The idealist sees events as the result of grand strategies and grandmovements, while the realist sees events as the result of local,lower-level tactical decisions.

Most conspiracy theories are necessarily idealist. Theaphorism 'never attribute to malice that which is adequatelyexplained by stupidity' (sometimes called Hanlon's Razor ) is a realist position.

This says nothing about who is right; sometimes there are conspiracies,but sometimes there are not. (And sometimes there are both local tacticalreasons for things and grand plans;

We got asked this in email recently, so I am going to throwmy answer up here: the quick secret of making bootable USB keys is to know that USB keys are hard drives.

The person who asked the question described what they'd done as:

In short, I've copied the files from the isolinux directory on theinstallation CD to the USB drive, renamed isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg,erased isolinux.bin, unmounted the USB drive, and runsyslinux /dev/sda1