>What makes Black Hawk Down so jarring and effective a film is that it's about a real story. U.S. soldiers really did find themselves in a horrific shoot-out in Somalia, and really did behave heroically under awful pressure
This movie was a piece of patriotic revisionist crap, that painted a failed military mission which included the deaths of several hundred somalis as a heroic accomplishment.
In the real world, the us military is very carefully scrutinizing the policy errors which led to the carnage in somalia - not the least of which is institutionalized racism and cultural elitism amongst our top military teams.
Before some other bullethead starts calling me any names, I am the least PC person around. I am conservative and a gun-owner. That doesn't prevent me from making informed decisions, even when my beloved country is at war. I've done my service in the military, and I vote.
Now, all this being said, don't be stupid. This is a movie, and it was fiction. Saying it's 'real' is a romanticized insult and a dangerous glossing over of a stark failure of us military doctrine and the resulting deaths of somali men, women and children.
We've learned a lot since then. That's what we need to remember, not to pretend we always knew it.
Not so. My dreamcast is hooked up to a vga adapter and goes to a 17" monitor next to me. It's even on a video switcher it shares with my util linux box, my cdburner/downloader/irc box.
Not only will I not go for this, but I don't know anyone who would even consider going for it, it's that stupid.
I just cannot see how some marketodroid can claim that CD distribution is cheaper than pioneering broadband.
This is just more bullshit to get people to treat everything like TV. Everyone wants you to be shoved ass-first into their 'portal site' so they can cram adverts down your throat by the fistful.
Well fuck em. The dreamcast is a lot of fun, and I am glad I got one. This piece of crap upsets me, it's a waste of time and ideas.
And if you go with sun for servers, and are paying the price avoid the sun PCI products at all costs.
I've been working on sun equipment since the SUN-2, and my experience has been that sun PCI stuff has no better MTBF than PC PCI stuff, and the parts can be hard to get in a hurry. Worse, you still pay the premium.
I use it to : -find obscure stuff that I figure _someone_ will have but I don't.. -find titles I enjoy but don't have MP3s of. -listen to stuff I've never bought but know other people like.
None of my uses of napster are insidious, none of them 'rip off the artist.'
I use napster because the monolithic music industry has failed me utterly. I like obscure stuff, marginally rare stuff and the music industry has no interest in catering to me. They want to sell in the millions. They've continued to price-fix, continued to fight technology and more importantly my desire to _harmlessly_ exchange and sample music.
That's the truth. Not everyone out there is a zit-faced college kid trying to get the latest "pop girls" album without paying for it. Some people like myself don't give a damn about paying for it, I've got plenty of cash - what I am not at _all_ interested in is having to spend half a day going to the music store to find that the music I want isn't there.
I want music that's online, immediately accessible, downloadable, playable and portable. When your 'legal' channels provide this, I'll pay for it as soon as it's a better alternative than the other.
Making me jump through hoops, and pay 22 bucks for a CD will for damned sure prevent me from exposure to unknown music. In my case, napster exposes me to music I'd otherwise never hear.
I don't believe I am that unusual. The RIAA et. al. are painting the most negative picture possible of napster use. You as the artist need to hear another point of view. The record industry is not your friend.
When someone pirates a CD, they steal 12 cents from you- and the record industry steals 20 bucks. Who are you pissed at again?
The further government is removed from the individual, the less that individual's concerns are shared by this government.
A neighborhood watch program cares intimately about the individuals.
A city government must respond and listen to the concerns of neighborhoods.
A state government listens to the concerns of cities, which may or may not intersect with the concerns of neighborhoods.
National government concerns itself with business, and the concerns of states, as well as international business and policy which most assuredly have little or nothing to do with my day to day needs.
International government concerns itself with little other than international business and matters of international commerce.
People who want international government are willing to wear a yoke from which they have no escape and be goverened by people who have no reason to look after their best interests.
"we just put it into our license, and you agreed to it, we would never actually ENFORCE that.."
Well, if that isn't the same line the big media lawyers gave with regards to the mill copyright act? The same act they swore up and down wouldn't be used to interpret in a broad sense and aggressively? The same legal recourse they are using for such broad actions as repeatedly suing people, getting reverse engineering notables arrested in foreign countries and attempting to ban 'file sharing' on the net as 'exploitive to intellectual property'.
It's weak and fallacious to disclaim what you put in print as well-intentioned when it's clearly got the legal teeth to be oppressive.
This is tantamount to someone aiming a gun at your face and saying "I'd never pull the trigger".
When a tragedy occurs and people are woken up to realize that the world is not as safe as they had presumed it would be, they are willing to give control to anyone at all who promises safety. This is how hitler catapulted into power, and this is how people who are normally stupid and harmless empower other people who are both cunning and exceedingly dangerous.
