Your post shows your selfish immaturity in sharp relief. "redistribution of our wealth and misappropriation of our technology" - You make it sound like the current "young" generation has sole rights to everything that exists. "robbing the young to pay the old Social Security and Medicare" - Ehh ? You are forgetting that without the old there would be no young ! Who do you think paid for the schools, the hospitals, the roads, the damn internet in the first place ? Or did it all spring into place just for your benefit ? It's interesting that it's only the western world that seems to have forgotten respect for ones elders. Life is cheap, and consumerism is king, even if those who developed and created the world around you have to die pennyless in the streets just to save you a bit of unearned and unappreciated cash.
No, people like you are only interested in yourselves, and fuck the world. And no, I don't support stupid copyright terms and IP legislation, but as in most areas of life, the stupid selfish people tend to make the government legislate so that we all suffer for your idiotic sense of entitlement.
Windows DOES warn you if you attempt to share the root of any drive. I've never used Limewire so I don't know if this app bypasses the warning.
Given that the network is the future of computing, then it will be up to the governments and software writers to secure the vulnerable parts, as the users have consistently shown in every relevant area, that they are largely incompetent when it comes to self preservation. See seatbelts, hard wired ac plugs, "May contain nuts", hot coffee, etc etc.
These people need to be continually provoked until they understand and accept that there's no percentage in getting upset about it. People using threats and intimidation to censor other people should offend every civilized human being.
Look, this is the bully syndrome at work, and by not continually provoking them, by giving in to their threats, you're simply following a policy of appeasement. That never works with a bully, ever, because next time they'll want more. I am not prepared to give it to them. Furthermore, we're talking about material published on the Internet in another country. They have zero grounds for imposing their own sense of what is acceptable on the rest of the world. It's time they grew up and accepted the fact that the rest of us don't care what they think.
Are we still talking about Pakistan here ? Because the same statement applies to the USA. What was it Bush said ?
You're either with us or you're against us. Sounds like a bully to me, and when he made that statement he lost my support immediately, it even made me angry, and I'm not a terr'st.
Reading comprehension skills = -1 The title says it correctly. AFAIK, the iphone doesn't use Android, so to take your point of view would be foolish. If there was an article that said "Ford plans 500bhp Ferrari killer" would you take that to mean that the ford was designed to kill 500bhp ferraris or that it had 500bhp that made it the ferrari killer ? Or "NASA plans 21st moon shot" would of course mean that NASA are planning to go to the 21st moon !
But there is water on Mars, just not a lot of it. Here on earth we have bacteria living inside rocks, in soda lakes, under massive extremes of temperature, you can almost name the (natural)environment, and be sure of finding some kind of life there. Have a read through here. Until we can drill down an appreciable way into the Martian surface, or explore a more representative portion of the planet, then it is disingenuous to proclaim Mars lifeless.
What I'd like to see happen, is for a mission to gather some samples and then return them to earth! For all we know, there may be certain materials on Mars that contain "dead" matter that could return to life once exposed to a more hospitable environment. The logistics of keeping the samples in a martian-like environment for the entire journey, and subsequently while on earth would be challenging, but not unachievable. Gravity would be the only real enforced change. There would be a lot to learn from such a mission and I don't consider the finding of some micro-meteorites on earth and the supposition that they originated on Mars sufficient evidence that they indeed originated on Mars, or even if they did that they are representative. If fragments of earth were blasted into space by a massive collision I doubt whether we could extrapolate anything biological from them.
Certainly, in the UK if you drive a diesel fueled by used cooking oil, a waste product which would normally be dumped, the government expect you to pay tax on it.
Not true.
Since July 2007, if you produce biofuels in quantities of less than 2500 litres per year, there is no tax to pay. 2500 litres is over 550 imperial gallons, therefore if your vehicle can get an average of 40 mpg, you can drive 22000 miles per year tax free !
Ok, so you have to procure the waste oil and process it, but it still works out considerably cheaper. How's 11 pence per litre sound ? (+plus initial investment of course).
BTW, please save the commerce-needs-transport retort, it costs four times as much to ship something by truck compared to rail.
Yeah, well those 4000 concrete blocks you ordered ? - they're down at the rail yard, so if you can come pick them up this afternoon, so that the train can leave for the next stop. What's that ? You only have a car ? Better get cracking then !
