I'm doing a 60 mile roundtrip to my job every day here in Europe. And I'm certainly not alone, despite living in the populationvise densiest part of my country (Stockholm).
If I choose bus, train etc. it would take me more than 4 hours a day.
IBM has a really good sheduler (called "dispatcher") in their Mainframes (z/OS et al), couldn't Linux try a version of that one for a change ? After all, IBM is running Linux on their Mainframes.
"Pastor Niemöller spoke for the thousands and thousands of men like me when he spoke [...] and said that, when the Nazis attacked the Communists, he was a little uneasy, but, after all, he was not a Communist, and so he did nothing; and then they attacked the Socialists, and he was a little uneasier, but, still, he was not a Socialist, and he did nothing; and then the schools, the press, the Jews, and so on, and he was always uneasier, but still he did nothing. And then they attacked the Church, and he was a Churchman, and he did something -- but then it was too late."
No. Not necessarely at least. When Castro dies, his brother Ramon will take over. And he is a stalinist-type communist.
Fidel himself was not a (pure) communist from the beginning, but as Cuba was isolated by USA after the revolution he had to go to Soviet for help (economical and other). And by that the regime went to communism.
The American Economy started with copying and stealing patented (and later also copyrighted) methods, ideas and constructions from European companys and individuals. The widespread use of slaves also gave US companys an economical advantage.
You see, US' laws didn't complied with European or International laws and even in the cases where it existed applicable laws (in US), the implementation of these were very lax... Does this remind You of something today...?
Later, when US started to produce and sell products also invented in US, the congress were more interested in patent laws. Etc.
"You have to be careful when you say that a court is "wrong". If a court makes a decision, and it stands, the court is "right" in the most objective sense possible."
Wrong.
"There may be arguments for both sides, but whatever the court decided is a fact."
Both the temperature and CO2-levels are at an all time low value. And the correlation between temperature and CO2 is very weak at best.
If You look at the diagram http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/PageMill_Images/ image277.gif over the last 500+ million yers of CO2-levels and temperature You will maybe get the impression that the humanitys CO2-production is not the main climate factor.
I get at least 10 phishes a day (sometimes much more). And it was a long ago I had any faith in that my eventual reports would have any result in the receiving end.
Besides, with diligent people like You they have probably got hundreds of reports already...
I have a relatively modern stationary PC and it succeeds in about half of the wake-up tries. And it often freezes when (trying) to go into hibernate. The latter one seems to be software related. It happens nearly always when it was started by my backup program - which finishes ok - and then after the specified amount of time tries to hibernate.
And as it is Windows - no one can give any hint of the reason to this. And also as it is Windows, it refuses to give any useful error messages and no one CAN figure out the reason as the source is hidden !
1. Your diatribe isn't relevant to, and certainly not denies, that "Freedom of speech isn't the same thing as freedom from consequences - reasonable or otherwise" is applicable also to China, Soviet and Germany 1939.
2. Freedom is freedom is freedom. It is not the same as "responsibility". Otherwise it wouldn't be two different words.
3. Your undelying assumtpion seems to be that if You can openly say commonly accepted thoughts and facts, you have "freedom of speech". If so, "Freedom of speech" the have no meaning. Commonly accepted thoughts and facts do not need any legal protection, it's the NOT commonly accepted thoughts and facts that needs it. But maybe You simply don't want and/or don't see it good that NOT commonly accepted thoughts and facts are expressed ?
Well, what is Your definition of "alive" then ? Every organ contains cells that are alive when we live. Muscel and particularly skin cells are alive days after we normally are seen as dead. If think about it: what part of Your body can you not afford to lose ? You can live (poorly but) whithout you own heart if you is connected to a hearth-lung apparatus - or with another persons hearth. You can live with your limbs amputated etc. But would You accept the view of you as living when Your brain is removed ? (Supposing that there are means and apparatus availible to make it possible to let the rest of Your body function.)
We have two old space race participants: US and Russia. And at least three new ones: China which is seriously on the way to space, Japan with plans but still no results and India that at least have ambitions.
