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2005/5/9 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:37574 Activity:low |
5/8 If the US spends millions on border patrol and can't even stop walking illegal immigrants from crossing, how are they going to stop sophisticated operations on moving illegal contrabands and new Islamic insurgents (thousands of America haters + growing) crossing Iraq borders from all sides? http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/09/iraq.main \_ On their own, they might find it dificult to secure the border. That's why they're calling on all Iraqi patriots with pickup trucks and lawnchairs to come out and monitor the border. \_ Because they all have weird names and talk funny, and TSA will be able to confiscate all the rocket launchers they hide in their shoes, and finally, all the kebab-grease they leave on the INS finger print readers is sure to give them away! -John |
2005/5/9-11 [Reference/Religion] UID:37575 Activity:nil |
5/8 Just saw Kingdom of Heaven. I'm not religious and I don't know much history to say much about it, except that it is very visually pleasing. Now I'm curious. How much of it was historically accurate? Did Muslims/Christians really get alone well back then, and were the events and provocations accurate, agreed upon by historians and confirmed by archeologists? I'd like to hear from HISTORIANS first. However, if you are Muslim/Christian/Jew and you must respond to this thread, do so but indicate your religion first. \_ Sometimes, sort of. Jews and Muslims were sometimes tolerated in Europe, often persecuted and killed, and despite what you hear from a lot of blue-eyed utopian historians, infidels were second-class citizens in pretty much all of the muslim world as well, with the major difference that many of the muslim rulers had better things to do (think harems.) -John \_ Yeah, that's a pretty good summary. Note that I sat through some of the most left-biased history classes available and even they never said anything other than that non-Muslims were second class citizens in Dar al-Islam. They just emphasized that being non-Christian in Christendom often got you killed and in pretty amazing and creative ways. There is a very readable version of this history in Larry Gonick's "Cartoon History of the World" volumes II and III. No, really! -- ulysses (okay, maybe I'm not a historian but I did get a degree in it) \_ The movie showed that some Christians were evil, and that Salahadim (sp?) the ugly looking Muslim was honest and kept his words, unlike previous barbaric Christians. I bet that confused a lot of Average Joes who were expecting a typical Hollywood GOOD/EVIL movie, or Xians=good/Muslims=bad movie. I liked the movie, not as a historian, but as someone who prefers seeing perspectives from both sides which the movie did pretty well. On the other hand, the loves scenes were the movie did pretty well. On the other hand, the love scenes were cheezy and I doubt the authenticity in them. \_ Saladin/Salahuddin/Salawhatever was a skilled tacician and strategist, and a reasonably decent and enlightened ruler, but it's always useful to look at these things in the context of the times. -John |
2005/5/9-11 [Science, Computer/HW/CPU] UID:37576 Activity:nil 66%like:37580 |
5/8 Architecture Virtualization: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1762884,00.asp \_ This link goes to something about a gymnast/model \_ fixed |
2005/5/9 [Consumer/Audio] UID:37577 Activity:high |
5/8 MP3 players might be causing permanent hearing loss: http://tinyurl.com/9qgr2 (news.scotsman.com) \_ ^mp3 players^loud music \_ I agree w/ that in general, but my iPod seems to be much louder even on the lowest volume setting than my discman. It shouldn't be that hard to make the volume range larger (thus \_ I agree w/ that in general, but my iPod seems to be much louder even on the lowest volume setting than my discman. It shouldn't be that hard to make the volume range larger (thus safer). \_ Rumor has it that The Steve is slightly deaf and kept telling the iPod team to make it louder. \_ Rumor has it that The Steve is slightly deaf and kept telling the iPod team to make it louder. \_ Actually, I have a similar problem on my laptop. I use it to listen to mp3s sometimes, but even the lowest volume setting is higher than I like. I need to get some volume control headphones or something. it to listen to mp3s sometimes, but even the lowest volume setting is higher than I like. I need to get some volume control headphones or something. \_ Listening to CDs in inheriantly safer! -RIAA \_ Ben, nice news site. \_ ahem. --scotsman \_ How much money did you donate to the Democrats? To the Republicans? Who did you vote for in the last 3 elections? What is your official policy on editorial bias? \_ Btw, I think I do get a bit of tinnitus sometimes. Like a really high pitched tone... but if I block my ears for a couple secs it goes away. I remember having that when I was a little kid too. Does any amount indicate hearing dmg? Is that what tinnitus is or would it persist? \_ It persists, so no -- it's probably not tinnitus. |
