They would have to give out billions of goods and services for billions of revenue that they received for nothing! Where is the issue?
You pay me in advance for a product, I owe you that product. Just because you wait some time to come and claim it, does not mean I magically owe you nothing.
My Folks were almost ripped off by a national chain that way, they were a week away from the expiration date. I don't mind if you want to sell me a gift card with an expiration date plainly stated on the card, AND if I am able to redeem the card for full face value in cash if I do not want or need any of your merchandise. Anything less is theft.
If you want to use the facilities, you follow the rules. The only vote you get is with your feet. Their house - their rules.
If I didn't trust the IT department, I would never hook up anything that I personally value to their infrastructure. I would (ab)use their equipment, and save my data on a thumb drive.
I've been that route: last semester, I was a part-time instructor at the local CC and knew that the IT Dept was full of mediocre windows power users - not even an MCSE in the bunch. I was hired to teach a Linux course, and was not permitted to connect those "insecure" machines to the LAN! Before every lab session, we had to disconnect the lab switch from the network, so there was no possibility of "hacking" into the school's network. I wasted about 15 minutes trying to educate the IT manager, before I figured it was better to let him stew in ignorance, since they were not paying me to educate him.
Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
It's sad that you should be so misinformed. Most if not all American soldiers are conservative, vote for republicans and hate trash like Kerry.
One network (fox) is pro American & semi-conservative; and the other 5 (ABC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, and NPR) are Anti-American & liberal to far left. So who is swilling at the pablum trough? The minority who seek a different point of view or the majority who line up for their daily newspeak lessons. "Bush is doubleplus ungood." " terroists are now insurgents, Kerry is a war hero" check out ABC News in a rare moment of candor.
VVAW was less than 1% of the Vietnam vets. Every Veteran I talk to, whether they are WWII Union Member Democrats, Korean War Vets, Cold War vets (like myself) or Veterans of the Gulf War and The Liberation of Iraq despise Kerry for his unabashed and constant hatred of the military establishment.
Either his deception on the medals/ribbons incident, or the Winter Soldier lies alone make him unfit to be the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. Now take his anti-defense voting record into account and you will see that this man is not worthy to salute a disabled vet, much less command the troops who willingly place thier bodies in harm's way to protect your rights to spout such drivel.
Go to the local VA hospital and talk to them. I do, I am ablebodied and have no need of the benefits, yet I visit monthly to pay my debt to those who gave more than I did. These brave men and women paid for my freedom with their blood, limbs, eyes, and many, many more with their lives. I know that I owe it to them to let them know that some of America is not ashamed of them, some Americans appreciate their sacrifice, some Americans remember them on days other than Memorial Day and Vereran's Day.
Show me where the liberal icons of the left -such as the Clintons- treated the military with dignity and respect during their 'regime'. Give me the reason why in Nov 2000 that our military was at its lowest strength since the 1930s and our nation was vulnerable to a second attack on the World Trade Center. I thought that the then-sitting President of the USA was going to leave no stone unturned until those who perpetrated this act were brought to justice. Yet they come back to finish their task after he is out of office.
Name This Country:
* 709,000 regular (active duty) service personnel;
* 293,000 reserve troops;
* Eight standing Army divisions;
* 20 Air Force and Navy air wings with 2,000 combat aircraft;
* 232 strategic bombers;
* 13 strategic ballistic missile submarines with 3,114 nuclear warheads on 232 missiles;
* 500 ICBMs with 1,950 warheads;
* Four aircraft carriers, and;
* 121 surface combat ships and submarines, plus all the support bases, shipyards and logistical assets needed to sustain such a naval force.
Is this country Russia? . . . No.
China ? . . . No.
Great Britain? . . . Wrong Again!
USA? . . . Hardly.
Give Up?
Don't feel too bad if you are unable to identify this global superpower because this country no longer exists. It has vanished.
These are the American military forces that have disappeared since the 1992 elections. No wonder Clinton could not find Osama.
I was a career NCO in the US Army, I recieved the outright discrimination that the compassionate liberals bestowed on the military in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Just because they now feel that they need the military to die to protect their rights to spit on their uniform next year does not make them supporters of the troops.
I grew up in a Union Household, voted straight democrat ticket until I joined the Army. I saw first hand the treatment that Nobel Peace Prize Winner Carter gave the American armed forces. I lived and served through his reduc
I spoke with one lady, who said "Bush isn't that bad, I'd vote for him again", who a few weeks later told me "I'm not voting for him again", because her son, a Staff Sergeant in the US Army Reserve with 6 years in, due to end his tour in August, is now being sent to Afghanistan in July for at least a year. This isn't abnormal, it's now policy. Just because you're not in the military now, and have no plans for joining doesn't mean much
Funny, this has been policy at least since the Carter years when I enlisted. That is part of the fine print in the volunteer armed forces. Didn't read it? Well he signed the contract. I was sent to Honduras with 5 months left, I had to extend or reenlist to meet My Obligation. I had a wife, three kids, and a job lined up - too bad. This was in peace time, 1989. He should have just joined AmericaCorps if he was afraid to do his duty.
