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Get the Google cache. No images, but still some fascinating articles. The one about countering the counter terrorism experts displays significant intelligence, the ability to identify their own weaknesses and a very solid understanding how how counter terrorism experts work, and how to weaken the discussion among counter terrorism experts. These aren't run-of-the-mill yahoos with an axe to grind.
http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:S0v4mrD31jYJ:www.revolutionmuslim.com/

These guys are a bunch of fucktards. Here is a link to one of their videos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiK_oe6wqbA&feature=player_embedded

Looks like http://www.revolutionmuslim.com/ is off line for the moment... Google cache

Many print newspapers carry "legal notices", of D/B/A names, incorporations, and such. As non-searchable information, that's almost useless. But it's a big profit center for many newspapers, which are fighting to keep it.(Google cache of Michigan Press Association, whose web site is down)

On the other hand, if governments don't require that information to be published, they should maintain the database (which they will have anyway for internal purposes) and offer free access. D/B/A names in the United States are handled at the county level, and that data can be hard to obtain on line. There are commercial services that collect it, expensively. Considering that the amount of data is small by modern standards (all the data for the US will fit on a DVD), it's not a high-cost item.

A. A. Aaby: It's all about metaphor

Yours In Perm,
K. Trout

http://glitch.tl.nyud.net/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/home/host/glitch.tl/repos/wifi-scanner/ and http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:xNA1HVrNe48J:glitch.tl/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/home/host/glitch.tl/repos/wifi-scanner/+http://glitch.tl/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/home/host/glitch.tl/repos/wifi-scanner/&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=mozilla ... :P

here's the deal: the health care system in this country is broken. to fix it, you can pay some extra taxes to the federal government for the rest of your life, or you can pay hefty fees to the insurance companies for the rest of your life.

This here is what amazes me. We have the best healthcare system in the world. Nobody disputes that. That's why foreign heads of state usually get their procedures done here. Mayo Clinic, Salt Lake Children's Hospital, etc are some of the finest medical institutions in the world. What's broken is paying for healthcare, not the care itself.

Now, assuming that we've established that point, let's move on to why paying for it is so hard. I really don't know the answers here, but from personal conversations with medical personnel, I understand that their insurance is very expensive. Medical litigation is paid for by patients at large, not some magical fund the hospitals have squirreled away.

I also understand that unpaid medical bills create enormous overhead. St. Lukes, the largest hospital in my area, writes off sometime to the tune of $3 million a year according to http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:lzt_uU6lmigJ:www.saintlukeshospital.com/images/Camerons%2520columns/2007/052907New%2520Policy.doc . And that was back in 2007. I don't know what it is now. Furthermore, St. Lukes is a nonprofit, receives large donations annually, and runs fairly efficiently as hospitals go.

Another issue is that of advanced technologies and research. As medicine advances, it appear that the cost of research goes up exponentially, but on the other hand, we can keep people "alive" almost indefinitely. My great grandmother was a wealthy woman. She got stomach cancer and decided to simply die in peace rather than spend all her money and undergo all the turmoil of cancer treatment. We had all watched her daughter die slowly, painfully and expensively with cancer and chemo, but my great-grandmother wanted to give her many children, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren an inheritance and live her last few years with her hair and without doctor hassles. I applaud her for that.

An idea that everyone seems to tout is forcing private companies to adjust their acceptance criteria to accept people with preexisting conditions. I think this is wrong, from a principled standpoint. America was founded on principles and rose to become the most desirable country on earth (that status seems shaky now). I for one am not about to trash our foundational principles just because of some emotional politics and sob stories. Again, do older people really need to have their life extended artificially forever? If they can pay for it that's certainly their privilege, but it's not one of the rights protected or granted by our founding documents. Therefore, the government should not attempt to grant it. Remember, if the government grants anything, it can take it away just as fast.

And last, but not least, there's the huge bureaucracy surrounding everything medical. Instead of making top-down regulations, why not try to incentivize someone like Google to build a standard system for health documentation?

To add to the above - their current FAQ just talks about "SD" and "HD", conveniently omitting what they mean by it. But Google remembers the older version, which had it all spelled out:

For HDTV resolution (720p60), OnLive needs 5 Mbps.

So it's 1280×720. Which is kinda meh these days for PCs, when a 24" (1920x1200) can be had for so cheap. It's definitely not what I'd call "HD".

