in this version, you will be an indian trying to save your family and community from the onslaught of smallpox, railroad companies, the US army, land speculators, drunken sociopaths who have run off to 'the frontier' because they fled justice in white cities, etc.
This just hit me, with the other folks commenting on corn prices.
Bush's support was from the red states. Not just, you know, the states. But vast rural sections of the country. If you look at the maps of the 00 and 04 elections, county by county, the country is one big red blob, with little blue spikes where all the cities are. since a vast number of the people are in cities, but the electoral system is designed to balance population vs geography (one of the original compromises of the first 13 colonies...), it means he can use this vast rural base to help win the election.
But what are the industries out in these rural places? Growing corn is a huge one.
Bush came out recently saying we are gonna reduce gasoline by 20 percent in such and such years. Great. He has also been pushing for ethanol production. double great.
Now, if you are joe farmer, and suddenly you are selling your crop for twice the price you did last year, and Bush is the reason, who are you going to vote for? Bush, goddamnit!
The republican party is bleeding , nay, hemmoraging voters. The 'base' of rural folk is disgruntled with Mr Bush's war, amongst other things. He won the election on getting out the gay haters (sorry 'marriage and family defenders') and anti-evolution nutjobs.... but also by getting out the numerous rural military bases - places like Rapid City South Dakota, the only major city in western south dakota, would not exist without airforce bases that are held over from the cold war... this situation is duplicated across rural america.
But if those issues fall... those voters will not turn out in 08.
Bush has to save the republicans, so hooking his wagon to ethanol, which will pour money into the corn growers pockets, is the way to do it.
Or maybe not. But its an interesting theory, at least to me.
"nothing happened to me, therefore its harmless". first of all, you are young. what are the long term consequences? who knows. second of all, assuming that one person will react to a chemical the same as another person is kinda, you know, 18th century thinking. i mean, thats the whole reason we have the drug approval processes that we do in the USA, because so many people have adverse reactions to various potential drugs (chemicals), that you need to check... because killing like "less than 1 percent" of your users is not a good idea in a nation of 300 million (do the math, youre saying "it will kill less than 3 million people". so did 9/11.
I think we all know where this kind of FUD comes from. There is a vast closed-source conspiracy to denigrate and destroy the Linux movement. These kind of attacks are irresponsible at a time when our nation is in peril. Why don't you ever hear anything in the media about what linux does right? Only a few websites that 'get it' are brave enough to tell the truth... like slashdot. We sit here, cowered, assailed on all sides by our enemies, but fortunately we are an oasis of sanity in this crazy, mixed up world.
All I can say is God bless us, the true chosen ones, who bravely devote ourselves to the protection of our one true operating system... and the fundamental freedoms it stands for and that we hold so dear.
I used to work in a 'educational environment'. If i could find your damn email I would tell you more details.
Anyways, if you set up your windows XP image using 'sysprep' properly, you can solve the whole problem of duplicated SSID and whatever. You can even join a domain AFAIK (although i didnt get that far).
Furthermore, we used a special setup... I had a linux partition with a gigantic image file of the windows partition... to distribute a new image I used 'udpcast'. In this set up, any machine could be a 'server', and cast to all the other machines.. . i could redo a few dozen machines in an hour or so, without having to muck around with any server... i just put 'out of order' sign on one of the lab machines and used it as the server. Every machine had a copy of the windows image... anyways. Via a bunch of python scripts, this was all automated and i used it
to 'clean' the machines out every once in a while.... took something like 10 keystrokes per 'client' machine and similar low amount on 'server' machine.
This could probably work on Mac OSX too, although i never had the opportunity to use it.
the science of the mind has advanced in recent years and things like 'complete asshat ism' are treatable by professionals in the field.
the problem is that mental illness is the only illness where people don't want to get better. i think dr. drew said something like that in his book 'cracked'.
Fast on the heels of Ballmer's tantrums and chair throwing, the BSD community was today wracked again by the borderline personality disorders and rageaholics that permeate the open source movement. Theo De Raadt, founder of the Open BSD Brigade, in an apparent fit of anger, threw his fist through a wall as he was cussing out an acolyte of Chairman Richard Stallman, leader of the competing marxist organization, the Free Stalin Foundation.
