Nevermind as decades pass, not ONE of the dire consequences ever comes to pass. I recall a short stint with "Global Cooling" that was trapped, as if in amber in "Barney Miller" in 1977 or so. Around that time Ted Danson, working with the usual suspects was heard to say "By 1980, children will no longer go outside to play, thanks to AcidRain(TM)."
The left (That'd be the party trying to choose for us our toilets, foods, cars and everything else) always has a set of dire predictions to sell. That's how they roll. Worse yet, it's how they take your freedom.
Right now if you demand a congressman show where his latest law is allowed by the Constitution, YOU are the extremist!
I'm just shocked that the word "terrorist" ends up on the same page with the article talking about Muslims. We can't act like they don't mean to kill us; how BLIND would you have to be?
OK, you can mark me as "Troll" now; I've used those two words on the same article, and by open-minded Slashdot law, I, too, and an "Extremist".
I'm just saying with one HARD thing to do, which needs to be mastered before you count on it,versus an easy thing you do all the time...that's not being conservative.
Most are pro-abortion, happy about socialist overlords, and think we're about to find another Earth just any day; which is great, since they all believe in the junk-science of ManMadeGlobalWarming(TM).
No, they're not Conservative, they're LAZY. Unicode isn't easy. ASCII is. It's actually that simple.
But let's check the data's source, first. Slashdot. Often times 'breakthroughs' are noted here to get grant money. I can't tell you how many times since about 1996 I've seen "flexible LCD displays for $10" and similar claims I've yet to see.
Until I pat someone on the back and they glow, I'm not getting my hopes up.
Tractor beams. Light Sabers. Ray guns (not laser guns, but when are they getting upgraded?) Flying cars (not these toys) Supersonic (super-hydronic?) submarines. $10 laptops. Cheep mylar high-def, color screens that roll up like scrolls. Fuel Cells. Power for internal silicon from the blood stream.
How many times do we have to SEE such things advertised "now available" that never come to fruition?
I mean really. I've been seeing "cheap, rollup displays" announced about every year since 1996. When do they actually GET here, or should we just stop listening?
These things would make GREAT data-monitors. The touch screen and the X server would let ya do just about anything remote to a machine without an interface.
I'm glad you mentioned that. The two stories are closely related.
First: a place where Conservatives are voting things DOWN? Amazing. They're so used tot having it done to them (see also ABC/CBS/NBC/MSNBC/etc who all carry the same message).
Second: Who uses DIGG, anyway? I can find my own stories and make my own judgements.
Third: Slashdot's a great example of the way things are online (as in #1). Wanna get modded down? Say something with the word "Christ" in it. Or say how you don't understand how spending every penny we can borrow makes us rich.
Both are Christian and Conservative viewpoints strictly forbidden here. I've had a "Bad" karma or worse for years, and it has nothing to do with name-calling or giving away nuclear secrets.
It's also why I scan headlines, and never point anyone back to this site. It still retains a little interest. No room for enlightenment, no room for challenge- you're just relegated to the bottom.
Clearly "diversity" has no room in the liberal mind.
There's a guy here in Indiana, a teacher, exposed for child porn on the computer in the teacher's lounge in 1994. No one ever asked the question why anyone would use porn in such a public place...and he's been jailed for a long time. I'm not sure he's out YET.
Putting a person in jail isn't a joke, a trick or prank. It's a kind of misery that causes some to kill themselves inside. It also causes people who aren't flushed with cash to lose their homes, families, cars....anything with a loan payment...to go away or divorce you.
Running Ubuntu Linux would be even cheaper, since no A/V software is needed and you won't be taking the box to a snot-nosed kid who'll search your drive for porn while charging $100 to remove the virus that software misses.
I know this; I worked at a PC repair depot. Recently.
To make things worse, you wouldn't NEED a backup disk for Ubuntu Linux. You usually run it until the drive dies, not the next crash.
When we DO care, we'll see even more desktop conversions.
I've felt the same way; just _because_ you can create 1,000,000 CPUs connected to a single bus doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. We're still limited to physics, and if they're x86 cores, we're still dealing with all that "address bus is multiplexed" crap that was a problem in 1985. (!)
