You mean like TCP, IP, SMTP, HTTP, FTP, PDF, the hated Word document, XML-app-du-jour, and the x86 instruction set?
Many of these standards and protocols are well documented and have pretty standardized implementations (such as TCP, IP, SMTP, HTTP, and FTP), some are documented but have implementations that can be incompatible (such as HTML), some are proprietary and different implementations have different levels of compatibility (such as MS Word documents), some are proprietary and have pretty standardized implementations (such as PDF and the x86 instruction set), and it is possible that some of these are patented methods (such as certain XML implementations).
Is this FEMA demanding? Or an ignorant IT services supplier supplying a solution which only works on the IE6 platform? Or (horror of horrors) is this system an in-house job?
In any case it is FEMA demanding that only IE6 be used. It doesn't matter who wrote the "solution", it is FEMA that needs to answer for this arrogance.
National Guards are descendants of state militias. Unless they are nationalized, the Air and Army National Guards are under the control of the Governor and the President. At least some the Lousiana Army National Guard were on active duty at the time. It is possible that the Lousiana Army National Guard was nationalized and all of the members were solely under the control of the president, and not the governor.
1. The feasibility of either moving the port a bit upstream or doing a satellite port system should be explored.
2 and 3. Most of the affected areas of the Gulf Coast needs the normal post disaster rescue, cleanup and repair; which Americans are experienced and good at doing.
New Orleans is a totally different situation. Most of New Orleans is now either at the bottom of the newly expanded Lake Pontchartrain or on it's way to becoming marsh land.
I would support the US government buying some of the former New Orleans metropolitan area to create the New Orleans National Park and then cleaning up and reclaiming the area as lake, marsh and wet lands. The New Orleans National Park could also preserve the French Quarter and possibly other historicly important areas.
4. The role of the government during disasters is to provide immediate aid and to help clean up to prevent the spread of disease. I agree that the New Orleans refugees are in dire need and I fully support the US Government doing everything necessary to rescue people, and to provide emergency medical care, food, water, and temporary shelter. The government could also provide the New Orleans refugees either a one-way bus ticket to anywhere in the US or if they have a car, a $200 grant to buy gasoline. There are existing federal, state, and local programs to provide food and shelter for the longer term until the New Orleans refugees can be reabsorbed into the American population.
"That is why nothing can beat a book. No matter what story is told, the book is printed, and it will NOT change. You can't just take a bottle of white out and a pen and make a change."
I fully agree with you in most cases for books other than those books purchased by states that do central book purchasing. If you are the book buyer for a state's school system you have the power to change the content of the books that will be purchased by public schools in your state, and in some cases by all other states. If your state doesn't want the schools to teach Darwinism, just have the book publishers redact the undesired sections from the books used in the state's schools. Your state's children won't even be bothered to know that Darwin existed. In some cases, the publisher won't even bother publishing a special redacted edition of the book, the redacted verstion of the book becomes the standard version that is distributed everywhere.
For examples of this sort of textbook tampering, see "Intelligent design movement" and "Japanese history textbook controversies" in the wikipedia.
From my experience, with briefs and stretchy boxers, it is easier to use the leg band than to use the fly; with non-stretchy boxers it is nearly impossible to use use the leg opening and one must resort to using either the fly or the waistband.
Cox broadband is great, we have it in our area and it beats the snot out of DSL. The installer told me that Cox doesn't support home networks as he plugged my router into the modem. When I opened up a laptop running FreeBSD to test the connection, he just told me that I probably didn't want the CDROM that they give to new users and instead gave me the URL of where to find generic Cox email and usenet client information.
We have had broadband cable for a couple of years and the only time that it ever died was when the entire area lost power after a tropical storm came through.
There was no scarcasm flag on your definition of the "boonies", much of what you described is consistant with a developing rural area, and from what I remember of Chandler in the 1980's, Chandler IS in the boonies. I have lived in several rural areas of the South West. I am very familiar with people moving in from metropolitan areas to the boonies because housing prices are lower and then do nothing but bitch because TV reception totally sucks, the telephone system (including DSL) is not what they are used to (and costs more), the wind blows all the time, and neither of the two local grocery stores carry the brand of bottled water that they are used to.
In almost all areas of the US, there are at most two broadband providers; the local telco which may provide DSL service, and cable television. Not all areas have DSL available and not all areas have cable televisoin available. SOME areas are getting broadband wireless service and the wireline providers are pretty successful in maintaining their control over wireless broadband also.
It amazes me when people move from a metropolitan area to a rural area and then bitch about the rural area not having the same level of technology as the metropolitan area. IN MOST CASES, YOU CAN EXPECT TO NOT HAVE GREAT DSL SERVICE IN THE BOONIES. If you don't like it, MOVE BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM.
"Ford would happily start making Model-Ts again if someone was going to buy five million of the things.
It would take a full analysis to determine if the original materials are still available to determine if Ford (or anybody) would be capable of making Model T's again. Another problem is that it would be illegal to sell a new or close replica Model T in the US and many/most other countries due to automobile emission and safety laws.
