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NPR has been cast as liberal by conservatives, but I find it pretty mainstream. Journalism when done correctly and honestly, gets criticized by all quarters.
The only time I had a problem with their coverage recently was when Mara Liasson started to fawn after the legacy of the Bush administration. The wool over her eyes damages her credibility.
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Not to defend NPR, but you can stream them, get local feeds, get them on XM/Sirius, and so on. Broadcasts aren't limited to 'radio' these days.
In terms of user-supported media (they get surprisingly little government funds as a percentage of overall revenues), they're pretty efficient in terms of their overall reach.
While it's folly to write off Cisco in any market, there's a lot of competition that's both mature and ready to 'go to the mat' to retain marketshare. The only one I see vulnerable is Dell, as they can't seem to break into the NOCs heavily because they don't understand the NOC very well at all.
Cisco has to also battle a lot of COGS, as they're not known to make things inexpensively, and worse, supporting systems infrastructure is different than supporting networking fabric. They also lack storage infrastructure-- a necessity for blade systems, and they're only loosely a one-stop-shop for support.
That said, Cisco plays for keeps. Doing so will hurt their earnings for a while, as this isn't an easy business to break into.
When I've looked at the audit process from the investment due diligence perspective, I've been unendingly suspect of the SOx #s I've seen. I don't believe them. The processes are incomplete, but that's fodder for a post in a different place.
IMHO, it's a broken and expensive and largely opaque process. I wish I were wrong. Perhaps I am.
We agree, except that taking the transparency components behind SarBox and making them both more easily audited and standardized would be helpful. Accountability and transparency ought to be key, but instead, SarBox isn't scrutinized by auditors, who are sufficiently comprimised by their engagements that the information is of no merit or use. The data might be there (and expensively, with lots of incongruencies) but there's no one to analyze it and act on it.
VMWare's compatibility list, and the fact it's been supporting 64-bit for a half of a decade doesn't make VBox any better-- for its half-an-hour-old-now support of 64-bit processors. The management interface isn't there, and the add-in bits aren't there, either. It's way late, like most other Sun promises.
Is it ok for hackers and people that want personal use? Probably. But VMWare, Parallels, Citrix/Xen, mainstream distro Xen, and a bunch of others still have lots of maturity where VBox is what always happens to Sun-- a latecomer with possible technical stability (as Sun code is usually pretty solid).
The holes may be old Osborne I's, connected via acoustically-coupled modems, that are sucking the life away from the magnetosphere. Adam Osborne would have been proud.
You can find a million things online as reference materials, but it's difficult to talk to civilians about why FOSS is a good idea, and how it's put together. People kind of glaze over when you tell them the differences. Often, they don't care and are suspect of anything truly free.
Centralized advocacy could certainly be helpful, as Linux is by its nature, evolutionary and rife with useful anarchy. Still, protagonists need to do some work to evolve the public image of Linux/GNU, FOSS, and why. Half-cocked replies are what turns people off, as they're insecure enough already about computing.
It's a stretch to get to that opinion, I believe. First, being gay and inserting body parts is just fine, and sodomy is legal in the US States, just like kissing someone of the opposite sex with a tongue is legal. Obese people may or may not be self-destructive.
Knowingly transmitting potentially deadly or debilitating disease is another thing. Causing society to bear the cost of someone's addiction choice is still another. Addiction becomes dysfunctional when it removes an individual's ability to be responsible for themselves by domination of the addiction over functional daily activities.
When an addict then shuns personal responsibility, doesn't provide care as a parent or care giver, and becomes incapable of dealing with the addiction (cost, self-care, even nutrition), then this is a problem that must be addressed by society and community. We don't let addicts die on the street if we can-- or at least we shouldn't.
Some people seem to be not easily addicted, others are.
My preference: clean living. Others, however, don't feel this way. I believe that making them illegal is a barrier to their use. Yet which are the ones to make illegal? Krispy Kremes? Heroin? Oxycotin? Viagra? Pot? Which? Cigarettes? Pad Thai? Which?
Please step up to the analyzer. A blood sample will be drawn, and you'll need to answer a few questions.
There. Your DNA says you're not as susceptible to addiction. You may proceed. However, be aware that if you experience any of the following life events, become depressed, have anxiety, become OCD, or whatever, you'll have to stop.
Yes, personal responsibility plays a huge part in all of this. Define it. Enforce it. See the problem?
The very nature of addiction, obsessive-compulsive disorders, and other behavioral difficulties are unknown, but we're learning about them all the time.
Marijuana seems pretty mild. Is mild ok? Maybe. We still have to deal with the responsibility of drug users when they drive, work, parent, and in other contexts. We haven't done a good job of figuring this out.