I have the feeling that, if we're so enamored with multiple cores, they need to be smaller, simpler, and able to communicate amongst each other. This is how (in the real world) multiple CPUs actually map like the human brain.
Just how much memory and refresh cycles ARE there in synapse? (See the point?)
If we can arrange types of CPUs, give them the ability to communicate with every other node, put that 1,000,000 into a net with neural-net style layouts, and THEN we're talking.
Consider the Texas Instruments 1-bit CPU. Only 16 instructions and something like 7 of them are no-ops! All programs take the same amount of time to execute. You can make BANKS of these things, to create 2048-bit computers if you like. Of course, it helps to do this at the core-level, not the 8-pin DIP level.:)
Unfortunately for the traditional integrators, THIS is how we're going to the next level of operation. The PC has little in common with brains. It's a metaphor.
People in this group are natural thinkers. Are we also natural forgettors?
Al Gore shows the two, seemingly identical charts on roll-arounds because he wants to hide a one fact, and create another: that CO2, per the fossil record and no one's opinion, actually COOLS the planet, not heats it. The 800-year delay is the data that gets lost because they're on different charts. After the ocean has been "hot" 800 years, the CO2 in the ocean is released in great quantity and resolves the problem.
Then we have all that "here's how we make this information up" discussions from a dozen various "science" outlets.
So who GIVES A SHIT about tuning for zero-carbon? I think we have much bigger problems.
Can we declare floppies of all sorts and CRTs to be obsolete and move on, too?
I can't *believe* how many places are still providing floppy drives; our junk drawers are full, and a single thumb drive is 20,000 floppies large!
(Hell I'm just doing handstands because they finally took out that stupid 'double-hole' in PC motherboards. Since nearly day one there was an ECO issued, and no one could be certain if the very last motherboard using the wrong pattern had finally died. BUT IT HAS! I was so sick of that!
I'd like to see a standardization towards double-height (or in the original nomenclature 'full height' drives, but done a different way:
Take the full-height bay and put four devices on it, with a USB connection, making them fully hot-swappable. After all these years, malware has made it such a pain to plug-n-play the entire stock of a user's data, and dropping all the user-specific data into a USB cradle would be a wonderful way to clear the disks, without taking up desk space, etc.
There used to be this place where you could do almost anything you wanted, as long as it didn't hurt anyone else. It was called America.
Nowdays though, it caters to people "who know better" and want to tax, then remove, fast food, salt, light bulbs, toilets and spray cans from our lives. These are called Progressives; the opposite of Conservatives, which *used*to*be*found* in republican ranks, but not so much, during the Bush years.
In that place, we were permitted to take a hair dryer into the shower with us. We could eat building materials. We could eat food that had never been to 160 degrees. It was wonderful: no one spooking around the house or setting up lawsuits. I know it was wonderful: I was there!
Now, I don't expect that Thailand will have better medical practices, but it's from the low number of people (0) who've told me "Wow, that Thailand- a heart valve in the morning, and child sex at night!":>
But why would *anyone* stop this?
There's an argument of going someplace to kill one's self: clearly the person's so emotionally wrecked, it's probably not in their best interest, etc.
But to stop someone from going elsewhere for a procedure? Is the UN trying to stop things like this? This just makes no sense.
No He didn't. Just because the Bible says nothing about dinosaurs doesn't mean they don't exist. It mentions nothing about computers, but we're clearly on them!:)
The Bible is "66 love letters from the Creator to the created, in hopes of redeeming them all." So what, exactly would the Bible tell Adam about dinosaurs? They were millions of years apart. "Don't trip on the dinosaur poop, if you find it?" Nah.
I just can't look at caveman bones or other fossil records and say they don't exist; that's just STUPID. God doesn't give us faulty data. Imagine how faulty "Let there be light" sounded all those centuries while no one knew anything about a singularity and E=MC2? Or the "Earth is suspended from nothing" line in Genesis while other religions had it on the back of Atlas, balanced on the trunk of an elephant which was floating in milk. No, nobody else got it right, but why would they?
What this DOES likely mean: they're gonna rename all the dinosaurs again. DAMMIT! A third set of names, in my lifetime. I was just getting used to the Brontosaurus being the Tracheosaurus and I suppose it'll wind up simply being "The neck monster".:>
But in a way this kind of thing disparages science more than Christianity; it will point out that science didn't have a complete picture of dinosaurs all those times, before.:/ [snarky grin!]
