Don't play dumb. Watergate was the example of how long it takes for an investigation and not some suggestion that Trump asked people to break into a hotel room. I really don't get why you are still cheering for the Manchurian Canditate when he's really got it in for immigrants and is going to get "tough" on gays at some point to get the hard right of the Republicans to do some things for him.
Didn't US Navy money go into the Spruce Goose? From wikipedia:
Howard Hughes was called to testify before the Senate War Investigating Committee in 1947 over the use of government funds for the aircraft
There was a lot of that sort of thing going on at the time such as the deathtrap "Liberty Ships" build dirt cheap and sold the the government for a fortune. Not quite so funny anymore is it?
It's GPL, like linux itself, but not a GNU project, like linux itself. I don't think even the Gnu people want to take credit for absolutely every bit of code licenced under the GPL. The LiGnuX and then gnu/linux thing was a special case to raise to profile of Gnu.
I'm assuming that the reason for this was that they wanted to get away from as much GPL stuff as possible, in order to be commercially acceptable
I doubt it. I suspect it's more like uClinux where it was a matter of choosing things to go into a small footprint.
There really are not that many people who make the licence their first choice over function and nearly all of those are too busy arguing about licences to put together a distro.
If only a pile of organic chemists in the 1980s and 1990s had worked on that so we wouldn't have to worry so much about the UV degradation (ie. "radiation"). Hang on - they did! There are probably real show stoppers with weather, buoyancy etc but you managed to squarely hit something fairly irrelevant as if deliberately testing for ignorance.
Is killing political rivals with Polonium to "send a message" not excessive enough for you? Also Putin rode to power on a wave of anti-US sentiment and he's still stirring that pot. You may not consider him your enemy but he certainly considers you one, or at least he tells his press such things.
NASA is also government work. Building dams that could kill you when they collapse is also usually government work. You guys should get out more.
I'm in private enterprise myself BTW so the usual kneejerk personal attacks to an inconvenient opinion are going to be a little bit trickier aren't they?
They constantly have weird break downs and people screwing things up
That's par for the course in IT especially with what appears to be very little QA testing before new releases and patches of various software. However the weird breakdowns and screwups are not supposed to impact on production. There is supposed to be some way to fall back before the users even notice. That does require some sort of budget or at least retention of machines replaced by relatively recent upgrades. Cut to the bone and those fuckups are in your face instead of something your IT folks swear about in back rooms.
The only alternative is to spend vast amounts of money building your own redundant systems
Unless it doesn't actually cost vast amounts of money and in the long run ends up cheaper than outsourcing to people who are (or should be) spending money on the same thing and charging you extra money on top. Beyond a certain point it gets cheaper to do things yourself instead of paying for someone else's profits.
Fair enough, but there very plenty of other reasons to laugh at Romney other than that.
I'll go on record saying I don't think Russia is a threat
It appears that thinking wasn't involved before stating that:( You've got to toe the party line I suppose and show that you are a good party member by denying reality.
It was about applying synthetic fertilizer and pesticide to agriculture in a major way
And also many, many other things.
What's your excuse for the massive ignorance you display on this topic
Me? You are the one that says the only relevant advances were synthetic fertilizer and pesticides.
The Green Revolution was about applying corporate involvement to agriculture
Globally? No. Locally? Rarely. Even in the countryside near the city where you obviously rarely left a lot of changes would have been driven by government assistance.
actually live in an agricultural region
Then step outside and talk to someone over 40. You may learn something. Talk to someone on the land over 80 and you'll get the full story.
It's not exactly secret what Trump is which is why the situation is so ridiculous and potentially tragic. Just one of many connections - his former top advisor was very publicly running a fucking PR campaign for Russian rebels in Ukraine FFS and getting paid directly (not under the counter) by Russian spooks. He was fucking proud of doing promotional work for the shits who shot down a Malaysian airliner with US citizens aboard. Then there's the Russian bank loans to Trump - all perfectly legal but not a good look for a US President to be so far in debt to Russian banks.
f there had been anything substantive, it would have come out by now, either in leaks or in official investigations.
A lot has come out, just not details. Even Watergate took a few years, as did Iran-contra. The CIA Church commission stuff took years as well.
Governor Romney was right in 2012 when he said Russia was the biggest geopolitical threat to the United States. The left was wrong to laugh at him
The laughter was because he was stating the incredibly obvious not because he was wrong. What other choice was there? China, who want to sell us so much and don't want to kill the golden goose?
It's clearly either dishonest or insane to claim that baby Bush, Obama, Clinton, Bush and Reagan were not pro-American leaders. It may play well to the peanut gallery of fellow travellers but it just looks utterly nuts to everyone else - especially if you compare them to Trump who has spent his entire life trying to screw people over and is the most selfish President the USA has had. He's pro-Trump, he's not on anyone else's side.
The Democrats werent "reduced" to that. They just willingly and knowingly did it, because they thought that they could.
He's describing the other Republicans. When it was so bad that even tollbooth guy got into the primaries at all then it's pretty fucked up. Who would have voted Christie for President? Some of the others were almost as bad.
And all the rest as well. It was about applying science to agriculture in a major way. What's your excuse for the rant I replied to when you'd already heard of the green revolution? It's starting to look very dishonest and "political" instead of just ignorant.
Back in the day MS didn't really care so much about memory leaks so long usage was an issue on NT, Win2k and even as late as XP. Rebooting every few weeks was a very common workaround.
Not driving it, like a friend who has shot hundreds, but not a fan of feral cats either. That doesn't matter really compared with people choosing stupid excuses to tilt at windmills as a proxy for politics.
