Libertarianism is in essence a real-world pragmatic compromise solution for people who would prefer an ideal perfect imaginary world of peaceful anarchism. The typical Libertarian mantra is, "Utopia is not an option." The whole idea is to maximize individual liberty in a highly imperfect world full of jerks who won't cooperate. Libertarians hate being (mis)characterized as starry-eyed dreamers out of touch with the "real world" -- the "real world" is exactly what they are talking about.
I say this as a former Libertarian. Nobody seems to be interested in pragmatic compromise solutions, so I've given up and reverted to pure idealism, which is in practice just as effective (i.e. not at all). The vast majority are only concerned with sustaining a highly unsustainable status quo.
It's kind of bizarre, but the most reliable and best performing motherboard I've ever owned was made by ECS. None of my dozen or so other K7 motherboards could come anywhere near its memory bandwidth rates, and it works great with even the cheapest crappiest no-warranty bargain bin memory modules.
Ahh you're from the Engineering department... Over here in the Manufacturing department we have to worry about cost,liability,feasibility,and marketability to worry about.
Ahh, Manufacturing. Over here in the department of of Redundancy department we mainly worry about doing what everybody else does, but much more thoroughly to worry about.
The 1st Amendment does not give anyone a right to impose their religion on others as a condition of employment.
The First Amendment doesn't give anyone any rights at all. It recognizes some rights, and restricts the government from making laws that would interfere with those rights. By a literal reading of the First, EEO laws are pretty clearly unconstitutional, but the courts have often tended toward pragmatism in letting "good" and "necessary" laws violate the letter of the Constitution.
My BH6 from early '97 is still going strong. Handled every kind of slot-1 CPU ever made with no problems at all -- pretty damned impressive for a first-generation slot-1 motherboard. ECC memory, CPU under- and over-voltage support, ISA+PCI+AGP, still pretty hard to beat for low-demand infrastructure applications (e.g. home router, proxy, DNS). I've had some problems with BP6 boards but the BH6 boards were always rock-solid.
Last year I needed a few micro-ATX boards for a server application and went with Abit because they were the only one that would explicitly commit to Opteron and ECC memory support in the published specs. The boards have all been 100% trouble free, something I certainly can't say for the comparable ASUS and MSI boards. I'm sorry to see Abit go.
Hmm, NW, as in NetworkWorld, as in submitter "BobB-nw"....
The SD editors have made it clear on numerous occasions that they have absolutely no editorial judgment whatsoever, they just post anything that comes across their desk and looks at all shiny or sparkly. They don't even seem to follow the links in most submissions before posting. It's highly unlikely that either "BobB-" or "-nw" paid them anything other than attention.
That strategy almost always leads to version reconciliation nightmares. Which of the N copies of this directory tree has the latest version of which file? Often different parts of a single file can be more current in different copies. Maybe in photos_collection copy #3 this photo has been cropped; in copy #7 it's been color-balanced.
I'm not saying it's a bad strategy; I'm just saying you need to have a good policy and strong discipline about which copy is "live" and which is "backup". It can be very tempting to make "temporary" edits on a backup when that's the only copy you have handy.
I'm not the GP here, but I get the same question whenever I make similar comments about running Windows since forever with no antivirus and no infections, so I'll give my usual answer.
I periodically take the hard drives out of my Windows machines, make copies, attach those copies to non-networked machines with temporary installs of some current OS and virus scanner, and scan the copies. (The isolation and extra level of indirection are because I don't trust virus scanning software, be it payware or freeware, not to screw with my files.) So far every scan has always come up clean. This is a far more reliable way to run a scanner than from within the system being scanned -- if the host OS is infected, the malware could easily dupe the scanner into reporting a bogus "clean" result.
Since these scans always come up clean, I see no reason to incur the performance penalties of always running live antivirus software on each system. My other security policies seem to be doing an adequate job of protecting me.
The internet is a collection of networks not necissarily IP based.
Use of the Internet Protocol defines the Internet. If it's not using IP, it's not part of the Internet. The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that interchange data by packet switching using the standardized Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP). (text shamelessly swiped from Wikipedia)
It takes way too much energy to move people to other planets. Space travel will never be a solution to overpopulation. Reducing the birth/death ratio is a much more effective method.
