Lots of countries tried to outlaw alchohol and discovered that turning a large proportion of their citizens into criminals and feeding all that cash into organized crime wasn't such a great plan. The pity is that they didn't understand the same principle applies to other drugs.
Despite what you say, there is no "historic law" that commands that things always get better any more then there is a historic law that will make the proletariat overthrow the bourgeoisie.
Indeed. If anything, the historical law would be that ALL civilizations collapse. And ours is now global.
Bush didn't do all of that himself. He had a fully compliant House and Senate and any one of those elected representatives could have voted against his policies... but did not.
Not true. Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas), a self-described Libertarian, voted against the Patriot Act (he was the only member of either house to do so, afaik). 133 members of Congress and 23 Senators opposed the Iraq war resolution.
Registrars "own" the domain, in the sense that they can themselves pay the renewal to Verisign, change the whois on the domain, and they sell it to someone else, all without it ever actually "expiring" at all. This is what happened to the poster. Registrars control the whois. Who the owner of the domain is is whoever they say it is.
Actually, it's even worse now. Verisign "auto-renews" the domains on their expiry date and charges the registrar for doing so. The registrar now has a choice: they can explicitly delete the domain sometime in the next 45 days, getting their money back, or they can sell it to someone else. If they do nothing, they have to pay for the domain renewal. If they delete the domain, then it goes into Redemption, and they have 30 days in which to issue an expensive "restore" operation if desired. After the 30 days the domain is available for other registrars to register, and someone like Pool or Snapnames will pick it up and try to sell it to someone else (usually a PPC site).
*Why* must every country with weapons neccesarily be pointing them down *our* throats?
Umm, you've technically been at war with North Korea since 1950. You have something like 50,000 troops sitting on their border. I think it's reasonable to assume that they might want to use their weapons against you. Do Americans actually learn history in school, like at all?
If you were Kennedy would you have risked NYC/DC/LA on that dice roll?
He did. Word is he had intel that the Russians wouldn't actually be able to launch, but it was still a hell of a gamble.
Oh, you mean, would he launch against Russia first? Why? It was the Soviets who had the doctrine of taking over the whole world for communism, or had you forgotten? Despite what Soviet propoganda had to say, I don't think the Americans ever really considered a first strike. Well, MacArthur probably did. But no one with real power:p
It depends on you usage. PostgreSQL is way better handling multiple concurrent writes, while MySQL is (usually) better on read-mostly data.
Not that much better. I did some testing last year and MySQL was about 25% faster than PostgreSQL for a dead simple read-only web page. Anything more complicated or involving writes or using trnasaction-safe tables swung the other way.
I've fit 8 computers, with monitors, in a Chevy Sprint that got over 60 miles a gallon. You would be surprised what you can fit in a small car (probably not a Smart car though).
What modern humans are revealing when they come up with theories like this is that they have self-loathing issues and always imagine/assume the worst about their own species
Probably because we've done all those things to our OWN species. In parts of the world we still do. Why wouldn't we have done them to another?
I block any network that attacks me and doesn't respond to abuse complaints. Since all of China is run by one ISP, that list happens to include all of China.
IF someone is stupid enough to remove an important part of their computer's functionality so that many websites are unusable, then that's their problem. I personally avoid designing for people like that.
If someone is stupid enough to develop web sites in a proprietary format for which viewers aren't even available for all platforms (like the 64-bit Linux system I am typing ths on), I won't have to ever worry about seeing their content. Flash is a violation of every principle the web was built on.
Surprisingly few useful web sites use Flash for anything except ads, fortunately. Maybe they know something you don't.
I live in upstate New York, at 210 feet above sea level (God, I love the Catskills!). Being a mountain dweller, I can look on with some amusement as all those stuck up, smug folks down in NYC find out what it's like to live in Venice.
If all the polar ice melts (ie. Greenland and all of Antarctica), water levels will rise about 80 meters (250 feet or so). That's unlikely in the near future though.
Windows is not only a monopoly, but Microsoft has been convicted multiple times, in several jurisdictions, of being an illegal monopolist, leveraging their monopoly in illegal ways to gain advantage in other product areas.
In the US, we are used to a subsidised (Our energy bills pander to the petroleum industry) fuel delivery system.
I'm not sure where this myth comes from, but it simply isn't true. The reason the price of gas is higher in other countries is much higher taxes. The price of gas is not subsidized in the US, unless you count the military occupation and support of certain middle eastern countries.
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From what I hear, the masses mostly have no savings and large personal debt. They certainly are not shareholders in major corporations.
Lots of countries tried to outlaw alchohol and discovered that turning a large proportion of their citizens into criminals and feeding all that cash into organized crime wasn't such a great plan. The pity is that they didn't understand the same principle applies to other drugs.
Can someone please explain to me exactly WHEN the FCC became a law-creation body?
1934. FDR outsourced a lot of Congress's job.
Tell them digital cameras emit dangerous radiation to "see" the picture and (if you're convincing) many will probably believe you.
Hell, tell them it emits _any_ radiation, and they'll have Greenpeace protesting outside in half an hour.
But back then not everyone can read y'know.
Literacy rates, at least in North America, were much higher a hundred years ago than they are today.
