Yeah but how much is your time worth? Just tell your boss you're a go getter, a hard hitter and time is money to you and the company. I'm sure he'll pony up the six hundred bucks in no time.
I'd like to publically state that if I ever have something go wrong with my senses (go blind, deaf, etc) or body (paralyzed, etc) and I attempt to change the world to fit me at the expense of others, I'd like to be forcibly euthenized. Hmm, I'm not sure posting on an internet forum with a pseudonym counts as publically stating something. Maybe should you write a letter to your local newspaper.
I'm very strongly of the opinion that as soon as any group starts dragging down the rest of society they need to be purged. Hmm, seems like your sense of empathy is seriously impaired. Which ironically makes you a member of the only disabled group, sociopaths, who can legally be treated worse in court than normal people.
Citibank gave me money when I was in Japan and none of the other cash machines would accept foreign Visa cards.
If it wasn't for Citibank I would probably now be the only white homeless guy in Tokyo. And MBNA have sent me on Visa card application every week, no matter what country I'm in.
Swear thine allegiance to Sir Ronald of Paul. He shall grant us liberty from both the Democrat Barons unfair levies and surcharges and from Republican Barons Crusade in the Holy Land.
You know much against my better judgement I'm starting to like Apple. Tempting the Linux crowd into giving up their principles for a pretty UI is just so delightfully evil.
Dell D420s are excellent machines. I've used them for testing and they are actually an excellent form factor. Small enough to chuck into a backpack but big enough that you don't notice the keyboard being cramped.
And it comes with a built in cellular modem so you don't need to hunt for wifi hotspots. In Sweden you can get flat rate 7.2Mbit HSDPA for about 30 US$ per month. That plus a D420 and a 9 cell battery is a very useful thing indeed.
I think the objection to Doctorow is not so much that he doesn't have a degree, it's that he 'failed out' of four universities and seems to regard that as a badge of individuality. As someone else pointed out, it's more like a badge that he has parents that can get him in to three universities after he failed to take the first one seriously. Which is not cool at all, I've met people that would love to go to university but can't afford it. This guy wasted resources by going to four of them and dropping out.
Like the post I referenced, I've met averagely smart people like him that considered themselves above averagely smart and seemed to take a peverse delight in failing courses at Uni, despite the fact that they were easily capable of passing them.
He gave his poor daughter a silly, pretentious, name too which is unforgivable.
Universities are degree mills in most majors - you have to be practically illiterate to fail out Or smart but determined to prove you're too smart to bother with things like tests and waking up early for class.
That parody is excellent. What's even funnier is that the person that wrote it is not far off being a Cory himself. Or maybe I should say a Nathan Barley
I thought that countries like Nepal and Bhutan served as buffer states between India and China. Wouldn't India intervene in Nepal to preserve the balence of power if they shifted too much toward China? A buffer state is just contested territory between two larger powers. It's stable if those two powers have equal influence. But the election of the Maoists alters that radically to the point where China has far more influence than India.
China could prevent such a thing, but then India could retaliate by supporting active Tibet seperatists. Soon, things become a mess.
Both China and India enjoy the status quo, and I doubt either will allow things to deviate from it. I think you're confusing what you'd do with what they'd do. You're not out to convert neighbouring countries into client states - I'd guess as a civilised citizen of a free country that you're horrified by the whole idea of imperialism. But that doesn't mean that the Chinese don't have imperial ambitions. I actually think one of the problems with the Free World is that they're not playing the imperialism game. Their opponents are however and that just means they lose it by default. You can see this over Tibet. China annexed the country and killed thousands of people. Team Free World made a few protests and pointed out that the Dalai Lama doesn't want independence and supports the One China principle and China should negotiate with him. But that doesn't matter much, since the Chinese still accuse him of being a terrorist and refuse to talk. They know that they are militarily far superior to the Tibetans and will use that to crush them completely. Talks and compromise seem unnecessary to them given that they have the upper hand militarily
Carter to me personifies this dangerous naivite - essentially a blind faith that leaders of non free societies that took power by force are as reasonable as leaders of free ones that took power by elections and the compromise that implies. So it's not too surprising that he's called for the Maoists to be taken off the list of terrorist organisations. Essentially power politics is distasteful to him personally so he simply pretends it is not happening.
