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Nope. Most people under 30 during the Vietnam war supported it. Most people 50 and over opposed it. (30-49 generally supported it but the margin wasn't as high as it was for under 30s)

Bear in mind that a huge proportion of men over 35 and even some women had fought in WW-II, so this shouldn't surprise anyone. But people under 30 didn't start opposing Vietnam until sometime around 1968-1969.

Very interesting generalizations, do you have any data/references to support this?

Nope. Most people under 30 during the Vietnam war supported it. Most people 50 and over opposed it. (30-49 generally supported it but the margin wasn't as high as it was for under 30s)

Bear in mind that a huge proportion of men over 35 and even some women had fought in WW-II, so this shouldn't surprise anyone. But people under 30 didn't start opposing Vietnam until sometime around 1968-1969.

Here is an article about password protecting SD cards using custom hardware. It has some technical detail how it works. All SD cards should have the password feature, just that not all cameras let you enter a password to unlock the card for access. It may be at odds with the need to be able to pull out the camera and immediately start shooting an unanticipated fleeting moment. The camera might want to keep the card unlocked, but have a dedicated lock button to relock the card before encountering security searches.

IV treatment IV vitamin C with sodium ascorbate is a powerful, less known antiviral treatment, stonewalled out of conventional medicine for ca 75 years http://seanet.com/~alexs/ascor... .... See also
Injectable C http://injectablevitaminc.com/...
Cathcart http://orthomolecular.org/libr...
and Klenner. http://www.doctoryourself.com/...
or read Tom Levy's book, Curing the Incurable:Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases, and Toxins

The more severe the virus, higher and more frequent doses used. As support for nasty viral illnesses overseas that have no vaccine, we also take zinc, 50,000 iu of vitamin D3 for 1-2 weeks, lysine and 200-400 mcg selenium. With Ebola, the real question will be when the last chance for a given level of IV vitamin C treatment (gram C/kg wt) 2-3-4 times per day will work, and when it will be too late - too little.

I've already been in a 3rd world situation where people look like over made actors in a sci fi movie with lots and lots of big pustules...and IV vitamin C worked well from the first infusion crusting over in ~8 hours vs 8 more days, over it in several days, so don't yak at me about iffy imagination stuff. However, I believe ignorance and cupidity are mankind's norm.

IV treatment IV vitamin C with sodium ascorbate is a less known antiviral treatment, stonewalled out of conventional medicine for ca 75 years http://seanet.com/~alexs/ascor.... See also
Injectable C http://injectablevitaminc.com/...
Cathcart http://orthomolecular.org/libr...
and Klenner. http://www.doctoryourself.com/...

The more severe the virus, higher and more frequent doses used. As support for nasty viral illnesses overseas that have no vaccine, we also take zinc, 50,000 iu of vitamin D3 for 1-2 weeks, lysine and 200-400 mcg selenium. With Ebola, the real question will be when the last chance for a given level of IV vitamin C treatment (gram C/kg wt) 2-3-4 times per day will work, and when it will be too late - too little.

You might disagree strongly with his politics and his presidency - that's completely fine - but calling him names and resorting to insinuations about his intelligence adds nothing useful to the public political discourse.

While I completely agree with your points, I'd like to point out the *ahem* high level of critical analysis usually proffered by Obama's detractors regarding his parentage, intelligence, species, etc. duing their "whining" about him being elected.

Granted, W. had above average intelligence, but one episode from his youth crystalizes my opinions about his "fitness to lead" - something about a joyride in a military jet? By itself, not a damning act, but coupled with "Mission Accomplished" and all of his other antics as CINC, I'm sure people who knew him knew all of that was coming before he did it. They should be deeply ashamed of having promoted him to the highest office.

You mean like iNax - Sit Different ?

The article presents a very interesting possibility of transferring genetic capabilities of other species into humans. There are several areas where essential metabolic functions are not available to humans.

