THIS, sir, is the VERY thing a close relative of mine just can't seem (or is blindly unwilling (and maybe even investing in ms stocks?, too) to understand.
See, I'm tweaking a prototype screenplay/manuscript application and when I told my relative of this, I got responses like, "Well, maybe I'm not thinking in a business sense, but microsoft has some 99% of the market. Why develop for those other smaller insignificant numbers...?"
I explained there exist a number of companies, such as Trolltech out of the EU, that create tools for developers who SPECIFICALLY want to be nice or who want to provide legacy support options for companies that want to balance or limit their exposure to any one particular OS. My relative's response was, "Well, I use Office, and if I go to the store to look for a screenplay application and I see yours, and I know it doesn't run on windows, then I wouldn't even TOUCH it..."
To which my response was something as, "Well, if I use that multi-platform software that spits out the software binaries to run my development on 3 different OS, it WOULD LOOK LIKE the native environment YOU are looking for. You wouldn't even NEED to know it was also developed for Linux & Mac. Maybe you wouldn't see the "Developed for ms windows" sticker, and that would be because ms actively snuffs out or harms companies by depriving them of TIMELY access to code and resources they need, particularly if those companies are helping non-ms operating systems. IF you pay and IF ms takes your money, then that lab certification will cost an arm and a leg, and I wouldn't buy it anyway, as long as TrollTech's software does the job."
To which I got, several times, "But WHY? WHY? What are those niche users doing for you?"
And the possibility of an obsequious or myopic relative's attraction to mshaft stock or mshaft itself kept entering my mind.
Next time I talk to this relative, I will lay on this analogy:
"See, it's like this: YOU need water, for whatever reason, maybe to keep construction site dirt from blowing away, or to water your garden, or to wash cars or run a factory. Doesn't matter. You get a PRODUCT. It shouldn't be YOUR concern HOW it was made or by what machinery I extruded the goddam plastic bottles and barrels to ship your water. As long as it's clean, fresh, non-toxic, and legal to produce and ship, why the hell do you CARE that I'm providing water to small companies instead of LARGE companies?"
I sometimes want to pop a gasket when relatives and friends who are so degreed and intelligent and supposedly worldly cannot recall or never heard that:
-- microsoft FUCK THE HELL out of a LOT of companies along the way, namely FUDDing the delivery dates of their own, half-baked, undeliverable products and killed off investor interest or 2nd round support to products that announced and drew fire from mshaft;
-- many of the hardware manufacturers were strong-armed into taking money from ms to crank out mshaft OS and no others, or they'd lose marketing dollars
-- mshaft FAKED video testimony in court
-- mshaft is a convicted monopolist
and on and on and on... it's galling. I'll gladly enable windoze users (not lusers, but USERs, tho they use winDOZE) to be able to enjoy my prototype-hopefully-turned-product, but I'll goddamned if I'm going to roll over to mshaft and ignore a well-deserving Mac and Linux base. If I have anything to do with it, the Linux and Mac versions would release first (unlike some FOSS/*doze developers) and *doze second. Not so that *doze could benefit from field bug reports, but for the purpose of keeping Linux & Mac in the forefront. As long as it's a quality product, as long as enough stability testing for each release is achieved, as long as the product has a life, then it should, by my vote, be OS-AGNOSTIC, period.
How HARD is it to deliver an OS-agnostic product? Hell, StoryLines runs in OpenOffice.org/wxWidgets, and OO.o runs on Linux and Mac AND of course, windoze. They are a small company. Why can
Oregon should attempt to fix this problem by using the an evictions/criminal background database service (like the one my apartment ran on me about 20 minutes before they approved me for leasing) in conjunction with the state's own database. This would blunt discrimination by states such as Florida.
Other states or businesses also could run the checks that could validate rather than discriminate individuals just because OR has a Swiss-cheese ID card process. But, every state needs to have SOME kind of ID. And, since state and States' (nations) ID's (even countries') paper currency are counterfeited (some countries' paper money so vastly superior to US currency... I saw in "The Color of Money" how a certain European country's banks by LAW throughout the day or at the end of the business day scan all bills; the bar-coded bills are checked against a master issuance database and any bills flagged as counterfeit trigger a rewind of any shop or store or bank security cameras where so fitted. Just makes paper money a physical proxy for e-cash. I wouldn't have a problem with this, since e-transactions/ccard transactions already remove anonymity, and cash only still exists so that corrupt governments and corrupt state officials and a number of businesses can carry on their traditional models of money laundering, propping up certain ventures and so on... even politicians prefer less-than speedy tracking of their hooker and massage parlor or dubious country-club activities during and after official working hours...), then until it becomes foolproof, Florida either should not discriminate against the OR ID, or it should (and probably does) use alternate verification that is not normally faked, or is easy to trust once an answer comes back.
But, using these eviction/crime/whatever databases costs money, the government ought to step in and (with a gun to the head of the database operators) say, "You will receive a contract payment per year and don't ask for anymore money", and then make that data available to the businesses and agencies efficiently and affordably. Theoretically, any one of us should be able to pop in or walk up to a terminal and find out what goods are on us. Many of these won't let us see what they were told. Some might just be "no negs to report, but don't hold our service responsible if your renter turns out to be a serial rapist Mengele or Daumer type" or some such response to the subscribers.
