I worked in that building in 1997 as an NT rollout tech. We used the lecture hall at the GSB, or Graduate School of Business, in the atrium area. I lamented the building was named after gates, too.
Worse, I lamente that we were rolling out NT boxes to professors, Deans, Staff, and Faculty, many of whom didn't want the HP boxes loaded with all that stuff. Many were contented to keep their Apples, and when that tape backup disaster struck Stanford GSP, ms had egg on its face because one of their prime, buddy-buddy-consultants who "knew everything" did not properly set up the backups, nor test them. A friend I worked with who knew of the problem also warned them to rearchitect it, for it was a problem waiting to happen. He was barred from being on the project, probably because he was a threat to the established consultant.
I was dismayed that that same established consultant was hell-bent to rip out all vestiges of Novell, too.
I was dismayed that windoze was showing internet exploder as THE browser, and was on the start button, but you had to DIG for Netscape. I remedied that by making sure that EVERY desktop I deployed, especially in the Library where the transient students were going to be influenced, had Netscape on the desktop, since we were told not to put NS on the start button. We weren't explicitly told by IT staff NOT to put it on the desktop so I made sure the GSB students/visitors KNEW about Netscape.
Now, they need to know about Opera, and others that run on windoze. At work, where I now am, I rolled out some xp and 2k boxes, and of course I put Opera on them. We have some users who just keep having problems with that goddamned security hole wretch called internet explorer that it was easier to give the users Opera. Not all of them use it, but now they know it's an OPTION.
Another story for later... How San Francisco's shiny new library forces users (whether resident or not) to surrender driver's license info, and more, just to use the desktop computer. They don't even have a stand-alone printer for visitors to print from their own laptop. It is not possible (or permitted) to wirelessly or via Cat 5 use their printer. I had my own laptop, but they wouldn't let me use a printer, and the employee told me I'd have to sign up for a card, reserve a computer (which I'd not likely get since it then was about 330 PM), and I'd have to use "microsoft word".
I FLATLY told her, "I don't use "word". I only use OpenOffice.Org, Star Office, or Lotus Word Pro. I don't need word. I just need to right click on the file and tell windows to print it. It won't even need to run word."
Her response was muted, cautious, but maybe with a tinge of "whatever".
And, this, in a state rife with campaign corruption, abusive tax/fee structures on small businesses that don't even EARN or MAKE a penny, and we don't have ANY pervasiveness of F/LOSS solutions in our PUBLIC, TAX-FINANCED institutions, libraries, or government offices as a matter of policy.
No wonder california's economy is going to go to hell in a hand basket.
I'm propose we remedy that: Let's get a list of ALL public and commercial property, list the activities known to be their, list their estimated annual corporaition for/not-for-profit tax/fee, their property taxes, their sales and assets taxes and assessments and figure out who's LYING about our tax collection infrastructure.
Let's blog, wiki, tiki-wiki and MySQL the HELL out of the thing, track the various departments, their bloat, their activities, their budgets, their vehicles and projects, and since it's all public policy/law/process, there DAMN WELL better not be any obfuscation as long as we don't list the run-of-the-mill employees, their addresses or personal information. But, the top dogs, the decision-makers... they get to be NAMED (less privacy info, again), and any SCREWUPS or political diversions of monies need to be shown and mirrorred.
California (and many other states) need to learn to lay off, live within their means, and use F/LOSS and stop taking dirty/coerced/"power-graby" money. That goes for colleges, too.
Those among the Hijack-All Rich and the Sell-Out policy makers are seeding or acceding to capitalism, but ceding our (or their own nations') security and stability (by imperialistically taking markets, seeding insatiable materialism, and then absconding when the shit hits the fan.
Long Version, as applies to the US in my jaded view (yeh, I was born and raised here, served for here, and paid taxes here, so I can kvetch as ruthlessly and non-physically as I choose):
Rant mode on:
Look, **outsourcing** in and of itself is not a bad thing. While outsourcing (where corporate 'meriku is solely or primarily interested in the bottom line and the employee can be expensive, and the company SENDS the jobs away) it is not exactly the same as migrant/seasonal workers coming here to pick vegetables and fruits in hot-assed weather (where most 'merikuns would not dare go), outsourcing has been going on for decades.
But, the heinous part about outsourcing of the 90's is the RATE or INTENSITY of it. More and more local or regional competitors are driving down profits, and the almighty-dollar-lovin' boards of directors demand response, hence increased outsourcing.
But, that is GOOD, since it does what I call "raising the boats with the waterline" so the other nations don't get swamped and sink. This is a problem we're creating and driving and going to pay for. Materialism has its price.
As degrees become less influential, and as jobs increasingly become automated or go overseas, the inevitable outcome is there will be less work for shitloads of people --educated or not.
This "free enterprise" system could (technically), might (via recklessness), and probably (for moral/karma rectification reasons) should come screeching to a halt, and I predict the government will have to -- and better goddam get on the ball with this -- start paying people just to stay out of trouble, printing money to keep souls out of malaise, low-wage doldrums, and downright incensed. Materialism can only go so far, and when the consumers run out of money, the rich will be the first in line to cash out of their bank before OTHER RICHER person gets there to do the same.
