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Paul may be right about the constitutionality of the Dept. of Energy, but he hasn't proposed a solution that can be rationally accepted. Just shutting the DOE down means there would be no federal oversight of nuclear weapons when they enter the repair and maintenance process, or of spent nuclear fuel.

Ron Paul says as a response to your question (phrased as a false statement by the way)

You go through the process by eliminating it, but you donâ(TM)t eliminate every single function of the Department of Energy, because there will be some with nuclear materials and other things. That would be transferred.

The program that Iâ(TM)ve devised takes that into consideration.

Your comment has this:

or what his shut down plan is, he hasn't really said anything.

- you are uninformed or are lying.

You probably will not, unless it leads to increased taxes it is not something of wide interest for that lobbying group.
A quick search shows various Tea Party local groups against it, such as http://clevelandteapartypatriots.blogspot.com/2011/12/obamacare-for-internet-stop-sopa-now.html

I saw Richard Stallman speak at Yorktown High School years ago, here is my account of his presentation.

You are under the impression there is some "good" part of our current government that should not be abolished. This is incorrect; every part is under the control of corrupt politicians and the corporations that fund them. I did a blog entry last month on the corruption around the FDA, picking one of the easier to like departments just to show how invasive that influence is. I don't know if electing Ron Paul will be sufficient to change much, given the likely deadlocks with Congress. But a vote for anyone else is certain to be useless at improving things.

Here's the problem. With NDAA, SOPA, PIPA, Patriot Act you will be targeted for your content.
So if you put up a page saying you protest such things, then you just got added to the establishment's red list, for the fema camps. There is nothing a site owner can do. And everything your users can do to get you here.

So....

It's better to have a 403 like so.

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

This way, nothing your domain says can get you in trouble.
For the record, my websites are now in this state.

I used an .htaccess file like so

DENY FROM ALL

I then killed off my Youtube, Myspace, Gmail (moving to my ISP's email server), and if things get much worse, I will cut off paypal, amazon and ebay, and if they get worse, I will just stop buying ISP service.

I had a public access series, (music show) and it's now canceled for 2012.

Spend some time over at http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com and http://activistpost.com , Scrapbook some pages, learn who the enemy is. Learn what to do about it.

Restore the US Constitution.
Indict the treasonous oath breakers
Arrest the banksters and their government enablers.
Outlaw electronics in our elections. Get rid of the electoral college. Undo Citizens united.
Roll back all these psychopathic unconstitutional laws

I would be more than happy to get back into the music scene, but you have been deceived by corporate media over the past decade, instead you keep playing the Left vs Right Democrat vs Republican game, watching your TV's. It's BEYOND "now you have to turn that shit off." It's now all that crap infiltrating the web, from SEO blackhat trolling to seed story moderating. This system has to be replaced. It starts with removing your conscent, you can't do that if your watching the game master's broadcast.. You can't win the master's game, when the master makes the rules. So stop playing the game, and restore the US Constitution where it then dictates the game rules. Think about it, if a government officials are executed by death penalty for treason, this unconstitutional bullshit stops because it isn't ALLOWED in the first place. If the Logan Act was upheld, we wouldn't have AIPAC, NATO, the UN, NED, Freedom House spreading their fucking "democracy" (The US was not a Democracy, it was a Constitutional Republic) because they would be indicted, and jailed. The FACT is this is the problem, officials and banksters haven't yet been indicted or jailed, and yet they are still in power, stealing, killing, lying, and waring. It's the season of treason, and nothing can protect you but yourself. You have to protect your body and mind from their psychopathic fascist solar cult bullshit.

So you can sit on your ass and say, "so what a little death metal public access show is nothing, who gives a fuck, your just a lunatic satanist lover."
But at least NOW you know why it's gone. Now you know.

Want me back?
Restore the Constitution.
It's unsafe to operate in 2012. (I HAVE record company friends and still I can't clarify what the fuck is going on)

So I pulled the plug.
It wasn't a happy thing.
All my web published video material is now lost! (I'd be happy to mail bands copies of their original miniDV's)

You want to run a show? Be a target?
Don't restore the constitution.

Games matter for humans. Games simulate reality, which is unaccessible for us by some reason. Boys (grown-up and not quite) usually play with gadgets. Girls of any age like behavioral games. Touch interface combines features of both. That's why boys and girls are still playing with it. Paradox is touch interface still does not influence PC world.

