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| 2005/11/2-4 [Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:40400 Activity:kinda low |
11/2 Day 6 of rioting in France. Riots are spreading.
\_ I hope this opens up the eyes of Americans as to what is really
going on in Europe. There is so much romanticizing, but the
reality is that Europe's problems are deeper than our own.
\_ yeah, because this has never happened in the U.S.
\_ Europe claims these things *only* happen in the US.
\_ It does? I need to pay attention to European ministry
of truth press releases more closely. -John
\_ All of my family is European (Greek, Dutch, French,
German) and I hear the European side of things often -
not just from them, but from official sources of news
like newspapers. Americans are supposed to be
uncouth and heartless people who buy big-screen TVs
while letting poor black/Mexican people starve in
the streets. Europe has the cure for poverty. The
reality is that Europe mostly cares about *white*
Europeans, which is not surprising given the
history of the Dutch, English, Germans, French, etc.
So many liberals were looking to Europe as a model
for Arab/Western relations and social welfare and
this incident proves that thinking idiotic.
\_ Since it's completely buried in all the major U.S. news sources,
it's unlikely to "open the eyes" of very many Americans about
anything.
\_ Does "buried" mean in Yahoo! headlines?
\_ Yeah, the place is falling apart at the seams. Rape gangs and
armed mobs run rampant; inflation is nearing the 1,000% mark in
most Western European capitals, planes are falling from the sky
and triffids are feasting on the rotting corpses of their
victims. London & Paris in flames, film at 11. We urge you to
stay in the US, where you'll be safe from the droogies. -John
\_ Really? Damn. I guess I'll have to cancel my weekend plans
of putting my loudest Hawaii shirt and my plastic sandles
on and parking my 300 pound ass in your favorite restraunt
to shout into my cell phone about Nascar.
\_ My favorite restaurants don't let you in. Enjoy shouting
into your phone outside, the glass is soundproof. Saves
me $20 on a movie after. -John
\_ It's all just a media ploy to keep us away from all the hot
european women.
\_ Yes, that has opened up my eyes. Since Europe has been
relatively pro-Arab compared to the US, I always thought that
their Arab communities must have been better integrated.
\_ I love how you say "Europe". Anyway, less to do with Arabs
than with poor uneducated <insert ethnic group here> trash.
\_ They are more racist than we are and their little
socialist experiment is proving no better than capitalism and
in some ways much worse. They like to turn their noses up at
us, but in truth they have the same (or more) problems.
By the way, they are not pro-Arab, but anti-Israel.
\_ What can I say, it's a horrible place alright, full of horrible
people. -John
\_ I find the motd Europe troll pretty hilarious. -John
\_ That's because Switzerland is not a member of the EU.
\_ And thank god at that. But it's good to see
people catching on to how much things suck in the
little state of Europe, finally. -John |
| 2005/11/2-4 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA] UID:40401 Activity:nil |
11/2 Has anyone else been missing mail/getting mail delayed by hours
on soda lately? --scotsman
\_ I have ... I was in the process of trying to figure out if
its a problem with the <DEAD>cal.berkeley.edu<DEAD> forwarding, or
actually csua. - rory
\_ What do we know about the people running @cal forwarding
anyway? Do they have a clue?
\_ It's a third-party ASP based in Texas somewhere. -tom
\_ /var filled up on scotch an mx for soda. let root know if
you're not getting as much spam as you expect. -erikk |
| 2005/11/2-3 [Science/Electric] UID:40402 Activity:low |
11/2 AC Transit designates today as Rosa Parks Day.
http://www.actransit.org/news/articledetail.wu?articleid=f17acca4
http://www.actransit.org/aboutac/bod/memos/1b0435.pdf
How ironic.
\_ Why is that ironic?
\_ A bus agency employee had her arrested.
\_ Yeah, that's not ironic. It was done as a salute to her
*because* of the action she took.
\_ That might be ironic if it was an AC Transit employee.