Hans Reiser, an open source maven who murdered his wife in cold blood, commented from prison that open source programmers had no abnormal personality problems, and were all "very smart people, very intelligent." Eric Raymon, fresh from a trip to the Paul Revere Institute Convention and Bondage Festival in Las Vegas, echoed these comments: "What the world doesn't understand, is that we are geniuses. There is nothing wrong with using strong language to intimidate idiotarians and freedom hating anti-gun liberazis".
Steve Jobs, emerging from a meditation chamber in his northern california home, opined that "he would fire half his open source staff" that night, as they had failed to properly implement a bitwise portrait of the mona lisa on the back of the motherboard for the new Apple Yojimbo motherboard family, slated to debut this fall.
The BeOS developers, currently washing dishes at a Sacramento Olive Garden, had the following comments: "Yeah, we are kinda bummed that we lost all that money. But frankly, I'm kind of glad to be done with those freaks. Apple, Microsoft, Lunix, what a bunch of creeps and sociopaths."
Echoed his boss "Johnny called in sick so I need you to work late tonight, is that OK?"
--
(parts of this story were contributed by James Gandalfini)
Screw you hippie, i have never met a wintel machine that could keep up with the times 6 years later. if it hasnt been slathered in viruses, then every 'new' program winds up grinding the machine to a halt.
in the united states, we do not need to waste taxpayers hard earned money on useless, socialist, centralized, bureaucratic monstrosities like supersonic trains.
in america, each person is an individual, with their own car. or preferably, SUV, since cars tend to get smashed. also SUVs can go 'offroading', an enjoyable diversion that reddens the blood coursing through the veins of every freedom loving american, alone on the frontier, conquering nature for the benefit of human civilizaton.
enough of these cheese eating wine sipping communards and their piffle trains. let them all get tuberculosis in the over crowded rat cans called 'passenger cars' and wallow in their dying economy as it goes down a black hole to overspent big-government ruin and waste.
Go look it up, he said stuff like this. He didn't want to build the superconducting supercollider. All technology he cared about was to defeat the Soviet Union, with a massive military, which is why he spent us into being the worst debtor nation in history, and his foul mouthed off spring (Cheney, etc) are doing the same under Bush.
Maybe Carter didn't know his butt from a peanut but acting like Reagan supported technology and innovation is just dumb.
Futhermore, acting like one party or the other , or even the office of presidency, really is 'responsible' for this is kind of crazy. Reagan had a democratic congress, and Clinton had a republican congress... neither branch gets anything done without the other branches having a say so.
focusing research onto military technology is a huge waste.
why dont you just argue that the 300 bilion we spend every year on the military should instead be spent on civilian technology, like clean fuel, efficient cars, medical imaging, drug development, nutritional research, disease study, etc... and then the military can have what is 'spun off' of this industry?
well, first of all, because being able to prevent cancer doesn't make bigger guns that shoot faster, which is what alot of military 'research' is about. killing more people faster.
secondly because you probably make money off the status quo, thats why, and thats why millions of other americans thinkt he same as you. shut down a b52 base in north dakota (yeah those russians still might invade), save billions of dollars... but oh wait, those people need jobs! congrats, you anti-socialist right wingers have set up the largest socialist welfare system in history - the US 'defense' industry.
you have no idea what is realistically possible and what isn't.
watch much law and order svu?
know many women? any with PTSD? any who have been violently attacked at random?
no, of course you dont, youre just another stupid slashdot techie who thinks they know what is a real threat and what isnt, from the safety of a lazy-boy in your parents basement.
and not having f@#$@ internet is a large part of it. suddenly, i have time to walk 1 mile to the grocery store and back, or the movie theatre, or... da da da da... the wifi coffee shop that is 0.5 miles away from my net-less bachelor pad.
funny thing though, the main reason i dont have it is because id just be spending all day looking at pr0n.... the weight thing is just a side effect i guess.
is a way to keep from firing them and keep them out of the business. call it a 'promotion' if you will, but give them a closet office somewhere removed from everyone and little pointless jobs to do. its a practice used in some big organizations, like schools and so forth, to avoid the conflict of firing someone (potential lawsuits and political battles that ensue from the allies of said person) and so forth and so on.
green for the environment blue for the labor that made it
it would be built by unionized employees (or ones treated so well they voted against a union) in a clean factory that did not endanger their health or safety. they would be able to go to the doctor if they got sick and not worry about whether or not they would lose their jobs for it. they could have a baby and not have to work right up until delivery and then get only 1 month off. the CEO would not make 300 times the workers pay - instead the workers would have decent stock options and would be payed enough to live decently on. they would only have to work 40 hours a week, and more hours would be payed overtime, and they would only be needed 2 or 3 times a year.
