Magnetic fields do *not* propagate at the speed of light, and I cannot believe fyou got marked "insightful" despite the obviousness that you have no idea what you are talking about. You are talking about astrophysical dynamics, yet you can't even spell "resonance".
Tomorrow I'm going to go to the office and disguise the server rack as a refrigerator. Then my data will truly be safe, because even if a hacker does get in, he'll never believe there's any valuable data in a cheese sandwich.
Not to sound insensitive, but Hurricane Katrina did highlight just how abysmally poor the state of the US disaster preparedness was. From my (somewhat partial) perspective, it further underscored the foolishness of spending enormous sums on "national security" beefing up protection against some vacuous terrorist threat when things like hurricanes, earthquakes, automobile accidents and tobacco cause more deaths each every month than have died in terror attacks in the last decade in total.
In other words, I disagree with your implied point that these "hiccups" should not be looked at as giving focus to the real threats we face as opposed to the imagined ones.
This is a great idea. Supporting Debian will give them the support revenue, and eliminate all the development costs associated with maintaining their own derivative distro. They'd also be strengthening the Debian community, which is the underlying reason Ubuntu can exist in the first place. Ubuntu hasn't the resources to duplicate even a fraction of Debian's activity, so they serve both themselves better and the Debian community by simply supporting Debian stable and, if they *really* want, maintaining a custom patch set for whatever changes they may want (different process scheduler or whatnot).
I never understood why they needed or even wanted to create their own server distro when Debian stable is a rock solid, well known, highly regarded distro that they could profit from by supporting the existing users rather than trying to create a server user community of their own by convincing sysadmins (who are very hard to change by the way) to use their own, new, shiny distro that is untested and unproven, especially when compared to the likes of Debian stable.
Dumb move from Canonical, IMHO, and it smacks of the NIH (not invented here) mindset.
Linux is nice but I recommend keeping it far away from any bank account. It's a black hole for money...
I'd agree with you if you weren't a) an idiot and b) wrong.
You've totally missed the point of the open source model. Linux doesn't *need* a profitable parent company. Projects like PostgreSQL, FreeBSD, the Linux kernel itself and others prove that companies are not needed in order to create excellent software. Debian existed long before Ubuntu, and will live long after it, should Ubuntu die. If Ubuntu dies, you can be damn sure a community will spring up to take the slack up now that demand for an apt based distro that isn't 3 years behind has been proven and an appetite created.
As for the impossibility of Linux profitability, Red Hat's financial statements show a consistent, increasing profit, quarter over quarter, for the last 2 years. Go troll elsewhere please.
You should at least apologise to the French who fought for your independence and warned against your abject stupidity.
Americans would rather ridicule the French for not deliberately fighting fights they can't win and generally poke fun at their greater level of social maturity. I liken American ridicule for French foreign policy to the ridicule that an angsty 15 year old may direct towards a grown man for not wanting to moon traffic while drunk on a Friday night.
As another Australian, I would like to point out that the season name "Fall" is stupid here on Earth, as we shouldn't have to name a season after what happens in it to remember its name.
I would also like to point out that it is even sillier on Mars, as on Mars, there are no leaves to fall.
If we're going to name the seasons after their properties, I would like to suggest season names for Mars: "Red", "Redder", "Reddish" and "Reddest".
Yea, we have to watch out for those coders who have a long and sordid history of engaging in egregious violations of morality by deliberately billing clients by the hour for expensive lunches, protracting their projects and goading their clients into losing battles that they get paid for either way.
We should show some compassion to that misunderstood lawyer bunch which has given rise to a movement rejecting the current status quo and that promotes meritocratic principles, information and idea sharing and free (as in beer) ideology.
1. Find a mirror. 2. Repeat while looking at yourself: "You're an idiot and your spelling and grammar is atrocious." 3. Do this exercise and then read these instructions.
You are now closer to being able to contribute to your country's literacy rate.
That's fine. My idea of self-control does not preclude distributing the designs for Wavebubble. If you disagree with my conception of self-control, welcome to individual freedom.
"The easiest statistical correlations to draw regarding violent crime is that it moves in lockstep with both poverty levels and the number of Hispanic and African-American residents in a certain area."