And, finally (really? finally?) many of these same databases likely are tapped every time we apply for a job. I've been wondering (my credit is NOT pretty, thanks to the down-hill slide I've had in unstable gainful employment since being laid off January 31, 2001 --only about 2 permanent jobs, and 5 or 6 agency-related contract jobs, all ending, increasingly worsening my ability to pay back my debts in any meaningful way; of course I made some bad decisions, but Karma or fate must have it in for me big time, seeing me kicked when I'm down or say the wrong thing...[obviously, I won't survive in government, union, or most corporate environments....Outside of Customer Service Window working hours you get raw, quick (right or wrong, but non-shirking, non-kiss-ass answers from me]) if any of you out there get LOTS of inquiries about availability for work, then nothing. Zip, nada, zilch. They don't even return YOUR calls. Could be creditors posing as employers... what's that (new?) term going around, the one related to HP investigating its employees by using stand-ins?....
HAH!: what an appropriate captch: "reinvent", and speaking of my self and HP (I need to REinvent myself); HP says "HP. Invent!"
What *I* mostly care about is this: Is it going to be as fast and easy as it is to obtain that fucking thing as it is to obtain legitimately a DL in Oregon?
In 2003, I moved there, got my apartment and had utility billing (showing proof of intent to reside there, not mooch or drift), and had my former CA DL (valid, non-expired) and auto insurance and my car smog-checked and in good condition, plus new tires and engine upkeep.
Closing in on the 30-day reside or leave law thing, I studied a few days for the test. I went to DMV by appointment (or, was it a drop-in? Yeh, by appointment since it was late when I first arrived). I sat before a computer. Answered maybe 20 questions. Passed.
Shocker? They told me to sit about 12 minutes and my ID would be ready. I thought I mis-heard the clerk. Huh? What?! 12 minutes? Hell, in California, I'd have to wait a month, maybe two (and mine have in CA been lost in the mail once or twice, when time was critical and having an ID for contract work was mandatory... not paper temporary vouchers...).
I concede that Oregon has a FRACTION of CA's population, but give me a BREAK! Are Oregon homeless or con artists any more crafty than those in California? CA is one of the most HIGH TECH states in the US, and if CA were a country, it'd have maybe the 3rd or 4th largest economy in the world (a good reason for CA to say FUCK DC and secede, heheheheh), so it ought to be EASIER and faster to obtain ID in CA. It should be possible to get the frackin' thing within 20 MINUTES of proving ones identity or passing ID and passing the DMV test.
The brouhaha over internal passport and threat to privacy and such may be well-intentioned, but as long as the ID has no wires, trace capability, or the like, then it's probably a GOOD thing that the ID information will be centralized. I am not speaking about "keeping out migrant workers". I'm talking about putting a crimp in the asses of those who legitimately obtain multiple IDs but who then go on to ABUSE the multiple IDs across state lines, defraud the IRS (I don't mind PAYING taxes; it's the LEVEL that I am bothered by at times), and evade paying bills, tickets, or child support. If you MAKE a kid, PAY FOR IT! Owe a debt, PAY for it, or stay in the loop until it's discharged or someone picks up the bill to give you a clean slate.
All this bitching about the ID is good and some of it is not. Another GOOD thing is that some back-jerkwater-ass hobo-run sheriff or PO-LEASE in parts of the US can't (hopefully can't) ding passers-through on D/L issues. (Broken turn or signal lamps can still cause you problems if they want to detain you or scrape a few dozen dollars out of your wallet before telling you to come back and visit our little town again....)
Hell, many countries, due to historical and formation pains, have had national IDs from their START. We, here in the USA, had it good for a while. The criminal types will still evade; the good types will comply; the cottage lawyers will bitch up a storm and get paid up the ass and smile for the make-work. Cops (good or bad) and bars and certain businesses will love it because they won't have to memorize, train others, or keep annual books on valid forms of acceptable ID.
(*** It *ought* to be a *win* for a lot of people. The cell phones and pagers, NIC cards, and roaming login accounts tell more about us than the damned RealID would. I am pretty sure a number of states are afraid of losing control not over states' rights, but over the cottage card-printing industry (like presidents' and governors' wives painting and selling junk art so DC and the states' frame-making industry can be artificially propped up....) ***)
Anyway, some states permit individuals to possess more than one state ID as long as there is no sign of fraud. Frakin' California would punch a HOLE through my Oregon ID but I had to rationalize with the clerk that I HAD to not have my Oregon ID SCREWED WITH by some arcane process that could be double-checked by a simple inter-ag
OK, I've got karma to burn, so to the dumbass who modded me off-topic:
-This is the POLITICAL thread! -This is about MONEY! -This is about the value of material used for MAKING the money! -This is about the IMPLICIT TRUST placed in not just the MATERIAL, but the THOUGHT and FEEL that makes money "worth" something! -This is about the national pride to protect CURRENCY value, but not to vigorously domestically instill pride in those who most desperately NEED economic recovery!
It's OK for successive governments to spend OUR money out their ass and not really be accountable, but we who falter have dirty credit, dirty reports, become non-hired for many jobs requiring integrity, and worse.
