remove the cover of your modem and/or place it inside the case, near the front air intake. All modems I've seen overheat and that makes them crash (except for my good old Cisco 677 which was killed by a thunderstorm. That thing was like boiling but never dropped connections. Uptime was several months)
I beg to difer. Telemecanique sells PCIM, a SCADA product for windows only. As you may know, mission-critical stuff is best left to mission-critical hardware (the PLC). SCADA is for monitoring and SOME decision making, but all critical parts of the process MUST BE controlled by the PLC, and every possible fault condition taken into account and programmed into the PLC so it can make the right decision if the scada system is not available.
A good plan:
1. Use SCADA PC software for monitoring only, handle all user input via switches and displays. 2. If the system is too complex for switches and displays, use an HMI 3. If the system is too complex for an HMI, use a bigger HMI 4. If the system is too complex for a bigger HMI, go back and see why is it that complex and break it down, then go to rule 1.
PLCs have more horsepower than most tasks need, and if you need more, you can run them in parallel, failover, etc. I don't really see why would anyone run anything on a PC, or PC-class hardware.
There is nothing wrong with throwing some internet at your controller network, just don't make your controllers public. Make them all go through a server machine, and if it goes down, too bad. Your system is still up, and protected by the firewall.
well if you're installing to businesses it's another story.
also where I live there are no mom and pop ISPs. there is an ISP that sells voip, and the telco monopoly (good luck asking them to QoS your voip). there is a newer one that is said to actively block SIP but I didn't have a chance to check... do you know about a good softphone and echo test server I can use?
well, there is one thing you can do at your side: sacrifice half your incoming bandwidth. this way you leave enough headroom to allow quick bursts of bulk data (leaves web browsing unaffected) and enough for voip.
it's a bad way to do it but if your ISP is uncooperative, it's better than nothing.
Information is processed data. It is anything that can help reduce uncertainty in the decision-making process. It has nothing to do with the complexity of the issue.
Example:
18.6
You can read it all you want, and analyze it all you want, and it would still be just raw data to you, without any meaning. But if I told you that this is the temperature, in degrees celsius, at my city right now, it would still be a useless piece of data for you. But for me, it's a great piece of information: now I know that I should wear a little more than just a t-shirt.
C/C++ and Java have different application types. Sure, there is cross over, but generally speaking there are things you can do in C/C++ that you can't do in Java, but the converse is not also true.
so, because C/C++ can do things that java can't, that makes them automatically better? there is no need for other languages as anything can be done in C? childish arguments as usual.
Java is not "a language", it's a "platform", a "framework", or whatever you want to call it. Java includes a lot of things that C doesn't include in its standard libraries, and adding another library to a java app is as simple as dropping the jar in the classpath. No need to worry about library version incompatibilities.
You have to choose the right tool for the job. Some say Java is big and slow and takes a lot of memory. Let's extrapolate this to a real life example:
Think of java as a pneumatic wrench and C as a regular wrench. Which one is better? The one that you can fit in your pocket and use in any weather conditions, position, altitude, doesn't require power, or maintenance and it's ubiquitous, cheap and almost indestructible... or the one that needs power for the compressor, a special hose for air, and you need to clean it, and it's likely to break if it drops, etc?
The answer? It depends. If you only have to replace 1 bolt, the manual wrench is the right answer. If you have to replace them constantly and as quick as possible, then the pneumatic tool starts to look good... even though it can't do many things the simple manual wrench can do.
ah, but you have to do all these things yourself, while Java forces you to do all that from the beginning. then, scaling is easy.
you can't just "what the heck, I'll hack this together to make it work and we'll fix it when we need". No. In Java, usually doing things Right need the same amount of work to do wrong (in other words, writing nasty JDBC is as hard as writing good Hibernate).
you DON'T need to write everything in POSIX, because there is no not-POSIX, and POSIX. There is just Java. You Don't need an IP load balancer. You Don't need to write your own DB abstracton layer, you don't need an external tool to handle your docs, you don't need etc etc etc. Everything's been done before.
