No, they're doing it because terrorists in more than one country (e.g., FARC in Colombia, Taliban in Afghanistan) raise money by controlling the drug trade.
Dude. Wake up. The CIA is one of the major players in the drug trade. Crazy conspiracy theory? No. Just a very short memory on the part of most Americans. Recall The Iran Contra Hearings? It was testified on TV before congress that our government sells drugs to support terrorist countries. This is a demonstrated fact.
And the Taliban, for fucks sake ?!? They instituted the death penalty for Opium cultivation , or don't you remember that either.
Also, the war on some drugs causes massive amounts of money to go to police and prisons to incarcerate Americans who choose to cultivate a freaking plant. It's *very* profitable to have drugs illegal since the government gets paid twice.
Buying an SUV does far more to support terrorism than buying drugs does. Where do the terrorists get most of their money? Oil.
Please make at least a token effort to do your patriotic duty and inform yourself rather than spewing lies that any bit of common sense reveals for what they are.
And, in the UK just as elsewhere, almost all their readers, listeners and viewers live in a Microsoft world. Why go off an a tangent about EULA's when it is a credible assumption that's of interest to only a tiny fraction of their audience.?
Because it is not a tangent and it is critically important to anybody who uses MS software that if they want to patch their machine they have to give a convicted criminal organization free reign over their machine.
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(see the pyramids of Egypt: built completely with manual labor, and we still aren't completely sure how they did it
So, how do you know it was all manual labor if we don't know how they did it?
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they won because the french were (and still are) fucking morons.
Come on now. Don't forget that the French are backstabbing pussies too.
By your definition, sand is a liquid which it is clearly not.
I think you're responding to the wrong comment. I didn't define liquid at all. I defined a fluid as a liquid or a gas, which I believe is accurate at least at the lay level.
I never even mentioned sand, nor would it fit my definition of fluid as sand is solid.
Woo Hoo! I remember this one from freshman chemistry. Fluids flow, man. Fluids are liquids *and* gases. The major macro-difference between liquids and gases is that gases are compressible.
It's a popular myth, but I'm inclined to believe Arthur C. Clarke's statement that he didn't do it on purpose, didn't realize he'd done it until after the movie was out, and that he would have changed the name had he realized the relationship with the IBM name.
I'm inclined to believe A.C. Clarke's own words in the book itself where they discuss the relation between HAL and IBM.
Clearly it was known to him before he finished writing the book, let alone the movie, even if he didn't do it on purpose in the first place.
Airlines go out of business in Canada faster than fashions go out of style.
Dude, flannels, mooseskin hats, and Kraft Dinner in an igloo will *never* go out of style, Eh.
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how much do you want to bet that "Y5RT06DA3ED764B515 71" (from the url you posted) decrypts to your email address which they will sell off to another spammer if you reply?
I think this is a good example of a poorly informed marketing department at an otherwise respectable company.
Dude, Chrysler respectable?!?
Aren't they the ones who were cracking odometers and rolling them back and selling the cars as new?
Maybe I'm getting too cynical the more I see, but I can not think of a single company with more than ten employees ( only 'cause I know a few people who run small companies ) that are above pond scum, let alone respectable.
The sad thing about unrestrained capitalism is that whoever is willing to sink the lowest wins. If you can't sink as low as fast as the worst of them, you lose.
Sure they do! And if they don't agree, we'll make 'em understand why they do. It's a mountain of MS software, or a carpet of bombs!
"either you accept our offer of a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombs"
It amazes me that even though our press freely prints stories about how our education system is the laughing stock of the developed world, meaning that our citizenry is composed of ignorant fools for the most part, that most of the people here still actually believe that this country is free, and that we are the good guys.
