Gates also funds a lot of education and health endeavors around the world.
However, you explicitly mantion liberals... is this as opposed to, say, the Koch Bros (second wealthiest family in the US), who are doing their best to tell us how to obey orders?
I relocated her in '09. This is the least friendly subway system I know of... and I lived in Philly, and Chicago, and am familiar somewhat with NYC, and a little with Boston's, and have even done the BART a couple of times.
For no known reason, they'll wait anywhere from 5 to 40 seconds *after* they come to a complete halt to open the doors. I presume this is some pseudo-Saftty thing (also, presumably dreamed up by someone who's never ridden a subway). Then they don't seem to be looking - it's close the doors.
And they're sealed cars, so if the HVAC isn't working, it's sweltering... unless they just block off the car.
And I have NEVER, EVER seen so many trains taken out of service, and forcing everyone onto the platform. *Maybe* I can remember it once or twice in 30 or 40 years of riding subways; then I got here, and I can't count the number of times I've had to gett off the train, and squeeze into a massivly overcrowded one.
Automated is fine at an airport, with small, small crowds or groups. In a real city, with hundreds of thousands of people riding every day? You need human decision making. AI ain't there yet, not for this.
mark "we won't talk about the broken elevators, and stops with *no* stairs"
How 'bout Dick Cheney? There *were* news stories (rapidly not followed up) when he leaked to the reporter that Valerie Plame was CIA, that a number of covert intellegence agents she personally was running disappeared, presumed dead.
Oh, that's right, no one was ever convicted of leakiing that, just one for "obstruction of justice".
A COBOL programmer, in 1998, is utterly beyond fed up with dealing with code for the upcoming y2k, and has himself put into cold sleep until after the year 2000. Something gets screwed up in the records, and he's left to sleep away millenia. Finally, they wake him up. He's appalled to learn it's the year 9998, and everything and everyone he knows is gone. On the other hand, he's *really* in The Future, and is looking forward to all the amazing things we've done.
"Just one question", he asks the team that woke him up, "why now?" The leader answers, "Well, we're about to roll over the year 10,000, and your records say you're a COBOL programmer...."
From a lot closer to home in the US... no teaching evolution, or claiming "creationism" is as good or better a theory, limited study of history, cut budgets for scientific research....
Oh, and your infantile "union-y" - your damn GOP have outsourced a *lot* of the government, so they can claim to have "cut the size of government" (and prevent people from joining unions). It's saved *so* much money... NOT. For example, I, personally, am a sysadmin for a federal contractor, and therefore "an engineer working for the US government". Your tax dollars not only pay me (and I get paid *exactly* comparable to GS salaries, and my benefits are similar. Oh, and you're paying for the contract administrator's time (a fed), and you're paying for my "on-site managemenet support" person's time (contractor), and our project manager's time (contractor), and *their* management, and, oh, yes, my company's profits.
SO much money saved... and many of the poisonous envrironment is due to GOP rules intended solely as anti-union (you don't beleve in freedom of association, either).
So, thanks *so* much for the ad hominem attack on *me*, and on the people I work with. You're an asshole.
Give me a break. This happend under *your* guys, W and Cheney, who brought you monstrous deficits via an illegal and immoral war of conquest (see the papers the US and the UK signed around, what, 05?), and tax breaks. Of course, you didn't get the real payback, but you imagine that Any Day Now, you'll be rich, and so they won't spy on you, or tax you....
So, skimming part of the article, she was affiliated with two groups that had "ties" to extremist organizations.
Please define the word "ties". For example, prove with hard evidence that the members of the group knew that they were directly supporting extremist groups. Or even that the officers were. Or that ANYONE OTHER THAN, say, one or two people who were *also* in other groups, including the fringe around the "terrorist" groups.
Go look up the Attorney General's List from the fifties and sixties. "Womens' Strike for Peace" was on it, and try to tell me that was a "terrorist" organization.
Fuck, the Abraham Lincoln Brigade was on it - they were Americans who went to Spain in the mid-thirties, to fight with the legally-elected left wing government against the fascists of Franco, who was supported by Hitler and Mussolini, and that's *NOT* an exaggeration. Oh, that's right, they were "pre-opposing" the fascists.
Yeah, "ties" - that's nothing more than a GOP, neofascist witch hunt against the woman.
I mean, most of the first wave that left Cuba with the Revolution were supporters of the Battista dictatorship, and the Mafia (who ran Havana). Come on, tell me that's not the case, and I'll call you either ignorant, or a liar.
