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| 2005/7/22-25 [Computer/SW/Database] UID:38763 Activity:nil |
7/22 Say I have a database with two rows, one is name (VARCHAR) and the
\_ you mean cols
other one is date. Let's say the entries look like this:
joe 5-10-2005
joe 5-11-2005
mike 1-1-2002
How do I make one single SELECT statement that'll sum up all the
entries for unique names? I want it to return joe=2, mike=1
without having to write 2 separate SELECT count(*)... Thanks.
\_ select name, count(*) group by name |
| 2005/7/22-23 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:38764 Activity:kinda low |
7/21 I'd like to buy 10-20 heat sinks in arbitrary shapes. CPU heat sinks
are OK, but they always sell them with a crappy fan. Anyone know
where I can get custom sized heat sinks, or CPU heat sinks without
fans? ok thx.
\_ There's a store called Wierd Stuff in Cupertino or Santa Clara or
somesuch which sells all kinds of old/salvaged/strange computer
and electronics parts. You can probably get a bunch of random
heatsinks for cheap.
\_ It's "weird." Of course, they knew people can't spell worth
%(*#& to save their lives, so they used to own http://wierdstuff.com,
too. I don't know if they still do. Anyway, also try
http://halted.com, another surplus store. They have all kinds of
heatsinks, or stuff with heatsinks on it that you can break
apart.
%(*#& to save their lives, so they also bought http://wierdstuff.com.
I don't know if it's sad or funny.
Anyway, also try http://halted.com, another surplus store. They have
all kinds of heatsinks, or stuff with heatsinks on it that you
can break apart.
\_ Yeah, I knew about them too but couldn't think of the name -pp |
| 2005/7/22-25 [Politics/Domestic/911] UID:38765 Activity:moderate |
7/22 Plain-clothes police shoot bombing suspect dead at Tube station:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4706787.stm
Hey, I'm for stopping terrorists as much as the next guy, but
plain-clothes cops putting five in the guy at close range? I mean,
way to get your man and all that, but... plain-clothes cops?
\_ "Another passenger on the train, Anthony Larkin, told BBC News
the man had been wearing a 'bomb belt with wires coming out'."
Please give your preferred method for dealing with terrorists
wearing bomb belts running into crowds of people. Also, what
does it matter what the cops were wearing? They gave warning.
\_ Peace. I don't know what the solution is, and I'm sure the
cops acted within reason. Still, plain-clothes cops creep
me out, especially since I was searched by one in Tijuana
once. I mean, how the hell do you know they are who they say
they are.
\_ Probably the poster before you is worried as he is a tall
Asian guy who wears a backpack to school/work and takes
BART and is anti-establishment - but doesn't wear bomb belts
\_ Probably op is worried as he is a tall Asian guy who wears
a backpack to school/work and takes BART and is
anti-establishment - but doesn't wear bomb belts.
op probably doesn't need to worry, though. If the guy
was innocent and just didn't understand English, this will
come out eventually - but it sounds like he wasn't innocent.
I'm not ignoring that it could be a 'spiracy and they had
one "passenger" say he had a bomb belt and the other
"passenger" say he was wearing a thick jacket.
\_ Haven't you played Max Payne? Sometimes plain clothes cops
armed w/ dual Desert Eagles or Ingrams are the only ones
who can properly deal with the situation.
\_ PAYNE!!!
\_ You can't wield dual "desert eagles" in the game, it's duel
berrettas (sp?). I have eaten the flesh of fallen angels!
\_ You can't wield dual "desert eagles" in the game, it's dual
berettas (sp?). I have eaten the flesh of fallen angels!
\_ In Fall of Max Payne, I thought they fixed it so you
could. What would have been really k3wl is dual shotguns
reloaded Terminator style a la Marathon 2!
\_ I think we've been underreacting. Time for some overreacting.
