HuH? I thought bunker fuel basically was the dregs. I'm pretty sure bio-fuel would be less nasty that that junk, as long as it has the proper combustion properties.
NO one is keeping Mexicans from immigrating to the US. All we ask is for them to follow the rules, and wait in line like everyone else from every other country that wants to come to the US and become a citizen.
Absolutely correct. Though I think the quotas are too low (and put there partially to compensate for the influx that isn't counted toward the quota.)
We've got fixed-size quotas that date back to the nineteenth century, when the quota should be based on the maximum number of people we can reasonably expect to indoctrinate into our culture. (since importing other cultures is as likely to ruin whatever part of our culture that made them want to come here in the first place as it is to improve our own, and the decision of whether or not to absorb elements of other cultures should be made by us, not the other cultures) And that number obviously depends on the current population.
So, the quotas should be strictly enforced, and based on the most recent Census.
Although the 9/11 attacks were the impetus which resulted in the US operations in Iraq, they were not the reason for the attacks in Iraq.
The reason was twofold. Following 9/11, the "Bush Doctrine" was initiated, a strategy which basically amounts to not suffering trouble spots to continue to foment terrorists.
Iraq was just such a trouble spot, considering their ongoing violations of the armistice (technically, the first gulf war never ended, so Bush-43 "merely" resumed operations). Those violations included AA-fire at NATO enforcement of the no-fly zone, and attempts to hinder and even mislead the UN weapons inspectors.
Weapons inspectors who themselves were unreliable, based on Hans Blix's shameless self-promoting and attempts to become buddy-buddy with Saddam and play diplomat. If Iraq was out of the headlines for a while, Saddam was keeping them from key areas. If it looked like war loomed, all of a sudden, saddam was cooperating amicably.
And simultaneous to these events, Saddam used his daughters to lure his sons-in-law (who'd defected) back to Iraq to their deaths.
I know you and the US news media focused on WMDs because they were the easiest to cram into a fifteen second sound bite, and certainly their presence was an issue (or we wouldn't have needed weapons inspectors) but the reason for resuming the Iraqi conflict was procedural and, ironically, necessary to maintain UN authority. You can only say, "or else" for so long before you need to answer the question, "or else, what?"
However, any reasonable person voting for Bush Jr is either a glass eater or likes to mix religion and politics.
As I said, compromise candidate. Which is a nice way of putting that we were voting against Albert Gore, Jr. and John "F" Kerry. I also don't know anyone who voted for Bush the second time.
As you can see from my sig, I learned the important lesson from my mistake: Avoid having a president and congress of the same party. The president won't be willing to veto and Congress will push through every one of his half-baked ideas.
Which is why I'm hoping for a Hillary win in November. At worst, we'll have two years during which people catch on that she doesn't have anything but her plan to nationalize an industry that accounts for 1/8th of the US economy. At which point at least one branch of congress will be republican and it'll be like the 90s all over again. (hopefully without a dot-com bubble)
I didn't like Bill, but I'll say this about him: He was very ineffective. And that's just about my highest praise for anyone in the oval office.
McCain, unfortunately is a very poor partisan. He probably won't veto anything, no matter what party congress is (unless someone tries to roll back or fix his pet abomination "campaign finance reform"), so he's actually a pretty poor choice.
In fact, that's precisely what he's saying you're doing.
He's saying you're shipping the product one generation away from finished. One, basically complete rewrite of the "final" iteration, but formally and in a documentation-first way, using the lessons you learned producing that last iteration.
It may be that you simply don't have the resources to actually finish, and that's the reason you're calling prototype0.9f the finished product, but he's saying you're really not quite done until your "code" is basically one big academic paper with examples, and wherein the examples constitute the entirety of the project.
If you don't understand why you have different opinions about "done-ness" then you are missing the point, and you will never understand as long as your mind is closed. Hint: is != ought.
Photometer data, seismic measurements, tide levels, temperature logs, astronomical images, ephemeris data, past lotto numbers, emergency procedures, core sample measurements, and many others are all examples of things that shouldn't be encrypted. (and should probably be stored in plain ASCII delimited lists, uncompressed as well, if possible)
Identifying information about real people does not fall on that list. It's not really *your* information to lose. It is far better that you should forget a key and have to put out a call for patients to be reexamined to rebuild the database (or in many cases simply do without information you cannot re-aquire) than to betray patients who trusted you with personal information.
The others - glass eaters, neo-cons, and idiots who want to mix religion and government - those guys are ruining not just the party, but the whole planet.
