Even though the Iowa class is being decommed, they can provide firepower that is useful, and are still survivable for all but a very few threats. But we are in love with technology, so cruise missiles are more popular than big guns, even for shore and near -shore barrages.
This is what happens when you don't have much ex-military in leadership. If they had, one of the old barnacles would have said 'let's put up a picture of BB 61, that'l scare the hell out of 'em!'. Unmistakeable US naval power, surpassed only by the CVNs. Hey, how about a picture of CVN 77?
Server installs: Slackware 0.9 on CD in 1994 More Slackware on CD Debian, something old on CD Red Hat, via FTP, then CDs, then back to FTP, from about 1996 to 2003 Fedora until 2008 Debian until now
Workstation installs: Slackware 0.9 in 1994 Debian in 1994 Red Hat in 1995 Suse from 1996 to 2004 Ubuntu since then
My first install was Slackware from The Internet CD book, what a challenge. First server was up in 1995, Red Hat, running proxies, VPNs, and DNS for a client. In 1996 I inherited the ISP business we bought, and that got me another server and hax0rs galore for two years. Fun times.
I installed Slackware on a spare machine two days after a fiasco with a SCO client, trying to get a printer working. The app developer wrote their own print handling, and charged about $600/hr to add a new printer or change one, which we wanted to do to improve speed. The client wanted to know why we couldn't just plug it in, cause Windows let you do that. I was happy to see them find another servicer, who promptly asked ME for the root password. We were under NDA with the dev to not disclose it even to the client. Arg.
That was his quote of a statement by an 'officer'. You know, the Gabby Giffords thing, and how even getting upset at a sitting Congressman might be an act of terror.
Can't imagine why anyone would want to disrupt the Congressman's campaign. Any ideas?
Try and censor me. That is prior restraint, and while you can, theoretically stop a book from being sold. you will have harder time stopping me from yelling anything once.
then you put me in jail, ostensibly for endangering others, even if my speech merely endangered your profits.
For most of us smartphone users, we haven't actually finished paying for our phone. We 'bought' them at the subsidized price, and are paying them off with a slightly inflated monthly service fee. When the contract is up, we 'paid for' them. Sort of.
If you stick to buying a phone that has an unlocked bootloader, or one that has been cracked, then you are golden. If not, you either wait or never get the option.
And there are some phones that are never unlocked.
Telling me that my current solution is just plain wrong for several reasons, and offering me a replacement that costs between 4 and 20 times what I have now, works a little differently, and will 'save me money' over the 'long haul'. Despite the math telling me it will save me money never.
CFL seems so good, except of course I can't even dispose of them - they do need to be recycled, assuming those cardboard boxes actually get send to a recycling center and that center actually recycles the phospors. And since most of my CFL usage is for brief periods, the payback is longer than the often quoted examples. Thanks, guys.
LED lights would save more electricity, last a LOT longer, but cost a LOT more. Thanks, guys.
Typical Democratic response, tell me how I should live, and declare my complaints as not merely petty and ignorant, but dangerous and evil.
As if there's a shred of difference between the two parties, nor any viable alternative on the horizon. We are staring at our doom.
We've seen a great deal of Mars. Rocks, sand, and dust. Atmosphere, temperature, etc. Magical faeries are highly unlikely on Earth, much less Mars.
Our experience with God's existence, however, is dramatically more limited. Evidence of His existence is both lacking and abundant. Do you really believe all this came to be randomly, by chance? Theories of our universe's creation have no explanation for 'before'. God is equally plausible, to me. Infinity and eternity are both well beyond comprehension.
If by visitation you mean parental rights, there are problems there. Since adoption is well supported in law, same-sex couples need to go through legal adoption. Or legal system, not to mention government, is lagging in dealing with parental rights assignments.
Inheritance is fixed with a will. Marriage imposes certain defaults on inheritance, and if I want something different, I too need a will.
