Ours is an island nation even though it doesn't appear to be. This fact has kept us insulated from two world wars and many other conflicts.
No, actually I think it was not having the financial wherewithal to engage aggression overseas that kept us out of wars in the past. Actually, come to think of it, we never have kept out of wars in the past, not even the two World Wars. "The ocean is wide" but your story here is shallow.
Being able to place a force in the vicinity of an ally quickly is also a tangible show of support in a tense situation.
Assuming you have any allies left, of course...
The skills necessary to produce a 100,000 ton 1100ft long, 300 ft wide, nuclear-powered aircraft carrier don't really transfer well to civil shipbuilding.
Voyager of the Seas
Operator: Royal Caribbean Int.
Builder: Kværner Masa-Yards
Inaugurated: 1999
Gross Tonnage: 137,268 gt
Length: 1,021 ft. / 311 m
Capacity (double occupancy): 3,114
Full Capacity: 3,838
Space Ratio: 44.1 / 35.8
Crew: 1,180
Berlitz® Rating: ****
So while the Roosevelt carries more crew, I am fairly sure it has a lower space ratio, and probably doesn't even have a Berlitz rating at all. Nevertheless, both ships are naval engineering projects of comparably huge size, cost and technological prowess. For instance, Voyager can move sideways into a berth, and can make a 180 degree turn within its own length. Can CVN-71 do that? I think not.
In a capitalist society, the RIAA has the right to set whatever price they wish, and enter into agreements with whomever they wish and on whatever grounds they agree on.
The USA is not a capitalist society. In this country, we have a regulated market. The government can decide to intervene in an industry if it serves the national inrterest. In the 1980's Reagan intervened in the private dispute between traffic controllers and the airlines, and fired the striking controllers. In a capitalist society, the government would have been powerless to intervene in that private labor dispute.
The government can intervene here, too. Don't let Ayn Rand kid you, free markets have never existed in modern civilizations.
Your statement condemning the game as boring paints you as a power leveling kind of person that is disinterested in personal interaction and more interested in just running around slaughtering who and what you can...
Look, for the last time and for the love of GOD will you please STOP TALKING?!?! Or I will have to shoot you.
That is why business needs to be regulated. It has nothing within itself to restrain its own excesses, therefore regulation is required.
Come up with a self-regulating capitalistic free-market economy and I'll join you in tossing out regulation after regulation. Until then, laws - with teeth - must be used to keep business from owning the world and leasing it back to us.
I get a laugh out of people complaining that their rights are being violated because they can't go to a public library and look at pornography.
Who says that's what is desired? What if I want to read an editorial about the influence of pornography, or even an article about this Supreme Court ruling? Both of those are likely to be blocked by ham-handed filtering software (and note that there is no other kind of filtering software but the ham-handed kind).
Adults, the government also noted, can ask librarians to disable the filters.
So when you go in to use the library, ask the have the filters disabled. It's as simple as that. If they refuse, refer to this court decision and insist upon it. I did not know in all the debate leading up to this decision that CIPA permitted adult patrons to get the filtered turned off if they wish. It'd be nice if you editor types would bother to include that sort of detail in your stories. It makes a HUGE difference in the impact of this ruling.
If you don't use the library for internet access, what is your problem with this? Any adult who wishes to browse unfiltered may do so just for the asking. I have no problem with that. If enough people do it, large libraries would probably set aside some unfiltered PCs for adult-only use, to relieve staff of the burden of enabling and disabling it repeatedly.
Akonix makes software products for managing, sniffing and logging IM traffic. I've never used them, but they call me from time to time to try and get me to spearhead a project to make this a company priority so they can sell me their stuff.
Yeah right. I'm also considering the cold call from the guy who wants me to move to a new data center. Bright idea there, cold call the person who will have to do the work and try to sell him 6 months of 12-hour days. LOL!
Unless you have a fantastic firewall, instant messaging loggin can be circumvented by tunneling.
Not a great idea to try if you are a broker who works for a firm with a IM retention policy. Your tunnel would cost you your job if discovered. And for what?
Have the representatives of the people once again intentionally forgotten that little fact: they represent the will of the people, and they govern solely at the sufferance and will of the people?
Probably not. But they probably do know that the people's sufferance is nearly infinite, and their will infinitesimal.
Can anyone think of a scenario where innocents could be hurt?
Worm, virus, security breach, human error - there are lots of ways an innocent party could fall victim to shoddy law enforcement with little oversight.
Why does this story remind me of Gordy's tale from the movie "Stand By Me" about Lardass and how he got his revenge for being picked on by vomiting all over the pie eating contest?
Bayesian spam filters will quickly learn to recognize Received-From headers bearing the stolen IPs.
Duh, they just as quickly UNLEARN those same addresses when the sewage stops spilling. Bayesian classifiers have NOTHING to do with "scorched earth" network blocks, and never have.
The real problem is private access_db blacklists that someone tosses an address into, and forgets about it. The next guy that takes his admin job doesn't even know it's there.
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No, actually I think it was not having the financial wherewithal to engage aggression overseas that kept us out of wars in the past. Actually, come to think of it, we never have kept out of wars in the past, not even the two World Wars. "The ocean is wide" but your story here is shallow.
Being able to place a force in the vicinity of an ally quickly is also a tangible show of support in a tense situation.
Assuming you have any allies left, of course...
The skills necessary to produce a 100,000 ton 1100ft long, 300 ft wide, nuclear-powered aircraft carrier don't really transfer well to civil shipbuilding.
