You would be a fool to believe that the government is not accessing your emails, tweets, cloud data, phone calls, etc.
In addition to these things they are also scanning your automobile license plate and logging it's locations, tracking your electric usage through smart meters, monitoring your credit card usage and using recognition software to track you on the streets and in public buildings.
Once the government has surveillance capabilities they use it. Now they also have powerful processing, data mining and data warehousing capabilities and they're using those to the hilt. Much of it is automated.
You are being watched. It has nothing to do with your paranoia. Assume it. Only an idiot would think otherwise.
I stopped testing against IE six years ago. Microsoft breaks too many rules to bother trying to be compatible with them. When users hit problems with IE on my web sites I tell them to get a different browser like Safari, FireFox or Opera. After over a decade of dealing with Microsoft's arrogance I decided it wasn't worth it. If users want my content they either need to get a real browser or put up with the problems IE delivers to them.
You call it a bug, we call it a feature. Every warp drive is sold with a handy dandy star system sterilizer so that when you arrive at your destination you know it will be clean and tidy, not infected with any despicable life forms!
The irony is that text book is explicit proof that vegetarians do exactly the things they accuse the meat eaters of doing. This is like the kettle calling the pot black.
This is just one guys theory and completely bogus according to other research which says that there has been a marked increase in intelligence in the last two decades.
...is their obnoxious robot phone calls. During the lead up to the election I was getting an average of three a day with peaks of ten a day. I kept a list of the candidates who did this and voted AGAINST them. They wasted my time and got punished for it. Every candidate who did this to me LOST. I bet they pissed off a lot of other people.
It is normal to have some failures on the way to success. That's what evolution is all about. Developing products is evolutionary. That's reality. For those who complain about failures it just makes me think they have never tried.
I completely and totally disagree with your seperation of roles. I have had several successful businesses over the decades, nearly half century, and I've fulfilled all three of those roles as well as more. Those three roles are not at all mutually exclusive.
The question of whether to involve more people depends on how much time it will take to do things. That is to say coverage of the day. If you're setting up a neighborhood ISP and present it with the understanding that this is a part-time, Do-It-Yourself gig that you are sharing then you can probably do it all by yourself.
I would suggest doing a repeater based WiFi type system. If you're in a rural area like we are you can probably find owners of local hill tops who would be willing to have a low profile, minimally visible, solar powered repeater stuck on their hill tops. Start with your own place. Expand to a line of site one. Add more
As to the regulation requirements, it is all online. Go read the regulations. I am building an on-farm USDA inspected meat processing facility. This is a highly regulated industry. I spent a year reading all the regulations as well as a great many case studies and talking with other plant owners and managers online. When I went to get my permitting and regulations settled I already knew all the answers and sailed through the permitting process in one month. Understanding the law makes it so you have a better idea of how to design your system and how to move through the regulatory process.
You may well find that there is a discussion group online about this. Google.
I wish that Apple would support emulation for all past Macintosh software all the way back to MacOS1.0. Heck, they should go all the way back to the AppleI. There is a tremendous amount of educational software that was created during the 1990's that has never been redone for Intel and MacOSX. It used to run under Classic but Apple abandoned it. They are destroying both cultural heritage and educational resources. There is also a lot of small business and graphic tools that were made then and never released for MacOSX. I need these tools as do many other people I've spoken with. Apple has the money to keep up the emulation and it would vastly expand the media available to run on their machines which would make more people interested in upgrading to the latest and greatest hardware thus promoting more Apple sales and more money for Apple's pocket. Heck, they could even offer full Windows, DOS and CPM emulation and take over the whole market.
I have been saying for years that relying on clouds is not a good idea. Store your data locally where it is under your control. Anything in the cloud is subject to hacker, corporate and government abuse. Only keep COPIES of things you don't mind getting out in the wild or being used against you by our learless feeders.
Agreed. Fire Departments that save houses are a city thing. Around here they just let the houses burn down. House fires don't get put out. Houses don't get saved. They focus on saving people.
The solution is you build a house that won't burn down. Then you segment the contents so fires won't spread. Then you design your hot things so that they don't start fires. Prevention is far better than a fire department.
