You're right, science cannot answer the "why". But, the nice thing about atheism is that the "why" is left up to you! You decide why you're here...and *your* answer determines your life.
Instead of "I'm here to prove that I don't deserve to be tortured for eternity by an invisible psychopathic sky monster" (which is what the meaning of life in most religions boils down to), letting all that nonsense go allows you to decide you're here to have fun, or to serve your fellow man, or to create works of art, or...
OK, maybe I was not clear. The chinese killed all native tibetan dogs *within Tibet* as a small step in their policy of eradicating native Tibetan culture -- an essential step to making Tibet just another chunk of China. Like the Dali Lama, the only Tibetan animals surviving exist because they were smuggled across the border.
Speaking of smuggling across the border...did you see the recent news footage of Chinese border guards shooting unarmed Tibetan pilgrims and leaving them to die in the snow? (Actually, you probably didn't, as lefty-media outlets like NPR and CBS seem to have failed to cover the footage.)
Oh, so I'm just parroting what I read on "faux" news??? Well fuck you because I own three of those tibetan spaniels, which are a species *native* to tibet (bred and raised by the monks), and which have been completely wiped out by the chinese as part of their cultural assimilation program.
"China has a political situation much the same as that in the U.S.". What a load of relativistic crap!
Are you saying that the U.S. has forced abortions, political executions (with the executee's family being billed for the fucking bullet), wholesale cultural genocide (Do you know the chinese are hauling ethnic chinese by the trainload into tibet to overrun the place? Look up "tibetan spaniel" sometime to see how the fucking chinese have clubbed to death the entire population of tibet's beautiful native dogs), wholesale censorship of the press and Internet, massive "reeducation" (read: concentration) camps, support for mass-murderer dictators (Pol Pot, "Our Dear Leader", etc.).
Why don't you grow up, pull your head out of your ass and stop spouting "bush=hitler" puke. If you weren't such a skull-full-of-mush parrot for the bullshit your teachers fed you you'd understand that, while the USA is not doing so great now (bush *is* dangerous), there's much worse to be found out there in the rest of the world.
no (British) bank should let funds be removed from an account with just the a/c name
Happened to my (as in I own it) company: We've been taken for over $20,000 on the basis of the bank wire transfer details we (used to) post to our web site for the convenience of foreign customers. Scammer opened an E-trade account, linked to our bank account, then siphoned the funds over to E-trade.
Off-topic, but, speaking of scammers, we've also been taken by someone who took one of our checks, cut out the routing #s off the bottom, scanned them and pasted them in Photoshop to blank check images and when on a spree.
In both instances our bank simply refunded the money to us and took the loss. Seems like it just isn't worth it to them to institute proper security measures, so as long as you are in the posession of a couple of magic numbers, the account's yours. This is, of course, also the case when it comes to individual identity theft. Have a social security number and some kind of an ID (supermarket loyalty card is A-OK with us!)? Sure, we'll let you drain this account!
Are you freakin' kidding? PowerPoint rocks! I mean, WTF would Lincoln's Gettysburg Address have been like if he didn't have PowerPoint? Boring, that's what. Really, his "New Nations" graph is just the best! And the "Review of Critical Objectives" bullet-points? Sweeeeet!
Last time I installed Lavasoft's Adaware program it flagged expat.dll -- a *very* common C XML reading library (from Jim Clark no less) -- as spyware. Google says SpySweeper (whatever the hell that is) does the same. That's a serious problem for my company because we distribute the dll with our software.
Just lazy programming: "hmmm...this virus uses a dll named expat.dll! Instead of investigating the thing, let's just flag the.dll as spyware!". If I ever write a spyware program it's going to use a.dll named "kernel32.dll".
IIRC, heat-related brake fade is generally due to outgassing of the binder material. The gas builds up between the pad and the rotor, eventually making it impossible for said-pad to push against said-rotor.
This article seems to point to a reason why carbon fiber's useless in bike applications: Optimal braking occurs at temperatures above 650C! You probably can't get those kinds of temperatures on a bike.
