Iran's leaders are threatening to destroy Israel and wipe it off the map. It is perfectly rational for Israel to bomb Iran's nuclear weapons programs back into the stone age, and they are itching to do so.
So, let Iran and Israel duke it out. Gas is just above $2.00 per gallon, so we don't need the middle east at this point.
Sure, we'd like to help Israel out. But they won't even sign on to the Non Proliferation Treaty. So I'm not really going to break a sweat over their whining.
If we (and by 'we' I mean places like California) were really concerned with the global environment, we'd open our own rare earth mines and processing facilities. So the EPA could keep a closer eye on them and they could be run under tighter regulations. Or at a minimum, pass one of those state laws prohibiting technologies based on polluting industries. So let's see them give up iPads, Teslas, wind and solar power and all those other 'filthy' products.
I'm going to watch what Poettering and his minions do, not what they say.
For us having a simple design and a simple code base is a lot more important than trying to accommodate for distros that want to combine everything with everything else. I understand that that is what matters to many Debian people, but it's admittedly not a priority for us.
And yet one of the major gripes about systemd is that it does exactly what Lennart says he doesn't want to do. It isn't a simple design, what with its everything including the kitchen sink squeezed in. And the cross dependencies between systemd, Gnome, Wayland (and who knows what else) violate the design philosophy of loose coupling*. If I wanted to run Windows, I would.
*For what appears to be no other reason than producing lock-in to systemd**.
** But I'll admit that this thinking violates the "Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity" rule.
The most valuable feature of an oen O/S is that I can rebuild the kernel from trusted source. So while the Windows source might benefit from the scrutiny of many eyes, I still will never be sure that the binary I installed actually came from that.
... it's knowing where to find them. Google is just a starting point, as is Wikipedia. Smart is absorbing this information, filtering and processing it and building a semantic model in your head useful for solving a problem at hand. Smart isn't necessarily loading your brain up with trivia in the hopes that it will come in handy some day.
Consider Enron. Ken Lay was known for being a charismatic leader and for flying into a rage when his edicts were questioned. And look what happened to them (and him).
they do need more power to maintain speed over ground.
Not exactly true. There is an optimum airspeed and power setting for any aircraft (and weight). Pushing it harder to go faster tends to be inefficient. What one needs when flying into a headwind (lower ground speed) is more time and fuel.
I think so. Research dating back a few decades has associated cetacean melons with the echolocation function, including some species ability to shape this organ. The purpose of such shaping has probably been understood, as some advanved sonars use similar techniques for beam forming and impedance coupling.
... liberal arts degrees being necessary for "clear thinking". This is ludicrous in that STEM fields are ones in which ambiguity is typically unacceptable!
Perhaps we should require some basic STEM courses in the curriculum for liberal arts majors. Some of their thinking is quite unparsable.
Unlike the poor of many decades ago, today's poor seem to get sufficient caloric inputs. Far too much, in many cases. But they are eating the wrong stuff.
Don't start with the 'poor people can't afford healthy food'. For what they spend stuffing their faces with McDonalds, it is possible to eat very healthy. If one isn't lazy and makes an effort to select and prepare healthy food. So, poor people don't have the time to cook? Maybe, but try taking the pop and snack machines out of a high school and replacing them with healthy foods (thus eliminating the argument about preperation effort) and the fat bastards will raise hell.
Poor, fat people are going to be poor and fat. It's a part of their culture.
I choose to worry about things that are more likely, like identify theft.
So putting back doors in encryption software is OK when done for national security purposes. But bad when hackers exploit these same engineered weaknesses to steal your personal information. Leave your front door unlocked so the police may more easily conduct searches. Never mind that the incidence of burglers cleaning your house out will be orders of magnitude more common. And don't forget that Snowden was an anomoly only in that he forwarded data he absconded with to the press. The NSA/FBI/CIA is full of "contractors" that slip copies of data to buddies in private enterprise for purposes of industrial and commercial espionage.
Our civil rights take a back seat to the needs of law enforcement to manage the populace for the benefit of the elite.
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Iran's leaders are threatening to destroy Israel and wipe it off the map. It is perfectly rational for Israel to bomb Iran's nuclear weapons programs back into the stone age, and they are itching to do so.
So, let Iran and Israel duke it out. Gas is just above $2.00 per gallon, so we don't need the middle east at this point.
Sure, we'd like to help Israel out. But they won't even sign on to the Non Proliferation Treaty. So I'm not really going to break a sweat over their whining.
