..or the thousands of private databases across this world tracking everything from purchases made with Visa to issuance of a visa? In effect, we did...we all 'clicked through' something long ago, but for some reason, the government, on a mission to find the terrorists among us, are not permitted?
To think this is the only one...to think the government is the only agent-of-study...it's all kinda naive, isn't it?
Do you guys remember back in the early 90's when bandwidth started to climb? I kept seeing jobs for Cisco. First a "silicon architect", then a little more for integrators, then A WORLD OF JOBS from floor-sweeper to product spokesmen. And the net got a little faster.
See, since the government has very little control over the net, it's able to grow and expand where it needs to. When the spike comes, bet-your-bottom-dollar there'll be brownouts. But sure as a hundred worlds, when the smoke clears the bandwidth will be found. That's the beauty of capitalism.
No worries. Just opportunities. A couple of bad-traffic days, but so what? More jobs, more workers, more net!
Why do people seem to assume the worst of something that has been growing faster every month since about 1990, anyway. And while the bandwidth is clogged, the demand will slow, but it's not life support, guys!:>
Sounds like a lot of things coming out of the Democratic Party and their underlings....like the USA is using "too much" of the sunlight? That was just a week or two ago.
If she can flash her eyelids, wiggle a finger, or stick out her tongue to indicate yes or no, go with it. Putting technology here will only make it worse. How would you "tech support" something like that? Tech will be foreign to her (as it it to MY mom who's in a nursing home) and you just need to keep it simple.
Now long term, it's possible to do something tying muscle-control to a light, for example, but where you are now, keep it simple. She's hurting and feeling out of control.
He wrote it. That was because George "can do nothing right" Bush reached across the aisle to allow him control of it, as an metaphoric olive branch.
Then, at the State of the Union address he acted like it was the worst legislation known to man. But then, we've come to expect that from this particular Senator, haven't we?:>
I thought the primary disasters were loomming because we pay people to do nothing (Welfare) and feed people for free (Food Stamps) and have decided to extend cradle-to-grave the cornucopia of taxpayer's money...as they all swell from illegal immigration (AKA aliens) and the large number of older folks, a well as a growing number of uneducated folk who can't get a job.
But then again...when they spend, they collect taxes; perhaps the spending suggestion is just a lame way to cover this disaster?
Which one do you think will be cut off, protected, and dissolved first?
(Try not to stare as you see our footprints match those of ancient Rome...)
I agree, but the scope of the problem is much larger.
Americans are still designing systems (and I'm talking WHOLE systems, not just the computers) for the industrial revolution. Much the same way, we're educating our kids for the same purpose- to make them cogs for manufacturing.
The Japanese have a more 'cellular' structure, as opposed to the 'pyramid' designed back a couple of 'turns of the century' ago. One man on top drives five, who drive 200, who drive them all. But the Japanese model is more like object orientation: each unit has private parts. So long as the command it's given produces the proper results and stays within budget, who cares?
Assembly lines gather at their meetings and decide policy on their own. "Fred has been late 3 times this week; do we care?" and the only people to whom it matters, decide. There's no need for a strict, top-down policy, especially since only tiny organizations all do only one job.
Imagine the broken structures in a holding company; they own a newspaper, a carwash and a grocery store; the top man can't say "We'll only use glass containers", because that would be a disaster in a car wash. They can't say "we choose leaded inks" which might be fine for the car wash, but danger at the newspaper. Each unit has it's own purpose.
So how about giving the network admins the power to do *whatever* it takes to let them keep the equipment up to date? As long as it runs, under budget, and doesn't get'em on the newspapers, who cares about the specifics? Why not let the unused budget from every year sit in an account (not being taken back) and use THAT to improve infrastructure?
If these guys were able to have that kind of control, this discussion wouldn't be happening.
With Newt Gingrich coming back into politics, the Democrats will have another, familiar person-to-hate, so it all balances out.
It's important to have a 'satan' they can point to- it's easier to be programmed for blind hatred when there's a face on it. This is what they've done as a party for dozens of years.
I just chose to pick a party that isn't based on racism, hatred, or personalities- instead is proven by history. But then, I go searching for news, not scanning headlines on the way out the door...
