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| 2005/4/20-21 [Science/Disaster, Science/Electric] UID:37274 Activity:kinda low |
4/19 I went to Fry's today and got a new 300W PC power supply. It is 80%
PSU efficient (compared to the industry average of 68%), and 99% PFC
active power correction. Unlike my previous power supply, it is very
cool, and best of all, it is NEAR SILENT! At 22db, the only thing I
can hear is my faint pitched HD. If you ever want a near silent PC,
I highly recommend Seasonic, model Super Tornado (120mm fanpower).
It's a bit costly, at $45, but if you like silence, it is worth it.
\_ Wow, you bought something from Fry's that will actually shutup.
Too bad the same can't be said of their salespeople.
\_ Fry's used to be a cool place when I bought my first PC 15 years
ago.
\_ Thanks. Go to http://silentpcreview.com and click on Power Supplies
for a review of this. I blew > $100 for an Enermax on http://newegg.com
that's a few percent more efficient, 4 dB louder at idle (21dB),
is compliant with the 2.0 whatever, stays on for 2 minutes after
you shutdown (this is good actually), and tops out with more juice.
\_ http://silentpcreview.com/article107-page1.html
\_ Yeah, you happened to buy the quietest, non-passively cooled
power supply EVAR.
\_ 0Mg!!! this d00d r0x! d00d can play Quake without hearing
the annoying fan noise (like it matters). Lame.
\_ I second the Seasonic. I've gotten 3 of 'em (coupla Super Silencers
and a Super Tornado (which, contrary to its name, is actually
quieter than the Silencer)). I highly recommend them. Oh, and they
might be cheaper at Central Computer (Newark & San Jose) |
| 2005/4/20-21 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:37275 Activity:low |
4/19 I went to Fry's today and saw a 400GB HD by Seagate, with 5 years
warranty!!! That is just amazing. By the way, what is the current MB
limitation on size? I remember back in the 90s I had to get special
HD card to go above 4G, and then in the late 90s a special card to
go above 80G. I'm just wondering what the current limitation is.
\_ Why would there be a limitation? Granted, I always buy SCSI.
BTW, 5 year warranty is standard. I am going to guess that you
went to Fry's today and it got you all excited, huh? Calm down.
\_ 5 years is not even close to standard, for IDE anyway.
\_ I wouldn't know about IDE crap.
\_ A year or 2 ago you could buy motherboards with a 137GB
limitation (128*2^30bytes). Except for a few external enclosures,
you shouldn't have to worry about it. |
| 2005/4/20-21 [Reference/Religion] UID:37276 Activity:moderate |
4/20 Stupid question: Why there isn't a demand for Pope to be elected?
\- There was the Protestant
Reformation instead. See e.g.
Luther "Thesis" #51, #79, #82,
#86etc. --cardinal psb
or, why people are content with the existing process of selecting
leader of 1 billion catholics?
\_ Hi, you are obviously out of touch with the whole religious
concept... religion is not a democracy. Popemastah is chose
basically by the big G, yo. Why ain't there a demand for the
10 commandments to be amended?
\_ They were. People of Israel, I bring you these fifteen..
...CRASH...ten! Ten commandments!
\_ Mel Brooks movie?
\_ History of the World Part 1. I'm still waiting for
Part 2 w/ Jews in Space!
\_ I always wondered if there was a Part 2. I would
have liked to see it.
\_ Vote for wrong pope == 1 way ticket to hell. Would you risk it
(assuming you really believed in all this heaven/hell Ebenezer
scrooge stuff)?
\_ To them, it is a democracy; Just like our founding
fathers thought when they left out women and minorities.
\_ To them, it is a democracy; Just like our founding fathers
thought when they left out women and minorities. |
| 2005/4/20-21 [Computer/SW/Virus, Computer/SW/OS, Computer/SW/Apps] UID:37277 Activity:high |
4/19 Is it just me or did ZoneAlarm go from a decent home-firewall to a
piece of crap? I have a version from over a year ago that works
flawlessly. Twice now, I've tried to upgrade to the most recent
version, and both times it's screwed up my setup so bad I had to
downgrade back to the good one (the first time I couldn't connect to
my work VPN, the second time it would not allow traffic between my
two home computers to go through and any time I tried to copy files
between them i would be disconnected from the internet).
