What we need to do is have a Manhattan Project type effort to make fusion a reality. No waste. When you turn it off, it is off. We have to get off carbon for our progeny's sake. Ethanol and Biodiesel are worse than what they displace. Wind and Solar are fine but there is nothing like a 1 or 2 or more Giga-Watt power plant.
Some number of years ago, I read a great paper that tried to correlate the increase in mysticism with the take off of technology. The paper suggested that the only way some brains can deal with the advent of technology is in the framework of magic. Could someone please point me to where I can find a copy? The title had something to do with common reference.
You have to ask your self, "If I were a member of anonymous, would it be worth potential prosecution, exposure, fines, and/or imprisonment to out HBGary?"
Pick and choose your battles. As a older man with a family, it would take a pretty lofty goal to take that kind of risk of that battle.
In my younger, brasher days when I had fewer people relying on me, perhaps this would have been worth the risk.
Was I good enough then to pull it off and not get caught? Pull it off? perhaps. Not get caught? Perhaps not.
You make your choices, You take your chances. If the goal is righteous enough then it is worth the punishment if caught.
And if caught, there is always the chance that the jury will be lenient on a hero? (Not likely)
The biggest problem, of course, is interpretation. Just exactly who decides if what is said is "Bad Mouthing?" The extreme examples are real easy.....
"This place sucks and every one is corrupt" = fired.
OK Free Speech not withstanding. We all know that there are supervisors who would interpret
"Like Today Totally sucked at work"
as "This place sucks!" and start disciplinary procedures. It only gets more vague from there.
I hate the "Slippery Slope" fallacy. I do see valuable employee fired because the supervisor wants to fine SOMETHING that they can use to exercise their power.
Willy
Always Remember: If Cass Elliott gave Karen Carpenter half of her sandwich, both would be alive today.
Ok, Maybe I missed something (not unusual) but is not the question about cooked space (file system i.e. ext2, fat, ntfs.....so on and so forth) versus raw space (many databases write their own proprietary format)? Oracle does it, so do other open source databases I believe. Or did my train for thought derail? http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=cooked+space+vs+raw+space+database
I want, need, have needed for years an electric car. I want 100 Klicks per charge. It only has to do maybe 100 Kph max. OK, so I need to re-buy the batteries every five years or so. I do not want a car that goes 0 to 110 Mph in 3 seconds. That is just stupid. It should cost around 15 grand. Where is that car?
The answer is real simple. Outsource it to the Cubans.
1) They need the money. 2) They do not have habeas corpus. You can be interned forever with no trial. So it does not violate any of their laws. 3) We will not have to move the prisoners very far. 4) They have a WELL trained security force. Just ask their civilian population.
There you go. Every thing a growing dictatorship needs.
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No one wants to pay for it.
I really expect another Carrington Event (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_event/) first. No enemy necessary but the results would be the same.
Who care about blinding on coming traffic? I can see just fine!
Would someone explain to me where am I wrong?
I asked a question about a half a million lives?
As long as they were someone else's?
Doolittle's raid had little/no actual strategic value.
The price tag was..... I have read estimates that between 300 thousand to 1 million Chinese paid the ultimate price for getting the crews out.
Not taking away from the valor of the crew. They deserve our undying respect.
But, the price paid for it..... I wonder.
willy
What we need to do is have a Manhattan Project type effort to make fusion a reality. No waste. When you turn it off, it is off. We have to get off carbon for our progeny's sake. Ethanol and Biodiesel are worse than what they displace. Wind and Solar are fine but there is nothing like a 1 or 2 or more Giga-Watt power plant.
I love my Nook.
If we do not get off carbon fuel we selfish parents leave a dying world to our children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren.
Shut Up, Put down the G** D*** Computer and DRIVE! You are controlling a piece of heavy machinery that can do an INSANE amount of damage.
I just want a plain AFFORDABLE electric car. 100 miles a day on an over night charge. $20000 or less. What is so hard about that?
Some number of years ago, I read a great paper that tried to correlate the increase in mysticism with the take off of technology. The paper suggested that the only way some brains can deal with the advent of technology is in the framework of magic.
Could someone please point me to where I can find a copy? The title had something to do with common reference.
All these years I have been doing it the hard way.
Genus! Sheer Genius!
willy
Love PHP. The list of successful php deployments is huge.
OK. Being without electircal power is one thing.
Having to rebuild a lot of tele-comm infrastructure is another.
All the damage aside......
What would the effect of a storm nearing the Carrington size to to nuclear power stations?
Are Nuke plants shielded from EMP?
The best thing for the inside of a man is the outside of a horse.
It should all balance out in the end.
You have to ask your self, "If I were a member of anonymous, would it be worth potential prosecution, exposure, fines, and/or imprisonment to out HBGary?"
Pick and choose your battles. As a older man with a family, it would take a pretty lofty goal to take that kind of risk of that battle.
In my younger, brasher days when I had fewer people relying on me, perhaps this would have been worth the risk.
Was I good enough then to pull it off and not get caught? Pull it off? perhaps. Not get caught? Perhaps not.
You make your choices, You take your chances. If the goal is righteous enough then it is worth the punishment if caught.
And if caught, there is always the chance that the jury will be lenient on a hero? (Not likely)
willy
The biggest problem, of course, is interpretation.
Just exactly who decides if what is said is "Bad Mouthing?"
The extreme examples are real easy.....
"This place sucks and every one is corrupt" = fired.
OK Free Speech not withstanding.
We all know that there are supervisors who would interpret
"Like Today Totally sucked at work"
as "This place sucks!" and start disciplinary procedures.
It only gets more vague from there.
I hate the "Slippery Slope" fallacy. I do see valuable employee
fired because the supervisor wants to fine SOMETHING that
they can use to exercise their power.
Willy
Always Remember: If Cass Elliott gave Karen Carpenter half of her sandwich, both would be alive today.
Ok, Maybe I missed something (not unusual) but is not the question about cooked space (file system i.e. ext2, fat, ntfs.....so on and so forth) versus raw space (many databases write their own proprietary format)? Oracle does it, so do other open source databases I believe. Or did my train for thought derail?
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=cooked+space+vs+raw+space+database
It seems that deb/rpm people don't like/understand Slackware.
I have had FAR more commercial cable fail on a TDR than I have made. I will qualify this to apply to the past decade.
Those high paid morons still do not get it.....
I want, need, have needed for years an electric car. I want 100 Klicks per charge. It only has to do maybe 100 Kph max. OK, so I need to re-buy the batteries every five years or so. I do not want a car that goes 0 to 110 Mph in 3 seconds. That is just stupid. It should cost around 15 grand. Where is that car?
This has pissed me off for years!
And I call myself Willy Everlearn
The answer is real simple. Outsource it to the Cubans.
1) They need the money.
2) They do not have habeas corpus. You can be interned forever with no trial. So it does not violate any of their laws.
3) We will not have to move the prisoners very far.
4) They have a WELL trained security force. Just ask their civilian population.
There you go. Every thing a growing dictatorship needs.
I hurt myself laughing so hard!!!
Feasible != Practical
Replicating the DNA so it can be planted as evidence.
Absolutely the best reading anywhere.......Guaranteed!
http://attrition.org/postal/