\_ I'm kind of amazed at the fact that every time something like
this happens, we hear about mass fear of repraisal attacks. It
kinda comes across as "I'm cool with Muslim terrorists blowing
up 50 people on a subway, what worries me is that some redneck
will throw an egg at my house." I hope these are the words of a
few idiots and not the general feeling. http://csua.org/u/ct2
\_ They've got a point, and it needs to addressed, if only by
the police issuing a reassuring statement. We can support
tracking down terrorists AND be worried about overreactions
at the same time.
\_ How many times have we heard about a suicide bomber blowing up
a bus or train or whatever full of innocent people and everyone
thinks "Why couldn't the cops do something to protect us?". Now
we have a story about cops blowing away one of these bastards,
probably saving at least a dozen lives, and people are UPSET? WTF?
It will be *really* obvious if the guy was a suicide bomber or
not ... If not, then it's a tragic mistake. If yes, then the cops
are heroes!
are heroes! Besides, it's a win-win situation ... The suicide
bomber gets to become a martyr with his 72 virgins and the
people who actually want to live don't die in the process.
\_ They've got a point, and it needs to addressed, if only by
the police issuing a reassuring statement. We can support
tracking down terrorists AND be worried about overreactions
at the same time.
\_ Don't you know who it works? When the cops kill an innocent
it is overreacting and police brutality - not an honest
mistake during the performance of what must be one of the
most difficult civilian jobs. When the cops kill a terrorist
it is overreacting and police burtality - obviously the
cops let their bitter hateful anti-muslim retribution rage
overwhelm them and were blinded to the fact that maybe this
was just a misguided youth how could be brought around to
the love peace dope lifestyle with enough love peace and
dope.
\_ You're an idiot and you overwrote my post. |
| 2005/7/22-25 [Politics/Foreign/Canada] UID:38766 Activity:high |
7/22 When did police in Britain start carrying guns? Thx.
\_ a long while ago
\_ About how long? 10yrs? 20yrs? Because I remember that when I
was a kid I heard that police in Britain didn't carry guns.
\_ Except for the Hercules team in NYPD, some police in London
carry MP-5s out in the open.
\_ Some police, some definition of carry, since the 70's at
least. http://www.polfed.org/0703firearms-and-police.pdf
\_ "In the UK there are about, 100 firearms deaths a year in
the recorded crime statistics, about double that number in
Canada and, under 50 in Japan. The figure in the United
States is more than 10,000. Even adjusting for population,
this is a huge difference."
Firearms deaths a year per million people, and population:
UK: 1.7 60,441,457
Canada: 6.1 32,805,041
Japan: < 0.4 127,417,244
US: >33.8 295,734,134
What a great country we're in.
\_ it is difficult to compace just on the basis of deaths
per capita. there are way too many confouding factors
at work here. Try comparing areas based on pre/port
at work here. Try comparing areas based on pre/post
gun law changes.
\_ True. It's like apples and oranges.
I do seem to recall a study that showed that crime
went up in Austrailia after they banned guns.
Either way most studies on this sort of thing are
highly biased anyways. I believe that the right to own
guns is a crucial freedom and just because some people
abuse it doesn't mean you take that away from everyone.
If you really want to reduce crime, actually enforce the
laws we have now. For starters, take guns away from
known criminals. This is something the NRA has been
pushing for for a while now.
\_ That is nice you chose to omit how many people's lives
are saved by gun ownership per year. Just ask any
criminal what they think about gun-control. Also,
have you ever questioned just what majority of those
people who die are? Gang members.
\_ We need guns to protect ourselves from the government.
When did Japan or Canada revolt? Canada still swears
by the Queen for God's sake. Guns make this country
what it is, for better and worse.
\_ Canada is a completely independent country from the
UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland since 1982.
\_ "Canada is a ... Commonwealth Realm with
Queen Elizabeth II as its reigning monarch."
(from Wikipedia "Monarchy in Canada")
\_ Yeah. QE II reigns UK, and QE II reigns
Canada. But UK and Canada are separate
independent countries. It just happens that
their monarchs are the same monarch.
\_ From the Wikipedia "Monarchy in Canada" page
you're referring to:
"Although Queen Elizabeth II is also monarch of
the United Kingdom and several other
Commonwealth countries, each nation - including
Canada - is sovereign and independent of the
others."
