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Things Conservatives Want Me to Believe
by Christi Smith
Parents who don't want their children to pray in school are Anti-American zealots -- parents who don't want their children to listen to a speech by the President of the United States telling them to work hard and get good grades are noble patriots.
Peacefully demonstrating against the country starting an international war is treason -- showing up with automatic weapons to protest healthcare reform is democracy at its finest.
Any government official with a desk job should have every action scrutinized -- any government official with a badge and a gun should never be questioned or disrespected. At all. Ever.
Questioning the legitimacy of an election because the "winner" was selected by the Supreme Court is sour grapes -- questioning the legitimacy of an election because the winner (by the largest number of votes in American history) is really a Kenyan born Muslim despite all evidence to the contrary is being a vigilant American.
Lying about a blowjob is an impeachable offense -- lying about a war is no big deal, really.
Investigating a shady land deal involving the First Lady is a matter of National Identity -- investigating the use of torture at the direction of the Executive Branch is a partisan witch hunt.
Executing Japanese officers for waterboarding prisoners during WWII shows that we have the moral high-ground on human rights -- waterboarding prisoners of our shows that we have the moral high-ground on human rights.
Sitting two rows in front of Jane Fonda in a 1970 anti-war rally is an OUTRAGE! Shaking Saddam's hand in 1983...meh, not so much.
Anyone who questions the president during a time of war is giving aide and comfort to the enemy and should be deported...unless the president in question has a (D) next to their name in which case you should undermine them at every turn even if you have to routinely make shit up to do it.
Socialism, Marxism, Communism and Fascism are all interchangeable words that mean pretty much the same thing.
Anyone who abuses drugs should be locked up indefinitely...unless they are a popular Republican radio host in which case they need your prayers as they recover from the illness of addiction.
Health Insurance companies have your best interests in mind and anyone who thinks otherwise is trying to turn America into the Godless heathen nation of Sweden where EVERYONE in the country dies (eventually).
Obama is an atheist communist Muslim who attended a radical Christian church.
Believing that human activity could impact the global environment is crazy talk -- believing that an invisible man in the sky personally told George Bush to invade Iraq to fulfill Biblical prophecy is logically sound.
The verdict is still out on evolution -- but Jesus Christ returning in our lifetimes is a pretty much a given.
The media are unquestionably biased against Republicans -- Talk Radio, The Washington Times, The Weekly Standard, The Wall Street Journal, Rightwing Blogs, Fox News and NewsCorp are not part of the media.
The government should have no part in regulating multi-national corporations as they make decisions that impact the lives of millions of people -- government should regulate individuals by determining who they can marry, what kind of intercourse they can have, what they can smoke, how to manage their pregnancy and how to proceed with end of life decisions.
Communicating with hostile nations is a stab in the back to our great nation -- Reagan communicating with the USSR during the Cold War was Political Genius.
Iran is a mortal threat to our nation and anyone who attempts to talk to them is traitorous scum -- selling weapons to Iran and then funneling the money to start wars in South America is clearly in our National interest.
George Bush kept the nation safe after 9-11 (NOTE: the Anthrax attacks, the DC Sniper and Hurricane Katrina don't count. Also, the fact that 9-11 happened on his watch despite receiving a security briefing specifically warning of the attack doesn't count either.)
Social Security, Medicare, public schooling, public libraries, fire departments, police departments and the US Military are as American as Apple Pie -- universal healthcare is ZOMGDEATHPANELSOCIALISM!!
George W Bush is a regular 'ole Texas rancher just like you and me despite the fact that he was born in Connecticut, attended two Ivy League schools, bought the Crawford ranch just before running for president, sold it immediate after leaving office and is terrified of horses.
The two guys at the center of the Watergate and Iran-Contra scandals are trustworthy voices in discussions of current national policy and should be taken at face-value.
From: "Scott Lockwood"
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:02:18
To: "President Obama"
Subject: Why does the Cash for Clunkers law discriminate against divorced women?