If the quote above (mine, not the one I am replying to, although I'm sure his was based on mine) is not familiar to you, and you are an American citizen, then you *are* a traitor to everything this country is supposed to stand for. It is your fucking job to inform yourself constantly. That is what is *required* from a citizen of a free society. Do you fucking get that? This does not mean just watching CNN or your local news. (Do you know who owns your station? Their job is not to inform you, it is to maximize revenue for their parent corporation. That is *it* ) That is passive. You have a responsibility to *actively* inform yourself. (Shut the fuck up. Yes, you do.) If you are not doing that then you are *not* a good American. And please, if you do fit that category, take that flag off of your car. You have not earned the right to fly it. Here is a very brief lesson for you:
America *is* the most violent, destructive and evil terrorist threat this world has ever faced. Do not cry like a little bitch. If you disagree, do your fucking patriotic duty and inform yourself and then try to debate that point. The fact is you can't. Big mindfuck ( assuming you actually did some research ), huh?
Did you know we have clothing stores here called "Banana Republic"? Do you know where the fuck the name came from? If not, you *are* a traitor to everything this country is supposed to stand for. (Shut the fuck up. Yes, you are.) Look it up.
Corporations run America. Period. End of sentence. Again, come up with a fact, develop an argument, if you disagree. Otherwise, wake the fuck up.
Corporations are by their very definition, amoral, and greedy. This is not that bad if you think in terms of human life spans. But consider, they have almost all of the rights of an American citizen, none of the responsibilities, and a potentially unlimited lifespan. This *is* new. This *is* different, and this *does* need to be addressed.
So, do a search on that quote. Pull your head out of your ass. Wake up. Please.
This is an appeal from a true patriot. If you think I'm not, and you are, then you have a lot of waking up to do.
He made a big deal about how much money IBM spent on linux development, and how they made it back within a year. buy a $40 copy of RedHat linux and a support contract with RedHat.
Dude, you're comparing apples to, like, totally un-apple-shaped similes, dude.
You can buy an eleventy thousand dollar site lisc. for Microsoft Whatever 2004 and a support contract with Microsoft,
Note how the bolded bits above don't quite sync with the bolded bits below?
If you're buying into what they're selling, then you are buying hardware, installation *and* a big fucking support contract with IBM.
IBM is a big boy, they can talk to RedHat themselves, thank you very much. They could, of course, download an ISO, burn it, develop all their add-ons and not give RedHat a cent. I doubt very much if this is what's happening. Most likely, they have a contract. RedHat gets paid $foo per $bar or some such. IBM uses their software *and* gets better access than I* do directly to their developers and their developers' contacts plus name association with IBM.
I think the long range best bet for everybody in general is better with OSS, be realistic in your comparisons.
Can we have a link to any of these German news articles? It would be much appreciated.
Well, curiously, the archives are no longer online. (I know, I know) But searching around will find you a lot of information. Of course, it being gone from the official site makes it more difficult to know what to believe, sadly.
I do not agree with the nuts who say that Bush/Ashcroft wanted 9/11 to happen but I do think that they where *very* excited about the chances it opened for them to tighten control of society.
Wanted it is one thing, but the fact is that they knew it was coming and let it happen. Before you just blow this off and call me a nut look at the facts. Germany, Israel, Egypt and several other nations found out about it *beforehand* and warned them in detail. Germany, in fact, caught some of the terrorist conspirators and told our government the names of all of the hijackers, their targets and weapons, and the approximate date of the attacks. This was printed in German newspapers. I was in Europe when the attacks happened and saw this myself. The simple fact is that people do not want to believe that the president of the US would allow thousands of his citizens to be murdered to allow an insane power grab, but it is a fact.
Almost every thing he has done as president has either taken freedom and privacy from Americans, or given power and privacy to the government. You are aware that he raped the Freedom of Information Act, aren't you? How is a free society supposed to function when the government's actions can *never* be scrutinized by the people who are supposed to select that government based on those same actions? It can't. Of course, that is the main goal of the Bush administration. To destroy America as a free society.