Don't know why you're trolling me anyway, since my post was actually a troll to the GP who was another troll.
The point in the end is that most KIDS don't understand java because they think they're too cool to use it. Talk to a good CS major and he'll tell you why Java is good, where to use it and where not to use it.
Talk to some kid and he'll tell you Java sucks because it sucks. Real hackers use C and I wanna be a hacker, but elite hackers also do assembler and that's the most elitistisistic thing ever. But I don't understand what what(&lol) does so I just use PHP and Mysql and I made this cool site for my school. http://xkcd.com/327/
yeah, you know, 'cause when you have 50 programmers on a project, C l33tnesses like
while (x-->0) { blah; }
are so cool and easy to understand. and malloc()s make memory management so easy and cross-platform. and clustering is for wussies, if you need more than a core2duo on Linux, is because you're unl33t or because you need to do some routines in über-ELITE assembler.
now when you program in Java you forget all that crap, you just code. need a bigger app? J2EE it and run it on a cluster. add nodes a needed to keep performance. node dies? no problem, J2EE takes care of it.
migrated from mysql to Oracle or DB2? no problem, just let Hibernate know about it.
tired of Windows Server and want to run opensolaris, linux or OS X Server? no problem, just drop your EAR/WAR on the new server and relax. it's working.
wanna add more coders to your project? point 'em to the javadoc and let they read through the verbose (and thus self-explaining) code.
strong typing is there to keep you from doing stupid things. you can always tell what the program IS going to do in all situations, because you HAVE to specify all situations.
but you're too cool for java. lemme know when banks switch their systems to LAMP and we'll talk.
you just need to talk to more people. people who disagree with you. maybe a tour down here on "third world" countries will give you a different perspective.
so, oil doesn't control the world? where are cars that run on water, or fusion power? I mean, nuclear energy was developed in record time, but we're still struggling to make fusion power, the holy grail of energy: almost for free, clean, endless... sounds too good to be true? well, we're used to think things that sound "too good to be true" usually are. I like to think that Big Oil buys all those things, and lobbies to keep most others from being developed. am I too paranoid to think that? is it really that crazy to think that the biggest business on earth will do anything in its power to suppress competition?
and regarding to israel, I love the way you minimize things. you seem lost in the concept of terrorism. terrorists killing soldiers in afghanistan/iarq is not news. random terrorists in your own backyard is a different story. if I wanted to terrorize america, I'd do what they do in Israel. not daily, maybe. but destroying a big target like the WTC, scary, but people think "well, I'm not in the big city". now, start random attacks inside the US, the message would be clear: you aren't safe, no matter where you are. welcome to the reign of terror. want us out? convince your government to leave us alone and we'll leave.
Osama allegedly has hundreds of terrorists in training, all willing to die, and he has millions of dollars, and resources to make all that happen. yeah, right. there is no osama. there is no spoon. terrorists don't exist.
when you say "I need positive evidence to believe an assertion", well, I don't buy that. I'm a human being and I can make my own conclusions. I don't expect everything to be handed to me, sometimes you don't have someone to trust.
And part of your reasoning just gives the system more power: I say "this" you say "no way, that!". Now we're enemies. You don't try to find a neutral point. You call me a crazy conspiracy theorist, what I say is overly exaggerated, and I'm just plain wrong. Matrix scores again.
also, have you read any "anti-9/11" things? I'm usually biased pro-america, so I'm usually skeptical about that. But I bought this book, "Nadie Vio Matrix" (No one saw "Matrix"), and it's full of references, links, etc. A lot of interpretation by the author, but the "evidence" is mostly there.