The first paragraph is riddled with unfounded assumptions and grammatical mistakes - as is, I assume, the remainder of the article. While I stopped reading after the second paragraph, I did spend a few seconds to scroll down to the bottom of the page to the only screenshot of what Semantic Line Interface might look like:

Example of a Semantic Line Interface

Visionary.

How about timeliness? This has "revamp" been going on for a few months. One of my less-used accounts had it turned around Thanksgiving. Aha, I've found a nice article on ti going back to November 29.

Overall, Google has been "Plus"-ifying most all it's services. It's not unexpected.

Street parking rarely, if ever, has reserved accessible spaces

Bzzzt. Thank you for playing. Here's one of many examples from my city (Vancouver, Canada):

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XmgrJ99G4Vs/Tice-jsqlKI/AAAAAAAAASE/wR-wsve4Iq0/s1600/Vancouver%2B225.JPG

Quoting http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/update-on-google-health-and-google.html :

In the end, while we weren’t able to create the impact we wanted with Google Health, we hope it has raised the visibility of the role of the empowered consumer in their own care.

Considering the fact that I - somebody who in many ways spends more time on the Internet than off it - have not heard about this interesting service until today, I seriously doubt that the problem is that there haven't been enough takers. Yes, it sounds a touch megalomaniacal. But my conclusion is that Google has simply just not raised awareness about this product. With the amount of faeces being thrown all over the interwebz for other products such as Google Plus, I dare say that a small fraction of the resources expended could have saved initiatives such as Google Health from flatlining ...

Maybe you should have read the entire post - especially the bit about Direct Project instead of twisting the facts to suit your distorted version of reality.

Landis is being punished for daring to defy the anti-doping authorities, insist on his rights to a public hearing (no longer allowed), and embarrassing the hell out of the USADA and WADA by absolutely demolishing their scientific credibility with regard to the testosterone case (after they had to dig in their heels because they had already illegally released the preliminary reports, pre-B sample test to the media). I would note that in the original (and appealed) decisions, the panels through out the initial T-E ratio test as being hopelessly compromised. The mass spectrometry tests were allowed to stand, despite being the quality of lab work that would get laughed out of a college chemistry class, because both panels chose to totally disregard the testimony of John Amory. (see: http://rant-your-head-off.com/WordPress/?p=383 or http://trustbut.blogspot.com/2008/12/winnowing-john-amory.html)

Now, as it turned out, Landis later admitted to doping with HGH that season, and testosterone in previous seasons. But I really think that's incidental to this case. He's being punished because he showed the WADA and UCI are just as corrupt as the cyclists, and the Chatenay-Malabry lab technicians are too incompetent to run a mass spectrometer that undergraduates successfully use thousands of times a day in research labs.

In the end, while we weren’t able to create the impact we wanted with Google Health, we hope it has raised the visibility of the role of the empowered consumer in their own care.

Considering the fact that I - somebody who in many ways spends more time on the Internet than off it - have not heard about this interesting service until today, I seriously doubt that the problem is that there haven't been enough takers. Yes, it sounds a touch megalomaniacal. But my conclusion is that Google has simply just not raised awareness about this product. With the amount of faeces being thrown all over the interwebz for other products such as Google Plus, I dare say that a small fraction of the resources expended could have saved initiatives such as Google Health from flatlining ...

You know, you're not the first person who wants me to do all kinds of work and doesn't want to pay me, and you won't be the last one.

I have blogged about this before, and it comes down to this: If you want to be treated like a customer of MaraDNS, you first must become a customer of MaraDNS.

If you don't want to pay me money, you have the source code. You are free to either submit patches (which I would gladly host), or to make your own fork of the code.

You would be a more productive person by "lighting a candle" -- either paying me or by submitting patches -- than by "cursing the darkness" -- complaining that open source developers are not at your beck and call.

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You can easily demonstrate this to yourself: take a look at MenuetOS, which fits an OS + GUI + browser + media-player + editor + source-code on a single floppy! http://dicka-berbagi.blogspot.com/2011/12/seribupernakpernikponselandroid.html

woww http://dicka-berbagi.blogspot.com/2011/12/seribupernakpernikponselandroid.html

It is known, however, that its $5M seed money came from a hedge funder.

Not just any hedge funder: Overthrow Inc.: Peter Ackerman's Quest to Do What the CIA Used to Do, and Make It Seem Progressive

This is just another PSYOP.

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Ron Paul for U.S. President in 2012

OWS and the Tea Party teaming up would be about as awkward as a Deadpool team-up.