\_ Yes, and they swear to the Queen as I
said. They are still ruled by the Queen
of England, even though they are not
England.
\_ Well, you also said "When did ... Canada
revolt?". Canada already revolted in
1982 without guns. And if you are to say
Canada is ruled by the Queen of UK, then
it's also valid to say UK is ruled by the
Canada is ruled by the Queen of UK, it's
equivalent to saying UK is ruled by the
Queen of Canada.
\_ This is funny because the Queen
of the UK is also the Queen of
Canada. Ha!
\_ The two are not equivalent. Canada
was a colony under the King. It
still is. At no point was England
subject to Canada, nor did Canada
have their own King. You know this.
\_ That must be why when England invaded Iraq, Canada
had to go too, they had no choice.
\_ Are you talking about the Anglo-Iraqi war in 1941
or Op. Iraqi Freedom?
\_ The latter
\_ Then the UK had no control over Canada,
since Canada was completely independent by
then.
\_ Sigh
\_ http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/319/19/1256
"Although similar to Seattle in many ways, Vancouver has
adopted a more restrictive approach to the regulation of
handguns... [T]he relative risk of death from homicide,
adjusted for age and sex, was significantly higher in
Seattle than in Vancouver."
\_ Yup and I'm sure you can choose another Canadian
city, match it up with a different US city and get
the opposite results. In fact, if those numbers are
accurate above (6.1 vs 33.8) it has to be true.
\_ Why do you believe that? Tell me the Canadian
city where the risk of homicide approaches
America.
\_ They chose Vancouver and Seattle because they
seem so similar culturally, financially, etc.
\_ Yes, they seem, but they are quite different
culturally. Canadians think quite differently
than Americans about many things, guns included.
They also seem to not mind having less freedom.
Just look at their health care system. What a mess. |
| 2005/7/22-25 [Recreation/Food] UID:38767 Activity:nil |
7/22 Does anyone know of a program for optimizing pizza topping selection?
I'm thinking of the situation where you have N people who each have
some number of preferred and shunned toppings, and you want to pick P
pizzas such that everyone can find a pizza without a shunned topping
and you maximize the number of prefered toppings people get. This
seems like the sort of thing geeks would have worked out already...
\- potential arrow impossibility theorem problem
\_ Can you clarify the "maximize the number of prefered toppings people
get" part? |
| 2005/7/22-25 [Politics/Domestic/911, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:38768 Activity:kinda low |
7/22 Rep. Tancredo (R-CO) says that we shouldn't rule out bombing
Mecca if the terrorists nuke us:
http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_3937059,00.html
[ Go Crazy! ]
\_ Wow, they like to make 'em crazy up in Colorado. It's just too bad
Hunter Thompson was never elected sheriff of Aspen.
\_ If I was a Muslim who believed that there was nothing more important
than Mecca, then I would be working hard to make sure my country
was building up a big arsenal of nukes.
\_ Paul Harvey said something similar a week ago.
http://nihlist.blogspot.com/2005/06/no-one-ever-accused-paul-harvey-of.html - danh
http://nihlist.blogspot.com/2005/06/no-one-ever-accused-paul-harvey-of.html
- danh
\_ Yes but Harvey is not an elected representative of the people of CO
(or anywhere else AFAIK).
\_ The reason this is stupid is nuking Mecca is not a terrorist
deterrent. Terrorists couldn't give a shit about Mecca. If
anything, the destruction of Mecca will help them. Actual Muslim
states might care, but it's unclear how much extra pressure this
kind of rhetoric puts on them. -- ilyas
\_ If nuking xyz _was_ a terrorist deterrent, would you do it?
\_ Would I nuke something as a deterrent? Do you know what a
deterrent is? -- ilyas |
| 2005/7/22-25 [Transportation/Car, Transportation/Car/Hybrid] UID:38769 Activity:nil |
7/22 Eco Friendly Bling-Bling Rides:
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/35/a-lewis.php |
| 2005/7/22-25 [Transportation/Airplane, Transportation/Car/RoadHogs] UID:38770 Activity:nil |
7/22 In case you haven't heard, Longhorn is called Windows Vista:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/default.mspx
\_ And like the flying car, it's always just around the corner...