the factory would emit minimal pollution, which was being actively reduced year by year. the computer would be built of recycled metal and would not include unncessary toxins like lead. the 'necessary' toxins would be being phased out year by year. the end product would be either easily recyclable or biodegradable. as part of this design requirement, it would be easily disassemblable into the constituent types of components - metals in one pile, degradables in another, and 'waste' in a third, tiny pile, that would be being reduced year by year. disassembly would take less than 10 minutes with ordinary small tools.
it would be very power efficient and ideally have few, or no, moving parts. power generation would be part of the standard add-on accessories, and could be coupled to walking (up/down motion) generators, hand crank, foot pedal cranks, and other types of easily generated power.
it would provide voice and/or visual interface and/or sign language and/or braille interface, and would work in every major language. year by year more languages would be covered. it would have an instant translation gizmo that would learn by itself to improve its work over time.
we solved most of the other problems, such as ease of use, reliability, networking, speed, etc, about 5 years ago. its called 'macintosh osx'.
the valves are using cams, they are not infinitely variable computer controller by some kinda magic solenoid or motor or whatever. people have talked about doing that sort of thing but the cost, compared to the good old fashioned cam shaft, would be pretty expensive.
look in google groups for more info on this.
from what i understand (no expert on the history, just read a few things here and there), many theories get treated like that. evolution for example was kind of considered a joke for a long, long time. in fact iirc darwin knew it would not only be treated as a joke, but would cause massive social upheaval (social darwinism, which has a straight ideological line to eugenics, and the nazi holocaust).... he only released his theory after a co-discoverer threatened to do it himself...
so rest assured cold fusion etc will find their way into acceptance in a few years, if they are true.
the problem, with cold fusion especially, is that now anybody can make a massive nuclear bomb for a couple hundred bucks of parts from a hardware store.
if the CIA or whoever is suppressing that, honestly, i have to say 'good for them'.
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in this version, you will be an indian trying to save your family and community from the onslaught of smallpox, railroad companies, the US army, land speculators, drunken sociopaths who have run off to 'the frontier' because they fled justice in white cities, etc.
This just hit me, with the other folks commenting on corn prices.
Bush's support was from the red states. Not just, you know, the states. But vast rural sections of the country. If you look at the maps of the 00 and 04 elections, county by county, the country is one big red blob, with little blue spikes where all the cities are. since a vast number of the people are in cities, but the electoral system is designed to balance population vs geography (one of the original compromises of the first 13 colonies...), it means he can use this vast rural base to help win the election.
But what are the industries out in these rural places? Growing corn is a huge one.
Bush came out recently saying we are gonna reduce gasoline by 20 percent in such and such years. Great. He has also been pushing for ethanol production. double great.
Now, if you are joe farmer, and suddenly you are selling your crop for twice the price you did last year, and Bush is the reason, who are you going to vote for? Bush, goddamnit!
The republican party is bleeding , nay, hemmoraging voters. The 'base' of rural folk is disgruntled with Mr Bush's war, amongst other things. He won the election on getting out the gay haters (sorry 'marriage and family defenders') and anti-evolution nutjobs.... but also by getting out the numerous rural military bases - places like Rapid City South Dakota, the only major city in western south dakota, would not exist without airforce bases that are held over from the cold war... this situation is duplicated across rural america.
But if those issues fall... those voters will not turn out in 08.
Bush has to save the republicans, so hooking his wagon to ethanol, which will pour money into the corn growers pockets, is the way to do it.
Or maybe not. But its an interesting theory, at least to me.
and by the way, if you are making bread, the alcohol is evaporated during baking (or so they say muhahaha)
no. we need more lasers, bombs, magic shields, etc. if only our soldiers had super sense they could figure out where those WMDs in iraq are.
"nothing happened to me, therefore its harmless". first of all, you are young. what are the long term consequences? who knows. second of all, assuming that one person will react to a chemical the same as another person is kinda, you know, 18th century thinking. i mean, thats the whole reason we have the drug approval processes that we do in the USA, because so many people have adverse reactions to various potential drugs (chemicals), that you need to check... because killing like "less than 1 percent" of your users is not a good idea in a nation of 300 million (do the math, youre saying "it will kill less than 3 million people". so did 9/11.
small minded idiots
has this sort of thing happen... obviously it was because of too many video games in the saddam era.