Dear Mr. President,
With all due respect Sir, I would like to know why my girlfriend was told she doesn't qualify for the cash for clunkers rebate. She has owned her Ford Explorer since 1998, is the original owner, but was divorced in 2006, which changed her name. The state of IL issued a corrected title in 2007 at her request, but neglected to put her maiden name on the title, despite being provided with the divorce decree. Why would the agent we spoke with say that this was a mismatch? Why does she suddenly feel like she's being made to feel like an unperson?
Both names are hers, but because she exercised her right to return to her maiden name the NHTSA is saying she doesn't qualify. So, because she exercised her rights, no car trade in for her. Is this an example of change we can believe in?
The agent we spoke to, who spoke to her supervisor as well, was Carlene. We explained to her that we could get the state of IL to issue a corrected title that would still reflect the original purchase date, though it would say the title was issued as a correction now. She still said no. I would like to understand why.
1/2 of all marriages in this country end in divorce. 1/2 of those people (currently) are women. Are you ok with discrimination against a quarter of all the women who have been married and are now divorced in America?
If someone changes their name, they can't get a better car?
The specific section that seems to indicate this in the law is Category 4, Section D, sub section 2.
I would very much like for someone to email, write, or call me to explain how this discrimination is a good thing, is change we can believe in.
Respectfully yours,
William Scott Lockwood III
It's a good thing I'm not on any of the several medications that react badly with Grapefruit juice, as it is one of my favorite drinks. However, something I cannot explain has happened: I can't get the stuff here in Wichita!
None of the stores at which I shop are carrying it anymore. I have some left over from my trip to California over the 4th, but that obviously won't last.
Since a statistical sampling of 1 isn't very valid, I'll throw this question out: what about anybody else, can you get it where you are?
Zogger, since you are a bit more plugged in to things agricultural than I, do you have any insights?
Also, the local stores no longer carry the "lots of pulp" versions of the Florida's Natural Orange Juice either.
Maybe the stuff isn't selling (while I buy a lot, obviously I don't buy enough to justify a store carrying it all by my little lonesome).
OK, I think I've been fair in trying out Alpha, but I just don't see it being useful - let me give you my use cases and see what you think:
Use case 1: I wanted to know the change in elevation from Moriarty, NM to Albuquerque, NM. OK, this should be easy for WA, right? "(elevation Moriarty, NM) - (elevation Albuquerque, NM)". Result? "I don't understand your question".
Use case 2: I wanted to know the energy of a red light photon in electron volts. "energy red light photon in eV". FAIL. OK, let's help it a bit: "energy 638nm photon in eV". FAIL.
The sad thing is that Use case 2 was answered by Google on the first question.
So, what was WA supposed to do for us again?
NOTE: "for us", not for "it's hype feeding creator."
I'm looking for a good source for some gears.
Background: I have several antennas on my tower, for various purposes (wideband receive, VHF omnidirectional, VHF directional, HF, etc.). I'd like to be able to switch those onto my radio as desired. Now, there are remote controlled antenna switching boxes out there, but:
1) Most of them are for HF only - not VHF. This is because
2) Most of them use relays to do the switching, and co-axial relays to switch VHF and UHF get VERY pricy.
3) Notwithstanding the use of cheaper HF only relays, most of those switch boxes are DAMN pricey.
Now, compare that with the cost of a simple antenna switch like an MFJ-1702. Simple, relatively inexpensive, good through UHF, good isolation, and not very expensive. However, it is a manual unit, so I'd either a) have to run down to the basement where all the feedlines enter the house and switch it there or b) run all the feedlines into my operating station.
What I want to do is set up a simple gear drive on an MFJ to select the antenna - I'm thinking something like a 3 inch diameter gear on the box, a 120 RPM or so gearbox and motor combination driving the gear, a couple of optical interruptors looking through holes in the gears to provide position sensing, and I should be able to make a switchbox that would do the job. Heck, done right I don't even think it would need much more than a couple of relays and transistors to control it - no microprocessor needed.
