Besides being poor? Or the original immigrants being the wealthy and powerful frightened of losing their assets in Castro's regime? Or Muriel boatlift and its mix of thousands of prisoners, ranging from homosexuals to political protesters to plain old thieves and murderers?
If you're going to refer specifically to the boat people, please do so specifically.
Well, 'fair' is well-defined. The cops are not supposed to use lethal force without well-defined guidelines, and they're supposed to de-escalate where possible. It's the difference between using the nightstick on an unarmed attacker, and shooting them in the head when they're on the ground.
Any cop can tell you otherwise. You have clear rules of engagement. It's not 'dirty' to escalate to weapons early, and it's not 'dirty' to bring in reinforcements, nor is it 'dirty' to be better trained and have the public on your side.
They suffered some bureaucratic coups that screwed the company up, and lost Batman his fiscal resources for extended periods. But Batman has first access to all the captured criminal gear, and the opportunity to generate patents from it for Wayne Enterprises.
I have first printings of those in 'Good' condition. They were wonderful, even if the 'Gnat Rat' spoof wsa much funnier and also worth reading to make fun of Frank Miller's habit of always telling the same story.
What there is 'no dispute over' is his homicidal history from before the Sergeant's Revolt in 1933, until his escape from Castro's revolution in 1959. You cannot possibly have a 'fair election' of someone sandwiched between years of dictatorship and political homicide. And even with a 'fair election' once, which may have occurred in 1939 after years of coups and homicide among Cuba's leadership, he declared various forms of martial law and refused elections repeatedly in the 1950's.
The man was practically the prototype for the pro-US, banana republic dictators.
They've also been quite popular for cities to install in snow trucks, and fine drivers who do 'extra' clearings, take long naps, or fail to clear roads when they log doing so. I can easily see where they'll also be popular, and unpopular, on long-haul trucks. The amount of deceit in an average trucker's log book about rest stops and time on duty is pretty scarey, and the police certainly know that many if not most truckers lie in their logs.
I agree with some of your logic. But not all 'child pornography' involves any abuse of children. Take this article about a grocery store refusing to make a birthday cake with a baby picture of a 21 year old man for his birthday, because the child was naked. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1029375/Asda-refuse-print-baby-snap-son-21st-birthday-cake--hes-naked.html).
And for someone fascinated by children, women, men, or exciting panoramas of cornfields, there are plenty of innocent pictures collected and published that might be exciting if organized and published together. So please do not assume that all 'child pornography' actually involves any mishandling of children.
It's funny: if you replace the words 'child pornography' with 'Scientology documents', you can roll this line of reasoning right back to when Helena Kobrin tried to rmgroup alt.religion.scientology. (I really recommend look up the newsgroup on Wikipedia, it's fascinating Internet history.)
Like filtering Bittorrent, a real reason for dropping the alt.* hierarchy is doubtless bandwidth. When I last looked some years ago, there were over 70,000 alt.* newsgroups, most of which had no traffic except spam, and some of which were meerely names to create ASCII art in the list of newsgroups. And the binary groups with the most traffic tended to be porn. So since people can download porn on their own fairly easily now, why should the ISP's take responsibility for such an expensive resource to maintain? Blocking child pornography hasn't been an excuse for over a decade, since 'NNTP-Posting-Host' became a de facto required field from all NNTP service providers.
Most of the ISP's I've seen mentioned are only dumping alt.*, not all of Usenet, which still has a lot of useful discussion groups. The Google archives of such groups are wonderful for obscure technical help, and some of the groups remain quite useful for technical discussions or social networking. Dumping those freely created and awkward to flush newsgroups, as a matter of policy, seems to make good business sense and needn't be burdened with the excuse of child pornography.
Given that Batista took over Cuba violently on 3 separate occasions, I hardly think you can call his election in 1939 'democratic'. If it was democratically fair, it was undoubtedly because people feared continuing chaos and felt that he could bring in money and support from his US friends, including the Mafia from the US.
Much of this is in clear print over at Wikipedia. He was much more dangerous to Cuba and to other nations than Castro has been. Castro is dangerous, but at least he's _competent_.
