There must be something really scaring below the thin surface of the common US citizen (or maybe under every "first world" one), something deeply wrong with a lot of people, whose first instinct is to go arming themselves as it was not a catastrophe, but some kind of Apocalypse B Movie.
It is entirely expected. We in America know how tight the screws have been cranked on the extremely poor in this country - and I don't blame people for arming themselves.
This is America. Witness and behold - strip the sitcoms and soaps, the hairpeices and dental work, the glitz and glamor, the Hollywood and Madison Avenue, and all the hyper-surrealism of American media away, and this is what you get.
Poor people doing what they need to survive, in a country that has been working for a century to destroy civil society. America has no civil society left - and so we descend into madness. In most areas of the world, there is a sense of local community, and that community can survive, even with the trappings of "culture" demolished simply by still relying on the relationships of the people involved.
Naturally privacy advocates are decrying the move by stating that unlike electronic toll passes, these new plates will not be anonymous.
Who the f**k thinks that things like the EZ-Pass in the US Northeast is anonymous? Speaking as someone who works for a company that has them on our entire (1800+ vehicle) fleet, keeping track of the serial numbers assigned to each vehicle is a real pain.
Plus, they're kinda connected to your BANK ACCOUNT!!! I dunno if the OP is trying to troll or not, but nobody that knew sh*t about toll tag systems would say something like that.
Our new buses are the exact same - designed in CAD - no prototype phase - first production models were sold.
And they are shit.
Flimsy, awkward, handle like a drunken whale, weak brakes, and parts you *physically cannot get to*.
There is a very good reason for prototypes - you get to see what breaks *before* you invest in production tooling and large material and parts purchases.
This was already known in metallurgy - metals that fail near their melting point have distinctive micro-structures where certain regions inside the metal have melted.
OTOH, It's been a while since I've cracked a metallurgy text...
Um, the Japanese didn't have a real fascist movement in the same way as Germany and Italy did - the people in the Japanese government that planned the Imperial expansion were good old-fashioned colonialists.
Concider that England and Spain did equally foul things in their colonial conquests.
Oh, and making the citizens of a country responsible for that country's actions is abhorrent. To re-phrase this, should we recognize 9-11 as being justified because of our mistreatment of the Veitnamese? Should I hold everyone in any country responsible for the decisions of a small elite?
BTW - no country could ever hold American soil for long. Don't doubt that. All this talk of "What if Hitler had won?" is utter bullshit - the Axis armies combined couldn't have held New England, much less the entire country. We have a long and proud tradition of being a heavily armed and cranky populace - not the best group of people to try and subdue.
Also, the war was over before we dropped the bombs. The bombs were dropped to show the world the dawning of a new age - the age of Pax Americana.
If you want to be taken seriously and treated professionally where you work, unless it's a small company run by other geeks, you need to dress and look clean and professional. It's still a fact that people judge you based on how you look, and if you're in an office environment surrounded by people in slacks and shirts and other professional attire, you'll look very out of place with a bunch of piercings or tatoos. What it says to coworkers is that you don't care enough about the job to even APPEAR professional.
And what if you are doing, say, a website for a tatoo shop? Or working with an ad company that is looking for something to "appeal to the youth"? Banker chic isn't going to fly there, bucko. A pierced-and-tatooed person automatically has credibility in the eyes of someone who doesn't sport the same attire.
To those people I say "Grow up!" Your days as a rebellious member of some imagined counter-culture pretty much end when you're out on your own making your way in the world.
And if everyone thought this way, we'd be singing "God Save The Queen" in America to this day.
"Female homosexuality is less common and women who self-label as homosexuals are a lot more likely to have children than gay men. So the overall impact on fitness is less. The distributions are different too: you find a lot more men who are Kinsey 6s, who aren't interested in women at all, than bisexual men: the distribution is J-shaped. It's the other way around in women, more bisexuals than Simon-pure lesbians. I think the two phenomena have different causes: mostly I've thought about male homosexuality."
