They have been squeezed into a ghetto and there is nowhere to move on to each time an election brings another pogrom. It's not as if they can escape into Egypt. The ancestors of the bunch of fascists running Israel at this point would be horrified by this situation, especially how each shooting fish in a barrel episode coincides with an election.
Bullshit. There are plenty of reasons but shooting down a commercial jet resulting in Putin wasting time dealing with the fallout is not a sensible reason no matter what loonies beyond the far right that want to restart the cold war think. Implying that there was an order from Moscow to shoot it down is beyond the far side of crazy IMHO.
"of course, russian govt is the most knowledgeable - they shot down the damn plane"
They supplied the stuff but didn't pick the target. Pretending otherwise, besides being stupid, is playing into the hands of those that want to go back to the good old cold war days were they could sell plenty of goofy military hardware that never had to actually work.
Your post above seems to imply that. We don't know yet which criminal, hair trigger idiot or whatever caused this tragedy. What is disgusting is people getting political milage out of it to push their own "Good Old Days of the Cold War" barrow.
for the kremlin
Don't be a tool. The fallout for this is a massive pain in the backside for the Kremlin. Putin may be an utterly evil prick but he's not an idiot that would plan something like this to play directly into the hands of the idiots that want to bring the cold war back.
also, the terrorists are sent and controlled by russia
Was my "Yorktown captured by French Terrorists" comment something that you have too poor a grasp on history for you to be able to get the point? How about this then: we know where the missile was made but everything else is still being worked out, we especially have no idea how much control is being exerted over various groups in the region either. You may be right but it's far too early for either of us to know.
But that was -totally- different. That naval captain made a totally understandable mistake in the fog of war,
Subsequent reports showed that he was well out of his depth and exceeding his authority when an ill-conceived "show the flag" mission hit contact with real sea mines (reconditioned WW1 mines made by Tsarist Russia!) and other problems such as friendly fire from the Iraqis they were sent in to support. Under such pressure he was unable to operate and took a variety of shortcuts that resulted in shooting down an airliner sticking to it's schedule. Admitting the mistake in any way was not seen as acceptable so he was just quietly promoted to an appointment on land.
News from two centuries ago - "Yorktown captured by French Terrorists". Looks stupid doesn't it? That's what you get when you oversimplify these things and assume that the backers are equivalent to the perpetrators. The backers in this case may be just as unpleasant as Napolean or more so but we still don't know which bunch shot it down (the "admission" was poor translation, like "plane was shot down" vs "we shot the plane down") and they all (including the Ukranian military) have Russian made rockets.
Uh, no. PCIe SSDs are just coming into regular use in many places
OCZ seem to have been selling them via retail outlets for three years or more - let alone high end use. There were various PCI things before the PCIe interface came into use.
Mark I suggest you consider that the military has provided the heavy lifting with infrastructure in both China and India, and even with that help it's still been a slow process. Maybe while Ziggy is out of the nuclear loop off molesting the NBN there is some hope to get something done but even properly managed it would be a difficult task and require a lot of outside expertise to be brought in. There are similarities in some components (the two ANSTO guys assisted me with remaining life analysis of high temperature pipework in coal fired "kettles"), full scale commercial reactors themselves are unlike anything we've got in this country. As for making fuel - a massive amount of infrastructure is required there.
The only likely way in at this point is to buy something small developed elsewhere in a decade or two with the expensive prospect of getting fuel from them as well - in which case it will be a political instead of an economic decision unless designs improve drasticly. While some of the thorium stuff looks like it's ideal for using up high grade waste with very little reprocessing, Australia could not benefit from that convenience since we don't have piles of old fuel rods lying around. So while civilian nuclear may be a good idea it requires a lot of resources to kick it off and sustain it - viable in India, China, Indonesia etc but in Australia one plant would be about it, then we'd have to send everyone who built it home. There has been a lot written about the topic. Some by idiots with political connections parachuted into sinecures but others by people with a clue. It's getting so we can't even make steel in this country so who's going to be able to manufacture the difficult components for reactors? That's why it's seen as too little gain for too much pain and has degenerated into nothing but a political wedge issue (eg. the nuke plant in every port map brought out a couple of elections ago - it made no sense and was just NIMBY bait).