It's coming for the exact same reason that PC vendors kept thinking they'd "Be the next IBM" when they'd merely change the heads on case screws [Compaq!] and the now-legendary way a manufacturer will make their computer offering with a 'poison pill' that keeps us addicted to a particular vendor. [Microsoft- ActiveDirectory]. It's assumed that without this pill, no one would ever go back to that vendor....maybe because their offerings suck so much as a general rule.
It's just bone headed.
The scrap piles are full of "L" shaped motherboards, funky risers and non-standard parts, and each and every one is forgotten as soon as the unit is declared obsolete...but the industry can't stop itself. When in truth, the IBM PC didn't do many things different from other techs of the time, it just did a useful amount of things all in one place. The first motherboards had a provision for a _cassette_tape_ interface, as was so popular back then, but dropped it because hard/floppy drives are just so much better. The natural demand for such a powerful product caused it's numbers to grow and expand, not a peculiar handling in the tech support lab. Even IBM wasn't trying to be 'the next IBM' when it started. They were just selling well-made (though ill-conceived) hardware like their other offerings.
There's a similar mania that's taken hold of the media vendors; the idea that, despite it's been tested and failed dozens of times, that *this*time* they'll create a mechanism for locking the music up will work. Or blanking out the videos if a coin hasn't been paid....but they never work for long.
The truth is that, while people need compensated for their works, electronic media as it stands isn't the pay-for-play media they desire. And the music industry (a bit more than the movie industry) seems to have the mania in a much larger way. The TV industry for example, understands that a copy of a series getting on the net will bring viewers and start 'the buzz' but the record industry still thinks funding groups 'that we're less likely to change the channel' is better than producing music we'll actually care about.
It's a broken system. It can be fixed, but the industries need time and the desire to change. I don't think they'll have this desire, until they're nearly penniless and closing their doors. Remember the age of these people at the top. Remember how old Jack Valenti was? They just don't know any other way, and aren't about to change [what clearly doesn't work].
As an aside, "Trickle Down Theory" is still called that...when it's been tried six times now, sucessfully, with the third time being called "Reganomics", and one of the times was with JFK. Why do people regard it as an uncertain thing after so many sucessful tries?
Bush has sat still while method after method of tracking terrorists has been revealed...not for reasons of suggested illegality, been reported on the front page of the New York Times. Yeah, I know- you probably have bought the idea of an administration gone power-hungry, but I'm telling you it's not.
A fraction of the Muslim world wants us dead. Period. They've been blowing up a handful of people and a boatload of innocent bystanders (many times, Muslims as well) JUST because they're American or Jewish, for nearly half a century. See the Kobar Towers (sp?), see Beruit, see Bali, and hundreds of other places where the crime was being in a place where radicle Muslims could reach a detonator. Let's also not forget that 9/11 was _before_ we continued the war against Saddam, which was halted in a ceasefire, not victory. Then the ceasefire was breached 492 times by Saddam firing at the aircraft enforcing the no-fly zone.
Some people don't get it. Others let the lion's share of the media do the thinking for them. Leaving Iraq won't stop these people. Being nice to them won't stop these people. This thin-slice of the Muslim world hates because they know no other way to vent from their misery, and we get to be the targets.
But even so, time after time we see the front page of Democratic newspapers extol the 'horror' of diligence, and shut down another means of tracking these people before they do harm. In my America they would have been shot on television, with Muslim captions as they died. This isn't something that we can play around with: they're coming. Hell, they're here- watch the news for all the times the "incompetent" terrorists couldn't get it together. The Democrat news services are all about making their attempts seem foolish.
But when a Democrat is president, and he tries to send the police for the next big strike when an aircraft carrier is called for, will you remember this conversation?
Also notice that, as the election looms, Democrats are starting to 'give' on this key issue: now they're starting to seem 'hawkish' by comparison....they know someone has to do the actual hard work, and it could turn out to be them.
If you hate Don Rumsfeld and you don't know why- that's a clue you've been programmed. If you hate Carl Rove and can't come up with an actual reason, there's another. And if you want to vote for Hillary, check first if you can remember a single accomplishment other than being born female.
