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2005/8/8-11 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/President] UID:39035 Activity:nil |
8/8 At least 80 wealthy liberals have pledged to contribute ... to compete with the potent conservative infrastructure built up over the past three decades. http://news.yahoo.com/s/washpost/rich_liberals_vow_to_fund_think_tanks That's weird, I only heard about the conservative build-up now. I didn't know they have been building up even before I was born. \_ "The goal of the alliance, according to organizers, is to foster the growth of liberal or left-leaning institutions equipped to take on prominent think tanks on the right, including the Heritage Foundation, the Hoover Institution, the American Enterprise Institute and the Cato Institute, as well as such training centers as the Leadership Institute and the Young America's Foundation. Almost all the alliance partners have been active donors of the Democratic Party and liberal interest groups. Many said they have concluded that their spending to date has lacked strategic coherence." Oh give me a fucking break. The Cato Institute is conspiring with the neocons as part of a Vast Rightwing Strategic Vision to Reshape the World. The fact that 'the Left' is finding itself 'without a voice' is somewhat ironic. Aside from Murdoc's holdings, American mainstream media has a mostly moderate-left presentation to it. It's probably moved to the right a little since 2004. -- ilyas \_ The left already has a huge, well funded national level organ for getting the word out: the public school system and vast majority of universities. The problem the DNC has isn't getting the message out, it is the message. Or lack thereof. \_ I don't think you can call it a conspiracy when it is right out there in the open like that. -ausman \_ So the Cato institute is a ring-wing organization now? \_ So the Cato institute is a right-wing organization now? -- ilyas \_ When wasn't it? It has been funded by Scaife, The Olin Foundation and the usual batch of large corporations from the start. A bunch of their "scholars" move around between them, the AEI and The Hoover Institute, though I would call them big business conservatives, as opposed to the holy roller type, myself. -ausman |
2005/8/8 [Science, Computer/SW/Security] UID:39036 Activity:nil |
8/7 I heard something about someone attempting to utilize NIS authentication on Sloda. What was the exact nature for this, was it to allow for a centralized system to manage users amongst the different computers within the CSUA? What is currently being utilized for this, and why was NIS chosen vs. a less obsolete technology like LDAP? \_ Why do you think somebody owes anonymous you an explanation? Check the wall, motd logs. |
2005/8/8 [Finance/Banking] UID:39037 Activity:nil |
8/8 http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/08/opinion/08krugman.html "This is the way the bubble ends: not with a pop, but with a hiss." \_ I agree there's a certain amount of "irrational exuberance" in the housing market, but this opinion piece is nearly devoid of facts to back up the claim. He barely mentions the slow down in purchases in San Diego and claims the savings rate has dropped to "zero" which is flat out impossible, meaning he's just being sloppy and alarmist. With the thousands of people on the net writing about housing, why choose this fluff piece written 10 minutes before deadline? \_ Are you sure it's flat out impossible that the savings rate has dropped to "zero"? What quantifies as "nearly devoid of facts" to you? Do you know what a "fluff piece" is? Are you an undergrad? http://csua.org/u/cym (L.A. Times) \_ Why is a savings rate of less than zero impossible? It just means you are growing your debts more rapidly than your assets, correct? Can someone provide the definition and explain why it is impossible ... \_ If even 1 person has savings, the rate can't be zero. He doesn't provide a single reference for anything. Nearly devoid of facts isn't quite right. Completely devoid of any references for the 1 or 2 fact-like statements would be more correct but also pedantic and anal. Are you pedantic and anal? Thanks. \_ I've always thought pedantic and anal was slightly more desirable than obtuse and uninformed http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0803/p01s02-usec.html?s=yahw \_ Thanks for