMNSHO, the two user issues that should be fixed in GNOME are:
the horribly-slow, limited-utility Gtk file chooser. This is one area where GNOME should copy MS Windows,
the weak Control Center (although it is better is v2.20).
... just get captivated by the high-energy movement and noise of commercials. At least that's how my 8yo & 10yo act. I'm constantly yelling (from the next room) "Skip over the commercials!!!".
Except that he does not have probable cause to believe that both warrants would yield results. This is comparable to getting search warrants for everyone in the county named John, if one masked bandit in a robbery is referred to by another as "John".
Hogwash.
Since I have a very common name, and have often had phone calls (including from police!) from people looking for different people with my same name, I am acutely aware of this problem. Unfortunately for your argument, this is referring to familial DNA found at a crime scene, not the absurdly broad "same given name".
Shows how much you know. "Heavy thunderstorms expected in the Sierra Nevadas with potential hail" is actually code for "Execute Plan Alpha; bomb Beijing immediately."
President Reagan "announced" over an open mic the beginning of the nuclear bombardment of the Soviet Union. Why do we need anything more clandestine when announcing the destruction of the chicoms?
Powerful: How is Linux more powerful then Windows... I have seen benchmarks go both ways for some cases windows kills Linux in performance and other case Linux wins. Most of the GNU Tools for Linux have been ported to run on Windows and there are things that only runs on windows (... A LOT OF THINGS...) Yea most Linux distributions come with a bunch of software but that is like using a windows PC after downloading CigWin.
Linux gives me the ability to fully control the system from the CLI, like God intended Man to do.
All day at work, I am telneted (via a VPN tunnel) into Big Systems with a powerful set of full-screen and CLI tools. Coming home to point-and-drool Windows is, shall we say, a let-down.
I'd rather run OpenVMS on a desktop system that's comparable to modern x86 systems, but -- alas -- that is not to be. So, Linux is the next best choice.
Somewhere I saw a map of submarine cable routes and many of them follow coastlines. It must be much cheaper to lay cable in water, despite the cost of repairs.
There are many cables that run around Africa. Many parts of Africa are (to say the least) politically volatile, making it dangerous to lay the cable, and vulnerable to blackmail (pay us $$$ or we cut the cable). Also, laying it over desert, mountains, jungle, etc is obviously highly difficult. Riding on a ship, paying out cable is much simpler and cheaper.
I'm sure that the same technical challenges apply in southern Asia.
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"religious people are stupid cause if there was a god, there'd be no evil"
The Futurama episode Godfellas is an interesting take on the supernatural.
God: "Bender, being God isn't easy. If you do too much, people get dependent on you. And if you do nothing, they lose hope. You have to use a light touch, like a safecracker or a pickpocket."
Bender: "Or a guy who burns down a bar for the insurance money!"
God: "Yes, if you make it look like an electrical thing. When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."
Actually, Ubuntu is an African word meaning "I'd rather have a social life."
Which itself translates to "I'm not really a geek."
complex fail-safe triggering mechanisms
exhausted it's entire supply of tungsten to produce the two semi-functional weapons
the chemistry of the high explosives used in the US's most early designed implosion fission bombs has never been declassified
The triggering mechanism used in our (US) ICBM arsenal is a micro-mechanical marvel with tolerances which could rival that of even the world's best watchmakers
I'm sure that everything you say is true, and DPRK, Pakistan, Iran, etc trying to pack a bomb into an IRBM would have a difficult time.
But if Iran sticks a uranium gun device into a shipping container, and Hamas drives it into the middle of Tel Aviv, or gets Al Qadea to stick it on a ship bound for the Port of Houston, you don't need all that fancy stuff. Just a few guys to load the HE at the last minute, push the button, and start screwing virgins...
you thought our freedoms have already been eroded, compromised, or plain out negated to an uncomfortable degree after 9/11
Like what? You can (if you can afford it) travel just about anywhere you could on 9/10 with government approval, scream vituperation at the W, Cheney, write books and movies about assassinating him, gays got the ability to marry in MA in 2004, women in NY can still go topless, etc, etc, etc ad nauseum.
But then they'll ask you why (or worse, silently assume that) you aren't compentent to secure the system from attack.
I would say that GNOME is the get-out-of-my-way mode, and KDE is the who the "fsck needs 85,000 options" mode.
I'm sure I would have liked KDE were I a teenager (pimp my ride, and all that crap), but now I just want to use the computer (whether it be for fun/games or programming or wasting time). IMNSHO, the two user issues that should be fixed in GNOME are:
One man's "boring" is another man's "calming". One man's "eye candy" is another man's "eyes-burning-out nightmare".
Apache 1.x is not multi-threaded.
Or can't, because of hand-coded x86-32 assembly code or poorly-written C code that assumes that pointers will always be 32-bits. Or both.
Probably both.
Hogwash.
Since I have a very common name, and have often had phone calls (including from police!) from people looking for different people with my same name, I am acutely aware of this problem. Unfortunately for your argument, this is referring to familial DNA found at a crime scene, not the absurdly broad "same given name".
If my county's DA did not try for such search warrants, then he would be negligent in his duties.
Every time I've had X crash, it's brought me right back to the console, with no issues or problems.
But then, I don't use [xgk]dm, nor do I use DRI. This seems like a really Microsoft-like Bad Idea to me...
Hey, we've got nukes and ABM lasers. That would take care of the "problem"...
President Reagan "announced" over an open mic the beginning of the nuclear bombardment of the Soviet Union. Why do we need anything more clandestine when announcing the destruction of the chicoms?
So perhaps you meant to say that you live in a Microsoft centric world, because I sure don't.
Alone? No. (Linux has been my sole home desktop for 7 years.)
But anyone who says -- and believes -- that this is not a Microsoft world is deluding himself.
".exe" is the Microsoft 8.3 way.
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".exe" implies a very specific intel binary executable for Microsoft OS's, and it should stay that way.
Actually, it's the DEC minicomputer way. CP/M was influenced by them, and MS-DOS, of course, was "influenced" by CP/M.
OpenVMS still uses ".exe" to indicate that a file is an executable binary.
Linux gives me the ability to fully control the system from the CLI, like God intended Man to do.
All day at work, I am telneted (via a VPN tunnel) into Big Systems with a powerful set of full-screen and CLI tools. Coming home to point-and-drool Windows is, shall we say, a let-down.
I'd rather run OpenVMS on a desktop system that's comparable to modern x86 systems, but -- alas -- that is not to be. So, Linux is the next best choice.
There are many cables that run around Africa. Many parts of Africa are (to say the least) politically volatile, making it dangerous to lay the cable, and vulnerable to blackmail (pay us $$$ or we cut the cable). Also, laying it over desert, mountains, jungle, etc is obviously highly difficult. Riding on a ship, paying out cable is much simpler and cheaper.
I'm sure that the same technical challenges apply in southern Asia.
You must not know what snake oil salesmen were selling 100 years ago...
The FDA isn't doing something a non-profit couldn't do, with a lot less bureaucracy and cost.
Hah!
The government wouldn't have gotten involved if not for the snake oil and disgusting crap that deceitful businesses were peddling.
I use Cox, and just sent to a friend a test message containing a numerical IP address. Went thru perfectly.
I know that Big Pharma just keeps patenting similar drugs, the big question is why we don't get new breakthrough drugs from other companies?
Because it's damned expensive and takes a long time to prove to the FDA and society-leeching lawyers that a product is (relatively) safe.
Besides, most (all?) of the low-hanging fruit have been picked. It takes a lot of effort to climb to the top of the tree and hunt for edible fruit.