Is this like the dots printed on HP's that tell the make and where it was sold, to stop people from printing money?
Slightly offtopic, but most printers ( and nearly all high quality printers ) print those dots- it isn't just an HP thing... (and it's not just for printing money/id's it's also for document theft and whatnot)
And I don't believe it was a government mandated decision.
Back on topic... I don't think it would be that for NSA to do that. Think of the federal government as a giant slimy glob of bureaucracy with lots of tiny little globblets falling off of it constantly. How easy is to for the NSA to keep track of all those little globblets? Not very. Why is this important? Things like this would be leaked immediately. Within days everyone working at the NSA would know, as would their spouses, children, spouses' friends, and so on...
Plenty "Busted Caps" in the 70's but it had a totally different meaning. See, Mescaline amongst other things (Shrooms to have caps) come in "caps" and you can break them into your mouth: thus busting a cap
A little bit. It does mount as a hard drive under linux. But, it's a little tricky formatting it to FAT32 ( the windows installer does this for you... ). And after that it's relatively simple to sync to. (gtkPod works great and supposedly rythmbox syncs with it as well...)
Don't pretend for a moment that Apple wouldn't cheat, steal, and scam at every opportunity. It is, after all a company, just like Microsoft.
Apple is not some kind of perfect and pure beacon of technological excellence. Microsoft hasn't stolen shit from Apple. Pull that cheap plastic iPod white stick from out your ass.
Don't get me wrong, I'm no fan of Bush. But I'm just tired of listening to this "George W. Bush has set the apocalypse in motion. The U.S. is shit shit shit shit shit going down the toilet bowl." It's like the whole fucking world thinks they should get to vote in U.S. elections.
Get over it asshat. W will last 4 years. I'm willing to bet money on that.
It may be "totally hip" to hate Bush with a passion and bring it up no matter how fucking irrelevant it is, but guess what? Your garbage and worthlessly oblivious opinions are just as radical and out of touch as Bush's.
What of the % of Applicants? If WASPs are under represented in the applications, this would reflect the number of seats and the under representation there.
Windows 2000 is based on NT. Windows ME is a 95 upgrade. WinME was released at the same time as Windows 2000. It was released to keep the masses of angry people screaming about how their video games didn't play on Win2k at bay.
I agree with the standardized package management. But, parallel hierarchies would worsen the situation no matter what way you look at it. (imagine your current file system + the new one, not pretty) And your forgot/usr/local/bin and ~/bin and on my system for stuff I haven't dpkg'd/opt/bin . You can see where this could be confusing (is it in/usr/lib ? or maybe/lib or/usr/local/lib or/usr/share/foo/lib or/usr/local/share/foo/lib or...)
You are even more correct than the parent! My God. The thing broken with Unix is standardization. For a group of people always whining about standards... how about if all the information for applications went into a certain directory, lets call it/apps, or/opt/apps for user installed applications or how about ALL config files being in the same directory? I know (not Unix) Debian does this (ALL system-wide configs are in/etc/foo), but it is the only one doing it.
So yeah, the barbarians are at the gates, and US democracy is looking a bit shaky, but those aren't the things you should be _really_ worried about.
What, then, should I be worried about?
The only "stuff" Rome imported in mass was food. The US has food, lots of food, it's producing alot of the world's food.
The "disaffected proletariat?" Sorry, Karl, that revolution came and went.
Welfare and Minimum Wage a corn dole? The U.S. has a lower minimum wage and welfare system than almost all civilized countries.
Television? Holy hell! Do you realize how toned down American TV is compared to what is shown elsewhere? Hardly the bloodsport of the Romans. Not to mention the games were hardly the cause of the fall of Rome.
Overcrowded tenements? Watts? Do you have any idea what kind of apartments those people were living in? Think a large matchbox in an area prone to fires.
Predominantly a mercenary army? Hardly. The Roman Legions were, well, Romans. All Romans. In fact there was a rule where only Romans could be in the legions. Foreign troops ( slaves really ) were called Auxilliary Troops. They rode horses (Galls) and sailed boats (Phoenicians) and all of them were considered Barbarians (the Romans were very xenophobic, barbarus, in fact, means foreigner.)
Client states? Iraq? Iran? Panama? Cuba? Cuba I could see, but the others? How can you even begin to say that most of the American empire is in those countries? Rome OWNED all of those "client states."
The Rome analogy is bad. But, I'll leave you with this: Rome wasn't built in a day and it didn't fall in a day. Americans ARE NOT going to wake up one morning turn on the TV and say "Hey, we're a third world country now, let's go roll around in fisces and pretend like the infrastructure of our country, our personal possessions, our government, our farms, and all our guns don't exist."
