And, oddly enough, none of the leadership are willing to strap explosives to themselves and die for their cause. Strange how that works out.
Except those who started and led Al-Qaeda went to Afghanistan to fight against the Soviet Union. Osama bin Laden started by fighting the Soviets. Like politicians there are some who are willing to fight while others are chicken hawks.
No, I am talking about Muslims in general. It's pretty hard to tell the difference between "normal" Muslims and "fanatical" ones.
those fanatic Muslims are that very exception I was talking of, and my point was that they are only minority.
They're not a minority.
Except they are a minority. Ask most Iranians if they want to wipe Israel off the map and most say no. In "Commentary" magazine Ze'ev Maghen wrote the article "Eradicating the 'Little Satan'". He says "It is not their genuine, vehement hatred that we have to fear; it is their endless, drone-like training" Iranians hear and see in the media as well as at mosques and on the streets. He further argues that because Iranians don't "mean it" they are actually more dangerous. He compares what's happening today in Iran to what happened in NAZI Germany. Most Germans didn't hate Jews but the repetitive drumming of antisemitism, which isn't really antisemitism, dehumanized Jews.
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Oh, people may question my remark about how I say what's perceived as antisemitism really isn't. Broken down antisemitism is "anti", against and "Semite", "a member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Middle East and northern Africa". Both Hebrews and Arabs are Semites however many Anti-Semitics are against Jews or Hebrews but not Arabs. Also not all Arabs are Muslims, there are some Christians and Jewish Arabs too. There are also Jews for Allah.
Same here. And despite the bad rep public education has how good or bad a school is is partially due to the school administration and teachers. That's one reason I support charter schools, magnet schools, and school choice. Schools should compeat against each other. The one thing I do not support is taxpayer funded Christian theology unless is part of an understanding religion curriculum with other religions being taught the same way.
Actually the US waged war with Viet Nam more than 20 years. President Eisenhower, the same one that warned against the military-industrial complex, sent Colonel Edward Lansdale to Indo-china in 1953. France and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam agreed to the Geneva Accords in 1954 wherein the people of Viet Nam, both north and south, would vote on whether to reunite. However Ngo Dinh Diem who won in rigged elections as South Vietnam's first president and Eisenhower opposed the voting. So Lansdale who was Diem's adviser and friend armed and trained supporters of him starting in 1955 to oppose it.
The problems in Afghanistan have been there before the US arrived (for 30 years) and will be there after the US leaves
Except the US supported the Mujahideen with arms and training after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. The US then made the mistake of pulling out after the Soviets left. Once the US did the Mujahideen which was made up of different ethnic, religious, and tribal groups, fractured. Some groups joined to become the United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan or Northern Alliance and others became the Taliban. These groups then started fighting each other for power.
I fear it but I still speak out about it. Actually I speak out because I fear it.
I know that's backwards, people shouldn't fear government, government should fear the people. However the past couple of centuries have shown government should be feared.
I was one of those hippies when I enlisted in the Army. The hardest thing about going in was having my shoulder length hair cut. But I had specific goals and enlisting would allow me to meet those goals. So I was willing to set aside some things to meet my goals.
Strict discipline is needed in some parts of the military because if you hesitate when following an order, it can cost lives. This isn't the case for a lot of support services. Hackers recruited by this kind of process are going to be doing things like penetration testing on the DoD networks, designing ways of compromising enemy systems without detection, and so on. This kind of thing doesn't have anything like the same requirements as a front-line soldier.
Yes discipline is needed but that does not mean free thinkers aren't. Someone above made the remark that free thinkers and the creative are valuable and are the ones that promotions in combat while those who strictly follow orders are the ones getting promotions in peacetime. After having served in the military in general I'd have to agree. While in I had one Commanding Officer, CO, who asked me if I wanted to go to this school or that school. I figured he did because I kept on asking questions. Another CO I had though didn't like me asking all the questions.
And as for "front-line" combat, as has been shown in Iraq, there's more than one type of combat. There, they've had to deal with desert and urban combat in summer as well as winter. In Alaska at Fort Greeley there was the Northern Warfare Training Center that taught two classes, summer school and winter school. Before the US left there was a Jungle Warfare Training Center at Fort Sherman, Panama.
