PS - It's not ObamaCare, it's RomneyRepublicare, but the Republicans are against because they're party before country. "Whatever it is, I'm against it."
Then the Republicans will do an about-face and claim that Obama isn't supporting private space initiatives and they will claim to double their support for Space-X and whatnot.
Republicanism is party before country and "whatever it is, I'm against it."
there's an argument for nipping the problem in the bud before the mistake happens. an unstable idiot with a gun is a problem. no matter how faulty the gun or how many cops are standing around him
There is an argument, but the argument needs to be tempered with "how many lives is this going to cost us nipping it in the bud?" Because you *know* that an actual invasion over the DMZ or by sea means that everything stationed by NK behind the DMZ gets launched.
Diplomacy has worked over the past decades, because it has prevented war that would have levelled Seoul, because we know that they know that crossing the DMZ means cruise missile strikes on all thier SAM bases and then tons of bombs from BUFs. As crazy as you think the North Koreans are, there is a method to their madness.
And MAD still exists. Except that it's not mutual, it's simply assured destruction by us of anyone who uses a nuke against us, even if all they have is one.
just that you are wrong that this kind of thing just goes away on its own
No. It doesn't go away on its own. That's what diplomacy is for. If you resort to invasion it means that you have failed.
Your mistake is that you think diplomacy is "doing nothing." It's not.
What frightens me is the assholes from PNAC and FPI who are advising Romney are pushing for an interventionist "strike first, ask questions later" military policy. An Imperial America, if you will. It's not like these guys are hiding it.
Please notice the similarity of individuals at both think-tanks and who is staffing Mitt's foreign policy jobs, and the similarities in philosophy all of the above is.
Taken as a totality, it is frightening, because it basically guarantees that we will be at least in a shooting war with Iran if Romney gets elected. They will *insist* he does so.
When you have two stupid people, they don't add up to one smart person. Two people with an IQ of 75 does not add up to 150. Consider that IQ is actually a percentage where 100=100 percent or 1. For typical meetings of people who have above average IQ, this increases the total IQ by multiplication. When you combine two stupid people you also multiply their IQs, but since their individual IQs are less than unity, the IQ of the system drops. For example: if two people meet and they both have an IQ of 75, the combined IQs of two people is.56, with one of them saying "Hold my beer" and "watch this."
Combining Iran and North Korea does not get you pre-war Nazi Germany. What it gets, I'm not sure, but whatever it is, it ain't smart.
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P.S. Business meetings do not follow the above rule. A business meeting is always as dumb as the dumbest person there at a maximum.
P.P.S: I have not yet factored in what is called "retard strength" - you may make your own assumptions about this.
What are they possibly going to do? They are outgunned in every respect - technologically, economically, and militarily by everyone who won't put up with their shit. Pre-WWII Germany had built itself back up to a manufacturing and academic (well, before they chased out the jewish PhDs) powerhouse. Meanwhile we've got the Mullahs afraid that people might actually learn things while at university and a North Korean populace that is reduced to eating grass every 10 years or so. Comparing Iran and North Korea to pre-war Nazi Germany doesn't even pass the belly laugh test.
Did you even see the ludicrous North Korean attempt at a supposed satellite launch? What about the photoshopped missile launch test from Iran?
Compare and contrast to the years between WWII and Yeltsin shelling Parliament when I would see maps in the Providence Journal of what would happen if a nuclear warhead detonated over Quonset Point Naval Air Station - an actual, credible, threat. That's what gets me about this "war on terrorism" and "axis of evil" bullshit which chews up trillions of dollars and ruins soldiers' lives for few actual results over imaginary threats to the US. We're supposed to soil our underwear over some technologically backwards regimes who don't even have actual long-range missiles and their medium range missiles leave much to be desired?
You want cyberwar? How about "accidentally" "dragging an anchor" over an undersea cable in the Persian Gulf or off the coast of North Korea? Because that's what our response is going to be if Iran and North Korea become offensive with malware botnets and they can do fuck-all about it. It's not like it hasn't happened before.
Threat? Please.
What fucking threat?
The people playing up this "threat" of Iran and North Korea are a bunch of pants-wetters and chickenhawks with only one thing in mind - making money off the unjustified fear and advancing the ideologies of PNAC and FPI banging the drums for boots-on-the-ground war with Iran and probably NK. Dan Senor isn't exactly a "potted plant" to take a term from Ollie North's lawyer.
Sin embargo, Nokia explicà que conocÃa esta acepciÃn, aunque finalmente se escogià el nombre porque 'lumia' es "una palabra española muy antigua caÃda en desuso desde hace tiempo".
