I apparently have to point out the fact that you had to assume that I am not myself an NRA member in order to make your statement (would rather explain why the mailman would so casually make that mistake, eh?).
It is my observation that there are two kinds of NRA members: Those who belong because of the principles the NRA was founded upon, and those who belong because they like being used for political purposes just as the current NRA leadership does. I do not fall among the latter; I am now and have always been an Independent...I am most certainly not now and will never be a whore for the modern Republicans, who are themselves the whores of the 0.01%.
Pretty much what I was thinking....who cares if the Democrat across the street knows you're a Democrat? But that fellow who accuses you of stealing his mail when you give him the NRA pamphlet the mailman mis-delivered to your box....
Global warming by itself might not end life on this planet. But human beings using conventional and/or/eventually nuclear weapons to persuade other human beings to surrender their arable land and/or water...that's a different - but consequential - extinction event altogether.
It would be difficult to assert that humans would not make war for survival given that they have demonstrated a willingness to make war for oil - oil that is more of an enabler of human leisure activities, in reality, than a survival prerequisite like food and water.
(Although - to continue the emphasis on reality - oil wars are more about enabling or continuing the harvesting of the effectively imaginary wealth that is generated by the trade in oil.)
Not just that...you have to be able to bid against Big Oil, Big Banking, Big Insurance, Wall Street, etc. etc. etc. for some of your Representative's or Senator's time.
That's the problem with corruption in government: Once it begins, it only gets worse until "We, the People" get hyper-aggressive about trimming it back is if it were derelict hedges in the yards of a neighborhood's abandoned houses.
Maybe I better take a closer look at those "smart" power strips the utility company sent me "for free". On second thought, nahhhhh.....I don't care that much. After all, I run some LAN subnets over NETGEAR® Powerline equipment; anybody who wants to nib can do it at their convenience right over the grid.
Now that's thoughtful of me; they wouldn't even have to burn the gas getting that van with the WiFi capture/decode equipment in it out here.
Stop talking about how easy it is to poison data collection efforts; you're going to kill the golden goose of those who insist that analyzing social data can allow you to pinpoint psychopaths and other "problematic" individuals before that goose ever takes to the air (on the wings of "black budget" funding, no doubt).
The EMP "revelation" sold an awful lot of copper...anybody who was around "sensitive" technology in the military in the following couple of decades probably remembers grounding anything that didn't move...or, rather, wasn't moving at the time - and then grounding the grounds.
Hmmm...since you appear to have been unable to navigate to the link given, I will quote from the main page there:
The Clean Energy project uses computational chemistry and the willingness of people to help look for the best molecules possible for: organic photovoltaics to provide inexpensive solar cells, polymers for the membranes used in fuel cells for electricity generation, and how best to assemble the molecules to make those devices. By helping us search combinatorially among thousands of potential systems, you can contribute to this effort.
I don't know how many decibels the dollar rings in at, exactly, but this article adds to the growing pile of evidence that insists that Corporate America's money is louder than anything else in America. America's politicians, certainly, are unable to hear anything else over it...to include warnings from America's economic and defense experts.
lolll...if you haven't run into a vendor who expected you to buy their product and the documentation for it yet, you're lucky. I've been having to pay for documentation from the likes of Oracle/DEC/HP/Microsoft/etc. etc. etc. etc since...well, since some of them were founded.
My favorite example would be buying the documentation for a Tandy 1000 TX to find out why it wouldn't go into protected mode only to discover that the mobo showed an undocumented chip codenamed "Midnight Blue" on the schematics.
That's why web neutrality is a nonsense concept from my perspective - if companies can build their own infrastructure, they can compete with each other and offer their own content at better speeds, but then Google could be an ISP that uses both, Google 'Internet' and external backend, but then on its own 'Internet', the content available from Google could be delivered at a higher priority and faster (and cheaper, because its internal costs, that can be managed easier).
Prodigious thinking...maybe Google could call it something like Prodigy?
Me, I see what's happening - the privatization of the internet - as "the glass house" dragging itself back into the world as zombies. Really bloodthirsty zombies.
but the resulting crystal would also have to be shorter overall, if only to keep the weight from snapping the seed crystal (causing the thing to splash back into the vat, tearing the crucible up, making a mess, and oh yeah - ruining the multi-hour run)
No problem; Taiwan small island, less gravity. Care to invest?
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...the old America - that America of optimism, high expectations, and truth before all - is dying with them.
Concur; good on Microsoft. Now all they have to do is start a "Privacy-Protected"-certified webring/list where any website where DNT is enforced will be listed and add a user-controllable filter to IE and/or Bing searches for that feature/condition.
Of course, I suppose anybody else could start such a webring/list.
...to "Businessnet"? Beyond the fact that it is now almost impossible to escape one or another commercial entity's advertisements and/or personal data leeching, there isn't much you dare post on the 'net now that you would be reluctant to say in a business environment. Even if your employer doesn't persecute you for your political views, depending upon the political ideology of the moment your views may garner you a fat data file on a server somewhere in the bowels of government...or worse.
I think I liked the 'net way better right when we were transitioning away from the BBS systems and onto the 'net...that was fear-free exchange of information.
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I apparently have to point out the fact that you had to assume that I am not myself an NRA member in order to make your statement (would rather explain why the mailman would so casually make that mistake, eh?).
It is my observation that there are two kinds of NRA members: Those who belong because of the principles the NRA was founded upon, and those who belong because they like being used for political purposes just as the current NRA leadership does. I do not fall among the latter; I am now and have always been an Independent...I am most certainly not now and will never be a whore for the modern Republicans, who are themselves the whores of the 0.01%.