the link. That's better than the NYT opinion piece could offer. How sad that the motd can provide better researched information than the NYT. This demonstrates my original complaint which is the article is fluff written 10 minutes before deadline. Why couldn't Mr. Krugman have provided similar references? \_ Um, because he assumes the reader does their research as well? Accusing Krugman of not doing his homework won't get you very far. \_ Are you an undergrad? \_ Uhhh ... There's a difference between saying the average savings rate is less than zero and everyone's saving rate is less than zero. I would assume that most readers would know that saying the savings rate is less than zero means the average savings rate, just like when you say Palestine, you probably don't mean Palestine, Texas. |
2005/8/8 [Computer/Networking, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:39038 Activity:moderate |
8/8 any equivalent to arp on soda? what about tracert (dos)? thanks \_ Hrm, maybe, /usr/sbin/arp? and traceroute or mtr \_ sadly, typing arp didnt work, should we put /usr/sbin/ path in .cshrc? \_ No. Do some research on why things in /usr/sbin aren't in /usr/bin. People are free to add it on their own. \_ any urls for the clueless? google didn't turn up anything for me :( \_ Googling for "introduction to unix" without quotes turned up approx 7,820,000 results for me. Or you can look for the Nemeth book. -John \_ i know how to use unix fairly well. i just want to know why things in sbin aren't in bin. \_ funny thing is that arp/traceroute used to be in /usr/etc/ \_ On freebsd? \_ no. on SODA about 2 years ago \_ Seriously doubt it. Maybe on the sequent but that's like 7 years ago now. \_ tom holub, you have my permission to flame this newbie. |
2005/8/8 [Politics/Domestic/RepublicanMedia, Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:39039 Activity:nil |
8/8 Hahaha "The real issue, of course, is that Novak has a long history of bullying and abusing lower-level employees, whom he terrorizes with his angry outbursts over such vital areas of newsgathering as how to pop his popcorn just so, or like when he reduced a former colleague of mine to tears when he asked here how many Jews her family had transported to the death camps (this woman was of German ancestry)." http://jameswolcott.com/archives/2005/08/oral_sadist_suf.php \_ Yeah, how many did her family transport? Damn Germans. -jew #1!! \_ Not enough. \_ Why should we believe what "DC Media Girl" says? \_ Because she's Clara Frenk \_ http://www.outfoxed.org/FeaturedInterviewees.php#Frenk (For those who, like me, still didn't know who she was) \_ Which doesn't mean squat to me. Where has the claim been corroborated, or is this merely another anonymous source? \_ Oh for fuck's sake. It's just gossip, illustrating a general point that Novak is known amongst the DC press corps as a total flaming asshole. |
2005/8/8-11 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:39040 Activity:nil |
8/8 Mozilla Foundation Announces Creation of Mozilla Corporation http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=7085 |
2005/8/8-11 [Politics/Foreign/Canada, Politics/Domestic/Immigration] UID:39041 Activity:nil |
8/8 I'm going to Vancouver for two days. What did you guys do when you were there, and what did you like and didn't like? \_ I really liked the area around Mainland St. for restaurants and bars--check out Section(3) for good food. The big park is nice, and the aquarium is kind of cool. -John \_ Full nude strip bars serving alcohol with imported dancers. God Bless Canada. \_ Imported from where? \_ All over (eastern Europe and Asia mostly). But they are cracking down a bit. See http://csua.org/u/cyt (WS) \_ According to this guy it's easier to get a stripper visa than a nurse visa because strippers are more in demand. Hooookay.... \_ This has been a pretty big problem. Immigration now demands proof that you have been an active exotic dancer before letting you in on a work visa. That's easy next to proving to them that you're a certified nurse. Plus there is the stigma of the "bad job." \_ This is a joke right? My only images of Canada from media bombardment are their famous maple syrup and Canadian bacon. I haven't seen anything relating to strip bars or hooker or anything wonderful like that. \_ I forgot. Legal drinking age is 19 except for Alberta, Manitoba and Quebec where it is 18. \_ But they have shitty Canadian cigarettes. |
