While we may be able to blow the snot out of anything we shoot at, I think we should at least wait until we evacuate the city before we adopt that option for 'reconstruction.'
And sand, specially wet sand, is HEAVY and, being sand, is GRITTY. The two worst things you can ask to transport in a plane.
I don't see the Navy having any use for precision guided sand bags. Sorry.
Try that with IE and you need a tracing debugger (which tells you what what the software is doing, instead of all those comments and var names and crap about intent as opposed to what the guy really wrote [of course with open source, you get the guy's name as well])
regardless of whether its caused by an earth movement or by a storm surge. There is a lot less death with the storm surge because we had some time to prepare and get away from shore. If we could predict earthquakes like we do storms it would make the 'time to die' greater that the 'time to escape'.
But the buildings, trees, hotels, businesses etcetera are just as vulnerable, and are just as devastated as Indonesia was (more if you consider the 'cost of replacement' value of the infrastructure.)
Don't worry it won't. Now the drilling and refineries can really proceed. No more environmentalists and NIMBY advocates.
Its going to become a waste land built on top of a swap (and a few graves) and nobody'll complain. It'll be like Alaska would have been except for the environmentalists.
The few pieces that are poking out of the wet sewage that is left of where it stood are going to be like rotted teeth long before any appreciable amount of rebuilding can happen.
I'd dedicate the ruins to hubris and let ecotourists have their way in there, in about 50 years.
Before Bush: Internet boom, high-tech in high gear, I loved my life.
Since: World Trade Center turned to a pile of smoking rubble by person who just hates US, Iraq war got by lying, won itself but peace lost, several thousand dead as a result, oil prices go to Near European price levels, oil reserves depleted, then economy struck by the loss of a major city.
stooges and stoogettes that are the other part of the 'barrier to entry' that you have to get past.
These people have no skills, no aptitude and no desire to learn anything. They are given a list of 'requirements' and if your resume doesn't match the list, its chucked onto the 'unskilled' pile.
You may be good at what you do, and you may be able to prove it in an interview, but you'll never get that far. The HR people are there to prevent you from doing that.
If you're going to work for an outfit without the HR stooges, thaty another kettle of fish. Just remember that the HR stooges were hired because they were necessary. (frightening isn't it?)
non-disclosure 'agreements' for almost 30 years. Its got worse since I came here ten years ago to the States.
I developped my best ideas based on the situations I found at the client sites. Those solutions to the problems are transferrable, but what they were a solution TO is not demonstrable because I can't show the data that led me to the conclusions I reached.
I'm sick and tired of people having made the same mistake over and over because they don't start having the problem until they reach a certain volume and complexity of data. And given how they were thinking as they blundered their way onto the problem, I don't expect them to blunder their way into the solution.
They know they have a problem (it costs too much) but they are looking to put a band-aid (off shoring and out sourcing) on a different boo-boo (its hard to admister things when the're done our way.)
That pricing scheme insures that we'll be mining the back catalog while the 'popular' stuff get zero play.
'Popular', meaning the latest 'artiste du jour' that they're warping into their 'sound', ripping off by making 'em pay for the studio time, the recording tame and material, the 'pressing' facilities, the 'cover art' and the promotion.
They're committing an internet suicide. You can't seriously do this without a broadcaster (and payola) structure. The buzz of an internet is completely counter to this.
When you (and I) can record, produce, publish and promote music at little or no cost, it makes no sense to go with a label.
This will mean the death of the ASCAP who will hate to start tracking playtime by song on an hourly cycle. And with an iPod shifting time, the results won't mean a thing anyway.
These **AA guys just love to shave by holding the straight edge razor against their necks and pressing down HARD.
They fuck up iTunes and I can predict their death as coming quite rapidly.
I can just see the ITMS front page:
"No non-indie songs anymore because the 'major' labels don't want to sell through us unless they can impose some nonsensical pay scales on us.
And as far as the radio stations go, the stuff they schedule is just oldies as filler between the ads. (The same with TV.)
I haven't gone into a record store since 2001 (I used to drop into Sam Goodies at the WTC before the fuckin'g terrorists pretended it was an airport.) I haven't listened to an entire album in years.
My iPod playlists would drive anyone nuts but they filled with what I like, and nothing but. If the RIAA doesn't like it, they can start delivering on music I DO want to hear. (As if. That bunch of vampires is totally talentless.)
