this is only true if your company sucks. the company i work for is on one of those '20 best companies to work for' lists - and it is a great company to work for. we have a great diversity of talent and it's a great place to work.
i don't install iTunes on windows because it is like installing Norton Chemotherapy - it kills your PC, whether or not you actually RUN iTunes or not. All of these background processes start running and I would rather opt out. Too bad if you want to play QuickTime movies - you get this harassing 'update' on a regular basis...
'Efficient government' is better as an oxymoron than an actual fact, especially where the NSA is concerned. Do you prefer the cold efficiency of Orwell's "1984", or the loony incompetence of Gilliam's "Brazil"?
I like thepiratebay.org better: free popular movies download in less than two hours, sometimes less than 45 minutes, and can be played repeatedly, indefinitely...
My understanding from reading the book was that the sodium would be radioactive. This could be a misperception on my part, or intentional on the part of the author.
http://www.amazon.com/Almost-Lost-Detroit-John-Fuller/dp/0345252667
In any case, burning sodium circulating directly within the core of a fast breeder reactor would certainly help to breach the containment.
In the early seventies a sodium cooled breeder reactor in Detroit (Enrico Fermi Nuclear Power Plant) melted down when the flow of sodium was blocked by a piece of zirconium which broke loose inside the reactor.
It was sheer luck that prevented Detroit (and a large portion of the central United States) from being irradiated by exploding radioactive sodium.
The story of this and other 'civilian' atomic accidents of the 50s and 60s is documented in the book "We Almost Lost Detroit".
I read this book as a teenager and it turned me away from science as a means of changing society for the better. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
I had a client, a graphic design studio, that used the same Apple external 120MB SCSI drive from approximately 1992 until around 2002. It was connected to three different file servers over the years, and was powered up for all but probably 60 hours during the entire time.
We finally retired it when they switched to a USB iMac for a new server, and it had never been reformatted.
I remember working for a major wholesale distributor in the early 90's. CompUSA's pricing hit a lot of independent resellers hard. We told our clients they could go for volume sales or become specialized consultants. Wholesale margins went from 40% to 8%.
you make a good point, and I apologize for being a bit sarcastic. my fear is that with current technology available to the current administration, they have already co-opted the opposition's privacy, and used it as a weapon to stifle real dissent.
imagine you are an opposition party member, or a journalist, and you receive a 3am phone call playing a recording of you talking to your girlfriend about your wife, or you receive an anonymous email containing questionable links you browsed. you would know exactly who sent them, and the threat would be quite clear - shut up.
i wonder, given how little real resistance has risen to the current administration's policies and practices, if this scenario is not already the case...
Surely everyone has some scenario they can think of in which the person sitting in the White House might not be someone they wanted to trust with the kind of data being collected here.
You mean, like the person sitting in the White House today?
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i read the times article and it was devastating. John Podhoretz is out to lunch...
this is only true if your company sucks. the company i work for is on one of those '20 best companies to work for' lists - and it is a great company to work for. we have a great diversity of talent and it's a great place to work.
That's the one with the Apple logo and the Adobe logo on the box?
I'm not sure, but I think that your post violates some kind of national security statute :D
i don't install iTunes on windows because it is like installing Norton Chemotherapy - it kills your PC, whether or not you actually RUN iTunes or not. All of these background processes start running and I would rather opt out. Too bad if you want to play QuickTime movies - you get this harassing 'update' on a regular basis...
how cheap they got him:
Assn of Trial Lawyers of America, $10,000
Recording Industry Assn of America, $6,374
ASCAP, $6,000
Wal-Mart Stores, $6,000
National Assn of Broadcasters, $5,360
American Intellectual Property Law Assn, $5,000
National Cable & Telecommunications Assn, $4,999
If we all took up a collection for, say, $30,000, maybe he would just shut the fuck up...
they were trying to tap the entire Middle East's internet traffic, since (imagine!) it all travels through a single choke-point...
'Efficient government' is better as an oxymoron than an actual fact, especially where the NSA is concerned. Do you prefer the cold efficiency of Orwell's "1984", or the loony incompetence of Gilliam's "Brazil"?
it's what happens in windows when you start to drag an icon and the whole system zones out like an autistic child for about seven seconds
Northrup Grumman has had this in Iraq for about four years now.
if the system is crashed, how are you going to browse the network to read the install DVD?
I like thepiratebay.org better: free popular movies download in less than two hours, sometimes less than 45 minutes, and can be played repeatedly, indefinitely...
...to kick you in the face and keep you coming back for more. "Thank you sir, may I have another?"
My understanding from reading the book was that the sodium would be radioactive. This could be a misperception on my part, or intentional on the part of the author. http://www.amazon.com/Almost-Lost-Detroit-John-Fuller/dp/0345252667 In any case, burning sodium circulating directly within the core of a fast breeder reactor would certainly help to breach the containment.
they're killing Linux on the laptop
I highly doubt westernized society would be quick to start to inflict any form of medical procedure on someone who does not wish it
I don't. Perhaps you have forgotten the common use of lobotomy in the last century to 'cure' mental illness?
In the early seventies a sodium cooled breeder reactor in Detroit (Enrico Fermi Nuclear Power Plant) melted down when the flow of sodium was blocked by a piece of zirconium which broke loose inside the reactor.
It was sheer luck that prevented Detroit (and a large portion of the central United States) from being irradiated by exploding radioactive sodium.
The story of this and other 'civilian' atomic accidents of the 50s and 60s is documented in the book "We Almost Lost Detroit".
I read this book as a teenager and it turned me away from science as a means of changing society for the better. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
I had a client, a graphic design studio, that used the same Apple external 120MB SCSI drive from approximately 1992 until around 2002. It was connected to three different file servers over the years, and was powered up for all but probably 60 hours during the entire time. We finally retired it when they switched to a USB iMac for a new server, and it had never been reformatted.
it tasted like chicken.
I remember working for a major wholesale distributor in the early 90's. CompUSA's pricing hit a lot of independent resellers hard. We told our clients they could go for volume sales or become specialized consultants. Wholesale margins went from 40% to 8%.
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you make a good point, and I apologize for being a bit sarcastic. my fear is that with current technology available to the current administration, they have already co-opted the opposition's privacy, and used it as a weapon to stifle real dissent.
imagine you are an opposition party member, or a journalist, and you receive a 3am phone call playing a recording of you talking to your girlfriend about your wife, or you receive an anonymous email containing questionable links you browsed. you would know exactly who sent them, and the threat would be quite clear - shut up.
i wonder, given how little real resistance has risen to the current administration's policies and practices, if this scenario is not already the case...
Surely everyone has some scenario they can think of in which the person sitting in the White House might not be someone they wanted to trust with the kind of data being collected here.
You mean, like the person sitting in the White House today?