"What does this Austrailian hope to gain? Really, they may gain a few thousand or hundred thousand dollars, but I imagine that this will not exactly engender "good will" from the "victims." "
It remains to be seens what he may gain (I certainly hope that he gains nothing). Slime like that doesn't give a shit about "good will".
With the tamper resistant tape the tape box can be opened without tearing it, it is just that it would be evident that the box had been opened. I have gotten into the habit of opening boxes and checking the contents before I buy the item because without a tamper seal it is impossible to know that the contents of the box haven't been tampered with. I have gotten boxes with accessories missing and with the wrong product in the box. I have seen products where it would have been easy to swap the outter box from an expensive model of the product with the outter box of a cheaper model. The innocent buyer pays for the 9000XL model and gets the 1000EC model. I agree with you about blister packs and any other packaging that gets torn up when it is opened.
I put the blame for a retailer attempting to sell a printer with missing barcode squarely on the retailer and the manufacturer. The retailer should not accept a returned item that has a missing barcode and the retailer should also not be selling an open box return as new. The entire manufacturers' rebate system sucks and manufacturers should find a new gimmick to sell crap. Manufacturers should also put tamper resistant tape on boxes that indicates when a box has been opened. I really hate those welded shut plastic clamshells but I can understand why they are used.
" if p2p files are legit, why do you need checksums.."
To verify that the file is, in fact, legitimate. There are a number of unscrupulous folks out there that would just love to have even just a few people install their trojans. As Ronald Reagan said "Trust, but verify."
"The cost of the Windows license is more of a political/philosophical irritation.
No, the cost of the Windows license (or Windows "tax") is an actual out of pocket cost to the purchaser of the computer that is built into the cost of the computer. To add insult to injury, in most areas the purchaser pays sales tax on the added cost of the operating system.
I believe that the RIAA and it's members wants one thing above all else: TO RETAIN CONTROL OF THE US MUSIC BUSINESS. Enforcing copyright is just one of the tools that is used to control the music business. People distributing songs using P2P is not under the RIAA's control so the RIAA does everything that it can to stop it.
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You mean like TCP, IP, SMTP, HTTP, FTP, PDF, the hated Word document, XML-app-du-jour, and the x86 instruction set?
Many of these standards and protocols are well documented and have pretty standardized implementations (such as TCP, IP, SMTP, HTTP, and FTP), some are documented but have implementations that can be incompatible (such as HTML), some are proprietary and different implementations have different levels of compatibility (such as MS Word documents), some are proprietary and have pretty standardized implementations (such as PDF and the x86 instruction set), and it is possible that some of these are patented methods (such as certain XML implementations).
Fox News is a sterling example of fair and unbiased news coverage.
Great, does this mean that the laptops in our emergency packs have to be replaced that that they run the latest verion of MS Windows?
Is this FEMA demanding? Or an ignorant IT services supplier supplying a solution which only works on the IE6 platform? Or (horror of horrors) is this system an in-house job?
In any case it is FEMA demanding that only IE6 be used. It doesn't matter who wrote the "solution", it is FEMA that needs to answer for this arrogance.
It is a source of great amazement to Europeans that when something goes wrong, Americans shoot each other and the rescue personel.
It's not just Europeans (speaking as an Australian).
It's not just Europeans and Australians (speaking as an American).
National Guards are descendants of state militias. Unless they are nationalized, the Air and Army National Guards are under the control of the Governor and the President. At least some the Lousiana Army National Guard were on active duty at the time. It is possible that the Lousiana Army National Guard was nationalized and all of the members were solely under the control of the president, and not the governor.
1. The feasibility of either moving the port a bit upstream or doing a satellite port system should be explored.
2 and 3. Most of the affected areas of the Gulf Coast needs the normal post disaster rescue, cleanup and repair; which Americans are experienced and good at doing.
New Orleans is a totally different situation. Most of New Orleans is now either at the bottom of the newly expanded Lake Pontchartrain or on it's way to becoming marsh land.
I would support the US government buying some of the former New Orleans metropolitan area to create the New Orleans National Park and then cleaning up and reclaiming the area as lake, marsh and wet lands. The New Orleans National Park could also preserve the French Quarter and possibly other historicly important areas.
4. The role of the government during disasters is to provide immediate aid and to help clean up to prevent the spread of disease. I agree that the New Orleans refugees are in dire need and I fully support the US Government doing everything necessary to rescue people, and to provide emergency medical care, food, water, and temporary shelter. The government could also provide the New Orleans refugees either a one-way bus ticket to anywhere in the US or if they have a car, a $200 grant to buy gasoline. There are existing federal, state, and local programs to provide food and shelter for the longer term until the New Orleans refugees can be reabsorbed into the American population.
"That is why nothing can beat a book. No matter what story is told, the book is printed, and it will NOT change. You can't just take a bottle of white out and a pen and make a change."
I fully agree with you in most cases for books other than those books purchased by states that do central book purchasing. If you are the book buyer for a state's school system you have the power to change the content of the books that will be purchased by public schools in your state, and in some cases by all other states. If your state doesn't want the schools to teach Darwinism, just have the book publishers redact the undesired sections from the books used in the state's schools. Your state's children won't even be bothered to know that Darwin existed. In some cases, the publisher won't even bother publishing a special redacted edition of the book, the redacted verstion of the book becomes the standard version that is distributed everywhere.
