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iption> Mon, 27 Dec 2004 00:24:14 -0600 <![CDATA[Maria Medical Purchases II ]]> Sat, 25 Dec 2004 22:28:08 -0600 <![CDATA[Maria Medical Purchases I ]]> Sat, 25 Dec 2004 21:26:39 -0600 <![CDATA[How to Understand America ]]> The USA is a country of vast importance in today's world but it is also misunderstood by so many. There are a great deal of parties who are either interested in telling a distorted picture of the US or who are utterly incapable of providing enough or the proper kind of information to provide people with the tools to properly predict what the US will do. If the world is surprised by Lesotho or Burundi, it will easily recover, misunderstanding the most powerful military power, a huge political, economiciption> Mon, 27 Dec 2004 00:24:14 -0600 <![CDATA[Maria Medical Purchases II ]]> Sat, 25 Dec 2004 22:28:08 -0600 <![CDATA[Maria Medical Purchases I ]]> Sat, 25 Dec 2004 21:26:39 -0600 <![CDATA[How to Understand America ]]> The USA is a country of vast importance in today's world but it is also misunderstood by so many. There are a great deal of parties who are either interested in telling a distorted picture of the US or who are utterly incapable of providing enough or the proper kind of information to provide people with the tools to properly predict what the US will do. If the world is surprised by Lesotho or Burundi, it will easily recover, misunderstanding the most powerful military power, a huge political, economic, and social influence on the world is a great deal more serious. ]]> Sat, 27 Nov 2004 10:50:55 -0600 <![CDATA[Java Foundation Classes in a Nutshell ]]> I have never read an O'Reilly book on a subject that wasn't excellent. My last purchase was Java in a Nutshell and now I'm picking up one of it's companions ]]> Thu, 26 Aug 2004 06:32:01 -0500 <![CDATA[Taming Faction ]]> Sat, 01 Nov 2003 16:38:40 -0600 <![CDATA[Network Demarcation Points ]]> In the US, there is a particular point where the phone line becomes yours. You own the wiring from the phone to that point, the phone company owns the rest. This was the inevitable consequences of the AT&T network challenges. When AT&T couldn't win the right to declare everything, end to end was its property and unmodifiable, it was inevitable that every phone owner would end up with a portion of the network under his control and AT&T ruling the roost past that point.

This concept has been a great boon for competition but where the demarcation point (demarc point from here on out) exists is, essentially variable. The point is generally right where the line enters the house, just inside or just outside depending on various circumstances. At the beginning, it was declared to be the switchover point where the line stopped using outside wiring and started using the cheaper inside variety. Nowadays there are special demarc boxes that are placed on the outside of the building on most new residences. ]]> Fri, 17 Oct 2003 16:45:28 -0500 <![CDATA[Red Queen Example - Capital Drain v0.0.1 ]]> Tue, 07 Oct 2003 12:01:03 -0500 <![CDATA[On Civilian Casualties ]]> As a country grows stronger militarily, you can choose where and when to deploy forces to minimize or eliminate civilian casualties. But no military budget is unlimited and every military planner has to say at some point, that's too far fetched. If the enemy does that then civilians are just going to have to die. ]]> Tue, 07 Oct 2003 00:52:16 -0500 <![CDATA[Is it getting too cheap to cause mass havoc? ]]> Weapons of Mass Destruction keep getting cheaper to make and technology transfer to the civilian side means that over time, anybody with a burning desire to get a nuke or other WMD will get one. So how can we survive in such a world? ]]> Mon, 06 Oct 2003 15:52:00 -0500 <![CDATA[Versioning ]]> Sun, 05 Oct 2003 16:37:42 -0500 <![CDATA[Red Queen Economy v0.0.4 ]]> In Through the Looking Glass, the Red Queen advises Alice that to merely stay in place one has to run as fast as you can. To get anywhere, you have to go twice as fast. Welcome to the 1st world's medium term economic future. v 0.0.4 ]]> Sat, 04 Oct 2003 11:42:13 -0500 <![CDATA[BTU ]]> British Thermal Unit Definition ]]> Sat, 04 Oct 2003 10:43:53 -0500