But the US used to support *any* tin-plated dictator with delusions of grandeur, as long as they loudly and vocally claimed to be anti=Communist, never mind what they did to their own people. We "engaged" with China... what reason is there for the embargo?
Here's a possibility: they want to make their goals.
First, remember that the GOP in the US Congress almost killed US participation in the Space Station in the early nineties, and has kept the budget as low as they could.
Second... my late ex, who was an engineer at KSC and worked on both Station and Shuttle, told me how they got an Italian module for the Station... and connector valves were the *wrong* metal (she was also a metallurgist), which would have cause metal/metal corrosion, not really a good thing when you're in orbit. (Ask someone about, say, copper/steel (see ).
mark, who remembers when the US actually *meant* going to space
Let's talk about R. Do they know what it is? I don't use it... I'm a sysadmin. But a number of my users do, heavily.
How 'bout if I describe it this way it's free, and so it's a *lot* less expensive than the alternative: MatLab. That *is* what it's used for, guys. So, maybe it's "less popular" becuase the audience that uses it doesn't write, say, games or websites in it?
And CEO salaries? Why, when we can just laugh (other than at the cost of unscheduled landings and takeoffs) at people who can't afford business class?
What did you think steerage was? Are you *so* last century that you rembember free checked luggage, and free food (since you'd paid so much for the flight)? What, just because Americans have been growing larger for the last century (men going into the US Army, in WWI: 5'6, WWII, 5'8", 'Nam: 5'10") why should we make enough room for the majority of the population?
You don't like it, take the train (but we won't fund it, the way we do planes, with tax-paid airports, and transportation to the airports....)
mark "how many airline CEOs can fit in steerage with the rest of us?"
Item from 15 or so years ago: a guy posted online that he'd broken into the Pentagon's computers, and found the code for SDI, and it was written in lisp. He didn't want to break US security, but he did post the last five lines of the code.... (stupid slashdot edit filter - 5 lines of ) was not junk... at least, not in lisp....)
Keep cutting back on all that basic science, most of which is done by universities and the government. "Oh,", the Libertarians reply, "But companies will do the basic research, because it will lead to new things to monetize!"
Let's ignore that most companies are forward-looking... to *maybe* the next quarter. Let's ignore the fact that basic research may not pay off for years, or decades, or may not directly ever pay off in something that you can sell, the Sacred Free Market will take care of it all, and if it doesn't, it wasn't needed anyway.
mark, watching folks leave due to US fed gov't budget cuts....
Lo, these many years ago, when I'd just read it in a manual, and discussed it with my boss (who would have given Dilbert's a run for his money, but...) and asked him if he'd defenestrate anyone using it before or after firing them, and he told me before.....
Excerpt: That is not that case, authorities tell the L.A. Times.
"It didn't start with the books and it didn't end with the books," State's Attorney for Wicomico County Matt Maciarello told The Times. "It's not even a factor in what law enforcement is doing now."
In fact, McLaw has not been arrested. No warrant for his arrest has been issued.
Concerns about McLaw were raised after he sent a four-page letter to officials in Dorchester County. Those concerns brought together authorities from multiple jurisdictions, including health authorities.
McLaw's attorney, David Moore, tells The Times that his client was taken in for a mental health evaluation. "He is receiving treatment," Moore said.
Because of federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act regulations mandating privacy around healthcare issues, he was unable to say whether McLaw has been released.
McLaw's letter was of primary concern to healthcare officials, Maciarello says. It, combined with complaints of alleged harassment and an alleged possible crime from various jurisdictions led to his suspension. Maciarello cautions that these allegations are still being investigated; authorities, he says, "proceeded with great restraint." --- end excerpt ---
If you get one that's been out for 3-6 months, and is popular, it's got a really good chance of everything being supported. 9 months, and it's most likely got pretty much full support. If it's from a major manufacturer, and isn't targeted at a specific market, it's likely supported.
I bought a Gigabyte Series 7 m/b late last year. Back in Jan, my 6-yr-old m/b died, and I rebuilt my system. I run CentOS, same as RHEL, which is *not* "cutting" (or bleeding) edge like fedora, and *everything* was supported. Just watch out for FUD, and try to get some feel whether there's a *lot* of screaming out there about Linux not supporting something, or it's just one or two idiots making a lot of noise that's getting propagated.
Or anything other than this? I mean, "detained for 15 days" - is that like "arrested and jailed for two weeks (or whatever) for disobeying a police officer", that happens in the US all the time? And at least he didn't put his hands up and yell "I'm not armed", and get shot down by the police officer.....
