Uh huh, "we have alot of options besides enganging in inapropriate military action."
If there are so many options, why havent' you recommended any? I'll give a few i can think of:
remove all the muslims from the united states. Oh wait that's really stupid and against what the US stands for.
Econonmic sanctions? umm what economy, there isn't any thing we we can to do afganistan to make it's economy worse
sit by and wait for bin laden to attack again so we can have people like you telling us we have a bunch of optoins. Oh wait, we already did that.
Frankly, i don't see anything else that we can do to reduce the power of Bin laden and other wanna be terrorists like him other than try to destory their military arsenals and reduce their cash funds, both of which are going two require some amount of military force. Sorry, but "can't we all just get along" does not work in the real world
That's a very humbling thought. Not enough of humanity gets put in their place by the sight of millions of stars anymore. Gives me hope.
When you live anywhere near the city, the most you can see is oh, about three stars. It's very difficult to be humbled by that. In fact, i pretty much forgot all about stars, space, and how small earth really is. Then, about a year ago, i took a trip to maui, and we went up mount haleakala (sp?), to see the sunrise. The sunrise is really hyped, but all i can remember about that morning are my freezing feet and looking up to see the ISS moving across the background of all those stars. It had been so long since i had seen anything like that. It's too bad that people cant see those sights on a regular basis. Our cities have enabled us to fulfill our self-serving philosophies.
Yeah, buying the extended warrenty was the smartest thing i did for my dell INSPIRON 3700. Every now and then, shit breaks, first the fan went. I called dell, said the fan was broken, and they had a guy out there the next day. Same for the lcd. Whenever, a part breaks, i call up and say "hey, this part is broken." They ship a new one the next day. I guess a lot of guys have had horror stories dealing with thier tech support, but they've always fixed mine promptly whenever anything bad happens.
and new laws are being invented (*cough* Anti-Terrorism Act *cough*) to criminalize and harshly penalize any behavior which seems to go against the "American Way"
sigh... If only this were true. We could throw Ashcroft, Cheney, and everyone who supports the DMCA in jail, throw away the key and live happily ever after.
That's kinda funny. There at Emory, we all but own coke. When I first came here, we had about 4 billion in endowment in coke stock (probably about $2 total now). But i'm fairly surprised at the lack of coke logos around campus. Yeah, our cafeteria serves only coke products, but that holds true in most other college. However, you'd be hard pressed to find any logos in prominant places. You'd figure that it'd be all over the place so that they can help raise shareholder value.
It seems like Sun's already got hold of this idea. My cs department is about as anti - ms as you can get. Hardly a semester goes by without some insults veiled and unvieled towards Windows and Microsoft in general. Sun doesn't put advertisments on our boxen. They subsidies our departments computer spending. Therefore we get cheap sun boxes and in class anti-microsoft ads.
It seems to me that most grassroots things are local things. Like your neighbor coming to you talking about how something sucks or sending around a petition or something like that. The cause would have to be something that gets a lot of local populations up in arms. This seems like it would be very hard to do for tech causes. How many of your neighbors would understand the issues we keep talking about here? It just that they don't see the conection between copy protected hardware and loss of freedom of speach. To many people a computer is still a magical beige box. So getting a bunch of small local coalitions would be next to impossible. We can talk all we want about how the Internet enables us to communicate, but nobody's coming to my door asking me to sign a petition to have Dimitri freed. I'm sure that there's a website somewhere where I can sign up, but in either case, 10000 hand written signatures is a lot more impressive than 10000 typed names.
Bottom line, geeks are just to far apart physically for a lot of grassroots motivation type things to work
Standards have greatly improved the hardware market, imagine what will happen when almost the entire software market sees it this way.