And the same goes for all your food, electricals, in fact anything you buy from a store. People like you have no idea what transport really involves. My truck carries 30 tons. Your average panel van (small truck) carries 3.5 tons. I'll leave it up to you to calculate how many extra vehicles or journeys you would need if you got rid of semis.
And I've yet to see a town with rail links to every store and house. And many towns don't have rail links.
You could also use that magic packet, to signal the computer to wake when the user swipes their access card first thing in the morning. By the time they reach their desk, their pc would be up and running. Ok, you have to link the access systems to a control server, but it wouldn't take too much hacking. They probably log accesses on a server anyway, so use that one.
You didn't read the links did you ? Blue Streak didn't use H2O2, it used LOX and Kerosene.
Eventually the project was cancelled because of its lack of credibility as a deterrent. Some considered the cancellation of Blue Streak to be not only a blow to British military-industrial efforts, but also to Commonwealth ally Australia, which had its own vested interest in the project.
The missiles used liquid oxygen and kerosene propellants. Whilst the vehicle could be left fully laden with 20+ tonnes of kerosene, the 60 tonnes of liquid oxygen had to be loaded immediately before launch or icing became a problem. Due to this fueling the rocket took 15 minutes, which would have made it useless as a rapid response to an attack. The missile was vulnerable to a pre-emptive attack, launched without warning or in the absence of any heightening of tension sufficient to warrant readying the missile, if such a circumstance were ever likely.
To protect the missiles against a pre-emptive strike while being fuelled, the idea of siting the missiles in underground silos was developed. These would have been designed to withstand a one megaton blast at a distance of half a mile (800 m) and were a British innovation, subsequently exported to the US. However, finding sites for these silos proved extremely difficult and RAF Spadeadam in Cumbria was the only site where construction was undertaken. The best sites for silo construction were the more stable rock strata in parts of southern England, but the construction of many underground silos in the countryside carried enormous economic, social, and political cost.
As no site in Britain provided enough space for test firing, a test site was established at Woomera, South Australia. Whitehall opposition to the project grew, and it was eventually cancelled on the ostensible grounds that it would be too vulnerable to a first-strike attack. Lord Mountbatten had spent considerable effort arguing that the project should be cancelled at once in favour of his Navy being armed with nuclear weapons, capable of pre-emptive strike. Around £84m had been spent.
The British government transferred its hopes to the Anglo-American Skybolt missile, before the project's cancellation by the USA as its ICBM program reached maturity. The British instead purchased the Polaris system from the Americans, carried in British-built submarines.
And
After the cancellation as a military project, there was reluctance to cancel the project because of the huge cost incurred. Blue Streak would have become the first stage of a projected all British satellite launcher known as "Black Prince": the second stage was derived from the Black Knight test vehicle, and the orbital injection stage was a small hydrogen peroxide/kerosene motor. This launcher never progressed beyond the design stage.
This also proved too expensive, and the European Development Launcher Organisation - ELDO - was set up. This used Blue Streak as the first stage, with French and German second and third stages. The Blue Streak first stage was successfully tested three times at the Woomera test range in Australia as part of the ELDO programme.
Although a total of eight launches were made of the multi-stage vehicle, the French and German components proved unreliable leading to the project's final cancellation, and the end of Blue Streak. The final launch was made at the French site of Kourou in French Guiana.
So, other than being part of a different design which used H2O2 for it's upper stages, Blue Streak did not use H2O2. As for your summary, that leaves a lot to be desired too. You make it seem like the British abandoned a promising technology for churlish reasons, whereas the truth seems to be that a)there was nowhere in the UK to safely store them ready for use, and b)we had another project (Skybolt) in cooperation with the US, who c)cancelled that project in favour of ICBMs which we then had no choic
What I find interesting are the dates themselves. 9/11 is the US emergency service telephone number, and is in the US date format. 7/7 means nothing in the UK (outside the bombings) BUT the date format is ambiguous. Was this date chosen specifically to garner sympathy from the USA ? Hmmmm....
The Catholic church existed before the Bible existed.
Er, I don't think so. The New Testament didn't exist before the Catholics, as Paul started the Catholic faith, and he was a disciple of Jesus. The Old Testament is pretty much the Torah, which pre-dates the Catholic church by quite a long time. In fact Genesis is the first book of the Torah.