US politicians? come on. US capitalism is all about individualism. That's why americans don't have free health care. Supposedly, you will have better healthcare if you have to pay for it. And maybe in the US, you do. But it's top-of-the-line or nothing. If you don't have money to pay for it, you have to die. It's an evil kind of natural selection. Sometimes you have to get a mortgage to pay for an operation. But you already had a mortgage, we can't approve another! You took the risk, now you gotta die (OK, ok, we told you it was fine, it's a completely legal way to get money, and you have the right to, and we advised you to do it, but hey, we are corporations. Sometimes we lose too. Only we don't die). It's an extreme example, but it happens. When someone comes with the idea of publicly-funded health care, is quickly called a crazy communist, and that taxpayers don't have to pay for the diseases of a few lazy-asses that don't want to work. And that if we provide free health care, people won't have a reason to work... while some politicians wanted to help people, many (most) have been corrupted and helping people doesn't matter anymore. I don't say they are malevolent (as in evil). they're just greedy bastards. money corrupts people.
well, at least i KNOW I'm not crazy:) ok, for the record, when I said "you", I didn't specifically target you, NeutronCowboy. I was talking about "you, the american people in general". Joe Sixpack or whatever you call it nowadays.
anyway, it's not just about 9/11. it's about everything in this world. when you look at the facts, you realize that nothing seems right. for every claim, there is a counter claim. for instance, there is solid evidence that smoking causes cancer and many other diseases. but Big Tobacco keeps lobbying and misinforming people. they now can't deny that smoking causes cancer, but that doesn't keep them from telling other "lies". Big Tobacco is big. really big. But Oil is bigger. what makes you think that Oil doesn't control the world? Why are you afraid of thinking that a big oil company put your president in his current place? Are you ashamed of even thinking that your own president had so many people killed in their own country? Yes, it's extreme, but what I'm trying to do is stick a splinter in your brain. I want you to take the red pill. Think more objectivelly.
back to your question:
what proof do I need? I need more bombings. more, lots of them. every day, in every small town and big city in the US. If there is an enemy against the US, and IF they're willing to do anything, and IF they've been saying they WILL do it, then bring it on. no? Oh, our security forces must be doing their job well (Bear Patrol?).
but no, there are no bombings in the US. now, let's look at Israel. suicide bombings, almost every day. and they have armed military on the streets. they're a much smaller country, with lots of surveillance, and an amazing warfare development, and US support. and they still have suicide bombers. because they do have an enemy. but not in the US, no bombings. there is no enemy. there's the ghost of terrorism, but in the thousands of miles of US territory, the only massacres are executed by your own people (in schools or shopping malls). and that proves my point: there's so much security, and they can't keep a stupid student from murdering half the school. but there are thousands of towns, malls, cities, where a willing terrorist could cause more harm. even trains, buses, subway stations. but oh! jack bauer takes care of everything.
so much security. airtight security. but mexicans keep coming (oh, but there is a magical barrier that keeps the Crazy Arabs outside?). the drug keeps coming, directly from Colombia. where the US with all their satellites still can't figure out where the hell FARC is and they don't do ANYTHING to help with the Ingrid Betancourt affair.
the gratuitous insults were unnecesary because I wasn't the one to say that you were going to open a military base in Paraguay. I'm not paraguayan either.
anyway, you obviously have no idea about the economics in south america, if you think only Brazil is having immigration problems, and if you think wealth is distributed equally in brazil, you're very wrong. but whatever, you're just an average american racist. don't forget, tomorrow's sunday, you have to wake up early for church.
it's called fear. conformism. stupidity. keep believing what the government tells you, they're always right. and if someone dares to question anything, call them stupid. it's cool to be popular!