Heartless bastard/s. Off-topic... yeh, right. All the lame-ass comments on this site that never get marked as off-topic, and when something touches a nerve of some republicrats or whatever cans or crats, a poster gets sideswiped. What-e-v-e-r...
If volumes people suddenly regarded currency as common hemp or cotton, and threw it away willy-nilly or burned it or did other things to devalue it, markets could crash. But they won't and even IF they did, lameassed economists would find creative ways to stave off an impending crash because this probably doesn't fit their neat and tidy model.
I wonder when digital pennies will be worth less and cost more than a byte in a file... At that point, how do we "implicitly value" the dollar, or any currency? Money only has worth because law and people writing the law say so. If it is counterfeited, and spends, and is taken out of circulation, in small amounts and limited instances, how will an economy collapse? Even the US is the biggest, authorized counterfeiter of cash, producing money that often NEVER goes into REAL circulation. Remember the multiple billions of dollars in Iraq alone, in the truck convoy? The US prints and distributes cash to dozens, if not many, many dozens of countries, much of which then sits in a vault, or is loaned to people who don't need it.
Money only has value when your neighbor possesses more of it or more toys than you and throws it away faster than you can earn it. Some people are talented and can make money off of just about ANYthing, while others have lesser imagination and no access to resources (philanthropic, banking, lending, grant-issuing, etc.) and give up on trying to sell or introduce or even patent or copyright something that could be their ticket out of a hell-hole. (For example, I'm sitting on ideas either in my head or on paper, and I cannot do much with them out of fear or disappointment that all along the way, someone or some firm will try to nickel and dime me to death, reassign to themselves my IP the creation of which they had not a DAMN thing to do with, and so on. But, trust has to be found, earned or made at SOME point, so like all other fools or fortunate, I have to take the plunge at some point.... )
Now THAT' when money/currency has value: Those who DESPERATELY need it, but have no credentials, have bad credit, are out of work, or are somehow not in a special category just won't have any without stealing it, begging for it, prostituting themselves, or resisting taxes to hoard every last penny.
Would be nice if every 5 years or so, those who are DEEEEEEPLY indebted are just clean-slated. After all, if they can't find a job (meaningful, gainful, non-demeaning) and the creditor routinely writes off debt to clear the books, the debtor is still stuck with the 7-year (or longer, considering how many credit companies buy up each other or sell files to each other, meaning, effectively you can still be "punished" long after 7 years have passed...) stigma, but the creditor gave up.
Considering how many multiple BILLIONS the USA (read: the power wielding minority of ultra wealthy, their lobbyists, and the corrupt politicians in on the game) prosecuting a war (read: persecuting those who don't "get with the program") but can't find a way to grant amnesty or some sort of significant debt reduction to tens if not hundreds of thousands of debt-ridden students, mortgage holders imminently in jeopardy of homelessness....
I wonder how many times over the major cities' slums could have been torn down and rebuilt to modern living standards.
Maybe to kill off or flag and issue red alerts on Linux boxes in corporate quarterly security audits/reports? If Linux keeps popping up, and if the bandwidth is screwed with by the server running undocumented code to hamper or impede services run on Linux boxes....
Well, I guess smart IT shops will just put such servers outside the CDHCP servers....
Nice try, mshaft. Take your bat and ball and go home. Try again another day...
Holy FRACK, Apollo. May the Lords of Kobol shine a light ahead for us..., but I am sure MySQL will quote your father Adama and say, "Sometimes you gotta roll the hard six."
(Now, if BOOMER said that to me, I'd quot Paul Lekakis with "BOOM BOOM BOOM, let's go BACK to my ROOM, so we can DO IT all NITE and u can MAKE me feel RIGHT!")
(DOH! Slash captcha: "stench" sheesh, this captcha generator is too much sometimes...)
Sure, Yeh, then we can have Dolf Lundgren-sized White Dolphins with frick'n laser beam turrets on their heads. They'll be UniDol(ph)s.. Specially-trained USN SEALs in "disguys"
I don't know if there'll be a Van Dammed Dolphin, tho...
"Unless you can see the target, the range, and downrange yourself, you cannot be sure of your target. The way I was taught, that means you don't take the shot. Having someone else tell you "range is clear, fire away" is NOT a substitute."
Except, of course, in combat. I seem to recall the stories of the.50 cal shooter having no eyes, and his "sighter" was incapable of firing or handling the gun mount... In that case, "fire way" is a valid exception I can speculate on...
"I hardly see how the blind should be allowed to own and operate a firearm. They are 100% incapable of safely using it on their own. They arent allowed to drive for the same reason."
Well, if they are at home--and live alone-- and have a shotgun, and are crouched down against the wall waiting for the intruder they heard break and enter--as taught in home invasion/home-gun-safety classes-- they SURELY should be allowed to own/discharge a firearm in that scenario. But, yes, the rest of your argument hold... distinguishing friend from foe is a must... can't have indiscriminate discharge.
Well, if they're shooting Syl... (symbols, cymbals) Cylons, then they'll only get 30 days in the brig...
I wonder how many could pull out a speculum (I learned in the 7th grade in Texas in Sex Ed class in 1980 what a speculum was... I think not many states at that time exposed kids to speculums, IUDs, and condoms....) OR a frackin' LASER BEAM out....