Bullshit. The market is manipulated by interests to make investing in renewable energy and electric vehicles infeasible. Price of oil goes up, investment in renewables and electric vehicles shoots up. Price of oil drops, investment dries up.
Even worse than that, everyone who invested in alternative energy loses big time, and that makes everyone nervous about investing in alternative energy for many years to come. OPEC really has this game figured out. Without some strong anti-market leadership (i.e. "ruthless dictatorship" for the Libertarians) we're going to continue to be led around by the nose as long as there's still oil coming out of the ground. It'll be $1000 a barrel and we'll still be afraid to invest in alternatives.
The anthropic principle is nothing like God, and many atheist scientists are perfectly happy to accept it. We exist, and the universe is capable of supporting our existence, by random chance. It's very unlikely, given what we can figure out about the initial conditions of the universe, but if it hadn't happened we wouldn't be around to wonder about it. No God in there anywhere.
I wouldn't go out of my way to distill my rather clean tap water for drinking purposes, but if my only choices were nasty bacteria-and-toxin-ridden puddle water vs distilled water, I'd go for the distilled and not worry about OMG MAGICKAL ELECTROLYTES! DEATH!
I see this ridiculous "distilled water = deadly poison" meme propagated often enough that I'm worried people are going to prefer dehydration or pollution and cause themselves serious health problems.
Maybe a few more impurities in our water and food, and exposure to a few more germs and viruses in our infancy, and our immune systems wouldn't be so weak we can get felled for a week by an extreme allergic reaction to a single hair from a cute and fluffy kitten passing the end of our street.
If such a policy could indeed make the human race more resistant to disease and allergy, it would do so mainly by culling out the weak during infancy and early childhood. The usual response to such proposals is, "You go first." I'm not convinced it would have the desired outcome at all, even if we were willing to tolerate higher infant mortality rates.
Strong encryption is not practically breakable, so you don't need to overwrite the header unless you expect the thief to be able to discover your password somehow. How about instead the alternate password activates an alternate partition, so the computer is able to boot up and act normally but with none of your private data available, and various tracking features enabled? Maybe a timeout or remote self-destruct feature too in case you're unable to catch the thief and just want to take away his prize.
The water you are referring to is called Distilled/DeIonized water and is a really bad idea to drink in any larger quantities, as it screws with your electrolyte balance, and can cause death.
That is laughably false. Where do people get such ideas?
Tap water usually contains trace amounts of minerals such as calcium and magnesium, which are all necessary for the human metabolism. But those minerals are also available in food; unless you already have a deficiency (or are borderline) the distilled water won't make any difference. In any event, a daily multi-mineral supplement will make up the difference. If you're already taking a supplement you definitely don't need the minerals in tap water.
Electrolyte balance, sheesh. Sounds like maybe you've confused mineral deficiency with water intoxication, which is exactly the same whether you overdose on distilled water or tap water.
Hmm. I'd say zooming in on a small portion of a photo to present it in one view is the equivalent to taking something out of context. Wait, it actually IS taking something out of context.
Yeah, sure, whatever, but they didn't. From the very same Zombietime page:
Please note that I do not claim that the Chronicle cropped its photograph, which is obviously a high-resolution close-up and thus not cropped much, if at all; I only discuss cropping my photograph.
When you photograph one person in a crowd, guess what, you only see one person and not the whole crowd. That crowd was full of wackos, and the one person they showed a picture of was pretty representative of the general level of wackiness. I don't see how that takes anything out of context unless (like the Zombietime guy) you're dead set on spinning conspiracy theories about Muslims and Communists.
He's not. I read the entire page, and the surrounding pages about the war protest. The "messenger" is full of shit. That photograph was neither manipulated nor misleadingly cropped. It was an interesting image that was fairly representative of the outlandishness of the protesters in general. Zombietime is just another trashy right wing blog.