\_ I liked the guy on The Daily Show "boy.. times have changed since
Rosa Parks' day... white people used to ride the bus!" |
| 2005/11/2-3 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows, Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:40403 Activity:nil |
11/2 Buy a copy protected CD from Sony, get a rootkit installed for free!
http://tinyurl.com/auyjl |
| 2005/11/2-4 [Transportation/Car/RoadHogs] UID:40404 Activity:nil |
11/2 http://tinyurl.com/dlcu5 SUV sales in free fall. w00t!! \_ "Detroit relies on SUVs for about half its unit sales, a much higher percentage than foreign automakers." Stupid fucking moron assholes. The penalty for idiocy *should* be failure. Too bad the assembly line workers have to pay the price for the fucktards who run the Detroit auto companies. \_ Detroit still hasn't figured out how to make a dime on a passenger car, SUVs were their lifeline. \_ They simply didn't try. I feel nothing but contempt for companies who in the presence of a strong competitor move to a different market segment to avoid the competition. Such companies keep being driven out of all profitable market segments until they have nothing left (witness how Detroit's SUVs are still mostly truck based while Japanese and Europeans have plenty of newer car-based and cross-over SUV models which seem to become more popular). A cure to their problem is to spend more money on R&D of new models instead of hoping that 10 year old gimmicks like Chevy Cavalier will continue selling. Detroit seems to have had learned its lesson though I am not sure whether that'll be sufficient for them to maintain their market leadership position at this point. \_ I dunno. Saturn, for instance, defies this idea. Remember, too, that makes like Jaguar, Land Rover, Saab, and Volvo are also 'American' now. Cadillac also has been reinventing cars, as has Chrysler (which is not American now, I know). \_ Saturn is just one GM brand and I am not sure how it defies that idea. I still see a lot more Hondas, Toyatas, VWs, and whatnot on the streets compared to Saturn. Yes, my understanding is that foreign aquisitions might help with certain areas of expertize. Some of Ford's platforms rely on Mazda designs and GM designated its German Opel as the division responsible for designing car platforms. M-B might have had a hand in the success of the Chrysler 300C. \_ You said they didn't try. They did try. They've failed, but they've tried. It's not like they are rolling out the same old cars. Look at, for instance, Ford's new Mustang and T-bird. No one is buying them, but Ford is trying. If anything, it's been Honda and Toyota rolling out similar Accords and Camrys for years now and dumping cool cars like Prelude. I think it's reputation for reliability rather than R&D on new models. \_ Actually, Mustang is supposedly selling well. It's now the most sold sports car in the US. The new T-Bird looked pretty slick but it's a little on the expensive side. Maybe that's why it's on the way out. \_ The Mustangs certainly are everywhere. And I think the T-Birds were really only bought by people who had one or wanted one back in the '50s and were after that nostalgia factor. Actually, the new Mustangs take advantage of nostalgia in their styling as well. -gm \_ I am not sure how Saturn is just one GM brand and I am not sure how defies that idea. I still see a lot more Hondas, Toyatas, VWs, and whatnot on the streets compared to Saturn. Yes, my understanding is that foreign aquisitions might help with certain areas of expertize. Some of Ford's platforms rely on Mazda designs and GM designated its German Opel as the division responsible for designing car platforms. M-B might have had a hand in the success of the Chrysler 300C. |
| 2005/11/2-4 [Reference/RealEstate] UID:40405 Activity:nil |
11/1 http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/housing/2005-11-01-real-estate-usat_x.htm Housing cooling off, prices drop, inventory grows. If you own a few investment properties using ARM, now is the time to sell!!! \_ All Hail Swami The Magnificent! |
| 2005/11/2-4 [Computer/SW/Mail, Computer/HW, Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:40406 Activity:nil |
11/2 Does anyone still use VM (Vmail) in Emacs? I reluctantly switched to
Outlook 4 yrs ago when I switched job, and I haven't used VM since
then.
\_ Used it until ~1 year ago. It unfortunately hasn't been updated
for several years. It's really solid for what it does, but it
doesn't do IMAP. I switched to the similar "Wanderlust" which
does support IMAP and haven't looked back.
\_ In the VM 7.19 from http://www.wonderworks.com/vm there is an
vm-imap.el dated 5/30/2003.
