No, they get hung up on the sexual acts between two men or two women. That's the major 'ick' factor underneath it all.
I like John Corvino's way of dispelling the 'ick' factor. He says they use arguments like "The parts don't fit." and he just matter of fact says "Oh yes they do."
As a gay systems and telecom person who lives in RI I can tell you that marriage equality will hit either Maine or Rhode Island or both next.
At the last Marriage Equality RI rally I attended (The one just after Prop 8 passed in CA) I was very vocal. When one of the speakers said we'll have marriage equality in RI within the next 3 years I shouted "This YEAR!" I don't think they expected that.
I hope some day we look back at this and realize that religion is bunk.
This is why the initiative process is so dangerous. Even though we don't yet have marriage equality here in RI I'm encouraged that in order to get a law passed or a change made to the state constitution, it needs to start in the legislature.
That's the other thing, people think we live in a Democracy. No such thing is true, we live in a Representative Republic. Our founding fathers weren't stupid. They knew the dangers of the plebes voting. Bread and circuses anyone?
You make a very good point. When I was laid off from my state job I knew they'd suffer.
I made a prediction, that within two months of my leaving their web server would crap out and even though I'd documented the fix and told everyone about it, they'd chalk it up to a hack.
Sure enough that is what happened. It's because of crappy SQL on the MySQL service. MySQL will happily execute bad SQL but over a period of time it corrupts the indexes on the tables and you have to repair the tables. Otherwise MySQL will start sucking up CPU cycles and cause things like Apache to complain loudly.
Plus a lot of other things. There were a crap load of database permissions I'd set to limit the possibility of someone causing damage to the data. I stored the passwords in a password database and even told them the database name and the passwords for it.
Last I heard it took them 8 months to get everything running smoothly. Cost them close to $100K to bring in outsiders to do it.
Like I said, everything I did was documented. Left them my notebooks, numerous emails, wiki's etc.
This part got me: "I have no idea how they cope when they rent a car that's different from their own, get a new toaster, or buy a new light switch: the least little difference completely flummoxes them. Stupid might be a harsh, if not an entirely inaccurate term"
Simple, they all have common controls that are pretty much in the same places. Take a car for example, steering wheel is always in the same place, gas pedal and brake pedal too.
Same with light switches. I think all OS designers should be forced to read Donald Norman's "The Design of Everyday Things" and start from there.
You could always dig a little and find out what the test is actually looking for.
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I'm good at that, I'm a pattern spotter and after the first question or two I can tell exactly what they're looking for.
Not if you organize the law as such to prevent their moving across the border. You know what, we supposedly have open trade but until other nations remove their protectionist policies, we too should have them.
I think Obama mentioned that he wants to yank tax breaks away from companies that export jobs, and give breaks to companies that create jobs here in the U.S.
That's a good first start. But how about we start putting huge tarrifs on shit that should be made in the U.S. but is coming from Poland? Send a clear message that cheap labor isn't the best way to make money.
I worked for the AG's office our routine method of destroying a drive was to repeatedly hum it at a solid brick wall until all you could hear was rattling pieces inside.
As a general rule cops aren't the most intelligent people. If they were how many would actually stay on the force?
Sure, they're a little bit smarter than most criminals and forensic technology has helped them out a lot. But the common street cop, he might know the people in his neighborhood or beat, but he doesn't have the cognitive abilities to understand that some things aren't criminal activities.
I know the difference. A mirror is simply to protect against hardware failure in most cases.
Higher RAID levels offer faster read/write throughput while encapsulating some form of error correction to contend with hardware failures.
But you must, must, must do regular backups of data. At my last job we were so paranoid we replicated databases to other servers and did daily backup dumps of all databases to tape.
There were some databases that go backed up every 15 minutes, those tended to be more transaction based databases. We used an open source product called Rsnapshot to do the backups.
My doc tells me I'm a CCR5 Delta 32 mutant too. That said, this is very interesting.
In a bone marrow transplant first you have to kill off the existing bone marrow. That means you deny the virus the ability to reproduce and by replacing it with CCR5 Delta 32 marrow, it can't invade the cells.
Apparently the CCR5 Delta 32 mutation is pretty common in European populations like Ireland, England, Italy etc. It came from the time of the plagues, it conferred immunity to the bubonic strains.
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At one job we used OpenLDAP for many thing, like authentication on Plone/Zope, or for email authentication with Qmail.
We kept an aging NT4 server for login authentication on Windows. I kept pushing to setup Samba and use LDAP but nobody wanted to guinea pig it.
So a year or so ago they spent over $250,000 on new servers and windows licenses. Dumbasses.
This is why I've said the credit has to be between $10,000 and $20,000.
Sure there are some in China that are just fine with the government as it exists. Keep em' stupid and happy is the goal of most government.
But then you get the malcontents. That is why a) Taiwan and even Hong Kong exist and b) There are a hell of a lot of Chinese in the U.S.
I wouldn't necessarily have given you a funny tag, but an insightful one. Many wireless routers when running a hacked OS will boost their power.
There's an easier way though, just build a Yagi with a wide beam spread and mount it at the back corner of where you need to get wireless into.
No, they get hung up on the sexual acts between two men or two women. That's the major 'ick' factor underneath it all.
I like John Corvino's way of dispelling the 'ick' factor. He says they use arguments like "The parts don't fit." and he just matter of fact says "Oh yes they do."
