You do have a representative democracy in the US, but it takes more than one person dragging their fuzzy ass off the couch to show up at the polls to counter well-funded lobbyists.
You get the governement you vote for. You suffer the consequences for the one you don't bother voting against.
As for the moderators who modded my last post off-topic, you can jump in a hole and go fuck yourself. Go ahead and mod me into the cellar for this one too. If you think representative democracy and SCO's lawsuits are not connected, you are living on another planet.
I thought the real trick to running a search engine was the index. As a matter of fact, I thought I heard a story on NPR about Google's intent to index a whole mess of new stuff for their engine just to deep-six the competition.
What few people seem to know (and appreciate) is that SGI has been one of the major contributors to Linux over the last few years...
It wasn't overlooked by SCO. They were looking seriously at SGI as lawsuit meat. If there is anything left of SCO after Baystar Capital has finished suing them, maybe they will add SGI to their "Most Wanted List".
Which should (hopefully) have the same impact as the Daimler-Chrysler suit.
Nope. In fact, let's get in the wayback machine and see just what I said:
"When given the choice between a scientist and an administrator on matters regarding the usefulness of something in the field of science, I tend to lean toward the sciencey-types."
You also missed one of my favorite science vs. science gaffs, one from right here in the heart of the Pacific Northwest. For background more, google J. Harlen Bretz and the Missoula Floods.
Bretz was a mere public education science teacher who pitted his interpretation of the Channeled Scablands against all of the scientific conventional wisdom of his day. It wasn't until the Corp of Engineers started flying over Eastern Washington that Bretz's opinions began to take hold.
You also missed Fahrenheit's famous 'miss' regarding the age of the Earth.
These examples are, among others, why I cited "The Appeal to Authority" fallacy. The problem with low-G manufacturing is that the testing performed so far has produced not one interesting result. Yet it is paraded out as one of the Holy Grail-ish reasons to go to space.
I personally like the idea of adventure. Sending out humans to do a robots work has an important psychological factor. I once had a copy of a political cartoon done by Pat Oliphant that showed a group of people standing at the edge of the Great Plains watching an unmanned Conestoga Wagon headed out into the frontier. The gist of the text below it was "How the West Would Have Been Explored if We Hadn't Sent Settlers".
That comic was published shortly after the Columbia explosion.
I'm glad to see that SGI has regained its legs and is back in the high-end computing market again. The gamble they made in embracing Linux has paid off. Other folks had counted them dead because they came to the WinNT game late and were, therefore, fated to be high-priced integrators. Their days were numbered by the low-end market forces like Dell and HP.
Now we see that there is a market for high-priced integrators as long as the underlying technology fits the market segment you target.
That is also referred to as the logical fallacy of "The Appeal to Authority" argument.
The difference between my assurance that Park et al. have it right and the "others" have it wrong is based on the fact that Park et al. are scientists and the folks who make bugetary decisions at NASA are often career administrators.
When given the choice between a scientist and an administrator on matters regarding the usefulness of something in the field of science, I tend to lean toward the sciencey-types.
I'll admit my bias in this regard, but it is well earned. I am a scientist who has worked at a US Department of Energy site for thirteen years. Believe me, science can take a back seat to politics.
Look, if you can't bother to pay enough attention to control the vehicle, get out from behind the &*^%$#@ wheel! Ditto if you can't stay awake.Is that so hard to understand?
Ah no, I forgot, in Corporate America 200 truck drivers on taxpayer paid streets are cheaper than 1 train driver on train company paid rails..
I hope you enjoy the higher prices from maintaining a "just in case" inventory policy instead of a "just in time" inventory.
Millions of trucks on the road means that stores can purchase only the inventory they need, instead of paying for warehousing for stuff they may NEVER sell. That inventory cost is passed directly to you, the dork who is willing to pay $5,000USD for a computer that the rest of us can get for $450 from Dell.
Shitty ol' Corporate America. Brining you all the crap stored in your room for a fraction of what it would have cost under your version of inventory management.
How about the road? Maybe the two six inch thick yellow lines in the middle of the road?
Boy, is THAT stimulating or WHAT?
The road, the yellow lines, the road, the yellow lines, the road, the yellow (yawn) lines, the (blink, blink) road, the yellllllllow lines (blink), the roooooooooooooooooooad (snore!!!!)
More budget-bloating propaganda from your friends at NASA.
No one has ever shown the viability, or the necessity, of low-G manufacturing.
Search the American Physical Society for the "What's New" newsletter archives. Bob Park and other renown scientists can give you plenty to chew on regarding the utility of low-G manufacturing.
I don't see why everyone is so certain that water based life is the only kind there is.
I never said that it was impossible to form life without life. I said:
"The absence of ANY water would substantially decrease the chance of life."
That statement does not preclued the possibility of other environments. It just reflects our current undertanding of what factors contribute to the formation of life.
Americans are wedded more closely to M$ products than any other country. If anyone has something to fear from OSS 'intrusion' it is the Chinese and the Indians. They are deploying OSS everywhere they can because they have found M$ products too expensive to deploy in volume.