\_ VM's IMAP support is marginal. You can pretty much use it
like POP to fetch mail, but you can't do things like
disconnected operation etc. ... if you need to use it just
like POP because your server only supports IMAP not POP,
it's fine, but if you need to do server synching, marks,
disconnected operation, etc., VM is not your bag. -pp |
| 2005/11/2-4 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA] UID:40407 Activity:low |
11/2 Since there appears to be an issue with mail right now, I will post
a mail I was going to send to csua@csua here:
The politburo has codified the constitutional amendment which will
be voted on later this week. This amendment adds two officers
(Events Officer and Alumni Relations Officer) and changes a few
other small things. We encourage you to review it and if you are
an active member (current students) join us tommorow to vote on it.
For reference, you can read the old constitution at:
http://csua.berkeley.edu/constitution.html
the new constitution at:
http://csua.berkeley.edu/constitution2.html
and in /csua/tmp you can find plaintext versions of the new and old
constitutions, and the diff of the two files:
/csua/tmp/constitution-new
/csua/tmp/constitution-old
/csua/tmp/constitution-diff
-mrauser
\_ The two questions I would ask would be, do these really need to be
voting politburo positions? And, is it really likely that the
CSUA will have seven people willing to be active in the
politburo? -tom
\_ This was debated. I thought a lot of the responsibilities
would normally fall under the president, but the other politburo
members thought it would bring more dedicated work if we allowed
the ability to have a vote to a few typically sub-officer roles.
Having a few more dedicated workers can also relieve some of
the work responsibilities of other polit. members. We will
have to see how the numbers turn out. There have been times in
the past where 5 officers seemed hard to fill. Reference the
minutes for the most recent months (hopefully) they will have
some more of the arguments about this. -mrauser
\_ How much work is there for the officers? I find it hard to
justify having an ARO or not dividing the EO work between
the officers and "concerned" CSUAers.
\_ It's been a minimum of 5-10 hours a week, with many
weeks requiring more time. There have been several
initiatives that we have been unable to undertake b/c
we simply didn't have the time to do it. Every other
organization here has a minimum of ten officers and has
not had significant difficulty filling their positions.
If the positions go unfilled, then we're no worse off
then where we are now. If they are filled, it should
allow us to be more ambitious with our activities and
provide better service to students, by removing what is
currently the greatest bottleneck to this goal.
justify having an ARO or dividing the work of the EO between
the secretary, president, and "concerned" CSUAers.
\_ The problem I see is the need for X/2 or X/3 officers
to do certain tasks. Minor, but puts you in an odd
spot if you only have 4 officers out of 6.
\_ I suggest that the Alumni Relations Officer position should be
opened to CSUA associate members (alumni) as well as current
students. Yes, this means that an alumnus can end up as a voting
member of Politburo. An alumnus who runs should be available for
Politburo meetings and related activities (i.e., located near
Berkeley and have time for it). If they get too busy for CSUA,
replacement procedures can treated equivalently as if a student
member resigned. In terms of whether it's okay to have a former
Berkeley student on the executive committee of an ASUC-sponsored
club, I think it should be okay if they represent just 1 out of 7
votes. What do people think? How about asking it this way:
Would there be any alumni out there who would seriously run for
such a position, be located near Berkeley, and have time for it?
\_ As much as it is hard to fill 5 positions at times, it will be
even harder to fill 7, but I think it would be near impossible
to get a commitment from alumni to consistently be in and around
the CSUA post-graduation. Coming to weekly meetings isn't all
that politburo members do, there are a lot of other "being
around berkeley" types of things that need to get done. It
would also require us to change the constitution to allow an
alumnus to vote. We plan to review how the most recent amend-
ments have effected CSUA come spring semester. If the A.R.O.
isn't effective we can do away with/change the position.
-mrauser
\_ I want to elaborate on your "near impossible to get a
commitment" comment. Basically, students (while possibly
being super-busy if they're in the College of Engineering),
have the flexibility of having open slots during the day.
In contrast, an alumnus with a job typically has a 9-5
work schedule. Politburo shouldn't need to work around that.
Anyways, the official Berkeley policy prevents alumni from
mr/ms moot: have you actually
looked up the defn in a reputable
dictionary? look up "cleave" while
you are at it. -\
PET PEEVE! MOOT DOES NOT MEAN WHAT YOU THINK IT MEANS -\
holding office or voting, so that makes the point moot.