It revolves around choices, made cognitively, and the consequences of the choices. I can't smoke pot legally in the US. I can do so without consequences in Amsterdam. I've smoked it there. Nice, but big shrug. Here in the US, it's bad news because of the consequences. So I don't. Others do. Some don't care about the consequences, judged by their values.
Pirsig once said that it's all 'a question of values'. We need consensus based on reality, not fire and brimstone BS. Choices that regard liberty have incumbent responsibilities. These should be defined, and legislation undertaken considering them.
I'm not sure of your jurisdiction, but non-prescription use of meth is illegal where I live.
I thought really hard about marijuana. I thought about the killings along the Mexican border. I thought about the stoners I know. I thought about how ludicrious pot penalties are. I thought about how it seems to me that people drive drunk and stoned and kill other people.
I thought about X, Vitamin K, and a lot of clubbing drugs. I thought about how they lead to both fun, but also unsafe behavior. I thought about how I've buried friends that died of HepC. I thought about friends that have HIV, some dead, others living ok. I thought about a friend of mine that died of a speed ball when we were both 17. I thought about the guys I saw shot in a money dispute over blow. I thought about how we've mismanaged drug policies for decades. I thought about my trips on acid, and about how a friend of mine cut himself up, nearly bleeding to death.
I thought about how Texas has a mindless program of jailing substance abusers. I thought about the legal shooting galleries in Vancouver. I thought about coffee shops near the Dam in Amsterdam. I thought about the hash smokers I met in Turkey. I thought about my son and his fancy for uppers (now redirected), and I thought about how society wants to prevent drug use because of the taxpayer hospital bills. I thought about the sex workers a few miles away from me, and how they seem to be heavy substance abusers, but not all. I thought about their kids.
I've been thinking. I've been thinking that civilization fails people when they allow substance abuse. Note the word abuse. Some people can use drugs recreationally. Others simply cannot. You can't test for what person will fit what profile in advance, or what enabling circumstances will cause addiction. I'm an addict. I'm addicted to nicotine. Mmmmmmm. My favorite. Caffeine is also good, but nicotine has been tough for me to kick, and it will kill me. I've been thinking.
I'll agree that it looks like there's propaganda being used to assert control, but I can also believe squadrons of various black hats doing battle (although Mad Magazine comes to mind). The attacks against Estonia were real. So have attacks against US and NATO networks. Anonymous attacks using IPV6 are much more difficult (but certainly not impossible) to do.
What constitutes war? Who are the soldiers? What's the turf to be gained? I wish I could believe that the US military and other ops were capable of knowing if they were compromised. I don't think they do. They've certainly proven that they're incapable of planning war and executing battle plans effectively. WWII was easier than Iraq, Afghanistan, and the ostensible war on terror.
We agree. Some people have personalities and life circumstances that make them more susceptible to addiction. We need to recognize that and help them, just like we need to recognize that the population percentage of sociopaths is much higher than we thought and we need to directly focus programs towards sociopaths that are different from those that have non-sociopathic circumstances. Some elements of society simply don't consider circumstances, or are easily swayed to surmount them to negative consequences.
We agree. Rehab is important. The prisons don't really rehabilitate in my opinion. Support groups are necessary. So are access programs to ease people out of addiction, and/or find other ways to make rehab support more useful. The Canadians have programs that while not perfect, seem to work. Preventing additional problems, like the spread of HIV and HepC are important, too. So are ways to get families back together, and to develop support groups for all concerned.
Free needle programs are a start. There are programs to get straight, even though the activity is illegal.
In both cases, it's incumbent to stop. One goes from there. NarcAnon programs are fairly available in major urban areas. Risking jail happens in either event; both addictions tend to motivate other illegal behavior. It's not easy to stop. But there are doors that will open for substance abusers to help them.
No matter which debilitating drug, the effect is the same, the irresponsibility is the same, the social cost is the same, the rehabilitation is the same, and you wasted years and burned too much cash. Fie.
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NPR has been cast as liberal by conservatives, but I find it pretty mainstream. Journalism when done correctly and honestly, gets criticized by all quarters.
The only time I had a problem with their coverage recently was when Mara Liasson started to fawn after the legacy of the Bush administration. The wool over her eyes damages her credibility.
Not to defend NPR, but you can stream them, get local feeds, get them on XM/Sirius, and so on. Broadcasts aren't limited to 'radio' these days.
In terms of user-supported media (they get surprisingly little government funds as a percentage of overall revenues), they're pretty efficient in terms of their overall reach.
Sorry.
NOC==network operations center
COGS==cost of goods sold, an accounting term.