Despite the fact that the Free World has never really tried to use Tibetan separatism against China the new Nepal government has already started to crack down on Tibetans in Nepal.
The Maoists are not going to take over and set up a Maoist regime, India and China wouldn't allow it.
Right, because China stopped Burma from setting up a repressive state, or Sudan, or Pol Pot's Kampuchea, or North Korea....
Actually they want to turn all of them into client states as a buffer against the West. The fact that life in all of them is pretty miserable is not really a concern to the Chinese government. In fact since they don't believe in democracy at home, complaining about a lack of it in their allies would be a bit unwise domestically.
India backed the Nepali Congress Party, like the US and UK. They have just announced that the Nepali king will go into exile in India. In fact politically if not geographically you could say India is part of 'the West' now. Hmm, maybe since 'the West' is now defined by having a democratic government rather than geography, maybe we should think of a new name for it, like 'The Free World'
Since Congress seems to have been decimated in the election, 'The Free World' does't have much say on what the Maoists do next. They planned to marginalize the Maoists and promote the other parties, but they seem to have lost. This is not good for Nepalis.
I read that post election the Maoists have held talks with China and said that 'Tibet is an integral part of China and they won't allow Nepali territory to be used as a base for Tibetan separatism', by which they presmably mean they will kill, imprison or deport the Tibetan exiles. Doesn't sound too democratic by the way, does it? But somehow I don't see the Chinese government complaining.
To counter growing international criticism, on March 20, China's official Xinhua news agency trumpeted a statement of support from the North Korean dictatorship that "denounces the unsavory elements of their moves to seek 'independence of Tibet' and scuttle the upcoming Beijing Olympics, and supports the Chinese government in its efforts to ensure social stability and the rule of law in Tibet and defend the fundamental interests of the Tibetan people." Xinhua also cited the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) which "strongly condemns the incident that put at risk the freedom and sovereignty of the Chinese people."
I'd say Nepal is well on the way to client state status.
But the GP's point, is that their frequent terrorism was justified, in that it freed the country from dictatorial monarchy.
He said it was slander to call them terrorists. I pointed out that it wasn't. They have deliberately targetted civillians and used terror to influence politics, which is terrorism.
Finally, and very importantly, the fear factor played a major role in the unprecedented landslide that destroyed the CPN-UML party, which has now resigned from the government, and crippled the mighty Nepali Congress.
Arun Paudel, who was campaigning from his hometown in Gorkha district, said, "People were genuinely afraid of the Maoists." More than 10 years of armed conflict that left over 13,000 people dead and two years of "peaceful" intimidation and extortion, left its mark on the minds of the Nepalese people.
In the West they may call this appeasement, but here is it called "give peace a chance." The thinking goes like this, "If the Maoists want power, give it to them. Then, at least, we can dream again of peace."
Making people vote for you so you stop killing them certainly sounds like terrorism to me.
Don't forget the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). Not only was its being called terrorist slander to begin with, but it's now abandoned the civil war and a major player (in fact, the largest player) in the creation of a new secular, democratic republic. And it's still on the official US terrorist list.
Examples of the lack of commitment to human rights by the CPN (Maoist) are plentiful. Maoist forces have staged several attacks recently on civilians and civilian objects, including political activists and schools. On 15 April, Maoists reportedly surrounded Bargadwa village, Somani VDC, Ward 7 in Nawalparasi district and rounded up all villagers. They then reportedly separated all the boys and men aged between 14 and 40 and summarily executed ten men and one boy. On 29 April, Maoist cadres reportedly abducted and killed Dan Bahadur Shreebastav, chairman of the Kapilvastu District Monitoring Committee, and on 9 May shot dead Bhagwan Das Shrestha, chairman of the Chitwan District Monitoring Committee. None of these victims were legitimate military targets.