"Los resultados mostraron que mÃs del 60 por ciento de los consumidores españoles pensà que era un gran nombre para un producto de tecnologÃa mÃvil. Les sugerÃa en primer lugar 'luz' y 'estilo', en lugar del otro significado, mÃs oscuro y negativo", explicà la compañÃa en su blog oficial.
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So let's do the math. "More than 60 percent" can mean 66, so let's call it 2/3rds. The other third thinks you have a filthy mouth.
And guess what? Helvetica isn't on Windows either. It's a commercial font you must buy to have. And this "hurr, you must make an.xml file" to replace another font is stupid, because after installing a font, you can just go to whatever control panel you use in Linux (kde's Gnome's, LXDE's, whatever) and set the font for the browser or desktop or whatever. Nobody *ever* goes to the command line anymore to install and use fonts. Not sane or smart people, anyway.
Who to complain to: complain to the upstream. You have the IP address. Do a nslookup and traceroute and write to abuse@foo.com. However, if it's just the standard "checking default passwords" deal, then it's a botnet and you shouldn't bother.
Here's what you do in sshd.conf
Take sshd off port 22 and put it on a high port above 1024. I use HF radio frequencies to remember. Port 3898 (or whatever) Turn off password authentication. You should be using keys. PasswordAuthentication no Use protocol 2 Protocol 2 Turn off root login. DenyUsers root PermitRootLogin no ?????? Profit. You're done. Really.
If you want full paranoia mode belt-and-braces so your pants don't fall down, install fail2ban, but if you have done the above, you don't really need it.
The logs go silent and they have to do a full portscan to even find ssh. Brute force ssh bots are fire and forget. The bots move along to the next guy whose sshd is on 22.
I live in Rhode Island, and I think it's high time to retire the old nukes from the early 70s, and replace the closed plants with new reactors.
I'd like to see some. There's space enough in Quonset for one.
I also want the incredibly dirty coal burning plants in Ohio, PA, etc, to be replaced with nukes. All our dirty air comes from them, as we are downwind.
And I want the sticks-in-the-mud over on Nantucket to quit whining about windmills all the way out on the bloody horizon at 10 miles away, and stop being in the way of progress. There is plenty of space out there for windmills *and* boaters.
There are only so many things you can worry about.
And global warming/climate change for the average person is *way way way way* down on the list. Other pressing things like job, family, housing, healthcare, etc., come first.
And in this economy, climate change isn't even anywhere on the radar. It's a rich people's problem.
but I refuse to read him, because I know how badly he misrepresents things, how completely unable he is to objectively evaluate. (And what a liar he has been in the past--see opposition to Oracle's purchase of MySQL and his letter to EU commission.) So to the extent that he was right, I would consider that an accident of his prejudice aligning with reality, for once.
Someone who has been "following Groklaw for years" doesn't make this mistake. Either that or you are one of those people who still insists that PJ is actually 5 people at IBM.
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Oh, i see, there's no proof. "Trust me" is all you have.
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>They help cure everything from acne (bacterially caused) to improving cancer remission rates.
Double blind study or GTFO.
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Go wave your dead chicken elsewhere, shaman.
Show me that placebos cure actual illness.
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Giving someone a placebo when they suffer from an organic disease (as opposed to psychosomatic) borders on pure evil.
No, wait, I take that back. It is pure evil.
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Placebos don't work when you've got a real disease.
Thus homeopathy = shamanism and magical thinking. You die anyway.
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>Comparing VAR pricing and support to bare license with no support
Fail.
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So many straw men, so little time.
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PS - It's not ObamaCare, it's RomneyRepublicare, but the Republicans are against because they're party before country. "Whatever it is, I'm against it."
...come out and endorse doubling NASA's budget.
Then the Republicans will do an about-face and claim that Obama isn't supporting private space initiatives and they will claim to double their support for Space-X and whatnot.
Republicanism is party before country and "whatever it is, I'm against it."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtMV44yoXZ0
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> The former, the Data Center version, costs $4,809, while the Standard edition will cost $882.
Virtualization and incresed processor count is worth nearly $4,000?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FopyRHHlt3M
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I have a question for you, then.
How many 19 year-olds do you want to throw at the problem?
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there's an argument for nipping the problem in the bud before the mistake happens. an unstable idiot with a gun is a problem. no matter how faulty the gun or how many cops are standing around him
There is an argument, but the argument needs to be tempered with "how many lives is this going to cost us nipping it in the bud?" Because you *know* that an actual invasion over the DMZ or by sea means that everything stationed by NK behind the DMZ gets launched.
Diplomacy has worked over the past decades, because it has prevented war that would have levelled Seoul, because we know that they know that crossing the DMZ means cruise missile strikes on all thier SAM bases and then tons of bombs from BUFs. As crazy as you think the North Koreans are, there is a method to their madness.