But I am having a time finding gears that would do - again, what I'd like would be a gear, preferably metal, about 3 inches in diameter. Anybody got any good sources?
"OK, Mr. Fox, you are applying for the 'Hen House Guard' position, is that correct?"
AP Sources: Obama wants Fed to be finance supercop
Unbelievable.
I am sure this would enrage the various neo-liberals on this board, save it is unlikely any of them are my fans.
Well, it looks like I will be able to get to Dayton Hamvention this year - at least for Friday and Saturday.
So, anybody who follows my Journal want to try to arrange a meet-up there?
Please let me know if you see this.
Come and see the butthurt inherent in the system!!!
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Jon Engle, a designer who has worked on shows like Smallville, Birds of Prey, Lost, CSI, and Alias, is being asked to pay for $18,000 for artwork he is using. The catch? It's his own art!
From Jon's own web posting on the subject:
I was first contacted by a stock art site in July of last year. They hit me with a bill for a whopping $18,000! I had an account with the site. Years ago I purchased an illustration of a chef's hat for a client's project. So, I thought this was some accounting mistake. Nope. This was a bill for new images. Very familiar images. They were images from several of my logos; 65 of them in fact. That breaks down to about $275 per image. They actually wanted me to pay them $275 for each one of MY images!
VP Biden has stated he wants to see Amtrak get money as a part of the stimulus bill.
I agree with him on this - of the various things that are part of this "stimulus" bill, improving our passenger rail system seems to have a better than average probability of improving our nation's ability to be able to pay off the debt the stimulus bill represents - which I assert should be THE sole metric of whether something gets "stimulus" money or not: "Will spending this NOW help us pay it back LATER?"
However, I am cynical enough to wonder how much of the Amtrak stimulus will go for improvements in the areas nearer Washington, DC and Los Angeles, how much will go for improving the long distance rail service through "fly-over" country, and how much will go to helping create passenger rail service here in the unfashionably "red" states - such as helping re-instate the "Heartland Flyer".
I would love to see the AutoTrain service expanded to a cross-country run like the Southwest Chief, rather than just servicing the East Coast as it does now.
However, I am too addicted to oxygen to hold my breath until it happens.
I used to say that the wonderful thing about the GNU software stack was that idea that you could design a brand-new microprocessor, implement a GCC and binutils backend for it, make a few changes to the Linux kernel, pull down the sources, do a "for * in packages; do TARGET=mytarget make all install; done" and have a working set of software for that new processor.
That may be the ideal. The reality - not so much.
Consider what ought to be a very simple case: Build binutils, GCC (C and C++), and glibc for the OMAP3 processor, so that you can cross-compile applications on your nice quad-core i7 CPU box and run them on your Beagleboard.
Ought to be a snap, right? Especially if you are running Debian Lenny on both your workstation and the Beagleboard, right? It ought to be just an "apt-get" away to get the crosscompile packages, no building required, right?
<sarcasm>
Come over to my house - after we do the install I'll show you the ocean view from the high-rises in downtown Wichita. The mountains are really breathtaking.
</sarcasm>
(For the US geographically impaired, look here.)
First of all, you cannot install the GCC cross-compiler for ARM, as the packages are busted right now. (In fairness, these packages are not in the main Debian repositories, but they are in the Embedded Debian repo).
OK, so, let's cross compile.
Building binutils and the first pass on GCC (C compiler only) is pretty straightforward.
Now, go look at all the articles/web pages/books on cross compiling, and you will see them usually pointing you toward ulibC, or other C libraries other than GLIBC. "Yes, so what? They are targeting small embedded systems and GLIBC is so large, plus there are the issues of licensing."
No, that's not the reason. The reason is that building GLIBC in a cross-compilation environment is well-nigh impossible.