I take my oaths seriously, and I hope that everyone who serves does the same. If they joined for college money, I say pay them off and bounce them out. I want warriors willing to defend our constitution, country, and way of life. I don't want Slashdot Whiners defending my freedom and that of my children.
Better check with someone who has been to a chemical warfare decon school before you make up facts. Sarin is a binary agent, in the binary state (unmixed for you unwashed masses) it has an extremely long shelf life. In the combined form it has a 2 month exp date.
That is why the agents are packed into binary artillery shells with three major compartments: two for the agent ingredients and one for a bursting charge. As the shell is fired, the containers rupture, and the inherent spinning of the shell by the rifling of the gun barrel mixes the binary components and produces the toxin.
When the shell reaches its destination the timed fuse ignites a small bursting charge, dispersing the agent. That is the reason that all of the men and women who defend freedom are warned repeatedly to make a conscious effort to be aware of "dud" shells or one that just "pop" and not make a "big bang".
The terrain, objective of the attack, and the whims of the glorious leader ordering the gassing will determine the fusing of the Soviet shell for an air burst or a ground burst. Airburst is used over open, soft terrain where maximum dispersion is desired, and a possibility of depolying all the agent into the earth is undesired. Ground bursts are used on hardened terrain: rocks, city streets and buildings, or where pinpoint delivery of maximum casualties are the end result.
Interesting that you, as an AC sheep, want people to listen to your prefered pravda organ and ignore anyone who dares to present a different point of view, or possible even the truth. The Sarin in question was from a live shell that was used in an IED (Improvised Explosive Device). It was spent AFTER the terrorists touched it off. These are not 20 year old shell fragments that amazingly held evidence of a gas with a two year shelf life and a potency in free air measured in hours. They were live potent weapons that were misused by terrorists almost as ignorant as you seem to be.
I agree that there is no reason to massacre 10000 innocent civilians, and that is one of the best reasones to topple the regime that killed those poeple. The perpetrators of those massacres are now either dead (the Hussein Boys) or imprisoned (Saddam, Chemical Ali) Maybe you should change the channel from Al-Jezira!
(Since I know you are a member of the protected masses and not one of the heros who risk everything to bring freedom to oppressed people, I hope I explained it in simple enough terms for you to understand!)
Karma Be damned, I'm tired of lies and disinformation on the day we honnor those who protect your rights to spout such drivvel.
Because it was originally written in Latin by Claudius in his epistles. It is an ancient truism, said well before there was a NASA, before there was an English language, well before the Earth was known to be round. Claudius lived from 10BCE to 54CE, and was emperor of Rome from 41CE until his death.
More people in the western world know Latin than know English, for the "romance languages" were founded from Latin.
Why are there Valedictorians, Baccalautate degrees, Cum Laude, Magna Cum Laude, Summa Cum Laude? I went to a Community College Graduation this week, and Latin was everywhere. Tradition!
Lastly, Tradition states that a pithy motto be in latin, since it is a "dead" language, and therefore less likely to be misinterpreted.
With the way the court system works, the offending companies will be long gone - merged or bankrupt and IPv7 will be in beta before this practice is found to be a violation.
When was the last time you made $1750 for an hour's work? Ebay and fleamarkets will let you sell for at least 50% msrp. That is all pure profit. All it takes is acting like you belong there.
I spent some time maintaining the CCTVs in the local store of a national home improvement warehouse. Here is a bit of what I saw and learned as I talked to the loss prevention people.
What was done is close to the perfect crime. It works consistantly. Any national store is vulnerable. It is easy to get $3-5000 out of a Home Improvement place, the retail electronics and the Big Box stores are just as vulnerable. Risk/reward is not a problem. They don't hit the same store or even the company consistantly, they move around make a cicuit of cities and stores.
But why does it have to happen consistantly? How many computers do you need? Get a PC when you need one, a TV, new stove, etc. Tires for your car, whatever you need. There are people who live their whole lives never doing honest work, and they live as well as you and I. (no lawyers/politician jokes, please)
Think about all the times you helped someone you didn't know and never asked for proof or called your boss to check out the story.
Do some freelance consulting or an internship at a large non-technology corp or at a large university medical center. The only thing limiting what you can take is your conscience and social skills.
Darl is just the pupet of the pump and dumpers. He is the paid mouthpiece, and he will get rewarded for doing his part to make sure that people like Reginald C Broughtin, Michael P Olson,
Michael Wilson and Jeff Hunsaker all get to sell their stock.
Check the insider transactions Yahoo finance No sign of Darl!
