You need to factor in how much energy it takes to produce the ceramic cup, plus how much energy & water to wash the cup each time between uses (assuming you wash your dishes between uses).
And do you really think you'll be using the same ceramic mug for the rest of your life?
That's a very modern view of the purpose of the electoral college. But US demographics in the 1780's were far different than they are today, with the vast majority of people living in rural areas. Heavy concentrations of people in urban areas were not considered a threat in the way you describe.
The electoral college was a compromise solution designed to balance the power of the states' legislatures with that of the people, to act as a sort of brake on potential irrational exuberance of the people (though this is probably overstated as a reason, these days), and simply as a practical method of coming to a consensus within a reasonable amount of time when you have a population spread out over a vast land area with crappy roads, no modern communications, and illegible handwriting (ok, that one's my bias).
There's a great summary of electoral college history + it's pros and cons here.
I'm sure a lot of Catholic priests share sermon themes, depending on the week of the Church year. Some weeks it's more obvious than others, and some priests do a better job of bringing the subject matter to life than others. The priest at our (former) church always sounded like he was reading the sermons out of some kind of sermon-o-matic machine.
I wonder if there are priest-only websites out there with downloadable archbishop-approved sermons, just as there are sites with downloadable term papers?
Whew! I thought I was back in the 90's when vendors called me everyday pushing e-this and e-that until my head would spin from all the buzzwords flying around. After purchasing software for our company for a few years, I learned to deal with sales people like this simply by saying, "SHOW me how it works and how it's better than what we're doing now." Usually stops them in their tracks.
It's funny how cathartic it is to read an article like that, come away feeling stupid for not understanding all the management-speak, and then reading the comments here that reaffirm that it's the article, not me, that is retarded.
I wonder what effect this will have on the ability of either parent company to covertly create new viruses (and then be the first to provide protection) ?
Oh come on, am I the only cynical one when it comes to antivirus vendors?
Hmmm, do you really think they'd let you on board the plane with a squirt-bottle full of Roundup, anyway?
Or is Roundup one of those "Sure, it kills plants down to their roots, but it's perfectly safe for humans. Here, I'll squirt it in my eyes to prove it!"
I'll have to check the label when I get home, I guess.
I don't mean to detract from your point about mileage, since it's a good one, but HOV lanes are also designed to reduce congestion on the roadway. A Prius may weigh a fraction of an Escalade, but its footprint is somewhat more comparable, especially when you factor in the space between the cars.
I like your description of allergies - it really cuts to the chase, so to speak.
It also made me wonder, what possible good could swelling up the windpipe do, even if the threat is legitimate? Some allergic reactions are understandable, knowing that the immune system is only reacting (or over-reacting) with good intentions gone bad, but others are so over-the-top they defy my (admittedly limited) understanding.
I suppose a present-day analogy would be making people take off their shoes at airport security checkpoints - has it ever really stopped a terrorist? Probably not, but it probably makes some people gag from the odor.
Too bad I just let some mod points expire, I'd have burned through the "-1 Didn't get the joke" mods in about 5 seconds.
Can you all be more passive-aggressive, please?
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Of course you should make your box as secure as possible. Ignoring automated attack attempts is probably the wisest course of action, as well, otherwise you waste a lot of time and only draw more more attention to your network, making it a bigger target.
But for those intrusion attempts that appear to have a human being on the other end, a virtual smack upside the head would do the world some good. If it's some script kiddie, then let them know their feeble attempts do not go unnoticed, and are by no means appreciated, and chances are they'll find something more constructive to do before they get themselves into real trouble. If it's someone more hardcore, well, I guess it won't matter either way.
But if *every* network administrator spent 15 minutes a day actively letting intruders know that their actions have been detected and are not appreciated, it would scale quite nicely.
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Another difference between most squatters' cases (not that Mike Rowe was a squatter, except in the eyes of MS) and this situation is that she has never expressed a desire to sell her domain to Penguin. Selling the domain to a 3rd party (not threatening, doing, so she can't be accused of blackmail) may be judged entirely differently.
All the more amusing, since her husband had originally registered the domain for her as a gift. Maybe she can trade up for a new car.
Why do schools continue to teach kids how to write in cursive handwriting? Unless you *always* write in cursive, and start from a young age, it looks like hell, is slower to write, and really serves no useful purpose whatsoever. My brother, now 30+, continues to write in cursive, and it looks exactly like his handwriting from the 4th grade. Mine probably would, too, if I actually tried.
Typing is a very useful skill in the modern world, and when there is no keyboard around, printing works just fine, too.
Except there's no Mac version of Access. Converting them out of that unweildy beast isn't a terrible idea, until you consider how many db's you may be up against.
I recently had a contracting gig at a large retail (6000 users on the corp. campus) company, and learned that there were an estimated *30,000* Access files floating around the file servers. Granted, many of them were most likely dupes, old versions, or otherwise unused. But I can only imagine the plethora of end-user databases created by a company full of engineers.
IIRC, Encyclopedias were generally not allowed as references in my high school, and I certainly would have been laughed out of class if I attempted such a thing in college. (No, I didn't walk to school uphill, both ways!)
Encyclopedias are meant to be a source of *general* knowledge. If you're writing a research paper (even a short one), you should already be beyond an encyclopedia's scope (or at least pretending to, like in high school).
It makes them feel like if they have to fire the whole development staff, they can take over coding; after all, it is just a GUI.
It's frightening how closely you describe my former employer. After laying off half the developers, the owner then fired our IT director for not giving him unhindered access to the primary SQL Server databases. How dare we think we were smarter than boy-genius himself?
Whew - sorry - thought I was over that by now.
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How about "Drug Fuhrer"?