It doesn't have to be expensive to build a house than can withstand hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, fire, etc. Nor does it have to be very large. Our family's home cost only $7K to build and is a comfortable 252 sq-ft for five people. We built it in two months by ourselves - just about anybody could do it.
As an added bonus, our house's 100,000 lbs of masonry (stone, brick and concrete) stores heat very well so the house is cool in the summer and warm in the winter. Even without auxiliary heat the house stays above 45ÂF in the dead of winter here in the mountains of northern Vermont when it is -25ÂF outdoors for extended periods. We burn a mere 0.75 cord of maple hardwood a year in our wood stove to bring the cottage up from that to a toasty 70ÂF for my wife who likes things a little warmer.
Another advantage of this construction is it is virtually maintenance free. No painting, no roof to repair or reshingle (the roof is a concrete barrel vault), and the house can be earth bermed for even better performance and to make it blend with the landscape.
Because the house has such a high thermal mass we are able to have a lot more windows than a conventional house without overheating. Our east, south and west walls are virtually all windows. Shutters can protect the windows during bad storms - a simple, traditional method of quickly closing up.
Our house will also probably last hundreds to thousands of years. Far longer than conventional stick built houses.
Frankly, there is no good excuse for building the fragile stick built houses.
Location is also important. Don't build where it will flood. That land is better for forests, fields and crops or just wildlife.
If you are curious and would like to see our house visit:
Obviously this was the White man's fault and caused by global warming! Quick, send out a press release! Never miss an opportunity to blame the power elite!
The problem is physics. Get rid of the laws of physics and it will become not just politically correct and environmentally feel good but possibly possible.
The issue is that while small electric planes can be made they are very different than passenger airliners like a Boeing 747. One difference is the the 747 is a LOT bigger. Being a lot bigger it has to move a lot more mass and push aside a lot more air. As the plane gets bigger and heavier the mass goes up far faster than the available surface area for mounting solar cells.
So, the solution is to do it all backwards. Instead of making bigger solar powered airplanes just make smaller passengers. This would be solved if people were to stop flying in airplanes and instead they sent their fleas, ticks, lice and bacteria to represent them at meetings, sporting events and vacations. The smaller avatar in the form of the flea weighs very little and takes up little space. They also don't complain about inflight service, need as much oxygen, the toilet, stewardesses, etc. This all saves more. Now you have a viable form of solar powered airplanes.
Alternatively consider not flying and not sending your flea bitten representative either. Just telecommute. The internet was invented like, a while ago. No need to waste fuel, materials or time. Go green!
Insurance. Because insurance pays for so many the price is ultra high. People don't question the cost when someone else is paying. Get rid of insurance and the price will drop as sales dry up.
I have three Apple Airport base stations. One is the very original which is now 13 years old. The next is an Airport Express which is 8 years old. The last is an Airport Extreme which is 5 years old. All are still running just fine, excellent range and interacting well.
I did replace the power supply capacitors on the original Airport Base Station when it was four years old but aside from that no issues.
All are sitting behind top quality surge suppressors for both phone/ADSL and power lines. We get a lot of lightning so these are important. Perhaps if someone had one plugged directly into the wall it would be getting surge hits that are damaging it gradually although usually that sort of thing does a lot of damage rather than gradual decline.
iPodTouch/iPhone = small screen iPad mini = medium screen iPad = large screen
Each has a market. Having them all lets Apple get more market penetration. In fact, many people, like us, buy multiples. I don't want to carry even an iPad mini around in my pocket by an iPodTouch is just right. Goldilocks was onto something.
If anything, I would expect Apple to bring out an iPad MAXi with a bigger screen. Then you've got the iTV for the really big version.
Next make them all run MacOS and Windows (all Macs can do both) and it's a home run.
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You would be a fool to believe that the government is not accessing your emails, tweets, cloud data, phone calls, etc.
In addition to these things they are also scanning your automobile license plate and logging it's locations, tracking your electric usage through smart meters, monitoring your credit card usage and using recognition software to track you on the streets and in public buildings.
Once the government has surveillance capabilities they use it. Now they also have powerful processing, data mining and data warehousing capabilities and they're using those to the hilt. Much of it is automated.