what you say is stupid, but that's how it works: if someone comes and wants to say something against the establishment, they will ridicule you, call you crazy, paranoid, whatever. it's the perfect system, and your claims just make the wrong more right: they let you say things, to prove that "there is freedom of speech", but they call you crazy. the problem is when people don't dare question things, and in the middle ages, nobody dared to question the church: you were called crazy if you thought the earth wasn't the center of the universe. but now we seem to think different. claims, counter-claims. paid scientists, investigators. people voted for bush out of fear. many realize everything is a lie. many don't because the lie is so well done: you have been taught to believe there is democracy (which there is), and that the majority of people are represented in the senate (patriot act was approved 98-1: does that mean that over 98% of the population agrees with everything the patriot act says?). and people like to leave big decisions to politicians, so what the government tells us MUST BE RIGHT. it was funny, back in 2005 when Bush came to Argentina, all media in the world had their own satellite uplinks. local media was surprised that US media had to pass through government censorship (that means 'news' don't even hit the US, they're sanitized before they're even near the US). so much for freedom of speech. but hey, what the american people thinks is that "the government does that to protect us". from what? do you need to be protected from the truth? also the truth and freedom of speech are so limited in the US: you are free to say "kill the niggers, KKK rules" and that's freedom of speech. but you can't have a site like Wikileaks or TPB (copyright is on top of freedom of speech!). but you STILL BELIEVE the government. you still carry your normal life, and that's OK! but what americans don't know, and don't care, about what happens OUTSIDE the us, in the rest of the world.
and for talking like I do, you're called a crazy, paranoid, anti-american (my favorite: patriotism at the service of disinformation).
oh and don't worry. there's no global warming. the war on iraq wasn't about oil. all third world countries are like that because of their own mistakes, the US didn't have anything to do with that. the US is perfect, nothing's wrong, terrorists are a constant threat but they're under control. and of course, we have oil for at least 100 years more, more than enough time to allow the good oil companies to do some research in alternate energy and give us enough time to make the switch.
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remove the cover of your modem and/or place it inside the case, near the front air intake. All modems I've seen overheat and that makes them crash (except for my good old Cisco 677 which was killed by a thunderstorm. That thing was like boiling but never dropped connections. Uptime was several months)
I beg to difer. Telemecanique sells PCIM, a SCADA product for windows only. As you may know, mission-critical stuff is best left to mission-critical hardware (the PLC). SCADA is for monitoring and SOME decision making, but all critical parts of the process MUST BE controlled by the PLC, and every possible fault condition taken into account and programmed into the PLC so it can make the right decision if the scada system is not available.
A good plan:
1. Use SCADA PC software for monitoring only, handle all user input via switches and displays.
2. If the system is too complex for switches and displays, use an HMI
3. If the system is too complex for an HMI, use a bigger HMI
4. If the system is too complex for a bigger HMI, go back and see why is it that complex and break it down, then go to rule 1.
PLCs have more horsepower than most tasks need, and if you need more, you can run them in parallel, failover, etc. I don't really see why would anyone run anything on a PC, or PC-class hardware.
There is nothing wrong with throwing some internet at your controller network, just don't make your controllers public. Make them all go through a server machine, and if it goes down, too bad. Your system is still up, and protected by the firewall.
well if you're installing to businesses it's another story.
also where I live there are no mom and pop ISPs. there is an ISP that sells voip, and the telco monopoly (good luck asking them to QoS your voip). there is a newer one that is said to actively block SIP but I didn't have a chance to check... do you know about a good softphone and echo test server I can use?
well, there is one thing you can do at your side: sacrifice half your incoming bandwidth. this way you leave enough headroom to allow quick bursts of bulk data (leaves web browsing unaffected) and enough for voip.
it's a bad way to do it but if your ISP is uncooperative, it's better than nothing.
mikrotik? soekris?
nice troll, but it beats the crap out of it... in price.
just don't delete large zvol clones... I hit a bug where ZFS tries to load to RAM the whole list of blocks to release and 3GB of RAM weren't enough.
Information is processed data. It is anything that can help reduce uncertainty in the decision-making process. It has nothing to do with the complexity of the issue.
