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Why settle for a t-shirt when you can have a scale model Falcon 9 instead

Don't be an idiot. The more people we have, the higher the rate of technological advancement will happen. Humans are the ultimate resource. Without people eventually development would stagnate or even reverse itself. It has happened before when there were large population implosions (fall of the Roman Empire, Black Death, etc).

A Brief History Of China's One-Child Policy :
"Even if China's population multiplies many times, she is fully capable of finding a solution; the solution is production," Mao Zedong proclaimed in 1949. "Of all things in the world, people are the most precious." The communist government condemned birth control and banned imports of contraceptives.

Combining rampant population growth with the disastrous industrial and agricultural follies of the Great Leap Forward , China experienced one of the largest famines in modern history -- the Great Chinese Famine of 1958-1962.

Check out the Evolve line of showerheads. You still have to turn on the shower to start the purge, but the showerhead cuts the flow once the water gets hot, and then you restart the flow by pulling a cord. That way you waste only the water that was sitting in the line, not the hot water.

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It's not rocket science. Yes, shipping drives is the cheapest, fastest option for a lot of people.

YMMV, speaking for myself, not my employer, etc. etc.

-Isaac

are we in the middle of a Perl renaissance?

I hope not. I have to maintain a large body of Perl code at work, and it's a nightmare.

Perl Medic to the rescue!

I've had to replace brushes on alternators. "Mainly because alternators don't have brushes, thus they don't wear out quickly. An alternator doesn't even need to have permanent magnets (an exciter produces a weak magnetic field in a coil, which then gets amplified by mechanical cranking). That means alternators can be extremely small, lightweight, cheap and durable compared to DC motors w/brushes." example: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001G7RWVG/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B0019IQA24&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1FPVBZ0D431GJEH6Y5GH

Chassidism was basically the reform movement of the 19th century. There were many sects as noted and the local rav always has a special place as the representative of that authority, but centrality around the rabbinic dynasty is actually the smaller part of the equation than the newly inclusive, intuitive, spiritualist, and distinctly joyful impulse that drove the initial branching centering around an intensely affable mystic, the Baal Shem Tov.

There's a wonderful compendium of tales by Elie Wiesel called Souls on Fire on the subject first of that, and all the fantastically intense people and personalities that drove it's evolution into yet more branches.

The externally visible aspects are small in modern terms, but the size of the philosophical split is hard to overstate. And the chassids you're most likely to run into, Chabad-Lubavitch that are hardly the fearful hermits people are thinking of here. They value identity, but teach with a positivist tone and go out to and bring non-observant Jews to observance all the time and everywhere.

Here's a link where you can buy one too http://www.amazon.com/IBM-T221-22-2-3840x2400-Monitor/dp/B00006HS5R

If you are in the EU you have your answer, the VAT kills you. Here in the states i paid $350 for my EEE 1215B new and that was with an added 8Gb of RAM and a nice carrying case for the unit. Now that was pre flood but they still sell for $440 and that is for the HP that beats my EEE in most benches. You are talking 12 inch so its easy to carry, less than 3 pounds, able to hold between 4Gb and 8Gb of RAM, and at least for the EEE I can get between 6 and 7 hours stock, longer if I use Brazos tweaker to lower the idle a little.

And finally as for those benches...were they compiled with the intel compiler? do they even list what compiler they used? if not its worthless as its well known intel compilers cripple the code if you run it on AMD chips. If you take a Via (the only chip that can change the CPUID) and change the CPUID from centaur hauls to genuine Intel them gasp! The chip magically gains 30% on the benches. this is why I completely ignore benches because its quack.exe all over again. What matters is real world usage and I can tell you the E350 does every job I can throw at it quite well, I've even used it for editing multitrack audio recordings in the practice room and never had a bit of struggle, nor has it struggled when i play some L4D or GTA:VC. For real world usage its a really great chip.

Responsible for the greatest defeat in cell phone history

There are plenty of inexpensive automatic mechanical watches to be had for less than $500, as well.

My favorite watch is the Timex Expedition series. For a number of reasons. These are the analog watches that have a digital piece as well.

