Photo-sensitive epilepsy (If I am not mistaken) it triggered by strobe lights. If blinking are lights would cause you to go into a seizure, you wouldn't be able to function in society, as blinking lights are extremly common.
Really, your right. A much better solution would be to start flashing every light in the car. Other drivers, pedestrians, and cops would all immediately be able to identify you as a drunk driver, and take appropriate action. If it turned out to be a false positive, the other drivers and pedestrians would only be inconvenienced slightly, and the cops would pull you over, test your blood alcohol, and either arrest you, or let you go.
Ding. Ding. Ding. Give the man a prize! Yes, we had to run a various set of hacks to get where we needed to be. I remeber, we had to first makes sure that all drivers were loaded to upper memory with himem. This had to be done in a perticular order, because if loaded in the wrong order, they would take an extra k or two of the himem. We would also have to run some of the tools in the qemm386 package to, as you said, free the video memory. For those that don't know, there was a small amount of the upper memory reserved for text mode video. All of this had to be in just the right order, with just the right number of buffers.
A good deal of the time, we just had to accept that we could not have CD drivers loaded if we wanted to compile. Of course the guy writing the compiler, and in control of our paychecks did not actually run the compiler himself, so while he was unwilling to fix the problem, he could not actually get enough free memory to run it either. We were basically just told, figure out a way to run it.
I worked at an insurance rating company during the DOS/Windows 3.1 days. The in house language we used required that we compile with the in house compiler. This compiler required that we have 654K of the 640k base memory free. When a new guy went in and modified the compiler to work in 320k, the VP/Lead "Developer"/Original developer of the compiler, found out, he made the new guy put the code back how he found it. Ahh... Those three weeks that we only needed 320k of free base memory were bliss....
You need to start earlier than that. We should start failing students in kindergarten, and every grade after that, if they are not up to moving to the next level. Waiting until someone is 8 years into their education before you require them to actually know something is both unfair to the student, and a recipe for mass failures in high school.
The debate about whether teachers as a group are crappy or not is a false dicotemy. The fact is, our (US) public school system broken on just about every level. From national public policy to a high number of crappy teachers we have. Just about everybody can recount 3 or 4 really good teachers they had over their 13 years in school. Most can remember twice as many actively bad teachers. The rest, would have been somewhere in between. The problem there is that after a student spends a year with a crappy teacher, and the next a mediocre one, you need more than one great teacher to get that student re-engaged, and back up to speed with where he should be. Unfortunately, there just are not enough great teachers to go around.
Add to that that our system is set up as a baby sitting service from the top down, you have a recipe for disaster, and no amount of money is going to fix it. When I was in school, I must have heard a dozen times the first day of class speech about how "If you try, I will not fail you." That speech was intended to try and engage the students that knew the class was a waste of time because it would be past them. What it told many of us that were not dolts was that understanding the material was totally irrelevant to passing the class. Of course, it isn't just teacher that are pushing age based advancement. The school administrators are right their pushing any teacher that does try to take a stand. Why would they do this? Because when they fail students, they have to deal with parents who are also pushing for age based advancement. Of course teachers and faculty don't really want parents to get involved. It is easier to deal with parents that push for age based advancement than it is to deal with parents that demand you give the child a proper education.
So, basically our education system is broken, starting with the parents, right through the teachers and administrators, all the way up to the President of the United States, who referred to the smart kids as the 'Nerd Patrol'.
This has lead me personally to give up on our public education system. At 2, my son is doing early reading, and basic math. What chance is he going to have in our public education system? By the time he even gets to kindergarten, it will be obvious to him that success in school has nothing to do with knowledge, and all about making the busy work motions.
Luckily, I am not alone, and this has lead to a boom in home schooling, and in response, a boom in businesses, and organizations that support them.
I'm not sure that is all of it for most people though. I have seen a dozen guys that all make between $60k and $160k, waiting for 15 minutes in line for a free tee shirt or pen.