Heh, speaking as the child of a lesbian, who grew up in and around the gay community, this guy has no clue what lesbians are, or how they respond to social pressure. <cluebat>Women don't need to acheive orgasm to have children</cluebat> - plus, most people who haven't spent time around the gay community wouldn't think of a "single mom" as anything else.
The biggest problem is, he's taking those self-identifying gay people to be representative of the whole population - a lot of gays don't see their sexual orientation as being the defining issue in their lives. They are more likely to be closeted (or at least discreet), making them less visible, especially to an academic.
I'd be less worried if I hadn't seen goofier work come out of universities...
But it can't catch everything - the 1394 bus was screwed in 2.6.11. There are a lot of regressions that show up - and even that healthy cluster of systems will not show every problem.
Sound issues? Older network and SCSI cards? There are a lot of drivers that break, and no one notices it because there is nobody with the hardware testing the -rc or -mm kernels.
Wouldn't it make more sense to package these tools for someone to install on their collection of oddball equipment, and assist in the debugging/testing?
I really can't see anyone organizing Linux folks on anything other than a technical level. Too diverse, too independent, too spread out across the globe, too focused on technical issues, too apolitical probably.
I'm a union steward. I can tell you from experience, a lot of people who join unions don't care about politics - they just want to get a tyrant boss off their back, and make enough money to feed their kids, and maybe have a decent retirement and health insurance. There would have to be locals, in any case - the few national locals (like the one I'm in) tend to have less power, and less cohesiveness. It's far better to have union officials that deal with a certain geographic region - saves on travel costs, if nothing else.
TFA reads like the kind of intellectual thuggery that is traditional when the servants of power try and shut down a popular movement. And the open-source movement is definitely not a union (speaking as someone involved in both).
Why is Microsoft spending so much effort and money engaged in a publicity campaign (spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt) against Linux? Is this a standard business practice?
It is. Especially if you are fighting an innovator. And you are an entrenched industry giant. Ever see the movie Tucker?
Most of the "learner PC's" I've built for friends who needed something to hack on came from productive dumpster-diving excursions. And the PSU is what's dead often enough that I have a small stack of new ones (still in the box) in my closet right now...
Err... The critical systems are on a seperate network AFAIK. But engineer's workstations, time clocks, email servers, etc. are on internal networks, connected to the Internet through a fitewall, and they are as vulnerable to a worm as any Internet-exposed system.
BTW - serial cables are as vulnerable as anything else - the only safe way to move data is removable media, mounted noexec. SCSI racks/DAT tapes (in the old days) or FireWire drives.
That's one big stick, and since it could go into game consoles, the x86-compatibility issue... isn't.
Same with *nix workstations - Linux and BSD will compile on ia64 already, and it's not that bad a chip. It'd have to be reworked, but probably no more than the Pentium 4 mobile chips were.
OTOH, they are far behind the curve - IBM already has the experiece with the GameCube, and Intel didn't have much to do with the XBox (and the XBox 2 isn't likely to have a x86 processor, anyway).
I don't think Intel wants to be in the game system market. Low margin, high volume, and not something you can make more money by selling upgraded processors in.
The best thing about this, IMHO, is screwball steups.
Under a normal load, perhaps, the standard schedulers work fine, but with some < 1% kind of setup, it will probably show much greater improvement.
The place where any GA shines is when it has a large number of generations - perfect for stick-in-a-corner-and-run kind of machines. Not something that I would put on a machine with wildly varying loads - it'd be impossible for it to stabilize, and depending on the time between generations, you could have some nasty harmonics develop.
But for clusters/backup servers/batch-processing systems, it's great.
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It is entirely expected. We in America know how tight the screws have been cranked on the extremely poor in this country - and I don't blame people for arming themselves.
