I have no dog in this fight, but you are confusing the Old Testament (the Hebrew scriptures, including Deuteronomy and Leviticus and the passages you cite above) with the New Testament (the teachings of Jesus per his disciples, including the Gospel of Luke). Yes, the Old Testament God was a rather ornery fellow who did have a habit of smiting people, but he's very different than Jesus (e.g., he's worshiped by the Jews, who don't believe Jesus to be the Son of God). The New Testament is generally called the Word of Jesus, but yeah, it's more accurately acknowledged to have been written by people he taught than by Jesus himself. Case in point: Luke. But if you want to get at what Jesus actually said, it's more correct to look towards the New Testament than the Old Testament, which predates Christianity and Christ.
Flying back to the States out of Ben Gurion Airport was an interesting experience. About a mile from the terminal we were stopped at a Godfather-style toll booth. Four soldiers surrounded the car holding automatic weapons while a fifth stuck a mirror on a long handle under the car to look for, I assume, explosives. Then, while walking in the airport terminal door we were intercepted and interviewed by another heavily armed soldier, who recorded the brief contents of the conversation. This guy would have shot anyone shady before they even set foot in the terminal or got anywhere near the queues. We were interviewed multiple times again during the check-in process and it was obvious that the Israelis were comparing notes, looking for discrepancies in our stories, nervous reactions, or other suspicious behaviors. That's human intelligence, and it works, along with profiling, which the Israelis also do.
When the Christians are in the news EVERY FUCKING DAY -- right now, in 2016 -- shooting innocent civilians, blowing up car bombs, bulldozing and dynamiting the cultural treasures of other religions, raping children, beheading people for drawing pictures of Christ, etc., all in the name of Jesus, and trying to establish a worldwide Christian nation (and telling people that's what they're doing), then I'll agree. And I mean now. Not hundreds of years ago during the Crusades and not during the Inquisition. I might right fucking now in 2016 in the modern, civilized world. Until then, quit trying to equate what these 7th Century barbarians are doing with any other modern religion, because it's complete bullshit.
While I agree with you re: no more mass surveillance, let's be clear: terrorism isn't like car accidents, at all. It's not a random event that just happens. It's the end result of conscious human decision-making to murder as many innocent civilians as possible and to scare the shit out of everyone so their very way of life is affected. It's isn't neutral, natural happenstance; it's the deliberate conducting of the worst kind of evil. And because it's the result of human decision-making -- meaning, someone is actually *deciding* to kill these innocent people -- it's preventable and it can and must be addressed by us, by civilized people. Absolutely, we cannot throw away any more rights -- but we can't stand by and let this become the "new normal." That's what those evil fuckers want, and we cannot let them win.
I'll believe it when the Christians, Buddhists, and Jews start repeatedly shooting people and blowing themselves up because someone drew a fucking cartoon.
Amen. On the exact opposite end of the spectrum, look at Baltimore -- another one of the poorly run cities you mention. It's been destroyed by decades of policies which caused the erosion of the tax base, massive spikes in violent crime, corruption of local officials who enrich themselves and their lobbyist and developer friends at the expense of the citizens, horrible schools with incompetent administrators, etc. -- ALL paid for by state and Federal subsidies, which means it's funded by people who have no say the continuation of the poor decisions which made the city terrible in the first place and who have zero chance to fix it. Oh, and speak out against this arrangement and you're immediately labeled a brown people-hating racist. Baltimore is such a shitty place to live that the city is now exporting their poor to the surrounding suburbs by buying houses there (which erodes the county tax base because no one pays any property taxes on those houses). It's insanity and has to stop. Cities need to be stand or fall on their own merits and budget -- let them fail if they are unsustainable, but don't force the rest of the country to fund this nonsense against their will.
My Global Entry card came in a foil-lined envelope (like this) that says on the outside, "Protect your card's sensitive electronics -- and your privacy. Keep the card in this sleeve when not in use." If the US Gov't thinks a Global Entry card could potentially be sniffed from a similar vector, why think this would be much different?
This article is about yet another Muslim country implementing homophobic laws, and half of the comments are already immediately teeing off on Christianity without even a nod to the article itself. Nothing constructive or insightful . . . just an attempt to deflect and scream "but the other team is even worse!" Fuck you . . . you're not helping.
The article summary is very misleading -- it reads like sales tax on Internet purchases has been banned, which is not the case. This law deals with the taxation of Internet access.
