interesting point but that brings us to the argument of was using the nukes really inhumane? One should keep in mind that Japan and the US were at WAR. The US used the most expedient measure to achieve its goals (to end the war with Japan's unconditional surrender). what's is so inhumane about that. the lives lost? check the numbers. Conventional wepons could have easily caused just that many casualities and a full on invasion would have been even more expensive.
regarding your second point. Civilian targets get a bigger spotlight and are more horiffic in general. Cities also happen to be the largest targets around and the most dense. thus bombing a (civilian) city would do the best job of show casing the destructive abilities of the nuke.
another poster has already addressed the point of launching 2 nukes.
I don't mean to disparge your point but why do you say that north korea would lose the war? Are you counting on foriegn aid? assumptions about a pre-emptive strike? relative sizes of their armies and their growth as the war continues?
no... not cynical just informed. Oh btw, its not party, its bureacracy. thats where the true power lies b/c there is no way to get rid of the burecracy. who controls whether you can fly or not... the TSA. do you seriously think that bush and the legislature will go to the trouble of filing bills to control the TSA? Democracy provides no resoanable mechanism for cutting down on bureacracy and eventually it takes over.
If you want to look at them, go for it. just do www.whitehouse.gov[insert something in list here]. I found the part on budget especially interesting (and scary).
Weelll... I have tried Opera on linux (several times) in the past but I just didn't like it. I liked it when I was still using windows (but back then, I wasn't very concerned about cutting down my mouse usage. that started after I found bash and emacs). Also tried lots of firefox extensions for it but none of them worked really well. To me, it is a fundamental problem in the way websites are designed. the content is just not designed to be navigated by a keyboard.
Yeah. I have to use FVWM2 with a minimalistic config file to get the setup I want. no gnome or kde for me. just too much junk in there. what use do I have to title bars, window borders, start menus etc... when I primarily just use the keyboard. I wish there was a good way to do mouseless browsing but I haven't found anything good.
Why?
Because when you eek 5% more performance out of five million dollars in hardware, you have saved a quarter million dollars.
Not to troll or anything but I find your claim hard to believe. Say you save $250K. How much does the support cost. I doubt just two or three people can handle the support for Gentoo on $5mil worth of hardware, even if the hardware is completely homogenous. More than 4 people needed for support and the organization is already in a deficit. at that point, it is a better idea to use somethin else. Gentoo does have a lot of good point (I'm thinking security since gentoo is so minimalistic) but cost savings is definately not one of them. If I am wrong, please correct me but the point stands that your story is very hard to believe without any evidence.
Disclamer: I use gentoo on my laptop (with some insane USE flags and custom but not insane CFLAGS) and even advise its use to my friends but I would have to be stupid to advise a corporation to use it. support costs are just not worth it.
Fail. After you chroot, it will wait for the shell started (which as already pointed out would not start since the partition is empty) and then once the shell quit, go out of the chroot and THEN try to exec all those other wonderful commands. To make it work, you will have to use:
I potzed around with other systems for a while, and ended up on gentoo. Now, I'm using ubuntu, because it doesn't suck. Gentoo doesn't suck either, but it's more hassle than I want to go through for a desktop system.
No kidding. I use a gentoo system on my laptop because it is the only one capable of getting all the hardware to run and it offers me ridiculous amounts of control but if I wasn't a coder myself, I would run into a lot of trouble sometimes when portage borks over a package. I still like it. gnome-light + stripped down FVWM2 + massive terminal usage with screens and emacs + lots of KB shortcuts = heaven (to me).
Huh, it is free to re-design a website to include accessability components? Why? Are the developers working on the website doing so for free?
Yeah, quality of life has improved because there was a lot of cash in it, not because a court order told the people to have a better quality of life.
Yes, it is unfair to the buisiness owners. The problem is is that it also makes me pay money for an unrelated group of people. It also forces the society I live in to loose money which also ends up hurting me. Thus my complaining.
Oh, BTW, are you now admitting that this ruling is unfair to Target and other buisiness owners? since your last sentence seemed to do exactly that.