I don't at ALL blame India or Filipinos or Taiwanese. It's the "sell granny for a buck if we have to" types who program the markets to hell and then abscond when the shit hits the fan. We need to put the brakes on the persistent "irrational exuberance" that is causing insane increases in property values, nearly inexplicable increases in stress and stress-related diseases and injuries, and just FIX our tottering, ambling system.
So, if politicians don't want their asses hung, strung and slung (I wouldn't participate, but I wouldn't rescue most of them either, with the way things keep going when they sell their souls for a buck), they'd better start redrafting the next Great Experiment:
-- Resuscitating America After the Materialism Dream Implodes.
So, it won't matter if it's pink or plastic food stamps or benefits currency, or if it's green. I figure I don't care if somebody is counterfeiting, since the government is the largest counterfieter a nation can have. THink about it: BILLIONS of US dollars get printed and shipped overseas to influence others and endear them to 'merikun power, stability, and more. But, corrupt dictators, monarchies, shahs, premiers, emperors, and more (no better, not much worse than the cadge/cabals we have had and STILL have in office right now), and the money ends up sequestered in some goddam vault in case a dictator needs to make a quick, rich getaway after 'merika or some other nations' intelligence forces depose, or attempt to decapitate, a now-unpopular "leader".
So, if we can allow this system of ours to print, ship away, and lose track of uncirculated cold, hard cash that WE could be spending, but the program it for others, then when it is NOT in circulation, it is either ignored, or it's replaced with yet more cash. That being so, what the HELL is wrong with the government
(The SHOCKING story of Batman's TRUE LINEAGE... will NOT be seen toNIGHT... (a play on Cartman/"Trent and Thomas" "Not Without My Anus: based on a True Story"...)) (Or, substitute AMUS...heheh)
Yesss, Hropbin. If I can only take out myyy sooper... BAT.. GPL... defribulator, I can cut us free! (And, I can see BATGurl, tonight...)
Holy Hoppin'g Jehoosuphur, Batman! Hurry!
Just... one... second...
(Imagine that if Jack Lord got the Kirk part, and if somehow Shatner got the Batman part...)
Well, say some, you CAN cause yourself to be bottom-tier by offending a few officers. Once you're notorious or disliked (from what I understand) you'll get a greatly diminished response rate (as long as there are not "shots fired" reports announced during the dispatch).
But, I don't think fire fighters will unnecessarily delay. A house fire leading to more burned structures somehow takes on a larger dimension, especially with news-cam helos buzzing like fireflies. When/while bullets zip by, only the crazy will want to be too close.
And, it sounds like ms needs not just AnBEsol, but AnUsol... Or, would that be AMusol?
While they're (ms're) at it, how about Blue Star Ointment:"Blue Star Ointment: Stops ringworm, tether, psoriasis. Stops itching FAST! Blue Star Ointment." (When I grew up in Tx, in that was the default, fastest, and easiest-to-memorize commercial-- for me in the 70's at least....)
Is that a combination of Seska and T'Pol, on crack, in a hyperbaric chamber, breathing Romulan Ale, faced with Regulan bloodworms, cuddling with an attentive Klingon Targ?
Maybe Sheetrock should read "1421: The Year China Discovered America". Now THAT is more interesting than chopsticks being invented in America. 1421 blows the doors off a lot of what we were taught in America about WHO "discovered", WHO found a cure for scurvy, WHO mastered timekeeping at sea and ashore, WHO used the North Star to navigate above the equator and WHO sailed hundreds of ships, many of which were over 5 TIMES as long as the Portuguese caravels which paled in comparison (tho they had better manoeuverability/maneuverability than the Chinese junks....)
1421 is so hot MLK library in SJ has all its copies checked out/unavailable... At least I bought my own copy.
Yep, read 1421...
No, I'n not on synthehol, either. (But, at abotu age 3 I did almost die after having swallowed:
Xylene Aerosol Detergent and Carbon Tetrachloride
AKA Ampex Stereo (used by funky Reel-to-Reel freaks of the 60's) Headcleaner (yep, the same Ampex off Hwy 101 in Menlo Park, CA)...)
I still have the can as a souvenir... back then the USPS used to allow that shit to be airmailed...
I believe there are SOSUS (Sound Surveillance System) networks over there. A huge array of hydrophones has been in the GIUK (Greenland Iceland UK) gap. I believe the Strait of Malacca, the Formosa, ahem, TAIWAN Straits, the Korea Strait, Sea of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk, and South China Sea have all been seeded (but not necessarily CEDED) by now.
