"success is 10% sweat, 30% connection, and 60% luck."
That attitude explains why a lot of people fail and then bemoan failing but won't take ownership of their own failure.
My success is 80% sweat, 1% connection and 19% luck.
Luck comes in two varieties: good and bad. You need to be prepared to take advantage of the good luck and resilient enough to keep pushing through the bad luck.
Stop thinking that other people are succeeding because of their connections and luck. Your attitude is just excuse making. Start putting in the sweat to make things happen and stick with it. Good things take a lot of time and work.
This is really a protectionism measure. Finland has no domestic coal production. What they're doing is blocking energy imports to protect their domestic energy sector, what there is of it. Not a bad idea, but that is the truth.
This is a good upgrade to improve the file system. Among other things it improves protection against hackers and hostile governments (try and find another kind...).
Makes me wonder why he didn't keep a backup copy... Anything I value highly I keep backups of, preferably multiple backups of, preferably multiple off-site backups of.
I guess the data wasn't valuable.
(I used to do data recovery long ago in another millennium. After recovering someone's data I would (try to) teach them to keep backups. There was one lady who lost her thesis three times. Each time she would have me recover it. I asked her why she doesn't follow my nice instructions about making backups. She replied, "Why do I need to make backups? I've got you. You'll recover it for me." Some people think differently.)
Makes me wonder why you didn't keep a backup copy of North Korea... Anything I value highly I keep backups of, preferably multiple backups of, preferably multiple off-site backups of.
I guess the data wasn't valuable.
And no, South Korea is not a backup of North Korea. That's a different version fork.
(I used to do data recovery long ago in another millennium. After recovering someone's data I would (try to) teach them to keep backups. There was one lady who lost her thesis three times. Each time she would have me recover it. I asked her why she doesn't follow my nice instructions about making backups. She replied, "Why do I need to make backups? I've got you. You'll recover it for me." Some people think differently.)
Reducing the human population isn't really the answer. If anything we need more people so that we have more thinkers solving the big problems that lay before us. For each of them we need hundreds to thousands of support people. So increased population is really the solution.
The issue is not over population but rather over use of resources. People can live a lot lighter on the land than they currently do, especially in most developed countries. I live lightly enough that I have a negative carbon footprint. Technology is helping with this by reducing the materials and energy needed to live an advanced lifestyle. Simple example is how a computer today fits in the palm of your hand, uses about 1,000th the resources and is about 27,000 to 100,000 times more powerful than the computers of 30 years ago.
The biggest issue is too much travel.
So, go forth and breed. Have lots of children. Teach science and ecology to your children. And make sure they have understandings of history, sociology, economics, etc as well. In other words, a well rounded education such that some of them may become the great thinkers of tomorrow who will further improve life here on Earth, and lead us forth into space.
Right now I can raise meat on pasture without the need for industrial inputs, no petroleum inputs, no synthetic fertilizer made from oil, no high energy inputs, etc.
But as soon as you make it artificial then it will need inputs that you can not get locally, that you can not produce naturally. This makes you dependent on Big Corp.
"burger will be delicious, environmentally friendly, and be indistinguishable from a regular burger."
And the burger will be brought to you by Big Corp...
Industrial production of food will mean not local and not small business and not family farms.
Animal agriculture is tightly interwoven with vegetable, fruit and grain production on a sustainable basis. By separating them and becoming dependent on industrial systems you make the entire system more centralized and fragile as well as less sustainable.
Unfortunately there is no electric company fiber within a mile and a half either - opposite direction too. I really am literally at, or beyond it rather, the last mile. There are side benefits though. It's peaceful here.:)
The fiber in this case is the local Telco's fiber. They installed it under some sort of grant with the plant to roll it out to the last mile. But as I noted above, that was years ago and nothing further has happened.
I believe the tower north of Barre is Verizon which became Fairpoint. My mountains have LOS to it but I have not been able to negotiate anything satisfactorily with them.