I have found lately that when I ask my liberal friends about this phenomenon (the erosion of free speech on college campuses by Generation Butthurt), they either feign ignorance or say that "it's no big deal" and quickly change the subject to whatever evil they think the Republicans are pulling lately. This is weak, and frankly I don't know how a true liberal would stand for such an encroachment on their own civil liberties. If these opposing views are so terrible, let them out there to be discussed and torn apart on the public eye, and force those espousing them to defend their viewpoints. Of course, that means you have to be able to defend your viewpoint as well, which is what this is all about.
Some other guy mentioned RAID 10 isn't a backup strategy; he's correct (no RAID level is), however one thing to keep in mind is that when his RAID 0 array dies, he'd better hope his back-ups are all up-to-date and restorable. With just about any other RAID level, you get an opportunity to replace the dead / dying drive first, start rebuilding, and KEEP ROLLING, with no need to screw around with backups at all and no human interaction even required if your array has a hot spare configured. Yes, technically that is availability, but I'd sure as hell take it over "fuck, there went one drive of my RAID 0 stripe, better hope I can tolerate this downtime and that my last backup set had everything I needed on it." RAID may not be a backup strategy but it's absolutely another layer in place before you need to restore from backups (as long as it's not RAID 0).
Remember kids, losing just one drive dumps the entire array. It's really not appropriate for anything besides completely transient data (scratch disks, stuff like this benchmark, etc.). Not smart to run your OS on RAID 0.
RAID 10, OTOH . . . now we're talking.
Nothing is stopping any country not happy with ICANN's control from using their own root nameserver, or an alternate one. It's almost like the technology was designed to facilitate it in the first place.
SMB3 Multichannel isn't the same as link aggregation. It assigns CPU cores to process SMB transfers as they come across the wire(s), thereby handling one of the real-world bottlenecks (i.e., that the client typically chokes trying to process all of that inbound data coming off of the fast pipe).
That's cuz you're not doing it right. Having dual 10GbE ports on each end will let you run SMB3 Multichannel for network transfer speeds that will outpace anything but the fastest RAID arrays. We're seeing real-world file transfer speeds of over 1.3 gigabytes (not gigabits) / second over copper Ethernet. I'm seldom a Microsoft advocate but it is awesome.
Oh the irony. Ride-share services like Uber and Lyft only exist at all because taxi services gouge customers and suck terribly -- thanks to monopolies granted to government-chosen favorite sons like this piece of shit.
I'll do you one better. The budget of the ENTIRE Smithsonian Institution for fiscal year 2015, the world's largest museum and research complex, is $819.5 million. This includes salaries and expenses of $675.3 million. You could fund all 19 Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo for over 5 years for what this ship costs.
To be clear: most people buying these types of drives don't buy them one at a time to be shoved into a workstation, or even to be used as a backup. They buy 10+ or more at a time to assemble into some sort of RAID. They are most likely looking to maximize available terabytes per rack unit in a datacenter. Things like cost are secondary in these scenarios -- it costs what it costs. 7200RPM is great, especially when a large number of drives are striped together with RAID 10 or something similar (because with RAID 10, the more drives you add, the faster things go). Latency? Meh, we'll front-end the array with a nice SSD-based read-write cache (also RAID10), usually one that's managed right from the same controller card. And like most new enterprise-class drives, these have SAS3 interfaces -- that's 12 Gb/S. With arrays built with these drives, your network bandwidth and OS offload likely become the bottleneck very quickly. Make no mistake -- the target buyer is someone who wants to build very dense, fast, large arrays of drives -- think JBOD for virtualization, or a huge fast fileshare box with a bunch of fast NICs, or a big database instance, etc. So -- until SSDs come in these capacities -- just because *you* won't use this in your gamer rig / IDE / whatever, doesn't mean there isn't a market for huge, relatively fast spinning rust drives.
8 TB on a single SSD is great and all, but I'd rather that the flash manufacturers focus on moving their mainstream interfaces over to SAS3 like the enterprise storage world has done. What good is all of this fast storage on a single drive if you're capped by the bandwidth of the drive's interface?
After the demonization of Brendan Eich for his personal donation in support of CA Proposition 8, the writing is on the wall. You can expect that most big tech donors of all stripes, regardless of party or political stance, will donate to political causes through the Super PAC of their choice.
what evidence do you have that the politicians have been bought off?