As an aside, the high operating temperatures are also difficult to hit in a race car in the first few race laps. Road race parade laps (the lap done before the racers receive the green flag) may seem like boring affairs if you're spectating, but if you're a driver, you're busy alternating your time between trying to get your tires up to temperatures (by swerving from side-to-side) and trying to get the brakes heated up (by dragging on the brake pedal). If you don't hit your target temps. on either tires or brakes before the green flag drops you're in for a fun surprise come the first corner!
Hmmm...My wife's a mechanical engineer with a thermal specialty, so maybe I can get some additional insight from her this evening.
Carbon, in case you've not experienced wheels made from it, is an enormously bad braking surface - there's horrid heat transfer problems
Huh. When I was road racing cars several years back carbon fiber brake pads were *the thing* to have. Made stopping the car from 100+mph a somewhat tricky proposition, as the wheels would typically instantly lock, leaving the car in a high-speed skid. (I wasn't good enough to control such grabby brakes and wound up downgrading to Kevlar.) Far as I know, though, most high-performance racing uses carbon fiber as the brake compound, so...could you 'splain why the carbon bike wheels don't have the same characteristics?
When Google hired Guido van Rossum (Python head-honcho), there were no "Google is hiring this guy only to NDA valuable information from the rest of us" comments. Everybody understood that Google merely found a bright guy doing something related to their business (Google uses Python on a massive scale) and snapped him up. But when MICROSOFT hires a coupla guys who seem to be doing something cool with Windows, we get dumb comments like "Yet another proof that Microsoft can't behave like a normal market player".
Look, I hate Microsoft as much as the next geek (*more*, probably, as I've been stuck developing exclusively on PCs since DOS 2.1), and I'm sure SysInternals will soon disappear, but comments like "they feel the need to control everything under the sun" just don't add anything to the discussion.
Fascist and authoritarian governments have killed over ten million.
Actually, the various socialist/communist regimes that infested the 20th centry killed in aggregate over 100 million. Stalin alone killed 60 million. Pol Pot, 2-3, Mao 30 million. Who the fuck knows how much the crazy-as-shithouse-rats Kim Il-Sung, Kim Jong-Il, Castro and Ortega have killed?
If you add Hitler's death count to that list (NAZI stood for National *Socialist* Worker's Party) you're well over 100 million.
I understand your point, but why do you consider "easy to use" and "powerful" to be incompatible?
This isn't the days of the PDP-11 -- there's more than enough cycles and megabytes to spare for running a nice, friendly text editor with a *sane* set of keybindings, *helpful* help text (none of the traditional *nix man nonsense, e.g., "the yank keystroke yanks text from the yank buffer") and easy customization (note: putting "SET SW=2" (crap, it's probably case-sensitive, so it should be "set sw=2", or is it "set sw = 2" ala bash scripting) is *not* easy customization, especially since that hack is probably only documented at the bottom of some completely inaccessible man page, if at all).
By the way, your analogy if flawed. If text editors are to be compared to heavy-duty industrial machinery, VI is a steam shovel. *Wood fired*.
Holy-crap! Now I remember why I hated VI in my undergrad. days (20 years ago, but it seems nothing's changed). Lemme get this straight: "%" goes to the closing brace, "=" auto-indents, "==" auto-indents the current line, "" indents right, etc? Oh, and if I put "set sw=2" in my.vimrc file I get two-space indents when I press the Tab key? Of course! How obvious.
These days, only an overly-smug uber-nerd would use something so pointlessly obtuse.
I've been looking at FreeNAS, but have been reluctant to try it because it seems to lack support for expandable volumes (ala EVMS). So if you fill up your hard disk you can't just expand the storage onto a second disk; instead, you copy the first disk over to a second, bigger disk, put the second disk into service in place of the first disk, then throw the first disk out. Rinse, lather and repeat every time you fill up a disk.
Am I missing something? If FreeNAS doesn't have this capability, are there any other dedicated NAS distributions that do include, e.g., EVMS?
You're right! That's why I'm going to vote for Diane Feinstein even though there's that nagging "eat old people and cute puppies" plank in her platform.
In addition to the other suggestions, also see the last book in Blish's "Cities in Flight" series (Triumph of Time), which involves different races vying to be the ones to influence the creation of the next universe.
