NaibofTabr

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NaibofTabr ,

What's funny about this is that most of the qualified private sector individuals are former Navy personnel. The civilian nuclear industry loves to hire people with nuclear training from the Navy because they're already trained and experienced.

The Navy does operate a lot of nuclear reactors, and quite safely overall, but they also spend DoD money on building and maintaining them and training personnel for them.

NaibofTabr ,

Er... how would the military nuclear reactors not be operated on a military budget?

NaibofTabr ,

Child of Light (2014)

NaibofTabr ,

Gilbert was one of the experts consulted in drawing up the NSM-20 report, but she said it was taken out of their hands as it approached completion.

“Sometime at the end of April, the subject matter experts were taken off the report and we were told it would be edited at a higher level. So I did not know what was in the report until it came out,” she said. “But when the report came out, late on the Friday afternoon [on 10 May], I read it and I had to reread it. I had to go back and print out that section and read it, because I could not believe it stated so starkly that we assess that Israel is not blocking humanitarian assistance.

This seems pretty damning...

According to Democratic senator Chris Van Hollen, the NSM-20 report “should have been based on an unvarnished assessment of the facts and law.”

“Stacy Gilbert’s statements further corroborate the concerns I have expressed that the findings of the bureaus and experts most involved with the distribution of aid and compliance with international law were bypassed in favor of political convenience,” said Van Hollen.

Yikes.

NaibofTabr ,

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '99...

NaibofTabr ,

I don't know man, this is a special level of stupid.

NaibofTabr ,

So what you're saying is that you're a single-issue voter.

NaibofTabr ,

Uh huh. So what do you think of Trump's Israel policy?

NaibofTabr ,

Single-issue voters aren't capable of rational political conversation, or thought processing. They will be attracted to whichever charlatan offers to scratch their particular itch.

If you can't grasp nuance, you really aren't qualified to have political opinions.

NaibofTabr , (edited )

Sure, they exist, but they aren't worth wasting any time or campaign effort on - unless you're suggesting that the campaign should simply promise these people what they want to hear without any intent to actually deliver.

Pandering is really the only way to bring such people into your camp - and it's the tactic that the GOP uses to pull in fringe groups and religious nuts. I don't think the Democratic party should start operating that way, even if it means losing elections.

My opinion is not that single-issue voters should be disenfranchised. Everyone should vote.

My opinion is that no reasonable person should waste their time listening to the opinions of single-issue voters or trying to have any kind of political discussion with them, and that no serious political campaign should waste time trying to pander to them.

Side note, this "you":

If you can’t grasp nuance, you really aren’t qualified to have political opinions.

wasn't directed at you personally, but broadly/generally. I thought that was obvious in context, but I was wrong. My apologies for the confusion.

NaibofTabr ,

Where is the OSM mention?

They don't have an affiliate link that will generate click revenue for the author.

NaibofTabr ,

Right... so how would you go about aiming it while in motion? or loading?

NaibofTabr ,

Worst technical ever.

NaibofTabr ,

Hey, when people talk about the bad shit we do, it makes them think we do bad shit!

Obviously, the solution is to complain when they talk about the bad shit we do.

NaibofTabr ,

lifting millions out of abject poverty

OK, so China has looked out for its own interests and created an economic advantage for a fraction of its own population.

passing the hump on emissions

And yet, still the largest source of methane emission.

producing 80 percent of the world's solar

As a product they can sell. Let's not pretend like this has some altruistic motivation.

focusing on mutual economic benefit

In fact, the BRI is trapping numerous countries in unsustainable levels of debt. At the same time, bilateral trade, though often increasing after the conclusion of a deal, remains one-sided, where China extracts resources for exports but imports cheap finished goods of questionable quality that undermine local manufacturers.
reference

India has repeatedly said it will not join BRI because it does not offer a level playing ground to the country’s businesses.
reference

Sorry, which part of what you wrote is relevant to the bad shit that China has done?

instead of imperialism like the NATO bloc, etc etc

Let's stay on topic. If you want to discuss NATO, we can do that after.