I'm glad you asked, as that gives me a great reason to post a link to Simon Garber. As Wikipedia says, "While in Russia in 2001, Garber became friends with Patrick Daley, the son of long-time Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley. City officials tightly regulate all aspects of medallions ownership, granting permission to purchase medallions on an individual basis. Within a year of meeting Patrick, Garber quickly acquired over 300 Chicago taxi medallions. Garber also hired Mayor Daley's former chief of staff Gery Chico as a City Hall lobbyist. In 2003, Garber used this political capital to start the Chicago Carriage Cab Company and was granted permission to operate the taxi business in Chicago. Within six years, the Chicago Carriage Cab Company had amassed over 800 medallions, making it the largest taxi company in the city."
This is but one example, from one city. A little Googling will easily reveal many more examples.
And yet, tens of millions of people around the world think it's safe enough that they use rideshare apps over and over, every day. And tens of millions more think that they make enough money doing it that they choose to keep driving for Uber, and Lyft, and the other rideshares. Why? Because to them, it's better, cheaper, and more convenient than regular taxis.
Call Uber all the names that you want, but the taxi companies better figure out that they've got to compete with the rideshare services or they'll soon be obsolete. You can't litigate away technological advances, nor can you prop up a dying business model forever. The rideshare genie is out of the bottle and he's not going back in.
Because medallions create an artificial scarcity of taxis. And in any market, artificial scarcity creates cartels, which reduce competition and benefit no one but a tiny, well-connected minority of owners (and their paid-off politicians) at the expense of pretty much everyone else, including the consumers as well as the labor. NY and Chicago taxi companies are doing the same thing that DeBeers does mining diamonds, or that OPEC does with oil -- and like DeBeers et al, they've protected their cartel and kept it perfectly legal by buying off elected officials. I have no problem with common-sense taxi regulation related to safety and insurance -- but medallions are the biggest scam on the planet.
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Hey, you're the one that cited the scriptures. One would hope you can tell the difference between a Christian and a Jew.
I have no dog in this fight, but you are confusing the Old Testament (the Hebrew scriptures, including Deuteronomy and Leviticus and the passages you cite above) with the New Testament (the teachings of Jesus per his disciples, including the Gospel of Luke). Yes, the Old Testament God was a rather ornery fellow who did have a habit of smiting people, but he's very different than Jesus (e.g., he's worshiped by the Jews, who don't believe Jesus to be the Son of God). The New Testament is generally called the Word of Jesus, but yeah, it's more accurately acknowledged to have been written by people he taught than by Jesus himself. Case in point: Luke. But if you want to get at what Jesus actually said, it's more correct to look towards the New Testament than the Old Testament, which predates Christianity and Christ.
Flying back to the States out of Ben Gurion Airport was an interesting experience. About a mile from the terminal we were stopped at a Godfather-style toll booth. Four soldiers surrounded the car holding automatic weapons while a fifth stuck a mirror on a long handle under the car to look for, I assume, explosives. Then, while walking in the airport terminal door we were intercepted and interviewed by another heavily armed soldier, who recorded the brief contents of the conversation. This guy would have shot anyone shady before they even set foot in the terminal or got anywhere near the queues. We were interviewed multiple times again during the check-in process and it was obvious that the Israelis were comparing notes, looking for discrepancies in our stories, nervous reactions, or other suspicious behaviors. That's human intelligence, and it works, along with profiling, which the Israelis also do.
When the Christians are in the news EVERY FUCKING DAY -- right now, in 2016 -- shooting innocent civilians, blowing up car bombs, bulldozing and dynamiting the cultural treasures of other religions, raping children, beheading people for drawing pictures of Christ, etc., all in the name of Jesus, and trying to establish a worldwide Christian nation (and telling people that's what they're doing), then I'll agree. And I mean now. Not hundreds of years ago during the Crusades and not during the Inquisition. I might right fucking now in 2016 in the modern, civilized world. Until then, quit trying to equate what these 7th Century barbarians are doing with any other modern religion, because it's complete bullshit.