None of them are offically talking about the real value of a positin in space: Military Power.
Yes, a big part of the motivation is national prestige, but the real critical point is the strategic advantage of space. Whe you have a space station or a base on e g the Moon and also vehicles stationed there with decent transport capacity, you control the earth !
The potentiol tools are of two kinds: One are the same old nuclear weapons, but with a ballistic advantage as they are at the top of the gravity well.
The other one is the killer: A possibility to divert small comets or asteroids towards earth ! And if noone else have similar capabilitys in space, You is the one that sets the rules.
This is certianly China aware of. They probably see USA as their main enemy, if not by any other reason so for the fact that USA is the most powerful (at least w r t military forces) country on earth. And one way to get an advantage is to get a base in space.
Chinas potential motives is certainly also US aware of, at least some intelligency agencies and other political actors in the states. But maybe Bush et al still does not take this seriously.
But I'm suprised that noone (AFAICS) is commenting on this situation. Nevertheless, if China is succesfull in space and start to build a moonbase you will see a new race to space by US and this time with full throttle. If not - then it's time to start learning mandarin...
Actually, the current regime in US is (ideologically) very close to faschism. They:
* Values people by their (economical or political) power. * Powerless and/or poor people is seen as of lower value. * Values violence and threat. * Favors companys before other entitys in the country (eventually excluding the military). * Is extremely "patriotic".
These points also applies on Third Reich and Mussolinis Italia. If You add:
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..to a dictature.
Most of them involves democratic elections.
...3,010,000,000 hits in Google... :)
I'm doing a 60 mile roundtrip to my job every day here in Europe.
And I'm certainly not alone, despite living in the populationvise densiest part of
my country (Stockholm).
If I choose bus, train etc. it would take me more than 4 hours a day.
IBM has a really good sheduler (called "dispatcher") in their Mainframes (z/OS et al), couldn't Linux try a version of that one for a change ?
After all, IBM is running Linux on their Mainframes.
Copperfoil.
"Pastor Niemöller spoke for the thousands and thousands of men like me when he spoke [...] and said that, when the Nazis attacked the Communists, he was a little uneasy, but, after all, he was not a Communist, and so he did nothing; and then they attacked the Socialists, and he was a little uneasier, but, still, he was not a Socialist, and he did nothing; and then the schools, the press, the Jews, and so on, and he was always uneasier, but still he did nothing. And then they attacked the Church, and he was a Churchman, and he did something -- but then it was too late."
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From http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928
No. Not necessarely at least.
When Castro dies, his brother Ramon will take over. And he is a stalinist-type communist.
Fidel himself was not a (pure) communist from the beginning, but as Cuba was isolated by USA after the revolution he had to go to Soviet for help (economical and other).
And by that the regime went to communism.
"Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences."
Then we have Freedom of speech everywhere.
And to add:
The American Economy started with copying and stealing patented (and later also copyrighted) methods, ideas and constructions from European companys and individuals.
The widespread use of slaves also gave US companys an economical advantage.
You see, US' laws didn't complied with European or International laws and even in the cases where it existed applicable laws (in US), the implementation of these were very lax...
Does this remind You of something today...?
Later, when US started to produce and sell products also invented in US, the congress were more interested in patent laws. Etc.
You think so ?
Laws is a way for the majority to regulate and formalize its power. (Over the minority.)
Obviously!
"You have to be careful when you say that a court is "wrong". If a court makes a decision, and it stands, the court is "right" in the most objective sense possible."
Wrong.
"There may be arguments for both sides, but whatever the court decided is a fact."
Also wrong.
...as seen over the last 500 million years.
/ image277.gif over the last 500+ million yers of CO2-levels and temperature You will maybe get the impression that the humanitys CO2-production is not the main climate factor.
Both the temperature and CO2-levels are at an all time low value.
And the correlation between temperature and CO2 is very weak at best.
If You look at the diagram http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/PageMill_Images
I get at least 10 phishes a day (sometimes much more).
