What do you think the draft is? WHat do you think happened in WWII and vietnam? Do you think people were trained in "facilities to house or train that many new recruits"? Do you live in 2004?
What you're missing is that in the case of WW2 we were suddenly--overnight--in a major war with multiple world powers. Money came out of the faucet, and we built everything that was needed with little regard to cost and every emphasis on speed.
As for Vietnam, it didn't happen overnight. The system had years to prepare for the numbers of draftees required.
Unless there was a serious emergency (real or manufactured, whatever floats your boat) you would NOT see an instant induction of hundreds of thousands.
From what I understood, AMD got the numbers by comparing itself to the latest Pentimum chip running at that frequency
You understand wrong. AMD Performance ratings are as compared to a Thunderbird core Athlon. In other words, a "PR 3200+" chip is eqivilent to a Thunderbird running at 3.2Ghz, and not a 3.2Ghz Pentium 4.
While I don't think Gore was more qualified than Bush (unless you're talking strictly about public speaking ability--Gore certainly did use alot fewer "Uhs" and "Ers" when talking) I certainly do wonder "what if" Gore were president. Over the last few years, I've come to the conclusion that things would not be as bad as I was led to believe--like you, I too am a registered independant (though I vote for far more Republicans than I do Democrats) and, personally, I hate our current two-party duopoly on power. I've tried hard not to vote for "the lesser of the two evils" but admit that in 2000, I held my nose and supported the "Anybody but Gore" ticket. That was a big mistake, and one I do not plan on repeating.
yes, I do support reasonable gun control:-)
This might surprise you, but so do I--I just think our definition of "reasonable" differs considerably.
Honestly, alot of things. Record deficets is one of them (people like to tar the Democrats with the "tax and spend" brush, but Bush's "tax-cut and spend" is even worse--and I say this as someone who believes that our taxes are way too high.) PATRIOT is another. Our war in Iraq was misguided (at best!) though I believe we have no choice at this point but to see it to its conclusion. I'm disturbed by the issues surrounding his Guard service, which I do not believe have been adaquately explained yet.
He tacticly (though not actively) supports a number of federal gun control laws that I disagree with (noting my sig, one might gather this is important to me...) He called for (and got) the biggest expansion of Medicare since the system was created--and from what I can see, the extra money coming out of our pockets isn't really buying better coverage! He's presided over the of the biggest expansions of the Federal government in decades. I lost ANY respect I had for the man the day he signed campaign finance "reform" while at the same time claiming it wasn't constitutional.
For all of the above reasons, and more, I can't in good conscience vote for this man.
This is either GW Bush posting this or one of his brain-dead sycophants.
The reading impaired should be careful when they toss around words like brain-dead.
Here's what I said again--part of what you quoted, even. Try reading the entirety this time, and maybe talk to a good specialist about your comprehension problem.
In EVERY major war the US has fought, the bulk of its forces have been made up of reservists, guardsman, draftees, militia, whatever, and not regular military.
As to my being a GWB supporter, you're half-right. Supported him in 2000. Won't be voting for him in 2004.
We normally wouldn't even need to use the Reserves except that a prior administration decided we didn't need as large of an armed forces and proceeded to downsize the military.
While it's true that Clinton downsized the military, blaming him for having to call up the Reserves and Guard is silly--or have you forgotten Desert Storm?
The simple fact is that we've ALWAYS relied on non-regulars when it comes time to fight a real war. In EVERY major war the US has fought, the bulk of its forces have been made up of reservists, guardsman, draftees, militia, whatever, and not regular military.
Currently with the Free Trade Agreement negotiated with (or forced on us by) the U.S., australia is set to introduce the "mickey mouse" clause into copyright and bring the whole place more in line with ill-considered U.S. laws.
Don't blame us, blame the Europeans! Our "Mickey Mouse" law was designed to bring us into parity with Europe's copyright laws.
One of the very basic parts of morality is following the laws where you live to the best of your ability.