Example:
18.6
You can read it all you want, and analyze it all you want, and it would still be just raw data to you, without any meaning. But if I told you that this is the temperature, in degrees celsius, at my city right now, it would still be a useless piece of data for you. But for me, it's a great piece of information: now I know that I should wear a little more than just a t-shirt.
so, because C/C++ can do things that java can't, that makes them automatically better? there is no need for other languages as anything can be done in C? childish arguments as usual.
Java is not "a language", it's a "platform", a "framework", or whatever you want to call it. Java includes a lot of things that C doesn't include in its standard libraries, and adding another library to a java app is as simple as dropping the jar in the classpath. No need to worry about library version incompatibilities.
You have to choose the right tool for the job. Some say Java is big and slow and takes a lot of memory. Let's extrapolate this to a real life example:
Think of java as a pneumatic wrench and C as a regular wrench. Which one is better? The one that you can fit in your pocket and use in any weather conditions, position, altitude, doesn't require power, or maintenance and it's ubiquitous, cheap and almost indestructible... or the one that needs power for the compressor, a special hose for air, and you need to clean it, and it's likely to break if it drops, etc?
The answer? It depends. If you only have to replace 1 bolt, the manual wrench is the right answer. If you have to replace them constantly and as quick as possible, then the pneumatic tool starts to look good... even though it can't do many things the simple manual wrench can do.
ah, but you have to do all these things yourself, while Java forces you to do all that from the beginning. then, scaling is easy.
you can't just "what the heck, I'll hack this together to make it work and we'll fix it when we need". No. In Java, usually doing things Right need the same amount of work to do wrong (in other words, writing nasty JDBC is as hard as writing good Hibernate).
you DON'T need to write everything in POSIX, because there is no not-POSIX, and POSIX. There is just Java. You Don't need an IP load balancer. You Don't need to write your own DB abstracton layer, you don't need an external tool to handle your docs, you don't need etc etc etc. Everything's been done before.
Don't know why you're trolling me anyway, since my post was actually a troll to the GP who was another troll.
The point in the end is that most KIDS don't understand java because they think they're too cool to use it. Talk to a good CS major and he'll tell you why Java is good, where to use it and where not to use it.
Talk to some kid and he'll tell you Java sucks because it sucks. Real hackers use C and I wanna be a hacker, but elite hackers also do assembler and that's the most elitistisistic thing ever. But I don't understand what what(&lol) does so I just use PHP and Mysql and I made this cool site for my school. http://xkcd.com/327/
yeah, you know, 'cause when you have 50 programmers on a project, C l33tnesses like
while (x-->0) { blah; }
are so cool and easy to understand. and malloc()s make memory management so easy and cross-platform. and clustering is for wussies, if you need more than a core2duo on Linux, is because you're unl33t or because you need to do some routines in über-ELITE assembler.
now when you program in Java you forget all that crap, you just code. need a bigger app? J2EE it and run it on a cluster. add nodes a needed to keep performance. node dies? no problem, J2EE takes care of it.
migrated from mysql to Oracle or DB2? no problem, just let Hibernate know about it.
tired of Windows Server and want to run opensolaris, linux or OS X Server? no problem, just drop your EAR/WAR on the new server and relax. it's working.
wanna add more coders to your project? point 'em to the javadoc and let they read through the verbose (and thus self-explaining) code.
strong typing is there to keep you from doing stupid things. you can always tell what the program IS going to do in all situations, because you HAVE to specify all situations.
but you're too cool for java. lemme know when banks switch their systems to LAMP and we'll talk.
these sell at $200 - $300 in my country. so yes, many charities and NGOs will be very happy to get them.
