What are 'better options'? We have one more world currency - euro. And while it seems to be more stable than dollar right now, there's no guarantee that it won't go belly-up in a few years.
Also, I lived through several economic crises. It's NOT fun.
"The kernel has to be built without initrd, which takes half a second with nothing in it. So all modules required for boot must be built into the kernel. "With a handful of modules you cover 95% of laptops out there," Arjan said. He suggested building an initrd-based image to cover the remaining 5%."
Wrong. KGB has been substituted by FSK (Federalnaya Sluzhba Kontrrazvedki - Federal Service of Counter-Intelligence) on 1991 (right after the USSR collapse).
In 1995 it was again renamed and reformed (this time it was called 'FSB').
"Nobody really knows how birth control pills work in humans."
Bullshit. We know _exactly_ how birth control pills work. Search pubmed.org if you don't believe me.
"I take comfort in the fact that there are lots of medics in the ER. If one doesn't want to do a blood transfusion, I'm sure there will be others who do."
How about emergency transfusion during airlift, for example?
Or how about antivax doctor denying your child a vaccination?
Or fire-fighters refusing to do their job on Sabbath?
Abortifacient drugs have only been available from the pharmacy in the last few years - WRONG!
Birth control pills are available for about 40 years now.
"Oh, and your strawman fails too. There is no recognized belief system that objects to giving intravenous injections on moral grounds. Let's stick to the realm of what actually exists."
Oh, you're wrong. Some brands of Orthodox Christianity (now almost extinct) in Russia forbid injections.
And there's also Jehovah Witnesses. Do you want to die because ER-medic refuses to perform blood transfusion?
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The thing is - YOUR privacy is going to die anyway. I think the current fight for privacy is doomed (though it's still a good fight to fight).
So why not at least try to enforce transparency on people with power? It might even succeed in the long run.
On the contrary, Pthreads, Java threads and .NET threads are mostly the same thing in different packages.
There are _really_ different ways to implement multithreading: fork-join model, pi-calculus, STM, message-passing model, etc.
More likely they'll think it's a divine sigh that they're doing everything fine.
Why not Cthulhu (http://www.cthulhu.org/)?
He's certainly less evil than the current president.
There's evidence that cannibalism leads to prion diseases (like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease) ). So have a nice meal!
What are 'better options'? We have one more world currency - euro. And while it seems to be more stable than dollar right now, there's no guarantee that it won't go belly-up in a few years.
Also, I lived through several economic crises. It's NOT fun.
A lot of things are tied to the dollar. And a lot of countries store their reserves in dollar or in some forms of US securities.
And it's not possible to trade _only_ in euro. There's just not enough of it.
You see, if you now let your banks go bankrupt then it's going to devalue the dollar.
A lot. Like 3-5 times.
And that will put the end to dollar as a world currency. Oil won't be traded in dollars any more. Food won't be traded in dollars anymore.
And that's *BAD* for the whole world.
When was initrd _compiled_ _in_ the kernel???
Initrd is separate from kernel, it's a cramfs image (which takes time to decompress) and is loaded by a bootloader.
I get my electricity from nuclear powerplant. So what now?
RTFA and stop quote-mining:
"The kernel has to be built without initrd, which takes half a second with nothing in it. So all modules required for boot must be built into the kernel. "With a handful of modules you cover 95% of laptops out there," Arjan said. He suggested building an initrd-based image to cover the remaining 5%."
So? I used to run all-static kernels for 10 years, until I got tired of compiling my own kernels and switched to distro-provided kernels.
The article says that you can compile-in drivers for about 95% of commonly used devices and put the rest of them on small initrd.
Without SSD you can get abot 10 seconds for boot. Proably less, considering that you can optimize file layout and read everything in one big request.
I own a company, so I backup a lot of other important data along with my e-mail.
But it's not really hard to do, it takes about 2 hrs each year.
No.
You're warned about DRM, it's not like RealNetworks deletes all your MP3 files and asks for ransom.
You can backup your mail from GMail using IMAP (or POP3 earlier).
I do this about once a year and store backups on archive-quality DVDs in my nearby bank :)
Obligatory analogy:
You can pay $20 for courier to pick up and deliver disks that you have bought.
Why not?
You pay RealNetworks for service - 'easy' backups of DVDs. I don't see anything inherently wrong with that.
Of course, $20 for simple DRM-laden DVD copying software is $300 too many for me, but that's my personal opinion.
Wrong. KGB has been substituted by FSK (Federalnaya Sluzhba Kontrrazvedki - Federal Service of Counter-Intelligence) on 1991 (right after the USSR collapse).
In 1995 it was again renamed and reformed (this time it was called 'FSB').
It's a pretty much work. A lot of 'obvious' English sentences translate to bulky code for proof verifier.
Just look at the definition of Peano arithmetic, for example: http://pauillac.inria.fr/coq/V8.1/stdlib/Coq.Arith.Plus.html
"Nobody really knows how birth control pills work in humans."
Bullshit. We know _exactly_ how birth control pills work. Search pubmed.org if you don't believe me.
"I take comfort in the fact that there are lots of medics in the ER. If one doesn't want to do a blood transfusion, I'm sure there will be others who do."
How about emergency transfusion during airlift, for example?
Or how about antivax doctor denying your child a vaccination?
Or fire-fighters refusing to do their job on Sabbath?
Or this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1577426/Female-Muslim-medics-'disobey-hygiene-rules'.html ?
"Plus, I thought JW's believed that their rules applied only to them, and not unbelievers."
Birth control pills also do not affect pharmacist, so I fail to see a difference.
Probably JW are just not powerful enough (yet) to force their believes on others.
"And I think you forgot to address my argument about how being forced to dispense abortifacients infringes on my right to contract."
Simple - you have a JOB to do, and other people depend on you. If you can't do your job then don't do it. It's that simple.
Abortifacient drugs have only been available from the pharmacy in the last few years - WRONG!
Birth control pills are available for about 40 years now.
"Oh, and your strawman fails too. There is no recognized belief system that objects to giving intravenous injections on moral grounds. Let's stick to the realm of what actually exists."
Oh, you're wrong. Some brands of Orthodox Christianity (now almost extinct) in Russia forbid injections.
And there's also Jehovah Witnesses. Do you want to die because ER-medic refuses to perform blood transfusion?
So? If you object to abortions - don't become a pharmacist!
What next? Nurses objecting to intravenous injections because it conflicts with their faith?
If you compare the size of Russia and Europe, it'll be more likely that Europe will join Russia :)
Grab your gun and make some more REAL shipwrecks!
Or maybe it was time travel? Maybe this LHC breakdown is a coverup?