Just remember to leave enough farmland to keep you fed. You don't want to go back to picking berries, do you?
Kinda difficult to maintain 300 mill people in the US that way. Imagine the LA/NY people going out to the forest for a foraging trip every day of the year.
You gotta love that. Fancy suit people picking strawberries. Lovely.
Last time I heard DDT was seriously bad for people too (I school it was one of the examples of the fallacies of concentrating on immediate toxicity when evaluating chemicals, as opposed to prolonged exposure experiments.).
Although it looks like the teratogenic and carcinogenic effect of DDT are both disputed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT#Impact_on_human_h ealth
"Thirdly, terrorism. You don't get coal-fired suicide bombers."
But you still have explosives lost and stolen from mines. That can be used for terrorism... there are many more coal mines than uranium mines. Thus the chance for explosives getting stolen from there is higher.
And you can have all the milk you can get off buffalos. I'll stick to regular cows. They are hard enough to milk and they are not nearly as twitchy as buffalos.
How come everyone makes these murder comments as Anonymous Coward? Are you afraid of something?
I found the following on the talkback page: "Yesterday came the announcement of Hans Reiser's arrest for the murder of his missing missus. Yeah, I know: "innocent until" and whatever, but OJ and Scott Peterson have already blown that curve.
Today comes news of a new and potentially powerful Ext4 fs. I find this welcome and timely news.
I'm presently, happily running linux via knoppix on my Toshiba laptop. As of yesterday's news, however, I'm feeling kindof dirty; my little 60Gb hard drive is running on reiserfs 3.
I will, as soon as I can practically do so, upgrade my OS and its file system to something, ext4 or otherwise, that is not associated with a suspected murderer.
Genious does not excuse immoral or illegal behavior: I don't care if reiserfs4 can read/write files at petabytes-per-millisecond; wrong is wrong.
I encourage all other linux users to boycott using resierfs as a statement that morality still means something.
We don't allow this sort of behavior from our politicians or other public officials. We don't excuse it for our football or basketball heroes. Why should we do so for our open-source gurus?
I say we shouldn't.
Linux has its own mountains to climb without having to be bogged down with salacious crap like this.
We should, as a community, put reiserfs behind us. Let us bury this now in the dirt where it belongs, then salt the earth."
This is so much bullshit I could cry. Hans does not benefit from me using reiserfs... Why should I drop it? Even if he is convicted that doesn't mean he is guilty. Even if he was he can still be a great programmer. I don't want him to marry my sister, but that's whole another matter.
I think sometimes innocent people are sentenced. So it's good to put everyone away for life who is thought to have killed someone...
Just as it's not all that good an idea to execute them. What if you realize 5 years later that he/she didn't do it? Daddy wasn't a killer afterall, we deeply regret our mistake.
Succintly put. I had been thinking about a visit to the US this summers. Then I looked up the visa requirements. I passed...
Those look like the US has no need for international tourism. First time I went there they even asked me if I was an HIV carrier (along with sexual orientation and such. And this was in 1997...). My money isn't needed there, I go where the burocracy at least pretends to be happy for me wasting my time and money on their turf.
IA64 isn't what Conroe is using. That's EMT64 or sth like that. IA64 is Itanium's instruction set.
EMT and x86-64 (by AMD) are largely compatible. Not fully, but enough to make all OSes I know about to run on both without problems.
As for the platform change... We still use Intel Xeons and P4s because we are stocked to high heavens with them... around 60 servers alltogether. I just didn't want to add a 3rd and 4rth and nth platform to the mix. Once the parts we use become unavailable we will move to sth else. I'll take look then what's on the market that looks like staying around for a long time. Until that point part interchangeability is very handy when sth dies on you.
Similarly we try to use the same mainboard and memory and storage controllers all over the place.
Please, do post images of the autoclaved mouse on the net.
Thanks.
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"cleaning" does not kill germs. It pushes them around a bit. Disinfection does. Which I practically never do anywhere except for the kitchen sink, garbage can and the bathroom/toilet.
