Indeed, while remarks about villages missing their idiot may have been partisan, the civilised world was horrified with the re-election of Bush, and with the (in my opinion foolish) exception of Britain you lost all international co-operation.
May I be among the first to welcome you back from the neo-con wasteland and hope that we can all proceed from where Clinton left off, in a spirit of international co-operation (Irishman here)
In a fictional universe these laws provided a framework for sophomoric debate.
In the real world we already have robot sentries (as one example) the funding of which have advanced robotic science and these advances will reappear in consumer devices in the future.
The resource that the US military is short of at the moment is soldiers on the ground, as a result there tends to be a certain amount of "reconnaissance by fire" (or thousand pound bomb these days). This technology has the potential to reduce the innocent casualties of the US response to asymmetric warfare.
I also have worked with openLDAP and also with commercial LDAP and X.500 servers, AD has improved, but the notion that it is a real directory server is farcical, it comes with a default schema that integrates well with one OS, give it another 10 years and it may become a genuinely scalable cross platform directory server, otherwise it remains useless.
That's one that, as an outsider, has always puzzled me. How can a bill be amended to address several unrelated things, I've seen it before in US politics and it's baffling. Surely legislation is supposed to address a specific issue, rather than become a way of slandering each other at election time and further enrich your legal class as they attempt to untangle the relevance from the pork?.
Disclaimers: I an not a US citizen but I'm married to a US citizen living in Europe.
I'm not trying to troll here, this genuinely puzzles me.
I've found that even the most uneducated have insights that I lack
This is an important observation in itself, one of the first steps to knowledge is the humility to know you don't know every damn thing already.
Everyone learns new things every day of their lives and most of this knowledge is outside my sphere of study/work.
As a result of adopting the parent's approach to the world I have learned many things, from the easiest way to open a crown cap with a cigarette lighter to how to get a smooth finish on a coat of plaster. While they are explicable by a detailed examination of the law of the lever and surface tension respectively I found my tutors learned these skills as a "knack" rather than through rigorous study and strangely that was how the knowledge was imparted most successfully also;)
I recently had a call from some poor unfortunate woman in Scotland, (judging by accent), who was trying to persuade me to buy a Sky satellite subscription. Now I'm about as likely to voluntarily give money to Rupert Murdoch as I am to eat my left testicle and I explained my position on News International, Murdoch and the death of civil society to her, basically explaining that they should remove me from what ever list they got me from (I'm not in UK) as it was wasting her time and mine.
I've tried abuse, hanging-up and shouting but it appears the most effective way to get removed from a telemarketers list is to politely explain to the unfortunate sales drone that there is no way in any universe that you would buy their product.
While I appreciate that she was doing this job out of need, after all who in Scotland could relish raising money for Murdoch ?, my politeness was not borne out of any sympathy for her.
As Bill Hicks put it, "If you work in Marketing, do us all a favour and kill yourself now"
I work with both Solaris and Linux on a daily basis. I'm looking forward to Solaris features with a full GNU userland as some times the Solaris CLI is a bit clumsy by comparison (Yes i know about sunfreeware.com but our clients don't necessarily have it installed on production boxes).
However I think this is probably a response to something I've noticed of late, in Asia and South America we don't sell support for Solaris installs any more, they've all moved to Linux, cheaper hardware, a pool of interested young (and therefore cheap) admins, and of course our wonderful software is available on Linux;)
While Europe and to a lesser extent the US are almost exclusively Solaris (the odd godforsaken HP-UX or AIX box as well to keep me interested) the emerging markets, where the growth is, are moving en-mass to Linux/Open source.
True, and I do get what he was saying, however after years of "only a tech god could install and admin a Linux box" I found it hilarious that they were bringing out a new line "Linux is for noobs", actually I might make that my sig;)
Same rag had two security articles last month flagged on the cover, the Fortify report on security in Open Source and the Debian SSL issue, 90% of their ads are either directly for MS products or for products that run in an MS ecosystem but they are essential reading on who's doing what in the Irish IT scene.