Give me a break! I offer you three cases, two factual, one fictional, that completely destroy your premise:
1. 1930s-40s Germany. I don't think I really need to elaborate on this one, but here's a hint: Oscar Schindler was breaking the "law." Do you suggest that his behavior was immoral?
3. Rosa Parks was "immoral" because she sat down in the front of the bus, instead of moving to the rear.
2. Orwell's 1984. By your reasoning, the party was RIGHT in that anyone who dared engage in thoughtcrime or overt acts against Big Brother was not only a criminal, but defective and immoral.
What's legal, and what's moral are too entirely different kettles of fish. If you're too blind to see that, I feel sorry for you.
On a serious note, this is decidedly untrue. I've written scripts (and batch files) that had to go through code reviews, and 30-40% of the total lines ended up being comments.
The most classic was one of the last techs, a supposedly bright 35 year old guy who came around with a warezed copy of NAV to attempt installing on her PC. He not only knew what Linux was when he recognised it, but told her to make her PC secure she'd have to install Windows and THEN put NAV on.
If the school was insisting that all user PCs had to be running NAV, it's possible they bought a site license, so it wasn't necessarily a warezed copy of the software, just something on a CD-R. Also, Symantec does make a linux version of their command line scanner, so it's not absurd that they require she install "NAV" on her machine.
That said, the guy mentioned above is a dumbass on par with a tech at Adelphia cable I once spoke to when my modem lost sync. "We don't support Linux. You need to get a REAL operating system before I can help you."
But, what about ease of use? Paper and pencil ballots are easy. It sounds like a poorly designed and documented system. Which, while not technically a machine error must be accounted for. If complex codes, sub-menus, small type etc. are in the way of accurrate voting, then the system STIILL is broken.
I'm sorry, but if the poll workers were too poorly trained to even realize that there were different precincts being served by their polling place, and the voters who were handed the wrong codes didn't realize they were voting in the wrong precinct (possibly with different candidates/measures on the ballot!) just why do you think that paper ballots would have resulted in a different outcome?
Maybe they can call in some UN observers (or Haitian officials) to supervise the next round of elections.
In November, 2000 Fidel Castro offered to send election observers to Florida to help them sort out their little problem. That has to be the most amusing political barb of the decade.
On a more serious note, no federal standards... Look at Florida with chads, Orange County now with E-voting and so on. Essentially its a big mess, and quite frankly not that many people care about it.
We don't need federal standards. Voting is a local issue--one could say the most local issue of all. What we need are three things, all of which can be handled at the local level: educated voters ("Hanging chads" are a result of people who cannot follow instructions, and too damn lazy to check the ballot before submitting it) educated poll workers (the mess in question is a result of improper training) and reliable machines that make it very difficult to mess with the results.
You MIGHT be able to fix the last one at the federal level, but I wouldn't count on it--Diebold, anyone? No amount of federal legislation or money will fix the first two.
Yup. By the way, if someone were being looked at for tax evasion, they would fall under the category of "subject of an investigation," right? Then the nice treasury agent could get a warrant and look at their financials all he wanted to.
Drug dealer and terrorist are just scary words to get people to support the gutting of that pesky 4th amendment.
if somebody's moving thousands of dollars for no apparent reason, it at least deserves being looked into.
I disagree COMPLETELY. If your are not the subject of an investigation, or not sending/receiving money from someone who is, I think what you do with YOUR MONEY is no business of the government's.
Not to nitpick, and I completely agree with how powerful the imagery is (and the sentiment you express), but the Japanese might disagree about Chernobyl being "the worst nuclear disaster the world has ever known."
The Japanese would be wrong--people can and do live in Hiroshima and Nagasaki today. It will be 900 years before anyone can even THINK about living in the Chernobyl area.
It seems to me that if we want to stop spam, we need to remove, inhibit or embarrass the people who actually BUY their products as a result of the spam they receive,
Do you really believe it's even POSSIBLE to embarrass people who buy "penis enhancement" products, or who honestly believe some former minister of Nigeria is going to give them millions of dollars?