\_ I would like to preemptively proclaim my hatred of flying cars.
The same fucking retards who drive around in 5000 pound SUV's
while talking on cell phones, blast through crosswalks at 55
mph without looking and park on sidewalks (i.e. the American
public) should NOT EVER be alowed to fly. They WILL park
in trees over sidewalks, which will break causing even more
pedestrian slaughter. They will park on roofs where it is
unsafe, run into power lines causing outages, crash into office
buildings (out of sheer stupidity at first, then the terrorists
will start using them as bombs), get stuck in trees and have to
be choppered out, and break down over crowded areas and
crash like stones. FUCK FLYING CARS!!!
\_ so trolled.
\_ This is for you (mp3). link:tinyurl.com/89xnk -- ulysses
\_ Go ahead and laugh. We'll see how funny you think it is
when some fucker crashes their flying SUV into the side of
YOUR house, or after a flying car parked in a tree falls
and kills YOUR dog. |
| 2005/7/22-25 [Politics/Foreign/Asia/India] UID:38771 Activity:nil |
7/22 "Indian Muslims wear scarves printed with the national flags of Britain
and the U.S. during Friday prayers in a mosque in the northern Indian
city of Lucknow ..."
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050722/ids_photos_wl/r2882339481.jpg
That's weird.
\_ Weird? |
| 2005/7/22 [Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:38772 Activity:insanely high |
7/22 Best 2 articles describing Plame Rove treason I've read so far, since
it is a confusing story. One political, one from inside ... One from
a Democrat, one from a Republican.
http://tinyurl.com/7qmra
\_ This falls to pieces with: "Another false claim is that Valerie sent
her husband on the mission to Niger." No one is claiming that Plame
sent him. The claim is that she **RECOMMENDED** him. The Senate
Intelligence Committee has a memo in her handwriting proving this.
And of course this: "The President has flip flopped and backed away
from his promise to fire anyone at the White House implicated in a
leak." What a putz.
\_ From above URL:
"The Senate Intelligence Report is frequently cited by
Republican partisans as 'proof' that Valerie sent her husband to
Niger because she sent a memo describing her husband's
qualifications to the Deputy Division Chief. Several news
personalities, such as Chris Matthews and Bill O'Reilly continue
\_ Neither of which are R's AFAIK (but I
don't watch either of them). Show me
the quotes from R partisans.
\_ To paraphrase someone else on the
motd, you've provided a great
demonstration of "being obtuse."
\_ Nah, it's just hard to read
something which sounds
intelligent yet disputes a key
point which you thought was
100% true.
\_ Read carefully, dude, it's ALL
THERE: The addendum in the Senate
report was Republican, the
spinmeisters (not necessarily
Republican) quote the addendum.
\_ I DON'T BELIEVE THIS. Is that
too hard to understand? I think
this guy is spinning, and I want
to see what he claims to be
quoting. This whole issue has
been more heat than light and
everytime I get claims like this
I ask for source documents.
EVERY FUCKING TIME THE RESPONSE
HAS BEEN SILENCE. So if he can't
back up his claim, or you can't,
then SHUT THE FUCK UP.
\_ Is "SHUT THE FUCK UP",
"EVERY FUCKING TIME", and
"I DON'T BELIEVE THIS"
supposed to be more light
than heat?
Besides, your post, "Neither
of which are R's AFAIK ...
Show me the quotes from R
partisans" was completely
answered by the the
"Read carefully, dude"
response.
Your emotional response seems
to be on another topic
entirely.
\_ Repeating what's in the
quote sure isn't. If you
have a source, let us know.
\_ All caps boy deleted my
question, but I'll ask him
again. Do you think typing
in all caps helps your case?
\_ No, I didn't delete your
question.
to repeat this nonsense as proof. What the Senate Intelligence
Committee does not include in the report is the fact that
Valerie's boss had asked her to write a memo outlining her
husband's qualifications for the job. She did what any good
employee does; she gave her boss what he asked for."