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/6/60216/1626194-deadpool_team_up_yellow_boxes_super.jpg
http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/2285/deadpool37.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-esKAm-4Bw2I/Tb6xYrDkCTI/AAAAAAAAAME/W0NZsVYoPTc/s1600/deadpool36scan4.jpg

In latin, "et" means "plus" or "and". You'll occasionally see "et" pop up in things like legal documents or academic papers.

The ampersand (&) is basically the current evolution of writing "et" in cursive. There are some interesting pictures on the subject.

Don't ditch stereographic 3D outright. Instead, either do it properly or don't do it at all (I agree that at the moment, the two are functionally equivalent, though). This can be done by following two relatively simply rules:
1) No stereo upconverts. You don't shoot a film in B&W then colourise it (unless you want it to look like ass, especially when colour film is right there), so don't shoot a film in 2D then try and guesstimate some stereo separation. You retard.
2) Hire a stereographer who will hit you in the back of the head every time you suggest something fly out of the screen. Hard. And repeatedly. Until you learn how the human visual cortex recieves stereo cues and how to work with it to trick the viewer rather than grabbing the optic nerve and yanking it about. *

The only film I can think of where stereo 3D was done properly has been Avatar. Regardless of what you think about plot originality or hamfisted delivery, it was an excellent use of stereo 3D.

*I was going to give another analogy of shooting a film in colour and only using BRIGHT BLUE SKY and BRIGHT ORANGE DESERT broad-brush colour grading, but then I remembered the Orange and Teal effect. On second thought, let's just fire the entire movie industry into the sun and start again.

from press release it is clear, that the plant is not for plug in hybrids market ( and the possible answer - is low quality,which in below the current plugin batteries ). For buses and for grid storage - molten salt batteries are preferred ( because materials are much more abundant and cheaper and for these applications the biggest problems of molten salt batteries ( high temperature ) could be of less significance than in cars ). There are examples of such uses http://asmoronurhadi.blogspot.com/2011/03/tindo-worlds-first-solar-electric-bus.html and http://engineering.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2011/03/11/so-what-battery-technology-powers-our-electric-bus/ etc, there are new developments http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/low-temperature-molten-salt-battery-ten.html http://www.greencarcongress.com/2011/11/sumitomo-2011111.html in this field, which could make molten salt batteries even more attractive. and if to consider, that lithium reserves are quite limited - mass production of low quality batteries seems a strange idea. I can't say for any good reasons for RUSNANO except they need to spend huge money on something ( they have a big budget and just few mostly idiotic projects )- it is moronic organization which is run by the man who put Russia into poverty in 90s due to badly designed reforms and any degree of idiotism could be expected, but what drives Chinese in this venture is an intresting question. It might turn out, that both sides are driven by bureaucratic logic and thus the project has no real value.

As an evolutionary biologist you would probably appreciate this the most out of anyone.

microloans that were supposed to solve all problems of the poor in Bangladesh are actually very destructive and many have lost their last shirt.
http://lesstoldstories.blogspot.com/2011/03/micro-debt-small-loans-big-problems.html

http://anonymiss-express.blogspot.com/2011/12/notes-for-diy-mesh-networks.html

http://shareable.net/blog/how-to-set-up-a-open-mesh-network-in-your-neighborhood

http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/08/7427.ars

http://wirelessafrica.meraka.org.za/wiki/index.php/DIY_Mesh_Guide

http://wirelessafrica.meraka.org.za/wiki/index.php/DIY_Mesh_Guide_Software_and_Resources

(CNAS) Center For A New American Security are globalistsprofiting and pushing these wars and massive treasonous oath breaking destruction of the rule of law - DOMESTIC ENEMIES OF the US Constitution, they want to sign treaties with that fucking UN climate bullshit cover for a WORLD BANK and WORLD ARMY - WAKE THE FUCK UP /. !

You dumb motherfuckers need to spend more time at LANDDESTROYER learn who the fuck is both running and fucking up America!

Oh and for the record, I say OPEN 24.000 - 25.000 Mhz fuck that bullshit marine/mobile shit, open it to 11 Meters.

Finally, The FCC is such a piece of fascist shit. It needs to be replaced by PUBLIC VOTE instead of a fucking sold out POTUS CRONY who would happilly have 99% of the PUBLIC SPECTRUM corporate owned.

Now Piss off..