Voyager of the Seas
So while the Roosevelt carries more crew, I am fairly sure it has a lower space ratio, and probably doesn't even have a Berlitz rating at all. Nevertheless, both ships are naval engineering projects of comparably huge size, cost and technological prowess. For instance, Voyager can move sideways into a berth, and can make a 180 degree turn within its own length. Can CVN-71 do that? I think not.
In a capitalist society, the RIAA has the right to set whatever price they wish, and enter into agreements with whomever they wish and on whatever grounds they agree on.
The USA is not a capitalist society. In this country, we have a regulated market. The government can decide to intervene in an industry if it serves the national inrterest. In the 1980's Reagan intervened in the private dispute between traffic controllers and the airlines, and fired the striking controllers. In a capitalist society, the government would have been powerless to intervene in that private labor dispute.
The government can intervene here, too. Don't let Ayn Rand kid you, free markets have never existed in modern civilizations.
You mods are on crack. Ammonia lakes on the 900 F surface of Venus? Silicon life forms? Are you all John Edwards fans, or what?
Your statement condemning the game as boring paints you as a power leveling kind of person that is disinterested in personal interaction and more interested in just running around slaughtering who and what you can...
Look, for the last time and for the love of GOD will you please STOP TALKING?!?! Or I will have to shoot you.
It's not a change in position. The company in question is using Hormel's mark in commerce, not just in conversation like we are using it here.
We're hiring. But you don't need to bother to apply. It's a Unix SA position, we don't run MS.
Confused? That's why you don't need to apply.
I came up with Batmi Riden for my Star Wars name.
By golly, it works!
That is why business needs to be regulated. It has nothing within itself to restrain its own excesses, therefore regulation is required.
Come up with a self-regulating capitalistic free-market economy and I'll join you in tossing out regulation after regulation. Until then, laws - with teeth - must be used to keep business from owning the world and leasing it back to us.
I get a laugh out of people complaining that their rights are being violated because they can't go to a public library and look at pornography.
Who says that's what is desired? What if I want to read an editorial about the influence of pornography, or even an article about this Supreme Court ruling? Both of those are likely to be blocked by ham-handed filtering software (and note that there is no other kind of filtering software but the ham-handed kind).
According to the WP article:
Adults, the government also noted, can ask librarians to disable the filters.
So when you go in to use the library, ask the have the filters disabled. It's as simple as that. If they refuse, refer to this court decision and insist upon it. I did not know in all the debate leading up to this decision that CIPA permitted adult patrons to get the filtered turned off if they wish. It'd be nice if you editor types would bother to include that sort of detail in your stories. It makes a HUGE difference in the impact of this ruling.
If you don't use the library for internet access, what is your problem with this? Any adult who wishes to browse unfiltered may do so just for the asking. I have no problem with that. If enough people do it, large libraries would probably set aside some unfiltered PCs for adult-only use, to relieve staff of the burden of enabling and disabling it repeatedly.
CNN, MSNBC, FoxNews, ABC/Disney, and ALL of the others seem to be based on pure viceral knee-jerk reporting.
"Welcome... to the real world."
Let's not turn this into a farce people.
Tell that to Hatch. We're not the ones advocating vigilantism.
Akonix makes software products for managing, sniffing and logging IM traffic. I've never used them, but they call me from time to time to try and get me to spearhead a project to make this a company priority so they can sell me their stuff.
Yeah right. I'm also considering the cold call from the guy who wants me to move to a new data center. Bright idea there, cold call the person who will have to do the work and try to sell him 6 months of 12-hour days. LOL!
How locked down? PuTTY can do SSH through any HTTP proxy ...
Say goodbye to your job as a trader. Exactly what is it about IM that makes people hatch plans to get fired over it?
Unless you have a fantastic firewall, instant messaging loggin can be circumvented by tunneling.
Not a great idea to try if you are a broker who works for a firm with a IM retention policy. Your tunnel would cost you your job if discovered. And for what?
Have the representatives of the people once again intentionally forgotten that little fact: they represent the will of the people, and they govern solely at the sufferance and will of the people?
Probably not. But they probably do know that the people's sufferance is nearly infinite, and their will infinitesimal.
(why did the lameness filter try to block this?)
Maybe it's using a Bayesian classifier now, and your post scored lots of hits against tokens in the lame.db.
Can anyone think of a scenario where innocents could be hurt?
Worm, virus, security breach, human error - there are lots of ways an innocent party could fall victim to shoddy law enforcement with little oversight.
Why does this story remind me of Gordy's tale from the movie "Stand By Me" about Lardass and how he got his revenge for being picked on by vomiting all over the pie eating contest?
Bayesian spam filters will quickly learn to recognize Received-From headers bearing the stolen IPs.
Duh, they just as quickly UNLEARN those same addresses when the sewage stops spilling. Bayesian classifiers have NOTHING to do with "scorched earth" network blocks, and never have.
The real problem is private access_db blacklists that someone tosses an address into, and forgets about it. The next guy that takes his admin job doesn't even know it's there.
Singer, that is. Marc Singer. ...118...119...120
Also: "Beastmaster"
And don't forget "Lancelot: Guardian of Time"
When's the next Marc Springer marathon on TVLand?
It's bad for the people who enjoyed the TV-Series and liked the character build up and events that took place in it.
I'm sure they will both adjust to it.
What will my unix *zip programs be compatible with?
Zip.
Yeah, like you're gonna take up frikin' sewing. Uh-huh.