I don't have any idea who the "glass eaters are" but "neo-cons" aren't what you think. Hint: Hillary is a neocon. Cheney is not. Bush.. maybe..ish..if he could be described as conservative at all. Religion mixers didn't vote for Bush in either election as he was a pretty clearly secular candidate.
Further, for those of us who did vote for Bush, he was our compromise candidate. And as his failure to veto McCain-Feingold, and his pushing of the Prescription drug boondogle are evidence, we compromised a little too much. (to the point that I almost long for the days of the Clinton presidency, the days of the shutdown and republican congress, that is. There is no sweeter sound in government than the stroke of the veto pen.)
If only you non-republicans had put up better candidates than Kerry and Gore, who were, let's face it, Caricatures of candidates, rather than actual contenders for presidential power.
I imagine the armored car companies refuse to transport them: the tapes are considerably more valuable per volume than anything else in the truck, and may be more valuable than the entire truck (if it's transporting mixed bills, for instance)
It might be that the armored car companies don't want to increase the profile of their trucks that much. The security is designed to make attacks more costly than the contents, which is defeated by transporting things of too significant a value.
More likely is that he knows how to find the commercial software and is running into trouble finding GPL software. And he's wondering if it's because it's just not out there, or if he isn't using the right resources.
At least, if I were a library worker, I'd be very concerned with keeping on top of ways-to-find-information.
Perhaps it's similar to a game we imaginatively called "wall ball" in my elementary school.
Basically, you take a tennis ball (or super bouncy ball if you have one) and bounce it off a wall as fast as you can, and try and aim it so it hits someone. If they catch it, they can try to wing it at you the same way.
It forces you to watch for the various firing angles the other players might have on you, and it forces the other players to try and get tricky... like, if you bounce it off the mud first before the wall, you can catch someone off guard, but it'll be going slower, so it might not cause a welt.
No rules though. Just a bunch of kids trying to give each other bruises.
Both bicycle racing and auto racing have teams that engage in both offense and defense.
Just because you're ignorant doesn't mean you can just come up with some willhe nillhe definition to exclude things you don't like and think that it actually does.
At issue is the question of whether a "sport" is something you do or something you bet on.
Why do you think healthy lifestyles just give you more "at the end?"
There are lots of people in great shape of surprising ages, due to healthy eating and plenty of exercise. It may not be "an extra 7 years of age 24" but it's certainly a bit more like, "an extra month or two of each of the ages 21 through 62"
And really, are you really going to argue that somene who can't do anything due to being winded or too fat has good quality of life just because they don't eat any greens they don't like?*
*and if they are, then I'm taking a knife with me the next time I fly. You can enjoy your hedonistic lifestyle as much as you want, but it ends at my armrest. I reserve the right to remove any bits that ooze onto the seat I've paid for. You shouldn't be able to enjoy sloth and make people uncomfortable on closely-packed cross country flights.
But you have to pay for the fire department because YOUR house burning down affects other people: if you just let it burn, you run a very high risk of setting the neighborhood ablaze. It's actually cheaper for everyone involved to just nip every fire in the bud as quickly as possible.
It is not the case however if you have cancer. Your cancer is your own. It is not contagious.
Regarding the schools, you think about them the wrong way. You are educated by the schools, but don't pay for it, then. Paying for schools for the current generation is the fee for your own education. Now, if you were not educated within the public system at all, perhaps you shouldn't have to pay for public schools when you're grown up, although you'd be stupid not to, especially if you had any significant capital, since the product of those schools are your future employees.
Police: good question. I like the service police provide (especially since the alternative is organized crime protection rackets which may or may not provide any of the protection paid for.) So I'd pay voluntarily for that service. But why should you be forced to pay for something I like and benefit from?
I'm not saying the government should be the one paying for it, but it's not that hard to imagine a disease which can be tested for having a course of treatment which is not only more than an unskilled person could hope to make, but also must begin early enough that a person who has the disease will not be able to afford education to become skilled, even if they are capable of it.
Or worse, a disease whose effects directly limit the potential income capacity of an individual to less than the course of treatment will cost on either or both of a marginal or lifetime basis.
Obviously, in those cases, the afflicted person will either die early, suffer, etc, or someone else will have to pay for the treatment.