And Robert Mugabe was 'democratically elected' in Zimbabwe. There was nothing 'free' about Batista's elections, he was a US-friendly banana republic dictator with torture, far worse human rights abuses than Castro has ever committed, and massive Mafia involvement in his economy and his federal policies.
Cuba did what the people of Iran did to the Shah: kicked out the US-friendly, anti-Communist, corrupt bastard and let in a new dictator with a different set of standards. Castro, at least, is as technically competent as any US president of his lifetime.
And living in gorgeous, wonderful Cuban weather probably has nothing to do with longevity, either. Clean Atlantic ocean air, gentle tropical island weather, fabulous beaches that Florida residents _wish_ they had nearby, etc. probably have no effect on aging joints and keeping fit in old age.
When I get as old as the ex-Cuban cancer surgeon I met visiting an ill friend a decade ago, I want to retire to the house he grew up in, where he could fish in the ocean by walking 100 yards and watch the girls on the beach. The doctor had pictures, on the walls of his office, too. For 40 year old pictures, those were really, really stunning women. I can see why Castro refuses to retire, much less die, as long as he has that kind of scenery to live for.
Unfortunately, they're not very _big_. 32 Gig for a hard drive is fairly pitiful these days: the hard drives stacked against SSD in Tom's Hardware's article were typically 10 times the disk size. So our soldier boy in the story above, where they had 200 movies they lost in an attack on their campsite, would have had to have 10 times as many drives. The power savings and stability are great for small scenarios and high availability resources, such as laptop drives or small, encrypted filesystems. But for overall storage, having to pay the power, cooling, and space cost of _10_ drives rather than a single hard drive makes no sense.
But my goodness, that OCZ brand drive blew the others out of the water in the tests, didn't it? I'm very glad they added it to their tests so that I know about it for reference on future projects. _WOW_, that's a good drive!
I am, and I've faced 'outsourcing', where some smart aleck VP with degrees in 'management' and a minor in 'how to lie to the SEC and sell your stock options at a profit' tried to outsource most of my department. We had to find champions in other departments to help protect us, not from fair competition, but from bean counters who'd made up their 'savings proposals' out of lowest bidder whole cloth, and gotten their money up front.
I estimate that that move, and slapping it down, cost 20 people 1 month of work. Since many of them were executives, that's easily hundreds of thousands of dollars, even millions, entirely wasted. The only ones who would have benefited were that VP building his empire, his direct minions who would have traveled to the outsourced site for 'meetings', and their friends at the outsourcing company.
It's also not for those who like knowing that the component they tested with is the same one they deployed on other important machines. I applaud the Gentoo authors for their efforts to add 'secret sauce' to package building. But when gmake, glibc, and gcc changes seriously modify compilation behavior, it's very dangerous to work with such dynamic systems in a production environment.
Those behaviors were not violations of GPLv2. GPL, before GPLv3, said nothing about patents nor about hardware lock-in. This is why GPLv3 was written: companies were trying this kind of end-run around the "if you use our stuff, you have to share" provisions of the GPL.
'Purity' is pretty clear. 'Not pure', however, has a huge variety of meanings. So, for example, if I took a Linux variant, locked it up into a hardware/OS implementation, and paten burdened it so no one else could work on it, that would allow me to sip the nectar of open source work and not participate in open source development in turn, wouldn't it?
There's an upper limit on magnetic flux, which ruins superconductor, but that just means there's a maximum AC current at different frequencies. DC is useful, but they certainly carry AC. But you cannot avoid a certain amount of local AC coupling into the superconductors: they're transmission lines.
Excuse me, but it's a _transmission line_, miles long. Of course the voltage differs at various points along its length, bound to the magnetic fields along its lengths as well carrying the EM transmission.
Just because it's 0 resistance does not mean it is 0 impedance: remember this especially when working with long leads of any sort.
Until they get unsealed, or need maintenance. Cooling them down is not a one-off: I've no idea how often they may have to be cycled, but repairs and maintenance demand that they be warmed up on some kind of expectable basis.
But they do have impedance (which often confuses people). They also have radiative losses: some electro-magnetic enegy can, and will, couple into nearby objects and be dissipated there.
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Besides being poor? Or the original immigrants being the wealthy and powerful frightened of losing their assets in Castro's regime? Or Muriel boatlift and its mix of thousands of prisoners, ranging from homosexuals to political protesters to plain old thieves and murderers?