"Education Pharoah"?
"Emperor of Homeland Security"?
You need to factor in how much energy it takes to produce the ceramic cup, plus how much energy & water to wash the cup each time between uses (assuming you wash your dishes between uses).
And do you really think you'll be using the same ceramic mug for the rest of your life?
There's an old saying about Mac users - Love the Mac (OS), hate Apple (the corporation).
Apply the same to Solaris/Sun, and voila, I think you've got the gist of the Linux community's attitude on the subject.
The electoral college was a compromise solution designed to balance the power of the states' legislatures with that of the people, to act as a sort of brake on potential irrational exuberance of the people (though this is probably overstated as a reason, these days), and simply as a practical method of coming to a consensus within a reasonable amount of time when you have a population spread out over a vast land area with crappy roads, no modern communications, and illegible handwriting (ok, that one's my bias).
There's a great summary of electoral college history + it's pros and cons here.
Mom, what are you doing, posting on Slashdot?
I wonder if there are priest-only websites out there with downloadable archbishop-approved sermons, just as there are sites with downloadable term papers?
Fun game, though I do start to feel trapped after staring at that Tron-like playing field for an hour.
You just have to be careful of those nano-birds, lest they get sucked into your micro-turbine!
Great, now I have a new market for that old 200 MB Powerbook hard drive I have stashed away in my junk box!
(Runs at slightly less than 10,000 rpm, but who's counting?)
Whew! I thought I was back in the 90's when vendors called me everyday pushing e-this and e-that until my head would spin from all the buzzwords flying around. After purchasing software for our company for a few years, I learned to deal with sales people like this simply by saying, "SHOW me how it works and how it's better than what we're doing now." Usually stops them in their tracks.
It's funny how cathartic it is to read an article like that, come away feeling stupid for not understanding all the management-speak, and then reading the comments here that reaffirm that it's the article, not me, that is retarded.
Hmmm, let's see: "kick of luck" vs. "break a leg"
Which would YOU rather have? Let's hope NASA doesn't start taking our figures of speach literally!
I wonder what effect this will have on the ability of either parent company to covertly create new viruses (and then be the first to provide protection) ?
Oh come on, am I the only cynical one when it comes to antivirus vendors?
Hmmm, do you really think they'd let you on board the plane with a squirt-bottle full of Roundup, anyway?
Or is Roundup one of those "Sure, it kills plants down to their roots, but it's perfectly safe for humans. Here, I'll squirt it in my eyes to prove it!"
I'll have to check the label when I get home, I guess.
I don't mean to detract from your point about mileage, since it's a good one, but HOV lanes are also designed to reduce congestion on the roadway. A Prius may weigh a fraction of an Escalade, but its footprint is somewhat more comparable, especially when you factor in the space between the cars.
I like your description of allergies - it really cuts to the chase, so to speak.
It also made me wonder, what possible good could swelling up the windpipe do, even if the threat is legitimate? Some allergic reactions are understandable, knowing that the immune system is only reacting (or over-reacting) with good intentions gone bad, but others are so over-the-top they defy my (admittedly limited) understanding.
I suppose a present-day analogy would be making people take off their shoes at airport security checkpoints - has it ever really stopped a terrorist? Probably not, but it probably makes some people gag from the odor.
Let's put your .sig to the test...
Mod parent up!
Too bad I just let some mod points expire, I'd have burned through the "-1 Didn't get the joke" mods in about 5 seconds.
Of course you should make your box as secure as possible. Ignoring automated attack attempts is probably the wisest course of action, as well, otherwise you waste a lot of time and only draw more more attention to your network, making it a bigger target.
But for those intrusion attempts that appear to have a human being on the other end, a virtual smack upside the head would do the world some good. If it's some script kiddie, then let them know their feeble attempts do not go unnoticed, and are by no means appreciated, and chances are they'll find something more constructive to do before they get themselves into real trouble. If it's someone more hardcore, well, I guess it won't matter either way.
But if *every* network administrator spent 15 minutes a day actively letting intruders know that their actions have been detected and are not appreciated, it would scale quite nicely.
All the more amusing, since her husband had originally registered the domain for her as a gift. Maybe she can trade up for a new car.
Why do schools continue to teach kids how to write in cursive handwriting? Unless you *always* write in cursive, and start from a young age, it looks like hell, is slower to write, and really serves no useful purpose whatsoever. My brother, now 30+, continues to write in cursive, and it looks exactly like his handwriting from the 4th grade. Mine probably would, too, if I actually tried.
Typing is a very useful skill in the modern world, and when there is no keyboard around, printing works just fine, too.
I recently had a contracting gig at a large retail (6000 users on the corp. campus) company, and learned that there were an estimated *30,000* Access files floating around the file servers. Granted, many of them were most likely dupes, old versions, or otherwise unused. But I can only imagine the plethora of end-user databases created by a company full of engineers.
They're just using an artificial heart.
IIRC, Encyclopedias were generally not allowed as references in my high school, and I certainly would have been laughed out of class if I attempted such a thing in college. (No, I didn't walk to school uphill, both ways!)
Encyclopedias are meant to be a source of *general* knowledge. If you're writing a research paper (even a short one), you should already be beyond an encyclopedia's scope (or at least pretending to, like in high school).
"By the time we're done with you, you'll pee on your food, and you will love it, soldier!"
It makes them feel like if they have to fire the whole development staff, they can take over coding; after all, it is just a GUI.
It's frightening how closely you describe my former employer. After laying off half the developers, the owner then fired our IT director for not giving him unhindered access to the primary SQL Server databases. How dare we think we were smarter than boy-genius himself?
Whew - sorry - thought I was over that by now.