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2003/12/18 [Uncategorized] UID:11506 Activity:nil |
12/17 anyone have any problems recently with screen on soda? whenever I run it, it detaches immediately, and it sets the term type to "vt100" instead of to the usual value of "screen". |
2003/12/18 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:11507 Activity:moderate |
12/18 are we going to go along to pay Iran for Saddam's deed? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3329671.stm \_ ``She must be satisfied.'' Persian girls are too high maintenance... \_ that's a hilarious quote. Are all nations feminine? \_ Common practice yes. \_ Common practice yes. For nations and ships. However: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/63240_tblist.shtml --scotsman \_ No. \_ Germany was masculine- the Fatherland \_ "Das Vaterland". Also La France, Rodnaya/Mother Russia, etc etc. I can't think of any proper masculine references to countries. -John \_ Uncle Sam. Also it's Rodina-Mat'. -- ilyas \_ Sorry, misunderstood "narodnaya" in the Soviet national anthem--my Russian is non-existent. And we were discussing national identities, not personifications (e.g. John Bull) -John |
2003/12/18-19 [Politics/Foreign/Asia/India, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:11508 Activity:nil |
12/18 Prime model of respect of human right which all middle eastern nation shall follow: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3329631.stm \_ yeah he really wants to go home .. by way of being a merc |
2003/12/18-19 [Politics/Domestic/California] UID:11509 Activity:nil |
12/17 Is there a web site that lists the California and federal income tax rate schedule not only for 2003, but for 2004, 2005, etc., as well as the exemption amounts. STUPID INCONSIDERATE MOVIE SPOILERS...DON'T DO IT. At least prepend your drivel with "Don't read if you haven't seen the movie." \_ Those amounts have been decided already? \_ No. STUPID INCONSIDERATE MOVIE SPOILERS...DON'T DO IT. At least prepend your drivel with "Don't read if you haven't seen the movie." \_ The butler, in the study, with the wrench. -John |
2003/12/18-20 [Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:11510 Activity:nil |
12/18 Republican says 9/11 was preventable: http://csua.org/u/5b9 \_ See, you can't win. If we go in before something bad happens, we are unilateral imperialist aggressors. If we go in after something happens, that something was 'preventable.' I guess a republican just can't win if he's in office. Not unless he can see the future. \_ or even if he can because it doesn't matter what he does, it is still wrong. \_ "the commission has navigated a political landmine". Why can't even professional journalists use metaphors correctly? It's like reading an all-kinney motd. \_ We live in the Age of the Mixed Metaphor. \_ We live in an age of ignorance and journalists are leading the way. Few people are more stupid than a journalist. \_ "As you read the report, you're going to have a pretty clear idea what wasn't done and what should have been done," he said. "This was not something that had to happen." Appointed by the Bush administration, Kean, a former Republican governor of New Jersey, is now pointing fingers inside the administration and laying blame. "There are people that, if I was doing the job, would certainly not be in the position they were in at that time because they failed. They simply failed," Kean said. ... Asked whether we should at least know if people sitting in the decision-making spots on that critical day are still in those positions, Kean said, "Yes, the answer is yes. And we will." \_ So do we go back and retroactively fire half the clinton admin? \_ Quick look! Micheal Jackson, over there! \_ What? Where?! |
2003/12/18-19 [Computer/SW/Languages/Java, Computer/SW/Languages] UID:11511 Activity:nil |
12/18 s.a.d. http://money.cnn.com/2003/12/17/pf/q_nomorework/nomorework2.gif \_ Get over it. This happens to every job, sooner or later. Even doctors, plumbers, lawyers, etc. will eventually be replaced by Tajikistanis or robots. New jobs are created, and overall we all have more leisure--the average worker in a western country works somewhere around 8 hours, 5 days a week--compare that to 100 years ago. Where's the problem? -John \_ Big difference is that India and China are fucked up then. Now they are reemerging. \_ Their standards and cost of living (and wages) will rise, it's called the free market. At the same time, their demand for goods and services will go up. Currently, they don't have nearly as much of a market for the sort of stuff they're supplying "us" for cheaper as we do, hence "we" send the work over there. That will change, it always has. I seem to recall reading some article to the extent that a lot of Indian companies were worried about IT work moving to China for cost reasons, which is pretty revealing. -John \_ Some of us have rent to pay while your little global free market economy rebalances itself at the expense of the middle class. \_ No surprises here. If you haven't already started looking into other careers, now is a good time. Of course, I'm sure you all think that you're one of those blessed with so much talent that you'll never be hit by the continuing dismantling of the domestic software industry. \_ another career? nah, not only that, but another country too. give up software and high tech, and what do you have left, and how safe would those be? \_ The source is Forrester Research, the same people who predicted in 2000 that by 2002 the market penetration of personal video recorders would be in the same ballpark as that of washing machines. Keeping your options open is always good, but I don't think the verdict is quite in yet. \_ looks like a new career should be statistical research & prediction, then. \_ Five counter trends are: (1) less H1Bs, (2) fewer students in \_ fewer CS these days, (3) Indian and Chinese software engineers moving back to their respective countries, (4) rapidly falling dollar narrows the gap a little, (5) rapidly rising cost of living in say China. \_ and these are reasons why it will take 12 years for it to fall 33%. Without these mitigating factors, it would fall faster. And oh, btw, the biggest counter trend is probably the growth of the software industry as a whole as the presence of computers and technology permeate more and more of every day life. \_ This will start happening to System and Network Admins, too: http://csua.org/u/5bg \_ I highly doubt that this will happen. From my experience it's practically impossible to outsource sysadmin. You still need to be physically there when the server goes down. I've seen many attempts at just remote sysadmining and that never works. I also find that at least half of sysadmin is