The premise of the bible is free will (Paraphrased obviously: God's greatest gift to mankind is free will), not an unhealthy belief in God as your argument is premised behind, so therefore as enjoying as your argument is, it fails to catch the point that given free will, there can be no proof, because with proof, there is no free will.
You keep using that word, I don't think it means what you think it means...
"Do as I say or you'll spend eternity in the fiery pits of hell" indicates coercion.
"Act according to your conscience, whether there is a big wizard in the sky or not" indicates free will.
Ephesians 1:4 "For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight"
If I accept the concept of an omniscient and omnipotent being that created me and already selected me before time to be holy and blameless, where is my free will?
Speaking as a survivor of 9/11 who lost a brother and many friends on that day...
Speaking as a guy who was waken up by bomb alerts a few times as a kid and who lost friends/family to US sponsored terrorism...
And I do have a problem with the anarchists who want to test or protest the system by providing problems in the security lines at airports, slowing down my own travel more than necessary and making trouble for the people whose job it is to protect us.
Their job is not to protect you, their job is to make you feel secure... as far as I know, the vast majority of terrorist attacks n US soil were made by American citizens until now. Anyways, do you really think that terrorists would bother carrying attack plans on a laptop through the border? Shit, they could even simply save the plans as an encrypted attachment on their GMail account instead of smuggling it across the border.
What's the problem here? Is this a matter of principle or is there something to hide? Consider how important your data is to a customs official. News flash: I'd bet a lot that they don't give a rat's ass what you've got, as long as it's not illegal.
OK, so as a foreigner who never committed a crime anywhere (and who has actually lived in the US for two years) I must now get fingerprinted and my fingerprints will be stored essentially infinitely in a criminal database. I must also allow them to make a clone copy of my disks if they see fit, without any probable cause, never mind that there would be a lot of proprietary information on it. I can also get detained or turned back at the border if I can't supply the password to an encrypted file present on the hard disk that I don't know because the file is actually linked to a corporate application. I can also be deported for torture if my name happens to sound similar to a wanted person.
All that so the sheep can feel protected from the evil foreigners?
Land of the free and home of the brave indeed...
The world does not revolve around you and most people just don't care.
The world doesn't revolve around the US either, I have deliberately avoided setting foot on US soil for 7 years now. I have spent my hard earned currencies in other countries that have not yet decided to treat me as a criminal for no reason whatsoever. With the technology available, there is absolutely no reason to bother taking the risk to cross the US border for business.
It sucks that I missed the wedding of friends because of that, but there's no way I'm ever setting foot on US soil while those laws are in the book.
This is a fundamental point; we can have a society because of a shared heritage. Messing around with things that at this point we have little knowledge of is an open invitation to creating a branch of the human species which shares no common heritage.
A bit like kids of interracial marriage 60 years ago, right?
I'm european (non-militant atheist), my wife is Japanese (nichiren buddhist) and we live in a country (mainly protestant) foreign to both of us. If we ever get around to having kids, they would share close to no common heritage whatsoever with us. They would be different from either of us, they would share minimal cultural heritage with either of us or with the other kids as school... does that make them non-human in your book?
Additionally, if we could make sure somehow that our kids don't get the juvenile lung problems that run on my side of the tree or the skin issues that run on my wife's side of the tree... that would be swell. Nothing major, just to be sure they can enjoy a normal childhood and don't need to wait until they hit puberty before being able to play sports. Does wishing our kids to be better off than we are make us monsters?
I'm not sure I would say this is an "ethical" problem, but it certainly is a problem that we do not have to address. We can choose not to go down this road. We, as the humans on the planet, must not go down this road as it stands a really good chance of leading to disaster, potentially on a global scale.
Absolutely everything we have done ever since we climbed down the tree to walk in the savannah has "stood a really good chance of leading to disaster, potentially on a global scale"...
