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A relationship truly breaks when its components don't love each other anymore. Trust is something created and removed by the heart, which in itself is a very emotional and dramatic "organ". So, trust isn't to be trusted perhaps. "No longer caring" should not be something jumped to so easily, especially when no one has said that they don't care. Caring and having the capacity to react are two very separate things. A relationship can always recover and always live as long as there is sufficient love.
When does a relationship truly break? Is it the moment that there is no trust between the individuals, or is it the moment that one member ceases to care that the other is in pain? If a relationship makes it to either of those situations, can it ever recover?
If you have a password that is so long that you sometimes lose your place and have to start over, the password may be too long or too complex.
Enemies are closer to being your friends than strangers.
It is really annoying when you try to think of something new and realize that you can't conceive anything outside of what has been created before and then you feel certain that there is nothing new an interesting in the world, only to have the rational components of self to tell you that there must be something that has not yet been conceived, and then the frustration sets in.
Friday night I ordered some bookmarks from Amazon, because I realized I only have one good bookmark, and I don’t like the picking up a random paper thing (I do that too much in books already). Anyway, I’ve been like tracking the package through UPS since it entered the system. I feel crazy because I am tracking a package whose total contents is worth like $1.50. WTF is wrong with me.
https://www.arin.net/knowledge/comic.html
I’m all for a friendlier ARIN, but WTF is this shit?
With the resistance of network operators and hardware vendors to accept IPv6, the lack of address in the IPv4 space is becoming more of a concern. I am personally wondering how many addresses in the IPv4 space are actually being used and how many are being wasted on frivolous assignments. Take for example, network 44. Network 44 is a fully class A allocation of 16,777,214 addresses that are assigned to the task of TCP/IP over Amateur Radio, also known as Amateur Packet Radio Network (AMPRNet). The technology has a maximum of 9600 baud, but usually averages 1200. That means the maximum speed of AMPRNet is about 8.72 * 10-4 % of the speed of the average cable broadband connection and well... microscopic compared to the links between backbone provider sites. I am not sure how many people still participate in this network (I couldn’t find any current information for it), but I do not suspect that they still require a full class A network. By its own admissions (HAMRADIO.UCSD.EDU), it is an experimental network that does not rely on connectivity to the global Internet. Wouldn’t that make them a candidate for a valid Class E use, or perhaps valid for NATing through a gateway (since they must still use gateways to obtain access anyway)?
I have no complaint with the AMPRNet creators or users, but more a problem with the policies that have led us to our current situation regarding IP address assignments.
No matter how robust the server clusters are that operate “the cloud”, things will eventually fail. Even if the cloud itself does not fail, something will, especially those fragile little fiber optic lines that construction workers love to chop in half (btw, even in a cloud world, you still need real buildings, built by strong, sweaty, and somewhat ape-like construction workers).
Take the present failure of Google’s services. I wanted to send a text message to a friend, while I can do so from my phone, or my home mail server, those things aren’t in the cloud, and I only have his full SMS address stored on my GMail account (sorry Oscar, I’ll try again in a little bit).
Random Wiki Article of the day: Hypermasculinity
I saw this term in a person’s profile earlier and decided to look it up. It is an interesting concept and I find that I myself am interested in some aspects of hyper masculine art. Psychologically it is a very thought provoking idea, perhaps one that might be worthy of study if I were to decide to pursue undergrad research.