I think the fixture size issue will just go away as the CFLs become more popular. I would have less issue with the toxic issue if we had the same kind of rules about collection in the US. Unfortunately, our current situation is that the solutions offered to us now for disposal are "Maybe Walmart COULD start collecting them", and "there are 50 or 60 different places in the US that collect them". This combined with the fact most people don't even know they are toxic and those that do, often don't care means that the vast majority of them will end up in the garbage.
Of course, perhaps this could be a good use of RFID. If the manufacturers would drop a non-unique RFID tag into the bulbs during manufacture, the garbage collectors could identify with a scanner if a can contained bulbs, before it even makes it into the truck. By being non-unique, there should be no privacy issues. I also suspect that most people would not go to the effort of finding and destroying the RFID tag, just so they can get the bulb to be taken in the regular garbage, and at the very least, it would make it absolutely clear that they should not be thrown away in the regular garbage. That would only leave the people who are doing it on purpose.
I would get that fixture repaired immediately. If the fixture is changing functionality based on temperature, it indicates that you have two wires that touch sometimes, and not others. This means that you very likely have arcing, and likely a lot of heat generation. This is a recipe for your having your house burn down, and people dieing. You really don't want yourself our someone you care about dieing because you just haven't gotten around to fixing an outlet.
This guy is part of why I have to wonder about the actual ecological gains. Not only will we have people intentionally poisoning the environment, we will also have a ton of people that don't understand why they are illegal to throw away, and will just do it without even thinking about it. So, when my question came up about the environmental cost, we would have to consider the environmental cost of millions of people dumping small amounts of mercury into the system.
In California, we don't have basements because the builders would make less money if they put them in. People will try to tell you that we can't have basements because of water tables and earthquakes, but I do work for a steel mill that has something like 15 acres of basements, and if you go to San Francisco, every one of those high rises has multi-level basements. Clearly, basements here are a matter of profit, not ability.
I don't think it is the color of the light that makes them seem dimmer. I think it is just a case of over exaggerating the benefits. When they say the bulb is equivalent to a 100 watt bulb, you can expect to actually get the equivalent of an 80 watt bulb. This wouldn't be so bad if they, as you said, sold 150W equivalent bulbs.
There are two issues I have with CFLs though.
1) I have had problems with them interfering with IR remotes. The first time it happened to me, I thought I was mistaken about the TVs channel changing on it's own, as I wasn't really paying attention. The second time it happened, I freaked me out, because my wife was out of town, and the idea of my lights changing the channel never occured to me. I had to do a complete check of the house with a golf club to make sure there wasn't someone in the house. When the house checked out empty, I started looking for other possibilities. Over the next few weeks, I figured it out. Having the remotes stop working when the lights were on was the final determination. This may be better know, but it has kept me from using CFLs at all in any room that needs the use of an IR remote.
2) The county dumps in my area have declared the CFLs to be toxic waste. This makes it illegal to throw them in the garbage when they do die. The stores that sell the bulbs are not collecting them, so the only legal way to get rid of them is by driving them to the dump.
I don't know the actual toxicity of the CFLs, but I have to wonder what the actual environmental impact is when you account for the bulbs being toxic, and the extra trips to the dump to dispose of dead bulbs. Anyone with real data on this care to chime in?
I'm pretty sure the pilots can open the cockpit door. This leaves room for a hijacker to try to negotiate the opening of the door. While the locks are a start, making the only entrance from the outside for new aircraft makes that impossible.
The efforts to keep bombs off the planes are a waste of time, and an excuse to commit civil right violations. Given that a plane can be brought down relatively easily, without ever boarding the plane or going though the airport security, it makes the whole thing pointless from a security standpoint. There are plenty of reasons that are not related to air travel security for the existing measures though.
That is a great idea. (the ark peeking one) If they start the movie with that scene, they could use heavy special effects, and maybe even footage from the original movies cutting room floor to have a Raiders Indy right up to the aging. Then from their, they are golden to have an old Indy fighting Nazis.
I gave an alternative method earlier in the thread. I will recap:
First thing to be done is decide what threat you are trying to prevent. Trying to prevent the destruction of the actual air craft is futile. An airplane can very easily be blown up from the ground without ever boarding the plane. There are also much easier targets that will let you kill far more than the 100 or so passengers on a plane flight.