Just look at the 20th century:
splitting the atom
women's suffrage
placing stuff in orbit
the end of Jim Crow
the proxy wars
sending man in orbit
the cold war and MAD
the reunification of Germany
the 2 world wars
Trinity
the fall of the colonial empires
Every single one of them has been argued either as "standing a chance of leading to a global disaster" or as "slippery slope to the end of the world as we know it" by some people. We're here having that discussion, so I guess they were wrong. Even if it were true this time, not going down that path isn't a solution... it would just take one rogue nation doing it to lead to that disaster if your fears a correct.
I currently live in Germany, my energy provider introduced the following plan in 2006:
-Switch to local renewable energy feed (solar farms, windmills and hydro) and we guarantee that we won't increase the KWh cost in the next 5 years.
-Keep the normal feed, we can't make any promises on the future costs as they will be outside our control.
Like everybody I know, I switched to local production as soon as the plan was introduced. Seeing that the government agreed to dismantle the remaining reactors in Germany, that choice was quite wise. That move from the government didn't please many people outside the anti-nuclear movements tho.
Kickstart from the satellite for the OS
CVS checkout in the %post section of the kickstart for/etc or use the configuration channels
amrecover for the data and applications not stored on the satellite
As long as you keep a sane filesystem plan, the entire thing can be kept in an easy to follow procedure and fully scripted (except for the tape change on the amanda server).
Executive summary of the difference between slow tack and fast track:
slow track: we just had a brilliant idea and it would be nice if everybody did it this way in the future implementations
fast track: the current implementation of the de-facto standard is like this, we now make it an official standard
There should not be any such thing as a "fast track standard that has no implementation".
Sounds like what Delphi Automotive was already doing way back when I left them in 2001, if you remove the wireless connection of course. Seating was based on a cross-departments project base. Let's say you're working on Project A this week, you'll sit in the A open space. Next week you're on project B, move over to the B open space. Paperwork from Project A stays in the A zone, paperwork from the Project B stays in the B zone. It created a bit of a mess for tech support, as it could be hard to locate the user if he forgot to tell you which open space he was in at that moment (or if the delay between call and intervention was too long).
The Sun Flexible Office based on SunRay that Sun had deployed before I left them way back in 2004 is also quite similar in its approach. With the exception of the support team, you don't have a dedicated seating space. All your stuff is in your lockable caddy and your locker at the end of the day or it is thrown in the bin. In the morning, you take your caddy and push it to the first available desk space. You could book a space in advance if you were fast enough (or were clever enough to cron the booking in the wee hours of the weekend). The PABX was somehow (perl I think) connected to the SunRay server, so your phone number would automagically follow your sunray card/badge. As pointed out before, the whole setup cuts down time between the brown envelope and you being outside with all your crap.
Indeed I got martensite and pearlite mixed up;)
TTT diagrams are a good starting point for those who might be interested in the subject. Figure 5 shows the process for bainite transformation of austenite.
In fact, your explanation of the process is a tad wrong... here comes an explanation closer to reality
For simple carbon steels, beating the shit out of the edge just gives it its basic shape (it will be refined later at the polish stage). The formation of bainite, martensite and pearlite is caused by the cooling rate. Thus they come from the quenching and subsequent tempering of the blade. The tempering is mainly there to relieve the internal stresses caused by the structure reorganisation triggerred by the quench (and reduce the hardness by a few Rockwell points). Basically (very simplified), a fast cooling rate will give you pearlite while a slower cooling rate will give you martensite and if you keep it a long time at the correct temperature, you'll end up with bainite.
A prime example of that concept is the way japanese swords are made (oversimplified once more, as this is not a smithing forum).
After you've given a basic edge shape to the blade, you apply clay on the edge (and a bit on the spine, too) then you bring the whole blade to non-magnetic temperature and you quench it. Three things can happen at that point:
the blade curves towards the back (due to the different cooling rates) and the crystalline structure changes (martensite and friends under the clay, pearlite where there is no clay)
the blade curves towards the edge (can happen with 5160 quenched in oil), it's a miss
the blade cracks due to the stress (you used the wrong quenching medium for your alloy or heated the blade too much)
If the blade survived, you can then temper it by bringing it back to a certain temperature (depending on the alloy) so the internal stresses are relieved and the surface crystalline structure can change a bit too (if the temp is in the correct range). After that, the smith gives the a very rough polish before sending it to a real polisher.