Just as the original poster was saying, we might not find out what good these findings are for some time.
As an example, I've found out why ducks poop. Yes, yes I spent years and billions of dollars tracking down the reason so that all of you can take heed and learn the truth: they eat.
Just spending time and money sitting on something for decades hoping for relevance isn't all that useful (as in the example above). I mean, we needed smaller wires and smaller transistors for space flight....so we came up with semiconductors where the entire circuits were built in silicon. (as opposed to discrete components). We didn't sit on the side of the road and count buses.
Scientific progress that requires we wait for years for something to show isn't science...it's loitering. There are *many* clever experimenters out there. Because your 32-year project is funded, theirs aren't.
Every kid who's ever looked at a dish on the table and tried to move it with his mind, eventually gets up and grabs it. Because that's how real learning/discovery/proving gets done.
Recall that high levels of RF radiation cause heating. (See also: the microwave in your house.) This will create a 'hole' in the clouds better than any airplane. A number of places seem to have "hole punch" holes over them all the time...that's because, whether they wish to admit it, they're using a high powered radar in the building.
Maybe this urge to suggest widely the concept of aircraft-caused phenomenon is because they're gonna leave these radar on?
Just a thought; I actually saw photos of one such place...we bombed it, I believe...
Remember all that "Government Oversight" that's supposed to be so good, that everything worth taking over, must have some?
11 months ago the Obama Administration (i.e. the federal government) gave it a SAFETY AWARD! And, same administration was given (I think it was) $11m!
Cozy, huh? THIS IS WHY we don't need government involvement in every breath we take. I know, most of you out there think the government is only an infinite source of MONEY, but the reverse is true: we're broke. And everything they've done has only made it worse!
Please: pay attention to history. Learn that socialism is misery to whoever's dumb enough to permit it.
Ya know, I couldn't have painted a better picture of a person knowledgeable, but unwilling, to accept if I'd pulled an all-nighter. You made all the arguments I once did.
But I'm really not here to talk to you: you've already decided there *IS* a god, and you want to be elsewhere. Don't feel bad: that's this "meaning of life" you've heard about. It's the very reason this rock spins in the orbit it does. It's the reason why we won't be sliding off into a black hole, or blowing ourselves up anytime soon, unless every possible person has had the chance to decide for himself, what he believes.
As for me, I've already been through the high life. I'm embarrased to tell you all the things I did in Chicago and my hometown before I got saved. There are just SOME tales you don't tell the kids, or anyone for that matter. But despite the money, the responsibility, the FUN that I was having in brief spurts, it was empty.
One night I 'met' that off-board intelligence. My life's never been the same. But I'm not gonna bore you with it: you don't wish to know. Just know, when you're ready, He is...but you have to be _alive_ to chose.
Now I live to take care of Mom, 79. We're almost to the bathing-and-wiping phase of her care. Spending all the time on her, there's no time for a job, so poverty is a way of life. But as much as I'd RATHER be water skiing or being dropped from a helicopter to ski down a mountain, this work is meaningful.
I understand why there are ghosts. I know where this "simple life" you seek, went. I know why bad things happen to people. And I know that, if a tree lands on me tomorrow, I'm good with it.
The change is subtle, but not punative. Honestly: it's *possible* that Hitler could get saved. Not bloody likely, but possible. And he'd be just as welcomed as I will. But explain-away all you like. Don't bother 'wasting time' learning how the Bible, like all other literature has it's genres, and parts read like the Wall Street Journal, and parts like Stan Lee. Be sure to tell all your friends that God is just an inventive tool that makes people buy things and displays for all the idiocy they have to the 'real people'.
Understand that on judgment day, no one's gonna raise a fist and say "I was wronged!" You'll go where you wish. You're deciding now. Do what you want.
When science and religion don't agree, you have bad science, or bad theology. The two agree, they don't oppose.
Remember the Pope, throwing a Copernicus into home-arrest for suggesting we're on just one of the planets circling the sun, we're NOT the center of the universe?
Bad theology.
