A few weeks back Slashdot ran a story about MRSA and other 'superbugs' being fought in (I believe it was) Finland.
The cool thing about it is, for at least a decade they've been using the same level of sanitation as 50 years ago: steam-cleaning the floors and walls, not using HAND SANITIZER all the time, and letting the place remain a bit "dirtier" than our own hospitals. THEY HAVE THE LOWEST NUMBER OF SUCH CASES.
It makes sense; let the lesser-bugs go, kill with dumber, more-trusted ways that kill ALL the bugs or none at all, and the superbugs have to mate with lesser-bugs. This bleeds out the specialty features.
Meanwhile, everytime someone shakes hands in America, they hit it again with the sanitizer. It's just a never-ending "Germ Olympics" where only the strongest survive.
We really need to consider 'alternative' means like this, and I think you've hit the penis on the head!:>
Perhaps this can be "Insightful" too. What about the obvious fact that all this is a LIE?
Shall we all bow to a world leader for a LIE?
Just how many times do we need to see evidence about how the data was fixed before we believe it?
GlobalWarming(TM) is just the latest means by the Left to stomp out freedom.
Don't think so? Then park your car. Throw your money away: you can't work, there's no factories and no stores: they cause CO2. Our world must end to make happy a bunch of followers. This is what they want: everyone "equal" in a third-world life where pain and suffering rule.
Are ya *really* stupid enough to believe this? And they let you onto computers? Really? Maybe it's just a beautiful tale they tell so well.
Keep your climate-management. Freedom has cost us LIVES. We're not giving it up to hug a tree.
Game consoles do gaming *VERY*WELL*. I don't care which brand we're talking about, but let's look at some realities:
1. Software on ROMs. Not impossible to pirate, but not easy. There's a reason people invest in so much money in these: they can likely get it, and more, back.
2. Unchanging standards. Every console of a given type has very few versions of itself. All the parts came from one maker, and there's no room for misunderstandings.
3. Targeted hardware is effective hardware. Did you know the much-vaunted and very profitable XBox is a Pentium 3? How many of you still have those on your desktops? A similarly humble Galaga arcade machine merely had three Z-80s and made MILLIONS for lots of people.
4. A game console needs no 'churn'. What version of DirectX do you have installed today? Tomorrow? Yesterday? Will that be the same on the next video card?
Desktops are very good at their designed role: a generic group of hardware designed to do all things well. Game consoles do a narrow group of software EXCELLENT. And it shows!
Strangely, as we've been looking to console development, there's been some really good Linux development, game-wise. I think I can almost count TEN First-person-shooters (FPS) that came from nowhere. One or two can trace itself back to p;der closed-source roots, but most are completely NEW.
Historically speaking, once the FPS games are well-managed, the other games like FlightGear (an opensource flight simulator) and completely new games are soon behind it.
I feel we might be starting a kind of rebuild in Linux gaming that we've been waiting for, for a long time. All free, of course, and probably not with the same titles, but I see creation of a "Call of Duty" type game hampered only by the choice of the engine they prefer.
Of THE HUNDREDS OF THINGS THEY'VE TRIED, only Office and the OS make any money or go anywhere. Remember the plush animals? They've "done well" with keyboards and mice, etc but I don't see that as a huge spoke in their business. Are they still pushing WebTV?
Remember the Slashdot story where they patented a hinge? Not even a special one- it looks like one I have in my tool box someplace.:)
They killed MSFlightSim, for some reason 'they were running out of money' and the $40B in cash, followed by the seemingly unending stream of Office purchases (at 85% margin) wasn't enough to make up for the tiny development group. Something tells me other spending is leaking cash.
I'm seeing a lot of scattered ideas at MS; their attempt with Bing is not only annoying for those of us actually READING stories with pop-ups, but only about 20 years late, and having the narrow view that's so natural with Microsoft people.
To clarify:
I have a friend who's worked in the business at a pretty high level. He complains how for the last 15 years *every* MS project he's seen has collapsed under it's own weight. When one of those management teams manage to produce anything in ASP.NET, they've all wound up bogged down so badly it takes perhaps a full minute to get a few hundred bytes of data to the user.And that's *after* adding more servers to the 'fire' as MS suggests.
He's pulling out his hair.
The hired a guy to set up a domain, and given the equipment. My friend watched as he spent A YEAR AND A HALF and never completed the task. What's worse is that my friend installed the base OS on the first server, for him!
Now, I'm a Linux Zealot; ask anyone. I've been burned enough early-on that I no longer care to dance in the Microsoft circus of shareware/malware/mobware, and haven't since 1999. But EVEN TO ME A YEAR AND A HALF SEEMS LIKE A LONG TIME to set up an Active Directory server.
I've seen as Microsoft "clear-cuts" huge sections of code to replace it along the way. Alternatively, Linux, like all classical development spends it's time polishing-the-apple along the way. Sure, some small parts are cut-n-pasted (I'm thinking of the string-handling code) but MS even did this with TCP/IP! Even so, it *still* doesn't meet the original standard, and works funky.
My thoughts have always been, "How can they continue to do this?" and I believe we're starting to see that Bill thought the same thing, and boarded the corporate lifeboat in plenty of time.