The reason for that is because historically in the US, African-American and Hispanic demographics move in lockstep with poverty. We may, as a society have removed the external signs of racism, but the sociological wounds dealt by a century of institutionalized subjugation take generations, not decades, to heal.
Look around the globe you'll find that it is poverty with a high co-correlation with large wealth gaps that are most closely statistically linked to violent crime.
I know that if I were watching my family starve to death while others lived profligate lives wasting food and resources the way the average American family does, my moral inclination toward righteousness would be challenged by my love for my family and desire to care for them, to the point where forcibly redistributing wealth from said fatsos to my family would seem less and less reprehensible as time went by.
It's easy to pontificate on morality when you aren't watching your children starve to death in a world of plenty.
I agree. Please run for president and I shall vote for you so you can establish a Ministry of Acceptability that ensures that people only do and say things that are in line with your definition of peace and safety.
I am a Muslim, I fully agree with your uncommonly succinct and eloquent expression of this concept. I only wish more non-theists could understand this point rather than blindly (dogmatically!) disregarding religion as incompatible with modern scientific investigation.
"We can pay them to come and be smart on our behalf because we have lots of money."
I could use economic phrases like "unsustainable trade deficit" or anthropological terms like "secondary loyalty", but something tells me that you'd need to hire someone to say something smart back.
If you want to know how well America's long term policy is serving it, look at the historical trend in US national (public and private) debt vis a vis its trading partners. Those figures will say far more about the first world's long term sustainability than I could hope to here.
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Magnetic fields do *not* propagate at the speed of light, and I cannot believe fyou got marked "insightful" despite the obviousness that you have no idea what you are talking about. You are talking about astrophysical dynamics, yet you can't even spell "resonance".
It'd be a scale model if you were talking about a pea and an exercise ball.
Although, yes, you are right, the OP has absolutely no appreciation of scale if he thinks that our action has any effect on the Sun's activity.
Perhaps writing it in 150pt instead of 200pt would allow them to add the extra words that make it actually accurate.
I don't know about you, but reading 10 words instead of 6 doesn't cause me to get a headache. Cue Slashdot joke about reading.
Holy crap! You're a genius!
Tomorrow I'm going to go to the office and disguise the server rack as a refrigerator. Then my data will truly be safe, because even if a hacker does get in, he'll never believe there's any valuable data in a cheese sandwich.
Not to sound insensitive, but Hurricane Katrina did highlight just how abysmally poor the state of the US disaster preparedness was. From my (somewhat partial) perspective, it further underscored the foolishness of spending enormous sums on "national security" beefing up protection against some vacuous terrorist threat when things like hurricanes, earthquakes, automobile accidents and tobacco cause more deaths each every month than have died in terror attacks in the last decade in total.
In other words, I disagree with your implied point that these "hiccups" should not be looked at as giving focus to the real threats we face as opposed to the imagined ones.
Only if you're in Soviet Rus... bah fuck it.
2003 called. It wants its troll back. That meas you're about to be kidnapped by an old calendar.
It's also far more apt at connecting to the internet, what with the internet being a series of tubes and all.
FPDF? That looks more like a FHTML file to me. I think that, if Bruce was really pro-community, he'd publish his writing in the FODF format.
On a side note, perhaps Slashdot could apply to the ISO to have its family of F* file formats registered.
This is a great idea. Supporting Debian will give them the support revenue, and eliminate all the development costs associated with maintaining their own derivative distro. They'd also be strengthening the Debian community, which is the underlying reason Ubuntu can exist in the first place. Ubuntu hasn't the resources to duplicate even a fraction of Debian's activity, so they serve both themselves better and the Debian community by simply supporting Debian stable and, if they *really* want, maintaining a custom patch set for whatever changes they may want (different process scheduler or whatnot).
I never understood why they needed or even wanted to create their own server distro when Debian stable is a rock solid, well known, highly regarded distro that they could profit from by supporting the existing users rather than trying to create a server user community of their own by convincing sysadmins (who are very hard to change by the way) to use their own, new, shiny distro that is untested and unproven, especially when compared to the likes of Debian stable.
Dumb move from Canonical, IMHO, and it smacks of the NIH (not invented here) mindset.
