Just an aside, you cannot legally cross the US/Canadian border with your GMRS radios or travel to a lot of countries. GMRS here in Canada is limited to 2 watts and integrated crappy antenna. My 5watt ham HT can go to most countries and, with a roll-up j-pole strung up in a tree, can probably transmit 100x as far as my GMRS radio.
To anyone reading the above: yes ham has it's version of a "troll." They are these guys who think they work for the FCC and know what amateur radio is "for." Fortunately, the folks on the airwaves are generally the nicest and most helpful people you will ever talk to. These guys, like most other trolls, are more common on Internet forums and are full of it. Amateur radio has been so successful at spurring innovation because it is simply defined by what it is not (commercial radio), and not for some preordained purpose.
<sarcasm>I guess I should get on the repeater tomorrow at 8am when those old timers are "ragchewing" again. That repeater is for "contributing" (whatever that means), not replacing IRC chat </sarcasm>
That works great unless you have a small effect size, large population variance, and large samples are prohibitive, perhaps because they require flying airliners...
The issue seems to be that either apoc.famine doesn't understand statistics or that the variance of the population is too large. If the effect of seeding is small, and the population variance of clouds is very large, it may require very large sample sizes to test for significance between randomly sampled groups. Remember, each sample requires flying an airliner, so large sample sizes may be prohibitive.
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In the past, food additives have been developed primarily to lower cost often at the expense of quality. The only problem I have with these new technologies is that they could be used to make a firm red, yet rotten tomatoes. I love the technology, but don't trust the people wielding it.
That's great for playing a DVD, but absolutely sucks for a complicated task. I see people spending hours clicking around menu-driven software (eg., SPSS, EPrime, Excel) trying to get something to work because they have been trained to never look at documentation (and be afraid of anything that requires typing)./rant
Even if there was a site "requiring" Firefox, A) it would probably still work somewhat effectively on other browsers, and B) Firefox is available on many, many more platforms than Flash, often distributed by the OS vendor.
Of course, the thousands of people who spent the prior 50 years developing the *methodologies* that he used, will be locked out of synthetic life until their children are middle aged. Despite romantic ideas, invention is not a solitary operation. He may have been the first to the finish line using "shitloads of money," but patents will do nothing but slow down progress. The world will start working with synthetic life in a quarter century, whereas without Venter and patents, the we would have synthetic life in <5 (at the rate of progress in molecular biology).
Clones differ from IBM PC's in similar ways different encoders/decoders differ. Some encoders/decoders will be better or worse quality or speed, written in different languages with different compartmentalization, they often have different options or work in different environments.
Of course, arguing about patents is like arguing about the number of angels that can stand on the head of a pin. It's all ridiculous in the end.
Oh, the country boy superiority complex. I almost miss that living in the city now. Yes, I know you masturbate while thinking about starving cities and living off your land with just a shotgun and a plow. It's not like your lifestyle is heavily dependent on industry, like your equipment, your (heavily used) vehicles, or your other supplies, let alone, any other technology you rely on. Unless you are a high-producing farmer (as few "country boys" are), you are actually living a high impact, relatively parasitic lifestyle on the rest of society. Your high mileage pickup truck, large, useless lot of land, and the extensive roadway/electric system to support it all depend on people who consume less and produce more than you.
If you think a new "dark age" will be good entertainment for you from behind the sights of your rifle, you need a little more study of history. Unless you are good at coaxing large numbers of the starving poor to pick up weapons in your name, you will lose anyway.
Goduckgo has a similar feature that works well with Google search results. It uses SSL and keeps Google/adsense from data-mining your workday procrastination.
In my case, the problem was simple - I was shoveling gravel, moved wrong with a heavy shovel extended, and shifted a bone ever so slightly out of place
I'm sorry, but is that even possible? As far as I know (IANAD or AC)all of our bones are pretty much solidly in place thanks to muscle, ligaments and other stuff. I suspect that if a bone became "out of place" you'd be writhing around in the back of an ambulance, not trekking to mall to find a chiropractor.
You are correct, there is no evidence that the "miss-alignment of bones" that chiropractors "diagnose" exists. They have been shown to, at most, have similar efficacy to physiotherapists when doing the same procedures, and that's about it.