Tax breaks are one area where we could change the rules, but the objection I hear most often is that granting tax breaks to households based on self- definition is that changing the partner (and thus changing the household) literally at will complicates the tax code beyond practicality. There ought to be a way, if we want to permit couples to designate themselves as households, for tax purposes, but this will impact marriage. One benefit of marriage is preferential tax treatment. What happens if we lose that? does it matter?
"You should have seen the wake of frustration I stirred up in my Church when I confessed to the Pastor that I was having fits over the faith doctrines and I had a lot of doubting Thomas in me.... I ended up downright asking if I had to be a liar and give up my personal integrity in order to be a proper church Christian... "
The churches I've been a member of have asked me if I believe. Do I believe in Christ, etc., you should know the drill. Beyond that, I'm at a loss as to what would be required of you. 'Acting' like a Christian is, in my current church, an anticipated result, not proof.
But there are many doctrines, and much controversy within Christianity.
Faith does indeed mean beliving in what you cannot 'see'. That's the definition.
Many a biologist and many from other branches of science believe in Creation, and still believe in Science. Myself, I believe in Creation, but I have NO IDEA quite how God did it, nor do I need to to believe in God, because if He did NOT create everything, he is not the God He says He is. That is the logical puzzle you should consider first. Oh, and the small matter of Jewish history. You'll have to discredit that entirely to discredit the Bible and the Torah, which would be a twofer. You should go for it.
For the record, I'm stil confused about something - gay marriage isn't illegal anywhere in the U.S. that I am aware of. It just isn't recognized in most states, and DOMA means it isn't recognized by the federal government.
Please, flame away, but I have several family members that are gay, got married, even adopted or birthed children, despite the states they live in not recognizing their union. THEY think they are married.
It's not about marriage, the ceremony happens all the time. It's about acceptance. And the nation as a whole is not yet of one mind on this, exept to say 'no'.
It's not like resurrecting a Shuttle, throwing a bunch of climatologists and oil drillers on board, and blowing up an asteroid will solve this, nor are we apaprently able to seed clouds and shield earth from the sun and get a few extra years' time to go back to hose and buggy transportation.
In fact, it's not like we are going to make decisions about climate changes that would entirely disrupt the world's economies for the sake of a change in a single season's ice melt. And certainly not when we are within days or weeks of the cooling season in the Arctic, and all this will become moot for another 6 months.
Once again, the climate change alarmists go off the deep end and squander their credibility. Please, please start acting like scientists, ok? I'm ready to, and have, accepted the evidence. In Phoenix, the record high temperature (122F) was recorded in 1990. This year seems to be about average. But we don't need uniform record highs. We need sound analysis, not alarmist 'the Arctic is melllltttiiiinnggggg....' proclamations of imminent doom.
The Arctic is going to freeze over this winter. So of you're not going to put up a continental shade sail, please come back with science, not fear.
#1 writes the code to display 9 boxes in a 3x3 grid. #2 writes the code to remove the outside borders. #3 writes the code to display an X or an O inside of any box #4 writes the code to check if there are three of either X or O in a row (this will not be a Marketing Guy, probably). #5 writes the code to look at the Xs and Os, see if is the code's turn to choose which square to mark how, and where to put the approriate symbol. #6 writes the code to take the message from #4's code and decides if it's appropriate to issue the winner's message. #7 writes the code to congratulate the winner (this would be a good one for the Marketing Guy).
Problems solved. #5 will probably be one of the regular programmers, of course. Others may or may not be. And this is diffferent from larg-scale projects how?
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Or the third alternative?
Even though the Iowa class is being decommed, they can provide firepower that is useful, and are still survivable for all but a very few threats. But we are in love with technology, so cruise missiles are more popular than big guns, even for shore and near -shore barrages.
I miss them. I know..
It's bad when you're addressing military issues, if only for the lack of expertise.
"graphic designers who pick the coolest looking stock photos"
FAIL
And it's merely a symptom anyways. Big woop.