I'm not entirely sure what the solution is. Perhaps, it's to pay for insurance in a lump sum (via loans, I guess) before the testing, although this would necessitate some fairly rigid controls on the tests (since people pre-testing could skew the funding problem)
Certainly. Stealing those drugs is wrong. Just like stealing food is wrong. Just like killing people is wrong.
There are circumstances under which all of the above are justified. But they're still wrong. It's just that there is some greater wrong that you're dealing with.
The rule of thumb is: If you would be willing to engage in the action, knowing you will definitely be imprisoned for it, it might be justified. That doesn't mean you shouldn't serve time for a crime committed just because you had a good reason, though.
SSH into router (RSA2 2048bit passphrase), Wake-On-Lan (with magic packet and secret word) my desktop machine from off, suspend or hibernate.
Is there a list of hardware somewhere that actually does wake-on-lan? I haven't had a configuration yet that actually worked (though I've put no actual effort into it. It just seemed like something that should've been part of everything for the past couple of build generations)
Lynx not only looks like work. It is work. just to understand most pages. Especially crappy 3-column pages like slashdot and everything else seems to be these days.
1 minute of jail time per offense. Where an "offense" is defined as one email sent from another's computer without their knowledge or permission. (and some legalese to iron out all the edge cases.) Also, the sentence cannot be served concurrently.
If $120 worth of crime nets four years in a maximum security "pound-you-in-the-asz" prison, people might think twice about it.
Perl has maintained an incredible job at being backwards compatible with some pretty ugly code.
Eventually, everything will be written in Perl. For the same reason that eventually, everyone will speak english (the language perl most tries to appear as): It will absorb elements from all other languages until they are all technically subsets of Perl.
It bugs me that people spend a lot of time thinking about how hermetically sealed they want their box and don't put any more thought into the headstone than, "as big and ostentatious as possible." And put no more information than their name and a pair of dates shallowly engraved `on environmentally unprotected granite stone.
I want my marker to be useful to people. So, I'd like as complete a genealogy as possible (and anything noteworthy that I may have accomplished) engraved in tiny print on bronze plates, then coated with vapor deposited quartz or something. (need to get thermal expansion coefficients close, I think, so quartz might not be the perfect choice.)
If even one descendant finds it useful, it will be better than a hundred of those stupid statue of a saint perched atop a giant cross resting on a platform of classical columns monuments people seem to think is worth the money.
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HuH? I thought bunker fuel basically was the dregs. I'm pretty sure bio-fuel would be less nasty that that junk, as long as it has the proper combustion properties.
Absolutely correct. Though I think the quotas are too low (and put there partially to compensate for the influx that isn't counted toward the quota.)
We've got fixed-size quotas that date back to the nineteenth century, when the quota should be based on the maximum number of people we can reasonably expect to indoctrinate into our culture. (since importing other cultures is as likely to ruin whatever part of our culture that made them want to come here in the first place as it is to improve our own, and the decision of whether or not to absorb elements of other cultures should be made by us, not the other cultures) And that number obviously depends on the current population.
So, the quotas should be strictly enforced, and based on the most recent Census.
Although the 9/11 attacks were the impetus which resulted in the US operations in Iraq, they were not the reason for the attacks in Iraq.
The reason was twofold. Following 9/11, the "Bush Doctrine" was initiated, a strategy which basically amounts to not suffering trouble spots to continue to foment terrorists.
Iraq was just such a trouble spot, considering their ongoing violations of the armistice (technically, the first gulf war never ended, so Bush-43 "merely" resumed operations). Those violations included AA-fire at NATO enforcement of the no-fly zone, and attempts to hinder and even mislead the UN weapons inspectors.
Weapons inspectors who themselves were unreliable, based on Hans Blix's shameless self-promoting and attempts to become buddy-buddy with Saddam and play diplomat. If Iraq was out of the headlines for a while, Saddam was keeping them from key areas. If it looked like war loomed, all of a sudden, saddam was cooperating amicably.
And simultaneous to these events, Saddam used his daughters to lure his sons-in-law (who'd defected) back to Iraq to their deaths.
I know you and the US news media focused on WMDs because they were the easiest to cram into a fifteen second sound bite, and certainly their presence was an issue (or we wouldn't have needed weapons inspectors) but the reason for resuming the Iraqi conflict was procedural and, ironically, necessary to maintain UN authority. You can only say, "or else" for so long before you need to answer the question, "or else, what?"
Did you even watch the last season of BSG?
Half of the last season was the build up to and trial of former President Gaius Baltar, Ph.D
The main bad-guy for the current season is President Laura Roslin.