If you're going to refer specifically to the boat people, please do so specifically.
Well, 'fair' is well-defined. The cops are not supposed to use lethal force without well-defined guidelines, and they're supposed to de-escalate where possible. It's the difference between using the nightstick on an unarmed attacker, and shooting them in the head when they're on the ground.
Any cop can tell you otherwise. You have clear rules of engagement. It's not 'dirty' to escalate to weapons early, and it's not 'dirty' to bring in reinforcements, nor is it 'dirty' to be better trained and have the public on your side.
They suffered some bureaucratic coups that screwed the company up, and lost Batman his fiscal resources for extended periods. But Batman has first access to all the captured criminal gear, and the opportunity to generate patents from it for Wayne Enterprises.
I have first printings of those in 'Good' condition. They were wonderful, even if the 'Gnat Rat' spoof wsa much funnier and also worth reading to make fun of Frank Miller's habit of always telling the same story.
Out of curiousity, what alt.* groups do you follow?
What there is 'no dispute over' is his homicidal history from before the Sergeant's Revolt in 1933, until his escape from Castro's revolution in 1959. You cannot possibly have a 'fair election' of someone sandwiched between years of dictatorship and political homicide. And even with a 'fair election' once, which may have occurred in 1939 after years of coups and homicide among Cuba's leadership, he declared various forms of martial law and refused elections repeatedly in the 1950's.
The man was practically the prototype for the pro-US, banana republic dictators.
They've also been quite popular for cities to install in snow trucks, and fine drivers who do 'extra' clearings, take long naps, or fail to clear roads when they log doing so. I can easily see where they'll also be popular, and unpopular, on long-haul trucks. The amount of deceit in an average trucker's log book about rest stops and time on duty is pretty scarey, and the police certainly know that many if not most truckers lie in their logs.
I agree with some of your logic. But not all 'child pornography' involves any abuse of children. Take this article about a grocery store refusing to make a birthday cake with a baby picture of a 21 year old man for his birthday, because the child was naked. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1029375/Asda-refuse-print-baby-snap-son-21st-birthday-cake--hes-naked.html).
And for someone fascinated by children, women, men, or exciting panoramas of cornfields, there are plenty of innocent pictures collected and published that might be exciting if organized and published together. So please do not assume that all 'child pornography' actually involves any mishandling of children.
It's funny: if you replace the words 'child pornography' with 'Scientology documents', you can roll this line of reasoning right back to when Helena Kobrin tried to rmgroup alt.religion.scientology. (I really recommend look up the newsgroup on Wikipedia, it's fascinating Internet history.)
Like filtering Bittorrent, a real reason for dropping the alt.* hierarchy is doubtless bandwidth. When I last looked some years ago, there were over 70,000 alt.* newsgroups, most of which had no traffic except spam, and some of which were meerely names to create ASCII art in the list of newsgroups. And the binary groups with the most traffic tended to be porn. So since people can download porn on their own fairly easily now, why should the ISP's take responsibility for such an expensive resource to maintain? Blocking child pornography hasn't been an excuse for over a decade, since 'NNTP-Posting-Host' became a de facto required field from all NNTP service providers.
Most of the ISP's I've seen mentioned are only dumping alt.*, not all of Usenet, which still has a lot of useful discussion groups. The Google archives of such groups are wonderful for obscure technical help, and some of the groups remain quite useful for technical discussions or social networking. Dumping those freely created and awkward to flush newsgroups, as a matter of policy, seems to make good business sense and needn't be burdened with the excuse of child pornography.
Given that Batista took over Cuba violently on 3 separate occasions, I hardly think you can call his election in 1939 'democratic'. If it was democratically fair, it was undoubtedly because people feared continuing chaos and felt that he could bring in money and support from his US friends, including the Mafia from the US.
Much of this is in clear print over at Wikipedia. He was much more dangerous to Cuba and to other nations than Castro has been. Castro is dangerous, but at least he's _competent_.
And Robert Mugabe was 'democratically elected' in Zimbabwe. There was nothing 'free' about Batista's elections, he was a US-friendly banana republic dictator with torture, far worse human rights abuses than Castro has ever committed, and massive Mafia involvement in his economy and his federal policies.