And MAD still exists. Except that it's not mutual, it's simply assured destruction by us of anyone who uses a nuke against us, even if all they have is one.
just that you are wrong that this kind of thing just goes away on its own
No. It doesn't go away on its own. That's what diplomacy is for. If you resort to invasion it means that you have failed.
Your mistake is that you think diplomacy is "doing nothing." It's not.
What frightens me is the assholes from PNAC and FPI who are advising Romney are pushing for an interventionist "strike first, ask questions later" military policy. An Imperial America, if you will. It's not like these guys are hiding it.
Read from their own mouths:
http://www.foreignpolicyi.org/about/ - the current Neocon philosophy on foreign policy and the military.
http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm - The predecessor for the above.
http://www.mittromney.com/collection/foreign-policy - Mitt Romney's official stance on the "American Century" (he did not pick this title by accident).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romney-taps-foreign-policy-national-security-advisers/2011/10/06/gIQAnDHzPL_story.html - the article describing who is on Mitt's staff.
http://www.foreignpolicyi.org/about/staff - Listing of staff at FPI.
Please notice the similarity of individuals at both think-tanks and who is staffing Mitt's foreign policy jobs, and the similarities in philosophy all of the above is.
Taken as a totality, it is frightening, because it basically guarantees that we will be at least in a shooting war with Iran if Romney gets elected. They will *insist* he does so.
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When you have two stupid people, they don't add up to one smart person. Two people with an IQ of 75 does not add up to 150. Consider that IQ is actually a percentage where 100=100 percent or 1. For typical meetings of people who have above average IQ, this increases the total IQ by multiplication. When you combine two stupid people you also multiply their IQs, but since their individual IQs are less than unity, the IQ of the system drops. For example: if two people meet and they both have an IQ of 75, the combined IQs of two people is .56, with one of them saying "Hold my beer" and "watch this."
Combining Iran and North Korea does not get you pre-war Nazi Germany. What it gets, I'm not sure, but whatever it is, it ain't smart.
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BMO
P.S. Business meetings do not follow the above rule. A business meeting is always as dumb as the dumbest person there at a maximum.
P.P.S: I have not yet factored in what is called "retard strength" - you may make your own assumptions about this.
What are they possibly going to do? They are outgunned in every respect - technologically, economically, and militarily by everyone who won't put up with their shit. Pre-WWII Germany had built itself back up to a manufacturing and academic (well, before they chased out the jewish PhDs) powerhouse. Meanwhile we've got the Mullahs afraid that people might actually learn things while at university and a North Korean populace that is reduced to eating grass every 10 years or so. Comparing Iran and North Korea to pre-war Nazi Germany doesn't even pass the belly laugh test.
Did you even see the ludicrous North Korean attempt at a supposed satellite launch? What about the photoshopped missile launch test from Iran?
Compare and contrast to the years between WWII and Yeltsin shelling Parliament when I would see maps in the Providence Journal of what would happen if a nuclear warhead detonated over Quonset Point Naval Air Station - an actual, credible, threat. That's what gets me about this "war on terrorism" and "axis of evil" bullshit which chews up trillions of dollars and ruins soldiers' lives for few actual results over imaginary threats to the US. We're supposed to soil our underwear over some technologically backwards regimes who don't even have actual long-range missiles and their medium range missiles leave much to be desired?
You want cyberwar? How about "accidentally" "dragging an anchor" over an undersea cable in the Persian Gulf or off the coast of North Korea? Because that's what our response is going to be if Iran and North Korea become offensive with malware botnets and they can do fuck-all about it. It's not like it hasn't happened before.
Threat? Please.
What fucking threat?
The people playing up this "threat" of Iran and North Korea are a bunch of pants-wetters and chickenhawks with only one thing in mind - making money off the unjustified fear and advancing the ideologies of PNAC and FPI banging the drums for boots-on-the-ground war with Iran and probably NK. Dan Senor isn't exactly a "potted plant" to take a term from Ollie North's lawyer.
Oh yeah, and guess who Dan Senor works for?
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This bears repeating.
http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2011/11/03/navegante/1320329583.html
MÃ"VILES | Ãsltimos modelos del fabricante
Nokia eligià nombre 'Lumia' pese a saber que significa 'prostituta' en español
Efe | Helsinki
Actualizado jueves 03/11/2011 15:13 horas
El fabricante finlandés de teléfonos mÃviles Nokia decidià bautizar su nueva gama de dispositivos dotados de Windows Phone con el nombre de 'Lumia' pese a saber que ese término significa 'prostituta' en español, informaron medios locales.
Después de que Nokia presentara la semana pasada el Lumia 800 y el Lumia 710, sus primeros teléfonos inteligentes equipados con el sistema operativo de Microsoft, diversos medios de comunicaciÃn, foros y redes sociales calificaron la elecciÃn de este nombre como una "grave metedura de pata" de la compañÃa.