I bet some of the Japan Slashdot stuff, if translated to eigo-wa, would be esoteric, but interesting. Hey, Slash, how's about it? I'm a Japanophile with very inferior Nihongo skills. But, I'd LOVE to read the local J-Slash pages. That might be more fruitful for some of us than using Bablefish, or reading trollish articles...
(ducking, as red laser beam sweeps overhead, dancing about my room... "yee--yoong, yooong", threatening retina-detaching maneuvers on my part...)
Does this mean we won't need Win4Lin? (no more damned W4L-imposed kernel dependency or fearing that netraverse 2.6.8.1 won't run nice on a 2.6.21, or 2.7.x, or 2.8.x someday...).
I don't see (yet) that this will threaten VMware, but if the KVM could fake hardware enough that I could not need Wine, Cedega/Codeweavers, or Win4Lin, then I could run that legacy Win98 disk of my and run my Lotus Apps in there...
scex is based on the durability, flexibility and viscosity of the quantum slipstream (thank you "Star Trek" with all the techno babble...). Then my mind thought of Mr. Ears... "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pounded weak and weary..." when Charlie hexed me....
I have determined that the physicality, umm, err, the physics involved make scents... umm, sense, but legally, it does not pay to do this research to make cents.
Energy can be derived from various forms of matter, possibly even dark matter. But, let's for now lighten up the matter.
The verisimilitude of the vibratory effects only cause rash... umm, rationalization the matter. However, there will be others whose own findings will only serve to compound each others observations and distinked... umm, distinct findings.
Collectively, we may rise to being cunninglinguists....
captcha: careen (which is what this post is about to do....)
I've got (only) 256 MB RAM, on an AMD K-7 (698 MHz) machine. Sure, I have over 150 processes running, but even when I cut that to the minimum (say, 94 or 87 processes, killing off MySQL, firewall, EVERYthing that might eat clock cycles) OOo still drags on my machine. Even with over 200 process running on my machine, Lotus Word Pro (part of SmartSuite, of which I installed all the apps, totaling about 250 MB of code) still starts the UI in under 6-8 seconds, and a blank template or pain document in under 2 more seconds. I have a 37 page doc with 70,000 characters and some 13,000 words in it and THAT opens in like, 2 seconds.
If I shut down LWP and then open the document straight from the file explorer, it takes about 23 seconds. But, that is because it's validating the links of some 20 documents I embedded into one doc (tabbed views and divisions/sections are what I am using in LWP so I can manage by tabs/nested tabs (rather than obscure, cumbersome rule line) all my documents. I can tell LWP to NOT validate the links and just open up ASAP, and the load time would be much faster. And, to reiterate, LWP, part of SmartSuite, is running in win98, which is running in Win4Lin, which is running in PCLinuxOS, in only 256 MB of RAM, on a 700 MHz AMD-based Gateway Select I bought in 2000. the LSS/Win98/Win4Lin combo is this fast, consistently, across whatever hardware I've used over the years, yet OOo, for me is painfully slow, unless I use that pre-loader, which I leave off since I rarely use OOo.
I just find it lamentable that OOo with all the latest code tools available since 2000 (SmartSuite emerged after 1992ish) that OOo takes so long to start. I also am one of those people who is extremely annoyed that OOo finds it OK to let the "Close" menu item shut down OOo. EXIT should be the way, not CLOSE. So many of us users argued and begged them to fix that, and around 2002 their response was something along the lines of, "That's not how WE do it HERE". Just last nite I started OOo to be fair, and opened a blank doc, clicked on Close via the menu and then Close again, and OOo shut down. Not a PROCESS in RAM. EXIT should do that, not Close.
Another reason for me to avoid them, unless I have to fix a broken ms blurb doc....
Is this obvious or non-obvious? I got tired of running tripwire on my home computers for the time it takes to scan through umpteen 100s of thousands of files I have (backing up work I do). Even a bare system still takes a while. Not having to generate signatures would be nice, in some ways.
But, for the same security reasons for running a live boot CD, file comparison of the basic OS files is neat, too. But, eventually someone might figure a way around this, too.
I wonder if we'll have to sign an agreement so we don't sued for using this technique...
It's just a little "groggy"... Ever wake yourself up with pasty eyes or morning breath and wonder how to get out of bed without disturbing the friends? (the beelions of mites we all take to bed with us....)
Give windoze time stop dreaming of electric sheep and throwing invisible chairs in the screensaver.
Speaking of... I wouldn't be surprised if some jokester ms engineers embedded an invisible ballmer throwing invisible chairs in an invisible screensaver...
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What, like "penis envy"?
Hell, a "member" THAT big would be two things:
-- a liability to users and
-- a deterrent to companionship....
captcha: "instill"
THIS, sir, is the VERY thing a close relative of mine just can't seem (or is blindly unwilling (and maybe even investing in ms stocks?, too) to understand.
See, I'm tweaking a prototype screenplay/manuscript application and when I told my relative of this, I got responses like, "Well, maybe I'm not thinking in a business sense, but microsoft has some 99% of the market. Why develop for those other smaller insignificant numbers...?"