I found this one:

Twenty years ago it was illegal to install a rainwater tank in Sydney. Every kilolitre a household collected from their roof represented a loss to the water authority.

And I am pretty sure the situation was the same in Melbourne.

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:bXLtSTi8_nMJ:www.aikon-gold.com/+http://www.aikon-gold.com/&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=mozilla ...

Is this a joke? Your team page shows you have at most four engineers, who are mostly IT geeks, not experts in propulsion, aerospace structures or astrodynamics, with the possible exception of Dr Snyder. You have a fricken artist before having a real engineering team, or anything solid to promote. You guys make Armadillo Aerospace look like Lockheed Martin. At least SpaceX etc. while lacking other things, started with something (usually money), you guys don't have anything. Quit wasting your time.

It's fine to use fixed memory locations if they not application specific. The problem with the Mac is there were hundreds of variables at low, fixed, global addresses that carried critical state for the running application - or at least with application specific state and system level state so intermixed it was dangerous to make the distinction.

Apple could have avoided this problem by doing something as simple as using standard offsets from a base register. Instead, you got the equivalent of having a 4KB register set that had to be saved and restored to let another application run safely, once letting another application run was possible, of course.

Check this out.

There is one safe way to live without an MMU of course, and that is for the entire system to run something like a restricted JVM. Microsoft is trying to do that, with their Singularity research project (albeit with C#). Personally, I don't think it will ever work unless they drop the idea of a kernel that uses a tracing garbage collector. Stop the world just isn't going to fly in the long run. Reference counting maybe.

He's not looking for that one. He's looking for this one. [Google cache]

If OpenOffice has waned, why is Microsoft hiring a compete group leader to cozy up to the community and bring back knockdown arguments for their marketing team?

Perhaps this google cache link will be a little more persistent. We still need a long term archive and I'm not doing it.

See The Thugs At Apex Technology Group.

There's nothing there which could possibly be a copyright violation of Apex's content. They're quoting from "Tunnel Rat" on "endh1b.com".

"...I would like to take this oppurtunity to highlight several aspect''s of the 9 page legal agreement which might be important for you. For example: 30 day termination notice or forget your last paycheck when you quit, If you join a company (including any level between you and Apex) then pay $35000 or face a law suit, $9000 for legal,training and guest services when you quit. $35000 if you quit in between a contract...etc. The legalities of the agreement are convoluted,complex and can/will be used against you if you displease Apex technology Group Inc. So once you sign that document you are at the mercy of the employer and much worse than a bonded labour in India. Apart from above, employees don''t receive their salary at the end of the month. It is usually received @ a random date in the following month, provided you are lucky. Else you would have to chase HR/Accounting to get your pay check. This process helps Apex technology group inc to hold back pay incase you choose to accept employment at another location. The most important aspect of your transaction''s with Apex Technology Group Inc is that they tell you one thing before you transfer your H1B to their consulting firm and then later do not stick to what they say(aka lies & cheating). In other words once you file/transfer your H1B to them you more or less become their slave and you will get entangled in thier web of lies and legal documents..."

That sounds like a legitimate labor complaint. Some of those terms are probably illegal under U.S. labor law. See, for example, California law on prompt payment of wages.

related post on itgrunt from google cache ... I would like to take this oppurtunity to highlight several aspect''s of the 9 page legal agreement which might be important for you. For example: 30 day termination notice or forget your last paycheck when you quit, If you join a company (including any level between you and Apex) then pay $35000 or face a law suit, $9000 for legal,training and guest services when you quit. $35000 if you quit in between a contract...etc. The legalities of the agreement are convoluted,complex and can/will be used against you if you displease Apex technology Group Inc. So once you sign that document you are at the mercy of the employer and much worse than a bonded labour in India. Apart from above, employees don''t receive their salary at the end of the month. It is usually received @ a random date in the following month, provided you are lucky. Else you would have to chase HR/Accounting to get your pay check. This process helps Apex technology group inc to hold back pay incase you choose to accept employment at another location. The most important aspect of your transaction''s with Apex Technology Group Inc is that they tell you one thing before you transfer your H1B to their consulting firm and then later do not stick to what they say(aka lies & cheating). In other words once you file/transfer your H1B to them you more or less become their slave and you will get entangled in thier web of lies and legal documents...

Holy indentured servitude Batman!