Last time I checked, the public accomodations clause in the Americans with Disabilities Act included commercial services. The ADA is there to guarantee the disabled access to basic goods and services and protect them from discrimination based on their disabilities. Why do you think commercial facilities and accomodations such as transportation services need to meet accessibility requirements? Just because there are stores other than Target doesn't mean they can discriminate against a particular minority. And ADA compliance only requires accessibility considerations to be effected when they are readily available. Target isn't being asked to design some new internet technology. This is akin to adding a wheelchair ramp to a store building.
Oh my, "discrimination." So, it is okay to discriminate against everybody else (and Target) who now has to pay extra fees to support that blind 1% of the population? Besides, where does this stop. What happens when we have a blind person who doesnot have the cash to buy screen readers? Then do we force the website builders to include a braile version which can be printed off?
And I have read Atlas Shrugged. I read it in 11th grade and realized that, while Ayn Rand is a talented storyteller, objectivism is the biggest load of crap in the world, embraced only by Ivy league elitists. There is no such thing as a level playing field or equality of opportunity. Nature does not provide such a thing. So in order to create an equitable society, man has to establish social compensators. That is why we have social welfare programs. If policies requiring wheelchair access to public accomodations and commercial facilities were not imposed through the ADA, then what incentive would building owners have to provide access to the disabled? Those who tout free market capitalism as the panacea to all social problems don't seem to realize that some minorities, such as the disabled, do not compose of a large enough market to persuade most store owners to accomodate their needs. This is why up until the ADA, the disabled community was largely barred from the majority of public accomodations and denied access to goods and services basic to daily living.
Nice. Destroying your own argument. There is no such thing as a level playing field or equality of opportunity. Nature does not provide such a thing. Ever stop to wander that maybe nature doesnot provide such a thing because there is no basis for it. Create an equitable society? What is the reason behind an equitable society when it is againt nature? Isn't that what ideas such as evolution are all about? That life is not fair. That some are more capale of survival than others?What incentive would building owners have to provide access to the disabled? The extra cash that goes to the building owners which do have such acomodations. If there isn't enough cash, then there is not enough incentive in society to fund such an endeavour. In case you haven't realized this yet, money is a measure of labor and an easy way to trade labor. If there isn't enough money available, then it is in society's interest not to invest in a loosing cause. When you start doing that, you start going into a deficit (sound like a country we know?).Those who tout free market capitalism as the panacea to all social problems don't seem to realize that some minorities, such as the disabled, do not compose of a large enough market to persuade most store owners to accomodate their needs. Or maybe they do realize that the disabled society will have to convince corporations that there is a profit in acomodating them. Once again, money is a measure of labor. If there is not enough money available, then society is better served by not investing in souch an endeavour. Societies are not formed to help the deficient individuals. They are designed to allow the different strengths of many individuals to be combined together for the benifit of the rest. If a disabled person h
I don't have anything against disabled people but am I the only one to notice that websites are offered only as a service. If the disabled people are really having that many problems with Target, they should go to another store. Last time I checked, Target was not the only store in the World or even in the US. Them filing a lawsuit is like me going to M$, asking them for an OS to run on a brand new architecture I just designed, and then filing a lawsuit against them because they refused my offer. Just because the disabled people need the accessability extensions is no reason to force buisinesses to go out of their way and spend money on a non-profitable endeavour. Bottom line, need does NOT imply a right of any sort whatsoever. If you want proof, read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
not to be flamebait but this is where emacs' "if it is even remotely usable, toss it in as an optional lisp module" comes in really handy. all the stuff you are having problems with in multiple sessions is handled with ease through frame splitting and multiple buffers in emacs.
No, it isn't just you. XP home has no support for SMP whatsoever and XP pro only has SMP support for 2 cpus. if you are running XP home, it would not be very surprising to me if the OS got confused by the multiples cores and failed miserably. If you want to test the stability of th hardware, it may be a good idea to get knopix and see how stable that it, since the kernel usually has SMP support inbuilt.
PS:My knowledge in windows SMP support is fairly dated to somebody please correct me if I am wrong.
