You can't tell industrialized countries they have to revert to the dark ages now,
Wow! Thanks for dialing down the hyperbole and coming back down to Earth!
Considering the amount of hyperbole in the article I was responding too, it seemed appropriate to respond in kind. This is the entire issue. Everyone on both sides of this "discussion" seem to dial it up to 11 and do nothing but shout each other down.
Even if the planet is warming entirely because of man, there is no definitive proof that it will reach worst case.
Right. We have to do a rational cost/benefit/risk analysis and take reasonable steps. The only thing standing in the way of rational policies is the hyperbole from the political ideologs.
As much as I hate MBA talk about cost/benefit crap. Yes we do. You can't tell industrialized countries they have to revert to the dark ages now, because we are simply out of time. There is no proof of this. And it's not going to make a damn bit of difference when half the world has no choice but to burn the hell out of fossil fuels in the cheapest dirtiest ways possible.
Do we need to stop expiration by all animals on the planet? Should we all go on the Atkins diet? After all, herbivores expel more methane. Hmm, that's probably very sustainable.
Sigh....
You may sigh all you wish. Oh, wait. That's releasing CO2 into the atmosphere. What are you trying to do? Murder the planet? Since you failed to recognize that the statement you quoted above was little more than a joke, I guess I need to inform you that the former part of this statement was in fact a joke as well. But only in that I have actually heard people who vehemently oppose eating meat not only because it "murders" animals. But because the domestic herds are a "major" contributor to AWG.
How scientific of them. We have a "moral" obligation? Yes, very scientific.
Scientist are also human beings with feelings and compassion for their fellow inhabitants of Earth. What's so surprising about them speaking in terms of a "moral" obligation? It may not be their ultimate decision on what constitutes the best moral decision, but they're allowed to have an opinion like anyone else.
Morality is pretty ambiguous and not something that belongs in this particular debate. Oh, wait. Anyone disagreeing with, or even questioning AWG is "immoral". This is not what I call scientific in any way. Some would say much of the research done on animals is immoral. Or that using the knowledge gained from it is too. I'm not in this camp. But do you see the problem? Once this becomes a discussion about morality, it looses it's scientific merit. It then becomes a religious discussion, nothing more.
Even if the planet is warming entirely because of man, there is no definitive proof that it will reach worst case.
Suppose we wait until the proof is, in your eyes, definitive. Methinks it will be too late to do anything.
Not at all. If you read my post, you would notice that I'm all for developing renewable and nuclear energy. I'm not for knee jerk "the end is nigh, ye must repent and denounce the pagan, fossil burning ways!" hyperbole.
How do we know it will reach a cataclysmic event(s) if we don't' stop right this very second? I've been hearing that "if we don't fix things right now, we are all doomed" (from one thing or another) for almost my entire life. If that's the case, we're already too late. So if we can't leave our children a non-degraded planet, we must give them a pile of cash? Or who is supposed to get this money?
Overly simplistic. It's not about non-degraded planet vs. cash. It's about changing the path we're on.
I thought it was about saving the planet for future generations. And if we can't do that, then we must pay our penance in currency. You're telling me it's just about choosing a different path? I agree with you on this, by the way. But I do have a problem with the hell fire and brimstone predictions that are in the article I was talking about.
I'm not denying that the climate is changing, or that we should burn every combustible material we can get our hands on. But we also don't need to throw society a tailspin either.
From your link:
after a single study I co-wrote a decade and a half ago found that the Northern Hemisphere’s average warmth had no precedent in at least the past 1,000 years. Our “hockey stick” graph
Which would be pretty scary if the planet was 6,000 yeas old. But it's not, and this type of warming is not new. Even during the time that Homo Sapiens has been on the planet.
Also from your link:
James Hansen, who has turned to civil disobedience......in 2011 and 2013 in Washington protesting the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the Texas Gulf. He has warned that the pipeline, which awaits approval by the State Department, would open the floodgates to dirty tar sands oil from Canada, something he says would be “game over for the climate.”