The thing you are really trying to prevent is what happened on 9/11. You are trying to prevent hijacking, where the plane could be turned into a very large weapon. Now the way we are trying to prevent hijacking is expensive, a very big hassle, and totally ineffective. To solve this problem the first thing to be done is to require all new aircraft to have a separate entrance for the pilots. It would be virtually impossible to hijack an airplane in flight if you can only enter the cockpit from the outside. Requiring this simple change to new aircraft would be massively less expensive than what we are doing now. Plus once the initial designs were done, there would be no ongoing costs.
The other piece of this puzzle is to solve the problem with existing aircraft, after all, the cost of replacing all aircraft at once would make this unachievable. So, to secure existing aircraft, they just need to install ground controlled locks on the cockpit door. While this would be a little less secure than a seperate exit, it would still be far more secure than all of the show that is being put on in the airports right now.
See... Simpler, dramatically less expensive, no civil rights conflicts, and far less hassle for the air travelers.
Uh... The US government has killed many 13 year olds, pregnant ladies, old people and invalids with bombs to make people too scared to oppose them. And that is common amongst most of the groups that have been called freedom fighters too. Are you calling the US government terrorists? Remember, the US government is the ONLY group to use nuclear bombs so far, and we have been know to use contagions as well. It just goes to show that the term 'terrorist' is a very poorly defined term, and pretty much is the 'communist' of this generation.
Of course who you define as terrorist or freedom fighter doesn't change the fact that the current 'safety' measures being employed for air travel are useless, and there are much cheaper, simpler ways to accomplish the minimal amount of safety from attack that can be attained for air travel. They the simpler, cheaper, and more effective measures would also carry far less civil rights concerns.
After reading the linked thread, I would have to say that you did NOT tell them that you had verified the CD image. You just said there were no errors during burning. If you had a bad download, you can make error free burns all day long, and still not have a good CD for install. That is why it was recommended to test the download, and not just the burn. Since you could load to the install disk, you could have run the test after the fact. ( I believe that at that time Ubuntu had a test media function available from the installer. )
Really? GRUB's errors depend on what Windows version you're using?
Well, yes, they might. If you are trying to integrate the products. You see, when you integrate products, you need to know what product you are trying to work with. If you were just formating your drive, then you would have a right to complain. Since you were not working with Ubuntu clean, your outrage seems misplaced.
Lastly, it is unwise to try doing any kind of OS install without having the tools to restore the system to it's original state if something goes wrong. Perhaps you did not know this, but it is sound advice for any OS changes you may do in the future. That includes Windows upgrades. Of course, if you loose your Ubuntu install disks, you can either download them again, or have a new one sent to you at no charge. If you loose your Windows install disks, you are out of luck as you found out.
The debate comes in as to whether the cure is worse than the disease. Many believe that there are better ways to handle the threat of 'terrorists'. That is in quotes because one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter, and there are many that believe 'terrist' is the new 'commie'.
For one, if you are worried about people taking over a plane, this could easily be solved by requiring new planes to have a separate entrance for pilots. It would be extremely difficult if not impossible for someone to hijack a plane in flight by taking over the cockpit it they have to enter from the outside. As for existing aircraft, it would be dramatically cheaper for the airlines to install ground controlled locks on the cockpit doors than the current mess in the airports.
That does only cover actual hijackings. It doesn't cover people blowing up the plane from the passenger section. Of course, trying to stop someone from blowing up a plane without being able to drive the plane into a larger target is a waste of time. First, a plane in the air can be taken out from the ground without too much difficulty. Second, the number of passengers that could be killed by blowing up that plane, could be killed via simpler ways that are unrelated to air travel. Third, if the person taking the plane out of the air is doing if from the ground, all of the airport security and passenger investigation in the world won't do a single thing to solve the problem.
I really did mean in out door places. Living in California, where public indoor smoking has been illegal for well over a decade now, I often forget that not all states have the same laws concerning indoor smoking. It shouldn't, but every time I travel to a place that doesn't have the anti-indoor-smoking laws, I get a mild surprise.
I never understood how someone who drives a car, or for that matter uses electricity generated by the burning of fuels, can complain about second hand smoke with a straight face.