(Yep, from age 8 or so until now I've been buying or studying whatever I could legally get my hands on about subs. I haunted the library, read a number of "accounts" of sub warfare and naval warfare in general, designed notional nuke subs (and frightened the hell out of my prospective recruiter in 1982 when he saw a 7-bladed prop on one of my drawings. I was covered: a Japanese diesel boat's stern was in one of the Proceedings mag and I promptly incorporated the fact into my drawing, especially when a few people calle my stuff "garbage" I went on to improve it and at one point, on my second command/ship, the ship's Cheng or maybe it was the MPA (Main Propulsion Assistant) tried to encourage me to go to naval drafting. I decided against it, as I want to design my work withoug exposure to or constraints imposed by classified or sensitive material. I designed 5 attack boats, and 2 boomers. I designed about 5 surface ships for NATO or US types of duties, all as hobby work. I recently designed a ship to supplant the DDG-51, and she can carry some 2,300 tons of fuel, has a range of some 10k nm, and can burst to 38-42 kts. She carries an array of real equipment, plus ducted thrusters near the bow, a keel fin set astern, and 3 telescoping auxiliary thrusters. She carries more helos than the DDG-51 flight II (DDG-79, if I recall correctly), has a successor radar to Aegis SPY-D, and carries more crew. All in only 562' lenght and 62' beam. It's for littoral warfare/defence, not mainly for transoceanic crusing. It is the 11th version of my modifications of the Burkes, the design of which I had a love-hate relationship, especially since the "Nav" politically deprived the first flight of hangar facilities to keep the DDG-51 from competing with the CG-47 program.))
Anyway, read "Blind Man's Bluff", about the US submarine force and the immense pressures the crews suffered due to keeping secret the fact they were being chased, depth-bombed, and almost destroyed on more than one occasion for making uninvited incursions to tap then-Soviet phone lines, doing dirty and dangerous work at the behest of the CIA, work the CIA should have risked its own ass for, not the sailors' asses.
(I suspect by 84 this was the cause of major sub force attrition. I volunteered for sub duty while in my junior year in High School. I swore in at MEPS (Military Entry Processing Station) Oakland, in 1983, but by 1984 at my second swearing in I was told the subforce no longer need volunteers. By about 1999 or so, I was reading in Blind Man's Bluff that USN sub sailors in alarming numbers conjuring up or creating offenses warranting discharge: claming homosexuality, drug addiction, fear of depth, stress, and more. It worked for some, but not all. After all, it costs a LOAD of money to train a sailor for up to 2 or 3 years before he even gets permanently assigned to a boat. Then, he may serve 3 or 4 more to fulfill obligations, tho some of the time is spent ashore training, assisting in training or as a trainee. Some wash out and are floated to the surface fleet, on occasion. Anyway, I did my 4 years in the surface fleet, almost 15 of my 48 months of it in training: 3 mos in IET (Initial Entry Training, or boot camp), 4 or 5 in BOOST (Broadened Opportunities for Officer Selection and Training, where I didn't want to be, but thanks to my recruiter...), 3 in Radioman School, a about March 86, 3 or so in High Level TTY/Teletype Maintenance, 2 weeks in Low-Level TTY, and a few weeks in liquid and dry toner copier maintenance. I only spent from Jan 85 to March 86 on my first ship, and Oct 86 to March 88 on my second. After all that, I was not sad I didn't get sub duty, and actually years later awoke in a nightmare that I was trapped in a doomed, sinking, creaking, poping, pressurizing sub, water boiling and rushing toward me.)
The US had HUNDREDS, if not thousands of small, theater/tactical nuclear artillery shells in Europe for some time. I recall these were or were to be Howitzer-fired shells. They were meant to stave off or destroy the then-predicted/feared onslaugh (of the massive number) of then-Soviet tanks.
Well, they may have staged it, but they could have used a decently-timed set of det cord. It doesn't have to be a nuke explosion to get ONE spike, or does it?
If it were Nuke, then wouldn't Tokyo, DC, or the UN or some power or agency have reported immediately? WHY does it take 3 or 4 days, and the conspicuous absence of CNN, and the rest, to comment or tell us across the ocean what the HELL is going on. Since it likely is not a nuke, I suspect Washington and Seoul, and Tokyo, knew of some shred of an event to happen, monitored it, and knowing it was an annual bluff/demonstration downplayed it. But, still, one needn't possess a nuke or dirty bomb to wreak havoc: just lob in missiles (assuming decent guidance systems are aboard) to various coordinates, mixed in with commercial air traffic, and let the confusion begin.
I am also suspecting that the delay is because there was possibly a pre-strike on PY if there were nukes. Maybe the pre-strike was to blow up a lab a-la Israel style like in the '80s, against, what, was it Libya? If the nuke or whatever material were underground, I wonder if bunker busters were used. Maybe PY would choose not to comment if they did get preemptively struck, and the US or Australia or any similar Intel teams' efforts averted a regional flareup
I imagine, as per the annual political showing NK makes, they decided to stage a butt-load of explosives in a ring, maybe using shaped charges, and a pool of some heinous liquids to give the effect of some massive, threatening weapon. (Once the geiger teams sneak in or specially-equipped predators go aloft, the US or other nations will find out the scoop. However, if they get caught, and shot, well, that's a separate issue and the price for espionage: getting caught and rubbed out is the known part of the game. Better send a predator, because I'll tired of hearing people whine about their loved one caught behind enemy lines or who stayed behind for some cause when they KNEW they were at risk. Just like firefighters who sign on and risk death to help other, so do snoops and spies.)