2005/8/8 [Finance/Investment] UID:39042 Activity:kinda low |
8/8 I was trying to short BIDU (Baidu) just now, and it says, "Currently no shares available for shorting". Anyone has experience with these things? Would it help if I call in to the broker? \_ Basically it means that not enough shares are held by other clients of your broker. When you short you're generally borrowing shares from other clients. If few shares of BIDU are held in your broker's other accounts, or those have already been shorted, you can't short it without causing an uncovered (naked) short. Your broker *may* be able to borrow shares from another broker. \_ thanks, tried a few times to short starting from $146 all the way down to $130 but no luck. calling scottrade up also didn't help. now it's $116. oh well. \_ thanks, tried a few times to short starting from $146 all the way down to $130 but no luck. calling scottrade up also didn't help. now it's $116. oh well. \_ Buy options then \_ I think options are usually not available for stocks that just had its IPO. \_ I think options are usually not available for stocks that just had its IPO. \_ "Now the shares' meteoric rise have captured the attention of short sellers, who are wondering when it will be time for them to move in. Sources said the shares aren't yet available at Wall Street lending desks, but are expected to show up by mid-week after the initial purchases of the stock are settled." Answering my own question. - op |
2005/8/8-11 [Health/Disease/General] UID:39043 Activity:nil |
8/8 http://peacehall.com/forum/pic/932.shtml Suicide bus bombing in China, reportedly by 42-year-old farmer with terminal lung cancer pissed off at lack of health services Warning: Graphic images \_ So reading articles about this, many mentioned the "rising cost of health care" and how health care cost increases are outpacing salary increases. This is true in the US too. My question is: are health care costs rising faster than the quality of care provided? If so, why? If not, is it just a case of our expectations of quality rising faster than what we can afford to spend? --dbushong |
2005/8/8 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iran, Science/GlobalWarming] UID:39044 Activity:nil |
8/8 Iran resumes fuel cycle work http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0809/p02s01-wogi.html |
2005/8/8 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Troll/Jblack, Politics/Domestic/RepublicanMedia] UID:39045 Activity:moderate |
8/8 jblack, nice try, but no cigar. Let me give you a hint. The type and the duration of your command has absolutely no bearing on whether they're detectable or not. I CAN SEE YOU! Surprise surprise! Take your trash elsewhere, or better yet, sign your name and we'll gladly leave your trash around. \_ Fuck you and die, you censoring shithead. The *reason* I hate fascist fucks like jblack is that I don't want them to turn America into the kind of country where people can't post stuff freely on a public message board without it being deleted by some self-appointed thought police. You suck. \_ ironic, isnt it? or perhaps it isn't ironic at all. *that* would be ironic. ;-) \_ lafeable response. ha ha. \_ The joke here is that, of course, the above is anonymous trash. \_ Those who have the power determine what is trash and what is not. You sir, have no power on soda. \_ Huh, there's a power structure on soda? Does r00t get all the ladies / himbos? \_ I have no idea why jblack is even bothering to try to hide his name. AFAIK he's the only one here who reads freerepublic, so everyone knows it's him posting anyway. On the other hand, from jblack's point of view, this censorship campaign has to be the best thing ever. It's making 'liberals' look like hypocritical dickheads WAY more effectively than those freerepublic posts ever did. \_ There's one stupid person waging this pointless war. It doesn't reflect on anyone other than that fucktard. \_ I find that to be typical. One person's posts often get needlessly characterized as some sort of contingent. Just like the anti-Arab frothing after 9/11. \_ I read freerepublic almost every day -moderate/liberal \_ Really? Why? I've never seen much there that couldn't be found easier someplace else with less drivel. Unless, of course, you go becuase you think the drivel is funny. \_ I knew a guy who lived in Lothlorien who used to get incredibly stoned, pig out on vegan snacks, and troll Freerepublic for hours at a time. --lye \_ I got the http://peacehall.com link from there. But yeah, mostly I look up "wedge" issues just to see how freepers handle it. It is true ... if there's one thing I've learned, these folks are very black/white. They get confused by things like Roberts' pro-bono pro-gay work, Peter Jennings dying, and Dubya pandering for the Latino vote. |
