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| 2006/10/4-5 [Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton, Politics/Domestic/Gay] UID:44657 Activity:high |
10/3 I can't believe there exists gay Republicans. It's like, cows have
wings and can fly.
\_ Hello to David Dreier.
\_ Are you kidding? The hypocrisy of politicians is legendary.
Republicans in particular. The most anti-gay of them are
gay themselves. The most anti-corruption are taking bribes.
The most 'pro family values' are the ones with mistresses.
The anti-substance ones are addicts. And so on, and on, and on.
And even more so if they're religious.
\_ Mmmm mmmm!! I love the smell of a good rant in the morning!
\_ and the former co-chair of the House Caucus on Missing and
Exploited Children regularly engages in cybersex with high school
students
\_ Paging Andrew Sullivan.
\_ Wealthy white males without children. I read somewhere that more
and more gays are turning to the Republican party. It really
represents their interests better than the Dems do. 25% of gays
(lesbians included) voted for Bush in 2000 and 2004, and the
numbers are creeping higher: see Log Cabin Republicans.
\_ "Really represents their interests?" Are you insane? Have you
READ the Republican Party platform?
\_ Reclaim the Panama Canal! Woohoo! *bang* *bang*
\_ Their priorities are not what you think they are. Their
priorities are often national defense, small government
(which is *supposed* to be a Republican ideal), lower
taxes, big business, etc. Think Merv Griffin here.
\_ sorry, "keeping my sexual preference legal" trumps all
of that.
\_ is it preference or born like that?
\_ That's your own personal opinion not shared by all
gays and lesbians.
\_ right, and some poor blacks vote Republican, too.
The stupid ones. -tom
\_ Such tolerance from the left. The Republicans
are, after all, the party of Lincoln.
\_ I'm sure blacks voted Republican in 1860.
(To the extent they were allowed to). Let's
try to keep the discussion within the
most recent century. -tom
\_ What makes you think you know what's best
for poor blacks - all poor blacks, in fact?
That's the main problem with liberals.
They always think they know what's best
for you.
\_ Ah, right, and the conservatives are
constantly responding to the needs of
the people. You're a moron. -tom
\_ Conservatives prefer to let people
respond to their own needs and
not call them 'stupid' if they
have different priorities.
\_ URL? -tom
\_ Stupid because... the dems would make them not
poor? Or maybe not black?
\_ Stupid because the dems don't view poor
people as self-evidently lazy, criminal, or
both. Stupid because Republicans constantly
attack social programs intended to help the
poor, because by conservative ideology, the
poor just don't work hard enough, so all they
need to succeed is fewer social programs. -tom
\_ So you actually believe people are poor
because they're lazy? Please look at the
a documentary called Rebels With a Cause
and The Weather Underground. A bunch of
young leftists tried to help out the poor
and for whatever reason (pride, resentment,
etc) the poor simply rejected help from
a bunch of rich yuppie kids. There's a
saying that Republicans are Democrats
that have yet to be robbed, and there's
a lot of truth to that.
\_ uh, no, I think that the conservative
ideology is that the rich are rich
because they worked for it, and the poor
are poor because they don't work hard
enough. That ideology has no connection
to reality. -tom
\_ I think the opposite is true. Democrats
are Republicans that have yet to be
robbed. Once they are robbed then
see how quickly they are against gun
control, light prison sentences, etc.
\_ You got that saying backwards. Carry on.
\_ Like Clinton's welfare reform which kicked
how many people off the lists and put caps
on how much help someone is allowed? Or
like how Dems are opposed to school vouchers
because the fewer crappy public schools
there are the less the teacher's unions can
give to the Dems?
\_ Intended to help them, perhaps. They did
pass that prescription drug plan so they're
not as different as maybe you'd like to
think. Anyway, this would be more useful
if we chose one specific program that
Rs attack and Ds support (or vice versa) and
discuss the merits. I guess school vouchers
is one. I used to be on the fence for that
but now I think they'd be good. I know
enough people who do home-schooling that I
see a lot of potential for innovation in
private education. Maybe you can offer some
other examples. I've grown to be very wary
of giant grabby bureaucracies which is what
large government agencies or school systems
become.
\_ The stupid and poor ones have more to gain from
meager tax cuts, because any amount will
largely affect their lifestyles.