If you do not have a regular supply of fruits and vegetables that contain Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) you will develop scurvy. This was the leading cause of deaths on oceangoing voyages up until the early 20th century. (it is also why British sailors were called "limeys" because of the storage and consumption of limes while at sea). Humans lack one enzyme L-gulonolactone oxidase that would allow the liver to convert glucose into ascorbic acid and give an humans back an evolutionary edge that was lost to our species.

http://www.seanet.com/~alexs/ascorbate/196x/stone-i-acta_genet_med_et_gemell-1966-v15-p345.htm

There are at least 10 essential amino acids that are not produced in the human body. In many other organisms genetics has provided the "key" to unlocking amino acid production.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/HBASE/Organic/essam.html

Further research into what biochemical processes that can be incorporated either as a treatment regimen or as a modification to the human genome can greatly expand our adaptability as a species. Could the ability of the wood frog to survive being frozen solid enable us to travel to distant stars through hibernation?

http://www.blurtit.com/q476575.html

My problem with the whole turning people into salt thing is not the "impossibility" of it. I mean, I could posit a science fiction story in which so alien scientist created a matter transmutation phase to turn people to salt.

I mean, when the story was created, turning human remains into diamonds would seem just as fanciful. Now it's routine enough to make a living out of it.

The problem is God's motivation. Why let them run away, and then turn them into salt for looking back? I mean, He's acting like Bluebeard in this story.

Ok, it isn't entirely out of character for Him, but then thousands of years later He gets this semi-platonic ideal of the perfect ultimately good being grafted onto Him, which doesn't really fit with the homicidal maniac we've seen up until then. It's like killing a bunch of kids with she bears for making fun of one of His prophet's bald head.

Fine for the old God, the one who said He needed one of His prophets to sacrifice His kid, and then said, "Just kidding, but I'll have that ram stuck in the thicket, thanks." It doesn't really fit in with the beatific vision version, though, does it.

Yes, I know sacred mysteries and all that, but it always makes me think that the main reason the monks didn't want the Bible translated into the vernacular is because they all realized how poorly written it was...

It is true that ALCU and NRA have broken agendas. That is no reason to sit on the sidelines and quibble.

When Lawrence Lessig told FSF members to get political or get buried, I read FSF's analysis of PATRIOT ACT II. That afternoon I joined both ACLU and NRA, then went looking for political parties. I joined the Dems, becamse a PCO, became an Executive Board member at LD and County levels, and became an LD Chair. I've given speeches on liberty (including 2nd amendment) -- and had roomsful of peace activists nodding in agreement.

30 years of Noise Machine and 8 years of Neocons has jolted a lot of people into thinking clearly about what it means to be a US Citizen. People at the gun range chat about my "Impeach Bush" bumper stickers. People at peace rallies chat about reloading. We're all Americans here at the grassroots. Those neocons are something else.

http://www.seanet.com/~hgg9140/history/us_constitution.html
http://www.seanet.com/~hgg9140/politics/patriot/liberty2.pdf
http://www.seanet.com/~hgg9140/sustainable/

It is true that ALCU and NRA have broken agendas. That is no reason to sit on the sidelines and quibble.

When Lawrence Lessig told FSF members to get political or get buried, I read FSF's analysis of PATRIOT ACT II. That afternoon I joined both ACLU and NRA, then went looking for political parties. I joined the Dems, becamse a PCO, became an Executive Board member at LD and County levels, and became an LD Chair. I've given speeches on liberty (including 2nd amendment) -- and had roomsful of peace activists nodding in agreement.

30 years of Noise Machine and 8 years of Neocons has jolted a lot of people into thinking clearly about what it means to be a US Citizen. People at the gun range chat about my "Impeach Bush" bumper stickers. People at peace rallies chat about reloading. We're all Americans here at the grassroots. Those neocons are something else.

http://www.seanet.com/~hgg9140/history/us_constitution.html
http://www.seanet.com/~hgg9140/politics/patriot/liberty2.pdf
http://www.seanet.com/~hgg9140/sustainable/

It is true that ALCU and NRA have broken agendas. That is no reason to sit on the sidelines and quibble.

When Lawrence Lessig told FSF members to get political or get buried, I read FSF's analysis of PATRIOT ACT II. That afternoon I joined both ACLU and NRA, then went looking for political parties. I joined the Dems, becamse a PCO, became an Executive Board member at LD and County levels, and became an LD Chair. I've given speeches on liberty (including 2nd amendment) -- and had roomsful of peace activists nodding in agreement.