\_ No, it's ZoneAlarm. I've given up on it also and moved to
Tiny Personal Firewall. It's just got so much unnecessary bloat
that it's just plain stupid to run it. Stuff that also used to
be decent but are really problematic include Symantec NAV,
starting in 2004 it's really bloated up, the Symantec Firewall
Suite, Adobe Acrobat 6.0+, the recent Quicktime versions, and
Yahoo Messenger (it now takes up 25% of your screen with its
unnecessary skins and stupid whizbang features you'll never use).
This is why Free Software makes more and more sense, because
commercial software needs to "improve" with time so they can
continue making money. However, there is only so much you can
do with simple software (such as a firewall) before feature
creep totally destroys it.
\_ I've worked at Zone Labs for over 4 years and sadly
what you say is true. I'm constantly fighting with upper
management over new features vs code cleanup, and unfortunately,
new features almost always win. In our upcoming June
release we are adding both a total re-rewrite of all the
memory management that drastically improves performance
of ZAP and P2P, but at the same adding "OS firewall" which
hooks just about everything in the SDT and has the potential
to prevent most rootkits, spyware, etc from being installed
but unfortunately the code won't have enough time to stabalize,
and will most likely cause thousands of new lockups, BSODs,
etc... Unfortunately, our sales are doubling every year so its
very hard to argue with upper management. It's very sad.
--sky
\_ I found I had accidentally left Acrobat 5.0 on my computer
however many years ago. I made it the default and suddenly
looking at pdfs just got much faster. I"m now wondering if I
can get away with older bloat-free version of some other things.
The hacked freeware version of Realplayer is pretty lightweight,
too.
\_ As a side note, Acrobat 7 seems a lot snappier than v. 6.
\_ If you look carefully, the subtitle to Acrobat 7 is "the
apology". ctrl-mousewheel works as well. And you can find
in page without the idiotic and bloated find sidebar.
\_ I recall stumbling on a site with pointers to old versions
of software a while ago--a lot of companies seem to keep
these on their ftp servers, but don't link to them from
their download pages. I'm sure there are several sites
specializing in this sort of thing. -John
\_ http://oldversion.com
\_ I use the current version of Zone Alarm with no problems. -ausman
Zone alarm source:
if ($user == "ausman") {
not_suck(..)
}
else
suck(..)
}
\_ I blame paolo. -geordan
\_ I blame geordan. -God |
| 2005/4/20-21 [Politics/Domestic/President/Reagan, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:37278 Activity:nil |
4/20 Today in History: Jimmy Carter Attacked by Killer Rabbit (Apr 20, 1979)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1387141/posts
\- well in a weird version of Godwin's Law, also Hitler bday. --psb
\_ EOT |
| 2005/4/20-22 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:37279 Activity:moderate |
4/20 Early universe was a liquid:
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050418/full/050418-5.html
\_ Ugly bags of mostly water.
\_ There's a Star Trek nerd loose on the motd!
\_ Red alert!
\_ Shields up.
\_ Set phasers to pun.
\_ Are you sure? It does mean changing the bulb.
\_ Are you suggesting that we all descended from LIQUID?!
Blashphemer.
\_ The absentee ballot system in the States is pretty much just as
bad.
\_ Yeah. After I heard about absentee ballot problems in the last
election, the first thing I thought of was "jeez, this is like a
quark-gluon plasma!" That's how bad it is!!!!
Blasphemer.
\_ Ugly bags of mostly water.
\_ There's a Star Trek nerd loose on the motd!
\_ [ comment moved to where it seems to make more sense ] |
| 2005/4/20-22 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:37280 Activity:moderate |
4/20 Yay!
Consumer prices jumped 0.6 percent in March, the biggest inflation
surge in five months ... The so-called core rate of inflation rose by
a worrisome 0.4 percent in March, the largest jump in 2 1/2 years and
double what economists had expected. ... "We are getting slower growth
and higher inflation numbers. The Fed is caught," said David Wyss,
chief economist at Standard & Poor's in New York. ... Wyss predicted
that the central bank would raise rates another quarter-point when Fed
officials next meet on May 3 and probably continue with quarter-point
increases in future months.
\_ You're thinking this is a good thing?
\_ stagflation, you get what you sowed. yay! - !pp
\_ I think it is good when people have to confront the consequences
of their (bad) choices.
\_ Our choices? I think you mean, "people have to confront the
consequences of their government's bad choices." Don't know
if I see anything good about it, but it's certainly nothing
new - the fat cats screw up and the little guy gets the shaft.
