The KKK may be mostly gone, but their murderous legacy lives on. Their modern equivalent is the hate groups against Muslims, unfortunately, just as there have been active and murderous hate groups against Jews, uppity women, immigrants of all types, from among the "privileged classes" of the USA. And there are, sadly enough, their counterparts among the Muslims of the world. Beheading, rape, and torture are all familiar actions among the racists of most modern nations, and we still have people alive in every nation who remember seeing it done by their own citizens.
Besides sporadic high intensity events that require expensive storage, the tendency of lightning to unpredictably destroy equipment, the wear and tear on using the equipment in wet weather and providing alternate grounding paths that will deplete the lightning before it can be gathered, and the low power density for deployed infrastructure required to gather the energy?
I can't imagine a good reason it's not solving the world's power problems right now!
As a child, I had acquaintances who would have been much better off in the nearest religious schools, some of them because they were gifted and would be better at schools that focused on the academically excellent, and others who would have benefited from strict discipline and structure the public schools were not permitted to enforce. Taking both of those sets out of the public schools could have saved those schools quite a lot of money and staff, which could have then been used to support those children in a private school at a far lower cost.
So the schooling for those kids was already paid for in the public schools: why not apply it to the more effective private schools, instead, where it does them more measurable good?
You've apparently never needed to clean up an environment that hasn't been maintained or cleaned up in 4 years. I have: scorched earth is usually the way to go rather than trying to work around each historical and locally crafted piece of debris.
Getting some local Linux group to take it on as a charitable project might be a lot of cool fun for all involved, though.
Get them a full set of upgrade hardware, and I suspect they'll find the manpower to do the migration with. And for a network of 60, many of the backup, software update, security, and hardware maintenance tasks are far easier in a Linux world where you don't have someone to spend 2 man-hours/week on each system.
That could be. It could also be that you were mostly deluded idiots, drunk on your own power and unaware of the damage you caused. I'm afraid we really can't tell from here.
But the head guy able to harness a good crop of such youngsters is worth his weight in gold.
I'm afraid you've not tried that lately. The Linux developers now use "git", written by Linus Torvalds and freely available for numerous platforms. If you just want the source, you can download the latest tarballs at mirrors.kernel.org and many other mirror sites.
If you want a resume enhancing project to work with, hop over to sourceforge.net and pick anything that looks interesting.
That's a good point. Perhaps someone near his school can unload some hardware due for recycling on them, some 1 GHz machines quite comfortable with running Linux?
No. While the frequency published is "clean", it's vulnerable to manufacturing skew, thermal drift, and other issues that will create skew in the clock. Quartz is useful because it's thermally and mechanically stable, due to being a crystal with a low thermal expansion coefficient and mechanically easy to machine within quite small tolerances.
If the systems work well, I'd want to see his resume as soon as he's legal to employ. He'd beat the tar out of a lot of MCSE's I've seen in the last 5 years.
Has anyone offered to send the school a box of Ubuntu live CD's, just to ease this young man's workload of maintaining Windows boxes?
What Wikileaks posted wasn't the cult secrets. It was hundreds of pages of documents from a member, documenting internal policies and practices by the cult. The big cult secrets have been available in magazine articles, in numerous exposes (such as the Scandal of Scientology by Paulette Cooper), and in court documents for years. Wikileaks publication made clear copies of the cult's insane internal politics and harassment policies crystal clear, in a newly available set of documents.
The cult has tried to do denial-of-service attacks before: they're not very good at it, probably due to a difficulty attacting and keeping technically competent members. I had a long talk years ago with a former member, who found that the cult's "auditing" completely repressed his productivity as a software developer.
Domain tasting is absolutely one of the things Verisign allows and encourages, at the expense of its legitimate customers. Among their other offenses, it's the sort of thing that should encourage ICANN to dump the Verisign contract, and allow a vendor who may charge more but will properly administer the domain.
Agreed. Verisign has been deliberately cooperating with domain squatters at the expense of more legitimate customers, they don't act against fraudulent domain registrations for pharming even when they and their service resellers are notified, they don't against irresponsible domain registrars, and they pulled that stunt a few years back where they returned their own ad page for all queries for unregistered domains.
If a modest price increase would get them to administer.com properly, I'd pay it without blinking for my domains, and encourage my professional associates to do so as well.
Those celebrities are cultivated PR cases, basically advertising for the cult. For what can and does happen inside their bases, go take a look at what happened at www.lisamcpherson.org. They watched Lisa die for 2 weeks and kept her locked up, even tied up. And it's clear from their own literature that they considered Hubbard a messianic figure.
Well, the money isn't the issue for some of us. The *fraud*, about the church's secret inner beliefs and about their critics, and the destruction visited on members as their "auditing" confessions are used to blackmail them into silence if they try to leave, are flat-out criminal.