Pretty much what I was thinking....who cares if the Democrat across the street knows you're a Democrat? But that fellow who accuses you of stealing his mail when you give him the NRA pamphlet the mailman mis-delivered to your box....
Although - recalling the smell of the air - it might only be Port Arthur, Texas.
That's not hell; that's New Jersey.
It would practically defund the Republicans. From which one might project that Republican support for the idea would be less than enthusiastic.
Global warming by itself might not end life on this planet. But human beings using conventional and/or/eventually nuclear weapons to persuade other human beings to surrender their arable land and/or water...that's a different - but consequential - extinction event altogether.
It would be difficult to assert that humans would not make war for survival given that they have demonstrated a willingness to make war for oil - oil that is more of an enabler of human leisure activities, in reality, than a survival prerequisite like food and water.
(Although - to continue the emphasis on reality - oil wars are more about enabling or continuing the harvesting of the effectively imaginary wealth that is generated by the trade in oil.)
Not just that...you have to be able to bid against Big Oil, Big Banking, Big Insurance, Wall Street, etc. etc. etc. for some of your Representative's or Senator's time.
That's the problem with corruption in government: Once it begins, it only gets worse until "We, the People" get hyper-aggressive about trimming it back is if it were derelict hedges in the yards of a neighborhood's abandoned houses.
Look into the ties between American and British banking, and you might decide that the word "back" is inappropriate.
Maybe I better take a closer look at those "smart" power strips the utility company sent me "for free". On second thought, nahhhhh.....I don't care that much. After all, I run some LAN subnets over NETGEAR® Powerline equipment; anybody who wants to nib can do it at their convenience right over the grid.
Now that's thoughtful of me; they wouldn't even have to burn the gas getting that van with the WiFi capture/decode equipment in it out here.
Stop talking about how easy it is to poison data collection efforts; you're going to kill the golden goose of those who insist that analyzing social data can allow you to pinpoint psychopaths and other "problematic" individuals before that goose ever takes to the air (on the wings of "black budget" funding, no doubt).
The EMP "revelation" sold an awful lot of copper...anybody who was around "sensitive" technology in the military in the following couple of decades probably remembers grounding anything that didn't move...or, rather, wasn't moving at the time - and then grounding the grounds.
The Clean Energy project uses computational chemistry and the willingness of people to help look for the best molecules possible for: organic photovoltaics to provide inexpensive solar cells, polymers for the membranes used in fuel cells for electricity generation, and how best to assemble the molecules to make those devices. By helping us search combinatorially among thousands of potential systems, you can contribute to this effort.
The Clean Energy Project.
I don't know how many decibels the dollar rings in at, exactly, but this article adds to the growing pile of evidence that insists that Corporate America's money is louder than anything else in America. America's politicians, certainly, are unable to hear anything else over it...to include warnings from America's economic and defense experts.
Oh, well...Wal*Mart's share prices are doing well, and that's what counts...right?
lolll...if you haven't run into a vendor who expected you to buy their product and the documentation for it yet, you're lucky. I've been having to pay for documentation from the likes of Oracle/DEC/HP/Microsoft/etc. etc. etc. etc since...well, since some of them were founded.
My favorite example would be buying the documentation for a Tandy 1000 TX to find out why it wouldn't go into protected mode only to discover that the mobo showed an undocumented chip codenamed "Midnight Blue" on the schematics.
Yeah, Amazon does...and they'll let you download the "howto" for their cloud as free ebooks, too.
That's why web neutrality is a nonsense concept from my perspective - if companies can build their own infrastructure, they can compete with each other and offer their own content at better speeds, but then Google could be an ISP that uses both, Google 'Internet' and external backend, but then on its own 'Internet', the content available from Google could be delivered at a higher priority and faster (and cheaper, because its internal costs, that can be managed easier).
Prodigious thinking...maybe Google could call it something like Prodigy ?
Me, I see what's happening - the privatization of the internet - as "the glass house" dragging itself back into the world as zombies. Really bloodthirsty zombies.
...to make sure that "Show me pictures of idiots" has the right results?
but the resulting crystal would also have to be shorter overall, if only to keep the weight from snapping the seed crystal (causing the thing to splash back into the vat, tearing the crucible up, making a mess, and oh yeah - ruining the multi-hour run)
No problem; Taiwan small island, less gravity. Care to invest?
...the old America - that America of optimism, high expectations, and truth before all - is dying with them.
Concur; good on Microsoft. Now all they have to do is start a "Privacy-Protected"-certified webring/list where any website where DNT is enforced will be listed and add a user-controllable filter to IE and/or Bing searches for that feature/condition.
Of course, I suppose anybody else could start such a webring/list.
...to "Businessnet"? Beyond the fact that it is now almost impossible to escape one or another commercial entity's advertisements and/or personal data leeching, there isn't much you dare post on the 'net now that you would be reluctant to say in a business environment. Even if your employer doesn't persecute you for your political views, depending upon the political ideology of the moment your views may garner you a fat data file on a server somewhere in the bowels of government...or worse.
I think I liked the 'net way better right when we were transitioning away from the BBS systems and onto the 'net...that was fear-free exchange of information.
I changed my name to Steve Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious for nothing?!?!?
Seems like Exchange copied the email idea, and email was used to generate "meeting requests" a long time before a patent troll figured out Microsoft could patent the concept...
U.S. patent law in the technology arena is beyond a joke...it is a gag.
Reality isn't politically expedient.