60% of Americans have had their heads turned by the world's second-largest propaganda war this world has seen. Remember your history; without it you're a tool of anyone with 80% of the media. And no, it's not the Conservatives.
Has it crossed anyone's mind that we could be alone? Bacteria and other forms of life aside, is there any reason to believe that galaxies team with life, just because there are so many?
Something like 90% of the solar systems out there contain *nothing* but gasses, a bunch more have planets too far or too close to their sun. Still more are in flux- near black holes, and pulsars and the like.
I'd love to see something out there, too, but I'm a little dubious about the likelihood. There are perhaps a million combinations of circumstances that allow us to be, and be here. Everything from a precise gravity to an orbiting moon; it's not a simple circumstance.
For example, let's have a party: -desire to have it -guests -drinks -location -music -chips/etc
Without all of these, a party isn't going to happen. These six things, each having a yes/no answer, form an equation, like a probability, of 32 possibilities. The chances [generally speaking] are 1:32.
But the requirements to have life anything like us is hundreds of times larger. Sure, we might meet a silicon-based race, but that sure seems like an outside chance. (But at least they wouldn't be inspired to eat us...)
Don't feel bad if we find nothing; there's just such a small chance, and even if we did, your whole family line would be dead before we could *start* to go there.
Yeah, let's get behind a movement that allows the governments of the world to sneak into the house, just in case this 'threat' is real. I mean really, "SMOKING ONE CIGARETTE IS DEADLY" so let's use the assertion for global takeover. We must protect us from ourselves.
(Really: not one person has EVER died from a cigarette....or even 200, unless there was an allergy discovered. To view second hand smoke (1/100 the real thing) as deadly is wrong and meant to steal rights. Smokers smoke for DECADES before the danger appears. 1/1,000,000 the danger is so slight as to be meaningless.)
But, this is the way the anti-SUV movement began...more wasted time, more wasted hate. Look for the checkbox for this new fear at your local Democratic Party flyer...
Did Linus all the sudden lock out all other potential schedulers? Was the choice taken away? Root usually needs to install such games, and it's no big deal to change them at runtime, so relax, aye?
Adult stem cells, I'm told, have had lots of applications (hence the research money available for it). It's the embryonic stem cells that don't seem to have as many applications.
It's just kinda creepy to see so many people trying to get government funding of stem cells from the "people who won't vote" (to put it mildly). It's like one party in America loves to put a bounty on the heads of the unborn; ever notice?
I know embryonics are in the grey area, but the willingness of people to cannibalize babies just seems wrong, in general.
CO2 is what the sea exudes to counter higher temperatures...so...by supporting "Global Warming{TM}" you'll actually make the planet warmer. But who cares...."it's all for the children..."
What a bunch of crap from the same crap factory that concluded an ice age was about to start, in 1975, acid rain, ozone holes, and every other fund-raiser that would surely kill us all.
1. How many pounds of slag is Illinois, Michigan and other entities putting there?
2. Just how unsafe is putting it there? 1,000 pounds a day is a lot, but in a body of water that's 3,000 feet deep in places, it's a tiny drop in the bucket. Are we qualified to make such a claim?
A lot of times we hear things like this that sound horrible, but they're really not.
Don't think so? See what happens when Republicans decrease the amount of increase a sector of the governmental budget causes: "Welfare's been CUT! People will STARVE!" (Actually it's growing at 8% instead of 9% each year.)
While 'bought' politicians are not uncommon, and it's possible this is one dumping on the environment, I think more needs to be known about the subject though...
Don't forget China; boys are worth so much more to their families, they're hideously outnumbering the girls. They're concerned for a huge AIDS outbreak in the offing, and they should be.
I love the Chinese people; they're strong, honorable, and fighters. But this way of life (killing female infants) could kill them, literally.
There's just something wrong with killing babies; the most innocent among us. The least defensible among us. I just wish the Democratic National Committee could see this- they're always trying to put a bounty on the unborn.:(
...I think I've used math about a dozen times...and that's a generous guess. Unless you're actually _doing_ math, for plotting to the screen (or elsewhere) it really doesn't come into play.