As for mushroom clouds, I don't think they're a "signature" of nukes only. But IF it was a nuclear explosion then the huge amount of dust particles --if radioactive-- will definitely shower on neighbors and PY will have to answer for that. It's not (yet, at least) as if they had a Chernobyl or TMI.
I'm starting to wonder if the train explosion in April was a rail load of highly explosive liquids or solids, and maybe they were delayed on some prior demonstration.
I am also wondering if the US or UK or another power's Intel (not the chip company!) sources that tipped them or persuaded them to launch a cruise missile or a bomb-laden predator to trigger the train explosion or even pre-ignite the 9/9 site. These days, you can't put ANYthing past the top 5, avowed "global" military powers.
(No, given Japan's charter, I am not including them in "military" powers, though I recall their Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) ranks 3rd or 2nd so in quality, capability, responsivense and such. I have to revisit globalsecurity.org or fasa.org.)
But, I'm no expert. Maybe John Pike can weigh in on it.
"Governments and laws can not and will not stop them due the transnational nature of the medium. It is up to the technological community to stop them, even if the spammers have manipulated the legal structure to make attempts to stop them illegal."
Well, if the various technically-astute nations' law enforcement bodies have anything to say about or to do with it, Intel's WISH may be the governments' COMMAND.
See, what Intel is asking --maybe unfortunately-- on the eve of 911 gives more ammo for governments to hot-wire an National Intelligence Link (NIL) to every newly-manufactured device. Supposedly, the telco industry has been in bed with the government (in the US, at least) to make wiretaps vastly easier than the fake stuff we see on TV (where it takes 60 seconds or more to "trace" a target, then the drama builds up until the target, being hip to the chance of a trace, hangs up.
Imagine EVERY laptop, TV, PDA, iPod, GPS and other devices that might be used principally for inbound information gets configured to be permanently two-way, regardless of user awareness or intent.
OK, let me attenuate the waves trying to pierce my tin foil hat...
Or, is his cabal/cadge on the specs board, lying in wait to pounce anyone who defeats shorthorn's ahem, "new-fangled" "security features"?
What good would this technology be if in the future it is constrained to the INSIDE of computers? If external devices will be supported by an on-case connector, then doesn't that defang shorthorn?
Boy, bill and the cadge have to be hot and bothered every time new technology increasingly is less dependent on redmond for approval (especially the disruptive Tux and family and friends...).
--make the left and right sides removable via slide-off/slide-on points with data transfer conductors
--ditch the windows part
--add a fold-over cover so the LCD has some protection
--make it nurse, insurance adjuster, field architect, and shipboard personnel-friendly
--hot-swappable batteries (the unit would have an internal battery so that the device stays on for up to 3 minutes while the user adds a fully-charged battery, allowing time for the accidental "oops, I changed out a wrong battery/I need another 25 seconds to dig up and swap..."
--touch-screen capabilities?
This device, if made lighter and somewhat water-resistant could be used by law or parking enforcement in inclement weather. Insurance adjusters and even paramedics could find utility in a tool such as this.
Now, what would REALLY take off is if someone adapts the RC airplane flight training software to this so that Linux geeks who do RC can preprogram their aerobatics, fly their fixed or rotary wing (or even wheeled vehicles or boats, for that matter) toys, and go have some fun.
More interesting would be if the traffic spotters in helos or planes could touch-screen their observations, slave the stabilized camera unit, and then zoom in on the scene and transfer the images to drivers stuck in traffic. The news stations could then charge would-be rubberneckers to view the footage, ostensibly with the intent being to let them drive and then watch the carnage/snarls later, thereby improving traffic flow...
Any other ideas? (DAMN, my initial posts seem to take a while, as if I'm being monitored or potentially censored. Oh, wait, let me adjust my tinfoil hat...)
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I worked in that building in 1997 as an NT rollout tech. We used the lecture hall at the GSB, or Graduate School of Business, in the atrium area. I lamented the building was named after gates, too.
Worse, I lamente that we were rolling out NT boxes to professors, Deans, Staff, and Faculty, many of whom didn't want the HP boxes loaded with all that stuff. Many were contented to keep their Apples, and when that tape backup disaster struck Stanford GSP, ms had egg on its face because one of their prime, buddy-buddy-consultants who "knew everything" did not properly set up the backups, nor test them. A friend I worked with who knew of the problem also warned them to rearchitect it, for it was a problem waiting to happen. He was barred from being on the project, probably because he was a threat to the established consultant.
I was dismayed that that same established consultant was hell-bent to rip out all vestiges of Novell, too.
I was dismayed that windoze was showing internet exploder as THE browser, and was on the start button, but you had to DIG for Netscape. I remedied that by making sure that EVERY desktop I deployed, especially in the Library where the transient students were going to be influenced, had Netscape on the desktop, since we were told not to put NS on the start button. We weren't explicitly told by IT staff NOT to put it on the desktop so I made sure the GSB students/visitors KNEW about Netscape.
