Shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
CNN reports that a white supremacist and general wacko, shot a guard at the U.S. Holocaust Museum before being shot by other guards.
I, for one, deny that this event actually took place. I see no clear evidence on CNN or anywhere else that this actually happened. Maybe a white supremacist entered the building and roughed up a guard or something.
Its much more likely that this entire story has been concocted by the U.S. Security Guards Union to create a general sympathy in the public. No doubt they intend to leverage this sympathy to allow them to rule the world. What other aim could a secretive society like the Guards Union have?
The fact that CNN is reporting this concoction can only mean that they are in on it too. Think about it, there are security guards in almost every commercial building in America, they are even in our children’s schools!
(the above is meant as satire)
I’m Talking About the End of the World
I’m about 50 years old. It doesn’t seem that old, but only 20 times my age ago (2009 - 20*50 = 1009AD) it was the middle ages! The Pope was handing out indulgences to get Knights to stop killing Christians in Europe and go kill Muslims in the Middle East. A little over 40 times ago there was no Christians or Muslims. 60 times ago, was the Trojan war, if you believe the Illiad. The Egyptians were busy making their pyramids. Before that? The time of Atlantis, western history is pretty sketchy at this point as it was invented only about 50 times my lifetime ago.
3000 of my lifetimes ago there were no humans on this planet at all, Neanderthal sure, but no Homosapien. Species don’t last forever. They die out and are replaced by others. Neanderthal didn’t last too long compared to us. If we evolve into something else in another 100,000 years (1000 life times) then that puts an upper limit on the total number of Homosapien that will ever live. If the Earth can support 10 billion people and people live about 100 years and in another 100,000 years humans evolve into something else then there will only ever be 10 trillion more of us, ever.
Only 20,000,000 of my life times ago, there was little more than bacteria on this planet. That’s a billion years, sounds like a long time but if a person lives approximately 100 years then that’s only 10,000,000 life times. The same amount of time in the future, and the planet may be unlivable as the Sun will probably be about 10% brighter. Not to mention that in that time there will likely be 10 extinction size meteor collisions. Needless to say in 50,000,000 life times the Sun will cook the planet and puff out a Nebula which will definitely wreck the environment.
What is really unfathomable is that the spatial dimensions of the universe are so much greater than the time dimension. The universe is 150 million lifetimes old yet it contains so much stuff, 125,000,000,000 Galaxies, 45,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars. Even if we all fan out, every human that has ever, or will ever live, we would each have to visit about 4,500,000,000 stars to see them all. There just isn’t enough time, so we will have to travel very quickly, but at that speed we’d just fly right by them, like a bad European bus tour, and never get a good feel for the nightlife.
BC-STV Explained
Its election time in British Columbia and this year we have the usual exciting choices for the provincial strata-council.
What’s really exciting is that this year we have the choice of changing our electoral system from the current FPP (First Person Pleasure) system to the new STV (Sexually Transmitted Vote) system.
These systems are quite simple and easy to explain.
The current FPP system requires that you hang around a bunch of parties, buying drinks and scoping out the action. Sometimes the place is filled with a bunch of gomers and the only option left is a night of heavy drinking. If you are lucky you will find someone that excites you. At this point you might have trouble getting through the crowd that naturally forms around these people or perhaps they don’t live near you anyway so a relationship is out of the question.
In any event, what usually happens is that the person you like ends up going home with Rod “frakin” Boyle, captain of the hockey team or Sylvie “the slut” Simmons, mean girl. All depending on which is your MOTAS (member of the appropriate sex). In the end you can be content with the fact that someone is gettin some and maybe some day you’ll get yours, but you can’t help being disappointed. Unless, of course you ARE Rod “frakin” Boyle then life’s just one big shag fest.
By contrast, the STV system ensures that everyone gets laid, just maybe not to the person they intended. With STV you go to one big party where you are guaranteed to find someone you like because everyone who is ANYONE is there.
Now instead of scoping out the babe of choice and “going hard in the bar” you are given the option of selecting a large number of possible mates on a form, handed out at the door. Now, if Sylvie is your first choice and you have been faithfully choosing her and her alone for years then you may choose the “no condom” option on the form. Otherwise this choice is not available and you have to mark your choice in the “condom” column.
Next you have to pencil in the number of months since you last got any, whether you live at home with your parents and if you like long walks on the beach.
The forms are then fed into a computer dating service which has a dizzying array of blinking lights. This computer then pronounces that Sylvie will be leaving with Gregory Holstein, who everyone knows is gay and Rod is paired with the overweight American exchange student, serves him right. You have been chosen to leave with the DJ who’s face looks like a tattooed pin cushion.
That pretty much sums it up.
GlassFish
I have been playing about with a Java app server called GlassFish. Here are some info links that cleared up issues I was having:
Admin User Authentication:
CLI Administration
Admin Channel Authentication Support
Changing the Master Password
Using LDAP
Sticky Sessions:
GlassFish has its own load balancing, but if you use a hardware LB then this is helpful.
Instance labeling in JSESSIONID
add the following JVM parameter to your cluster config:
-DjvmRoute=${com.sun.aas.hostName}This will produce a JSESSIONID with “.your host name” at the end. This can be parsed off by the load balancer to select the appropriate server.
GZIP Compression:
Enabling Gzip compression in GlassFish
add these properties to the http-listener:
compression=on
compressableMimeType=text/html,text/xml,text/css,text/javascript,text/json
JSP include, Sub-page Caching:
OS Cache
Some other notes:
Save some typing, add defaults to $INSTALLDIR/config/asadminenv.conf
AS_ADMIN_SECURE=true
AS_ADMIN_DOMAINDIR=your domain dir
AS_ADMIN_AGENTDIR=your agent dir
Put domain wide props in the domaindir/lib/classes and your domain wide jars into lib/ext.
Mad at Madoff?
It seems that if you steal 50 billion dollars everyone will despise you.
