You are definitely right: when installing with a 5kb internet connection, it can take even a week, depending on your package selection.
I remember that around 19... I spent a week installing Slackware, 'cause I used only one floppy, and went to the uni. to load it up, then home to continue the install...
They have their holidays: Saturday and Sunday (oh, well, maybe some of the MDs don't). Computer programmers get holidays if they work for Google or some other high-income company, otherwise it's punch keys till you drop/quit/get fired.
So, you're doing tissue culture on potatoes (when planting for the sake of getting a crop for sale, not when experimenting with mutagens for the sake of getting new varieties) ? If so, you should talk with your accountant immediately.
How about grape vines, raspberries, black berries, strawberries, roses and so many other plants ?
you're right about the "primary positive" of a nuclear submarine, but modern steam engines/turbines are still cool:) and have nothing in common (but the steam) with the original "steam engine" of the early XIXth century; modern steam engine look more like the jet turbines used in supersonic airplanes than like the old "piston" engines.
So, the Ottomans, from their Anatolia base, fought with Hungarians, Austrians or Russians in the Balkans for centuries... how does this make the fault of those living in the Balkans?
... massive electromagnetic interference in low frequencies (tens of Hz) that can and do affect the human body and pretty much everything else nearby---interference that has been associated with a number of serious health problems, including cancer...
how is this different from EM waves emitted by normal electrical lines (also in the tens of Hz), or by a plain car alternator, or a very green wind-turbine-powered generator?
No, evaluate the loss, evaluate what you might recover, then speak with a competent lawyer. Good advice might ensue.
A couple of years ago I was under attack (some script tried to guess ssh accounts on a server). I got the IPs, looked them up and it was a "Electrical Engineering" department at a US university. I mailed detailed info to the guy in the whois result, nothing: the bot kept pounding. I mailed the department, and got nothing, too. In the end, at the advice of a lawyer, I mailed the legal affairs dept. of that university and in a few hours all the IPs I was attacked from had freshly installed Linux-es answering on them.
A syn flood happened from another source, so I contacted the ISPs responsible for those addresses and had the word "lawyers" following snippets of logs. The attack stopped promptly.
Going to Romania and hunting somebody down: might work if you're an US citizen... it seems US citizen can pretty much do whatever they want in Romania: the are sent home for trial, and there they get cleared of all charges... happened to a marine who killed a pop singer while driving drunk.
"1. Make sure new/repaired roads get a more reflective/whiter surface."
why don't just shoot the drivers... car crashes caused by drivers blinded by reflective road surfaces would cause fires and put more CO2 into the atmosphere.
planting forests vs. roads... I have once helped plant a forest, though a small one. I can't imagine that being possible without roads, since it's a lot of work and those planting the forest need food, water, a place to sleep nearby, the young trees need to be transported and watered etc.
"We forgot that you could raise a family on blue collar wages."
You forgot that in the golden '50s raising a family did not include air conditioning, babysitters, or "having fun" (that was extra, and mostly illicit... honest folks had to work), quite often included polio, and a simple flu was often fatal to the elderly and the very young.
A retreat from the Jetsons equals a slow and painful retreat into the neolithic. We got a temporary, 12000 years long, break from weather, hunger and disease, and we'd better use it for getting fast to the "Jetsons" stage, otherwise the window of opportunity might close (Ice Age, asteroid, bird flu... whatever fits the bill).
exactly: if Gaia existed, it would not be "Mother Nature", but an evil neighbor that already killed your dog and now is out to get you too... any farmer knows that, since they get out in the open even when they're not jogging.
"It's entirely possible that the Earth has been 'dying' on a geological time scale long before we screwed it up."
You, sir, are right. The dumb and greedy trees were trapping CO2 underground for millions of years as various carbon-based molecules, depriving their offspring of subsistence, until the lush Carboniferous forests were replaced by scrawny thickets, and the glorious beasts that fed on the bounty of the ancient forests were forced to evolve into pale shadows that are... oh, the disgrace... that are forced feed their babies with bodily secretions drawn from whatever fat they managed to store during the breaks they get from the inclement caprices of a CO2 depleted atmosphere. As of late, Gaia managed to find a solution: she pushed some of these... mammals, for the lack of a more polite word, to dig up the hidden treasures of carbon and return them where they belong as CO2.