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Third Magic @ Blogspot

According to what I could dig up (memory, and corroboration here), snapdragons use about 500mw at idle. Thats one quarter to one sixth the power consumption of intel's offering.

Doing some research, it looks like Tegra3s use about .5w per core as well. Again, Intel is pretty far back if theyre throwing out a single core and hitting 2-3 watts.

and I thought he was nutty, but possibly right. As time goes on, more and more I am convinced he is right. My notes from his presentation - Richard Stallman at the Yorktown High School Libre Users Group

The whole world is full of lunatics, alcoholics, drug users and pathological liars, and has always been. Hell, it doesn't even have to be a "bad" thing. Many people have great amount of imagination. What makes you think those stories weren't made up by either drunk persons, someone who wanted to tell a story or someone who just wanted to play with people?

First of all, alcohol is not a hallucinogen. An average person with an average brain can get very drunk while still being able to function. What alcohol does do is dis-inhibit certain parts of the personality.

Associating "alcoholics" and "drug users" with "lunatics"and "pathological liars" is very poor sportsmanship. Also, necessarily comparing (or contrasting) religion to science is a false dichotomy (though one which religious zealots also bring up. Correlation does not equal causation). It's comparing apple and oranges.

I do find it funny that a lawyer of all people, would be writing about the decline of science. Good for you NYC Lawyer!

It does amaze me how popular anti-science is. From one anti-anti-global-warming Web site:

We are not afraid to be called climate "deniers". In fact we embrace it as medal of honor bestowed on us by our alarmist foes... We stand unimpressed by "textbooks", "peer review journals" and so-called "facts".

Here are some of the comments from this "blog science" Web site:

I've canceled my subscription to New Scientist. Since they haven't covered this incredible research they must have a some sort of secret "agenda". Obviously to use my cash for alarmist purposes and gain control of the government so they can tax me into oblivion.

and

You couple a dying sun with that Maunder super thing with a magnetic reversal or two, some serious carbon emission cuts (thanks Al and associated commies!) and WHAM-O, it's freeze-out city padre.

and

A brilliant analysis as always. I think it is a well established fact that all the Warmist propaganda promoted by Algore and his socialist minions is just a scheme to tax us all into oblivion thereby laying the groundwork for a new Stalinist world order. Nevertheless one rarely sees scientific articles that address the taxation ramifications of all these predictions about the climate. You truly nailed the horse to the camel's back with this article!

There are many, many Web sites like it. From the Intelligent Design folks to the anti-drug propaganda folks. Political ideology obviously plays an important part of people's "scientific" beliefs.

References:
http://denialdepot.blogspot.com/2011/06/co2-volcanoes-or-man-its-your-choice.html#comment-form

The demographics of the voter turnout is more important than the total percentage.

The same basic reason that Social Security and Medicare can't be touched is the same reason the politicians lean towards policies that support the beliefs of the religious.

Old people vote more often and they tend to be religious. Fucking with old people is political suicide.

Thank you,
The given information is very effective.
I'll keep update with the same.

ufo

Your speed arguments are essentially ones which boil down to python being an interpreted language. PyPy is a JIT compiler for python thats is on average 5 timers faster than normal CPython. Shed Skin is a python to C++ compiler which works decently as well.

We are starting to see some programming environments where you code on the device itself - one really cool one is Codify for the iPad. They have really thought through how to make entry of code easier using the on-screen keyboard, and you could learn quite a lot of programming concepts developing using this tool.

Asians, an inferior race? Holy crap have you ever looked at their women?

While it's not quite "literally", add to that this, seen over much of central Europe on the Christmas eve. Curiously (and echoing somewhat the confusion on the other recent space-debris reports), news-outlets are following officials quoting it's either "99.9% certainly a meteorite" or the story about that having been the failed Meridian launch. Based on information from USSTRATCOM (ex NORAD) this was re-entry of the rocket stage from the successful ISS mission. Yet I don't think they've ever been quite this spectacular before!

Is a 17% cut for you and a 52% cut for the publisher for eternity a good deal for you? Seriously? You ought to go read Konrath's blog - lots of it.... http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/ Oh and they get to control pricing forever too - and will use it to prop up sagging paper sales and slow ebook adoption....

Is a 17% cut for you and a 52% cut for the publisher for eternity a good deal for you? Seriously? You ought to go read Konrath's blog - lots of it.... http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/

Professional writers are discovering that they can make far more money by self-publishing on the Internet than they can by working through a publisher, and by charging much less for their works, at that.