This isn't surprising in the least. Less than two weeks ago they had a workshop for Federal employees on openness in government and it was closed to the public.

Don't forget that Obama promised to have debates on healthcare on C-Span. (google cache)

I’m going to have all the negotiations around a big table,” Obama said. “We’ll have doctors and nurses and hospital administrators. Insurance companies, drug companies — they’ll get a seat at the table, they just won’t be able to buy every chair. But what we’ll do is we’ll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents and who are making arguments on behalf of drug companies or the insurance companies.

Then he goes on to have closed door meetings with drug companies and insurance companies. Not to mention that he promised to not support any health care bill that forced people to get healthcare.

You'll find very few people here who ever worshiped the Obamassiah. It's no secret that the Dems are just as much in the pocket of the media companies as the Republicans.

As a person who was continually modded down for saying there was (and will be) no difference between Obama and McCain before and during the election I find your statement very funny.

Despite the fact you refuse to use the caveat "some" I will give it one more shot...

"Previous laboratory experiments have shown that decreased carbonate ion concentrations cause many marine calcareous organisms to show reduced calcification rates. If these results are widely applicable to ocean settings, ocean acidification could lead to ecosystem shifts." - link

"Recent field and laboratory studies (Table S1) reveal that the degree of supersaturation has a profound effect on the calcification rates of individual species and communities in both planktonic and benthic habitats. The calcification rate of almost all calcifying organisms investigated to date decreased in response to decreased CaCO3 saturation state, even when the carbonate saturation level was >1. This response holds across multiple taxa—from single-celled protists to reef-building corals—and across all CaCO3 mineral phases" - link

"Ocean acidification is rapidly changing the carbonate system of the world oceans. Past mass extinction events have been linked to ocean acidification, and the current rate of change in seawater chemistry is unprecedented. Evidence suggests that these changes will have significant consequences for marine taxa, particularly those that build skeletons, shells, and tests of biogenic calcium carbonate. Potential changes in species distributions and abundances could propagate through multiple trophic levels of marine food webs, though research into the long-term ecosystem impacts of ocean acidification is in its infancy." - Link

It took under 10 minutes to find those random papers, I really don't see how you can't find further evidence by yourself, after all the first skill a genuine skeptic must master is self-skepticisim.

Despite the fact you refuse to use the caveat "some" I will give it one more shot...

"Previous laboratory experiments have shown that decreased carbonate ion concentrations cause many marine calcareous organisms to show reduced calcification rates. If these results are widely applicable to ocean settings, ocean acidification could lead to ecosystem shifts." - link

"Recent field and laboratory studies (Table S1) reveal that the degree of supersaturation has a profound effect on the calcification rates of individual species and communities in both planktonic and benthic habitats. The calcification rate of almost all calcifying organisms investigated to date decreased in response to decreased CaCO3 saturation state, even when the carbonate saturation level was >1. This response holds across multiple taxa—from single-celled protists to reef-building corals—and across all CaCO3 mineral phases" - link

"Ocean acidification is rapidly changing the carbonate system of the world oceans. Past mass extinction events have been linked to ocean acidification, and the current rate of change in seawater chemistry is unprecedented. Evidence suggests that these changes will have significant consequences for marine taxa, particularly those that build skeletons, shells, and tests of biogenic calcium carbonate. Potential changes in species distributions and abundances could propagate through multiple trophic levels of marine food webs, though research into the long-term ecosystem impacts of ocean acidification is in its infancy." - Link

It took under 10 minutes to find those random papers, I really don't see how you can't find further evidence by yourself, after all the first skill a genuine skeptic must master is self-skepticisim.

Despite the fact you refuse to use the caveat "some" I will give it one more shot...

"Previous laboratory experiments have shown that decreased carbonate ion concentrations cause many marine calcareous organisms to show reduced calcification rates. If these results are widely applicable to ocean settings, ocean acidification could lead to ecosystem shifts." - link

"Recent field and laboratory studies (Table S1) reveal that the degree of supersaturation has a profound effect on the calcification rates of individual species and communities in both planktonic and benthic habitats. The calcification rate of almost all calcifying organisms investigated to date decreased in response to decreased CaCO3 saturation state, even when the carbonate saturation level was >1. This response holds across multiple taxa—from single-celled protists to reef-building corals—and across all CaCO3 mineral phases" - link

"Ocean acidification is rapidly changing the carbonate system of the world oceans. Past mass extinction events have been linked to ocean acidification, and the current rate of change in seawater chemistry is unprecedented. Evidence suggests that these changes will have significant consequences for marine taxa, particularly those that build skeletons, shells, and tests of biogenic calcium carbonate. Potential changes in species distributions and abundances could propagate through multiple trophic levels of marine food webs, though research into the long-term ecosystem impacts of ocean acidification is in its infancy." - Link

It took under 10 minutes to find those random papers, I really don't see how you can't find further evidence by yourself, after all the first skill a genuine skeptic must master is self-skepticisim.