While I'm not a US citizen, the situation is similar in the UK. I am against any form of all pervasive ID monitoring system. Many people cannot see the reasoning behind it, but freedom is not just the ability to go about your life in peace and do what you want, but also to do things that others don't want.
Why would I want to commit criminal acts ? Well, I don't know, *yet*. What is criminal tomorrow may be something that is perfectly legal to do today. Even if it is illegal today, I may find myself in a situation where I am compelled to commit a criminal act, for whatever reason, be it for my own safety or liberty. Laws, after all, are formulated for the masses, they are not suitable for imposing on 100% of the people 100% of the time. That sounds elitist, but every person is an elite of one.
Take drugs for instance. (I don't want to get into specific examples, because they detract from the main principle, but)- If I grow and smoke my own cannabis, who exactly am I harming ? I am not financing terrorists, I am not financing columbian warlords or the Taliban, and as I consume all I grow, I am not corrupting schoolkids, by hanging around the playground trying to push it on others. The only "crime" is that I am not paying tax on my pleasure. But because the law works in respect of the masses, I am penalised for a purely personal action, because you can't trust everybody to be so honest and responsible. Why should I suffer the loss of my freedom because others can't be trusted ? (This is why I don't want to get into examples, there will be loads of posts spouting crap about we all have to give up certain freedoms for the good of society).
To get back to the main point, my ability to break the law. Freedom includes the ability to break the law, if I so choose. If we are to have a moral society, it must be at the choice of that society, not imposed upon it. I don't murder, steal, rape etc, not because they are illegal, but because I have no inner drive compelling me to do so. I don't need a law to tell me not to do these things. The law is not designed to prevent me from doing these things either, it exists to provide a framework in which those who do commit such acts can be punished. Remember that part, it's important - Law provides a framework for punishment. Now while I may not commit murder, I do quite often break the speed limit, or watch a downloaded movie. These are not unspeakably evil acts, but they are breaking the law. There are other situations in which I could conceive of breaking more serious laws. The point is, until I reach a situation, I have no way of knowing what I might have to do. To voluntarily submit to laws which restrict my freedom of action now, without knowing how that will affect my future freedom would be dumb. I use Linux. One of the main reason for that choice is, Linux is not Microsoft. If there were a law passed which made the use of unauthorised operating systems illegal, then you can bet MS would be the legal choice. Windows is already one of the most controlling environments available, so if it were influenced by govt. then all sorts of horrible scenarios present themselves. Under such a system, Linux (or another free OS) would be the only sane choice. But of course it would be illegal. Oh dear, I'm a criminal.
Now we come to REAL ID and other such governmental record keeping. This kind of lawmaking serves no purpose other than to make the lives of those in power easier. That is to say, they get to consolidate their power over the rest of us, by closing off all avenues of escape or evasion. Well if you haven't paid taxes for 5 years and the govt. is chasing you, then the law makes sense. But if you just want to remain quietly anonymous, the the law works against you. You are part of the system, whether you are a criminal or not. And don't give me any of that "if you've got nothing to hide" crap. That's a childs argument to trick you into showing your hand. How many people who use that argument walk around naked ?
I installed it last night. Simply download the small script they link to here, chmod +x the script, and run it. It creates a directory and tells you which script to run. Run that script and tadaaa, the BOINC client starts. The only problem I had was my firefox install is not where the client expected it to be so it couldn't go to the finish registration page, but the helpful error message actually gave me the URL so I copied it to my browser and finished up that way. This is on FC4 BTW, with a Sempron 2500, so you don't need the latest cpu, and you can define the amount of cpu time the process gets using the preferences in the client. BTW, I also run FaH, and have been since 2004 (I am inside the top 3.5% ranking). I didn't join either project to earn credits either, but I am not interested in seeing my stats, because there are many other multi-cpu machines dedicated by the *heros* out there that get all the high counts, and my contribution is off the bottom of the scale in comparison. But it is still a contribution. Also, you could always try this site if you really need to find out what you've accomplished. You need a minimum of 1 credit to use the system.