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Oh, in case you're wondering, in the army I was in the infantry and would have been on the front lines if sent to combat. And I enlisted in the Army to save money to go to college where I wanted to major in Computer Engineering. I could have picked another MOS or Military Occupation Speciality such as electronics which would have been a closer field to my major but I liked shooting and the martial arts and wanted to learn to fight. Actually I almost went into the Navy where I would have went into Advanced Electronics, however I had already decided I would only go in for 4 years however to go into Advanced Electronics the Navy required people to enlist for 6 years.
have you ever went through boot camp? I've been through it and Advanced Individual Training for the infantry. I did not face any abusive psychopaths while in training for either one. The only tyme I had trouble was in Germany, where they make up their own rules.
Civilian positions are one thing, but it seems to me if you put a smart and independent thinking person through the military's recruit-crusher, you're either going to get a non-independent-thinking person, a smart and independent thinking person who has been faking non-independent thinking and hates the military for it, or a corpse.
There are other possibilities, someone who gets discharged early or stays in longer than planned.
Seriously, these events attract at lot of smart, independent thinking people who love technology. What better place to recruit people? If it works at Universities, then it probably works better at DefCon.
I guess they were worried about the "independent thinking" before...
It's a love hate relationship. Though the military doesn't like free or independent thinkers, it has also used them. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA has funded research at a number of universities, some considered more leftist than others. The internet itself is built in part by hackers and other explorers and uses open source software.
You may want to get your cholesterol checked. Apparently, mozzies are more attracted to people who process cholesterol efficiently and don't have a lot stacked up in their blood.
Thanks, I hadn't heard of that before, so I googled and found out some interesting things. According to WebMD there are different things that make people mosquito magnets. One of them is carbon dioxide which TFA says larger people give off more of. Though I'm tall I was also skinny, the typical string bean. However it also says lactic acid, which builds up when exercising, also attracts them. Because I was active, maybe even hyperactive, I should have been attracting mosquitoes.
The really interesting part of all this that the Central East African countries, North and South Rhodisa and Nyaserland had both the malaria and other insect born diseases effectively conquered by the mid 1950s.
And what effect does DDT and other pesticides have on wildlife? If mosquitoes are wiped out then the food for other species is wiped out as well. Such as bats, birds, dragonflies, and frogs.
In addition, we now have vocal, and well funded NGOs, with a vested interest in keeping the third world poor, but pacified.
You can apply that to big business as well. Such as Big Oil. A sovereign nation is invaded for it's oil. The EU, Japan, and US all give billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies so large agribusinesses can export food to the third world and sell it there cheaper than farmers there can grow it. Check out the suicide of farmers in not just India but the US as well. Large businesses like Archer Daniels Midland,ADM, and Cargill get money from government while third world and small farmers in the US, who can't compeat against those large businesses, struggle financially if not goes bankrupt. The freemarket institute CATO has a Case Study In Corporate Welfare about ADM who has been called the biggest corporate welfare queen in history.
Sorry, insects and politicians that cause death, ignorance and disease need killing, not paying.
As entomologists have said if all those insects are wiped out you'd be dead soon, you'd have no food to eat.
Honduras is the classic example of armchair liberals, in the first world, making problems out vanity, ego and stupidity.
How so? Liberals, not the fake ones but Classical Liberals believe in liberty and small government. And it wasn't either them or the fake ones that massacred the Mayas in not just Honduras but Central America itself. Neither one supported the US Army's School of America, which taught Central and South American militaries how to subjugate and torture people.
I'm sure your smug aloofness to your neighbors' plight is a real hit at BBQs.
Not quite. Growing up I used to go to BBQ frequently, maybe 2 or 3 tymes a month from late spring to fall with up to 10 families. Most of them fished, gardened, and or hunted. And we'd cook before hand or BBQ at the site a lot of this. I only noticed I wasn't getting bitten after hanging out with people in college. Those who went to the BBQs didn't have problems with mosquitoes, but those I met in college did. My problem growing up was with fire ants, it seemed to me they were attracted to my feet. Which would swell up after being bitten half a dozen tymes.
Now if you want to talk about this smug aloofness of yours, I used to get made fun of because of the fire ants.
Well the vaccinated group will never be vulnerable to malaria again...
Says who? Because it is a new study they have not been able to see how long the immunity remains. Also they used mosquitoes infected with Plasmodium falciparum which is one but not the only parasite which causes malaria. Immunity also presupposes it won't evolve.