2005/5/9-11 [Reference/RealEstate] UID:37578 Activity:nil |
5/9 Do you use a subwoofer in your apartment or condo complex? \_ I had one, but my downstairs neighbors complained, so I disconnected it. \_ did they knock on your door or leave a message on your door? \_ How in hell is THAT supposed to matter? \_ curious \_ Well, actually they told my roommate who was a good friend of theirs and him deliver the message. of theirs and let him deliver the message. \_ ANNOYING. \_ You have neighbors who have a subwoofer? \_ Is it the subwoofer that's annoying, or is it your female neighbor's moaning while masturbating with the subwoofer that's annoying? |
2005/5/9-11 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:37579 Activity:kinda low |
5/8 Poll. If you even had to return a HD, what was your experience like? \_ Hitachi: Regular RMA, No advanced RMA, test suite sucks \_ WD: Had 2 consecutive failures (same model) in 6 months, the RMA website is really good, has tracking and advanced RMA. Advanced RMA requires you putting in credit card number so that if you don't return the defective drive in 30 days they'll charge you. It's not the most reliable drive, but the return process is excellent. \_ Maxtor: WEB SITE IS HORRIBLE! Keeps getting JSP error. They might have fixed it though. \_Never had a problem with Maxtor. \_ Western Digital: awesome. Dell: awesome. Conner: awesome. \_ Conner? Eh??? \_ back in the day. \_ Seagate: not bad! You have to pay for shipping. \_ WD, Seagate - No problems. Maxtor - took a long time but I got a new drive back (and then promptly sold it). \_ IBM/Hitachi x 2: Punched in serial number in web site, received RMA #, mailed back drive, received refurbished drive which works fine. Only hard part was ordering the special boxes since they say they'll void the exchange if you don't use approved padding. \_ Did you say REFURBISHED? Does the HD say that? I was hoping to eBay mine, now this totally ruins the plan. I bought a Seagate 2.5" (w/5 year warranty) to replace my default Hitachi drive. \_ Yes, the refurbished drive isn't as shiny and it comes with an orange "reconditioned" sticker or somesuch on it. |
2005/5/9 [Uncategorized] UID:37580 Activity:high 66%like:37576 |
5/8 Architecture Virtualization: http://tinyurl.com/7ptc7 \_ This link goes to something about a gymnast/model |
2005/5/9 [Uncategorized] UID:37581 Activity:nil |
5/9 So when is the Messiah coming? |
2005/5/9-11 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:37582 Activity:nil |
5/9 So when is the draft coming? \_ "The last thing we need is a draft!" -D. Rumsfeld, Apr 27 2005 \_ Are they preparing for the next "Bush big lie (tm)"? |
2005/5/9 [Uncategorized] UID:37583 Activity:nil |
5/9 So when is Jesus coming? |
2005/5/9 [Uncategorized] UID:37584 Activity:nil |
5/9 So when is the end of the world coming? \_ OOOOhhh! BABY! I'M COMING! OH GOD! |
2005/5/9-11 [Computer/SW/Languages/Misc] UID:37585 Activity:low |
5/9 I'm using Wells Fargo's online statement. I like it a lot better than ETrade and other companies because they output my statement to a PDF file which I can keep. This is important for me because of a lawsuit that I was involved in where I couldn't produce a statement because my old bank didn't produce a PDF file (just plain HTML) and didn't go back further than 6 months. What bank do you have, how long do they keep statements, and do they output PDF or HTML? \_ So they court would have accepted PDF or paper, but not HTML? Why? \_ So the court would have accepted PDF or paper, but not HTML? Why? \_ Personally, for my financial related documents, I choose to receive the paper version instead of the online version for exactly the reason you mentioned above. \_ Seconded. I still choose paper statements for this reason, even though I know I'm risking ID theft at my mailbox. \_ I use TD Waterhouse as both a brokerage and a bank account. The statements they have on their website are in HTML format, but they keep them around / available forever. \_ Don't know which OS you are using, but most financial institutions with online services have a "view printable version of statement" link, which I click on, and then print the ensuing HTML page to a PDF file on my Mac. |