NaibofTabr ,

I think you're confusing "oligarchy" with "authoritarian"... one doesn't necessarily imply or require the other.

NaibofTabr ,

Like... one at a time? on a stick?

NaibofTabr , (edited )

So, this is an attempt to simplify the known links in the history of human evolution and it's pretty good as a starting point for learning more about it... but it also presents it in a way that encourages the idea that evolution follows some form of linear progression from one major species to another, and from simpler to more complex forms only (e.g. that evolution has a direction or makes "progress"). This is really bad and leads to a lot of misconceptions and misunderstandings.

I feel like this kind of presentation is similar to the Bohr atomic model in that it's sort of an easy way to start visualizing and thinking about the topic, but not really an accurate representation of how it works. It will be necessary later to explain the shortcomings of the presentation... which unfortunately leaves some people feeling that they were "lied to" during the initial teaching. It's not that it's "wrong" per se, but that it's simplified to a point that it creates problems.

NaibofTabr , (edited )

I plan to RAID1 them and use them as boot drives

This will not work unless the mainboard is handling the RAID control in firmware. If you are doing software RAID then the OS must boot before the array can be accessed.

If you just want to set up a NAS, you can get a used PowerEdge tower for very little money, and it will work a lot better than what you have planned.

NaibofTabr ,

Everyone in this thread is missing that this is just a copy of the OS. OP said nothing about having a computer, or internet, or electricity.

I'll take Windows 7 because it was still issued on DVD which would be useful as a signal mirror for getting rescued.

NaibofTabr ,

Oh, really? I thought they were distributing on USB drives these days. Are they OEM copies?

NaibofTabr ,

Don't talk to the police

NaibofTabr ,

the database updates will be maintained and provided in an open, unencrypted format for free

the tracking data cannot be used for any other purpose

These are mutually exclusive. If the data is open, unencrypted and freely accessible, it will be used for other purposes, by anyone who wants to.

Also, tracking every vehicle location and storing that in a centralized database is a privacy nightmare, no matter how well it's secured.

NaibofTabr ,

What's your preferred projection?

To say that Mercator "lies" is to misrepresent the complications of projecting a 3 dimensional object onto a 2 dimensional surface. All projections "lie" in this sense because they're simplifications of reality - that's what a map is.

NaibofTabr ,

Yes, you're very clever.

This isn't an answer, it's a dodge.

NaibofTabr ,

So if we could completely annihilate a mass equivalent to the Moon with an equal mass of antimatter and capture all of the energy with no losses to heat and without ripping the device apart, that would work?

No problem, we'll have it done next week.

NaibofTabr ,

Compressions force the blood flow. If you can keep some blood flow through the brain, almost everything else is survivable/fixable. Compressions are 100% vital. Brain tissue dies real quick without blood flow.

Also if you're doing it right it is fucking exhausting manual labor so switch out every minute if you have another person available. And you will probably break some ribs, that's just how it is.

NaibofTabr ,

The shallower your incline is, the more air you have to fight through post-launch to get to orbit, during which you're losing velocity. And to get into low-earth orbit you have to reach 28000 kph (17000 mph) because it's not so much about going up as it is about going really fast.

So you need to leave the end of the gun going fast enough to lose speed to air resistance and still reach and maintain orbit. I haven't attempted the math, but it seems like your vehicle would burst into flame going that speed in the atmosphere.

NaibofTabr ,

Hugely tall and extremely rigid, because if it wobbles while the projectile is moving through it, it will tear itself apart.

NaibofTabr ,

It's a hook they can use to drag the Christian voting bloc around with.

NaibofTabr ,

Hmm, this made me wonder... does Trump keep toupées in different styles?

NaibofTabr ,

Only if she dances.