Slashdot had an article about how some prostitutes in an African country were immune to AIDS. When I searched I didn't find it but I found another where two Women in China were immune due to a mutant gene.
In the study they used Chloroquine which is a type of quinine.
malaria is still a problem
And likely will be for years.
one can conclude that "stopping malaria after being bitten" is not the most effective preventative measure.
Because malaria carrying mosquitoes will be around for many years to come, the best way to prevent an infection is by preventing being bitten. However as many can't prevent it a vaccine is likely to be effective.
Personally I don't why people get bitten by mosquitoes so much, I rarely ever get bitten, even in a crowd while others are getting bitten. Maybe it's because I eat a lot of garlic.
A single FW800 port can serve 2-3 devices without losing a bit of speed unlike USB.
The MacBook Air has only one USB 2 port, no Firewire ports, 400 or 800.
Our latest gen Mini has all 5 USB ports full and fw800 port is shared by 2 firewire drives.
With a hub I have 4 devices plugged into 1 USB port, 500GB and 1.5TB external drives, a printer, and a scanner. I have a 1TB drive plugged into a Firewire 800 port as well. Of the three drives that one is the fastest. Yet the 1.5TB drive is the newest, by about a year. As I said I looked for another Firewire 800 external drive that was at least 1TB but preferably bigger but I didn't find any that big. I may of been able to order one online, from say Newegg but I prefer to buy locally so that if I have a problem I can take it back to the store. Now I'd like to see if external devices using ExpressCard/34, if available, will be faster.
Apple really wants to make "Macbook Pro" a laptop for professionals and the "non pro" one something cheaper
If so then Apple should have included more than 1 Firewire 800 port and a ExpressCard/34 slot on all new MacBook Pros not just the 17" MBP. Like I said mine, which I got 2 years ago next month, has 1 ExpressCard/34 slot, 3 USB 2, and 2 Firewire ports. You know, well maybe you don't, but I've gotten a lot of naysayers complaining about spending more to get a MacBook Pro instead of any old OEM laptop. However before getting it I wrote up a list of requirements for the specs. I then compared the prices of different laptops configured how I wanted and the MacBook Pro was somewhere in the middle of the range, more expensive than some but cheaper than others. And that doesn't include having a good and stable OS. Well yea it does really, one requirement was that the OS be stable and not require activation for it to be able to do what I wanted. Though that leaves out Windows I went ahead and compared Windows laptop with similar specs, I had to as I didn't find any laptops that had similar specs running Linux.
What filesystem do you plan on using for your shared/home?
My OS X partition uses HFS+ Journaled, the home partition is HFS+, and when I install Ubuntu Studio I'll format it's partition then. I'd use HFS+ Journaled for the home partition but Ubuntu doesn't support it.
do you put your OS X/Applications on the primary partition?
With Disk Utilities I created three partitions on my HDD, the first 30GB, the last 30 GB as well, and the rest of the space taken by the partition in the middle. I installed Leopard on the first, then setup the second as the home partition. When I install it I'll install Ubuntu Studio on the third. For the OS X apps I installed them in the OS X Applications folder.
I want to do the same thing but couldn't find a filesystem that both supported well enough to hold my docs.
If you're going to install Linux on a Mac may I suggest you do your research and create a roadmap or strategy for installing Linux first? I spent months doing my research, however I had specific things I wanted to do. If you're using Ubuntu check out the Ubuntu on Macs page. Also check out the Ububtu forums. Be aware that how it's installed depends on the Mac model. As for your question about file systems check out how to create a shared home partition between Linux and OS X.
One thing about that page though is that there is an easier way to tell OS X, Leopard, where to put the home folder. In System Preferences open Accounts. If you have to click on the padlock in the lower left corner of the window and type in an admin name and password to unlock it. Once you are able to make changes [ctrl] click on your account and elect "Advanced Options". Where the window says "Home Directory" clink on "Choose" and navigate to where you want the home directory. Now you'll have to be logged into each account to make the changes for each user, I don't know why logging in as an admin can't do it but when I just tried it didn't allow me to make changes to other users. You may also have to manually move all of the user files from the old place to the new one.