I'm not really sure what you mean by this. Standards have lead to a lot of cheap hardware, which is good for consumers, but bad for business. Whenever you make it easy for you competitor to sub thier parts with yours, the business is going to lose saies, and because of pricing pressure, lose some of thier profit marign. Why else would Mircrosoft use SMB instead of NFS? It's so that it is difficult to replace a few of those NT boxes solaris or linux. By not using standards, you keep people dependent on your software which is good for the software company. So on one hand, they can support standards and lose money, and on the other, they can use thier own methods and (potentially) make tons of it.
Also imagine a fully async. computer. No need for a new motherboard or even changing settings in the BIOS when new and faster RAM chips are available - the system will automatically adapt.
Now i'm not an engineer, but in the article it mentioned that it was important to have wires and gates connected in a special manner so the data arrives in the proper order. It seems to me that it would make the microprocessor more dependent on the hardware and not less so. Maybe this wouldn't be a problem if all of your RAM was the same speed, but it could cause a problem if you had one 100Mhz simm and one 133Mhz simm. I would think that the information coming from the 133 could screw things up. Can anyone clarify this for me?
I, for one, would much rather have a robotic baby than a human baby. If the robotic baby starts crying the night before a big presentation, I can just shut it off and deal with it whenever I have time. Can't do that with a human baby. Plus, you know what you're robotic baby isn't going to turn into a loud obnoxious teenager.
Now if they could only come up with a robotic girlfriend........ Unfortunatly, I probably still wouldn't know what to say to her.
I'm assuming that you're a libertarian and automatically assume that the private sector can do it a lot better the government. Often true, but I don't see how any private library can compete with a public funded one. The costs, (land, books, maintanence, taxes, etc. ) would be enormous. Universities can do it, but that's because they get 20 grand from every student that enters thier institution. In either case, the monthly cost will have to be pretty high.
However, when we deal with issues regarding public libraries and internet access, we are really talking about access for the half that can't afford computers. For the "rich" kids and "rich" adults, it's a non issue, they can go home, pay thier $22 a month, and enjoy the wonders of a unfiltered internet. Poor kids can't, nor can poor adults. That $22 might equal a meal or two. Given a choice between food and freedom, which would you choose? Public libraries are the only place where they can get this kind of access for free and hopefully learn something to better themselves. Without equal access to education, the playing field becomes uneven, and the poor have a right to call themselves "disadvantaged." Filter's don't work, how can they when humans have differing ideas of what is right and wrong? Free and public internet access is one small step towards achieving that goal.
give the merchant an even *better* deal if they agreed to *only* accept transactions using Passport
this is exactly what amEx tried to do. That is the reason a few years ago places would only accept AmEx. Merchants got a better rate from amex if they signed an exclusive deal. However, in the end, these merchants ended up losing money because most people got fed up with AmEx's annual fees and dumped the card in favor of visa. Now to choose between an establishment that accepts your credit card and one that doesn't doesn't take a lot of thought. Your going to go the place that lets you pay the way you want to pay. It's your money and they should be grateful you're giving it to them at all. Therefore, these merchants started losing potential sales. Case in point. for 18 years i went to this one chicago area indian restaurant. for 18 years, all they accepted was American Express and Diners Club. I moved, and when i came back for a visit, lo and behold, there was a visa sign in window. What i said above is what the owner told me happened.
I heard some enviormental group in california started putting bumber stickers on SUV's that said something like "I'm destroying the Enviorment, ask me how." The funny thing about these was that they were super strength and nearly impossible to get off. Anyone know more about it, and perhaps where to get some. I'd love to take some sort of revenge on all the stupid soccer mom's in lincoln navigators that have nearly killed me about three times in the last week.
That's really weird. I've been running a dual boot win98/mandrake and had a bunch of stuff fixed and they've never complained about seeing LILO on bootup.
anything going that fast is going to make alot of noise. Plus thier russian, thier stuff makes a lot of noise anyway. So they strike a hit on one target, then the attacking sub finds an entire carrier group coming after it after they trace the sound, assuming the sub was able to get close without being detected. Subs are pretty much defencless against an air attack. If found before the sub got in range, it would still be in big trouble.