I think we all know where this kind of FUD comes from. There is a vast closed-source conspiracy to denigrate and destroy the Linux movement. These kind of attacks are irresponsible at a time when our nation is in peril. Why don't you ever hear anything in the media about what linux does right? Only a few websites that 'get it' are brave enough to tell the truth ... like slashdot. We sit here, cowered, assailed on all sides by our enemies, but fortunately we are an oasis of sanity in this crazy, mixed up world.
All I can say is God bless us, the true chosen ones, who bravely devote ourselves to the protection of our one true operating system... and the fundamental freedoms it stands for and that we hold so dear.
I used to work in a 'educational environment'. If i could find your damn email I would tell you more details. Anyways, if you set up your windows XP image using 'sysprep' properly, you can solve the whole problem of duplicated SSID and whatever. You can even join a domain AFAIK (although i didnt get that far). Furthermore, we used a special setup... I had a linux partition with a gigantic image file of the windows partition... to distribute a new image I used 'udpcast'. In this set up, any machine could be a 'server', and cast to all the other machines.. . i could redo a few dozen machines in an hour or so, without having to muck around with any server... i just put 'out of order' sign on one of the lab machines and used it as the server. Every machine had a copy of the windows image... anyways. Via a bunch of python scripts, this was all automated and i used it to 'clean' the machines out every once in a while. ... took something like 10 keystrokes per 'client' machine and similar low amount on 'server' machine.
This could probably work on Mac OSX too, although i never had the opportunity to use it.
the science of the mind has advanced in recent years and things like 'complete asshat ism' are treatable by professionals in the field.
the problem is that mental illness is the only illness where people don't want to get better. i think dr. drew said something like that in his book 'cracked'.
Fast on the heels of Ballmer's tantrums and chair throwing, the BSD community was today wracked again by the borderline personality disorders and rageaholics that permeate the open source movement. Theo De Raadt, founder of the Open BSD Brigade, in an apparent fit of anger, threw his fist through a wall as he was cussing out an acolyte of Chairman Richard Stallman, leader of the competing marxist organization, the Free Stalin Foundation.
Hans Reiser, an open source maven who murdered his wife in cold blood, commented from prison that open source programmers had no abnormal personality problems, and were all "very smart people, very intelligent." Eric Raymon, fresh from a trip to the Paul Revere Institute Convention and Bondage Festival in Las Vegas, echoed these comments: "What the world doesn't understand, is that we are geniuses. There is nothing wrong with using strong language to intimidate idiotarians and freedom hating anti-gun liberazis".
Steve Jobs, emerging from a meditation chamber in his northern california home, opined that "he would fire half his open source staff" that night, as they had failed to properly implement a bitwise portrait of the mona lisa on the back of the motherboard for the new Apple Yojimbo motherboard family, slated to debut this fall.
The BeOS developers, currently washing dishes at a Sacramento Olive Garden, had the following comments: "Yeah, we are kinda bummed that we lost all that money. But frankly, I'm kind of glad to be done with those freaks. Apple, Microsoft, Lunix, what a bunch of creeps and sociopaths."
Echoed his boss "Johnny called in sick so I need you to work late tonight, is that OK?"
--
(parts of this story were contributed by James Gandalfini)
Screw you hippie, i have never met a wintel machine that could keep up with the times 6 years later. if it hasnt been slathered in viruses, then every 'new' program winds up grinding the machine to a halt.
have you ever been to a linux irc channel? n/t
it dampens vibration. i saw it on 'modern wheels'.
in the united states, we do not need to waste taxpayers hard earned money on useless, socialist, centralized, bureaucratic monstrosities like supersonic trains.
in america, each person is an individual, with their own car. or preferably, SUV, since cars tend to get smashed. also SUVs can go 'offroading', an enjoyable diversion that reddens the blood coursing through the veins of every freedom loving american, alone on the frontier, conquering nature for the benefit of human civilizaton.
enough of these cheese eating wine sipping communards and their piffle trains. let them all get tuberculosis in the over crowded rat cans called 'passenger cars' and wallow in their dying economy as it goes down a black hole to overspent big-government ruin and waste.
au revoir, les suckers!
