From (non-citizen) Mark Steyn. Brief, but correct:
My wife and the kids had their Green Cards stolen the other day. Cost of replacement of legal permanent resident cards: $1,040. Fine for 20 years of law-breaking within the United States: $2,000, less Social Security and EITC entitlements. Hmm.
I told the missus to hold off filling in the form for the replacement card. Having been rendered inadvertently undocumented, she may at last be in the winning category.
From (non-citizen) Mark Steyn. Brief, but correct:
My wife and the kids had their Green Cards stolen the other day. Cost of replacement of legal permanent resident cards: $1,040. Fine for 20 years of law-breaking within the United States: $2,000, less Social Security and EITC entitlements. Hmm.
I told the missus to hold off filling in the form for the replacement card. Having been rendered inadvertently undocumented, she may at last be in the winning category.
From (non-citizen) Mark Steyn. Brief, but correct:
My wife and the kids had their Green Cards stolen the other day. Cost of replacement of legal permanent resident cards: $1,040. Fine for 20 years of law-breaking within the United States: $2,000, less Social Security and EITC entitlements. Hmm.
I told the missus to hold off filling in the form for the replacement card. Having been rendered inadvertently undocumented, she may at last be in the winning category.
My contribution to the NPRM (which the vendors themselves can’t say):
The 30 expected fatalities of the uninvolved public per million flights standard is too stringent. If six families drive from Austin to Las Cruces round trip across half Texas to go to the Spaceport to watch the dads all take a flight together, together they will expect incur 150 deaths per million flights in auto accidents.
Cathy Seipp has some words for Cindy Sheehan. And Howard Zinn.
I’m trying to upgrade from Fedora Core 3 to Core 5. Unfortunately, my installation of Firefox seems to have a bug in it, in that I can’t download a file without crashing it. This means that I also can’t download Opera, or anything else. I’ve attempted getting the *.iso files via Bittorrent on my Windows machine, then dragging them over on the network, but I can’t get the sha1sum to match on them. The most shocking thing is that I don’t even have lynx installed, so I have no way to download files at all from the web.
I don’t know what to do at this point, except try FTP.
[Update a few minutes later]
Weirder and weirder. Every time I do a sha1sum on the disk1 iso, I get a different result. What is that all about?
[Update about 10:30 AM EDT]
OK, I seem to have wget. But what is the explanation for my sha1sum problem? If sha1sum isn’t giving reliable results, how can I know if I got a clean download?
[Update about 11:16]
Well, I’m wgetting the first two discs, and I’ll see if they work. Sha1sum is now giving consistent results (have no idea what was going on earlier), but consistently wrong, so I know the one I got yesterday is fubar (I burned a disk with it, and it failed testing). I’ll see what happens with these new versions I get via wget.
[Update about quarter till twelve noon]
OK, the wget downloads for discs 1 and 2 seemed to work, and I’m getting consistent sha1sums now (don’t match on yesterday’s, do match on today’s). I guess I’ll chance burning the disks with these. What concerns me is that I originally downloaded them a couple months ago, when Core 5 came out, and they checked out fine at that time (I just hadn’t gotten around to burning the disks). I am afraid that I’m having hard disk problems that corrupted them in the interim.
[Update at 2:30]
Uh oh.
When I checked the downloads they were all fine, and consistently showed the right sha1sum. I burned the disks, and rebooted. Once again, they all had errors on them. When I rebooted, and rechecked the sha1sums in today’s downloads, they’re coming up inconsistent–no same result twice.
I guess I’d better take the machine down and check all the drive connections. I’m also backing it up to another drive that I keep in the machine, but is usually unmounted. I may have to switch over to that one, and do a clean install.
For Kyoto:
Translated: the developed countries realize they aren
For Kyoto:
Translated: the developed countries realize they aren
For Kyoto:
Translated: the developed countries realize they aren
Jon Goff says that we need to step up to the plate and comment on the latest NPRM from FAA-AST on experimental rocket licenses. Well, we don’t need moonbat comments, and it’s possible that the proposed rules are sufficiently reasonable that there is no need for further input from the industry (presumably there was a lot of industry input into their drafting). But there are just a few days left, so go read them, and comment, or forever hold your peace.