Do you actually know about this kind of thing, or are you just talking trash?
*DISCLAIMER* I don't really know about this. I'm just askin'
It seems like the lag would be less over a satellite assuming quality setup. You have a speed of light shot to the satellite. Satellite processing time, which is similar qualitatively to one hop through a router, followed by one speed of light shot to the ground. Now, if the satellite is high enough, one hop could get you from the south pole to the north pole. The physics of the situation might require one, two tops more hops. So someone traceroute me a path that only takes three hops on a ground based network from the south pole to the north. Now, I did say that a satellite hop was *qualitatively* the same as a router hop. Can anyone quantify this? Is one satellite hop time-equivalent to 1, 2,999 router hops?
This was a head mounted camera with a LED light unit that was built on station by our Senior Communications Technican, Jon Berry.
Now this is a Capital G Geek in the best of all possible meanings. "You wanna what? OK, I got some LEDs and shit...(madly digging through toolbox).Some wires hmmm.. soldering iron over here. Right on surgical lamp, heh. One of these days you'll come up with a challenge for me. Hey, when you're done with the surgery, can we keep the T1 satellite link up for a few. I have some.... uh... important stuff to frag^H^H^H^H do.
Seriously, there's a guy who actually earned the "Senior" in his title.
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My wife and I have the appetites of small birds.
Wow. You eat 6 times your weight a day?!?
That's crazy.
"Lighten up Francis."
That's it Pal.
You just made the list.
one can never be certain of anything when technology and users meet headlong in an orgy of stupidity,
It might be time for a new sig.
Damn. I was about to taunt you before I realised who you were.
This camera is probably the first to match the quality of a decent 35mm camera.
Note that the quality of lenses
So where does the quality of the film come into it,
or does that matter that much?
Plus where do you get it developed or do you do that yourself?
No, they're doing it because terrorists in more than one country (e.g., FARC in Colombia, Taliban in Afghanistan) raise money by controlling the drug trade.
Dude. Wake up.
The CIA is one of the major players in the drug trade.
Crazy conspiracy theory? No. Just a very short memory on the part of most Americans. Recall The Iran Contra Hearings?
It was testified on TV before congress that our government sells drugs to support terrorist countries. This is a demonstrated fact.
And the Taliban, for fucks sake ?!? They instituted the death penalty for Opium cultivation , or don't you remember that either.
Also, the war on some drugs causes massive amounts of money to go to police and prisons to incarcerate Americans who choose to cultivate a freaking plant.
It's *very* profitable to have drugs illegal since the government gets paid twice.
Buying an SUV does far more to support terrorism than buying drugs does. Where do the terrorists get most of their money? Oil.
Please make at least a token effort to do your patriotic duty and inform yourself rather than spewing lies that any bit of common sense reveals for what they are.
And, in the UK just as elsewhere, almost all their readers, listeners and viewers live in a Microsoft world. Why go off an a tangent about EULA's when it is a credible assumption that's of interest to only a tiny fraction of their audience.?
Because it is not a tangent and it is critically important to anybody who uses MS software that if they want to patch their machine they have to give a convicted criminal organization free reign over their machine.
(see the pyramids of Egypt: built completely with manual labor, and we still aren't completely sure how they did it
So, how do you know it was all manual labor if we don't know how they did it?
they won because the french were (and still are) fucking morons.
Come on now. Don't forget that the French are backstabbing pussies too.
By your definition, sand is a liquid which it is clearly not.
I think you're responding to the wrong comment.
I didn't define liquid at all. I defined a fluid as a liquid or a gas, which I believe is accurate at least at the lay level.
I never even mentioned sand, nor would it fit my definition of fluid as sand is solid.
Almost any substance can occur in a glassy state if quenched fast enough.
So, is this how we get obsidian?
If so, what's the process?
How exactly is a fluid different from a liquid?
Woo Hoo!
I remember this one from freshman chemistry.
Fluids flow, man.