Now, for you slashdotters who have no clues whatever, who've never actually, you know, gone out to a protest in the RW, in their meat bodies, here's what actually happens: a) there's the folks in the legal protest area; b) if it includes this, there's the civil disobedience area, where they sit down, and the cops arrest them and put them in a holding tank in jail, c) there's the roving civil disobedience, and d) there's the crazies and agents provocateurs who break windows, or (rarely) burn cars, etc.
Now about a news story: where was Dmitry, and how did he happen to face a police officer, and what happened? The story, as posted, is not a story, just a few tweets by the guy in question.
If so, you're idiots. Show me where he asked for the resignation of everyone appointed by Bush and Cheney.
And tell me that there aren't folks who work for the government who wouldn't like to hurt him.
As a couple of datapoints, 10-12 years ago, in the mainstream press, were two stories, not many months apart: first, Dem. Congressman David Thomas was prevented from flying, because his name was on the no-fly list, and it took *him* two weeks to get it off.
How many folks do *you* know named David Thomas... or is that your name?
And then there was the other case, and that did *not* end well for the TSA... when they tried to keep Sen. Ted Kennedy from flying, claiming his name was on the no-fly list.
Come on, all of you on the right, let's see you posting screams of rage against Bush and Cheney for *pure* political persecution.
a) change providers, or b) talk to a lawyer. Really. See if they'll take it on spec. If not, it might be worth paying some money, since *sometimes* all it takes is a lawyer letter to their legal service address to get them to move.
Is there anyone here who makes death threats against someone they don't know personally (and who would know if it was or was not a joke), and does not expect them to go to the authorities, or expect a knock at their RW door by people with badges and a warrant?
I mean, really? If so, I think they think they've uploaded their brains to a video game. Sorry, guys, the RW *always* wins.
mark, whose duaghters and son would probably be able to track the poster to their home for the cops... oh, or
since it's over the wire, the FBI?
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Gates also funds a lot of education and health endeavors around the world.
However, you explicitly mantion liberals... is this as opposed to, say, the Koch Bros (second wealthiest family in the US), who are doing their best to tell us how to obey orders?
mark
I relocated her in '09. This is the least friendly subway system I know of... and I lived in Philly, and Chicago, and am familiar somewhat with NYC, and a little with Boston's, and have even done the BART a couple of times.
For no known reason, they'll wait anywhere from 5 to 40 seconds *after* they come to a complete halt to open the doors. I presume this is some pseudo-Saftty thing (also, presumably dreamed up by someone who's never ridden a subway). Then they don't seem to be looking - it's close the doors.
And they're sealed cars, so if the HVAC isn't working, it's sweltering... unless they just block off the car.
And I have NEVER, EVER seen so many trains taken out of service, and forcing everyone onto the platform. *Maybe* I can remember it once or twice in 30 or 40 years of riding subways; then I got here, and I can't count the number of times I've had to gett off the train, and squeeze into a massivly overcrowded one.
Automated is fine at an airport, with small, small crowds or groups. In a real city, with hundreds of thousands of people riding every day? You need human decision making. AI ain't there yet, not for this.
mark "we won't talk about the broken elevators, and stops with *no* stairs"
How 'bout Dick Cheney? There *were* news stories (rapidly not followed up) when he leaked to the reporter that Valerie Plame was CIA, that a number of covert intellegence agents she personally was running disappeared, presumed dead.
Oh, that's right, no one was ever convicted of leakiing that, just one for "obstruction of justice".
mark
A COBOL programmer, in 1998, is utterly beyond fed up with dealing with code for the upcoming y2k, and has himself put into cold sleep until after the year 2000. Something gets screwed up in the records, and he's left to sleep away millenia. Finally, they wake him up. He's appalled to learn it's the year 9998, and everything and everyone he knows is gone. On the other hand, he's *really* in The Future, and is looking forward to all the amazing things we've done.
"Just one question", he asks the team that woke him up, "why now?"
The leader answers, "Well, we're about to roll over the year 10,000, and your records say you're a COBOL programmer...."
mark
From a lot closer to home in the US... no teaching evolution, or claiming "creationism" is as good or better a theory, limited study of history, cut budgets for scientific research....
They'll get along with the GOP really well.
mark
Yes, and unfuck you, too.
