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| 2004/5/22-23 [Transportation/Car] UID:30360 Activity:insanely high |
5/22 Where is a good place in the east bay area to teach someone how to
drive a stick shift (wide open spaces, litte traffic, flat ground)?
\_ Coliseum? no good lots at UC Berkeley, unfortunately.
one of the area malls during offhours?
\_ Berkeley Steamworks
\_ Actually, if you can find a slight downgrade somewhere,
isn't that actually easier to learn on? Of course, at some
point you'd have to head back up.
\_ Golden Gate Fields, lower lot
\_ seconded, that's where I learned :)
\_ there's a huge department store (boarded up) with parking
lot in richmond, toyrsur parking lot, or make a man
out of them and hit the hills of SF
\_ Bear Creek Road (take Wildcat Canyon over the hills, go straight
on the other side). There are a number of trailhead parking areas,
the road has some gentle hills, then some somewhat-tight curves,
and there are places where you can get into high gear and work on
downshifting. Not much traffic, particularly outside of commute
hours. Wide shoulders. It's where I learned. -gm
\_ I went to a church parking lot in El Sobrante. I felt blessed
in the holy place and didn't get into any accident there. Church
parking lot is the best place to learn stick shift.
\_ I taught myself to drive stick shift in the parking lot above
Foothill because it was the only reasonably empty lot I could find
in Berkeley. It's an oval with two long flat straightaways, and
edges that feature a slight grade. Having the graded edges was a
nice way to get a feel for stick on hills, and was useful for
practicing starting on a grade. Plus, when you're done, you can
test them by having them drive up Hearst. :) -dans
\_ I taught my sister to drive stick behind Foothill/Stern, but as
I recall it, it's a long oval, one way going up hill, the other
going downhill. I had to replace my clutch 4 months later. |
| 2004/5/22-23 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:30361 Activity:high |
5/22 Is Yahoo IM authentication at least somewhat secure? i.e., does it
send out the password in clear text or simple hash? What about MSN
IM? Google didn't help.
\_ It's been a long time but I used to share a hub with a coworker.
One day I fired up a network sniffer for a work thing and was able
to see all her IMs in clear text. This was frightfully boring so I
moved her to her own connection.
\_ i know for sure that msn uses a simple hash scheme... they
send a random challenge string, you append the challenge to your
password, run md5 on (password+challenge), and send the digest
back to the server. i don't remember what yahoo does, but i vaguely
remember it was some kind of hashing scheme. |
| 2004/5/22 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/California/Arnold] UID:30362 Activity:high |
5/22 Arnold policies help CA ecnomy recover... without raising taxes.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1896&u=/nm/20040521/us_nm/economy_california_rating_dc_1&printer=1
I didn't vote for him and I don't like everything he's done or trying
to do and I voted against his propositions but credit where credit is
due. If he pulls it off I might vote for him if he runs again.
\_ shortened to http://csua.org/u/7eu --darin
I didn't vote for him and I don't like everything he's done or trying
to do and I voted against his propositions but credit where credit is
due. If he pulls it off I might vote for him if he runs again.
\_ Ooh, the CPAs say we're doing better. Tell that to grad students
that now can't afford UC.
\_ There's a grad school in some other state they can afford?
\_ ok freeper whatever you say
\_ SO... you think this didn't actually happen?
\_ personal attack on OP -> OP post value++ && your value-- |
| 2004/5/22 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:30363 Activity:high |
5/22 Explain to me again why Dubya is reliable and trustworth, while
this man is not:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0521/p09s01-coop.html
\_ To save the rest of you the bother, "this man" is the infamous
Scott Ritter, taker of Saddam's bribes and molester of children.
When Dubya starts taking cash from Hussein and raping children,
he'll have as little credibility as Ritter. Why were you afraid
to say "Scott Ritter" instead of "this man" as if we wouldn't all
know who SR was? You think we'll all click and read and be mind
controlled into your conspiracy of the week?
\_ I thought it was Paul O'Neil that took money from Hussein. And
wasn't Richard Clarke the one who raped children? No one has
enough credibility or reputation to stand up to the perfection
of morals that is Bush/Cheney, huh?