And if you want to dual or multi-boot you can use the same browser and email profiles in each OS, if you're using Firefox, Thunderbird, and Pidgin you can use a single data store. When I said above that I took months of research because I wanted to do specific things, it was stuff like these. Now I still need to find out how I can run OS X as a guest in Ubuntu, it's no problem running Ubuntu as a guest in Leopard, there are a number of guest or virtual OS options.
Apple is not dropping firewire, in fact these are the best days of firewire 800.
Apple is dropping Firewire. The 13" MacBook only has 1 Firewire 400 port but two USB 2 ports. All of the MacBook Pros have 2 USB 2 ports, well the 17 model has 3 USB ports, but only 1 Firewire 800 port. And the MacBook Air does not have a Firewire at all, only 1 USB 2 port. On the other hand my MacBook Pro, which I've had almost 2 years, has 1 Firewire 800, 1 Firewire 400, and 3 USB 2 ports. And Apple still does not offer docking stations with or without additional ports.
Now all Macbooks have firewire
Check the spec page for laptop Macs I linked to above.
Mac Mini latest generation has fw800.
Apple's specs for the Mac Mini says it has 1 Firewire 800 and 5 USB 2 ports. The specs for the iMac says it has 1 Firewire 800 and 6 USB 2, 2 on the wired keyboard, ports. Only the Mac Pro has more than 1 Firewire port, it's specs say it has 4 Firewire 800, 5 USB 2, and 2 more USB 2 ports on the keyboard.
The reason you won't see too many firewire drives is simple: They have their own controller so they will be more expensive.
I saw more external devices with Firewire ports last year than I see now, that's not only HDDs but printers, scanners, and cameras as well. Okay, printers don't need the speed Firewire 800 has but higher speeds are good with cameras and scanners. I've got a cheap Epson V500 scanner which has lower resolution than dedicated pro film scanners like the Nikon Coolscan line. The Canon 5D Mark II DSLR, which has a 21.1 megapixel sensor, does not have a Firewire, 400 or 800, port. However it can shoot up to 13 photos in RAW+JPEG per burst, each 40 MB in size. With large cards it can take a while to transfer photos from the camera and cards using only USB.
They have their own controller so they will be more expensive.
Pro photographers are willing to pay more for good equipment. Heck the Canon I link to above is a prosumer model that lists for about $2500. The Canon 1Ds Mark III lists for 2 to 3 tymes as much. And those are digital equivalents to 35mm cameras. Medium format cameras with digital backs can generate files of hundreds of megabytes and easily cost 10 to 20 tymes as much.
Using such a drive with USB 2 is really wasting it. Should go with Firewire 400 or even 800.
Why I don't know but Firewire is being dropped. A couple of weeks ago I went to a number of places looking for external drives with Firewire, but I only saw a couple with Firewire 400 or 800 and they were all smaller than I wanted. I finally bought a 1.5TB USB2 drive. Even Apple is dropping Firewire.
Here it is:
"First and foremost, the drive itself measures 12.5mm in height due to its capacity, and finds itself too thick for the majority of existing notebooks -- many of which use the traditional 69.85mm x 100mm x 9.5mm form factor," Mann wrote in his blog.
Even the last generation Macbook Pro 17 supported 12.5mm drives.
Does the MBP 3,1 Santa Rosa? A few months ago I replaced the 160GB drive mine came with with a 320GB drive. That was the biggest one I could find.
Like 1TB on a laptop is gonna be used for Word Docs or "official business"...Please.
Many photographers demand high capacity, 500GB, 1TB, and 1.5TB drives. Here's a photographer thinking of setting up a 6TB RAID array. Now s/he doesn't say whether it will be setup to stripe the files, mirror, or what.
Actually you shouldn't use any one media for that long. As new higher capacity media comes out backups should be transfered to it. My first external HDD is a 500GB drive, the next one's a 750GB, and the last one I got is 1.5TB. When I got the 750GB drive I copied over what I have on the 500GB drive. And though I haven't done it yet I'll copy what's on the 750GB to the 1.5TB drive. In each case I still have the older storage, I just transfered my files to new storage. So I have 3 backups for most of my "new" files for now.
That's not counting the "old" files I have on another 750GB disk that was reformated, so now I want to try to unformat it and recover another 600GB I didn't have backups for.
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And, oddly enough, none of the leadership are willing to strap explosives to themselves and die for their cause. Strange how that works out.