ZFS IS FUCKING FREE. some of us DO run servers at HOME and don't like/want to pay NetApp, Pillar, etc. Actually, can't even afford it.
you just need to talk to more people. people who disagree with you. maybe a tour down here on "third world" countries will give you a different perspective.
so, oil doesn't control the world? where are cars that run on water, or fusion power? I mean, nuclear energy was developed in record time, but we're still struggling to make fusion power, the holy grail of energy: almost for free, clean, endless... sounds too good to be true? well, we're used to think things that sound "too good to be true" usually are. I like to think that Big Oil buys all those things, and lobbies to keep most others from being developed. am I too paranoid to think that? is it really that crazy to think that the biggest business on earth will do anything in its power to suppress competition?
and regarding to israel, I love the way you minimize things. you seem lost in the concept of terrorism. terrorists killing soldiers in afghanistan/iarq is not news. random terrorists in your own backyard is a different story. if I wanted to terrorize america, I'd do what they do in Israel. not daily, maybe. but destroying a big target like the WTC, scary, but people think "well, I'm not in the big city". now, start random attacks inside the US, the message would be clear: you aren't safe, no matter where you are. welcome to the reign of terror. want us out? convince your government to leave us alone and we'll leave.
Osama allegedly has hundreds of terrorists in training, all willing to die, and he has millions of dollars, and resources to make all that happen. yeah, right. there is no osama. there is no spoon. terrorists don't exist.
when you say "I need positive evidence to believe an assertion", well, I don't buy that. I'm a human being and I can make my own conclusions. I don't expect everything to be handed to me, sometimes you don't have someone to trust.
And part of your reasoning just gives the system more power: I say "this" you say "no way, that!". Now we're enemies. You don't try to find a neutral point. You call me a crazy conspiracy theorist, what I say is overly exaggerated, and I'm just plain wrong. Matrix scores again.
also, have you read any "anti-9/11" things? I'm usually biased pro-america, so I'm usually skeptical about that. But I bought this book, "Nadie Vio Matrix" (No one saw "Matrix"), and it's full of references, links, etc. A lot of interpretation by the author, but the "evidence" is mostly there.
US politicians? come on. US capitalism is all about individualism. That's why americans don't have free health care. Supposedly, you will have better healthcare if you have to pay for it. And maybe in the US, you do. But it's top-of-the-line or nothing. If you don't have money to pay for it, you have to die. It's an evil kind of natural selection. Sometimes you have to get a mortgage to pay for an operation. But you already had a mortgage, we can't approve another! You took the risk, now you gotta die (OK, ok, we told you it was fine, it's a completely legal way to get money, and you have the right to, and we advised you to do it, but hey, we are corporations. Sometimes we lose too. Only we don't die). It's an extreme example, but it happens.
When someone comes with the idea of publicly-funded health care, is quickly called a crazy communist, and that taxpayers don't have to pay for the diseases of a few lazy-asses that don't want to work. And that if we provide free health care, people won't have a reason to work...
while some politicians wanted to help people, many (most) have been corrupted and helping people doesn't matter anymore. I don't say they are malevolent (as in evil). they're just greedy bastards. money corrupts people.
there's a blurry line between mistrust and paranoia.
well, at least i KNOW I'm not crazy :) ok, for the record, when I said "you", I didn't specifically target you, NeutronCowboy. I was talking about "you, the american people in general". Joe Sixpack or whatever you call it nowadays.
anyway, it's not just about 9/11. it's about everything in this world. when you look at the facts, you realize that nothing seems right. for every claim, there is a counter claim. for instance, there is solid evidence that smoking causes cancer and many other diseases. but Big Tobacco keeps lobbying and misinforming people. they now can't deny that smoking causes cancer, but that doesn't keep them from telling other "lies". Big Tobacco is big. really big. But Oil is bigger. what makes you think that Oil doesn't control the world? Why are you afraid of thinking that a big oil company put your president in his current place? Are you ashamed of even thinking that your own president had so many people killed in their own country? Yes, it's extreme, but what I'm trying to do is stick a splinter in your brain. I want you to take the red pill. Think more objectivelly.
back to your question:
what proof do I need? I need more bombings. more, lots of them. every day, in every small town and big city in the US. If there is an enemy against the US, and IF they're willing to do anything, and IF they've been saying they WILL do it, then bring it on. no? Oh, our security forces must be doing their job well (Bear Patrol?).