I love how readers just provided *more* testimonials in response to my comment. Seriously people, this isn't how medicine works. There are people who use the *exact same* arguments to support prayer based healing, leeching chemicals for autistic kids, WD-40 for arthritis and all sorts of Woo. Testimonials are *not* valid support for medical treatments. Put up clinical trials or go home.
Tabs on top makes sense. The URL bar and navigation buttons belong to a webpage. It makes no sense when changing a tab for things above *and* below it to change. Of course, if tabs were done properly in the window manager (like Fluxbox), tabs in web-browsers wouldn't be an issue.
Will this "new, magical and unicorn-like" WiFi travel further? Far enough for municipal WiFi to effectively cover its citizens?
That is a quote from WrongSizeGlass, the post that started the thread you were replying to when you suggested the power-line ethernet. So, yes, if you had read the thread before posting, we were discussing broadband here.
You can get several miles line-of sight without boosting power just by using dishes and a good home made collector. Additionally, some of the 802.11 channels are in the amateur bands, so if you get your HAM license, you can use all the power you need legally (again, ensuring you don't cause interference to other users -ie., directional only).
The power-line Ethernet you link to is a short-distance in-home consumer product (competes with ethernet or wifi, not DSL or cable internet). The municipal (long distance) power-line stuff is no better than utilizing existing phone line or cable wires to the residence. Further, it has a lot of problems not present in DSL or cable internet, such as major RF interference.
It's worth reiterating that the Canadian Armed Forces have been continuously stationed in the worst areas of Afghanistan since the beginning. Areas where larger, better equipped countries have refused to go.
I don't believe we have enough F-18's to really qualify as a squadron, not to mention they are usually distributed across the country. We do have considerable manpower and ground equipment (relative the the size of our country) and significant expertise (excellent research and training budgets).
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Just an aside, you cannot legally cross the US/Canadian border with your GMRS radios or travel to a lot of countries. GMRS here in Canada is limited to 2 watts and integrated crappy antenna. My 5watt ham HT can go to most countries and, with a roll-up j-pole strung up in a tree, can probably transmit 100x as far as my GMRS radio.
To anyone reading the above: yes ham has it's version of a "troll." They are these guys who think they work for the FCC and know what amateur radio is "for." Fortunately, the folks on the airwaves are generally the nicest and most helpful people you will ever talk to. These guys, like most other trolls, are more common on Internet forums and are full of it. Amateur radio has been so successful at spurring innovation because it is simply defined by what it is not (commercial radio), and not for some preordained purpose.
<sarcasm>I guess I should get on the repeater tomorrow at 8am when those old timers are "ragchewing" again. That repeater is for "contributing" (whatever that means), not replacing IRC chat </sarcasm>
That works great unless you have a small effect size, large population variance, and large samples are prohibitive, perhaps because they require flying airliners...
The issue seems to be that either apoc.famine doesn't understand statistics or that the variance of the population is too large. If the effect of seeding is small, and the population variance of clouds is very large, it may require very large sample sizes to test for significance between randomly sampled groups. Remember, each sample requires flying an airliner, so large sample sizes may be prohibitive.
In the past, food additives have been developed primarily to lower cost often at the expense of quality. The only problem I have with these new technologies is that they could be used to make a firm red, yet rotten tomatoes. I love the technology, but don't trust the people wielding it.
That's great for playing a DVD, but absolutely sucks for a complicated task. I see people spending hours clicking around menu-driven software (eg., SPSS, EPrime, Excel) trying to get something to work because they have been trained to never look at documentation (and be afraid of anything that requires typing). /rant
Or replacing or modifying the search results...
Hypocrite? perhaps there is more than one person voicing an opinion on this website?
Even if there was a site "requiring" Firefox, A) it would probably still work somewhat effectively on other browsers, and B) Firefox is available on many, many more platforms than Flash, often distributed by the OS vendor.
Of course, the thousands of people who spent the prior 50 years developing the *methodologies* that he used, will be locked out of synthetic life until their children are middle aged. Despite romantic ideas, invention is not a solitary operation. He may have been the first to the finish line using "shitloads of money," but patents will do nothing but slow down progress. The world will start working with synthetic life in a quarter century, whereas without Venter and patents, the we would have synthetic life in <5 (at the rate of progress in molecular biology).
