One of the more refined subjects of system administration is "understanding of why you should never use RAID-5."

What would be immoral about it?

Is a fully automatic weapon really any more useful than a semi-auto for the purpose of mass murder? Seems like you'd just waste a lot of ammo.

Yours is a valid point. Also a valid point is that shutting down Government Funding of NPR would help balance the budget--a point which has been countered (along with dozens of other such suggestions) because "it's too small to matter, it's only $10 million."

The small measures become significant; but the big issues need to be addressed, and grandstanding is simply grandstanding regardless of absolute merit.

"Natural rights" is a bullshit phrase.

Three words my friend: Precision Shooting Equipment.

Bullshit. The Liberals are constantly at odds with Reagan, citing him as the Great Evil Legacy that the Republican Party aspires to emulate.

A pair of 12 shooters would have handled this nicely. 6 shooters too, if you can reload them fast enough. 6 shooter revolvers are semi-automatic and repeating (you pull the trigger on a DA revolver, the hammer comes back). Some will let you drop out the cylinder, or you can use a swing-out model and a speed loader to drop 6 or 8 rounds back in.

Honestly there are a lot of people concentrated in a small area in a school. Home made pipe bombs, just one bag of nitrogen fertilizer and a regular 5 old gallon jerrycan of fuel oil from the Shell station. If you want to get fancy, electronic trigger is cheap and easy to build, with a small manual switch that activates, and a handheld transmitter that causes the triggering. Lob them, duck around the corner, pull your detonator, and a head-level explosion kills half a dozen people. Backpack is all you need.

Run through screaming with a sword. Show up when school's letting out, the halls are full of folks--or more amply, outside just after let-out with slightly lower crowd density. Pipe bombs or a sword would get you a much bigger death toll than an assault rifle. Seriously, think about it: A lot of warm bodies are going to absorb a lot of shots from that rifle, many of which won't actually be fatal or will be repeat impacts on top of already-fatal wounds. Sword run? No way in hell, you cut people in half with a sharp sword (a Katana can cut bone; heavier swords--or a machete--can cleave bone when not absolutely sharp, while lighter swords are for fencing and can inflict mortal flesh wounds but not so great at amputation and bisection). Blades don't need reloading.

Guns are easy to conceal, easy to use, and highly lethal. They're not magic. They're great when you're more than a meter away from someone, but up close they're less great. Facing large crowds of docile targets or mobile unarmed assailants, either way, light munitions are suboptimal: unless you can get a big ass Gatling gun and mow people down with high-mass rounds, you're not doing much; and mobile assailants can mob you and take your firearm, whereas a sword does much more reliable damage much faster.

Save the guns for range: for when you want to stay unseen and escape, or when you're at war and the other side is shooting back (knives and small arms are great for infiltration, depending on situation--sometimes that Uzi outranks a combat knife, but there are definitely situations where you want to reach for the blade instead). For mass murder in crowds, bring explosives and large blades.

Given that cogs and gears do very different things, I wonder why Spacely Sprockets was ever in competition with Cogswell Cogs.

Ubuntu 13.04 is going to prep the system more for systemd by integrating parts of systemd instead of hackish compatibility layer bullshit. Maybe in 13.10 they'll dump upstart for systemd.

Or alternately, just migrate Fedora wholesale onto dpkg.

so, "install a plug-in to remove a specific package's dependencies" versus "we track and mark all the manually installed packages, and you can promote/demote packages at will. At any point you can ask apt what all the auto-removable packages are and do house keeping, or mark one or two you want to keep and then do housekeeping." One of these is a more powerful tool.

It was called "Anaconda" and I submitted an extension called "Trouser Snake" so they needed to rename it.

Yeah, Gnome 3's interface rocks the pants off just about anything. The windows get separated and expanded out when you hit the Activities view, whereas Unity leaves them all where they are and doesn't give a task bar (no, the thing on the left isn't a replacement). Result? You can quickly swap windows in Gnome 3 and move them around virtual desktops, creating and destroying desktops as you need to; whereas in Unity you get to curse at the screen a lot and try to squeeze yourself into 4 desktops where any kind of mult-iwindow co-existence is painful. The only problems in Gnome 3 are not being able to re-order virtual desktops and having an incompetent alt-tab behavior.

Yeah I think I forgot to close it.

The closing point was: taking out debt and "managing" it is a high-level investor's tactic. In certain situations, it's great: I made 30% in a month on my investments when I was active (and driving myself to obsessive psychosis--look, it's a skill, I set out for an average of 1% per day and did it FOR A MONTH by skill, Wall St does this all the time). Skilled investors know they can take debt from one place at 6% and invest in a sharp bubble and make 23% and then dump it and make 17%. Businesses are in the position by which the return on debt is absolutely massive--it lets your business function, which in the end is a huge ROI if you don't go under; sometimes the business just can't start or can't keep up without a little leveraging.

For the average Joe? Get yourself out of debt. Don't save for retirement, don't pay your minimums. Get some money put away to keep afloat in an emergency; divert the remainder to hammering down your debt. That house that you can afford because it's $1100/mo and your income and other expenses leaves you with a good $700/mo to put toward retirement, and a small pile for leisure? Put that $700 onto your house, pay $1800/mo. If you have credit cards, pay them off first. Pay off your car. Get rid of that crap, and then you have like $1800/mo to stick in retirement. Most importantly, you bypass paying all that interest on those high-balance loans!

"Getting out of debt" used to be the primary goal; now "saving for retirement" is the primary goal, and the ROI is shit. Maintaining your debt costs more than you're saving for retirement. Pay it off before it costs you.