While I agree with you re: no more mass surveillance, let's be clear: terrorism isn't like car accidents, at all. It's not a random event that just happens. It's the end result of conscious human decision-making to murder as many innocent civilians as possible and to scare the shit out of everyone so their very way of life is affected. It's isn't neutral, natural happenstance; it's the deliberate conducting of the worst kind of evil. And because it's the result of human decision-making -- meaning, someone is actually *deciding* to kill these innocent people -- it's preventable and it can and must be addressed by us, by civilized people. Absolutely, we cannot throw away any more rights -- but we can't stand by and let this become the "new normal." That's what those evil fuckers want, and we cannot let them win.
I'll believe it when the Christians, Buddhists, and Jews start repeatedly shooting people and blowing themselves up because someone drew a fucking cartoon.
Amen. On the exact opposite end of the spectrum, look at Baltimore -- another one of the poorly run cities you mention. It's been destroyed by decades of policies which caused the erosion of the tax base, massive spikes in violent crime, corruption of local officials who enrich themselves and their lobbyist and developer friends at the expense of the citizens, horrible schools with incompetent administrators, etc. -- ALL paid for by state and Federal subsidies, which means it's funded by people who have no say the continuation of the poor decisions which made the city terrible in the first place and who have zero chance to fix it. Oh, and speak out against this arrangement and you're immediately labeled a brown people-hating racist. Baltimore is such a shitty place to live that the city is now exporting their poor to the surrounding suburbs by buying houses there (which erodes the county tax base because no one pays any property taxes on those houses). It's insanity and has to stop. Cities need to be stand or fall on their own merits and budget -- let them fail if they are unsustainable, but don't force the rest of the country to fund this nonsense against their will.
My Global Entry card came in a foil-lined envelope (like this) that says on the outside, "Protect your card's sensitive electronics -- and your privacy. Keep the card in this sleeve when not in use." If the US Gov't thinks a Global Entry card could potentially be sniffed from a similar vector, why think this would be much different?
This article is about yet another Muslim country implementing homophobic laws, and half of the comments are already immediately teeing off on Christianity without even a nod to the article itself. Nothing constructive or insightful . . . just an attempt to deflect and scream "but the other team is even worse!" Fuck you . . . you're not helping.
The article summary is very misleading -- it reads like sales tax on Internet purchases has been banned, which is not the case. This law deals with the taxation of Internet access.
I have found lately that when I ask my liberal friends about this phenomenon (the erosion of free speech on college campuses by Generation Butthurt), they either feign ignorance or say that "it's no big deal" and quickly change the subject to whatever evil they think the Republicans are pulling lately. This is weak, and frankly I don't know how a true liberal would stand for such an encroachment on their own civil liberties. If these opposing views are so terrible, let them out there to be discussed and torn apart on the public eye, and force those espousing them to defend their viewpoints. Of course, that means you have to be able to defend your viewpoint as well, which is what this is all about.
I have found these calculators work well for projecting the performance and capacity of various RAID levels:
http://wintelguy.com/raidperf.pl/?formid=1&raidtype=R0&ndg=2&ng=1
http://wintelguy.com/raidperf.pl/?formid=2&raidtype=R0&ndg=2&ng=1
Some other guy mentioned RAID 10 isn't a backup strategy; he's correct (no RAID level is), however one thing to keep in mind is that when his RAID 0 array dies, he'd better hope his back-ups are all up-to-date and restorable. With just about any other RAID level, you get an opportunity to replace the dead / dying drive first, start rebuilding, and KEEP ROLLING, with no need to screw around with backups at all and no human interaction even required if your array has a hot spare configured. Yes, technically that is availability, but I'd sure as hell take it over "fuck, there went one drive of my RAID 0 stripe, better hope I can tolerate this downtime and that my last backup set had everything I needed on it." RAID may not be a backup strategy but it's absolutely another layer in place before you need to restore from backups (as long as it's not RAID 0).
Remember kids, losing just one drive dumps the entire array. It's really not appropriate for anything besides completely transient data (scratch disks, stuff like this benchmark, etc.). Not smart to run your OS on RAID 0. RAID 10, OTOH . . . now we're talking.
Nothing is stopping any country not happy with ICANN's control from using their own root nameserver, or an alternate one. It's almost like the technology was designed to facilitate it in the first place.
SMB3 Multichannel isn't the same as link aggregation. It assigns CPU cores to process SMB transfers as they come across the wire(s), thereby handling one of the real-world bottlenecks (i.e., that the client typically chokes trying to process all of that inbound data coming off of the fast pipe).