I want to hear real music, not the 'artiste' of the week and her back up band. (What's with all the 'formerly poor' girlies with the fashion looks, no talent, who can barely hold a tune with both hands and who think a key is something that lets them into their squat?)
and don't give a flying fuck about iTunes or anything else. Economic arguments are totally wasted on people who have been utterly against ALL innovation since the player piano roll. They have fought, and lost, against EVERY innovation, because they feel threatened.
Its about control. Complete, total and absolute control of something that they have no control over, creativity.
WAKE THE FUCK UP! THEY'RE FUCKING VAMPIRES. AS LONG AS YOU HAVE AN OUNCE OF CREATIVITY IN ANY FIELD YOU'RE A TARGET.
Its not about costs. Its got nothing to do with economic rationalization. Its got nothing to do with success. Its got nothing to do with market forces.
Its got EVERYTHING to do with CONTROLLING prices.
They are the ultimate supply-side economists. They don't care what the Hell happens to the rest of the economy; the demand-side, market driven world the other 99.9999% of the people live in because 'they' want to be in 'control', of something that isn't theirs in the first place.
They don't understand creativity. They don't understand the urge to make something new. They can only squat there, lapping it up, like vampire bats at a neck wound, and use accounting tricks to enrich themselves.
Its not explicit like, "You will screw artists and prefer the dead to the living" but its in their 'product pricing' structure.
Corporate culture also screws things up for artists with the enshrining of the artist as a 'bitch-god(ess)' with whom its never about what its explicitely about (or some such clap trap.) This way they can keep up the mystery around the industry.
Satch'mo never went for it and, being black, they never went for him, 'cause he was just a dope smokin' 'nigger' and would never amount to much. SURPRISE! His sheer talent snuck in under their radar, (not hard since they don't know talent unless it hits them in the back of the head with a 2x4,) and he survived the killer, rat & roach infested, high colesterol, pace of life he had to live in order to pay the rent.
But they still held all the recording contracts so they didn't care.
There are books, lots of books, written about how shabbily artists have been treated over the years. Its not just a shame; its a crime.
And the people committing the crimes are doing so systematically. The music publishing/recording industry __hates__ musicians.
the CASE tools I was given to work with back in the eighties because I was going to 'cheat' the system and get some good tools instead of putting up with whatever I was given.
As long as the results come in on time and budget, you'd be amazed at what you can get away with.
When I learned recursive descent compilation, it opened up a world to me. I loved it.
The other students were all griping and asking what was the use of learning production rules and grammars. I was blown away by how blinkered and intellectually lazy they were.
Smalltalk didn't have a 'case' statement. I had to look at really crappy code filled with all these 'if:' blocks. That was an opportunity for me to write one.
I ended up writing two; a 'case:' and a 'cases:' which solved my 'ugly code' problem. Ran great too. I'd learned about code optimization was back in my days programming in BASIC.
the ability for companies to teach got decimated by the endless rounds of cost cutting.
HR people are supposed to be part of the solution, increasing the talets of the pool with 'on the job' training, but they are part of the problem because they are driving the need to increasingly specific 'skill sets' for entry positions.
Entry no longer means, 'getting in, figuring out which way is up, and fitting in making yourself helpful.'
Entry is now a list of requirements being administered by somebody who doesn't know, or want to know, what a job 'might' entail.
They went through the same cost cutting (some might say 'throat-slitting',) as the rest of the organizatin and the HR positions are now staffed by the survivors, the once eigteen-year-olds who managed to hang on because they didn't cost enough to get rid of.
'Knowing' is now everything and 'being able to figure it out' is now worth nothing because it can't be 'measured scientifically' by people who administer the tests.
I am now an old techie and I am just now getting a bachelor's degree in a non-techie field because I couldn't ever get another job doing what I'm doing right now.
I was into object-orientation and Smalltalk since 1985 (Methods) and I am closing my career in 2005 with VSE (after having worked with/V 286,/V Win,/V PM,/V Mac & VisualWorks and VisualAge) all without ever getting an appraisal from one of these HR 'survivors' because they wouldn't know an object if they tripped over one.
I am also aware of the limitations of objects (without relationships, they aren't enough) but I don't care enough anymore to 'fight' the good fight.