-person who originally suggested the idea
\_ http://csua.org/u/dwo (Cal Office of Student Life)
Okay, never mind, it's stated pretty clearly that it's not
possible:
"Only currently registered students, faculty and staff may be
active members in a registered student organization. Only active
members may vote or hold office."
\_ There are alumni who are faculty/staff.
\_ Which means we could have a faculty/staff member of
the Politburo. |
| 2005/11/2-4 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:40408 Activity:nil |
11/2 I've suspected that Netflix is delaying mailing out new movies because
my turnaround times are too good. But I'm too lazy to actually sit
down and analyze my rental activity. Fortunately someone wrote just
such a program: http://www.tallrock.net/RentalStats/index.html
\_ So, are they throttling you?
\_ I had similar experience. The turn around time was really good
for the first few months and then got worse and worse.
\_ Me too. --dbushong
\_ After I noticed throttling, I changed to the 4-DVD program and keep
2 DVDs two weeks before mailing them back, and only request the new
2 DVDs 12 days before mailing them back, and only request the new
shit every other week as well. Helps I guess. Yeah, I know it's
~ the same price as renting in-person, but it's the convenience of
mail and having a wide selection. |
| 2005/11/2-4 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:40409 Activity:low |
11/2 Firefox 1.5rc1 is out:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox
\_ Does it use less memory than 1.0.x?
\_ Leakiness seems a bit better, but that's fairly subjective. Page
rendering times and forward/back are buttloads faster. --dbushong
\_ How about comparing to IE-whatever-the-latest-version?
\_ It's _almost_ as fast as IE on really simple pages, and
faster on really complex ones. YMMV. --dbushong
\_ Sigh. I launched 1.0.7 and browsed many pages in separate
tabs and windows. Now I have closed all other tabs and
windows except one that's displaying the http://www.yahoo.com page,
but Task Manager shows that the VM Size is still at 125MB.
\_ I assume you don't use any of the extensions, no? I would *LOVE*
to jump to the newest version, but the general availablity of
extension is not there yet... and i am addicted to some of the
extensions.
\_ I only use AdBlock and Tabbrowser Extensions. AdBlock didn't
require any changes, and the tabbing plugin has a 1.5 version. -gm |
| 2005/11/2-4 [Computer/SW/Languages/Misc, Recreation/Media] UID:40410 Activity:nil |
11/2 Splinter Cell the Movie:
http://www.latinoreview.com/scriptreviews/splintercell/review.html |
| 2005/11/2-4 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:40411 Activity:kinda low |
11/2 Wow, has only Nixon been more unpopular than Dubya in the 2nd term?
http://csua.org/u/dws (cbsnews.com)
\_ Heh, I got as for as "Dubya" before I realized that you weren't
talking about World of warcraft.
\_ But Dubya is the Great Uniter! He said so himself!!1!
\_ He's united everyone against him
\- the people who voted for BUSHCO in 2004 were:
1. single issue fanatics [abort,keep down assmastery,gunnuts]
2. NPV voters
3. stupid [bubba, cletus an me hate dem DEATH TAXES]
some single issue people got nervous with HARRIET THE JUDGE,
NPV people may be getting nervous about macro factors,
but i suppse he still has his "base" ... #3.
\_ 4. Flip-flopper haters.
\- 5. and people who SERVED ... oh wait ... and people who
*serve* the EVIL CYBORG.
\_ BUD DAY doesn't like your CYBORG.
\_ Are you human? Do you understand the effect
cybernetics had on humanity?
\_ what does NPV stand for?
\- "net present value". i.e. voters who say "ok maybe
bush is soft on torture, has tarnished our international
reputation etc, but i expect to have $130,456 more
if i vote for BUSHCO, so that's what i'll do. when i
travel abroad i can tell people i am from canada."
of course some of these NPV people probably dont care
at all about other issues [Halliburton executives]
or are being compensated via other means [Brownie ...
crony is a sub class of NPV]
\_ Maybe we can get this scumbag brought up on War Crime charges
afterall. At this rate, he will have no defenders left in three
years. |
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