While it's folly to write off Cisco in any market, there's a lot of competition that's both mature and ready to 'go to the mat' to retain marketshare. The only one I see vulnerable is Dell, as they can't seem to break into the NOCs heavily because they don't understand the NOC very well at all.
Cisco has to also battle a lot of COGS, as they're not known to make things inexpensively, and worse, supporting systems infrastructure is different than supporting networking fabric. They also lack storage infrastructure-- a necessity for blade systems, and they're only loosely a one-stop-shop for support.
That said, Cisco plays for keeps. Doing so will hurt their earnings for a while, as this isn't an easy business to break into.
The misspelling was intentional.
When I've looked at the audit process from the investment due diligence perspective, I've been unendingly suspect of the SOx #s I've seen. I don't believe them. The processes are incomplete, but that's fodder for a post in a different place.
IMHO, it's a broken and expensive and largely opaque process. I wish I were wrong. Perhaps I am.
We agree, except that taking the transparency components behind SarBox and making them both more easily audited and standardized would be helpful. Accountability and transparency ought to be key, but instead, SarBox isn't scrutinized by auditors, who are sufficiently comprimised by their engagements that the information is of no merit or use. The data might be there (and expensively, with lots of incongruencies) but there's no one to analyze it and act on it.
VMWare's compatibility list, and the fact it's been supporting 64-bit for a half of a decade doesn't make VBox any better-- for its half-an-hour-old-now support of 64-bit processors. The management interface isn't there, and the add-in bits aren't there, either. It's way late, like most other Sun promises.
Is it ok for hackers and people that want personal use? Probably. But VMWare, Parallels, Citrix/Xen, mainstream distro Xen, and a bunch of others still have lots of maturity where VBox is what always happens to Sun-- a latecomer with possible technical stability (as Sun code is usually pretty solid).
Bah.
Well, there's a problem with that theory.
Sunspots are at a near-historic low. See this NASA graph at http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/SunspotCycle.shtml for a bit of an understanding. The 11yr sunspot cycle that was supposed to peak around 2012 isn't there. See http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/06/the-sunspot-mys.html for speculation.
The holes may be old Osborne I's, connected via acoustically-coupled modems, that are sucking the life away from the magnetosphere. Adam Osborne would have been proud.
You can find a million things online as reference materials, but it's difficult to talk to civilians about why FOSS is a good idea, and how it's put together. People kind of glaze over when you tell them the differences. Often, they don't care and are suspect of anything truly free.
Centralized advocacy could certainly be helpful, as Linux is by its nature, evolutionary and rife with useful anarchy. Still, protagonists need to do some work to evolve the public image of Linux/GNU, FOSS, and why. Half-cocked replies are what turns people off, as they're insecure enough already about computing.
Right.
Look to the problems in societies that have legalized drugs and find your answer, which is not the one you portend.
Addictions lead to bad choices. We call those 'consequences'. OD, debilitation, all these and more are the consequences of addiction.
Tell the people with COPD, emphysema, lung cancer about how addiction doesn't kill people. Fie.
Maybe we can get rid of the mind-numbing passive optical connectivity to the home (various schemes).
Although this is Intel, and they love to own markets-- thus driving competition away.
Didn't say that at all.
It's a stretch to get to that opinion, I believe. First, being gay and inserting body parts is just fine, and sodomy is legal in the US States, just like kissing someone of the opposite sex with a tongue is legal. Obese people may or may not be self-destructive.
Knowingly transmitting potentially deadly or debilitating disease is another thing. Causing society to bear the cost of someone's addiction choice is still another. Addiction becomes dysfunctional when it removes an individual's ability to be responsible for themselves by domination of the addiction over functional daily activities.
When an addict then shuns personal responsibility, doesn't provide care as a parent or care giver, and becomes incapable of dealing with the addiction (cost, self-care, even nutrition), then this is a problem that must be addressed by society and community. We don't let addicts die on the street if we can-- or at least we shouldn't.
I don't claim a right to use of addictive drugs.
Some people seem to be not easily addicted, others are.
My preference: clean living. Others, however, don't feel this way. I believe that making them illegal is a barrier to their use. Yet which are the ones to make illegal? Krispy Kremes? Heroin? Oxycotin? Viagra? Pot? Which? Cigarettes? Pad Thai? Which?
We have to disagree that addiction is a choice. So is murder and suicide, and so on. Talk to crack addicts about choice. Foo.
No, don't legalize it all. It's the insane solution. It's the cop-out solution.
Thanks for this info.
Uh, no.
Please step up to the analyzer. A blood sample will be drawn, and you'll need to answer a few questions.