Here's my review (I wrote a week or so ago):
Waterproof. Indiglo is bright enough to be a makeshift flashlight. Mine is 5 years old, changed the battery 3 times. Dead accurate, never have to change time to match real life. Digital portion is great for 1) count down timer, 2) stop watch, 3) date (month and day), this is default display. Controlling the digital portion takes a little getting used to (particularly setting the count down timer), but you can memorize it quick. My original leather band ended up going nasty after about a year. I replaced it with a "canvas" band that cleans easy, is not organic (so it can't rot). Watch cost $40 and looks kinda stylish. Amazon Link

And now my rant about digital watches:
Digital is great, for stop watches and dead accurate timing. But when do you ever need to know that it is 10:52:18? 10:50 does fine. But if anyone asks you the time you are required to do additional thinking to give them that estimate, or you blurt out the exact time (reading directly from your watch, making you look like a nerd, and most of the time your watch is off by at least a minute, making you look like a dumb "know it all" nerd, who's wrong all the time). With an analog watch you also get relative time. When it's 10am, I can physically SEE noon. I can see 20, 25, or 30 minutes from current time very quickly with out having to do subtraction or addition. It's easier for a glance at the time (when you don't care), but when you do care, it's accurate to the second (with some extra thinking). That's why the timex is the perfect watch. It gives you the benefits of the digital (stopwatch, etc), but the ease of use of an analog.

You might like reading some of the ones for a related product:
http://www.amazon.com/Denon-AKDL1-Dedicated-Link-Cable/dp/B000I1X6PM

Or the classic chrome version:
http://www.amazon.com/Casio-A158W-1-Classic-Digital-Bracelet/dp/B000GAYQJ0/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1337338925&sr=8-3

But yes, I look at my wrist for the time.

Sorry, but the reality is that it is the right-wingers that are impossible to have a discussion with. For example, you're to chicken to even post with a real account.

It's the Republicans that have become increasingly impossible to compromise with, especially over the last 20 years. Even when you have a deal, they'll attempt to reneg (e.g. debt sequestration and cuts to the DoD).

Read http://www.amazon.com/Even-Worse-Than-Looks-Constitutional/dp/0465031331

Hell, even moderate Republicans are getting squeezed out, e.g. Lugar.

That's just because your hardware sucks. If you use the correct equipment, anyone with a discerning ear will be able to hear the difference.

The main problem is sugar.

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It's everywhere and you don't need it. Drink only water and don't buy any food that has sugar

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(fructose excluded) in it.

Ahhhghhh - train off the rails! If you mean fructose that's bound up with fruit fibers - sure, fine. The fiber slows down the absorption. And honey for some reason absorbs slowly (we don't know why).

What's really important is the rate of fructose absorption. If it's too fast, the liver just turns it into fat - similar in process to heavy drinking - and possibly worsens arachidonic acid cycle products, bad triglycerides, oxidative stress, etc..

This is why HFCS is such a problem. Instead of sucrose, which is partly broken down in stomach acid and then more thoroughly broken down by sucrase in the small intestine (both moderating absorption rates) the fructose in HFCS is immediately available as soon as it goes down your throat (to the extent that it can get to the right bits that it can be absorbed, but there's nothing slowing it down beyond that).

Of course high glucose amounts have their own problems from insulin spikes to metabolic syndrome to full-on diabetes, so I'm not recommending sucrose here either, just making the point that fructose isn't a safe sucrose substitute. Try stevia (Stevia in the Raw, Truvia are good) or xylitol (I buy 5lb bags from) for baking. Also eat whole grains so that glucose doesn't spike (again, rates are as important as amounts).

You DON'T need it. You like it because your are an addicted junky.

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You might want to read http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006QMT7FA

Stop claiming that you 'buy' a software product - you don't.

I'll stop "claiming" that I buy copies of software when the vendors stop telling me that I do. Google for "buy windows 7" and see that the first links are to "Buy Windows 7 or upgrade to another edition", "Buying Windows 7: top questions", "Find great prices & selection on Microsoft Windows software; shop & buy Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, & more." with a banner ad reading "Buy Windows® 7 Now - Fast, Easy Download. Official Site.". You're awfully certain of your specious hypothesis given that Microsoft themselves contradict you.

Try the same experiment with "buy autocad", "buy photoshop", and... wait for it... "buy os x". None of those companies say "buy a limited, EULA-bound license to use $foo as we see fit!"