I've found that troubleshooting and general logic plays the largest part of the sysadmin job; making data streams work, timing system chores, and writing in various languages to interpret those streams.
Sizing a database? Yeah, math. Predicting the weather? Definate math. But I've been a "documentor", Systems Analyst, IT director, as well as a general staff member...math is kinda rare. But I appreciate the folks who _do_ understand it.
Yeah, I have to agree; my brother _actually_ thinks the world is 6,000 years old. I can show him nearly 200 dating methods that all agree, and have been used on things. (It's from Usher's attempt to read Numbers and determine a timeline, which was a flawed attempt).
Christians need to think; most are lazy readers, and tend to sign-onto an ideology without thinking it through. Part of it's natural, though; when you see a number of things that explain things you could barely describe before, new Christians are eager to just 'jump on the train' instead of asking where it's headed.
I don't understand what would be wrong with God re-furbing the prototypical huminoid into a new "Adam" which is complete with a soul. Aren't large-mouth bass derived from small-mouthed, etc? They surely weren't made from plastics, etc.:>
The problem with Christianity is that so many people (not computers, for example) are in it. Each one with feelings, mistakes, egos, and all the rest. But the word of truth is important, and everyone needs to keep trying.
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But what do we do with the really, really, heavy books? :>
..or the thousands of private databases across this world tracking everything from purchases made with Visa to issuance of a visa? In effect, we did...we all 'clicked through' something long ago, but for some reason, the government, on a mission to find the terrorists among us, are not permitted?
To think this is the only one...to think the government is the only agent-of-study...it's all kinda naive, isn't it?
Do you guys remember back in the early 90's when bandwidth started to climb? I kept seeing jobs for Cisco. First a "silicon architect", then a little more for integrators, then A WORLD OF JOBS from floor-sweeper to product spokesmen. And the net got a little faster.
:>
See, since the government has very little control over the net, it's able to grow and expand where it needs to. When the spike comes, bet-your-bottom-dollar there'll be brownouts. But sure as a hundred worlds, when the smoke clears the bandwidth will be found. That's the beauty of capitalism.
No worries. Just opportunities. A couple of bad-traffic days, but so what? More jobs, more workers, more net!
Why do people seem to assume the worst of something that has been growing faster every month since about 1990, anyway. And while the bandwidth is clogged, the demand will slow, but it's not life support, guys!
Sounds like a lot of things coming out of the Democratic Party and their underlings....like the USA is using "too much" of the sunlight? That was just a week or two ago.
Sheesh...well, "Divide and conquer".
If she can flash her eyelids, wiggle a finger, or stick out her tongue to indicate yes or no, go with it. Putting technology here will only make it worse. How would you "tech support" something like that? Tech will be foreign to her (as it it to MY mom who's in a nursing home) and you just need to keep it simple.
Now long term, it's possible to do something tying muscle-control to a light, for example, but where you are now, keep it simple. She's hurting and feeling out of control.
And good luck to her!
He wrote it. That was because George "can do nothing right" Bush reached across the aisle to allow him control of it, as an metaphoric olive branch.
:>
Then, at the State of the Union address he acted like it was the worst legislation known to man. But then, we've come to expect that from this particular Senator, haven't we?
I thought the primary disasters were loomming because we pay people to do nothing (Welfare) and feed people for free (Food Stamps) and have decided to extend cradle-to-grave the cornucopia of taxpayer's money...as they all swell from illegal immigration (AKA aliens) and the large number of older folks, a well as a growing number of uneducated folk who can't get a job.
But then again...when they spend, they collect taxes; perhaps the spending suggestion is just a lame way to cover this disaster?
Which one do you think will be cut off, protected, and dissolved first?
(Try not to stare as you see our footprints match those of ancient Rome...)
I agree, but the scope of the problem is much larger.
Americans are still designing systems (and I'm talking WHOLE systems, not just the computers) for the industrial revolution. Much the same way, we're educating our kids for the same purpose- to make them cogs for manufacturing.