Except those who started and led Al-Qaeda went to Afghanistan to fight against the Soviet Union. Osama bin Laden started by fighting the Soviets. Like politicians there are some who are willing to fight while others are chicken hawks.
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No, I am talking about Muslims in general. It's pretty hard to tell the difference between "normal" Muslims and "fanatical" ones.
those fanatic Muslims are that very exception I was talking of, and my point was that they are only minority.
They're not a minority.
Except they are a minority. Ask most Iranians if they want to wipe Israel off the map and most say no. In "Commentary" magazine Ze'ev Maghen wrote the article "Eradicating the 'Little Satan'". He says "It is not their genuine, vehement hatred that we have to fear; it is their endless, drone-like training" Iranians hear and see in the media as well as at mosques and on the streets. He further argues that because Iranians don't "mean it" they are actually more dangerous. He compares what's happening today in Iran to what happened in NAZI Germany. Most Germans didn't hate Jews but the repetitive drumming of antisemitism, which isn't really antisemitism, dehumanized Jews.
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Oh, people may question my remark about how I say what's perceived as antisemitism really isn't. Broken down antisemitism is "anti", against and "Semite", "a member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Middle East and northern Africa". Both Hebrews and Arabs are Semites however many Anti-Semitics are against Jews or Hebrews but not Arabs. Also not all Arabs are Muslims, there are some Christians and Jewish Arabs too. There are also Jews for Allah.
"its not our wars that create our enemies its our support for repressive regimes."
Question is - how do we convince the money grubbers who actually run Washington of that?
They don't need to be convinced, they want it that way.
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Same here. And despite the bad rep public education has how good or bad a school is is partially due to the school administration and teachers. That's one reason I support charter schools, magnet schools, and school choice. Schools should compeat against each other. The one thing I do not support is taxpayer funded Christian theology unless is part of an understanding religion curriculum with other religions being taught the same way.
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Actually the US waged war with Viet Nam more than 20 years. President Eisenhower, the same one that warned against the military-industrial complex, sent Colonel Edward Lansdale to Indo-china in 1953. France and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam agreed to the Geneva Accords in 1954 wherein the people of Viet Nam, both north and south, would vote on whether to reunite. However Ngo Dinh Diem who won in rigged elections as South Vietnam's first president and Eisenhower opposed the voting. So Lansdale who was Diem's adviser and friend armed and trained supporters of him starting in 1955 to oppose it.
The problems in Afghanistan have been there before the US arrived (for 30 years) and will be there after the US leaves
Except the US supported the Mujahideen with arms and training after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. The US then made the mistake of pulling out after the Soviets left. Once the US did the Mujahideen which was made up of different ethnic, religious, and tribal groups, fractured. Some groups joined to become the United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan or Northern Alliance and others became the Taliban. These groups then started fighting each other for power.
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I fear it but I still speak out about it. Actually I speak out because I fear it.
I know that's backwards, people shouldn't fear government, government should fear the people. However the past couple of centuries have shown government should be feared.
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I was one of those hippies when I enlisted in the Army. The hardest thing about going in was having my shoulder length hair cut. But I had specific goals and enlisting would allow me to meet those goals. So I was willing to set aside some things to meet my goals.
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Strict discipline is needed in some parts of the military because if you hesitate when following an order, it can cost lives. This isn't the case for a lot of support services. Hackers recruited by this kind of process are going to be doing things like penetration testing on the DoD networks, designing ways of compromising enemy systems without detection, and so on. This kind of thing doesn't have anything like the same requirements as a front-line soldier.
Yes discipline is needed but that does not mean free thinkers aren't. Someone above made the remark that free thinkers and the creative are valuable and are the ones that promotions in combat while those who strictly follow orders are the ones getting promotions in peacetime. After having served in the military in general I'd have to agree. While in I had one Commanding Officer, CO, who asked me if I wanted to go to this school or that school. I figured he did because I kept on asking questions. Another CO I had though didn't like me asking all the questions.
And as for "front-line" combat, as has been shown in Iraq, there's more than one type of combat. There, they've had to deal with desert and urban combat in summer as well as winter. In Alaska at Fort Greeley there was the Northern Warfare Training Center that taught two classes, summer school and winter school. Before the US left there was a Jungle Warfare Training Center at Fort Sherman, Panama.