2005/8/8-11 [Uncategorized] UID:39046 Activity:nil |
8/8 Help. How do you get rid of grape fruit stain on the shirt? \_ zout + wash with detergent. |
2005/8/8 [Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton] UID:39047 Activity:nil |
8/8 http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/08/08/pirro.clinton.ap Down with Pirro the Republican BITCH! Someone please publish The Truth About Pirro \_ Huh? |
2005/8/8-11 [Recreation/Food] UID:39048 Activity:low |
8/8 How much does your weight vary on any given day? \_ I don't have weight sensors in my shoes. \_ I eat about 5 pounds of meat a day, and I shit once a day. I drink about 1 gallon of liquid. So I'm guessing maybe 10 pounds? \_ I eat about 5 pounds of meat a day, and I shit once a week. I drink about 2 gallon of liquid. So I'm guessing maybe 16.5 pounds? I drink about 1 gallon of liquid. So I'm guessing maybe 10 pounds? \_ Yeah but if you eat like that 5 of those pounds aren't temporary. \_ About half a kilo or so (a pound, give or take) \_ About 3 lbs - though some of that could be due to the fact that I'm using an el cheapo target bathroom scale for weighing myself. \_ On a long bike ride, I'll lose 5-8 pounds. -tom \_ Out of curiosity, what does "long" mean? \_ A few weeks ago I rode Mount Hamilton via Mines Road, which came out to a little over 100 miles, and I was out there for 10 hours. I was about 6 pounds lighter, on a not very hot day. -tom \_ I assume that you were rehydrating aggressively along the way...? \_ I drank 7-8 liters of fluids (mostly water). -tom |
2005/8/8-11 [Uncategorized] UID:39049 Activity:low |
8/8 \_ No, not "whatever". At least you (a) sign your posts, and (b) have some sort of contributory logic to your political argumentation (i.e. links and arguments that you post have _some_ intrinsic value as you seem to have put some thought into them instead of just spewing shit, even if it's usually wrongthink--for example, I find your generalizations about "liberals" to be disappointing and below what I would expect from you.) By my definition, "cretinous thugs" are rampant on the motd and wall, alongside a lot of other stuff. -John \_ 'Wrongthink?' Generalizing about liberals? That's double plus ungood! John, do me a favor. Stop commenting on what I write. I could do without your condescending attempts to 'improve me.' As for your actual claim, I don't actually generalize about liberals as a whole except in jest. You don't seem to understand me, or my sense of humor, or something like that. Regarding \_ You're not funny. Not offensive funny (I'm not easily offended), just not funny. Amuse me and I may stop commenting on your posts. -John \_ Remember John, it is I who politely asked to be left alone and it is you who refused. Who is the cretinous thug today? -- ilyas \_ Why would I try to improve you? You're perfect. -John \- didnt we establish you didnt have a sense of humor in the psb -> polpot thread? \_ I asked you if you were serious TWICE, partha. Fuck off. -- ilyas \_ You shouldn't call someone names unless you are sure of that person's identity. In this case, someone could have masqueraded as partha, but at any rate he didn't sign his name. \- ilyas lives in a baysian world --could be anybody jblack and FR, the man has as much right to post as you or anybody else. I am not really impressed by FR, but what do I know, I don't even follow those links anymore. The punitive personal campaigns that go on the motd piss me off a hell of a lot more than anything jblack posts. -- ilyas \_ Die Fahne hoch die Reihen fest geschlossen S. A. marschiert mit ruhig festem Schritt Kam'raden die Rotfront und Reaktion erschossen Marschier'n im Geist in unsern Reihen mit Die Strasse frei den braunen Batallionen Die Strasse frei dem Sturmabteilungsmann Es schau'n auf's Hackenkreuz voll Hoffung schon Millionen Der Tag fur Freiheit und fur Brot bricht an Zum letzen Mal wird