Really. I'm not an American and i'm just baffled by your statement. I get news about your health system and i'm shocked (no, i don't mean mister moore's movie - i have no idea how accurate it is). And now this. You can laugh, but the only idea about 911 we have here is what we got in the past from the tv show with that star trek dude. And that seems pretty professional.
And you're totally right about the non-emergency number by the way. Yes it was a situation for the police, but come on, returning from a holiday? It wouldn't matter if you called now or the next day! I guess it takes that long then because more people can't judge for themselves if a situation is really an emergency.
This sounds awfully familiar. Haven't you worked on the script for Hackers? I must say i'm a little disappointed you didn't mention Jack committing harikiri if Joe didn't cooperate.
I tried to make a new law by creating a new article and it prompted me for a password.
From the PmWiki manual: By default, PmWiki is configured with empty @@read@@ and @@edit@@ passwords for the whole site (allowing anyone to view or edit pages).
So i guess they just set a password. Would be the best thing, i guess. Especially after the entire/. community found out about the site.
Exactly! I don't know why this comment is marked as flamebait, because it's a fair question (although it could probably be stated better). I can't help but wonder if this isn't a reaction to the ongoing anti-Iran campaign (specifically their nuclear plans). And indeed, why would we (the people) trust the ones who started the most wars based on bogus reasons?
Okay, i guess *this* post could qualify as flamebait:P
the point is you aren't understanding what i am saying: i am saying there exists people you can't educate in the ways of nonviolence. that there are people who would listen to your words, and ignore them, and go right on with their violent ways You were right; i didn't understand what you were saying. I also wasn't trying to educate you. I'm sorry if i sounded like that.
it all comes down to how you view human nature: are we vessels of purity which are corrupted by society into violence? or are we raging feral shit-flinging feral monkeys that society educates to express our inherent violent tendencies into nonviolent means?
I choose the first. But in part. In my opinion it all comes down to the choice you make. If you allow yourself to be corrupted, intimidated and forced into violence.
accept that fact. accept physical violence as something you must still go to defend that which deserves defending from psychologically degenerate demagogues, that will always be born anew. that will always threaten good people. forever, in all cultures I don't accept it, because it's not a fact. It's your choice. I would love to finish this reply, in greater detail but it's time to go home again. I wish you well with the choices you make. Maybe some day there will exist something that's called world peace, but only if people start to think that anything is possible, no matter what the situation is. You don't need to fight against this.
Thanks for the reply. Let me reply to some points you make:
peace is not a state of nonviolence. peace is a state of balanced potential for violence: if you hit me, i'll hit you back That's not true. You have a choice of hitting me back. If you hit me and i decide not to hit you back it won't be a fight, no matter what you do. The definition of war is (among others) : an active struggle between competing entities.
there is no such thing as nonviolence, as human nature itself is rife with conflict, both valid and invalid. this is the fate of mankind- now, for all time before, and all time in the future, to live in conflict Again, you have the choice of acting upon everything. Your fate is what you decide to make of it. If you don't fight back with physical means, you act in nonviolence. It's really that simple. Pride is usually why people do decide to fight. But you can be more proud of yourself by not fighting and choosing not to participate in the violence.
however, there will still be degenerate psychologies, constantly reborn anew in every generation, who will seek power via violence. and so, unfortunately, you must always protect against them with force of arms Read more about Ghandi and how he freed India by nonviolence. Think those millions of people were wrong in their actions? If that was the case, it would still be ruled by the British Empire would it not?
you seem to think that if you lay down your arms, someone else will lay down theres. no, what happens is if you lay down your arms, some demagogue, seeking to secure power through xenophobia and a circling of the wagons psychological effect, will posit an "us" versus "them" and promptly slaughter you My example on Ghandi is why your statement is flawed. Usually what happens is that a very small group of people feel the need to intimidate others. By acting upon the belief that you are alone in your actions, they try to oppress. Do you really think that if 1 (big/scary/armed/intimidating/etc) person can be master over 100 others if those people don't participate? What about 5 vs 1000 or 100 vs a million?
in other words, you need to remain armed, forever Oh but i am! Armed with wisdom, love, compassion and humanity. There's a song called Solace in You by Living Colours. Just for fun, read the lyrics.
you seem to think all human beings on this planet have the potential to be jesus christ or siddhartha gautama. no, some are simply degenerate. Every human has the potential to become whatever he or she wants to become. How else could you explain persons like that? Some have more faith in this than others though, and that's the difference between actually becoming what you desire to be and staying where you are.