2005/5/9-11 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush, Science/GlobalWarming] UID:37586 Activity:nil |
5/9 Moonbats on parade! http://csua.org/u/bzs \_ Ungrateful Europeans! Let's nuke them all! -Conservative Red Neck |
2005/5/9-11 [Computer/SW/Languages/Misc] UID:37587 Activity:nil |
5/9 How do you write to the motd and being anonymous? I mean kchang's script tag you as 'grey'. ;) \_ You could take the opposite approach: background a script that touches the motd within whatever interval kchang's scripts diff at whenever you're logged in. Of course, that probably doesn't work at like 3am when it's only psb, mice, and YOU. at whenever you're logged in. \_ Slip kchang $20 and he'll anonymize you. \_ You go to http://csua.org/motd \_ scp \_ this doesn't make you gray. it makes you non-existant. Oh, and \_ this doesn't make you gay. it makes you non-existant. Oh, and don't edit over other ppl's comments, please. |
2005/5/9-11 [Reference/Religion, Recreation/Humor] UID:37588 Activity:nil Cat_by:auto Edit_by:auto |
5/9 http://www.thebricktestament.com Something both Athiests and Religious right wing nuts can enjoy \_ one fugly baby: .../exodus/too_many_hebrews/ex01_17.html \_ Keywords: lego legos bible bibles jesus funny |
2005/5/9-11 [Transportation/Car, Reference/Law/Visa] UID:37589 Activity:moderate |
5/9 Here's someone who found a creative use for a math degree: http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/05/06/students.scheme.ap/index.html \_ What a lamer. \_ It crazy to do this for someone whose parents can donate $21m to a \_ It's crazy to do this for someone whose parents can donate $21m to a school. \_ This is like Catch Me If You Can. I half heartedly applaud this guy. I'd be much happier if he used those money to donate to charity. I want to see a modern Robinhood who takes money from big faceless corporations and land-owning aristocrats and redistribute wealth to people who need them. \_ You mean the big faceless corporations that employ the people who need the money? And what "land-owning aristocrats?" If you said, "Steal the money from ugly CEOs," it would at least sort of make sense. \_ Jrleek, small corporations in the past employed, trained, & treated their employees as family members. Things have changed a lot since the early 20th century. Today, big corporations are owned and operated by shareholders, who want many things, and among them, PROFIT as their #1 goal. They increase profit via training/nurturing employees, attracting highly capable workers, giving out incentives, bonuses, etc. However, they also increase profit via other means, such as outsourcing, cutting employee benefits, merger, hostile take-over, increasing work responsibility (legalized increase of work hours), and other methods. And in today's highly competitive world, corporations will do all of the above. We already witnessed the monopoly of AT&T (until 1983), the dominance of Microsoft, the abuse of F1 VISAs, the displacement of auto-workers, the use of child labour in South East Asia, etc etc. These are not isolated incidents, but rather, strong tendencies by corporations for the sake of increasing profit. Right now ethical laws exist to protect workers in extraordinary events such as accidents, child bearing, etc. But if corporations had a choice, you bet they'd get rid of these laws. In short, big corporations have no allegiance to anyone, any ideology nor have any compassion for its employees. Its primary interest is PROFIT, period. I guess this is all difficult to grasp but will be a lot clearer when you're force to rethink about your career in the future. \_ I totally forgot that jrleek works in the government so most of what I said becomes totally irrelevant. -pp \_ Do big corporations have allegiance to their shareholders? \_ You asked a very good question. The point is, unlike mom/pop stores, corporations don't have a soul. Let me give you in layman's analogy. The corporation Let me explain in layman's analogy. The corporation (board membors) are like assassins, they take money to do their job, which is to use money to earn more money. If they fail to meet their objectives (not getting their quarterly earning expectations), they risk getting pounded by shareholders (stock price going down, board members fired, take-over). All corporations try to optimize, slime-line, and do creative things to meet earning expectations. In some cases however, they become so desperate that they take short-cuts or do things without ethical considerations, such as polluting, cutting health benefits, etc. If Ford and GM can double their assembly line productivity by moving to Malaysia or Phillipines (where they can hire cheaper, younger, workers without having to pay them health benefits) do you think board members would object due to ethical considerations? Heck, they already did it in the 80s. What makes you think corporations today are any different? \_ Interesting that you seem to have something of an understanding of economics, and yet can't add 2+2. |