What internet? All the hosts that still support legacy DNS will still be able to talk to each other, and anybody can provide a legacy DNS root (there are already many alternatives to the "official" DNS root). As for IP version, any interchanges that provide IPv4 routing will allow communication between IPv4-only hosts, so there will still be large fragments of the current Internet reachable through IPv4 -- perhaps nearly all of it via extended and circuitous routes. Do you think anybody can exert enough influence to force every interchange to stop IPv4 routing and block legacy DNS packets?
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The idea is to intimidate the public so that we're afraid to share. That's what really scares them. They need to get a piece of every transaction.
Libertarianism is in essence a real-world pragmatic compromise solution for people who would prefer an ideal perfect imaginary world of peaceful anarchism. The typical Libertarian mantra is, "Utopia is not an option." The whole idea is to maximize individual liberty in a highly imperfect world full of jerks who won't cooperate. Libertarians hate being (mis)characterized as starry-eyed dreamers out of touch with the "real world" -- the "real world" is exactly what they are talking about.
I say this as a former Libertarian. Nobody seems to be interested in pragmatic compromise solutions, so I've given up and reverted to pure idealism, which is in practice just as effective (i.e. not at all). The vast majority are only concerned with sustaining a highly unsustainable status quo.
It's kind of bizarre, but the most reliable and best performing motherboard I've ever owned was made by ECS. None of my dozen or so other K7 motherboards could come anywhere near its memory bandwidth rates, and it works great with even the cheapest crappiest no-warranty bargain bin memory modules.
Ahh, Manufacturing. Over here in the department of of Redundancy department we mainly worry about doing what everybody else does, but much more thoroughly to worry about.
Yeah, I just love those multi-millibit per second Internet connections. Go Comcast!
The First Amendment doesn't give anyone any rights at all. It recognizes some rights, and restricts the government from making laws that would interfere with those rights. By a literal reading of the First, EEO laws are pretty clearly unconstitutional, but the courts have often tended toward pragmatism in letting "good" and "necessary" laws violate the letter of the Constitution.
My BH6 from early '97 is still going strong. Handled every kind of slot-1 CPU ever made with no problems at all -- pretty damned impressive for a first-generation slot-1 motherboard. ECC memory, CPU under- and over-voltage support, ISA+PCI+AGP, still pretty hard to beat for low-demand infrastructure applications (e.g. home router, proxy, DNS). I've had some problems with BP6 boards but the BH6 boards were always rock-solid. Last year I needed a few micro-ATX boards for a server application and went with Abit because they were the only one that would explicitly commit to Opteron and ECC memory support in the published specs. The boards have all been 100% trouble free, something I certainly can't say for the comparable ASUS and MSI boards. I'm sorry to see Abit go.
There's an easy legislative fix for the War On Drugs.
Hmm, NW, as in NetworkWorld, as in submitter "BobB-nw"....
The SD editors have made it clear on numerous occasions that they have absolutely no editorial judgment whatsoever, they just post anything that comes across their desk and looks at all shiny or sparkly. They don't even seem to follow the links in most submissions before posting. It's highly unlikely that either "BobB-" or "-nw" paid them anything other than attention.
That strategy almost always leads to version reconciliation nightmares. Which of the N copies of this directory tree has the latest version of which file? Often different parts of a single file can be more current in different copies. Maybe in photos_collection copy #3 this photo has been cropped; in copy #7 it's been color-balanced.
I'm not saying it's a bad strategy; I'm just saying you need to have a good policy and strong discipline about which copy is "live" and which is "backup". It can be very tempting to make "temporary" edits on a backup when that's the only copy you have handy.
I'm not the GP here, but I get the same question whenever I make similar comments about running Windows since forever with no antivirus and no infections, so I'll give my usual answer.
I periodically take the hard drives out of my Windows machines, make copies, attach those copies to non-networked machines with temporary installs of some current OS and virus scanner, and scan the copies. (The isolation and extra level of indirection are because I don't trust virus scanning software, be it payware or freeware, not to screw with my files.) So far every scan has always come up clean. This is a far more reliable way to run a scanner than from within the system being scanned -- if the host OS is infected, the malware could easily dupe the scanner into reporting a bogus "clean" result.
