well all that's potentially happening is that your ISP is joining your torrents but only serving those in particular IP ranges, but really really fast - to me this is an added benefit, I'd probably choose an ISP that carries the latest kernel downloads locally - it's not really any different than a html proxy cache (except that because the torrents are crypto corrected an ISP can't inject ads into them)
there have been international conventions on declaring war for 1000s of years - basically you're supposed to formally announce it then tell the other party then start (this is why whether the Japanese ambassador delivered one prior to Pearl Harbor, or not, is a big deal).
The US constitution says that the congress declares war and the president prosecutes it - congress also holds the purse strings, a separate power. In this case they have voted on the money, but not passed a formal declaration of war that was delivered to the Iraqi government.
A formal declaration of war would in fact be a motion declaring war passed in the congress that would then be delivered to the appropriate representative of the Iraqi government (our ambassador would go knocking on the door of the presidential palace or some such - withdrawing your ambassador and as a result having no one in place to declare war would be a stupid thing to do). If you think about it ambassadors mostly do formally boring things - this one is formal but decidedly scary.
I have no idea about the merits of his beef with the Vector guy - but he needs a new web designer - one who tries it on more than one browser - on mine every single line renders as a line of text followed by a line with 1 or 2 words - each line of text in a paragraph is terminated with a BR tag, if your fonts are not just so or your window just so wide it wont work - someone just doesn't understand the whole html thing
well assuming that it is 1/250,000 inch thick and that it's actually the platter that's plated - assuming 2 sides that's 2 x 4/250,000 cubic inches of gold that's 0.00052 cm^3 density is 19.3 g/cm^3 so 0.0101 grams so.00036 ounces
you're going to need about 280,000 disk drives to get your ounce of gold....
(BTW I think the word you wanted was "persecute"...)
The correct way to respond to the sort of bigoted speech that the Boy Scouts use is not to shut up and let them continue, nor is it to censor them - the right thing to do is to use MORE speech - and that's what you are seeing here people standing up for what they believe in, supporting their friends (athiest and gay) that the scouts discriminate against
I was a scout - but my son will not be unless they can accept him (we're athiests), or his gay school friends, or his half brother with the 2 moms - nor will I support the scouts in any way until they join the real world
well, as an occasional patch submitter I think you're probably right - mine have all been itches I've needed to scratch (stuff that was broken that I needed) or bugs I found while wandering thru the code for other reasons - I don't do that often and as things have gotten more mature I'm just not finding problems I need fixing
I don't have one but I have helped my kids jailbreak their iTouches - you use ssh in the process (they even use sshfs with Amarok to load music into them) - so I'd guess if you're looking for a smart phone with ssh an iPohne would be a natural response
no need to cut down old growth forests - they also have a lot of carbon in the soil - you want that to stay rather than be released - better to take farmland that's been overfarmed and had it's soil depleted and convert that to forest for a couple of generations - leave the old growth (and the rainforest) where it is
yup - trees - let me take my thought one step further and suggest that sending your newspaper to the landfill rather than recycling it (and I have been diligently for years) might also be a good thing....
right now we're putting more CO2 into the atmosphere that we're taking out - largely by digging it up out of the ground and burning it. Plastic bags are largely made from fossil carbon - surely we're better off sequestering this carbon (by dropping it in a landfill, or down an old oil well, or coal mine) than we are breaking it down presumeably to CO2 which is released into the atmosphere
you can only do that if answering the question would incriminate you in some crime - in some sense it's sort of saying "I have a guilty secret" - not the best thing to say in front of a suspicious cop - as mentioned above get a lawyer
forget all that banning sexism or racism.... simple solution is a constitutional amendment banning discrimination based on DNA - all the rest is just a subset
is that communication is really important here - talk to people - listen more - remember that the most important communication happens in unstructured places - coffee breaks, having a beer, waiting for meetings to start etc etc - if you aren't hanging out with the other people you're working with you wont get the really creative group thing you're there to do working
well we all used to be worried about the fallout from nuclear war.... just think what would happen on the 'net if these cowboys ever get unleashed.....
the good news I guess is that just like the spammers they'll all be going after the windows platforms because that's the biggest bang for the buck - the rest of us can watch the death of the internet from our linux bunkers
what if I've already bought your crap and don't want to pay for it again? (I own ~1000 CDs I've bought each one, I don't download music but I use the internet heavily, why should I pay a tax like this?)
I do crypto for a living.... my bank really really wants me to to use their web banking service - but I have a dilemma - is it safe? if I try and break their security to test them a couple of things might happen: if it's any good they'll catch me and I might go to jail.... if it's crap there's no point in me using their service - so I can't win and can't use their service
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well all that's potentially happening is that your ISP is joining your torrents but only serving those in particular IP ranges, but really really fast - to me this is an added benefit, I'd probably choose an ISP that carries the latest kernel downloads locally - it's not really any different than a html proxy cache (except that because the torrents are crypto corrected an ISP can't inject ads into them)
maybe smart geeks are, well, not stupid, and don't want to get sent of to die in some other country?