"Economic policy does not have to relate to civil liberties"??? Have you read what I wrote? You *cannot* have civil liberties if the state is treating the individual like chattel. Communism is *not* condusive to civil liberties. Communism *is* condusive to slave labor.
"China's hardly communist anyway". Riiight...That's what you apologists always say. "Stalin wasn't communist", "Mao wasn't communist", "Pol Pot wasn't communist"...Don't you fucking get it? "Our Dear Leader isn't communist". Don't you fucking get it yet? You get concentration camps and mass killings *every fucking time* you have communism because under communism the individual is just another fucking cog in the machinery of the state. Worn cog? Dispose of it.
Fucking-a you "communism has never been truely practiced" morons piss me off.
Wrong wrong wrong. You absolutely do not understand communism and capitalism. You admit that communism is the state owning "The means of production", right? Well what the hell is "the means of production"? A factory? No..."the means of production" is people. People produce things, not some damn building. Communism = state ownership of people. Period. "Communism" is *always* equivalent to "dictatorship" or "totalitarianism" because it's *based* upon absolute state control of everything people produce, do, say and think.
That's why communism unfailingly produces concentration camps (Stalin killed 60 fucking million people, Mao 20 million, Pol Pot 1/3 of his entire country). People=property lets you dispose of a "broken" person as easily as you would a broken machine.
That evil laissez faire capitalism is the only form of government that leaves people free to determine their own destiny.
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Actually, WOWEXEC does not work on Vista, meaning 16-bit applications do not run in any form.
You're right, science cannot answer the "why". But, the nice thing about atheism is that the "why" is left up to you! You decide why you're here...and *your* answer determines your life.
Instead of "I'm here to prove that I don't deserve to be tortured for eternity by an invisible psychopathic sky monster" (which is what the meaning of life in most religions boils down to), letting all that nonsense go allows you to decide you're here to have fun, or to serve your fellow man, or to create works of art, or...
"Dozen orders of magnitude"??? Oh reaaaally...
I'm no mechanical engineer (though my wife *is*), but I think freaking saltwater taffy is closer than that.
As for current nanotube tech., try *one* order of magnitude. (And no I'm not going to look up the references.)
OK, maybe I was not clear. The chinese killed all native tibetan dogs *within Tibet* as a small step in their policy of eradicating native Tibetan culture -- an essential step to making Tibet just another chunk of China. Like the Dali Lama, the only Tibetan animals surviving exist because they were smuggled across the border.
Speaking of smuggling across the border...did you see the recent news footage of Chinese border guards shooting unarmed Tibetan pilgrims and leaving them to die in the snow? (Actually, you probably didn't, as lefty-media outlets like NPR and CBS seem to have failed to cover the footage.)
Oh, so I'm just parroting what I read on "faux" news??? Well fuck you because I own three of those tibetan spaniels, which are a species *native* to tibet (bred and raised by the monks), and which have been completely wiped out by the chinese as part of their cultural assimilation program.
"China has a political situation much the same as that in the U.S.". What a load of relativistic crap!
Are you saying that the U.S. has forced abortions, political executions (with the executee's family being billed for the fucking bullet), wholesale cultural genocide (Do you know the chinese are hauling ethnic chinese by the trainload into tibet to overrun the place? Look up "tibetan spaniel" sometime to see how the fucking chinese have clubbed to death the entire population of tibet's beautiful native dogs), wholesale censorship of the press and Internet, massive "reeducation" (read: concentration) camps, support for mass-murderer dictators (Pol Pot, "Our Dear Leader", etc.).
Why don't you grow up, pull your head out of your ass and stop spouting "bush=hitler" puke. If you weren't such a skull-full-of-mush parrot for the bullshit your teachers fed you you'd understand that, while the USA is not doing so great now (bush *is* dangerous), there's much worse to be found out there in the rest of the world.
no (British) bank should let funds be removed from an account with just the a/c name
Happened to my (as in I own it) company: We've been taken for over $20,000 on the basis of the bank wire transfer details we (used to) post to our web site for the convenience of foreign customers. Scammer opened an E-trade account, linked to our bank account, then siphoned the funds over to E-trade.