2005/5/9-11 [Reference/History/WW2/Japan] UID:37590 Activity:kinda low |
5/9 The next nuke used in anger will be in: Clarification: The following will be TARGETS of the nuke \_ Korea \_ Israel \_ U.S. . \_ next nuke will be from a terrorist \_ Considering millions of people who hate United States before 911 and billions more especially after the middle-east invasion, I also think this is a much more likely target than anything else. \_ Iran. \_ Taiwan \_ Do they have nukes? Are they part of the NPT? \_ It would be nuked by the mainland, like a woman killed by her jealous lover who can't stand not having her. \_ fuck off! we have balls. We are nobody's woman. \_ All right. Like a man killing by his jealous lover who \_ All right. Like a man killed by his jealous lover who can't stand not having him. Okay now? \_ Much better. \_ Half of Taiwan's population would disagree. \_ yea, the half that doesn't have to face the PLA. \_ No women in the Taiwan military yet? \_ But they're very small. \_ It's not a matter of size, blah blah. \_ What would Taiwan do with a nuke? \_ Sell it. \_ Japan \_ India \_ Pakistan \_ Kashmir \_ MOTD \_ Was there a previous nuke used in anger? \_ Japan? Have I been trolled? \_ No, those were for fun after a couple of beers. Bonus points if you can name all the ones dropped by accident (ICMB complex at Laputa doesn't count.) -John \_ wasn't there a B52 which crashed with a nuke? Also, wasn't there a sub with nukes which sank? \_ If you count ones that dropped but didn't explode (weren't armed) a couple were dropped off the coast of Spain in the 50's. I think the same thing happened in Oklahoma or someplace. Not as rare as one would hope. \_ Several subs, both US and Soviet. 5 accidental bomb drops in the US alone. Extra credit if you can name the third one they were going to dump on Japan, the original target of the Hiroshima bomb (and reason why it was nixed) and the name of the B-29 that dropped on Nagasaki (sorry, thought some useless nukular trivia might be fun.) -John \_ Third one on Japan? I thought we only made 3 at first, and used them all. \_ Original target of the Hiroshima bomb? Tokyo, but they didn't drop it because Tokyo was already desolate. Or Kyoto, but the ambassador to Japan asked them not to because he didn't want them to destroy to cultural artifacts. \_ The original target of the Fat Man was Kokura, but Nagasaki was chosen by the pilot of the Bockscar due to cloud cover. Couldn't find the original target of Little Boy. \_ the thing in spain was in the 60s when McNamara was still the SecDef. \_ Ann Coulter's mouth: . \_ Your nukular missile is so big and tax free? \- i dont think it will be india or kashmir. i think it would be new york harbor or jerusalem. i dunno if he chechins be new york harbor or jerusalem. i dunno if the chechins are likely to be able to get ahold of one. in that case the options are opened up a lot. --psb \_ Then it'll be some moron's basement in Grozny. "Allah Akhbar, we have a bomb!" *clang* "oops" *BANG* -John |
2005/5/9-11 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:37591 Activity:nil |
5/9 Bush spying on terriorist communications! http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050509/photos_pl/mdf555296 |
2005/5/9-11 [Computer/SW/OS/FreeBSD] UID:37592 Activity:nil |
5/9 FreeBSD 5.4 Released http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/announce.html \_ uh, who use FreeBSD nowadays? \_ uh, you? \_ Me, Soda, GTA, F5, M0n0wall, oodles of hosting providers, loads of security/network box providers, etc, etc etc. Now go away. -John \_ John, did you switch from OpenBSD to FreeBSD? I've been using OpenBSD for my home firewall for sometime, but I've been thinking about switching as well b/c pf is now part of FreeBSD. Is there anything that I should be aware of in terms of FreeBSD patching/security in comparison to OpenBSD? tia \_ I just really like ports and cvsup; I got sick of OpenBSD trying to be too secure and of plowing through piles of docs to find what it had turned off today. I have a WRAP from pcengines.ch running M0n0wall (http://www.m0n0.ch/wall and it's teh whoopass. -John |