Darl can't exercise his options yet. He had a multi-year deal hinging on the valuation of the stock and some profit. I read it way back on Groklaw, search their archives if you are interested.
All the other mobsters involved with CSO cashed in -
Exercising options between $.066 and $2 per share and selling at $10 and above.
Saddest part is not that these scum are making money, but that your 401K (and mine) is buying this stock from the insiders, at those prices and it is sure to tank.
If we just hold hands and sing Kumbya all the world's problems will go away.
The underlying social problem is human nature! Greed, jealousy, avavice, have been problems since the dawn of man. If I keep my "riches" you will hate me for having more than you.
If I give you some of my posessions, you will hate me for making you feel inferior.
If I destroy all my wealth and become like you you will hate me for wasting what I had.
If I help you to be like me, you will never like me until you have ground me under your boot heels.
So I may as well just live my life my way and keep you at arms length.
Q: Why do you think it is called a social ladder?
A: You look down, all you see are smiling faces, and you look up and all you see are assholes.
Should have pre-viewed! It is a Gateway Solo Pro 9300 PIII- 600. Darn thing runs hot enough without thinking of overclocking, if even possible on a functional laptop.
Mepis is based on Debian sarge, and with reiserfs and partitioning, disk access is fast enough that loading Mozilla is not an issue.
" And mozilla needs 4 gigs and a hyperthreading P4 to start in under 4 seconds."
Must be the windows version underlying Mozilla.
It works fine on a 4 year old gateway pII-600 laptop maxed out at 288MB. As I surf Slashdot, I am taking a break while doing compiling a report in SunOffice7, pulling from Excell and Word files on one virtual desktop. Two separate instances of Mozilla with a total of 10 tabs are open on another to confirm data. Evolution and a tabbed terminal session running ssh and wget take up another Virtual desktop, and I leave one open for KPatience. Gkrellm is showing 129 processes and 90% idle cpu. Memory is sitting at 60%.
This is normal use with Mepis, your milage may vary.
Not sure why this is hard for people to understand given that they buy cars rather then walk for free and buy/rent houses rather then live in the park for free.
Well your arguement would be better if you could find a subset of people who voluntarily Pay to walk on a toll way rather than walk freely along side of it. Or find a someone living in government housing, and ask them if they are willing to pay to live in the same, or lesser quality housing.
I am not sure why it is so hard for you to understand that the OSS is not about price but about freedom Do you understand the concept of freedom? Even if you do not have the talent to change the code, you have the freedom to hire someone who can.
The facts that you will can afford to hire someone to customize OSS source is a side benefit of OSS. The fact that you are never locked into one vendor, and beholding to their time scheduleor pricing scheme is another benefit.
"The feds are just taking care of their corporate masters, that's all.
You mean, serving the citizens of their countries, who are trying to make money by selling software? You mean, enforcing the law?
How dare they! It would make much more sense for them to start working for the software pirates.::rolls eyes:: "
I believe that the parent thinks there are higher priority criminals to hunt than a few losers who pirate mediocre games. Victimless crimes and white collar crimes should never take precidence and resources from the prosecution of violent crimes.
It should be a matter of triage, first make society safe, then worry about maintaing private industry's profit margins against the gangs of computer toting outlaw teenagers.
However, the victims of muggings, spousal abuse, drug related violence and gangsta drive-by shootings do not make the hefty campaign contributions, nor do they have the ability to make press and TV conferences. They are just the average tax-payers - you know - the ones the Law Enforcement Officers swore to serve, protect, and defend.
Why pay to reinstall the same OS that came originally on the system? If It came with 98, then it has a legal license for 98, no need to buy a new one. If I donate it to a charity, then I donate my license.
If Some Evil Company manipulates the EULA to prohibit this act of charity, then I will just keep legal ownership of the PC and allow the charity to use My PC and My Licence to the OS as they see fit.
The big Box stores and Home Improvement type stores give the upper management team bonuses based on how well the store meets the monthly "budget". Certain costs are fixed, but low end payroll is not. The more hours they can save, the more weasel room they have for fixed costs and their theft/shrink costs.
The mid management droids get $10-15/hour and are forced to work a minimum of 50 hours/week as their salary base. They get "Chinese Overtime" (their term) where you get less O/T pay the longer you work.
The full-time hourly peons get a max 38 hours a week, to ensure that they do not get 40. The senior peons get sent home first, and the ones closest to the bottom of the scale may get a whole 38 hours. They watch hours like hawks, I know one manager in Lowes who would plan the work week so that he could overwork people from their 30th to 35th hour, then they were so happy to go home "early" that they didn't realize that they were losing money.
The store manager worship the bonus they get, and the company uses that as a club to get what it wants. My Ex worked at Lowes, and from talking to people who worked at Home Depot and Walmart, it seems that they all subscribe to the same book. If they didn't, they would be at a "disadvantage" to the chains that did.