This is such over the top hyperbole it's ridiculous. The tar sands in Alberta are going to be extracted whether the XL pipeline is built, or not. IF it's not built, then the oil will be sent by another pipeline to the coast to be shipped to China. It will also be shipped to the US via rail instead of pipeline. Which means more fossil fuels will be used in transporting it by train and ship; and the likelihood of an accident will be increased as well as there will be a pipeline, trains and ships hauling it..
Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia’s Earth Institute, and other scientists, making a compelling case that emissions from fossil fuel burning must be reduced rapidly if we are to avert catastrophic climate change. They called for the immediate introduction of a price on carbon emissions, arguing that it is our moral obligation to not leave a degraded planet behind for our children and grandchildren.
How scientific of them. We have a "moral" obligation? Yes, very scientific. Even if the planet is warming entirely because of man, there is no definitive proof that it will reach worst case. How do we know it will reach a cataclysmic event(s) if we don't' stop right this very second? I've been hearing that "if we don't fix things right now, we are all doomed" (from one thing or another) for almost my entire life. If that's the case, we're already too late. So if we can't leave our children a non-degraded planet, we must give them a pile of cash? Or who is supposed to get this money?
Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution for Science, who has argued that “the only ethical path is to stop using the atmosphere as a waste dump for greenhouse gas pollution,”
You know what else is a greenhouse gas? Water. So should we support the Stop Dihydrogen Mono-Oxide people too? What about CO2? Do we need to stop expiration by all animals on the planet? Should we all go on the Atkins diet? After all, herbivores expel more methane. Hmm, that's probably very sustainable.
This virulent strain of anti-science infects the halls of Congress, the pages of leading newspapers and what we see on TV, leading to the appearance of a debate where none should exist
Wait, you opened the box?!? You could have killed the cat. Or even worse, It could have come out of the box both alive and dead. Do you have any idea how hard it is to stop a zombie cat outbreak?
So society needs people with guns to continue, hmm you must be an american.
What country doesn't have a standing army, or is not a protectorate of one that does? Any you'd care to live in? Hmm, you must be a naive idealist. I wish this were not the case, but we can't put that genie back in the bottle. How well did not having an army work out for Tibet?
Son, We live in a world where a group of people think they are the world police and have decided you have no rights, no privacy and point guns at you saying it for your own safety, Avoid them.
Son, we live in a world where no country give a rats ass about privacy. Do I think it's right? Fuck no. Any country of sufficient size and economic standing spies on everyone they can. The US happened to put a lot more effort into it and got arrogant beyond belief.
What kind of utopian world do you think we had before America became what it is today? Germany sure did a great job seizing power, didn't it? Or Italy and Japan? The French and British did a fantastic job of carving up the Middle East. I'm sure the Armenians missed the Ottoman empire though. The Ottomans were so kind to them. What about the way the Dutch left Africa? That was nice. And the Spanish, they played well with other cultures. How are the Aztecs doing in Latin America these days?
Not to worry. China should surpass America as the dominant world power soon enough. It'll be unicorns and rainbows for everyone then.
Looks like there's only one pickup, that's way too close to the neck -- which will cause the sound to be more toward the low end, meaning you'll lose the high end -- or worse, it's using . The tremolo also looks really weak, not sure how well it'll stay in tune. It also looks like a cheap piece of crap..
I was thinking the same thing, so I looked at their site. From the website: "While the gTar doesn't have any pickups,...snip... uses standard electric guitar strings, so they're easy to replace. But remember, since the gTar is a fully digital instrument, you don't need to worry about keeping the strings in tune."
I don't know what the fret action is on this thing, or how it handles fret buzz. But a $99 guitar will not stay in tune very well, and typically has either god awful high/uneven fret action, or it's so low you get fret buzz. Still, I think you'd be better off learning how to tune a guitar if you're going to play it. And I'd go with the $99 option as you can figure out pretty fast if you are going to stay with it. If so, then you can get a better guitar later. What "tremolo" are you talking about? It has a fixed bridge in all of the pictures I saw. It didn't look any weaker than many of the fixed bridges I've had on guitars.