Now, they need to know about Opera, and others that run on windoze. At work, where I now am, I rolled out some xp and 2k boxes, and of course I put Opera on them. We have some users who just keep having problems with that goddamned security hole wretch called internet explorer that it was easier to give the users Opera. Not all of them use it, but now they know it's an OPTION.
Another story for later... How San Francisco's shiny new library forces users (whether resident or not) to surrender driver's license info, and more, just to use the desktop computer. They don't even have a stand-alone printer for visitors to print from their own laptop. It is not possible (or permitted) to wirelessly or via Cat 5 use their printer. I had my own laptop, but they wouldn't let me use a printer, and the employee told me I'd have to sign up for a card, reserve a computer (which I'd not likely get since it then was about 330 PM), and I'd have to use "microsoft word".
I FLATLY told her, "I don't use "word". I only use OpenOffice.Org, Star Office, or Lotus Word Pro. I don't need word. I just need to right click on the file and tell windows to print it. It won't even need to run word."
Her response was muted, cautious, but maybe with a tinge of "whatever".
And, this, in a state rife with campaign corruption, abusive tax/fee structures on small businesses that don't even EARN or MAKE a penny, and we don't have ANY pervasiveness of F/LOSS solutions in our PUBLIC, TAX-FINANCED institutions, libraries, or government offices as a matter of policy.
No wonder california's economy is going to go to hell in a hand basket.
I'm propose we remedy that: Let's get a list of ALL public and commercial property, list the activities known to be their, list their estimated annual corporaition for/not-for-profit tax/fee, their property taxes, their sales and assets taxes and assessments and figure out who's LYING about our tax collection infrastructure.
Let's blog, wiki, tiki-wiki and MySQL the HELL out of the thing, track the various departments, their bloat, their activities, their budgets, their vehicles and projects, and since it's all public policy/law/process, there DAMN WELL better not be any obfuscation as long as we don't list the run-of-the-mill employees, their addresses or personal information. But, the top dogs, the decision-makers... they get to be NAMED (less privacy info, again), and any SCREWUPS or political diversions of monies need to be shown and mirrorred.
California (and many other states) need to learn to lay off, live within their means, and use F/LOSS and stop taking dirty/coerced/"power-graby" money. That goes for colleges, too.
David Syes
David Syes
"Day of the Triffids"... heheh
'Had a V8'...
Whew, I thought is was:
"Inside the Testicle" and
"DVD: The Uranus Projection"
WHEW!
Those among the Hijack-All Rich and the Sell-Out policy makers are seeding or acceding to capitalism, but ceding our (or their own nations') security and stability (by imperialistically taking markets, seeding insatiable materialism, and then absconding when the shit hits the fan.
Long Version, as applies to the US in my jaded view (yeh, I was born and raised here, served for here, and paid taxes here, so I can kvetch as ruthlessly and non-physically as I choose):
Rant mode on:
Look, **outsourcing** in and of itself is not a bad thing. While outsourcing (where corporate 'meriku is solely or primarily interested in the bottom line and the employee can be expensive, and the company SENDS the jobs away) it is not exactly the same as migrant/seasonal workers coming here to pick vegetables and fruits in hot-assed weather (where most 'merikuns would not dare go), outsourcing has been going on for decades.
But, the heinous part about outsourcing of the 90's is the RATE or INTENSITY of it. More and more local or regional competitors are driving down profits, and the almighty-dollar-lovin' boards of directors demand response, hence increased outsourcing.
But, that is GOOD, since it does what I call "raising the boats with the waterline" so the other nations don't get swamped and sink. This is a problem we're creating and driving and going to pay for. Materialism has its price.
As degrees become less influential, and as jobs increasingly become automated or go overseas, the inevitable outcome is there will be less work for shitloads of people --educated or not.
This "free enterprise" system could (technically), might (via recklessness), and probably (for moral/karma rectification reasons) should come screeching to a halt, and I predict the government will have to -- and better goddam get on the ball with this -- start paying people just to stay out of trouble, printing money to keep souls out of malaise, low-wage doldrums, and downright incensed. Materialism can only go so far, and when the consumers run out of money, the rich will be the first in line to cash out of their bank before OTHER RICHER person gets there to do the same.
I don't at ALL blame India or Filipinos or Taiwanese. It's the "sell granny for a buck if we have to" types who program the markets to hell and then abscond when the shit hits the fan. We need to put the brakes on the persistent "irrational exuberance" that is causing insane increases in property values, nearly inexplicable increases in stress and stress-related diseases and injuries, and just FIX our tottering, ambling system.
So, if politicians don't want their asses hung, strung and slung (I wouldn't participate, but I wouldn't rescue most of them either, with the way things keep going when they sell their souls for a buck), they'd better start redrafting the next Great Experiment:
-- Resuscitating America After the Materialism Dream Implodes.