\_ yeah, I'm sure removing the estate tax and
the capital gains tax will have huge impact
in Harlem. -tom
\_ this thread so needs to be jived, but I'm a coward |
| 2006/10/4-5 [Computer/SW/Languages/Perl] UID:44658 Activity:kinda low |
10/3 Does anyone know why using DB_File in perl would suddenly stop working
and start storing only blank entries into the DB?
The code is something like this (there can be multiple instances of
this perl script running hence the lockfile)
open (LOCKFILE, ">lock_file");
flock (LOCKFILE, $LOCK_EX);
dbmopen (%PERLDB, db_file, 0666)
set values in %PERLDB
flock (LOCKFILE, $LOCK_UN);
close (LOCKFILE)
dbmclose (%PERLDB);
So once in a while if I set a value in %PERLDB it just sets it to
blank (nothing) instead of the right value. I've tried checking the
value afterwords, and setting it over and over again until it sticks,
but that eventually leads to Too Many Files open. Is there a way
to check file handle leaking in perl? I don't see a place where I'm
opening a handle without closing it in my script ...
\_ You need to do the dbmclose before you unlock the lockfile.
\_ good catch
\_ Maybe you're hitting a race condition between the open() and the
flock(). -tom
\_ I think so too if that's what the code actually looks like.
OP, why do you open()/close() the lock file at all? Why not
just lock/unlock it? Can you show us the actual production
code block?
\_ I commented out the flock and opens and the problem didn't
go away. It turns out the open was a braindead way of making
sure that file existed, I'll fix that too.
\_ Without locking and multiple instances of this code
running I would expect Bad Things(tm) to happen. You do
want locking of some sort. You don't need the open().
I'm left wondering if your file is randomly named or is
really the static "lockfile" in your code. Again, if you
can post the real production code you'll probably get
better help than this sort of vague hand waving.
\_ Actually I take what I said back, the flock/open
is correct, at least according to examples on how
to lock a file. How do you do a flock on a file
that you haven't opened?
\_ My error. In perl you do have to open the file
to get a filehandle for flock. Anyway, perl
relies on your OS's underlying locking mechanism
which may not even exist and you should really
be testing the return value, not assume it has
been successfully granted a lock. If you test
the return value you may find you're not getting
a lock which is why your code behaves the same
with and without the flock(). |
| 2006/10/4 [Politics/Domestic, Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers, Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:44659 Activity:nil |
103/ http://reuters.myway.com/article/20061004/2006-10-04T005304Z_01_L03419567_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-GOOGLE-POLITICIANS-DC.html ... "unless you're in China". |
| 2006/10/4-5 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:44660 Activity:nil |
10/3 Better Off Without Saddam Watch:
"BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi authorities have taken a police brigade out of
service and returned them to training because of "complicity" with
death squads in the wake of a mass kidnapping in Baghdad this week, a
U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061004/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_police
\_ Yes, and?
\_ Well, see, under Saddam, they'd've at least lost their pensions.
\_ I know you're joking but seriously, not only did they not
lose any benefits, they were doing their jobs as ordered. |
| 2006/10/4-6 [Reference/BayArea] UID:44661 Activity:nil |
10/4 Pot dealing in SF really lucrative:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/04/BAGEULHUPK1.DTL
\_ with just a few occupational hazards. |
| 2006/10/4-5 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Troll] UID:44662 Activity:nil 60%like:44653 50%like:44758 |
10/3 Attn: motd boob guy - Hi Honey, I'm huge!
http://image30.webshots.com/31/7/74/91/2381774910066501007KtqyhH_fs.jpg
\_ too bad her face is ugly as fuck
\_ boob guy never looks at their faces anyway. --boob guy #2 fan
\_ I am bigger. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAzx7dAFuJc |
| 2006/10/4-6 [Recreation/Humor] UID:44663 Activity:nil Cat_by:auto |
10/4 Wierd Al's 'White and Nerdy':
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JsX9HyX4m0A -mrauser
\_ His Schroedinger equation for an electron attracted to a proton is
in CGS, not SI. I think SI is more gangsta, at least for that
particular equation. |
| 2006/10/4-6 [Computer/HW/Laptop, Computer/SW/Security] UID:44664 Activity:nil |
10/4 motd routing nerds, help me out.
let's say i am torrenting stuff on my laptop. I want
of course my SSH connections to be responsive and fast,
but the upstream torrenting gets in the way. Could i
implement QOS somehow on my local machine and improve
SSH? I'm running Linux. Would I have to make a virtual
machine somewhere on my laptop and run QOS in that? Thanks!