Oh, and your infantile "union-y" - your damn GOP have outsourced a *lot* of the government, so they can claim to have "cut the size of government" (and prevent people from joining unions). It's saved *so* much money... NOT. For example,
I, personally, am a sysadmin for a federal contractor, and therefore "an engineer working for the US government". Your tax dollars not only pay me (and I get paid *exactly* comparable to GS salaries, and my benefits are similar. Oh, and you're paying for the contract administrator's time (a fed), and you're paying for my "on-site managemenet support" person's time (contractor), and our project manager's time (contractor), and *their* management, and, oh, yes, my company's profits.
SO much money saved... and many of the poisonous envrironment is due to GOP rules intended solely as anti-union (you don't beleve in freedom of association, either).
So, thanks *so* much for the ad hominem attack on *me*, and on the people I work with. You're an asshole.
mark
Give me a break. This happend under *your* guys, W and Cheney, who brought you monstrous deficits via an illegal and immoral war of conquest (see the papers the US and the UK signed around, what, 05?), and tax breaks. Of course, you didn't get the real payback, but you imagine that Any Day Now, you'll be rich, and so they won't spy on you, or tax you....
mark
So, skimming part of the article, she was affiliated with two groups that had "ties" to extremist organizations.
Please define the word "ties". For example, prove with hard evidence that the members of the group knew that they were directly supporting extremist groups. Or even that the officers were. Or that ANYONE OTHER THAN, say, one or two people who were *also* in other groups, including the fringe around the "terrorist" groups.
Go look up the Attorney General's List from the fifties and sixties. "Womens' Strike for Peace" was on it, and try to tell me that was a "terrorist" organization.
Fuck, the Abraham Lincoln Brigade was on it - they were Americans who went to Spain in the mid-thirties, to fight with the legally-elected left wing government against the fascists of Franco, who was supported by Hitler and Mussolini, and that's *NOT* an exaggeration. Oh, that's right, they were "pre-opposing" the fascists.
Yeah, "ties" - that's nothing more than a GOP, neofascist witch hunt against the woman.
mark
I mean, most of the first wave that left Cuba with the Revolution were supporters of the Battista dictatorship, and the Mafia (who ran Havana). Come on, tell me that's not the case, and I'll call you either ignorant, or a liar.
But the US used to support *any* tin-plated dictator with delusions of grandeur, as long as they loudly and vocally claimed to be anti=Communist, never mind what they did to their own people. We "engaged" with China... what reason is there for the embargo?
mark
Here's a possibility: they want to make their goals.
First, remember that the GOP in the US Congress almost killed US participation in the Space Station in the early nineties, and has kept the budget as low as they could.
Second... my late ex, who was an engineer at KSC and worked on both Station and Shuttle, told me how they got an Italian module for the Station... and connector valves were the *wrong* metal (she was also a metallurgist), which would have cause metal/metal corrosion, not really a good thing when you're in orbit. (Ask someone about, say, copper/steel (see ).
mark, who remembers when the US actually *meant* going to space
Let's talk about R. Do they know what it is? I don't use it... I'm a sysadmin. But a number of my users do, heavily.
How 'bout if I describe it this way it's free, and so it's a *lot* less expensive than the alternative: MatLab. That *is* what it's used for, guys. So, maybe it's "less popular" becuase the audience that uses it doesn't write, say, games or websites in it?
mark
And CEO salaries? Why, when we can just laugh (other than at the cost of unscheduled landings and takeoffs) at people who can't afford business class?
What did you think steerage was? Are you *so* last century that you rembember free checked luggage, and free food (since you'd paid so much for the flight)? What, just because Americans have been growing larger for the last century (men going into the US Army, in WWI: 5'6, WWII, 5'8", 'Nam: 5'10") why should we make enough room for the majority of the population?
You don't like it, take the train (but we won't fund it, the way we do planes, with tax-paid airports, and transportation to the airports....)
mark "how many airline CEOs can fit in steerage with the rest of us?"
Ok, someone has to mention lisp.
Item from 15 or so years ago: a guy posted online that he'd broken into the Pentagon's computers, and found the code for SDI, and it was written in lisp. He didn't want to break US security, but he did post the last five lines of the code.... (stupid slashdot edit filter - 5 lines of ) was not junk... at least, not in lisp....)
mark
Just about exactly the same size....
mark
Keep cutting back on all that basic science, most of which is done by universities and the government. "Oh,", the Libertarians reply, "But companies will do the basic research, because it will lead to new things to monetize!"
Let's ignore that most companies are forward-looking... to *maybe* the next quarter. Let's ignore the fact that basic research may not pay off for years, or decades, or may not directly ever pay off in something that you can sell, the Sacred Free Market will take care of it all, and if it doesn't, it wasn't needed anyway.
mark, watching folks leave due to US fed gov't budget cuts....