======== I side with the seals and against the polar bears
"Perhaps it's also time to revive those areas"... Have you asked the inhabitants of Western Europe about that ? There won't be much dry land not plagued by mosquitoes after that, except maybe in Spain, Italy and Greece. Or do you propose to let them emigrate to USA ?
you're mixing terms: fascist "corporatism" was very regulated capitalism: Mussolini fantasized about planned economy before long before Stalin... "corporation" in US means something very different from "corporation" in 1930's Europe. Mussolini's "corporatism" was "planned economy with privately owned companies"... quite different from "unregulated capitalism".
We don't have wars because most of the states that could have been interested in starting one either have US garrisons or have US garrisons nearby.
We got our US garrison recently, and by Jove!, they pay rent, which none of the others pretenders to world domination (who now are garrisoned by US soldiers themselves) have ever done... so guess on which side are we. As long as US will kick the unruly tribes hard, and be at least moderately polite with the foederati, wars will happen only beyond the limes.
Submarine warfare used to be illegal. Air bombardments used to be illegal. Gas attacks used to be illegal. The "threat or use of military force in international relations" used to be illegal for a short while (remember Briand and Kellogg, the two guys with the most acute sense of humor in the world ?). Hell, crossbows used to be illegal. I think even pointy rocks (as opposed to rounded rocks) used to be illegal when rock throwing was high tech.
Permanent blinding weapons don't make sense: you have to take care of their victims until final victory, and you can bet that before you can use that kind of weapons for a second time everybody that matters will have Vaul-tec glasses.
Having a weapon system does not mean necessarily using it, and the only thing that should be illegal is crass hypocrisy.
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You are definitely right: when installing with a 5kb internet connection, it can take even a week, depending on your package selection.
I remember that around 19... I spent a week installing Slackware, 'cause I used only one floppy, and went to the uni. to load it up, then home to continue the install ...
They have their holidays: Saturday and Sunday (oh, well, maybe some of the MDs don't). Computer programmers get holidays if they work for Google or some other high-income company, otherwise it's punch keys till you drop/quit/get fired.
So, you're doing tissue culture on potatoes (when planting for the sake of getting a crop for sale, not when experimenting with mutagens for the sake of getting new varieties) ? If so, you should talk with your accountant immediately.
How about grape vines, raspberries, black berries, strawberries, roses and so many other plants ?
you're right about the "primary positive" of a nuclear submarine, but modern steam engines/turbines are still cool :) and have nothing in common (but the steam) with the original "steam engine" of the early XIXth century; modern steam engine look more like the jet turbines used in supersonic airplanes than like the old "piston" engines.
Glorified ? How about "highly sophisticated" ? Even a nuclear submarine is powered by a "glorified steam engine".
Vienna is not in the Balkans.
So, the Ottomans, from their Anatolia base, fought with Hungarians, Austrians or Russians in the Balkans for centuries ... how does this make the fault of those living in the Balkans?
well, car alternator 3 feet in front of me vs. large antenna 2000 feet away ... mumble-pi-mumble-square root ... oh, I'll worry about the alternator.
the processor is a P4 ... why worry about the power consumption of the AGP card ?
how is this different from EM waves emitted by normal electrical lines (also in the tens of Hz), or by a plain car alternator, or a very green wind-turbine-powered generator?
No, evaluate the loss, evaluate what you might recover, then speak with a competent lawyer. Good advice might ensue.
A couple of years ago I was under attack (some script tried to guess ssh accounts on a server). I got the IPs, looked them up and it was a "Electrical Engineering" department at a US university. I mailed detailed info to the guy in the whois result, nothing: the bot kept pounding. I mailed the department, and got nothing, too. In the end, at the advice of a lawyer, I mailed the legal affairs dept. of that university and in a few hours all the IPs I was attacked from had freshly installed Linux-es answering on them.
A syn flood happened from another source, so I contacted the ISPs responsible for those addresses and had the word "lawyers" following snippets of logs. The attack stopped promptly.
Going to Romania and hunting somebody down: might work if you're an US citizen ... it seems US citizen can pretty much do whatever they want in Romania: the are sent home for trial, and there they get cleared of all charges ... happened to a marine who killed a pop singer while driving drunk.
