Who else finds blue LEDs annoying? The eye is most sensible to blue lights, so the same amount of blue light will be far more noticeable than any other colour.
Yet there is a plethora of gadgets that are illuminated in blue, just for show-off value; I can understand that the blue LED eluded researchers for decades*, but now, we know that blue LEDs are possible, so, can you please stop sprinkling them all over the place? Thanks.
* When VolksWagen came out with the Golf/Rabbit in the late 1970's, it actually asked the USDOT to change the requirement that high-beam indicator lights be blue and allow other colours, because they wanted an all-LED dashboard, and at the time, blue LEDs were not possible.
The USDOT told them to pound sand, so there was a lone lightbulb in their dashsboards, the one for the high-beam indicator light.
Like if the myriad non-technical morons (marketoids, customer-service reps, account executives, MBAs) that pester big companies would be able to deal with such technology...
There cannot be a frea mahkit in something as vital as health-care; this is why all other industrialized countries have a gratuit health-care system for their citizens. And in all cases, it yields much better results for the same per-capita expense.
Period.
Improving the health care is simply a matter of putting more money in the system, public money that is, unencumbered by the burdensome obligation to turn in a profit.
The most important thing for this "new", "improved" intarweb would be to scrap it's peer-to-peer nature, and strictly establish a client-server architecture that will prevent the lowly peons from running their own servers or being anonymous, leaving this to well-established croporations, so they can control the content flowing on it.
The US is a democracy with political freedom of speech. Thus, one can criticize any figure of authority. This is part of life, and school is supposed to teach life.
When school teaches that criticizing/lampooning authorities is unkosher, that school is automatically unamerican and the principal should be shipped to Guantanamo without so much as a dildo to idle the time.
The US is a democracy with political freedom of speech. Thus, one can criticize any figure of authority. This is part of life, and school is supposed to teach life.
When school teaches that criticizing/lampooning authorities is unkosher, that school is automatically unamerican and the principal should be shipped to Guantanamo without so much as a dildo to idle the time.
50 years ago, when my father was in military college, they once went to the nearby airfield and brought in (by hand!!!) a DC-3 plane and set it in the middle of the main garden.
The stunt includes flattenning a chain-link fence between the airfield and the garden.
Also, a staff seargent who was overly fond of his Morris Mini Cooper often found it perched on top of the decorative fountain...
I SCUBA-dive. Where I live, a controversy brewing over the lat 15 years or so has resulted in the government instituting a "diver's license". The thing is that SCUBA shops offer the training and certification, which is, in fact, like car dealers not only driving driving lessons but also giving the license tests.
You can see that with such a system, diving shops have no real incentive to "sink" a failing student...
This system yields enormous classes of 15 people to one instructor, and the net result was some fatalities, hence the controversy and government "diver's licenses".
So, here I was criticizing the system on the internet, and one day, I walk into a diving shop, only to be bluntly told to fuck-off because "I criticize the system on the intarweb".
The silliest thing is that this was the only shop who did not have it's captive herd of instructors, but rather sent the students to independent instructors (a muuuuch better system). As a matter of fact, when people wanted SCUBA classes, I even sent them there!!!! (the only thing I could bitch about that diving shop is that they sold DACOR stuff, which is basically for losers - thankfully, DACOR has since folded-up...)
But, when you are clueless, you are clueless, so they stopped getting people referred from me...
Dude, you talk like you think greed is something new. Grow up. It was greed that has driven the US to be the greatest nation in the world. It will one day drive this world to be the greatest in the universe.
I don't know of anyone who has worked at one company for 20 years and advanced from mail clerk to a VP.
I do. At 20, during the Depression, my grandfather started working as a clerk in his grandfather's distillery. When he retired, in 1969, he was the president.
And before you say that it was because he was the grandson of the owner, his brother who was hired at the same time as a clerk retired as a clerk.
We are going to have federal elections within the next six to eight weeks. So this bill will die, and will not be ressucitated before a fair number of months.
Police has no morality whatsoever; they are not sworn-in to the Constitution like the armed forces are, and so are open to perform all abuses for the rich and powerful.
One of the inmates, Oliver D. Cruz, was described as mentally retarded, though that conclusion was challenged by prosecutors earlier this week.
Well, since they are from Texas, the inmate would very much likely to seem to be not retarded at all if the prosecutors compared themselves to the inmate...
