Posts by swampdog 361 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Nov 2011
History repeats itself, even recently. When the UK had an empire it was kind of accidental. Corporate. Read up about the East India Company. Opium wars etc.
The US philosophy hated that, being a republic. You can read books on that as well. The US is now an empire.
I agree. Snowden did the right thing.
@ma1010. I know you know this ;-)
I have, as govt, a statement which states you boiled up Shergar and put him into a tin. In the public interest, BongoJoe, you shall be placed upon remand. The tin shall be withheld from your lawyers for 18 months but two weeks before we're forced to release it to your defense, tests we have hitherto not put before the judiciary, ie "he has the internet", will introduce new evidence.
@BongoJoe. We are fucked.
"almost every one of them wants access to your emails or SMS messages, to access the camera and the microphone. What does it need that access for?"
Because even God thinks he needs permission to watch over you when you sleep?
Perhaps someone should tell the NSA!
Cygwin has a decent ssh/scp. Port fowarding works also. Pick the 32 or 64 bit "setup.exe" to match your windows OS then also add "openssh" (or do it after the initial minimal install). Then google for the manual..
ssh-host-config
ssh-user-config
..as there's some choices to be made. No doubt you'll try it on a throwaway VM first which is ideal to see what happens (use at least 'dsa').
Tip: if you install cygwin onto many windows then you can point "setup.exe" repository to a writable share which all can see rather than have each VM keep its own copy. eg: Map W:
W:\App\cygpkg\setup-x86.exe
W:\App\cygpkg\setup-x86_64.exe
Set W:\App\cygpkg as local package directory.
You can use \\sharename\App\cygpkg notation, no need to map a drive. The repo you select will be populated in a folder under the above.
I can't see licensing working. The tech changes far too rapidly. Better & more relevant qualifications, sure - so we end up with IT that doesn't jump on the newest cool tech to use in production but does not stagnate either. Ultimately getting that balance right is down to the employer so stuffing them on their lousy insurance claims will hit correctly, on their bottom-line.
Please persuade him to commit that to writing. Most veterans wont talk to anyone but other veterans.
[I've spent ages writing & rewriting what I what to say]
I'd love a BBC prog where we don't just hear about guns but about the squaddie behind the line. His day to day life. Spam, trudging, whores, music. Whatever.
Yes. They are that dumb. Aircraft systems are very good but things get dumbed down by the penny pinchers.
My car ABS refuses to work on ice. All I want is a button to disable ABS when on ice. Never going to happen because of Health & Safety.
This happens every few years with aircraft. Services are extended or whatever. People die. Lessons "are learned".
Ah! You've hit the nail on the head there. Like in days of old, 4mph & bloke with red flag: what we do is tether a cyclist to the front, with bungee for a laugh. The google car then follows the pushbike. Less tech and when the car stops the cyclist can't break the lights. Well, not for long if we go with the bungee.
Kid: "Are we there yet?"
Life: (tends to be shit)(*)
HR: Tell kid off
Religion=Kid
(*) Unless like me you've got a pair of lesbian twin sisters (aka Bottom "doing it" [rip RM]) under your duvet or as my wife likes to point out: "in your imagination". In neither case does it result in violence.
[edit] There should be a ")" somewhere.
Ditto in old bank vault wrt Manchester. Aix HACMP which is one area (recovery) I know nothing about. Like standing on the edge of a cliff & not jumping off. Kept looking at the wall, wondering what would happen if I pressed the master power doofrey. Hundreds of machines.
I could have been anyone, as far as security was concerned. Pre 9/11 but I could have given that pass to anyone.
I still can't figure out what PITB means. I've googled it. I've hidden under the desk. I would stand on top but my neck would break against the ceiling. My subconscious keeps spitting out "Pissing In.." and "Protuberance Instigation..". I can only assume it's doing this dependant upon me being down the pub or visiting my mother. Neither helps.
Talk about Augmented Reality, let's go SACO.
Stop And Conk Out. "Scanning internally, press OK" (fuck'd if I can remember, some Ford bollox).
Right, so I'm led to understand that if I lock a bumblebee in the car wierd shit will happen.
I work (actually I'm retired but the present tense suffices) in IT. All I need in a car is Steering, Brakes & Engine. I do not need american mirrors. I do not need computer"y" stuff. The Focus is a good car except for the new wanky body & electronic shit.
The boot is capacious. I locked my dog & my wife in there for an hour. I can now attest, in accordance with reddit, my dog was most definitely the happier to see me.
"It's not a word I would use. It's not a word I care to think, much less say aloud - it has too much significance. Clarkson used the word in front of a camera apparently thinking that it's just a harmless joke. It isn't. He deserved to be sacked then, and he deserves to be sacked now."
Actually he didn't. It was never said on camera & it was never said off of it.
Black. Black Black. Males socks are black. Actually any damn colour so long as you stick to it!
I looked up hemihypertrophy. Didn't know what it was. Have you tried walking along traditional sea-fronts in a certain direction? ;-)
As for Bras, I don't wear one. This brings back thoughts of a thread on another site where I advised to cover webcam with tape. It turns out HR in the States take offence when one squeezes one's moobs. I didn't want to work for Experian anyway.
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