\_ Ritter took $300k from Hussein. The rest of your post is just
silly. "Your guy is just as bad as our guy so our guy must be
good" makes no sense.
\_ Wow. You've got those blinders on firm, huh. Don't you
find it in the least disturbing that there is a stream of
people from both sides of the aisle that have decades of
experience that are taken to the shredder as soon as they
say a disparaging word against the pres on the range?
\_ If he hadn't taken $300k from Hussein he wouldn't get
shredded for it. There are plenty of people who speak
out very loudly everyday against the current admin and
nothing happens to them. Take off the tinfoil hat
before I go dig up that list of all the people
associated with Bill Clinton who died under 'mysterious
circumstances'. It was over 100 at last count. I don't
buy the conspiracy theory crap in either direction. To
be intellectually honest requires dismisses all the tin
foil hat noise or swallowing all of it. I choose to
dismiss it. Which do you choose?
\_ So you're happier with GWB taking cash from the bin Laden family.
\_ Ritter took $300k from Hussein. How much did GWB take from
the bin Laden family and what's your source? |
| 2004/5/22 [Recreation/Dating, Recreation/Food] UID:30364 Activity:nil |
5/22 Cheezy poll, I love:
feta cheese:
blue cheese:
all cheese: .
squeezy cheese:
chedar:
\_ I hate:
feta cheese: .
blue cheese: .
all cheese: |
| 2004/5/22-23 [Recreation/Food] UID:30365 Activity:high |
5/22 Are Tullys & Starbucks one company? Why does Tullys also have Tall,
Grande, Venti sizes?
\_ Short and Tall used to be standard sizes for real coffee houses.
Starbucks dropped short as a pussy size.
\_ I think Starbucks has the patent on Tall(r), Grande(r) and Venti(r)
sizes. There's also a suit recently filed between McDonald's and
Burger King over the use of the terms "small, medium, large" in the
soft drink sales side of the fast food business.
\_ Peets > Starbucks.
\_ Peets? When I worked near a Peets I stopped drinking cafe drinks
because it was so horrible.
\_ real coffee tastes bitter. when you load it with sugar, it
tastes more like a soft drink. st*rbucks knows its market.
most americans are still novices with espresso drinks. try a
local coffee house and find out which barista is good. variety
is the spice of life. try not to get hooked on st*rbucks
push-button machines one-flavor-fits-all (like McDonald's)
model. |
| 2004/5/22-23 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:30366 Activity:insanely high |
5/22 It wasn't a wedding and no dead children. Better luck next time.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/22/iraq.main/index.html
\_ OK, if the coalition says so.
\_ You prefer Al Jazeera's word on it? Okey dokey!
\_ I am sorry, but reporters from NPR said that plenty of women and
children were among the dead. the reporter visited the nearlest
hospital got the number from the doctors and nurses.
\_ Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt: "Bad people have parties too."
\_ NPR? Got his info from the local yokels? People who live on
the border who see hundreds of foreign terrorists coming through
and are more likely to be executed as collaborators for telling
the truth than for telling some NPR flunky a lie? People who
are probably in the same tribe as the terrorists who ran the
terrorist station that got blown up? Get serious. He was in
the hosipital and didn't even count bodies, just asked someone.
This is incredibly weak.
\_ Even if it's true, lots of people believed it, because Bush
has destroyed American credibility for a generation. How many
will die because of his disregard for human dignity?
\_ Actually completely the opposite. Bush has restored
American credibility. If anyone thinks about standing in
America's way, he'd better postpone his wedding indefinitely.
\_ Nonsense. That's the same crap you were spouting on the wall
the other day as if repetition = truth, Stalinist style. How
much credibility did GWB have with you at *any* point in his
life? None. So it doesn't matter what he has said and done,
you have always thought of him as "BushCO" and his actions and
words in any direction make no difference to you regarding his
credibility, now, in the past or the future. Your bit at the
end about human dignity is really funny. Is that how you got
so many #1 fans?