This is what happens when you don't have much ex-military in leadership. If they had, one of the old barnacles would have said 'let's put up a picture of BB 61, that'l scare the hell out of 'em!'. Unmistakeable US naval power, surpassed only by the CVNs. Hey, how about a picture of CVN 77?
Server installs:
Slackware 0.9 on CD in 1994
More Slackware on CD
Debian, something old on CD
Red Hat, via FTP, then CDs, then back to FTP, from about 1996 to 2003
Fedora until 2008
Debian until now
Workstation installs:
Slackware 0.9 in 1994
Debian in 1994
Red Hat in 1995
Suse from 1996 to 2004
Ubuntu since then
My first install was Slackware from The Internet CD book, what a challenge. First server was up in 1995, Red Hat, running proxies, VPNs, and DNS for a client. In 1996 I inherited the ISP business we bought, and that got me another server and hax0rs galore for two years. Fun times.
I installed Slackware on a spare machine two days after a fiasco with a SCO client, trying to get a printer working. The app developer wrote their own print handling, and charged about $600/hr to add a new printer or change one, which we wanted to do to improve speed. The client wanted to know why we couldn't just plug it in, cause Windows let you do that. I was happy to see them find another servicer, who promptly asked ME for the root password. We were under NDA with the dev to not disclose it even to the client. Arg.
Flamebait. Weak tea, my friend.
That was his quote of a statement by an 'officer'. You know, the Gabby Giffords thing, and how even getting upset at a sitting Congressman might be an act of terror.
Can't imagine why anyone would want to disrupt the Congressman's campaign. Any ideas?
Try and censor me. That is prior restraint, and while you can, theoretically stop a book from being sold. you will have harder time stopping me from yelling anything once.
then you put me in jail, ostensibly for endangering others, even if my speech merely endangered your profits.
Because the Democratic Party is specifically antithetical to my beliefs. The Republican Party is just failing to follow their own stated beliefs.
Like I said, a nickel's worth difference.
"something I paid for, "
For most of us smartphone users, we haven't actually finished paying for our phone. We 'bought' them at the subsidized price, and are paying them off with a slightly inflated monthly service fee. When the contract is up, we 'paid for' them. Sort of.
Which is one reason I kept my G1 for so long...
If you stick to buying a phone that has an unlocked bootloader, or one that has been cracked, then you are golden. If not, you either wait or never get the option.
And there are some phones that are never unlocked.
Good advice that ya just can't always take.
You do know I can't find a nickel's difference between the two parties, don't you?
It's not about the light bulbs. Keep up or go back to the basement.
I haven't had that problem with several bulbs, but the quickest ones are 'daylight' bulbs, and that, my friend, is one harsh light.
Telling me that my current solution is just plain wrong for several reasons, and offering me a replacement that costs between 4 and 20 times what I have now, works a little differently, and will 'save me money' over the 'long haul'. Despite the math telling me it will save me money never.
CFL seems so good, except of course I can't even dispose of them - they do need to be recycled, assuming those cardboard boxes actually get send to a recycling center and that center actually recycles the phospors. And since most of my CFL usage is for brief periods, the payback is longer than the often quoted examples. Thanks, guys.
LED lights would save more electricity, last a LOT longer, but cost a LOT more. Thanks, guys.
Typical Democratic response, tell me how I should live, and declare my complaints as not merely petty and ignorant, but dangerous and evil.
As if there's a shred of difference between the two parties, nor any viable alternative on the horizon. We are staring at our doom.
We've seen a great deal of Mars. Rocks, sand, and dust. Atmosphere, temperature, etc. Magical faeries are highly unlikely on Earth, much less Mars.
Our experience with God's existence, however, is dramatically more limited. Evidence of His existence is both lacking and abundant. Do you really believe all this came to be randomly, by chance? Theories of our universe's creation have no explanation for 'before'. God is equally plausible, to me. Infinity and eternity are both well beyond comprehension.
If by visitation you mean parental rights, there are problems there. Since adoption is well supported in law, same-sex couples need to go through legal adoption. Or legal system, not to mention government, is lagging in dealing with parental rights assignments.