Of course it will, but at least you can seek better paid support elsewhere (Canonical) or indeed the quite excellent ubuntuforums.org for free.
I love the way the UMPC market is exposing Linux to people who would never have heard of it otherwise, there was even an MS spokesdrone in our local computing press saying that "Yes, the Linux option is suitable for beginners but experienced users would prefer the Windows option on the EEE", laugh, I nearly wet myself.
Actually one of the loopholes some of the US software companies use is to declare their profits in Ireland, corporation tax here is 12.5 %, they then repatriate the money to the US with the tax paid.
Poland has a similar corporate tax regime (AFAIK).
However Germany and France would dearly like to see these taxes increased as international investment can be swayed by the low-tax options.
Usual I'm a foreigner and it's really none of my business disclaimer, (apart from the abusing our airports to kidnap and torture people bit, that upsets me), but shouldn't you expect a greater degree of personal integrity from a candidate than that shown by someone who caved in under pressure and knowingly lied to the UN ?
What difference does it make to a dirt farmer if he's descended from monkeys? It's just going to make him that much more depressed, and make it that much more difficult for him to get up in the morning to tend his crops.
Well a dirt poor arable farmer who doesn't believe in the malleability of species will stay a dirt poor farmer, however one who does believe in the malleability of species can selectively breed for better crops / livestock and become a dirt poor farmer with a rosette from the county show;)
More generally it is a waste the resources of a country not to educate the minds available to their greatest potential, every country fails at this but currently the US seems to be actively aiming for universal idiocy.
Not all the great discoveries of the last century were made by individuals who came from educated middle-class families, however today in the US or indeed most of Europe the middle-class is shrinking and education is becoming scarcer.
Curiously I recently noticed my laptop going into swap with just Firefox and Eclipse running, a decade ago this was the case on an 8M desktop with Netscape and Emacs.
Software expands to fill the hardware available, if this isn't already enshrined somewhere as a corollary of Moore's law I hereby name it Parkinson's corollary of Moore's law(It's bound to exist already though)
Had America left Iran the fuck alone, do you think they would have elected a jingoistic half wit like Ahmadinejad. I'll avoid making unpleasant remarks about nations that elect jingoistic half-wits without outside pressure to do so;)
Treating other peoples as though they had the right to exist isn't appeasement, it's common courtesy.
A quick guide to the next two American wars-with historical footnotes.
You didn't like it when a bunch of leftist nationalists got democratically elected in Iran, so you overthrew the democratically elected government and put a puppet dictator in his place. This didn't go down too well with the locals and soon (30 years later, but these things are relative) a religious-nationalist movement overthrew the puppet regime and his torturing henchmen, the new government wasn't very well disposed to you, so rather than muddle along and try to improve relations you back a homicidal maniac who slaughtered his way to power and give him just enough weaponry to almost overcome the Iranians but not enough to end the war. Said murderous dictator then starts demanding that he get a bit of the hegemonic pie that he so kindly prepared for you, that one is ongoing as the locals are now venting their religious/nationalist tendencies on an invading army.
Up the road a bit in Pakistan you have another murderous dictator who you have backed to the hilt as he is tackling the dreaded Taliban (didn't you help him set them up?) This one though gets interesting, because as he's not just a tin-pot general, no he's an enriched plutonium-pot general , what could possibly go wrong.
So there you have it, Skrynesaver's prediction for the next eight years, if McCain gets in at any rate, a nasty intractable war in Iran followed by being forced into discussion with the new rulers of Pakistan, whoever they turn out to be.
I think that's his point, the file describing your broken widget can be sent to you for very little indeed. Then load it up in RepRap, print it off and continue on your way
OK, first off I'm not a USian and so I may be under informed and unaware of recent history (though from what I can gather so is a large proportion of your electorate;)
Most people outside the US would love to see Obama elected as there is a possibility that we might see a country that is aware of a world outside your own borders again.
And call me naive but Obama seems to be in politics to fight for his vision, is too recent an arrival to politics to be owned by the lobbyists and may actually create interest in the political process in the majority of your population who don't vote.