BTW, indy cars (the type used in CART) go in excess of 230 mph
I was just writing a research paper for a class on surveillance. I look to procrastinate somemore and look what popped up. It even helped me prove one of my points. Thanks timothy.
I don't want to sound like an all knowing ass, cuz I know people in your situation feel often feel like no one else understands.
I have the same problem with making long term and close friends. All but two of my friendships fizzled after I left for college and moved away. Both of those friends i've had since the second grade. I've made a bunch of friends (for me) in college, but only one close one and one of my two remaing friendships from home had died. Mostly because that person believes many of the things you seem to, such as friendships can't last when people move away. I don't think that is true, you just have to be understanding when the other person can't be there as often as they should.
Also i don't think you need to have all common interests to be friends with someone. What's really needed is trust. It seems to me what really make friendships last is the ablity to tell thier friend what really matters to them. Which is why i've found you can't make friends doing things you don't like. If the people your with don't figure out that your just faking, you'll still find your self feeling fake and not really wanting to be in the company of them. Also, if you never open up to people, you can never move beyond the superficial Q:"hi how are you" A:"good (no matter how bad you feel)" level. It's a hard first step, on that i've only been able to make once in the last 9 years. but that's the only real way to make a long term friendship. In summery, just be real.
these are just my thoughts and my experiences, but i hope it helps you out.
yeah, if it's new york, you might end up sitting next to a punk kid with purple hair, a fag with aids, a twenty year old mother with six kids, a convict whose's been in jail six times, and last but not least, a redneck pitcher from georgia.
I recently read an article on this, don't remember where, so i can't give you a link, but there partnership with disney is what killed them. The problem was that it's impossible for a fast moving dot com to make an allaince with a beurocratic giant. Desicisons that used to take a day to make, now took a month. For example, Toysmart.com was supposed to be the exclusive online distributer of disney books. However, disney did not approve this untill after the christmas shopping season. Many problems exactly like that kept toysmart.com from being as succesfull as it could have been. And because they were not that profitable, Disney pulled the plug on them. The people at toysmart.com had no say in this matter, they actually wanted to keep the company going, but the bigshots at disney, which owned controlling intrest, decided just to shut it down, and take it's losses.
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Uh huh, "we have alot of options besides enganging in inapropriate military action."
If there are so many options, why havent' you recommended any? I'll give a few i can think of:
remove all the muslims from the united states. Oh wait that's really stupid and against what the US stands for.
Econonmic sanctions? umm what economy, there isn't any thing we we can to do afganistan to make it's economy worse
sit by and wait for bin laden to attack again so we can have people like you telling us we have a bunch of optoins. Oh wait, we already did that.
Frankly, i don't see anything else that we can do to reduce the power of Bin laden and other wanna be terrorists like him other than try to destory their military arsenals and reduce their cash funds, both of which are going two require some amount of military force. Sorry, but "can't we all just get along" does not work in the real world
When you live anywhere near the city, the most you can see is oh, about three stars. It's very difficult to be humbled by that. In fact, i pretty much forgot all about stars, space, and how small earth really is. Then, about a year ago, i took a trip to maui, and we went up mount haleakala (sp?), to see the sunrise. The sunrise is really hyped, but all i can remember about that morning are my freezing feet and looking up to see the ISS moving across the background of all those stars. It had been so long since i had seen anything like that. It's too bad that people cant see those sights on a regular basis. Our cities have enabled us to fulfill our self-serving philosophies.
Yeah, buying the extended warrenty was the smartest thing i did for my dell INSPIRON 3700. Every now and then, shit breaks, first the fan went. I called dell, said the fan was broken, and they had a guy out there the next day. Same for the lcd. Whenever, a part breaks, i call up and say "hey, this part is broken." They ship a new one the next day. I guess a lot of guys have had horror stories dealing with thier tech support, but they've always fixed mine promptly whenever anything bad happens.