Saying something sane like this, but being on Slashdot, does that mean you're actually FOR the democrat's "HealthCare" plan?
You'd be surprised how many people hate the government, and can point to it's faults, yet saddle up with the "we'll do it better than the private sector" crowd.
You CAN NOT count on a government...any government...to meet your needs, and in this example, to stay out of your business if they decide to go for more power.
It's the explicit *reason* the American Experiment has reigned supreme for it's people, and it's neighbors for so long now. As soon as it starts being another communist 'also-ran', the world will dim for us all.
This issue comes from the kind of socialism the Brits have embraced. It's not total yet, but it's fairly sad. They were once world-dominators; now they can't keep the Muslims from setting up Sharia law and people cutting off hands inside their borders.:(
I'm a big fan of the Brits, Aussies, even French and Russians...but the socialism *is* the problem. You won't get this kind of government intrusion with American Conservatism. I just hope the republican party permits itself to use it, again.
The government that rules best, rules least. --Ronald Regan
I know your heads are all full of IEEE standards and TLAs that keep you busy. But if you think Fox News is some overpowering force of evil, you need to get out of the NOC more often. I can show you THOUSANDS of times where the rest of the media was the bulldozer of truth, paving the way for people like Obama to lead us to ruin.
Health insurance is, in fact, a bad situation. No one knows that better than congress, they intentionally made it that way. What other purpose does it serve to break up the competition by locking in certain vendors to certain states? Thousands more tweaks like that exist beneath the surface, too.
But once we have a "must accept pre-existing conditions" law, all the sudden we change the game. People will buy insurance on the way to the ER, and never otherwise pay. This can't work for insurance companies, and all the sudden, the only one providing insurance is the government.
It's not about healthcare; it's an overthrow of the people.
Notice:
One place for mortgages (as they close banks daily) One place for college money One place for nationally-made cars One place for health insurance
All of this for a grouping of people with *no*discernable*competence. Remember the $400 hammer, the $600 toilet seat? Find me a government program that isn't bankrupt, or close to it. These are NOT the people to rely on, for healthcare. Or, handy-wipes.
And if you're not in the right party, guess what you'll get? SQUAT.
The healthcare system is about $3T right now. If the government runs it like everything else, it'll cost us $9T, and that will sink the economy in a way from which we'll not return. Heck, in a single year we've managed to rack-up a $2T deficit.
SURE BUSH SPENT MONEY. No arugment there; we didn't like it, either. But he was the same kinda guy as Obama: progressive. And yes, Virginia, progressives are taking us to a place of misery and ruin.
Remember your current job. There won't be as many, soon, as we're all put onto welfare, as in the doctoral thesis of Cloward & Piven. Disciples of this mindset are in the Obama admin. It's why the economy must be crashed. Look this stuff up- chose your source, but look it up.
Ghosts are interesting things for scientists to confront.
- No one seems to notice we never learn anything new-and-real from a ghost.
- Ghosts only seem to be generated when there's a good story to tell. Rain, by contrast, couldn't care LESS if it's falling into a pond, or into a bucket of sodium.
- No progress is ever made with them. They can't tell you a story, they can't reveal pirate treasure, or sit down to tea.
Point: Either they're made every time, or they're not made at all- they're something else.
Ghosts are, in fact, signs of a hidden intelligence. But they're not what you think. They're a distraction, period. People waste their entire lives on ghosts; they've been distracted.
But since scientists will no longer follow the quest into places such as the Bible, I suppose we'll never know *why* they do this, and remain superstitious like cavemen.
"Don't fear, closed-minded scientists- I saw the big bang, and God wasn't there. No need to worry.":>
Funny how the "open minded" snap shut when you tell them the dataset resides in the Bible...won't even look. Discredited source, though they have no answers.
Is it possible, like with the accounting departments, that two of these departments won't be needed, and one was disbanded? Why does everything with you guys have to be rich=evil? Sometimes rich=smart.
If it weren't, we wouldn't hire the exact same senators and congressmen all the time. What is it, 3% who EVER change hands during an election?
And you know the folks there NOW aren't doing it for the country- the "Louisiana purchase", the Ben Nelson bribe and the attempt to shut down Offut Field (home of the Strategic Air Command) to get them to comply should indicate the kind of things they're _hiding_ when they do these things for all to see.
William Jefferson, D-Louisana, interrupted the National Guard to take a boat to his home, where he rescued $90,000 cash, and went on the vote for several more years. When he couldn't get elected, he was finally tried. He's appealing, the last I heard- still hasn't been in jail.
Trent Lott, however, R-(Florida?) once told a 90+yo man that "things would have been better if he won those elections back in the 50's and 60's" and he was told to leave office. I'm not kidding. Being nice to an old man, versus rescuing dirty money, and look what gets you kicked out.
Yeah, Tesla thought he could make a solar 'factory' on the moon: one place the sun never sets and clouds never form. The only problem was in getting the energy back home. This might be the ticket.
Tom Beardon was working on Tesla's idea to channel energy like this, in something called "scalar waves", but not being a quantum mechanic, I have no idea if the idea holds water. Interesting story, just the same.