I explained there exist a number of companies, such as Trolltech out of the EU, that create tools for developers who SPECIFICALLY want to be nice or who want to provide legacy support options for companies that want to balance or limit their exposure to any one particular OS. My relative's response was, "Well, I use Office, and if I go to the store to look for a screenplay application and I see yours, and I know it doesn't run on windows, then I wouldn't even TOUCH it..."
To which my response was something as, "Well, if I use that multi-platform software that spits out the software binaries to run my development on 3 different OS, it WOULD LOOK LIKE the native environment YOU are looking for. You wouldn't even NEED to know it was also developed for Linux & Mac. Maybe you wouldn't see the "Developed for ms windows" sticker, and that would be because ms actively snuffs out or harms companies by depriving them of TIMELY access to code and resources they need, particularly if those companies are helping non-ms operating systems. IF you pay and IF ms takes your money, then that lab certification will cost an arm and a leg, and I wouldn't buy it anyway, as long as TrollTech's software does the job."
To which I got, several times, "But WHY? WHY? What are those niche users doing for you?"
And the possibility of an obsequious or myopic relative's attraction to mshaft stock or mshaft itself kept entering my mind.
Next time I talk to this relative, I will lay on this analogy:
"See, it's like this: YOU need water, for whatever reason, maybe to keep construction site dirt from blowing away, or to water your garden, or to wash cars or run a factory. Doesn't matter. You get a PRODUCT. It shouldn't be YOUR concern HOW it was made or by what machinery I extruded the goddam plastic bottles and barrels to ship your water. As long as it's clean, fresh, non-toxic, and legal to produce and ship, why the hell do you CARE that I'm providing water to small companies instead of LARGE companies?"
I sometimes want to pop a gasket when relatives and friends who are so degreed and intelligent and supposedly worldly cannot recall or never heard that:
-- microsoft FUCK THE HELL out of a LOT of companies along the way, namely FUDDing the delivery dates of their own, half-baked, undeliverable products and killed off investor interest or 2nd round support to products that announced and drew fire from mshaft;
-- many of the hardware manufacturers were strong-armed into taking money from ms to crank out mshaft OS and no others, or they'd lose marketing dollars
-- mshaft FAKED video testimony in court
-- mshaft is a convicted monopolist
and on and on and on... it's galling. I'll gladly enable windoze users (not lusers, but USERs, tho they use winDOZE) to be able to enjoy my prototype-hopefully-turned-product, but I'll goddamned if I'm going to roll over to mshaft and ignore a well-deserving Mac and Linux base. If I have anything to do with it, the Linux and Mac versions would release first (unlike some FOSS/*doze developers) and *doze second. Not so that *doze could benefit from field bug reports, but for the purpose of keeping Linux & Mac in the forefront. As long as it's a quality product, as long as enough stability testing for each release is achieved, as long as the product has a life, then it should, by my vote, be OS-AGNOSTIC, period.
How HARD is it to deliver an OS-agnostic product? Hell, StoryLines runs in OpenOffice.org/wxWidgets, and OO.o runs on Linux and Mac AND of course, windoze. They are a small company. Why can
Oregon should attempt to fix this problem by using the an evictions/criminal background database service (like the one my apartment ran on me about 20 minutes before they approved me for leasing) in conjunction with the state's own database. This would blunt discrimination by states such as Florida.
Other states or businesses also could run the checks that could validate rather than discriminate individuals just because OR has a Swiss-cheese ID card process. But, every state needs to have SOME kind of ID. And, since state and States' (nations) ID's (even countries') paper currency are counterfeited (some countries' paper money so vastly superior to US currency... I saw in "The Color of Money" how a certain European country's banks by LAW throughout the day or at the end of the business day scan all bills; the bar-coded bills are checked against a master issuance database and any bills flagged as counterfeit trigger a rewind of any shop or store or bank security cameras where so fitted. Just makes paper money a physical proxy for e-cash. I wouldn't have a problem with this, since e-transactions/ccard transactions already remove anonymity, and cash only still exists so that corrupt governments and corrupt state officials and a number of businesses can carry on their traditional models of money laundering, propping up certain ventures and so on... even politicians prefer less-than speedy tracking of their hooker and massage parlor or dubious country-club activities during and after official working hours...), then until it becomes foolproof, Florida either should not discriminate against the OR ID, or it should (and probably does) use alternate verification that is not normally faked, or is easy to trust once an answer comes back.
But, using these eviction/crime/whatever databases costs money, the government ought to step in and (with a gun to the head of the database operators) say, "You will receive a contract payment per year and don't ask for anymore money", and then make that data available to the businesses and agencies efficiently and affordably. Theoretically, any one of us should be able to pop in or walk up to a terminal and find out what goods are on us. Many of these won't let us see what they were told. Some might just be "no negs to report, but don't hold our service responsible if your renter turns out to be a serial rapist Mengele or Daumer type" or some such response to the subscribers.