I do agree about the L6 bainite swords by HC, they are amazing;) L6 in itself is just a tooling alloy (used for saw blades, IIRC), the properties of the L6 swords come from the controlled temperatures of the salt baths used by Howard. He is keeping the blades at a very precise temperature range for a certain amount of time to maximise the reorganisation of the crystalline structure to bainite. I don't haved the temperature graphs for various structures handy, but they're quite easy to find on the web;)
Quality glass is important, but you left out some other important aspects: The sensor size, bigger is better but also more expensive The heat dissipation of the sensor, so you don't get insane noise/deformation on long poses (astrophotography for example)
I'm still shooting film (Leica SL and Rollei SL66) most of the time, as until very recently it was hard to beat those cameras with decently priced DSLRs. On paper, 10Mpx DSLR isn't as good as professionally drum-scanned 6x6 negatives. However the gap isn't as big as one would think for most applications. Add to that the incoming pricing war in the prosumer market and I'm ripe for the switch (getting a Pentax K10D in November, with K-R adapter rings for my leica lenses).
I also honestly believe they will increase the megapixel count on full-framed sensors as there is demand for that in the pro market. For the sensors in P&S and phone cameras, I couldn't care less as it has been purely marketing gimmicks for some years now.:)
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Remote+Nunchuck Combo
How many nuns could a nunchuck chuck if a nunchuck could chuck nuns? The correct spelling is nunchaku, not nunchuck...
The whole thing is a corrupt pile of politicised shenanigans, and if you really think the commissioners care anything for the electorate or businesses, rather than their own political lives and protecting those who installed them in their positions of power, you need to read a little more about how European politics works and why it needs changing.
Which is one of the reasons why many political parties were against the European Constitution. It tried to change the balance of power between the Commission (unelected) and the Parliament (elected). Don't believe the "social" reasons they announced, most (if not all) of the points they used to get people to vote against the constitution were red herrings. They were already covered by previous treaties, they didn't need the constitution to be enforced. The few politicians who tried to point that out were soon buried under ad hominem attacks.
Paid less than $50 for the Extreme S during the last sales and it doesn't look like a laptop bag at all. I can fit the 12" powerbook, 200GB firewire disk, PSUs, assorted cabling and blank DVDs in it no problem (using only the internal pockets, the front pocket is still empty). The back of the bag is a contoured solid shell, which makes it very comfortable.
Piss-poor performance of early US3 chips in '02 (and still now)
Hardware quality issues in '03-04
The common point between all those problems? They lied to the customers each time "We've never seen that before"/"There is no known issue"/"We can't tell you until you sign that NDA"
I have seen more Sun parts failing in a month last year than I had in the previous seven years with Sun, HP, IBM, EMC and Compaq cumulated.
Luckily, I no longer have to deal with that crap anymore.
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You keep using that word, I don't think it means what you think it means...
"Do as I say or you'll spend eternity in the fiery pits of hell" indicates coercion.
"Act according to your conscience, whether there is a big wizard in the sky or not" indicates free will.
Ephesians 1:4 "For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight"If I accept the concept of an omniscient and omnipotent being that created me and already selected me before time to be holy and blameless, where is my free will?
Speaking as a guy who was waken up by bomb alerts a few times as a kid and who lost friends/family to US sponsored terrorism...
Their job is not to protect you, their job is to make you feel secure... as far as I know, the vast majority of terrorist attacks n US soil were made by American citizens until now. Anyways, do you really think that terrorists would bother carrying attack plans on a laptop through the border? Shit, they could even simply save the plans as an encrypted attachment on their GMail account instead of smuggling it across the border.
OK, so as a foreigner who never committed a crime anywhere (and who has actually lived in the US for two years) I must now get fingerprinted and my fingerprints will be stored essentially infinitely in a criminal database. I must also allow them to make a clone copy of my disks if they see fit, without any probable cause, never mind that there would be a lot of proprietary information on it. I can also get detained or turned back at the border if I can't supply the password to an encrypted file present on the hard disk that I don't know because the file is actually linked to a corporate application. I can also be deported for torture if my name happens to sound similar to a wanted person.