Remember how atoms bumped into each other to make a protien, then proteins bumped into each other until non-vertabrates were accidentally made? Millenia go by and eventually here come the vertabrates and eventually tax collectors.
Except one tiny problem: The trilobite's regarded as the oldest living creature, and it has a spine.
I have NO PROBLEM with animals changing over time. But clearly the 'out of nowhere' concept has a showstopper of a problem. Is this the only answer science has? I mean, Darwin couldn't even look inside the cells at the time....all this time and nothing better has been considered?
Remember what these guys can do with a mere DODGE NEON? Add a third dimension and the ability to be unaware of restricted airspace, falling into open mines, lakes, and rivers...you'll quickly learn why people never developed flying cars!:>
As my Microsoft-using friends tell me all the time, AVIs are Mac, originally and weren't ready for XP's release: codecs are required. Unless of course you have the "Professional" version, right?
I'm pretty sure to never use "HandBrake" but what's so wrong with OGG? We'd never have to care how a single vendor feels about it; it's free and good.
Well, ok! State-supporting content, in-your-face attitude because they know better than me *AND* we get to pay, too?
This is liberal thinking. Consider this- it's the way democrats in America think.
Running a city's subway service, all runs make their cost but one.
1. Charge more for that route.
2. People are now riding it less; we don't know why.
3. Raise taxes until we GET that money back, and enough to hire my nephew.
Conservatives work it this way:
1. Charge less for the route. Point advertising to the fact the run is there; make it *easier* for people to use it. Coupons, discounts, whatever it takes.
2. If it's not enough, close the line, and see if any other business could use it.
It's really not that hard. We just have to remember why things were so great under Regan.
AND THIS PAPER DOES IT'S BEST TO DEFEAT Conservatism! I say, "let'em crash".:>
Since the changing government wants to prohibit talk radio, say that the Constitution didn't go far enough to redistrubute wealth and soforth, what are the odds that they'll be forced to censor American traffic?
I mean, at this point we're not seeing a lot of political murders, but remember the "civilian national security force as large as the military" he promised? Chances are, it's the only campaign promise he'll keep.
Let's look back a second: these Liberals/Progressives have decided our light bulbs, toilets, refrigerant, cars, (in NYC) trans-fats and soon the salt in our shakers because [sarcasm]clearly the government knows better than us, what's good for us.[/sarcasm]
I submit Google will start censoring us when the cost to not do so, is death.
Now...does anyone want to talk about those 'fascist', 'mean', 'racist', 'angry', and 'extremist' conservatives?:) That lie's getting quite old these days.
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The unix idea of one-second-per-integer-count sure looks good now, doesn't it? No wasting time with hex, no fiddling to learn how now+1,000,000 seconds would be....and all we have to do is enlarge the number incremented to continue the smooth operation.
Can't we all agree on any ONE thing, like this well-documented, clearly laid-out concept? Doesn't 'simple' work well over time?
I'm just saying...inventing shorter-sighted, count-only-years plans are less than this, and they don't work that long. Let's agree one this one thing and never look back to Y2K again, aye?
PS: I'm well aware of unix apps the eschew system-time and invent calendars of their own. It's also what I'm talking about.
The reason "1/2" of the people don't trust scientists is because they were seduced by governmental money....or be put out of business. Over time, no matter who you are, money like this will erode your integrity.
Much like media; despite covering up anti-democrat stories, people actually *caught* stealing money and voting for several more years, with no mention on their news outlets....some news orgs contend that "corporations by their nature must be conservative, and so it's ok we're liberal for balance". [Nevermind they are owned by corporations, too.]
The media also played a central role in stomping out nuclear power. Just like The Hindenburg Disaster shut down commercial, lighter-than-air travel, Three Mile Island (and the associated "China Syndrome" movie from the same people) has just almost shut us down, compared to France. France gets 70% of their electricity from nukes; we get like 15-17, I believe.
And when people don't listen about STD's, it's because they're young and stupid. The media (again) has sold them the lie that contraception is 100%, so it must be safe to screw with wild abandon. SINCE IT ISN'T, they create more miserable people with no 'parents' to raise them, just one...possibly two kids to change diapers, the process repeats.
What's broken here isn't scientific notion: it's because of it.
I used to think it CRUEL to piss on an pregnant unmarried mother. "How mean is that?" I thought. But now that nearly 40% of our babies are born this way, I think I was wrong. That 40% becomes prison population and/or welfare cases, because they didn't get the necessary training to be competent adults.
There's a biological reason virginity (physical in women, physcological in men) has value, and it was called out something like 5,000 years ago. IT WORKS. Virginity isn't something you bring home like a party favor. It's *the* reason why more than half the marriages end in divorce.
Science isn't perfect; never has been. But one policy, *when*followed*properly* has lead broken, beaten civilizations to rule the world, change the maps and invent wondrous things: Christian morality.
You just have to study it, is all. The book won't read itself!
So we turn off the hardware-generated CRCs made by the hardware guys, locked into PROMs somewhere, so the OS can do it?
Can we think this through a little farther?