Switch... What switch??? I am already on linux. why would I switch. At most, I may get one of the later betas to run in a VM just to see what it is like.
not just ubuntu. this is basically what is done by all binary rpms in linux distros and exsactly what a gentoo stage 4 tarball is except the tarball is more portable. what I would like to see is package management for windows. something where the OS has a trusted program install other programs instead of just having the program (un)install itself and hoping it does a decent job.
Easy for you to say but doing that in windows is a pain in the A**.
In my Linux systems I can just tell the package manager to update everything and it will do all the work for me. Until winows gets a decent package management facility, keeping software updated is nearly impossible especially for the normal user who does not even care.
so, I can safely assume that you have never used a gun before?
While I haven't used handguns before, I have used some other guns and if you are using anything but a rifle with time to spare, hitting something 10 feet away requires a lot of practice and a very steady hand along with a good understanding of the weapon. also, not many guns have an effective (range to which they are still on target) of ten feet and if they are, recoil, and aiming are still major problems. Not any "retard" can kill with a gun
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interesting point but that brings us to the argument of was using the nukes really inhumane? One should keep in mind that Japan and the US were at WAR. The US used the most expedient measure to achieve its goals (to end the war with Japan's unconditional surrender). what's is so inhumane about that. the lives lost? check the numbers. Conventional wepons could have easily caused just that many casualities and a full on invasion would have been even more expensive.
regarding your second point. Civilian targets get a bigger spotlight and are more horiffic in general. Cities also happen to be the largest targets around and the most dense. thus bombing a (civilian) city would do the best job of show casing the destructive abilities of the nuke. another poster has already addressed the point of launching 2 nukes.
Hmm... At least the gp bother to back his arguments up. your posts amounts to he's wrong, I am right. Now, why?
I don't mean to disparge your point but why do you say that north korea would lose the war? Are you counting on foriegn aid? assumptions about a pre-emptive strike? relative sizes of their armies and their growth as the war continues?
no... not cynical just informed. Oh btw, its not party, its bureacracy. thats where the true power lies b/c there is no way to get rid of the burecracy. who controls whether you can fly or not... the TSA. do you seriously think that bush and the legislature will go to the trouble of filing bills to control the TSA? Democracy provides no resoanable mechanism for cutting down on bureacracy and eventually it takes over.
If you want to look at them, go for it. just do www.whitehouse.gov[insert something in list here]. I found the part on budget especially interesting (and scary).
Wow. Seems interesting. I will try it out. thx
Weelll... I have tried Opera on linux (several times) in the past but I just didn't like it. I liked it when I was still using windows (but back then, I wasn't very concerned about cutting down my mouse usage. that started after I found bash and emacs). Also tried lots of firefox extensions for it but none of them worked really well. To me, it is a fundamental problem in the way websites are designed. the content is just not designed to be navigated by a keyboard.
Yeah. I have to use FVWM2 with a minimalistic config file to get the setup I want. no gnome or kde for me. just too much junk in there. what use do I have to title bars, window borders, start menus etc... when I primarily just use the keyboard. I wish there was a good way to do mouseless browsing but I haven't found anything good.
Disclamer: I use gentoo on my laptop (with some insane USE flags and custom but not insane CFLAGS) and even advise its use to my friends but I would have to be stupid to advise a corporation to use it. support costs are just not worth it.
Fail. After you chroot, it will wait for the shell started (which as already pointed out would not start since the partition is empty) and then once the shell quit, go out of the chroot and THEN try to exec all those other wonderful commands. To make it work, you will have to use:
This of course assumes that you ahve moded the commands so that the partition actually has something inside this time...
No kidding. I use a gentoo system on my laptop because it is the only one capable of getting all the hardware to run and it offers me ridiculous amounts of control but if I wasn't a coder myself, I would run into a lot of trouble sometimes when portage borks over a package. I still like it. gnome-light + stripped down FVWM2 + massive terminal usage with screens and emacs + lots of KB shortcuts = heaven (to me).
Yeah, quality of life has improved because there was a lot of cash in it, not because a court order told the people to have a better quality of life.
Yes, it is unfair to the buisiness owners. The problem is is that it also makes me pay money for an unrelated group of people. It also forces the society I live in to loose money which also ends up hurting me. Thus my complaining.
Oh, BTW, are you now admitting that this ruling is unfair to Target and other buisiness owners? since your last sentence seemed to do exactly that.