Sin embargo, Nokia explicà que conocÃa esta acepciÃn, aunque finalmente se escogià el nombre porque 'lumia' es "una palabra española muy antigua caÃda en desuso desde hace tiempo".
SegÃn el diccionario de la Real Academia Española, 'lumia' es un sustantivo poco usado y de origen incierto que significa 'prostituta', y al igual que su variante 'lumi', forma también parte del argot urbano. ...
"Los resultados mostraron que mÃs del 60 por ciento de los consumidores españoles pensà que era un gran nombre para un producto de tecnologÃa mÃvil. Les sugerÃa en primer lugar 'luz' y 'estilo', en lugar del otro significado, mÃs oscuro y negativo", explicà la compañÃa en su blog oficial.
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So let's do the math. "More than 60 percent" can mean 66, so let's call it 2/3rds. The other third thinks you have a filthy mouth.
Heh heh
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And guess what? Helvetica isn't on Windows either. It's a commercial font you must buy to have. And this "hurr, you must make an .xml file" to replace another font is stupid, because after installing a font, you can just go to whatever control panel you use in Linux (kde's Gnome's, LXDE's, whatever) and set the font for the browser or desktop or whatever. Nobody *ever* goes to the command line anymore to install and use fonts. Not sane or smart people, anyway.
You're a moron *and* a liar.
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All you need to do I write some obscure XML and put it in the /etc/fonts/local.font file,
It's like it's last century! It's like I time-traveled back to 1998 and I'm ripping fonts from Microsoft disks and using the Font Deuglification FAQ!
Here's how you install a font in Linux.
Download font
Right click on it. Select "Install"
And you're done! Wow! SO FUCKING HARD!
more bullshit
I was never any kind of Windows fan, but I think I am starting become one after that experience.
Fine, stick to Windows, you liar.
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Who to complain to: complain to the upstream. You have the IP address. Do a nslookup and traceroute and write to abuse@foo.com. However, if it's just the standard "checking default passwords" deal, then it's a botnet and you shouldn't bother.
Here's what you do in sshd.conf
Take sshd off port 22 and put it on a high port above 1024. I use HF radio frequencies to remember.
Port 3898 (or whatever)
Turn off password authentication. You should be using keys.
PasswordAuthentication no
Use protocol 2
Protocol 2
Turn off root login.
DenyUsers root
PermitRootLogin no
??????
Profit. You're done. Really.
If you want full paranoia mode belt-and-braces so your pants don't fall down, install fail2ban, but if you have done the above, you don't really need it.
The logs go silent and they have to do a full portscan to even find ssh. Brute force ssh bots are fire and forget. The bots move along to the next guy whose sshd is on 22.
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Since young'ns don't know what a floppy disk is, the 'Save' icon is lost on them.
Indeed.
I'm going to make you feel old.
http://i.imgur.com/Ml8hc.jpg
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I'll bet you say that to all the boys.
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the US uses a strong AI
Only for the voices in your head.
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So who is going to be the first one to restart Kremvax?
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>New England
I live in Rhode Island, and I think it's high time to retire the old nukes from the early 70s, and replace the closed plants with new reactors.
I'd like to see some. There's space enough in Quonset for one.
I also want the incredibly dirty coal burning plants in Ohio, PA, etc, to be replaced with nukes. All our dirty air comes from them, as we are downwind.
And I want the sticks-in-the-mud over on Nantucket to quit whining about windmills all the way out on the bloody horizon at 10 miles away, and stop being in the way of progress. There is plenty of space out there for windmills *and* boaters.
But that is all fantasy. It won't happen. :-/
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There are only so many things you can worry about.
And global warming/climate change for the average person is *way way way way* down on the list. Other pressing things like job, family, housing, healthcare, etc., come first.
And in this economy, climate change isn't even anywhere on the radar. It's a rich people's problem.
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Oh nevermind. Disregard the above. I thought you were talking about PJ
That said, PJ is groklaw. "Foss Patents" is a contributor, but it's still PJ's site and she steers the discussion.
And I still think you're trying to smear Groklaw unjustly.
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which I have followed and loved for years
but I refuse to read him, because I know how badly he misrepresents things, how completely unable he is to objectively evaluate. (And what a liar he has been in the past--see opposition to Oracle's purchase of MySQL and his letter to EU commission.) So to the extent that he was right, I would consider that an accident of his prejudice aligning with reality, for once.
Someone who has been "following Groklaw for years" doesn't make this mistake. Either that or you are one of those people who still insists that PJ is actually 5 people at IBM.
And your argument is backed up by nothing.
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