The concept of someone putting a poster which offers money for the anonymous reporting of suspicious behaviour on the part of others is both reprehensible and goes flatly against the principles of the constitution. The rights of the accuser DO NOT outweigh the rights of the accused. This is how justice is maintained. This is how the liberty and freedom of the innocent individual is maintained.
The most corrupt and villainous societies in the world were marked with exactly this sort of social venom. Anonymous denunciation is the most common tool employed by the worst and most oppressive regimes ever to appear on the earth.
In a nation where freedom of speech and liberty are supposedly cherished, it's odd that our institutions of learning are modelled after fascist dictatorships. What sort of people are we trying to educate?
The concept of anonymous denunciation is a tool that's been widely put to use by the most oppressive regimes in the world.
I am just utterly flabbergasted that someone is willing to even consider this as a sane and sensible thing.
When I was in high school, I was largely considered weird and unpopular. I assure you there were _plenty_ of people amonst the beautiful loser set who would have jumped at the opportunity to turn me in to this sort of bullshit. I was notorious for being hostile to the established 'jocks and frocks' set, and acted on my resentment of the worship of conformity.
My question is, do you really want to give these people yet another tool to use against folks who choose not to follow their mob rule?
I was an outsider, always will be an outsider.
The once geeky bookworm computer nerd in black is now a high paid computer consultant computer nerd bookworm. These people who once oppressed me in highschool are still back where I left them in the midwest, struggling along in crappy jobs doing the same dumb unremarkable stuff they did in highschool.
Do you really want to hammer down the nails that stick out? Did it never occur to you that your artists, inventors, leaders and writers will come from this crop of 'alienated people?'
I have a lot more rude things to say, but I'll keep them to myself. This sort of program is the worst evil I could imagine inflicting on the people I am most fond of - the folks who dare to be different.
Yes, it's imperative to add inline suppressors if you have a box that is prone to doing this. Some boxes send 'break like signals' when you power them off as well. (grr!)
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So, I take it you actually know nothing about this engagement.
>What makes Black Hawk Down so jarring and effective a film is that it's about a real story. U.S. soldiers really did find themselves in a horrific shoot-out in Somalia, and really did behave heroically under awful pressure
This movie was a piece of patriotic revisionist crap, that painted a failed military mission which included the deaths of several hundred somalis as a heroic accomplishment.
In the real world, the us military is very carefully scrutinizing the policy errors which led to the carnage in somalia - not the least of which is institutionalized racism and cultural elitism amongst our top military teams.
Before some other bullethead starts calling me any names, I am the least PC person around. I am conservative and a gun-owner. That doesn't prevent me from making informed decisions, even when my beloved country is at war. I've done my service in the military, and I vote.
Now, all this being said, don't be stupid. This is a movie, and it was fiction. Saying it's 'real' is a romanticized insult and a dangerous glossing over of a stark failure of us military doctrine and the resulting deaths of somali men, women and children.
We've learned a lot since then. That's what we need to remember, not to pretend we always knew it.
Not so. My dreamcast is hooked up to a vga adapter and goes to a 17" monitor next to me. It's even on a video switcher it shares with my util linux box, my cdburner/downloader/irc box.
You are thinking completely backwards.
In fact, this gives them total control over distribution if the box is locked into their central distribution center.
Didn't think about that didya
Er, that cd distro is more expensive I meant. So sue me.
This sounds like an unmitigated disaster.
Not only will I not go for this, but I don't know anyone who would even consider going for it, it's that stupid.
I just cannot see how some marketodroid can claim that CD distribution is cheaper than pioneering broadband.
This is just more bullshit to get people to treat everything like TV. Everyone wants you to be shoved ass-first into their 'portal site' so they can cram adverts down your throat by the fistful.
Well fuck em. The dreamcast is a lot of fun, and I am glad I got one. This piece of crap upsets me, it's a waste of time and ideas.
And if you go with sun for servers, and are paying the price avoid the sun PCI products at all costs.
I've been working on sun equipment since the SUN-2, and my experience has been that sun PCI stuff has no better MTBF than PC PCI stuff, and the parts can be hard to get in a hurry. Worse, you still pay the premium.
I use napster all the time.
I use it to :
-find obscure stuff that I figure _someone_ will have but I don't..
-find titles I enjoy but don't have MP3s of.
-listen to stuff I've never bought but know other people like.
None of my uses of napster are insidious, none of them 'rip off the artist.'
I use napster because the monolithic music industry has failed me utterly. I like obscure stuff, marginally rare stuff and the music industry has no interest in catering to me. They want to sell in the millions.
They've continued to price-fix, continued to fight technology and more importantly my desire to _harmlessly_ exchange and sample music.
That's the truth. Not everyone out there is a zit-faced college kid trying to get the latest "pop girls" album without paying for it. Some people like myself don't give a damn about paying for it, I've got plenty of cash - what I am not at _all_ interested in is having to spend half a day going to the music store to find that the music I want isn't there.