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Oh, in case you're wondering, in the army I was in the infantry and would have been on the front lines if sent to combat. And I enlisted in the Army to save money to go to college where I wanted to major in Computer Engineering. I could have picked another MOS or Military Occupation Speciality such as electronics which would have been a closer field to my major but I liked shooting and the martial arts and wanted to learn to fight. Actually I almost went into the Navy where I would have went into Advanced Electronics, however I had already decided I would only go in for 4 years however to go into Advanced Electronics the Navy required people to enlist for 6 years.
you're faced with an abusive psychopath
have you ever went through boot camp? I've been through it and Advanced Individual Training for the infantry. I did not face any abusive psychopaths while in training for either one. The only tyme I had trouble was in Germany, where they make up their own rules.
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Civilian positions are one thing, but it seems to me if you put a smart and independent thinking person through the military's recruit-crusher, you're either going to get a non-independent-thinking person, a smart and independent thinking person who has been faking non-independent thinking and hates the military for it, or a corpse.
There are other possibilities, someone who gets discharged early or stays in longer than planned.
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Seriously, these events attract at lot of smart, independent thinking people who love technology. What better place to recruit people? If it works at Universities, then it probably works better at DefCon.
I guess they were worried about the "independent thinking" before...
It's a love hate relationship. Though the military doesn't like free or independent thinkers, it has also used them. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA has funded research at a number of universities, some considered more leftist than others. The internet itself is built in part by hackers and other explorers and uses open source software.
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You may want to get your cholesterol checked. Apparently, mozzies are more attracted to people who process cholesterol efficiently and don't have a lot stacked up in their blood.
Thanks, I hadn't heard of that before, so I googled and found out some interesting things. According to WebMD there are different things that make people mosquito magnets. One of them is carbon dioxide which TFA says larger people give off more of. Though I'm tall I was also skinny, the typical string bean. However it also says lactic acid, which builds up when exercising, also attracts them. Because I was active, maybe even hyperactive, I should have been attracting mosquitoes.
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The really interesting part of all this that the Central East African countries, North and South Rhodisa and Nyaserland had both the malaria and other insect born diseases effectively conquered by the mid 1950s.
And what effect does DDT and other pesticides have on wildlife? If mosquitoes are wiped out then the food for other species is wiped out as well. Such as bats, birds, dragonflies, and frogs.
In addition, we now have vocal, and well funded NGOs, with a vested interest in keeping the third world poor, but pacified.
You can apply that to big business as well. Such as Big Oil. A sovereign nation is invaded for it's oil. The EU, Japan, and US all give billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies so large agribusinesses can export food to the third world and sell it there cheaper than farmers there can grow it. Check out the suicide of farmers in not just India but the US as well. Large businesses like Archer Daniels Midland,ADM, and Cargill get money from government while third world and small farmers in the US, who can't compeat against those large businesses, struggle financially if not goes bankrupt. The freemarket institute CATO has a Case Study In Corporate Welfare about ADM who has been called the biggest corporate welfare queen in history.
Sorry, insects and politicians that cause death, ignorance and disease need killing, not paying.
As entomologists have said if all those insects are wiped out you'd be dead soon, you'd have no food to eat.
Honduras is the classic example of armchair liberals, in the first world, making problems out vanity, ego and stupidity.
How so? Liberals, not the fake ones but Classical Liberals believe in liberty and small government. And it wasn't either them or the fake ones that massacred the Mayas in not just Honduras but Central America itself. Neither one supported the US Army's School of America, which taught Central and South American militaries how to subjugate and torture people.
I'm sure your smug aloofness to your neighbors' plight is a real hit at BBQs.
Not quite. Growing up I used to go to BBQ frequently, maybe 2 or 3 tymes a month from late spring to fall with up to 10 families. Most of them fished, gardened, and or hunted. And we'd cook before hand or BBQ at the site a lot of this. I only noticed I wasn't getting bitten after hanging out with people in college. Those who went to the BBQs didn't have problems with mosquitoes, but those I met in college did. My problem growing up was with fire ants, it seemed to me they were attracted to my feet. Which would swell up after being bitten half a dozen tymes.
Now if you want to talk about this smug aloofness of yours, I used to get made fun of because of the fire ants.
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Well the vaccinated group will never be vulnerable to malaria again...
Says who? Because it is a new study they have not been able to see how long the immunity remains. Also they used mosquitoes infected with Plasmodium falciparum which is one but not the only parasite which causes malaria. Immunity also presupposes it won't evolve.