\_ Show me the statement from Plame's boss that confirms this.
From danh's link:
Seven months after the appointment of the special counsel, in
July 2004, the Republican-dominated Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence issued its report on flawed intelligence leading to
the Iraq war. The blame for failure was squarely put on the CIA
for "groupthink." (The Republicans quashed a promised second
report on political pressure on the intelligence process.) The
three-page addendum by the ranking Republicans followed the now
well-worn attack lines: "The plan to send the former ambassador
to Niger was suggested by the former ambassador's wife, a CIA
employee." The CIA subsequently issued a statement, as reported
by New York Newsday and CNN, that the Republican senators'
conclusion about Plame's role was wholly inaccurate. But the
Washington Post's Susan Schmidt reported only the Republican
senators' version, writing that Wilson was "specifically
recommended for the mission by his wife, a CIA employee,
contrary to what he has said publicly," in a memo she wrote.
Schmidt quoted a CIA official in the senators' account saying
that Plame had "offered up" Wilson's name. Plame's memo, in
fact, was written at the express directive of her superiors two
days before Wilson was to come to Langley for his meeting to
describe his qualifications in a standard protocol to receive
"country clearance." Unfortunately, Schmidt's article did not
reflect this understanding of routine CIA procedure. The CIA
officer who wrote the memo that originally recommended Wilson
for the mission--who was cited anonymously by the senators as
the only source who said that Plame was responsible--was deeply
upset at the twisting of his testimony, which was not public,
and told Plame he had said no such thing. CIA spokesman Bill
Harlow told Wilson that the Republican Senate staff never
contacted him for the agency's information on the matter.
Key words:
(partisan) "addendum by the ranking Republicans",
"CIA subsequently issued a statement ... Republican senators'
conclusion about Plame's role was wholly inaccurate", "CIA
officer ... that originally recommended Wilson for the mission
... was deeply upset at the twisting of his testimony ... told
Plame he had said no such thing"
\_ Show me the statement from Plame's boss that confirms this.
\_ Show me the statement from Plame's boss that disputes this.
\_ He makes the claim about Plame's boss. Show me the
claim or SHUT THE FUCK UP.
\_ Why so angry?
\_ Unfortunately, her boss is probably covert as well.
How CONVENIIEENT ... I know ... but we do have:
http://csua.org/u/ctc (Newsday)
"A senior intelligence official ... said [Plame] did not
recommend her husband to undertake the Niger assignment."
LA Times (7/15/04, article archived):
"A senior intelligence official said the CIA supports
Wilson's version: 'Her bosses say she did not initiate the
idea of her husband going. They asked her if he'd be
willing to go, and she said yes,' the official said."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A30842-2003Dec25
"CIA officials have challenged the accuracy of the INR
document [used to claim that Plame suggested Joe Wilson's
name], the official said, because the [CIA] agency officer
identified as talking about Plame's alleged role in
arranging Wilson's trip could not have attended the
meeting."
\_ And the White House has flip flopped on whether they would
fire anyone who leaked Plame's name to a reporter. First they
said they would, now Bush says only if they have broken
the law.
\_ fyi, an old friend of mine who's a loyal Republican voter
wrote in his blog that, after the flip-flop on Rove, he
has decided that his vote for Dubya in 2004 was a mistake.
\_ The article falls apart? Try reading it again!
http://tinyurl.com/dx3ok
\_ I really like the first story, where the author also says that he
voted for Dubya in 2000.
\_ Countdown to someone mentioning Clinton in 5, 4, 3...
\_ Author of first story also said he voted for Dubya because he
understood what the meaning of "is" was
\_ Obviously you've never served.
\_ Are you a troll? Do you have any understanding of the
effect of the methamphetamine trade on southern Michigan?
\_ obviously you think your trolls aren't that stupid
\_ I bet BUD DAY makes _excellent_ trolls.
\_ BUD DAY! |
| 2005/7/22-25 [Uncategorized] UID:38773 Activity:nil 75%like:36248 |
7/22 Do they still call them Freedom Fries?