There aren't 10 to 20 people, never mind 10 to 20 interested people in our area so strength in numbers doesn't work. I explored setting up my own system to share in our valley but there isn't interest.
This is what it is like at the last mile (and a half). Hopefully someday they'll roll out the fiber to us. I've offered to do the install down to where the telco's fiber ends but they aren't interested.
"I used to be exactly like you and scoffed at the idea of retirement. Why would I want to stop doing something I love so much? And then I spent 20 years in the real world. Now I'm 42 and can't wait to retire."
I'm a lot older than you and have a list of things I want to do that extends over 1,000 years. I don't think I'll be looking to retire anytime soon. Or perhaps it would be better to say I have retired from one thing to another over the centuries... So much to do and so little time to do it in.
You're right. I was just thinking about the modern corporate pensions but for military there is a long history of pensions. I wasn't aware of the slave version.
Fiber ends about 1.5 miles from us. The local telco has not deployed fiber to any homes yet - they're just using it between their boxes. They keep promising to deploy to homes but it's been, I think, seven years since they started talking about that.
Believe me, I've looked at LOS options. My mountain has clear sight but I wasn't able to negotiate a location in town for a price I wanted to pay for the other side.
I'm actually on the border line between telcos. Neither comes to our home. I laid a mile and a half of 12 pair UG to get phone service decades ago and I continue to maintain that for now. Over that I have aDSL at a moderate speed that bumped up a little a few years ago - that was nice.
The whole concepts of pensions and retirements is artificial, modern and soon to be not relevant.
Both pensions and retirement came about in the last century during a period when the lifespan was much shorter. Social Security is the same. It was planned and set to be a date when most people would already be dead. Since then lifespans dramatically increased which put a huge burden on SS & pensions.
Retirement is not necessary. What happened in the bygone years is people shifted from more active to less active tasks as they got older. This makes more sense than stopping working all together.
There is a coming time when people will live a lot longer and may live practically forever. When that happens the whole concept of pensions and retirement makes absolutely no sense, even less sense than it does today with people living for 20 to 30 or even 40 years beyond their working years.
We have no mobile, no cell service either. Also no cable. Only service option is local telco which is very expensive and not very fast. No satellite either due to the mountains.
Fortunately a lot of banks and other web sites are now catching on to the fact that changing passwords all the time and making them so obscure is not helping with security and IS massively blowing up customer service costs as well as frustrating customers unnecessarily. There was a time when all my banks and lots of other institutions forced me to change my password every month or few months. There isn't a single one that requires that anymore.
Better yet is that Apple's Safari, MacOS, iOS and probably Windows now have integrated password management systems that remove the password issue from 99% of web sites.
The TRS-80 wasn't my first computer but a friend had one which I used. It was a good intro to concepts for it's time.
The first 'personal' computer I used was a KIM-1 which was a motherboard with a hex keypad and hex LED output. So the TRS-80 was a huge step up from that.
My second computer was the Apple I at school which was very barebones but again a step up from the KIM-1.
I bought a Z-80 based Exidy Sorcerer which came with minimal memory that I boosted by piggy backing the additional memory chips literally on the backs of the built in memory and doing a little soldered wire wrapping to reroute a few signals.
But the first computer I used was a mainframe at UNH at Keene, NH. That was punch cards. So all of the above were huge steps up from that. Mostly because of time. With the university mainframe one only got a little bit of time to use the system. With a home computer one is able to really work with it, mod it and learn.
So while many people diss the TRS-80, calling it the Trash-80, they are missing the point. For it's time it was a good intro to computing.
Interactive things tend to be more addictive than dead things. I mean... think about it... How addicted are you to your dead friends, dead pets, dead rocks? Aren't the interactive ones more fun?
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"success is 10% sweat, 30% connection, and 60% luck."
That attitude explains why a lot of people fail and then bemoan failing but won't take ownership of their own failure.
My success is 80% sweat, 1% connection and 19% luck.
Luck comes in two varieties: good and bad. You need to be prepared to take advantage of the good luck and resilient enough to keep pushing through the bad luck.