+ 1 funny, -1 accurate
"1. Make sure new/repaired roads get a more reflective/whiter surface."
why don't just shoot the drivers ... car crashes caused by drivers blinded by reflective road surfaces would cause fires and put more CO2 into the atmosphere.
planting forests vs. roads ... I have once helped plant a forest, though a small one. I can't imagine that being possible without roads, since it's a lot of work and those planting the forest need food, water, a place to sleep nearby, the young trees need to be transported and watered etc.
"We forgot that you could raise a family on blue collar wages."
You forgot that in the golden '50s raising a family did not include air conditioning, babysitters, or "having fun" (that was extra, and mostly illicit ... honest folks had to work), quite often included polio, and a simple flu was often fatal to the elderly and the very young.
A retreat from the Jetsons equals a slow and painful retreat into the neolithic. We got a temporary, 12000 years long, break from weather, hunger and disease, and we'd better use it for getting fast to the "Jetsons" stage, otherwise the window of opportunity might close (Ice Age, asteroid, bird flu ... whatever fits the bill).
exactly: if Gaia existed, it would not be "Mother Nature", but an evil neighbor that already killed your dog and now is out to get you too ... any farmer knows that, since they get out in the open even when they're not jogging.
"It's entirely possible that the Earth has been 'dying' on a geological time scale long before we screwed it up."
You, sir, are right. The dumb and greedy trees were trapping CO2 underground for millions of years as various carbon-based molecules, depriving their offspring of subsistence, until the lush Carboniferous forests were replaced by scrawny thickets, and the glorious beasts that fed on the bounty of the ancient forests were forced to evolve into pale shadows that are ... oh, the disgrace ... that are forced feed their babies with bodily secretions drawn from whatever fat they managed to store during the breaks they get from the inclement caprices of a CO2 depleted atmosphere. As of late, Gaia managed to find a solution: she pushed some of these ... mammals, for the lack of a more polite word, to dig up the hidden treasures of carbon and return them where they belong as CO2.
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I side with the seals and against the polar bears
"Perhaps it's also time to revive those areas" ... Have you asked the inhabitants of Western Europe about that ? There won't be much dry land not plagued by mosquitoes after that, except maybe in Spain, Italy and Greece. Or do you propose to let them emigrate to USA ?
yeah ... like they say, if a species wants to survive, it'd better evolve fast into something humans find tasty.
How many times did IBM use software patents against a small company ? ... I have no idea, that's why I'm asking ...
you're mixing terms: fascist "corporatism" was very regulated capitalism: Mussolini fantasized about planned economy before long before Stalin ... "corporation" in US means something very different from "corporation" in 1930's Europe. Mussolini's "corporatism" was "planned economy with privately owned companies" ... quite different from "unregulated capitalism".
no need for white paint or mirrors ... smoke or dust will do the job just fine.
Take the Balkan wars. They've been murdering each other for centuries in the most gruesome possible ways ...
Let's not take the Balkan wars, since they've not been murdering each other for centuries, only for a couple of years around 1912 and 1913.
Let's take an European history book instead of watching Discovery Channel.
We don't have wars because most of the states that could have been interested in starting one either have US garrisons or have US garrisons nearby.
We got our US garrison recently, and by Jove!, they pay rent, which none of the others pretenders to world domination (who now are garrisoned by US soldiers themselves) have ever done ... so guess on which side are we. As long as US will kick the unruly tribes hard, and be at least moderately polite with the foederati, wars will happen only beyond the limes.
Submarine warfare used to be illegal. Air bombardments used to be illegal. Gas attacks used to be illegal. The "threat or use of military force in international relations" used to be illegal for a short while (remember Briand and Kellogg, the two guys with the most acute sense of humor in the world ?). Hell, crossbows used to be illegal. I think even pointy rocks (as opposed to rounded rocks) used to be illegal when rock throwing was high tech.
Permanent blinding weapons don't make sense: you have to take care of their victims until final victory, and you can bet that before you can use that kind of weapons for a second time everybody that matters will have Vaul-tec glasses.
Having a weapon system does not mean necessarily using it, and the only thing that should be illegal is crass hypocrisy.