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/20/french.fry.case.ap
\_ Why was this posted? |
| 2005/7/22-25 [Uncategorized] UID:38774 Activity:nil |
7/22 What happened to /ftp? It's empty. |
| 2005/7/22-25 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:38775 Activity:high |
7/22 If the military is having such a horrible time finding new recruits,
why don't they just raise salaries/benefits? I think this was the
tact that the Clinton admin. took with the college scholarships
after military service. Also, I'm sure it would have helped
recruiting if the Bush administration hadn't pushed reservists
I meant "national guard"_/
into service in Iraq or extended the enlistment of soldiers
who were supposed to return home so that they would be forced to
stay in Iraq longer. I think you reap what you sow. -mrauser
http://csua.org/u/ctf
\_ Where does the money come from? Also, do you raise salary/benefits
across the board, or just for the new recruits? The former costs a
lot, the latter (or in the form of sign-on bonus) pisses off people
already in the service.
\_ They are. In the form of signing bonuses, for new recruits and
re-enlistment. Variable bonuses depending on MOS and experience,
just like in real life.
\_ In my home country, the best and the brightest work in or around
the government sector, and the really good people who don't,
already applied to those government positions. I hate to insult
military men on motd but it seems to me that this country is
run completely reversed. Perhaps to compete with the powerful
industry of America, the US military branches should offer stock
options (ticker: ARMY, NAVY, USAF). For every unit of resource we
pillage from another country, the military stock price goes up.
\_ I'm glad you think we still went into Iraq to pillage their oil.
Oil prices sure are at an all-time low. I bet you even think
Vietnam was a military action for pillaging. I'm glad you
disparage one of the fundamental engines of capitalism, the stock
market, and compare that with a constitutionally-required service.
Your grasps of these facts surely make you the best candidate to
advise the military on recruitment, and what the heck, run the country.
advise the military on recruitment, and what the heck, run the
country.
\_ ohh, I'm sorry. we are there for WMDs... I forgot about that.
Wait... was this about WMDs?
\_ USMC.
\_ I do not think tha this will help because I think that the problem
w/ recruitment is indicative of larger societal problems - (1) most
people don't feel that it is their job to defend america, thus
they see no need to volunteer for service and (2) most people see
no personal benefit from miltary service.
Additionally with the success of technology in the battlefield
the historical perception that a large standing army (navy, &c.)
is not needed during peace-time has been reinforced.
I would contend that this is not peacetime, its just that most
people haven't realized that (in no small part b/c of TPTB).
Sadly, unless something happens that affects the direct survival
of each and every person in this country, there will likely be
no change in present attitudes. One prays that by then it will
not be too late for the republic.
\_ By "something happens" perhaps you mean "a real threat happens"?
My guess is people aren't signing up because they know damn
well they would not be contributing to the safety of the US,
or of the world. That they're just there as a policing force
to contain a massive fuckup.
\_ It is certainly plausible to think of 9/11 a one time
occurance, but I see it more as the latest in a series
of calculated strikes against the West and Democracy
in general by radical Islam (do not forget the orig. WTC
bombing, USS Cole bombing and the US Embassy bombings).
Also, I think that by focusing on WMDs and Iraq the
real threat that Iraq under Saddam posed is being missed.
IMO, after the fall of Afganistan, the only countries in
the region w/ any infrastructure to support AQ were Iraq
and Libya w/ Iraq being the more logical choice for AQ
to run to b/c it could be reached quickly by land routes.
To "liberate" Iraq was essential in order to prevent AQ
from regrouping and rearming.
Under normal wartime circumstances, there would be no
dispute that the CinC could authorize an invasion to halt
the enemy. The problem here is that the traditional
notions of war are built on the assumption that the enemy
is a nation-state, not an organization - which is why the
invasion of Iraq is not seen by many as a separate action
rather than a new "front" in the war.
I also do not see Iraq as a massive screw up. I did not
think that in my lifetime I would see any hope of a demo-
cratic Iraq. Now there is some hope. Yes it is not perfect,
yes it might have been better managed, BUT it is still
a TREMENDOUS accomplishment. Rome wasn't built in a day.
