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by bdunbar 14y ago
Yes. No. I won't expose you to my horrible taste in music [1] if you don't expose me to yours. [1] Think dab of Kate Bush, mixed with Steve Earle and Slaid Cleaves, seasoned with the soundtrack from 'Black Hawk Down'.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
and never took off. IPX was everywhere NetWare was. NetWare got into everything, like dust, in the 80s and part of the 90s.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Ted, is that you?
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I'm not sure what you are getting at with the governance point. Type of government - representative democracy versus totalitarian dictatorship. That's the position you want to take? Yes.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
1. Israel is an ally of the US. 2. Intention matter. 3. So does governance. 4. Did you really compare North Korea to Israel, say they are comparable? If Y there is no talking to you. Have a nice day.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Did the CIA get upset when France developed and tested nuclear weapons? France at the time was a member of NATO. So, no, probably not. Do some countries deserve trust while others don't? I would rephrase it 'do some governments deserve
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Here is an example Heh - I've seen that before, or something like it. But that's more involved than 'space suit, retro-rocket, parachute'. Be a heckuva ride.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Again, the thermal protection system was delicate because of weight issues. I was not disagreeing with you. * A person can do reentry in little more than one of those old style space suits and a parachute,* Are you sure? If one is in orb
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by bdunbar 14y ago
It's not really a question of wings so much as weight. The wings - because they were wings - were vulnerable to debris strikes during launch. Which wasn't important during _launch_ but was sure a problem during re-entry.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Current North American society If this is an actual opinion held by North American society - whatever that is - then NAs needs to re-think it's definition. It's also worth noting that good/evil are not objective binary things - so your d
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by bdunbar 14y ago
You have a weak grasp of the definition of evil. Have a good day.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
And the GP was giving his honest opinion I was giving my honest opinion of his honest opinion. An opinion that is held by many people These people have a weak grasp of the concept of 'evil'. In my opinion. Maybe instead of browbeating
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by bdunbar 14y ago
But Oracle actually is evil. Evil is stomping a kitten to death. Evil is the gulag, the concentration camp, the cultural revolution. Oracle is just a business.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Seriously. Stop playing pretend engineers. As soon as the powers that be recognize that software is a craft, not an engineering discipline.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
From the perspective of a former Epsicopal turning Roman Catholic .. they don't have _any_.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Why would a McDonald's have security people looking for cameras? Never been to France. Been to several McDonald's with security guards. I'm pretty sure they had CCTV. Not a front for money laundering - it was that kind of a neighborhoo
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Not very organized. And your typical UU congregation doesn't even let God in the door, let alone promote any especial belief except 'dude, whatever, let's talk about it'.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Some sort of deistic civic faith that is less about faith than it is about ritual, philosophy, and social relationships. You're described the Unitarian church.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Probably for the same reason the USA adopt Mexican law? Bad analogy. The US and Mexico are not connected by an Act of Union. And actually - parts of Mexican law were incorporated by states in the Southwest, where they made sense: primari
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Capes were (briefly) mentioned up the page a bit. Capes are impractical if one is driving a car, dangerous if one is working around machinery.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I agree that SSH logging is sufficient. That was not the finding of our auditor, per best practices, blah blah. Thank SOX for that one. That must be one cruel god you have there... I don't have to _deal_ with it directly, just use it to
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by bdunbar 14y ago
And when you do then 'prod' and 'root' work just fine. They do until you have to show auditors who logged in and when. Scattering user-accounts across machines is a maintenance headache That's why God invented Active Directory.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
When a factory/bakery/whatever ships product, that's capital that's immediately converted to a liquid asset (cash). I don't know where you work, but where I work the stuff isn't turned into money until it's paid for. That can take a litt
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by bdunbar 14y ago
It's incredibly difficult. I read, downloaded apps What apps?
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Is kanban the new ... that just reads _odd_. Kanban has been around since the early 1950s. It's not new anything. Works great for manufacturing. Where it seems to fall down - in my limited experience - is when you try to apply it to IT.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Of course she never forgave me for showing up her "pets" like that. People like that are legion. I was fired by one such. When I applied for unemployment - and was turned down - I found out that I'd been fired because I was 'incompetent
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I use Linux (and Solaris, and BSD ...) on a regular basis. But whenever I use linux on the desktop, the provided terminal feels rinky-dink compared to iTerm2.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
iTerm2. It's humble. But every time I use linux I find myself missing the little features that iTerm2 provides.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I'd love to see evidence that people are smarter now than 500 years ago. More education is available, certainly. But smarter ... I don't see it.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I hope we've come at least a bit further since the renaissance. I may not understand your definition of 'further'. People are no smarter than they they were in 1500. There are no new cultural institutions. Our toys are better, but people

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