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Slashdot had an article about how some prostitutes in an African country were immune to AIDS. When I searched I didn't find it but I found another where two Women in China were immune due to a mutant gene.
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In the study they used Chloroquine which is a type of quinine.
malaria is still a problem
And likely will be for years.
one can conclude that "stopping malaria after being bitten" is not the most effective preventative measure.
Because malaria carrying mosquitoes will be around for many years to come, the best way to prevent an infection is by preventing being bitten. However as many can't prevent it a vaccine is likely to be effective.
Personally I don't why people get bitten by mosquitoes so much, I rarely ever get bitten, even in a crowd while others are getting bitten. Maybe it's because I eat a lot of garlic.
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A single FW800 port can serve 2-3 devices without losing a bit of speed unlike USB.
The MacBook Air has only one USB 2 port, no Firewire ports, 400 or 800.
Our latest gen Mini has all 5 USB ports full and fw800 port is shared by 2 firewire drives.
With a hub I have 4 devices plugged into 1 USB port, 500GB and 1.5TB external drives, a printer, and a scanner. I have a 1TB drive plugged into a Firewire 800 port as well. Of the three drives that one is the fastest. Yet the 1.5TB drive is the newest, by about a year. As I said I looked for another Firewire 800 external drive that was at least 1TB but preferably bigger but I didn't find any that big. I may of been able to order one online, from say Newegg but I prefer to buy locally so that if I have a problem I can take it back to the store. Now I'd like to see if external devices using ExpressCard/34, if available, will be faster.
Apple really wants to make "Macbook Pro" a laptop for professionals and the "non pro" one something cheaper
If so then Apple should have included more than 1 Firewire 800 port and a ExpressCard/34 slot on all new MacBook Pros not just the 17" MBP. Like I said mine, which I got 2 years ago next month, has 1 ExpressCard/34 slot, 3 USB 2, and 2 Firewire ports. You know, well maybe you don't, but I've gotten a lot of naysayers complaining about spending more to get a MacBook Pro instead of any old OEM laptop. However before getting it I wrote up a list of requirements for the specs. I then compared the prices of different laptops configured how I wanted and the MacBook Pro was somewhere in the middle of the range, more expensive than some but cheaper than others. And that doesn't include having a good and stable OS. Well yea it does really, one requirement was that the OS be stable and not require activation for it to be able to do what I wanted. Though that leaves out Windows I went ahead and compared Windows laptop with similar specs, I had to as I didn't find any laptops that had similar specs running Linux.
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What filesystem do you plan on using for your shared /home?
My OS X partition uses HFS+ Journaled, the home partition is HFS+, and when I install Ubuntu Studio I'll format it's partition then. I'd use HFS+ Journaled for the home partition but Ubuntu doesn't support it.
do you put your OS X /Applications on the primary partition?
With Disk Utilities I created three partitions on my HDD, the first 30GB, the last 30 GB as well, and the rest of the space taken by the partition in the middle. I installed Leopard on the first, then setup the second as the home partition. When I install it I'll install Ubuntu Studio on the third. For the OS X apps I installed them in the OS X Applications folder.
I want to do the same thing but couldn't find a filesystem that both supported well enough to hold my docs.
If you're going to install Linux on a Mac may I suggest you do your research and create a roadmap or strategy for installing Linux first? I spent months doing my research, however I had specific things I wanted to do. If you're using Ubuntu check out the Ubuntu on Macs page. Also check out the Ububtu forums. Be aware that how it's installed depends on the Mac model. As for your question about file systems check out how to create a shared home partition between Linux and OS X.
One thing about that page though is that there is an easier way to tell OS X, Leopard, where to put the home folder. In System Preferences open Accounts. If you have to click on the padlock in the lower left corner of the window and type in an admin name and password to unlock it. Once you are able to make changes [ctrl] click on your account and elect "Advanced Options". Where the window says "Home Directory" clink on "Choose" and navigate to where you want the home directory. Now you'll have to be logged into each account to make the changes for each user, I don't know why logging in as an admin can't do it but when I just tried it didn't allow me to make changes to other users. You may also have to manually move all of the user files from the old place to the new one.