Oh my, "discrimination." So, it is okay to discriminate against everybody else (and Target) who now has to pay extra fees to support that blind 1% of the population? Besides, where does this stop. What happens when we have a blind person who doesnot have the cash to buy screen readers? Then do we force the website builders to include a braile version which can be printed off?
Nice. Destroying your own argument. There is no such thing as a level playing field or equality of opportunity. Nature does not provide such a thing. Ever stop to wander that maybe nature doesnot provide such a thing because there is no basis for it. Create an equitable society? What is the reason behind an equitable society when it is againt nature? Isn't that what ideas such as evolution are all about? That life is not fair. That some are more capale of survival than others?What incentive would building owners have to provide access to the disabled? The extra cash that goes to the building owners which do have such acomodations. If there isn't enough cash, then there is not enough incentive in society to fund such an endeavour. In case you haven't realized this yet, money is a measure of labor and an easy way to trade labor. If there isn't enough money available, then it is in society's interest not to invest in a loosing cause. When you start doing that, you start going into a deficit (sound like a country we know?).Those who tout free market capitalism as the panacea to all social problems don't seem to realize that some minorities, such as the disabled, do not compose of a large enough market to persuade most store owners to accomodate their needs. Or maybe they do realize that the disabled society will have to convince corporations that there is a profit in acomodating them. Once again, money is a measure of labor. If there is not enough money available, then society is better served by not investing in souch an endeavour. Societies are not formed to help the deficient individuals. They are designed to allow the different strengths of many individuals to be combined together for the benifit of the rest. If a disabled person h
I don't have anything against disabled people but am I the only one to notice that websites are offered only as a service. If the disabled people are really having that many problems with Target, they should go to another store. Last time I checked, Target was not the only store in the World or even in the US. Them filing a lawsuit is like me going to M$, asking them for an OS to run on a brand new architecture I just designed, and then filing a lawsuit against them because they refused my offer. Just because the disabled people need the accessability extensions is no reason to force buisinesses to go out of their way and spend money on a non-profitable endeavour. Bottom line, need does NOT imply a right of any sort whatsoever. If you want proof, read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
sorry, my bad. but still what about simultaneous editing. editing the same buffer in multiple frames and also, equivalents for C-x {0,1} are missing.
nice. can this handle spilt screen with ultiple buffers. with the same buffers?
not to be flamebait but this is where emacs' "if it is even remotely usable, toss it in as an optional lisp module" comes in really handy. all the stuff you are having problems with in multiple sessions is handled with ease through frame splitting and multiple buffers in emacs.
Strange, I wonder what that new window button when reading messages does???
No, it isn't just you. XP home has no support for SMP whatsoever and XP pro only has SMP support for 2 cpus. if you are running XP home, it would not be very surprising to me if the OS got confused by the multiples cores and failed miserably. If you want to test the stability of th hardware, it may be a good idea to get knopix and see how stable that it, since the kernel usually has SMP support inbuilt.
PS:My knowledge in windows SMP support is fairly dated to somebody please correct me if I am wrong.
Switch... What switch??? I am already on linux. why would I switch. At most, I may get one of the later betas to run in a VM just to see what it is like.
May I advise you to read the critique of judgement by Immanuel Kant. I think you will find a very detailed rebuttal of what you just said there.
not just ubuntu. this is basically what is done by all binary rpms in linux distros and exsactly what a gentoo stage 4 tarball is except the tarball is more portable. what I would like to see is package management for windows. something where the OS has a trusted program install other programs instead of just having the program (un)install itself and hoping it does a decent job.
Easy for you to say but doing that in windows is a pain in the A**.
In my Linux systems I can just tell the package manager to update everything and it will do all the work for me. Until winows gets a decent package management facility, keeping software updated is nearly impossible especially for the normal user who does not even care.
While I haven't used handguns before, I have used some other guns and if you are using anything but a rifle with time to spare, hitting something 10 feet away requires a lot of practice and a very steady hand along with a good understanding of the weapon. also, not many guns have an effective (range to which they are still on target) of ten feet and if they are, recoil, and aiming are still major problems. Not any "retard" can kill with a gun