As I said, compromise candidate. Which is a nice way of putting that we were voting against Albert Gore, Jr. and John "F" Kerry. I also don't know anyone who voted for Bush the second time.
As you can see from my sig, I learned the important lesson from my mistake: Avoid having a president and congress of the same party. The president won't be willing to veto and Congress will push through every one of his half-baked ideas.
Which is why I'm hoping for a Hillary win in November. At worst, we'll have two years during which people catch on that she doesn't have anything but her plan to nationalize an industry that accounts for 1/8th of the US economy. At which point at least one branch of congress will be republican and it'll be like the 90s all over again. (hopefully without a dot-com bubble)
I didn't like Bill, but I'll say this about him: He was very ineffective. And that's just about my highest praise for anyone in the oval office.
McCain, unfortunately is a very poor partisan. He probably won't veto anything, no matter what party congress is (unless someone tries to roll back or fix his pet abomination "campaign finance reform"), so he's actually a pretty poor choice.
It's not both or neither. It's a zen kone.
First you ask the question.
Then you think about it for a lifetime.
Then you go out for ice cream.
In fact, that's precisely what he's saying you're doing.
He's saying you're shipping the product one generation away from finished. One, basically complete rewrite of the "final" iteration, but formally and in a documentation-first way, using the lessons you learned producing that last iteration.
It may be that you simply don't have the resources to actually finish, and that's the reason you're calling prototype0.9f the finished product, but he's saying you're really not quite done until your "code" is basically one big academic paper with examples, and wherein the examples constitute the entirety of the project.
If you don't understand why you have different opinions about "done-ness" then you are missing the point, and you will never understand as long as your mind is closed. Hint: is != ought.
Photometer data, seismic measurements, tide levels, temperature logs, astronomical images, ephemeris data, past lotto numbers, emergency procedures, core sample measurements, and many others are all examples of things that shouldn't be encrypted. (and should probably be stored in plain ASCII delimited lists, uncompressed as well, if possible)
Identifying information about real people does not fall on that list. It's not really *your* information to lose. It is far better that you should forget a key and have to put out a call for patients to be reexamined to rebuild the database (or in many cases simply do without information you cannot re-aquire) than to betray patients who trusted you with personal information.
I don't have any idea who the "glass eaters are" but "neo-cons" aren't what you think. Hint: Hillary is a neocon. Cheney is not. Bush.. maybe..ish..if he could be described as conservative at all. Religion mixers didn't vote for Bush in either election as he was a pretty clearly secular candidate.
Further, for those of us who did vote for Bush, he was our compromise candidate. And as his failure to veto McCain-Feingold, and his pushing of the Prescription drug boondogle are evidence, we compromised a little too much. (to the point that I almost long for the days of the Clinton presidency, the days of the shutdown and republican congress, that is. There is no sweeter sound in government than the stroke of the veto pen.)
If only you non-republicans had put up better candidates than Kerry and Gore, who were, let's face it, Caricatures of candidates, rather than actual contenders for presidential power.
It's a tape backup. they don't even need truecrypt. They could just pipe it through openssl.
I imagine the armored car companies refuse to transport them: the tapes are considerably more valuable per volume than anything else in the truck, and may be more valuable than the entire truck (if it's transporting mixed bills, for instance)
It might be that the armored car companies don't want to increase the profile of their trucks that much. The security is designed to make attacks more costly than the contents, which is defeated by transporting things of too significant a value.
More likely is that he knows how to find the commercial software and is running into trouble finding GPL software. And he's wondering if it's because it's just not out there, or if he isn't using the right resources.
At least, if I were a library worker, I'd be very concerned with keeping on top of ways-to-find-information.
Well that's stupid. Everyone knows the space station is like one of those buddhist sand painting thingies. It's about the building, not the having.
If you can catch fish from a space station, you can call it whatever you want.
Perhaps it's similar to a game we imaginatively called "wall ball" in my elementary school.
Basically, you take a tennis ball (or super bouncy ball if you have one) and bounce it off a wall as fast as you can, and try and aim it so it hits someone. If they catch it, they can try to wing it at you the same way.
It forces you to watch for the various firing angles the other players might have on you, and it forces the other players to try and get tricky... like, if you bounce it off the mud first before the wall, you can catch someone off guard, but it'll be going slower, so it might not cause a welt.
No rules though. Just a bunch of kids trying to give each other bruises.
Both bicycle racing and auto racing have teams that engage in both offense and defense.