And if you want to dual or multi-boot you can use the same browser and email profiles in each OS, if you're using Firefox, Thunderbird, and Pidgin you can use a single data store. When I said above that I took months of research because I wanted to do specific things, it was stuff like these. Now I still need to find out how I can run OS X as a guest in Ubuntu, it's no problem running Ubuntu as a guest in Leopard, there are a number of guest or virtual OS options.
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Apple is not dropping firewire, in fact these are the best days of firewire 800.
Apple is dropping Firewire. The 13" MacBook only has 1 Firewire 400 port but two USB 2 ports. All of the MacBook Pros have 2 USB 2 ports, well the 17 model has 3 USB ports, but only 1 Firewire 800 port. And the MacBook Air does not have a Firewire at all, only 1 USB 2 port. On the other hand my MacBook Pro, which I've had almost 2 years, has 1 Firewire 800, 1 Firewire 400, and 3 USB 2 ports. And Apple still does not offer docking stations with or without additional ports.
Now all Macbooks have firewire
Check the spec page for laptop Macs I linked to above.
Mac Mini latest generation has fw800.
Apple's specs for the Mac Mini says it has 1 Firewire 800 and 5 USB 2 ports. The specs for the iMac says it has 1 Firewire 800 and 6 USB 2, 2 on the wired keyboard, ports. Only the Mac Pro has more than 1 Firewire port, it's specs say it has 4 Firewire 800, 5 USB 2, and 2 more USB 2 ports on the keyboard.
The reason you won't see too many firewire drives is simple: They have their own controller so they will be more expensive.
I saw more external devices with Firewire ports last year than I see now, that's not only HDDs but printers, scanners, and cameras as well. Okay, printers don't need the speed Firewire 800 has but higher speeds are good with cameras and scanners. I've got a cheap Epson V500 scanner which has lower resolution than dedicated pro film scanners like the Nikon Coolscan line. The Canon 5D Mark II DSLR, which has a 21.1 megapixel sensor, does not have a Firewire, 400 or 800, port. However it can shoot up to 13 photos in RAW+JPEG per burst, each 40 MB in size. With large cards it can take a while to transfer photos from the camera and cards using only USB.
They have their own controller so they will be more expensive.
Pro photographers are willing to pay more for good equipment. Heck the Canon I link to above is a prosumer model that lists for about $2500. The Canon 1Ds Mark III lists for 2 to 3 tymes as much. And those are digital equivalents to 35mm cameras. Medium format cameras with digital backs can generate files of hundreds of megabytes and easily cost 10 to 20 tymes as much.
Falcon
Using such a drive with USB 2 is really wasting it. Should go with Firewire 400 or even 800.
Why I don't know but Firewire is being dropped. A couple of weeks ago I went to a number of places looking for external drives with Firewire, but I only saw a couple with Firewire 400 or 800 and they were all smaller than I wanted. I finally bought a 1.5TB USB2 drive. Even Apple is dropping Firewire.
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Here it is:
"First and foremost, the drive itself measures 12.5mm in height due to its capacity, and finds itself too thick for the majority of existing notebooks -- many of which use the traditional 69.85mm x 100mm x 9.5mm form factor," Mann wrote in his blog.
Even the last generation Macbook Pro 17 supported 12.5mm drives.
Does the MBP 3,1 Santa Rosa? A few months ago I replaced the 160GB drive mine came with with a 320GB drive. That was the biggest one I could find.
Falcon
Like 1TB on a laptop is gonna be used for Word Docs or "official business"...Please.
Many photographers demand high capacity, 500GB, 1TB, and 1.5TB drives. Here's a photographer thinking of setting up a 6TB RAID array. Now s/he doesn't say whether it will be setup to stripe the files, mirror, or what.
Falcon
Actually you shouldn't use any one media for that long. As new higher capacity media comes out backups should be transfered to it. My first external HDD is a 500GB drive, the next one's a 750GB, and the last one I got is 1.5TB. When I got the 750GB drive I copied over what I have on the 500GB drive. And though I haven't done it yet I'll copy what's on the 750GB to the 1.5TB drive. In each case I still have the older storage, I just transfered my files to new storage. So I have 3 backups for most of my "new" files for now.
That's not counting the "old" files I have on another 750GB disk that was reformated, so now I want to try to unformat it and recover another 600GB I didn't have backups for.
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Actually they won't fit in most laptops. About the only thing they're good for is external drives.
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