Stop thinking that other people are succeeding because of their connections and luck. Your attitude is just excuse making. Start putting in the sweat to make things happen and stick with it. Good things take a lot of time and work.
This is really a protectionism measure. Finland has no domestic coal production. What they're doing is blocking energy imports to protect their domestic energy sector, what there is of it. Not a bad idea, but that is the truth.
"You can squeeze the Juicero bags with your bare hands."
Which makes for a very expensive $5-$7 cup of juice.
46 oz of V-8 Original is only $2.84.
This is a good upgrade to improve the file system. Among other things it improves protection against hackers and hostile governments (try and find another kind...).
XYZZY often works too...
Makes me wonder why he didn't keep a backup copy... Anything I value highly I keep backups of, preferably multiple backups of, preferably multiple off-site backups of.
I guess the data wasn't valuable.
(I used to do data recovery long ago in another millennium. After recovering someone's data I would (try to) teach them to keep backups. There was one lady who lost her thesis three times. Each time she would have me recover it. I asked her why she doesn't follow my nice instructions about making backups. She replied, "Why do I need to make backups? I've got you. You'll recover it for me." Some people think differently.)
Makes me wonder why you didn't keep a backup copy of North Korea... Anything I value highly I keep backups of, preferably multiple backups of, preferably multiple off-site backups of.
I guess the data wasn't valuable.
And no, South Korea is not a backup of North Korea. That's a different version fork.
(I used to do data recovery long ago in another millennium. After recovering someone's data I would (try to) teach them to keep backups. There was one lady who lost her thesis three times. Each time she would have me recover it. I asked her why she doesn't follow my nice instructions about making backups. She replied, "Why do I need to make backups? I've got you. You'll recover it for me." Some people think differently.)
Reducing the human population isn't really the answer. If anything we need more people so that we have more thinkers solving the big problems that lay before us. For each of them we need hundreds to thousands of support people. So increased population is really the solution.
The issue is not over population but rather over use of resources. People can live a lot lighter on the land than they currently do, especially in most developed countries. I live lightly enough that I have a negative carbon footprint. Technology is helping with this by reducing the materials and energy needed to live an advanced lifestyle. Simple example is how a computer today fits in the palm of your hand, uses about 1,000th the resources and is about 27,000 to 100,000 times more powerful than the computers of 30 years ago.
The biggest issue is too much travel.
So, go forth and breed. Have lots of children. Teach science and ecology to your children. And make sure they have understandings of history, sociology, economics, etc as well. In other words, a well rounded education such that some of them may become the great thinkers of tomorrow who will further improve life here on Earth, and lead us forth into space.
The problem is it will be with industrial inputs.
Right now I can raise meat on pasture without the need for industrial inputs, no petroleum inputs, no synthetic fertilizer made from oil, no high energy inputs, etc.
But as soon as you make it artificial then it will need inputs that you can not get locally, that you can not produce naturally. This makes you dependent on Big Corp.
No thanks.
"burger will be delicious, environmentally friendly, and be indistinguishable from a regular burger."
And the burger will be brought to you by Big Corp...
Industrial production of food will mean not local and not small business and not family farms.
Animal agriculture is tightly interwoven with vegetable, fruit and grain production on a sustainable basis. By separating them and becoming dependent on industrial systems you make the entire system more centralized and fragile as well as less sustainable.
That's very bad.
Unfortunately there is no electric company fiber within a mile and a half either - opposite direction too. I really am literally at, or beyond it rather, the last mile. There are side benefits though. It's peaceful here. :)
The fiber in this case is the local Telco's fiber. They installed it under some sort of grant with the plant to roll it out to the last mile. But as I noted above, that was years ago and nothing further has happened.
I believe the tower north of Barre is Verizon which became Fairpoint. My mountains have LOS to it but I have not been able to negotiate anything satisfactorily with them.
There aren't 10 to 20 people, never mind 10 to 20 interested people in our area so strength in numbers doesn't work. I explored setting up my own system to share in our valley but there isn't interest.