I think terrorists would be the best analogy. I don't. They both have beards. The terrorists aren't coming in by the thousands to destroy the country entirely. If they tried, they couldn't. (No more Arabs flying into the country.)
Let's compare and contrast the poor and the rich.Again, this can't hold a candle to the Romans. Look at the Gi Coefficient for the U.S, it isn't much higher than West Europe, which can be accounted for by lower income taxes and lower social spending.Shall I continue?Yes, please, get to the part where Congress makes George Bush dictator for life after he marches his armies into the capital and then when he dies, Jeb Bush Jr. says he's heir to the throne.
Who are the Barbarians, where is the enormous economic divide (don't even begin to talk about the middle-class squeeze, it cannot compare with Roman economics), where was the death of democracy (Caesar anyone?), where are the growingly incompetent dynasties? (Say what you will about Bush but he can't hold a candle against Nero and he'll be gone in 4 years.)
But, the cost of paying that debt is higher inflation.
That's what the taxes and spending cuts are for. So that money that gets paid back isn't just newly printed paper.
A lot of that money is spent on raw materials and labor in foreign countries. That money stays in the foreign economies and doesn't necessarily return to the US.
No, but there are many areas where American exports far exceed imports (America is WAY up there on food production, not sure of the exact figures)
And how much of that is done by the wealthiest 1%?
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That is the single stupidest thing I have seen all day.
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Golden Plaques = (Gold + Wood) Therefore the more wood we find, the more gold we can find and plaques can be made!
Is this like the dots printed on HP's that tell the make and where it was sold, to stop people from printing money?
Slightly offtopic, but most printers ( and nearly all high quality printers ) print those dots- it isn't just an HP thing... (and it's not just for printing money/id's it's also for document theft and whatnot)
And I don't believe it was a government mandated decision.
Back on topic... I don't think it would be that for NSA to do that. Think of the federal government as a giant slimy glob of bureaucracy with lots of tiny little globblets falling off of it constantly. How easy is to for the NSA to keep track of all those little globblets? Not very. Why is this important? Things like this would be leaked immediately. Within days everyone working at the NSA would know, as would their spouses, children, spouses' friends, and so on...
Plenty "Busted Caps" in the 70's but it had a totally different meaning. See, Mescaline amongst other things (Shrooms to have caps) come in "caps" and you can break them into your mouth: thus busting a cap
A little bit. It does mount as a hard drive under linux. But, it's a little tricky formatting it to FAT32 ( the windows installer does this for you... ). And after that it's relatively simple to sync to. (gtkPod works great and supposedly rythmbox syncs with it as well...)
Don't pretend for a moment that Apple wouldn't cheat, steal, and scam at every opportunity. It is, after all a company, just like Microsoft.
Apple is not some kind of perfect and pure beacon of technological excellence. Microsoft hasn't stolen shit from Apple. Pull that cheap plastic iPod white stick from out your ass.
No, it is you that missed the point.
Let me emphasize the "...cold dead..." part. It implies that I don't care whether or not I win. They won't put me in camps; they won't interrogate me.
Are you aware of the term "From my cold dead hands?"
ll when I've applied for jobs that require a resume in ".doc format" they get my .html resume
Ooooh, you rebel.
Well considering we tend to act like a bull in the world's china shop, maybe they should have a say....
Is that a joke? Are you European?
Don't get me wrong, I'm no fan of Bush. But I'm just tired of listening to this "George W. Bush has set the apocalypse in motion. The U.S. is shit shit shit shit shit going down the toilet bowl." It's like the whole fucking world thinks they should get to vote in U.S. elections.
Get over it asshat. W will last 4 years. I'm willing to bet money on that.
It may be "totally hip" to hate Bush with a passion and bring it up no matter how fucking irrelevant it is, but guess what? Your garbage and worthlessly oblivious opinions are just as radical and out of touch as Bush's.
Oh really? Because many people are composing actual music today right? ...
Britney Spears, et al != Current Music
There is other music out there.
Art is just another word for entertainment.
Don't be ridiculous.
Wow, it's in the grey area. I congratulate you on your lawfulness.
What of the % of Applicants? If WASPs are under represented in the applications, this would reflect the number of seats and the under representation there.
What the fuck.
Windows 2000 is based on NT. Windows ME is a 95 upgrade. WinME was released at the same time as Windows 2000. It was released to keep the masses of angry people screaming about how their video games didn't play on Win2k at bay.