Remember Darwin saying every animal started from the splitting of one elemental animal, over and over, until changes made them the diverse collection they are? Then someone finds a trilobite (compound eyes, vertebrae, complete digestion system) and it's the oldest animal in the fossil records, other than the "carpet mold" of the pre-Cambrian era?
Bad science.
Guys, I know what the media tells you. But consider this:
1. Greeks: The Earth is on Atlas' shoulders. 2. Bhuddists: it's on the back of a fish. 3. Indian: An elephant floats on it's back in a sea of milk, with the earth balanced on it's trunk, under a ceiling of stars. 4. Judeo/Christian: "The Earth is suspended from nothing".
There's your datapoint, late in Genesis. How would mankind KNOW this?
Hypothesis: The Bible CAN'T be true, yet THIS IS. Prove the rest wrong, too.
Freshwater is in short supply. They're right on the ocean.
WHY DON'T WE HAVE THIRTY OF THEM? Why does the government SO PROFOUND it can save millions of dollars by doing healthcare think that keeping desalination plants away is a good idea?
Desalination plants of all kinds are in place around the world, whether using this design or others....so why would anyone deny them?
*I* *KNOW* you want faster downloads. This is NOT the way to get it.
Starting at that _very_first_ruling_ the federal government will then have precedence to do *anything*they*want. As anyone who lost their life savings in GM when the Fed decided to take them over to save the union.
Want the internet taxed? Want content controls that make no sense? Want people snooping *constantly* with the power to decrypt most anything you send?
Just pursue this. You'll be lucky they don't decide they own the ethernet to your computer, your wireless, and your dog and cat!
Take it from a guy that's seen a LOT of well-intentioned laws come and then never leave. It's called "Government Oversight".
Nuclear Power Tobacco Companies Big Pharma Big Chem Petroleum Savings & Loans Mortgages Wall Street (trading) companies College Loans
All these industries:
1: get crippled by congressional law. 2: money from the fed comes to save the day (it seems) 3: an argument is made that government oversight is needed to stop "greed". 4: repeat.
The internet's the best way for a concerned populace to stay in charge of the government. PLEASE don't make a deal with the devil because you hunger for faster downloads. I promise you: it's not worth it!
Now I ask you: is there anything the government has done competently in your LIFETIME? I mean, other than spend your money and get us in debt...
I was once a system administrator; a pretty good one, too. Every tool I wrote would let me know if it exceeded it's expectations, I re-used a lot of code, and did a lot of work after-hours. Sysadmins with their feet up aren't as "done" as they think. Documentation, from labelling wires to straightening out archives, takes a lot of time to do right.
From my vantage point, the job of corporate discipline was mine: if a piece of equipment was about to get overloaded, it was ME that found replacements, considered the compatibility, and searched by price to find the replacement. The changeover was scheduled on a weekend with a set of test-data that would let me rollback in case of failure.
We were 'just' running cash registers and PCs that both ran specific software and did research on the web...no one was in a capsule nor was their life on the line...but if you're gonna do this job, you have to _own_ it. And every second a cash register is down is a second the boss might be losing money. So yeah, it's mission-critical.
From my perch as number-2 in the organization, I had *only* the rights to make suggestions and to stop the boss from driving off into a canyon. It was really the only power I had. It felt kinda like the coroner of a small town: the only guy that could arrest anyone but the sheriff...and that person WAS the sheriff.
If you're being asked to do things with infrastructure that won't allow it, someone in your organization has succumbed to the need to finish something without _actually_finishing_ something. The job's not over until everything's back to the way it was...or better..than when the disturbance began. It's not just about setup for a project, it's for life after it, too.
That's not management's fault, unless it's for hiring people who don't look past their own keyboards. We don't just work when it's glorious...and it's never glorious. We work all the time in anticipation of getting swamped by the next increase of workload....and those of use good at it, we love it for that challenge.
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Nevermind as decades pass, not ONE of the dire consequences ever comes to pass. I recall a short stint with "Global Cooling" that was trapped, as if in amber in "Barney Miller" in 1977 or so. Around that time Ted Danson, working with the usual suspects was heard to say "By 1980, children will no longer go outside to play, thanks to AcidRain(TM)."
The left (That'd be the party trying to choose for us our toilets, foods, cars and everything else) always has a set of dire predictions to sell. That's how they roll. Worse yet, it's how they take your freedom.
Ya don't think?