So, it won't matter if it's pink or plastic food stamps or benefits currency, or if it's green. I figure I don't care if somebody is counterfeiting, since the government is the largest counterfieter a nation can have. THink about it: BILLIONS of US dollars get printed and shipped overseas to influence others and endear them to 'merikun power, stability, and more. But, corrupt dictators, monarchies, shahs, premiers, emperors, and more (no better, not much worse than the cadge/cabals we have had and STILL have in office right now), and the money ends up sequestered in some goddam vault in case a dictator needs to make a quick, rich getaway after 'merika or some other nations' intelligence forces depose, or attempt to decapitate, a now-unpopular "leader".
So, if we can allow this system of ours to print, ship away, and lose track of uncirculated cold, hard cash that WE could be spending, but the program it for others, then when it is NOT in circulation, it is either ignored, or it's replaced with yet more cash. That being so, what the HELL is wrong with the government
IneXORable
But, worse than that one word: Their board and exec staff, probably all highly paid, just might endure board-inflicted, ineXORable pain...
OUCH
Batman!"
(The SHOCKING story of Batman's TRUE LINEAGE... will NOT be seen toNIGHT... (a play on Cartman/"Trent and Thomas" "Not Without My Anus: based on a True Story"...)) (Or, substitute AMUS...heheh)
Yesss, Hropbin. If I can only take out myyy sooper... BAT.. GPL... defribulator, I can cut us free! (And, I can see BATGurl, tonight...)
Holy Hoppin'g Jehoosuphur, Batman! Hurry!
Just... one... second...
(Imagine that if Jack Lord got the Kirk part, and if somehow Shatner got the Batman part...)
seys divad
david syes
Well, say some, you CAN cause yourself to be bottom-tier by offending a few officers. Once you're notorious or disliked (from what I understand) you'll get a greatly diminished response rate (as long as there are not "shots fired" reports announced during the dispatch).
But, I don't think fire fighters will unnecessarily delay. A house fire leading to more burned structures somehow takes on a larger dimension, especially with news-cam helos buzzing like fireflies. When/while bullets zip by, only the crazy will want to be too close.
To HELL and back?
OK, uncle. Where's the Koolaid?"
There are some governments, companies, and individuals that still drink that stuff?
Maybe AMD will sing this 70's jingle to taunt Intel?:
"OUR chips match YOUR chips --they RACE you they -- MOLD you-- they NEHvur let 'chu gohhhh."
* (or, SCOLD, or SCALD, or PROBE)
(A play on Leggs' "OUR Leggs fit YOUR legs -- they HELP you, they HOLD* you! They NEHHHvur let you go....")
DAMN! TOO much TV in the '70's!!!!
And, it sounds like ms needs not just AnBEsol, but AnUsol... Or, would that be AMusol?
While they're (ms're) at it, how about Blue Star Ointment:"Blue Star Ointment: Stops ringworm, tether, psoriasis. Stops itching FAST! Blue Star Ointment." (When I grew up in Tx, in that was the default, fastest, and easiest-to-memorize commercial-- for me in the 70's at least....)
Whoaa, Keep the cooler going and the heatsink attached. Otherwise tis could be the seas'n to be weas'n.
Is that a combination of Seska and T'Pol, on crack, in a hyperbaric chamber, breathing Romulan Ale, faced with Regulan bloodworms, cuddling with an attentive Klingon Targ?
Maybe Sheetrock should read "1421: The Year China Discovered America". Now THAT is more interesting than chopsticks being invented in America. 1421 blows the doors off a lot of what we were taught in America about WHO "discovered", WHO found a cure for scurvy, WHO mastered timekeeping at sea and ashore, WHO used the North Star to navigate above the equator and WHO sailed hundreds of ships, many of which were over 5 TIMES as long as the Portuguese caravels which paled in comparison (tho they had better manoeuverability/maneuverability than the Chinese junks....)
1421 is so hot MLK library in SJ has all its copies checked out/unavailable... At least I bought my own copy.
Yep, read 1421...
No, I'n not on synthehol, either. (But, at abotu age 3 I did almost die after having swallowed:
Xylene
Aerosol Detergent
and Carbon Tetrachloride
AKA Ampex Stereo (used by funky Reel-to-Reel freaks of the 60's) Headcleaner (yep, the same Ampex off Hwy 101 in Menlo Park, CA)...)
I still have the can as a souvenir... back then the USPS used to allow that shit to be airmailed...
I guess you PLASTERED Sheetrock. DOH!
I though there was a can over 100 years old....
Is it "Amus" e-mail or "Anus" e-mail worm. Give a whole new flexible dimension to being rooted, cracked, backdoored, sniffed, packeted...
Back orifice is trying hard to live up to it's namesake, or is windoze trying hard to reciprocate (that *9 number) with back orifice?
David Syes
Maybe it will come in handy for you?
Save this thread. It might be notorious one day.
I believe there are SOSUS (Sound Surveillance System) networks over there. A huge array of hydrophones has been in the GIUK (Greenland Iceland UK) gap. I believe the Strait of Malacca, the Formosa, ahem, TAIWAN Straits, the Korea Strait, Sea of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk, and South China Sea have all been seeded (but not necessarily CEDED) by now.