Personally I think a big nuclear plant to supply Sydney+Melbourne would be cool but then what do you do next? Australia is a bit too small to support a civilian nuclear power industry.
In practical terms civilian nuclear technology did stop advancing in the 1970s because that's when the AP1000 design dates back to, and the AP1000 is the most recent thing that's been built (or still under construction in China, I've lost track).
Australia doesn't have the infrastructure to seriously consider nuclear power and consumes too little electricity for it to be able to justify spending to create that infrastructure. There is a small research reactor (I've worked with two materials scientists from there) but it's not capable of providing much of a seed for the required infrastructure - that would require a lot of people equipment etc from overseas and a long time to establish. So it's seen as too much pain for too little gain.
It's about buying the fringe instead of mainstream religious vote so the "nutter" tag is very apt. Some of those bunches like Hillsong Church, Exclusive Bretheren and Magnificant Meal are very dodgy in the way they operate no matter what they pretend to or do believe.
Don't laugh, taking people off benefits for six months at a time could mean shantytowns within a few years, so a lean-to house worth less than a cow isn't entirely unlikely.
The true classic - praising the bravery of Japanese submariners attacking Sydney. To put that in perspective Americans could consider an example of praising the pilot who dropped the first bomb on Pearl Harbour. He's a political infighting attack dog that never should have been put in charge of anything more substantial than a sausage sizzle - so long as somebody else is counting the takings and there are no girls for him to grope.
We are talking about a government that just spends all the time
For the entire life of the last one interest rates were rock bottom so they borrowed to build stuff to improve the place. Isn't that what businesses do as well?
Tying the MRRT and carbon tax to the NBN
We're in the phase where any trace of the previous government is being carefully removed and Ziggy has returned to ensure the NBN is never heard from again. Sadly "infrastructure spending" is seen as roads because the people in charge are still stuck in student politics mode and haven't listened to anything since they were children stealing traffic signs or goosing other children. Let's hope some bad poll figures make them run screaming to adult supervision from staffers or something because these clowns clearly have no plan other than not being Labour.
I'm so sick of being told that because one party has a majority at one election they have 'a mandate'
Don't worry people, Tony Abbott can easily get his man date with Alan Jones if he wants. Just think of that every time the "mandate" word comes up and it's less annoying. And no, I'm not having a go at homosexuality, I'm having a go at those who say one thing and do exactly the opposite. They say "conservative" but are foaming at the mouth reactionary with a wrecking ball. Unless there was a referendum question there's no real mandate and he's just pulling a justification out of his arse (or another form of man date if you prefer).
but I believe that a carbon tax is NOT the right solution to climate change. The RIGHT solution is a trading scheme
Wind back a few years and think about the negotiation between the parties - where a trading scheme was proposed but the Libs rejected it and said they would compromise with a carbon tax. Thus the carbon tax was pushed as better than nothing but then the Libs kicked Turbull out and backflipped on their own idea. The ALP pushed it through anyway instead of taking the time to do something better. That's how we ended up in the situation even if it wasn't a good idea.
As to what is happening now, it is as simple as the new government removing anything with the faintest scent of the previous one to try to make it look like the earlier government achieved nothing. That's had side effects like today's elimination of a forestry research group that's been running for 85 years. Maybe we'll get something other than knighthoods all round for the Party boys after the wrecking period is over but sadly it's still too early to tell. It's reminding me of the utter disgust I felt at watching student politics back in the day - especially since there some of the same clueless yobs involved and they don't seem to have done any growing up since. It's also a good reminder of how destructive party factions are and how it can limit the available talent pool.
by a similar amount to their gain from the removal of the carbon tax (for the average person who chooses to buy coal fired electricity)
That gain is just an assumption and I think is going to be an incorrect one. Over the next few years I predict that there are going to be a long string of excuses as to why the price of electricity is not going to fall instead of an actual cost reduction. The lower expense of reduced taxes will not be passed on to the consumers because there is no actual competition and no means of enforcing a price reduction.
By putting that stuff into a company policy manual, they're treating you like a child.
Behind many rules that should be too obvious to print there is often a story about someone gaming the system and pretending ignorance. Also there's things like the military approach, where if you break the law AND the military rule telling you not to break that law you find the rule was added deliberately to double the punishment.