\_ or just use your torrent client's builtin bw limit options
\_ no no you don't understand, have you ever used QOS
on a router before? You can make your SSH packets
have a higher priority than your web or torrent packets,
reducing the latency for your ssh sessions. If you limit
the upstream of your torrents... your downstream becomes
slower
\_ sympathy factor crashes like rock. back in my day we got 300
baud and we were glad for it!
\_ if you're bottlenecked on the inbound, no amount of
fiddling with your router's QoS settings is going to help.
Maybe if you could fiddle with your ISP's router, but I
suspect they won't be sympathetic to your torrent leeching
needs.
If you're bottlenecked on the outbound, limit your torrent
clients' upload speeds (or play with QoS). It doesn't take
backing off much to give huge improvements to ssh and/or
other interactive programs.
clients upload speeds (or play with QoS).
\_ get a faster pipe, whiner
\_ So-called "gaming routers" can put preferences on ports. That's
quick solution.
\_ Not only is this a quick solution, but an excellent solution.
I bought a DLINK gaming router and never looked back. I get
the best of all worlds-- filling up the pipe AND get small
latency for ssh and X11 related things.
\_ agree that this is one way to do it. increase priority for
port 22 outgoing (router should also be smart enough to
prioritize incoming packets for the session), and back off your
upstream torrent cap a bit until you're satisfied. |
| 2006/10/4-6 [Recreation/Sports, Recreation/Computer/Games] UID:44665 Activity:nil |
10/4 http://ESPN.com, you're killing me here. How hard can it be to display a page with the results of the most recent playoff games by division along with a running tally of who's ahead of whom? The World Cup website was able to keep track of a hell of lot more teams playing a hell of a lot more games. Why is it so hard for the MLB and ESPN to display the results from the playoffs for 8 bloody teams? \_ Answering myself: not hard at all. Yahoo to the rescue: http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/playoffs Fie on you, ESPN. |
| 2006/10/4-6 [Uncategorized] UID:44666 Activity:nil |
10/4 Sometimes the entire motd reminds me of the immortal words of
The Dude: "Yeah well, that's just, ya know, like, your opinion, man."
\_ Only sometimes? |
| 2006/10/4-6 [Computer/SW, Computer/SW/Languages/Java] UID:44667 Activity:nil |
10/4 Is there any way to build a web page which allows the user to select
a group of files to the server? Conventional html input file select
only supports a single file. I'd rather not have to create a ton of
those. I'm looking for a something that can take an array of files.
\_ Nope. You either have to build a Java app, allow .zip file uploads,
or use a little DHTML to let users create new upload fields as they
need them (or save the previous selection and reuse the single
upload field). --dbushong
\_ No, file upload is still kind of a pain. Some of the photo sites
allow multi-file upload by using browser plugins, activex, etc.
Search google for keywords: multiple file upload
and you'll find various tricks using activex, java applets,
javascript/dom. Some solutions are free and some cost. --peterl
\_ It doesn't work for all applications, but WebDAV could theoretically
be useful. -tom |
| 2006/10/4-6 [Politics/Domestic] UID:44668 Activity:nil |
10/4 BOOM. Aide says he warned Hastert about Foley 2 years ago.
http://www.csua.org/u/h3q (Yahoo! news)
\_ More like "drip, drip, drip" -- no indication how explicit the
content was at the time.
\_ I don't think that's going to matter. Republican house members
are already cancelling apperances with Hastert.
\_ No one on the Republican side will miss him. He hasn't done
anything.
\_ He sort of defended Jefferson
\_ I think it's great. The longer the Republicans hang on to
their crippled Speaker and people bring up reaming pages
every time he speaks, the better. I wonder how long it
will take the Republican party to cut their losses? |
| 2006/10/4 [Uncategorized] UID:44669 Activity:nil |
The stupid ones. -tom
\_ The stupid and poor ones have more to gain from
meager tax cuts, because any amount will
largely affect their lifestyles. |
| 2006/10/4-6 [Reference/RealEstate] UID:44670 Activity:nil |
10/4 I got my mortgage for 6.25% and my payment is about $2500. My
mortgage lender just called me saying they can get me 6.00%
which will be about $2400, for "0 point 0 fee." Having an extra
more or less $100/month payment isn't going to make or break me
as I'm pretty comfortable either way, and I'm wondering if there's
anything weird I should know besides the "0 point 0 fee" deal?