See A Newbie's Guide to Publishing.

Publishing companies add nothing of value to the process, and are simply parasitic.

Different Anonymous Cow^H^H^HPony chiming in, but seeing as how MLP's become a Cambrian explosion of geekdom these days, I'll chip in with a mashup based on a Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas crossover, and Discord playing the role of Krampus.

Different Anonymous Cow^H^H^HPony chiming in, but seeing as how MLP's become a Cambrian explosion of geekdom these days, I'll chip in with a mashup based on a Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas crossover, and Discord playing the role of Krampus.

With apologies to Pastor Martin Niemöller's famous poem, First they came..., his cry of protest against those Germans who did nothing to stop the Nazi rise to power, and who stood by as the Nazis purged group after group of "undesirables" in their country.
http://webweaversworld.blogspot.com/2006/10/first-they-came-for-jews-variations-on.html

When SOPA came for the ISPs,
I remained silent;
after all I was not an ISP.

When SOPA locked up the all the routers,
I remained silent;
after all I did not have a router.

When they came for the movie uploaders,
I did not speak out;
after all I was not an uploader.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.

Because it's tasty and nutritious?

http://nourishingideas.blogspot.com/2009/11/pigs-blood.html

My mother lived in a very rural area, she was a teenager during the depression. They'd give away the blood of slaughtered pigs to a black family who would make blood pudding and forcemeats and sell them to other black families. I've had it and unless it's done well it's very grainy. Forcemeats are better.

That link now has me musing on BBQ sauce with the blood of the animal I'm cooking in it. :-D

Unless you have a fusion reactor and can create or reorganize matter you have to kill or cause others to kill so you may live. Cherish your food, it died that you may live.

There are a network of stones around the Japanese coastline warning not to build below them because of the danger of tsunamis. One of them reads "High dwellings are the peace and harmony of our descendants, Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis. Do not build any homes below this point.". Some of them had been in place for over 600 years and many got washed away by the latest tsunami. Modern man of course knew much better than their ancestors and not only built homes but nuclear reactors right on the coast.
What's that saying those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

How you get modded insightful claiming that a tsunami is an improbable event in Japan just shows how fucking low /. has sunk.

Your first link led to this fascinating story. Thank you; I don't have mod points right now, though.

And not have the techs be techs like how geek squad used to be.

Now days way to be come a tech or keep the job at a store is to get your numbers of Extended Warranties (some times even having to lie about what it covers), high cost cables , other ad ons, rip off software and more.

http://consumerist.com/2011/06/staples-canada-accused-of-selling-computers-with-old-user-data-on-hard-drive.html

http://iworkatpencils.blogspot.com/

http://consumerist.com/2008/12/staples-give-us-80-weve-already-set-up-all-the-laptops-in-stock.html

http://consumerist.com/2011/03/confessions-of-a-staples-employee.html.

I make the case for having a separate basic phone:
http://moneybutnofixedabode.blogspot.com/2007/10/phone-for-traveller.html

In this blog post I'm referring to use for people who travel a lot. But it seems relevent here too.

Keep your tablet or smartphone for non phone things and a separate basic very small phone for phone things. This way if you run out of battery you can still make calls. It's so much simpler than falling into a universe of emergency chargers, trying to get all features into one device and so on.

Now... what about that camera....

    doh!

Well, I was making the case for pairing a Android tablet with a watchphone... but to get a camera in there too? hmm...

About half my regular blog readers are based in emerging markets / less developed countries. I began to notice that hittership was dropping in Africa and India. Reviewing about a thousand posts, I noticed that the more photos and "blogger apps" I put on the web page, the lower the readership in countries with low bandwidth. I've been more conscientious now about which photo resolution I post and tend to avoid videos. And a lot of the cool little blogger widgets don't seem as important when measured in seconds to open the page. http://retroworks.blogspot.com/2010/12/blog-has-widget-fever.html Of course my content also sometimes sucks, and it also helps if I lay off the haiku.

I also give instructions on setting up the same desktop in a blog post: http://certainthought.blogspot.com/2011/07/simple-linux-desktop.html

Radical new? It's the same interface from Windows 3.

I've tried a few other desktops and I've cobbled together a minimal desktop for resource reasons, but I always come back to KDE and its various parts for their great interoperability, features, functionality, and decent footprint (even with KDE4.5 on a P4 setup). I've only kept a non-KDE desktop for an extended period on one machine, a P3 laptop.