Speaking of which, the average publich toilet gets a thorough (?:-)) scrubbing with nasty disinfectants several times a day. I would expect it to be cleaner than say my keyboard. I would not want to dip that in Domestos/Bref whatever.
I admin a bunch of domains and I receive most of the spam I get through (abuse|postmaster)@.*
It's really annoying because I cannot really close those accounts. And I can't afford to just drop all traffic to them either.
I have encountered numerous Linux kernel bugs that took the machine down with nasty panics during stability testing. And these were supermicro server boards with Intel Xeons...
In fact these days I have 'stress -d 2 -c 4 -m 4 -i 4' run on every new kernel build I make for at least 2 days before mass deployment. And interestingly every once in a while it does trigger obscure bugs. Mostly file system, SCSI/RAID drivers and memory management problems.
Which is a kind of sad. I would expect an OS with such a zealous following to be more reliable than that. But hey... It's still the one I use because this is the OS I have the best chance getting to work.
Or have a badly written driver bundled with some low end hardware.
Which is not Microsoft's fault but still a common issue with budget purchases.
Sometimes even with not so budget purchases. (Like HP printers with their associated dll hell...)
The energy content of the crop does not come from the water it uses. That comes from the Sun.
So it may be feasible to use some of the produced biofuels for desalinization. Even so I think you are right in a sense. Desalinization may take all or much of the produced energy away.
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Is that really 500million pounds? Or is it a typo? If so, why don't they build themselves one?
wouldn't "wget -i textfile_of_urls.txt" have done this much simpler?
agree.
besides downmoderating is for jerks.
Oops. Sorry.
Morons not jerks.
[Slightly OT]
:-P
Yeah, and please don't let Red Hat own the name Linux.
I am sick of people posting about Linux 6.0 or whatever.
We can expect people to talk in precise terms, but it's not going to happen in the foreseeable future
[/Slightly OT]
And somebody wasted a mod point on this... I wish people would learn not to down but up moderate. Far more useful I think.
Yeah, well we still have the bird flu for that.
Just remember to leave enough farmland to keep you fed.
You don't want to go back to picking berries, do you?
Kinda difficult to maintain 300 mill people in the US that way.
Imagine the LA/NY people going out to the forest for a foraging trip every day of the year.
You gotta love that. Fancy suit people picking strawberries. Lovely.
Last time I heard DDT was seriously bad for people too (I school it was one of the examples of the fallacies of concentrating on immediate toxicity when evaluating chemicals, as opposed to prolonged exposure experiments.). Although it looks like the teratogenic and carcinogenic effect of DDT are both disputed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT#Impact_on_human_h ealth
"Thirdly, terrorism. You don't get coal-fired suicide bombers."
But you still have explosives lost and stolen from mines. That can be used for terrorism...
there are many more coal mines than uranium mines. Thus the chance for explosives getting stolen from there is higher.
And you can have all the milk you can get off buffalos.
I'll stick to regular cows. They are hard enough to milk and they are not nearly as twitchy as buffalos.
Suggestions:
- Unobtainium
- Fraudulentium
- Unseenium
- Suggestium
How come everyone makes these murder comments as Anonymous Coward?
Are you afraid of something?
I found the following on the talkback page:
"Yesterday came the announcement of Hans Reiser's arrest for the murder of his missing missus. Yeah, I know: "innocent until" and whatever, but OJ and Scott Peterson have already blown that curve.
Today comes news of a new and potentially powerful Ext4 fs. I find this welcome and timely news.
I'm presently, happily running linux via knoppix on my Toshiba laptop. As of yesterday's news, however, I'm feeling kindof dirty; my little 60Gb hard drive is running on reiserfs 3.
I will, as soon as I can practically do so, upgrade my OS and its file system to something, ext4 or otherwise, that is not associated with a suspected murderer.
Genious does not excuse immoral or illegal behavior: I don't care if reiserfs4 can read/write files at petabytes-per-millisecond; wrong is wrong.
I encourage all other linux users to boycott using resierfs as a statement that morality still means something.
We don't allow this sort of behavior from our politicians or other public officials. We don't excuse it for our football or basketball heroes. Why should we do so for our open-source gurus?
I say we shouldn't.