Go look it up, he said stuff like this. He didn't want to build the superconducting supercollider. All technology he cared about was to defeat the Soviet Union, with a massive military, which is why he spent us into being the worst debtor nation in history, and his foul mouthed off spring (Cheney, etc) are doing the same under Bush. Maybe Carter didn't know his butt from a peanut but acting like Reagan supported technology and innovation is just dumb. Futhermore, acting like one party or the other , or even the office of presidency, really is 'responsible' for this is kind of crazy. Reagan had a democratic congress, and Clinton had a republican congress... neither branch gets anything done without the other branches having a say so.
focusing research onto military technology is a huge waste. why dont you just argue that the 300 bilion we spend every year on the military should instead be spent on civilian technology, like clean fuel, efficient cars, medical imaging, drug development, nutritional research, disease study, etc... and then the military can have what is 'spun off' of this industry? well, first of all, because being able to prevent cancer doesn't make bigger guns that shoot faster, which is what alot of military 'research' is about. killing more people faster. secondly because you probably make money off the status quo, thats why, and thats why millions of other americans thinkt he same as you. shut down a b52 base in north dakota (yeah those russians still might invade), save billions of dollars... but oh wait, those people need jobs! congrats, you anti-socialist right wingers have set up the largest socialist welfare system in history - the US 'defense' industry.
you have no idea what is realistically possible and what isn't.
watch much law and order svu?
know many women? any with PTSD? any who have been violently attacked at random?
no, of course you dont, youre just another stupid slashdot techie who thinks they know what is a real threat and what isnt, from the safety of a lazy-boy in your parents basement.
and not having f@#$@ internet is a large part of it. suddenly, i have time to walk 1 mile to the grocery store and back, or the movie theatre, or... da da da da ... the wifi coffee shop that is 0.5 miles away from my net-less bachelor pad.
funny thing though, the main reason i dont have it is because id just be spending all day looking at pr0n.... the weight thing is just a side effect i guess.
is a way to keep from firing them and keep them out of the business. call it a 'promotion' if you will, but give them a closet office somewhere removed from everyone and little pointless jobs to do. its a practice used in some big organizations, like schools and so forth, to avoid the conflict of firing someone (potential lawsuits and political battles that ensue from the allies of said person) and so forth and so on.
green for the environment
blue for the labor that made it
it would be built by unionized employees (or ones treated so well they voted against a union) in a clean factory that did not endanger their health or safety. they would be able to go to the doctor if they got sick and not worry about whether or not they would lose their jobs for it. they could have a baby and not have to work right up until delivery and then get only 1 month off. the CEO would not make 300 times the workers pay - instead the workers would have decent stock options and would be payed enough to live decently on. they would only have to work 40 hours a week, and more hours would be payed overtime, and they would only be needed 2 or 3 times a year.
the factory would emit minimal pollution, which was being actively reduced year by year. the computer would be built of recycled metal and would not include unncessary toxins like lead. the 'necessary' toxins would be being phased out year by year. the end product would be either easily recyclable or biodegradable. as part of this design requirement, it would be easily disassemblable into the constituent types of components - metals in one pile, degradables in another, and 'waste' in a third, tiny pile, that would be being reduced year by year. disassembly would take less than 10 minutes with ordinary small tools.
it would be very power efficient and ideally have few, or no, moving parts. power generation would be part of the standard add-on accessories, and could be coupled to walking (up/down motion) generators, hand crank, foot pedal cranks, and other types of easily generated power.
it would provide voice and/or visual interface and/or sign language and/or braille interface, and would work in every major language. year by year more languages would be covered. it would have an instant translation gizmo that would learn by itself to improve its work over time.
we solved most of the other problems, such as ease of use, reliability, networking, speed, etc, about 5 years ago. its called 'macintosh osx'.
the valves are using cams, they are not infinitely variable computer controller by some kinda magic solenoid or motor or whatever. people have talked about doing that sort of thing but the cost, compared to the good old fashioned cam shaft, would be pretty expensive. look in google groups for more info on this.
its that you can build two headquarters, but thats usually when your first one is about to be overrun
unless you are just storing data.
from what i understand (no expert on the history, just read a few things here and there), many theories get treated like that. evolution for example was kind of considered a joke for a long, long time. in fact iirc darwin knew it would not only be treated as a joke, but would cause massive social upheaval (social darwinism, which has a straight ideological line to eugenics, and the nazi holocaust).... he only released his theory after a co-discoverer threatened to do it himself...
so rest assured cold fusion etc will find their way into acceptance in a few years, if they are true.
the problem, with cold fusion especially, is that now anybody can make a massive nuclear bomb for a couple hundred bucks of parts from a hardware store.
if the CIA or whoever is suppressing that, honestly, i have to say 'good for them'.