So I am honestly asking, what is BSD good for. I presently use CentOS
The largest difference between the two platforms is the capability of ZFS - rock solid for years on one and sort of coming out of alpha on the other. A second reason is you can use really crappy old hardware as a test box for it and it still works - for instance I ran it on a retired file server with IDE drives for a while to learn how to use it and it ran with far more speed than I expected.
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They have been squeezed into a ghetto and there is nowhere to move on to each time an election brings another pogrom. It's not as if they can escape into Egypt.
The ancestors of the bunch of fascists running Israel at this point would be horrified by this situation, especially how each shooting fish in a barrel episode coincides with an election.
Bullshit. There are plenty of reasons but shooting down a commercial jet resulting in Putin wasting time dealing with the fallout is not a sensible reason no matter what loonies beyond the far right that want to restart the cold war think. Implying that there was an order from Moscow to shoot it down is beyond the far side of crazy IMHO.
Nice nitpick on an analogy. Can we discuss the point the analogy is making instead please?
Oh really? Poor choice of words then:
They supplied the stuff but didn't pick the target. Pretending otherwise, besides being stupid, is playing into the hands of those that want to go back to the good old cold war days were they could sell plenty of goofy military hardware that never had to actually work.
Don't be a tool. The fallout for this is a massive pain in the backside for the Kremlin. Putin may be an utterly evil prick but he's not an idiot that would plan something like this to play directly into the hands of the idiots that want to bring the cold war back.
Was my "Yorktown captured by French Terrorists" comment something that you have too poor a grasp on history for you to be able to get the point? How about this then: we know where the missile was made but everything else is still being worked out, we especially have no idea how much control is being exerted over various groups in the region either.
You may be right but it's far too early for either of us to know.
Subsequent reports showed that he was well out of his depth and exceeding his authority when an ill-conceived "show the flag" mission hit contact with real sea mines (reconditioned WW1 mines made by Tsarist Russia!) and other problems such as friendly fire from the Iraqis they were sent in to support. Under such pressure he was unable to operate and took a variety of shortcuts that resulted in shooting down an airliner sticking to it's schedule. Admitting the mistake in any way was not seen as acceptable so he was just quietly promoted to an appointment on land.
News from two centuries ago - "Yorktown captured by French Terrorists".
Looks stupid doesn't it? That's what you get when you oversimplify these things and assume that the backers are equivalent to the perpetrators. The backers in this case may be just as unpleasant as Napolean or more so but we still don't know which bunch shot it down (the "admission" was poor translation, like "plane was shot down" vs "we shot the plane down") and they all (including the Ukranian military) have Russian made rockets.
OCZ seem to have been selling them via retail outlets for three years or more - let alone high end use.
There were various PCI things before the PCIe interface came into use.
I an Australian being a stirrer so I'm the one that should apologise.
The last one was good but the Canadians burnt it down.
That generation has been going on for a while storagedude. People have been scaling according to load to deal with it.
Mark I suggest you consider that the military has provided the heavy lifting with infrastructure in both China and India, and even with that help it's still been a slow process.
Maybe while Ziggy is out of the nuclear loop off molesting the NBN there is some hope to get something done but even properly managed it would be a difficult task and require a lot of outside expertise to be brought in.
There are similarities in some components (the two ANSTO guys assisted me with remaining life analysis of high temperature pipework in coal fired "kettles"), full scale commercial reactors themselves are unlike anything we've got in this country. As for making fuel - a massive amount of infrastructure is required there.
The only likely way in at this point is to buy something small developed elsewhere in a decade or two with the expensive prospect of getting fuel from them as well - in which case it will be a political instead of an economic decision unless designs improve drasticly. While some of the thorium stuff looks like it's ideal for using up high grade waste with very little reprocessing, Australia could not benefit from that convenience since we don't have piles of old fuel rods lying around.
So while civilian nuclear may be a good idea it requires a lot of resources to kick it off and sustain it - viable in India, China, Indonesia etc but in Australia one plant would be about it, then we'd have to send everyone who built it home. There has been a lot written about the topic. Some by idiots with political connections parachuted into sinecures but others by people with a clue. It's getting so we can't even make steel in this country so who's going to be able to manufacture the difficult components for reactors? That's why it's seen as too little gain for too much pain and has degenerated into nothing but a political wedge issue (eg. the nuke plant in every port map brought out a couple of elections ago - it made no sense and was just NIMBY bait).