Americans and their foreign allies could be inserting small snippets of code into distros sold or downloaded to foreign countries. These snippets could be used to open backdoors for US intelligence agencies.
So goes the paranoia, that is.
Funny how the story takes on a different perspective when the treat is from America. Now it looks rather sensible and we (the US, that is) should be encouraging US hackers to start inserting code with all due speed!
What? The Chinese have their own distro?
Okay, then we will just go after India and the commercial interests of both countries (nearly 1/2 the worlds population - cool!).
If you give into paranoid rants from system vendors, you definately get what you pay for.
You're wrong. Bill Clinton was a professor of law at the University of Arkansas (Razorback mascot) 73-76.
Unless they've changed the rules since I was a professor, the fact that you teach at an institution does not mean you are an alumni of that institution.
Bill Clinton did not attend the University of Arkansas (and yes, I am aware that the Razorback is the UofArk mascot - why do you think I posted the mascots of other schools?).
We are not talking about the same 'dose' apparently.
When I receive iodine-129 from a radiologist, I am still receiving beta radiation at levels higher than that I would receive from Hanford groundwater (provided I would drink it due to the high chemical contamination).
That radioactive exposure (dose) is not affected by the consumption of the non-radioactive iodine. All the non-radioactive iodine does is assure that the thyroid does not concentrate iodine-129 in the tissues there.
A diet that includes iodized salt would have the same affect as the iodine tablets to individuals consuming iodine-129 contaminated Hanford groundwater. The concentration of iodine-129 in Hanford groundwater is low and localized, and it is even lower at the shoreline.
Don't believe me? Read the State of Washington Department of Ecology's assessments. Or try the USEPA.
Dose is used interchangeably for radiation exposure at Hanford. Perhaps that is the basis of your confusion.
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We don't have it now, so I don't see the problem.
You do have a representative democracy in the US, but it takes more than one person dragging their fuzzy ass off the couch to show up at the polls to counter well-funded lobbyists.
You get the governement you vote for. You suffer the consequences for the one you don't bother voting against.
As for the moderators who modded my last post off-topic, you can jump in a hole and go fuck yourself. Go ahead and mod me into the cellar for this one too. If you think representative democracy and SCO's lawsuits are not connected, you are living on another planet.
The opposite of progress is congress.
The opposite of Congress is tyranny.
Read the Federalist Papers and see why this is true.
Shit on representative democracy long enough and you won't have it.
...non issue since Win 2000 and later Win XP
False.
I have put Win2K and XP on dozens of machines and had BSODs on a few. They occur in the initialization phase before the OS installs.
I thought the real trick to running a search engine was the index. As a matter of fact, I thought I heard a story on NPR about Google's intent to index a whole mess of new stuff for their engine just to deep-six the competition.
What few people seem to know (and appreciate) is that SGI has been one of the major contributors to Linux over the last few years...
It wasn't overlooked by SCO. They were looking seriously at SGI as lawsuit meat. If there is anything left of SCO after Baystar Capital has finished suing them, maybe they will add SGI to their "Most Wanted List".
Which should (hopefully) have the same impact as the Daimler-Chrysler suit.
Did I say scientists couldn't be wrong?
Nope. In fact, let's get in the wayback machine and see just what I said:
"When given the choice between a scientist and an administrator on matters regarding the usefulness of something in the field of science, I tend to lean toward the sciencey-types."
You also missed one of my favorite science vs. science gaffs, one from right here in the heart of the Pacific Northwest. For background more, google J. Harlen Bretz and the Missoula Floods.
Bretz was a mere public education science teacher who pitted his interpretation of the Channeled Scablands against all of the scientific conventional wisdom of his day. It wasn't until the Corp of Engineers started flying over Eastern Washington that Bretz's opinions began to take hold.
You also missed Fahrenheit's famous 'miss' regarding the age of the Earth.
These examples are, among others, why I cited "The Appeal to Authority" fallacy. The problem with low-G manufacturing is that the testing performed so far has produced not one interesting result. Yet it is paraded out as one of the Holy Grail-ish reasons to go to space.
I personally like the idea of adventure. Sending out humans to do a robots work has an important psychological factor. I once had a copy of a political cartoon done by Pat Oliphant that showed a group of people standing at the edge of the Great Plains watching an unmanned Conestoga Wagon headed out into the frontier. The gist of the text below it was "How the West Would Have Been Explored if We Hadn't Sent Settlers".
That comic was published shortly after the Columbia explosion.
Please.
I'm glad to see that SGI has regained its legs and is back in the high-end computing market again. The gamble they made in embracing Linux has paid off. Other folks had counted them dead because they came to the WinNT game late and were, therefore, fated to be high-priced integrators. Their days were numbered by the low-end market forces like Dell and HP.
Now we see that there is a market for high-priced integrators as long as the underlying technology fits the market segment you target.
That is also referred to as the logical fallacy of "The Appeal to Authority" argument.
The difference between my assurance that Park et al. have it right and the "others" have it wrong is based on the fact that Park et al. are scientists and the folks who make bugetary decisions at NASA are often career administrators.