\- er, i didnt write the above. while i do read the NYker,
i would not use a comma before "because". anyway, part
of the reason i am so angry about this, is i accepted
much of the WMD analysis and spent some time defending
the "eventual aquisition of nuclear weapons" analysis
based on the ladder of escalation. See e.g. my wall of:
Boredcast Message from 'psb': Fri Jan 17 17:10:51 2003
\-which i have moved to:
/home/sequent/psb/MOTD/preGulfWar.commentarii
\_ It's really disturbing that partha gave it more thought
than bushco.
\_ Wow, you were there when the admin was meeting with
partha about this stuff? You rock!
\_ Yeah... partha for president. w00t!
\- when i am president, saying "woot" wont be covered
by the 1st amd. --psb
\- i accidentally mailed it to http://whitehouse.com instead
of .gov --psb
\_ Get any quality porn in response?
\_ FYI, Kimmit said U.S. soldiers had seen no dead children at the
site. That's because they were all driven to Ramadi. Kimmit
notes that is where they filmed the dead children's bodies.
Now before you go on with a theory about insurgents digging up
children's bodies and splashing pig's blood on them or asking
them to sacrifice their lives for Allah, please think before you
write. Children were very likely killed in the attack. Kimmit's
strongest argument, if it really was a high-level meeting of
anti-coaliation forces, is "Bad people have parties too" at which
there were women and children.
\_ How the hell do you know? This is exactly how Jenin played
out - remember that one? The military does not willy nilly
attack with Cobra gun ships and AC-130s in the middle of
the night. Sites are scoped for several days if not weeks
and targetting has to be approved up the chain of command.
An official has said as much about this incident as well.
Why the 2 million dinar, sat com equipment, foreign
passports and weapons caches at a wedding?
\_ "were very likely" "were driven to Ramadi" is speculative
noise, at best. How do you explain the barracks for 300, the
hundreds of pre-bundled Iraqi clothing piles so foreigners can
blend in with local styles, and all the rest? Hey, maybe there
were dead children. Maybe it really was a wedding. It was
still a terrorist site for moving in foreign terrorists and it
was appropriate to blow it up and kill whoever was there. If it
was Osama's wedding and women and children got killed would you
cry over that? And frankly I don't understand the problem with
killing women and children since we've seen plenty of both who
are doing their best to kill just like the men. When you pick
up a gun, wear a bomb belt or fire from a holy site you, the
place you're standing and everyone around you become legit
targets. This isn't a video game or a mother goose story. |
| 2004/5/22-23 [Computer/SW/Languages/Java] UID:30367 Activity:moderate |
5/22 Alright, who actually uses Java's Integer and Boolean instead of
the primitive types and why would you do such a thing?
\_ Why? Because primitive types aren't objects, so if a function
expects objects as arguments, what else are you going to do?
\_ Serialization, can't stick them in library containers, what the
above poster said.
\_ ah ha! thanks Java stud!
\_ Boolean b = null; |
| 2004/5/22-24 [Reference/Law/Court] UID:30368 Activity:very high |
5/22 Update on the bus driver lawsuit. I won and submitted the Writ
of Execution, Earning Withholding Order to the Sheriff who served
it to his employer. He makes $1600 a month as a bus driver. How
pathetic.
\_ Um, what was this "bus driver lawsuit" about?
\_ You're really cool for calling him pathetic because of his
monthly salary. What do you do for a living, hotshot?
\_ And then stealing what little he makes from him.
\_ The guy gave me a bogus address/insurance info/etc. He
threatened to counter sue me with injuries that he didn't
even have, and changed his phone number so that I couldn't
call him anymore. I didn't want to raise my insurance
premium and certainly didn't want to pay for damages outa
my pocket money so hired a private investigator, who had
a really really hard time tracking him down since he is so
clever and elusive. But hard work prevailed and now he will
pay. PAY PAY PAY YOU FRIGGING LOW LIFE FORM! MUHAHAHAHAHAHA
\_ You're disgusting.
\_ You didn't let me finish. After the private detective
served the paper, he filed for delay. So 3 months passed,
he lost the case, and filed for appeals via mail. But
that's not it. He wrote a check for $1-2 more than
necessary to the court clerk, and being government and
all they had to cash, refund, etc before they could
proceed with the appeals. So that delayed it by another
4 months. Just because he's poor and uneducated doesn't
make him less guilty for being a lying scumbag. That's
pretty much what both of the judges told him in court.