The machines that I've worked on (Wang 2200, IBM 360s, DEC PDP/11s, IBM 370s, Z80, x86s, PowerPCs), the languages I've used (BASICs, Cs, Pascals, ProLOg, Lisps, APL, PL/I, Smalltalk's, PHP), the operating systems I've used (Wang BOSS, RSTS/E, OS/360, CPM, Microsoft pre&post Windows, Mac Linux,), the database systems (VSAM, ISAM, IDMS DB, MDBS III, MySQL, PostGreSQL,) didn't really matter worth a damn.
They were just means to an end. I just kept the 'end in sight' and the solution was as simple as following a line.
Show me a porn site that doesn't want people's browsers sent its way. Half of spam sent is trying to achieve that effect (okay and infect you with spayware and other creepy crawlies.)
They must be be getting their money some other way than by earning it.
So who are the players here? What links are there to some competition. (And there must already be a way to tell search 'bots' to ignore subdirectories so this suit is nothing but a legal annoyance, not a valid suit.)
There's a threshold where the fields around the rotor get disorganized (expect geomagnetic migrations to get all screwed up,) and then field lines reverse as the threshold is crossed.
Nothing actually happens to the rotor (it doesn't spin backwards all of a sudden) but the field lines generated are inverted.
The screen would get covered with pop-up windows, without close buttons, for 'embarassing' products to treat mortifying conditions that don't get discussed in mixed company.
And then my computer would wipe the hard drive, with Clippy animatedly saying 'You wanted to wipe that hard drive and all your work? Well here we go. Digital 'sepuku!'", and then, after shredding all my files and pounding my data into the floor, reboot into a RSOD or BSOD.
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While we may be able to blow the snot out of anything we shoot at, I think we should at least wait until we evacuate the city before we adopt that option for 'reconstruction.'
And sand, specially wet sand, is HEAVY and, being sand, is GRITTY. The two worst things you can ask to transport in a plane.
I don't see the Navy having any use for precision guided sand bags. Sorry.
Without air, 4 minutes.
Without water, 4 days.
Without food, 4 weeks.
Without sex, 4 get abboud it!
I love it. Think of the advertising potential.
Male voiceover
"Microsoft, used by 100% of all sex offenders. Its not only the law, it their punishment."
Oh! I just fell off my chair.
Its not even that hard.
Try that with IE and you need a tracing debugger (which tells you what what the software is doing, instead of all those comments and var names and crap about intent as opposed to what the guy really wrote [of course with open source, you get the guy's name as well])
Anybody who doesn't drink wine or beer isn't civilized. Pop a cork in Rhyad and you're a dead man. Were's the fun in that.
regardless of whether its caused by an earth movement or by a storm surge. There is a lot less death with the storm surge because we had some time to prepare and get away from shore. If we could predict earthquakes like we do storms it would make the 'time to die' greater that the 'time to escape'.
But the buildings, trees, hotels, businesses etcetera are just as vulnerable, and are just as devastated as Indonesia was (more if you consider the 'cost of replacement' value of the infrastructure.)
communism on one hand (or out on side of his mouth) and islamic militancy on the other hand (or out the other side of his mouth.)
An argument made by someone who believes that anybody who listens to him is too stupid to know what the words mean.
as long as you keep your top on.
Don't worry it won't. Now the drilling and refineries can really proceed. No more environmentalists and NIMBY advocates.
Its going to become a waste land built on top of a swap (and a few graves) and nobody'll complain. It'll be like Alaska would have been except for the environmentalists.
The few pieces that are poking out of the wet sewage that is left of where it stood are going to be like rotted teeth long before any appreciable amount of rebuilding can happen.
I'd dedicate the ruins to hubris and let ecotourists have their way in there, in about 50 years.
Lets review.
Before Bush: Internet boom, high-tech in high gear, I loved my life.
Since: World Trade Center turned to a pile of smoking rubble by person who just hates US, Iraq war got by lying, won itself but peace lost, several thousand dead as a result, oil prices go to Near European price levels, oil reserves depleted, then economy struck by the loss of a major city.
Somebody tell me who let George in?
stooges and stoogettes that are the other part of the 'barrier to entry' that you have to get past.
These people have no skills, no aptitude and no desire to learn anything. They are given a list of 'requirements' and if your resume doesn't match the list, its chucked onto the 'unskilled' pile.