A dark domed camera is not a hidden camera,in the same respect as your other definitions. You know there may be a camera under the dome, but you have no idea which way it is pointing, so your risk assessment changes. It allows fewer cameras to be operated for the same deterrent effect. (360 degree field of view coverage without necessarily recording in any particular direction).
Maybe if we all lean one way or the other, we can steer the ship despite the actions of the captain and crew. Personally, I do what I do, not what I'm told. Actually, despite my opening line, your points are wrong anyway. The world is the ship, but it's not in a storm - the storm is going on on board. The rudder and mast aren't broken, they just don't exist in the same strength anymore. Religion has been the biggest dynamic throughout history, and most westernised countries have superceded that power. The captain isn't drunk (actually "captains"), they're out for themselves, just like us, just as they've always been. The crew is us, and I'm not stoned - at least, not right now. In fact even when I'm stoned, I'm not so stoned I lose control. The news media (or just media) is there to distract us, and extract money from us while we're so distracted.
The disturbing thing is that so many people seem to have either no idea of their situation, or have become so resigned to life as it is that they can't be bothered to fight for what they want. This is what disturbs me about the war on terror. The population is letting the governments remove any and all ways of effecting any real change in the political system, while accepting the govt.s excuses. One day when armed revolt becomes the only way to stop a really evil dictator from doing his will, the system will be so much in the dictators favour that revolt will be impossible. The word terrorist used to mean something, but these days it is misapplied to so many activists, who have no other way to effect the change they are striving for. The US constitution gives the population the right of armed struggle against its own government, but any organised group who attempted such an action stands no chance because of the control systems now in place. And of course the apathy of the general population. Until we, the people of the world, actually stand up and stand firm against big government and big business, then we are only along for the ride, and we can't complain about the destination. We need to have ambitions other than material riches, which are inventions of big business, and we need politics that takes all views into account, not just those who got more votes, but don't have an actual majority of opinion. For instance in the UK, more people voted against New labour than voted for, but who gets the power ? That's crap. In every other situation in life the ones with the least votes don't get their way, but when you bring party politics into it, they end up winning ! To sum up, until people stop viewing life as one big supermarket sweep, nothing will change. It's ironic that the arts and civilisation came about because human intelligence gave us more time to think and philosophise, rather than grubbing around for food all the time. And yet these days, more and more time is devoted to grubbing around for money (that's not really needed) and civilisation is suffering. Acting like victims doesn't help either. Develop your morals, stand up for yourself, don't be greedy, and believe in your capability to make a difference. Now I'm not religious, but if you regard the bible as a guide to better living, then a lot of the stuff in there makes sense. You don't have to be a raving fundamentalist to accept that fucking your neighbours wife, stealing his possessions, and then killing him is in any way civilised. The bible just made fantastic promises to try and get people to follow the rules, but we're older now - surely we don't need the promise of ice cream just to make us eat our vegetables ? Somebody tag this story *self inflicted*
Heck, we have container ships full of every product imaginable unloading left and right, and the government doesn't have a clue what is in those things.
Well I can't speak for the USA, but in the UK, we have container ships unloading quite frequently too. And speaking from experience, every box gets get checked before it leaves the port. They have installed scanners for radio-actives and biologicals which the whole truck passes through, both inward and outward trips. Take Felixstowe for instance. I collected a 40' box one night and as I passed through the first security exit, I was pulled by customs, and taken to a secure area for a detailed search - why ? Because the box had shown elevated radiation levels. What was in the box ? Toilets. Yes, plain old ceramic toilets. Apparently anything that uses a high mineral content gives off higher than normal radioactive levels. So I would say that unless the USA are really behind the times, then they would have similar devices installed at all container ports too. Take a look at Felixstowe. Zoom in and pan to see the individual boxes, and bear in mind that they are stacked normally 5 high. Now calculate the total number of boxes, bearing in mind that probably ten trucks a minute leave this port, 24 hours a day. That's a lot of freight both in and out, but it's all checked. (BTW this is one of the trucks I was driving)
To my dismay (but not my surprise) it still has the hobb controls in a straight line, not in any way related to the layout of the hobb rings themselves, meaning that she will still make mistakes turning the wrong ring off or up, burning food and so on, and she'll constantly have to look at the tiny diagrams by each control to try to work out which hobb ring it corresponds to.