Clones differ from IBM PC's in similar ways different encoders/decoders differ. Some encoders/decoders will be better or worse quality or speed, written in different languages with different compartmentalization, they often have different options or work in different environments.
Of course, arguing about patents is like arguing about the number of angels that can stand on the head of a pin. It's all ridiculous in the end.
For privoxy, I added the following to my user.action file:
{ +block{Facebook privacy invasions} }
http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php
http://www.facebook.com/connect.php/js/FB.SharePro/
http://www.facebook.com/ajax/connect/
http://www.facebook.com/plugins/
http://www.facebook.com/connect/
http://connect.facebook.net/
and saved.
no bike: i hate bikes, dangerous
Got a citation for that? I hope you don't use stairs or showers, or walk on sidewalks, or in parking lots either.
We'll just cut off your fucking food supply.
Oh, the country boy superiority complex. I almost miss that living in the city now. Yes, I know you masturbate while thinking about starving cities and living off your land with just a shotgun and a plow. It's not like your lifestyle is heavily dependent on industry, like your equipment, your (heavily used) vehicles, or your other supplies, let alone, any other technology you rely on. Unless you are a high-producing farmer (as few "country boys" are), you are actually living a high impact, relatively parasitic lifestyle on the rest of society. Your high mileage pickup truck, large, useless lot of land, and the extensive roadway/electric system to support it all depend on people who consume less and produce more than you.
If you think a new "dark age" will be good entertainment for you from behind the sights of your rifle, you need a little more study of history. Unless you are good at coaxing large numbers of the starving poor to pick up weapons in your name, you will lose anyway.
Thanks for the link. I just dropped my 5 bucks in the jar.
Goduckgo has a similar feature that works well with Google search results. It uses SSL and keeps Google/adsense from data-mining your workday procrastination.
In my case, the problem was simple - I was shoveling gravel, moved wrong with a heavy shovel extended, and shifted a bone ever so slightly out of place
I'm sorry, but is that even possible? As far as I know (IANAD or AC)all of our bones are pretty much solidly in place thanks to muscle, ligaments and other stuff. I suspect that if a bone became "out of place" you'd be writhing around in the back of an ambulance, not trekking to mall to find a chiropractor.
You are correct, there is no evidence that the "miss-alignment of bones" that chiropractors "diagnose" exists. They have been shown to, at most, have similar efficacy to physiotherapists when doing the same procedures, and that's about it.
I love how readers just provided *more* testimonials in response to my comment. Seriously people, this isn't how medicine works. There are people who use the *exact same* arguments to support prayer based healing, leeching chemicals for autistic kids, WD-40 for arthritis and all sorts of Woo. Testimonials are *not* valid support for medical treatments. Put up clinical trials or go home.
Sad when a testimonial qualifies as an "insightful" evaluation of a medical treatment.
Look up the history of chiropractors. The term (and accompanying philosophy) has always been quackery.
Tabs on top makes sense. The URL bar and navigation buttons belong to a webpage. It makes no sense when changing a tab for things above *and* below it to change. Of course, if tabs were done properly in the window manager (like Fluxbox), tabs in web-browsers wouldn't be an issue.
Will this "new, magical and unicorn-like" WiFi travel further? Far enough for municipal WiFi to effectively cover its citizens?
That is a quote from WrongSizeGlass, the post that started the thread you were replying to when you suggested the power-line ethernet. So, yes, if you had read the thread before posting, we were discussing broadband here.
You can get several miles line-of sight without boosting power just by using dishes and a good home made collector. Additionally, some of the 802.11 channels are in the amateur bands, so if you get your HAM license, you can use all the power you need legally (again, ensuring you don't cause interference to other users -ie., directional only).
The power-line Ethernet you link to is a short-distance in-home consumer product (competes with ethernet or wifi, not DSL or cable internet). The municipal (long distance) power-line stuff is no better than utilizing existing phone line or cable wires to the residence. Further, it has a lot of problems not present in DSL or cable internet, such as major RF interference.
It's worth reiterating that the Canadian Armed Forces have been continuously stationed in the worst areas of Afghanistan since the beginning. Areas where larger, better equipped countries have refused to go.
I don't believe we have enough F-18's to really qualify as a squadron, not to mention they are usually distributed across the country. We do have considerable manpower and ground equipment (relative the the size of our country) and significant expertise (excellent research and training budgets).