I remember seeing ads in Guitar Magazine and the like decades ago for guitars with LEDs in the fretboard that teach you how to play. I remember seeing an infomercial-type thing where they had Mark Knopfler play with one.
I find it fairly interesting how a lot of things labelled as the "first" to do something are really not.
Sure they are the first... To do all of that, AND connect it to an iPhone. Hell, if it's good enough for the US patent office, it has to be more than good enough for marketing.
They are claiming this guitar is: "The First Guitar That Anybody Can Play," How honest is that? Can a quadriplegic play it? Or someone who has one or both arms amputated? I going to guess the answer is, No.
But at least they are the first company to lie about it... And be able to connect it to an iPhone.
I realize I'm probably just feeding a troll. But does what you typed, really convey the thoughts in your head? If so, you may want to seek some professional help.
Our entire government was set up so that nothing happens fast. Very little gets passed without debate, which is good for the country. How's this for gridlock? It passed unanimously in the house, and I believe so in the senate and was signed into law by the president on April 15, 2013. The Patriot act was also passed damn near unanimous, along with invading Iraq. Our founding fathers wanted there to be debate and discussion on everything. Unfortunately they gave us more credit than they should have as they thought we wold put intelligent people in charge of things. Not the retards we've had for several decades now.
When the republicans threatened in the past to pass a bill using reconciliation, which is meant for budgets, democrats screamed about how it would be the end of our way of life blah, blah. Then they used it to pass the ACA. Now it's the republicans who are screaming the same thing. Too bad there is a video record of both of them being adamantly for it when it's to their benefit, and against it when it's not.
(Don't tell me racism has nothing to do with it, because it DOES!)
I'm telling you that if you think that it's all due to racism, you are a fucking idiot. Are there some racists in congress? I'd guess so. Do I believe it's the majority? Well, perhaps the Senate Majority leaderOr the current Vice PresidentAnd again.. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of examples of republicans saying stupid things like this too. But do you really think it affects the way they vote? If so, then Harry Reid must vote against anything the president wants passed. OR could it be possible that he said something that was questionable and not be a racist?
We have a Constitution, it is the Inalienable, Supreme Law of the Land,
I assume that you are referring to those "certain unalienable Rights" with your statement above. They were outlined in the Declaration of Independence, not the constitution.
and it can only be superseded by a Constitutional Amendment. "Policy" does not trump Constitutional law, per the Constitution.
You mean things like unreasonable search and seizure? Been to an airport lately?
Not that I'm disagreeing with you. Just a few minor things I wanted to point out.
Well, to do that, you're going to need to draft up a Constitutional Amendment that voids the First Amendment, then get 2/3 of state legislatures to ratify it.
Good luck with that, chief.
Well, if he's the commander-in-chief all he needs is a pen and a phone apparently.
A site like Adobe, if I had to have an account there for some reason, would have no relationship to other accounts, would need no particular security because it would be unimportant, and even remembering a password would be too much bother.
Now Slashdot, my password for that is important, it's *************8**
Is that 12 or 13 stars before the 8? I keep trying to log in as Anonymous Coward with the password you provided and it's not working. Or does the 8 need to be capitalized?
IBM deathstar must have been the worst. I don't know of any survivors.
My quantum fireball 20gb still runs after 16 years or so in my dual ppro 200 with arch:)
I have three Deskstars in working order in a box somewhere. Two of the notorious IBM 60 GB ones. I pulled them after five of the same model died. And one of the Hitachi 160 SATA versions, which I pulled after four of the same model failed in quick succession. I retired a system with a 12 GB Maxtor two months ago. I'm not sure how old it was exactly, but it's been running nonstop for the last 15 years. I have a 3.2 GB Quantum SCSI disk that is still functional. I also have a pair of 72 GB 15K RPM SCSI disks on line. They are at least 15 years old at this point. I think one is a Quantum and the other a Seagate. A friend of mine has my old SCSI array with 4 7200 RPM Micropolis drives. Those have to be close to 20 years old now. I'm sure they are doing great as a supplemental heater right now as it's pretty cold here along the east coast.