Right now if you demand a congressman show where his latest law is allowed by the Constitution, YOU are the extremist!
I'm just shocked that the word "terrorist" ends up on the same page with the article talking about Muslims. We can't act like they don't mean to kill us; how BLIND would you have to be?
OK, you can mark me as "Troll" now; I've used those two words on the same article, and by open-minded Slashdot law, I, too, and an "Extremist".
(It doesn't stop them from sawing off heads.)
Sure; not knocking laziness!
I'm just saying with one HARD thing to do, which needs to be mastered before you count on it,versus an easy thing you do all the time...that's not being conservative.
Most are pro-abortion, happy about socialist overlords, and think we're about to find another Earth just any day; which is great, since they all believe in the junk-science of ManMadeGlobalWarming(TM).
No, they're not Conservative, they're LAZY. Unicode isn't easy. ASCII is. It's actually that simple.
But let's check the data's source, first. Slashdot. Often times 'breakthroughs' are noted here to get grant money. I can't tell you how many times since about 1996 I've seen "flexible LCD displays for $10" and similar claims I've yet to see.
Until I pat someone on the back and they glow, I'm not getting my hopes up.
BUT YOU: get to the patent center, NOW.
Tractor beams.
Light Sabers.
Ray guns (not laser guns, but when are they getting upgraded?)
Flying cars (not these toys)
Supersonic (super-hydronic?) submarines.
$10 laptops.
Cheep mylar high-def, color screens that roll up like scrolls.
Fuel Cells.
Power for internal silicon from the blood stream.
How many times do we have to SEE such things advertised "now available" that never come to fruition?
I mean really. I've been seeing "cheap, rollup displays" announced about every year since 1996. When do they actually GET here, or should we just stop listening?
These things would make GREAT data-monitors. The touch screen and the X server would let ya do just about anything remote to a machine without an interface.
I'm actually looking for something like this....
I'm glad you mentioned that. The two stories are closely related.
First: a place where Conservatives are voting things DOWN? Amazing. They're so used tot having it done to them (see also ABC/CBS/NBC/MSNBC/etc who all carry the same message).
Second: Who uses DIGG, anyway? I can find my own stories and make my own judgements.
Third: Slashdot's a great example of the way things are online (as in #1). Wanna get modded down? Say something with the word "Christ" in it. Or say how you don't understand how spending every penny we can borrow makes us rich.
Both are Christian and Conservative viewpoints strictly forbidden here. I've had a "Bad" karma or worse for years, and it has nothing to do with name-calling or giving away nuclear secrets.
It's also why I scan headlines, and never point anyone back to this site. It still retains a little interest. No room for enlightenment, no room for challenge- you're just relegated to the bottom.
Clearly "diversity" has no room in the liberal mind.
There's a guy here in Indiana, a teacher, exposed for child porn on the computer in the teacher's lounge in 1994. No one ever asked the question why anyone would use porn in such a public place...and he's been jailed for a long time. I'm not sure he's out YET.
Putting a person in jail isn't a joke, a trick or prank. It's a kind of misery that causes some to kill themselves inside. It also causes people who aren't flushed with cash to lose their homes, families, cars....anything with a loan payment...to go away or divorce you.
I'm happy to see this bastard caught red-handed.
No, it's really not.
Running Ubuntu Linux would be even cheaper, since no A/V software is needed and you won't be taking the box to a snot-nosed kid who'll search your drive for porn while charging $100 to remove the virus that software misses.
I know this; I worked at a PC repair depot. Recently.
To make things worse, you wouldn't NEED a backup disk for Ubuntu Linux. You usually run it until the drive dies, not the next crash.
When we DO care, we'll see even more desktop conversions.
This is the NYT; poster of national secrets- controller of the direction of the JournalList Listserv.
Would anyone PAY for this leftist crap? It's *precisely* the same news in all other places, other than FoxNews.
Seriously: why didn't Air America earn it's keep? Think about it.
I've felt the same way; just _because_ you can create 1,000,000 CPUs connected to a single bus doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. We're still limited to physics, and if they're x86 cores, we're still dealing with all that "address bus is multiplexed" crap that was a problem in 1985. (!)