The US constitution says that the congress declares war and the president prosecutes it - congress also holds the purse strings, a separate power. In this case they have voted on the money, but not passed a formal declaration of war that was delivered to the Iraqi government.
A formal declaration of war would in fact be a motion declaring war passed in the congress that would then be delivered to the appropriate representative of the Iraqi government (our ambassador would go knocking on the door of the presidential palace or some such - withdrawing your ambassador and as a result having no one in place to declare war would be a stupid thing to do). If you think about it ambassadors mostly do formally boring things - this one is formal but decidedly scary.
I have no idea about the merits of his beef with the Vector guy - but he needs a new web designer - one who tries it on more than one browser - on mine every single line renders as a line of text followed by a line with 1 or 2 words - each line of text in a paragraph is terminated with a BR tag, if your fonts are not just so or your window just so wide it wont work - someone just doesn't understand the whole html thing
oops included the 100 drives twice - 2,800 disk drives
you're going to need about 280,000 disk drives to get your ounce of gold ....
The correct way to respond to the sort of bigoted speech that the Boy Scouts use is not to shut up and let them continue, nor is it to censor them - the right thing to do is to use MORE speech - and that's what you are seeing here people standing up for what they believe in, supporting their friends (athiest and gay) that the scouts discriminate against
I was a scout - but my son will not be unless they can accept him (we're athiests), or his gay school friends, or his half brother with the 2 moms - nor will I support the scouts in any way until they join the real world
it's called the videogame business ....
carefully place bubblewrap under each machine - listen for the popping if anyone starts manhandling them
well, as an occasional patch submitter I think you're probably right - mine have all been itches I've needed to scratch (stuff that was broken that I needed) or bugs I found while wandering thru the code for other reasons - I don't do that often and as things have gotten more mature I'm just not finding problems I need fixing
I don't have one but I have helped my kids jailbreak their iTouches - you use ssh in the process (they even use sshfs with Amarok to load music into them) - so I'd guess if you're looking for a smart phone with ssh an iPohne would be a natural response
no need to cut down old growth forests - they also have a lot of carbon in the soil - you want that to stay rather than be released - better to take farmland that's been overfarmed and had it's soil depleted and convert that to forest for a couple of generations - leave the old growth (and the rainforest) where it is
yup - trees - let me take my thought one step further and suggest that sending your newspaper to the landfill rather than recycling it (and I have been diligently for years) might also be a good thing ....
right now we're putting more CO2 into the atmosphere that we're taking out - largely by digging it up out of the ground and burning it. Plastic bags are largely made from fossil carbon - surely we're better off sequestering this carbon (by dropping it in a landfill, or down an old oil well, or coal mine) than we are breaking it down presumeably to CO2 which is released into the atmosphere
strange as it may seem I'm beginning to wonder if instead of recycling my newspapers I should sequester their carbon - send them to the dump ....
you can only do that if answering the question would incriminate you in some crime - in some sense it's sort of saying "I have a guilty secret" - not the best thing to say in front of a suspicious cop - as mentioned above get a lawyer
This is the United Aerospace Corp that runs those waste dumps around mars right - are they having security problems again? will they never learn?
actually the whole almost dieing out thing just reeks of a total lack of intelligent design
forget all that banning sexism or racism .... simple solution is a constitutional amendment banning discrimination based on DNA - all the rest is just a subset
yeah, do that too - but wait 'till the boss has gone home
is that communication is really important here - talk to people - listen more - remember that the most important communication happens in unstructured places - coffee breaks, having a beer, waiting for meetings to start etc etc - if you aren't hanging out with the other people you're working with you wont get the really creative group thing you're there to do working
well we all used to be worried about the fallout from nuclear war .... just think what would happen on the 'net if these cowboys ever get unleashed .....
the good news I guess is that just like the spammers they'll all be going after the windows platforms because that's the biggest bang for the buck - the rest of us can watch the death of the internet from our linux bunkers
what if I've already bought your crap and don't want to pay for it again? (I own ~1000 CDs I've bought each one, I don't download music but I use the internet heavily, why should I pay a tax like this?)
I do crypto for a living .... my bank really really wants me to to use their web banking service - but I have a dilemma - is it safe? if I try and break their security to test them a couple of things might happen: if it's any good they'll catch me and I might go to jail .... if it's crap there's no point in me using their service - so I can't win and can't use their service
CIA/NSA need more bandwidth from Comcast I guess