Last month, Maoist forces also carried out a spate of attacks on schools in the context of a two-week campaign for the closure of all private schools initiated on 14 April 2005. Among the schools targeted were a school in Nepalgunj, Banke district, on 17 April and another in Kalyanpur, Chitwan district on 21 April. Three children were reportedly injured when the Maoists threw a bomb at students at a school in Khara, Rukum district, on 17 April. Hundreds of schools across the country remain closed due to threats by Maoists. Furthermore, Maoist forces have regularly abducted large numbers of students from schools for political indoctrination and propaganda campaigns. In a recent example, reports from Salyan district indicate that as many as 200 students from remote villages were abducted around 17 May. None of these targets can be described as military â" they were all civilians and civilian objects the targeting of which is prohibited under international humanitarian law.
We are also concerned that Maoist forces have abducted, tortured and killed civilians, whom they accused of "spying" and other crimes, and security force personnel whom they had captured. Among recent cases is Lila Singh, a 23-year-old karate practitioner from Mahendranagar, Kanchanpur district who was abducted from her home on 29 April allegedly on suspicion of spying. To date, her relatives have not heard anything about her fate or whereabouts. On 16 May 2005, Shanker Sarki, a soldier, who had returned home from Congo where he had served in the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces, was abducted from his home in Dhangadi, Kailali district by 12 armed Maoist cadres in civilian dress and killed. Torture and extrajudicial executions are similarly prohibited, under international law, in all circumstances.
Now the government has basically surrendered and called elections where the Maoists have had free range to intimidate, something they have a long experience in. Here's what the UN said.
KATHMANDU, June 23 (Reuters) - Activists from the youth wing of Nepal's former Maoist rebels are creating a "climate of fear" by abducting and beating people, the United Nations said on Saturday.
The UN body said on Friday that Maoists, who ended a decade-long insurgency in November, were among those preventing other parties from functioning freely in rural areas ahead of an assembly election at the end of this year.
On the BBC they interviewed people who said that they were voting for them to stop them killing people! Seems like te
But I put an Apple sticker on my Dell and Mr Marmalade hit OK, not me. Though I don't think he was clear on the label issue. Does that mean that he's allowed to use the computer? What about if he sleeps on my lap and I do the typing for him.
And I didn't read the whole EULA, just sort of skimmed it because Mr Marmalade was going apeshit and attacking my suede shoes. It's probably because my mouse Fluffy used to sleep in them before I acidentally killed him putting them on when I was in a hurry to catch the bus one Monday morning.
Will Apple send Mr Marmalade to prison? I don't think he'd like it there, unless they have premium cat food, which seems unlikely.
Reiserfs doesn't defrag because it's designed not to need to defrag.. same goes for XFS and the other more modern filesystems
Any filesystem, modern or not will get fragmented. If you delete a file in the middle of the disk, you leave a hole. If you want to extend a file and the space after it is used by something else, that file will be fragmented
Mac firmware probably runs in Bios (real or virtual 8086) mode until it starts an EFI operating system. So it can run the code in the Video Bios Rom to set the video card up.
Actually if OS X has a Vesa framebuffer driver it could use any VGA card in non accelerated mode too. It would need to switch from protected to v86 mode to call the Bios to change modes though.
What about if I started to install OS X on my Dell. It showed me the EULA screen and I scrolled all the way through it and noticed the stuff about Apple Logos. So I took the logo off my Gala apple (best apples BTW) and stuck it on the machine and chuckled to myself. Then I started to have second thoughts. So I went downstairs for a coffee, got distracted by something on the internet on my other PC.
But by the time I came back to the Dell my calico kitten, Mr Marmalade who's young and inquisitive had clicked OK. Where does that put me legally? What about Mr Marmalade?
It could be worse. What happens if someone downloads child pornography via Tor and they happen to use your Tor node? You'll get a visit from the FBI.
In a sense there's a social contract here. If you allow your system to be used for illegal stuff, expect to end up IP banned from various places. E.g. try accessing an anonymous board from a proxy. Most of them don't work because someone has used them to post something that got them IP banned at some point.
Get pure acetone and hydrogen peroxide. Mix together and heat to 50 centrigrade. Add a few drops of sulphuric acid. Allow to cool. Place the laptop screen down and pour the mixture onto the lcd until it forms a pool the depth of the bezel - you might want to place sellotape to protect the bezel from any splashes. Leave overnight. Remove any crystals that have formed by rubbing firmly with a microfibre cloth.