And, finally (really? finally?) many of these same databases likely are tapped every time we apply for a job. I've been wondering (my credit is NOT pretty, thanks to the down-hill slide I've had in unstable gainful employment since being laid off January 31, 2001 --only about 2 permanent jobs, and 5 or 6 agency-related contract jobs, all ending, increasingly worsening my ability to pay back my debts in any meaningful way; of course I made some bad decisions, but Karma or fate must have it in for me big time, seeing me kicked when I'm down or say the wrong thing...[obviously, I won't survive in government, union, or most corporate environments....Outside of Customer Service Window working hours you get raw, quick (right or wrong, but non-shirking, non-kiss-ass answers from me]) if any of you out there get LOTS of inquiries about availability for work, then nothing. Zip, nada, zilch. They don't even return YOUR calls. Could be creditors posing as employers... what's that (new?) term going around, the one related to HP investigating its employees by using stand-ins?....
HAH!: what an appropriate captch: "reinvent", and speaking of my self and HP (I need to REinvent myself); HP says "HP. Invent!"
suck it up.
What *I* mostly care about is this: Is it going to be as fast and easy as it is to obtain that fucking thing as it is to obtain legitimately a DL in Oregon?
In 2003, I moved there, got my apartment and had utility billing (showing proof of intent to reside there, not mooch or drift), and had my former CA DL (valid, non-expired) and auto insurance and my car smog-checked and in good condition, plus new tires and engine upkeep.
Closing in on the 30-day reside or leave law thing, I studied a few days for the test. I went to DMV by appointment (or, was it a drop-in? Yeh, by appointment since it was late when I first arrived). I sat before a computer. Answered maybe 20 questions. Passed.
Shocker? They told me to sit about 12 minutes and my ID would be ready. I thought I mis-heard the clerk. Huh? What?! 12 minutes? Hell, in California, I'd have to wait a month, maybe two (and mine have in CA been lost in the mail once or twice, when time was critical and having an ID for contract work was mandatory... not paper temporary vouchers...).
I concede that Oregon has a FRACTION of CA's population, but give me a BREAK! Are Oregon homeless or con artists any more crafty than those in California? CA is one of the most HIGH TECH states in the US, and if CA were a country, it'd have maybe the 3rd or 4th largest economy in the world (a good reason for CA to say FUCK DC and secede, heheheheh), so it ought to be EASIER and faster to obtain ID in CA. It should be possible to get the frackin' thing within 20 MINUTES of proving ones identity or passing ID and passing the DMV test.
The brouhaha over internal passport and threat to privacy and such may be well-intentioned, but as long as the ID has no wires, trace capability, or the like, then it's probably a GOOD thing that the ID information will be centralized. I am not speaking about "keeping out migrant workers". I'm talking about putting a crimp in the asses of those who legitimately obtain multiple IDs but who then go on to ABUSE the multiple IDs across state lines, defraud the IRS (I don't mind PAYING taxes; it's the LEVEL that I am bothered by at times), and evade paying bills, tickets, or child support. If you MAKE a kid, PAY FOR IT! Owe a debt, PAY for it, or stay in the loop until it's discharged or someone picks up the bill to give you a clean slate.
All this bitching about the ID is good and some of it is not. Another GOOD thing is that some back-jerkwater-ass hobo-run sheriff or PO-LEASE in parts of the US can't (hopefully can't) ding passers-through on D/L issues. (Broken turn or signal lamps can still cause you problems if they want to detain you or scrape a few dozen dollars out of your wallet before telling you to come back and visit our little town again....)
Hell, many countries, due to historical and formation pains, have had national IDs from their START. We, here in the USA, had it good for a while. The criminal types will still evade; the good types will comply; the cottage lawyers will bitch up a storm and get paid up the ass and smile for the make-work. Cops (good or bad) and bars and certain businesses will love it because they won't have to memorize, train others, or keep annual books on valid forms of acceptable ID.
(*** It *ought* to be a *win* for a lot of people. The cell phones and pagers, NIC cards, and roaming login accounts tell more about us than the damned RealID would. I am pretty sure a number of states are afraid of losing control not over states' rights, but over the cottage card-printing industry (like presidents' and governors' wives painting and selling junk art so DC and the states' frame-making industry can be artificially propped up....) ***)
Anyway, some states permit individuals to possess more than one state ID as long as there is no sign of fraud. Frakin' California would punch a HOLE through my Oregon ID but I had to rationalize with the clerk that I HAD to not have my Oregon ID SCREWED WITH by some arcane process that could be double-checked by a simple inter-ag
OK, I've got karma to burn, so to the dumbass who modded me off-topic:
-This is the POLITICAL thread!
-This is about MONEY!
-This is about the value of material used for MAKING the money!
-This is about the IMPLICIT TRUST placed in not just the MATERIAL, but the THOUGHT and FEEL that makes money "worth" something!
-This is about the national pride to protect CURRENCY value, but not to vigorously domestically instill pride in those who most desperately NEED economic recovery!
It's OK for successive governments to spend OUR money out their ass and not really be accountable, but we who falter have dirty credit, dirty reports, become non-hired for many jobs requiring integrity, and worse.
Heartless bastard/s. Off-topic... yeh, right. All the lame-ass comments on this site that never get marked as off-topic, and when something touches a nerve of some republicrats or whatever cans or crats, a poster gets sideswiped. What-e-v-e-r...
If volumes people suddenly regarded currency as common hemp or cotton, and threw it away willy-nilly or burned it or did other things to devalue it, markets could crash. But they won't and even IF they did, lameassed economists would find creative ways to stave off an impending crash because this probably doesn't fit their neat and tidy model.
pound-foolish?