In my opinion, there's only one answer: amend the US Constitution so that Reps and Sens can only serve two terms (like the President)
Agree completely--term limits would be a good start on cleaning up our current mess.
and limit campaign contributions to $100 per person to each candidate in each election. No PACs, no unions, no companies and no churches, only voters can give.
Here I disagree. What you propose (not so much the $100 limit per person, but the elimination of PACs etc) would give politicians and the media a monopoly on political speech. If there are no PACs, how is the average citizen (and believe it or not, the most powerful PACs are made up of individual voters) going to get THEIR message out come election season? How does the NRA get its message out in its efforts to oppose gun control? How does the Brady Campaign get ITS message out? How does the ACLU get out its message about which politicians supported the PATRIOT act? Isn't this EXACTLY the kind of speech the first amendment is supposed to protect?
We've been using Mitel's SME Server (E-Smith for you old-schoolers) for quite a while. Recently Mitel is dropping support for this.
E-smith is nice if you've standardized on it as a single platform, but if you have a mix of different systems it sucks ass. I have a pair of e-smith/SME servers in my office, and our IPSEC guy in our German office practically pulled out his hair trying to get the non-Mitel supported IPSEC stuff to play nicely with their SuSE machines. Eventually, he rebuilt the config file by hand a wrote a script to periodically copy ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets back into place after SME blows them away trying to dynamically generate them.
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What do you think the draft is? WHat do you think happened in WWII and vietnam? Do you think people were trained in "facilities to house or train that many new recruits"? Do you live in 2004?
What you're missing is that in the case of WW2 we were suddenly--overnight--in a major war with multiple world powers. Money came out of the faucet, and we built everything that was needed with little regard to cost and every emphasis on speed.
As for Vietnam, it didn't happen overnight. The system had years to prepare for the numbers of draftees required.
Unless there was a serious emergency (real or manufactured, whatever floats your boat) you would NOT see an instant induction of hundreds of thousands.
From what I understood, AMD got the numbers by comparing itself to the latest Pentimum chip running at that frequency
You understand wrong. AMD Performance ratings are as compared to a Thunderbird core Athlon. In other words, a "PR 3200+" chip is eqivilent to a Thunderbird running at 3.2Ghz, and not a 3.2Ghz Pentium 4.
While I don't think Gore was more qualified than Bush (unless you're talking strictly about public speaking ability--Gore certainly did use alot fewer "Uhs" and "Ers" when talking) I certainly do wonder "what if" Gore were president. Over the last few years, I've come to the conclusion that things would not be as bad as I was led to believe--like you, I too am a registered independant (though I vote for far more Republicans than I do Democrats) and, personally, I hate our current two-party duopoly on power. I've tried hard not to vote for "the lesser of the two evils" but admit that in 2000, I held my nose and supported the "Anybody but Gore" ticket. That was a big mistake, and one I do not plan on repeating.
:-)
yes, I do support reasonable gun control
This might surprise you, but so do I--I just think our definition of "reasonable" differs considerably.
Just OOC, what changed your mind?
Honestly, alot of things. Record deficets is one of them (people like to tar the Democrats with the "tax and spend" brush, but Bush's "tax-cut and spend" is even worse--and I say this as someone who believes that our taxes are way too high.) PATRIOT is another. Our war in Iraq was misguided (at best!) though I believe we have no choice at this point but to see it to its conclusion. I'm disturbed by the issues surrounding his Guard service, which I do not believe have been adaquately explained yet.
He tacticly (though not actively) supports a number of federal gun control laws that I disagree with (noting my sig, one might gather this is important to me...) He called for (and got) the biggest expansion of Medicare since the system was created--and from what I can see, the extra money coming out of our pockets isn't really buying better coverage! He's presided over the of the biggest expansions of the Federal government in decades. I lost ANY respect I had for the man the day he signed campaign finance "reform" while at the same time claiming it wasn't constitutional.
For all of the above reasons, and more, I can't in good conscience vote for this man.