30 years of Noise Machine and 8 years of Neocons has jolted a lot of people into thinking clearly about what it means to be a US Citizen. People at the gun range chat about my "Impeach Bush" bumper stickers. People at peace rallies chat about reloading. We're all Americans here at the grassroots. Those neocons are something else.

http://www.seanet.com/~hgg9140/history/us_constitution.html
http://www.seanet.com/~hgg9140/politics/patriot/liberty2.pdf
http://www.seanet.com/~hgg9140/sustainable/

In fact, his points actually show why a hybrid is perfect: most surfaces are not shiny, refractive, a portal, etc. Most are opaque - and a rasterizer is much better for this (since no ray intersection tests are necessary).

Actually, primary rays are quite a bit cheaper for a raytracer to compute than secondary rays (reflections, shadows). There are ways to exploit the coherency and do far less work (packet tracing and MLRTA, for instance). In a hybrid scheme, the graphics hardware would only be unloading the easiest portion of the workload.

The point the article was trying to make is that if your ray tracer is fast enough to ray-trace the entire screen, there's no compelling reason to even use rasterization; the ray tracer is going to be fast enough to do that by itself, too. Hybrid schemes might make sense if ray-tracing is too slow to render the whole screen at a decent framerate (basically, where we're at today), but in a few years that will very likely no longer be the case.

Take the best of both worlds, and go hybrid, just like the major CGI studios did.

The reason the movie studios don't use raytracing more often is that raytracing is not memory-parallel, and they need to be able to render scenes that can't fit in the memory of any one computer. Here is some info on how Pixar used ray-tracing in the movie Cars.

It doesn't stop with just highschool. The same approaches work for K-6 all the way to grad school:
http://www.seanet.com/~hgg9140/math/index.html

Disorientation is key to domestic control. Consider plasma balls in the context of Federalist 46.

See my discussion at:
http://www.seanet.com/~hgg9140/statecraft/war.html
Analysis of J. B. Alexander. "Future War". St. Martin's Press, 1999. ISBN 0312194161.

Armies can't politically afford to use their full firepower on obviously undergunned or even pacific enemies. LEO's can't politically afford to shoot, club, or firehose political dissidents. Nevertheless, the people running the show want results. The enforcers turn to weapons which get results without leaving dead bodies and/or scars.

These include irritant gases, blinding lights, deafening sounds, electrical shocks, and similar tools. The idea is for the LEO to be able display in court a video tape showing the he himself has experienced the weapon and thus understands its implications.

Thus freed from the onus of mass civic revulsion, the LEO can use the weapon to assure results. Since of course neither the LEO nor anyone else can actually withstand the weapons over extended periods, the power brokers win and the Gandhi-wanna-bees lose.

The critical issue missing from this book is any sense that sometimes the dissidents and civil disobedients should win control of the streets, at least temporarily. Failing that opportunity to express greviences, the body politic is on its way to truly bloody civil war.

Those of us who dive the Emearld Waters of the Pacific Northwest United States are usually quite happy to interact with large cephalopods: http://www.seanet.com/~katrinakruse/octopus_on_my_ head.htm

While this new Stonehenge is a well-meant and impressive achievement, designed and built to further the causes of science and history, I am concerned about unwanted influences sullying its image.

It is a well-known fact that hippies, wiccans, and other undesirables congregate around the orignal Stonehenge in England, which is seen as a source of cosmic mystical power and other such mumbo-jumbo. The upshot of the whole business is a lot of rubbish, squatters, and jam-band concerts.

The advertisement for Stonehenge New Zealand indicates that this new henge will be available for "public sessions". One hopes the management of the New Zealand henge will show some discretion in not letting the public face of their fine new site be muddied, painted, and tie-dyed by neo-pagans and new agers.

6 people according to this source.

You are so wrong about that. What Bill Gates (or at least Microsoft) did was to give computing to the masses. The PC revolution was completely Microsoft driven. They made stuff simple.

Sorry, but I doubt you can back it up with any real historical knowledge. Microsoft entered the PC revolution because IBM was seeking contact with Gary Kildall of the CP/M fame. IBM wanted to run CP/M on their computers and asked Bill Gates to arrange a meeting of the IBM representatives with Kildall. Instead, Gates offered them his own deal.

History of the PC would look quite similar without Bill Gates. We would have CP/M-86 instead of MS-DOS and GEM Desktop instead of MS Windows. There would be no actualy difference for anybodys Grandma.

Digital photographs are sometimes considered inadmissable in court because they're so easy to fake.