How about something like this?
http://www.amazon.com/Lorex-LW2031-connect-Wireless-Monitor/dp/B005GTNZU2

especially in this country you can commit and prosecuted for something you do every day:

http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594032556

Couple this with the logic that "ignorance is not an excuse", and you have a perfect system right there.

The same java exploit used for Flashback in Mac OS was present in the linux version of java. There are often root privilege escalation bugs that are found and affect thousands of systems that take a while for all people to patch... for example Amazon because they run Xen, they would not let you run your own kernel. Did you use EC2. The only propaganda is comming from people who are too daft to accept that Linux isn't a silver bullet for security.

As a writer who is doing self-publishing, my answer is to do it myself. I have significant experience with both editing and design, so I felt completely comfortable doing the work myself. If you don't think you're up to the task, you can always pay someone else. I've published through lulu.com and createspace.com, and both offer editing and design services. It's not cheap, but not terribly expensive either, and if you're not confident in editing your own work or coming up with your own design, it can definitely be worth it. I've seen plenty of self-published books where the author clearly should have taken advantage of these services.

On a quick look at Hugh Howey's cover design, I can't tell whether it's professional work or he did it himself, and the preview amazon provides does not include any copyright notice or artwork credit indicating it's his own work or someone else's. I don't like the cover design, and from the snips I read, I don't care for the writing style. It just doesn't grab me. YMMV.

I did two different covers for my book, one for the ebook, and one for the printed book, due to odd licensing issues I won't describe here. I personally prefer the second design (print version) to the first (ebook). Interestingly, cover preference on my book seems to be split on gender lines. Women generally prefer the unicorn leaping through a portal version, while men prefer the staring eyeball version. See for yourself here: ebook (first design) and paperback (second design)

As a writer who is doing self-publishing, my answer is to do it myself. I have significant experience with both editing and design, so I felt completely comfortable doing the work myself. If you don't think you're up to the task, you can always pay someone else. I've published through lulu.com and createspace.com, and both offer editing and design services. It's not cheap, but not terribly expensive either, and if you're not confident in editing your own work or coming up with your own design, it can definitely be worth it. I've seen plenty of self-published books where the author clearly should have taken advantage of these services.

On a quick look at Hugh Howey's cover design, I can't tell whether it's professional work or he did it himself, and the preview amazon provides does not include any copyright notice or artwork credit indicating it's his own work or someone else's. I don't like the cover design, and from the snips I read, I don't care for the writing style. It just doesn't grab me. YMMV.

I did two different covers for my book, one for the ebook, and one for the printed book, due to odd licensing issues I won't describe here. I personally prefer the second design (print version) to the first (ebook). Interestingly, cover preference on my book seems to be split on gender lines. Women generally prefer the unicorn leaping through a portal version, while men prefer the staring eyeball version. See for yourself here: ebook (first design) and paperback (second design)

Sorry but under WTO rules, go screw yourself, global equal pricing is the rule so screw steam and go here http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=skyrim parrallel imports are legal for individuals re-sellers just have difficulty. That the US calculates minimum wage on nothing but bullshit is nothing to do with Australia. Considering Australia's minimum wage also includes universal health care and not US bullshit $5,000 deductibles with 20% coinsurance (you pay the first $5,000 plus 20% of all following charges, can't pay, piss off and die. That's after paying thousands in insurance which minimum wage Americans still can't really afford but under Uncle Tom Obama will pay compulsory high profit margin private health insurance which never has to pay for minimum wage types because they can't pay the deductible anyhow, mwa ha ha).

The low income people aren't screwed over in Australia with wages doesn't mean they deserved to be screwed over with prices. So a big FU to U.

This is one of the best Sci Fi books I have read. Get the whole series not the single stories in the WOOL OMNIBUS I'm looking forward to reading the new prequel

Wikipedia lists the series as "ongoing". Is the story arc in the omnibus finished? It seems interesting, and the price ($9.19 for me) is nice, but I'd rather hold out for the conclusion of any cliffhangers before even starting to read. Furthermore, where does Wool 6 - First shift fit in? :)

The fact that a director deemed it ready for a movie adaptation seems to imply that it's concluded, but I'd rather hear the opinion of someone with first-hand experience.