If we (and by 'we' I mean places like California) were really concerned with the global environment, we'd open our own rare earth mines and processing facilities. So the EPA could keep a closer eye on them and they could be run under tighter regulations. Or at a minimum, pass one of those state laws prohibiting technologies based on polluting industries. So let's see them give up iPads, Teslas, wind and solar power and all those other 'filthy' products.
I'm going to watch what Poettering and his minions do, not what they say.
For us having a simple design and a simple code base is a lot more important than trying to accommodate for distros that want to combine everything with everything else. I understand that that is what matters to many Debian people, but it's admittedly not a priority for us.
And yet one of the major gripes about systemd is that it does exactly what Lennart says he doesn't want to do. It isn't a simple design, what with its everything including the kitchen sink squeezed in. And the cross dependencies between systemd, Gnome, Wayland (and who knows what else) violate the design philosophy of loose coupling*. If I wanted to run Windows, I would.
*For what appears to be no other reason than producing lock-in to systemd**.
** But I'll admit that this thinking violates the "Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity" rule.
The most valuable feature of an oen O/S is that I can rebuild the kernel from trusted source. So while the Windows source might benefit from the scrutiny of many eyes, I still will never be sure that the binary I installed actually came from that.
I'm going to wait for the Baron Harkonnen model to come out.
Under which license? Is Microsoft going to allow forks and multiple Windows distros?
And how long before Poettering notices and ports systemd to Windows?
... it's knowing where to find them. Google is just a starting point, as is Wikipedia. Smart is absorbing this information, filtering and processing it and building a semantic model in your head useful for solving a problem at hand. Smart isn't necessarily loading your brain up with trivia in the hopes that it will come in handy some day.
getting in touch with some people who seem to use it as their principal means of communication.
So, how do you get those event invitations out to people who don't use Facebook?
Zuckerberg plz go.
relative airspeed is just pedantic nitpicking
Well, that's how pilots fly. You've just failed ground school. Along with those guys who didn't care to learn how to land.
Right.
Consider Enron. Ken Lay was known for being a charismatic leader and for flying into a rage when his edicts were questioned. And look what happened to them (and him).
they do need more power to maintain speed over ground.
Not exactly true. There is an optimum airspeed and power setting for any aircraft (and weight). Pushing it harder to go faster tends to be inefficient. What one needs when flying into a headwind (lower ground speed) is more time and fuel.
When I read the subject line, I assumed the definition of resignation to be:
'the acceptance of something undesirable but inevitable.'
This describes the attitude many users have toward the IT department.
Hasn't this been known for some time?
I think so. Research dating back a few decades has associated cetacean melons with the echolocation function, including some species ability to shape this organ. The purpose of such shaping has probably been understood, as some advanved sonars use similar techniques for beam forming and impedance coupling.
Perhaps we should require some basic STEM courses in the curriculum for liberal arts majors. Some of their thinking is quite unparsable.
poor Nutrition.
Unlike the poor of many decades ago, today's poor seem to get sufficient caloric inputs. Far too much, in many cases. But they are eating the wrong stuff.
Don't start with the 'poor people can't afford healthy food'. For what they spend stuffing their faces with McDonalds, it is possible to eat very healthy. If one isn't lazy and makes an effort to select and prepare healthy food. So, poor people don't have the time to cook? Maybe, but try taking the pop and snack machines out of a high school and replacing them with healthy foods (thus eliminating the argument about preperation effort) and the fat bastards will raise hell.
Poor, fat people are going to be poor and fat. It's a part of their culture.
I saw the demolition robot in "I Robot".
Sorry sir. Did you say Evergreen Road or Place?
Damn! I thought we had all the bugs ironed out of that command parser.
Because exercising freedom of speech makes one an Enemy Of The State, right?
I choose to worry about things that are more likely, like identify theft.
So putting back doors in encryption software is OK when done for national security purposes. But bad when hackers exploit these same engineered weaknesses to steal your personal information. Leave your front door unlocked so the police may more easily conduct searches. Never mind that the incidence of burglers cleaning your house out will be orders of magnitude more common. And don't forget that Snowden was an anomoly only in that he forwarded data he absconded with to the press. The NSA/FBI/CIA is full of "contractors" that slip copies of data to buddies in private enterprise for purposes of industrial and commercial espionage.
Our civil rights take a back seat to the needs of law enforcement to manage the populace for the benefit of the elite.
How about flamenwerfer