This is either GW Bush posting this or one of his brain-dead sycophants.
The reading impaired should be careful when they toss around words like brain-dead.
Here's what I said again--part of what you quoted, even. Try reading the entirety this time, and maybe talk to a good specialist about your comprehension problem.
In EVERY major war the US has fought, the bulk of its forces have been made up of reservists, guardsman, draftees, militia, whatever, and not regular military.
As to my being a GWB supporter, you're half-right. Supported him in 2000. Won't be voting for him in 2004.
We normally wouldn't even need to use the Reserves except that a prior administration decided we didn't need as large of an armed forces and proceeded to downsize the military.
While it's true that Clinton downsized the military, blaming him for having to call up the Reserves and Guard is silly--or have you forgotten Desert Storm?
The simple fact is that we've ALWAYS relied on non-regulars when it comes time to fight a real war. In EVERY major war the US has fought, the bulk of its forces have been made up of reservists, guardsman, draftees, militia, whatever, and not regular military.
Currently with the Free Trade Agreement negotiated with (or forced on us by) the U.S., australia is set to introduce the "mickey mouse" clause into copyright and bring the whole place more in line with ill-considered U.S. laws.
Don't blame us, blame the Europeans! Our "Mickey Mouse" law was designed to bring us into parity with Europe's copyright laws.
One of the very basic parts of morality is following the laws where you live to the best of your ability.
Give me a break! I offer you three cases, two factual, one fictional, that completely destroy your premise:
1. 1930s-40s Germany. I don't think I really need to elaborate on this one, but here's a hint: Oscar Schindler was breaking the "law." Do you suggest that his behavior was immoral?
3. Rosa Parks was "immoral" because she sat down in the front of the bus, instead of moving to the rear.
2. Orwell's 1984. By your reasoning, the party was RIGHT in that anyone who dared engage in thoughtcrime or overt acts against Big Brother was not only a criminal, but defective and immoral.
What's legal, and what's moral are too entirely different kettles of fish. If you're too blind to see that, I feel sorry for you.
No one expects you to comment your shell scripts.
On a serious note, this is decidedly untrue. I've written scripts (and batch files) that had to go through code reviews, and 30-40% of the total lines ended up being comments.
The most classic was one of the last techs, a supposedly bright 35 year old guy who came around with a warezed copy of NAV to attempt installing on her PC. He not only knew what Linux was when he recognised it, but told her to make her PC secure she'd have to install Windows and THEN put NAV on.
If the school was insisting that all user PCs had to be running NAV, it's possible they bought a site license, so it wasn't necessarily a warezed copy of the software, just something on a CD-R. Also, Symantec does make a linux version of their command line scanner, so it's not absurd that they require she install "NAV" on her machine.
That said, the guy mentioned above is a dumbass on par with a tech at Adelphia cable I once spoke to when my modem lost sync. "We don't support Linux. You need to get a REAL operating system before I can help you."
But, what about ease of use? Paper and pencil ballots are easy. It sounds like a poorly designed and documented system. Which, while not technically a machine error must be accounted for. If complex codes, sub-menus, small type etc. are in the way of accurrate voting, then the system STIILL is broken.
I'm sorry, but if the poll workers were too poorly trained to even realize that there were different precincts being served by their polling place, and the voters who were handed the wrong codes didn't realize they were voting in the wrong precinct (possibly with different candidates/measures on the ballot!) just why do you think that paper ballots would have resulted in a different outcome?
Maybe they can call in some UN observers (or Haitian officials) to supervise the next round of elections.
In November, 2000 Fidel Castro offered to send election observers to Florida to help them sort out their little problem. That has to be the most amusing political barb of the decade.
On a more serious note, no federal standards... Look at Florida with chads, Orange County now with E-voting and so on. Essentially its a big mess, and quite frankly not that many people care about it.
We don't need federal standards. Voting is a local issue--one could say the most local issue of all. What we need are three things, all of which can be handled at the local level: educated voters ("Hanging chads" are a result of people who cannot follow instructions, and too damn lazy to check the ballot before submitting it) educated poll workers (the mess in question is a result of improper training) and reliable machines that make it very difficult to mess with the results.