Relevance?
I agree with the standardized package management. But, parallel hierarchies would worsen the situation no matter what way you look at it. (imagine your current file system + the new one, not pretty) And your forgot /usr/local/bin and ~/bin and on my system for stuff I haven't dpkg'd /opt/bin . You can see where this could be confusing (is it in /usr/lib ? or maybe /lib or /usr/local/lib or /usr/share/foo/lib or /usr/local/share/foo/lib or...)
You are even more correct than the parent! My God. The thing broken with Unix is standardization. For a group of people always whining about standards... how about if all the information for applications went into a certain directory, lets call it /apps, or /opt/apps for user installed applications or how about ALL config files being in the same directory? I know (not Unix) Debian does this (ALL system-wide configs are in /etc/foo), but it is the only one doing it.
So yeah, the barbarians are at the gates, and US democracy is looking a bit shaky, but those aren't the things you should be _really_ worried about.
What, then, should I be worried about?
The only "stuff" Rome imported in mass was food. The US has food, lots of food, it's producing alot of the world's food.
The "disaffected proletariat?" Sorry, Karl, that revolution came and went.
Welfare and Minimum Wage a corn dole? The U.S. has a lower minimum wage and welfare system than almost all civilized countries.
Television? Holy hell! Do you realize how toned down American TV is compared to what is shown elsewhere? Hardly the bloodsport of the Romans. Not to mention the games were hardly the cause of the fall of Rome.
Overcrowded tenements? Watts? Do you have any idea what kind of apartments those people were living in? Think a large matchbox in an area prone to fires.
Predominantly a mercenary army? Hardly. The Roman Legions were, well, Romans. All Romans. In fact there was a rule where only Romans could be in the legions. Foreign troops ( slaves really ) were called Auxilliary Troops. They rode horses (Galls) and sailed boats (Phoenicians) and all of them were considered Barbarians (the Romans were very xenophobic, barbarus, in fact, means foreigner.)
Client states? Iraq? Iran? Panama? Cuba? Cuba I could see, but the others? How can you even begin to say that most of the American empire is in those countries? Rome OWNED all of those "client states."
The Rome analogy is bad. But, I'll leave you with this: Rome wasn't built in a day and it didn't fall in a day. Americans ARE NOT going to wake up one morning turn on the TV and say "Hey, we're a third world country now, let's go roll around in fisces and pretend like the infrastructure of our country, our personal possessions, our government, our farms, and all our guns don't exist."
I think terrorists would be the best analogy. I don't. They both have beards. The terrorists aren't coming in by the thousands to destroy the country entirely. If they tried, they couldn't. (No more Arabs flying into the country.)
Let's compare and contrast the poor and the rich.Again, this can't hold a candle to the Romans. Look at the Gi Coefficient for the U.S, it isn't much higher than West Europe, which can be accounted for by lower income taxes and lower social spending.Shall I continue?Yes, please, get to the part where Congress makes George Bush dictator for life after he marches his armies into the capital and then when he dies, Jeb Bush Jr. says he's heir to the throne.
Exactly what taxes are the US going to cut?
Ah, my bad, confusing conjuction that should read thats what RAISING taxes and CUTTING spending is for.
It matters because you can't run an economy the size of the US on the backs of 1% of the population!
The country was founded on the backs of the wealthiest. Who do you think Hamiltonian favored?
Furthermore, here's a nice little write-up on the trade deficit and why it isn't as horrible a thing as you might believe. Of course, it may just be too naive, but you get the point.
If we allow the destruction of our technical class in the name of profits, China will surpass our military in a generation.
Boeing design engineers are not being outsourced. In fact, high level engineers are not being outsourced ( mid-level too. )
Who are the Barbarians, where is the enormous economic divide (don't even begin to talk about the middle-class squeeze, it cannot compare with Roman economics), where was the death of democracy (Caesar anyone?), where are the growingly incompetent dynasties? (Say what you will about Bush but he can't hold a candle against Nero and he'll be gone in 4 years.)
Good luck with that analogy.
But, the cost of paying that debt is higher inflation.
That's what the taxes and spending cuts are for. So that money that gets paid back isn't just newly printed paper.
A lot of that money is spent on raw materials and labor in foreign countries. That money stays in the foreign economies and doesn't necessarily return to the US.
No, but there are many areas where American exports far exceed imports (America is WAY up there on food production, not sure of the exact figures) And how much of that is done by the wealthiest 1%?
How does that matter?