Constantly, or once ? Do you need a degree in systems management to operate a cooker ?
Meanwhile the light switches in her new half-million-pound house are grouped together randomly so you have to experiment by switching lights on and off at random until you hit the right switch.
Forever, or just once ? Do you need specialist electrical training to learn which switch operates which light ?
Her fridge has a temperature control that goes from '-' to '+'. Is that "more heat" or "more refrigeration"?
Read The Fucking Manual !
Oh, and all the power sockets in the house are at floor level, not convenient waist or hand height.
You may be happy with exposed sockets and attendant hanging cables all over your walls, but personally I prefer them out of my line of sight. Try bending your back a bit more often, it's good for you.
Her DVD/TV remote probably has 50 unused buttons on it
So manufacturers must now issue a questionnaire for you to choose how many and which type of buttons you require on your remote ? That'll help prices, not to mention the 4 to 6 week wait for the remote to be delivered.
Get a life ! I'm heartily sick of this bone idle attitude to life. Why should anybody in their right mind expect to instantly understand a device the moment they're exposed to it. Learning is a lifelong experience, if you don't use it you lose it. I expect you're one of the people who complain about falling educational standards in schools too ! I seriously hope you don't drive - you probably have to look at the gear change every time and use the wipers to indicate, not to mention fog lights on but with only sidelights instead of the headlights.
And in related news, my car has been running a lot better since I started wiping my arse with the other hand. P.S. Linux doesn't need "momentum". It's not a race, it's an operating system. It gains nothing by "beating" the opposition. If anything, I have found the 2 main desktop environments have become LESS usable recently, presumably to cater for the newbs. Ubuntu is 1 distro, out of hundreds, and the only thing noticeable about it, is it's preferred by lusers rather than users. I guess some people are genetically disposed to become fanbois.
I wonder if that was a fully licenced copy of XP ? If not, then I guess that shows who is more guilty of IP "theft" then. The ones who pay for an OS are more likely to "steal" software than the ones who don't pay for the OS.
You appear to forget one important factor - VOLUME How much air is contained within the cabin ? A fair amount, all trying to get through 1 small hole, so the effective pressure is much more than the average pressure (pre-hole). I work with pressurised vessels every day, at no more than 2 BAR, and let me tell you, 2 BAR in a vessel 35 foot by 9 foot has a lot of power. You can't just open the lid, in fact any more than 2 psi can cause injury when uncoupling a hose or cracking open a hatch. And a small hole has a habit of becoming a big hole very rapidly, either that or causing catastrophic failure of the whole vessel (ie. BANG).
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Your post shows your selfish immaturity in sharp relief. "redistribution of our wealth and misappropriation of our technology" - You make it sound like the current "young" generation has sole rights to everything that exists.
"robbing the young to pay the old Social Security and Medicare" - Ehh ? You are forgetting that without the old there would be no young ! Who do you think paid for the schools, the hospitals, the roads, the damn internet in the first place ? Or did it all spring into place just for your benefit ? It's interesting that it's only the western world that seems to have forgotten respect for ones elders. Life is cheap, and consumerism is king, even if those who developed and created the world around you have to die pennyless in the streets just to save you a bit of unearned and unappreciated cash.
No, people like you are only interested in yourselves, and fuck the world. And no, I don't support stupid copyright terms and IP legislation, but as in most areas of life, the stupid selfish people tend to make the government legislate so that we all suffer for your idiotic sense of entitlement.
Given that the network is the future of computing, then it will be up to the governments and software writers to secure the vulnerable parts, as the users have consistently shown in every relevant area, that they are largely incompetent when it comes to self preservation. See seatbelts, hard wired ac plugs, "May contain nuts", hot coffee, etc etc.
Because the same statement applies to the USA.
What was it Bush said ? You're either with us or you're against us. Sounds like a bully to me, and when he made that statement he lost my support immediately, it even made me angry, and I'm not a terr'st.
Reading comprehension skills = -1
The title says it correctly. AFAIK, the iphone doesn't use Android, so to take your point of view would be foolish. If there was an article that said "Ford plans 500bhp Ferrari killer" would you take that to mean that the ford was designed to kill 500bhp ferraris or that it had 500bhp that made it the ferrari killer ?
Or "NASA plans 21st moon shot" would of course mean that NASA are planning to go to the 21st moon !