There's a reason for the value of firmware doing it's job, and an OS doing it's job. The division of labor is important here. The OS, while better these days, is more likely to have tables thrown into RAM, accessible by other programs...like rootkits, viruses and other circus-ware.
Microsoft tried this once; it was call "Stacker" and it convinced everyone I know to reformat their drives, as well as to lose every bit of data on them.
Yeah, I know: they had good reasons this would work well, without any problems.
Lesson here: the hardware guys work with gears. The OS guys work with clouds. I've seen hardware guys outsmart OS guys time after time, because the hardware guys can _prove_ what they think to be true. This is an important factor.
Just more ramblin's from an old man who's seen this before.
Technology is viewed as the downfall of man...it's the basis of the ManMadeGlobalWarming(TM) religion. However, technology has been nothing but a friend, as mankind finds his way into the future.
Remember "London Fog"? Not just a line of outerwear in the 60's, it pointed to clueless Americans that time in history where 20,000 coal fires kept Britain warm back in the days of Sherlock Holmes. This 'fog' was actually smog, so thick that people with gardens (most of them, actually) had to sweep off the soot if they planned to get anything out of them. It collected that badly.
But here comes technology; no one loves pollution, so not only can we use one large coal plant and run wires everywhere, we also have piped natural gas and the skys are clear. Coal isn't without it's faults, but as recently as the 70's, things were pretty good.
Now, if we can ever get the liberals to permit us to create nuclear power plants, it could be better! Not because of the CO2, but because they're cleaner in general.
But that's not all:
- The story was set in a way to make us guilty of the removal of the indians. Not just in the story line, but they go to the trouble of using a native American 'war woop'. But I didn't DO that. Same for slavery: not gonna feel guilty.
- And lets not forget how America goes to foreign shores and loots them until they're poor!
Bullshit. You people have jobs. Where do you think that money comes from? Where'd it come from before we had a thriving overseas economy?
For example, in India a lot of people got jobs, thanks to the unions pushing up the cost of American production. Thanks, Nick-da-fish and the boys! Ever see India in Google? Wow...desolation. They REALLY NEED our technology.
We brought air-cleaners, clean rooms, caused them to create infrastructure, and now people who might be begging are aswering phones. That's not evil. I wish we had someone who could do that, here!
No, I'm afraid I'm gonna have to agree with'im on this point: so VERY MUCH of Christian Rock sounds like each other, or like the tired, whiny "Grunge" we grew out of.
It's not that the message isn't good; it is: the tunes just don't follow the usual rules of successful music writing like balanced themes, small, memorable melody-arcs, and catchy timings. These are all tools the other side has used for centuries.
See also: Smoke on the Water. The Macarena. Riding the Storm Out. Too Much Time On My Hands. Land of Confusion. TONS of others.
It's not about _sounding_like_ other bands, and having the message. It's about a band making their _own_ sound, and bringing the message.
There are some great songs out there; I just wish there were more, so we could better compete with the Adversary.
A couple a months before Jan 1 2000 I converted everything I had to Redhat, now Ubuntu Linux. In that time, I've never been hit by a virus, nor have I searched for them.
Every file on my machine is one that isn't likely to get a virus.
Why can't more of you guys try this alternative? It doesn't get any simpler. Stop being criminals with your MS Office and your nefarious copies of things.
You don't watch much news; Saudi Arabia has become a smaller and smaller percentage of people selling us oil; from about 85 in the "oil embargo" days of the 70's to something like 17% now. We get a lot more from Canada and/or Alaska, without any one country having a lion's share.
This isn't foolishness; the end of this line means that GM cars may never get back here. GM has *no*reason* to be a quality product anymore. If they start making cars out of peanut butter tomorrow, the government will still pay them. It has to: it has to pay the unions.
Expect all sorts of disappointing, preachy cars to come out. The man in charge knows NOTHING about cars (he said so!) and so he'll make stupid little wind-up toys that we hate. And waste billions doing it.
The government had no right to take this action. It's just another part of the swirling disaster of these times. National defense is just a political plaything, money means nothing (because they, and not us, will always be fed).
But thanks for showing us you know nothing about what's going on.:)
Did you know GM, when they were taken hostage had a market-cap of Bed, Bath, and Beyond? GM's not done so well, since the unions made their demands. With 700,000 people on the payroll, and 100,000 actually working, they have a problem.
I think it was August of last year, Toyota and GM made the same number of cars. (to the nearest 1/10th million) Toyota made something like 27 billion, and GM LOST 37 billion.
Can you imagine it losing MORE money? Glad I didn't invest...
At what point (other than the Community ReInvestment Act robbing banks nearly at gunpoint) was anyone "consenting" and "acted against"?
Congress, despite the press Obama gets, is the key to the problem. ACORN was taking people into banks and forcing them, by the CRA to hand out BILLIONS. Almost no one else knew this loophole existed, so only Democrat friends got money for free. We pay for that. We weren't consenting, and it was done to _us_.
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A few weeks back Slashdot ran a story about MRSA and other 'superbugs' being fought in (I believe it was) Finland.