First, there is the inconsistency on the cross-compilation setup itself. For binutils/GCC or just about any other package, you specify TARGET="your-target-arch" to say "Yes, I may be BUILDING on an x86, but I'm going to be RUNNING on an armel-linux-gnu". Not GLIBC - there you either specify HOST="your-target-arch", or better still you specify what compiler, linker, library archiver, such you want to use and GLIBC "figures it out itself" (because specifying several different but related pieces of information isn't error-prone or anything like that). Indeed, setting the TARGET= for glibc won't do ANYTHING (not even throw a warning that it won't work). Nice, guys. Way to be consistent.
Then there is the fact that as of glibc-2.7, even when you get that right it WON'T BUILD. You get the following errors:
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/USER/src/arm-linux-gnueabi/build/glibc/dlfcn/libdl.so.2', needed by `/USER/src/arm-linux-gnueabi/build/glibc/elf/sprof'. Stop.
Go ahead, search the web for that error (you'll want to strip out the "/USER/src/arm-linux-gnueabi/build" part as that is specific to where I am building it).
This problem has been around since 2000. This is not a problem that I alone am seeing. Do you see any solutions to the problem listed in that search? I don't.
This is a pretty severe issue. If you cannot build glibc, you cannot build the C++ compiler. You cannot link programs. You are dead in the water.
And don't bother asking on the crossgcc list. I've done so, and I got one basic response - "you can't do that".
Now, there is a tool called "crosstool" that purports to handle all the patching, hacking (in the pejorative sense) and general screwing around to allow you to build glibc. Pity it doesn't have support for the latest compiler and glibc.
Doesn't it say something when you have to have a tool that patches and generally fiddles about to make the glibc compile? Something like "THIS NEEDS TO BE CLEANED UP!"?
"Oh, but GLIBC is *special* - it has to know about the kernel, and the C compiler, and lots of other things. It's going to be tricky to build." Tricky, yes - if there were GOOD, step by step instructions on how to build any given revision of GLIBC I could forgive that.
Search the Web - I've not found any.
OK, skip it. Like some of my college professors would say, "Assume the existence of the compiled library." So, let's cross compile some programs.
Nope. While many programs can be compiled on a wide range of architectures, they cannot be cross-compiled at all. They MUST be compiled on the same architecture as they are being built for.
Look at the Openembedded project. They way they purport to work around this is to have "recipes" that tell them how to build given programs - some get cross-compiles, many get compiled under qemu emulating the target processor.
(Not that I've been able to get Openembedded working, either. All my questions have been met with "Oh, the released version of the tool is busted - get the good version from Subversion" Of course, the Subversion version doesn't work either. And we won't talk about the fallacy "Fixed in $REVISION_CONTROL_SYSTEM
Does it seem crazy to YOU to spend the time coming up with kludgey work-a-rounds for broken Makefiles? Why not simply identify the areas in the Makefiles that are making the broken assumption that the CPU that will run the code is substantially the same as the CPU building the code?
"oohhh, but that's *hard* - and some upstream package maintainers won't accept our patches because they don't feel it's important."
In my opinion, what needs to happen is that *somebody* - Redhat, Debian, Canonical, IBM, Google: I don't CARE who! - needs to make cross-compiling a priority. Imagine what would happen if Canonical said "OK, as of Limpid Llama no packages will be accepted for Ubuntu that don't cross-compile successfully for x86, ARM, PPC, MIPS, and x86-64. Just compiling ON those platforms is not enough - you HAVE to be able to cross-compile FOR those platforms from a different platform as well."
Consider the emerging non-x86 netbook market (which also will include things like the Dell asymmetric processor laptops with an OMAP and an x86) - do you REALLY want to have to build all of Debian on an OMAP just to get that platform supported? Shouldn't it be possible to do the builds on a nice many-core i7 box instead?
I think many of us who follow Free Software have fooled ourselves about the state of support for different architectures for far too long. I think that needs to change.
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