If you don't drive a car, or use electricity, I might be able to sympathize with your plight.
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Boiling coffee has been a common way to server it for a very long time. In fact, that is the only way that a percolator works. I haven't taken apart a newer coffee machine, but I would strongly suspect that that is how they force the water up to the drip spout. Although I am assuming that we are referring the boiling to be before it was poured into a cup, as there is no way that the coffee would remain in a boiling state from the time that it was poured to the time it reached the customer.
Irrelevant nitpick: "toxic" means that it is poisonous. It would be a large stretch to call burning someone with heat, a toxic injury.
So, now, that we established that your original complaints are 100% untrue, you are trying to switch to change your complaint to indicate that having a choice of reply styles is absurd. The problem is that you and your dream team administrators don't seem to understand that when you do the Notes-style response, as I stated in an earlier post, you are taking an entire image of the original post as a Rich Text Field. This includes all formating and can even include signed code. Of course if there is any code in the Notes-style response, it will only run with the privileges that writer of that code already has in your Notes system.
Add to that, any competent (and even a lot of them that are not competent) administrator knows that it only takes marking a single check box to disable Notes-style responses. So if your users cannot understand the difference a competent administrator can decide for them.
My point remains correct, regardless of your failure to comprehend the issues at hand. Oh, but you know everything, so I must be wrong if you miss the point.
So, after falsely complaining about an ad-hominem attack, you again keep using them. I never said I knew everything. One thing I do know is Notes. Clearly you do not. I understand your point completely. The point is that you are trolling. When Notes comes up, you start spouting things that are totally untrue, and then use ad-hominem attacks to try to 'prove' your point. While you do this, you try to prevent being called on your fallacious arguments, and lies, by accusing others of behaving the way you are. So far, every complaint you have stated about Notes has been 100% untrue, so how am I missing the point?
So far, your statements seem to be supported by a rather myopic view of the facts. Again... I don't think you understand what the words you are using mean. If you do, that is both ANOTHER ad-hominem attack, AND a non-sequitor.
It's already there. Its Called Notes/Domino. Yes, the anti-Notes trolls can start complaining, but there is a reason that so many huge companies use it. It works. The fact that it is multi-platform doesn't hurt either.
You seem to be unclear on what an a "ad-hominem attack" is. You see an ad-hominem attack works like this:
You are a liar, there for you are lying. You see how the point (you are lying) is being supported by a general statement about the kind of person you are? That is an ad-hominem attack.
What I did was said:
You are lying, there for you are a liar. I then supported my statement of you lying with factual testable evidence. You see how a judgement of your character is the conclusion to the statement of fact, as opposed to the other way around? That means it is not an ad-hominem attack. Of course, I really didn't even go that far. I gave several different reasons why you would state things that are factually untrue. I gave you the benefit of the doubt and said that perhaps someone else, out of malice or incompetence decived you, and that you are simply repeating an untruth.
Of course if you would like to discuss logical fallacies, here is a little gem from your post:
To be honest, I dont care whether you think I am lying about these things or not. Acerbic responses will not get you very far in the world...
This is an actual ad-hominem attack. You are trying to imply that your point is correct by attacking me personally.
That doesn't even go into this:
"Reply with Internet-Style History" is a complete joke as it is implemented very poorly in Lotus Notes. Some of these folks use this scheme; however, it does not even bother to multiple-indent emails earlier in the thread. So how are you supposed to carry on a inline-response conversation with someone who uses the standard "Internet-style" indentation found in Outlook, Thunderbird, Eudora, mutt, et al???
Which is you just restating the lie you previously told in an attempt to spread FUD. Here is a sample of what Notes thinks is "Internet-style" responses.:
Here is an example of Notes "Internet-style" replies cut and pasted straight from Lotus Notes.
Anonymous wrote on 12/31/2006 09:35:54 AM:
> Here is the second response to the email... > > >
Here is in-line editing of the response. WhooHoo! It looks just like any other email application.