You are being watched. It has nothing to do with your paranoia. Assume it. Only an idiot would think otherwise.
I don't mind longer summers and shorter, milder winters at all. I believe in Global Warming, and I'm all for it.
"Most of us don't own what's under our land, for example."
Wrong. You own what is under you unless you've explicitly given up those rights. e.g., mineral rights sales.
I stopped testing against IE six years ago. Microsoft breaks too many rules to bother trying to be compatible with them. When users hit problems with IE on my web sites I tell them to get a different browser like Safari, FireFox or Opera. After over a decade of dealing with Microsoft's arrogance I decided it wasn't worth it. If users want my content they either need to get a real browser or put up with the problems IE delivers to them.
You call it a bug, we call it a feature. Every warp drive is sold with a handy dandy star system sterilizer so that when you arrive at your destination you know it will be clean and tidy, not infected with any despicable life forms!
The irony is that text book is explicit proof that vegetarians do exactly the things they accuse the meat eaters of doing. This is like the kettle calling the pot black.
This is just one guys theory and completely bogus according to other research which says that there has been a marked increase in intelligence in the last two decades.
...is their obnoxious robot phone calls. During the lead up to the election I was getting an average of three a day with peaks of ten a day. I kept a list of the candidates who did this and voted AGAINST them. They wasted my time and got punished for it. Every candidate who did this to me LOST. I bet they pissed off a lot of other people.
It is normal to have some failures on the way to success. That's what evolution is all about. Developing products is evolutionary. That's reality. For those who complain about failures it just makes me think they have never tried.
I completely and totally disagree with your seperation of roles. I have had several successful businesses over the decades, nearly half century, and I've fulfilled all three of those roles as well as more. Those three roles are not at all mutually exclusive.
The question of whether to involve more people depends on how much time it will take to do things. That is to say coverage of the day. If you're setting up a neighborhood ISP and present it with the understanding that this is a part-time, Do-It-Yourself gig that you are sharing then you can probably do it all by yourself.
I would suggest doing a repeater based WiFi type system. If you're in a rural area like we are you can probably find owners of local hill tops who would be willing to have a low profile, minimally visible, solar powered repeater stuck on their hill tops. Start with your own place. Expand to a line of site one. Add more
As to the regulation requirements, it is all online. Go read the regulations. I am building an on-farm USDA inspected meat processing facility. This is a highly regulated industry. I spent a year reading all the regulations as well as a great many case studies and talking with other plant owners and managers online. When I went to get my permitting and regulations settled I already knew all the answers and sailed through the permitting process in one month. Understanding the law makes it so you have a better idea of how to design your system and how to move through the regulatory process.
You may well find that there is a discussion group online about this. Google.
I wish that Apple would support emulation for all past Macintosh software all the way back to MacOS1.0. Heck, they should go all the way back to the AppleI. There is a tremendous amount of educational software that was created during the 1990's that has never been redone for Intel and MacOSX. It used to run under Classic but Apple abandoned it. They are destroying both cultural heritage and educational resources. There is also a lot of small business and graphic tools that were made then and never released for MacOSX. I need these tools as do many other people I've spoken with. Apple has the money to keep up the emulation and it would vastly expand the media available to run on their machines which would make more people interested in upgrading to the latest and greatest hardware thus promoting more Apple sales and more money for Apple's pocket. Heck, they could even offer full Windows, DOS and CPM emulation and take over the whole market.
I have been saying for years that relying on clouds is not a good idea. Store your data locally where it is under your control. Anything in the cloud is subject to hacker, corporate and government abuse. Only keep COPIES of things you don't mind getting out in the wild or being used against you by our learless feeders.
First of all don't build where flooding is a problem.
Second, practice mitigation.
Agreed. Fire Departments that save houses are a city thing. Around here they just let the houses burn down. House fires don't get put out. Houses don't get saved. They focus on saving people.
The solution is you build a house that won't burn down. Then you segment the contents so fires won't spread. Then you design your hot things so that they don't start fires. Prevention is far better than a fire department.
It doesn't have to be expensive to build a house than can withstand hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, fire, etc. Nor does it have to be very large. Our family's home cost only $7K to build and is a comfortable 252 sq-ft for five people. We built it in two months by ourselves - just about anybody could do it.
