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| 2005/8/17-22 [Recreation/Computer/Games] UID:39145 Activity:nil |
8/17 Anyone played the multiplayer online games in China (or Korea)
offered by companies like Shanda and Netease before? What
are they like and how do they compare with US offerings? |
| 2005/8/17-22 [Transportation/Car/Hybrid] UID:39146 Activity:nil |
8/17 Solar powered Prius Project:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005/08/solar-powered_t.php
\_ Why not put one more panel on the hood? |
| 2005/8/17-22 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:39147 Activity:nil |
8/17 World largest bio-diesel plant to be constructed in Iowa:
http://webstar.postbulletin.com/agrinews/283971271149995.bsp
\_ Does it output more energy than it takes to grow and transport the
soybean?
\_ I think we need to work on genetically enginnering an oil
producing plant. Something that doesn't spend most of it's
energy on infrastructure. Like Trifids! |
| 2005/8/17-20 [Transportation/Airplane] UID:39148 Activity:nil |
8/17 Why is it that when a plane depressurizes by accident, it becomes hard
to control and it loses altitude? Is it real or is it just a Hollywood
thing?
\_ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabin_pressurization
sounds like the biggest issue would by hypoxia of the pilots.
\_ Thanks. I guess it's just a Hollywood thing then.
\_ cuz it's fricken cold
\_ i think it's okay for pilots to drink alcohol so they
can keep warm if this happens..
\_ Wasn't there a passenger airplane in the late 80s that was flying
over Hawaiian islands and suddenly started falling apart in
mid-flight? They landed fine and I think there were few or no
casualties then.
\_ You mean the Aloha flight 243.
http://www.planecrashinfo.com/cvr880428.htm -ax
\_ http://www.planecrashinfo.com/w880428.htm
pictures or the plane after landing.
\_ Yow! I am so keeping my seatbelt buckled.
\_ What's surprising is how come the airplane didn't fall
apart in mid-air and how come no one froze to death?
\_ Must be because the crew took the plane down to ~ 12,000
feet as soon as possible. |
| 2005/8/17-22 [Uncategorized] UID:39149 Activity:nil |
8/17 The Old Negro Space Program
"The shocking-but-false story of America's Blackstronauts!"
http://www.negrospaceprogram.com
\_ Truly, this is a great link. I especially liked the letter from
space.
\_ Yah, that was awesome. -mice |
| 2005/8/17-20 [Computer/SW/Languages/C_Cplusplus] UID:39150 Activity:nil |
8/17 Bell Labs kills Dept. 1127:
http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9846/ur0508l/ur0508l.html
\_ A massacre! Oh, _Department_ 1127.
\_ All high calibar people: Thompson, Kernighan, Ritchie, ...
\_ All high caliber people: Thompson, Kernighan, Ritchie killed.
\_ All high caliber people: Thompson, Kernighan, Ritchie, ... |
| 2005/8/17-20 [Recreation/Humor] UID:39151 Activity:nil |
8/17 Mom p0wNz son in WoW forum:
http://tinyurl.com/akgpb (forums.worldofwarcraft.com)
Read post #3 (Brion) and then post #5 (Faydra) (and the rest just
gets funnier)
\_ Yah, phunny, but only the first page.
\_ The mom makes another good post on pg 10-11
\_ Oh yeah, you can just click the magnifying glass next
to their names to see all their posts.