but no, there are no bombings in the US. now, let's look at Israel. suicide bombings, almost every day. and they have armed military on the streets. they're a much smaller country, with lots of surveillance, and an amazing warfare development, and US support. and they still have suicide bombers. because they do have an enemy. but not in the US, no bombings. there is no enemy. there's the ghost of terrorism, but in the thousands of miles of US territory, the only massacres are executed by your own people (in schools or shopping malls). and that proves my point: there's so much security, and they can't keep a stupid student from murdering half the school. but there are thousands of towns, malls, cities, where a willing terrorist could cause more harm. even trains, buses, subway stations. but oh! jack bauer takes care of everything.
so much security. airtight security. but mexicans keep coming (oh, but there is a magical barrier that keeps the Crazy Arabs outside?). the drug keeps coming, directly from Colombia. where the US with all their satellites still can't figure out where the hell FARC is and they don't do ANYTHING to help with the Ingrid Betancourt affair.
but don't mind me. I'm just crazy.
the gratuitous insults were unnecesary because I wasn't the one to say that you were going to open a military base in Paraguay. I'm not paraguayan either. anyway, you obviously have no idea about the economics in south america, if you think only Brazil is having immigration problems, and if you think wealth is distributed equally in brazil, you're very wrong. but whatever, you're just an average american racist. don't forget, tomorrow's sunday, you have to wake up early for church.
it's called fear. conformism. stupidity. keep believing what the government tells you, they're always right. and if someone dares to question anything, call them stupid. it's cool to be popular!
http://www.inicio.es/la-ue-multara-a-repsol-por-monopolio.html http://www.quiendebeaquien.org/spip.php?article706 microsoft isn't a monopoly either...
what you say is stupid, but that's how it works: if someone comes and wants to say something against the establishment, they will ridicule you, call you crazy, paranoid, whatever. it's the perfect system, and your claims just make the wrong more right: they let you say things, to prove that "there is freedom of speech", but they call you crazy. the problem is when people don't dare question things, and in the middle ages, nobody dared to question the church: you were called crazy if you thought the earth wasn't the center of the universe. but now we seem to think different. claims, counter-claims. paid scientists, investigators. people voted for bush out of fear. many realize everything is a lie. many don't because the lie is so well done: you have been taught to believe there is democracy (which there is), and that the majority of people are represented in the senate (patriot act was approved 98-1: does that mean that over 98% of the population agrees with everything the patriot act says?). and people like to leave big decisions to politicians, so what the government tells us MUST BE RIGHT. it was funny, back in 2005 when Bush came to Argentina, all media in the world had their own satellite uplinks. local media was surprised that US media had to pass through government censorship (that means 'news' don't even hit the US, they're sanitized before they're even near the US). so much for freedom of speech. but hey, what the american people thinks is that "the government does that to protect us". from what? do you need to be protected from the truth? also the truth and freedom of speech are so limited in the US: you are free to say "kill the niggers, KKK rules" and that's freedom of speech. but you can't have a site like Wikileaks or TPB (copyright is on top of freedom of speech!). but you STILL BELIEVE the government. you still carry your normal life, and that's OK! but what americans don't know, and don't care, about what happens OUTSIDE the us, in the rest of the world. and for talking like I do, you're called a crazy, paranoid, anti-american (my favorite: patriotism at the service of disinformation).
"The bigger the lie, the more it will be believed."
oh and don't worry. there's no global warming. the war on iraq wasn't about oil. all third world countries are like that because of their own mistakes, the US didn't have anything to do with that. the US is perfect, nothing's wrong, terrorists are a constant threat but they're under control. and of course, we have oil for at least 100 years more, more than enough time to allow the good oil companies to do some research in alternate energy and give us enough time to make the switch.
Repsol is a monopoly, I don't care what you claim. Also the sale is from 1999, so it's in the 90s. Fuck you, anonymous :)