Your assuming that we are at war for oil, and we are not, at least not directly, IMHO. We are war against a force of terror, and this force is better fought by us (US) over there, then over here.
If push came to shove we (the USA) would be drilling like crazy in the gulf of Mexico, and Alaska to get the needed oil, for national security, and the economy. The political will and NIMBYism are preventing this now. At some point in the future that may change. We would also be investing more in other fuels (bio, wind, etc) but at the moment it is pure economics that is driving it. As the cost of current energy sources goes up, others will come on line, when you reach the right price point.
If you wonder why gas is so $$, it not because of a lack of supply of crude oil, it is the lack of processing facilities to make gas. Major Oil will not invest in new multi-billion $$ processing facilities when the greens are screaming about switching fuel types, and the NIMBYism is running rampant. So do not expect the cost of gas to go back down in the near future, regardless of how much crude is available.
On to the war, when you sign up for military service it is understood that you could quite possibly end up in, I know this is shocking, combat, where you could get hurt or even killed. Compared to previous wars, the number killed is very low. I could argue that we have has more soldiers killed then needed because the lack of political will to send over enough troops and resources to begin with. Had there been enough up front fewer troops would have been injured or killed because they would not have been spread so thin.
Typical liberal view point, telling everyone else what they should be doing with their money. Let the private sector deal with the best way to make energy though the open markets. Effective methods will get funded, ineffective methods will die off.
On a more serious note, even if you think that global warming is a pile of horse manure, why would anyone object to the measures that are being suggested?
Simple, $$$, these measures cost lots of money, and somebody has to pay for it.
Even if you do not give a crap about global warming, that may or may not happen in 50 to 100 years, it is _all_ about economics. Everything we do starts with energy, and I mean _everything_! The cheapest way to generate energy is with carbon rich sources of energy. It is to costly to start up a nuclear power plant (or any power plant) in the USA because of echos of Three Mile Island, and rampant NIMBYism. Conservation is great, but it cost more $$$ because energy effcient machines cost more, and you have to replace existing machines
The whole global warming "issue" is a huge liberal boogy-man that they can flog, because the people it hurts most are the big corporations, not the little guy. At least that is what the little guy is lead to believe.
If you look real closely at who has to pay for these new methods, you just might get a glimps of yourself.
You're obviously trying to push an agenda here. No woman in her right mind would get pregnant and have an abortion if a contraceptive is available and works properly.
I am not pushing an agenda... I am actually pro-choice. However I think that you are mis-informed if you think abortion is not used as a "birth control of last resort". To state that "No woman in her right mind would get pregnant and have an abortion if a contraceptive is available and works properly" is to not have a full grasp of why abortion is used so frequently. I would venture to say that a majority abortions are a result of accidental/unintended pregnancies where contraceptives were not given a thought. To have an abortion should be the womans choice, and she can deal with the moral issues herself.
...Apache isn't itself the leech. The multibillion dollar oil company that runs Apache all over the place and hasn't ever contributed a cent to the Apache project is.
Where does this monitary obligation come from? The license under which Apache is distributed under spells out the responsibilities of the user who downloads the software. If the Apache creators and maintainers wanted money, the should have spelled it out in the license.
The fact that the these oil companies that you speak of have "multibillion dollars" does not raise the licenes requirments, it is the same for everyone!
Remind me again how getting nearly $4/gallon gas for free from ExxonMobil and it's $8.4 billion quarterly profit is scary.
Well if you are morly challenged, then I would say nothing is wrong with it. Stealing from anyone, is, well, stealing, no matter how big a boogie-man you make the large "heartless corperations" out to be.
I noticed the typo after submission, but since we don't have the capacity to EDIT OUR POSTS, we do not have to measure up to any sort of editorial standard.
That button next to the "Submit" button, the one called "Preview", is typicaly used for editing.
Never mind that they don't test with proprietary drivers
Why should they? If RedHat a bug with the driver what could they do? It is not their job to fix closed souce drivers.
This utter disrespect for drivers used by a large number of people is really unacceptable.
Who are these large numbers of people you speak of, and are they paying RedHat for this support? This is a test and development kernel put out by RedHat to test what will go into their enterprise product.
Actually, when a disto fails to test with drivers used by a large portion of their userbase, it is the user who feels the disrespect.
I'm sure the enterprise product will be tested with drivers that will support a large protion of the user base (the paying user base). And as a result the various distros that base themselves on RedHats product will enjoy this as well.
If your using this for anything important your fingers will probably bleed...
At work, configure a localhost:3128 as your proxy.
It will still be slower than if you went through your employer's proxy, but not quite as slow as forwarding X.
However if you bring up an X application it is running at your other server and not localy. If you use a proxy server everyghing you look at is run though a local browser application, running on your local machine. There is potential with a mis-configured browser to leave traces of what you were doing at on your local machine. Since your home browser is not being used for work purposes there is no reason to have it running localy. Just one more layer of security for the uber paranoid.
They have not taken steps to insure that the Avionics are safe at this point on all the major airlines... No instead they let everyone fly on the honor system. Do you promise to turn off your cell Mr. Terrorist?
Next to locked cockpit doors this seems like a no-brainer. Sure, it will be costly to fix, but not as costly as a couple downed aircraft.
My power bill is about $500-$700/mo depending on the season. I run about 35 PCs, multiple Routers, and several switches in my basement. This is for my business, so most of the power usage is a write off. I have two 1 ton portable A/C units that pump the waste heat in to the house in the winter. When it is 35 F or above outside there are no heaters running in the house. At 50-55 we have to start craking the windows to let the heat out.