read about it in the last few years after one of my kids had an almost 105 fever one week
human pathogens like the 98.6 body temp and a fever is the body's natural way of fighting these pathogens
This has been known for some time. Although, 98.6 is not an exact temperature. That's the average for most people. Some run a little higher/lower than that. I remember when my sister was young, her normal temperature was right around 100. She once had a fever of 108 when she got sick. That was a fun trip to the hospital. Anyhow, yes, the higher temperatures are meant to kill and slow down the reproduction of infections. It is also very hard on your brain for extended periods of time. The idea being that you as a more complex organism can deal with the higher temperatures longer than the infection can.
the flu virus also likes low humidity which is why people buy humidifiers in the winter time
Not sure about this one. It has more to do with making it easier to breath. I've also theorized that it may help to keep you from getting sick. Your body produces mucus as a defense from infections taking hold. If the air is too dry, you tend to have a lot less mucus lining your throat and nasal passages. It's also why nose bleeds are more common in dryer air. I can't say I've looked into it, so I am likely to be incorrect.
unless my kid has some crazy high fever i try to avoid giving him tylenol or some other fever reducer as long as possible. usually until its almost time for bed
And that seems to be about when the decline in their warranty started. I've heard horror stories about Maxtor, but the two I've owned still worked when I took them off line after many years of use. In fact, I just replaced my home grown firewall which had a 15+ year old 12 GB Maxtor in it.
Seagate drives are terrible drives now. I've had three of there external drives not last more then a year.
Agree, I bought 3 2TB Seagates for my home server a few years back...2 of them failed within a year. Yet another brand name I used to trust, now shot to shit.
Why? Because you bought three drives from the same batch. Perhaps they had an issue with that version, or the firmware. Hard drives are extremely cyclical in regards to quality. I remember when Micropolis, Seagate, Western Digital, Quantum, IBM, Conner, and a couple of others used to trade spots for being the best and worst drive manufacturers on an almost yearly basis. I've gone through a hell of a lot of drives over the years, and don't really have a favorite brand. I've had many WD and Seagate drives fail over the years, though proportionally more WD drives. Currently I have a bunch of Seagate and WD spinning drives, along with a couple of Samsung's. I am pretty superstitious regarding anything call Desk Star though. I've had at least half a dozen different models of Desk Stars from both IBM and Hitachi fail with little warning.
Capacity on demand is a SERVICE, sold with a leased machine.
In my case, the university OWNED the computer.
What example? I wasn't giving one. You said that your university replaced the system with an IBM system. IBM has had this for over a decade that I'm aware of, and probably longer. Those people also "owned" those IBM systems too. I didn't check the link, perhaps it's something different than I thought. Regardless, IBM has done pretty much what you described on the CDC system for some time.
Your example is pretty poor. IBM has Capacity on Demand systems. You pay to unlock processor cores and RAM as needed. The capacity is physically there all along. You simply have to pay to unlock it. I'm sure doing so yourself would violate the terms of the contract. I would guess it was the same with your old system too. If you felt otherwise, why didn't you simply tell them you changed your mind and they could place the cards back in the system and then remove them yourself later?
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But it's about cute cats!
Do tell. What is so cute about flying feral cats? I don't want this flying at me. Do you? Or how about this fluffy fellow?
You can't tell industrialized countries they have to revert to the dark ages now,
Wow! Thanks for dialing down the hyperbole and coming back down to Earth!
Considering the amount of hyperbole in the article I was responding too, it seemed appropriate to respond in kind. This is the entire issue. Everyone on both sides of this "discussion" seem to dial it up to 11 and do nothing but shout each other down.
Except they get their tech from the Russians (while we still are scrounging around with the stuff we stole from the Germans after WWII).
Uh huh. And just where do you think the Russians got their tech from?
And, yes, "shi fu" is a general term of "master" of any kind. English natives like Americans usually take it to mean "kung fu master"
Actually most Americans think "shi fu" is a gray coated Red Panda. That also happens to be a Kung Fu master.