Ooh, just found this in the Google Cache of Fusiongarage's blog (blog is now removed).

From January 19th, 2009

There is an air of excitement permeating through Fusion Garage at the moment. Michael Arrington of Techcrunch just wrote an update on the Techcrunch Tablet Prototype B.

It’s our software that is running on the tablet as demonstrated in the videos embedded in the article. We continue to work with Louis Monier on the feature set and the user experience. We are thrilled with this progress and would like to take the opportunity to thank Michael and Louis for giving us the opportunity to work with them on the Techcrunch Tablet.

Its early days yet but we are big believers of the Browser As An Operating System and the Techcrunch Tablet Initiative.

A nice way to begin 2009 here at FusionGarage !

And then February 4th, 2009

The collaboration with the Crunchpad project happened as a result of meetings we had with Mike Arrington and co, subsequent to TC50. We worked closely with Louis Monier in getting the software in shape for the hardware prototype B. We continue to work with them in getting the software in shape to make crunchpad a easy to use device. This is where we stand as of prototype-B: (Details over at TechCrunch’s update )

Then from the PCMag piece today,

Simply put, however, Arrington was unable to deliver, Rathakrishnan said. As a result, Fusion Garage completed the development of the OS, hired the necessary expertise to complete the hardware side of the equation, solved remaining technology issues, and worked on arrangements with OEMs.

Fusion Garage secured funding from its shareholders, which now totals $3 million, he said.

Rathakrishnan acknowledged that "many conversations" did take place with Arrington and that Arrington set up CrunchPad Inc., which would have been a vehicle for distribution of the device, but "ultimately nothing came out" of that. No contracts of any kind were ever signed, he said.

"TechCrunch didn't contribute a single line of code," Rathakrishnan said. "It was Fusion Garage that brought the device from the dead."

That doesn't sound very consistent with the blog posts.

In case I'm wrong -

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:SvycTU5QRQcJ:www.docstoc.com/docs/13337716/priv+history+%22unix+priv%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

renewable power sources ... can only supply a low percentage of the total power because their unpredictability can destabilize the grid.

As much as I'd like to see more renewable energy, this counter-example probably doesn't help. Spain has a somewhat modern and well maintained power grid. In this year's "Infrastructure Report Card", The American Society of Civil Engineers rated the USA's power grid "D+". (Unfortunately their website is down; here's google's cache. Talk about failing infrastructure...)

Dude, cherry picking articles that are convenient to preserve ignorant opinion won't get you far with me. Notice the stipulations of that article are exclusive, not inclusive.

I'm not on campus right now but I bet I could dig up a ton of primary published scientific literature with data to support the efficacy of Flu vaccines.

A quick dig with Google Scholar yielded this (if you wanna get to the 'answer' just go to the Conclusions section:

http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/281/10/908

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/331/12/778

http://74.125.155.132/scholar?q=cache:ASHZ--Eay88J:scholar.google.com/+flu+vaccine&hl=en

http://journals.lww.com/joem/Abstract/1997/05000/Cost_Effectiveness_of_the_Influenza_Vaccine_in_a.6.aspx (this only shows the abstract, but the last line of the abstract is a short version of the conclusion)

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And those are just from the first 10 results. I've informed you plenty; from here you can accept new information and begin to learn, or you can ignore it, use selective reading, and maintain ignorance. From here I assume you will become irrational so I will leave this conversation now.

Fyi, light can degrade organic compounds, to include proteins. And while I do not claim to clearly understand the properties of influenza virus, I cannot, like you, purport absolution in an argument for the presence of miniscule anecdotal observation.

So if we go with the higher number of 5,000 sales == 1 lost album sale, according to this UNC study that's about 200,000 lost sales/week (going off their figure of 1 billion downloads per week). That's from 2004, so we can probably assume that downloads have increased since then.
And every study has bias, that's just the way it is.