The alter command in COBOL.
Lo, these many years ago, when I'd just read it in a manual, and discussed it with my boss (who would have given Dilbert's a run for his money, but...) and asked him if he'd defenestrate anyone using it before or after firing them, and he told me before.....
mark
Excerpt:
That is not that case, authorities tell the L.A. Times.
"It didn't start with the books and it didn't end with the books," State's Attorney for Wicomico County Matt Maciarello told The Times. "It's not even a factor in what law enforcement is doing now."
In fact, McLaw has not been arrested. No warrant for his arrest has been issued.
Concerns about McLaw were raised after he sent a four-page letter to officials in Dorchester County. Those concerns brought together authorities from multiple jurisdictions, including health authorities.
McLaw's attorney, David Moore, tells The Times that his client was taken in for a mental health evaluation. "He is receiving treatment," Moore said.
Because of federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act regulations mandating privacy around healthcare issues, he was unable to say whether McLaw has been released.
McLaw's letter was of primary concern to healthcare officials, Maciarello says. It, combined with complaints of alleged harassment and an alleged possible crime from various jurisdictions led to his suspension. Maciarello cautions that these allegations are still being investigated; authorities, he says, "proceeded with great restraint."
--- end excerpt ---
http : // www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/la-et-jc-teacher-was-not-placed-on-leave-over-books-authorities-say-20140902,0,1577239.story
mark
If you get one that's been out for 3-6 months, and is popular, it's got a really good chance of everything being supported. 9 months, and it's most likely got pretty much full support. If it's from a major manufacturer, and isn't targeted at a specific market, it's likely supported.
I bought a Gigabyte Series 7 m/b late last year. Back in Jan, my 6-yr-old m/b died, and I rebuilt my system. I run CentOS, same as RHEL, which is *not* "cutting" (or bleeding) edge like fedora, and *everything* was supported. Just watch out for FUD, and try to get some feel whether there's a *lot* of screaming out there about Linux not supporting something, or it's just one or two idiots making a lot of noise that's getting propagated.
mark
Were they eating *exactly* the same foods, bar the differnce in fat and carbs, AND NOTHING ELSE?
Even more, which group was getting more high fructose corn syrup?
mark
Or anything other than this? I mean, "detained for 15 days" - is that like "arrested and jailed for two weeks (or whatever) for disobeying a police officer", that happens in the US all the time? And at least he didn't put his hands up and yell "I'm not armed", and get shot down by the police officer.....
Now, for you slashdotters who have no clues whatever, who've never actually, you know, gone out to a protest in the RW, in their meat bodies, here's what actually happens: a) there's the folks in the legal protest area; b) if it includes this, there's the civil disobedience area, where they sit down, and the cops arrest them and put them in a holding tank in jail, c) there's the roving civil disobedience, and d) there's the crazies and agents provocateurs who break windows, or (rarely) burn cars, etc.
Now about a news story: where was Dmitry, and how did he happen to face a police officer, and what happened? The story, as posted, is not a story, just a few tweets by the guy in question.
mark
And they'll reboot RH using grub2
mark
If so, you're idiots. Show me where he asked for the resignation of everyone appointed by Bush and Cheney.
And tell me that there aren't folks who work for the government who wouldn't like to hurt him.
As a couple of datapoints, 10-12 years ago, in the mainstream press, were two stories, not many months apart: first, Dem. Congressman David Thomas was prevented from flying, because his name was on the no-fly list, and it took *him* two weeks to get it off.
How many folks do *you* know named David Thomas... or is that your name?
And then there was the other case, and that did *not* end well for the TSA... when they tried to keep Sen. Ted Kennedy from flying, claiming his name was on the no-fly list.
Come on, all of you on the right, let's see you posting screams of rage against Bush and Cheney for *pure* political persecution.
mark
Krypton?
mark "it had to be asked"
a) change providers, or
b) talk to a lawyer. Really. See if they'll take it on spec. If not, it might be worth paying some money, since *sometimes* all it takes is a lawyer letter to their legal service address to get them to move.
mark
Is there anyone here who makes death threats against someone they don't know personally (and who would know if it was or was not a joke), and does not expect them to go to the authorities, or expect a knock at their RW door by people with badges and a warrant?
I mean, really? If so, I think they think they've uploaded their brains to a video game. Sorry, guys, the RW *always* wins.
mark, whose duaghters and son would probably be able to track the poster to their home for the cops... oh, or
since it's over the wire, the FBI?