I wonder when digital pennies will be worth less and cost more than a byte in a file... At that point, how do we "implicitly value" the dollar, or any currency? Money only has worth because law and people writing the law say so. If it is counterfeited, and spends, and is taken out of circulation, in small amounts and limited instances, how will an economy collapse? Even the US is the biggest, authorized counterfeiter of cash, producing money that often NEVER goes into REAL circulation. Remember the multiple billions of dollars in Iraq alone, in the truck convoy? The US prints and distributes cash to dozens, if not many, many dozens of countries, much of which then sits in a vault, or is loaned to people who don't need it.
Money only has value when your neighbor possesses more of it or more toys than you and throws it away faster than you can earn it. Some people are talented and can make money off of just about ANYthing, while others have lesser imagination and no access to resources (philanthropic, banking, lending, grant-issuing, etc.) and give up on trying to sell or introduce or even patent or copyright something that could be their ticket out of a hell-hole. (For example, I'm sitting on ideas either in my head or on paper, and I cannot do much with them out of fear or disappointment that all along the way, someone or some firm will try to nickel and dime me to death, reassign to themselves my IP the creation of which they had not a DAMN thing to do with, and so on. But, trust has to be found, earned or made at SOME point, so like all other fools or fortunate, I have to take the plunge at some point.... )
Now THAT' when money/currency has value: Those who DESPERATELY need it, but have no credentials, have bad credit, are out of work, or are somehow not in a special category just won't have any without stealing it, begging for it, prostituting themselves, or resisting taxes to hoard every last penny.
Would be nice if every 5 years or so, those who are DEEEEEEPLY indebted are just clean-slated. After all, if they can't find a job (meaningful, gainful, non-demeaning) and the creditor routinely writes off debt to clear the books, the debtor is still stuck with the 7-year (or longer, considering how many credit companies buy up each other or sell files to each other, meaning, effectively you can still be "punished" long after 7 years have passed...) stigma, but the creditor gave up.
Considering how many multiple BILLIONS the USA (read: the power wielding minority of ultra wealthy, their lobbyists, and the corrupt politicians in on the game) prosecuting a war (read: persecuting those who don't "get with the program") but can't find a way to grant amnesty or some sort of significant debt reduction to tens if not hundreds of thousands of debt-ridden students, mortgage holders imminently in jeopardy of homelessness....
I wonder how many times over the major cities' slums could have been torn down and rebuilt to modern living standards.
Penny-wise and pound-foolish...
Maybe to kill off or flag and issue red alerts on Linux boxes in corporate quarterly security audits/reports? If Linux keeps popping up, and if the bandwidth is screwed with by the server running undocumented code to hamper or impede services run on Linux boxes....
Well, I guess smart IT shops will just put such servers outside the CDHCP servers....
Nice try, mshaft. Take your bat and ball and go home. Try again another day...
Well, I'm sure that in Tejas they would call this "virile" marketing.
Holy FRACK, Apollo. May the Lords of Kobol shine a light ahead for us..., but I am sure MySQL will quote your father Adama and say, "Sometimes you gotta roll the hard six."
(Now, if BOOMER said that to me, I'd quot Paul Lekakis with "BOOM BOOM BOOM, let's go BACK to my ROOM, so we can DO IT all NITE and u can MAKE me feel RIGHT!")
(DOH! Slash captcha: "stench" sheesh, this captcha generator is too much sometimes...)
Sure, Yeh, then we can have Dolf Lundgren-sized White Dolphins with frick'n laser beam turrets on their heads. They'll be UniDol(ph)s.. Specially-trained USN SEALs in "disguys"
I don't know if there'll be a Van Dammed Dolphin, tho...
Sorry, Charlie...
"Unless you can see the target, the range, and downrange yourself, you cannot be sure of your target. The way I was taught, that means you don't take the shot. Having someone else tell you "range is clear, fire away" is NOT a substitute."
.50 cal shooter having no eyes, and his "sighter" was incapable of firing or handling the gun mount... In that case, "fire way" is a valid exception I can speculate on...
Except, of course, in combat. I seem to recall the stories of the
"I hardly see how the blind should be allowed to own and operate a firearm. They are 100% incapable of safely using it on their own. They arent allowed to drive for the same reason."
Well, if they are at home--and live alone-- and have a shotgun, and are crouched down against the wall waiting for the intruder they heard break and enter--as taught in home invasion/home-gun-safety classes-- they SURELY should be allowed to own/discharge a firearm in that scenario. But, yes, the rest of your argument hold... distinguishing friend from foe is a must... can't have indiscriminate discharge.
Well, if they're shooting Syl... (symbols, cymbals) Cylons, then they'll only get 30 days in the brig...
He was being cymbolic. Don't have a tympani tantrum, hehehehe
I wonder how many could pull out a speculum (I learned in the 7th grade in Texas in Sex Ed class in 1980 what a speculum was... I think not many states at that time exposed kids to speculums, IUDs, and condoms....) OR a frackin' LASER BEAM out....