help-desk, so unless you want users to start calling India everytime they can't get something to work then I don't see the trend. However, I do see the trend in possible consolidation. I think there are many small/medium sized firms who don't need a full-time sysadmin, and what they need is a firm which will contract out sysadmin work. Overall, I think that there will be much less local programming work, but there will be more computer support work. As for programming, it doesn't come as a surprise to me. It's relatively easy to learn programming (especially enterprise stuff in which you typically just populate datastructures from forms), and with the predominance of 4GL languages now in the field this is even more so. Another high-tech area that will be greatly hit will be layout designers for chips (place and route software will kill off custom layout) and probably circuit designers will just all be off-shore instead of being H1Bs. \_ Locally outsources sysadmins? Having a helpdesk across town is no better than having it in India. That's not going to work. \_ It certainly will work. Someone across town can come in twice a week for system maintenance and be there for emergencies. Try that with a Punjabee. |
2003/12/18-19 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:11512 Activity:nil |
12/18 So if it wasn't for your boy Dean spoiling the election, my man, Ralph would have a much better chance in '04. Here's some background on your guy. Read it and weep while you suffer through 4 more years. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A9661-2003Dec17?language=printer \_ Ralph's a grumpy old man that should pass the reigns if he wants the greens to do anything. \_ Hi, Republican Troll. The Greens really don't understand the meaning of the word coalition. The Republicans have their own loonies, the Christian Right. They understand coalition. They unite with their party and pick their battles, and guess what? They're winning. They control the Republican party, they hold the White House and much of Congress, they are gaining ground in the courts and they control school boards across the nation - enabling them to subtly indoctrinate the next generation. The biggest problem with the left, since the very dawn of the modern age, is its tendency towards internecine warfare and self annihilation. Ideological purity is a fool's game. The war is won not with revolutions but with gradual change. \_ Why does it surprise you that at a liberal school like Berkeley there might be a single Green posting on the motd? Grow up. \_ "Read it and weep"? I thought it made him look pretty good. \_ I love how the story starts out with the 9/11 warnings crap: From above: http://csua.org/u/5b9 also: http://csua.org/u/5bj \_ That's the most they can dig up? To most of those "examples", they quote a reasonable explanation from the Dean camp. What a snore. One thing that's true is Kerry does nothing now but attack Dean. \_ Does this usually happen with all prez primaries? Or is the anti-dean vitriol worse than usual? -newbie to primary process \_ I'm not very old or anything, but I can't remember a primary race ever being quite like this. There are a more candidates who have or had a real chance. The Kerry/Dean animosity is probably highest since they're both New England, and Kerry thought he had that in the bag before Dean rose up. |
2003/12/18-19 [Health/Disease/General] UID:11513 Activity:kinda low |
12/18 Random question (based on a random thought I had). How many people do you think are researching cancer? I was wondering if it reached 1 million? \_ in the entire world? most likely. in the us, probably not. \_ what about if you include the distributed computing stuff? \_ War on Cancer is machismo bullshit. Prevention is better than cure. Want to know how to prevent cancer? Read Dr. Ornish's book. Vegetarians and vegans almost never get cancer. And we have great skin too! :-) -pretty boy |
2003/12/18 [Uncategorized] UID:11514 Activity:nil |
12/18 Nice selective motd editing, asshole. -John \_ Selective = stupid stuff removed. \_ I liked the Zagat guide to Middle Earth and Rogue |
2003/12/18-20 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:11515 Activity:nil |
12/18 David Kay to leave WMD-search group, for "personal/family reasons": http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9823-2003Dec17.html \_ Yeah, he's got "FuckThisBullshitThere'sNothingThereAnywayitis" \_ Is it "Bullshit" or is it "Bushit"? :-) \_ It took this long for him to realize WMD is just an excuse to going to war. Rather Iraq has WMD or not was never an important issue. This partly explains why the administration kept stripping his resources to do his job. I feel sorry for him. \_ He was always a patsy. \_ DIANE SAWYER: But stated as a hard fact, that there were weapons of mass destruction as opposed to the possibility that he could move to acquire those weapons still-- PRESIDENT BUSH: So what's the difference? If my boss were this blase about lying to the American people, I think I would leave for "personal/family reasons" too. \_ Due to blindness or paranoia or not listening well enough to the CIA, the Bush administration believed in the WMD theory enough that the military was outfitted with all the protective gear for the Iraq assault. It's just that everyone has been telling Dubya recently, "Um, they probably don't have WMD." \_ Right. He was lied to. Sure. |
2003/12/18-20 [Politics/Domestic/911, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:11516 Activity:nil |
12/18 Padilla to be given civil trial: http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/12/18/padilla.case/index.html \_ It might go to the Supreme Court. That would be great, if it did. Even if they rule in Dubya's favor, the dissenting argument will surely have something like: "When the U.S. government interned Americans of Japanese descent in the interest of 'national security' after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, it was wrong then; and in this post-9/11 world ..." |
2003/12/18 [Recreation/Humor] UID:29725 Activity:nil |
12/18 That's got to be pretty funny. There was an MSN Today link to an article titled "Stress=longer life? Study says brief exposure to stress may actually help protect cells in the body against damage". I click on it, and get "No Such Link", in big fat letters. \_ They're trying to help you live longer. \_ this is a theory advanced to explain why living at low temperatures causes increase in drosophylia life span, and why eating low-cal diets causes increases in life span in mutiple lab animals. |
2003/12/18 [Uncategorized] UID:29726 Activity:nil |
12/18 Which tastes best and why? -rogue Orcs Uruk'hai Strider Aragorn Naxgul \_ mmm... manflesh |
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