And it was a long ago I had any faith in that my eventual reports would have any result in the receiving end.
Besides, with diligent people like You they have probably got hundreds of reports already...
I have a relatively modern stationary PC and it succeeds in about half of the wake-up tries. And it often freezes when (trying) to go into hibernate.
The latter one seems to be software related. It happens nearly always when it was started by my backup program - which finishes ok - and then after the specified amount of time tries to hibernate.
And as it is Windows - no one can give any hint of the reason to this. And also as it is Windows, it refuses to give any useful error messages and no one CAN figure out the reason as the source is hidden !
1. Your diatribe isn't relevant to, and certainly not denies, that "Freedom of speech isn't the same thing as freedom from consequences - reasonable or otherwise" is applicable also to China, Soviet and Germany 1939.
2. Freedom is freedom is freedom. It is not the same as "responsibility". Otherwise it wouldn't be two different words.
3. Your undelying assumtpion seems to be that if You can openly say commonly accepted thoughts and facts, you have "freedom of speech".
If so, "Freedom of speech" the have no meaning. Commonly accepted thoughts and facts do not need any legal protection, it's the NOT commonly accepted thoughts and facts that needs it.
But maybe You simply don't want and/or don't see it good that NOT commonly accepted thoughts and facts are expressed ?
Half-Life
System Shock 2
Half-Life 2
Doom
Quake 2
Local apps works only if your target data is local. If it's not - as it is for most large systems - local apps are meaningless.
How fun is it using Mozilla or IE whithout connection to internet ?
Make that 99%.
NOTHING is a reliable source of information !
(Except Your own scientific experiments - confirmed by other, unrelated, experimentators !)
"Brain-dead" doesn't mean the donor wasn't alive.
Well, what is Your definition of "alive" then ? Every organ contains cells that are alive when we live. Muscel and particularly skin cells are alive days after we normally are seen as dead. If think about it: what part of Your body can you not afford to lose ? You can live (poorly but) whithout you own heart if you is connected to a hearth-lung apparatus - or with another persons hearth. You can live with your limbs amputated etc. But would You accept the view of you as living when Your brain is removed ? (Supposing that there are means and apparatus availible to make it possible to let the rest of Your body function.)
..is that the studie also shows that the rise of temperature comes BEFORE the rise of CO2 !!
Which of course means that the rise of CO2 CANNOT be the cause of the rise of temperature.
* * *
We have two old space race participants: US and Russia. And at least three new ones: China which is seriously on the way to space, Japan with plans but still no results and India that at least have ambitions.
None of them are offically talking about the real value of a positin in space: Military Power.
Yes, a big part of the motivation is national prestige, but the real critical point is the strategic advantage of space. Whe you have a space station or a base on e g the Moon and also vehicles stationed there with decent transport capacity, you control the earth !
The potentiol tools are of two kinds: One are the same old nuclear weapons, but with a ballistic advantage as they are at the top of the gravity well.
The other one is the killer: A possibility to divert small comets or asteroids towards earth ! And if noone else have similar capabilitys in space, You is the one that sets the rules.
This is certianly China aware of. They probably see USA as their main enemy, if not by any other reason so for the fact that USA is the most powerful (at least w r t military forces) country on earth. And one way to get an advantage is to get a base in space.
Chinas potential motives is certainly also US aware of, at least some intelligency agencies and other political actors in the states. But maybe Bush et al still does not take this seriously.
But I'm suprised that noone (AFAICS) is commenting on this situation.
Nevertheless, if China is succesfull in space and start to build a moonbase you will see a new race to space by US and this time with full throttle. If not - then it's time to start learning mandarin...
* * *
Actually, the current regime in US is (ideologically) very close to faschism.
They:
* Values people by their (economical or political) power.
* Powerless and/or poor people is seen as of lower value.
* Values violence and threat.
* Favors companys before other entitys in the country (eventually excluding the military).
* Is extremely "patriotic".
These points also applies on Third Reich and Mussolinis Italia.
If You add:
* Very religious.
- You can apply this on Francos Spain.