> > > > > Anonymous wrote on 12/31/2006 09:35:20 AM: > > > > > This is the body of the first email...Here it is.... > > > >
Oh, look at that. Multiple indents, and in-line comments! So, were you intentionally lying, or did someone else deceive you through malice or incompetence? And will you stand up and admit that you were spreading FUD, as clearly if this "technical consulting group" really does exist, and they are working with Notes on a regular bases, then my early statement concerning malice or incompetence is supported by the facts.
That is why I put 'moral vegan'. As in someone who is a vegan because they think is the 'moral' thing to do. PETA logic would be someone who thinks harming animals for MY benefit is evil, but is ok for THEIR benefit.
Why would I consider someone who eats meat to be a vegetarian?
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Wow, I just re-read my comment, and that might just be the worst written post I have ever written. Still true, but very poorly written.
Photo-sensitive epilepsy (If I am not mistaken) it triggered by strobe lights. If blinking are lights would cause you to go into a seizure, you wouldn't be able to function in society, as blinking lights are extremly common.
Really, your right. A much better solution would be to start flashing every light in the car. Other drivers, pedestrians, and cops would all immediately be able to identify you as a drunk driver, and take appropriate action. If it turned out to be a false positive, the other drivers and pedestrians would only be inconvenienced slightly, and the cops would pull you over, test your blood alcohol, and either arrest you, or let you go.
Ding. Ding. Ding. Give the man a prize! Yes, we had to run a various set of hacks to get where we needed to be. I remeber, we had to first makes sure that all drivers were loaded to upper memory with himem. This had to be done in a perticular order, because if loaded in the wrong order, they would take an extra k or two of the himem. We would also have to run some of the tools in the qemm386 package to, as you said, free the video memory. For those that don't know, there was a small amount of the upper memory reserved for text mode video. All of this had to be in just the right order, with just the right number of buffers.
A good deal of the time, we just had to accept that we could not have CD drivers loaded if we wanted to compile. Of course the guy writing the compiler, and in control of our paychecks did not actually run the compiler himself, so while he was unwilling to fix the problem, he could not actually get enough free memory to run it either. We were basically just told, figure out a way to run it.
I worked at an insurance rating company during the DOS/Windows 3.1 days. The in house language we used required that we compile with the in house compiler. This compiler required that we have 654K of the 640k base memory free. When a new guy went in and modified the compiler to work in 320k, the VP/Lead "Developer"/Original developer of the compiler, found out, he made the new guy put the code back how he found it. Ahh... Those three weeks that we only needed 320k of free base memory were bliss....
You need to start earlier than that. We should start failing students in kindergarten, and every grade after that, if they are not up to moving to the next level. Waiting until someone is 8 years into their education before you require them to actually know something is both unfair to the student, and a recipe for mass failures in high school.
The debate about whether teachers as a group are crappy or not is a false dicotemy. The fact is, our (US) public school system broken on just about every level. From national public policy to a high number of crappy teachers we have. Just about everybody can recount 3 or 4 really good teachers they had over their 13 years in school. Most can remember twice as many actively bad teachers. The rest, would have been somewhere in between. The problem there is that after a student spends a year with a crappy teacher, and the next a mediocre one, you need more than one great teacher to get that student re-engaged, and back up to speed with where he should be. Unfortunately, there just are not enough great teachers to go around.
Add to that that our system is set up as a baby sitting service from the top down, you have a recipe for disaster, and no amount of money is going to fix it. When I was in school, I must have heard a dozen times the first day of class speech about how "If you try, I will not fail you." That speech was intended to try and engage the students that knew the class was a waste of time because it would be past them. What it told many of us that were not dolts was that understanding the material was totally irrelevant to passing the class. Of course, it isn't just teacher that are pushing age based advancement. The school administrators are right their pushing any teacher that does try to take a stand. Why would they do this? Because when they fail students, they have to deal with parents who are also pushing for age based advancement. Of course teachers and faculty don't really want parents to get involved. It is easier to deal with parents that push for age based advancement than it is to deal with parents that demand you give the child a proper education.
So, basically our education system is broken, starting with the parents, right through the teachers and administrators, all the way up to the President of the United States, who referred to the smart kids as the 'Nerd Patrol'.