\_ We get the government we deserve. Didn't people vote
the current one in office?
\_ stupid people.
\_ Neither Kerry nor Bush were willing to talk about the
impending peak in oil production and how we will have
to downscale our way of life in response to that, since
that would have been political suicide. I think the
difference is that once the SHTF (shit hits the fan)
and it becomes obvious to a large segment of the
population, Kerry would probably start some kind of
program that might actually work as opposed to Bush's
strategy of serially invading oil rich countries.
\_ You fucking crackpot. When it comes to invading
countries, Dubya is after the WMDs, not the oil.
The only problem was there weren't any WMDs. -liberal
\_ We won't have to "downscale" our way of life if
we take oil shortage as a given and try to re-engineer
our present technology. The scaling back will only
have to happen if we get cought with our pants down
on this issue. This will only happen if fuckheads
who are owned by the Saudi royal family continue to
be in control of the worlds largest energy user and
greatest scientific power.
\_ You need to do more research into how dependent
we are on oil and natural gas and how there
are no current realistic alternatives that can
provide energy, especially portable energy, on
the same scale. Just read this today:
http://csua.org/u/bsb
\_ You know, I keep hearing this, and the people
I hear this from are (surprise, surprise) oil
executives. Mind you, I own oil and natural
gas stock because it didn't take a genius
to figure this was coming. However, a country
that could fly men to the moon and back within
50 years of the invention of the airplane and
developed the first nuclear weapon in record
time would most likely be able to convert all
their existing power plants to safe nuclear
(read pebble reactors) and convert all cars
to use some sort of fuel cell in probably
10-15 years max. All it takes is the collective
will of the people and government. This whole
"we're really dependent on oil" bullshit line
has just got to stop. We need to get off our
asses, get rid of the oil barons, get rid of
the SUV morons, and get rid of the greenpeace
anti-anything-nuclear beatniks and find some
real viable solutions to our long-term
energy needs. Energy should be so inexpensive
that it is free by now. It's ludicrous that
we are still utilizing 150 year old sources
of fuel in this day and age. I mean, c'mon
we are STILL burning coal?
\_ It certainly would be technically possible
to shift the US economy to not be oil-based.
But history is littered with societies which
refused to change their practices in time
to save themselves. The US hasn't even
managed to adopt the metric system; where
would we get the will to fundamentally
change our way of life? -tom
\_ It's not a question of fundamentally
changing the lifestyle of Joe Sixpack,
it's a question of changing our scientific
research priorities, which atually happens
pretty fast. Post 911 lots of physicists
suddenly said that their research would
help detect anthrax, because that was
suddenly a very high priority as far as
fuding agents are concerned. When you
consider the relative risks from running
out of energy vs. anthrax attacks, it's
completely insane that anthrax detectors
are killer aps and energy related
research is not(as much). This is a
reflection of the morons in *charge* of
the government, not the morons who can't
figure out how to convert cm to inches.
I think it's quite concievable that
president Gore could have changed this.
Our civilization may end up collapsing
not because of some global arrogance
and shortsightedness, but rather becuase
the Republicans stole a few hundred votes
in Florida back in 2000.
\_ we're really dependent on oil" bullshit IS
NOT BULLSHIT. How the FUCK are you going
to produce your pesticides with nuclear
energy. How are you going to produce your
fertilizers with nuclear energy. How the
FUCK are you going to increase the rate of
Uranium mining by the factor of 140 we'll
need to replace everything with nukes or
build 1,000 breeder reactors, etc.
Were is all this waste going to go. Many
of the alternatives that will "last forever"
like Thorium, etc., take more energy to
refine than you get out of them, and nukes
have a very long ramp-up time. For the
next 10-20 years, LNG and coal gassification
are much more realistic but all of these
types of things will fail eventually without
a switch to renewables, a stop to eternal
growth and some downscaling of the economy.
\_ So pumping money into the economy didn't help that much, because it
just meant house prices shot up and people bought some Toyotas and
Sony televisions etc. Why can't the gov't use more targeted
benefits for US business rather than just dorking with interest
rates?
\_ Businesses want to make money, not help the country. It seems
that in the past, perhaps a majority of businesses saw that one
leads to the other, that doesn't seem like the prevalant mode
of current business thinking. |
| 2005/4/20-22 [Politics/Domestic/California] UID:37281 Activity:low |
4/20 When democracy meets islam in the UK:
http://tinyurl.com/9jg7d (telegraph.co.uk)
\_ The absentee ballot system in the States is pretty much just as
bad.