Inheritance is fixed with a will. Marriage imposes certain defaults on inheritance, and if I want something different, I too need a will.
Tax breaks are one area where we could change the rules, but the objection I hear most often is that granting tax breaks to households based on self- definition is that changing the partner (and thus changing the household) literally at will complicates the tax code beyond practicality. There ought to be a way, if we want to permit couples to designate themselves as households, for tax purposes, but this will impact marriage. One benefit of marriage is preferential tax treatment. What happens if we lose that? does it matter?
"You should have seen the wake of frustration I stirred up in my Church when I confessed to the Pastor that I was having fits over the faith doctrines and I had a lot of doubting Thomas in me.... I ended up downright asking if I had to be a liar and give up my personal integrity in order to be a proper church Christian... "
The churches I've been a member of have asked me if I believe. Do I believe in Christ, etc., you should know the drill. Beyond that, I'm at a loss as to what would be required of you. 'Acting' like a Christian is, in my current church, an anticipated result, not proof.
But there are many doctrines, and much controversy within Christianity.
Yes.
"faith means believing without proof. "
Faith does indeed mean beliving in what you cannot 'see'. That's the definition.
Many a biologist and many from other branches of science believe in Creation, and still believe in Science. Myself, I believe in Creation, but I have NO IDEA quite how God did it, nor do I need to to believe in God, because if He did NOT create everything, he is not the God He says He is. That is the logical puzzle you should consider first. Oh, and the small matter of Jewish history. You'll have to discredit that entirely to discredit the Bible and the Torah, which would be a twofer. You should go for it.
For the record, I'm stil confused about something - gay marriage isn't illegal anywhere in the U.S. that I am aware of. It just isn't recognized in most states, and DOMA means it isn't recognized by the federal government.
Please, flame away, but I have several family members that are gay, got married, even adopted or birthed children, despite the states they live in not recognizing their union. THEY think they are married.
It's not about marriage, the ceremony happens all the time. It's about acceptance. And the nation as a whole is not yet of one mind on this, exept to say 'no'.
Several groups in the U.S. have been doing this since the 60s, with demonstrably excellent results.
It's not like resurrecting a Shuttle, throwing a bunch of climatologists and oil drillers on board, and blowing up an asteroid will solve this, nor are we apaprently able to seed clouds and shield earth from the sun and get a few extra years' time to go back to hose and buggy transportation.
In fact, it's not like we are going to make decisions about climate changes that would entirely disrupt the world's economies for the sake of a change in a single season's ice melt. And certainly not when we are within days or weeks of the cooling season in the Arctic, and all this will become moot for another 6 months.
Once again, the climate change alarmists go off the deep end and squander their credibility. Please, please start acting like scientists, ok? I'm ready to, and have, accepted the evidence. In Phoenix, the record high temperature (122F) was recorded in 1990. This year seems to be about average. But we don't need uniform record highs. We need sound analysis, not alarmist 'the Arctic is melllltttiiiinnggggg....' proclamations of imminent doom.
The Arctic is going to freeze over this winter. So of you're not going to put up a continental shade sail, please come back with science, not fear.
A typical real-world project.
Either it is presented as an example of why not and what not, or quietly hidden away, or left in production...
Any bets?
#1 writes the code to display 9 boxes in a 3x3 grid.
#2 writes the code to remove the outside borders.
#3 writes the code to display an X or an O inside of any box
#4 writes the code to check if there are three of either X or O in a row (this will not be a Marketing Guy, probably).
#5 writes the code to look at the Xs and Os, see if is the code's turn to choose which square to mark how, and where to put the approriate symbol.
#6 writes the code to take the message from #4's code and decides if it's appropriate to issue the winner's message.
#7 writes the code to congratulate the winner (this would be a good one for the Marketing Guy).
Problems solved. #5 will probably be one of the regular programmers, of course. Others may or may not be. And this is diffferent from larg-scale projects how?