The Japanese have a more 'cellular' structure, as opposed to the 'pyramid' designed back a couple of 'turns of the century' ago. One man on top drives five, who drive 200, who drive them all. But the Japanese model is more like object orientation: each unit has private parts. So long as the command it's given produces the proper results and stays within budget, who cares?
Assembly lines gather at their meetings and decide policy on their own. "Fred has been late 3 times this week; do we care?" and the only people to whom it matters, decide. There's no need for a strict, top-down policy, especially since only tiny organizations all do only one job.
Imagine the broken structures in a holding company; they own a newspaper, a carwash and a grocery store; the top man can't say "We'll only use glass containers", because that would be a disaster in a car wash. They can't say "we choose leaded inks" which might be fine for the car wash, but danger at the newspaper. Each unit has it's own purpose.
So how about giving the network admins the power to do *whatever* it takes to let them keep the equipment up to date? As long as it runs, under budget, and doesn't get'em on the newspapers, who cares about the specifics? Why not let the unused budget from every year sit in an account (not being taken back) and use THAT to improve infrastructure?
If these guys were able to have that kind of control, this discussion wouldn't be happening.
The idea that chess is such a vaunted, emotionally-requiring game to play...it's only that way to US. It's a mental arm-wrestling with another human.
It is in NO way some milestone that says "Nope! Computers are now superior to humans- bow to our silicon-based masters." Think first.
Then go ask Big Blue to get you a Coke with a handful of change.
[No arms- no fingers- no programming to insert the coins if it had them- doesn't know how to ask someone for help]
It's not superior- it's just better at chess! Relax, MENSA- they're not coming for you anytime soon.
With Newt Gingrich coming back into politics, the Democrats will have another, familiar person-to-hate, so it all balances out.
It's important to have a 'satan' they can point to- it's easier to be programmed for blind hatred when there's a face on it. This is what they've done as a party for dozens of years.
I just chose to pick a party that isn't based on racism, hatred, or personalities- instead is proven by history. But then, I go searching for news, not scanning headlines on the way out the door...
It's coming for the exact same reason that PC vendors kept thinking they'd "Be the next IBM" when they'd merely change the heads on case screws [Compaq!] and the now-legendary way a manufacturer will make their computer offering with a 'poison pill' that keeps us addicted to a particular vendor. [Microsoft- ActiveDirectory]. It's assumed that without this pill, no one would ever go back to that vendor....maybe because their offerings suck so much as a general rule.
It's just bone headed.
The scrap piles are full of "L" shaped motherboards, funky risers and non-standard parts, and each and every one is forgotten as soon as the unit is declared obsolete...but the industry can't stop itself. When in truth, the IBM PC didn't do many things different from other techs of the time, it just did a useful amount of things all in one place. The first motherboards had a provision for a _cassette_tape_ interface, as was so popular back then, but dropped it because hard/floppy drives are just so much better. The natural demand for such a powerful product caused it's numbers to grow and expand, not a peculiar handling in the tech support lab. Even IBM wasn't trying to be 'the next IBM' when it started. They were just selling well-made (though ill-conceived) hardware like their other offerings.
There's a similar mania that's taken hold of the media vendors; the idea that, despite it's been tested and failed dozens of times, that *this*time* they'll create a mechanism for locking the music up will work. Or blanking out the videos if a coin hasn't been paid....but they never work for long.
The truth is that, while people need compensated for their works, electronic media as it stands isn't the pay-for-play media they desire. And the music industry (a bit more than the movie industry) seems to have the mania in a much larger way. The TV industry for example, understands that a copy of a series getting on the net will bring viewers and start 'the buzz' but the record industry still thinks funding groups 'that we're less likely to change the channel' is better than producing music we'll actually care about.
It's a broken system. It can be fixed, but the industries need time and the desire to change. I don't think they'll have this desire, until they're nearly penniless and closing their doors. Remember the age of these people at the top. Remember how old Jack Valenti was? They just don't know any other way, and aren't about to change [what clearly doesn't work].
As an aside, "Trickle Down Theory" is still called that...when it's been tried six times now, sucessfully, with the third time being called "Reganomics", and one of the times was with JFK. Why do people regard it as an uncertain thing after so many sucessful tries?