Just because you're ignorant doesn't mean you can just come up with some willhe nillhe definition to exclude things you don't like and think that it actually does.
At issue is the question of whether a "sport" is something you do or something you bet on.
Why do you think healthy lifestyles just give you more "at the end?"
There are lots of people in great shape of surprising ages, due to healthy eating and plenty of exercise. It may not be "an extra 7 years of age 24" but it's certainly a bit more like, "an extra month or two of each of the ages 21 through 62"
And really, are you really going to argue that somene who can't do anything due to being winded or too fat has good quality of life just because they don't eat any greens they don't like?*
*and if they are, then I'm taking a knife with me the next time I fly. You can enjoy your hedonistic lifestyle as much as you want, but it ends at my armrest. I reserve the right to remove any bits that ooze onto the seat I've paid for. You shouldn't be able to enjoy sloth and make people uncomfortable on closely-packed cross country flights.
But you have to pay for the fire department because YOUR house burning down affects other people: if you just let it burn, you run a very high risk of setting the neighborhood ablaze. It's actually cheaper for everyone involved to just nip every fire in the bud as quickly as possible.
It is not the case however if you have cancer. Your cancer is your own. It is not contagious.
Regarding the schools, you think about them the wrong way. You are educated by the schools, but don't pay for it, then. Paying for schools for the current generation is the fee for your own education. Now, if you were not educated within the public system at all, perhaps you shouldn't have to pay for public schools when you're grown up, although you'd be stupid not to, especially if you had any significant capital, since the product of those schools are your future employees.
Police: good question. I like the service police provide (especially since the alternative is organized crime protection rackets which may or may not provide any of the protection paid for.) So I'd pay voluntarily for that service. But why should you be forced to pay for something I like and benefit from?
I'd like to see some good arguments there.
I'm not saying the government should be the one paying for it, but it's not that hard to imagine a disease which can be tested for having a course of treatment which is not only more than an unskilled person could hope to make, but also must begin early enough that a person who has the disease will not be able to afford education to become skilled, even if they are capable of it.
Or worse, a disease whose effects directly limit the potential income capacity of an individual to less than the course of treatment will cost on either or both of a marginal or lifetime basis.
Obviously, in those cases, the afflicted person will either die early, suffer, etc, or someone else will have to pay for the treatment.
I'm not entirely sure what the solution is. Perhaps, it's to pay for insurance in a lump sum (via loans, I guess) before the testing, although this would necessitate some fairly rigid controls on the tests (since people pre-testing could skew the funding problem)
Certainly. Stealing those drugs is wrong. Just like stealing food is wrong. Just like killing people is wrong.
There are circumstances under which all of the above are justified. But they're still wrong. It's just that there is some greater wrong that you're dealing with.
The rule of thumb is: If you would be willing to engage in the action, knowing you will definitely be imprisoned for it, it might be justified. That doesn't mean you shouldn't serve time for a crime committed just because you had a good reason, though.
Is there a list of hardware somewhere that actually does wake-on-lan? I haven't had a configuration yet that actually worked (though I've put no actual effort into it. It just seemed like something that should've been part of everything for the past couple of build generations)
Lynx not only looks like work. It is work. just to understand most pages. Especially crappy 3-column pages like slashdot and everything else seems to be these days.
We should up the penalties.
1 minute of jail time per offense. Where an "offense" is defined as one email sent from another's computer without their knowledge or permission. (and some legalese to iron out all the edge cases.) Also, the sentence cannot be served concurrently.
If $120 worth of crime nets four years in a maximum security "pound-you-in-the-asz" prison, people might think twice about it.
Eventually, everything will be written in Perl. For the same reason that eventually, everyone will speak english (the language perl most tries to appear as): It will absorb elements from all other languages until they are all technically subsets of Perl.
It bugs me that people spend a lot of time thinking about how hermetically sealed they want their box and don't put any more thought into the headstone than, "as big and ostentatious as possible." And put no more information than their name and a pair of dates shallowly engraved `on environmentally unprotected granite stone.
I want my marker to be useful to people. So, I'd like as complete a genealogy as possible (and anything noteworthy that I may have accomplished) engraved in tiny print on bronze plates, then coated with vapor deposited quartz or something. (need to get thermal expansion coefficients close, I think, so quartz might not be the perfect choice.)
If even one descendant finds it useful, it will be better than a hundred of those stupid statue of a saint perched atop a giant cross resting on a platform of classical columns monuments people seem to think is worth the money.