(Yep, from age 8 or so until now I've been buying or studying whatever I could legally get my hands on about subs. I haunted the library, read a number of "accounts" of sub warfare and naval warfare in general, designed notional nuke subs (and frightened the hell out of my prospective recruiter in 1982 when he saw a 7-bladed prop on one of my drawings. I was covered: a Japanese diesel boat's stern was in one of the Proceedings mag and I promptly incorporated the fact into my drawing, especially when a few people calle my stuff "garbage" I went on to improve it and at one point, on my second command/ship, the ship's Cheng or maybe it was the MPA (Main Propulsion Assistant) tried to encourage me to go to naval drafting. I decided against it, as I want to design my work withoug exposure to or constraints imposed by classified or sensitive material. I designed 5 attack boats, and 2 boomers. I designed about 5 surface ships for NATO or US types of duties, all as hobby work. I recently designed a ship to supplant the DDG-51, and she can carry some 2,300 tons of fuel, has a range of some 10k nm, and can burst to 38-42 kts. She carries an array of real equipment, plus ducted thrusters near the bow, a keel fin set astern, and 3 telescoping auxiliary thrusters. She carries more helos than the DDG-51 flight II (DDG-79, if I recall correctly), has a successor radar to Aegis SPY-D, and carries more crew. All in only 562' lenght and 62' beam. It's for littoral warfare/defence, not mainly for transoceanic crusing. It is the 11th version of my modifications of the Burkes, the design of which I had a love-hate relationship, especially since the "Nav" politically deprived the first flight of hangar facilities to keep the DDG-51 from competing with the CG-47 program.))
Anyway, read "Blind Man's Bluff", about the US submarine force and the immense pressures the crews suffered due to keeping secret the fact they were being chased, depth-bombed, and almost destroyed on more than one occasion for making uninvited incursions to tap then-Soviet phone lines, doing dirty and dangerous work at the behest of the CIA, work the CIA should have risked its own ass for, not the sailors' asses.
(I suspect by 84 this was the cause of major sub force attrition. I volunteered for sub duty while in my junior year in High School. I swore in at MEPS (Military Entry Processing Station) Oakland, in 1983, but by 1984 at my second swearing in I was told the subforce no longer need volunteers. By about 1999 or so, I was reading in Blind Man's Bluff that USN sub sailors in alarming numbers conjuring up or creating offenses warranting discharge: claming homosexuality, drug addiction, fear of depth, stress, and more. It worked for some, but not all. After all, it costs a LOAD of money to train a sailor for up to 2 or 3 years before he even gets permanently assigned to a boat. Then, he may serve 3 or 4 more to fulfill obligations, tho some of the time is spent ashore training, assisting in training or as a trainee. Some wash out and are floated to the surface fleet, on occasion. Anyway, I did my 4 years in the surface fleet, almost 15 of my 48 months of it in training: 3 mos in IET (Initial Entry Training, or boot camp), 4 or 5 in BOOST (Broadened Opportunities for Officer Selection and Training, where I didn't want to be, but thanks to my recruiter...), 3 in Radioman School, a about March 86, 3 or so in High Level TTY/Teletype Maintenance, 2 weeks in Low-Level TTY, and a few weeks in liquid and dry toner copier maintenance. I only spent from Jan 85 to March 86 on my first ship, and Oct 86 to March 88 on my second. After all that, I was not sad I didn't get sub duty, and actually years later awoke in a nightmare that I was trapped in a doomed, sinking, creaking, poping, pressurizing sub, water boiling and rushing toward me.)
seyS divaD
David Syes
The US had HUNDREDS, if not thousands of small, theater/tactical nuclear artillery shells in Europe for some time. I recall these were or were to be Howitzer-fired shells. They were meant to stave off or destroy the then-predicted/feared onslaugh (of the massive number) of then-Soviet tanks.
"What was it then? Car crash? Natural gas explosion?"
Maybe David Carradine and Quentin Tarantino are updating "Deathrace 2000". (PY needs the money, so they probably permitted the filming.)
Well, they may have staged it, but they could have used a decently-timed set of det cord. It doesn't have to be a nuke explosion to get ONE spike, or does it?
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If it were Nuke, then wouldn't Tokyo, DC, or the UN or some power or agency have reported immediately? WHY does it take 3 or 4 days, and the conspicuous absence of CNN, and the rest, to comment or tell us across the ocean what the HELL is going on. Since it likely is not a nuke, I suspect Washington and Seoul, and Tokyo, knew of some shred of an event to happen, monitored it, and knowing it was an annual bluff/demonstration downplayed it. But, still, one needn't possess a nuke or dirty bomb to wreak havoc: just lob in missiles (assuming decent guidance systems are aboard) to various coordinates, mixed in with commercial air traffic, and let the confusion begin.