Since these scans always come up clean, I see no reason to incur the performance penalties of always running live antivirus software on each system. My other security policies seem to be doing an adequate job of protecting me.
Use of the Internet Protocol defines the Internet. If it's not using IP, it's not part of the Internet. The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that interchange data by packet switching using the standardized Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP). (text shamelessly swiped from Wikipedia)
It takes way too much energy to move people to other planets. Space travel will never be a solution to overpopulation. Reducing the birth/death ratio is a much more effective method.
GP didn't say overpopulation wouldn't occur, just that it wouldn't be a problem (for the survivors).
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Even worse than that, everyone who invested in alternative energy loses big time, and that makes everyone nervous about investing in alternative energy for many years to come. OPEC really has this game figured out. Without some strong anti-market leadership (i.e. "ruthless dictatorship" for the Libertarians) we're going to continue to be led around by the nose as long as there's still oil coming out of the ground. It'll be $1000 a barrel and we'll still be afraid to invest in alternatives.
The anthropic principle is nothing like God, and many atheist scientists are perfectly happy to accept it. We exist, and the universe is capable of supporting our existence, by random chance. It's very unlikely, given what we can figure out about the initial conditions of the universe, but if it hadn't happened we wouldn't be around to wonder about it. No God in there anywhere.
I wouldn't go out of my way to distill my rather clean tap water for drinking purposes, but if my only choices were nasty bacteria-and-toxin-ridden puddle water vs distilled water, I'd go for the distilled and not worry about OMG MAGICKAL ELECTROLYTES! DEATH!
I see this ridiculous "distilled water = deadly poison" meme propagated often enough that I'm worried people are going to prefer dehydration or pollution and cause themselves serious health problems.
If such a policy could indeed make the human race more resistant to disease and allergy, it would do so mainly by culling out the weak during infancy and early childhood. The usual response to such proposals is, "You go first." I'm not convinced it would have the desired outcome at all, even if we were willing to tolerate higher infant mortality rates.
Strong encryption is not practically breakable, so you don't need to overwrite the header unless you expect the thief to be able to discover your password somehow. How about instead the alternate password activates an alternate partition, so the computer is able to boot up and act normally but with none of your private data available, and various tracking features enabled? Maybe a timeout or remote self-destruct feature too in case you're unable to catch the thief and just want to take away his prize.
That is laughably false. Where do people get such ideas?
Tap water usually contains trace amounts of minerals such as calcium and magnesium, which are all necessary for the human metabolism. But those minerals are also available in food; unless you already have a deficiency (or are borderline) the distilled water won't make any difference. In any event, a daily multi-mineral supplement will make up the difference. If you're already taking a supplement you definitely don't need the minerals in tap water.
Electrolyte balance, sheesh. Sounds like maybe you've confused mineral deficiency with water intoxication, which is exactly the same whether you overdose on distilled water or tap water.
Yeah, sure, whatever, but they didn't. From the very same Zombietime page:
When you photograph one person in a crowd, guess what, you only see one person and not the whole crowd. That crowd was full of wackos, and the one person they showed a picture of was pretty representative of the general level of wackiness. I don't see how that takes anything out of context unless (like the Zombietime guy) you're dead set on spinning conspiracy theories about Muslims and Communists.
He's not. I read the entire page, and the surrounding pages about the war protest. The "messenger" is full of shit. That photograph was neither manipulated nor misleadingly cropped. It was an interesting image that was fairly representative of the outlandishness of the protesters in general. Zombietime is just another trashy right wing blog.
What internet? All the hosts that still support legacy DNS will still be able to talk to each other, and anybody can provide a legacy DNS root (there are already many alternatives to the "official" DNS root). As for IP version, any interchanges that provide IPv4 routing will allow communication between IPv4-only hosts, so there will still be large fragments of the current Internet reachable through IPv4 -- perhaps nearly all of it via extended and circuitous routes. Do you think anybody can exert enough influence to force every interchange to stop IPv4 routing and block legacy DNS packets?
No problem, just send the EVA retriever robot retriever after it.