Made in China, means that it will fail prematurely, if not, it will explode, poison or kill someone in the process.
If it manages to poison or kill someone from the moon, I'll be impressed.
Anyone know how to say "I surrender" in Mandarin?
Even if the planet is warming entirely because of man, there is no definitive proof that it will reach worst case.
Right. We have to do a rational cost/benefit/risk analysis and take reasonable steps. The only thing standing in the way of rational policies is the hyperbole from the political ideologs.
As much as I hate MBA talk about cost/benefit crap. Yes we do. You can't tell industrialized countries they have to revert to the dark ages now, because we are simply out of time. There is no proof of this. And it's not going to make a damn bit of difference when half the world has no choice but to burn the hell out of fossil fuels in the cheapest dirtiest ways possible.
Do we need to stop expiration by all animals on the planet? Should we all go on the Atkins diet? After all, herbivores expel more methane. Hmm, that's probably very sustainable.
Sigh....
You may sigh all you wish. Oh, wait. That's releasing CO2 into the atmosphere. What are you trying to do? Murder the planet? Since you failed to recognize that the statement you quoted above was little more than a joke, I guess I need to inform you that the former part of this statement was in fact a joke as well. But only in that I have actually heard people who vehemently oppose eating meat not only because it "murders" animals. But because the domestic herds are a "major" contributor to AWG.
How scientific of them. We have a "moral" obligation? Yes, very scientific.
Scientist are also human beings with feelings and compassion for their fellow inhabitants of Earth. What's so surprising about them speaking in terms of a "moral" obligation? It may not be their ultimate decision on what constitutes the best moral decision, but they're allowed to have an opinion like anyone else.
Morality is pretty ambiguous and not something that belongs in this particular debate. Oh, wait. Anyone disagreeing with, or even questioning AWG is "immoral". This is not what I call scientific in any way. Some would say much of the research done on animals is immoral. Or that using the knowledge gained from it is too. I'm not in this camp. But do you see the problem? Once this becomes a discussion about morality, it looses it's scientific merit. It then becomes a religious discussion, nothing more.
Even if the planet is warming entirely because of man, there is no definitive proof that it will reach worst case.
Suppose we wait until the proof is, in your eyes, definitive. Methinks it will be too late to do anything.
Not at all. If you read my post, you would notice that I'm all for developing renewable and nuclear energy. I'm not for knee jerk "the end is nigh, ye must repent and denounce the pagan, fossil burning ways!" hyperbole.
How do we know it will reach a cataclysmic event(s) if we don't' stop right this very second? I've been hearing that "if we don't fix things right now, we are all doomed" (from one thing or another) for almost my entire life. If that's the case, we're already too late. So if we can't leave our children a non-degraded planet, we must give them a pile of cash? Or who is supposed to get this money?
Overly simplistic. It's not about non-degraded planet vs. cash. It's about changing the path we're on.
I thought it was about saving the planet for future generations. And if we can't do that, then we must pay our penance in currency. You're telling me it's just about choosing a different path? I agree with you on this, by the way. But I do have a problem with the hell fire and brimstone predictions that are in the article I was talking about.
The hockey stick has stood the test of time. The facts hold. The data continue to support it. Here's Mann recently, and discussion.
Here are myths about the hockey stick debunked.
I'm not denying that the climate is changing, or that we should burn every combustible material we can get our hands on. But we also don't need to throw society a tailspin either. From your link:
after a single study I co-wrote a decade and a half ago found that the Northern Hemisphere’s average warmth had no precedent in at least the past 1,000 years. Our “hockey stick” graph
Which would be pretty scary if the planet was 6,000 yeas old. But it's not, and this type of warming is not new. Even during the time that Homo Sapiens has been on the planet. Also from your link:
James Hansen, who has turned to civil disobedience ... ...in 2011 and 2013 in Washington protesting the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the Texas Gulf. He has warned that the pipeline, which awaits approval by the State Department, would open the floodgates to dirty tar sands oil from Canada, something he says would be “game over for the climate.”