I have the feeling that, if we're so enamored with multiple cores, they need to be smaller, simpler, and able to communicate amongst each other. This is how (in the real world) multiple CPUs actually map like the human brain.
Just how much memory and refresh cycles ARE there in synapse? (See the point?)
If we can arrange types of CPUs, give them the ability to communicate with every other node, put that 1,000,000 into a net with neural-net style layouts, and THEN we're talking.
Consider the Texas Instruments 1-bit CPU. Only 16 instructions and something like 7 of them are no-ops! All programs take the same amount of time to execute. You can make BANKS of these things, to create 2048-bit computers if you like. Of course, it helps to do this at the core-level, not the 8-pin DIP level. :)
Unfortunately for the traditional integrators, THIS is how we're going to the next level of operation. The PC has little in common with brains. It's a metaphor.
I think the term was...oh, yeah:
C L I M A T E G A T E?
People in this group are natural thinkers. Are we also natural forgettors?
Al Gore shows the two, seemingly identical charts on roll-arounds because he wants to hide a one fact, and create another: that CO2, per the fossil record and no one's opinion, actually COOLS the planet, not heats it. The 800-year delay is the data that gets lost because they're on different charts. After the ocean has been "hot" 800 years, the CO2 in the ocean is released in great quantity and resolves the problem.
Then we have all that "here's how we make this information up" discussions from a dozen various "science" outlets.
So who GIVES A SHIT about tuning for zero-carbon? I think we have much bigger problems.
Can we declare floppies of all sorts and CRTs to be obsolete and move on, too?
I can't *believe* how many places are still providing floppy drives; our junk drawers are full, and a single thumb drive is 20,000 floppies large!
(Hell I'm just doing handstands because they finally took out that stupid 'double-hole' in PC motherboards. Since nearly day one there was an ECO issued, and no one could be certain if the very last motherboard using the wrong pattern had finally died. BUT IT HAS! I was so sick of that!
I'd like to see a standardization towards double-height (or in the original nomenclature 'full height' drives, but done a different way:
Take the full-height bay and put four devices on it, with a USB connection, making them fully hot-swappable. After all these years, malware has made it such a pain to plug-n-play the entire stock of a user's data, and dropping all the user-specific data into a USB cradle would be a wonderful way to clear the disks, without taking up desk space, etc.
There used to be this place where you could do almost anything you wanted, as long as it didn't hurt anyone else. It was called America.
Nowdays though, it caters to people "who know better" and want to tax, then remove, fast food, salt, light bulbs, toilets and spray cans from our lives. These are called Progressives; the opposite of Conservatives, which *used*to*be*found* in republican ranks, but not so much, during the Bush years.
In that place, we were permitted to take a hair dryer into the shower with us. We could eat building materials. We could eat food that had never been to 160 degrees. It was wonderful: no one spooking around the house or setting up lawsuits. I know it was wonderful: I was there!
Now, I don't expect that Thailand will have better medical practices, but it's from the low number of people (0) who've told me "Wow, that Thailand- a heart valve in the morning, and child sex at night!" :>
But why would *anyone* stop this?
There's an argument of going someplace to kill one's self: clearly the person's so emotionally wrecked, it's probably not in their best interest, etc.
But to stop someone from going elsewhere for a procedure? Is the UN trying to stop things like this? This just makes no sense.
No He didn't. Just because the Bible says nothing about dinosaurs doesn't mean they don't exist. It mentions nothing about computers, but we're clearly on them! :)
The Bible is "66 love letters from the Creator to the created, in hopes of redeeming them all." So what, exactly would the Bible tell Adam about dinosaurs? They were millions of years apart. "Don't trip on the dinosaur poop, if you find it?" Nah.
I just can't look at caveman bones or other fossil records and say they don't exist; that's just STUPID. God doesn't give us faulty data. Imagine how faulty "Let there be light" sounded all those centuries while no one knew anything about a singularity and E=MC2? Or the "Earth is suspended from nothing" line in Genesis while other religions had it on the back of Atlas, balanced on the trunk of an elephant which was floating in milk. No, nobody else got it right, but why would they?
What this DOES likely mean: they're gonna rename all the dinosaurs again. DAMMIT! A third set of names, in my lifetime. I was just getting used to the Brontosaurus being the Tracheosaurus and I suppose it'll wind up simply being "The neck monster". :>
But in a way this kind of thing disparages science more than Christianity; it will point out that science didn't have a complete picture of dinosaurs all those times, before. :/ [snarky grin!]