This has lead me personally to give up on our public education system. At 2, my son is doing early reading, and basic math. What chance is he going to have in our public education system? By the time he even gets to kindergarten, it will be obvious to him that success in school has nothing to do with knowledge, and all about making the busy work motions.
Luckily, I am not alone, and this has lead to a boom in home schooling, and in response, a boom in businesses, and organizations that support them.
I'm not sure that is all of it for most people though. I have seen a dozen guys that all make between $60k and $160k, waiting for 15 minutes in line for a free tee shirt or pen.
I think the fixture size issue will just go away as the CFLs become more popular. I would have less issue with the toxic issue if we had the same kind of rules about collection in the US. Unfortunately, our current situation is that the solutions offered to us now for disposal are "Maybe Walmart COULD start collecting them", and "there are 50 or 60 different places in the US that collect them". This combined with the fact most people don't even know they are toxic and those that do, often don't care means that the vast majority of them will end up in the garbage.
Of course, perhaps this could be a good use of RFID. If the manufacturers would drop a non-unique RFID tag into the bulbs during manufacture, the garbage collectors could identify with a scanner if a can contained bulbs, before it even makes it into the truck. By being non-unique, there should be no privacy issues. I also suspect that most people would not go to the effort of finding and destroying the RFID tag, just so they can get the bulb to be taken in the regular garbage, and at the very least, it would make it absolutely clear that they should not be thrown away in the regular garbage. That would only leave the people who are doing it on purpose.
I would get that fixture repaired immediately. If the fixture is changing functionality based on temperature, it indicates that you have two wires that touch sometimes, and not others. This means that you very likely have arcing, and likely a lot of heat generation. This is a recipe for your having your house burn down, and people dieing. You really don't want yourself our someone you care about dieing because you just haven't gotten around to fixing an outlet.
This guy is part of why I have to wonder about the actual ecological gains. Not only will we have people intentionally poisoning the environment, we will also have a ton of people that don't understand why they are illegal to throw away, and will just do it without even thinking about it. So, when my question came up about the environmental cost, we would have to consider the environmental cost of millions of people dumping small amounts of mercury into the system.
In California, we don't have basements because the builders would make less money if they put them in. People will try to tell you that we can't have basements because of water tables and earthquakes, but I do work for a steel mill that has something like 15 acres of basements, and if you go to San Francisco, every one of those high rises has multi-level basements. Clearly, basements here are a matter of profit, not ability.
I don't think it is the color of the light that makes them seem dimmer. I think it is just a case of over exaggerating the benefits. When they say the bulb is equivalent to a 100 watt bulb, you can expect to actually get the equivalent of an 80 watt bulb. This wouldn't be so bad if they, as you said, sold 150W equivalent bulbs.
There are two issues I have with CFLs though.
1) I have had problems with them interfering with IR remotes. The first time it happened to me, I thought I was mistaken about the TVs channel changing on it's own, as I wasn't really paying attention. The second time it happened, I freaked me out, because my wife was out of town, and the idea of my lights changing the channel never occured to me. I had to do a complete check of the house with a golf club to make sure there wasn't someone in the house. When the house checked out empty, I started looking for other possibilities. Over the next few weeks, I figured it out. Having the remotes stop working when the lights were on was the final determination. This may be better know, but it has kept me from using CFLs at all in any room that needs the use of an IR remote.
2) The county dumps in my area have declared the CFLs to be toxic waste. This makes it illegal to throw them in the garbage when they do die. The stores that sell the bulbs are not collecting them, so the only legal way to get rid of them is by driving them to the dump.
I don't know the actual toxicity of the CFLs, but I have to wonder what the actual environmental impact is when you account for the bulbs being toxic, and the extra trips to the dump to dispose of dead bulbs. Anyone with real data on this care to chime in?
I'm pretty sure the pilots can open the cockpit door. This leaves room for a hijacker to try to negotiate the opening of the door. While the locks are a start, making the only entrance from the outside for new aircraft makes that impossible.