Yeah, by that logic Mircosoft would never innovate cuz a larger army of Open Source coders would simply copy thier enhancements. oh wait....
don't you mean it's a lin/lin/lin ?
sigh... If only this were true. We could throw Ashcroft, Cheney, and everyone who supports the DMCA in jail, throw away the key and live happily ever after.
That's kinda funny. There at Emory, we all but own coke. When I first came here, we had about 4 billion in endowment in coke stock (probably about $2 total now). But i'm fairly surprised at the lack of coke logos around campus. Yeah, our cafeteria serves only coke products, but that holds true in most other college. However, you'd be hard pressed to find any logos in prominant places. You'd figure that it'd be all over the place so that they can help raise shareholder value.
It seems like Sun's already got hold of this idea. My cs department is about as anti - ms as you can get. Hardly a semester goes by without some insults veiled and unvieled towards Windows and Microsoft in general. Sun doesn't put advertisments on our boxen. They subsidies our departments computer spending. Therefore we get cheap sun boxes and in class anti-microsoft ads.
Bottom line, geeks are just to far apart physically for a lot of grassroots motivation type things to work
Standards have greatly improved the hardware market, imagine what will happen when almost the entire software market sees it this way. I'm not really sure what you mean by this. Standards have lead to a lot of cheap hardware, which is good for consumers, but bad for business. Whenever you make it easy for you competitor to sub thier parts with yours, the business is going to lose saies, and because of pricing pressure, lose some of thier profit marign. Why else would Mircrosoft use SMB instead of NFS? It's so that it is difficult to replace a few of those NT boxes solaris or linux. By not using standards, you keep people dependent on your software which is good for the software company. So on one hand, they can support standards and lose money, and on the other, they can use thier own methods and (potentially) make tons of it.
If they really want to decrypt encrypted communications easily, all they really have to do is prove P = NP :)
Also imagine a fully async. computer. No need for a new motherboard or even changing settings in the BIOS when new and faster RAM chips are available - the system will automatically adapt.
Now i'm not an engineer, but in the article it mentioned that it was important to have wires and gates connected in a special manner so the data arrives in the proper order. It seems to me that it would make the microprocessor more dependent on the hardware and not less so. Maybe this wouldn't be a problem if all of your RAM was the same speed, but it could cause a problem if you had one 100Mhz simm and one 133Mhz simm. I would think that the information coming from the 133 could screw things up. Can anyone clarify this for me?
I, for one, would much rather have a robotic baby than a human baby. If the robotic baby starts crying the night before a big presentation, I can just shut it off and deal with it whenever I have time. Can't do that with a human baby. Plus, you know what you're robotic baby isn't going to turn into a loud obnoxious teenager.
Now if they could only come up with a robotic girlfriend........ Unfortunatly, I probably still wouldn't know what to say to her.
Don't forget that you can have lots of horny interns when you're a congressman :) That's why i'm running for office as soon as i'm 25.
I'm assuming that you're a libertarian and automatically assume that the private sector can do it a lot better the government. Often true, but I don't see how any private library can compete with a public funded one. The costs, (land, books, maintanence, taxes, etc. ) would be enormous. Universities can do it, but that's because they get 20 grand from every student that enters thier institution. In either case, the monthly cost will have to be pretty high.