I bet some of the Japan Slashdot stuff, if translated to eigo-wa, would be esoteric, but interesting. Hey, Slash, how's about it? I'm a Japanophile with very inferior Nihongo skills. But, I'd LOVE to read the local J-Slash pages. That might be more fruitful for some of us than using Bablefish, or reading trollish articles...
(ducking, as red laser beam sweeps overhead, dancing about my room... "yee--yoong, yooong", threatening retina-detaching maneuvers on my part...)
Frau: AK-TIH-VAYT THE LAY-ZHUR!
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"Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING."
GODDAMMIT! Lameness is INTENTIONAL!
Yeh, so after you finish scraping or cutting yourself up in the garden, you can make every,uhh, es-scar-got...
Does this mean we won't need Win4Lin? (no more damned W4L-imposed kernel dependency or fearing that netraverse 2.6.8.1 won't run nice on a 2.6.21, or 2.7.x, or 2.8.x someday...).
I don't see (yet) that this will threaten VMware, but if the KVM could fake hardware enough that I could not need Wine, Cedega/Codeweavers, or Win4Lin, then I could run that legacy Win98 disk of my and run my Lotus Apps in there...
(rubbing hands expectantly...)
will travel painfully slow snail's pace along the nervous system...
Then, they'll have to come up with hummingbird-fast anti-toxin, or, maybe an multi-dimensional-gateway/time-shifting olfactory treatment...
Damn, too bad I already commented. I'd have bumped you up from 0, Offtopic to 1 of 2... SHEESH, where is the HUMOR around here?
scex is based on the durability, flexibility and viscosity of the quantum slipstream (thank you "Star Trek" with all the techno babble...). Then my mind thought of Mr. Ears... "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pounded weak and weary..." when Charlie hexed me....
I have determined that the physicality, umm, err, the physics involved make scents... umm, sense, but legally, it does not pay to do this research to make cents.
Energy can be derived from various forms of matter, possibly even dark matter. But, let's for now lighten up the matter.
The verisimilitude of the vibratory effects only cause rash... umm, rationalization the matter. However, there will be others whose own findings will only serve to compound each others observations and distinked... umm, distinct findings.
Collectively, we may rise to being cunninglinguists....
captcha: careen (which is what this post is about to do....)
I've got (only) 256 MB RAM, on an AMD K-7 (698 MHz) machine. Sure, I have over 150 processes running, but even when I cut that to the minimum (say, 94 or 87 processes, killing off MySQL, firewall, EVERYthing that might eat clock cycles) OOo still drags on my machine. Even with over 200 process running on my machine, Lotus Word Pro (part of SmartSuite, of which I installed all the apps, totaling about 250 MB of code) still starts the UI in under 6-8 seconds, and a blank template or pain document in under 2 more seconds. I have a 37 page doc with 70,000 characters and some 13,000 words in it and THAT opens in like, 2 seconds.
If I shut down LWP and then open the document straight from the file explorer, it takes about 23 seconds. But, that is because it's validating the links of some 20 documents I embedded into one doc (tabbed views and divisions/sections are what I am using in LWP so I can manage by tabs/nested tabs (rather than obscure, cumbersome rule line) all my documents. I can tell LWP to NOT validate the links and just open up ASAP, and the load time would be much faster. And, to reiterate, LWP, part of SmartSuite, is running in win98, which is running in Win4Lin, which is running in PCLinuxOS, in only 256 MB of RAM, on a 700 MHz AMD-based Gateway Select I bought in 2000. the LSS/Win98/Win4Lin combo is this fast, consistently, across whatever hardware I've used over the years, yet OOo, for me is painfully slow, unless I use that pre-loader, which I leave off since I rarely use OOo.
I just find it lamentable that OOo with all the latest code tools available since 2000 (SmartSuite emerged after 1992ish) that OOo takes so long to start. I also am one of those people who is extremely annoyed that OOo finds it OK to let the "Close" menu item shut down OOo. EXIT should be the way, not CLOSE. So many of us users argued and begged them to fix that, and around 2002 their response was something along the lines of, "That's not how WE do it HERE". Just last nite I started OOo to be fair, and opened a blank doc, clicked on Close via the menu and then Close again, and OOo shut down. Not a PROCESS in RAM. EXIT should do that, not Close.
Another reason for me to avoid them, unless I have to fix a broken ms blurb doc....
The rootofme of my rootofme is afriendlyrootofme?
captcha: augers
Is this obvious or non-obvious? I got tired of running tripwire on my home computers for the time it takes to scan through umpteen 100s of thousands of files I have (backing up work I do). Even a bare system still takes a while. Not having to generate signatures would be nice, in some ways.
But, for the same security reasons for running a live boot CD, file comparison of the basic OS files is neat, too. But, eventually someone might figure a way around this, too.
I wonder if we'll have to sign an agreement so we don't sued for using this technique...
It's just a little "groggy"... Ever wake yourself up with pasty eyes or morning breath and wonder how to get out of bed without disturbing the friends? (the beelions of mites we all take to bed with us....)
Give windoze time stop dreaming of electric sheep and throwing invisible chairs in the screensaver.
Speaking of... I wouldn't be surprised if some jokester ms engineers embedded an invisible ballmer throwing invisible chairs in an invisible screensaver...
Darn, I guess I saw what I WNATED to see...