Linux has its own mountains to climb without having to be bogged down with salacious crap like this.
We should, as a community, put reiserfs behind us. Let us bury this now in the dirt where it belongs, then salt the earth."
This is so much bullshit I could cry. Hans does not benefit from me using reiserfs... Why should I drop it?
Even if he is convicted that doesn't mean he is guilty. Even if he was he can still be a great programmer.
I don't want him to marry my sister, but that's whole another matter.
I think sometimes innocent people are sentenced.
So it's good to put everyone away for life who is thought to have killed someone...
Just as it's not all that good an idea to execute them. What if you realize 5 years later that he/she didn't do it?
Daddy wasn't a killer afterall, we deeply regret our mistake.
Thus the intersection of the two groups should be even smaller.
"Fuck the USA. I'm never going near there again."
Succintly put.
I had been thinking about a visit to the US this summers. Then I looked up the visa requirements.
I passed...
Those look like the US has no need for international tourism. First time I went there they even asked me if I was an HIV carrier (along with sexual orientation and such. And this was in 1997...).
My money isn't needed there, I go where the burocracy at least pretends to be happy for me wasting my time and money on their turf.
btw it was _WAY_ easier to get a Russian visa.
I don't know what's this to you US people...
I always carry my ID. I can be asked to present my ID by street patrol at any time.
I am required to carry my ID at all times when I leave my home.
Only once have I been actually asked to show my ID by a policeman in all my 31 years of existence.
Do I feel I am less free because of this? Nope.
It's just one of those strange obsessions I guess.
IA64 isn't what Conroe is using.
That's EMT64 or sth like that. IA64 is Itanium's instruction set.
EMT and x86-64 (by AMD) are largely compatible. Not fully, but enough to make all OSes I know about to run on both without problems.
As for the platform change... We still use Intel Xeons and P4s because we are stocked to high heavens with them... around 60 servers alltogether. I just didn't want to add a 3rd and 4rth and nth platform to the mix. Once the parts we use become unavailable we will move to sth else. I'll take look then what's on the market that looks like staying around for a long time. Until that point part interchangeability is very handy when sth dies on you.
Similarly we try to use the same mainboard and memory and storage controllers all over the place.
Please, do post images of the autoclaved mouse on the net. Thanks.
"cleaning" does not kill germs. It pushes them around a bit.
:-)) scrubbing with nasty disinfectants several times a day.
Disinfection does. Which I practically never do anywhere except for the kitchen sink, garbage can and the bathroom/toilet.
Speaking of which, the average publich toilet gets a thorough (?
I would expect it to be cleaner than say my keyboard. I would not want to dip that in Domestos/Bref whatever.
I admin a bunch of domains and I receive most of the spam I get through (abuse|postmaster)@.* It's really annoying because I cannot really close those accounts. And I can't afford to just drop all traffic to them either.
I have encountered numerous Linux kernel bugs that took the machine down with nasty panics during stability testing.
And these were supermicro server boards with Intel Xeons...
In fact these days I have 'stress -d 2 -c 4 -m 4 -i 4' run on every new kernel build I make for at least 2 days before mass deployment.
And interestingly every once in a while it does trigger obscure bugs. Mostly file system, SCSI/RAID drivers and memory management problems.
Which is a kind of sad. I would expect an OS with such a zealous following to be more reliable than that.
But hey... It's still the one I use because this is the OS I have the best chance getting to work.
Or have a badly written driver bundled with some low end hardware. Which is not Microsoft's fault but still a common issue with budget purchases. Sometimes even with not so budget purchases. (Like HP printers with their associated dll hell...)
The energy content of the crop does not come from the water it uses. That comes from the Sun.
So it may be feasible to use some of the produced biofuels for desalinization.
Even so I think you are right in a sense. Desalinization may take all or much of the produced energy away.
Just don't fuck with strangers. That's all it takes.
They are morons.
According to them there is no Central-Europe.
Besides it's called Hungary in English. Not Hungry or Hungaria or Pannonia or whatever else you might come up with.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Europe (Yes I know it's not a really authentic reference. But it does coincide with my views on the subject)