Fluids are liquids *and* gases.
The major macro-difference between liquids and gases is that gases are compressible.
It's a popular myth, but I'm inclined to believe Arthur C. Clarke's statement that he didn't do it on purpose, didn't realize he'd done it until after the movie was out, and that he would have changed the name had he realized the relationship with the IBM name.
I'm inclined to believe A.C. Clarke's own words in the book itself where they discuss the relation between HAL and IBM.
Clearly it was known to him before he finished writing the book, let alone the movie, even if he didn't do it on purpose in the first place.
are you a native American then?
If he's an American at all, then odds are that he was born here and hence a native.
Let's try to keep the PCism to a minimum, shall we?
I lived in Northridge during the quake there.
Damn.
I was in Santa Barbara and it knocked our power out.
advertising MCAfee's mail box despammer. Nice. Wankers.
This one is potentially legitimate:
"If you're reading this annoying piece of spam, then you need our product. Whatever you're using now isn't working well enough."
Airlines go out of business in Canada faster than fashions go out of style.
Dude, flannels, mooseskin hats, and Kraft Dinner in an igloo will *never* go out of style, Eh.
how much do you want to bet that "Y5RT06DA3ED764B515 71" (from the url you posted) decrypts to your email address which they will sell off to another spammer if you reply?
I think this is a good example of a poorly informed marketing department at an otherwise respectable company.
Dude, Chrysler respectable?!?
Aren't they the ones who were cracking odometers and rolling them back and selling the cars as new?
Maybe I'm getting too cynical the more I see, but I can not think of a single company with more than ten employees ( only 'cause I know a few people who run small companies ) that are above pond scum, let alone respectable.
The sad thing about unrestrained capitalism is that whoever is willing to sink the lowest wins. If you can't sink as low as fast as the worst of them, you lose.
Sure they do! And if they don't agree, we'll make 'em understand why they do. It's a mountain of MS software, or a carpet of bombs!
"either you accept our offer of a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombs"
It amazes me that even though our press freely prints stories about how our education system is the laughing stock of the developed world, meaning that our citizenry is composed of ignorant fools for the most part, that most of the people here still actually believe that this country is free, and that we are the good guys.
If the quote above (mine, not the one I am replying to, although I'm sure his was based on mine) is not familiar to you, and you are an American citizen, then you *are* a traitor to everything this country is supposed to stand for.
It is your fucking job to inform yourself constantly. That is what is *required* from a citizen of a free society. Do you fucking get that? This does not mean just watching CNN or your local news. (Do you know who owns your station? Their job is not to inform you, it is to maximize revenue for their parent corporation. That is *it* ) That is passive. You have a responsibility to *actively* inform yourself. (Shut the fuck up. Yes, you do.) If you are not doing that then you are *not* a good American. And please, if you do fit that category, take that flag off of your car. You have not earned the right to fly it.
Here is a very brief lesson for you:
America *is* the most violent, destructive and evil terrorist threat this world has ever faced.
Do not cry like a little bitch. If you disagree, do your fucking patriotic duty and inform yourself and then try to debate that point. The fact is you can't. Big mindfuck ( assuming you actually did some research ), huh?
Did you know we have clothing stores here called "Banana Republic"?
Do you know where the fuck the name came from?
If not, you *are* a traitor to everything this country is supposed to stand for. (Shut the fuck up. Yes, you are.) Look it up.
Corporations run America.
Period. End of sentence.
Again, come up with a fact, develop an argument, if you disagree. Otherwise, wake the fuck up.
Corporations are by their very definition, amoral, and greedy. This is not that bad if you think in terms of human life spans. But consider, they have almost all of the rights of an American citizen, none of the responsibilities, and a potentially unlimited lifespan. This *is* new. This *is* different, and this *does* need to be addressed.
So, do a search on that quote. Pull your head out of your ass. Wake up. Please.