Personally I think a big nuclear plant to supply Sydney+Melbourne would be cool but then what do you do next? Australia is a bit too small to support a civilian nuclear power industry.
In practical terms civilian nuclear technology did stop advancing in the 1970s because that's when the AP1000 design dates back to, and the AP1000 is the most recent thing that's been built (or still under construction in China, I've lost track).
Australia doesn't have the infrastructure to seriously consider nuclear power and consumes too little electricity for it to be able to justify spending to create that infrastructure. There is a small research reactor (I've worked with two materials scientists from there) but it's not capable of providing much of a seed for the required infrastructure - that would require a lot of people equipment etc from overseas and a long time to establish. So it's seen as too much pain for too little gain.
It's about buying the fringe instead of mainstream religious vote so the "nutter" tag is very apt.
Some of those bunches like Hillsong Church, Exclusive Bretheren and Magnificant Meal are very dodgy in the way they operate no matter what they pretend to or do believe.
Don't laugh, taking people off benefits for six months at a time could mean shantytowns within a few years, so a lean-to house worth less than a cow isn't entirely unlikely.
The true classic - praising the bravery of Japanese submariners attacking Sydney. To put that in perspective Americans could consider an example of praising the pilot who dropped the first bomb on Pearl Harbour.
He's a political infighting attack dog that never should have been put in charge of anything more substantial than a sausage sizzle - so long as somebody else is counting the takings and there are no girls for him to grope.
I think we've got a couple of open cut coal mines about as big as some of your east coast states.
For the entire life of the last one interest rates were rock bottom so they borrowed to build stuff to improve the place. Isn't that what businesses do as well?
We're in the phase where any trace of the previous government is being carefully removed and Ziggy has returned to ensure the NBN is never heard from again. Sadly "infrastructure spending" is seen as roads because the people in charge are still stuck in student politics mode and haven't listened to anything since they were children stealing traffic signs or goosing other children. Let's hope some bad poll figures make them run screaming to adult supervision from staffers or something because these clowns clearly have no plan other than not being Labour.
Don't worry people, Tony Abbott can easily get his man date with Alan Jones if he wants. Just think of that every time the "mandate" word comes up and it's less annoying.
And no, I'm not having a go at homosexuality, I'm having a go at those who say one thing and do exactly the opposite. They say "conservative" but are foaming at the mouth reactionary with a wrecking ball. Unless there was a referendum question there's no real mandate and he's just pulling a justification out of his arse (or another form of man date if you prefer).
Wind back a few years and think about the negotiation between the parties - where a trading scheme was proposed but the Libs rejected it and said they would compromise with a carbon tax. Thus the carbon tax was pushed as better than nothing but then the Libs kicked Turbull out and backflipped on their own idea. The ALP pushed it through anyway instead of taking the time to do something better.
That's how we ended up in the situation even if it wasn't a good idea.
As to what is happening now, it is as simple as the new government removing anything with the faintest scent of the previous one to try to make it look like the earlier government achieved nothing. That's had side effects like today's elimination of a forestry research group that's been running for 85 years. Maybe we'll get something other than knighthoods all round for the Party boys after the wrecking period is over but sadly it's still too early to tell.
It's reminding me of the utter disgust I felt at watching student politics back in the day - especially since there some of the same clueless yobs involved and they don't seem to have done any growing up since. It's also a good reminder of how destructive party factions are and how it can limit the available talent pool.
That gain is just an assumption and I think is going to be an incorrect one. Over the next few years I predict that there are going to be a long string of excuses as to why the price of electricity is not going to fall instead of an actual cost reduction. The lower expense of reduced taxes will not be passed on to the consumers because there is no actual competition and no means of enforcing a price reduction.
Behind many rules that should be too obvious to print there is often a story about someone gaming the system and pretending ignorance.
Also there's things like the military approach, where if you break the law AND the military rule telling you not to break that law you find the rule was added deliberately to double the punishment.
The largest difference between the two platforms is the capability of ZFS - rock solid for years on one and sort of coming out of alpha on the other.
A second reason is you can use really crappy old hardware as a test box for it and it still works - for instance I ran it on a retired file server with IDE drives for a while to learn how to use it and it ran with far more speed than I expected.