However, when we deal with issues regarding public libraries and internet access, we are really talking about access for the half that can't afford computers. For the "rich" kids and "rich" adults, it's a non issue, they can go home, pay thier $22 a month, and enjoy the wonders of a unfiltered internet. Poor kids can't, nor can poor adults. That $22 might equal a meal or two. Given a choice between food and freedom, which would you choose? Public libraries are the only place where they can get this kind of access for free and hopefully learn something to better themselves. Without equal access to education, the playing field becomes uneven, and the poor have a right to call themselves "disadvantaged." Filter's don't work, how can they when humans have differing ideas of what is right and wrong? Free and public internet access is one small step towards achieving that goal.
give the merchant an even *better* deal if they agreed to *only* accept transactions using Passport this is exactly what amEx tried to do. That is the reason a few years ago places would only accept AmEx. Merchants got a better rate from amex if they signed an exclusive deal. However, in the end, these merchants ended up losing money because most people got fed up with AmEx's annual fees and dumped the card in favor of visa. Now to choose between an establishment that accepts your credit card and one that doesn't doesn't take a lot of thought. Your going to go the place that lets you pay the way you want to pay. It's your money and they should be grateful you're giving it to them at all. Therefore, these merchants started losing potential sales. Case in point. for 18 years i went to this one chicago area indian restaurant. for 18 years, all they accepted was American Express and Diners Club. I moved, and when i came back for a visit, lo and behold, there was a visa sign in window. What i said above is what the owner told me happened.
I heard some enviormental group in california started putting bumber stickers on SUV's that said something like "I'm destroying the Enviorment, ask me how." The funny thing about these was that they were super strength and nearly impossible to get off. Anyone know more about it, and perhaps where to get some. I'd love to take some sort of revenge on all the stupid soccer mom's in lincoln navigators that have nearly killed me about three times in the last week.
That's really weird. I've been running a dual boot win98/mandrake and had a bunch of stuff fixed and they've never complained about seeing LILO on bootup.
anything going that fast is going to make alot of noise. Plus thier russian, thier stuff makes a lot of noise anyway. So they strike a hit on one target, then the attacking sub finds an entire carrier group coming after it after they trace the sound, assuming the sub was able to get close without being detected. Subs are pretty much defencless against an air attack. If found before the sub got in range, it would still be in big trouble. BTW, indy cars (the type used in CART) go in excess of 230 mph
I was just writing a research paper for a class on surveillance. I look to procrastinate somemore and look what popped up. It even helped me prove one of my points. Thanks timothy.
sorry for nitpicking, but hindi is one of the national languages of india. Hindu is the name of the religion.
I don't want to sound like an all knowing ass, cuz I know people in your situation feel often feel like no one else understands. I have the same problem with making long term and close friends. All but two of my friendships fizzled after I left for college and moved away. Both of those friends i've had since the second grade. I've made a bunch of friends (for me) in college, but only one close one and one of my two remaing friendships from home had died. Mostly because that person believes many of the things you seem to, such as friendships can't last when people move away. I don't think that is true, you just have to be understanding when the other person can't be there as often as they should. Also i don't think you need to have all common interests to be friends with someone. What's really needed is trust. It seems to me what really make friendships last is the ablity to tell thier friend what really matters to them. Which is why i've found you can't make friends doing things you don't like. If the people your with don't figure out that your just faking, you'll still find your self feeling fake and not really wanting to be in the company of them. Also, if you never open up to people, you can never move beyond the superficial Q:"hi how are you" A:"good (no matter how bad you feel)" level. It's a hard first step, on that i've only been able to make once in the last 9 years. but that's the only real way to make a long term friendship. In summery, just be real. these are just my thoughts and my experiences, but i hope it helps you out.
sorry was influenced by earlier post
I recently read an article on this, don't remember where, so i can't give you a link, but there partnership with disney is what killed them. The problem was that it's impossible for a fast moving dot com to make an allaince with a beurocratic giant. Desicisons that used to take a day to make, now took a month. For example, Toysmart.com was supposed to be the exclusive online distributer of disney books. However, disney did not approve this untill after the christmas shopping season. Many problems exactly like that kept toysmart.com from being as succesfull as it could have been. And because they were not that profitable, Disney pulled the plug on them. The people at toysmart.com had no say in this matter, they actually wanted to keep the company going, but the bigshots at disney, which owned controlling intrest, decided just to shut it down, and take it's losses.