\_ I think your link description goes better with this one:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/18034715?version=1
\_ Not really. George Galloway is, not to put too find a point
on it, a cunt in the finest tradition of cuntness. Read up
on his past a bit; he's just getting his just desserts for
a lot of really really bad shit that he's done. Ironic that
it's coming from an islamic mob, though. -John |
| 2005/4/20-22 [Politics/Domestic/California/Arnold, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:37282 Activity:nil |
4/20 http://csua.org/u/brv LA Times editorial staff says Bolton should voluntarily withdraw from consideration for UN ambassadorship - saving Dubya the embarrassment of yanking him - and instead take an ambassadorship to France. \_ oh, they'll love him in France \_ Interesting, but I thought he had every vote he needs thanks to a Rep senator who is, by his own admission, voting against the wishes of his consituency. Then again, that was yesterday morning. \_ Ooh, you missed a good one. Voinovich (of all people) threw in a monkey wrench. They put off the committee vote for 3 weeks or something. But it doesn't look good for bolton. \_ Go to http://freerepublic.com, do a search for Voinovich, and guess how fast this guy's going to buckle. |
| 2005/4/20-22 [Computer/Blog, Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:37283 Activity:high |
4/20 Question about Internet libel: I have a bitchy pissed-off (ex)friend
who has decided to make it her life's work to get back at me. She
routinely posts crap on her blog about me, but today she actually
posted my full name with her lies. I did some searches on Google
for recent legislation/rulings about Internet libel and found
nothing but opinions about how things should be. Does anyone know
the current state of whether blog postings count as libel? And
additionally, any suggestions on getting her to stop (and change her
recent blog post to not include my name) without having to actually
resort to legal action?
-jvarga
\_ This doesn't answer your question but it's related. A friend of
mine googled his own name, and found some chick's blog talking about
"stalking [my friends full name]" which described her going around
to various places where he works or hangs out to try to stalk him.
Amusing but harmless.
\_ I just googled for your name and couldn't find anything...
\_ The crawlers havn't hit it yet. A friend who routinely monitors
her blog tipped me off to it. The post was made this morning.
- jvarga
\_ What, no link?
\_ There is not really any way to stop someone from doing something
like this, short of legal action. Even if you go to court, all
you can probably get is a monetary judgement. You *can* sue for
libel, but it is expensive. Is this an ex? You are probably
better off just trying to get some emotional distance from this
and think about legal action later, when you are not so heated
about it. -ausman
libel, but it is expensive and time consuming. Is this an ex-gf?
You are probably better off just trying to get some emotional
distance from this and think about what you want to do about it
later, when you are not so upset about it. -ausman
\_ In order to answer this question properly, the motd requires that
you tell the story behind this. Thank you.
\- i think the toughest thing for you to prove will be harm or
damage. if she just says you are an asshole or a "butthead
programmer" that probably wont do it. however, there are
legal claims in the area of privacy and harassment which is
a different matter from defamation. i do not know much about
this other than being aware of this option. that may be more
fruitful. depending on the WEEB site where this is appearing,
there may be non-legal approaches to this. --psb
\_ Yes, I forgot that you can sometimes get postings removed
if they violate an AUP at an ISP. This would just force her
to change venues, though. Sometimes this is enough.
to change ISPs, though. Sometimes this is enough.
\_ Sure, just piss her off some more.
\_ catfight!!
\_ Get over it. If the blog entries continue, they will sound more
and more shrill. Unless the accusations significantly affect your
reputation and you can prove it, it's not worth the time or effort.
That said, have someone, anonymously or not, let the person know
that naming you can be seen as defamation of character which is a
precursor to a possible libel suit. Fear is your pal.