Nazi importation through Project Paperclip disclosure: Lab 257, Hotzone, author Mike Carroll. Here's the Amazon page for Lab 257.

Documenting the aliases and secret associations of wicked societies, "Vatican Assassins" by Eric J. Phelps, VaticanAssassins.org, SprituallySmart.com is offline so here's Google Cache

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:FGIH_jA8GfcJ:kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_31+http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_31&hl=en&client=mozilla&gl=us&strip=1 (text only).

It varies. Usually between $0.06 and $0.08 per kw/h.

The city is also the local utility, acting as a broker of sorts for the provincial utility BC Hydro. Here's the related bylaw:

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:lXaNBxkSEuMJ:www.newwestcity.ca/cityhall/Leg_Info/Electronic_Packages/2009/0420_Apr20/CW/Reports/cw13.pdf+new+westminster+electrical+rates+kw/h&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca&client=firefox-a

Paypal is operating as an unlicensed bank.

Paypal is not a bank. Paypal processes transactions. Amex? Mastercard? Visa? All payment processors. None of them are banks.

You too can process transactions! No bank charter required. No messy banking regulations. Set up a website, get fast and dirty with some SQL/PHP and Bob's yer Uncle!

PCI compliance isn't too difficult either: http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:VNU6PPML01wJ:https://cms.paypal.com/cms_content/en_US/files/developer/PP_PCI_Compliance_WhitePaper.pdf+paypal+pci+compliant&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

It's not some impossible thing.

Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgELfyYsxyM
Google cache

It's wishful thinking. The East Valley Tribune won a pulitzer for an expose of Sheriff Joe's tactics that concluded, among other things, that his focus on illegal immigration has actually stolen the focus away from violent crimes.

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/28/373&hl=en&strip=1

Wow, the Hate just pours from the words on that page ;-)

"stern criticism" -> link 1

"decided to walk away" -> link 2

"quite clear that he is serious" -> link 3

"stern criticism" -> link 1

"decided to walk away" -> link 2

"quite clear that he is serious" -> link 3

"stern criticism" -> link 1

"decided to walk away" -> link 2

"quite clear that he is serious" -> link 3

I used to work at a place where we used SCP to throw files around on the local 10/100 network. Those transfers always maxed out the network speed (11MBps or so). FTP didn't go any faster... I'm guessing your problem was elsewhere :P

It's not just about bandwidth, it's about latency. OpenSSH doesn't perform well when the latency is high. This is a known problem.

For example, between two of our offices (all have 100Mbit ISP links) with a ~300ms ping time an SCP struggles to break 170K/sec. Between two offices with only ~100ms the speed is around 350K/sec. To my home machine at only ~30ms it fully saturates my 10Mbit ADSL.

For high latency links with you need to look at alternative tools like dmscp2 to fully utilise the available bandwidth.

mod parent up. The way urban growth boundaries in Oregon work is that subdivision of parcels of land below some arbitrarily large size (I think it's 80 acres) is simply not allowed outside of the UGB.* The reasoning was that the UGB would allow farmers in the Willamette valley to continue their modest agricultural lifestyles without fighting against property speculators hoping to turn all of I-5 between Portland and Eugene into a soul-destroying chain of strip malls and burbclaves. And so far it's worked pretty well to achieve that purpose- while Eugene/Springfield is reasonably dense, there is literally NOTHING but sheep farms and hops vines in the 60 miles or so between Salem and Eugene.

The land speculation game is confined to the outskirts of existing cities- speculators can buy a big, relatively cheap parcel just outside the current UGB and hope that in 20 years, the city grows enough that at least some of their property will be pulled in, so they can break it into smaller lots and sell it. What the UGB has done is make it practically impossible for a speculator to buy a farm out in the middle of nowhere, bulldoze it flat, and build 100 houses on it... and that's just fine with most of the folks who live here.

Anyone who cares can read more here (html thanks to google)

*Local jurisdictions are allowed to make exceptions for various reasons, but "multi-unit housing development" isn't one of the allowed reasons. And of course all of the existing lots and structures were grandfathered in - the statewide UGB law was passed only about 30 years ago- much of the privately-owned land in particularly desirable locations (e.g. along the banks of the McKenzie River) was subdivided and developed long before the UGB took effect.