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Yeah but how much is your time worth? Just tell your boss you're a go getter, a hard hitter and time is money to you and the company. I'm sure he'll pony up the six hundred bucks in no time.
Citibank gave me money when I was in Japan and none of the other cash machines would accept foreign Visa cards.
If it wasn't for Citibank I would probably now be the only white homeless guy in Tokyo. And MBNA have sent me on Visa card application every week, no matter what country I'm in.
So between the two of them they've saved my ass.
Swear thine allegiance to Sir Ronald of Paul. He shall grant us liberty from both the Democrat Barons unfair levies and surcharges and from Republican Barons Crusade in the Holy Land.
He is raising a rebel army in the forrest!
You know much against my better judgement I'm starting to like Apple. Tempting the Linux crowd into giving up their principles for a pretty UI is just so delightfully evil.
Maybe I should post on Make blog on DIY tattoo removal that involves brewing up TATP ingredients for people like Cory.
Dell D420s are excellent machines. I've used them for testing and they are actually an excellent form factor. Small enough to chuck into a backpack but big enough that you don't notice the keyboard being cramped.
With a 9 cell battery you can get 6 hours of use
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/92149/dell-latitude-d420.html
And it comes with a built in cellular modem so you don't need to hunt for wifi hotspots. In Sweden you can get flat rate 7.2Mbit HSDPA for about 30 US$ per month. That plus a D420 and a 9 cell battery is a very useful thing indeed.
Like the post I referenced, I've met averagely smart people like him that considered themselves above averagely smart and seemed to take a peverse delight in failing courses at Uni, despite the fact that they were easily capable of passing them.
He gave his poor daughter a silly, pretentious, name too which is unforgivable. Universities are degree mills in most majors - you have to be practically illiterate to fail out Or smart but determined to prove you're too smart to bother with things like tests and waking up early for class.
It's sort of sad to see xkcd doing afectionate stuff like this when it should be lampooning him mercilessly.
pefnTaylorDoctorow still looks like Hungarian notation though.
Who needs a degree when get a job working as a visiting professor for a year at USD without one?
It's not what you know, it's who you know.
That parody is excellent. What's even funnier is that the person that wrote it is not far off being a Cory himself. Or maybe I should say a Nathan Barley
I'm sure you'll change your tune if something goes wrong with your senses.
Both China and India enjoy the status quo, and I doubt either will allow things to deviate from it. I think you're confusing what you'd do with what they'd do. You're not out to convert neighbouring countries into client states - I'd guess as a civilised citizen of a free country that you're horrified by the whole idea of imperialism. But that doesn't mean that the Chinese don't have imperial ambitions. I actually think one of the problems with the Free World is that they're not playing the imperialism game. Their opponents are however and that just means they lose it by default. You can see this over Tibet. China annexed the country and killed thousands of people. Team Free World made a few protests and pointed out that the Dalai Lama doesn't want independence and supports the One China principle and China should negotiate with him. But that doesn't matter much, since the Chinese still accuse him of being a terrorist and refuse to talk. They know that they are militarily far superior to the Tibetans and will use that to crush them completely. Talks and compromise seem unnecessary to them given that they have the upper hand militarily
Carter to me personifies this dangerous naivite - essentially a blind faith that leaders of non free societies that took power by force are as reasonable as leaders of free ones that took power by elections and the compromise that implies. So it's not too surprising that he's called for the Maoists to be taken off the list of terrorist organisations. Essentially power politics is distasteful to him personally so he simply pretends it is not happening.
Despite the fact that the Free World has never really tried to use Tibetan separatism against China the new Nepal government has already started to crack down on Tibetans in Nepal.
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/news/stories/200804/s2218021.htm?tab=latest
The Maoists are not going to take over and set up a Maoist regime, India and China wouldn't allow it.
Right, because China stopped Burma from setting up a repressive state, or Sudan, or Pol Pot's Kampuchea, or North Korea....
Actually they want to turn all of them into client states as a buffer against the West. The fact that life in all of them is pretty miserable is not really a concern to the Chinese government. In fact since they don't believe in democracy at home, complaining about a lack of it in their allies would be a bit unwise domestically.