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Here are the elusive Microsoft fanboys. We don't notice them because they are so insignifiant and incompetent and unglamorous and dull.
Yet there is a plethora of gadgets that are illuminated in blue, just for show-off value; I can understand that the blue LED eluded researchers for decades*, but now, we know that blue LEDs are possible, so, can you please stop sprinkling them all over the place? Thanks.
* When VolksWagen came out with the Golf/Rabbit in the late 1970's, it actually asked the USDOT to change the requirement that high-beam indicator lights be blue and allow other colours, because they wanted an all-LED dashboard, and at the time, blue LEDs were not possible.
The USDOT told them to pound sand, so there was a lone lightbulb in their dashsboards, the one for the high-beam indicator light.
When a sizeable portion of people believe the earth is 6000 years old (if not flat),
when a sizeable portion of people go to church every sunday,
when a sizeable portion of people think that condoms are evil,
when a sizeable portion of people think that atheists are the tool of satan,
when a sizeable portion of people think that guns reduce crime,
it means that the general level of stupidity is too high to have everyone to be able to use a computer, because computers are logic.
And will the backbones follow suit???
Yes, it's called a "library"; in fact, this is where I got 90% of my music collection, from borrowed CDs that I ripped.
Welll, "Patrick" is irish, no??? :) :) :)
Fuck-you RIAA and consorts. (see .sig)
To me, the decision is clear-cut.
There cannot be a frea mahkit in something as vital as health-care; this is why all other industrialized countries have a gratuit health-care system for their citizens. And in all cases, it yields much better results for the same per-capita expense.
Period.
Improving the health care is simply a matter of putting more money in the system, public money that is, unencumbered by the burdensome obligation to turn in a profit.
It's marketing.
T-1s are "old", business-class products. So they are not sold by the same marketoid types who push consumer broadband.
Dont't forget that you're dealing with a big phone company, so your everyday normal cartesian logic will not take hold there.
The most important thing for this "new", "improved" intarweb would be to scrap it's peer-to-peer nature, and strictly establish a client-server architecture that will prevent the lowly peons from running their own servers or being anonymous, leaving this to well-established croporations, so they can control the content flowing on it.
When school teaches that criticizing/lampooning authorities is unkosher, that school is automatically unamerican and the principal should be shipped to Guantanamo without so much as a dildo to idle the time.
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When school teaches that criticizing/lampooning authorities is unkosher, that school is automatically unamerican and the principal should be shipped to Guantanamo without so much as a dildo to idle the time.
50 years ago, when my father was in military college, they once went to the nearby airfield and brought in (by hand!!!) a DC-3 plane and set it in the middle of the main garden. The stunt includes flattenning a chain-link fence between the airfield and the garden. Also, a staff seargent who was overly fond of his Morris Mini Cooper often found it perched on top of the decorative fountain...
It's a classic case of "in order to save the village we had to burn it"...
I SCUBA-dive. Where I live, a controversy brewing over the lat 15 years or so has resulted in the government instituting a "diver's license". The thing is that SCUBA shops offer the training and certification, which is, in fact, like car dealers not only driving driving lessons but also giving the license tests.
You can see that with such a system, diving shops have no real incentive to "sink" a failing student...
This system yields enormous classes of 15 people to one instructor, and the net result was some fatalities, hence the controversy and government "diver's licenses".
So, here I was criticizing the system on the internet, and one day, I walk into a diving shop, only to be bluntly told to fuck-off because "I criticize the system on the intarweb".
The silliest thing is that this was the only shop who did not have it's captive herd of instructors, but rather sent the students to independent instructors (a muuuuch better system). As a matter of fact, when people wanted SCUBA classes, I even sent them there!!!! (the only thing I could bitch about that diving shop is that they sold DACOR stuff, which is basically for losers - thankfully, DACOR has since folded-up...)
But, when you are clueless, you are clueless, so they stopped getting people referred from me...
And before you say that it was because he was the grandson of the owner, his brother who was hired at the same time as a clerk retired as a clerk.
We are going to have federal elections within the next six to eight weeks. So this bill will die, and will not be ressucitated before a fair number of months.
Police has no morality whatsoever; they are not sworn-in to the Constitution like the armed forces are, and so are open to perform all abuses for the rich and powerful.
I am not in the US.