Spend a few weeks as a holiday worker at one of these places, or date someone who does - it is a real eye opener.
Sorry if I offended your sense of propriety, but I run my business my way. My domain is for my business, not a vanity domain. Just as you chose to obfuscate your contact information here on slashdot, I chose to obfuscate my contact information with ICANN. And I'll bet we both do it for the same reason.
What would say if Slashdot killed your account because you did not have a correct email address?
I happen to have my whole "corporate headquarters" in a building on the other side of my driveway. I run a lucrative consulting firm and we use a PO BOX as the legal address. I don't want or need solicitors, sales-wonks, or proselytizers of any stripe wasting my staff's time or worse, bothering me after business hours. Since my local zoning laws do not require me to post a large neon sign to attract mosquitoes, I fail to see how ICANN can force me to attract bloodsuckers of another sort.
If It comes to that, I'll just register my dog, Eugene, as the tech contact.
The founder of the city of Babylon is believed to be Nimrod. Nimrod appears for only a brief time in the Bible:
And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Out of that land went forth Ashur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah: the same is a great city
(Genesis 10:8-12).
Genesis 10: 8-12 (King James Version)
The name Nimrod may come from the Hebrew verb 'nimrodh' which is translated, "Let us revolt." Nimrod is referred to as a 'mighty one': this phrase derives from the Hebrew word 'gilor' which means "tyrant". Nimrod was not just a powerful man on the earth at that time, he was a tyrannical leader of men. The phrase "a mighty hunter before the Lord" suggests that it was not wild beasts that Nimrod was hunting, but men. Having hunted them he would enslave them and have a tyrannical hold over them - and all this was done in direct opposition to the Lord.
It has also been suggested that Nimrod tamed a leopard to accompany him on his hunts for animals, just as people today use dogs for this purpose. This could also be where Nimrod got his name: the Babylonian name for "leopard" was "nimr" and "rod" means "to subdue."
After the Great Flood, various city-states in Mesopotamia became the temporary seat of power until about 2800 BC, when they were united under the rule of one king, Etana of Kish, who may also be the origin of the Biblical Nimrod. Seven cities were conquered by this king, who established the world's first, post-deluge empire. After founding a southern (Sumerian) empire in Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh, he invaded Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah and Resen. He then unified the people in numerous construction projects, the most prominent of which was the construction of the Tower of Babel.
I never even considered stalkers, I chose anonymity for convenience. My registrar emails me too frequently with "special offers" and I get site related junkmail even though my whois data does not point to my address. I can only surmise that the registrar is making a few bucks on the side selling data.
If there was a valid reason for the FBI or the IP-Police to kick down my door, they can do a dig on me, go to the switch up the road, and pull the line. When I pop out of the door to look at the wires, they can rush me with all their SWAT gear.
For everyone else - It's the internet, use it to contact me, or lookup the netblock owner, they get a check from me every month. If the law enforcement officers can't do that, they should be kicked back to parking meter duty.
I have an unlisted phone number for a reason, I'm sure not going to post it in the whois database!
The only issue I see with the chain drive is the loss of efficiency you would get with 3 chains. The photos are too small to tell where and how they adjust the chain tension. Belt drive would have a lot less maintenance here.
Looks cool. but Impractical as hell, wonder what the turn radius is with those funky wheel-covers?
The professors creating the courses are MS Biased, so it follows that the books chosen are MS centric.
I'm tutoring at the local CC, and was asked to teach a short course in Linux. Try to find a textbook that talks about a current version of Linux. Before you Fanboys start flapping your gums about kernel versions, the school will change books every year to keep up with the latest "innovations" from Redmond, and has changed mid year for the past two years.
The school's only "open" minded professor worked with me, and we ordered instructor's desk copies from all of the major text book publishers. The ones that came with CDs had RH7.2 This was Nov 03! Yet the same publisher had texbooks on Windows server2003.
After looking at the paucity of readily available textbooks, we opted to go for an open source solution: Paul Sheer's RUTE. I taught out of the book, and the students had the choice of buying the book, or downloading the PDF. I burned copies of Knoppix so that they could actually have Linux at home to practice on.
This school does have two computer labs with Linux, one is locked away from the rest of the LAN, on its own subnet and firewall, and the other has removable hard-drives, and they disconnect the room from the LAN before they install the linux drives!
The school still equates Linux and "Hackers" since the sole purpose of Linux there is use in the computer forensics classes. Any wonder why the CIS majors never learn anything about Linux?
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They would have to give out billions of goods and services for billions of revenue that they received for nothing! Where is the issue?
You pay me in advance for a product, I owe you that product. Just because you wait some time to come and claim it, does not mean I magically owe you nothing.
My Folks were almost ripped off by a national chain that way, they were a week away from the expiration date.