\_ The libel suit is basically not happening. The rules for libel
suits are pretty much the same for blogs/the web as they are for
print. The problem is that proving *material* harm (are the things
she's saying costing you money due to lost job or business
opportunities?) is *very* hard to do. The other test you have to
pass is would an ordinary individual off the street believe the
things this person is saying are true. You can try pursuing this
legally but it is a) expensive and b) 80% likely to fail. Why not
just try talking to your ex-friend/gf/life-pal/whatever and saying
``Hey, knock it off you're being an immature git.'' in so many
words. -dans
\- as i said above, libel is probably not the way to go if it
is personal stuff [as opposed to "he has been fired mutliple
time for incompetence"] but there are other (legal) avenues.
if it is beyond "just talk to her" and contancting isp etc,
i think you are in "real lawyer" land. --psb
\_ I don't have any intention of making this legal, I'm just
trying to find ways to make her go away. The relationship
ended over a month ago and I've gone on with life (I just have
to monitor every so often to play damage control as she tries
to mess with my reputation in Berkeley while I'm out of state)\
but she's done anything but. I just need some way to get it
to mess with my reputation in Berkeley while I'm out of state)
but she's done anything but. I just need some way to get it
through her head that "its over, move the fuck on, stop trying
to destroy my life because you feel hurt and vindictive."
I've already pretty much cut off communication with her but
I'm getting sick of cleaning up all of the crap she's doing to
me back in Berkeley, this just being one very very small part
of the big picture. - jvarga
\_ guess the breakup was anything but amicable
\_ I tend to be fairly laissez faire about this thing.
Unless your ex is really vindicitve AND really socially
adept AND really evil she probably won't do much damage.
Your friends know you, and will be able to smell her
bullshit a mile a way. Unless of course all your friends
were mutual, and you're playing the divide up the friends
game in which case you might want to consider an emergency
trip to Berkeley just to play it safe. -dans
\_ When you play the divide up the friends game, the girl
usually wins. The bar for female's credibility is set
really low compared to yours.
\_ That's inconsistent with my experieince. Are you
really socially inept, or should I just be happy I
don't have friends like yours? -dans
\- you can try to push her over the edge so she becomes
non-functional.
\_ Be the bigger person and rise above it. If someone
asks you about it, you can answer, but I don't think you
need to defend yourself otherwise. Your friends won't need
it and others won't believe you anyway. Avoid going on
a retaliatory smear campaign, if you can help it.
\_ Dude, it's only been a month, give her more time to get
over it. She sounds like a bit off, but maybe you pushed
her. Next time, choose your gf more wisely.
\_ We have just been discussing Defamation in my Torts class. Based
on what we have covered, you might be able to make out a cause of
action for libel against her. I'll ask my Torts prof and get back
to you. Anyway, based on what I know:
Assuming that these statements aren't some sort of public concern
(you are stealing from the univ or some such) and you are not some
sort of public official/figure, you will fall into the "private/
private" category and should be able to get some money or and
injunction/retraction w/o needing to show actual harm (libel
can recover w/o actual damages in most cases). If you can show
knowing falsity or reckless disregard for the truth (NY Times
actual malice) you might even be able to get presumed and
punitive damages.
I think the tricky part will be to show that her statements were
capable of having a defamatory meaning. You will have to show
that the statements were more than hyperbole and that they are
proveably false (opinion is generally not actionable). The tough
part will be in proving that the statements were capable of
lowering your reputation or detering others from associating w/
you or exposed you to hatred, contempt or ridicule.
What might be better than actually going through w/ a suit is
to threaten her w/ one and maybe file a complaint to that end.
You can probably file the complaint yourself in at the ct house
and serve her via certified mail. That should really spook her.
\_ Shows what you know. You can't serve someone in state
simply with certified mail. -williamc
\_ iirc sec Cal Civ Proc Code Sec 415 allows in state
service by mail in lieu of personal service.
\_ and you recalled wrong. If you actually read the code
you still need to attempt to serve in person first and
THEN mail a copy. Look, buddy, I work at a law firm,
we have to go through a process server or through a
3rd party who's over 18 years of age. If the OP's
location is unknown you have to do a due diligence
search and show the court
before appearing. Serving papers in-state can get messy.
Also, you can't just leave the papers in a mailbox when
serving, you usually have to make best-efforts attempts
at contacting the OP someone who can give it to the OP
like a landlord or a relative.
-williamc
\_ You are absolutely right. Unfortunately, this doesn't
usually work with things like this because the OP can
just ignore it and after 20 days you'll have to server
them in person, which is why we never go through this
route and use process servers. -williamc
\_ Okay. I didn't know that. I just remember my civ
pro prof saying that in ca, you could use mail
for in state service but that some states don't
allow mail for in state service. thanks for
the info.
\_ Maybe we should deport you to Canada for saying something
williamc doesn't like....
\_ Well, let's just say that maybe we should deport people
who don't actually read the code carefully to Canada.
