Re: I've been making money from my knowledge of the PDP11 family since 1979.

Have issues, AC? Look within.

Re: I've been making money from my knowledge of the PDP11 family since 1979.

Oh, look! My boo-bird is tweeting. How cute :-)

Re: No move needed

::blinks::

The only obvious move is the boring Charing Cross strategy ... at least if I'm reading the liner notes in the original Dire Straits "Wild West End" single correctly ... You have to squint, but the truth is there.

@AC 11:10 (was: Re: Bottom line? Pay fscking attention!)

I'm a "hair" over 50. For largish values of "hair". I got a farm ("hardship") drivers-license when I was 14. And I was driving mopeds & scooters on public roads (legally) long before that.

Nice to see that you're following me so closely, I'm glad I have such a positive impact on your life :-)

@sabroni (was: Re: Bottom line? Keep your fscking story straight)

Smug? Nah. Just matter of fact.

On your part, ego problems? Buck up! If I can do it, you can too! :-)

@Nicho (was: Re: Bottom line? Keep your fscking story straight)

"What happened to the CEO peeking network admin ?"

I'm a conslutant in the IT world ... Helps pay for new water trucks.

Re: huh - there was a pod?

Hanoi Jane ceased to be "hot" during the Vietnam War.

@Symon (was: Re: Bottom line: When you are driving, fucking drive.)

Well ... I tell passengers to shut the fuck up when in situations that demand it. And yes, I also kill the radio. Likewise, I don't drive when congested in congested traffic. I'm not an idiot. Are you?

I'm not Kimi Räikkönen ... but I am ethnically Sámit (my elders prefer "Lappalainen", not that I give a rat's ass about the details), and all of my Great Grandparents emigrated to Northern California from north of the arctic circle Finland in the mid-1870s, in pursuit of the lumber & fishing ;-)

I'm known for being quiet behind the wheel. Shut up, leave me alone. I know what I'm doing.

@AC 14:27 (was: Re: Bottom line: When you are driving, fucking drive.)

After forty+ years of legally driving public roads (two wheels, three wheels, four wheels & on up to the set of joints that I move hay, alfalfa & straw from our place in Nevada to here in Sonoma), I've never received a citation, not even a fix-it-ticket. For any reason. I've never been in a wreck, never had a fender-bender, never had points on my license, never even had a parking ticket[1]. My insurance rates are low, and I like it that way, so I practice defensive driving. Does that answer your question?

If you have issues with my driving, I suggest you look within ... and fucking learn to drive!

On the track? Whole 'nuther kettle of worms. But I keep that shit on the track, not the street.

[1] ::knocks wood::

@Steve I (was: Re: Actually ...)

Knowledge of firearms is not special. They are tools, nothing more.

Video games? Perhaps not so much ...

Re: Actually ...

"The solution is easy"

No, it's not. I run several "at risk yoof" camps every year. Most of the kids exceedl at video games. I rarely run across one that I would trust with an actual firearm on my range.

Real Life guns are NOT the same as playing toy soldiers. Full stop.

@Menelaus-uk (was: Re: Actually ...)

Oh, trust me, I've heard of the Gran Turismos GT so-called "Academy" ... and will never set tire on track with any of the fuckwit "graduates", never again.

Nothing replaces actual track time. Absolutely nothing.

@Malc (was: Re: RealLife(tm)...)

Are you a shut-in?

Terribly sorry, my post wasn't aimed at you. Are you in my neighborhood? I'll be happy to produce dinner/lunch for you a couple times per month ...

Stovald be damned!

We're clearly going off at a tangent ...

Epping. Has to be. From there, the world is your oyster.

Re: books

Don't learn about RH. Instead, learn about generic *nix.

BSD, Slackware and LFS are good starting points.

If you want to actually learn anything, that is.

Re: @NomNomNom (was: I am not a climatologist but....)

Stop being disingenuous, NomNomNom.

There is a radical difference between being allowed to practice medicine & being allowed to babble about your religion of choice. One has checks & balances, the other does not (at least in the Western World).

I don't like or dislike climate change. Climate changes; it's a fact. It happens. It has been happening, for billions of years. But we don't really know why, exactly. Anyone who claims otherwise is separating fools from their money.

"Consensus" is a religious word in this context. It has no scientific value. I don't deny it exists, but I do deny that it has any value. For example, "The consensus of Roman Catholics agree that the Pope is the nearest human to God" ... Or "The consensus of teenage boys think ::whatever teenage female singer:: is the hottest person on the planet". See how that doesn't work? The conclusion is opinion, not fact, no matter how much said opinion excites the proles.

So-called "climate scientists" are in it for the money, and control. Just like record labels, Hollywood & the other religions of your choice.

Science, on the other hand, can be actually demonstrated, reliably, day after boring day, for months, for years, decades, centuries, millennium ...

Again, SHOW me, don't TELL me. I'm just not seeing it the way Al Gore & friends are shoveling it.

Re: I just read the entire thread ...

"Who's trolling?" He asks, eight minutes after my post.

Pardon me if I step out for half an hour, I have a horse with colic to walk ...

Re: Part of the answer is...

No. Email should be treated as holiday postcards. Most of it is pretty much useless babble. Save encryption for shit that needs it.

Re: I just read the entire thread ...

I am jake, and I approve of the above post ;-)

@NomNomNom (was: Re: I am not a climatologist but....)

"I said people work like that."

And that's the thing the AGW proponents are playing on, and profiting from: Humans, as a group, are 'orribly ignorant & capable of being herded.

"People working like that" doesn't make it a fact. It makes it a religion.