This is such over the top hyperbole it's ridiculous. The tar sands in Alberta are going to be extracted whether the XL pipeline is built, or not. IF it's not built, then the oil will be sent by another pipeline to the coast to be shipped to China. It will also be shipped to the US via rail instead of pipeline. Which means more fossil fuels will be used in transporting it by train and ship; and the likelihood of an accident will be increased as well as there will be a pipeline, trains and ships hauling it. .
Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia’s Earth Institute, and other scientists, making a compelling case that emissions from fossil fuel burning must be reduced rapidly if we are to avert catastrophic climate change. They called for the immediate introduction of a price on carbon emissions, arguing that it is our moral obligation to not leave a degraded planet behind for our children and grandchildren.
How scientific of them. We have a "moral" obligation? Yes, very scientific. Even if the planet is warming entirely because of man, there is no definitive proof that it will reach worst case. How do we know it will reach a cataclysmic event(s) if we don't' stop right this very second? I've been hearing that "if we don't fix things right now, we are all doomed" (from one thing or another) for almost my entire life. If that's the case, we're already too late. So if we can't leave our children a non-degraded planet, we must give them a pile of cash? Or who is supposed to get this money?
Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution for Science, who has argued that “the only ethical path is to stop using the atmosphere as a waste dump for greenhouse gas pollution,”
You know what else is a greenhouse gas? Water. So should we support the Stop Dihydrogen Mono-Oxide people too? What about CO2? Do we need to stop expiration by all animals on the planet? Should we all go on the Atkins diet? After all, herbivores expel more methane. Hmm, that's probably very sustainable.
This virulent strain of anti-science infects the halls of Congress, the pages of leading newspapers and what we see on TV, leading to the appearance of a debate where none should exist
Can't we privately send him to Mars with a 3D printer? He'll do fine over there and he'll be in a new paradise far away from decaying Earth.
Is going to Mars such a horrible thing? 200,000 people have signed up for a possible trip to Mars, why put Snowden at the head of the line?
First of all Mars is in the United States. He can't go there. Second, the population is nowhere near 200K. It's probably closer to 2,000.
*Kicks cat back into box and starts again!*
Wait, you opened the box?!? You could have killed the cat. Or even worse, It could have come out of the box both alive and dead. Do you have any idea how hard it is to stop a zombie cat outbreak?
So society needs people with guns to continue, hmm you must be an american.
What country doesn't have a standing army, or is not a protectorate of one that does? Any you'd care to live in? Hmm, you must be a naive idealist. I wish this were not the case, but we can't put that genie back in the bottle. How well did not having an army work out for Tibet?
Son, We live in a world where a group of people think they are the world police and have decided you have no rights, no privacy and point guns at you saying it for your own safety, Avoid them.
Son, we live in a world where no country give a rats ass about privacy. Do I think it's right? Fuck no. Any country of sufficient size and economic standing spies on everyone they can. The US happened to put a lot more effort into it and got arrogant beyond belief.
What kind of utopian world do you think we had before America became what it is today? Germany sure did a great job seizing power, didn't it? Or Italy and Japan? The French and British did a fantastic job of carving up the Middle East. I'm sure the Armenians missed the Ottoman empire though. The Ottomans were so kind to them. What about the way the Dutch left Africa? That was nice. And the Spanish, they played well with other cultures. How are the Aztecs doing in Latin America these days?
Not to worry. China should surpass America as the dominant world power soon enough. It'll be unicorns and rainbows for everyone then.
Looks like there's only one pickup, that's way too close to the neck -- which will cause the sound to be more toward the low end, meaning you'll lose the high end -- or worse, it's using . The tremolo also looks really weak, not sure how well it'll stay in tune. It also looks like a cheap piece of crap..