All that so the sheep can feel protected from the evil foreigners?
Land of the free and home of the brave indeed...
The world doesn't revolve around the US either, I have deliberately avoided setting foot on US soil for 7 years now. I have spent my hard earned currencies in other countries that have not yet decided to treat me as a criminal for no reason whatsoever. With the technology available, there is absolutely no reason to bother taking the risk to cross the US border for business.
It sucks that I missed the wedding of friends because of that, but there's no way I'm ever setting foot on US soil while those laws are in the book.
A bit like kids of interracial marriage 60 years ago, right?
I'm european (non-militant atheist), my wife is Japanese (nichiren buddhist) and we live in a country (mainly protestant) foreign to both of us. If we ever get around to having kids, they would share close to no common heritage whatsoever with us. They would be different from either of us, they would share minimal cultural heritage with either of us or with the other kids as school... does that make them non-human in your book?
Additionally, if we could make sure somehow that our kids don't get the juvenile lung problems that run on my side of the tree or the skin issues that run on my wife's side of the tree... that would be swell. Nothing major, just to be sure they can enjoy a normal childhood and don't need to wait until they hit puberty before being able to play sports. Does wishing our kids to be better off than we are make us monsters?
Absolutely everything we have done ever since we climbed down the tree to walk in the savannah has "stood a really good chance of leading to disaster, potentially on a global scale"...
Just look at the 20th century:Every single one of them has been argued either as "standing a chance of leading to a global disaster" or as "slippery slope to the end of the world as we know it" by some people. We're here having that discussion, so I guess they were wrong. Even if it were true this time, not going down that path isn't a solution... it would just take one rogue nation doing it to lead to that disaster if your fears a correct.
I currently live in Germany, my energy provider introduced the following plan in 2006:
-Switch to local renewable energy feed (solar farms, windmills and hydro) and we guarantee that we won't increase the KWh cost in the next 5 years. -Keep the normal feed, we can't make any promises on the future costs as they will be outside our control.Like everybody I know, I switched to local production as soon as the plan was introduced. Seeing that the government agreed to dismantle the remaining reactors in Germany, that choice was quite wise. That move from the government didn't please many people outside the anti-nuclear movements tho.
As long as you keep a sane filesystem plan, the entire thing can be kept in an easy to follow procedure and fully scripted (except for the tape change on the amanda server).
Not sure it is illegal, it is fowl for sure tho...
Executive summary of the difference between slow tack and fast track: slow track: we just had a brilliant idea and it would be nice if everybody did it this way in the future implementations fast track: the current implementation of the de-facto standard is like this, we now make it an official standard There should not be any such thing as a "fast track standard that has no implementation".
Also make sure you have the genetic variation that protects you from prion related diseases before trying the long pig ;)
Sounds like what Delphi Automotive was already doing way back when I left them in 2001, if you remove the wireless connection of course. Seating was based on a cross-departments project base. Let's say you're working on Project A this week, you'll sit in the A open space. Next week you're on project B, move over to the B open space. Paperwork from Project A stays in the A zone, paperwork from the Project B stays in the B zone. It created a bit of a mess for tech support, as it could be hard to locate the user if he forgot to tell you which open space he was in at that moment (or if the delay between call and intervention was too long).
The Sun Flexible Office based on SunRay that Sun had deployed before I left them way back in 2004 is also quite similar in its approach. With the exception of the support team, you don't have a dedicated seating space. All your stuff is in your lockable caddy and your locker at the end of the day or it is thrown in the bin. In the morning, you take your caddy and push it to the first available desk space. You could book a space in advance if you were fast enough (or were clever enough to cron the booking in the wee hours of the weekend). The PABX was somehow (perl I think) connected to the SunRay server, so your phone number would automagically follow your sunray card/badge. As pointed out before, the whole setup cuts down time between the brown envelope and you being outside with all your crap.
112 is European 911 I'd say.
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I love your idea, but you'd then have a definite lack of candidates for the next elections.
Indeed I got martensite and pearlite mixed up ;)
TTT diagrams are a good starting point for those who might be interested in the subject. Figure 5 shows the process for bainite transformation of austenite.