The efforts to keep bombs off the planes are a waste of time, and an excuse to commit civil right violations. Given that a plane can be brought down relatively easily, without ever boarding the plane or going though the airport security, it makes the whole thing pointless from a security standpoint. There are plenty of reasons that are not related to air travel security for the existing measures though.
That is a great idea. (the ark peeking one) If they start the movie with that scene, they could use heavy special effects, and maybe even footage from the original movies cutting room floor to have a Raiders Indy right up to the aging. Then from their, they are golden to have an old Indy fighting Nazis.
I gave an alternative method earlier in the thread. I will recap:
First thing to be done is decide what threat you are trying to prevent. Trying to prevent the destruction of the actual air craft is futile. An airplane can very easily be blown up from the ground without ever boarding the plane. There are also much easier targets that will let you kill far more than the 100 or so passengers on a plane flight.
The thing you are really trying to prevent is what happened on 9/11. You are trying to prevent hijacking, where the plane could be turned into a very large weapon. Now the way we are trying to prevent hijacking is expensive, a very big hassle, and totally ineffective. To solve this problem the first thing to be done is to require all new aircraft to have a separate entrance for the pilots. It would be virtually impossible to hijack an airplane in flight if you can only enter the cockpit from the outside. Requiring this simple change to new aircraft would be massively less expensive than what we are doing now. Plus once the initial designs were done, there would be no ongoing costs.
The other piece of this puzzle is to solve the problem with existing aircraft, after all, the cost of replacing all aircraft at once would make this unachievable. So, to secure existing aircraft, they just need to install ground controlled locks on the cockpit door. While this would be a little less secure than a seperate exit, it would still be far more secure than all of the show that is being put on in the airports right now.
See... Simpler, dramatically less expensive, no civil rights conflicts, and far less hassle for the air travelers.
Uh... The US government has killed many 13 year olds, pregnant ladies, old people and invalids with bombs to make people too scared to oppose them. And that is common amongst most of the groups that have been called freedom fighters too. Are you calling the US government terrorists? Remember, the US government is the ONLY group to use nuclear bombs so far, and we have been know to use contagions as well. It just goes to show that the term 'terrorist' is a very poorly defined term, and pretty much is the 'communist' of this generation.
Of course who you define as terrorist or freedom fighter doesn't change the fact that the current 'safety' measures being employed for air travel are useless, and there are much cheaper, simpler ways to accomplish the minimal amount of safety from attack that can be attained for air travel. They the simpler, cheaper, and more effective measures would also carry far less civil rights concerns.
Really? GRUB's errors depend on what Windows version you're using?
Well, yes, they might. If you are trying to integrate the products. You see, when you integrate products, you need to know what product you are trying to work with. If you were just formating your drive, then you would have a right to complain. Since you were not working with Ubuntu clean, your outrage seems misplaced.
Lastly, it is unwise to try doing any kind of OS install without having the tools to restore the system to it's original state if something goes wrong. Perhaps you did not know this, but it is sound advice for any OS changes you may do in the future. That includes Windows upgrades. Of course, if you loose your Ubuntu install disks, you can either download them again, or have a new one sent to you at no charge. If you loose your Windows install disks, you are out of luck as you found out.
The debate comes in as to whether the cure is worse than the disease. Many believe that there are better ways to handle the threat of 'terrorists'. That is in quotes because one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter, and there are many that believe 'terrist' is the new 'commie'.
For one, if you are worried about people taking over a plane, this could easily be solved by requiring new planes to have a separate entrance for pilots. It would be extremely difficult if not impossible for someone to hijack a plane in flight by taking over the cockpit it they have to enter from the outside. As for existing aircraft, it would be dramatically cheaper for the airlines to install ground controlled locks on the cockpit doors than the current mess in the airports.
That does only cover actual hijackings. It doesn't cover people blowing up the plane from the passenger section. Of course, trying to stop someone from blowing up a plane without being able to drive the plane into a larger target is a waste of time. First, a plane in the air can be taken out from the ground without too much difficulty. Second, the number of passengers that could be killed by blowing up that plane, could be killed via simpler ways that are unrelated to air travel. Third, if the person taking the plane out of the air is doing if from the ground, all of the airport security and passenger investigation in the world won't do a single thing to solve the problem.