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Ah - then unconstitutional search and seizure is fully justified in protecting the motherland komrade - carry on.
Don't play dumb. Watergate was the example of how long it takes for an investigation and not some suggestion that Trump asked people to break into a hotel room.
I really don't get why you are still cheering for the Manchurian Canditate when he's really got it in for immigrants and is going to get "tough" on gays at some point to get the hard right of the Republicans to do some things for him.
Didn't US Navy money go into the Spruce Goose?
From wikipedia:
There was a lot of that sort of thing going on at the time such as the deathtrap "Liberty Ships" build dirt cheap and sold the the government for a fortune. Not quite so funny anymore is it?
It's not just you. It's a bit of a trend. Don't take it so personally.
Hence the second sentence starting with "Beyond a certain point".
WTF is it with people not reading past one line here recently?
It's GPL, like linux itself, but not a GNU project, like linux itself.
I don't think even the Gnu people want to take credit for absolutely every bit of code licenced under the GPL.
The LiGnuX and then gnu/linux thing was a special case to raise to profile of Gnu.
I doubt it. I suspect it's more like uClinux where it was a matter of choosing things to go into a small footprint.
There really are not that many people who make the licence their first choice over function and nearly all of those are too busy arguing about licences to put together a distro.
If only a pile of organic chemists in the 1980s and 1990s had worked on that so we wouldn't have to worry so much about the UV degradation (ie. "radiation"). Hang on - they did!
There are probably real show stoppers with weather, buoyancy etc but you managed to squarely hit something fairly irrelevant as if deliberately testing for ignorance.
Nice try.
The "Russians are our friends now" is a fucking huge indicator in flashing neon light of a Trump apologist.
Is killing political rivals with Polonium to "send a message" not excessive enough for you?
Also Putin rode to power on a wave of anti-US sentiment and he's still stirring that pot. You may not consider him your enemy but he certainly considers you one, or at least he tells his press such things.
NASA is also government work.
Building dams that could kill you when they collapse is also usually government work.
You guys should get out more.
I'm in private enterprise myself BTW so the usual kneejerk personal attacks to an inconvenient opinion are going to be a little bit trickier aren't they?
That's par for the course in IT especially with what appears to be very little QA testing before new releases and patches of various software. However the weird breakdowns and screwups are not supposed to impact on production. There is supposed to be some way to fall back before the users even notice. That does require some sort of budget or at least retention of machines replaced by relatively recent upgrades.
Cut to the bone and those fuckups are in your face instead of something your IT folks swear about in back rooms.
So a power supply failure can bring down all operations on a global scale. Good to know that BA had outsourced part of their IT staff to India!!!
As another poster quoted "BA in 2016 made hundreds of dedicated and loyal IT staff redundant and outsourced the work to India".
Unless it doesn't actually cost vast amounts of money and in the long run ends up cheaper than outsourcing to people who are (or should be) spending money on the same thing and charging you extra money on top.
Beyond a certain point it gets cheaper to do things yourself instead of paying for someone else's profits.
It appears that thinking wasn't involved before stating that :( You've got to toe the party line I suppose and show that you are a good party member by denying reality.
And also many, many other things.
Me? You are the one that says the only relevant advances were synthetic fertilizer and pesticides.
Globally? No. Locally? Rarely. Even in the countryside near the city where you obviously rarely left a lot of changes would have been driven by government assistance.
Then step outside and talk to someone over 40. You may learn something. Talk to someone on the land over 80 and you'll get the full story.
It's not exactly secret what Trump is which is why the situation is so ridiculous and potentially tragic. Just one of many connections - his former top advisor was very publicly running a fucking PR campaign for Russian rebels in Ukraine FFS and getting paid directly (not under the counter) by Russian spooks. He was fucking proud of doing promotional work for the shits who shot down a Malaysian airliner with US citizens aboard. Then there's the Russian bank loans to Trump - all perfectly legal but not a good look for a US President to be so far in debt to Russian banks.
A lot has come out, just not details. Even Watergate took a few years, as did Iran-contra. The CIA Church commission stuff took years as well.
The laughter was because he was stating the incredibly obvious not because he was wrong. What other choice was there? China, who want to sell us so much and don't want to kill the golden goose?
It's clearly either dishonest or insane to claim that baby Bush, Obama, Clinton, Bush and Reagan were not pro-American leaders.
It may play well to the peanut gallery of fellow travellers but it just looks utterly nuts to everyone else - especially if you compare them to Trump who has spent his entire life trying to screw people over and is the most selfish President the USA has had. He's pro-Trump, he's not on anyone else's side.
No, they send girls who perform at concerts to prison in Siberia instead.
Yes, especially in the vassal state of Chechnya.
The Democrats werent "reduced" to that. They just willingly and knowingly did it, because they thought that they could.
He's describing the other Republicans.
When it was so bad that even tollbooth guy got into the primaries at all then it's pretty fucked up.
Who would have voted Christie for President? Some of the others were almost as bad.
They were kind of acting like traitors whether Russia was involved or not. Wasn't there something about putting a wrecking ball through America?
And all the rest as well. It was about applying science to agriculture in a major way.
What's your excuse for the rant I replied to when you'd already heard of the green revolution? It's starting to look very dishonest and "political" instead of just ignorant.
Back in the day MS didn't really care so much about memory leaks so long usage was an issue on NT, Win2k and even as late as XP.
Rebooting every few weeks was a very common workaround.
Not driving it, like a friend who has shot hundreds, but not a fan of feral cats either.
That doesn't matter really compared with people choosing stupid excuses to tilt at windmills as a proxy for politics.