There. Your DNA says you're not as susceptible to addiction. You may proceed. However, be aware that if you experience any of the following life events, become depressed, have anxiety, become OCD, or whatever, you'll have to stop.
Yes, personal responsibility plays a huge part in all of this. Define it. Enforce it. See the problem?
The very nature of addiction, obsessive-compulsive disorders, and other behavioral difficulties are unknown, but we're learning about them all the time.
Marijuana seems pretty mild. Is mild ok? Maybe. We still have to deal with the responsibility of drug users when they drive, work, parent, and in other contexts. We haven't done a good job of figuring this out.
It revolves around choices, made cognitively, and the consequences of the choices. I can't smoke pot legally in the US. I can do so without consequences in Amsterdam. I've smoked it there. Nice, but big shrug. Here in the US, it's bad news because of the consequences. So I don't. Others do. Some don't care about the consequences, judged by their values.
Pirsig once said that it's all 'a question of values'. We need consensus based on reality, not fire and brimstone BS. Choices that regard liberty have incumbent responsibilities. These should be defined, and legislation undertaken considering them.
I'm not sure of your jurisdiction, but non-prescription use of meth is illegal where I live.
I thought really hard about marijuana. I thought about the killings along the Mexican border. I thought about the stoners I know. I thought about how ludicrious pot penalties are. I thought about how it seems to me that people drive drunk and stoned and kill other people.
I thought about X, Vitamin K, and a lot of clubbing drugs. I thought about how they lead to both fun, but also unsafe behavior. I thought about how I've buried friends that died of HepC. I thought about friends that have HIV, some dead, others living ok. I thought about a friend of mine that died of a speed ball when we were both 17. I thought about the guys I saw shot in a money dispute over blow. I thought about how we've mismanaged drug policies for decades. I thought about my trips on acid, and about how a friend of mine cut himself up, nearly bleeding to death.
I thought about how Texas has a mindless program of jailing substance abusers. I thought about the legal shooting galleries in Vancouver. I thought about coffee shops near the Dam in Amsterdam. I thought about the hash smokers I met in Turkey. I thought about my son and his fancy for uppers (now redirected), and I thought about how society wants to prevent drug use because of the taxpayer hospital bills. I thought about the sex workers a few miles away from me, and how they seem to be heavy substance abusers, but not all. I thought about their kids.
I've been thinking. I've been thinking that civilization fails people when they allow substance abuse. Note the word abuse. Some people can use drugs recreationally. Others simply cannot. You can't test for what person will fit what profile in advance, or what enabling circumstances will cause addiction. I'm an addict. I'm addicted to nicotine. Mmmmmmm. My favorite. Caffeine is also good, but nicotine has been tough for me to kick, and it will kill me. I've been thinking.
I'll agree that it looks like there's propaganda being used to assert control, but I can also believe squadrons of various black hats doing battle (although Mad Magazine comes to mind). The attacks against Estonia were real. So have attacks against US and NATO networks. Anonymous attacks using IPV6 are much more difficult (but certainly not impossible) to do.
What constitutes war? Who are the soldiers? What's the turf to be gained? I wish I could believe that the US military and other ops were capable of knowing if they were compromised. I don't think they do. They've certainly proven that they're incapable of planning war and executing battle plans effectively. WWII was easier than Iraq, Afghanistan, and the ostensible war on terror.
We agree. Some people have personalities and life circumstances that make them more susceptible to addiction. We need to recognize that and help them, just like we need to recognize that the population percentage of sociopaths is much higher than we thought and we need to directly focus programs towards sociopaths that are different from those that have non-sociopathic circumstances. Some elements of society simply don't consider circumstances, or are easily swayed to surmount them to negative consequences.
We agree. Rehab is important. The prisons don't really rehabilitate in my opinion. Support groups are necessary. So are access programs to ease people out of addiction, and/or find other ways to make rehab support more useful. The Canadians have programs that while not perfect, seem to work. Preventing additional problems, like the spread of HIV and HepC are important, too. So are ways to get families back together, and to develop support groups for all concerned.
Free needle programs are a start. There are programs to get straight, even though the activity is illegal.
In both cases, it's incumbent to stop. One goes from there. NarcAnon programs are fairly available in major urban areas. Risking jail happens in either event; both addictions tend to motivate other illegal behavior. It's not easy to stop. But there are doors that will open for substance abusers to help them.
No matter which debilitating drug, the effect is the same, the irresponsibility is the same, the social cost is the same, the rehabilitation is the same, and you wasted years and burned too much cash. Fie.
Repeat after me, some people are very susceptible to drug addiction after being users. Not all, but enough that one has to consider the consequences.
We disagree, categorically.