\_ Good to double check, but there needn't be. I refied from
6.75 -> 5.75+6.375 -> 5.25 all no point/no fee. $100/month of free
money is $100 you don't have to scrimp on your phone/power bills.
\_ I assume the motivation is to get the homeowner to stay with the
original lender before they jump to another lender who may have a
slightly lower 0 point/0 fee rate. what do people think?
\_ Yes. Make sure they aren't rolling costs into the new
mortgage, though.
\_ I did all of my 0/0 refis w/ different lenders. Get yourself
a good mortgage broker. |
| 2006/10/4-6 [Transportation/Bicycle] UID:44671 Activity:nil |
10/4 Performance Bike is selling GU Gel for $24.95 (24 packs). Is it
worth it? That's ~$1 / pack for a tiny little pack.
\_ I think you can occasionally find that for like $20 but yeah.
Compare Cliff Shots and othe other brands, it's all the same
probably. Try some individual flavors first... some are nasty
\_ I think you can occasionally find that for like $20.
Compare Cliff Shots and other brands prices.
Try some individual flavors first... some are nasty
and you don't want to buy a box of that. They do work. But
GU doesn't seem to have electrolytes (potassium sodium etc).
I will be trying other brands for that reason. If I'm on a
long tough mtn bike ride the GU doesn't help because I'll still
be suffering from lack of electrolytes.
suffering from lack of electrolytes. |
| 2006/10/4-6 [Recreation/Media, Politics/Foreign] UID:44672 Activity:nil |
10/4 Screech my name!
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/456179p-383834c.html |
| 2006/10/4-5 [Politics/Foreign/Asia/China, Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton] UID:44673 Activity:kinda low |
10/3 The "Internet" will offer instant verification of claims made
by politicians w/in 5 years according to Google's Schmidt:
http://tinyurl.com/l4hsp (reuters.myway.com)
... "unless you're in China".
\_ http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22the+largest+island+in+china%22&btnG=Search
\_ http://tinyurl.com/jad3z (google.com/search)
\_ The underlying assumption is that those telling you it is
true or false are acting objectively.
\_ Internet: Did Bill Clinton have sexual relations with Monica
Lewinsky?
\_ Internet: Did GWB plead out to a DUI to avoid a drug conviction? |
| 2006/10/4-6 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:44674 Activity:kinda low |
10/4 According to Drudge, the Foley intern was 18 at the time. If true,
it still makes him a sicko but non-criminal... "DEVELOPING..."
\_ Did they out Drudge yet?
\_ Drudge was also the one who said the kids seduced Foley.
\_ Because his dick was so large and tax free?
I know when I was a teen nothing was hotter. I'd beat off
to C-SPAN reruns in the wee hours.
\_ The transcripts I've seen imply that some of them were at least
playing along...
\_ so why would he have resigned?
\_ Mr. Accuracy strikes again!
\_ whoever said it was criminal anyway? age of consent is 16 in DC.
\_ whoever said it was criminal in the first place? age of consent is
16 in DC. it doesn't stop freepers around the country from going
ape over the left-wing MSM DemocRAT conspiracy, though.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1713877/posts
\_ Yes, George Soros has been breeding a master race of nubile
young boys, installed as moles in the page program to tempt
innocent conservative knights! The horror!
\_ Why can't George Soros breed a master race of nubile young
girls to install as moles in high tech fields to tempt
innocent geekish knights?
\_ Leak came from a GOP aide:
http://tinyurl.com/fy9mg (hillnews.com)
\_ obWhyDoesThisAideHateAmerica?
http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/100506/news2.html |
| 2006/10/4-6 [Computer/SW] UID:44675 Activity:nil |
10/4 Is there any way to export a voicemail message to a sound file
and email/send it to an email account? I use Verizon. Thanks. |
| 2006/10/4-6 [Reference/Tax, Finance/Investment] UID:44676 Activity:low |
10/4 Just FYI, the Dow has hit an all-time high. In this crappy Bush
economy, damn him.
\_ 1. median income went down. 2. average income only increased by
something lik 0.3% while the inflation is running around 2-3%.
3. housing price is dropping and interest is raising.
For those who is making less than $200,000 a year, life is actually
kind of sucks.
\_ My life doesn't suck.
\_ And it only took 7 years...
\_ Try 5 years. And recall what happened in those 5 years.
\_ Jan 2000 - Oct 2006.. Nearly 7 years. Also, using the DOW
as your measure for "the economy" is.. stupid.