nun Appell geblasen Zum Kampfe steh'n wir alle schon bereit Bald flattern Hitler-fahnen Uber allen Strassen Die Knechtschaft dauert nur mehr kurze Zeit Die Fahne hoch die Reihen fest geschlossen S. A. marschiert mit ruhig festem Schritt Kam'raden die Rotfront und Reaktion erschossen Marschier'n im Geist in unsern Reihen mit -John \_ The other thing of note, is I never have seen John campaign nearly as tirelessly (or at all) regarding FR-like behavior within the hallowed 'walls' of this machine, like one aaron@csua's outbursts. Fortunately aaron is gone. The guy was the very definition of a 'cretinous thug,' with his violent fantasies, yet I heard nothing from anybody about him. -- ilyas \_ (oh good, heil cherman john guy is back, I was worried about him.) How exactly am I campaigning? I don't think I've commented on his posts except as an aside to clearly stating that censoring someone, no matter how obnoxious, is teh suck. I really fail to see the issue here. -John \_ You must have been blind then. People bitched about aaron's ranting all the time. \_ So is the revisionist historian ilyas or this guy? \_ Honestly, I don't remember anybody complaining about aaron except myself, and I remember some people defending him. Of course I don't usually read wall logs. -- ilyas \_ Search for aaron on KAIS motd. A lot of people complained about/made fun of aaron. \_ Why do you think the left soda? Lots of people were making fun of him and tom pushed him over the top on wall so he left in a huff. |
2005/8/8 [Uncategorized] UID:39050 Activity:high |
8/8 The way liberals welcome freedom of speech, even for those who are against freedom of speech, reminds me of this childhood story where a close knit herbivore community finally opens up its gate to everyone, only to have the community destroyed by other carnivores. \_ which leads you to conclude ...? You know, you could easily replace "freedom of speech" with press, or religion, or dissent. \_ Will human suffer from the same fate when SETI finds E.T. and initialtes communication? |
2005/8/8-11 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:39051 Activity:nil |
8/8 Rumsfeld: "I'm increasing troop levels before I decrease them." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050808/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/iraq_us_military \_ He didn't say that, although that's what's happening. \_ He didn't say that, although that's definitely the official plan. Increase will occur for the elections. Decrease will occur after, depending on conditions on the ground. |
2005/8/8-9 [Computer/SW/RevisionControl] UID:39052 Activity:low |
8/8 How do you make clear case behave simpler, like say CVS. My office is using it and it has way too many features and complications, but are not going to be switching to CVS anytime soon. We develop using Clearcase\ibm eclipse\MQ. -nesim \_ Uhm, shouldn't you be asking clearcase this question? You figure that the amount you're paying them per seat license you'd get answers to this sort of question. \_ clearly you haven't dealt with IBM "support". \_ Ugh. Thanks for opening that wound again. I hate those fucking bastards. -John \_ Use Base Clearcase or Clearcase LT instead of ClearCase UCM? \_ I haven't used CC in many years, but you used to be able to enable something called the "offline" module. This was like CVS in that you checked everything out and then you worked on it and when you were done you checked in your files. You didn't need to get all that vob/nfs crap running. As far as views, &c. go, you don't need to use any of those features if you don't want to. \_ Create a snapshot view instead of a dynamic view if you want to work off-line. |
2005/8/8-11 [Science/GlobalWarming, Computer/SW/OS/Linux, Health/Women] UID:39053 Activity:nil |
8/8 Anyone else going to Linux World Expo tomorrow? -jrleek \_ well, I don't know, are they gonna have beautiful women with bikini, kind of like what they have for Nascar or Indy-500 where georgeous women surround Linux PCs instead of race cars? \_ Will it be anything like this picture of E3? http://www.seanbaby.com/e32001/images/fatty.jpg |
2005/8/8-11 [Consumer/CellPhone, Industry/Jobs, Industry/Startup] UID:39054 Activity:nil |
8/9 Work with Anthony and Brian! Again! We have yet another position open, this time as a BREW developer doing pretty interesting cell phone applications/server side support for pretty interesting cell phone applications. Startup in Emeryville with VC. -aspo |