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Indeed, while remarks about villages missing their idiot may have been partisan, the civilised world was horrified with the re-election of Bush, and with the (in my opinion foolish) exception of Britain you lost all international co-operation.
May I be among the first to welcome you back from the neo-con wasteland and hope that we can all proceed from where Clinton left off, in a spirit of international co-operation
(Irishman here)
In a fictional universe these laws provided a framework for sophomoric debate.
In the real world we already have robot sentries (as one example) the funding of which have advanced robotic science and these advances will reappear in consumer devices in the future.
The resource that the US military is short of at the moment is soldiers on the ground, as a result there tends to be a certain amount of "reconnaissance by fire" (or thousand pound bomb these days). This technology has the potential to reduce the innocent casualties of the US response to asymmetric warfare.
I also have worked with openLDAP and also with commercial LDAP and X.500 servers, AD has improved, but the notion that it is a real directory server is farcical, it comes with a default schema that integrates well with one OS, give it another 10 years and it may become a genuinely scalable cross platform directory server, otherwise it remains useless.
On a niggly point of information.
Britain doesn't have citizens, the people of "The United Kingdom of great Britain and Northern Ireland" are actually subjects of the Queen.
a0 AUTHENTICATE PLAIN
a1 LOGIN
a2 LIST "" INBOX
a3 SELECT INBOX
a4 STATUS INBOX (MESSAGES RECENT UNSEEN UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY)
a5 SORT (REVERSE-DATE) UTF-8 ALL
a6 FETCH $(returned ids of a4)(ENVELOPE INTERNALDATE RFC822.SIZE FLAGS BODYSTRUCTURE BODY.PEEK[HEADER]UID)
a7 FETCH $(uid of interesting looking mail) (BODY[TEXT])
a8 LOGOUT
True, I wonder why the BSA never got involved ;)
LISTB INFOICRD 2000-04-06 IENG Deepz0ne ISFT Sound Forge 4.5
Was present in the files, a sign that a pirated version of Sound Forge from Deepz0ne of the Radium warez crew.
Disclaimers: I an not a US citizen but I'm married to a US citizen living in Europe.
I'm not trying to troll here, this genuinely puzzles me.
This is an important observation in itself, one of the first steps to knowledge is the humility to know you don't know every damn thing already.
Everyone learns new things every day of their lives and most of this knowledge is outside my sphere of study/work.
As a result of adopting the parent's approach to the world I have learned many things, from the easiest way to open a crown cap with a cigarette lighter to how to get a smooth finish on a coat of plaster. While they are explicable by a detailed examination of the law of the lever and surface tension respectively I found my tutors learned these skills as a "knack" rather than through rigorous study and strangely that was how the knowledge was imparted most successfully also ;)
And with current prices you agree to buy the petrol (gasoline) and give it to them to /mind/.
I've tried abuse, hanging-up and shouting but it appears the most effective way to get removed from a telemarketers list is to politely explain to the unfortunate sales drone that there is no way in any universe that you would buy their product.
While I appreciate that she was doing this job out of need, after all who in Scotland could relish raising money for Murdoch ?, my politeness was not borne out of any sympathy for her.
As Bill Hicks put it, "If you work in Marketing, do us all a favour and kill yourself now"
there are regional OSUGs around the place supported by Sun , freebies and lectures, look them up and see if you're near one
However I think this is probably a response to something I've noticed of late, in Asia and South America we don't sell support for Solaris installs any more, they've all moved to Linux, cheaper hardware, a pool of interested young (and therefore cheap) admins, and of course our wonderful software is available on Linux ;)
While Europe and to a lesser extent the US are almost exclusively Solaris (the odd godforsaken HP-UX or AIX box as well to keep me interested) the emerging markets, where the growth is, are moving en-mass to Linux/Open source.
Same rag had two security articles last month flagged on the cover, the Fortify report on security in Open Source and the Debian SSL issue, 90% of their ads are either directly for MS products or for products that run in an MS ecosystem but they are essential reading on who's doing what in the Irish IT scene.