This is one of the best Sci Fi books I have read. Get the whole series not the single stories in the WOOL OMNIBUS I'm looking forward to reading the new prequel

Wikipedia lists the series as "ongoing". Is the story arc in the omnibus finished? It seems interesting, and the price ($9.19 for me) is nice, but I'd rather hold out for the conclusion of any cliffhangers before even starting to read. Furthermore, where does Wool 6 - First shift fit in? :)

The fact that a director deemed it ready for a movie adaptation seems to imply that it's concluded, but I'd rather hear the opinion of someone with first-hand experience.

Yes, sorry - I had added links after previewing in a separate tab, but ended up submitting the original.

So here we go:
KickStarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/
IndieGoGo: http://www.indiegogo.com/
RocketHub: http://www.rockethub.com/

Mythic: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/273246798/mythic-the-story-of-gods-and-men
Projektor: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1747147409/projektor-make-your-mobile-devices-larger-than-lif

KickStarter Mobile Phone App project: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/128239212/kickstarter-mobile-phone-app
GloSpex (original): http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1816244302/glospex
Go GloSpex (resubmit): http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1816244302/go-glospex

Double Fine adventure: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/66710809/double-fine-adventure
Pebble: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper-watch-for-iphone-and-android

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/

Javascript timer with now-blank divs that once housed actual server-written content - view any project page source, look for "ksr_page_timer". The divs that follow once contained server-written data (e.g. "44 hours left") - which needn't have been removed for the javascript timer to work.

xkcd comic: http://xkcd.com/1055/

Quirky: http://www.quirky.com/

Note that the example projects mentioned were but a few. There's so many more that would stand out as examples of things where better screening, intervention, communication and combinations of the aforementioned would have been thoroughly welcome and easily serve as material that could cause a 'PR hit' than the subject matter of TFA.

I'm about 3/4ths through the Omnibus Edition right now, and while it's not bad, it hasn't been particularly gripping IMO. It could just be the monotony of the environment of, or maybe, finally, just the hint of character development now, but I've found most of it rather plodding. And without giving any spoilers, I was sorely disappointed by the first plot line, and then the second, which made it hard to get emotionally invested in any of the subsequent ones. It looks a bit more promising at this point, and I've read this much so I'll finish, but my expectations are tempered, to say the least.

While his writing style is more spartan, I enjoyed Jeff Carlson's Plague Year a bit more as an indie post-apocalyptic thriller. I think some of it could be expectations, however. I approached Wool expecting the second coming of Christ given what I'd heard, while I was expecting Plague Year to be a rehash of Michael Chrichton's Prey.

Stainless steel seems like the obvious choice.

Here's the real version: http://www.amazon.com/Wool-Omnibus-Edition-Hugh-Howey/dp/1469984202/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337007438&sr=1-1

"The only factor that really counts is the economic status of the parents."

Maybe even more so than has generally been thought. I'm working through Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 which has some pretty shocking charts showing how important the culture of upper socio-economic parenting is to success in school. (Among other things.)

Don't let the fact that the first part of the book is a highly ironic, stomach turning, cheerleading session for the Ivy League turn you off. The good material starts about the middle and it's worth a read.

This is one of the best Sci Fi books I have read. Get the whole series not the single stories in the WOOL OMNIBUS I'm looking forward to reading the new prequel

This is one of the best Sci Fi books I have read. Get the whole series not the single stories in the WOOL OMNIBUS I'm looking forward to reading the new prequel

http://www.amazon.com/Teddy-Hunter-The-Underground-ebook/dp/B007YM2K5K /ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1336998483&sr=1-2

teddy Hunter: the underground; 99 cent kindle in lending library (the above link)

runaway teddy-bear robots get hunted down and returned to families.

HA! mine went out a couple weeks ago. not much traffic on it yet

  I think there's a rough, last chapter here in my journal.

It's probably much more emotional than financial. The small percentage of lawyers who are really successful are unlikely to give up very lucrative practice to become judges. But every judge has the experience of being a lawyer before he's a judge, and will tend to bias decisions in such a way as to protect the prerogatives of the legal profession above all others. (There's even a whole book about this, though I've not read it.)

http://www.amazon.com/Culture-Corruption-Cheats-Crooks-Cronies/dp/1596981091

Just read the first review

Science journalists William Broad and Nicholas Wade were writing about this back in 1982. See their book, Betrayers of the Truth: Fraud and Deceit in the Halls of Science . Science is a human enterprise. We have always trusted it more than we should. Better that our romantic notions about the objective standards of science be exposed for what they are than to continue believing them.