this is our nature. make peace with that fact, no pun intended, or continue to rtail against simple human nature, to no effect at all except to demonstrate that you don't understand the world you live in and what and whom it is populated by simply wishing that humanity was something it is not will not make humanity so. you are not an idealist, you are simply uneducated and naive That is entirely your opinion. English is not my primary language and so i don't know what you mean by rtail (retaliate? resist?), but assuming you mean resist, well, that's exactly my point. I don't resist. Not even you and your opinion. You can reject everything i have said here and i wouldn't mind. After all, this is just _my_ opinion.
give me your wallet, bank cards and car keys. /me hands AC his empty wallet, blocked bank accounts and keys to the only car i own, a genuine Mattel branded piece of art. Extra lead included.
ps. If you'd just quit resisting and enlist perhaps that war thing would go away! but if i enlist i have to fight against something, which means resisting, which means it'll still persist. Do away with all the armies and you'll have no more wars (except on/. but i don't mind flamewars)
May I suggest: instant clearing of large, uncharted minefields? Good one. It has to be an insanely large field though, and not to mention that you'll instantly kill all other life on it in the process, but still.. good one. Better this than a weapon. I realize this might sound sarcastic but that's not on purpose. I agree that it would be a better alternative than having the mines perform their intended function. Thanks for the reply.
Seriously, spending so much time, effort, money and resources on something so utterly useless. Think about the possibilities of where this all would be better spent on. I know this comment will probably inspire a lot of morons to reply that it _is_ useful, or even more moronic 'jokes' from people who simply have no clue of what they're saying.
And isn't this a country that could use every penny to help their own people? Really sad, and pointless. I love to hear a good motivation why it would be useful. I can't think of any. And let's be honest, the only use for a bomb of this size would be death and destruction. Makes me so sad to think about it. Wars are useless too.
I love this quote and believe it with my entire soul: "What you resist persists. - Carl Jung"
Exactly. Something different than "Hi, i want to create a software that does this and that, and it has to run on linux of course, and i have only 3 hours to do it!"
That reminds me, i'm trying to convert slashcode to lolcode and i need help.
I do; caps/numbers/special chars. But i agree, 'T1me Out' would be a good choice. Even Microsoft's own Password checker thinks it's a pretty good choice;)
There's a comedian who has a nice sketch about this:
The first man, comes from Africa! So in origin, we are all African! It's just that at some point in time there was a little group who said "hey, we're gonna see what's out there, you know check out the place and see if there's something going on there. Are you coming?" And the other group was like "uh no, don't feel like it, we stay here." And that's okay, i don't care, and they do what they want to do, but afterward don't go complaining like "we're so hungryyyyyyy!!!
In my early linux days (kernel 2.0.something) i learned that a lot of settings were kept in/etc. So i thought to 'secure' it a little better by `chmod 600 -R/etc`... I briefly worked on restoring all permissions by looking at a similar box, but eventually gave up on it and reinstalled the lot.
Amen to that! It looks like scientists are just afraid because it means they'll have to come up with even more names. And let's be honest, 'Pluto'? No, i completely understand them and i can see the scene now: "Hey, i just saw another planet! What shall we name this one?" "Uhm.. Let's see, we had the entire Disney cast, how about we start naming them after muppets now?" "Oh, jolly good idea. And welcome planet Gonzo and planet Fozzie!"
I second that. We've 4x VMWare ESX running (w/ 16Gb ram.. sorry:P) and are running both dev and production machines on it. Mixed Linux and Windows guest OS's. The best feauture has to be VMotion, with which you can move a virtual machine across physical vmware hosts, without the guest OS having to shut down, or even being interrupted in its activities.
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Really. I'm not an American and i'm just baffled by your statement. I get news about your health system and i'm shocked (no, i don't mean mister moore's movie - i have no idea how accurate it is). And now this. You can laugh, but the only idea about 911 we have here is what we got in the past from the tv show with that star trek dude. And that seems pretty professional.
And you're totally right about the non-emergency number by the way. Yes it was a situation for the police, but come on, returning from a holiday? It wouldn't matter if you called now or the next day! I guess it takes that long then because more people can't judge for themselves if a situation is really an emergency.