That's cuz you're not doing it right. Having dual 10GbE ports on each end will let you run SMB3 Multichannel for network transfer speeds that will outpace anything but the fastest RAID arrays. We're seeing real-world file transfer speeds of over 1.3 gigabytes (not gigabits) / second over copper Ethernet. I'm seldom a Microsoft advocate but it is awesome.
Oh the irony. Ride-share services like Uber and Lyft only exist at all because taxi services gouge customers and suck terribly -- thanks to monopolies granted to government-chosen favorite sons like this piece of shit.
I'll do you one better. The budget of the ENTIRE Smithsonian Institution for fiscal year 2015, the world's largest museum and research complex, is $819.5 million. This includes salaries and expenses of $675.3 million. You could fund all 19 Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo for over 5 years for what this ship costs.
To be clear: most people buying these types of drives don't buy them one at a time to be shoved into a workstation, or even to be used as a backup. They buy 10+ or more at a time to assemble into some sort of RAID. They are most likely looking to maximize available terabytes per rack unit in a datacenter. Things like cost are secondary in these scenarios -- it costs what it costs. 7200RPM is great, especially when a large number of drives are striped together with RAID 10 or something similar (because with RAID 10, the more drives you add, the faster things go). Latency? Meh, we'll front-end the array with a nice SSD-based read-write cache (also RAID10), usually one that's managed right from the same controller card. And like most new enterprise-class drives, these have SAS3 interfaces -- that's 12 Gb/S. With arrays built with these drives, your network bandwidth and OS offload likely become the bottleneck very quickly. Make no mistake -- the target buyer is someone who wants to build very dense, fast, large arrays of drives -- think JBOD for virtualization, or a huge fast fileshare box with a bunch of fast NICs, or a big database instance, etc. So -- until SSDs come in these capacities -- just because *you* won't use this in your gamer rig / IDE / whatever, doesn't mean there isn't a market for huge, relatively fast spinning rust drives.
8 TB on a single SSD is great and all, but I'd rather that the flash manufacturers focus on moving their mainstream interfaces over to SAS3 like the enterprise storage world has done. What good is all of this fast storage on a single drive if you're capped by the bandwidth of the drive's interface?
After the demonization of Brendan Eich for his personal donation in support of CA Proposition 8, the writing is on the wall. You can expect that most big tech donors of all stripes, regardless of party or political stance, will donate to political causes through the Super PAC of their choice.
In a UK factory, the bot would have yelled "EXTERMINATE!" when it grabbed the guy and crushed him.
what evidence do you have that the politicians have been bought off?
I'm glad you asked, as that gives me a great reason to post a link to Simon Garber. As Wikipedia says, "While in Russia in 2001, Garber became friends with Patrick Daley, the son of long-time Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley. City officials tightly regulate all aspects of medallions ownership, granting permission to purchase medallions on an individual basis. Within a year of meeting Patrick, Garber quickly acquired over 300 Chicago taxi medallions. Garber also hired Mayor Daley's former chief of staff Gery Chico as a City Hall lobbyist. In 2003, Garber used this political capital to start the Chicago Carriage Cab Company and was granted permission to operate the taxi business in Chicago. Within six years, the Chicago Carriage Cab Company had amassed over 800 medallions, making it the largest taxi company in the city."
This is but one example, from one city. A little Googling will easily reveal many more examples.
And yet, tens of millions of people around the world think it's safe enough that they use rideshare apps over and over, every day. And tens of millions more think that they make enough money doing it that they choose to keep driving for Uber, and Lyft, and the other rideshares. Why? Because to them, it's better, cheaper, and more convenient than regular taxis.
Call Uber all the names that you want, but the taxi companies better figure out that they've got to compete with the rideshare services or they'll soon be obsolete. You can't litigate away technological advances, nor can you prop up a dying business model forever. The rideshare genie is out of the bottle and he's not going back in.
Because medallions create an artificial scarcity of taxis. And in any market, artificial scarcity creates cartels, which reduce competition and benefit no one but a tiny, well-connected minority of owners (and their paid-off politicians) at the expense of pretty much everyone else, including the consumers as well as the labor. NY and Chicago taxi companies are doing the same thing that DeBeers does mining diamonds, or that OPEC does with oil -- and like DeBeers et al, they've protected their cartel and kept it perfectly legal by buying off elected officials. I have no problem with common-sense taxi regulation related to safety and insurance -- but medallions are the biggest scam on the planet.