You got some stats on that? All the different fuels in the Shuttle ain't cheap...

They're pretty darned cheap compared to the overall cost of the shuttle. According to this NASA publication, the Space Shuttle main external tank uses 141,750 gallons of liquid oxygen ("LOX") and 384,071 gallons of liquid hydrogen ("LH2") as propellant. The price of LOX is $0.67/gallon, and the price of LH2 is $0.98/gallon (at least in 2001). Putting the numbers together gives a LOX+LH2 cost of $471,362.08 per launch.

That's half a million dollars for the liquid fuels, compared to (depending on how you calculate it) the 0.5-2 billion dollars required for each shuttle launch.

The computers can fly the planes all day long. When something isn't right, the pilot can override the system simply by flying the plane like normal.

In other fields such as medical diagnosis, allowing doctors to override the algorithm has been shown to decrease overall accuracy. Sure, sometimes they override a computer mistake, but more often they override the truth with their own mistakes: (cite)

Similarly, the clinical judgment of physicians is under increasing attack, as seen in the trend toward evidence-based medicine. Doctors unsurprisingly fall prey to the same mental biases that psychologists have shown to afflict the rest of us: They are overly impressed by anecdotal evi- dence, even though such reasoning can lead to incorrect inferences based on coincidence. Once they formulate a theory or diagnosis, they are susceptible to tunnel vision, failing to consider alternatives and ignoring contradictory evidence...

At approximately its midpoint, Super Crunchers turns to cover some well-trodden ground in the decision-making literature that shows statistical methods to be often more accurate than experts. One such study that Ayres discusses is a comprehensive meta-analysis of the clinical-statistical literature by psychologist William Grove and others, in which out "[o]f the 136 studies, 64 favored the actuary[,] . . . 64 showed approximately equiva- lent accuracy, and 8 favored the clinician."

Indeed, in some of these studies, statistical models were superior despite the experts being privy to more in- formation (statistical models generally require a shockingly small number of factors) and even more outrageously, despite experts having the model results at their disposal. Having a human override for catching "stupid" machine errors turns out to be counterproductive, because the safety valve ends up introducing more errors than it prevents.

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:MD4JvRTKk10J:thesims3.ea.com/view/pages/newsItem.jsp%3Fitem%3D-608201177

The game will have disc-based copy protection

a.k.a. DRM

The post has disappeared from EA's site, but

The game will have disc-based copy protection - there is a Serial Code just like The Sims 2. To play the game there will not be any online authentication needed.

Google's cache

Your example is flawed. If you asked me to give a detailed account of what you did on July 15th, 1997, I couldn't do that either. I could reflect back on exactly what time in my life that was, maybe make a guess at what I might have been doing. It would help to know what day of the week it was. But honestly, I have zero recollection. Most likely, if you gave me a detailed account to peruse, I probably would remember none of it. Yet I was probably conscious that day.

As someone pointed out, feral children have been studied. They lack language and culture, but they nevertheless have consciousness. The problem is, with these strange cases, our usual tools for understanding the contents of their mind (language and culture) are useless. Our inability to understand those contents doesn't mean their minds are empty.

Same goes for animals and pre-verbal humans. Quite a few humans never achieve language skills, but there is no way of showing that they aren't really aware of themselves or their surroundings. In fact they seem to show the opposite.

Long term memory formation is crucial to answering your question, but may not be strictly necessary for consciousness. There are examples of people who cannot form long-term memories. But if you talk to them, they are clearly conscious.

Finally, we have the rock-throwing chimp. Chimps don't have language, yet the chimp was able to carry out planning, based on a prediction of a future emotional state.

In the article, I found Gerald Eldman's answer to "How did these various levels of consciousness evolve?" particularly enlightening. To him, the ability to network your memories together to create narrations seems to be the seat of consciousness. Language seems to be something bolted on top of that ability, that allows the narrations to be transferred from one brain to another (in a highly compressed, lossy fashion that can only be properly decoded if the recipient brain shares some culture with the source brain). Now, once that ability developed, I'm sure that it had some profound effects on the rest of the brain. So you could say that language may now be crucial to human consciousness.

But that still avoids the issue I raised earlier: If we take the hardware being described (or a more detailed future analogue), and perfectly map the connections of a human brain on top of it, and set that software to running, why wouldn't consciousness emerge? All the requisite language and culture should already be encoded in the interconnections.