This is an appeal from a true patriot.
If you think I'm not, and you are, then you have a lot of waking up to do.
He made a big deal about how much money IBM spent on linux development, and how they made it back within a year.
buy a $40 copy of RedHat linux and a support contract with RedHat.
Dude, you're comparing apples to, like, totally un-apple-shaped similes, dude.
You can buy an eleventy thousand dollar site lisc. for Microsoft Whatever 2004 and a support contract with Microsoft,
Note how the bolded bits above don't quite sync with the bolded bits below?
If you're buying into what they're selling, then you are buying hardware, installation *and* a big fucking support contract with IBM.
IBM is a big boy, they can talk to RedHat themselves, thank you very much.
They could, of course, download an ISO, burn it, develop all their add-ons and not give RedHat a cent.
I doubt very much if this is what's happening. Most likely, they have a contract.
RedHat gets paid $foo per $bar or some such.
IBM uses their software *and* gets better access than I* do directly to their developers and their developers' contacts plus name association with IBM.
I think the long range best bet for everybody in general is better with OSS, be realistic in your comparisons.
Can we have a link to any of these German news articles? It would be much appreciated.
Well, curiously, the archives are no longer online.
(I know, I know)
But searching around will find you a lot of information. Of course, it being gone from the official site makes it more difficult to know what to believe, sadly.
I do not agree with the nuts who say that Bush/Ashcroft wanted 9/11 to happen but I do think that they where *very* excited about the chances it opened for them to tighten control of society.
Wanted it is one thing, but the fact is that they knew it was coming and let it happen.
Before you just blow this off and call me a nut look at the facts.
Germany, Israel, Egypt and several other nations found out about it *beforehand* and warned them in detail. Germany, in fact, caught some of the terrorist conspirators and told our government the names of all of the hijackers, their targets and weapons, and the approximate date of the attacks.
This was printed in German newspapers. I was in Europe when the attacks happened and saw this myself. The simple fact is that people do not want to believe that the president of the US would allow thousands of his citizens to be murdered to allow an insane power grab, but it is a fact.
Almost every thing he has done as president has either taken freedom and privacy from Americans, or given power and privacy to the government. You are aware that he raped the Freedom of Information Act, aren't you? How is a free society supposed to function when the government's actions can *never* be scrutinized by the people who are supposed to select that government based on those same actions? It can't. Of course, that is the main goal of the Bush administration. To destroy America as a free society.
Dude, I gotta admit that your nick kicks ass.
I hate Linux because it made me type man mount.
;-)
Come on now, it didn't make you. Try info mount next time if you're easily offended
but its over satellite. good luck with the lag
,999 router hops?
Do you actually know about this kind of thing, or are you just talking trash?
*DISCLAIMER* I don't really know about this. I'm just askin'
It seems like the lag would be less over a satellite assuming quality setup. You have a speed of light shot to the satellite. Satellite processing time, which is similar qualitatively to one hop through a router, followed by one speed of light shot to the ground. Now, if the satellite is high enough, one hop could get you from the south pole to the north pole. The physics of the situation might require one, two tops more hops. So someone traceroute me a path that only takes three hops on a ground based network from the south pole to the north.
Now, I did say that a satellite hop was *qualitatively* the same as a router hop. Can anyone quantify this? Is one satellite hop time-equivalent to 1, 2
This was a head mounted camera with a LED light unit that was built on station by our Senior Communications Technican, Jon Berry.
.... uh... important stuff to frag^H^H^H^H do.
Now this is a Capital G Geek in the best of all possible meanings.
"You wanna what? OK, I got some LEDs and shit...(madly digging through toolbox).Some wires hmmm.. soldering iron over here. Right on surgical lamp, heh. One of these days you'll come up with a challenge for me. Hey, when you're done with the surgery, can we keep the T1 satellite link up for a few. I have some
Seriously, there's a guy who actually earned the "Senior" in his title.