\_ Out of curiousity, why do you say this? Being poor
doesn't automatically make you good. -- ilyas
\_ Apparently, neither does being educated.
\_ No, really, what am I missing? It's one thing if
the guy agreed to pay, and then the op
realized the bus driver was a poor guy, and forgave
the debt. But this bus driver was not acting in
good faith, and was trying to avoid his obligations.
If I was in op's position, I would do the same
thing. -- ilyas
\_ What you are missing is that this moron
says that $1600/month is pathetic and feels
superior because of it.
\_ Hey, he can feel superior to me too, that's
about how much grad students make... which
is kind of depressing. -- ilyas
\_ if the bus driver is poor and uneducated
then the op should have more sympathy
for him because that's probably how he
was taught to do to survive (lying,
cheating, evading, etc). So yes I still
think the op is a loser and should at
least have given the bus driver a break
-guy who grew up poor
\_ So you hold people with less money to a
lower moral standard? I'm sorry but
\- Those of you motivated to reflect
a little deeply, in these times,
on wealth, on justice, "the good",
means and ends, and most of all,
"might and right", ought to read the
Republic. From a quick look, this
looks fair: http://csua.org/u/7f2
One of the first bits is on
"wealth and morality". I suppose
you can wait for the MEEL Gibson
and Brad Pitt version. --psb
\_ Oh look, the cliff notes, web
edition. -- ilyas
\- i'm obviously not suggesting
this is a substitute. but then
again not all of us read
ancient greek. if you want
"the real thing", penguin or
grube. i havent read jowitt.
--psb
\_ I like Allan Bloom. Penguin
sucks as a general rule.
Everything with a penguin
for a mascot sucks! Stupid
penguins. -- ilyas
\- dont be an idiot.
penguin classics are
usually pretty good
as a default. --psb
as a default.
off the top of my
head, the main thing
for which penguin is
not one of the standards
is homer. --psb
\_ Listen, partha...
when I buy a
translation, I usually
go to the kind of
store where there are
lots of them side by
side, and usually
read at least a
chapter out of each
right there in the
store. In my
experience penguin
is inferior to almost
any other edition, if
one exists. Penguin's
cheap though, I ll
give it that.
-- ilyas
\-i have a lot of
penguins that are from sylla-
bus recommendations. you want
to put your assessment of
greek or latin or italian
over the berkeley classics
faculty, be my guest.
in individual cases there
may be better options, like
say one of the recent
"pedagogic thucydides", based
on your particular
background and interest, but
penguins do have a good
general reputation. i should
clarify when i mean classics
i mean Classics with a Big C.
--psb
\_ You can find faculty
somewhere to recommend
almost every translation
there is. I trust my own
language sense. -- ilyas
\-do you know ancient
greek? --psb
this is so stupid I don't even have the
words to begin. Instead of being a
total piece of crap, maybe he should
have spent 1/10th as much time learning
to drive, getting an education, or any
number of other things that would
improve his life instead of putting all
his time and effort into being a piece
of total garbage. I not only have no
sympathy for the bus driver but I
loudly applaud the OP for keeping on
this asshole, not letting him get away
with it and making him suffer.
\_ He is a bus driver, he obviously
knows how to drive. As for the
education part, not everyone is
cut out for college. Some people
simply aren't smart enough, though
this guys sounds pretty clever.
\_ This is where I disagree. Making fun
of him for being poor is stupid. Making
fun of him (and getting payback) because
he is lying scum is fine. -- ilyas
\_ The guy got into a car accident and lied repeatedly to avoid
paying for it. This is different from stealing a loaf of bread
to feed your starving family.
\_ Sure, but why is his salary a relevant fact?
\_ Did I say anything about his "salary"?
\_ Yes. Can't you read the original post?
\- in court someone has to win. in the judgement of
who is an asshole, both can "win". --psb
\_ w00t! -psb #2 fan
\- this is really a horrible expression the
use of which you will look back on with shame. |