The cool thing about it is, for at least a decade they've been using the same level of sanitation as 50 years ago: steam-cleaning the floors and walls, not using HAND SANITIZER all the time, and letting the place remain a bit "dirtier" than our own hospitals. THEY HAVE THE LOWEST NUMBER OF SUCH CASES.
It makes sense; let the lesser-bugs go, kill with dumber, more-trusted ways that kill ALL the bugs or none at all, and the superbugs have to mate with lesser-bugs. This bleeds out the specialty features.
Meanwhile, everytime someone shakes hands in America, they hit it again with the sanitizer. It's just a never-ending "Germ Olympics" where only the strongest survive.
We really need to consider 'alternative' means like this, and I think you've hit the penis on the head! :>
Perhaps this can be "Insightful" too. What about the obvious fact that all this is a LIE?
Shall we all bow to a world leader for a LIE?
Just how many times do we need to see evidence about how the data was fixed before we believe it?
GlobalWarming(TM) is just the latest means by the Left to stomp out freedom.
Don't think so? Then park your car. Throw your money away: you can't work, there's no factories and no stores: they cause CO2. Our world must end to make happy a bunch of followers. This is what they want: everyone "equal" in a third-world life where pain and suffering rule.
Are ya *really* stupid enough to believe this? And they let you onto computers? Really? Maybe it's just a beautiful tale they tell so well.
Keep your climate-management. Freedom has cost us LIVES. We're not giving it up to hug a tree.
Game consoles do gaming *VERY*WELL*. I don't care which brand we're talking about, but let's look at some realities:
1. Software on ROMs. Not impossible to pirate, but not easy. There's a reason people invest in so much money in these: they can likely get it, and more, back.
2. Unchanging standards. Every console of a given type has very few versions of itself. All the parts came from one maker, and there's no room for misunderstandings.
3. Targeted hardware is effective hardware. Did you know the much-vaunted and very profitable XBox is a Pentium 3? How many of you still have those on your desktops? A similarly humble Galaga arcade machine merely had three Z-80s and made MILLIONS for lots of people.
4. A game console needs no 'churn'. What version of DirectX do you have installed today? Tomorrow? Yesterday? Will that be the same on the next video card?
Desktops are very good at their designed role: a generic group of hardware designed to do all things well. Game consoles do a narrow group of software EXCELLENT. And it shows!
Strangely, as we've been looking to console development, there's been some really good Linux development, game-wise. I think I can almost count TEN First-person-shooters (FPS) that came from nowhere. One or two can trace itself back to p;der closed-source roots, but most are completely NEW.
Historically speaking, once the FPS games are well-managed, the other games like FlightGear (an opensource flight simulator) and completely new games are soon behind it.
I feel we might be starting a kind of rebuild in Linux gaming that we've been waiting for, for a long time. All free, of course, and probably not with the same titles, but I see creation of a "Call of Duty" type game hampered only by the choice of the engine they prefer.
Yeah, that much is true, but maybe there's more.
Of THE HUNDREDS OF THINGS THEY'VE TRIED, only Office and the OS make any money or go anywhere. Remember the plush animals? They've "done well" with keyboards and mice, etc but I don't see that as a huge spoke in their business. Are they still pushing WebTV?
Remember the Slashdot story where they patented a hinge? Not even a special one- it looks like one I have in my tool box someplace. :)
They killed MSFlightSim, for some reason 'they were running out of money' and the $40B in cash, followed by the seemingly unending stream of Office purchases (at 85% margin) wasn't enough to make up for the tiny development group. Something tells me other spending is leaking cash.
I'm seeing a lot of scattered ideas at MS; their attempt with Bing is not only annoying for those of us actually READING stories with pop-ups, but only about 20 years late, and having the narrow view that's so natural with Microsoft people.
To clarify:
I have a friend who's worked in the business at a pretty high level. He complains how for the last 15 years *every* MS project he's seen has collapsed under it's own weight. When one of those management teams manage to produce anything in ASP.NET, they've all wound up bogged down so badly it takes perhaps a full minute to get a few hundred bytes of data to the user.And that's *after* adding more servers to the 'fire' as MS suggests.
He's pulling out his hair.
The hired a guy to set up a domain, and given the equipment. My friend watched as he spent A YEAR AND A HALF and never completed the task. What's worse is that my friend installed the base OS on the first server, for him!
Now, I'm a Linux Zealot; ask anyone. I've been burned enough early-on that I no longer care to dance in the Microsoft circus of shareware/malware/mobware, and haven't since 1999. But EVEN TO ME A YEAR AND A HALF SEEMS LIKE A LONG TIME to set up an Active Directory server.
I've seen as Microsoft "clear-cuts" huge sections of code to replace it along the way. Alternatively, Linux, like all classical development spends it's time polishing-the-apple along the way. Sure, some small parts are cut-n-pasted (I'm thinking of the string-handling code) but MS even did this with TCP/IP! Even so, it *still* doesn't meet the original standard, and works funky.
My thoughts have always been, "How can they continue to do this?" and I believe we're starting to see that Bill thought the same thing, and boarded the corporate lifeboat in plenty of time.
So science was wrong until they tried something different?
Not surprising. This means science is fallable, and that's probably the hardest lesson that otherwise logical thinkers can face.