\_ If they hadn't stolen Florida 2000 and then followed up
by robbing Ohio 2004, none of this ever would've happened.
\_ I fail to see how the current administration had
anything to do w/ either the original WTC attack,
the USS Cole bombing or the Embassy bombings. 9/11
would have likely have happened under Gore's watch
as well.
The difference, I think, is that Gore's response
would have been akin to "peace in our time."
While I would hardly characterize the current
administrations handling of the war as stellar,
at least they recognize that we are at war and
are trying to fight it rather than deny it all
together. |
| 2005/7/22-25 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:38776 Activity:nil |
7/22 Profile of Victor Hanson, a popular conservitive essayist:
http://www.hooverdigest.org/052/kay.html
\_ "...Hanson doesn't play so well with others. At a recent meeting
at Hoover, he strained to remain polite..." This sounds just
like a Conservative Bush lover in my lab. He is somewhat shy,
stubborn, and rude most of the time and doesn't get along with
anyone else. Fucking Neocons. |
| 2005/7/22-25 [Recreation/Celebrity, Computer/SW/Apps/Media] UID:38777 Activity:nil |
7/22 A bunch of grannies tried to enlist in the armed forces and
got arrested. This is not good media exposure. Why can't the armed
forces just ask them to fill out an application and hold their
files as "pending" forever, instead of arresting them and creating
this media debacle? Secondly, why doesn't the armed forces just send
them to Iraq and have them cook, or clean up barracks and toilets?
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/07/22/raging.grannies.ap
\_ "The group has protested every week for the last three years outside
the recruitment center."
\_ "This was not a performance, a joke or civil disobedience," she
said. "This was an enlistment attempt." That is total BS. |
| 2005/7/22-25 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Troll/Jblack] UID:38778 Activity:nil |
7/22 I'm bored and depressed and I need my dosage of idiocy on motd to
cheer me up. jblack, please come back and post something stupid, I
promise to not make fun of you this time. Thanks.
\_ Why don't you just go to freerepublic? |
| 2005/7/22-25 [Computer/Companies/Google, Industry/Jobs] UID:38779 Activity:moderate |
7/22 I've found Google to be a good company. If you want a full-time job or
internship and I happen to know you on a first-name basis, contact me via
phone or email and I'll see what I can do to get you in.
darin @ csua, 314-283-1234.
\_ Can you get them to stop calling me?
\_ Don't bother applying if you're conservative.
\_ Let me guess. You blew the interview due to poor social skills,
and now you want to blame it on the liberal conspiracy to keep
the white man down?
\_ No, just following news reports. Have never interviewed with
Google.
\_ Which news reports?
\_ http://csua.org/u/ctm
\_ From that you assume that they "discriminate against
conservative hires?" You are really really stupid,
and you have likely never dealt with IT hiring.
\_ Is it "jump to conclusions" day? I said don't
bother applying. I didn't say they were
discriminating, I just got the impression that
they're raging lefties and you wouldn't want to be
around them. And you'd have to work with aaron.
Ick.
\_ Ooh, anonymous personal attacks. You are a
bright one.
GOOD. Kudos to Google for rejecting religious -/
and conservative ads. We're fed up, and it's
about time us liberals stand up to the bullying
of religious fuck heads.
\_ Don't compound "news reports" guy's stupidity with your own.
\_ I think it's probably fair to say the Google workplace is
fairly apolitical, but I do think the founders have a
left-wing bias, and this does reflect in some company
policies I find objectionable. Are you afraid to hang
out with liberals because you think they might contaminate
your precious bodily fluids? -- ilyas
\_ I'd hate to be in a work environment where the political
opinions of the people there affect policy at work. I'd
be afraid to give a conservative opinion without
retribution. ilyas, you work at Google? That raises my
opinion of the company.
\_ No, I do not. I interviewed at Google before I went
to UCLA, but did not get the job. They recently
contacted me again, I guess they ran out of all the
good people to hire. I think Google deserves a lot of
credit for enlightened things they do as a company.