I'd agree with you if you weren't a) an idiot and b) wrong.
You've totally missed the point of the open source model. Linux doesn't *need* a profitable parent company. Projects like PostgreSQL, FreeBSD, the Linux kernel itself and others prove that companies are not needed in order to create excellent software. Debian existed long before Ubuntu, and will live long after it, should Ubuntu die. If Ubuntu dies, you can be damn sure a community will spring up to take the slack up now that demand for an apt based distro that isn't 3 years behind has been proven and an appetite created.
As for the impossibility of Linux profitability, Red Hat's financial statements show a consistent, increasing profit, quarter over quarter, for the last 2 years. Go troll elsewhere please.
Americans would rather ridicule the French for not deliberately fighting fights they can't win and generally poke fun at their greater level of social maturity. I liken American ridicule for French foreign policy to the ridicule that an angsty 15 year old may direct towards a grown man for not wanting to moon traffic while drunk on a Friday night.
Presumably they'd send the human with more than a 2kg box of supplies.
As another Australian, I would like to point out that the season name "Fall" is stupid here on Earth, as we shouldn't have to name a season after what happens in it to remember its name.
I would also like to point out that it is even sillier on Mars, as on Mars, there are no leaves to fall.
If we're going to name the seasons after their properties, I would like to suggest season names for Mars: "Red", "Redder", "Reddish" and "Reddest".
Yea, we have to watch out for those coders who have a long and sordid history of engaging in egregious violations of morality by deliberately billing clients by the hour for expensive lunches, protracting their projects and goading their clients into losing battles that they get paid for either way.
We should show some compassion to that misunderstood lawyer bunch which has given rise to a movement rejecting the current status quo and that promotes meritocratic principles, information and idea sharing and free (as in beer) ideology.
Hey, it worked on me.
a) Good software.
b) For free.
c) Because Bush is an idiot.
That's three for three, Jim.
1. Find a mirror.
2. Repeat while looking at yourself: "You're an idiot and your spelling and grammar is atrocious."
3. Do this exercise and then read these instructions.
You are now closer to being able to contribute to your country's literacy rate.
Of course it makes sense. You get your card. The number is on it. Bank staff shouldn't be able to even access it, unless you give it to them.
That's fine. My idea of self-control does not preclude distributing the designs for Wavebubble. If you disagree with my conception of self-control, welcome to individual freedom.
"The easiest statistical correlations to draw regarding violent crime is that it moves in lockstep with both poverty levels and the number of Hispanic and African-American residents in a certain area."
The reason for that is because historically in the US, African-American and Hispanic demographics move in lockstep with poverty. We may, as a society have removed the external signs of racism, but the sociological wounds dealt by a century of institutionalized subjugation take generations, not decades, to heal.
Look around the globe you'll find that it is poverty with a high co-correlation with large wealth gaps that are most closely statistically linked to violent crime.
I know that if I were watching my family starve to death while others lived profligate lives wasting food and resources the way the average American family does, my moral inclination toward righteousness would be challenged by my love for my family and desire to care for them, to the point where forcibly redistributing wealth from said fatsos to my family would seem less and less reprehensible as time went by.
It's easy to pontificate on morality when you aren't watching your children starve to death in a world of plenty.
I agree. Please run for president and I shall vote for you so you can establish a Ministry of Acceptability that ensures that people only do and say things that are in line with your definition of peace and safety.
She'd be powerless because in space, nobody can hear you scream.
Obama is a messiah? I thought he just liked to dress like that.
I am a Muslim, I fully agree with your uncommonly succinct and eloquent expression of this concept. I only wish more non-theists could understand this point rather than blindly (dogmatically!) disregarding religion as incompatible with modern scientific investigation.
So you're essentially saying:
"We can pay them to come and be smart on our behalf because we have lots of money."
I could use economic phrases like "unsustainable trade deficit" or anthropological terms like "secondary loyalty", but something tells me that you'd need to hire someone to say something smart back.
If you want to know how well America's long term policy is serving it, look at the historical trend in US national (public and private) debt vis a vis its trading partners. Those figures will say far more about the first world's long term sustainability than I could hope to here.