This one looks like a great map for Unreal Tournament !
Have a read through here. Until we can drill down an appreciable way into the Martian surface, or explore a more representative portion of the planet, then it is disingenuous to proclaim Mars lifeless.
What I'd like to see happen, is for a mission to gather some samples and then return them to earth! For all we know, there may be certain materials on Mars that contain "dead" matter that could return to life once exposed to a more hospitable environment. The logistics of keeping the samples in a martian-like environment for the entire journey, and subsequently while on earth would be challenging, but not unachievable. Gravity would be the only real enforced change. There would be a lot to learn from such a mission and I don't consider the finding of some micro-meteorites on earth and the supposition that they originated on Mars sufficient evidence that they indeed originated on Mars, or even if they did that they are representative. If fragments of earth were blasted into space by a massive collision I doubt whether we could extrapolate anything biological from them.
Ubuntu et al are distributions of GNU/Linux.
Since July 2007, if you produce biofuels in quantities of less than 2500 litres per year, there is no tax to pay. 2500 litres is over 550 imperial gallons, therefore if your vehicle can get an average of 40 mpg, you can drive 22000 miles per year tax free !
Ok, so you have to procure the waste oil and process it, but it still works out considerably cheaper. How's 11 pence per litre sound ? (+plus initial investment of course).
Check out the FuelPod 2.Better get cracking then !
And the same goes for all your food, electricals, in fact anything you buy from a store.
People like you have no idea what transport really involves. My truck carries 30 tons. Your average panel van (small truck) carries 3.5 tons. I'll leave it up to you to calculate how many extra vehicles or journeys you would need if you got rid of semis.
And I've yet to see a town with rail links to every store and house. And many towns don't have rail links.
You could also use that magic packet, to signal the computer to wake when the user swipes their access card first thing in the morning. By the time they reach their desk, their pc would be up and running. Ok, you have to link the access systems to a control server, but it wouldn't take too much hacking. They probably log accesses on a server anyway, so use that one.
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Blue Streak didn't use H2O2, it used LOX and Kerosene.
And
So, other than being part of a different design which used H2O2 for it's upper stages, Blue Streak did not use H2O2.
As for your summary, that leaves a lot to be desired too. You make it seem like the British abandoned a promising technology for churlish reasons, whereas the truth seems to be that a)there was nowhere in the UK to safely store them ready for use, and b)we had another project (Skybolt) in cooperation with the US, who c)cancelled that project in favour of ICBMs which we then had no choic
What I find interesting are the dates themselves. ....
9/11 is the US emergency service telephone number, and is in the US date format.
7/7 means nothing in the UK (outside the bombings) BUT the date format is ambiguous.
Was this date chosen specifically to garner sympathy from the USA ?
Hmmmm
The New Testament didn't exist before the Catholics, as Paul started the Catholic faith, and he was a disciple of Jesus.
The Old Testament is pretty much the Torah, which pre-dates the Catholic church by quite a long time. In fact Genesis is the first book of the Torah.
Why would I want to commit criminal acts ? Well, I don't know, *yet*. What is criminal tomorrow may be something that is perfectly legal to do today. Even if it is illegal today, I may find myself in a situation where I am compelled to commit a criminal act, for whatever reason, be it for my own safety or liberty. Laws, after all, are formulated for the masses, they are not suitable for imposing on 100% of the people 100% of the time. That sounds elitist, but every person is an elite of one.
Take drugs for instance. (I don't want to get into specific examples, because they detract from the main principle, but)- If I grow and smoke my own cannabis, who exactly am I harming ? I am not financing terrorists, I am not financing columbian warlords or the Taliban, and as I consume all I grow, I am not corrupting schoolkids, by hanging around the playground trying to push it on others. The only "crime" is that I am not paying tax on my pleasure. But because the law works in respect of the masses, I am penalised for a purely personal action, because you can't trust everybody to be so honest and responsible. Why should I suffer the loss of my freedom because others can't be trusted ? (This is why I don't want to get into examples, there will be loads of posts spouting crap about we all have to give up certain freedoms for the good of society).