You mean like this: http://www.amazon.com/The-Basics-Winning-Lotto-Lottery/dp/1580420710
People actually gave it good reviews.

I would pay beau coup bucks to the company that disregards the discs and always takes me to the menu when I press menu.

The $81 Netgear NeoTV 550 will play back Blu-Ray disc images with full menu support and ignore prohibited operations. It's a little buggy, but not any more so than other Blu-Ray players (based on all the threads like "can't play Avatar" on help forums).

But, there's still so damn much startup time as the Java VM initializes (and if you don't let it, the disc might not play correctly because Java is now being used for so much on Blu-Ray) that I still just rip a movie-only file anyway.

Kevin Mitnick might disagree. Replace curiosity with malice... the techniques still work.

After reading the despicable evils and atrocities that primates, especially Chimpanzees, are capable of in this book by Carl Sagan and his wife:

http://www.amazon.com/Shadows-Forgotten-Ancestors-Carl-Sagan/dp/0345384725

I am convinced that evil is a trait we share with all primates, and that it somehow evolved at the primate level, and is not unique to humans. And it's just not chimps: gorillas and baboons as well.

I am getting sick just recalling some of the stuff in that book.

I'd like to counter the common recommendations for an hour of exercise per day or bouts of intensive activity with books like this (yes, it's an Amazon link, and no, it's not tied to my account so I do not get a cut of the sales) http://www.amazon.com/The-First-20-Minutes-Surprising/dp/1594630933/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1336655628&sr=8-1 "The First 20 Minutes" - basically, most of the benefits of exercise are realized from the first 20 minutes of exercise, a few times per week. Doing more than that is better, provided you don't injure yourself. But going from sedentary to an hour and a half of exercise per week carries tremendous health and quality of life benefits, and it's something almost anyone can manage.

Also, sitting for long periods of time has been proven to be very bad for health. I set an alarm on my phone every hour during the day to ensure that at a minimum once per hour I get up and move around.

Last and perhaps most important, if you think you have other health issues, get them addressed. I've needed 9-10 hours of sleep per night since I was a teenager. I thought it was just genetics, but my wife finally persuaded me to get tested for sleep apnea. It turns out I have severe sleep apnea, and now that I'm using a Continuous Positive Air Pressure (CPAP) machine to ensure I breathe normally while sleeping, I got two hours of my day back. It's now ten times easier to find the energy to exercise. Being fat increases your risk of sleep apnea, but lots of thin people also have the disease.

Except when slot machines are hacked, the developers usually keep it a secret so the casinos will not be investigated. (Mitnick, K (2005). The Art of Intrusion.)

Oh wait, the voting machine companies probably try to do that too.

the voting machine people aren't too successful in keeping it a secret... so lets bring in the slot machines people

Here y'go. http://www.amazon.com/Fitness-Geeks-Science-Nutrition-ebook/dp/B007UQN22A/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=A24IB90LPZJ0BS

Just buy the fucking thing.

Except when slot machines are hacked, the developers usually keep it a secret so the casinos will not be investigated. (Mitnick, K (2005). The Art of Intrusion.)

Oh wait, the voting machine companies probably try to do that too.

I agree. Machines are useless. Free weights exercise your body more naturally. One of the best full body exercises is the parallel squat. Nobody likes them because done properly, they are hard. But you will feel the difference if you do them right. A great book which I used for many years is Super Squats. If you don't know how to squat properly, another good book to get is Starting Strength.

I agree. Machines are useless. Free weights exercise your body more naturally. One of the best full body exercises is the parallel squat. Nobody likes them because done properly, they are hard. But you will feel the difference if you do them right. A great book which I used for many years is Super Squats. If you don't know how to squat properly, another good book to get is Starting Strength.

There is an excellent book, Fly in the Ointment, that debunks a number of these kinds of issues.

I especially like the one about peeling apples because they have been coated in chemicals. The chemicals they are coated with is simple wax used to replace the naturally occurring wax that is removed during the washing process. Why wash the apples? To remove fungus spores, dirt and insect eggs. Why replace the wax? To prevent premature spoilage due to excess oxygen getting to the fruit.