\_ I don't understand why she apologizes. -John
\_ Mom porns son in ...... |
| 2005/8/17-20 [Computer/Rants] UID:39152 Activity:nil |
8/17 http://yahoo.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_34/b3948472.htm Cover Story on how India and China will outclass US. Sigh .... at least my India fund is doing well ... 85% gain since nov 03. I think I will throw more money at India. I like it more than China. \_ Did you actually read the article? It is nothing like your description. \_ http://csua.org/u/d2n India and China join force to grab world oil resources. \_ login? \_ Personally, I can't wait for the end of American empire. Things will be so much better when China is in charge! \_ Why don't you go there? \_ Racist. \_ Which India fund? I hold IFN, since I like ETFs. \_ that's the one I have too, but I thought IFN is a closed \_ yea, that's the one I have, but I thought IFN is a closed end fund and not an ETF. there's also IIF and ETGIX. |
| 2005/8/17 [Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton, Politics/Foreign] UID:39153 Activity:nil |
8/17 "President Clinton is once again releasing American military
might on a foreign country with an ill-defined objective and no
exit strategy. He has yet to tell the Congress how much this
operation will cost. And he has not informed our nation's armed
forces about how long they will be away from home. These
strikes do not make for a sound foreign policy."
-Governor George W. Bush (R-TX) |
| 2005/8/17-18 [Reference/Tax] UID:39154 Activity:nil |
8/17 How's the housing boom in Canada? Vancouver, Richmond? How much
are properties there and are they worth buying for investment?
Are taxes much higher?
\_ I know that Vancouver and Toronto have boomed a lot. I think
it's pretty much like the US market. |
| 2005/8/17-22 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:39155 Activity:moderate |
8/17 Dear brother of the low IQ infantryman who is being sent to Iraq,
what is your brother's stance on Iraq? Is he still believing
Bush and the Faux News?
\_ Uh, he's pretty smart. Go read Starship Troopers, the book.
\_ Send him Stranger in a Strange
Land. Anyone who takes ST as
a guideline for life needs
to have their intelligence
questioned
Combine that and the horror of 9/11, and that'll clue you into
what he's thinking. Anyways, before he signed up, I told him at
least he'll be relieving all those poor guys in Iraq now.
\_ if anything, Iraqis are more poor than under Saddam:
http://tinyurl.com/cnuw9
\_ I think he was referring to US soldiers.
\_ Ah, so he thinks Iraq was about 9/11?
\_ If he were really smart, he'd do pretty well on the placement
exam and either end up doing support or logistic related jobs
(U.S. has a ration of 5-10 support for each frontline man)
or move up as an officer, instead of being just an infantryman.
\_ He scored well enough on the test to do whatever he wanted.
He chose Infantry.
He also chose to start as a grunt, since he didn't want to be
one of those know-nothing officers. If he was going to lead
men, someone would have to promote him.
\_ My sister-in-law did the same thing. She could've been
an officer and chose to be a grunt. She's an idiot. So
is your brother. Sorry to have to break the truth to
you.
\_ I have no idea whether your sister in law is an idiot,
but I've definitely seen this before in non-idiots.
A friend of mine from highschool who was really
really smart, and extremely talented at pretty much
everything he tried (various academic subjects, art
sports) did exactly this. He got really high scores
on everything and chose infantry. His CO wanted him
to do ranger school, but he didn't go just to piss
the guy off. Sometimes very intelligent people act
irrationally, but are still intelligent people.
He finished his army time in the 90's and is a lawyer
now.
\_ i don't know. don't people ever thought that they
might die or seriously wounded for being a infintry?
\_ I mean 'idiot' as in 'fool'. Lots of smart
people are unwise. Your friend sounds like my
sister-in-law. She didn't want to be an officer
because she didn't want to be a 'know-nothing
officer'. I have a lot of family in the military
and they will all tell you that's idiotic. You
definitely want to be an officer. Your friend
would've benefitted by Ranger school, but he
fucked himself over just because his CO at the
time was a jerk. That's a bad decision. FWIW, my
sister-in-law has 2 master's degrees and is
still an idiot for going in enlisted and
refusing to take advantage of what the military
had to offer.
\_ yea, but I watched Heartbreak Ridge, and
I wanna be like Clint.
\_ I could see that being true in peacetime,
but I also respect the decisions of those going
grunt first during wartime. They might not be
so pro-officer that being the case.