Cuba did what the people of Iran did to the Shah: kicked out the US-friendly, anti-Communist, corrupt bastard and let in a new dictator with a different set of standards. Castro, at least, is as technically competent as any US president of his lifetime.
And living in gorgeous, wonderful Cuban weather probably has nothing to do with longevity, either. Clean Atlantic ocean air, gentle tropical island weather, fabulous beaches that Florida residents _wish_ they had nearby, etc. probably have no effect on aging joints and keeping fit in old age.
When I get as old as the ex-Cuban cancer surgeon I met visiting an ill friend a decade ago, I want to retire to the house he grew up in, where he could fish in the ocean by walking 100 yards and watch the girls on the beach. The doctor had pictures, on the walls of his office, too. For 40 year old pictures, those were really, really stunning women. I can see why Castro refuses to retire, much less die, as long as he has that kind of scenery to live for.
IRIX.
Unfortunately, they're not very _big_. 32 Gig for a hard drive is fairly pitiful these days: the hard drives stacked against SSD in Tom's Hardware's article were typically 10 times the disk size. So our soldier boy in the story above, where they had 200 movies they lost in an attack on their campsite, would have had to have 10 times as many drives. The power savings and stability are great for small scenarios and high availability resources, such as laptop drives or small, encrypted filesystems. But for overall storage, having to pay the power, cooling, and space cost of _10_ drives rather than a single hard drive makes no sense.
But my goodness, that OCZ brand drive blew the others out of the water in the tests, didn't it? I'm very glad they added it to their tests so that I know about it for reference on future projects. _WOW_, that's a good drive!
I am, and I've faced 'outsourcing', where some smart aleck VP with degrees in 'management' and a minor in 'how to lie to the SEC and sell your stock options at a profit' tried to outsource most of my department. We had to find champions in other departments to help protect us, not from fair competition, but from bean counters who'd made up their 'savings proposals' out of lowest bidder whole cloth, and gotten their money up front.
I estimate that that move, and slapping it down, cost 20 people 1 month of work. Since many of them were executives, that's easily hundreds of thousands of dollars, even millions, entirely wasted. The only ones who would have benefited were that VP building his empire, his direct minions who would have traveled to the outsourced site for 'meetings', and their friends at the outsourcing company.
It's also not for those who like knowing that the component they tested with is the same one they deployed on other important machines. I applaud the Gentoo authors for their efforts to add 'secret sauce' to package building. But when gmake, glibc, and gcc changes seriously modify compilation behavior, it's very dangerous to work with such dynamic systems in a production environment.
Those behaviors were not violations of GPLv2. GPL, before GPLv3, said nothing about patents nor about hardware lock-in. This is why GPLv3 was written: companies were trying this kind of end-run around the "if you use our stuff, you have to share" provisions of the GPL.
You have seen this photo of Richard Stallman, after his canonization as Saint IGNUcius?
http://www.stallman.org/saintignucius.jpg
'Purity' is pretty clear. 'Not pure', however, has a huge variety of meanings. So, for example, if I took a Linux variant, locked it up into a hardware/OS implementation, and paten burdened it so no one else could work on it, that would allow me to sip the nectar of open source work and not participate in open source development in turn, wouldn't it?
If you think this is a good idea, support Tivo.
There's an upper limit on magnetic flux, which ruins superconductor, but that just means there's a maximum AC current at different frequencies. DC is useful, but they certainly carry AC. But you cannot avoid a certain amount of local AC coupling into the superconductors: they're transmission lines.
Excuse me, but it's a _transmission line_, miles long. Of course the voltage differs at various points along its length, bound to the magnetic fields along its lengths as well carrying the EM transmission.
Just because it's 0 resistance does not mean it is 0 impedance: remember this especially when working with long leads of any sort.
Until they get unsealed, or need maintenance. Cooling them down is not a one-off: I've no idea how often they may have to be cycled, but repairs and maintenance demand that they be warmed up on some kind of expectable basis.
But they do have impedance (which often confuses people). They also have radiative losses: some electro-magnetic enegy can, and will, couple into nearby objects and be dissipated there.
Suspenders if you used UNIX when it was actually BSD with no prefix.