Bush has sat still while method after method of tracking terrorists has been revealed...not for reasons of suggested illegality, been reported on the front page of the New York Times. Yeah, I know- you probably have bought the idea of an administration gone power-hungry, but I'm telling you it's not.
A fraction of the Muslim world wants us dead. Period. They've been blowing up a handful of people and a boatload of innocent bystanders (many times, Muslims as well) JUST because they're American or Jewish, for nearly half a century. See the Kobar Towers (sp?), see Beruit, see Bali, and hundreds of other places where the crime was being in a place where radicle Muslims could reach a detonator. Let's also not forget that 9/11 was _before_ we continued the war against Saddam, which was halted in a ceasefire, not victory. Then the ceasefire was breached 492 times by Saddam firing at the aircraft enforcing the no-fly zone.
Some people don't get it. Others let the lion's share of the media do the thinking for them. Leaving Iraq won't stop these people. Being nice to them won't stop these people. This thin-slice of the Muslim world hates because they know no other way to vent from their misery, and we get to be the targets.
But even so, time after time we see the front page of Democratic newspapers extol the 'horror' of diligence, and shut down another means of tracking these people before they do harm. In my America they would have been shot on television, with Muslim captions as they died. This isn't something that we can play around with: they're coming. Hell, they're here- watch the news for all the times the "incompetent" terrorists couldn't get it together. The Democrat news services are all about making their attempts seem foolish.
But when a Democrat is president, and he tries to send the police for the next big strike when an aircraft carrier is called for, will you remember this conversation?
Also notice that, as the election looms, Democrats are starting to 'give' on this key issue: now they're starting to seem 'hawkish' by comparison....they know someone has to do the actual hard work, and it could turn out to be them.
If you hate Don Rumsfeld and you don't know why- that's a clue you've been programmed. If you hate Carl Rove and can't come up with an actual reason, there's another. And if you want to vote for Hillary, check first if you can remember a single accomplishment other than being born female.
60% of Americans have had their heads turned by the world's second-largest propaganda war this world has seen. Remember your history; without it you're a tool of anyone with 80% of the media. And no, it's not the Conservatives.
Has it crossed anyone's mind that we could be alone? Bacteria and other forms of life aside, is there any reason to believe that galaxies team with life, just because there are so many?
Something like 90% of the solar systems out there contain *nothing* but gasses, a bunch more have planets too far or too close to their sun. Still more are in flux- near black holes, and pulsars and the like.
I'd love to see something out there, too, but I'm a little dubious about the likelihood. There are perhaps a million combinations of circumstances that allow us to be, and be here. Everything from a precise gravity to an orbiting moon; it's not a simple circumstance.
For example, let's have a party:
-desire to have it
-guests
-drinks
-location
-music
-chips/etc
Without all of these, a party isn't going to happen. These six things, each having a yes/no answer, form an equation, like a probability, of 32 possibilities. The chances [generally speaking] are 1:32.
But the requirements to have life anything like us is hundreds of times larger. Sure, we might meet a silicon-based race, but that sure seems like an outside chance. (But at least they wouldn't be inspired to eat us...)
Don't feel bad if we find nothing; there's just such a small chance, and even if we did, your whole family line would be dead before we could *start* to go there.
Enjoy life now; look for Him.
'Cause I don't believe he's been right since Kilobaud Microcomputing closed it's doors, and Byte started taking up the marketplace.
Has he ever been right? Do catastrophes _ever_ come with a warning? What would we do if we had one?
Yeah, let's get behind a movement that allows the governments of the world to sneak into the house, just in case this 'threat' is real. I mean really, "SMOKING ONE CIGARETTE IS DEADLY" so let's use the assertion for global takeover. We must protect us from ourselves.
(Really: not one person has EVER died from a cigarette....or even 200, unless there was an allergy discovered. To view second hand smoke (1/100 the real thing) as deadly is wrong and meant to steal rights. Smokers smoke for DECADES before the danger appears. 1/1,000,000 the danger is so slight as to be meaningless.)
But, this is the way the anti-SUV movement began...more wasted time, more wasted hate. Look for the checkbox for this new fear at your local Democratic Party flyer...