I don't mind if you want to sell me a gift card with an expiration date plainly stated on the card, AND if I am able to redeem the card for full face value in cash if I do not want or need any of your merchandise.
Anything less is theft.
You do not connect!
If you want to use the facilities, you follow the rules. The only vote you get is with your feet. Their house - their rules.
If I didn't trust the IT department, I would never hook up anything that I personally value to their infrastructure. I would (ab)use their equipment, and save my data on a thumb drive.
I've been that route: last semester, I was a part-time instructor at the local CC and knew that the IT Dept was full of mediocre windows power users - not even an MCSE in the bunch.
I was hired to teach a Linux course, and was not permitted to connect those "insecure" machines to the LAN! Before every lab session, we had to disconnect the lab switch from the network, so there was no possibility of "hacking" into the school's network. I wasted about 15 minutes trying to educate the IT manager, before I figured it was better to let him stew in ignorance, since they were not paying me to educate him.
Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
It's sad that you should be so misinformed. Most if not all American soldiers are conservative, vote for republicans and hate trash like Kerry.
One network (fox) is pro American & semi-conservative; and the other 5 (ABC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, and NPR) are Anti-American & liberal to far left. So who is swilling at the pablum trough? The minority who seek a different point of view or the majority who line up for their daily newspeak lessons. "Bush is doubleplus ungood." " terroists are now insurgents, Kerry is a war hero"
check out ABC News in a rare moment of candor.
VVAW was less than 1% of the Vietnam vets. Every Veteran I talk to, whether they are WWII Union Member Democrats, Korean War Vets, Cold War vets (like myself) or Veterans of the Gulf War and The Liberation of Iraq despise Kerry for his unabashed and constant hatred of the military establishment.
Either his deception on the medals/ribbons incident, or the Winter Soldier lies alone make him unfit to be the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. Now take his anti-defense voting record into account and you will see that this man is not worthy to salute a disabled vet, much less command the troops who willingly place thier bodies in harm's way to protect your rights to spout such drivel.
Go to the local VA hospital and talk to them. I do, I am ablebodied and have no need of the benefits, yet I visit monthly to pay my debt to those who gave more than I did. These brave men and women paid for my freedom with their blood, limbs, eyes, and many, many more with their lives. I know that I owe it to them to let them know that some of America is not ashamed of them, some Americans appreciate their sacrifice, some Americans remember them on days other than Memorial Day and Vereran's Day.
Show me where the liberal icons of the left -such as the Clintons- treated the military with dignity and respect during their 'regime'. Give me the reason why in Nov 2000 that our military was at its lowest strength since the 1930s and our nation was vulnerable to a second attack on the World Trade Center. I thought that the then-sitting President of the USA was going to leave no stone unturned until those who perpetrated this act were brought to justice. Yet they come back to finish their task after he is out of office.
Name This Country:
* 709,000 regular (active duty) service personnel;
* 293,000 reserve troops;
* Eight standing Army divisions;
* 20 Air Force and Navy air wings with 2,000 combat aircraft;
* 232 strategic bombers;
* 13 strategic ballistic missile submarines with 3,114 nuclear warheads on 232 missiles;
* 500 ICBMs with 1,950 warheads;
* Four aircraft carriers, and;
* 121 surface combat ships and submarines, plus all the support bases, shipyards and logistical assets needed to sustain such a naval force.
Is this country Russia? . . . No.
China ? . . . No.
Great Britain? . . . Wrong Again!
USA? . . . Hardly.
Give Up?
Don't feel too bad if you are unable to identify this global superpower because this country no longer exists. It has vanished.
These are the American military forces that have disappeared since the 1992 elections. No wonder Clinton could not find Osama.
I was a career NCO in the US Army, I recieved the outright discrimination that the compassionate liberals bestowed on the military in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Just because they now feel that they need the military to die to protect their rights to spit on their uniform next year does not make them supporters of the troops.
I grew up in a Union Household, voted straight democrat ticket until I joined the Army. I saw first hand the treatment that Nobel Peace Prize Winner Carter gave the American armed forces. I lived and served through his reduc
I spoke with one lady, who said "Bush isn't that bad, I'd vote for him again", who a few weeks later told me "I'm not voting for him again", because her son, a Staff Sergeant in the US Army Reserve with 6 years in, due to end his tour in August, is now being sent to Afghanistan in July for at least a year. This isn't abnormal, it's now policy. Just because you're not in the military now, and have no plans for joining doesn't mean much
Funny, this has been policy at least since the Carter years when I enlisted. That is part of the fine print in the volunteer armed forces. Didn't read it? Well he signed the contract.
I was sent to Honduras with 5 months left, I had to extend or reenlist to meet My Obligation. I had a wife, three kids, and a job lined up - too bad. This was in peace time, 1989. He should have just joined AmericaCorps if he was afraid to do his duty.
