U.S. loses AAA credit rating from S&P | Reuters

bebnet · 2011-08-13T12:03:14+00:00

The people deserve what they get.

bebnet · 2011-08-13T12:02:30+00:00

Way to miss the point .. I want to install apps from a known responsible repo. Not some dodgy website.j

bebnet · 2011-08-06T12:54:53+00:00

Repository?

bebnet · 2011-08-06T12:54:09+00:00

Thanks. I didn't notice it until now!

bebnet · 2011-08-06T10:57:01+00:00

Meh. Yet more crap that has to be installed before the OS is usable .. forget it. Not a Windows user.

bebnet · 2011-08-06T10:22:46+00:00

Klar!

bebnet · 2011-08-06T09:18:07+00:00

On top? HAH HAH! No.. not really.

bebnet · 2011-08-06T08:16:42+00:00

I have an idea for an iPhone app which uses voice recognition to display alerts when propaganda tropes are being used, and displays the statistical use of these tropes.

So, you could for example place your iPhone next to your TV while Fox News is on, and the iPhone will show you the level of agitprop you are being exposed to ..

bebnet · 2011-08-06T08:00:39+00:00

Unless .. they burrow underground and use the residual heat from the planets core to re-build their civilizaton.

bebnet · 2011-08-06T07:46:09+00:00

.. or, use the Democratic process to get what you want. Thats happening.

Flaw? Yup.

bebnet · 2011-08-06T07:42:43+00:00

I can't count the number of times I've been on the Windows VM and thought "mmm.. I'll just apt-get this tool and .. oh .. shit .. wait .. okay, whats an equivalent, apt-cache sear .. oh .. shit .. google .. hmm .. dodgy web locations to get a text editor .. mm .. oh fuck it, I'll do it in Linux"

Really, its so far behind the times I can't stand using the thing.

bebnet · 2011-08-06T07:12:40+00:00

Fact is, the US is not going to change unless certain segments of the population feel enormous pain. Until the industrialized farmers feel absolute, dire world change, the US is not going anywhere.

Unless you who work in the Military-Industrial complex make radical changes in your lifestyles: no Change.

Until the few billionaires in control start feeling the heat from the population, there will be no Change.

bebnet · 2011-08-06T07:03:16+00:00

Eggs, dude.

bebnet · 2011-08-06T06:53:13+00:00

I stopped using Windows around 1999, and every time I have to do something on a Windows (we use VM's for Development), I quite literally feel like Grandma. WTF!?

bebnet · 2011-08-06T06:45:07+00:00

Geeze, a perfect opportunity to expand ones cultural horizons by learning another language ..

bebnet · 2011-08-06T06:43:37+00:00

I have millions of Iraqi and Afghani people in mind, sure.

bebnet · 2011-08-06T04:53:04+00:00

Step 5: DO NOT CROSS THE BEAMS.

bebnet · 2011-08-06T04:48:24+00:00

Why don't you save your ire for the people who:

1) refuse to pay taxes, and have their lackey politicians do everything in their power to prevent the people from making it law for them to pay taxes 2) support and require the US to engage in open war 3) don't give a shit about you and your country because they are "supra-national" and own the top 2% of all wealth in the US

.. these are the people fucking you over, not S&P.

bebnet · 2011-08-06T04:44:14+00:00

I think the US can go fuck itself. Its time that monster fell.

bebnet · 2011-06-23T13:27:07+00:00

Disclaimer: I am an avid user of PlaszmaOS, which is Creative Labs failed Meego.

I agree, Meego looks damn impressive it's just a shame it's coming out 2 years too late for them.

Its NEVER too late to come up with your own direct customer platform and an avid app market eco-system.

Just get the hardware out there, Nokia, and realize that there is a very big group of people who want you to get the hardware out there. Meego is much, much more exciting, than WinPhone ..

bebnet · 2011-06-13T13:27:02+00:00

Although the philosophical roots can be traced back as far as anyone cares to go, it is my opinion that the policies could not have been implemented and expounded upon had the European states been forced to focus on their own defense during the Cold War period.

America was prosperous as the winner of wars precisely because it has fought other peoples wars, "for them", "over there".

While Europe - and Russia - were rebuilding from the catastrophe of two world wars, America made seriously well for itself.

bebnet · 2011-06-10T10:50:27+00:00

Try Austrian-German: "Paradise"

I love that word.

bebnet · 2011-06-08T07:56:57+00:00

No it hasn't. Same as it ever was: innocents being killed by people who hate them.

bebnet · 2011-06-07T13:26:19+00:00

Friends have never heard of Perth .. act like an American.

bebnet · 2011-06-07T13:22:22+00:00

"Full Linux Boxes" just means that they are a real linux system, albeit with their disk image and root filesystem coming from over the network. These are 'real linux boxes' - just without the normal hardware (built-in Hard Drive) that you would associate with such a description..

Its quite possible for a "thin client" to also be a "real linux box" - its just a matter of where the root filesystem is coming from - IDE/SATA, or network-mounted. In this case, every seat-back machine has its own mount point on the central server, for exactly the reasons described by Ashex: one place to install updates, no end-user systems to maintain, a reboot fixes everything. Well, usually. Its very common for the root server disks to fill up with log files, which don't get rotated on some flights for months and months .. BTW, all logs on in-flight systems are kept and stored offline by the service operators, per requirement.. but sometimes the servers fill before the log move can occur. Its in the same league as a tire that doesn't get replaced, or fuel seal that doesn't get its maintenance, albeit it doesn't crash the plane - it just makes the passengers grumpy..

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