For examples of this sort of textbook tampering, see "Intelligent design movement" and "Japanese history textbook controversies" in the wikipedia.
I very seriously doubt that 10% of current electricity usage in the US is used to power computers, even if the additional air conditioning power requirements were included. See http://enews.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/net- energy-studies.html
It appears to be in alpha or beta and probably could be made to work better. It appears that the slats are easily slid open if they malfunction.
Does this mean that Linux will come up with an OpenBSD compatibility module to take advantage of the OpenBSD drivers?
From my experience, with briefs and stretchy boxers, it is easier to use the leg band than to use the fly; with non-stretchy boxers it is nearly impossible to use use the leg opening and one must resort to using either the fly or the waistband.
Ahhh, urban sprawl.
Cox broadband is great, we have it in our area and it beats the snot out of DSL. The installer told me that Cox doesn't support home networks as he plugged my router into the modem. When I opened up a laptop running FreeBSD to test the connection, he just told me that I probably didn't want the CDROM that they give to new users and instead gave me the URL of where to find generic Cox email and usenet client information.
We have had broadband cable for a couple of years and the only time that it ever died was when the entire area lost power after a tropical storm came through.
There was no scarcasm flag on your definition of the "boonies", much of what you described is consistant with a developing rural area, and from what I remember of Chandler in the 1980's, Chandler IS in the boonies. I have lived in several rural areas of the South West. I am very familiar with people moving in from metropolitan areas to the boonies because housing prices are lower and then do nothing but bitch because TV reception totally sucks, the telephone system (including DSL) is not what they are used to (and costs more), the wind blows all the time, and neither of the two local grocery stores carry the brand of bottled water that they are used to.
In almost all areas of the US, there are at most two broadband providers; the local telco which may provide DSL service, and cable television. Not all areas have DSL available and not all areas have cable televisoin available. SOME areas are getting broadband wireless service and the wireline providers are pretty successful in maintaining their control over wireless broadband also.
It amazes me when people move from a metropolitan area to a rural area and then bitch about the rural area not having the same level of technology as the metropolitan area. IN MOST CASES, YOU CAN EXPECT TO NOT HAVE GREAT DSL SERVICE IN THE BOONIES. If you don't like it, MOVE BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM.
"Ford would happily start making Model-Ts again if someone was going to buy five million of the things.
It would take a full analysis to determine if the original materials are still available to determine if Ford (or anybody) would be capable of making Model T's again. Another problem is that it would be illegal to sell a new or close replica Model T in the US and many/most other countries due to automobile emission and safety laws.
"What does this Austrailian hope to gain? Really, they may gain a few thousand or hundred thousand dollars, but I imagine that this will not exactly engender "good will" from the "victims." "
It remains to be seens what he may gain (I certainly hope that he gains nothing). Slime like that doesn't give a shit about "good will".
With the tamper resistant tape the tape box can be opened without tearing it, it is just that it would be evident that the box had been opened. I have gotten into the habit of opening boxes and checking the contents before I buy the item because without a tamper seal it is impossible to know that the contents of the box haven't been tampered with. I have gotten boxes with accessories missing and with the wrong product in the box. I have seen products where it would have been easy to swap the outter box from an expensive model of the product with the outter box of a cheaper model. The innocent buyer pays for the 9000XL model and gets the 1000EC model. I agree with you about blister packs and any other packaging that gets torn up when it is opened.
I put the blame for a retailer attempting to sell a printer with missing barcode squarely on the retailer and the manufacturer. The retailer should not accept a returned item that has a missing barcode and the retailer should also not be selling an open box return as new. The entire manufacturers' rebate system sucks and manufacturers should find a new gimmick to sell crap. Manufacturers should also put tamper resistant tape on boxes that indicates when a box has been opened. I really hate those welded shut plastic clamshells but I can understand why they are used.
" if p2p files are legit, why do you need checksums.."
To verify that the file is, in fact, legitimate. There are a number of unscrupulous folks out there that would just love to have even just a few people install their trojans. As Ronald Reagan said "Trust, but verify."
"The cost of the Windows license is more of a political/philosophical irritation.
No, the cost of the Windows license (or Windows "tax") is an actual out of pocket cost to the purchaser of the computer that is built into the cost of the computer. To add insult to injury, in most areas the purchaser pays sales tax on the added cost of the operating system.
"isn't that about 666 Euros?"
No
Google porovides two links to two different companies named Insyde. One of the Insydes is a Taiwanese company that is a Microsoft Windows Embedded Partner. http://www.insydesw.com.tw/tc/index.asp http://www.insydetech.com/ Somehow I don't think that they are talking about the Insyde that sells computer hardware in Van Nuys. http://www.insyde.com/
I believe that the RIAA and it's members wants one thing above all else: TO RETAIN CONTROL OF THE US MUSIC BUSINESS. Enforcing copyright is just one of the tools that is used to control the music business. People distributing songs using P2P is not under the RIAA's control so the RIAA does everything that it can to stop it.