I take my oaths seriously, and I hope that everyone who serves does the same. If they joined for college money, I say pay them off and bounce them out. I want warriors willing to defend our constitution, country, and way of life. I don't want Slashdot Whiners defending my freedom and that of my children.
Better check with someone who has been to a chemical warfare decon school before you make up facts.
Sarin is a binary agent, in the binary state (unmixed for you unwashed masses) it has an extremely long shelf life. In the combined form it has a 2 month exp date.
That is why the agents are packed into binary artillery shells with three major compartments: two for the agent ingredients and one for a bursting charge. As the shell is fired, the containers rupture, and the inherent spinning of the shell by the rifling of the gun barrel mixes the binary components and produces the toxin.
When the shell reaches its destination the timed fuse ignites a small bursting charge, dispersing the agent. That is the reason that all of the men and women who defend freedom are warned repeatedly to make a conscious effort to be aware of "dud" shells or one that just "pop" and not make a "big bang".
The terrain, objective of the attack, and the whims of the glorious leader ordering the gassing will determine the fusing of the Soviet shell for an air burst or a ground burst. Airburst is used over open, soft terrain where maximum dispersion is desired, and a possibility of depolying all the agent into the earth is undesired. Ground bursts are used on hardened terrain: rocks, city streets and buildings, or where pinpoint delivery of maximum casualties are the end result.
Interesting that you, as an AC sheep, want people to listen to your prefered pravda organ and ignore anyone who dares to present a different point of view, or possible even the truth.
The Sarin in question was from a live shell that was used in an IED (Improvised Explosive Device). It was spent AFTER the terrorists touched it off. These are not 20 year old shell fragments that amazingly held evidence of a gas with a two year shelf life and a potency in free air measured in hours. They were live potent weapons that were misused by terrorists almost as ignorant as you seem to be.
I agree that there is no reason to massacre 10000 innocent civilians, and that is one of the best reasones to topple the regime that killed those poeple. The perpetrators of those massacres are now either dead (the Hussein Boys) or imprisoned (Saddam, Chemical Ali) Maybe you should change the channel from Al-Jezira!
(Since I know you are a member of the protected masses and not one of the heros who risk everything to bring freedom to oppressed people, I hope I explained it in simple enough terms for you to understand!) Karma Be damned, I'm tired of lies and disinformation on the day we honnor those who protect your rights to spout such drivvel.
Because it was originally written in Latin by Claudius in his epistles. It is an ancient truism, said well before there was a NASA, before there was an English language, well before the Earth was known to be round. Claudius lived from 10BCE to 54CE, and was emperor of Rome from 41CE until his death.
More people in the western world know Latin than know English, for the "romance languages" were founded from Latin.
Why are there Valedictorians, Baccalautate degrees, Cum Laude, Magna Cum Laude, Summa Cum Laude? I went to a Community College Graduation this week, and Latin was everywhere.
Tradition!
Lastly, Tradition states that a pithy motto be in latin, since it is a "dead" language, and therefore less likely to be misinterpreted.
With the way the court system works, the offending companies will be long gone - merged or bankrupt and IPv7 will be in beta before this practice is found to be a violation.
Maybe my grandkids will benefit.
When was the last time you made $1750 for an hour's work? Ebay and fleamarkets will let you sell for at least 50% msrp. That is all pure profit. All it takes is acting like you belong there.
I spent some time maintaining the CCTVs in the local store of a national home improvement warehouse. Here is a bit of what I saw and learned as I talked to the loss prevention people.
What was done is close to the perfect crime. It works consistantly. Any national store is vulnerable. It is easy to get $3-5000 out of a Home Improvement place, the retail electronics and the Big Box stores are just as vulnerable. Risk/reward is not a problem. They don't hit the same store or even the company consistantly, they move around make a cicuit of cities and stores.
But why does it have to happen consistantly? How many computers do you need? Get a PC when you need one, a TV, new stove, etc. Tires for your car, whatever you need. There are people who live their whole lives never doing honest work, and they live as well as you and I. (no lawyers/politician jokes, please)
Think about all the times you helped someone you didn't know and never asked for proof or called your boss to check out the story.
Do some freelance consulting or an internship at a large non-technology corp or at a large university medical center. The only thing limiting what you can take is your conscience and social skills.
Darl is just the pupet of the pump and dumpers. He is the paid mouthpiece, and he will get rewarded for doing his part to make sure that people like Reginald C Broughtin, Michael P Olson, Michael Wilson and Jeff Hunsaker all get to sell their stock.
Check the insider transactions Yahoo finance No sign of Darl!
Darl can't exercise his options yet. He had a multi-year deal hinging on the valuation of the stock and some profit. I read it way back on Groklaw, search their archives if you are interested.