You may be good at what you do, and you may be able to prove it in an interview, but you'll never get that far. The HR people are there to prevent you from doing that.
If you're going to work for an outfit without the HR stooges, thaty another kettle of fish. Just remember that the HR stooges were hired because they were necessary. (frightening isn't it?)
non-disclosure 'agreements' for almost 30 years. Its got worse since I came here ten years ago to the States.
I developped my best ideas based on the situations I found at the client sites. Those solutions to the problems are transferrable, but what they were a solution TO is not demonstrable because I can't show the data that led me to the conclusions I reached.
I'm sick and tired of people having made the same mistake over and over because they don't start having the problem until they reach a certain volume and complexity of data. And given how they were thinking as they blundered their way onto the problem, I don't expect them to blunder their way into the solution.
They know they have a problem (it costs too much) but they are looking to put a band-aid (off shoring and out sourcing) on a different boo-boo (its hard to admister things when the're done our way.)
I'm leaving the field because of it.
That pricing scheme insures that we'll be mining the back catalog while the 'popular' stuff get zero play.
'Popular', meaning the latest 'artiste du jour' that they're warping into their 'sound', ripping off by making 'em pay for the studio time, the recording tame and material, the 'pressing' facilities, the 'cover art' and the promotion.
They're committing an internet suicide. You can't seriously do this without a broadcaster (and payola) structure. The buzz of an internet is completely counter to this.
When you (and I) can record, produce, publish and promote music at little or no cost, it makes no sense to go with a label.
This will mean the death of the ASCAP who will hate to start tracking playtime by song on an hourly cycle. And with an iPod shifting time, the results won't mean a thing anyway.
These **AA guys just love to shave by holding the straight edge razor against their necks and pressing down HARD.
They fuck up iTunes and I can predict their death as coming quite rapidly.
I can just see the ITMS front page:
"No non-indie songs anymore because the 'major' labels don't want to sell through us unless they can impose some nonsensical pay scales on us.
Indie music for sale at $.99 a pop."
And as far as the radio stations go, the stuff they schedule is just oldies as filler between the ads. (The same with TV.)
I haven't gone into a record store since 2001 (I used to drop into Sam Goodies at the WTC before the fuckin'g terrorists pretended it was an airport.) I haven't listened to an entire album in years.
My iPod playlists would drive anyone nuts but they filled with what I like, and nothing but. If the RIAA doesn't like it, they can start delivering on music I DO want to hear. (As if. That bunch of vampires is totally talentless.)
I want to hear real music, not the 'artiste' of the week and her back up band. (What's with all the 'formerly poor' girlies with the fashion looks, no talent, who can barely hold a tune with both hands and who think a key is something that lets them into their squat?)
and don't give a flying fuck about iTunes or anything else. Economic arguments are totally wasted on people who have been utterly against ALL innovation since the player piano roll. They have fought, and lost, against EVERY innovation, because they feel threatened.
Its about control. Complete, total and absolute control of something that they have no control over, creativity.
WAKE THE FUCK UP! THEY'RE FUCKING VAMPIRES. AS LONG AS YOU HAVE AN OUNCE OF CREATIVITY IN ANY FIELD YOU'RE A TARGET.
Its not about costs. Its got nothing to do with economic rationalization. Its got nothing to do with success. Its got nothing to do with market forces.
Its got EVERYTHING to do with CONTROLLING prices.
They are the ultimate supply-side economists. They don't care what the Hell happens to the rest of the economy; the demand-side, market driven world the other 99.9999% of the people live in because 'they' want to be in 'control', of something that isn't theirs in the first place.
They don't understand creativity. They don't understand the urge to make something new. They can only squat there, lapping it up, like vampire bats at a neck wound, and use accounting tricks to enrich themselves.
Its not explicit like, "You will screw artists and prefer the dead to the living" but its in their 'product pricing' structure.
Corporate culture also screws things up for artists with the enshrining of the artist as a 'bitch-god(ess)' with whom its never about what its explicitely about (or some such clap trap.) This way they can keep up the mystery around the industry.
Satch'mo never went for it and, being black, they never went for him, 'cause he was just a dope smokin' 'nigger' and would never amount to much. SURPRISE! His sheer talent snuck in under their radar, (not hard since they don't know talent unless it hits them in the back of the head with a 2x4,) and he survived the killer, rat & roach infested, high colesterol, pace of life he had to live in order to pay the rent.