I really did mean in out door places. Living in California, where public indoor smoking has been illegal for well over a decade now, I often forget that not all states have the same laws concerning indoor smoking. It shouldn't, but every time I travel to a place that doesn't have the anti-indoor-smoking laws, I get a mild surprise.
I never understood how someone who drives a car, or for that matter uses electricity generated by the burning of fuels, can complain about second hand smoke with a straight face.
If you don't drive a car, or use electricity, I might be able to sympathize with your plight.
Boiling coffee has been a common way to server it for a very long time. In fact, that is the only way that a percolator works. I haven't taken apart a newer coffee machine, but I would strongly suspect that that is how they force the water up to the drip spout. Although I am assuming that we are referring the boiling to be before it was poured into a cup, as there is no way that the coffee would remain in a boiling state from the time that it was poured to the time it reached the customer.
Irrelevant nitpick: "toxic" means that it is poisonous. It would be a large stretch to call burning someone with heat, a toxic injury.
Add to that, any competent (and even a lot of them that are not competent) administrator knows that it only takes marking a single check box to disable Notes-style responses. So if your users cannot understand the difference a competent administrator can decide for them.
My point remains correct, regardless of your failure to comprehend the issues at hand. Oh, but you know everything, so I must be wrong if you miss the point.
So, after falsely complaining about an ad-hominem attack, you again keep using them. I never said I knew everything. One thing I do know is Notes. Clearly you do not. I understand your point completely. The point is that you are trolling. When Notes comes up, you start spouting things that are totally untrue, and then use ad-hominem attacks to try to 'prove' your point. While you do this, you try to prevent being called on your fallacious arguments, and lies, by accusing others of behaving the way you are. So far, every complaint you have stated about Notes has been 100% untrue, so how am I missing the point?
So far, your statements seem to be supported by a rather myopic view of the facts. Again... I don't think you understand what the words you are using mean. If you do, that is both ANOTHER ad-hominem attack, AND a non-sequitor.
It's already there. Its Called Notes/Domino. Yes, the anti-Notes trolls can start complaining, but there is a reason that so many huge companies use it. It works. The fact that it is multi-platform doesn't hurt either.
You are a liar, there for you are lying. You see how the point (you are lying) is being supported by a general statement about the kind of person you are? That is an ad-hominem attack.
What I did was said:
You are lying, there for you are a liar. I then supported my statement of you lying with factual testable evidence. You see how a judgement of your character is the conclusion to the statement of fact, as opposed to the other way around? That means it is not an ad-hominem attack. Of course, I really didn't even go that far. I gave several different reasons why you would state things that are factually untrue. I gave you the benefit of the doubt and said that perhaps someone else, out of malice or incompetence decived you, and that you are simply repeating an untruth.
Of course if you would like to discuss logical fallacies, here is a little gem from your post:
To be honest, I dont care whether you think I am lying about these things or not. Acerbic responses will not get you very far in the world...
This is an actual ad-hominem attack. You are trying to imply that your point is correct by attacking me personally.
That doesn't even go into this:
"Reply with Internet-Style History" is a complete joke as it is implemented very poorly in Lotus Notes. Some of these folks use this scheme; however, it does not even bother to multiple-indent emails earlier in the thread. So how are you supposed to carry on a inline-response conversation with someone who uses the standard "Internet-style" indentation found in Outlook, Thunderbird, Eudora, mutt, et al???
Which is you just restating the lie you previously told in an attempt to spread FUD. Here is a sample of what Notes thinks is "Internet-style" responses.:
Oh, look at that. Multiple indents, and in-line comments! So, were you intentionally lying, or did someone else deceive you through malice or incompetence? And will you stand up and admit that you were spreading FUD, as clearly if this "technical consulting group" really does exist, and they are working with Notes on a regular bases, then my early statement concerning malice or incompetence is supported by the facts.
That is why I put 'moral vegan'. As in someone who is a vegan because they think is the 'moral' thing to do. PETA logic would be someone who thinks harming animals for MY benefit is evil, but is ok for THEIR benefit.
Why would I consider someone who eats meat to be a vegetarian?