All the other mobsters involved with CSO cashed in - Exercising options between $.066 and $2 per share and selling at $10 and above.
Saddest part is not that these scum are making money, but that your 401K (and mine) is buying this stock from the insiders, at those prices and it is sure to tank.
If we just hold hands and sing Kumbya all the world's problems will go away.
The underlying social problem is human nature! Greed, jealousy, avavice, have been problems since the dawn of man.
If I keep my "riches" you will hate me for having more than you.
If I give you some of my posessions, you will hate me for making you feel inferior.
If I destroy all my wealth and become like you you will hate me for wasting what I had.
If I help you to be like me, you will never like me until you have ground me under your boot heels.
So I may as well just live my life my way and keep you at arms length.
Q: Why do you think it is called a social ladder?
A: You look down, all you see are smiling faces, and you look up and all you see are assholes.
Should have pre-viewed! It is a Gateway Solo Pro 9300 PIII- 600. Darn thing runs hot enough without thinking of overclocking, if even possible on a functional laptop.
Mepis is based on Debian sarge, and with reiserfs and partitioning, disk access is fast enough that loading Mozilla is not an issue.
" And mozilla needs 4 gigs and a hyperthreading P4 to start in under 4 seconds."
Must be the windows version underlying Mozilla.
It works fine on a 4 year old gateway pII-600 laptop maxed out at 288MB. As I surf Slashdot, I am taking a break while doing compiling a report in SunOffice7, pulling from Excell and Word files on one virtual desktop. Two separate instances of Mozilla with a total of 10 tabs are open on another to confirm data. Evolution and a tabbed terminal session running ssh and wget take up another Virtual desktop, and I leave one open for KPatience. Gkrellm is showing 129 processes and 90% idle cpu. Memory is sitting at 60%.
This is normal use with Mepis, your milage may vary.
Free != Better
Not sure why this is hard for people to understand given that they buy cars rather then walk for free and buy/rent houses rather then live in the park for free.
Well your arguement would be better if you could find a subset of people who voluntarily Pay to walk on a toll way rather than walk freely along side of it. Or find a someone living in government housing, and ask them if they are willing to pay to live in the same, or lesser quality housing.
I am not sure why it is so hard for you to understand that the OSS is not about price but about freedom Do you understand the concept of freedom? Even if you do not have the talent to change the code, you have the freedom to hire someone who can.
The facts that you will can afford to hire someone to customize OSS source is a side benefit of OSS. The fact that you are never locked into one vendor, and beholding to their time scheduleor pricing scheme is another benefit.
" The feds are just taking care of their corporate masters, that's all.
::rolls eyes:: "
You mean, serving the citizens of their countries, who are trying to make money by selling software? You mean, enforcing the law?
How dare they! It would make much more sense for them to start working for the software pirates.
I believe that the parent thinks there are higher priority criminals to hunt than a few losers who pirate mediocre games. Victimless crimes and white collar crimes should never take precidence and resources from the prosecution of violent crimes.
It should be a matter of triage, first make society safe, then worry about maintaing private industry's profit margins against the gangs of computer toting outlaw teenagers.
However, the victims of muggings, spousal abuse, drug related violence and gangsta drive-by shootings do not make the hefty campaign contributions, nor do they have the ability to make press and TV conferences. They are just the average tax-payers - you know - the ones the Law Enforcement Officers swore to serve, protect, and defend.
I'll bite this bait:
Why pay to reinstall the same OS that came originally on the system?
If It came with 98, then it has a legal license for 98, no need to buy a new one. If I donate it to a charity, then I donate my license.
If Some Evil Company manipulates the EULA to prohibit this act of charity, then I will just keep legal ownership of the PC and allow the charity to use My PC and My Licence to the OS as they see fit.
It is a shame that the refurbished computers can't be loaded with low cost Lindows.
For windows get winpcap
then get ethereal for windows
and get windump
SANS.org has all the info: Packet capture apps
The big Box stores and Home Improvement type stores give the upper management team bonuses based on how well the store meets the monthly "budget". Certain costs are fixed, but low end payroll is not. The more hours they can save, the more weasel room they have for fixed costs and their theft/shrink costs.
The mid management droids get $10-15/hour and are forced to work a minimum of 50 hours/week as their salary base. They get "Chinese Overtime" (their term) where you get less O/T pay the longer you work.
The full-time hourly peons get a max 38 hours a week, to ensure that they do not get 40. The senior peons get sent home first, and the ones closest to the bottom of the scale may get a whole 38 hours. They watch hours like hawks, I know one manager in Lowes who would plan the work week so that he could overwork people from their 30th to 35th hour, then they were so happy to go home "early" that they didn't realize that they were losing money.
The store manager worship the bonus they get, and the company uses that as a club to get what it wants. My Ex worked at Lowes, and from talking to people who worked at Home Depot and Walmart, it seems that they all subscribe to the same book. If they didn't, they would be at a "disadvantage" to the chains that did.