India backed the Nepali Congress Party, like the US and UK. They have just announced that the Nepali king will go into exile in India. In fact politically if not geographically you could say India is part of 'the West' now. Hmm, maybe since 'the West' is now defined by having a democratic government rather than geography, maybe we should think of a new name for it, like 'The Free World'
Since Congress seems to have been decimated in the election, 'The Free World' does't have much say on what the Maoists do next. They planned to marginalize the Maoists and promote the other parties, but they seem to have lost. This is not good for Nepalis.
I read that post election the Maoists have held talks with China and said that 'Tibet is an integral part of China and they won't allow Nepali territory to be used as a base for Tibetan separatism', by which they presmably mean they will kill, imprison or deport the Tibetan exiles. Doesn't sound too democratic by the way, does it? But somehow I don't see the Chinese government complaining.
Even before the election, the Nepal Maoists were cited along with North Korea by China
http://washingtontimes.com/article/20080328/COMMENTARY/282837929/1012
To counter growing international criticism, on March 20, China's official Xinhua news agency trumpeted a statement of support from the North Korean dictatorship that "denounces the unsavory elements of their moves to seek 'independence of Tibet' and scuttle the upcoming Beijing Olympics, and supports the Chinese government in its efforts to ensure social stability and the rule of law in Tibet and defend the fundamental interests of the Tibetan people." Xinhua also cited the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) which "strongly condemns the incident that put at risk the freedom and sovereignty of the Chinese people."
I'd say Nepal is well on the way to client state status.
But the GP's point, is that their frequent terrorism was justified, in that it freed the country from dictatorial monarchy.
He said it was slander to call them terrorists. I pointed out that it wasn't. They have deliberately targetted civillians and used terror to influence politics, which is terrorism.
I found another comment on this
http://www.upiasiaonline.com/Politics/2008/04/15/nepalese_vote_to_give_peace_a_chance/2819/
Finally, and very importantly, the fear factor played a major role in the unprecedented landslide that destroyed the CPN-UML party, which has now resigned from the government, and crippled the mighty Nepali Congress.
Arun Paudel, who was campaigning from his hometown in Gorkha district, said, "People were genuinely afraid of the Maoists." More than 10 years of armed conflict that left over 13,000 people dead and two years of "peaceful" intimidation and extortion, left its mark on the minds of the Nepalese people.
In the West they may call this appeasement, but here is it called "give peace a chance." The thinking goes like this, "If the Maoists want power, give it to them. Then, at least, we can dream again of peace."
Making people vote for you so you stop killing them certainly sounds like terrorism to me.
And my point is that there isn't any sign s
Don't be a law Nazi.
Don't forget the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). Not only was its being called terrorist slander to begin with, but it's now abandoned the civil war and a major player (in fact, the largest player) in the creation of a new secular, democratic republic. And it's still on the official US terrorist list.
They killed thousands of civillians in a war. Here's what Amnesty International said
http://archive.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGASA310462005?open&of=ENG-NPL
Examples of the lack of commitment to human rights by the CPN (Maoist) are plentiful. Maoist forces have staged several attacks recently on civilians and civilian objects, including political activists and schools. On 15 April, Maoists reportedly surrounded Bargadwa village, Somani VDC, Ward 7 in Nawalparasi district and rounded up all villagers. They then reportedly separated all the boys and men aged between 14 and 40 and summarily executed ten men and one boy. On 29 April, Maoist cadres reportedly abducted and killed Dan Bahadur Shreebastav, chairman of the Kapilvastu District Monitoring Committee, and on 9 May shot dead Bhagwan Das Shrestha, chairman of the Chitwan District Monitoring Committee. None of these victims were legitimate military targets.
Last month, Maoist forces also carried out a spate of attacks on schools in the context of a two-week campaign for the closure of all private schools initiated on 14 April 2005. Among the schools targeted were a school in Nepalgunj, Banke district, on 17 April and another in Kalyanpur, Chitwan district on 21 April. Three children were reportedly injured when the Maoists threw a bomb at students at a school in Khara, Rukum district, on 17 April. Hundreds of schools across the country remain closed due to threats by Maoists. Furthermore, Maoist forces have regularly abducted large numbers of students from schools for political indoctrination and propaganda campaigns. In a recent example, reports from Salyan district indicate that as many as 200 students from remote villages were abducted around 17 May. None of these targets can be described as military â" they were all civilians and civilian objects the targeting of which is prohibited under international humanitarian law.