To get back to the main point, my ability to break the law. Freedom includes the ability to break the law, if I so choose. If we are to have a moral society, it must be at the choice of that society, not imposed upon it. I don't murder, steal, rape etc, not because they are illegal, but because I have no inner drive compelling me to do so. I don't need a law to tell me not to do these things. The law is not designed to prevent me from doing these things either, it exists to provide a framework in which those who do commit such acts can be punished. Remember that part, it's important - Law provides a framework for punishment.
Now while I may not commit murder, I do quite often break the speed limit, or watch a downloaded movie. These are not unspeakably evil acts, but they are breaking the law. There are other situations in which I could conceive of breaking more serious laws. The point is, until I reach a situation, I have no way of knowing what I might have to do. To voluntarily submit to laws which restrict my freedom of action now, without knowing how that will affect my future freedom would be dumb.
I use Linux. One of the main reason for that choice is, Linux is not Microsoft. If there were a law passed which made the use of unauthorised operating systems illegal, then you can bet MS would be the legal choice. Windows is already one of the most controlling environments available, so if it were influenced by govt. then all sorts of horrible scenarios present themselves. Under such a system, Linux (or another free OS) would be the only sane choice. But of course it would be illegal. Oh dear, I'm a criminal.
Now we come to REAL ID and other such governmental record keeping. This kind of lawmaking serves no purpose other than to make the lives of those in power easier. That is to say, they get to consolidate their power over the rest of us, by closing off all avenues of escape or evasion. Well if you haven't paid taxes for 5 years and the govt. is chasing you, then the law makes sense. But if you just want to remain quietly anonymous, the the law works against you. You are part of the system, whether you are a criminal or not. And don't give me any of that "if you've got nothing to hide" crap. That's a childs argument to trick you into showing your hand. How many people who use that argument walk around naked ?
Maybe I'm getting old, but
I installed it last night. Simply download the small script they link to here, chmod +x the script, and run it. It creates a directory and tells you which script to run. Run that script and tadaaa, the BOINC client starts. The only problem I had was my firefox install is not where the client expected it to be so it couldn't go to the finish registration page, but the helpful error message actually gave me the URL so I copied it to my browser and finished up that way. This is on FC4 BTW, with a Sempron 2500, so you don't need the latest cpu, and you can define the amount of cpu time the process gets using the preferences in the client.
BTW, I also run FaH, and have been since 2004 (I am inside the top 3.5% ranking). I didn't join either project to earn credits either, but I am not interested in seeing my stats, because there are many other multi-cpu machines dedicated by the *heros* out there that get all the high counts, and my contribution is off the bottom of the scale in comparison.
But it is still a contribution.
Also, you could always try this site if you really need to find out what you've accomplished. You need a minimum of 1 credit to use the system.
A dark domed camera is not a hidden camera,in the same respect as your other definitions. You know there may be a camera under the dome, but you have no idea which way it is pointing, so your risk assessment changes. It allows fewer cameras to be operated for the same deterrent effect. (360 degree field of view coverage without necessarily recording in any particular direction).
Maybe if we all lean one way or the other, we can steer the ship despite the actions of the captain and crew.
Personally, I do what I do, not what I'm told.
Actually, despite my opening line, your points are wrong anyway.
The world is the ship, but it's not in a storm - the storm is going on on board.
The rudder and mast aren't broken, they just don't exist in the same strength anymore. Religion has been the biggest dynamic throughout history, and most westernised countries have superceded that power.
The captain isn't drunk (actually "captains"), they're out for themselves, just like us, just as they've always been.
The crew is us, and I'm not stoned - at least, not right now. In fact even when I'm stoned, I'm not so stoned I lose control.
The news media (or just media) is there to distract us, and extract money from us while we're so distracted.
The disturbing thing is that so many people seem to have either no idea of their situation, or have become so resigned to life as it is that they can't be bothered to fight for what they want. This is what disturbs me about the war on terror. The population is letting the governments remove any and all ways of effecting any real change in the political system, while accepting the govt.s excuses. One day when armed revolt becomes the only way to stop a really evil dictator from doing his will, the system will be so much in the dictators favour that revolt will be impossible.
The word terrorist used to mean something, but these days it is misapplied to so many activists, who have no other way to effect the change they are striving for. The US constitution gives the population the right of armed struggle against its own government, but any organised group who attempted such an action stands no chance because of the control systems now in place. And of course the apathy of the general population.