How many times have the dinosaurs been renamed?
Just making the point. Someone has to.
Saying something sane like this, but being on Slashdot, does that mean you're actually FOR the democrat's "HealthCare" plan?
You'd be surprised how many people hate the government, and can point to it's faults, yet saddle up with the "we'll do it better than the private sector" crowd.
You CAN NOT count on a government...any government...to meet your needs, and in this example, to stay out of your business if they decide to go for more power.
It's the explicit *reason* the American Experiment has reigned supreme for it's people, and it's neighbors for so long now. As soon as it starts being another communist 'also-ran', the world will dim for us all.
This issue comes from the kind of socialism the Brits have embraced. It's not total yet, but it's fairly sad. They were once world-dominators; now they can't keep the Muslims from setting up Sharia law and people cutting off hands inside their borders. :(
I'm a big fan of the Brits, Aussies, even French and Russians...but the socialism *is* the problem. You won't get this kind of government intrusion with American Conservatism. I just hope the republican party permits itself to use it, again.
The government that rules best, rules least. --Ronald Regan
Not the ONLY troll, here.
I know your heads are all full of IEEE standards and TLAs that keep you busy. But if you think Fox News is some overpowering force of evil, you need to get out of the NOC more often. I can show you THOUSANDS of times where the rest of the media was the bulldozer of truth, paving the way for people like Obama to lead us to ruin.
Health insurance is, in fact, a bad situation. No one knows that better than congress, they intentionally made it that way. What other purpose does it serve to break up the competition by locking in certain vendors to certain states? Thousands more tweaks like that exist beneath the surface, too.
But once we have a "must accept pre-existing conditions" law, all the sudden we change the game. People will buy insurance on the way to the ER, and never otherwise pay. This can't work for insurance companies, and all the sudden, the only one providing insurance is the government.
It's not about healthcare; it's an overthrow of the people.
Notice:
One place for mortgages (as they close banks daily)
One place for college money
One place for nationally-made cars
One place for health insurance
All of this for a grouping of people with *no*discernable*competence. Remember the $400 hammer, the $600 toilet seat? Find me a government program that isn't bankrupt, or close to it. These are NOT the people to rely on, for healthcare. Or, handy-wipes.
And if you're not in the right party, guess what you'll get? SQUAT.
The healthcare system is about $3T right now. If the government runs it like everything else, it'll cost us $9T, and that will sink the economy in a way from which we'll not return. Heck, in a single year we've managed to rack-up a $2T deficit.
SURE BUSH SPENT MONEY. No arugment there; we didn't like it, either. But he was the same kinda guy as Obama: progressive. And yes, Virginia, progressives are taking us to a place of misery and ruin.
Remember your current job. There won't be as many, soon, as we're all put onto welfare, as in the doctoral thesis of Cloward & Piven. Disciples of this mindset are in the Obama admin. It's why the economy must be crashed. Look this stuff up- chose your source, but look it up.
Ghosts are interesting things for scientists to confront.
- No one seems to notice we never learn anything new-and-real from a ghost.
- Ghosts only seem to be generated when there's a good story to tell. Rain, by contrast, couldn't care LESS if it's falling into a pond, or into a bucket of sodium.
- No progress is ever made with them. They can't tell you a story, they can't reveal pirate treasure, or sit down to tea.
Point: Either they're made every time, or they're not made at all- they're something else.
Ghosts are, in fact, signs of a hidden intelligence. But they're not what you think. They're a distraction, period. People waste their entire lives on ghosts; they've been distracted.
But since scientists will no longer follow the quest into places such as the Bible, I suppose we'll never know *why* they do this, and remain superstitious like cavemen.
But I'm goin' out! Have fun, guys!
"Don't fear, closed-minded scientists- I saw the big bang, and God wasn't there. No need to worry." :>
Funny how the "open minded" snap shut when you tell them the dataset resides in the Bible...won't even look. Discredited source, though they have no answers.
Is it possible, like with the accounting departments, that two of these departments won't be needed, and one was disbanded? Why does everything with you guys have to be rich=evil? Sometimes rich=smart.
If it weren't, we wouldn't hire the exact same senators and congressmen all the time. What is it, 3% who EVER change hands during an election?
And you know the folks there NOW aren't doing it for the country- the "Louisiana purchase", the Ben Nelson bribe and the attempt to shut down Offut Field (home of the Strategic Air Command) to get them to comply should indicate the kind of things they're _hiding_ when they do these things for all to see.
William Jefferson, D-Louisana, interrupted the National Guard to take a boat to his home, where he rescued $90,000 cash, and went on the vote for several more years. When he couldn't get elected, he was finally tried. He's appealing, the last I heard- still hasn't been in jail.
Trent Lott, however, R-(Florida?) once told a 90+yo man that "things would have been better if he won those elections back in the 50's and 60's" and he was told to leave office. I'm not kidding. Being nice to an old man, versus rescuing dirty money, and look what gets you kicked out.
We should demand more. Why don't we?
Yeah, Tesla thought he could make a solar 'factory' on the moon: one place the sun never sets and clouds never form. The only problem was in getting the energy back home. This might be the ticket.