In fact, your explanation of the process is a tad wrong... here comes an explanation closer to reality
For simple carbon steels, beating the shit out of the edge just gives it its basic shape (it will be refined later at the polish stage). The formation of bainite, martensite and pearlite is caused by the cooling rate. Thus they come from the quenching and subsequent tempering of the blade. The tempering is mainly there to relieve the internal stresses caused by the structure reorganisation triggerred by the quench (and reduce the hardness by a few Rockwell points). Basically (very simplified), a fast cooling rate will give you pearlite while a slower cooling rate will give you martensite and if you keep it a long time at the correct temperature, you'll end up with bainite.
A prime example of that concept is the way japanese swords are made (oversimplified once more, as this is not a smithing forum).
After you've given a basic edge shape to the blade, you apply clay on the edge (and a bit on the spine, too) then you bring the whole blade to non-magnetic temperature and you quench it. Three things can happen at that point:
- the blade curves towards the back (due to the different cooling rates) and the crystalline structure changes (martensite and friends under the clay, pearlite where there is no clay)
- the blade curves towards the edge (can happen with 5160 quenched in oil), it's a miss
- the blade cracks due to the stress (you used the wrong quenching medium for your alloy or heated the blade too much)
If the blade survived, you can then temper it by bringing it back to a certain temperature (depending on the alloy) so the internal stresses are relieved and the surface crystalline structure can change a bit too (if the temp is in the correct range). After that, the smith gives the a very rough polish before sending it to a real polisher.I do agree about the L6 bainite swords by HC, they are amazing ;) L6 in itself is just a tooling alloy (used for saw blades, IIRC), the properties of the L6 swords come from the controlled temperatures of the salt baths used by Howard. He is keeping the blades at a very precise temperature range for a certain amount of time to maximise the reorganisation of the crystalline structure to bainite. I don't haved the temperature graphs for various structures handy, but they're quite easy to find on the web ;)
Quality glass is important, but you left out some other important aspects:
:)
The sensor size, bigger is better but also more expensive
The heat dissipation of the sensor, so you don't get insane noise/deformation on long poses (astrophotography for example)
I'm still shooting film (Leica SL and Rollei SL66) most of the time, as until very recently it was hard to beat those cameras with decently priced DSLRs. On paper, 10Mpx DSLR isn't as good as professionally drum-scanned 6x6 negatives. However the gap isn't as big as one would think for most applications. Add to that the incoming pricing war in the prosumer market and I'm ripe for the switch (getting a Pentax K10D in November, with K-R adapter rings for my leica lenses).
I also honestly believe they will increase the megapixel count on full-framed sensors as there is demand for that in the pro market. For the sensors in P&S and phone cameras, I couldn't care less as it has been purely marketing gimmicks for some years now.
DNF vaporware of the year?
I thought they would stop nominating it after a life time award... I mean, dead horse and all that
RHAsta Linux mon!
When I started working in IT, the BOFH seemed so hard on (l)users. Seven years later, I think he is rather nice to them...
Just in time for my trip to Osaka!
Hedgren Extreme: http://www.hedgren.com/modules/collections/product s.php?cid=1
Paid less than $50 for the Extreme S during the last sales and it doesn't look like a laptop bag at all. I can fit the 12" powerbook, 200GB firewire disk, PSUs, assorted cabling and blank DVDs in it no problem (using only the internal pockets, the front pocket is still empty). The back of the bag is a contoured solid shell, which makes it very comfortable.
- J3200 in 97-98
- Ecache fiasco in 00-01-02
- Piss-poor performance of early US3 chips in '02 (and still now)
- Hardware quality issues in '03-04
The common point between all those problems? They lied to the customers each time "We've never seen that before"/"There is no known issue"/"We can't tell you until you sign that NDA"I have seen more Sun parts failing in a month last year than I had in the previous seven years with Sun, HP, IBM, EMC and Compaq cumulated.
Luckily, I no longer have to deal with that crap anymore.
It is indeed an old Suse base system with a modified (backports, improvements and some new bugs) gnome sitting on top.