I want music that's online, immediately accessible, downloadable, playable and portable. When your 'legal' channels provide this, I'll pay for it as soon as it's a better alternative than the other.
Making me jump through hoops, and pay 22 bucks for a CD will for damned sure prevent me from exposure to unknown music. In my case, napster exposes me to music I'd otherwise never hear.
I don't believe I am that unusual. The RIAA et. al. are painting the most negative picture possible of napster use. You as the artist need to hear another point of view. The record industry is not your friend.
When someone pirates a CD, they steal 12 cents from you- and the record industry steals 20 bucks. Who are you pissed at again?
The further government is removed from the individual, the less that individual's concerns are shared by this government.
A neighborhood watch program cares intimately about the individuals.
A city government must respond and listen to the concerns of neighborhoods.
A state government listens to the concerns of cities, which may or may not intersect with the concerns of neighborhoods.
National government concerns itself with business, and the concerns of states, as well as international business and policy which most assuredly have little or nothing to do with my day to day needs.
International government concerns itself with little other than international business and matters of international commerce.
People who want international government are willing to wear a yoke from which they have no escape and be goverened by people who have no reason to look after their best interests.
Foolish and stupid.
legal action follows.
"we just put it into our license, and you agreed to it, we would never actually ENFORCE that.."
Well, if that isn't the same line the big media lawyers gave with regards to the mill copyright act? The same act they swore up and down wouldn't be used to interpret in a broad sense and aggressively? The same legal recourse they are using for such broad actions as repeatedly suing people, getting reverse engineering notables arrested in foreign countries and attempting to ban 'file sharing' on the net as 'exploitive to intellectual property'.
It's weak and fallacious to disclaim what you put in print as well-intentioned when it's clearly got the legal teeth to be oppressive.
This is tantamount to someone aiming a gun at your face and saying "I'd never pull the trigger".
in proprietary code, we'd all have to break laws to even demonstrate that it was broken.
Here we can see that it is fixed, and we can learn from it. _we_ are assured that it was our error of omission, noone else's.
I am willing to pony up and say I screwed up for using open source without reading the source. I have no problem accepting my part of the blame.
When a tragedy occurs and people are woken up to realize that the world is not as safe as they had presumed it would be, they are willing to give control to anyone at all who promises safety. This is how hitler catapulted into power, and this is how people who are normally stupid and harmless empower other people who are both cunning and exceedingly dangerous.
The concept of someone putting a poster which offers money for the anonymous reporting of suspicious behaviour on the part of others is both reprehensible and goes flatly against the principles of the constitution. The rights of the accuser DO NOT outweigh the rights of the accused. This is how justice is maintained. This is how the liberty and freedom of the innocent individual is maintained.
The most corrupt and villainous societies in the world were marked with exactly this sort of social venom. Anonymous denunciation is the most common tool employed by the worst and most oppressive regimes ever to appear on the earth.
In a nation where freedom of speech and liberty are supposedly cherished, it's odd that our institutions of learning are modelled after fascist dictatorships. What sort of people are we trying to educate?
The concept of anonymous denunciation is a tool that's been widely put to use by the most oppressive regimes in the world.
I am just utterly flabbergasted that someone is willing to even consider this as a sane and sensible thing.
When I was in high school, I was largely considered weird and unpopular. I assure you there were _plenty_ of people amonst the beautiful loser set who would have jumped at the opportunity to turn me in to this sort of bullshit. I was notorious for being hostile to the established 'jocks and frocks' set, and acted on my resentment of the worship of conformity.
My question is, do you really want to give these people yet another tool to use against folks who choose not to follow their mob rule?
I was an outsider, always will be an outsider.
The once geeky bookworm computer nerd in black is now a high paid computer consultant computer nerd bookworm. These people who once oppressed me in highschool are still back where I left them in the midwest, struggling along in crappy jobs doing the same dumb unremarkable stuff they did in highschool.
Do you really want to hammer down the nails that stick out? Did it never occur to you that your artists, inventors, leaders and writers will come from this crop of 'alienated people?'
I have a lot more rude things to say, but I'll keep them to myself. This sort of program is the worst evil I could imagine inflicting on the people I am most fond of - the folks who dare to be different.
Yes, it's imperative to add inline suppressors if you have a box that is prone to doing this. Some boxes send 'break like signals' when you power them off as well. (grr!)
The best solution we ever found was -
1) recompile linux (2.1+) kernel to 'use serial port as console' which means if you boot sans video card you get a serial console.
2) set mobo for 'ignore errors on boot'
3) use an APC powerstrip with serial and telnet access to powering on/off outlets individually
4) use a portmaster connected to all the serial ports and the APC.
dialback only modem access into the portmaster as well as network access
Most of the sites we set up were colo sites, or in locked secure server rooms so remote access was a boon.
Any questions?