You MIGHT be able to fix the last one at the federal level, but I wouldn't count on it--Diebold, anyone? No amount of federal legislation or money will fix the first two.
If you want the maintenance only so you can upgrade, wait until the upgrade is out and THEN sign a maintenance contract.
MS Requires you buy Software Assurance within like 30 days from purchase of initial product--in other words, you can't do the above.
/me runs off to trademark office...
:)
Office is already trademarked by Microsoft.
Have you done your taxes yet?
Yup. By the way, if someone were being looked at for tax evasion, they would fall under the category of "subject of an investigation," right? Then the nice treasury agent could get a warrant and look at their financials all he wanted to.
Drug dealer and terrorist are just scary words to get people to support the gutting of that pesky 4th amendment.
if somebody's moving thousands of dollars for no apparent reason, it at least deserves being looked into.
I disagree COMPLETELY. If your are not the subject of an investigation, or not sending/receiving money from someone who is, I think what you do with YOUR MONEY is no business of the government's.
I'd pay money for an encyclopedia that didn't have an entry about goatse.
The scary thing is the length and completeness of the entry. It's almost like the guy is basing a PhD candidacy on it or something...
Lets see... one guy pisses off a buncha nerds. He's afraid of firepower?
Many geeks I know (and know of) are quite heavily armed. Hell, from what I understand both ESR and RMS are gun nuts (and I say that with affection.)
That said, none of those I know (and presumably ESR and RMS) would use guns in an illegal manner.
Silly mods, the joke is his user name...think it through......YES, that's it!!
Sadly, the metamoderation to his "Funny" comment will be brutal, since one no longer sees usernames...
Not to nitpick, and I completely agree with how powerful the imagery is (and the sentiment you express), but the Japanese might disagree about Chernobyl being "the worst nuclear disaster the world has ever known."
The Japanese would be wrong--people can and do live in Hiroshima and Nagasaki today. It will be 900 years before anyone can even THINK about living in the Chernobyl area.
It seems to me that if we want to stop spam, we need to remove, inhibit or embarrass the people who actually BUY their products as a result of the spam they receive,
Do you really believe it's even POSSIBLE to embarrass people who buy "penis enhancement" products, or who honestly believe some former minister of Nigeria is going to give them millions of dollars?
Can anyone recommend a good server-side tool to block viruses and worms?
Try Inflex which runs on top of sendmail or postfix, and the linux version of BitDefenderAV.
Both run on my mail gateway.
In my opinion, there's only one answer: amend the US Constitution so that Reps and Sens can only serve two terms (like the President)
Agree completely--term limits would be a good start on cleaning up our current mess.
and limit campaign contributions to $100 per person to each candidate in each election. No PACs, no unions, no companies and no churches, only voters can give.
Here I disagree. What you propose (not so much the $100 limit per person, but the elimination of PACs etc) would give politicians and the media a monopoly on political speech. If there are no PACs, how is the average citizen (and believe it or not, the most powerful PACs are made up of individual voters) going to get THEIR message out come election season? How does the NRA get its message out in its efforts to oppose gun control? How does the Brady Campaign get ITS message out? How does the ACLU get out its message about which politicians supported the PATRIOT act? Isn't this EXACTLY the kind of speech the first amendment is supposed to protect?
We've been using Mitel's SME Server (E-Smith for you old-schoolers) for quite a while. Recently Mitel is dropping support for this.
E-smith is nice if you've standardized on it as a single platform, but if you have a mix of different systems it sucks ass. I have a pair of e-smith/SME servers in my office, and our IPSEC guy in our German office practically pulled out his hair trying to get the non-Mitel supported IPSEC stuff to play nicely with their SuSE machines. Eventually, he rebuilt the config file by hand a wrote a script to periodically copy ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets back into place after SME blows them away trying to dynamically generate them.