Just curious about something here. Why am i able to tell the difference between 22kHz and 44.1kHz if i can't hear above 22kHz?
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Disclaimer: i'm NOT trying to be sarcastic, i'm really curious
Disclaimer disclaimer: i need the disclaimer because this is
This sounds awfully familiar. Haven't you worked on the script for Hackers? I must say i'm a little disappointed you didn't mention Jack committing harikiri if Joe didn't cooperate.
I tried to make a new law by creating a new article and it prompted me for a password.
/. community found out about the site.
From the PmWiki manual: By default, PmWiki is configured with empty @@read@@ and @@edit@@ passwords for the whole site (allowing anyone to view or edit pages).
So i guess they just set a password. Would be the best thing, i guess. Especially after the entire
"Madness takes its toll." - is this random? It's appropriate though :)
Exactly! I don't know why this comment is marked as flamebait, because it's a fair question (although it could probably be stated better). I can't help but wonder if this isn't a reaction to the ongoing anti-Iran campaign (specifically their nuclear plans). And indeed, why would we (the people) trust the ones who started the most wars based on bogus reasons?
:P
Okay, i guess *this* post could qualify as flamebait
Seriously, spending so much time, effort, money and resources on something so utterly useless. Think about the possibilities of where this all would be better spent on. I know this comment will probably inspire a lot of morons to reply that it _is_ useful, or even more moronic 'jokes' from people who simply have no clue of what they're saying.
And isn't this a country that could use every penny to help their own people? Really sad, and pointless. I love to hear a good motivation why it would be useful. I can't think of any. And let's be honest, the only use for a bomb of this size would be death and destruction. Makes me so sad to think about it. Wars are useless too.
I love this quote and believe it with my entire soul: "What you resist persists. - Carl Jung"
Exactly. Something different than "Hi, i want to create a software that does this and that, and it has to run on linux of course, and i have only 3 hours to do it!"
That reminds me, i'm trying to convert slashcode to lolcode and i need help.
Ah, so that's where the sudden increase in spam comes from. Thanks!
regards,
Dr. Logan / Dr. Rammaha
I do; caps/numbers/special chars. But i agree, 'T1me Out' would be a good choice. Even Microsoft's own Password checker thinks it's a pretty good choice ;)
There's a comedian who has a nice sketch about this:
The first man, comes from Africa! So in origin, we are all African! It's just that at some point in time there was a little group who said "hey, we're gonna see what's out there, you know check out the place and see if there's something going on there. Are you coming?" And the other group was like "uh no, don't feel like it, we stay here." And that's okay, i don't care, and they do what they want to do, but afterward don't go complaining like "we're so hungryyyyyyy!!!
CS .. now WoW ... are you sure you're posting in the right thread?
yeah, Nagios rules. Much better than GFI's NSM although not configurable for just anyone.
or regular mail, for that matter ...
Now that's not very nice of you, mentioning techgeek@gmail.com 's email address. Why, if i was techgeek@gmail.com i would be very upset now. Imagine all the email harvesting bots that'll pick up techgeek@gmail.com as a valid email address? Poor techgeek@gmail.com and his inbox. Well, i won't participate in that, techgeek@gmail.com !! Rest assured that i will never give away techgeek@gmail.com on any website and i will say to anyone using or posting techgeek@gmail.com that they should stop it, because techgeek@gmail.com is getting enough spam as it is!
There. You're welcome.
In my early linux days (kernel 2.0.something) i learned that a lot of settings were kept in /etc. So i thought to 'secure' it a little better by `chmod 600 -R /etc` ... I briefly worked on restoring all permissions by looking at a similar box, but eventually gave up on it and reinstalled the lot.
Amen to that! It looks like scientists are just afraid because it means they'll have to come up with even more names. And let's be honest, 'Pluto'? No, i completely understand them and i can see the scene now: "Hey, i just saw another planet! What shall we name this one?" "Uhm .. Let's see, we had the entire Disney cast, how about we start naming them after muppets now?" "Oh, jolly good idea. And welcome planet Gonzo and planet Fozzie!"
I second that. We've 4x VMWare ESX running (w/ 16Gb ram .. sorry :P) and are running both dev and production machines on it. Mixed Linux and Windows guest OS's. The best feauture has to be VMotion, with which you can move a virtual machine across physical vmware hosts, without the guest OS having to shut down, or even being interrupted in its activities.
This is the first time i see a story accurately tagged 'duh'