Until we, the people of the world, actually stand up and stand firm against big government and big business, then we are only along for the ride, and we can't complain about the destination. We need to have ambitions other than material riches, which are inventions of big business, and we need politics that takes all views into account, not just those who got more votes, but don't have an actual majority of opinion. For instance in the UK, more people voted against New labour than voted for, but who gets the power ? That's crap. In every other situation in life the ones with the least votes don't get their way, but when you bring party politics into it, they end up winning !
To sum up, until people stop viewing life as one big supermarket sweep, nothing will change. It's ironic that the arts and civilisation came about because human intelligence gave us more time to think and philosophise, rather than grubbing around for food all the time. And yet these days, more and more time is devoted to grubbing around for money (that's not really needed) and civilisation is suffering. Acting like victims doesn't help either. Develop your morals, stand up for yourself, don't be greedy, and believe in your capability to make a difference.
Now I'm not religious, but if you regard the bible as a guide to better living, then a lot of the stuff in there makes sense. You don't have to be a raving fundamentalist to accept that fucking your neighbours wife, stealing his possessions, and then killing him is in any way civilised. The bible just made fantastic promises to try and get people to follow the rules, but we're older now - surely we don't need the promise of ice cream just to make us eat our vegetables ?
Somebody tag this story *self inflicted*
Yeah like, the middle finger salute, the bird. Works for me.
Take Felixstowe for instance. I collected a 40' box one night and as I passed through the first security exit, I was pulled by customs, and taken to a secure area for a detailed search - why ? Because the box had shown elevated radiation levels. What was in the box ? Toilets. Yes, plain old ceramic toilets. Apparently anything that uses a high mineral content gives off higher than normal radioactive levels.
So I would say that unless the USA are really behind the times, then they would have similar devices installed at all container ports too.
Take a look at Felixstowe. Zoom in and pan to see the individual boxes, and bear in mind that they are stacked normally 5 high. Now calculate the total number of boxes, bearing in mind that probably ten trucks a minute leave this port, 24 hours a day. That's a lot of freight both in and out, but it's all checked. (BTW this is one of the trucks I was driving)
Forever, or just once ? Do you need specialist electrical training to learn which switch operates which light ?
Read The Fucking Manual !
You may be happy with exposed sockets and attendant hanging cables all over your walls, but personally I prefer them out of my line of sight. Try bending your back a bit more often, it's good for you.
So manufacturers must now issue a questionnaire for you to choose how many and which type of buttons you require on your remote ? That'll help prices, not to mention the 4 to 6 week wait for the remote to be delivered.
Get a life !
I'm heartily sick of this bone idle attitude to life. Why should anybody in their right mind expect to instantly understand a device the moment they're exposed to it. Learning is a lifelong experience, if you don't use it you lose it. I expect you're one of the people who complain about falling educational standards in schools too !
I seriously hope you don't drive - you probably have to look at the gear change every time and use the wipers to indicate, not to mention fog lights on but with only sidelights instead of the headlights.
And in related news, my car has been running a lot better since I started wiping my arse with the other hand.
P.S. Linux doesn't need "momentum". It's not a race, it's an operating system. It gains nothing by "beating" the opposition. If anything, I have found the 2 main desktop environments have become LESS usable recently, presumably to cater for the newbs. Ubuntu is 1 distro, out of hundreds, and the only thing noticeable about it, is it's preferred by lusers rather than users. I guess some people are genetically disposed to become fanbois.
1 line and you're done
I wonder if that was a fully licenced copy of XP ?
If not, then I guess that shows who is more guilty of IP "theft" then. The ones who pay for an OS are more likely to "steal" software than the ones who don't pay for the OS.
You appear to forget one important factor - VOLUME
How much air is contained within the cabin ? A fair amount, all trying to get through 1 small hole, so the effective pressure is much more than the average pressure (pre-hole). I work with pressurised vessels every day, at no more than 2 BAR, and let me tell you, 2 BAR in a vessel 35 foot by 9 foot has a lot of power. You can't just open the lid, in fact any more than 2 psi can cause injury when uncoupling a hose or cracking open a hatch. And a small hole has a habit of becoming a big hole very rapidly, either that or causing catastrophic failure of the whole vessel (ie. BANG).