I was thinking the same thing, so I looked at their site. From the website: "While the gTar doesn't have any pickups, ...snip... uses standard electric guitar strings, so they're easy to replace. But remember, since the gTar is a fully digital instrument, you don't need to worry about keeping the strings in tune. "
I don't know what the fret action is on this thing, or how it handles fret buzz. But a $99 guitar will not stay in tune very well, and typically has either god awful high/uneven fret action, or it's so low you get fret buzz. Still, I think you'd be better off learning how to tune a guitar if you're going to play it. And I'd go with the $99 option as you can figure out pretty fast if you are going to stay with it. If so, then you can get a better guitar later. What "tremolo" are you talking about? It has a fixed bridge in all of the pictures I saw. It didn't look any weaker than many of the fixed bridges I've had on guitars.
I remember seeing ads in Guitar Magazine and the like decades ago for guitars with LEDs in the fretboard that teach you how to play. I remember seeing an infomercial-type thing where they had Mark Knopfler play with one.
I find it fairly interesting how a lot of things labelled as the "first" to do something are really not.
Sure they are the first... To do all of that, AND connect it to an iPhone. Hell, if it's good enough for the US patent office, it has to be more than good enough for marketing.
They are claiming this guitar is: "The First Guitar That Anybody Can Play," How honest is that? Can a quadriplegic play it? Or someone who has one or both arms amputated? I going to guess the answer is, No.
But at least they are the first company to lie about it... And be able to connect it to an iPhone.
I realize I'm probably just feeding a troll. But does what you typed, really convey the thoughts in your head? If so, you may want to seek some professional help.
Our entire government was set up so that nothing happens fast. Very little gets passed without debate, which is good for the country. How's this for gridlock? It passed unanimously in the house, and I believe so in the senate and was signed into law by the president on April 15, 2013. The Patriot act was also passed damn near unanimous, along with invading Iraq. Our founding fathers wanted there to be debate and discussion on everything. Unfortunately they gave us more credit than they should have as they thought we wold put intelligent people in charge of things. Not the retards we've had for several decades now.
When the republicans threatened in the past to pass a bill using reconciliation, which is meant for budgets, democrats screamed about how it would be the end of our way of life blah, blah. Then they used it to pass the ACA. Now it's the republicans who are screaming the same thing. Too bad there is a video record of both of them being adamantly for it when it's to their benefit, and against it when it's not.
(Don't tell me racism has nothing to do with it, because it DOES!)
I'm telling you that if you think that it's all due to racism, you are a fucking idiot. Are there some racists in congress? I'd guess so. Do I believe it's the majority? Well, perhaps the Senate Majority leader Or the current Vice President And again.. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of examples of republicans saying stupid things like this too. But do you really think it affects the way they vote? If so, then Harry Reid must vote against anything the president wants passed. OR could it be possible that he said something that was questionable and not be a racist?
We have a Constitution, it is the Inalienable, Supreme Law of the Land,
I assume that you are referring to those "certain unalienable Rights" with your statement above. They were outlined in the Declaration of Independence, not the constitution.
and it can only be superseded by a Constitutional Amendment. "Policy" does not trump Constitutional law, per the Constitution.
You mean things like unreasonable search and seizure? Been to an airport lately?
Not that I'm disagreeing with you. Just a few minor things I wanted to point out.
This fanatical "activism" needs to be stopped.
Well, to do that, you're going to need to draft up a Constitutional Amendment that voids the First Amendment, then get 2/3 of state legislatures to ratify it.
Good luck with that, chief.
Well, if he's the commander-in-chief all he needs is a pen and a phone apparently.
Unless I, as the criminal mastermind that I am, decide to try 'Facebook123', 'Chase123', etc, etc.
You must have a fluffy white cat too.
A site like Adobe, if I had to have an account there for some reason, would have no relationship to other accounts, would need no particular security because it would be unimportant, and even remembering a password would be too much bother.
Now Slashdot, my password for that is important, it's *************8**
Is that 12 or 13 stars before the 8? I keep trying to log in as Anonymous Coward with the password you provided and it's not working. Or does the 8 need to be capitalized?
Ceres letter to Pluto seems even more relevant with this new finding. ;-)
IBM deathstar must have been the worst. I don't know of any survivors.