I hope to see their good example followed. Having
said that, I disagree with many of their corporate
decisions. -- ilyas
\_ Well, I'm a liberal, and gay, and whatever Google
does I support them because they respect and
embrace diversity. I wish the Religious
dictators would just fuck off. GO GOOGLE. And
fuck you ilyas.
\_ You on the other hand don't seem to.
\_ Want to work at PlanetOut? Email me. -ausman
\_ He's a troll. Nobody is this dumb. -- ilyas |
| 2005/7/22-25 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:38780 Activity:nil |
7/22 Did the "moderate" delete the main Plame thread again, or was it the
guy who was yelling a lot?
\_ Yelling guy is probably freaking out about this:
http://csua.org/u/cti (nytimes.com)
and probably this:
http://csua.org/u/ctj (bloomberg.com)
and most likely this:
http://csua.org/u/ctk (bloomberg.com)
But I'm sure more yelling will make him feel better.
\_ I was yelling about people quoting secondary sources to prove
their point. The URL's above don't bother me in the slightest.
-yelling guy
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aY51e404Lx_8&refer=us
\_ Why did the post get deleted when three much better, more
relevant URLs were posted? |
| 2005/7/22-25 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:38781 Activity:nil |
7/22 "Each time the political machine made up of prime-time patriots
and partisan ninnies display their ignorance by deriding Valerie
Plame as a mere paper pusher or belittling the varying degrees of
cover used to protect our officers or continuing to play partisan
politics with our national security, it's a disservice to this
country," -retired CIA case officer Jim Marcinkowski
http://csua.org/u/cth
\_ SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!!!!1!!1!1!!!! --!jblack
\_ No one forces you to read the motd. |
| 2005/7/22-25 [Politics/Domestic/911, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:38782 Activity:low |
7/22 Not bombers or insurgents, they're terrorists.
http://csua.org/u/ctp
\_ Total garbage. Don't waste your time reading this shit.
\_ I don't know, it is one opinion from someone actually there
in Iraq. I don't agree, but I don't think it is garbage. |
| 2005/7/22-25 [Computer/SW/Database, Computer/SW/Languages/Misc] UID:38783 Activity:kinda low |
7/22 When I do SELECT AVG(col) FROM table, where col is integer, it takes
2 minutes and returns a float type. I'm suspecting part of the
problem is that it's doing floating point add? How do I make it
faster? Thanks.
\_ How many rows it is querying over?
\_ about ~2,000,000
\_ Try adding an index to col. (When in doubt, add more indexes):
ALTER TABLE table ADD INDEX (col)
\_ This won't help at all; he's doing a full table scan with no
where clause. You can test your theory by using SUM instead
of AVG; does it still take a long time? You also have to
consider that these very likely are floating point numbers
if you defined the column as NUMBER.
\_ I've seen MySQL run faster with indexes on lots of things
that really shouldn't have run any faster.
\_ Indexes may cause the db to do fewer reads, depending on
his schema.
\_ Actually I found out my problem isn't with the AVG but with
"join" process. For example, I have a lot of the followings
like SELECT ... FROM ... WHERE table1.id=table2.id2 AND
table2.id1=table3.id... I've made sure that id, id2, and
id3 are all indexed, but for 2 million rows it's still
pretty slow. I wish MySQL would tell you why things are
slow so that you can fine tune it. ARGG!! -op |
| 2005/7/22-25 [Computer/SW/Database] UID:38784 Activity:nil |
7/22 I never took a formal DB theory class, excuse me for asking SQL
questions. When I create a table, I can choose PRIMARY KEY to be
based on a single or n-tuple column. When I do that, are indices
created automatically? Second question is, if the indices are
created for n-tuple, does that mean all the column have fast
index, or they are all based on previous columns? For example, if
I do "PRIMARY KEY(col1, col2, col3)" and I do a search on just
col3, is that going to be really fast?
\_ While I don't have the SQL standard committed to memory, I suspect
that automatic creation of indices in response to primary key
specification is implementation dependent. Look in the docs for
your particular database vendor. -dans
\_ this is correct. |
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