Sigh...
Did Linus all the sudden lock out all other potential schedulers? Was the choice taken away? Root usually needs to install such games, and it's no big deal to change them at runtime, so relax, aye?
Doesn't it make sense to revamp the Saturn 5? Wasn't there good, complete scientific data from all the times we launched the vehicles?
:)
Why, then, does it seem strange that they pull all the details from the public, in hopes it doesn't get sabatoged?
(Any more than allowing a drunken astronaut to fly it...)
Adult stem cells, I'm told, have had lots of applications (hence the research money available for it). It's the embryonic stem cells that don't seem to have as many applications.
It's just kinda creepy to see so many people trying to get government funding of stem cells from the "people who won't vote" (to put it mildly). It's like one party in America loves to put a bounty on the heads of the unborn; ever notice?
I know embryonics are in the grey area, but the willingness of people to cannibalize babies just seems wrong, in general.
CO2 is what the sea exudes to counter higher temperatures...so...by supporting "Global Warming{TM}" you'll actually make the planet warmer. But who cares...."it's all for the children..."
What a bunch of crap from the same crap factory that concluded an ice age was about to start, in 1975, acid rain, ozone holes, and every other fund-raiser that would surely kill us all.
I'm getting pretty tired of Chicken Little.
1. How many pounds of slag is Illinois, Michigan and other entities putting there?
2. Just how unsafe is putting it there? 1,000 pounds a day is a lot, but in a body of water that's 3,000 feet deep in places, it's a tiny drop in the bucket. Are we qualified to make such a claim?
A lot of times we hear things like this that sound horrible, but they're really not.
Don't think so? See what happens when Republicans decrease the amount of increase a sector of the governmental budget causes: "Welfare's been CUT! People will STARVE!" (Actually it's growing at 8% instead of 9% each year.)
While 'bought' politicians are not uncommon, and it's possible this is one dumping on the environment, I think more needs to be known about the subject though...
Isn't that what we _pay_ them to do, in the first place?
Why does everything the governent does come as some sort of lethal, subversive crime? Colgate/Palmolive knows much more about you, than them.
Don't forget China; boys are worth so much more to their families, they're hideously outnumbering the girls. They're concerned for a huge AIDS outbreak in the offing, and they should be.
:(
I love the Chinese people; they're strong, honorable, and fighters. But this way of life (killing female infants) could kill them, literally.
There's just something wrong with killing babies; the most innocent among us. The least defensible among us. I just wish the Democratic National Committee could see this- they're always trying to put a bounty on the unborn.
...I think I've used math about a dozen times...and that's a generous guess. Unless you're actually _doing_ math, for plotting to the screen (or elsewhere) it really doesn't come into play.
I've found that troubleshooting and general logic plays the largest part of the sysadmin job; making data streams work, timing system chores, and writing in various languages to interpret those streams.
Sizing a database? Yeah, math. Predicting the weather? Definate math. But I've been a "documentor", Systems Analyst, IT director, as well as a general staff member...math is kinda rare. But I appreciate the folks who _do_ understand it.
Keygrabbers, bots, password snooping...and that's just the guys from Microsoft! :>
If this stops building from exploding, it's fine with me. It's not like the net's been private for over ten years...
Want something private? Create an ssh tunnel.
Yeah, I have to agree; my brother _actually_ thinks the world is 6,000 years old. I can show him nearly 200 dating methods that all agree, and have been used on things. (It's from Usher's attempt to read Numbers and determine a timeline, which was a flawed attempt).
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Christians need to think; most are lazy readers, and tend to sign-onto an ideology without thinking it through. Part of it's natural, though; when you see a number of things that explain things you could barely describe before, new Christians are eager to just 'jump on the train' instead of asking where it's headed.
I don't understand what would be wrong with God re-furbing the prototypical huminoid into a new "Adam" which is complete with a soul. Aren't large-mouth bass derived from small-mouthed, etc? They surely weren't made from plastics, etc.
The problem with Christianity is that so many people (not computers, for example) are in it. Each one with feelings, mistakes, egos, and all the rest. But the word of truth is important, and everyone needs to keep trying.