You haven't read much history, have you? Land grants and amassing wealth with them has been a part of human culture for millennia. The original European nobility "barons" certainly did it, with some of them being better at it and amassing incredible land and resources at the expense of more peaceful and ethical neighbors. The Romans certainly did it as well, with their "governors" sent out to manage provinces, and Roman "senators" bickering over profitable businesses and property.
Please try not to exude righteious indignation about something that every culture with cities and wealth has engaged in.
This seems odd. You're calling me "wrong" without contradicting the points I made. Some level of understanding and flexibility is pretty necessary to organics and artificial intelligences, or they're inflexible and relatively uninteresting.
And by the way, it's not the tortilla that gives you wind. The tortilla is just a flat soft bread, used to wrap up food or grab food with, lots of cultures make versions of them. It's the cheese and beans you put in the tortilla to make a burrito, just as a bit more thought to your argument would have made it more interesting and effective.
So if I can understand a recipe for tortillas, I'm a tortilla? Hardly. The ability to understand or even master a system does not make one the same as that system: comprehension is not identity.
And frankly, there's nothing "open" about the Church-Turing state of humans. We're far too error prone to even approach a good computer's ability, we forget too easily, and our fundamental neurology is not binary. It's a dynamic 3-D analog network, and the neurons are not digital. They're impuse transceivers, not well modeled by binary state machines.
Go back to your basic biology, and examine the numerous reasons why a squid axon is not a digital system.
Because nobody was paying Mother Nature to eveolve humans, the process was pretty haphazard and filled with a million years of errors. We might do significantly better by paying attention to the details and culling obvious errors far earlier.
It could be fun to set up some "Minsky Awards" for AI's that manage to destroy themselves, to match the Darwin Awards at http://www.darwinawards.com/.
That's fairly normal, although the Chinese scale may be unusual. An Olympics is a popular time to "clean up" a city, partly to make it more presentable to the visitors, and partly to make housing available for them. It's after the Olympics when the property taxes are still ridiculously high and the local working class don't want to move back that you have an influx of migrant workers and overcrowded families moving into the now abandoned buildings and turning back into slums very, very quickly, especially because the buildings were built in a rush for a single event and are difficult to maintain.
I saw just this happen in a city that hosted an Olympics: the net result 5 years after the Olympics was far worse than before the Olympics happened.
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The KKK may be mostly gone, but their murderous legacy lives on. Their modern equivalent is the hate groups against Muslims, unfortunately, just as there have been active and murderous hate groups against Jews, uppity women, immigrants of all types, from among the "privileged classes" of the USA. And there are, sadly enough, their counterparts among the Muslims of the world. Beheading, rape, and torture are all familiar actions among the racists of most modern nations, and we still have people alive in every nation who remember seeing it done by their own citizens.
My point is that it's hardly unique to Muslims.
Besides sporadic high intensity events that require expensive storage, the tendency of lightning to unpredictably destroy equipment, the wear and tear on using the equipment in wet weather and providing alternate grounding paths that will deplete the lightning before it can be gathered, and the low power density for deployed infrastructure required to gather the energy?
I can't imagine a good reason it's not solving the world's power problems right now!
As a child, I had acquaintances who would have been much better off in the nearest religious schools, some of them because they were gifted and would be better at schools that focused on the academically excellent, and others who would have benefited from strict discipline and structure the public schools were not permitted to enforce. Taking both of those sets out of the public schools could have saved those schools quite a lot of money and staff, which could have then been used to support those children in a private school at a far lower cost.
So the schooling for those kids was already paid for in the public schools: why not apply it to the more effective private schools, instead, where it does them more measurable good?
And you think that leaving them trapped in the NT 2000 world of bloated and unreliable and out of date software will help them with these problems?
You've apparently never needed to clean up an environment that hasn't been maintained or cleaned up in 4 years. I have: scorched earth is usually the way to go rather than trying to work around each historical and locally crafted piece of debris.
Getting some local Linux group to take it on as a charitable project might be a lot of cool fun for all involved, though.
Get them a full set of upgrade hardware, and I suspect they'll find the manpower to do the migration with. And for a network of 60, many of the backup, software update, security, and hardware maintenance tasks are far easier in a Linux world where you don't have someone to spend 2 man-hours/week on each system.
That could be. It could also be that you were mostly deluded idiots, drunk on your own power and unaware of the damage you caused. I'm afraid we really can't tell from here.
But the head guy able to harness a good crop of such youngsters is worth his weight in gold.
I'm afraid you've not tried that lately. The Linux developers now use "git", written by Linus Torvalds and freely available for numerous platforms. If you just want the source, you can download the latest tarballs at mirrors.kernel.org and many other mirror sites. If you want a resume enhancing project to work with, hop over to sourceforge.net and pick anything that looks interesting.
That's a good point. Perhaps someone near his school can unload some hardware due for recycling on them, some 1 GHz machines quite comfortable with running Linux?
No. While the frequency published is "clean", it's vulnerable to manufacturing skew, thermal drift, and other issues that will create skew in the clock. Quartz is useful because it's thermally and mechanically stable, due to being a crystal with a low thermal expansion coefficient and mechanically easy to machine within quite small tolerances.