This is America. Witness and behold - strip the sitcoms and soaps, the hairpeices and dental work, the glitz and glamor, the Hollywood and Madison Avenue, and all the hyper-surrealism of American media away, and this is what you get.
Poor people doing what they need to survive, in a country that has been working for a century to destroy civil society. America has no civil society left - and so we descend into madness. In most areas of the world, there is a sense of local community, and that community can survive, even with the trappings of "culture" demolished simply by still relying on the relationships of the people involved.
Not so in America.
Uh, what cave have you been living in? Or are you using three-year-old linux to view it?
I watched it in FC4 with no problems...
Farking troll...
Who the f**k thinks that things like the EZ-Pass in the US Northeast is anonymous? Speaking as someone who works for a company that has them on our entire (1800+ vehicle) fleet, keeping track of the serial numbers assigned to each vehicle is a real pain.
Plus, they're kinda connected to your BANK ACCOUNT!!! I dunno if the OP is trying to troll or not, but nobody that knew sh*t about toll tag systems would say something like that.
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Or reality.
Fedora Core 4 has an update to zlib - ran yum as soon as I saw this article :)
Our new buses are the exact same - designed in CAD - no prototype phase - first production models were sold.
And they are shit.
Flimsy, awkward, handle like a drunken whale, weak brakes, and parts you *physically cannot get to*.
There is a very good reason for prototypes - you get to see what breaks *before* you invest in production tooling and large material and parts purchases.
They're gonna lose their ass on that...
Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex (the series)
Jin Roh - The Wolf Brigade (kinda violent, though)
Trigun (shows the combination of humor and seriousness that anime switches between rapidly)
Spirited Away (advertised as kid's material, but one of the best fantastic movies I've seen in a while)
Cowboy Bebop (legendary series - great jazz, wild characters, shared-world storytelling, can't say enough good things about it)
Patlabor 1 & 2 (some of the best politically-aware anime I've seen - and giant robots!)
Those are my reccomendations - but I'm biased towards cyberpunk, big f*#king robots and good fantasy.
This was already known in metallurgy - metals that fail near their melting point have distinctive micro-structures where certain regions inside the metal have melted.
OTOH, It's been a while since I've cracked a metallurgy text...
Makes it hard to track script k1dd13z, but it's worth it - especially in repressive countries, or when whistleblowers want to get information out.
Anonymity is important - and those cops are most likely going to have a whole bunch of nothing.
P. S. I work with Indymedia, so I know a little of what I say.
One of the most disturbingly funny movies ever made.
Ranks right on up there with the Rocky Horror Picture Show for sheer... ummmm.... merry perversion?
Um, the Japanese didn't have a real fascist movement in the same way as Germany and Italy did - the people in the Japanese government that planned the Imperial expansion were good old-fashioned colonialists.
Concider that England and Spain did equally foul things in their colonial conquests.
Oh, and making the citizens of a country responsible for that country's actions is abhorrent. To re-phrase this, should we recognize 9-11 as being justified because of our mistreatment of the Veitnamese? Should I hold everyone in any country responsible for the decisions of a small elite?
BTW - no country could ever hold American soil for long. Don't doubt that. All this talk of "What if Hitler had won?" is utter bullshit - the Axis armies combined couldn't have held New England, much less the entire country. We have a long and proud tradition of being a heavily armed and cranky populace - not the best group of people to try and subdue.
Also, the war was over before we dropped the bombs. The bombs were dropped to show the world the dawning of a new age - the age of Pax Americana.
And what if you are doing, say, a website for a tatoo shop? Or working with an ad company that is looking for something to "appeal to the youth"? Banker chic isn't going to fly there, bucko. A pierced-and-tatooed person automatically has credibility in the eyes of someone who doesn't sport the same attire.
To those people I say "Grow up!" Your days as a rebellious member of some imagined counter-culture pretty much end when you're out on your own making your way in the world.
And if everyone thought this way, we'd be singing "God Save The Queen" in America to this day.