But they still held all the recording contracts so they didn't care.
There are books, lots of books, written about how shabbily artists have been treated over the years. Its not just a shame; its a crime.
And the people committing the crimes are doing so systematically. The music publishing/recording industry __hates__ musicians.
Sad, isn't it?
the CASE tools I was given to work with back in the eighties because I was going to 'cheat' the system and get some good tools instead of putting up with whatever I was given.
As long as the results come in on time and budget, you'd be amazed at what you can get away with.
When I learned recursive descent compilation, it opened up a world to me. I loved it.
The other students were all griping and asking what was the use of learning production rules and grammars. I was blown away by how blinkered and intellectually lazy they were.
Smalltalk didn't have a 'case' statement. I had to look at really crappy code filled with all these 'if:' blocks. That was an opportunity for me to write one.
I ended up writing two; a 'case:' and a 'cases:' which solved my 'ugly code' problem. Ran great too. I'd learned about code optimization was back in my days programming in BASIC.
the ability for companies to teach got decimated by the endless rounds of cost cutting.
/V 286, /V Win, /V PM, /V Mac & VisualWorks and VisualAge) all without ever getting an appraisal from one of these HR 'survivors' because they wouldn't know an object if they tripped over one.
:-)
HR people are supposed to be part of the solution, increasing the talets of the pool with 'on the job' training, but they are part of the problem because they are driving the need to increasingly specific 'skill sets' for entry positions.
Entry no longer means, 'getting in, figuring out which way is up, and fitting in making yourself helpful.'
Entry is now a list of requirements being administered by somebody who doesn't know, or want to know, what a job 'might' entail.
They went through the same cost cutting (some might say 'throat-slitting',) as the rest of the organizatin and the HR positions are now staffed by the survivors, the once eigteen-year-olds who managed to hang on because they didn't cost enough to get rid of.
'Knowing' is now everything and 'being able to figure it out' is now worth nothing because it can't be 'measured scientifically' by people who administer the tests.
I am now an old techie and I am just now getting a bachelor's degree in a non-techie field because I couldn't ever get another job doing what I'm doing right now.
I was into object-orientation and Smalltalk since 1985 (Methods) and I am closing my career in 2005 with VSE (after having worked with
I am also aware of the limitations of objects (without relationships, they aren't enough) but I don't care enough anymore to 'fight' the good fight.
The machines that I've worked on (Wang 2200, IBM 360s, DEC PDP/11s, IBM 370s, Z80, x86s, PowerPCs), the languages I've used (BASICs, Cs, Pascals, ProLOg, Lisps, APL, PL/I, Smalltalk's, PHP), the operating systems I've used (Wang BOSS, RSTS/E, OS/360, CPM, Microsoft pre&post Windows, Mac Linux,), the database systems (VSAM, ISAM, IDMS DB, MDBS III, MySQL, PostGreSQL,) didn't really matter worth a damn.
They were just means to an end. I just kept the 'end in sight' and the solution was as simple as following a line.
After 20 years, I figure I deserve a break.
Show me a porn site that doesn't want people's browsers sent its way. Half of spam sent is trying to achieve that effect (okay and infect you with spayware and other creepy crawlies.)
They must be be getting their money some other way than by earning it.
So who are the players here? What links are there to some competition. (And there must already be a way to tell search 'bots' to ignore subdirectories so this suit is nothing but a legal annoyance, not a valid suit.)
There's a threshold where the fields around the rotor get disorganized (expect geomagnetic migrations to get all screwed up,) and then field lines reverse as the threshold is crossed.
Nothing actually happens to the rotor (it doesn't spin backwards all of a sudden) but the field lines generated are inverted.
BURN them to the ground. They are pestilential piles of foul flattus. (Paranoid overreaction. :-)
that I would inflict upon you. That's why I don't go to the fuckin' movies anymore.
The screen would get covered with pop-up windows, without close buttons, for 'embarassing' products to treat mortifying conditions that don't get discussed in mixed company.
And then my computer would wipe the hard drive, with Clippy animatedly saying 'You wanted to wipe that hard drive and all your work? Well here we go. Digital 'sepuku!'", and then, after shredding all my files and pounding my data into the floor, reboot into a RSOD or BSOD.
That why I use slackware and OS X.