Just as the original poster was saying, we might not find out what good these findings are for some time.
As an example, I've found out why ducks poop. Yes, yes I spent years and billions of dollars tracking down the reason so that all of you can take heed and learn the truth: they eat.
Just spending time and money sitting on something for decades hoping for relevance isn't all that useful (as in the example above). I mean, we needed smaller wires and smaller transistors for space flight....so we came up with semiconductors where the entire circuits were built in silicon. (as opposed to discrete components). We didn't sit on the side of the road and count buses.
Scientific progress that requires we wait for years for something to show isn't science...it's loitering. There are *many* clever experimenters out there. Because your 32-year project is funded, theirs aren't.
Every kid who's ever looked at a dish on the table and tried to move it with his mind, eventually gets up and grabs it. Because that's how real learning/discovery/proving gets done.
It might be a little bigger than this.
Recall that high levels of RF radiation cause heating. (See also: the microwave in your house.) This will create a 'hole' in the clouds better than any airplane. A number of places seem to have "hole punch" holes over them all the time...that's because, whether they wish to admit it, they're using a high powered radar in the building.
Maybe this urge to suggest widely the concept of aircraft-caused phenomenon is because they're gonna leave these radar on?
Just a thought; I actually saw photos of one such place...we bombed it, I believe...
Pre-Cambrian "carpet mold"? It was very basic...seemed to stay that way an awfully long time.
Is there anyone here who'd stop and consider the intelligence of the find, if it happened on the toilet seat? ;>
Remember all that "Government Oversight" that's supposed to be so good, that everything worth taking over, must have some?
11 months ago the Obama Administration (i.e. the federal government) gave it a SAFETY AWARD! And, same administration was given (I think it was) $11m!
Cozy, huh? THIS IS WHY we don't need government involvement in every breath we take. I know, most of you out there think the government is only an infinite source of MONEY, but the reverse is true: we're broke. And everything they've done has only made it worse!
Please: pay attention to history. Learn that socialism is misery to whoever's dumb enough to permit it.
Ya know, I couldn't have painted a better picture of a person knowledgeable, but unwilling, to accept if I'd pulled an all-nighter. You made all the arguments I once did.
But I'm really not here to talk to you: you've already decided there *IS* a god, and you want to be elsewhere. Don't feel bad: that's this "meaning of life" you've heard about. It's the very reason this rock spins in the orbit it does. It's the reason why we won't be sliding off into a black hole, or blowing ourselves up anytime soon, unless every possible person has had the chance to decide for himself, what he believes.
As for me, I've already been through the high life. I'm embarrased to tell you all the things I did in Chicago and my hometown before I got saved. There are just SOME tales you don't tell the kids, or anyone for that matter. But despite the money, the responsibility, the FUN that I was having in brief spurts, it was empty.
One night I 'met' that off-board intelligence. My life's never been the same. But I'm not gonna bore you with it: you don't wish to know. Just know, when you're ready, He is...but you have to be _alive_ to chose.
Now I live to take care of Mom, 79. We're almost to the bathing-and-wiping phase of her care. Spending all the time on her, there's no time for a job, so poverty is a way of life. But as much as I'd RATHER be water skiing or being dropped from a helicopter to ski down a mountain, this work is meaningful.
I understand why there are ghosts. I know where this "simple life" you seek, went. I know why bad things happen to people. And I know that, if a tree lands on me tomorrow, I'm good with it.
The change is subtle, but not punative. Honestly: it's *possible* that Hitler could get saved. Not bloody likely, but possible. And he'd be just as welcomed as I will. But explain-away all you like. Don't bother 'wasting time' learning how the Bible, like all other literature has it's genres, and parts read like the Wall Street Journal, and parts like Stan Lee. Be sure to tell all your friends that God is just an inventive tool that makes people buy things and displays for all the idiocy they have to the 'real people'.
Understand that on judgment day, no one's gonna raise a fist and say "I was wronged!" You'll go where you wish. You're deciding now. Do what you want.
When science and religion don't agree, you have bad science, or bad theology. The two agree, they don't oppose.