2005/5/9-11 [Computer/Domains] UID:37595 Activity:nil |
5/9 Register files and SRAMs are built using 6 transistors right? If so, how come register files have a delay in the order of ~.1ns whereas SRAM have a delay in the order of 10ns? Is it mostly due to multiplexors, where the time to select large memories increase? \_ Do you mean discrete SRAMs and regfiles? I suspect their speed is I/O-limited. (Yes, there have been proposals to do SRAMs with SerDes interfaces, but I don't know that those proposals have gotten anywhere.) On-chip regfiles and SRAMs do run at chip clock freq., and I guess there the speed is limited by loading of signals and buses. |
2005/5/9-10 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:37596 Activity:high |
5/9 Testing anonymity. \_ Test failed. Nice. \_ erikred DV 36864 0:00.01 sed s/[Cc]unt/twat/g /etc/motd.public Why are you replacing one cuss word with another? \_ variety? \_ keeping twat and turning cunt to twat is minimizing variety \_ test \_ A silly experiment. All gone now. |
2005/5/9-11 [Uncategorized] UID:37597 Activity:nil |
5/9 More on the broadcast flag ruling: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,120748,00.asp |
2005/5/9-11 [Politics/Domestic/Gay, Politics/Domestic/RepublicanMedia, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:37598 Activity:kinda low |
5/9 Can this be happening? Fox News reports gay/straight men's brain responses differ. "It is one more piece of evidence ... that is showing that sexual orientation is not all learned," said an expert on brain anatomy. I'd expect this to be on CBS news, but it is coming from a source that is suppose to assert that there is no global warming, that there is WMD, and most importantly that gayness is a choice (totally curable via religion). What's happening to Fox News? \_ Maybe if you watched Fox News sometime instead of just hearing about it from your moonbat friends, you wouldn't be so confused. \_ How is this moonbat? I thought one of the main arguments against fundie nutcase "keep the homos away from our children" frothing was that "you don't become gay, you are gay." That would imply a difference, no? -John \_ Huh? I was just saying that, for the most part, Fox just reports news. So it's not really a surprise when they... report news. The editorial shows are where things get wacky. \_ Yes. However Fox blurs the line between editorial and news. They advertise their editorial aggressively during prime time or whenever there's plain news. Then they make a smooth transition from news to editorial, and do it so well that average Joe's don't even realize they've stopped watching news. Unlike other news they don't even call their editorial "opinion" or "editorial." They call it Talking Points, The Asman Observer, etc, and then tag the word "The most watched news, fair and balanced." Lastly, even when they present news from regular sources like AP, they re-word it in ways that fit in their model. For example, whereas CNN/NBC/ABC would say "Bush Visits Iraq", Fox would say "Bush Spread The Word of Freedom in the Middle East." It's subtle and hard to detect when you only read one news source, but you can definitely see it when you start reading a diverse source of news. Lastly, during editorial, they stick in good looking men like Brit Humes to represent one side, and then a small weakly Colmes boy to represent the other, and call their entire network "Fair and Balanced." This is fine because other broadcasters do it as well, but at least they don't advertise it as Fair and Balanced, because that's BS. No news source is ever fair and balanced. \_ Are you kidding? Is there any news source that doesn't claim it's fair and balanced regardless of reality? \_ I haven't seen CBS/ABC/NBC/CNN advertise that they are fair and balanced. Please provide a link. -tom \_ I don't recall having seen CBS/ABC/NBC/CNN admit that they are biased. Please provide a link. -jrleek \_ Read it again; pp said they all "claim to be fair and balanced." That's a positive assertion for which proof should be available. (If true.) -tom \_ Plenty of news sources wear their bias on their sleves. La Repubblica is the official Communist Party organ in Italy, for example. It is much less common in the US, granted. |
2005/5/9-11 [Uncategorized] UID:37599 Activity:nil |
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