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Well there goes my plans to bring forth my dark legions of 486's and P75's...
An one know where I can get a bunch of ISA NICs and 10 Mbit hubs?
If push came to shove we (the USA) would be drilling like crazy in the gulf of Mexico, and Alaska to get the needed oil, for national security, and the economy. The political will and NIMBYism are preventing this now. At some point in the future that may change. We would also be investing more in other fuels (bio, wind, etc) but at the moment it is pure economics that is driving it. As the cost of current energy sources goes up, others will come on line, when you reach the right price point.
If you wonder why gas is so $$, it not because of a lack of supply of crude oil, it is the lack of processing facilities to make gas. Major Oil will not invest in new multi-billion $$ processing facilities when the greens are screaming about switching fuel types, and the NIMBYism is running rampant. So do not expect the cost of gas to go back down in the near future, regardless of how much crude is available.
On to the war, when you sign up for military service it is understood that you could quite possibly end up in, I know this is shocking, combat, where you could get hurt or even killed. Compared to previous wars, the number killed is very low. I could argue that we have has more soldiers killed then needed because the lack of political will to send over enough troops and resources to begin with. Had there been enough up front fewer troops would have been injured or killed because they would not have been spread so thin.
Typical liberal view point, telling everyone else what they should be doing with their money. Let the private sector deal with the best way to make energy though the open markets. Effective methods will get funded, ineffective methods will die off.
Actually, I'd say "vast group think"... but close enough.
Simple, $$$, these measures cost lots of money, and somebody has to pay for it.
Even if you do not give a crap about global warming, that may or may not happen in 50 to 100 years, it is _all_ about economics. Everything we do starts with energy, and I mean _everything_! The cheapest way to generate energy is with carbon rich sources of energy. It is to costly to start up a nuclear power plant (or any power plant) in the USA because of echos of Three Mile Island, and rampant NIMBYism. Conservation is great, but it cost more $$$ because energy effcient machines cost more, and you have to replace existing machines
The whole global warming "issue" is a huge liberal boogy-man that they can flog, because the people it hurts most are the big corporations, not the little guy. At least that is what the little guy is lead to believe.
If you look real closely at who has to pay for these new methods, you just might get a glimps of yourself.
3) Profit
I am not pushing an agenda... I am actually pro-choice. However I think that you are mis-informed if you think abortion is not used as a "birth control of last resort". To state that "No woman in her right mind would get pregnant and have an abortion if a contraceptive is available and works properly" is to not have a full grasp of why abortion is used so frequently. I would venture to say that a majority abortions are a result of accidental/unintended pregnancies where contraceptives were not given a thought. To have an abortion should be the womans choice, and she can deal with the moral issues herself.
Unless you consider abortion as a form of birth control. It does not sound pretty, but it is what many women (if not most) use it for.
My greatest fear for the upcoming election is that she wins the Democratic nomination - and gets clobbered in the general election.
s/Fear/Hope/
To each his/her own.
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Schroder played the piano, Linus held the blanket.
0.002 lightyear = 3.76223988 × 1012 rods
Where does this monitary obligation come from? The license under which Apache is distributed under spells out the responsibilities of the user who downloads the software. If the Apache creators and maintainers wanted money, the should have spelled it out in the license.
The fact that the these oil companies that you speak of have "multibillion dollars" does not raise the licenes requirments, it is the same for everyone!
Now BSD will die for sure....
I kinda like it...
Well if you are morly challenged, then I would say nothing is wrong with it. Stealing from anyone, is, well, stealing, no matter how big a boogie-man you make the large "heartless corperations" out to be.
Unpack it in /tmp or /var/tmp...
Did anyone else read that and think 'SCO'?
Or alternatly, can you stick your nose where others fear to tread and stand the smell of it?
That button next to the "Submit" button, the one called "Preview", is typicaly used for editing.
Happy BDay, and thanks for inventing the best way to kill time for geeks.
Why should they? If RedHat a bug with the driver what could they do? It is not their job to fix closed souce drivers.
This utter disrespect for drivers used by a large number of people is really unacceptable. Who are these large numbers of people you speak of, and are they paying RedHat for this support? This is a test and development kernel put out by RedHat to test what will go into their enterprise product.
Actually, when a disto fails to test with drivers used by a large portion of their userbase, it is the user who feels the disrespect.
I'm sure the enterprise product will be tested with drivers that will support a large protion of the user base (the paying user base). And as a result the various distros that base themselves on RedHats product will enjoy this as well.
If your using this for anything important your fingers will probably bleed...
That said, I'm downloading FC5 now ;-)
I'm right behind you...
It will still be slower than if you went through your employer's proxy, but not quite as slow as forwarding X.
However if you bring up an X application it is running at your other server and not localy. If you use a proxy server everyghing you look at is run though a local browser application, running on your local machine. There is potential with a mis-configured browser to leave traces of what you were doing at on your local machine. Since your home browser is not being used for work purposes there is no reason to have it running localy. Just one more layer of security for the uber paranoid.
Next to locked cockpit doors this seems like a no-brainer. Sure, it will be costly to fix, but not as costly as a couple downed aircraft.
It's got not much spam in it...
My power bill is about $500-$700/mo depending on the season. I run about 35 PCs, multiple Routers, and several switches in my basement. This is for my business, so most of the power usage is a write off. I have two 1 ton portable A/C units that pump the waste heat in to the house in the winter. When it is 35 F or above outside there are no heaters running in the house. At 50-55 we have to start craking the windows to let the heat out.
not that I am over compensating or anything....