Tom Beardon was working on Tesla's idea to channel energy like this, in something called "scalar waves", but not being a quantum mechanic, I have no idea if the idea holds water. Interesting story, just the same.
Remember how atoms bumped into each other to make a protien, then proteins bumped into each other until non-vertabrates were accidentally made? Millenia go by and eventually here come the vertabrates and eventually tax collectors.
Except one tiny problem: The trilobite's regarded as the oldest living creature, and it has a spine.
I have NO PROBLEM with animals changing over time. But clearly the 'out of nowhere' concept has a showstopper of a problem. Is this the only answer science has? I mean, Darwin couldn't even look inside the cells at the time....all this time and nothing better has been considered?
Remember what these guys can do with a mere DODGE NEON? Add a third dimension and the ability to be unaware of restricted airspace, falling into open mines, lakes, and rivers...you'll quickly learn why people never developed flying cars! :>
As my Microsoft-using friends tell me all the time, AVIs are Mac, originally and weren't ready for XP's release: codecs are required. Unless of course you have the
"Professional" version, right?
I'm pretty sure to never use "HandBrake" but what's so wrong with OGG? We'd never have to care how a single vendor feels about it; it's free and good.
Well, ok! State-supporting content, in-your-face attitude because they know better than me *AND* we get to pay, too?
This is liberal thinking. Consider this- it's the way democrats in America think.
Running a city's subway service, all runs make their cost but one.
1. Charge more for that route.
2. People are now riding it less; we don't know why.
3. Raise taxes until we GET that money back, and enough to hire my nephew.
Conservatives work it this way:
1. Charge less for the route. Point advertising to the fact the run is there; make it *easier* for people to use it. Coupons, discounts, whatever it takes.
2. If it's not enough, close the line, and see if any other business could use it.
It's really not that hard. We just have to remember why things were so great under Regan.
AND THIS PAPER DOES IT'S BEST TO DEFEAT Conservatism! I say, "let'em crash". :>
Since the changing government wants to prohibit talk radio, say that the Constitution didn't go far enough to redistrubute wealth and soforth, what are the odds that they'll be forced to censor American traffic?
I mean, at this point we're not seeing a lot of political murders, but remember the "civilian national security force as large as the military" he promised? Chances are, it's the only campaign promise he'll keep.
Let's look back a second: these Liberals/Progressives have decided our light bulbs, toilets, refrigerant, cars, (in NYC) trans-fats and soon the salt in our shakers because [sarcasm]clearly the government knows better than us, what's good for us.[/sarcasm]
I submit Google will start censoring us when the cost to not do so, is death.
Now...does anyone want to talk about those 'fascist', 'mean', 'racist', 'angry', and 'extremist' conservatives? :) That lie's getting quite old these days.
The unix idea of one-second-per-integer-count sure looks good now, doesn't it? No wasting time with hex, no fiddling to learn how now+1,000,000 seconds would be....and all we have to do is enlarge the number incremented to continue the smooth operation.
Can't we all agree on any ONE thing, like this well-documented, clearly laid-out concept? Doesn't 'simple' work well over time?
I'm just saying...inventing shorter-sighted, count-only-years plans are less than this, and they don't work that long. Let's agree one this one thing and never look back to Y2K again, aye?
PS: I'm well aware of unix apps the eschew system-time and invent calendars of their own. It's also what I'm talking about.
The reason "1/2" of the people don't trust scientists is because they were seduced by governmental money....or be put out of business. Over time, no matter who you are, money like this will erode your integrity.
Much like media; despite covering up anti-democrat stories, people actually *caught* stealing money and voting for several more years, with no mention on their news outlets....some news orgs contend that "corporations by their nature must be conservative, and so it's ok we're liberal for balance". [Nevermind they are owned by corporations, too.]
The media also played a central role in stomping out nuclear power. Just like The Hindenburg Disaster shut down commercial, lighter-than-air travel, Three Mile Island (and the associated "China Syndrome" movie from the same people) has just almost shut us down, compared to France. France gets 70% of their electricity from nukes; we get like 15-17, I believe.
And when people don't listen about STD's, it's because they're young and stupid. The media (again) has sold them the lie that contraception is 100%, so it must be safe to screw with wild abandon. SINCE IT ISN'T, they create more miserable people with no 'parents' to raise them, just one...possibly two kids to change diapers, the process repeats.
What's broken here isn't scientific notion: it's because of it.
I used to think it CRUEL to piss on an pregnant unmarried mother. "How mean is that?" I thought. But now that nearly 40% of our babies are born this way, I think I was wrong. That 40% becomes prison population and/or welfare cases, because they didn't get the necessary training to be competent adults.
There's a biological reason virginity (physical in women, physcological in men) has value, and it was called out something like 5,000 years ago. IT WORKS. Virginity isn't something you bring home like a party favor. It's *the* reason why more than half the marriages end in divorce.
Science isn't perfect; never has been. But one policy, *when*followed*properly* has lead broken, beaten civilizations to rule the world, change the maps and invent wondrous things: Christian morality.
You just have to study it, is all. The book won't read itself!
So we turn off the hardware-generated CRCs made by the hardware guys, locked into PROMs somewhere, so the OS can do it?