Remember the Pope, throwing a Copernicus into home-arrest for suggesting we're on just one of the planets circling the sun, we're NOT the center of the universe?
Bad theology.
Remember Darwin saying every animal started from the splitting of one elemental animal, over and over, until changes made them the diverse collection they are? Then someone finds a trilobite (compound eyes, vertebrae, complete digestion system) and it's the oldest animal in the fossil records, other than the "carpet mold" of the pre-Cambrian era?
Bad science.
Guys, I know what the media tells you. But consider this:
1. Greeks: The Earth is on Atlas' shoulders.
2. Bhuddists: it's on the back of a fish.
3. Indian: An elephant floats on it's back in a sea of milk, with the earth balanced on it's trunk, under a ceiling of stars.
4. Judeo/Christian: "The Earth is suspended from nothing".
There's your datapoint, late in Genesis. How would mankind KNOW this?
Hypothesis:
The Bible CAN'T be true, yet THIS IS. Prove the rest wrong, too.
Isn't that what scientists _DO_?
Here's help:
http://equip.org/ Simplified, accurate docs.
http://doesgodexist.com/ Videos from a geologist who did this.
Freshwater is in short supply. They're right on the ocean.
WHY DON'T WE HAVE THIRTY OF THEM? Why does the government SO PROFOUND it can save millions of dollars by doing healthcare think that keeping desalination plants away is a good idea?
Desalination plants of all kinds are in place around the world, whether using this design or others....so why would anyone deny them?
Really, people: let's work the problem!
*I* *KNOW* you want faster downloads. This is NOT the way to get it.
Starting at that _very_first_ruling_ the federal government will then have precedence to do *anything*they*want. As anyone who lost their life savings in GM when the Fed decided to take them over to save the union.
Want the internet taxed? Want content controls that make no sense? Want people snooping *constantly* with the power to decrypt most anything you send?
Just pursue this. You'll be lucky they don't decide they own the ethernet to your computer, your wireless, and your dog and cat!
Take it from a guy that's seen a LOT of well-intentioned laws come and then never leave. It's called "Government Oversight".
Nuclear Power
Tobacco Companies
Big Pharma
Big Chem
Petroleum
Savings & Loans
Mortgages
Wall Street (trading) companies
College Loans
All these industries:
1: get crippled by congressional law.
2: money from the fed comes to save the day (it seems)
3: an argument is made that government oversight is needed to stop "greed".
4: repeat.
The internet's the best way for a concerned populace to stay in charge of the government. PLEASE don't make a deal with the devil because you hunger for faster downloads. I promise you: it's not worth it!
Now I ask you: is there anything the government has done competently in your LIFETIME? I mean, other than spend your money and get us in debt...
I was once a system administrator; a pretty good one, too. Every tool I wrote would let me know if it exceeded it's expectations, I re-used a lot of code, and did a lot of work after-hours. Sysadmins with their feet up aren't as "done" as they think. Documentation, from labelling wires to straightening out archives, takes a lot of time to do right.
From my vantage point, the job of corporate discipline was mine: if a piece of equipment was about to get overloaded, it was ME that found replacements, considered the compatibility, and searched by price to find the replacement. The changeover was scheduled on a weekend with a set of test-data that would let me rollback in case of failure.
We were 'just' running cash registers and PCs that both ran specific software and did research on the web...no one was in a capsule nor was their life on the line...but if you're gonna do this job, you have to _own_ it. And every second a cash register is down is a second the boss might be losing money. So yeah, it's mission-critical.
From my perch as number-2 in the organization, I had *only* the rights to make suggestions and to stop the boss from driving off into a canyon. It was really the only power I had. It felt kinda like the coroner of a small town: the only guy that could arrest anyone but the sheriff...and that person WAS the sheriff.
If you're being asked to do things with infrastructure that won't allow it, someone in your organization has succumbed to the need to finish something without _actually_finishing_ something. The job's not over until everything's back to the way it was...or better..than when the disturbance began. It's not just about setup for a project, it's for life after it, too.
That's not management's fault, unless it's for hiring people who don't look past their own keyboards. We don't just work when it's glorious...and it's never glorious. We work all the time in anticipation of getting swamped by the next increase of workload....and those of use good at it, we love it for that challenge.