Some people really don't feel ready to send people
to die. We're talking Infantry.
\_ They have no problem being ordered to go
kill people, though? You can be the poor
sucker taking orders or you can give them.
At least officers are told what's going
on. There are lots of other benefits, too.
Grunts get paid less and get less respect
(from the brass) to do more work.
\_ (You didn't really need to tell anyone that
officers get paid more, much better perks,
and better career advancement for less
work.)
To repeat again what I've already written:
Some people don't necessarily want to be
Infantry officers during war-time,
especially those with no prior battlefield
experience. And that's fine.
Do I really need to tell you there's a
difference between being reponsible for
a whole platoon, and being one of the
platoon members? I think you're smarter
than that, so I don't need to tell you.
In peace-time, I can see how it would be
foolish not to become an officer if you
could.
\_ If you're talking about decision-making
it's better not to be in the infantry at
all, like was said earlier by someone
else. However, it's always better to
be an officer. Always. Any other
opinion is an attempt at rationalizing
a poor decision, IMO.
\_ I can see: "It's always better to
have money."
I can see: "It's always better to
be an officer, if you can live with
men dying under your command."
I can see: "It's always better to be
an officer if you want to live."
I can't see: "It's always better
to be an officer."
\_ Were you in the military? How
familiar are you with it?
There are people who think
it's better to be enlisted,
but they are (to use the same
word) idiots. I say this as
someone with both enlisted
soldiers (privates) and
high-ranking officers (colonels)
in my family.
\_ No, I haven't been in the
military. I'm the one with the
brother who signed up as a
private.
In any case, I'll go with
"It's always better to be an
officer, if you can live with
men dying under your command"
rather than
"It's always better to be an
officer".
My opinion, only.
Perhaps you can talk to the
colonels again and ask them to
compare the two sentences and
see which one they like better.
Don't push an opinion on them,
please. Oh yeah, and it's
Infantry, too, and you're
getting sent to Iraq.
\_ Their opinion is to join
as an officer if you
can. I know this because
I have a niece who is in
now (not in Iraq - yet),
a brother-in-law who
just came back from
Iraq, and now my nephew
wants to join (Marines).
This is the opinion of
two Army colonels and an Air
Force captain. YMMV.
BTW, best of luck to
your brother!
\_ Thanks. I can agree
with their advice.
The impact of the advice
is to seriously consider
becoming an officer, and
if you don't, its your
choice, and your family
members could always
discuss pros/cons with
the colonels.
\_ Nonono ... you meant: "Sorry to have to express my
opinion of it in that way."
\_ I'd say your brother is worth about 10 of the sissy pricks
like the op that post on the motd.
like the op that post on the motd. -jblack
\_ Which makes you worth what, exactly? Thank God our nation
has brave young men willing to post freeper links to the
motd every 20 minutes.
\_ I'd like to see you serve in Iraq.
\_ Don't make assumptions like that. I spent three years
(as a medic) in the 82nd Airborne and I post on the
motd all the time. -ausman
\_ Great thing. Basing your life on a book promoting fascism,
manifest destiny, mini-nukes and Cold War sensibilities.
Ah Heinlein, where everyone is beautiful, the men all get
laid and the women give it up like it's going out of style...
\_ Fascism? Manifest Destiny? Have you even read the book?
If you have, then either your reading comprehension skills
need work, or you're looking with REALLY biased, politically
slanted glasses.
\_ Have you ever wondered why he wrote ST and SIASL at the
same time. I have a friend who suggested it was on a dare.
"Write two good books promoting opposing political stances
and sell them both."
\_ give me a call when Heinlein writes a good book. -tom
\_ you know he's dead, right? What fiction have you read
that you consider "good"?
\_ yes, I know he's dead, and good riddance.
I've got shelves full of good fiction books.
In sci-fi, notables include Hyperion and
A Fire Upon the Deep. -tom
\_ Perhaps the problem is you see Heinlein as SF
instead of political theory?