Off-topic, but, speaking of scammers, we've also been taken by someone who took one of our checks, cut out the routing #s off the bottom, scanned them and pasted them in Photoshop to blank check images and when on a spree.
In both instances our bank simply refunded the money to us and took the loss. Seems like it just isn't worth it to them to institute proper security measures, so as long as you are in the posession of a couple of magic numbers, the account's yours. This is, of course, also the case when it comes to individual identity theft. Have a social security number and some kind of an ID (supermarket loyalty card is A-OK with us!)? Sure, we'll let you drain this account!
Are you freakin' kidding? PowerPoint rocks! I mean, WTF would Lincoln's Gettysburg Address have been like if he didn't have PowerPoint? Boring, that's what. Really, his "New Nations" graph is just the best! And the "Review of Critical Objectives" bullet-points? Sweeeeet!
Last time I installed Lavasoft's Adaware program it flagged expat.dll -- a *very* common C XML reading library (from Jim Clark no less) -- as spyware. Google says SpySweeper (whatever the hell that is) does the same. That's a serious problem for my company because we distribute the dll with our software.
.dll as spyware!". If I ever write a spyware program it's going to use a .dll named "kernel32.dll".
Just lazy programming: "hmmm...this virus uses a dll named expat.dll! Instead of investigating the thing, let's just flag the
You *can* be arrested without being read your Miranda "rights" (see the "Confusion regarding the Miranda warning" section). Apologies for linking to Wikipedia (which pretty much usually sucks) but I'm too lazy to look up the actual references.
IIRC, heat-related brake fade is generally due to outgassing of the binder material. The gas builds up between the pad and the rotor, eventually making it impossible for said-pad to push against said-rotor.
This article seems to point to a reason why carbon fiber's useless in bike applications: Optimal braking occurs at temperatures above 650C! You probably can't get those kinds of temperatures on a bike.
As an aside, the high operating temperatures are also difficult to hit in a race car in the first few race laps. Road race parade laps (the lap done before the racers receive the green flag) may seem like boring affairs if you're spectating, but if you're a driver, you're busy alternating your time between trying to get your tires up to temperatures (by swerving from side-to-side) and trying to get the brakes heated up (by dragging on the brake pedal). If you don't hit your target temps. on either tires or brakes before the green flag drops you're in for a fun surprise come the first corner!
Hmmm...My wife's a mechanical engineer with a thermal specialty, so maybe I can get some additional insight from her this evening.
Carbon, in case you've not experienced wheels made from it, is an enormously bad braking surface - there's horrid heat transfer problems
Huh. When I was road racing cars several years back carbon fiber brake pads were *the thing* to have. Made stopping the car from 100+mph a somewhat tricky proposition, as the wheels would typically instantly lock, leaving the car in a high-speed skid. (I wasn't good enough to control such grabby brakes and wound up downgrading to Kevlar.) Far as I know, though, most high-performance racing uses carbon fiber as the brake compound, so...could you 'splain why the carbon bike wheels don't have the same characteristics?
How is this insightful?
When Google hired Guido van Rossum (Python head-honcho), there were no "Google is hiring this guy only to NDA valuable information from the rest of us" comments. Everybody understood that Google merely found a bright guy doing something related to their business (Google uses Python on a massive scale) and snapped him up. But when MICROSOFT hires a coupla guys who seem to be doing something cool with Windows, we get dumb comments like "Yet another proof that Microsoft can't behave like a normal market player".
Look, I hate Microsoft as much as the next geek (*more*, probably, as I've been stuck developing exclusively on PCs since DOS 2.1), and I'm sure SysInternals will soon disappear, but comments like "they feel the need to control everything under the sun" just don't add anything to the discussion.
Fascist and authoritarian governments have killed over ten million.
Actually, the various socialist/communist regimes that infested the 20th centry killed in aggregate over 100 million. Stalin alone killed 60 million. Pol Pot, 2-3, Mao 30 million. Who the fuck knows how much the crazy-as-shithouse-rats Kim Il-Sung, Kim Jong-Il, Castro and Ortega have killed?