Despite what you say, there is no "historic law" that commands that things always get better any more then there is a historic law that will make the proletariat overthrow the bourgeoisie.
Indeed. If anything, the historical law would be that ALL civilizations collapse. And ours is now global.
I've run file servers with 50 connections or more off P2/400.
I've run file servers with 200 connections on 486's. But that was with a real file server O/S (NetWare of course).
A billion dollar bridge to nowhere [salon.com]
A missle defense boondoggle [csmonitor.com]
Duh. No one likes paying for other peoples' pork. They just can't seem to give up their own. Which is of course the problem.
Bush didn't do all of that himself. He had a fully compliant House and Senate and any one of those elected representatives could have voted against his policies ... but did not.
a q.us/
Not true. Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas), a self-described Libertarian, voted against the Patriot Act (he was the only member of either house to do so, afaik). 133 members of Congress and 23 Senators opposed the Iraq war resolution.
http://www.counterpunch.org/pauliraq1.html
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/10/11/ir
Hell ya. You can turn 100,000's of thousands of machines into willing zombies just by sending out some email. How much more powerful can you get.
What the previous post forgot to mention is this:
Registrars "own" the domain, in the sense that they can themselves pay the renewal to Verisign, change the whois on the domain, and they sell it to someone else, all without it ever actually "expiring" at all. This is what happened to the poster. Registrars control the whois. Who the owner of the domain is is whoever they say it is.
Actually, it's even worse now. Verisign "auto-renews" the domains on their expiry date and charges the registrar for doing so. The registrar now has a choice: they can explicitly delete the domain sometime in the next 45 days, getting their money back, or they can sell it to someone else. If they do nothing, they have to pay for the domain renewal. If they delete the domain, then it goes into Redemption, and they have 30 days in which to issue an expensive "restore" operation if desired. After the 30 days the domain is available for other registrars to register, and someone like Pool or Snapnames will pick it up and try to sell it to someone else (usually a PPC site).
IE is crucial on any new Windows box - how else would you download Firefox?
FTP? Or, you know, Microsoft could include a wget port or rsync by default. Downloading is hardly rocket science.
*Why* must every country with weapons neccesarily be pointing them down *our* throats?
Umm, you've technically been at war with North Korea since 1950. You have something like 50,000 troops sitting on their border. I think it's reasonable to assume that they might want to use their weapons against you. Do Americans actually learn history in school, like at all?
If you were Kennedy would you have risked NYC/DC/LA on that dice roll?
:p
He did. Word is he had intel that the Russians wouldn't actually be able to launch, but it was still a hell of a gamble.
Oh, you mean, would he launch against Russia first? Why? It was the Soviets who had the doctrine of taking over the whole world for communism, or had you forgotten? Despite what Soviet propoganda had to say, I don't think the Americans ever really considered a first strike. Well, MacArthur probably did. But no one with real power
I kind of thought Arafat winning it took the irony prize from Kissinger.
It depends on you usage. PostgreSQL is way better handling multiple concurrent writes, while MySQL is (usually) better on read-mostly data.
Not that much better. I did some testing last year and MySQL was about 25% faster than PostgreSQL for a dead simple read-only web page. Anything more complicated or involving writes or using trnasaction-safe tables swung the other way.
I've fit 8 computers, with monitors, in a Chevy Sprint that got over 60 miles a gallon. You would be surprised what you can fit in a small car (probably not a Smart car though).
What modern humans are revealing when they come up with theories like this is that they have self-loathing issues and always imagine/assume the worst about their own species
Probably because we've done all those things to our OWN species. In parts of the world we still do. Why wouldn't we have done them to another?
I block any network that attacks me and doesn't respond to abuse complaints. Since all of China is run by one ISP, that list happens to include all of China.
IF someone is stupid enough to remove an important part of their computer's functionality so that many websites are unusable, then that's their problem. I personally avoid designing for people like that.
If someone is stupid enough to develop web sites in a proprietary format for which viewers aren't even available for all platforms (like the 64-bit Linux system I am typing ths on), I won't have to ever worry about seeing their content. Flash is a violation of every principle the web was built on.
Surprisingly few useful web sites use Flash for anything except ads, fortunately. Maybe they know something you don't.
I live in upstate New York, at 210 feet above sea level (God, I love the Catskills!). Being a mountain dweller, I can look on with some amusement as all those stuck up, smug folks down in NYC find out what it's like to live in Venice.
If all the polar ice melts (ie. Greenland and all of Antarctica), water levels will rise about 80 meters (250 feet or so). That's unlikely in the near future though.
Windows is a monopoly?
Windows is not only a monopoly, but Microsoft has been convicted multiple times, in several jurisdictions, of being an illegal monopolist, leveraging their monopoly in illegal ways to gain advantage in other product areas.
I did read some of it. I then did a quick search and found:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/nri.html
Which rather completely debunks the entire model. Just because you really, really want to believe the wacko doesn't make him less of a wacko.
In the US, we are used to a subsidised (Our energy bills pander to the petroleum industry) fuel delivery system.
I'm not sure where this myth comes from, but it simply isn't true. The reason the price of gas is higher in other countries is much higher taxes. The price of gas is not subsidized in the US, unless you count the military occupation and support of certain middle eastern countries.
Well, geez, if one wacko says it, it must be true.