\_ As soon as that brings in taxes that cancel out the huge tax cuts
and let us stop deficit spending like irresponsible college students
I'll be impressed.
\_ The tax cuts just weren't that big. The poor don't pay income
taxes, the middle class get soaked of course and the truly rich
never paid income taxes of any note. It's a nice idea though.
Imagine if Mrs. Kerry actually paid the same percentage on her
taxes that normal people do and didn't have a zillion loopholes.
\_ The cuts weren't just in income taxes...
\_ So if they weren't big, then they should already have been
cancelled out and we should have budget surpluses and be
able to start paying off the Debt. Right? (Not talking about
mid-year surplus B.S.)
\_ Gosh, because spending went up? Waaaay up? naah. I'd
still like Mrs. Kerry to pay the same percentage of her
income in taxes that normal people do.
\_ And I'd rather that she pay a high percentage
commensurate with the increased value of the benefit
she gets from having a society that doesn't burn down
her house for hoarding wealth. -Dem |
| 2006/10/4-6 [Uncategorized] UID:44677 Activity:nil |
10/4 Wow, soda's load average is back down to a sane number. Well done!
16:42:38 up 21 days, 3:46, 91 users, load average: 0.94, 1.13, 1.08 |
| 2006/10/4-6 [Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton] UID:44678 Activity:nil |
10/4 Bill Clinton endorses ubuntu:
http://tinyurl.com/ky3ep (bbc.co.uk) |
| 2006/10/4-6 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:44679 Activity:nil |
10/4 Ok, how come I don't see any troll on N. Korean's nuclear test?
You would think Conservatives on motd would want to invade/bomb
N.Korea before they weaponize the nuke.
\_ How would you know what a conservative would want?
\_ I'm a dominatrix. |
| 2006/10/4-6 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:44680 Activity:nil |
10/4 Woodward the liar?
http://csua.org/u/h3z
http://csua.org/u/h40
\_ But when Woodward was praising Bush, he was NEVER LYING. Only
people who disparage Mighty Bush-Man are liars.
\_ Oh, Democrats were critical of him. The lies listed are more
recent than the last books.
\_ Maybe Scowcroft was drunk when he talked to Woodward. He should
check into Rehab. |
| 2006/10/4-6 [Politics/Domestic/RepublicanMedia] UID:44681 Activity:kinda low |
10/4 YouTube run by liberals who censor conservatives?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLqvHK2CPB4&eurl=
I guess they learned from Google.
\_ Weren't she abused by liberal leaning parents? Is this her way
of exacting revenge?
\_ I believe I see Michelle's email in this video, can anyone
make out what it is?
\_ yeah, I'm sure there was nothing hateful or racially offensive
coming from Michelle Malkin. -tom
\_ Here's a link to the censored video. Decide for yourself.
http://csua.org/u/h48
Or do you just like to categorize a source and dismiss it? Oh,
yeah, that's the typical strategy when you can't rebut the
claims.
\_ Michelle Malkin doesn't make claims, she spews invective. -tom
\_ That's it? That's all you can say? The woman has been on
TV a zillion times and wrote a number of books yet she has
made no claims? Ooooookaaaaaay!!!
\_ Hey, it works for Coulter.
\_ So? Ronald McDonald has been on TV a zillion times and
written a number of books. Has he made any claims? Or
has he simply been a PR symbol?
\_ If you can't tell the difference between a hired
actor/PR figure and a political commentator....
Or maybe Ronald wrote and spoke a lot about current
and historical hot topics and I just missed those
days in class?
\_ If the difference between a hack and a political
commentator is whether you've been on TV and
written (or had ghost-written) screeds, then
we truly are living in a Warhol world.
\_ And people say that Malkin is close-minded.
\_ And she is. Do not confuse the close-mindedness of her
detractors with any vindication of her own close-
mindedness.
\_ The closed mindedness right here at home is so much
more tasty than some random tv personality.
\_ thankfully http://youtube.com is there to save me from being forced to
view material i may not be able to handle.
\_ Yeah! Why do they keep deleting my Prussian Blue posts?!?! |
| 2006/10/4-6 [Science/GlobalWarming, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:44682 Activity:nil |
10/4 Drive Out the Bush Regime, the World Can't Wait!
http://www.worldcantwait.net
\_ If you're joinging the protest in front of the Federal Building,
wave at the 16th floor. |
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