Hey, maybe you can get served through registered mail
within the province! -williamc
\_ what law school do you attend?
\_ Just curious...so she is posting things about you on the
Internet, and you are posting things about her on the MOTD...I
don't see much difference really...if she is reading these posts,
she would probably consider it slandering too.
\_ Now there is a stupider than average comment.
\_ It's only slander if it's not true. -tom
\_ what can we say about jvarga's claim that his ex is bitchy
and has made it her life's work to get back at him by lying
about him on her blog?
\_ Generally a statement has to be proveable true/false
to be actionable. The statement that she is 'bitchy' is
probably not actionable b/c it is basically an opinon,
or an insult. Similarly the statement that it is "her
life's work" is also not actionable b/c it is basically
hyperbole and no one would really think that she had
made it her life's work to get jvarga.
Now the statement that she is 'lying' might be actionable
if she is not lying. However, if we assume that jvarga
is telling the truth (probably a safe assumption), then
the statement is not actionable.
\_ actually, some states that still use common law will find
slander even when the statement is true IF the person who
made the statement acted out of ill will (assuming that
there are no 1st amd limits).
\_ Responding to a defamatory comment or asking for information
regarding such comments is considered 'self-help' and is in
generally not considered defamatory on its own. |
| 2005/4/20 [Politics/Domestic/President, Politics/Domestic/RepublicanMedia] UID:37284 Activity:nil |
4/20 Please explain to me why DeLay thinks that doing web searches
on your own are incredibly outragous?
"Absolutely. We've got Justice Kennedy writing decisions based
upon international law, not the Constitution of the United States?
That's just outrageous," DeLay told Fox News Radio on Tuesday
"And not only that, but he said in session that he does his own
research on the Internet? That is just incredibly outrageous." |
| 2005/4/20-22 [Uncategorized/Multicategory] UID:37285 Activity:kinda low |
4/20 Support The Culture Of Life
http://csua.org/u/bs9
\_ Related question: How come stores like Walmart and Vons sell yellow
ribbons car stickers/magnets that say "Support our troops" yet no
big chain store sells peace signs?
\_ They can dance around the nonpolitical nature of the "Support"
issue and no one is going to stand around and scream how
unpatriotic it is to not sell peace signs, which would happen
if they did that with the ribbons.
\_ http://csua.org/u/bsc
\_ That's nice. I'm sure the cartoonist has served.
I'm sure there would not be U.S. involvement in the
Middle East if there were no oil.
\_ Oh ya, the Marines would heroically waltz in, via the
precedent as upholders of light & civilization set in
Rwanda, Sudan, East Timor before they figured out about
some big-ass fields south of there, etc. etc. I don't
like the "no blood for oil" simplifications you get, but
let's at least be realistic--the US hasn't (unfortunately)
done any gunboat diplomacy for pure idealism's sake in a
very long time. -John
\_ What about Bosnia? They were *Muslims* we helped!
\_ How about Haiti? Sure, we didn't want the refugees,
but putting in Aristede by Clinton can be seen as mostly
idealistic. We sure didn't get anything out of it.
\_ OK my bad, I overlooked that, thanks. You could
also say Panama, although we supported pineapple-
face for decades before. My point is mainly that
the US has failed to engage in places where we
REALLY should have, and taken a ham-handed approach
where we might have stayed out (Iran, Chile, maybe
even Grenada, depending on your POV.) -John
\_ While I agree, in a lot of cases I this
kind of thing is sort of unavaoidable. The
whole foriegn policy changes practically
every 8 years. Sometimes there a big evil
that makes us keep around lesser evils.
Johnson, Nixon, Carter, WTF?
\_ and I bet he doesn't know the impact of the opium trade
on China
\_ BUD DAY doesn't approve of your tone.
\_ Of course there wouldn't. If there were no oil there the
ME would be uninhabited or economically irrelevant, so we
wouldn't care what the locals did because it couldn't
impact us.
\_ It would pretty much be just like Africa, except Israel
would probably run the place.