This is what it is like at the last mile (and a half). Hopefully someday they'll roll out the fiber to us. I've offered to do the install down to where the telco's fiber ends but they aren't interested.
"I used to be exactly like you and scoffed at the idea of retirement. Why would I want to stop doing something I love so much? And then I spent 20 years in the real world. Now I'm 42 and can't wait to retire."
I'm a lot older than you and have a list of things I want to do that extends over 1,000 years. I don't think I'll be looking to retire anytime soon. Or perhaps it would be better to say I have retired from one thing to another over the centuries... So much to do and so little time to do it in.
You're right. I was just thinking about the modern corporate pensions but for military there is a long history of pensions. I wasn't aware of the slave version.
Fiber ends about 1.5 miles from us. The local telco has not deployed fiber to any homes yet - they're just using it between their boxes. They keep promising to deploy to homes but it's been, I think, seven years since they started talking about that.
Believe me, I've looked at LOS options. My mountain has clear sight but I wasn't able to negotiate a location in town for a price I wanted to pay for the other side.
I'm actually on the border line between telcos. Neither comes to our home. I laid a mile and a half of 12 pair UG to get phone service decades ago and I continue to maintain that for now. Over that I have aDSL at a moderate speed that bumped up a little a few years ago - that was nice.
Wrong. It is a mile and a half, not half a mile.
Interesting that you think have any idea about it thought. So were you just guessing and simply wrong? I'm curious.
The whole concepts of pensions and retirements is artificial, modern and soon to be not relevant.
Both pensions and retirement came about in the last century during a period when the lifespan was much shorter. Social Security is the same. It was planned and set to be a date when most people would already be dead. Since then lifespans dramatically increased which put a huge burden on SS & pensions.
Retirement is not necessary. What happened in the bygone years is people shifted from more active to less active tasks as they got older. This makes more sense than stopping working all together.
There is a coming time when people will live a lot longer and may live practically forever. When that happens the whole concept of pensions and retirement makes absolutely no sense, even less sense than it does today with people living for 20 to 30 or even 40 years beyond their working years.
We have no mobile, no cell service either. Also no cable. Only service option is local telco which is very expensive and not very fast. No satellite either due to the mountains.
The question wasn't is it harder, the posited issue was can you. Stick to the topic.
Fortunately a lot of banks and other web sites are now catching on to the fact that changing passwords all the time and making them so obscure is not helping with security and IS massively blowing up customer service costs as well as frustrating customers unnecessarily. There was a time when all my banks and lots of other institutions forced me to change my password every month or few months. There isn't a single one that requires that anymore.
Better yet is that Apple's Safari, MacOS, iOS and probably Windows now have integrated password management systems that remove the password issue from 99% of web sites.
You can trick humans by defacing street signs... So... What else is new? This is a "no-duh!"
If you don't know about history does that make it less real? Perhaps that is their theory.
I guess you're not very confident about your statement since you hide behind a mask...
The TRS-80 wasn't my first computer but a friend had one which I used. It was a good intro to concepts for it's time.
The first 'personal' computer I used was a KIM-1 which was a motherboard with a hex keypad and hex LED output. So the TRS-80 was a huge step up from that.
My second computer was the Apple I at school which was very barebones but again a step up from the KIM-1.
I bought a Z-80 based Exidy Sorcerer which came with minimal memory that I boosted by piggy backing the additional memory chips literally on the backs of the built in memory and doing a little soldered wire wrapping to reroute a few signals.
But the first computer I used was a mainframe at UNH at Keene, NH. That was punch cards. So all of the above were huge steps up from that. Mostly because of time. With the university mainframe one only got a little bit of time to use the system. With a home computer one is able to really work with it, mod it and learn.
So while many people diss the TRS-80, calling it the Trash-80, they are missing the point. For it's time it was a good intro to computing.
Interactive things tend to be more addictive than dead things. I mean... think about it... How addicted are you to your dead friends, dead pets, dead rocks? Aren't the interactive ones more fun?