This guy is a wingnut.
From the interview:
"Female homosexuality is less common and women who self-label as homosexuals are a lot more likely to have children than gay men. So the overall impact on fitness is less. The distributions are different too: you find a lot more men who are Kinsey 6s, who aren't interested in women at all, than bisexual men: the distribution is J-shaped. It's the other way around in women, more bisexuals than Simon-pure lesbians. I think the two phenomena have different causes: mostly I've thought about male homosexuality."
Heh, speaking as the child of a lesbian, who grew up in and around the gay community, this guy has no clue what lesbians are, or how they respond to social pressure. <cluebat>Women don't need to acheive orgasm to have children</cluebat> - plus, most people who haven't spent time around the gay community wouldn't think of a "single mom" as anything else.
The biggest problem is, he's taking those self-identifying gay people to be representative of the whole population - a lot of gays don't see their sexual orientation as being the defining issue in their lives. They are more likely to be closeted (or at least discreet), making them less visible, especially to an academic.
I'd be less worried if I hadn't seen goofier work come out of universities...
But it can't catch everything - the 1394 bus was screwed in 2.6.11. There are a lot of regressions that show up - and even that healthy cluster of systems will not show every problem.
Sound issues? Older network and SCSI cards? There are a lot of drivers that break, and no one notices it because there is nobody with the hardware testing the -rc or -mm kernels.
Wouldn't it make more sense to package these tools for someone to install on their collection of oddball equipment, and assist in the debugging/testing?
Where's the ARM, MIPS, and SH?
I'm a union steward. I can tell you from experience, a lot of people who join unions don't care about politics - they just want to get a tyrant boss off their back, and make enough money to feed their kids, and maybe have a decent retirement and health insurance. There would have to be locals, in any case - the few national locals (like the one I'm in) tend to have less power, and less cohesiveness. It's far better to have union officials that deal with a certain geographic region - saves on travel costs, if nothing else.
TFA reads like the kind of intellectual thuggery that is traditional when the servants of power try and shut down a popular movement. And the open-source movement is definitely not a union (speaking as someone involved in both).
It is. Especially if you are fighting an innovator. And you are an entrenched industry giant. Ever see the movie Tucker?
Most of the "learner PC's" I've built for friends who needed something to hack on came from productive dumpster-diving excursions. And the PSU is what's dead often enough that I have a small stack of new ones (still in the box) in my closet right now...
Or RTFA...
BTW - serial cables are as vulnerable as anything else - the only safe way to move data is removable media, mounted noexec. SCSI racks/DAT tapes (in the old days) or FireWire drives.
Same with *nix workstations - Linux and BSD will compile on ia64 already, and it's not that bad a chip. It'd have to be reworked, but probably no more than the Pentium 4 mobile chips were.
OTOH, they are far behind the curve - IBM already has the experiece with the GameCube, and Intel didn't have much to do with the XBox (and the XBox 2 isn't likely to have a x86 processor, anyway).
I don't think Intel wants to be in the game system market. Low margin, high volume, and not something you can make more money by selling upgraded processors in.
True, but flamewars are sometimes the only way to hash things out, provided they don't drag out too long.
BitKeeper is a good tool - just sacreligious. And that's why some concider him a peacemaker, and others concider him something less charitable.
Under a normal load, perhaps, the standard schedulers work fine, but with some < 1% kind of setup, it will probably show much greater improvement.
The place where any GA shines is when it has a large number of generations - perfect for stick-in-a-corner-and-run kind of machines. Not something that I would put on a machine with wildly varying loads - it'd be impossible for it to stabilize, and depending on the time between generations, you could have some nasty harmonics develop.
But for clusters/backup servers/batch-processing systems, it's great.
Heh - ever tried doing XBox Live through a router? I even downgraded my Linksys to the factory firmware to no avail.
Ah well, at least my *nix boxen are better behaved.