\_ Nah, they'd probably ignore it. Though if they did
run it, the Arabs would be in better shape. |
| 2005/4/20-22 [Finance/Banking] UID:37286 Activity:nil |
4/20 If you have cash and already have a lot in ING, and if you're
considering foreign CD, is this a good choice?
http://www.cathaybank.com/WhatNewDetail.asp?ImgFile=116.jpg
\_ Yeah I'm sure Japanese or Chinese investments are a really
solid idea right now :-) -John |
| 2005/4/20-22 [Uncategorized] UID:37287 Activity:nil |
4/20 Never mind, I remembered, and it wasn't worth remembering. Instead,
I inflict Eastern Europop on you all.
http://mapage.noos.fr/martialro/ozone/video.html
\ Just bring out the Numa Numa Dance! |
| 2005/4/20-22 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:37288 Activity:low |
4/20 SSH X forwarding question: I hook up my laptop to corpoprate net
and am able, via cygwin and ssh -X to run X stuff w/o a problem from
my corporate PC. But, when I am at home; I get authentication
errors when my laptop is on hooked up to my dsl. The only
difference is that, in order to get through my work's firewall;
I need to ssh through another host (i.e. ssh -X shost.corp and
then ssh -X mypc. I can run apps from the shost machine w/o a
problem. Ideas ? Suggestions? shost is freebsd 4.10 while my
machine is freebsd 5.3. thanks
\_ On which machine are you getting the errors? Are you going
directly from the home laptop to mypc? -John
\_ ssh -g -L 4567:mypc:22 shost.corp
ssh -X localhost -p 4567
\_ The formatting and punctuation is just painful to look at.
\_ [ Edited for readability -formatd ] |
| 2005/4/20-21 [Reference/Religion] UID:37289 Activity:nil |
4/20 In A.D. 2005
Papacy was beginning.
Priest: What happen ?
Altar Boy: Somebody set up us the pope.
Altar Boy: We get white smoke.
Priest: What !
Altar Boy: Main balcony doors open.
Priest: It's you !!
Pope Benedict XVI: How are you congregants !!
Pope Benedict XVI: All your saint are belong to us.
Pope Benedict XVI: You are on the way to salvation.
Priest: What you say !!
Pope Benedict XVI: You have no chance to convert make your time.
Pope Benedict XVI: Ha Ha Ha Ha ....
Altar Boy: Father !!
Priest: Exit square every 'Zig'!!
Priest: You know what you doing.
Priest: Move 'Zig'.
Priest: For great holiness. |
| 2005/4/20-22 [Transportation/Car, Transportation/Car/Hybrid] UID:37290 Activity:high |
4/20 Hey MOTD -- Awhile ago, I wrote asking for advice about a new car (I
was the guy with the Ford Taurus that might have a blown head gasket).
As it turns out, I did not have a blown head gasket; but several
people came forward with suggestions for a new car. In the end, after
much research, I ended up buying a Honda Accord Hybrid. It was a
little bit out of the base price range I had set forward, but you
know? It's turning out to be a *fantastic* car. Whoever suggested
it -- thank you so much!!!
\_ Ford's new ad should say: "Ford Taurus. We'll make you love your
your next new car."
\_ so what do you like about it?
\_ For a car of its class, it's got good power, very roomy, very
comfortable, very quiet (even at speed), decent sound, doesn't
suck to look at, great gas mileage for a 255hp v6, and with
luck, will have good reliability. It's got a number of neat
comfort/cool/convenience features that just make it easy to
commute in. The one complaint I have is that the trunk is a
little small, and the rear seats don't fold down (that's where
the batteries are). -OP
\_ What gas mileage are you getting? Can you charge it with AC
power supply?
\_ I'm getting about 30-32 MPG (I do a pretty even mix of
freeway and city street driving...heh...and I've been told
I have a lead foot). I'm taking a long roadtrip to socal
this weekend -- I'll get back to you on the sustained
freeway MPG. You don't need to charge it, the car's
charger connects automatically when you brake or when you
take your foot off the gas. FWIW, manufacturer's spec
claims 29/37. I suspect that's not too far off from
reality (maybe 1-2 MPG on each). -OP
\_ Treadmill dyno tests are never accurate in that
respect. They can't simulate wind resistance.
\_ Yup...which is why I'm not claiming that it's the
same.
\_ The tests don't even actually measure the amount of
gasoline that's burnt. They only measure the amount
of exhaust and guestimate the amount of gas burnt,
which makes low-emission vehicles get higher numbers.
\_ For comparison, the non-hybrid Accord has only 240hp and
claims only 21/30 MPG. The hybrid wins.
\_ Dang, my fat 1994 Saturn gets 27 on average.
\_ How much did it cost? what State?
Although I don't doubt it is a nice car, realize you are
comparing to an old Taurus.