As an added bonus, our house's 100,000 lbs of masonry (stone, brick and concrete) stores heat very well so the house is cool in the summer and warm in the winter. Even without auxiliary heat the house stays above 45ÂF in the dead of winter here in the mountains of northern Vermont when it is -25ÂF outdoors for extended periods. We burn a mere 0.75 cord of maple hardwood a year in our wood stove to bring the cottage up from that to a toasty 70ÂF for my wife who likes things a little warmer.
Another advantage of this construction is it is virtually maintenance free. No painting, no roof to repair or reshingle (the roof is a concrete barrel vault), and the house can be earth bermed for even better performance and to make it blend with the landscape.
Because the house has such a high thermal mass we are able to have a lot more windows than a conventional house without overheating. Our east, south and west walls are virtually all windows. Shutters can protect the windows during bad storms - a simple, traditional method of quickly closing up.
Our house will also probably last hundreds to thousands of years. Far longer than conventional stick built houses.
Frankly, there is no good excuse for building the fragile stick built houses.
Location is also important. Don't build where it will flood. That land is better for forests, fields and crops or just wildlife.
If you are curious and would like to see our house visit:
http://sugarmtnfarm.com/cottage
where you'll find pictures and articles about how we built it.
Obviously this was the White man's fault and caused by global warming! Quick, send out a press release! Never miss an opportunity to blame the power elite!
The problem is physics. Get rid of the laws of physics and it will become not just politically correct and environmentally feel good but possibly possible.
The issue is that while small electric planes can be made they are very different than passenger airliners like a Boeing 747. One difference is the the 747 is a LOT bigger. Being a lot bigger it has to move a lot more mass and push aside a lot more air. As the plane gets bigger and heavier the mass goes up far faster than the available surface area for mounting solar cells.
So, the solution is to do it all backwards. Instead of making bigger solar powered airplanes just make smaller passengers. This would be solved if people were to stop flying in airplanes and instead they sent their fleas, ticks, lice and bacteria to represent them at meetings, sporting events and vacations. The smaller avatar in the form of the flea weighs very little and takes up little space. They also don't complain about inflight service, need as much oxygen, the toilet, stewardesses, etc. This all saves more. Now you have a viable form of solar powered airplanes.
Alternatively consider not flying and not sending your flea bitten representative either. Just telecommute. The internet was invented like, a while ago. No need to waste fuel, materials or time. Go green!
No, the downing of the Huffington Post and Gawker didn't affect me at all. No loss.
The iPad isn't perfect, yet, but the Surface is so far down from perfect that it is not even a contender. Ballmer is dreaming. Or spinning PR.
Irrelevant. The UK is not known for freedom of speech.
Of course they have this great wealth as they are leaders of a great communist nation. Remember, some pigs are more equal and thus deserve more.
Insurance. Because insurance pays for so many the price is ultra high. People don't question the cost when someone else is paying. Get rid of insurance and the price will drop as sales dry up.
Exactly. :) But to be trade markable they switch it around.
I have three Apple Airport base stations. One is the very original which is now 13 years old. The next is an Airport Express which is 8 years old. The last is an Airport Extreme which is 5 years old. All are still running just fine, excellent range and interacting well.
I did replace the power supply capacitors on the original Airport Base Station when it was four years old but aside from that no issues.
All are sitting behind top quality surge suppressors for both phone/ADSL and power lines. We get a lot of lightning so these are important. Perhaps if someone had one plugged directly into the wall it would be getting surge hits that are damaging it gradually although usually that sort of thing does a lot of damage rather than gradual decline.
iPodTouch/iPhone = small screen
iPad mini = medium screen
iPad = large screen
Each has a market. Having them all lets Apple get more market penetration. In fact, many people, like us, buy multiples. I don't want to carry even an iPad mini around in my pocket by an iPodTouch is just right. Goldilocks was onto something.
If anything, I would expect Apple to bring out an iPad MAXi with a bigger screen. Then you've got the iTV for the really big version.
Next make them all run MacOS and Windows (all Macs can do both) and it's a home run.