As a gay systems and telecom person who lives in RI I can tell you that marriage equality will hit either Maine or Rhode Island or both next.
At the last Marriage Equality RI rally I attended (The one just after Prop 8 passed in CA) I was very vocal. When one of the speakers said we'll have marriage equality in RI within the next 3 years I shouted "This YEAR!" I don't think they expected that.
I hope some day we look back at this and realize that religion is bunk.
This is why the initiative process is so dangerous. Even though we don't yet have marriage equality here in RI I'm encouraged that in order to get a law passed or a change made to the state constitution, it needs to start in the legislature.
That's the other thing, people think we live in a Democracy. No such thing is true, we live in a Representative Republic. Our founding fathers weren't stupid. They knew the dangers of the plebes voting. Bread and circuses anyone?
You make a very good point. When I was laid off from my state job I knew they'd suffer.
I made a prediction, that within two months of my leaving their web server would crap out and even though I'd documented the fix and told everyone about it, they'd chalk it up to a hack.
Sure enough that is what happened. It's because of crappy SQL on the MySQL service. MySQL will happily execute bad SQL but over a period of time it corrupts the indexes on the tables and you have to repair the tables. Otherwise MySQL will start sucking up CPU cycles and cause things like Apache to complain loudly.
Plus a lot of other things. There were a crap load of database permissions I'd set to limit the possibility of someone causing damage to the data. I stored the passwords in a password database and even told them the database name and the passwords for it.
Last I heard it took them 8 months to get everything running smoothly. Cost them close to $100K to bring in outsiders to do it.
Like I said, everything I did was documented. Left them my notebooks, numerous emails, wiki's etc.
This part got me: "I have no idea how they cope when they rent a car that's different from their own, get a new toaster, or buy a new light switch: the least little difference completely flummoxes them. Stupid might be a harsh, if not an entirely inaccurate term" Simple, they all have common controls that are pretty much in the same places. Take a car for example, steering wheel is always in the same place, gas pedal and brake pedal too. Same with light switches. I think all OS designers should be forced to read Donald Norman's "The Design of Everyday Things" and start from there.
You may not own a stun gun but disconnect their cable from your Catalyst and shoot 120VAC down the line. That'll fry it.
Next mission to Mars should focus on that and should take along a drilling platform. May as well answer the question.
The elderly. Seriously, everything is either about the children or the elderly. Anyone between the ages of say 20 and 60 you're on your own.
You could always dig a little and find out what the test is actually looking for.
br. I'm good at that, I'm a pattern spotter and after the first question or two I can tell exactly what they're looking for.
Not if you organize the law as such to prevent their moving across the border. You know what, we supposedly have open trade but until other nations remove their protectionist policies, we too should have them.
I think Obama mentioned that he wants to yank tax breaks away from companies that export jobs, and give breaks to companies that create jobs here in the U.S.
That's a good first start. But how about we start putting huge tarrifs on shit that should be made in the U.S. but is coming from Poland? Send a clear message that cheap labor isn't the best way to make money.
I worked for the AG's office our routine method of destroying a drive was to repeatedly hum it at a solid brick wall until all you could hear was rattling pieces inside.
We opened one up once, what a bloody mess.
I'm just going from a user perspective. I see no real speed improvement with Vista. That said, yes I was being mildly sarcastic.
The Microsoft ban on hard numbers in reviews in annoying.
As a general rule cops aren't the most intelligent people. If they were how many would actually stay on the force?
Sure, they're a little bit smarter than most criminals and forensic technology has helped them out a lot. But the common street cop, he might know the people in his neighborhood or beat, but he doesn't have the cognitive abilities to understand that some things aren't criminal activities.
I'm sorry but the ambiguous scoring methodology makes me very suspicious.
Actual times, and weighting shown would have done much the mitigate my suspicion.
Having used both XP and Vista, I can say without a doubt that XP comes out as the winner.
I know the difference. A mirror is simply to protect against hardware failure in most cases.
Higher RAID levels offer faster read/write throughput while encapsulating some form of error correction to contend with hardware failures.
But you must, must, must do regular backups of data. At my last job we were so paranoid we replicated databases to other servers and did daily backup dumps of all databases to tape.
There were some databases that go backed up every 15 minutes, those tended to be more transaction based databases. We used an open source product called Rsnapshot to do the backups.
Except the rate was much lower, about .002 per mile. Still they wouldn't repeal the fuel tax, in fact they'd increase it.
But with alternative fuel vehicles they're going to have to figure out some way to tax.
Hopefully they'll be white or near white LED lights since I cannot stand that ugly orange cast of the HPS lights.
In most red wines. I've been drinking an awful lot of reds lately. So if my lifespan were 72 years that means I'm pushing for 90 now. Yippee!
How generally easy it is to spoof a mobile number, I think I'll pass on this Lenovo trick.
My doc tells me I'm a CCR5 Delta 32 mutant too. That said, this is very interesting.
In a bone marrow transplant first you have to kill off the existing bone marrow. That means you deny the virus the ability to reproduce and by replacing it with CCR5 Delta 32 marrow, it can't invade the cells.
Apparently the CCR5 Delta 32 mutation is pretty common in European populations like Ireland, England, Italy etc. It came from the time of the plagues, it conferred immunity to the bubonic strains.