When given the choice between a scientist and an administrator on matters regarding the usefulness of something in the field of science, I tend to lean toward the sciencey-types.
I'll admit my bias in this regard, but it is well earned. I am a scientist who has worked at a US Department of Energy site for thirteen years. Believe me, science can take a back seat to politics.
Hey, maybe just passively watching would be too boring, hook a PS2 up to that and play some Grand Theft Auto.
Okay. Which GTA?
I like Vice City, but I'd be willing to play the new one while I'm driving through ALASKA!!
Boring roads, nothing to see.
>>What were we talking about?
Um... let me pause this DVD for a sec... it'll come to me...
Thanks. I just shot Pepsi out of my nose.
HAR!!
Christ! That was SO FUNNY!
Are you completely retarded?
Nah. I leave that honor to the you.
Know what the worst part is?
I couldn't even BUY a troll -1 for the parent.
I can't believe people actually took it seriously.
Okay - because you have ADD..
I'm not following you. Could you repeat that?
Look, if you can't bother to pay enough attention to control the vehicle, get out from behind the &*^%$#@ wheel! Ditto if you can't stay awake.Is that so hard to understand?
What were we talking about?
Ah no, I forgot, in Corporate America 200 truck drivers on taxpayer paid streets are cheaper than 1 train driver on train company paid rails..
I hope you enjoy the higher prices from maintaining a "just in case" inventory policy instead of a "just in time" inventory.
Millions of trucks on the road means that stores can purchase only the inventory they need, instead of paying for warehousing for stuff they may NEVER sell. That inventory cost is passed directly to you, the dork who is willing to pay $5,000USD for a computer that the rest of us can get for $450 from Dell.
Shitty ol' Corporate America. Brining you all the crap stored in your room for a fraction of what it would have cost under your version of inventory management.
How about the road? Maybe the two six inch thick yellow lines in the middle of the road?
Boy, is THAT stimulating or WHAT?
The road, the yellow lines, the road, the yellow lines, the road, the yellow (yawn) lines, the (blink, blink) road, the yellllllllow lines (blink), the roooooooooooooooooooad (snore!!!!)
Yeah, very exciting.
Have you seen the roads in Alaska? There is NOTHING to look at for hundreds of miles.
Just like driving through Eastern Montana. If he didn't wreck due to watching a DVD, he would have fell asleep at the wheel due to terminal boredom.
...beer drinking mellow hockey guys...
I can't believe you put all of those words together in one sentence.
I have NEVER met a beer drinking, mellow, hockey guy in 43 years.
...low-G manufacturing...
More budget-bloating propaganda from your friends at NASA.
No one has ever shown the viability, or the necessity, of low-G manufacturing.
Search the American Physical Society for the "What's New" newsletter archives. Bob Park and other renown scientists can give you plenty to chew on regarding the utility of low-G manufacturing.
I don't see why everyone is so certain that water based life is the only kind there is.
I never said that it was impossible to form life without life. I said:
"The absence of ANY water would substantially decrease the chance of life."
That statement does not preclued the possibility of other environments. It just reflects our current undertanding of what factors contribute to the formation of life.
Americans are wedded more closely to M$ products than any other country. If anyone has something to fear from OSS 'intrusion' it is the Chinese and the Indians. They are deploying OSS everywhere they can because they have found M$ products too expensive to deploy in volume.
Americans and their foreign allies could be inserting small snippets of code into distros sold or downloaded to foreign countries. These snippets could be used to open backdoors for US intelligence agencies.
So goes the paranoia, that is.
Funny how the story takes on a different perspective when the treat is from America. Now it looks rather sensible and we (the US, that is) should be encouraging US hackers to start inserting code with all due speed!
What? The Chinese have their own distro?
Okay, then we will just go after India and the commercial interests of both countries (nearly 1/2 the worlds population - cool!).
If you give into paranoid rants from system vendors, you definately get what you pay for.
You're wrong.
Bill Clinton was a professor of law at the University of Arkansas (Razorback mascot) 73-76.
Unless they've changed the rules since I was a professor, the fact that you teach at an institution does not mean you are an alumni of that institution.
Bill Clinton did not attend the University of Arkansas (and yes, I am aware that the Razorback is the UofArk mascot - why do you think I posted the mascots of other schools?).
We are not talking about the same 'dose' apparently.
When I receive iodine-129 from a radiologist, I am still receiving beta radiation at levels higher than that I would receive from Hanford groundwater (provided I would drink it due to the high chemical contamination).
That radioactive exposure (dose) is not affected by the consumption of the non-radioactive iodine. All the non-radioactive iodine does is assure that the thyroid does not concentrate iodine-129 in the tissues there.
A diet that includes iodized salt would have the same affect as the iodine tablets to individuals consuming iodine-129 contaminated Hanford groundwater. The concentration of iodine-129 in Hanford groundwater is low and localized, and it is even lower at the shoreline.
Don't believe me? Read the State of Washington Department of Ecology's assessments. Or try the USEPA.
Dose is used interchangeably for radiation exposure at Hanford. Perhaps that is the basis of your confusion.