Of course it will, but at least you can seek better paid support elsewhere (Canonical) or indeed the quite excellent ubuntuforums.org for free. I love the way the UMPC market is exposing Linux to people who would never have heard of it otherwise, there was even an MS spokesdrone in our local computing press saying that "Yes, the Linux option is suitable for beginners but experienced users would prefer the Windows option on the EEE", laugh, I nearly wet myself.
Tommy Tiernan's Drug-Olympics sketch
Actually one of the loopholes some of the US software companies use is to declare their profits in Ireland, corporation tax here is 12.5 %, they then repatriate the money to the US with the tax paid.
Poland has a similar corporate tax regime (AFAIK).
However Germany and France would dearly like to see these taxes increased as international investment can be swayed by the low-tax options.
Usual I'm a foreigner and it's really none of my business disclaimer, (apart from the abusing our airports to kidnap and torture people bit, that upsets me), but shouldn't you expect a greater degree of personal integrity from a candidate than that shown by someone who caved in under pressure and knowingly lied to the UN ?
What difference does it make to a dirt farmer if he's descended from monkeys? It's just going to make him that much more depressed, and make it that much more difficult for him to get up in the morning to tend his crops.
Well a dirt poor arable farmer who doesn't believe in the malleability of species will stay a dirt poor farmer, however one who does believe in the malleability of species can selectively breed for better crops / livestock and become a dirt poor farmer with a rosette from the county show ;)
More generally it is a waste the resources of a country not to educate the minds available to their greatest potential, every country fails at this but currently the US seems to be actively aiming for universal idiocy.
Not all the great discoveries of the last century were made by individuals who came from educated middle-class families, however today in the US or indeed most of Europe the middle-class is shrinking and education is becoming scarcer.
I'm going to use this, brilliant explanation of what free software means in combination with a community for end users.
Hey, Emacs was doing this in the mid 90's ;)
Curiously I recently noticed my laptop going into swap with just Firefox and Eclipse running, a decade ago this was the case on an 8M desktop with Netscape and Emacs.
Software expands to fill the hardware available, if this isn't already enshrined somewhere as a corollary of Moore's law I hereby name it Parkinson's corollary of Moore's law(It's bound to exist already though)
Had America left Iran the fuck alone, do you think they would have elected a jingoistic half wit like Ahmadinejad. I'll avoid making unpleasant remarks about nations that elect jingoistic half-wits without outside pressure to do so ;)
A quick guide to the next two American wars-with historical footnotes.
You didn't like it when a bunch of leftist nationalists got democratically elected in Iran, so you overthrew the democratically elected government and put a puppet dictator in his place. This didn't go down too well with the locals and soon (30 years later, but these things are relative) a religious-nationalist movement overthrew the puppet regime and his torturing henchmen, the new government wasn't very well disposed to you, so rather than muddle along and try to improve relations you back a homicidal maniac who slaughtered his way to power and give him just enough weaponry to almost overcome the Iranians but not enough to end the war. Said murderous dictator then starts demanding that he get a bit of the hegemonic pie that he so kindly prepared for you, that one is ongoing as the locals are now venting their religious/nationalist tendencies on an invading army.
Up the road a bit in Pakistan you have another murderous dictator who you have backed to the hilt as he is tackling the dreaded Taliban (didn't you help him set them up?) This one though gets interesting, because as he's not just a tin-pot general, no he's an enriched plutonium-pot general , what could possibly go wrong.
So there you have it, Skrynesaver's prediction for the next eight years, if McCain gets in at any rate, a nasty intractable war in Iran followed by being forced into discussion with the new rulers of Pakistan, whoever they turn out to be.
I think that's his point, the file describing your broken widget can be sent to you for very little indeed. Then load it up in RepRap, print it off and continue on your way
OK, first off I'm not a USian and so I may be under informed and unaware of recent history (though from what I can gather so is a large proportion of your electorate ;)
Most people outside the US would love to see Obama elected as there is a possibility that we might see a country that is aware of a world outside your own borders again.
And call me naive but Obama seems to be in politics to fight for his vision, is too recent an arrival to politics to be owned by the lobbyists and may actually create interest in the political process in the majority of your population who don't vote.