If you add Hitler's death count to that list (NAZI stood for National *Socialist* Worker's Party) you're well over 100 million.
youtube.com is beneficial to society? How is a collection of crap videos beneficial to society. Gonna cure world hunger or something?
I understand your point, but why do you consider "easy to use" and "powerful" to be incompatible?
This isn't the days of the PDP-11 -- there's more than enough cycles and megabytes to spare for running a nice, friendly text editor with a *sane* set of keybindings, *helpful* help text (none of the traditional *nix man nonsense, e.g., "the yank keystroke yanks text from the yank buffer") and easy customization (note: putting "SET SW=2" (crap, it's probably case-sensitive, so it should be "set sw=2", or is it "set sw = 2" ala bash scripting) is *not* easy customization, especially since that hack is probably only documented at the bottom of some completely inaccessible man page, if at all).
By the way, your analogy if flawed. If text editors are to be compared to heavy-duty industrial machinery, VI is a steam shovel. *Wood fired*.
Holy-crap! Now I remember why I hated VI in my undergrad. days (20 years ago, but it seems nothing's changed). Lemme get this straight: "%" goes to the closing brace, "=" auto-indents, "==" auto-indents the current line, "" indents right, etc? Oh, and if I put "set sw=2" in my .vimrc file I get two-space indents when I press the Tab key? Of course! How obvious.
These days, only an overly-smug uber-nerd would use something so pointlessly obtuse.
"Hacked in"???
Viewing files *shared* on a network is no more "hacking in" than viewing files posted on a web site. *That's* why no one was prosecuted.
But don't let the facts stand in the way of your vast-right-wing-conspiracy fear-mongering.
My favorite HDD wiping utility is to install WindowsXP service pack 2 on the drive!
I've been looking at FreeNAS, but have been reluctant to try it because it seems to lack support for expandable volumes (ala EVMS). So if you fill up your hard disk you can't just expand the storage onto a second disk; instead, you copy the first disk over to a second, bigger disk, put the second disk into service in place of the first disk, then throw the first disk out. Rinse, lather and repeat every time you fill up a disk.
Am I missing something? If FreeNAS doesn't have this capability, are there any other dedicated NAS distributions that do include, e.g., EVMS?
You're right! That's why I'm going to vote for Diane Feinstein even though there's that nagging "eat old people and cute puppies" plank in her platform.
Locking Larry up is surely not desirable
He obviously hasn't spent any time reading other people's Perl code!
In addition to the other suggestions, also see the last book in Blish's "Cities in Flight" series (Triumph of Time), which involves different races vying to be the ones to influence the creation of the next universe.
BTW, the series is *highly* recommended.
"Economic policy does not have to relate to civil liberties"??? Have you read what I wrote? You *cannot* have civil liberties if the state is treating the individual like chattel. Communism is *not* condusive to civil liberties. Communism *is* condusive to slave labor.
"China's hardly communist anyway". Riiight...That's what you apologists always say. "Stalin wasn't communist", "Mao wasn't communist", "Pol Pot wasn't communist"...Don't you fucking get it? "Our Dear Leader isn't communist". Don't you fucking get it yet? You get concentration camps and mass killings *every fucking time* you have communism because under communism the individual is just another fucking cog in the machinery of the state. Worn cog? Dispose of it.
Fucking-a you "communism has never been truely practiced" morons piss me off.
Wrong wrong wrong. You absolutely do not understand communism and capitalism. You admit that communism is the state owning "The means of production", right? Well what the hell is "the means of production"? A factory? No..."the means of production" is people. People produce things, not some damn building. Communism = state ownership of people. Period. "Communism" is *always* equivalent to "dictatorship" or "totalitarianism" because it's *based* upon absolute state control of everything people produce, do, say and think.
That's why communism unfailingly produces concentration camps (Stalin killed 60 fucking million people, Mao 20 million, Pol Pot 1/3 of his entire country). People=property lets you dispose of a "broken" person as easily as you would a broken machine.
That evil laissez faire capitalism is the only form of government that leaves people free to determine their own destiny.