If the systems work well, I'd want to see his resume as soon as he's legal to employ. He'd beat the tar out of a lot of MCSE's I've seen in the last 5 years.
Has anyone offered to send the school a box of Ubuntu live CD's, just to ease this young man's workload of maintaining Windows boxes?
Or the ability to lie to themselves, for both genders.
Yeah. We've never had the Bible-toting KKK raping or murding uppity colored folk, right?
Kindly don't blame it purely on the Koran-toters without remembering the right-wing slaughters in your own country.
What Wikileaks posted wasn't the cult secrets. It was hundreds of pages of documents from a member, documenting internal policies and practices by the cult. The big cult secrets have been available in magazine articles, in numerous exposes (such as the Scandal of Scientology by Paulette Cooper), and in court documents for years. Wikileaks publication made clear copies of the cult's insane internal politics and harassment policies crystal clear, in a newly available set of documents.
The cult has tried to do denial-of-service attacks before: they're not very good at it, probably due to a difficulty attacting and keeping technically competent members. I had a long talk years ago with a former member, who found that the cult's "auditing" completely repressed his productivity as a software developer.
Maybe inflation will help? It's clearly the source of her ballooning assets so far.
Domain tasting is absolutely one of the things Verisign allows and encourages, at the expense of its legitimate customers. Among their other offenses, it's the sort of thing that should encourage ICANN to dump the Verisign contract, and allow a vendor who may charge more but will properly administer the domain.
Agreed. Verisign has been deliberately cooperating with domain squatters at the expense of more legitimate customers, they don't act against fraudulent domain registrations for pharming even when they and their service resellers are notified, they don't against irresponsible domain registrars, and they pulled that stunt a few years back where they returned their own ad page for all queries for unregistered domains.
.com properly, I'd pay it without blinking for my domains, and encourage my professional associates to do so as well.
If a modest price increase would get them to administer
Those celebrities are cultivated PR cases, basically advertising for the cult. For what can and does happen inside their bases, go take a look at what happened at www.lisamcpherson.org. They watched Lisa die for 2 weeks and kept her locked up, even tied up. And it's clear from their own literature that they considered Hubbard a messianic figure.
Well, the money isn't the issue for some of us. The *fraud*, about the church's secret inner beliefs and about their critics, and the destruction visited on members as their "auditing" confessions are used to blackmail them into silence if they try to leave, are flat-out criminal.
You haven't read much history, have you? Land grants and amassing wealth with them has been a part of human culture for millennia. The original European nobility "barons" certainly did it, with some of them being better at it and amassing incredible land and resources at the expense of more peaceful and ethical neighbors. The Romans certainly did it as well, with their "governors" sent out to manage provinces, and Roman "senators" bickering over profitable businesses and property.
Please try not to exude righteious indignation about something that every culture with cities and wealth has engaged in.
Fortunately, there's occasionally things like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEWgs6YQR9A Funniest WoW cartoon I've ever seen.
This seems odd. You're calling me "wrong" without contradicting the points I made. Some level of understanding and flexibility is pretty necessary to organics and artificial intelligences, or they're inflexible and relatively uninteresting.
And by the way, it's not the tortilla that gives you wind. The tortilla is just a flat soft bread, used to wrap up food or grab food with, lots of cultures make versions of them. It's the cheese and beans you put in the tortilla to make a burrito, just as a bit more thought to your argument would have made it more interesting and effective.
So if I can understand a recipe for tortillas, I'm a tortilla? Hardly. The ability to understand or even master a system does not make one the same as that system: comprehension is not identity.
And frankly, there's nothing "open" about the Church-Turing state of humans. We're far too error prone to even approach a good computer's ability, we forget too easily, and our fundamental neurology is not binary. It's a dynamic 3-D analog network, and the neurons are not digital. They're impuse transceivers, not well modeled by binary state machines.
Go back to your basic biology, and examine the numerous reasons why a squid axon is not a digital system.
Because nobody was paying Mother Nature to eveolve humans, the process was pretty haphazard and filled with a million years of errors. We might do significantly better by paying attention to the details and culling obvious errors far earlier.
It could be fun to set up some "Minsky Awards" for AI's that manage to destroy themselves, to match the Darwin Awards at http://www.darwinawards.com/.
That's fairly normal, although the Chinese scale may be unusual. An Olympics is a popular time to "clean up" a city, partly to make it more presentable to the visitors, and partly to make housing available for them. It's after the Olympics when the property taxes are still ridiculously high and the local working class don't want to move back that you have an influx of migrant workers and overcrowded families moving into the now abandoned buildings and turning back into slums very, very quickly, especially because the buildings were built in a rush for a single event and are difficult to maintain.
I saw just this happen in a city that hosted an Olympics: the net result 5 years after the Olympics was far worse than before the Olympics happened.