NaibofTabr ,

Huh, they got this thing in place and operational in two months, that's impressive. I definitely thought it was going to take longer.

NaibofTabr ,

That is a lot of cooling.

NaibofTabr ,

The current model predicts that the peak activity of this solar cycle will be next year. Theoretically, we haven't seen the highest activity yet.

NaibofTabr ,

Just use TightVNC.

NaibofTabr ,

Well, yes, but the skit is also making fun of the anarchists. When Denis tries to explain their overcomplicated beureacracy, the point is that their commune is functionally broken and incapable of accomplishing anything as a community, which is why they live their lives digging in the mud.

NaibofTabr ,

What exactly is the statement being made by knocking down a monument that was going to be taken down anyway? It seems pointless.

NaibofTabr ,

"When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn’t change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn’t change the town, and as an older man, I tried to change my family. Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world."

Start with self-love friends, and then extend that love to the people closest to you.

NaibofTabr ,

Political violence comes from the desire to change the world, but caring for yourself and others close to you will bring a more effective and worthwhile change than violence.

NaibofTabr ,

Like it or not, commercial computing is primarily Microsoft environments. Businesses are moving to Azure/O365, but there's still a lot of on-prem AD out there, and a lot of businesses that are stuck in between with some form of hybrid hodge-podge. It's definitely more difficult to do admin tasks for individual Windows endpoints vs. Linux, but on the other hand there is no FOSS equivalent for AD forest management. In a corporate environment, the ability to manage large numbers of endpoints at scale is more important.

You probably shouldn't be using iPerf3 on Windows, but instead use the native nttcp.

tracert is included with Windows by default, no need to install a separate utility.
robocopy is also included with Windows and can be used to do incremental backups if that's your use case.

If you have to manage Windows systems you should learn about Windows-native tools, rather than trying to drag the Linux-native tools you're used to onto Windows just for the sake of familiarity.

That said, installing (and updating) software on Windows is absolutely a pain compared to the relative simplicity of a Linux package manager and I'm 100% with you on that. I highly recommend chocolatey, which attempts to work as a package manager for Windows. All of the software that you install with chocolatey can be updated with a single command, similar to running updates in a package manager on Linux. If you can implement this on the Windows systems that you have to manage, it will make things easier.

NaibofTabr ,

Wake up kids, we got the dreamer's disease...

NaibofTabr ,

The Wells Fargo model.

Regulators said Tolstedt and the bank’s former CEO, John Stumpf, bragged to investors about the scale of the community bank’s open accounts, despite the fact that millions of accounts were fabricated by employees trying to meet unrealistic sales goals set by management.

NaibofTabr ,

This is what auditors are for.

If it were up to me there would be a government office specifically to audit businesses in such cases. When a court deems it necessary, a team of auditors would be attached to a company and have access to all of their financial records, for the express purpose of determining how much of their revenue was gained through the illegal activity. The company would be responsible for paying all of the expenses of the audit team for as long as the audit takes (if the company drags their feet in giving access to records, it costs them).

For the same time period, a government representative would be given a seat on the company executive board and be privy to all board meetings. As long as the company is under audit they are also under operational observation.

At the conclusion of the audit, all revenue determined to proceed from the illegal activity is forfeit, and a fine is issued for each violation.

NaibofTabr ,

Democracy doesn't work particularly well when the voters are uneducated or otherwise missinformed

This argument is the justification for the Electoral College.

‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services ( www.theguardian.com )

*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be...

NaibofTabr ,

You will own nothing and like it have no recourse.

NaibofTabr ,

If "works" means "sets your house on fire", this works perfectly.

NaibofTabr ,

Nah, I just read a lot of quantum mechanics stuff because the world we live in is complex and sort of illusory from this point of view and I think it's fascinating. I do recommend the Wikipedia article on the standard model of particle physics and this video by AlphaPhoenix about using a scanning transmission electron microscope.

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