We are also concerned that Maoist forces have abducted, tortured and killed civilians, whom they accused of "spying" and other crimes, and security force personnel whom they had captured. Among recent cases is Lila Singh, a 23-year-old karate practitioner from Mahendranagar, Kanchanpur district who was abducted from her home on 29 April allegedly on suspicion of spying. To date, her relatives have not heard anything about her fate or whereabouts. On 16 May 2005, Shanker Sarki, a soldier, who had returned home from Congo where he had served in the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces, was abducted from his home in Dhangadi, Kailali district by 12 armed Maoist cadres in civilian dress and killed. Torture and extrajudicial executions are similarly prohibited, under international law, in all circumstances.
Now the government has basically surrendered and called elections where the Maoists have had free range to intimidate, something they have a long experience in. Here's what the UN said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSDEL140233
KATHMANDU, June 23 (Reuters) - Activists from the youth wing of Nepal's former Maoist rebels are creating a "climate of fear" by abducting and beating people, the United Nations said on Saturday.
The UN body said on Friday that Maoists, who ended a decade-long insurgency in November, were among those preventing other parties from functioning freely in rural areas ahead of an assembly election at the end of this year.
On the BBC they interviewed people who said that they were voting for them to stop them killing people! Seems like te
But I put an Apple sticker on my Dell and Mr Marmalade hit OK, not me. Though I don't think he was clear on the label issue. Does that mean that he's allowed to use the computer? What about if he sleeps on my lap and I do the typing for him.
And I didn't read the whole EULA, just sort of skimmed it because Mr Marmalade was going apeshit and attacking my suede shoes. It's probably because my mouse Fluffy used to sleep in them before I acidentally killed him putting them on when I was in a hurry to catch the bus one Monday morning.
Will Apple send Mr Marmalade to prison? I don't think he'd like it there, unless they have premium cat food, which seems unlikely.
Reiserfs doesn't defrag because it's designed not to need to defrag.. same goes for XFS and the other more modern filesystems
Any filesystem, modern or not will get fragmented. If you delete a file in the middle of the disk, you leave a hole. If you want to extend a file and the space after it is used by something else, that file will be fragmentedMac firmware probably runs in Bios (real or virtual 8086) mode until it starts an EFI operating system. So it can run the code in the Video Bios Rom to set the video card up.
Actually if OS X has a Vesa framebuffer driver it could use any VGA card in non accelerated mode too. It would need to switch from protected to v86 mode to call the Bios to change modes though.
What about if I started to install OS X on my Dell. It showed me the EULA screen and I scrolled all the way through it and noticed the stuff about Apple Logos. So I took the logo off my Gala apple (best apples BTW) and stuck it on the machine and chuckled to myself. Then I started to have second thoughts. So I went downstairs for a coffee, got distracted by something on the internet on my other PC.
But by the time I came back to the Dell my calico kitten, Mr Marmalade who's young and inquisitive had clicked OK. Where does that put me legally? What about Mr Marmalade?
It could be worse. What happens if someone downloads child pornography via Tor and they happen to use your Tor node? You'll get a visit from the FBI.
In a sense there's a social contract here. If you allow your system to be used for illegal stuff, expect to end up IP banned from various places. E.g. try accessing an anonymous board from a proxy. Most of them don't work because someone has used them to post something that got them IP banned at some point.
Get pure acetone and hydrogen peroxide. Mix together and heat to 50 centrigrade. Add a few drops of sulphuric acid. Allow to cool. Place the laptop screen down and pour the mixture onto the lcd until it forms a pool the depth of the bezel - you might want to place sellotape to protect the bezel from any splashes. Leave overnight. Remove any crystals that have formed by rubbing firmly with a microfibre cloth.
Baah, there are quite a few other places that actually want to be a 51st state.
On the Internet, no one knows you're a Wiener
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