Come on, if you read the article, you're being pretty disingenuous.
You are representing the document as plan to nuke 1.5 billion people. In fact, the document is a *list* of *contingency* plans. As someone else has already said, I would much rather have detailed plans drawn up in advance -- just in case -- than have someone like Bush lobbing nukes around at random in a crisis.
Sure, it's not a pleasant prospect. However, most things mentioned in the NPR are also not *likely* prospects.
It's probably pointless replying like this, because you've misrepresented what's going on to such a drastic degree that I have to think that you know better, but are just practicing rhetoric and distortion.
What he seems to be saying is that no matter how little work you might *think* got done over beer and at 3 in the morning, *even less* was actually done.
Let's hope Alan's not involved any serious activity that requires understanding the difference between "underestimating" and "overestimating."
I have a strog doubt that we will ever see working DRM. If it were possible to use this kind of technique to control people we would be driving cars that were limited to the speed limit.
Man, do you have your priorities mixed up. Driving faster than the speed limit can only kill people. Without DRM, though, the big record labels / movie studios could lose money!
I telecommute every day. Downtime, for me, is not acceptable. I do DBA work and am on call for system engineer stuff. And, of course, if my DSL is going to fail it's going to do so right after I check in a broken stored procedure or right when the SQL server blue-screens.
So I've got enhanced residential DSL *and* a cable modem *and* a regular phone line and modem *and* a CDPD wireless modem (primarily used for travel, but also good for a backup).
I also have a backup installation of the tools I need at a friend's house who is on a different DSL provider.
If downtime is a problem, it's your responsibility to avoid it. The phone company, in this case, is absolutely right. You're paying for "gee, maybe I'll surf the net every now and then" and expecting five nines uptime.
...I'm (almost) 100% for the Libertarians' ideals, and I'm a registered Libertarian. But the party itself is way to silly to actually accomplish anything. A few years ago, when I was feeling ambitious,I went to several meetings of the party in San Diego. I invested somewhere around 50 hours of my life, thinking I could help Change The World (tm). And you know what -- I don't think any pragmatic ides fow winning elections ever came up. There was lots of talk about Why Global Warming Isn't Really Happening, How The Big Parties Are the Same, and How Messed Up Things Are. But not one of 'em -- ever -- seemed to think that maybe they should get out and win an election. I'd like to reiterate that I like and support the party, but my experience with it told me that it's a party of intellectuals who'd rather sit around and talk than actually do anything. (That includes me, by the way -- you won't find me canvasing neighborhoods trying to change the system) In the unlikely event that the LP somehow got people elected into high offices, I think they'd be so stunned that they would promptly become just like the republicrats, much to their own disillusionment.
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Come on, if you read the article, you're being pretty disingenuous.
You are representing the document as plan to nuke 1.5 billion people. In fact, the document is a *list* of *contingency* plans. As someone else has already said, I would much rather have detailed plans drawn up in advance -- just in case -- than have someone like Bush lobbing nukes around at random in a crisis.
Sure, it's not a pleasant prospect. However, most things mentioned in the NPR are also not *likely* prospects.
It's probably pointless replying like this, because you've misrepresented what's going on to such a drastic degree that I have to think that you know better, but are just practicing rhetoric and distortion.
Cheers
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You mean, the use of smileys as if they were an actual part of the english language?
Cheers
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What he seems to be saying is that no matter how little work you might *think* got done over beer and at 3 in the morning, *even less* was actually done.
Let's hope Alan's not involved any serious activity that requires understanding the difference between "underestimating" and "overestimating."
Cheers
-b
Man, do you have your priorities mixed up. Driving faster than the speed limit can only kill people. Without DRM, though, the big record labels / movie studios could lose money!
Cheers
-b
I telecommute every day. Downtime, for me, is not acceptable. I do DBA work and am on call for system engineer stuff. And, of course, if my DSL is going to fail it's going to do so right after I check in a broken stored procedure or right when the SQL server blue-screens.
So I've got enhanced residential DSL *and* a cable modem *and* a regular phone line and modem *and* a CDPD wireless modem (primarily used for travel, but also good for a backup).
I also have a backup installation of the tools I need at a friend's house who is on a different DSL provider.
If downtime is a problem, it's your responsibility to avoid it. The phone company, in this case, is absolutely right. You're paying for "gee, maybe I'll surf the net every now and then" and expecting five nines uptime.
Cheers
-b
...I'm (almost) 100% for the Libertarians' ideals, and I'm a registered Libertarian. But the party itself is way to silly to actually accomplish anything. A few years ago, when I was feeling ambitious,I went to several meetings of the party in San Diego. I invested somewhere around 50 hours of my life, thinking I could help Change The World (tm). And you know what -- I don't think any pragmatic ides fow winning elections ever came up. There was lots of talk about Why Global Warming Isn't Really Happening, How The Big Parties Are the Same, and How Messed Up Things Are. But not one of 'em -- ever -- seemed to think that maybe they should get out and win an election. I'd like to reiterate that I like and support the party, but my experience with it told me that it's a party of intellectuals who'd rather sit around and talk than actually do anything. (That includes me, by the way -- you won't find me canvasing neighborhoods trying to change the system) In the unlikely event that the LP somehow got people elected into high offices, I think they'd be so stunned that they would promptly become just like the republicrats, much to their own disillusionment.