Spend a few weeks as a holiday worker at one of these places, or date someone who does - it is a real eye opener.
Sorry if I offended your sense of propriety, but I run my business my way. My domain is for my business, not a vanity domain.
Just as you chose to obfuscate your contact information here on slashdot, I chose to obfuscate my contact information with ICANN. And I'll bet we both do it for the same reason.
What would say if Slashdot killed your account because you did not have a correct email address?
I happen to have my whole "corporate headquarters" in a building on the other side of my driveway. I run a lucrative consulting firm and we use a PO BOX as the legal address. I don't want or need solicitors, sales-wonks, or proselytizers of any stripe wasting my staff's time or worse, bothering me after business hours. Since my local zoning laws do not require me to post a large neon sign to attract mosquitoes, I fail to see how ICANN can force me to attract bloodsuckers of another sort.
If It comes to that, I'll just register my dog, Eugene, as the tech contact.
Never let it be said that you can't learn while surfing Slashdot:
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The founder of the city of Babylon is believed to be Nimrod. Nimrod appears for only a brief time in the Bible:
And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Out of that land went forth Ashur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah: the same is a great city
(Genesis 10:8-12).
Genesis 10: 8-12 (King James Version)
The name Nimrod may come from the Hebrew verb 'nimrodh' which is translated, "Let us revolt." Nimrod is referred to as a 'mighty one': this phrase derives from the Hebrew word 'gilor' which means "tyrant". Nimrod was not just a powerful man on the earth at that time, he was a tyrannical leader of men. The phrase "a mighty hunter before the Lord" suggests that it was not wild beasts that Nimrod was hunting, but men. Having hunted them he would enslave them and have a tyrannical hold over them - and all this was done in direct opposition to the Lord.
It has also been suggested that Nimrod tamed a leopard to accompany him on his hunts for animals, just as people today use dogs for this purpose. This could also be where Nimrod got his name: the Babylonian name for "leopard" was "nimr" and "rod" means "to subdue."
After the Great Flood, various city-states in Mesopotamia became the temporary seat of power until about 2800 BC, when they were united under the rule of one king, Etana of Kish, who may also be the origin of the Biblical Nimrod. Seven cities were conquered by this king, who established the world's first, post-deluge empire. After founding a southern (Sumerian) empire in Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh, he invaded Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah and Resen. He then unified the people in numerous construction projects, the most prominent of which was the construction of the Tower of Babel.
I never even considered stalkers, I chose anonymity for convenience.
My registrar emails me too frequently with "special offers" and I get site related junkmail even though my whois data does not point to my address. I can only surmise that the registrar is making a few bucks on the side selling data.
If there was a valid reason for the FBI or the IP-Police to kick down my door, they can do a dig on me, go to the switch up the road, and pull the line. When I pop out of the door to look at the wires, they can rush me with all their SWAT gear.
For everyone else - It's the internet, use it to contact me, or lookup the netblock owner, they get a check from me every month. If the law enforcement officers can't do that, they should be kicked back to parking meter duty.
I have an unlisted phone number for a reason, I'm sure not going to post it in the whois database!
The threshold system is not broken, I should have included the cellphone remark as a quote.
Now, in retrospect, I feel they should not confiscate cellphones, just remove the batteries, and place the main unit in checked baggage!
we can only hope for that day!
The only issue I see with the chain drive is the loss of efficiency you would get with 3 chains. The photos are too small to tell where and how they adjust the chain tension. Belt drive would have a lot less maintenance here.
Looks cool. but Impractical as hell, wonder what the turn radius is with those funky wheel-covers?
The professors creating the courses are MS Biased, so it follows that the books chosen are MS centric.
I'm tutoring at the local CC, and was asked to teach a short course in Linux. Try to find a textbook that talks about a current version of Linux. Before you Fanboys start flapping your gums about kernel versions, the school will change books every year to keep up with the latest "innovations" from Redmond, and has changed mid year for the past two years.
The school's only "open" minded professor worked with me, and we ordered instructor's desk copies from all of the major text book publishers. The ones that came with CDs had RH7.2 This was Nov 03! Yet the same publisher had texbooks on Windows server2003.
After looking at the paucity of readily available textbooks, we opted to go for an open source solution: Paul Sheer's RUTE.
I taught out of the book, and the students had the choice of buying the book, or downloading the PDF. I burned copies of Knoppix so that they could actually have Linux at home to practice on.
This school does have two computer labs with Linux, one is locked away from the rest of the LAN, on its own subnet and firewall, and the other has removable hard-drives, and they disconnect the room from the LAN before they install the linux drives!
The school still equates Linux and "Hackers" since the sole purpose of Linux there is use in the computer forensics classes. Any wonder why the CIS majors never learn anything about Linux?