\_ perhaps the problem is that he's a hack. -tom
\_ Vinge is good, so is Banks. Banks has some
interesting !scifi stuff also. Vinge gets bonus
points for cool physics, and inventing the
notion of Singularity, Banks get points for the
setting and society, and of course his ship names.
-- ilyas
\_ Bah, Heinlein was a pussy. He should have started his own
religion like L Ron. That's how you get paid and laid, yo. |
| 2005/8/17-22 [Transportation/Car/Hybrid] UID:39156 Activity:nil |
8/17 Don't buy a Prius! It costs over $5000 to replace the battery,
which you'll have to do when you reach 100,000 miles or 10 years.
Because the efficiency depends on the battery, your mileage WILL
decrease in time, and when you take in account of the extra $5000
you'll have to spend, this makes Prius a pretty awful investment.
Buy it if you want to reduce gasoline consumption. Don't buy it
if you think it'll save you money in the long run. It won't.
\_ Does this mean there will be a lot of used Prius's for sale in
~ 5 years?
\_ What about battery consumption?
\_ overall, which is cheaper to maintain till 150k miles?
Corolla or Prius?
\_ I don't own a Prius, but considering that it is a much more
complex machinery, I'd say Corolla. Corolla's gas milage is
really not bad at all. In the 5 years I've owned my Corolla,
I've not had a single mechanical problem.
\_ A CAR IS NOT AN INVESTMENT!
\_ When it's $10/gallon, $5k replacement battery is considered spare change.
\_ When it's $10/gallon, $5k replacement battery is considered spare
change.
\_ I thought this was about environmental cost, not money cost. if
it's about money cost fuck the Prius. How environmentally
friendly is all this battery production and disposal? |
| 2005/8/17-22 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Troll/Jblack, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd] UID:39158 Activity:low |
8/17 Did Al Gore say it? Or was it the Unabomber?
http://www.crm114.com/algore/quiz.html -jblack
\_ Either you sign your name, or it gets deleted. Since you're so
persistent and tried to repost the same trash at exactly 19:02,
23:40, 23:57, so on and so forth, I've done you a favor and signed
for you. God Bless. -god
\_ [self-deleted for further investigation] -- ilyas
\_ Hey look politburo, root abuse! -- ilyas
\_ when sys admins attack...
\_ Hey look politburo, root abuse! The only people with soda root
I don't know are dlong, erikk and brett. erikk hasn't been on
since Monday. So, ... I am fairly sure it's one of the remaining
two who is abusing. At least one current root agrees with me
this kind of root usage constitutes abuse. Incidentally, where
are all the fuckers who were calling for my squishage due to
motd deletions? Cat got your tongue? Or is this one of those
'nuanced situations' I keep hearing about? -- ilyas
\_ [self-deleted pending further investigation] -- ilyas
\_ I sure hope you're not *abusing* root for something as stupid
as the motd. Which reminds me, just how many people have root?
It shouldn't be more than Politburo. With power comes
responsibility, etc.
\_ Arguably, it shouldn't be (all of) politburo. Arguably,
not even VP _needs_ root (we've had some severely
non-technical VPs in the past)
\_ I don't know, some allumni who have root are very
important to keeping everything running and helping out
new VPs. mconst and njh come to mind.
\_ Forgive my density, but what about the post above indicates
sb with root was involved? -- ulysses
\_ It's freakin' soda, fool. Root abuse is their only perk.
\_ Don't be lame. "It is soda so we have no standards" is
idiotic.
\_ when sys admins attack...
\_ It's not like FreeRepublic embraces everyone, you know.
\_ Which has exactly *nothing* to do with root abuse on soda.
\_ You didn't sign your name, and I don't like what you're
saying, AND I think you're a jerk. Should I delete your
post?
\_ There's not a single mention of "internet"? Wow.
\_ boring |
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