2005/8/8-11 [Academia/GradSchool, Academia/UCLA, Industry/Jobs] UID:39055 Activity:nil |
8/8 Any students actually read motd? The Yahoo! Login and Registration team is looking for a fresh college grad to write perl and shell scripts. This position is for fresh college grads only. If interested, send resumes to atom at yahoo-inc dot com \_ I'm a starving PhD student and I am desperate for money. How much do they pay and are they near UCLA? And how much referal money do you get, and would you like to split with me? I'll take 33% of your referal. |
2005/8/8-11 [Computer/SW/Database] UID:39056 Activity:nil |
8/8 I'm looking for a good log analyzer. My systems generate about a gig a week of sendmail logs. I'd like something I can feed in the logs in bulk and then query them through either a gui or SQL (which I can put behind a cgi). The point is to track emails in/out of the system so I can tell if particular emails based on from and/or to within a date range were successfully delivered and hopefully how long it took to deliver as well. I have a budget sufficient to purchase something if necessary. Any suggestions? Thanks! \_ Doesn't do everything you want, but you could check out isoqlog --dbushong \_ Check out Sawmill. If you want stats, munin is nice but also doesn't do all you're looking for. -John |
2005/8/8-11 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iran, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:39057 Activity:nil |
8/8 Iran resumes fuel cycle work http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0809/p02s01-wogi.html My interpretation: (1) Iran has just successfully called the bluff of both the EU3 and the U.S., or, (2) The U.S. really does want to refer Iran to the Security Council, impose sanctions, and gear up for war in ~ 2-3 years. My solution had been to create a schedule whereby Iran /could/ perform different stages of the fuel cycle until after some number of years they could do the whole thing, but hey, if we want to do (1) first that's fine by me, and if the U.S. wants to do (2), well ... I guess we'll find the troops to do it somehow. \_ They'll just draft CSUAers and conservative bloggers. |
2005/8/8-11 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:39058 Activity:nil |
8/8 Any tips on getting a bank, cell phone company, or utility to properly acknowledge a change of address? With my recent move, both PG&E and Cingular fucked up the change. In PG&E's case, they moved the location of the account (i.e., where the gas and electricity was being delivered), but not where the bill was being sent. In Cingular's case, they just dropped the ball completely and failed to move the account at all. In both cases I called specifically ahead of time to move the account. Since the Post Office acknowledged my forwarding request, but never forwarded any of my mail, I never got any bills and got hit with all sorts of "surprise" disconnection notices recently. \_ You could try praying. \_ Cingular's customer service is so f*cked up. Best bet is to contact their customer service and get someone to give you their direct phone number for future inquiries. If you get a different person for each customer service inquiry, then just start praying. \_ I moved several times in the past. Every time PG&E always sent the bills of the old and new accounts to my new address properly. USPS forwarded most of my mail properly for a year or so. Once a while a piece of mail slipped USPS's forwarding mechanism and went to the old addresse. \_ I had a serious snafu with PG&E that took 6 months to resolve. The short version is they couldn't keep track of what money was supposed to go toward a deposit and what was towards my bill. Even after you call them, the rate they actually fix things is much slower than the rate the computers send out "we're shutting off your electricity" notices, so I had to call a lot to confirm with someone "Yes, I see the notes here, the paperwork just hasn't gone through yet. Don't worry, we won't shut you off." I'd say call once a month until things are resolved, and when you call, just give them your account number so they can bring up your case history and catch up on the story. Thank goodness I don't have to deal with PG&E anymore. -bz |
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