\_ Man, I *loved* my old Taurus. It was a great car that met my
needs excellently. It just wasn't making the transition to
old age very gracefully once it hit 100k. I'd have bought
another Taurus were it not for two things: the Taurus as a model
is being retired, and the exceptional degree of shady
underhanded business practice at almost every Ford dealership
I've ever had the displeasure of interacting with. I mean,
one expects a dealership to be a den of thieves, but goddamn,
it was just grotesque. -OP
\_ Agreed. Pretty much anything compared to American consumer tech
is good. The automobile industry now is like what electronic
industry was 20-30 years ago. While American companies were
providing superior services, Japanese companies were providing
goods that required no service. There used to be a time when
everyone bought from Philco, Westinghouse, Admiral, Emerson,
General Electric / GE, Sparton, Stromberg-Carlson, Airline,
Crosley, etc. How many of those companies survived these days?
Just 2, RCA and Zenith. Nowadays, everyone buys from Sony, Aiwa,
Panasonic, Fujitsu, Hitachi, etc. I predict the same thing will
happen to American car companies. They'll fold, one by one,
because they just can't make shit.
\_ Except for Chrysler, which is now a German company. I was
highly amused to see the Chrysler 300 being named "car of
the year" everywhere. The general gist of the articles was
"Hey, and it's from America!" except that the car is
essentially an old Mercedes E series with a softer ride and
an American V8.
\_ Zenith is no longer an American company.
\_ Neither is RCA, owned by Thompson, a french (?)
conglomerate, with pretty much the worst reliability when
it comes to electronics.
\_ WOW, ok. So Americans don't make nice foreign quality
electronics anymore, and the auto industry is becoming
the same. What's next, software and processors? Hmmm...
\_ 1) Music
2) Movies
3) Microcode (software)
4) High-speed pizza delivery
\_ Nice Snowcrash reference, but...
1) Music industry is dying. CD sales are off
25% in the last few years, and already 8% this
year.
2) More and more movies are being made offshore
and out of the country in places like Toronto
and New Zealand. The reason? Avoiding the
moviemaker unions.
3) Bangalore is nipping at our heels.
4) Well, you got me there. Soon we will all be
delivering pizza.
\_ heh, apparently pizza hut had their asses handed
to them in Thailand last decade. they franchised
and the franchisee dumped them and formed their
own chain. pizza hut eventually got back into
the market but doesn't sell like the local.
nothing is sacred.
\_ James Kunstler always goes on about how you can't
have a nation of tanning hut managers as the basis
for your economy.
\_ These American companies died because bozos like you keep
buying foreign goods. YOU killed American economy! Damn
you unpatriotic foreign goods lovers. -Patriot
\_ If a company makes crappy goods and I'm not a major
shareholder or on the board, I have only one way to
express my discontent....with my dollars. I'd rather
buy American, but more importantly, I'd rather spend
my hard earned cash on shit that actually, you know,
WORKS. I'm not all that sympathetic to a business
that refuses to get with the times and do what it has
to do to make superior product -- and dies as a
result. -Realistic Patriot
\_ My amplifier is USA made, going 9 years now without
a problem, a total tank. Did cost $800 though. I always
buy USA made if the quality is the same or better, and
the price isn't too much higher.
\_ American Apparel! New store will open on Telegraph
on the 7th of May. Could so many skinny jailbait
models in softcore poses be wrong?
http://www.americanapparel.net
\_ Yeah, Honda ergonomics and design is just kind of amazing to me.
Everything just works *right* and is where you expect it
to be, even if you have never driven a Honda before.
\_ Unlike Fords.. They seem to make everything backwards just
to piss me off. |
| 2005/4/20-26 [Politics/Domestic/California, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA] UID:37291 Activity:nil 78%like:37794 |
4/20 Senior Java Developer opening in Pleasanton, CA: see /csua/pub/RHI-IT
- jthoms
\_ Maybe you mean /csua/pub/jobs/RHI-IT |
| 2005/4/20-22 [Consumer/TV] UID:37292 Activity:low |
4/20 Tivo? Or some other DVR?
\_ DirecTV with Tivo. Gives you 2 separate feeds for recording
to help with time conflicts. -bz
\_ Yes. Oh my yes. --dbushong |
| 2005/4/20-22 [Science/Electric] UID:37293 Activity:nil |
4/20 Okay, this is weird if it's actually true: http://csua.org/u/bsk |
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