My quantum fireball 20gb still runs after 16 years or so in my dual ppro 200 with arch :)
I have three Deskstars in working order in a box somewhere. Two of the notorious IBM 60 GB ones. I pulled them after five of the same model died. And one of the Hitachi 160 SATA versions, which I pulled after four of the same model failed in quick succession. I retired a system with a 12 GB Maxtor two months ago. I'm not sure how old it was exactly, but it's been running nonstop for the last 15 years. I have a 3.2 GB Quantum SCSI disk that is still functional. I also have a pair of 72 GB 15K RPM SCSI disks on line. They are at least 15 years old at this point. I think one is a Quantum and the other a Seagate. A friend of mine has my old SCSI array with 4 7200 RPM Micropolis drives. Those have to be close to 20 years old now. I'm sure they are doing great as a supplemental heater right now as it's pretty cold here along the east coast.
read about it in the last few years after one of my kids had an almost 105 fever one week human pathogens like the 98.6 body temp and a fever is the body's natural way of fighting these pathogens
This has been known for some time. Although, 98.6 is not an exact temperature. That's the average for most people. Some run a little higher/lower than that. I remember when my sister was young, her normal temperature was right around 100. She once had a fever of 108 when she got sick. That was a fun trip to the hospital. Anyhow, yes, the higher temperatures are meant to kill and slow down the reproduction of infections. It is also very hard on your brain for extended periods of time. The idea being that you as a more complex organism can deal with the higher temperatures longer than the infection can.
the flu virus also likes low humidity which is why people buy humidifiers in the winter time
Not sure about this one. It has more to do with making it easier to breath. I've also theorized that it may help to keep you from getting sick. Your body produces mucus as a defense from infections taking hold. If the air is too dry, you tend to have a lot less mucus lining your throat and nasal passages. It's also why nose bleeds are more common in dryer air. I can't say I've looked into it, so I am likely to be incorrect.
unless my kid has some crazy high fever i try to avoid giving him tylenol or some other fever reducer as long as possible. usually until its almost time for bed
. Agreed.
Seagate own Maxtor. Has since 2006.
And that seems to be about when the decline in their warranty started. I've heard horror stories about Maxtor, but the two I've owned still worked when I took them off line after many years of use. In fact, I just replaced my home grown firewall which had a 15+ year old 12 GB Maxtor in it.
Seagate drives are terrible drives now. I've had three of there external drives not last more then a year.
Agree, I bought 3 2TB Seagates for my home server a few years back...2 of them failed within a year. Yet another brand name I used to trust, now shot to shit.
Why? Because you bought three drives from the same batch. Perhaps they had an issue with that version, or the firmware. Hard drives are extremely cyclical in regards to quality. I remember when Micropolis, Seagate, Western Digital, Quantum, IBM, Conner, and a couple of others used to trade spots for being the best and worst drive manufacturers on an almost yearly basis. I've gone through a hell of a lot of drives over the years, and don't really have a favorite brand. I've had many WD and Seagate drives fail over the years, though proportionally more WD drives. Currently I have a bunch of Seagate and WD spinning drives, along with a couple of Samsung's. I am pretty superstitious regarding anything call Desk Star though. I've had at least half a dozen different models of Desk Stars from both IBM and Hitachi fail with little warning.
Actually my example is better than yours.
Capacity on demand is a SERVICE, sold with a leased machine. In my case, the university OWNED the computer.
What example? I wasn't giving one. You said that your university replaced the system with an IBM system. IBM has had this for over a decade that I'm aware of, and probably longer. Those people also "owned" those IBM systems too. I didn't check the link, perhaps it's something different than I thought. Regardless, IBM has done pretty much what you described on the CDC system for some time.
Your example is pretty poor. IBM has Capacity on Demand systems. You pay to unlock processor cores and RAM as needed. The capacity is physically there all along. You simply have to pay to unlock it. I'm sure doing so yourself would violate the terms of the contract. I would guess it was the same with your old system too. If you felt otherwise, why didn't you simply tell them you changed your mind and they could place the cards back in the system and then remove them yourself later?