Digital Photos as evidence

If the digital images taken from the web are presumed to be suspect, than the prosecution would bear the burden to prove the images are authentic and not a Photoshop job.

777 Virgins? Are those stewardesses on wide-body airliners?

You have a good point. On the other hand, during WWII, Japanese university students launched thousands of balloon bombs at the US west coast.

These were cheap paper constructions, and only a few hundred actually landed and started some forest fires in the Pacific Northwest, but their panic value far outstripped their actual production cost.

A model airplane, if you can mass produce them, costs a few hundred bucks. Strap a hand grenade to that with a primitive mechanical timer, and launch a few dozen at downtown Manhattan from some abandoned field and see what happens.

Although come to think of it, they'd probably be considered as just another part of Saturday night in the Bronx... :-)

You really believe that he did much in the military other than getting drunk and hang around? Check this out.

You really think that the guy got degrees from Harvard and Yale because he's so smart and not because he's someone's son?

Think again.

Here is one of the sites we used for new ideas in my CS class at cmu

http://www.seanet.com/~brucemo/topics/topics.htm

Here is another one

Enjoy

So why is it that they don't block porn? I know, they don't care about porn, they care about people who promote freedom. They blocked Slashdot too. I'm not sure about the Red Lobster thing, but Limbaugh's show is sponsored by Red Lobster restaurants. might have something to do with it, let's go see! Nope, nothing there. Looks like another corporate suck site, much like China itself.

Not so fast...

(yes, bad for quoting myself)
The bells at feeding time was one of the other experiments. He also did the showing of shapes to mean different upcoming events. One was an oval, the other a circle. Then he gradually rounded the oval until the dog could not distinguish between them.

At that point the dog would go nuts!

Shapes and Tones experiments by Pavlov

Ref to just the bell experiments

Pavlov shock experiments

I do remember Skinner doing various things AFTER Pavlov, like teaching pidgeons to bowl(?) and such.

"When it comes to managing high-impact innovation, there is no contest--Sam Walton still matters more than Bill Gates. "

What the article doesn't mention is that many metro and suburban communities VIGOROUS oppose (if not block) the openings of new Walmarts.

There have been huge union issues related to Walmarts the sell groceries.

At a more immediate level, it is downright depressing seeing retirees slaving away minimum wage.

There are a TON of sites about the evils of Walmart:

Walmart Memoirs

Walmart Trash Page

Yahoo stuff

And lest you forget all the censorship that Walmart does regarding music....Censorship at Walmart on Yahoo

I could go on and on about their business practices.

Not to mention that you could hold Jerry Springer auditions at almost any Walmart in the US...

I fundamentally find it ironic that Walmart is used as an example... a very profitable retail chain that is widely hated... that has many questionable business practices... that crushes and destroys the small "mom and pop" retailers in smaller communities.... then again, maybe it is the perfect example?

Except for the six civilian deaths, the balloon bomb offensive was a failure. There were no major forest fires and no unusual outbreaks of diseases, and no panic.

I recently moved and had to reestablish DSL in Seattle. Qwest is the only line provider, and the deal with MSN of course applies here as elsewhere. I'm paying an extra $70 connection fee for not going with MS, but with another ISP. So far, not only has service been faster with the ISP, but every problem I've had so far has been with Qwest. Six months ago I didn't really pay attention to the DSL providers and ISPs dropping like flies, but now I'm feelin' the burn. BTW, I typed this entire message while on hold at Qwest with some genius who has to check to see if my ISP supports DSL. Fuckers.

The only thing, based on what I've read on pi, that interests mathemations is trying to determine if pi is completely irrational (can't be expressed as a fraction of two integers) -- if there's any point where the digits in pi repeat ad infinitum, pi becomes rational, and most of the current foundation of advanced number theory will have to be rewritten.

Pi was proved to be irrational in 1770. A later, simpler, proof can be found here.

Something that isn't known about pi is whether or not it is "normal". That is, whether all finite digit sequences of a given length appear with the same frequency in the long run. Based on the tiny initial segment of pi that has been computed (just a few billion digits) pi "seems" to be normal, but initial segments can be misleading.

Pi has been proven to be irrational. You can't perform this exercise hoping to find a sequence because you never will.

about his new CNC machine - and abuilding a simple one years ago.

Chuck