I am also suspecting that the delay is because there was possibly a pre-strike on PY if there were nukes. Maybe the pre-strike was to blow up a lab a-la Israel style like in the '80s, against, what, was it Libya? If the nuke or whatever material were underground, I wonder if bunker busters were used. Maybe PY would choose not to comment if they did get preemptively struck, and the US or Australia or any similar Intel teams' efforts averted a regional flareup
I imagine, as per the annual political showing NK makes, they decided to stage a butt-load of explosives in a ring, maybe using shaped charges, and a pool of some heinous liquids to give the effect of some massive, threatening weapon. (Once the geiger teams sneak in or specially-equipped predators go aloft, the US or other nations will find out the scoop. However, if they get caught, and shot, well, that's a separate issue and the price for espionage: getting caught and rubbed out is the known part of the game. Better send a predator, because I'll tired of hearing people whine about their loved one caught behind enemy lines or who stayed behind for some cause when they KNEW they were at risk. Just like firefighters who sign on and risk death to help other, so do snoops and spies.)
As for mushroom clouds, I don't think they're a "signature" of nukes only. But IF it was a nuclear explosion then the huge amount of dust particles --if radioactive-- will definitely shower on neighbors and PY will have to answer for that. It's not (yet, at least) as if they had a Chernobyl or TMI.
I'm starting to wonder if the train explosion in April was a rail load of highly explosive liquids or solids, and maybe they were delayed on some prior demonstration.
I am also wondering if the US or UK or another power's Intel (not the chip company!) sources that tipped them or persuaded them to launch a cruise missile or a bomb-laden predator to trigger the train explosion or even pre-ignite the 9/9 site. These days, you can't put ANYthing past the top 5, avowed "global" military powers.
(No, given Japan's charter, I am not including them in "military" powers, though I recall their Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) ranks 3rd or 2nd so in quality, capability, responsivense and such. I have to revisit globalsecurity.org or fasa.org
But, I'm no expert. Maybe John Pike can weigh in on it.
David Syes
Flamebait my ass.
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Maybe you ought to read:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/09/
and consider that ms will do just about ANYthing to make it painful for people to migrate to Linux/FOSS.
Making it PAINful for us includes:
--coercing OEMs into not supporting any os other than ms warez, except to a degree they might do some Mac work
--removing access to preview code
--delaying access to preview (competitive by timeliness) code
--upping the cost of access
Maybe it is YOU who is in need of the proximty suit?
David Syes
"Governments and laws can not and will not stop them due the transnational nature of the medium. It is up to the technological community to stop them, even if the spammers have manipulated the legal structure to make attempts to stop them illegal."
Well, if the various technically-astute nations' law enforcement bodies have anything to say about or to do with it, Intel's WISH may be the governments' COMMAND.
See, what Intel is asking --maybe unfortunately-- on the eve of 911 gives more ammo for governments to hot-wire an National Intelligence Link (NIL) to every newly-manufactured device. Supposedly, the telco industry has been in bed with the government (in the US, at least) to make wiretaps vastly easier than the fake stuff we see on TV (where it takes 60 seconds or more to "trace" a target, then the drama builds up until the target, being hip to the chance of a trace, hangs up.
Imagine EVERY laptop, TV, PDA, iPod, GPS and other devices that might be used principally for inbound information gets configured to be permanently two-way, regardless of user awareness or intent.
OK, let me attenuate the waves trying to pierce my tin foil hat...
seyS divaD
hiz billness?
Or, is his cabal/cadge on the specs board, lying in wait to pounce anyone who defeats shorthorn's ahem, "new-fangled" "security features"?
What good would this technology be if in the future it is constrained to the INSIDE of computers? If external devices will be supported by an on-case connector, then doesn't that defang shorthorn?
Boy, bill and the cadge have to be hot and bothered every time new technology increasingly is less dependent on redmond for approval (especially the disruptive Tux and family and friends...).
seyS divaD
What would be neat modifications would be:
--make the left and right sides removable via slide-off/slide-on points with data transfer conductors
--ditch the windows part
--add a fold-over cover so the LCD has some protection
--make it nurse, insurance adjuster, field architect, and shipboard personnel-friendly
--hot-swappable batteries (the unit would have an internal battery so that the device stays on for up to 3 minutes while the user adds a fully-charged battery, allowing time for the accidental "oops, I changed out a wrong battery/I need another 25 seconds to dig up and swap..."
--touch-screen capabilities?
This device, if made lighter and somewhat water-resistant could be used by law or parking enforcement in inclement weather. Insurance adjusters and even paramedics could find utility in a tool such as this.
Now, what would REALLY take off is if someone adapts the RC airplane flight training software to this so that Linux geeks who do RC can preprogram their aerobatics, fly their fixed or rotary wing (or even wheeled vehicles or boats, for that matter) toys, and go have some fun.
More interesting would be if the traffic spotters in helos or planes could touch-screen their observations, slave the stabilized camera unit, and then zoom in on the scene and transfer the images to drivers stuck in traffic. The news stations could then charge would-be rubberneckers to view the footage, ostensibly with the intent being to let them drive and then watch the carnage/snarls later, thereby improving traffic flow...
Any other ideas?
(DAMN, my initial posts seem to take a while, as if I'm being monitored or potentially censored. Oh, wait, let me adjust my tinfoil hat...)
David Syes