Can we think this through a little farther?
There's a reason for the value of firmware doing it's job, and an OS doing it's job. The division of labor is important here. The OS, while better these days, is more likely to have tables thrown into RAM, accessible by other programs...like rootkits, viruses and other circus-ware.
Microsoft tried this once; it was call "Stacker" and it convinced everyone I know to reformat their drives, as well as to lose every bit of data on them.
Yeah, I know: they had good reasons this would work well, without any problems.
Lesson here: the hardware guys work with gears. The OS guys work with clouds. I've seen hardware guys outsmart OS guys time after time, because the hardware guys can _prove_ what they think to be true. This is an important factor.
Just more ramblin's from an old man who's seen this before.
Technology is viewed as the downfall of man...it's the basis of the ManMadeGlobalWarming(TM) religion. However, technology has been nothing but a friend, as mankind finds his way into the future.
Remember "London Fog"? Not just a line of outerwear in the 60's, it pointed to clueless Americans that time in history where 20,000 coal fires kept Britain warm back in the days of Sherlock Holmes. This 'fog' was actually smog, so thick that people with gardens (most of them, actually) had to sweep off the soot if they planned to get anything out of them. It collected that badly.
But here comes technology; no one loves pollution, so not only can we use one large coal plant and run wires everywhere, we also have piped natural gas and the skys are clear. Coal isn't without it's faults, but as recently as the 70's, things were pretty good.
Now, if we can ever get the liberals to permit us to create nuclear power plants, it could be better! Not because of the CO2, but because they're cleaner in general.
But that's not all:
- The story was set in a way to make us guilty of the removal of the indians. Not just in the story line, but they go to the trouble of using a native American 'war woop'. But I didn't DO that. Same for slavery: not gonna feel guilty.
- And lets not forget how America goes to foreign shores and loots them until they're poor!
Bullshit. You people have jobs. Where do you think that money comes from? Where'd it come from before we had a thriving overseas economy?
For example, in India a lot of people got jobs, thanks to the unions pushing up the cost of American production. Thanks, Nick-da-fish and the boys! Ever see India in Google? Wow...desolation. They REALLY NEED our technology.
We brought air-cleaners, clean rooms, caused them to create infrastructure, and now people who might be begging are aswering phones. That's not evil. I wish we had someone who could do that, here!
No, I'm afraid I'm gonna have to agree with'im on this point: so VERY MUCH of Christian Rock sounds like each other, or like the tired, whiny "Grunge" we grew out of.
It's not that the message isn't good; it is: the tunes just don't follow the usual rules of successful music writing like balanced themes, small, memorable melody-arcs, and catchy timings. These are all tools the other side has used for centuries.
See also: Smoke on the Water. The Macarena. Riding the Storm Out. Too Much Time On My Hands. Land of Confusion. TONS of others.
It's not about _sounding_like_ other bands, and having the message. It's about a band making their _own_ sound, and bringing the message.
There are some great songs out there; I just wish there were more, so we could better compete with the Adversary.
A couple a months before Jan 1 2000 I converted everything I had to Redhat, now Ubuntu Linux. In that time, I've never been hit by a virus, nor have I searched for them.
Every file on my machine is one that isn't likely to get a virus.
Why can't more of you guys try this alternative? It doesn't get any simpler. Stop being criminals with your MS Office and your nefarious copies of things.
Come, be free!
You don't watch much news; Saudi Arabia has become a smaller and smaller percentage of people selling us oil; from about 85 in the "oil embargo" days of the 70's to something like 17% now. We get a lot more from Canada and/or Alaska, without any one country having a lion's share.
This isn't foolishness; the end of this line means that GM cars may never get back here. GM has *no*reason* to be a quality product anymore. If they start making cars out of peanut butter tomorrow, the government will still pay them. It has to: it has to pay the unions.
Expect all sorts of disappointing, preachy cars to come out. The man in charge knows NOTHING about cars (he said so!) and so he'll make stupid little wind-up toys that we hate. And waste billions doing it.
The government had no right to take this action. It's just another part of the swirling disaster of these times. National defense is just a political plaything, money means nothing (because they, and not us, will always be fed).
But thanks for showing us you know nothing about what's going on. :)
Did you know GM, when they were taken hostage had a market-cap of Bed, Bath, and Beyond? GM's not done so well, since the unions made their demands. With 700,000 people on the payroll, and 100,000 actually working, they have a problem.
I think it was August of last year, Toyota and GM made the same number of cars. (to the nearest 1/10th million) Toyota made something like 27 billion, and GM LOST 37 billion.
Can you imagine it losing MORE money? Glad I didn't invest...
Agreed: Nothing's wrong with making money.
At what point (other than the Community ReInvestment Act robbing banks nearly at gunpoint) was anyone "consenting" and "acted against"?
Congress, despite the press Obama gets, is the key to the problem. ACORN was taking people into banks and forcing them, by the CRA to hand out BILLIONS. Almost no one else knew this loophole existed, so only Democrat friends got money for free. We pay for that. We weren't consenting, and it was done to _us_.
Let's fight the wrong-doers: the congress.