Again, SHOW me AGW, don't TELL me. And please note that I don't accept data from outfits who have been shown, conclusively, to regularly fiddle their data to fit the expectations of their funders.

@jake (that's moi) (was: Re: Hello pot, this is kettle.)

Opps. It's the CSEC doing the monitoring, not the CSIS. My bad. Mea culpa.

Re: Good op-ed, but unfortunately Canada is probably part of the system.

"I have the deep and abiding suspicion that we can build all the goddamned drones we feel like and have no problems with either the US or China. After all, we can afford to feed our people and build a robot army. We also don't have to buy the resources from a third-party country because we are sitting on all the resources we could ever want. Canada just has to wake up and start building."

Oh, my. Seek help, Trevor. You clearly need it.

Re: Hello pot, this is kettle.

"neither my calls nor my packets hit the US when I'm calling another Canadian"

I helped build that network. You are wrong. HTH, HAND.

@NomNomNom (was: Re: During the meanwhile ...)

You've actually worked somewhere that was frequently attacked by made-up-for-TV critters?

That would explain most of your posts on this Esteemed Red Topped Organ.

Re: And Eric Schmidt's climatological background is ... What, exactly?

"Using NASA data I find a trend of 0.101 +- 0.121C/decade over the last 17 years. How is that "no increase at all"?"

See that +/-? Know what it means?

The mind absolutely boggles ...

Re: About a billion years ago ...

"if you're not operating as a locksmith in a business capacity"

But ... I am. Do you provide technical services for free?

"whims of the Police."

Should have no bearing on police action, not at this kinda level. Or have you lot brought back the "sus law"? If so, I feel very, very sorry for you.

Re: Hello pot, this is kettle.

"So yeah, I"m damned sure CSIS isn't monitoring my internets."

And you'd be wrong. Look up "United Kingdom – United States of America Agreement", AKA "Five Eyes". In operation since 1946. Echalon (note spleling) is a subset of this network. Yes, Trevor, your .gov is in cahoots with us eeeevvviiiilll Yanks. HTH, HAND.

Re: About a billion years ago ...

"equipped for stealing"? How fucking daft.

Do you have a plastic drink bottle in your possession? Know what a "bump key" is?

How about a hand? Know what pickpocketing is?

How about a tune up kit for your lawn-mower? Did you know that a sparkplug will shatter automotive safety glass no matter what angle it strikes it?

As a side-note, having a set of picks & knowing how to use them kinda automagically makes you a locksmith, no? I can open most house-hold doors with no more than a safety-pin & a bobby-pin. Thus, yer old mum is "equipped for stealing".

Re: I'd rather they took my car than poured a kettle of boiling water over my head.

So, Stevie, how are you going to guard the iron? The waffle-iron? The cast-iron skillet? The 8" chef's knife? The scissors? The screwdrivers? The wine/beer bottles? The hair curler? The knitting needle? The fireplace poker? Etc?

I could have shot the one intruder we have had here at chez jake, but when I got down to the kitchen, where he was, instead I calmly put down my Kimber & picked up the phone & called the non-emergency police line. When they arrived, I called off the dogs & he was transported to the hospital to stop the bleeding (and bleating, I might add!), and then on to booking & jail time. Stupidity should hurt! ;-)

Dogs are Gawd/ess's gift to humanity.

@NomNomNom (was: Re: @Robert Long 1 (was: @grantmasterflash (was: And Eric Schmidt's ::snip:: ...)

"What matters is that the temperature in 100 years time is very likely to be far warmer than anything in millions of years."

Oh, my. Are we really that deluded as a species? Stop the world, I want to get off.

@Robert Long 1 (was: Re: @grantmasterflash (was: And Eric Schmidt's climatological ::snip:: ...)

"I don't know if it's possible to grow grapes there"

And yet you, <atkinson>Bob</atkinson>, seem to think you are qualified to comment on the situation? Are you capable of understanding why educated people might have a problem with your commentary, <atkinson>Bob</atkinson>?

@eulampios (was: Re: And Eric Schmidt's climatological background is ... What, exactly?)

I'll simply deal with so-called "rising ocean levels" in this one ...

I own a drilled-into-the-rock iron-ring tidal mooring on the Noyo River in Northern California. My Great Grandfather claimed it in 1872. From what I can tell from Family History (and our planting & fishery records are pretty complete), there has been exactly zero change in ocean level over the last 140 years or so.

Again, don't TELL me, SHOW me. Frankly, I'm not seeing it.

@grantmasterflash (was: Re: And Eric Schmidt's climatological background is ... What, exactly?)

Do you dispute and/or refute that Earth's climate has run quite a bit colder, and quite a bit warmer than it is today, within human written history?

If the temperature extremes of 1814's winter occur this winter, the Thames will freeze. Likewise, nobody's growing wine grapes between Hadrian's Wall and the Antonine Wall anymore, despite the fact that The Romans demonstrably were.

Why is this true? You don't know. Neither do I. But them's facts, nonetheless. Trying to place blame on humans for Global Warming (or cooling, for that matter) is as daft as blaming tomatoes for contracting rust or TPR.

@Robert Long 1 (was: Re: And Eric Schmidt's climatological background is ... What, exactly?)

I'm not claiming to know one way or the other, <atkinson>Bob</atkinson>.

Schmidt is. See the difference?

Re: One day?!

I can open and read all of those.

Formatting might suffer, depending on the version, but the gist of the subject matter will be immediately obvious. Not all of us throw away all hardware older than two years, and all code[1] older than 9 months. Or maybe I'm just a packrat.

[1] There is no such thing as "software", so-called "software" is merely the current state of the hardware.